r/ffxiv

came back to the game after not playing for a few years, made it through all of arr without getting a single KO until cape westwind. never thought i'd see the day cape westwind would best me of all places. kind of mad that my streak got taken away 5 quests to the end of part 1 though haha

So i just came back after YEARS of being gone. I had quit back when stormblood came out, and a buddy of mine who no longer plays gifted me endwalker back when it came out (so i have everything except dawntrail)

The game is so different now. The symbols are different, there are so many debuffs, now there are active time events? So on and so forth.

I just queued up and beat shinryu at the end of stormblood (such an amazing story, by the way, and ive heard it only gets better?! Im so excited!)

Anyways, I USED to play scholar, but with everything being different, and me having horrible eyes and issues with my hands now (controller helps, but i still miss a button here and there), i decided to go in as summoner. Well, I died probably about 3 times or so, messed up my rotation a few times out of nerves and frustrations, and everyone in party was completely cool with it and someone even gave me a commendation at the end and told me to enjoy myself, despite all of my failures.

And honestly? It just made my night. I'm gonna try to get better and hopefully once I get used to all the new symbols and get back into the swing of things, ill be better, but im just so thankful that everyone was so nice and people have been so helpful.

Just thought id post a story here and express my thanks :)

Also... if i was to ask 2 questions at the end of this, it would be:

1. Does anyone have any jobs they recommend for someone who struggles with fast rotations? I heard summoner is the most simple, but i was also curious about what melee job may be simple?

2. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to deal with all of the effects? I think my issue is truly there seems to be so much going on at once, so its likely I just need to mess with my settings but im unsure what to mess with.

Any help or advice would be appreciated, and also if you have any good stories of your own, id love to hear!

Thanks all!

-Xavier Shadow (exodus)

Hello everyone :)

I’m fairly new to ffxiv and am currently in post-ARR and this may sound like a stupid question or that i’m worried over nothing but I was just genuinely wondering whether or not other people care if i make mistakes in normal/msq content?

My progress in game has been pretty slow largely because of the roadblock that is trials that I can’t use duty support for. I never really go in blind to any fight I do as I always look up guides and teach myself all the mechanics as best I can, but I still sometimes end up getting a bit confused or slipping up here and there when actually in a fight. Because of this I do often worry about annoying the people I play with and I would hate to be wasting their time or impacting their experience. So far things have mostly been alright, I think i handle things okay, most trials are like five mins anyways, and other players have been quite kind to me so far. But I was just wondering if anyone could offer their opinion or reassurances on this because I think that would really help. Again, I know it probably doesn’t seem that important to other people but it does impact my progression and generally how i feel about it a lot.

Thanks for taking the time to read my dumb worrying and if you decide to comment :)

Edit: Thank you all for your lovely comments so far, everyone has been really encouraging! Just to answer a couple questions/common talking points that i see: I’m currently playing dragoon and don’t really have any plans to switch into being a tank/healer anytime soon. I don’t intend on raiding apart from Crystal Tower, although I would like to one day. I think i’m quite good at avoiding telegraphed attacks (i think that’s what they’re called?) and I don’t believe I get hit that often; thankfully I haven’t died in a fight at all yet. I’m trying to reply to a lot of you but again thank you! :D