game-related stuff about me, the player.

• getting the rent-lowering gunshots out of the way first: ff14 is not my favorite game. ff14 is not even my favorite MMO. i do praise this game when i think it deserves that but i am also not shy about criticizing it where deserved, and have very little patience for people being precious about this game. i'm not going to expect anyone to stop liking the game or anything, but i do expect a level of maturity to accept deserved criticism on things you personally like. i can tell you myself a laundry list of everything wrong with my own favorite games.
  (what is my favorite MMO? the Wakfu MMO :) )
• "obsessed" does not even begin to cover how i feel about carbuncles and amaro. someday i'll finally have that damn amaro mount... someday square will let me reskin my companion chocobo into an amaro...
  this is probably also obvious given my choice of background for the site but i am also deeply in love with ishgard and coerthas. hands down my favorite city and set of zones in the game with fascinating lore and gorgeous architecture... the very first time i arrived in ishgard i basically lay down on the ground and went. i live here now. and naturally i leaped at the ishgard apartments the moment they were released...
  the crystarium and all the shadowbringers zones are a close second in favorites for me, but shadowbringers is far and away my favorite expansion so that's no surprise. as much as i love ishgard the storytelling in shadowbringers is by far the best of any of the expansions in my opinion, and the worldbuilding was absolutely phenomenal -- i am big into the worldbuilding of stories and video game worlds so shadowbringers was a real treat in that regard.
• favorite class? guess :) it's paladin
  as much as i love tanking (it's my favorite role in any MMO) i've had far too many bad experiences to tank instances for anyone but my friends anymore, except when doing the easiest baby content so people have no real excuse to be rude and pushy to me. (not that even that stops them...) i also do greatly prefer healer roles over dps ones; sage is my favorite healer, and i would regularly get compliments on my sage gameplay when i used to play more. i also swap to holy yugioh duelist astrologian when a group already has an absorb shield-based healer.
  when i have to dps i vastly prefer bard and dancer over every other dps class in the game. the strictly enforced, fixed rotations of most dps and tank classes in this game bore me to tears and i hate them very strongly; the fluid, looser "rotations" of bard and dancer mesh much, much more with how i prefer to play. if i'm not playing bard for dps, i'm probably begrudgingly leveling other classes for some kind of reward i want. (both bard and dancer have very similar feel to me, i just greatly prefer the class fantasy of bard + getting to use a bow as a weapon.) bard is also what i play for pvp now that square decided to completely ruin playing healers in pvp for me... it was the only content i actually liked playing white mage in square give not-dogshit healing in pvp back to meeeeee i hate you
• i generally enjoy very challenging content in other games, but prefer to do very casual, non-combat focused stuff as much as i can get away with in this game. the most combat-heavy things i actually enjoy are deep dungeons; otherwise i'd really rather be leveling crafting and gathering professions or decorating my apartment. (i refuse to engage in the frankly dogshit garbage tier of housing this game offers for actual houses. having a real house without any gambling for plots or being forced to keep paying my subscription so i don't lose my housing is part of why i still also play WoW, which has a vastly better housing system in all the ways i personally care about.)
• i detest chocobos. sorry. i would truly delete every single one of them from the game permanently if i could.
  why? i think they're rather ugly and utterly loathe how they replace horses in nearly every single place horses would be, to the point of insulting my love of horses by even using horse-specific terminology to refer to these fucking things. i don't want damned Wish.com knockoff horseclaws!!! I WANT HORSES!!!!! (i would also accept instead being able to replace every chocobo in my collection with more amaro...)
  (and yes, chocobos really are just ripoffs of the horseclaws from Nausicaä. they're not even shy about it. truly Great Value discount brand horseclaws.)