Really? His voice is so flat, monotone, and dry that I want to die

Everything about this is mostly right, if you didn't have a relic fully done it was no point. Problem is how do people expect you to get the relic fully done w/o doing the content, you could farm for gil but that would take years and u would prolly die from boredom. When I did level smn I mostly got the same random pug leads i met in dunes when i acted as a healer and buff and luckily i had all smns as well. It wasn't until we got Fenrir that we became decently viable for lvling partys (next to bard or cor as always).

Omg yes! On one hand… I loved ffxi and it was my first mmo. I never found another one like it. I don’t like ff14. It doesn’t have the same heart and community to me. Ffxi made me FEEL like I was really in vanadiel and everything was so hard that I really did feel the danger and also the accomplishment of things. It was my dream to be a summoner when I started and because I was a teenager I didn’t understand how much they screwed SMN. SMN should’ve been the strongest mage class in the game. It should’ve been DD and support. It should’ve been super popular. But because of how they built it… we were just treated as second tier healers. It really really sucked to play as one. Getting all these super cool summons and not even able to use them. The avatars should’ve all been more powerful. Carbuncle and spirits should’ve cost 0 MP to maintain. The other avatars should’ve cost half of what they did so we could actually freaking use them for long periods of time. They also dropped the ball ok spirits. Why were they even in the game? They should’ve given them a special role somehow. Maybe support? And we should’ve been able to fully choose what spells they used. Even tho ffxi was really great it was also really stupid and made really limiting choices. As a summoner you summon GODS. Why then were we so weak and useless? It made no sense. Same with no male mithra or female Galka. It made no sense and the storyline they came up with was bull crap. EVERYONE wanted male mithra but they forced us to only have girls. And even tho not many people wanted female galka, it still should’ve been an option. Seeing the female Roe in ff14 makes me mad we didn’t get anything in ff11. Honestly, they tried that same stupid thing when ff14 came out and there were NO male miqo’te. Then the game bombed so hard that they gave us them. FF11 would’ve been great if they had actually listened to the gamers. FF11 just needed them to listen to us, but in ff14 it’s swung the complete opposite way and seems too simple and almost like a final fantasy theme park. I couldn’t get immersed at all. Anyway, I was a diehard SMN main for years. And I kind of just suffered in silence lol because I loved the concept of summoners so so much ever since playing FFX. So many hours spent waiting for party invites. Sometimes I wouldn’t even get a party. And then parties themselves were so boring and dull. This was before they played battle music for mages. So I just sat there struggling to heal everyone. God it was awful. I honestly hated being a summoner due to the mechanics but the only jobs I had ever played were whm and then smn. So I didn’t know anything else. But then one fateful day I got so tired of it that I picked up bard. And OMG. That job was so damn fun. So useful. So adored by everyone. I never even had to look for a party. People would just reach out. I could really tell how much I helped out, especially as a good bard. I had so many options! Didn’t have to ever worry about MP. Never got killed from aggro. Never had to rest. It was SO fun! I was pissed I had stuck with smn for soooo long. I show up to level 75 so damn fast! I don’t even remember ever struggling. The XP came in hot. Now, bard is my favorite class. And even though I love summoner in theory, I know FF will never do it justice. They never learned their lesson and even the SMN in ff14 looks like it sucks.

​@@maverickbull1909the SMN in FFXIV is pretty cool, especially at the time you wrote this. While I wish they were still real pet, the way it feels is a lot better. Due to how simple it is to XI, especially with status effects and such, it's more of straight DD. It used to use a lot of DoTs, but now it feels like you're actually fighting with an army of summons. I'll describe max level rotation. Carby is out be default but doesn't fight (they removed pets to be able to better keep up with the evolving mechanics). When Carby is out, you have access to a personal shield for the smn and an occasional dmg buff. You then summon Bahamut who will fire mini flares at each cast you do, while the smn channels his power and nukes. Then you can choose between Garuda, titan and ifrit, which just depends on your buffs and how you wanna do. Each time you summon one, they appear and do their Astral Flow and you channel their power to do a couple moves, while cycling through the three. When these three show up, they don't stay. You get Carby back, so plenty chances to keep his shield up for defense. Ifrit's abilities are higher dmg and instant, but definitely want shield as one is a charge. Garuda comes with a cast time so gotta time her right if you want most from boosts. Titan gives the most hits but slightly weaker. After you go through the three elementals, you can then summon and channel Phoenix, who also attacks with each cast (she and Bahamut remain for their durations) and can give a really potent regen. By there being no cast time for summons and you constantly changing through them, it feels more rewarding than XI smn. XI is still more fun on the gameplay side for me though. I love the complexity. It was also my first MMO. But the fact that you had to take certain things in consideration that I haven't seen in any other MMO. For example, your moghouse wasn't just for design. How you styled it gave you certain bonuses, like reduced xp loss on death. Then before you even set out, had to think about where you were going and what monsters you'd face. Were you a drg? Then maybe don't want to go with the guys hunting skeletons. So after taking weapons and dmg types into consideration, do you have enough food and drink to maintain buffs for as long as you'll be out? Do you have an auto-raise scroll or reraise earring? Do you have a warp scroll or accessory so you can escape? Not a RDM or WHM (later NIM and DNC), then do you have enough sneak oils and invis powders to get where you need to be? Do you have a deodorizer or two in case you're being chased and there's no water to run thru and they lose your scent? If you're NIN, do you have enough tools? If you're BST, got your jugs for emergency? If you're DRG, do you have the right sub to get the best wyvern for the hunt? Is this a good place for you or your party to rest? All those things needed to be taken into account, especially during the glory days of the lv75 Era. So whether you were going to farm craft materials, xp grind, hunt a boss, do missions, progress the story, do random quests for fame or just explore and find all the secrets that were never even hinted at, it felt like you were preparing for an adventure. A 20 year old game did that. It was things like that which made the world feel lived in. I also used to love doing Besieged and Garrisons. The feeling of defending the city or an outpost from an all out attack was great. ......time to return to Vana'diel.... again... once more!!!

There's a couple people like hunting4games, callmekwech, rikapedia, basicguardian, a few others but they aren't as in depth as Rua. I love his job guides.

Idk how y’all even play that game after playing FFXI first. I tried it. I got to Lv40 when the game 1st launched via soloing nonstop that it made me remember why FFXI was my all-time favorite Final Fantasy game ever made. 14 plays exactly like WoW. I grew up playing FF. Idc about WoW at all whatsoever and 14 only confirmed that.

@@metalgear- It’s easier to access and the story is really good. But it’s more based as a solo game where FF11 really pushed for team building. I like both

Most make HorizonXI prive server content now.

@@metalgear-exactly. That’s why it’s so popular. It follows the WoW play style instead of building on ff11 like I thought. I also couldn’t get into it.

Atomos is useful for being able to constantly remove buffs (it appears to have 100% accuracy, and doesn't require BP: Ward to be off cooldown so you can spam it out), and then transfer them to the whole party. It's insanely powerful for its very narrow interaction, but not something that you will use except for specific scenarios

The issue with Atomos is that you can only absorb one buff at a time and it also takes a long time for the summoning process to be performed. You are locked out of being able to do anything other than sub job related things during that process. If there were to be any update to Atomos it would have to be an increase in the amount of buffs taken. At least three buffs. They would also have to extend the duration of the buffs as well because it's just not worth casting when you remove a buff that only lasts for 23 seconds.

@@GSWmimic yeah ppl forget about atomos pretty much because of that which is why i belive it needs a rework even more then odin and would be in line with the video.

Its updated each month with new content/updates. In fact they are rolling out a new story expansion by releasing it in parts every few months.