Caetsu Chaiji Ch.

Next weeks Schedule is ready!

Tuesday, we are doing LIVE Mentor Roulette once again! Extra long this time! Let's see what happens! And I hope to see you there!

Wednesday, We continue Fellowship, a game entirely focused on challenging, infinitely scaling, dungeon content, that had its big Season 3 drop recently! Nox and I will continue our climb from the Champion League as a Tank and Healer duo, so let's see how far we can get this time! I hope you will come check it out!

Thursday, we have a Daily Roulettes Hangout Stream, on Chaos as usual! I hope some of you will come join me for some duties!

And finally Saturday, due to some Scheduling issues, we skip savage to do some Extreme Mount Farming again! But before that, we start with a Clear for 1 on Wicked Thunder Savage, and some Unreal! I wonder how many Enuo Clears we will end up with this time!

I wish you all a wonderful week!

14 hours ago | [YT] | 14

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 6/15 of Melee Comparisons: Samurai vs Viper

SORRY ABOUT THE REPOST: This is the second time I've managed to confuse myself with all the jobs and such. Better to repost it and get the poll RIGHT instead of people being uncertain about what is actually being polled.
The mistake was that I accidentally put Reaper as the second poll option when it was supposed to be Viper.

Yesterday's poll: MNK 77% vs RPR 23%.

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

15 hours ago | [YT] | 53

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 5/15 of Melee Comparisons: Monk vs Reaper

Yesterday's poll: DRG 11% vs NIN 89%.

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

1 day ago | [YT] | 78

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 4/15 of Melee Comparisons: Dragoon vs Ninja

Yesterday's poll: RPR 81% vs VPR 19%.

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

2 days ago | [YT] | 105

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 3/15 of Melee Comparisons: Reaper vs Viper

Yesterday's poll: NIN 83% vs SAM 17%. I find this very interesting because indeed, Ninja has some pretty strict requirements to its rotation as you learn it. This is extra interesting because for a lot of savage raiders (and players of that caliber), these properties of Ninja aren't seen as particular "special" due to the whole raid buff aligning being "standard" anyway. Samurai on the other hand is very straight forward to just go and fight with, but in contrast to Ninja, sort of has to "find" that proper raid buff burst where Ninja sort of requires it to begin with, which means they "can" sort of switch places in difficulty as skill improves!

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

3 days ago | [YT] | 97

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 2/15 of Melee Comparisons: Ninja vs Samurai

Yesterday's poll: DRG 27% vs MNK 73%. This is an interesting result, considering both jobs were made significantly simpler to pilot in Dawntrail. But personally I had expected it to go in Dragoon's favor more than Monk's. But I can see why, as some have mentioned that Monk is way less straight forward compared to Dragoon.

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

4 days ago | [YT] | 120

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 1/15 of Melee Comparisons: Dragoon vs Monk

Yesterday's poll: SMN 6% vs RDM 94%. This means that the ranking order ends up as BLM > RDM > PCT > SMN. I saw a lot of comments frustrated that seemingly the votes were "based on" pre-7.2 BLM being hard. But I do think there is something to be said here. Among all the four jobs, BLM has the most unintuitive rotation. Once you get it, it seems pretty obvious, but it can take a while to get it. And let's not forget the insanity that is BLM AoE rotation! Essentially, even if a different mage is harder to play perfectly, the hard things about Black Mage are front and center and pretty difficult to avoid addressing, so it does not surprise me that it would win in a contest of difficulty. That doesn't mean a different mage isn't harder to perfect, but admittedly, the majority of the player base probably cares more about a more average to above average performance!

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

5 days ago | [YT] | 113

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POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 6/6 of Mage Comparisons: Summoner vs Red Mage

Yesterday's poll: BLM 76% vs PCT 24%.

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

6 days ago | [YT] | 90

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Next weeks Schedule is ready!

Tuesday, we continue Savage Prog, hopefully being able to skip straight to Lindwurm, and hopefully getting to prog phase 2 quickly! Round THREE! Ding ding! Last week, we got to see Mutating Cells (Candies) for the first time! I hope some of you will come and cheer us on!

Wednesday, we revisit Fellowship, a game entirely focused on challenging, infinitely scaling, dungeon content, that had its big Season 3 drop recently! We will approach this as a duo Tank and Healer, so let's see how big of a difference controlling the support side of things makes! I hope you will come check it out!

Thursday, we have a Relic Grind and Talk discussion stream! A stream where I casually work out the ARR Relic farms on the OCE Data Center so you can come hang out if you like! We also talk about stuff, maybe check out some clips, and have a good time! I hope to see some of you there!

And finally, Saturday, we are doing LIVE Mentor Roulette once again! Let's see what happens! And I hope to see you there!

I wish you all a lovely week!

1 week ago | [YT] | 33

Caetsu Chaiji Ch.

POLL: WHICH JOB IS HARDER TO PLAY IN YOUR OPINION?
Round 5/6 of Mage Comparisons: Black Mage vs Pictomancer

Yesterday's poll: SMN 10% vs PCT 90%. An interesting result! I had somehow expected it to be just a bit closer than that, but I can see why!

Same explanation as before (If you already read it):
Near the end of Endwalker, I did a similar set of polls to try and determine what the playerbase felt were the hardest jobs to play in FFXIV. An important point that was brought up was that with only having one vote, it was quite difficult to determine the nuance between several jobs in difficulty.
Essentially, such a poll would only be somewhat decent at determining the HARDEST job to play, but rank 2 and below would be guesswork. To try and change that, this time around I'm doing it in a sort of 1v1 sequence of polls, with about one poll per day, and then maybe we can get some data, whether that data turns out to be a proper ranking from first to last, or something more complex, is for us to find out!

For anyone thinking "You could have done this much better with a more complex poll where everyone could just put their priority". Correct, however, unfortunately that is not an option on YouTube, and by simply moving the poll off-site, I imagine I would already lose a huge amount of entries. So we're going to do it like this! (Also these kinds of comparisons can also sometimes lead to revelations that would not have come about otherwise!)
I'm also perfectly aware that we will of course only get a slice of the playerbase that happens to see and interact with these polls, but that's just how it be sometimes!

1 week ago | [YT] | 106