#FFXIV I haven't been posting a ton about raiding FRU here (or anywhere outside the dedicated channel in discord) but over the next week or so I'm gonna run through my thoughts in this thread. It'll be off and on depending on how I'm feeling. Let's start off easy: I hate being a raid lead. - ThreadSky

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vitaminmt.bsky.social • 1 day ago

#FFXIV
I haven't been posting a ton about raiding FRU here (or anywhere outside the dedicated channel in discord) but over the next week or so I'm gonna run through my thoughts in this thread. It'll be off and on depending on how I'm feeling.

Let's start off easy: I hate being a raid lead.

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vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Broadly I consider my time raiding in FF14 as four distinct periods - Binding Coil, Midas through Sigmascape, Alphascape through Eden's Verse, and TEA/Eden's Promise through now. The latter three share some of the same members, but I consider big shakeups that happened in O8S/E8S as breakpoints.

vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

The common thread between all of these is that they're groups that have been entirely or mostly friends and friends of friends, and if they weren't before they became friends over time. And I've realized over time that that's exactly how I like it.

vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've on three separate occasions joined other groups for prog - Alphascape in 2018, TEA in mid-2020, and TOP in Sept 2024. And honestly? Aside from that TEA group, I was miserable.

vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Alphascape group wasn't meeting my expectations for prog; the TOP group ran for two weekends before breaking, and the personality of some of the members was just so rotten that I probably would've left then anyway.

vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

But I wanna focus on the Alphascape and TEA groups because my reason for joining them was the same - after Sigmascape, the group I led fell apart. After Eden's Verse, the group I led fell apart. And both times for one reason or another the band got back together after.

vitaminmt.bsky.social•1 day ago

sidenote 1: the TOP group was something I was doing on weekends cause we were on Light-Heavyweight reclears and I wanted to see how I could fair during the downtime. Still miserable.

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