How much I play tends to vary from patch to patch. I have rather limited free time these days and so it can be difficult.

Primarily I play for the story. I absolutely love the story and I truly believe Shadowbringers and Endwalker had an impact on me as a person and gave me new perspectives on life. Just a beautifully told story, great characters, awesome themes, cannot say enough good about it.

However I’d hardly call myself a casual player. I enjoy raiding but haven’t managed to finish a full tier on patch yet, primarily due to time. My schedule isn’t very conducive to joining a static and I simply don’t have the time to prog via PF. I hope that one day I will finally finish a tier though lol. This past tier I got through P7S but it took me so long to finally find a PF that could clear 7 that 8 just wasn’t in the cards for me.

Aside from raiding I generally just derp around and relax. Decorating my house, doing my island sanctuary, mount hunting, crafting, nothing is really off limits. Most of the time I just pick some goal (like all tanks to 90) and go for it until I lose interest in the game and then I wait for the next patch.

If I do join back up I’ll probably resume my leveling of PRanged via finishing all side quests in the game. That was really fun for me : ) but atm I’ve been obsessed with learning chess so we’ll see when I pick my favorite game back up. If I just won my housing auction it’ll be more likely that I return lol. Part of why I lost interest is that during the break before 6.4 I went 60 days without logging in, lost my house, and proceeded to have like no inventory space. To my own surprise not having a house and being so inventory limited really hurt my own motivation to play.

I main Black Mage and I’d like to think I’m pretty decent at it, often parsing in the upper 80’s last tier. Been maining BLM since FFXI and it’s just comfy for me. FF is the only series that I think gets the idea of black mage correct.

Came to Lemmy from reddit.

Time to check the auction!

I’m a raider whose burned out on the way this game handles raids and such. Now I only play to use cosmetic addons and look at my character

I’ve been playing on and off very casually since 2.0. These days I pretty much just log on after new patch releases to do the content. Between them, I ocassionally hop on to mess with glamours, run dailies, and chat with the FC mates who aren’t in Discord.

My wife and I actually met through this game back in 2016, so it’s got a special place in my heart.

I have roughly one hour of playtime and hope to get in the game soon

I switched to nixos recently and only got to installing ffxiv yesterday; I hope to get into it

Casual samurai/ninja player here. Still going through the main story after a long break from the game - currently at stormblood. I try to do a daily duty rulette when I remember. Still figuring things out again after the break. Just got used to a controller after only having used keyboard/mouse before

Casual player who enjoys the gameplay, but is mostly here for the story. Currently unsubbed since Endwalker, but I still hang out with FFXIV friends and am super hype for the supposed next expansion announcement in the upcoming fan fest.

Joined during the pandemic lockdowns to keep myself sane, was a pretty intense raider for a while, even doing ultimates, but since going back to the office I mainly just do Roulettes and some Deep Dungeons, occasionally doing Extremes and trying out the Savages.

I started playing around the tip end of ARR through Heavensward and mostly play pretty casually. I’'m trying to level my gatherers and crafters after so long of putting them off and leveling some combat classes on the side.

Here from reddit. Mostly hanging out on discord and lemmy now. Started last year and just chase whatever that catches my fancy. Still on f2p though. Plenty of arr and hw content to get through since I stopped playing for half a year.

Casual player trying to make gil via crafting. I don’t do savage content as its hard for me to learn fights via videos and can’t get into a group (hard to commit to a static).

Just under 3k hours… MSQ done, 90% of side quests too, all Tribals expect EW, Land/Hand classes at 90 along with 4 combat classes.

Currently working on leveling the rest to 90 (all are between 50-80) and trying to solo all three Deep Dungeons to 50 (PoTD done and I’m on 21-30 of HoH). I was heavy into Eureka for a while but only got to the third island and needed a break. I’ve tried Bozja a few times but it hasn’t “clicked” yet.

I’m on Hyperion, just grinding out XP or chasing achievements most days.

Am hoping this place gets a bit busier. I do a bit of everything in the game, but all rather casually. Have been doing so since stormblood. Originally in elemental, now in materia.

Idk about favourite fights, there were so many that are favourites for different reasons. Be it the mechanics, the story, the music.

Too many characters, two with all jobs at 90 and mentor crowns.

I think it’s great that add-ons exist, it’s great to see the community make improvements to the game interface, that the developers take on board.

I used to be on r/ffxiv, but I’m off reddit now.

I just resub’d today since the mgp event is going on. Played the MSQ from start to finish (vanilla to endwalker) during the wow exodus period before dropping off for some single player stuff. Maxed all of my crafting and gathering jobs but never did much that would be called difficult.

Thinking I might have to learn a new job and finally give some of the raids and trials I never did a try.

I started playing around patch 2.2. I eventually got into EX and savage raids, and I did that for several years. Now, I’m playing much more casually, taking my time to enjoy some of the other things in the game that I haven’t messed with before or started and never finished. I finally finished all my field notes in Bozja so I could get the FFXII mount. I have also started randomly working on the chocobo races and breeding because it’s something I barely touched before, outside of the weekly challenge log for MGP.

My favorite fight? I have a lot of fond memories of T5. Even though I didn’t beat it when it was relevant at the time, it was the first time I really dabbled in the raiding scene, and nothing prepared me from being tossed in the air to twisters, getting yeeted into a wall of death by divebomb, or being absolutely demolished by a dreadknight. Fun times.

I play on Gilgamesh. As far as add-ons go, I appreciate them, and I’m happy to see some of the QoL add-ons getting implemented into the game. I was a big fan of party icons as well as party buffs/debuff timers, so I’m glad everyone now has access to them. I’m hoping to see chat bubbles added next.

I came from Reddit, but now I just hangout on kbin and Mastodon. I’m in some discord ones, but I mainly just lurk on those.

Right now I’m in soft-break until probably 6.45, so I’m mostly just doing dailies and weeklies and occasional crafting. Normally I’m playing new content or doing completionist-ish stuff. I don’t raid though, not a big appeal for me – but that’s about the only section of content in the game I think I haven’t really done much with. Right now I’ve been running the subs at my FC to keep occupied.

I started playing around 5.4, and caught up with MSQ between 5.45 and 5.5. It’s hard for me to pick favorites in terms of content… I finished my card mount grind a couple months back, which gave me a good excuse to try just about everything at least a little bit. FFXIV claims I have about 195 days of playtime. I’m definitely not a sprout anymore though I look back at those first few months very fondly.

I play on Brynhildr; I don’t use add-ons but I don’t judge those that do. I appreciate that add-ons are pushing SE to add useful features/QoL adjustments for everyone.

My main source of info is r/ffxiv and a variety of Discord servers, though I’m hoping this community can grow bigger over time so I can fully disconnect from Reddit eventually.