This first one is less of a suggestion for runs, more of a suggestion for the community in general: A Discord server. I know a couple of people (including myself) who would join it, and it would make for a good gathering point for anyone interested in running the game, and anyone looking to get into it.
A category suggestion: 2.0 MSQ Unsynced Dungeons category. You'd go through Sastasha, Tam-Tara, etc., all the way up to Praetorium in a single segment. This would introduce a midway point between the current categories (individual level runs and MSQ runs), basically meaning that there'd be a run type who's duration isn't ~15m like unsynced IL runs, but not 24+h like the ARR MSQ runs... If that makes sense.
How about adding another mod or two? Speed up the verification process a bit?
I'd like to submit a run for the Bozjan content: Delubrum Reginae, but there's no category.
Here is a suggestion and something I might get into: [Job/Class] NG+ Any% speedruns, like:
- Bard NG+ Any% 1-70
- Botanist NG+ Any% 1-70
What this basically is is an IL run of the various combat job or crafting/gathering class quests from Level 1 to Level 70. I think the jobs you can take on, like Warrior and Scholar, get ignored in speedruns because they are complicated and require a lot of teleporting but I think they need some respect. After all, if it wasn't for these job quests, you wouldn't have half of the skills you have now. Especially true for battle classes like Lancer, you wouldn't be a Dragoon now if you didn't do the quests!
I know this sounds weird but I'd like to try this out. Unfortunately, I have streaming capability whatsoever. :(
EDIT: I think crafting classes might get too easy because you only need the items in your inventory and you can buy those items from the marketboard instead of craft them, but the gathering and combat jobs would not be so fast.
Would it be possible to add a Palace of the Dead 1-200 category? (Both solo and coop)
1-100 Heaven on High covers the whole thing, but 1-100 palace only covers the story portion, and it would be really interesting to see some 1-200 speedruns.
Since trusts will eventually become a thing for all dungeons (starting from 6.1), this could be a sub-category for dungeon runs. I feel like this would have merit as the time it'll take will mostly, if not fully, depend on the player as we can expect trusts to maintain the same performance level across the board. There won't be any variable factor such as "luck of the draw" when it comes to groups in roulettes.
Would adding a category for things like Kugane Tower, Shirogane's Lighthouse, Radz-At-Hans' lamps, and other jumping puzzles be possible?
There are still SHB speedruns in the leaderboards, shouldn't these runs be obsoletes?
I will take a look at the speedruns and talk with the other mods to decide on what to do with those runs
Was going through old threads trying to see if anything caught my eye and noticed this: https://www.speedrun.com/ffxiv/thread/9lkcs
Just wanted to express I'd also be interested to see some kind of Parkour category with various sub-tab challenges, It didn't seem like the idea was denied or anything back when it was first suggested. Could potenitally have rules something along the lines of "time starts from first frame of jump animation to the starting obstacle to the landing frame of the final obstacle"
Thankyou for your time and consideration
Would it be possible to split some of the BLU carnival stages into categories that got the hidden feat vs the ones that didn't?
For instance:
Stage 10 has a hidden feat - Giant Slayer Stage 20 has a hidden feat - Trouble With Tentacles Stage 25 has a hidden feat - Perfect Blue Stage 30 has a hidden feat - The Celestium's Finest Stage 31 has a hidden feat - Pure Azure
All of these feats will appear on the "Stage Results" page if achieved.
With regard to Palace of the Dead 1-200, we did a couple of trial coop runs of it.
There's still time to be gained, but it's short enough to be runnable. We did it in 3:37:xx.
Thoughts?
I would love the possibility for a seperate BLUsolo/BLUco-op sub-categories. similar to what there is on the "individual level" boards but in the "full-game" boards.
Unfortunately BLU cannot advance the MSQ or do Deep Dungeons so the only BLU-able "full game" mode for BLU are "All trials" and "All dungeons".
Depending on the trial/dungeon, BLU may or may not be the best (usually close with NIN) so they're allowed and often combined with NIN in those runs, so not much reason to separate them out just for that imo (in fact, doing so would make the combined runs complicated to categorize). Unless I'm misunderstanding.
This game with its various dungeons does not have a category like All Dungeons, which I think is a great waste of time. I would like to see the addition of a category like "All 2.x Dungeons" or "All 50 level Dungeons".
That does exist, under Full Game > All Dungeons. They are divided by expansion. There's also a similar section for All Trials. Though I see it does not appear in the dropdown, which I suppose it probably should so folks aren't missing it.
I'm seeing runs on here that are being verified with 3rd party modifications that affect game responsiveness of ability casting. While this isn't explicitly allowed or disallowed in the rules, I've watched many a discussions whether these are cheating or not in the game itself that there should be some clarification on it. Either way, it makes records more accessible to those who can use it while punishing those who could not when there's too much latency to the game server. With or without, there is no win-win outcome until square enix actually fixes this issue
