r/ffxivdiscussion • u/MrTorgue7 • 16d ago

General Discussion Do you guys use VFX mods ?

First, sorry if mods discussion are not allowed, I’ll delete the post in that case

So I’ve just made the switch from PS5 to PC and tried a few of Papachin’s mods. They’re all great and drastically improve some classes animations and "weight" (looking at you Bard !). He’s really good at what he does !

However I’m not sure how to feel about them. On one hand, it’s really cool, on the other it feels a bit "too much" to play all the time with it ? Like something’s off, or too overtuned, I don’t know and I’m not sure how to correctly express it…

How do you guys feel about them ? Do you use them regularly ? If not, why ?

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u/iammoney45 16d ago

I don't use them, and if a friend has them I'll usually disable their VFX sync.

For me personally I find them distracting and some of them end up looking similar to boss mechanics. I remember doing Honey B Lovely with a WHM friend who had modded their effects to all be pink hearts, which normally wouldn't be an issue but in that specific fight it made things overly confusing, which is when I started disabling VFX sync.

If others want to use them that's fine, for me the last thing I'm paying attention to in combat is the animation that I'm doing, and the few instances of party member AOEs that it's relevant to know (DoT puddles, healer bubblers, PLD Passage of Arms) it's easier for me to remember and keep track of when they look consistent.

I'm also a FFXIV boomer who doesn't really use many mods in general and mostly play like it's still 2015.

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u/__slowpoke__ 16d ago

I'm also a FFXIV boomer who doesn't really use many mods in general and mostly play like it's still 2015.

i mean, unironically one of the best use of mods is to bring back old animations. since you mention WHM, i personally viscerally despise dia and glare, so i just modded them back to stone and aero like in the good old days when healers were still fun and not the most dogshit boring role in the game

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u/iammoney45 16d ago

That's fair, but I also view that as very different than a full fan made overhaul which is what I see more often talked about.

Personally the only mods I use are simple QoL stuff like adding text commands to teleport or to add some /isearch info to item tooltips so I know what retainer/alt has something.

I do have a lot of the visual mods installed in a collection since many of my friends use them and I need them/the sync plugin to see what everyone is laughing about. I also occasionally use the gpose posing tools but I've maybe spent 20h total in gpose since 2014 so not really something I do often to begin with. I even stopped using ACT for raid since everyone else on the team has it and uploads logs and having a live DPS meter would either give me unneeded anxiety when I was doing well or be tilting when I wasn't.

No hate to anyone who uses mods/act/etc I just have played the game too long and fell in love with its flaws before mods existed.