Being one of the most popular MMO games, Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of players making memes about the mechanics, story, and characters. After all, it has just about endless content. Just as players do not run out of things to do, they do not run out of content to make memes about.

So below are ten memes only major fans of the game will understand. Enjoy, and do beware that there are spoilers for some of the expansions like Shadowbringers, Stormblood, and Heavensward.

10 Fate Joined

Fates are instances you can find by just walking around. You do not need to form a party in order to complete a Fate. Even if you are a much higher level, you can change down to the level required. Some players do it for experience, and others do it for certain rewards.

This meme shows how most Fates are built. There are many enemies and one big boss among them. Typically, the smaller enemies are ignored as only by killing the big boss can the Fate be completed.

9 Estinien

Estinien Wyrmblood is one of the more interesting NPCs of the MMO. He is involved in Dragoon class quests but becomes a major plot characters in the Heavensward expansion. He plans to kill Nidhogg, a dragon who is at war with Ishgard. He takes one eye and it gives him powers, but has overpowered his will in the past.

Later on, he gets the second eye and becomes possessed . . . again.

8 Paissa

Final Fantasy XIV players either love or hate paissa. They are these fluffy creatures whose eyes look like they are seeing in the fifth-dimension. Some players hate them because they are creepy looking while others think they are cute.

There are two versions. The original brown are in the Sea of Clouds while the pink ones are in the Shadowbringers’ expansion.

7 Healing

Being a healer can certainly look fun and pretty, but it can actually be quite stressful in Final Fantasy XIV. You have to keep track of each players’ health as well as getting a bit of damage output in-between your heals.

It is especially hard if the other players in a party are not doing their jobs. For example, if a tank forgets to turn their tank stance on then the healer is basically doomed to die immediately.

6 Elidibus

Elidibus is one of the main villains of Final Fantasy XIV, except he is often less remembered in comparison to others like Zenos and Emet-Selch. This is because he often just spouts a bunch of nonsense about the calamity  or Zodiark whenever he is on screen.

He seems to be taking a more active role now in the story though, so his boring days may soon be over.

5 Khloe’s Journal

Khloe is an adorable kid who hands out in Idyllshire that likes to hear stories of the players’ many adventures. She gives the player a journal to eventually return back to her full of stories.

Mechanics-wise, the journal is a game of Connect Four. You get stickers and want four of them to line up, but they line up randomly and you only get one by doing specific types of dungeons.

4 Killing Emet-Selch

The final boss of Shadowbringers, Emet-Selch, is also known as Solus zos Galvus. He actually established the Garlean empire, and is thus related to the Garlean royalty.

In the meme, the one shooting at Solus is Varis Galvus. He is the father of Zenos and another one of the many villains in the game. He has no love for his grandfather, Solus, and would kill him if he could. Luckily for Solus, he can’t.

3 Barrier

In the post Stormblood content, Alisaie gets separated from her twin brother, Alphinaud. An old Allagan defense system is put up to prevent Garleans from invading Doma through The Empty. Alisaie is not happy about that because Alphinaud is being flown into Doma through The Empty.

Luckily for her, they do reunite as they make an exception when Gaius comes over with Alphinaud.

2 Lali-Ho La-Hee

With the Shadowbringers’ expansion came the La-Hees and the Lali-Hos. Both are pretty different, though they sound alike. La-Hee is a fan-made joke about the music in the Rak’tika Greatwoods.

Lali-Ho stems from the greeting players are taught by the dwarf race near the end of the expansion.

1 The Aurum Vale

The Aurum Vale is a famously hated dungeon. It is very easy to accidentally over-pull creatures in the first room and the boss mechanics are a pain because you have to find and eat fruit in the middle of battle. The place is also infested with Morbols, which can be a healers’ worst nightmare if their breath attack hits a player.

So do not be surprised if you come into this dungeon and other players are immediately unhappy.

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