Final Fantasy 14 Community Spotlight: Beyaca Raid Streamer

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Raids. You either love them, hate them, or can’t wrap your head around them. I firmly fall into the latter camp. I’d love to be able to raid properly — and what I mean by that is I wish I could raid without eating dirt every five minutes — but it seems I’m just not cut out for it. Like most MMOs, raids in Final Fantasy 14 reward coveted loot, such as gear, mounts, minions, and they also dive into some of the best parts of FF14 lore.

Fortunately for players like me, there are well-known raiders within the community who are more than willing to teach rookies the basics. Beyaca is a streamer and a role model in the BIPOC gaming community that focuses on teaching others about raids and how to play Monk in FF14. She started playing in 2015 and began streaming in early 2018, but it wasn’t until Shadowbringers launched in 2019 that she became a firm Monk main.

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“When I started streaming, I had no idea that I would become a known streamer in the FF14 community,” Beyaca tells me. “The only thing I knew was that I had a voice and that it would be heard whether people wanted to hear it or not. I think the fact that I am Black and unapologetically myself resonated with a lot of BIPOC gamers in the community. I believe this even more so given how there were little to no other BIPOC streamers at the time, a lot less than the few BIPOC creators that we have around now.

For Beyaca, this mentorship began during the summer of 2021, in a bid to bring more awareness to the fact that there are many Black gamers in the gaming community. “I understand that we are always looking for others to game with so I've promoted our community in an effort to get more Black gamers here and gaming