Meanings
plural modbeasts
- derogatoryFFXIV fandom slangA player avatar with excessive or unsightly cosmetic mods.
Best part of those ugly modbeasts is we never have to see them. They literally walk around thinking they look hawt but they just exist to themselves.
2025 March 21, Vancil, Reddit2 more examples
I'm honestly curious, at what point would you even consider a character a modbeast? Would it be when there are no vanilla assets visible, or when its unrecognizable from vanilla XIV?
2024 October 17, SkyTheHeck, RedditA good design won't use all one-hundred components, but somebody who doesn't know what they're doing will see each individual piece as cool and slap them all together, which ends up creating a lot of the visual vomit you see with modbeasts.
2026 June 15, snafuPop, Reddit
Origin
From mod (“end user-created add-on content”) + beast.
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modbeast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modbeast
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