FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Carth]

Yep true. I'm leveling my Warrior now after PLD50 and I'm loving it. I get flash, convalescence, provoke and awareness. Whereas paladin is stuck with crappy Conj stuff, mercy stroke, bloodbath and foresight.

And Bloodbath scales terribly, Foresight is crap, and Mercy Stroke has laughable damage. It's sad Foresight is our best cross-class skill.

[Intense]

Complaint: I'm getting a little bothered that there is no culture behind the races.

I'm not looking for a Windurst/Sandy/Batsok city thing where the races stem from (although that would make sense), but I am not noticing a difference in personality/culture/speech patterns that the race/tribe selection blurbs in the character creation screen reference.

Did I miss something? Has this been explained?

[Carth]

-Limsa has Pirates.
-Ul'Dah has Mercs.
-Gridania has Tree Huggers.

[Gokulo]

Complaint: I'm getting a little bothered that there is no culture behind the races.

I'm not looking for a Windurst/Sandy/Batsok city thing where the races stem from (although that would make sense), but I am not noticing a difference in personality/culture/speech patterns that the race/tribe selection blurbs in the character creation screen reference.

Did I miss something? Has this been explained?

It's quite noticeable with most NPCs from the specific race. Actually, I'd say they really go out of their way to show the cultural elements.

[Intense]

It's quite noticeable with most NPCs from the specific race. Actually, I'd say they really go out of their way to show the cultural elements.

Really? Hrm... I guess I need to pay better attention

[Raldo]

NPC are likely to have lived in the cities for any number of years, if not their whole life. It's unlikely that they would retain much of their tribe's culture/whatever. The little tribe/clan blurb is there more to describe adventurers, because nobody has a clue where they came from.

[Corrderio]

Yep true. I'm leveling my Warrior now after PLD50 and I'm loving it. I get flash, convalescence, provoke and awareness. Whereas paladin is stuck with crappy Conj stuff, mercy stroke, bloodbath and foresight.

Foresight can have SOME use, but that's about it in terms of worthwhile skills to have set except Raise, which doesn't even really have much of a use on the hotbar since it can only be used outside of fights.

Just Raubahn? Most of the voicework is bad. Papalymo makes me want to hurl my PC out my fifth floor window.

Well he was a lalafell. Doesn't that make him annoying by default? Seriously though, as annoying as the voices were (especially lalafell's high pitched crap) Rauhban's VA just seemed like he tried, but in the end still sounded like an emotionless wet noodles.

[arus2001]

During one of our Ifrit runs last night, we queue into a group of like 4 or 5 guys running one of their friends through. They spent the entire fight talking about my bard friend's character's boobs.



Surprisingly, the most competent duty finder Ifrit I've done thus far.

Proof that a good rack inspires!

[miokomioko]

Rauhban's VA just seemed like he tried, but in the end still sounded like an emotionless wet noodles.

I want to say it's because he's supposed to be this massive guy with a big, booming voice (especially in scenes where he's supposed to be speaking with volume and intensity to an audience), but the VA doesn't actually raise his voice whatsoever, he just tries to sound more "tough." It's as if he's trying to deliver his lines without waking up his mom in the room next door.


P.S. Why the shit would they restrict you from quick-synthing dyes?

[Lucavi]

And Bloodbath scales terribly, Foresight is crap, and Mercy Stroke has laughable damage. It's sad Foresight is our best cross-class skill.

Really underwhelmed by Pelvic Thrus- errr. Mercy Stroke. Horrible, laughable damage, you have to crit at the last 1% of any mob that matters to proc it... just blah.

Some shit SE got right, but some shit, just... come on.

[Corrderio]

I want to say it's because he's supposed to be this massive guy with a big, booming voice (especially in scenes where he's supposed to be speaking with volume and intensity to an audience), but the VA doesn't actually raise his voice whatsoever, he just tries to sound more "tough." It's as if he's trying to deliver his lines without waking up his mom in the room next door.

I think that's what I was kind of getting to. It becomes real apparent during the flashback during the war. That scream of "No" was probably the worst line in the game.

[arus2001]

"Nooooooooooooooo!" type lines pretty much suck everywhere, though.

[Corrderio]

Good point,. Though yeah, his voice pretty much kills the mood/atmosphere for me out of everyone in the game.

[Carth]

That's probably because the VA had no idea what was going on in the scene and read directly off the script.

[Lokus]

are others getting various lag spikes? Its been pretty bad since last week's maintenance. I can do all of m y actions but everything else stops moving, then 5 seconds later it picks back up? Been happening a LOT and wondering if its just me

This happened to me a couple times during Titan, especially after a jump. Occasionally, the game would fast forward and pick back up with a landslide aimed right at me. Got to the point where I had to stop dps and run around to pre-emp his moves.

[Seravi Edalborez]

are others getting various lag spikes? Its been pretty bad since last week's maintenance. I can do all of m y actions but everything else stops moving, then 5 seconds later it picks back up? Been happening a LOT and wondering if its just me

I will occasionally get start and stop lag after a few hours of Titan attempts which causes me to do really shitty things like get hit by "hey there was an AoE under your feet half-done casting". I don't know if its my ISP being shitty or connection to SE's servers being shitty but I'm inclined to think the latter since attack callouts in teamspeak didn't seem delayed.

[Mortilox]

Jesus fuck their stupid Fate medal coding.

I arrive at a fate late and flash 5 mobs 2 seconds before it ends and get gold. I tank the big cyclops fate boss from 100% to 0% flawlessly while other crap people get slaughtered and get bronze.

Fuckers.

[Nyanoko]

I don't play this POS
but why do level 50 characters look the same as level 10 characters
wheres all the good looking armor at?

Best looking armor as a mage is the Level 32 Battlemage set. 100% baller.
As a PLD? Uhhh....AF, I guess. Wearing the Darklight Trashcan now.

[Nyanoko]

During one of our Ifrit runs last night, we queue into a group of like 4 or 5 guys running one of their friends through. They spent the entire fight talking about my bard friend's character's boobs.



Surprisingly, the most competent duty finder Ifrit I've done thus far.

Queued up for Brayflox, farming the Battlemage set (best looking set in the damn game, Lv32 lul). Zone in with a friend, find two identical Huyr males in swimsuits dancing/grinding on each other....
Whatever, I put up with it, emote back. They proceed to rock the dungeon. Better tank and dps than I've found at level 50.

[Raineer]

Jesus fuck their stupid Fate medal coding.

I arrive at a fate late and flash 5 mobs 2 seconds before it ends and get gold. I tank the big cyclops fate boss from 100% to 0% flawlessly while other crap people get slaughtered and get bronze.

Fuckers.

This. A thousand times this. Why does tanking the big thing not give me more of the medals. I want the medals.

Rewarding faceroll play instead of proper mechanics isn't the way to go.