FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Dngnhack]

Get in an ifrit, wipe twice because a healer kept dying. He had told us he was new. Most of us were encouraging and trying to help.

War tank goes, "I'm done."

(2 minute pause)

"I'm waiting for someone else to leave so I don't get the 15 minute debuff."

-.-;


In another run, got a pld who didn't stun once. We kept asking him to and he claimed he knew when to but didn't do it at all. Still managed to kill it with eruptions galore. And go figure, pld sword dropped.

Happened to me once but when no one else left he proceeded to remove gear and keep wiping the party because we didn't have a blm or smn.

[Kelenae]

Doing AK in less time than it takes to queue.

Saddly isnt gonna be fixed tell 2.1...

And by fix.. i mean 2 new dungeons. I am getting tired of AK.

[Sephiroth]

That is the problem with having to wait 3 months for a patch. That shit needs fixing now. Understandably they can't just add 2 new dungeons now but they could add mythology tokens to Praetorium and Wanderer's Palace. Maybe even just 25 each because they're easier but it would still spread the load a bit. Boost the mythology given for primal defeats too. They could do that now and it wouldn't take long.

[Corrderio]

Still getting 601/401 errors. Joy...

[Maaglin]

Getting really sick of the amount of cutscenes and load screens in this game. The active gameplay itself is excellent, but I'm starting to realize that quite literally everything other than the gameplay itself is actually quite awful; everything from connectivity services to official forums and in-game factors like the UI and chat functionality, just to name one percent of it. They have a lot of work to do, and it doesn't help that play is CONSTANTLY interrupted by often completely meaningless cutscenes, like when you buy a promotion with your GC it has to load up an animation of you doing a fucking fistbump, with a loading screen before and after this pointless 5-second scene. Who ever sat down and decided this would be better than, you know, not doing that? I have to hit escape + skip cutscene literally about a hundred times a day playing this game, and it's not even as if it's a smooth and responsive action, you still have to load the thing and then it takes several seconds before you can get the skip prompt up and then it has to load some more afterwards. This game could be a candidate to best MMORPG since WoW, provided the raid content isn't poor, but all the surrounding infrastructure and frameworks are so absolutely abysmal and amateurish that it frankly drags the experience down a lot. So many irritants and "who the fuck thought this was a good idea?" moments.

Pretty much. The story and the presentation of it are completely awful.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Really wish they would let you select what class you'd like to roll need on gear for before you do DF so long as you have the class level to wear the gear. Sitting here wanting to roll on bow but the wait is so damn long. If I went pld I'd get in instantly and I really don't mind tanking it at all. But I can't roll need on it so... waste of time since I already have the sword!

Way to bottleneck DF.

[Mortilox]

I hate that most races have identical attacking stances and animations.

That was so cool in XI for me :< Tarutaru asuran fists with the backflip

[Mortilox]

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[Twilight Sky]

Getting really sick of the amount of cutscenes and load screens in this game. The active gameplay itself is excellent, but I'm starting to realize that quite literally everything other than the gameplay itself is actually quite awful; everything from connectivity services to official forums and in-game factors like the UI and chat functionality, just to name one percent of it. They have a lot of work to do, and it doesn't help that play is CONSTANTLY interrupted by often completely meaningless cutscenes, like when you buy a promotion with your GC it has to load up an animation of you doing a fucking fistbump, with a loading screen before and after this pointless 5-second scene. Who ever sat down and decided this would be better than, you know, not doing that? I have to hit escape + skip cutscene literally about a hundred times a day playing this game, and it's not even as if it's a smooth and responsive action, you still have to load the thing and then it takes several seconds before you can get the skip prompt up and then it has to load some more afterwards. This game could be a candidate to best MMORPG since WoW, provided the raid content isn't poor, but all the surrounding infrastructure and frameworks are so absolutely abysmal and amateurish that it frankly drags the experience down a lot. So many irritants and "who the fuck thought this was a good idea?" moments.

I agree with you on the load screen thing. FFXIV has more of these than anything in the game. Cutscenes before boss fights I don't like much as it kills my focus on the fight, but I understand why its there and all.

[Meresgi]

Getting really sick of the amount of cutscenes and load screens in this game. The active gameplay itself is excellent, but I'm starting to realize that quite literally everything other than the gameplay itself is actually quite awful; everything from connectivity services to official forums and in-game factors like the UI and chat functionality, just to name one percent of it. They have a lot of work to do, and it doesn't help that play is CONSTANTLY interrupted by often completely meaningless cutscenes, like when you buy a promotion with your GC it has to load up an animation of you doing a fucking fistbump, with a loading screen before and after this pointless 5-second scene. Who ever sat down and decided this would be better than, you know, not doing that? I have to hit escape + skip cutscene literally about a hundred times a day playing this game, and it's not even as if it's a smooth and responsive action, you still have to load the thing and then it takes several seconds before you can get the skip prompt up and then it has to load some more afterwards. This game could be a candidate to best MMORPG since WoW, provided the raid content isn't poor, but all the surrounding infrastructure and frameworks are so absolutely abysmal and amateurish that it frankly drags the experience down a lot. So many irritants and "who the fuck thought this was a good idea?" moments.

The game is all about story and immersion, yeah you gotta deal with cutscenes...who cares though? Only issue with cutscenes for me was at the very end since my group kept running ahead to attack bosses and I was just watching cutscene after cutscene in Praetorium/CM. I didn't really give a shit though. My loading screens take around 2-5 seconds tops.

Patience, learn it.
SSD, get it.

Also lol @ all the teleporting invisible bots outside Uldah now XD

[Aelfinn]

Also lol @ all the teleporting invisible bots outside Uldah now XD

these make me laugh too... do they really think that stealth makes them unable to be seen by other people???

[arus2001]

I presume they just want to avoid aggro if applicable. Still, I can't believe that kind of naked farming is at all efficient once you're past the level 15 nodes. Maybe they're just targeting crystals, I dunno. Reported one I saw last night.

[Mortilox]

can't swap class in the middle of dungeons. sucks cause there may be a better setup to go for, or maybe the tank just ragequit and you figure you can tank for 10min instead of sitting there wasting time.

second dungeon run as Pugilist


now I know why people call me an amazing tank

[miokomioko]

Bad tanks will never understand that 90% of the time an ACN/SMN is using Topaz/Titan, it's because they are a more capable tank.

[Mortilox]

honestly better tank or not i couldn't give a flying fuck which pet they use as long as they pay attention and DD

it's these "I WON'T MOVE UNTIL I GET MY WAY" tanks that piss me off

but frankly they're both faggots for wasting 10 minutes of my time in awkward silence

[miokomioko]

Oh of course. That kind of pissy attitude is unbelievably childish. I would rather struggle with killing some trash mobs than to stand around and bicker about it... but it's usually because someone is being a complete retard. The whole "DON'T USE TOPAZ/TITAN" bullshit just gets to me because I would often switch to them from Emerald/Ifrit/Garuda BECAUSE my tank is a fucking idiot and can't hold hate... who then gets all butthurt because it makes them look like the bad they really are.

[Lucavi]

I hate that most races have identical attacking stances and animations.

That was so cool in XI for me :< Tarutaru asuran fists with the backflip

I agree, but then you get races that nobody plays because every goddamn animation is fail. See: F. Elvaan. Holding an axe and a lance like a broomstick does not a picked Race make.

[Kami]

Never had any latency/lag issue so far and suddenly out of nowhere i'm getting huge 5-10sec freezes and very high latency in general. WTF is going on.

I live in Europe.

[Damane]

I agree, but then you get races that nobody plays because every goddamn animation is fail. See: F. Elvaan. Holding an axe and a lance like a broomstick does not a picked Race make.

tell that to those plds who refuse to use shield of oath because it lowers their attack.... no shit went out of MP curebombing him and keeping the rest alive

ffs you are a tank use your tanking abiltys, leave attacking to the DPS classes

[Viena]

Speaking of pissy tanks, I just pointed out in a friendly way that some AK mobs that the PLD engaged could be skipped, here's his reply:



Granted that I was tempted to take the invitation, but that would have made me as much of a jerk.

I agree, but then you get races that nobody plays because every goddamn animation is fail. See: F. Elvaan. Holding an axe and a lance like a broomstick does not a picked Race make.

Some of the animations could definitely see some improvements, but I'm in love with my Elvaan. Also, casting with a spear looks awesome, cnj/thms should hold their staves like that when casting!