FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Corrderio]

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

The problem I have is when some cutscens could have been a pseudo-FATE in a sense. Instead of having to cut to a cutscene just for someone to enter, why not just have them spawn and walk/run up to their point then go into the bubble dialog? Would save time IMO. That and when they're stacked by each other. Get out of one, interact with an item, then get in another one.

[Lucavi]

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

Those are bads and you are almost bad for playing with them. Yes, DF doesn't give you a lot of control, but honestly, if you're trying to clear content to farm things in a quick pace, you shouldn't be DFing. At worst, you shout in Mor Dhona, where you can check people's gear.

Bads being bad also has nothing to do with animations.

@Viena: I was actually referring to animations in XI, not ARR. ARR shares the same animations across every race, so Lady Dhamels look no better or worse than anyone else once combat starts. I picked my race based on all other animations, however: namely, running and walking. My Mancat runs like he has someone where to be, and is loose and aggressive. Contrast this to the male Elf, who looks like he has a broomstick wedged so far up his colon that its now pressing into his lungs.

[Rocl]

Saying Miqote M have good animations when their sit is retarded and their idle/standing animation looks like they're a fucked up puppet

[Carth]

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

If you're curebombing a Sword Oath PLD and running out of MP, switching to Shield Oath isn't going to help him and I would question your party as a whole.

I ran entire dungeons on Sword Oath, only switching to Shield Oath on (some) bosses and trash that had more than three mobs that needed to be pulled. Endgame is different (if your DPS aren't shit), but a PLD can at the very least switch between the Oaths during non-level 50 dungeons without issues.

[Viena]

@Viena: I was actually referring to animations in XI, not ARR. ARR shares the same animations across every race, so Lady Dhamels look no better or worse than anyone else once combat starts. I picked my race based on all other animations, however: namely, running and walking. My Mancat runs like he has someone where to be, and is loose and aggressive. Contrast this to the male Elf, who looks like he has a broomstick wedged so far up his colon that its now pressing into his lungs.

Oh, god yes. Spear holding on XI was awful with Elvaan Fs >_<

Random complain:

In duty finder, if you are past the member matching process and you're just waiting for an instance, if someone withdraws the party has to get re-matched and you are put back at the end of the instance queue, which can effectively multiply your DF waiting time in times where instances are full.

[miokomioko]

idle/standing animation looks like they're a fucked up puppet

Their idle stance is pretty much what made me opt out of a sex-change.

[Lucavi]

Saying Miqote M have good animations when their sit is retarded and their idle/standing animation looks like they're a fucked up puppet

Compared to what, exactly? Stiff, boring Human Male idle stances? Stiff, boring Elf Stances? I'll take curled, gnarled fingers over looking as interesting as a damp towel.

On Topic: I'm fucking sick of the RMT PoS hackers that make millions off of drowning the market in shards by POSing from node to node with a script all day. I get it, SE, you're trying to fix server issues and shit, but at least acknowledge that you haven't figured out how to stop POS hacking within the last 10 years.

You put a fucking slow on Stealth and RMT once again figure out a way to circumvent it. The only thing putting slow on stealth accomplishes at this point is punishing your legitimate playerbase. Oh, and increasing the grind, but that's part of the payment plan.

[Rocl]

so you prefer stiff, boring furries got it

[Lucavi]

so you prefer stiff, boring furries got it

As opposed to a clone of my XI character? Absolutely. Change of pace if nothing else.

[Aelfinn]

You put a fucking slow on Stealth and RMT once again figure out a way to circumvent it. The only thing putting slow on stealth accomplishes at this point is punishing your legitimate playerbase. Oh, and increasing the grind, but that's part of the payment plan.

agreed that the "slow" or "gravity" or whatever you want to call it has done nothing to slow down the rmt... but I think having a weight effect on stealth makes a ton of sense... i mean, you're stealthing around... you'd probably be moving a bit slower than normal.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Plus Khajiit like to sneak.

[Serdapi]

06-08. Still not impressed. Calm yo tits, son.

Get on my level plz.

[Lucavi]

agreed that the "slow" or "gravity" or whatever you want to call it has done nothing to slow down the rmt... but I think having a weight effect on stealth makes a ton of sense... i mean, you're stealthing around... you'd probably be moving a bit slower than normal.

I dont want to see mechanics that punish the player when they can't fix the RMT issue associated with it. We're getting the shaft for nothing at that point.

[Damane]

they really need to do somethign to get people in to lower dungeon/duty finder stuff for leveling, I am giving up on Fates to exp up classes for cross class abilitys. On the verge of saying fuck it to everything of it.

[ronin sparthos]

I get that the crafting classes are supposed to hold their own alongside your DoM/W but between the main scenario giving out gear, the NPCs offering gear in level-appropriate areas, dungeon loot and the underpowered nature of consumables I'm beginning to wonder what the logic is. Stress-free climbs to 50? Being able to avoid the markets entirely is a huge blow to anyone who wants to main crafting.

Shouldn't the economy have been based on a lack of easily acquired equipment allowing players to fill those gaps with their synthed equipment? The stance on fishing simply being a hobby is also dubious considering the underpowered nature of food and the invasion of RMT that is all but here already.

[Raldo]

and yet... someone is out there buying the random things I HQ as I level BSM/ARM.

[amentis]

they really need to do somethign to get people in to lower dungeon/duty finder stuff for leveling, I am giving up on Fates to exp up classes for cross class abilitys. On the verge of saying fuck it to everything of it.

A-fucking-men to that. I've been redoing all the dungeons 1x at level while leveling up my SCH and WHM, to keep myself up to snuff as a healer (first job was deeps), and it's taking me like, 40 minutes for Brayflox, hour for Sunken Temple, hour for Cutter's... it's absurd. I just want to run it once to make sure I'm not human garbage when it comes to healing ffs.

[Koul]

I'm lvl 39 on my WHM and I'm dreading lvling ACN up higher than 15. I've been doin the same thing, dungeons upon lvl and guildhests. The wait is insane. I can't even imagine what it's like for a dps lol

they should lower the completion xp bonus for guildhests by a little bit but make it a daily thing. Guildhests are probably one of the most unique aspects of the game yet I bet not a lot of people do them.

[Raldo]

A-fucking-men to that. I've been redoing all the dungeons 1x at level while leveling up my SCH and WHM, to keep myself up to snuff as a healer (first job was deeps), and it's taking me like, 40 minutes for Brayflox, hour for Sunken Temple, hour for Cutter's... it's absurd. I just want to run it once to make sure I'm not human garbage when it comes to healing ffs.

Holy shit, those queue times as a healer? I've been helping a DD friend of mine level up (currently up through Brayflox, so I haven't tried CC/Temple yet), so I queue with them on my SCH and I've never had a queue take longer than 5 minutes.

Did they already split the NA/EU servers into different duty finder groups? That's just so weird to have such vastly different experiences. Granted, most of our tanks have been complete and utter garbage...

[Deadgye]

Those were the exact worries I expressed when everyone had a hard on over vertical progression and their panties in a bunch over horizontal progression. But noooooo, having a reason to do old content is stupid and I should go back to XI. Fucking pricks.