FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Raldo]

Also, I have evaded demon wall's repel entirely by timing repelling shot. Only happened once though... So probably a fluke.

Pretty sure I've done this multiple times, but I don't usually run on Bard, so I can't be sure. I suppose it could've been stoneskin, but it would make sense if this negated the knockback. It's a lot shorter than jump though, so it's hard to time right.

That said, Bard is a ranged class, so it doesn't really matter if you avoid the knockback.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Eh, helps for not being in the purple pool after 2nd repel but I suppose by then wall should be near/dead in a good group anyways so it's kind of a novelty.

Might be good to know for anything else that has a telegraphed knockback in the future though.

[Ratatapa]

Eh, helps for not being in the purple pool after 2nd repel but I suppose by then wall should be near/dead in a good group anyways so it's kind of a novelty.

Might be good to know for anything else that has a telegraphed knockback in the future though.

Just run toward the wall when he cast repel you won't get in the pool

[miokomioko]

You are better off using the regular Jump. Use it just as Repel is about to go off, game will recognize your position for return. If you were destined to fall off, you will simply return back to the previous spot like Jump is supposed to do.

I think the curiosity is in the possibility that Spineshatter Dive would reset your location back on top of the platform after you're already knocked off. I have a feeling it would work, but you would have to be very quick about it so your altitude isn't too low in respect to your target to pull off the skill in the first place.

[Jem]

Just joined a shout group of 3 friends (judging from how they were speaking in party) as a 3/4 AK Relic Run needing a Relic tank. Then none of them use their fucking relic job. People capable of getting relics should not be taking 48 mins to clear AK. It took 5 fucking repels to kill Demon Wall. It was god awful. I was genuinely worried about not killing Ananta.

[Jaybar]

I think the curiosity is in the possibility that Spineshatter Dive would reset your location back on top of the platform after you're already knocked off. I have a feeling it would work, but you would have to be very quick about it so your altitude isn't too low in respect to your target to pull off the skill in the first place.

There is too much that could go wrong and I've tried both abilities with absolutely no luck on Spineshatter. Either I use it just before Repel and I land on top of him and he still repels me, or I use it right after Repel and I end up being out of range. Note - I'm talking about a fraction of a second in delay.

[Sephiroth]

Further to my Coil comments yesterday, why can't SE make it so that you can go back and help others but not let you roll on the loot if you've already cleared that turn? Is this a bad idea?

[Fereydoon]

Further to my Coil comments yesterday, why can't SE make it so that you can go back and help others but not let you roll on the loot if you've already cleared that turn? Is this a bad idea?

Seriously. I'm mad enough at the week long waits in this game but I can't go help friends because I want to do events?

[The Stig]

Might be a possible by-product of people bitching on WoW about being "forced" to do things lol (assuming yoshi copied some aspects of WoW to a T)

In WoW there are 4 difficulty versions of an end-game instance in current patch:

Scum (Looking for Raid - cross server random queue system)
Flex (Casual - own server only, scaling)
Normal (Normal...)
Heroic (Hard)

Scum and Flex have their own lockouts, Normal and Heroic share. People were moaning about being "forced" to do Scum, Flex and Normal/Hard each week. Something like that...

End of the day, people won't be happy either way lol

[Kuishen]

Might be a possible by-product of people bitching on WoW about being "forced" to do things lol (assuming yoshi copied some aspects of WoW to a T)

In WoW there are 4 difficulty versions of an end-game instance in current patch:

Scum (Looking for Raid - cross server random queue system)
Flex (Casual - own server only, scaling)
Normal (Normal...)
Heroic (Hard)

Scum and Flex have their own lockouts, Normal and Heroic share. People were moaning about being "forced" to do Scum, Flex and Normal/Hard each week. Something like that...

End of the day, people won't be happy either way lol

Pretty sure nobody would be unhappy with being able to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want. It's on the developer to make lasting content that we want to stay subbed for, not put in some arbitrary restrictions on how often we can do the content because they're lazy.

[Insanecyclone]

Not sure why but the game while in windowed wants to act like I'm still using it whenever I'm browsing something else. Even with chrome or some other browser up it'll still sorta flick or I can move the mouse around in game while on BG or something. Starting to get annoying.

[Jamison]

Further to my Coil comments yesterday, why can't SE make it so that you can go back and help others but not let you roll on the loot if you've already cleared that turn? Is this a bad idea?

While I'd personally like to see that, you'd end up with a system that generates more overall loot than SE wants. Imagine you have one group that clears through turn four on Monday, then for the rest of the week do repeated runs swapping out one member who can roll on the 6 pieces that drop. You'd probably end up getting over 100 pieces for your FC per reset.

Still, I like the idea, and they could do something where the chance of an actual drop goes down a fixed percentage based on how many people are clearing for the first time. SE isn't known to have that kind of foresight, though.

[Carth]

Further to my Coil comments yesterday, why can't SE make it so that you can go back and help others but not let you roll on the loot if you've already cleared that turn? Is this a bad idea?

It's not a bad idea, it just makes too much sense.

[Lucavi]

^ Yep. I really want to help my new crop of plds get ready, and it sucks that I cannot do so.

[ejact]

Further to my Coil comments yesterday, why can't SE make it so that you can go back and help others but not let you roll on the loot if you've already cleared that turn? Is this a bad idea?

That would actually be a bad idea, it would allow players to repeatedly run coil and feed certain players gear which is something they probably don't want to happen. Also might set up pug sabatoging and coil merc groups.

[Jem]

Yeah, I imagine the reason they won't do it is because it's an overall increase in drops.

For instance if you had 16 people. You could just rotate 1 player each run and effectively get 9 runs worth of drops per turn. I mean sure the drops would be forced to that 1 rotated player each run but it's still a vast increase in drop output compared to the 2 runs worth of drops you currently can get with 16.

EDIT: I'm stupid, completely missed Jamison's post already pointing this out.

[Sephiroth]

Yeah well pointed out. Could just take Jamison's idea to solve that however. For each person who has cleared it the chance of loot from a chest goes down by 12.5%. So if you tried to exploit it by having just one uncleared person in each run you'd have a lovely 12.5% chance of loot per chest on each run.

[Ksandra]

Pretty sure nobody would be unhappy with being able to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want.

You must be new to the internet.

[Madeline]

Tired of caps. Tired of having every job only to feel like I'm only meant to play one of them. Because of caps.

Tired of having 50 people in my FC when I only see seven of them. Because of poor progression planning. Tired of watching my other groups have problems I could be helping with.

Tired of clearing turn 1-4 in an hour. Tired of the fact that I can't do coil at all for a week since they decided turn 5 needed to be closed for that long.

I'm just either really burning out or this is turning out to be a game I don't at all enjoy. And I don't like that after I hyped myself up for so very long for this.

So very...tiresome. Turning out to be A Monday Reborn.

[Krandor]

Token cap for a game putting multiple jobs on the same character is kinda annoying. Course at the same time having to cap tokens for multiple characters in WoW definitely got old.