FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Fojoop]

I just want the option to do it and not run around an aetheryte just using the game as a chatbox.

I think most people pretty much agree on this fact. The main problem most of us seem to have is that we're LOCKED OUT of doing content, we have to sit there staring at an aether using the game as a chat box because 1 week lock outs. There would be a lot less complaints if we could just do coil as much as we wanted, but didn't get any reward from it.

[FHT]

Being banned for 10 days from the official forums for calling someone annoying and saying they don't add anything to discussions.

W..h...a...t.

There is a guy on there called Kitru who alway want to have the last word, he alway put a wall of text as a counter argument when answering to someone, bypassing by far the 1000 letters limitation, the guy never get banned..

I called him annoying & irelevant, I may be banned in the next few days =p..

/othertopic
I had a question for you all, Is that just me or its like no achievment to get a new relic? I was on holiday last week, got Relic BRD in 5h and could full DL it in like a day & a half.. Does anyone feel like its becoming FFXI "R/M/E only!" all over again?

I also see alot of "Ohh I have 5 relics I'm da boss" yet the player in question is playing like a day2 beginner & is gimped like fuck.

Maybe that's just me & I start to dislike the game :S

[Jakson]

Is there a reason why BRDs wouldn't have songs up all the time in WP? It seems like every time I do WP (DF) I only get hit by songs if I ask for them.

[Don Katsu]

Is there a reason why BRDs wouldn't have songs up all the time in WP? It seems like every time I do WP (DF) I only get hit by songs if I ask for them.

BRDs take a hit to damage output while buff songs are active

[Jakson]

oh, well that's disappointing

[blowfin]

Well, for the big pulls ballad is a big help for a PLD tank. WAR would probably benefit from TP song depending on how much they SPAM overpower. Apart from that, if you're in a standard setup with a SMN or BLM, Requiem should be up in boss fights.

[FHT]

Is there a reason why BRDs wouldn't have songs up all the time in WP? It seems like every time I do WP (DF) I only get hit by songs if I ask for them.

With a song up you lose 20% damage dealed but its not only that, most of the BRDs I played with generaly were huge lazy players/idiots thinking BRD is a pure DD who shouldn't give this extra support to the others members of the party or even use job abilities such as shadow bind.

[Viena]

Replying to something on the last page...

Given the number of security exploits the game has had since launch, does SE really want hit detection client side? How long before people start making themselves invincible and unable to be hit by anything?

Think about it this way: someone who wanted to use a hack to avoid aoes could still be doing so with server side checks using a tool that automatically poshacks out of them (which to the server could still look like they legitimately walked out of them). But a client side check for aoes would make things far more bearable for players who experience lag issues. Somehow I just see legitimate players earning something out of a change like this. I have little knowledge of how other MMOs achieve fluid positional gameplay but I'm guessing that it's most likely achieved by trusting the client for time critical stuff.

Having had serious lag issues myself during the first month or so after release, I strongly sympathize with those who still do as I know how aggravating they can be. Fortunately for me these issues gradually went away and I now can play the game mostly lag free. Some people never really experienced this issue and have little clue of how cripling it can be considering the design of most of this game's content, never realizing how easy they have it. It really irks me when they claim that people having such issues are either bad or have terrible connections, both in the OF and here. Hell, at some point I couldn't even reliably avoid void firas in AK.

And then there's the action triggering issues mentioned time and time again... benediction not healing someone but still eating the cooldown, blunt arrow not firing off on time because it got delayed by a previous animation or an action doing its animation and never getting registered on the server. As well as some other stuff that more often than not makes you feel like you're fighting the game itself, rather than the fight within the game.

[3.141592]

Is there a reason why BRDs wouldn't have songs up all the time in WP? It seems like every time I do WP (DF) I only get hit by songs if I ask for them.

Actually only if you are out of MP or don't have a Nuker in the PT. So most of the time, no, they don't. During the fights you put up Requiem, no DMG penalty here. While running you either put up Ballad for Palladins /Healers MP or Haste Song.

@Topic: I wonder when SE's gonna realize that maiking basically ALL ppl on one server go to one secific location at the same time is a bad idea. They did it with Odin and Behemoth and now with that Lighning Fate. Oh well, gonna wait until ppl get bored.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

BRDs take a hit to damage output while buff songs are active

Which shouldn't matter if you have a healer/pld/blm/brd setup. Ballad up full time, minus bosses, means you can fire III > flare > bliz III > repeat for max damage and pld's can flash infinite for hate.

[Achitophel]

I've logged on like 4 days in the last month and a half, and I still haven't even tried Garuda Hard Mode. The game is, frankly, kinda boring. It's the vertical progression that kills it for me: "You mean I'm grinding to get gear just to help me grind better to get better gear?" The fun of horizontal progression is that you can get something that really might hold you over for literally a year, while you do other stuff to upgrade other pieces.

I'll still log in every once in awhile, but ladder progression is boooooring.

[FHT]

Which shouldn't matter if you have a healer/pld/blm/brd setup. Ballad up full time, minus bosses, means you can fire III > flare > bliz III > repeat for max damage and pld's can flash infinite for hate.

Yes but thats my 20% QQ! even if we can save 10 mins on the long run! its my 20%!

[ikariiiii]

Yes but thats my 20% QQ! even if we can save 10 mins on the long run! its my 20%!

its this kind of logic that makes threads like this even appear in the first place

[FHT]

its this kind of logic that makes threads like this even appear in the first place

you know I am just making sarcasm . But what I said is what is being said on the FR OF >.>; and the back up argument is "Yes but a black mage who need ballad doesn't play his job properly."

I know, its shamefull, but these people belive science flow in their veins..

[Niiro]

Which shouldn't matter if you have a healer/pld/blm/brd setup. Ballad up full time, minus bosses, means you can fire III > flare > bliz III > repeat for max damage and pld's can flash infinite for hate.

PLDs shout be using Riot Blade after they run out of MP and BLMs get enough MP for Bliz 2 after 1 tic with Transpose (and they need to cast 2 Bliz 2s anyway to build UI3).

Requiem gets everything dead faster by boosting the BLM's damage and not inhibiting the BRD's.

[Lucavi]

I've logged on like 4 days in the last month and a half, and I still haven't even tried Garuda Hard Mode. The game is, frankly, kinda boring. It's the vertical progression that kills it for me: "You mean I'm grinding to get gear just to help me grind better to get better gear?" The fun of horizontal progression is that you can get something that really might hold you over for literally a year, while you do other stuff to upgrade other pieces.

I'll still log in every once in awhile, but ladder progression is boooooring.

1) I sincerely doubt anyone is sad that you aren't playing, because it means you post less around here.

2) Is there even a MMO that's come out post-XI still in existence that exists on a purely horizontal progression path? I'm not saying vertical or bust, but I can't think of any off-hand.

[Raldo]

Requiem gets everything dead faster by boosting the BLM's damage and not inhibiting the BRD's.

This. Requiem definitely takes the cake, plus you don't lose your 20% damage hit.

I'm almost always out of MP in WP on BRD. Ballad during the pulls, switch to Requiem for the large-group blasts, and requiem for bosses. Apply soul voice as desired. <<<----- Yet another thing I notice a lot of Bards completely forgetting about.

[Eidle]

I don't understand why people can't be assed to learn a little bit about the job they play. Like if you're playing a bard, and we're SRing WP, and the pld needs mana for flash spam, why is mages ballad not up? If youre a smn on a boss fight why aren't you using garuda? If you're tanking why aren't you using your damage mitigation CDs more often, it's a 90 second CD for rampart, just use it? Why aren't you using shadowflare for large pulls for the attack speed reduction? Why are you using foe requiem on titan when our dps is mnkx2/drg/smn/brd?(that one im not 100% sure of, but i know smn damage is all unaspected and monk fist of fire isn't worth foe requiem imo)

I hate to have to micromanage people because, my lord, they can get pissy fast. It puts you in a position where you seem "elitist" but I have most of the jobs to 50 now and it wasn't that hard for me figure out how best to utilize my skill sets. Read the flipping tooltips.

[Raldo]

Requiem does apparently affect SMN damage, but that takes a bit of outside-the-game knowledge, since the tooltips make it seem like it wouldn't. MNK fists, however, don't turn your damage into elemental anymore, so it doesn't affect those.

[Andradi]

(that one im not 100% sure of, but i know smn damage is all unaspected and monk fist of fire isn't worth foe requiem imo)

Monk fists aren't actually elemental in ARR, the tooltips just haven't been updated from 1.0. That said, provided the healers don't need ballad in titan (which is reasonably unlikely as the fight goes on) requiem is fine since it doesn't neuter the Bard's damage.

Agree wholly with the sentiment though, just had a relic BLM in WP who (as far as I know) basically only used Blizzard 2 for aoe damage.