FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[SamanosukeShiva]

Yeah, obviously SMN's damage is less immediately visible than BLM, since it's all in dots and the pet, but from the rough numbers I ran, the actual damage is pretty significantly less, too (mostly due to Ruin being a total garbage spell). On a fight where you only have one enemy a majority of the time, like Titan or Ifrit, you tend to fall behind even worse.

Essentially, you just consider something like Bio2 a 350 potency spell with a 30 second "cooldown". The problem is, because of those "cooldowns", you have to use ruin at least 50% of the time. That's at least half of your time on an 80 potency spell Comparably, the majority of BLMs time is in the fire1 spamming stage, which is a (ignoring M&M bonus since they both get the equal level of it) a 270 potency spell under Astral Fire. Add in that you're getting random Firestarter/Thundercloud procs at 220-396 and 340 potency respectively, and the numbers start becoming grimly one-sided. I've never nailed down an exact potency that a pet adds "per cast", but I've always strongly doubted (and the parser seems to agree with me) that it's enough to make up the difference.

keep in mind, to be a good SMN, you have to play aggressively, weaving in spells/abilities that are on/off GCD to maximize damage, while keeping up shadow flare full time etc, rouse/spur on CD. On dummy, my SMN, including pet(garuda) does 400 dps in 3 minutes parse, BLM cant go that high on single target, even when extremely lucky with procs, before 2.1, and especially after 2.1. And this becomes even more apparent on high movement fights, even when the fight is scripted, like titan. As BLM main, I found this hard to swallow also at first, but it is what it is.

[arus2001]

Rosewood logs for 8 gil each, rosewood lumbers for 8 gil each. Final Fantasy player logic.

I sell my logs and buy a shitload of lumber to craft stuff, but still.

This seems more like "MMO logic" in general. I blame the people who think they get shit for free if they farm it. That isn't to say XIV endgame crafting doesn't need help in the "worth shit to make" camp, though.

[Niiro]

DD's that LB Titan instead of Super Bomb

People that need to LB super bomb......?

Seriously never heard of a group doing that, every group I've been in has used caster LB to ensure the minis die faster (and just as important: close together to minimize the sludge area).

Rosewood logs for 8 gil each, rosewood lumbers for 8 gil each. Final Fantasy player logic.

I sell my logs and buy a shitload of lumber to craft stuff, but still.

I imagine the price went thru the floor from people gathering a lvl 50 nodes for maps.

[Deadgye]

I imagine the price went thru the floor from people gathering a lvl 50 nodes for maps.

At 8 gil a log, you're better off logging the shards from those nodes lol.

[Tyche]

Been doing coil for over two months. Miss static coil group due to holidays and did a pickup turn 2. Enrage. Never seen a healer head ever. It dropped. Three heals lot. Healer in darklight cowl wins.

Fuck my life.

[Kincard]

I imagine the price went thru the floor from people gathering a lvl 50 nodes for maps.

The smartest thing to farm when you're looking for maps is the grade 3 carbonized matter because it's consumed on a regular basis, so it actually moves through the market. Rosewood lumber has very little use atm, you need a ton of it to make some of the furniture but nobody owns a fucking house, so.

[Edelweiss]

The smartest thing to farm when you're looking for maps is the grade 3 carbonized matter because it's consumed on a regular basis, so it actually moves through the market. Rosewood lumber has very little use atm, you need a ton of it to make some of the furniture but nobody owns a fucking house, so.

The G3CM market on Midgardsormr went to shit several times because of nonsense undercutting, and its still sadly probably one of the few places you can even turn something resembling a profit in the current economy.

[Niiro]

They really need to make more gear dye-able, I get stuff like AF1/AF2 but stuff like Allagan should be, at least for the non-tank sets (dying the tank sets would come off looking really odd).

Maybe if they didn't add 500 different dyes when people only use the same 1-2 shades of each color they wouldn't have so much trouble allowing it.

[Taruina]

SCH alt gets visible Allagan gear on first run. WHM main onry earrings after a few months.

[Don Katsu]

Almost in full PLD AF2 and getting ready to +1 the shield because two months and I have only seen the allagan plate belt and body... -_-

[Izzy]

Are they ever going to figure out this bullshit with their rubberbanding crap ever since 2.1? That little maintenance they had did absolutely nothing.

[Krazy]

Getting really sick of having to reset my password because of "suspicious activity". It'd be nice if they'd tell me what I'm doing is suspicious.

[Jem]

Average ilvl is pissing me off as it means I can't play BRD (ilvl 75 with all the 80/90 slots being the left side) for virtually any fight that I'd want to do via Party Finder since I put all my Myth into PLD. I can push it up to 80 by equipping PLD accessories but it just seems wrong to have to do that to get into parties. Not to mention most PF are asking for like ilvl 81-86 anyway...

Also it's going to make people want to upgrade accessories before main slots just to bump up ilvl even if it's a lesser upgrade.

[Deadgye]

If I was in your position I'd equip the tanking accessories to pump up the ilvl just to join and then switch back. Most people set the ilvl req too high because they either think higher ilvl = higher skill or they want a bigger buffer because they expect a lack of skill.

[Tyrath]

Saw an i88 requirement for Garuda extreme earlier and lol'd.

[Lokus]

They really need to make more gear dye-able, I get stuff like AF1/AF2 but stuff like Allagan should be, at least for the non-tank sets (dying the tank sets would come off looking really odd).

Maybe if they didn't add 500 different dyes when people only use the same 1-2 shades of each color they wouldn't have so much trouble allowing it.

Not sure exactly where I read it but apparently in 2.2 with the release of the Vanity system, we'll be able to dye more shit that we can't currently like Darklight gear. Should be no reason we can't dye everything at all anyway. It's current implementation is just stupid since it's barely usable.

[blowfin]

Are they ever going to figure out this bullshit with their rubberbanding crap ever since 2.1? That little maintenance they had did absolutely nothing.

Made it worse IMHO.

Got desperate yesterday and paid for a month of WTFast. Improved my baseline ping substantially, but hasn't helped much at all with the rubber banding.

[Eleven19]

So, about those CT-Prereq Fates...

What was SE's plan for when, you know, the majority of the playerbase has access and no longer does the fates? GF Is trying to complete them on DRG to gain CT access and.. There's literally nobody there.

[Cymmina]

So, about those CT-Prereq Fates...

What was SE's plan for when, you know, the majority of the playerbase has access and no longer does the fates? GF Is trying to complete them on DRG to gain CT access and.. There's literally nobody there.

I was able to solo all but the wind one as a BLM. I got lucky and had an entire party come up and kill it for me before time ran out on the fate. But yeah, its stupid.

[blowfin]

So, about those CT-Prereq Fates...

What was SE's plan for when, you know, the majority of the playerbase has access and no longer does the fates? GF Is trying to complete them on DRG to gain CT access and.. There's literally nobody there.

As of 2.1, apparently FATE's are now adjusting difficulty based on the number of people who participated in the last one. So it should be reasonably scaled.