FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Seravi Edalborez]

So did anybody else know that if the final boss of Haukke hard does the seduction AoE 3 (maybe 4? don't remember) times, afterwards she just oneshots the tank and kills the whole party with Blood Rain? DPS why you so terrible.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Officially done with the game, at least for a while. FFXIV: A Sandbox Reborn sums up thoughts of the game. Instance, instance, instance, instance. I was looking for a balance between XI and XIV and it's clear now they want nothing to do with XI. It's going to be vertical gear progression from two different progressive dungeons from now until servers go down. Just not my cup of tea. Looking forward to dark souls 2 and HOPING Monster Hunter Online comes to the west. Laugh all you want bitches but MONSTER HUNTER FOREVER!

[Serenseven]

So did anybody else know that if the final boss of Haukke hard does the seduction AoE 3 (maybe 4? don't remember) times, afterwards she just oneshots the tank and kills the whole party with Blood Rain? DPS why you so terrible.

Yep. She'll use Beguiling Mist > Void Fire IV four times. The fifth time, she uses Blood Sword on the tank, which kills him, and uses his soul to empower Blood Rain to kill everyone else.

The damage output has to be utter crap for this to happen, though.

[Niiro]

FFXIV: A Sandbox Reborn sums up thoughts of the game.

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A "sandbox" is exactly what XIV isn't.

[ronin sparthos]

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A "sandbox" is exactly what XIV isn't.

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Games on hard rails that make even XI blush. The itemization, cross-class skills, strict dungeon ladder, FATEs and flexibility of the jobs offered are all so fixed they offer little in the way of exploration or tinkering. Where you could try to make DD WHM or something silly like Holy Bolts Ranger work in lolFantasyXI is instead abandoned for a dictatorial system for the sake of developmental expediency.

I get the knee jerk to not do XI but in classic SE fashion, they have no idea what balance is. Throwing away what worked in your previous success to be something you'll never be (Warcraft) is folly.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Don't think too much about it. Once someone decides they don't like something they abdicate themselves of any responsibility to logically explain their reasoning and just throw out the first negative sounding words that come to their mind.

[Kincard]

Pretty exceptional to use a word that's basically the exact opposite of what he actually wants to say though.

Personally while I do hate the stiffness of all of XIV's "RPG" elements I do like a lot of the game. Reminds me a lot of XI where I had a love/hate relationship. Better than just feeling "meh" overall about it like a lot of other MMOs give me, I suppose.



Also random complaint, this shit:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psf796a4c3.jpg
I made a post on the OF so maybe they'll fix it (hah).

[Ksandra]

Got healer body from CT last week, so need healer head this week to use it (I am a cheapo, not buying/making vanya when I can get a free hat).

Healer hat is boss 4, so trying to do in progress. I have the best luck of getting into glitched CTs doing it that way.

[gaogaostegosaurus]

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Games on hard rails that make even XI blush. The itemization, cross-class skills, strict dungeon ladder, FATEs and flexibility of the jobs offered are all so fixed they offer little in the way of exploration or tinkering. Where you could try to make DD WHM or something silly like Holy Bolts Ranger work in lolFantasyXI is instead abandoned for a dictatorial system for the sake of developmental expediency.

I get the knee jerk to not do XI but in classic SE fashion, they have no idea what balance is. Throwing away what worked in your previous success to be something you'll never be (Warcraft) is folly.

I don't disagree with the basic points, but I always thought all the weird crap we ended up doing on XI was because they were really expedient with development by not testing it at all, lol.

If anything this version of development probably tales more time. Maybe?

[TheDirtyHobo]

Healer hat is boss 4, so trying to do in progress. I have the best luck of getting into glitched CTs doing it that way.

Have you considered the possibility that maybe, just MAYBE, there's a reason people are leaving those runs?

[Sephiroth]

Not enough people do Greed-only farming groups.

So frustrating, it makes so much more sense to just have people come on their best job (or the job that's needed for the party) and pick a job to Greed as.

I wish SE would implement an option for a party to be flagged as Greed-only on formation and just disable the ability to Need on items. People could still be douches and Greed on items they shouldn't but it would at least encourage people to do Greed parties more.

It wouldn't really be feasible to do this for DF groups but for PF/manually formed parties where people can actually get a bad rap on their server I think it'd be pretty useful.

(I've only ever come across one instance of someone Needing an item that they were supposed to Greed on along with someone else, after kicking the guy we luckily got the drop again for the the guy that got screwed)

Better way to do it would be to let you pick your Need job from a list before you enter the instance, and it would only list jobs that are high enough level to equip that gear.

I wouldn't want greed only parties because too much gear would end up going unused and no one wants 7 other people competing for an item, 6 of whom won't use it.

[Izzy]

http://puu.sh/6lK3d/66ba2958ea.png

I don't know what it classifies as a "ping spike", but after lagging all over coil last night, I loaded this up and didn't lag once for almost 5 hours. Look at that ping deviation.

Get your fucking shit together SE. I don't give a shit that, "OH IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT IT'S THE ISP". That's a gigantic crock of horse shit. Your game is being throttled/experiencing TERRIBLE routing issues from specific providers, it's your fucking responsibility to contact the providers and get this shit worked out. I shouldn't have to subscribe to another service to pay for a game I'm already subscribing to.

[Tsutsumiko]

I don't know what it classifies as a "ping spike", but after lagging all over coil last night, I loaded this up and didn't lag once for almost 5 hours. Look at that ping deviation.

Get your fucking shit together SE. I don't give a shit that, "OH IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT IT'S THE ISP". That's a gigantic crock of horse shit. Your game is being throttled/experiencing TERRIBLE routing issues from specific providers, it's your fucking responsibility to contact the providers and get this shit worked out. I shouldn't have to subscribe to another service to pay for a game I'm already subscribing to.

In all honesty, this shit should be fixed by now. I know tons of LS mates who are in the same boat. The amount of "pre-dodging" I hear from LS mates to dodge things like lasers in T2 or Titan Extreme is just silly.

This happens in other games, you see it get fixed in a week. This has been happening since 2.1, which mind you will be almost a month old in less than a week. What gives?

[Tyrath]

Welcome to SE. It'll be fixed for 2.2 and some new problems will pop up. Please look forward to it.

[fren.]

It'd be cool if they made T3 into something worthwhile. Such a goddamn waste.

[Niiro]

T3 should have been a real turn with a real boss with real drops.

BC drops should have been distributed so that all armor came from T1-4 and only weapons came from T5 (T5 armor drops are no more special than T1/2/4 drops, no reason to lock them behind the hardest encounter in the game).

[Seravi Edalborez]

Inb4 turns 6-9 are all literally turn 3 again.

[Niiro]

Don't even joke about that, someone from SE might be reading.

[OWS_Tonx]

Inb4 turns 6-9 are all literally turn 3 again.

Oh god why.

[Nitsuki]

Considering mnk BiS is cockblocked from t5 drops. I really wish SE reconsidered those drops as well. Leave T5 for weapons. I can keep my hellish claws for now til i get my t5 weapon. ; ;