FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[fliprock]

I had about 300k when I got to my first 50. That alone should be enough to buy hq i70 crafted

[Nyanoko]

I wish the above worked for Windows Phone. I really need to study my C# more so I can be making more apps instead of crying that apps are missing.

This feel is a feel I know.

[OWS_Tonx]

I geared my alt sch in full i70 crafted at that time for less than 300k and that was taking the fast route. You can grind your gear just as easily through low lvl dungeons while getting mytho and soldiery for better gear, it's just more time consuming. Most people have no issue passing on gear in the dungeons if you let them know you need it instead of greeding for seals

[OWS_Tonx]

Well my static is gone now. Fuck man it didn't even last a week.

That was an FC group too right? fuckin' sucks. I think I remember you saying you're in the UK, what times do you play?

[Korialstrasz]

Nobody else finds it weird that the game makes you farm i90 gear from low level dungeons so that you can do high level dungeons for i70 gear?

An experienced player that is working on an alt or a new job will have no issues with it really. A new player working on their first 50 ever isn't going to know what the fuck half the time since everything is backasswards and makes no sense. Even if they somehow learned a proper rotation on their way to 50 to do ok damage for their ilvl, they'll probably still be lost in the sauce for a while unsure of how they need to progress.

HQ crafted here is around 50k+ per piece, if it's even on AH to begin with (usually not). Kinda shitty that somebody needs to drop all of their gil on temporary gear when equivalent gear used to be significantly easier to get.

[Niiro]

You say it as if people like the way it is or thinks it's good.

I'd say most of us think it's pretty stupid, but it's not difficult.

[OWS_Tonx]

Yeah, It's not ideal but it does work. There are so many social FCs and LSs anyway that it would require no effort for any new member to grab an invite and ask questions about their job or even do some research about the fastest/easiest way to gear up

[Detzu]

When will next patch be released? Cause I feel like a lot of people have lost interest in playing the lock out game or the 8 men only game.
I think it needs a lot of end game contents to keep people's interest.
But the biggest problem I see is that we are forced to static which cut the bonds between players even more than it already did it with the amount of assholes it already has. I understand that teamwork is involved to clear relevant contents but we shouldn't be forced to static. A large choice of end game contents with appealing rewards would partially solve this problem.
Maybe Yoshi will realize one day that most of the FC simply can't do content because a lot of their members totally lost interest in playing the exclusion/schedule game.

[Ratatapa]

mini patch thursday

Big patch? maybe july

[Taim Meich]

It amazes me this still isn't in game and standard. Do they not realize how far the good outweighs the bad with this system? Like how much larger the player pool becomes when players can actually go back and help other players with content they already cleared? Boggled.

It's an artificial barrier they placed to make Coil equipment rarer. If people with experience could help others, or people who just cleared something could get endless practice after that, turns would fall much faster and would be completed by much more people.

[Sephiroth]

That was an FC group too right? fuckin' sucks. I think I remember you saying you're in the UK, what times do you play?

It was an FC group yeah. A couple of people got frustrated that we were 6/8 and not progressing because the 2 extras each time were new to the fight (no surprise there, was frustrating for me too.). One left the static/FC today (the guy I mentioned last night in T6 before we met up) and two others have joined static #2 in the FC after two quit FFXIV for Wildstar. So that's it over.

I am in the UK yeah. I play 6:30pm to midnight usually, except Saturdays and one other night (flexible). To be honest it's not hard to find a new static should I choose to, but I expect the same issues to arise. That's life for anyone who isn't in a solid T8+ group at this point.

[OWS_Tonx]

I guess I'm just lucky, I've been able to fall into decent groups right away after I left one. None of mine really ever broke, just kinda left cuz people can be dickheads. Longest I went without a group was like 3 days until I joined a PF to rep some noshow as WAR and they offered me his spot. I doubt you would want to transfer back but if playtime had matched better I would offer you a spot into ours. We're a couple members shy for a 2nd group and may be lookin for a rep in our primary but we don't kick off until like 12~12:30 GMT on Wednesdays and Fridays, and about 4:00 AM Mondays. Hope you land into a good group if you start looking again

[Lokus]

Dude: I would like to participate with my other jobs even after having cleared the content.

Yoshida: Do you mean as a helper?
In that instance, my worry is the breaking down of the hierachy when players who are unable to clear content overly rely on those who can and begin getting powerful items. Though I also understand that this concern is purely from a management and development point of view. This is a hard question to answer and is why we've decided to nerf contents incrementally.

I kept rereading this quote and it just makes me angry cause SE can't fucking figure out a better way to do Coil/endgame and keep the loot rare cause their current system is a big fuck you to their playerbase that actually wants to play and do something besides spam retarded progression throwaway tome farming content.

[Alderaan]

It's an artificial barrier they placed to make Coil equipment rarer. If people with experience could help others, or people who just cleared something could get endless practice after that, turns would fall much faster and would be completed by much more people.

It's an artificial barrier that's not healthy for the game, much like 8-man raids. It separates the player base even further and creates cliques within guilds.

[lilbubbles]

The logical fallacy of what Yoshi is saying is that there are players who are clearing content without help and are not getting powerful items.

When you see a player geared out no one says "oh man that guy is good", people say "oh man that guy is lucky".

All coil guarantees you is an i110 accessory every 2 months, and an i110 piece of armor every 2 months or 1 if you're clearing t9. At least in 1-5 i was able to deck out my main job with myth.

In other games, once you were geared you could go help out a new group and someone who needs gear could take your spot. In this game, that may never happen before the ilevel increase.

At least with ex primal weapons, the group of people who had them all first were looked at as having an accomplishment and being good.

[Sephiroth]

I guess I'm just lucky, I've been able to fall into decent groups right away after I left one. None of mine really ever broke, just kinda left cuz people can be dickheads. Longest I went without a group was like 3 days until I joined a PF to rep some noshow as WAR and they offered me his spot. I doubt you would want to transfer back but if playtime had matched better I would offer you a spot into ours. We're a couple members shy for a 2nd group and may be lookin for a rep in our primary but we don't kick off until like 12~12:30 GMT on Wednesdays and Fridays, and about 4:00 AM Mondays. Hope you land into a good group if you start looking again

Haha yeah those kind of potential playtimes are exactly why I transferred from Excalibur. Just not viable when you've got to be up at 7am. I hope I never have to transfer again, I spent so many frustrating hours camping the AH on Ragnarok trying to offload all the items I had to buy to get my gil across. I made a 5mil profit in the end but it was well earned.

I play BLM main so competition for statics on that job is quite high. But as I say the main issue is going to be finding a competent one that is still at the same level of progression as me right now, 2 and a bit months after the patch. Was offered a slot in one of our FC statics as a temp replacement for a couple of weeks but they raid when I'm at work so no use. I'll find something eventually I'm sure.

[kisada]

I kept rereading this quote and it just makes me angry cause SE can't fucking figure out a better way to do Coil/endgame and keep the loot rare cause their current system is a big fuck you to their playerbase that actually wants to play and do something besides spam retarded progression throwaway tome farming content.

goddddddddddddddd this makes me so angry. seriously i wanna make a post on OF about how fucking stupid this approach is, even though 99% of people there are mouth-breathers.

[Korialstrasz]

"Disparaging comments against SE". Do it, see how fast they mash report to ban you for even suggesting that there's a better way to handle endgame.

[Deadgye]

I have 1rl friend in one group, 1 rl friend in my group, and 1 rl friend in no group. I want to do endgame content with all of them at the same time, but coil2 won't allow for that. I too, wish they'd release content that wasn't gated by 8s (among multiple other ways).

[Eanae]

Third kill and already a repeat T9 weapon. There has to be a better way to do loot that doesn't fuck you in the ass with a giant spiked RNG strap-on.

Also, what the FUCK at this clipping: