FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Skai]

I main WHM and don't play SCH at all, so to learn how to play SCH I took it out for a spin and did some random trials. Got Titan HM and our two tanks... one is a WAR without provoke and the other is a MRD in full Allagan plus the axe. Took 3 tries because the WAR without provoke wasn't geared and got his ass kicked by table flips, and the Allagan MRD was unwilling to tank.

The random praise on the side of it was everyone could dodge, I guess.

[Niiro]

The MRD was probably MRD to DPS since none of the trials really need 2 tanks.

Even if the MRD was willing to tank, you wouldn't want them tho.

[Korialstrasz]

I don't understand how people still don't understand how to dodge bombs and plumes.

What's worse is that all of these people that can't dodge for shit demand everyone stacks anyways. If you can't dodge one, you certainly can't dodge 4 of them. A lot of wipes could be avoided if the derps that can't dodge just stood off to the side and ate their one plume while the rest stack. There's more than enough room for people to spread a bit and still find a safe spot to run to when plumes go out unless you right in the dead center of a cluster.

[Skai]

The MRD was probably MRD to DPS since none of the trials really need 2 tanks.

Even if the MRD was willing to tank, you wouldn't want them tho.

I get that, I understand that. While I don't follow the class/job closely (only class/job left to 50) because I don't play it, aren't the DPS between MRD and WAR not that big of a difference?

[Dammerung]

I get that, I understand that. While I don't follow the class/job closely (only class/job left to 50) because I don't play it, aren't the DPS between MRD and WAR not that big of a difference?

It isn't that big a difference and the MRD was dumb. I go WAR in full STR and tank anyway without defiance because I don't care that healers have to heal a little more (seriously, df healers aren't going to dps so they have nothing better to do anyway), but I do have the option to pop it on if needed since I'm not going to let run failure be my fault.

[Cutriss]

What's worse is that all of these people that can't dodge for shit demand everyone stacks anyways. If you can't dodge one, you certainly can't dodge 4 of them. A lot of wipes could be avoided if the derps that can't dodge just stood off to the side and ate their one plume while the rest stack. There's more than enough room for people to spread a bit and still find a safe spot to run to when plumes go out unless you right in the dead center of a cluster.

This is why I fucking hate stacking. If you die once, you're a pain in the ass for the entire fight because of your reduced HP. You're increasing your odds of failure by stacking.

[Eldelphia]

Not if you stack correctly. Can't stand it when players stand next to you and in front of you. That being said, one you've done ex HM is very easy.

[Cantih]

Sightseeing log 39 is bullshit.
I've tried it normal, sprint, mount. I've tried every different height top to bottom.
I do not know how anyone makes that jump.

[dejet]

Got Titan HM for Roulette tonight that ended with a tank and 2 healers standing with echo buff when it was finally dead. 45 minutes for 85 myth is mad efficient. I don't understand how people still don't understand how to dodge bombs and plumes.

Kinda reminds me of one of my first PF titan ex fights LOL Im the person alive.
spoiler because of its 1980 res
and yes my layout has changed a lot from this pick. fuck it changes daily almost due to I go smn(who needs dots close to the center shown) pld where I dont give a shit due to FT(left center) to healer where party is on the left side of my hotbar. SE needs to fucking give us HUD layouts already for jobs.

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[Lyall]

People without Skip Cutscenes enabled.

[Dathus]

Garuda HM for roulette. I'm there as WAR so I can OT and DPS because easy.

PLD with about 4.5k HP doesn't even use Sword Oath and calls OT. I'm okay with that, whatever.

Refuses to believe Sword Oath is even worth having for the small bonus damage it does. Fuck off. He also attempted to provoke Garuda off me after the first set of sisters. No idea why. But it's okay, I just held both Garuda and red tether. Because fuck people.

[Cutriss]

Not if you stack correctly.

Not my point. If everyone stacks exactly on the same spot, and someone fails to dodge (lag or being a bad), they're guaranteed to die because they're getting hit with four landslides, not one. At least when you're spread out, if you fuck up, you stand a chance of survival.

You're talking about people making the overall "radius" of landslide bigger by not making the circles perfectly overlap, and that is a different issue.

But once someone dies on Titan, unless they're a tank they may as well go jump off the side because the odds they're going to die again to stomps are quite high because the margin of error on healing shrinks, and they'll consume a ton of MP getting raised repeatedly. Better to use that MP keeping the unweakened players alive.

[Serenseven]

But once someone dies on Titan, unless they're a tank they may as well go jump off the side because the odds they're going to die again to stomps are quite high because the margin of error on healing shrinks, and they'll consume a ton of MP getting raised repeatedly. Better to use that MP keeping the unweakened players alive.

Not necessarily true. An attentive BLM or SMN can dump Physick spam into the recently-raised player during stomps, greatly reducing the pressure on the actual healer. I've done it before in marginal Titan HM roulettes to keep a second DPS alive in case I get gaoled.

Of course the issue with that is finding a BLM/SMN who is actually willing to use Physick when needed instead of blindly pushing out moar deeps.

[BerenTebogo]

Not necessarily true. An attentive BLM or SMN can dump Physick spam into the recently-raised player during stomps, greatly reducing the pressure on the actual healer. I've done it before in marginal Titan HM roulettes to keep a second DPS alive in case I get gaoled.

Of course the issue with that is finding a BLM/SMN who is actually willing to use Physick when needed instead of blindly pushing out moar deeps.

Using Phsyick on someone who has already died in Titan HM, for any reason other than you're the only Gaol target if they die is going to be a waste of DPS.

They died, they're bad, cast ruin.

[Serenseven]

Using Phsyick on someone who has already died in Titan HM, for any reason other than you're the only Gaol target if they die is going to be a waste of DPS.

Depends on who it is, why they died, and what else is going on. I've seen otherwise-decent DPS get trapped in between 3 or 4 plumes because people were scattered all over the damned place. If the other two DPS are marginal, I might very well want to slightly "waste DPS" to ensure the good one stays alive because I don't expect the other two to contribute much alive or dead.

Besides, it's Titan HM. It's not like I'm up against the Avatar's enrage timer or anything serious.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Speaking of, maybe I'm just not paying attention but it seems like Titan HM's stomps don't go up with each rotation anymore. Seemed to always be 4 stomps. My imagination?

[lilbubbles]

People are silencing him.

[Xerlic]

Speaking of, maybe I'm just not paying attention but it seems like Titan HM's stomps don't go up with each rotation anymore. Seemed to always be 4 stomps. My imagination?

They definitely go up. See my previous post. By the very end it felt like he was break dancing.

[Seravi Edalborez]

In every DR Titan I've been in? It's possible but seems unlikely. I'm sleepwalking through them though so probably just not paying attention.

[Lyall]

I make it a point to sit on Spirits after heart specifically for it, so maybe others out there are doing the same.