FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Sephiroth]

I guess their thinking with the GC gear is it's for glamour and they want it to be rare since only crazy people will spend that many seals on it instead of buying sands/oils/alex.

[Xerlic]

Sorry for the mini rant, but I just had an infuriating experience in Qarn the other day. Finishing up my last job to 50 (SCH). I have a good amount of healing experience from WHM obviously, so the dungeon is pretty much a breeze for me to heal through.

I get this "Paladin" who is terrible, no defense buffs, takes hits worse than the Bard (in fact I liked when the Bard took hate because then I could actually take time to get buffs up again on people instead of having to babysit the terrible tank).

Get to the first boss, and low and behold the Paladin drops to the very first doom. I quick cast a raise and we get back in to the swing of things and then the Black Mage and the Paladin drop to the second doom. No quick cast this time, I am hoping the Bard can kite the boss while I get tank up, no such luck, bees spawn and come at me, I keep trying to stop and get a raise off, but it's not happening, so we wipe.

On the way back to the fight the mage asks me why I did not "rise." I asked them if they wanted the truth to which they responded with yes. I pointed out that the Paladin takes hit like paper and requires constant baby sitting, that they both failed to avoid doom, the Paladin twice, and I burned my quick cast on raising the Paladin the first time he died. Then the Paladin gets butt hurt and claims his gear is fine and he completed this dungeon the other day. I never mentioned his gear, which was terrible for the record, but it was mostly his lack of defensive buff use and failure to remove doom from himself that made it happen. I have gotten through dungeons with paper tanks before with no deaths, it just comes common place in DF.

Then the guy goes off about how it was because I wasn't healing him that he died, and blah, blah, blah. This is a guy with just a 50 Black Mage, but should know basic dungeon mechanics at this point. Argument continues until I finally get vote kicked for harassing (thank all that is holy and good as I got to queue back up with a real tank).

This got me to thinking...the lack of a real reputation system in this game is disappointing. Maybe it is because I come from FFXI in which your skill and attitude followed you everywhere. It just gets so frustrating to know that these "bads" get to just run off being horrendous and not accepting their own short comings with no repercussions anymore. I feel like this is why DF is a nightmare, there is no incentive to learn your roll and get better, just hope the rest of the group can carry you.

Ok end of rant, feel better putting that all into words to people who play and experience this game with me.

It's roulette. You're gonna get bads. Best to just suck it up and move on. I definitely would have mouthed off to get intentionally kicked from the getgo once you see that a person's reaction is to get defensive when advice is offered. At least as a healer you get instant queues. Whenever I run into these situations as DPS, I hold my tongue since I don't want to deal with 15+ min queues.

[Kairos]

I feel the same way. The fact that reputation doesn't hold much weight in this game other than getting an achievement or some stupid novelty items make me care a lot less about other players in this game compared to how i felt in XI. They've ditched intricate charm and longevity in this game for flash and a bigger player base.

That said i still like the game a lot, but there's fewer of those little things that kept me wanting to play (either solo or grouping) constantly the way i did with UO, or Everquest, or XI. I find myself playing a lot the first 3 weeks after a patch, then getting annoyed with or irritated by parts of the community's attitude in game. Of course after that, about 3 weeks of not playing at all follows in which i switch to ps3 console mode. Eorzea doesn't even cross my mind during these 3 week lapses.

[Yufhi]

+ you get marks from killing the elite hunt mob, even if you're not actively hunting it. So that's an indeterminate amount of marks.

I got 5 marks, 10 sold and 30 myth from the random elites I've come across which weren't my hunt target.

[ChibiKawaiiMei]

Syrcus Tower already filled with assholes going YOU HAVENT DONE THIS DUNGEON YET GOD YOU SUCK

[Avarice]

71/72
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71/72
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Fuck off with this bullshit, it takes longer to get into Frontlines than it does to do it.

[Headspace]

FATE bosses for daily hunts is dumb. 30 minutes waiting for a FATE to pop isn't worth the 2 seals. Which is apparently pennies compared to costs of items.

[Niiro]

So was I actually optimistic to say that Hunts were just gonna be treasure maps v2.3 when they're really just more FATE bullshit?

[Akiyama]

FATE bosses for daily hunts is dumb. 30 minutes waiting for a FATE to pop isn't worth the 2 seals. Which is apparently pennies compared to costs of items.

doesn't seem like it's worth it to do dailies since you don't realy get much besides gil as well. just prolly better to farm the elites.

[Yufhi]

I got 5 marks, 10 sold and 30 myth from the random elites I've come across which weren't my hunt target.

^ I'm assuming this was B class. Some of my FC are saying they just killed an A class and got 20 allied seals, 80 myth, 20 sold.

[Headspace]

So was I actually optimistic to say that Hunts were just gonna be treasure maps v2.3 when they're really just more FATE bullshit?

2/5 mobs and 4/7 daily seals seem to be tied to FATEs.

[Lokus]

Hunts, the Elite ones at least, are literally FATEs without the "look at me!!!" map marker. I guess that's enough to differentiate them since it's not announced to everyone they are up and they spawn in random locations (until people figure out spawn timing/points.)

[Headspace]

AF dying is a convoluted system that isn't worth it.

[kisada]

doesn't seem like it's worth it to do dailies since you don't realy get much besides gil as well. just prolly better to farm the elites.

yeah it's sounding more and more like elite farm is the way to go. really really stupid that normal bills are almost worthless. like maybe if it was 1-2 seals each mob but definitely sucks that it's for the entire group.

[Lyall]

AF dying is a convoluted system that isn't worth it.

I only blame myself for thinking SE would give us something so inconsequential for free.

[Dammerung]

Is the 'Temporarily switch chatmode to Linkshell' forward/back fucked for anyone else? It keeps putting me back on LS1 when before it would just stay on the last one used.. and the 'activate linkshell' on ls menu doesn't do anything anymore.

[Shenrien]

72 people queue for one thing, one person drops everyone is fucked. They should teleport everyone wanting to join in a lobby and if they leave the lobby before it's full they get penalized for something like this. The amount of troll potential is huge when you think back to people queue spamming for CT1.

[BerenTebogo]

Good luck on the elite bill when everyone on the server (or maybe just GC, idk) has the same mark for the week, lol.

[Cutriss]

OMG I'M DYING

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2244016

Sorry for the big bump, but I have some information to share.

We originally planned to release the “/random” text command in patch 2.3, but due to a bug that was discovered we will be pushing this back to patch 2.4.

THEY CAN'T EVEN GET /random RIGHT, NO WONDER THE RNG SUCKS

[Izzy]

OMG I'M DYING

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2244016THEY CAN'T EVEN GET /random RIGHT, NO WONDER THE RNG SUCKS

Yeah I saw that. How the fuck can you fuck that up. Like, seriously.