FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[layoneil]

In the world of people who have only previously played 11 as their main MMO and learned that regen is a static amount of hate no matter how much it heals for that's all put on at the moment of cast, not accrued slowly each tick.

aka "It's different, therefore it's worse" syndrome.

it's not worse just because it's different. provided in this magical world that a monster can sense health being restored on someone overtime, how does the monster know who did it if the action took place before the monster is aware the person even exists.

it's casted on the tank, it ticks on the tank, it's not like there's a line that links the healer to the tank like Cover for the duration of the HoT.

it's not like a DoT where they feel pain every time and they are reminded of the person who applied the DoT the first time, you can't get away with putting a DoT on someone and not knowing who casted it.

would you know in a PvP situation? you just know there's a WHM, if there are 3 WHMs in the party how do you know which one it is?

and i don't particularly think it's inferior game design, you do it for balance issues or whatever but it sure as hell doesn't seem intuitive to me.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Whoa bro. That's so meta.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Obviously the monster is just reading the chat log to know who cast it. That shit picks up stuff from way farther than aggro range.

[Serenseven]

Obviously the monster is just reading the chat log to know who cast it. That shit picks up stuff from way farther than aggro range.

The monster's obviously running a parser and should be banned.

[TheDirtyHobo]

No, it's just manually tabulating all the damage that each individual player has dealt to it in order to know which one has done the most and is therefore the most threatening. Ladybugs are actually really good at arithmetic.

[Sephiroth]

that we can't list a stack of something while giving the buyer the ability to only buy part of the stack. List 99 of something, then someone can buy 7 of it, 5 of it, 30 of it etc.

I'm sure you could do that in 1.0... Not sure why it was taken away.

[Cutriss]

I'm sure you could do that in 1.0... Not sure why it was taken away.

I could be wrong but I think it wasn't possible through the counter - you had to actually go buy it from the retainer in-person.

Since that doesn't exist anymore, and because ARR doesn't feature meat-locker corridors full of retainers standing idle doing nothing...it's not that it got "taken away" but that it just wasn't re-implemented.

[Neon_Sea]

FFS SE pls make i90 crafted gear SB anywhere at a reasonable rate, wtf this makes no sense but to annoy the shit out of me.

[Shenrien]

In the world of people who have only previously played 11 as their main MMO and learned that regen is a static amount of hate no matter how much it heals for that's all put on at the moment of cast, not accrued slowly each tick.

aka "It's different, therefore it's worse" syndrome.

That is kinda the fault of the user coming from an archaic old title to a modern mmo, or in better terms. Coming from an MMO that failed to evolve with its competition and got stuck force feeding terrible "mechanics" and people sat and wondered why the game failed to populate as much as it could have. You can look at any other MMO on the market from XI's release to present day, most are still up and running and have evolved and changed with their competition to maintain its numbers and continue to add more layers of depth and challenge to their game.

I can't think of any other MMO that would allow for something like super tanking, hold all the mobs you want and flood them with spells and all the tank has to do there is just try not to fall asleep because they're pretty much rendered useless for self support if something managed to crawl behind them. Where as any other title the moment an action is put on the tank they're on the threat/enmity/hate w.e your flavor of ice cream you wanna call the table, they get put on it and everything will either move over to that person or stay on the tank if they've done any actions to try and keep their attention, this including any hot, recovery, buff, status ailment removal and so on.

[Ratatapa]

Proof that gear progression is shit in this game?

Did Garuda EX and Warrior didn't had Garuda completed (had a Novus Bravura)

[solracht]

Proof that gear progression is shit in this game?

hunts

[Ratatapa]

I know but was said when the war asked what he had to do in this fight

(most people had Primal rings or primal I90 weapon) and we got the 100 myths message

So lots of chances he was the new one

[Neon_Sea]

hunts

[Shaano]

i think the 'bg' party for hunts today we all agreed that shit isn't worth it on weekends when primetime hits.

[Alistaire]

FFS SE pls make i90 crafted gear SB anywhere at a reasonable rate, wtf this makes no sense but to annoy the shit out of me.

That eager to convert them before tier 5 materia is implemented? (it's only a matter of time)

[Nyanoko]

Dear SE: Please remove hunts from the game.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Alternatively, implement the goddamn alliance system they've been soon™-ing since 2.1 and then make it claim-based, at LEAST for A and B, so that people have to actually hunt instead of leech for random callouts. Maybe shorten respawn timers a little bit to compensate.

[Nyanoko]

If botting didn't exist, I'd love a claim based system. But they need to fix something, at least. Leviathan server has hundreds of nobodies on all day chasing sands for their vendor gear.

I was out fishing, and saw Naul off in the distance. Cool, I'll go kill that with my choco, that'll be neat. As soon as I pull and begin fighting, the zerg swarm shows up, all shouting for invites, demanding I reset the mob, etc. All for a B rank worth a whole 5 seals. Fuck outta here, I ain't got time for all that.

[Kipling]

Botting? Never heard of people botting hunts. Like straight up teleport/positional hacking? What do you mean exactly?

Edit: Or am I reading this wrong, lol.

[Niiro]

If botting didn't exist, I'd love a claim based system.

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