FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Siatdiat]

Anyone addicted to shitty ffxi controls, do not bother with PVP when it is available. Your keyboard turning ass will be DESTROYED! Speaking of which, any controller users can comment on their turning speed vs. keyboard?

[Lucavi]

Anyone addicted to shitty ffxi controls, do not bother with PVP when it is available. Your keyboard turning ass will be DESTROYED! Speaking of which, any controller users can comment on their turning speed vs. keyboard?

I cannot wait for this! I'm not going to get into a keyboard turner debate here, but damn, its going to be so much fun chewing through the keyboarder ranks.

[Maaglin]

When highlighting a piece of gear, it should pop up a window of what you currently have equipped for easy comparison.

[Siatdiat]

I cannot wait for this! I'm not going to get into a keyboard turner debate here, but damn, its going to be so much fun chewing through the keyboarder ranks.

What debate?! Back pedaling keyboard turners, I'm gunning for you and I'm out for blood.

[Midnightjade]

When highlighting a piece of gear, it should pop up a window of what you currently have equipped for easy comparison.

This! Also, a map utility which tells me what all the icons are (mouse-over). Ability to show/hide tracked quests (ie choose which). Ability to link items in chat.

The gameplay is great, love it, but adding these would be very convenient. LOTRO has all of them and they help a ton.

[Lucavi]

What debate?! Back pedaling keyboard turners, I'm gunning for you and I'm out for blood.

Oh I know, I just know someone's going to come stomping in here claiming to be able to move and react just as fast with keyboard turning.

[ronin sparthos]

FATEs are pissing me off to no end.

"Hey guys, a FATE started"
*Music plays*
*Progress bar skyrockets*
*30s passes*
"FATEs over."
*Victory Fanfare*

JFC, make these things harder or something. Level sync shouldn't be putting you so high over the recommended level anyway. Targets get blitzed down so fast you barely have time to target shit before its over and you're bronze/silvering.

[Scythiroth]

It is nice that they add more enemies if a lot of people are there.....too bad AoE still kills them all just as quickly. More HP on all targets would definitely be nice.

[Siatdiat]

Oh I know, I just know someone's going to come stomping in here claiming to be able to move and react just as fast with keyboard turning.

They better tiptoe slowly backwards, carefully turn, and gtfo with that.

[Siatdiat]

Regarding FATEs... I did some on ridill when I couldn't get on sarg. I duoed some with a JP player. No talking, I just tanked and they dded and healed. Was fun. Probably going to be a month or more before they get the scaling down.

[Midnightjade]

Anyone got a link to what the icons are next to player names? The cutscene one is obvious but I can't figure out the others.

Also, what's a free company and how is it different vis a vis a linkshell? <--- noob question but not trolling.

Thanks!

[ronin sparthos]

Free company = Guild. You're limited to one and there are perks you earn/unlock through being in one.
Linkshell = chatroom. You can have multiple and keep up with friends.

[wiegraf]

add to blacklist needs to be in the drop down menu when you right click a name in the chat window. Can't be bothered to type out /blacklist add Fdfghdf fgdddff

[Suited Aces]

Doing popular FATEs on PS3 is next to worthless. I just get a screen filled with pet chocobos and no mobs to even target. Spamming flash gets boring quickly and doesnt rack up much points.

Maybe make loading enemies a higher priority than chocobos I have no reason to see at all.

[miokomioko]

Yeah, with pets, companions, and minions... a FATE that would be bad enough with just players is about 3x as crowded as it needs to be.

[Midnightjade]

Free company = Guild. You're limited to one and there are perks you earn/unlock through being in one.
Linkshell = chatroom. You can have multiple and keep up with friends.

Thanks!

[Jesifromgaruda]

Everyone white knighting the duty finder times needs to realize that the que times are a result of a fuck up.

Who in their right mind designs parties to be a 1:1 ratio of tanks, healers and DPS? Tank, Healer 3xDPS or even 4xDPS would have been fine and reduced the wait time by a ton. Honestly they could just up it to 3 DPS and up the boss HP by ~30% and call it a day.

It would actually make dungeons more smooth because right now those trash mobs take forever to kill and make the dungeon take way longer than it should.

[Kuishen]

It would actually make dungeons more smooth because right now those trash mobs take forever to kill and make the dungeon take way longer than it should.

O.o Stop playing with terribads.

Also that wouldn't fix the problem.

[Salodin]

Everyone white knighting the duty finder times needs to realize that the que times are a result of a fuck up.

Who in their right mind designs parties to be a 1:1 ratio of tanks, healers and DPS? Tank, Healer 3xDPS or even 4xDPS would have been fine and reduced the wait time by a ton. Honestly they could just up it to 3 DPS and up the boss HP by ~30% and call it a day.

It would actually make dungeons more smooth because right now those trash mobs take forever to kill and make the dungeon take way longer than it should.

This is a design concept, light parties are 4man, heavy parties are up to 8man, alliances are up to 24man. Dungeons are designed with light parties in mind, and you will always need one tank on one healer so that leaves two spots for DD.

If you don't like these conventions then make up your own party and enter the dungeon, duty finder is designed to take the work out a light party formation by following the standard of tank, healer, then whatever else you got.

There was a post on the forums of some one main healing as lancer with 3x DD and a tank, but this is the exception not the rule. Most pickup groups will need the safety net of a standard light party setup because randoms just aren't as good as people who always play together.

If we want to bitch about duty finder, let's complain about how acn doesn't count as healer. Yoshi really needs to reconsider this, having a cnj and acn in the same party is such a waste.

[Plow]

Are you dense? I'm saying don't bitch about something that can't possibly be fixed except by playing a more sought after class. Your complaint would be valid if there was a viable way to fix the problem, but there isn't so get over it. Even if there were the exact same number of Tank/Healer classes that there are DPS classes, this would still be a problem because generally people don't like the responsibility of tanking or healing when they can just kill stuff.

You posted a stupid complaint, I replied with the only possible solution. That's not white-knighting.

You are seriously approaching Mazmaz levels of stupid.

Took me so long to respond because I queued up for Toto-Rak and got a group in literally one second.

First off it doesn't matter what you're saying when it's pure white knighting. You're welcome to suck all the yoshi dick you like in the thread right next to this one.

You're lucky as fuck it's me you're arguing with, you would have gotten banned by now doing this bullshit to anyone else.

Now, for the specifics:

There are multiple solutions. Make parties bigger is a simple and extremely obvious one.

They could also do things like turn on the fucking wait time meter that's already in the game so you actually have some idea when it's going to pop. That's not going to happen, though, because that would be showing people the problem.


There are other solutions available, like making such small-ass parties not require a full on healer and tank, the same way WoW has done with its small group dungeons.


You're not posting a fucking solution, you're trying to blame the shortcomings of the game on the player, and that is the absolute prototype for how to be an idiotic douchebag whiteknight.

If you yourself can see that there's obviously going to be an imbalance between the number of people that want to tank/heal vs the ones that want to dps, how can you possibly be stupid enough to try to defend a system designed to require the exact same amount of tanks/heals as dps?

The simple answer is that you're not supposed to talk in this thread with your mouth full.