FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato

[Selamis]

Not on Coeurl, fucks don't even wait for people anymore on S ranks and they are usually dead within 30 to 60 seconds. =/ Hunts are still bad, I've pretty much stopped caring about them at this point.

[ronin sparthos]

If you're missing hunts still at this point with GW running either your server is absurdly bad with early pulls or you're absurdly slow.

Hunts have calmed down so much that I can get to almost all As with full credit just by porting and shouting.

Ss are even easier to catch because they take so much longer to die.

Problem 1: Needing to use third-party shit to keep track. Blah blah, ethics, morals, efficiency it's still dumb.
Problem 2: Managing to be worse than FATES.
Problem 3: Things getting vaped in a matter of seconds, glorified bosses getting trounced by sheer numbers.

And this gives valuable upgrade items! Yes, it all makes sense. If Hiromichi Tanaka found his way into Naoki Yoshida's game.

(Also, while I'm bitching. It should be 1 Carbontwine OR Carboncoat per week in the Archmagus quest.)

[Deadgye]

We've got a couple people over here that pull as soon as they can as well. I sometimes don't even bother to go to A ranks when they're on.

[Elcura]

First time in a very long time that I've gone a week without capping tomes...

uh oh... uh oh, I'm becoming a casual.

I haven't capped tomes in a long time. Even when I needed them to get gear for main job.

[Niiro]

Yea, it really can only take 1 person to fuck things up for the whole server unfortunately. At this point, at least on my server, people just don't seem to need hunts as much anymore so things are pretty lax, especially during off-peak times.

But I have 0 sympathy for people that don't use GW for hunts, the devs created this shit situation under the guise of actual content and GW was an elegant solution to spare the playerbase a bunch of needless and mind-numbing minutiae.

(if you want to talk about moral and ethical issues of a goddamn map marker you can go back in time to 2005 and argue about windower because I'm not hearing that shit)

[Sephiroth]

First time in a very long time that I've gone a week without capping tomes...

uh oh... uh oh, I'm becoming a casual.

Funny it was my first week too. I can't imagine playing more than two jobs and since I have more FCoB gear for my second job than my first (retarded RNG) I don't even need much poetic gear for that.

Challenge log is such a useful feature it really shouldn't be part of a quest to unlock. Really any feature that is just a UI should be available right at the start. I'm surprised they didn't give us a quest to unlock PF.

PF is locked behind something, because my new characters can't access it.

[Hiryo]

I can't imagine playing more than two jobs

I thought I would hate PLD but now that I have it leveled and geared, its nice to be able to play whatever I want in (inb4 "fights noone cares about") Primals, SCOB, CT, Zodiac dungeons, etc. Doing Zodiac dungeons yesterday, I think I played SCH, PLD, and DRG. Wouldnt go as bard because my duo queue partner was on Bard. Didn't go as WAR because I felt like playing PLD. Didn't go as MNK because I need more practice as DRG. Didn't go as WHM because I needed practice doing big pulls as SCH. This sort of choice is just fun for me.

Actual complaint:
Clear Fluorite Lenses kicked my butt so badly last night. It took me almost 2 hours to craft all 20 lenses. Add in the time it took to get the flourites and the number of times the levemate in Mor Dhona had 0 to offer and I feel like I wasted so much time. I've never failed so many hasty touches in my life, it was unbelievable. The synth has 9 Hasty Touches and 6 of them fail? please...Then of course you get 1 low quality HQ(like 24% HQ) for every 2 80% NQ. Finally, I had one synth with multiple chances to redeem myself - had 90% chance for BB on excellent proc and it failed. I know these are free but come on...

[ronin sparthos]

Funny it was my first week too. I can't imagine playing more than two jobs and since I have more FCoB gear for my second job than my first (retarded RNG) I don't even need much poetic gear for that.



PF is locked behind something, because my new characters can't access it.

I think you get it doing the Main Scenario after the first couple dungeons.

[Deathbringer]

Wiped in Cape Westwind........there is no god......

And yes, everyone was lv 50 with final coil/WoD gear.

[Raldo]

wat. Did the healers just... not heal? I've tanked that shit on my BARD and lived.

[Deathbringer]

wat. Did the healers just... not heal? I've tanked that shit on my BARD and lived.

They just stayed in the fire till they died :/

[Jem]

Really my biggest gripe about Hunts is the lazy fuckers that end up in Hunt parties.

It's pretty much guaranteed that 3-6 of the party will just sit at the crystal doing fuck all until it pops / gets reported on Guildwork even if multiple zones are open. It pisses me off to no end because I play in a deadtime (NA on an EU server) and actively look for mobs so a good bulk of the time, the Guildwork pop report is because of me finding the mob. It's really obvious when multiple zones are open and I find them in succession.

I'm pretty certain that some of the time if I didn't look, mobs would sit unclaimed for a good 10+ minutes. So it's not like I can follow suit and do nothing myself.

[Rehn]

That was what I ran into as well when I join "hunt" parties. Most of them just do whatever/craft/afk till GW dings even when "actively hunt" was in the party description. Now I just only make hunt groups with my friends so we can all be lazy without the hate.

That or find a group seeking members, join them for w/e A that pops, then drop.

[octopus]

When I join hunt parties I just aimlessly wander around the map and hope GW triggers something ;o (I don't actually look around while moving)

[Jem]

It's pretty hard to be quicker than Guildwork unless it pops near you in the direction you're facing. You can tell when you're in any zone that has a bottleneck hallway with the mob at the far end of it (like East Shroud or the Kobold zone), Guildwork will trigger before you reach the mob even if you're the first there.

I usually just run around in the rough area of pop points. Plenty of times it triggers and the mob is right behind me but out of sight so I wouldn't have found it until doubling back.

[ronin sparthos]

Wiped in Cape Westwind........there is no god......

And yes, everyone was lv 50 with final coil/WoD gear.

Someone needs to wipe Lahabrea for all the points.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Fuck huntcunts or huntards or whatever. Fuck hunting in general. i'd rather be rolling in i120 than see these morons gear up and still suck at their jobs anyway.

[Niiro]

Final Coil of Accessories

[Corrderio]

Fuck huntcunts or huntards or whatever. Fuck hunting in general. i'd rather be rolling in i120 than see these morons gear up and still suck at their jobs anyway.

Pretty much this. If I'm in a zone when something spawns I'll probably go after if it I'm not occupied.

[Shenrien]

Fuck huntcunts or huntards or whatever. Fuck hunting in general. i'd rather be rolling in i120 than see these morons gear up and still suck at their jobs anyway.

My rule of thumb is no dreadwyrm on their characters class they're instantly a scrub and automatically assumed they're shit at whatever they attempt to do.