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

[Taint]

They nerfed the shit out of SCoB.

T10:
I bet the halve the charge damage or make it so only 2 people need to get hit.
Tether will only take 2 people as well.
Adds will have less HP or it will be 2 adds and then 4 adds. Floor AoE will be much lower as well.

T11:
Stacks will be much lower. As will the missile damage.
Adds will have lower HP and won't tether or will merge after a longer period of time.
Tethers will just do mild damage or there will only be one set of tethers.

T12:
Blackfires won't tether.
Missing Redfire will be a small AoE to the raid.
Bennus will have less HP and hit for less.
Brand will do mild damage.
Fountains will do way less damage per tic. Like 1 person can handle them.

[Niiro]

They're definitely gonna nerf Forked Lightning in 11.

Halve the damage at least, make the para removable and/or make the effect extremely weak.

Also Bluefire effect in 12 won't reduce your stats.

[Kaisha]

They didn't nerf lightning in T9 (or anything for that matter, besides echo and Stardust getting bugged), I'll be sad if they nerf it in 11 since you should already know how to do it at that point.

[Niiro]

They didn't nerf it in 9 because the didn't nerf anything in either of the final turns.

[Jem]

For T10, just making it not dick punch you for making a mistake will make it significantly easier. Good groups can recover anyway but for everyone else it's the follow-up fuck you attack that generally causes the wipe.

And T12, not T13, is by far the easiest of the bunch if you hit the DPS check imo. It's like impossible to wipe once you know what you're doing. I don't think we've wiped to it since our very first win. Same is definitely not true for T10, 11 and 13!

[Kaisha]

They didn't nerf it in 9 because the didn't nerf anything in either of the final turns.

Which is my point. Why nerf a mechanic you've already had to learn in a previous turn? You can't balance this shit around the assumption you got carried through 5 & 9.

And T12, not T13, is by far the easiest of the bunch if you hit the DPS check imo. It's like impossible to wipe once you know what you're doing. I don't think we've wiped to it since our very first win. Same is definitely not true for T10, 11 and 13!

First two weeks of blackfire fuck-ups will be a fun time for T12 PFs.

[Shenrien]

Which is ofc more restricted in terms of what jobs can use it.

On a related note: the recent XI update made their vanity system even more superior to XIV's in every way. If you can wear a piece of gear on one of your jobs, you can use it for vanity on any job.

If you've wanted to take advantage of vanity in XI, you had access to do exactly what it does right now but without actually owning anything. Wardrobe has been providing a better function than what they have implemented, who cares how other people view you its what you see that is important.

[Niiro]

Coming up with fun outfits is a lot more interesting when you can share them with other people, otherwise it's only half of a vanity system.

I don't see what the Wardrobe program for XI has to do with XI's now-existent vanity system being far superior to XIV's.

[Sephiroth]

If SE are smart they'll nerf the fuck out of all the turns right before the expansion, including T13. It will let all the casuals catch up on the story they've been missing and surely make them happy.

[Arthars]

DF T11 will not be pretty.

not really, there is a base template where everyone and their mum is using in JP datacenters

only thing that may cockblock is random unclear peeps

also, i aint going to solo DF it anyway. dont want another nin in pt prolly making party in PF and farm, just like any other day on chocobo

[Kaisha]

Thinking about DF concessions, T10 will probably get a nerf to Heat Lightning's radius just to facilitate the possibility of 4 melee. Can't have two poor DPS losing a couple GCDs to spread out assuming they know the boss rotation.

And Random Complaint: A year in and still no option to log straight to the character select screen via last chosen data center. I already know SE made the game because the launcher says so. Slap the ERSB on there also and save me the 12 seconds.
Spoiled by having played a bit of GW2&WoW I guess where you don't need to input your security token every bloody time and that they both go right to your characters.

[Kiarax]

We've ran it with 4 melee and you don't ever need to stop attacking the boss to spread out for Heat Lightning, so I'd be surprised if they touch the radius on it. I imagine they'll just do something silly like reducing the damage of the skills a bit (would make 2 way split tethers possible with decent HP, since 2 people can already split it right now if preshielded/geared) and maybe remove the offtank being hit by heat lightning so you don't have the awkward tank swap mechanic (whilst I don't think it's hard it's definitely the most awkward tank swap mechanic in the game, wouldn't trust most rando DF tanks to do it).

[Twilight Sky]

According to a friend that used to play on the JP servers, the social limitations/issues have an affect there too, so us english speakers aren't alone on this.

[Detzu]

Some people talk about ilvl 130 as if it means something. But they can't make the difference between 298 det and 412 det.

[Niiro]

......what?

[Taint]

......what?

I think he means you can be i130 with a shit ton of SS. When it might be better to be 125 with proper secondaries.

[Niiro]

If you ignore all of the the primary stats and non-crappy secondary stats, sure I guess.

[Ratatapa]

If you ignore all of the the primary stats and non-crappy secondary stats, sure I guess.

Well here is an exemple

Summoner
WD: 6.911
INT: 1.000
DET: 0.284
CRT: 0.232
SS: 0.098

So Demon Boots of Casting are 27 Int 19 Crit 19 Det
Ironwork boots 130 are 31 int 20 acc 29 SS
Dreadwyrm boots are 31 int 29 acc and 14 DET

So if we do maths

Demon boots are 27 + (19*0.232) + (19*0.284) = 36.804
Ironwork are 31+ (20*0)+ (29*0.098) = 33.842
Dreadworm are 31+ (29*0) + (14*0.284) = 34.976

So in a situation where ACC isisn't needed Demon Boots I120 is better for DPS then both I130 for SMN

[Niiro]

Considering his post referenced a difference of more than 100 DET I doubt it was so simple, and with no context it's kind of meaningless.

[Detzu]

Considering his post referenced a difference of more than 100 DET I doubt it was so simple, and with no context it's kind of meaningless.

That's at least the difference between full Ironworks 130 + BiS weapon and full BiS set up for MNK.