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

[Grey Jorildyn]

Cerbs that are still alive after 2nd stomach death.

Cerb.

[Alistaire]

5-headed dragons that get to a 2nd round of discordance. Seen that for the first time today; left right after.

[Jem]

Just finished the MSQ. Fuck you SE, I reject this.

[Xerlic]

Late to the party, but it's fucking stupid that there is no way to reset Steps of Faith when you reach a point that it's clear that there is no way to win.

[Hiryo]

Steps of Faith

Knowing SE, they'd have to put it into the full DF interface, which means you can /forfeit any time you think a fight is unwinnable and/or for trolling purposes.

[Arthars]

40ish turn 12 later

no fucking brd legs -_-

[Taint]

Spammed T13 in PUGs all evening long trying to get the Axe. (call 2 items group) 8ish clears in it drops and someone ninja lots it and wins. He doesn't even play WAR and claims it was an accident.

[Twilight Sky]

...I have one of most powerful control spells in the game, and.. it's useless. Because people are gonna hit slept mobs anyway. It's actually worse than FFXI when sleeping was a major duty.

This branches off onto the related rant of, no one seems to care what the tank is attacking. Lets just go do our own thing, like it's speeding up the run or something. When it's not. Nevermind that once you get aggro, the tank gotta work harder and/or healer might get smacked by a mob that should have been sitting there bothering nobody for 30 seconds.

The ONLY upside to this is waking up slept mobs prematurely doesn't incur major consequences(unlike in FFXI, ala waking up summon by "accident" and having it AF and kill entire shell). But I'm only lv31, so that maybe why.

[Kaisha]

Don't worry, in 19 more levels you'll realize SE is anti-crowdcontrol and near everything resists sleep/bind/etc.

Ideally the tank should be holding enough threat post-Defiance/SwordOath that it doesn't matter who is attacking what.

[Detzu]

No idea why some BLMs feel like pulling a boss in FCoB with their LB. I ended up in front of Kalya because I used shoulder tackle, then died after 3 secs of fight. Got raised up, no TP ofc had to type in chat for goad or Paeon, then totally ran dry before add phase and died again cause I was yelling at people in chat.
Best part is I was still top DPS with 394 only!!. PUGs are terribad on Cerberus.

[Qeomash]

No idea why some BLMs feel like pulling a boss in FCoB with their LB. I ended up in front of Kalya because I used shoulder tackle, then died after 3 secs of fight.

Sounds like your tank failed to pull it properly. All an LB opener does is makes the tank time their own pull. Pull once the LB's cast bar is mostly finished, and then proceed like normal.

[Taint]

Sounds like your tank failed to pull it properly. All an LB opener does is makes the tank time their own pull. Pull once the LB's cast bar is mostly finished, and then proceed like normal.

^ This, the tank didn't provoke or provoked late.

[Kaixin]

Tank doesn't even need to provoke, LBs don't have threat.

Free damage = why BLMs like to pull with LB.

[Twilight Sky]

Don't worry, in 19 more levels you'll realize SE is anti-crowdcontrol and near everything resists sleep/bind/etc.

Ideally the tank should be holding enough threat post-Defiance/SwordOath that it doesn't matter who is attacking what.

I've figured as much given there is an obvious lack of control spells in the game to begin with.

[Niiro]

There's actually quite a few, they're just almost always useless or pointless.

Sleep / Repose
Shadowbind
Freeze / Bliz 2 / Tri-Disaster - all AoE binds
Blizzard / Stone - heavy
Miasma / Miasma II - disease (heavy)

[Kaisha]

Don't worry, we'll see the grand return of Silence rotations come Heavensward.

[Taint]

Tank doesn't even need to provoke, LBs don't have threat.

Free damage = why BLMs like to pull with LB.

Did not know that, I guess first action is why the boss will go running at the BLM if not provoked. Obviously the provoke is for the instant long range action and not for the actual threat. Good to know!

[Niiro]

Yea when the BLM gets smacked it's generally a case of the stupid "tank has hate but the mob is still going for the initial target" crap.

[Edelweiss]

Don't worry, we'll see the grand return of Silence rotations come Heavensward.

Shut up. Be quiet.

pls

[Taint]

Don't worry, we'll see the grand return of Silence rotations come Heavensward.

Silence rotations that require a debuff that must be passed from silencer to silencer for it to work!

You heard it here first!