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

[Destinye]

And if you even try to deviate from that pattern people complain that an MMO shouldn't be "hard" or "make you work"..kinda like a lot of the arguments on the remnants of Zam forums.

[Ragns]

TERA has even more fanservice and its playerbase isn't as god awful as XIVs.

Spoiler: show

A shame the game itself is wasted potential

The best part of that game was to horsespam next to RPers.

[Silenka]

Also trying to think of a title still for the eventual QOL thread I want to make. Wouldn't mind getting it out before 3.1 hits.

Better to wait until 3.1 and see what they fixed/added. At least they are attempting to address the horrible glamour system. Also, those fuckers better let me go on my damn balcony I swear to god. It's my constant complaint that's never gonna get fixed.

[Qeomash]

Hell you didn't need to be 75 for Sky. (I cleared 18-man ark angels as a 68 WHM/32 BLM. Hella gimped.

1. You forgot this: )
2. You got carried.
3. Either taking under-levelled healers just to fill the need for healers was commonplace...or were you on Pandemonium prior to Asura? I recall helping out on at least one run with a non-75 healer.

[FHT]

I went back to CT1 yesterday to help my friend with her 1st try... (Did not go back in close to 7 months) We nearly had a full wipe on 1st boss, our PT carried the rest, we nearly had a wipe on Atomos cause idiots couldn't be bothered staying on the platform, the boss with the pots went smoothly by idk which miracle, we nearly wiped on KB, and the last boss went fine. I am just scared about going back to CT2 & v3 now.

[Destinye]

WoD is hit/miss..people usually wipe on every boss but cloud of darkness for some reason. CT2 I've yet to touch since its prime days. CT1 people try to overpower the dragon and behemoth, but seems to handle thanatos (cuz its pure DPS) and the last boss fine usually.

[FHT]

I heard of sad stories about groups wipping on the 1st boss of WoD, maybe on this forum? Idk, the thougth pretty much scares me, we never used to wipe on that stuff back in the time.

[Alistaire]

WoD is hit/miss..people usually wipe on every boss but cloud of darkness for some reason. CT2 I've yet to touch since its prime days. CT1 people try to overpower the dragon and behemoth, but seems to handle thanatos (cuz its pure DPS) and the last boss fine usually.

CT1 people also try to "overpower" the 3 mobs tethered to the bomb by not caring about keeping their distance; I've seen the bomb go off pretty much 2 seconds after the 3 mobs died while people in alliance were laughing saying not to worry about it.

Still saddest thing to hear is the 3 atomos fight in WoD has an enrage, heard about that after 3.0, it starts to spam knockback over and over and makes the floor below a death floor.

[Destinye]

Yep, I remember when WoD came out and we wiped, the Atomos also eventually explode lol.

[Lujei]

I feel like WoD is hit and miss in general. You can get some amazing groups that do everything flawlessly and then the next run bang your head against CoD for an hour and still not beat her.

Sycrus Tower is decent in general unless you get the impatient tanks that pull trash before half the alliance is there.

[The Stig]

Part of the fun on all 3 to me was watching the raid degenerate into argument/stupidity.

Thanks to all the drama handicapping features of the game, it's not going to get any better than that

[Twilight Sky]

I heard of sad stories about groups wipping on the 1st boss of WoD, maybe on this forum? Idk, the thougth pretty much scares me, we never used to wipe on that stuff back in the time.

Yes it does happen, you are right to be scared. The main thing is tanks fighting for aggro, so the damn eye is going all over the place.

Then there's the 5 headed dragon. Aint beating that DPS check, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe.

Then the Atomos "mini boss". If all fall off, and no pads activated, wipe, wipe, wipe.

Cerberus, fuck it, lets eat ALL AOES. Wipe wipe wipe.

Cloud of Darkness herself is basically a stupidity check. She'll frequently get 16 stacks and wipe the party. People not taking the meteors. NINs blowing the LB if she has 14 stacks(tank LB can block 15).

There is a high possibility if you go in with 8FC members, you're gonna be carrying 16 people.

[Niiro]

Friend came up with a drinking game for the first boss of WoD, take a shot whenever someone died to the doom gaze.

RIP Jimmy

[Lokus]

This is probably a Primal only issue still, but in regards to CT1, tanking the Bone Dragon in the center causes the alliance to lose their shit 95% of the time. Even better when a hero tank vokes it and tries to drag it to the edge. It's one of the few joys those raids give me.

[kisada]

This is probably a Primal only issue still, but in regards to CT1, tanking the Bone Dragon in the center causes the alliance to lose their shit 95% of the time. Even better when a hero tank vokes it and tries to drag it to the edge. It's one of the few joys those raids give me.

lmao this is so true. on the rare occasion i do it i always bring it to the center and everyone FREAKS THE FUCK OUT like you wouldn't believe

[Destinye]

This is probably a Primal only issue still, but in regards to CT1, tanking the Bone Dragon in the center causes the alliance to lose their shit 95% of the time. Even better when a hero tank vokes it and tries to drag it to the edge. It's one of the few joys those raids give me.

It's weird, since on Sarga and when I queued, people only tank it in the center and refuse to move it up even though around when it originally came out people dragged it north.

So seems like its just one of those things that doesn't make a difference that people seem to make a big deal haha.

[Qeomash]

Is there...any purpose to not tank it in the center?

[Kaisha]

To let the slow as shit DPS have more time to kill skeletons when they have to run more than halfway across the area to hit the Bone Dragon. Also less incidents with that giant conal AoE.

[Niiro]

This sounds like a strat that came about after the content was no longer relevant for really awful groups.

Doing CT on release until it was no longer relevant I never saw any group tank him anywhere but the middle.

Even when they added the weekly CT-ST-WoD quest I never saw this.

[solracht]

it's datacenter-related, Primal has tanked it north since day 1