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

[Silenka]

at least in a XI merit party you had to think and there was some skill required.

Times I thought on BRD in merits: "How many colibri can I pull before their combined pecking murders us?"
Times I used skill on BRD in merits: "How fast can I pull that colibri so the other party doesn't get it?"

[Alistaire]

Nostalgia glasses are great. Thinking or skill in xi meripo, lol.

[Fiye]

The Diadem is equivalent to Destiny's Loot cave.

[Alistaire]

It's equivalent to abyssea in that it's like an abyssea xp party with better rewards.

[Lujei]

Yeah, it's basically an Abyssea EXP party, but even more boring as a healer.

[Lokus]

Yes, it is indeed boring as fuck.

[Neon_Sea]

As2 exploding the walker for whatever reason takes longer now after 3.1 to detonate. Also we had a bomb spawn in a wall and would not respond to grabbing. Buggy ass patch

[FHT]

Diadem loot distribution is shit. They really need to stop letting everyone just greed on the 210's. I've not actually seen a drop I want yet but I can imagine how frustrated others must be seeing good drops go to people who don't even have the job levelled. You should have to set a need job on entry

Also the credit system is meh. On the last run we didn't get credit on the last 2 NM pops because people were either being bad or lazy.

It would be nice if they let you trade in the seal thingys for random 210 pieces of a set job.

This is exactly how it should be.

Especialy when people just allow themselves to go in as a job & then change on DoL or whatever they need to need against you, not respecting any set rules.

they fact you cant need on gear in a PF honestly blows my mind though. I have no idea what they were thinking

all it leads to is the ninja looter like that person in the skynamis thread who was like "I'll eventually lv mnk"

It is their messed up view of full accessibility to everyone, they never seems to get these concepts right, it was already accessible to everyone with its current difficulty and conditions, they just felt like it would be even better in DF.

[The Stig]

For the reasons mentioned above in the last few posts I also will not be returning into Diadem.

The first 15 mins were really fun/dangerous though (for the first time, I thought it would continue like this)
Then, flying is unlocked.
Then, everyone scattered a bit.
Then, I found myself mindlessly tanking dinos for 30 mins, then a DPS switched to tank, so I switched to healer, and I found the rest of the time mindlessly DPSing/healing the group.
At some point I flew in the middle of nowhere and pondered what exactly is going on; and trying to leave early by curiously asking in shout if someone would replace me, only to find out that if I leave I screw my group over.

At this point I'll go in there if I'm bored but I'm somewhat enjoying levelling my DPS jobs at the moment as my "content" lol

[Silenka]

Pharos Hard for expert roulette - good party, AST/DRG/BLM/WAR, all randoms. Tank for some reason dropped after 2nd boss (didn't get a glamour piece? idk)
Rest of the party sat around waiting for a tank for a while, decided fuck it we'll just finish the dungeon without a tank. Did manage to finish without a tank! (yay us, it was such a fun challenge actually and a rush I haven't gotten from this game in a long time)

But yeah screw people who randomly drop good parties. I can understand leaving when DF rolls you up a bunch of shitty assholes, but it wouldve taken 4-5 mins more to finish that dungeon and tank couldn't be assed to stay even that long apparently.

[Ragnus]

Had that happen to me last night also. Trying to get my first clear just to unlock new Expert and the tank drops in the middle of the of the Kobold boss. It was then followed up with 20 minutes of sitting there doing nothing while DPS drop and get placed.

[solracht]

Diadem is shit

fixed

[Katlan]

For the reasons mentioned above in the last few posts I also will not be returning into Diadem.

The first 15 mins were really fun/dangerous though (for the first time, I thought it would continue like this)
Then, flying is unlocked.
Then, everyone scattered a bit.
Then, I found myself mindlessly tanking dinos for 30 mins, then a DPS switched to tank, so I switched to healer, and I found the rest of the time mindlessly DPSing/healing the group.
At some point I flew in the middle of nowhere and pondered what exactly is going on; and trying to leave early by curiously asking in shout if someone would replace me, only to find out that if I leave I screw my group over.

At this point I'll go in there if I'm bored but I'm somewhat enjoying levelling my DPS jobs at the moment as my "content" lol

I want to do it enough to get the mount and then I don't plan to return lol. But even to do that I'm just going to go into easy w/ a few friends and farm mobs slowly/mindlessly because otherwise good luck winning loot consistently enough against 8 other people

[The Stig]

Oh shit, the mount... I forgot about that!!! well I'm 6/99.... 10/99 if I trade in my 210 bracelet and 180 ring ... !

Better to farm it now than to be begging for people to come.

[Taint]

Yeah def getting the mount. People in my raid have gotten nice i210 stuff but the time/reward/fun factor is WAY to out of balanced for me.

[The Stig]

I might take up on one of those offers on PF claiming to sell the mount lol (funneling drops to you i guess)

I think I can earn the gil back in the time I spent getting it legimately

[Katlan]

I might take up on one of those offers on PF claiming to sell the mount lol (funneling drops to you i guess)

I think I can earn the gil back in the time I spent getting it legimately

Honestly just go in w/like 3 other friends (2 dps / 1 heal / 1 tank) and farm t1-2/3) mobs on easy. It won't be the fastest thing, but with guaranteed 1-3 drops per mob and if you set up round robin for chests it will go pretty fast

[Katlan]

double

[Twilight Sky]

Pharos Hard for expert roulette - good party, AST/DRG/BLM/WAR, all randoms. Tank for some reason dropped after 2nd boss (didn't get a glamour piece? idk)
Rest of the party sat around waiting for a tank for a while, decided fuck it we'll just finish the dungeon without a tank. Did manage to finish without a tank! (yay us, it was such a fun challenge actually and a rush I haven't gotten from this game in a long time)

But yeah screw people who randomly drop good parties. I can understand leaving when DF rolls you up a bunch of shitty assholes, but it wouldve taken 4-5 mins more to finish that dungeon and tank couldn't be assed to stay even that long apparently.

Had this happen a few times while being healer. Good DPS, barely need to heal and can DPS more.. tank leaves without a word.

[Fiye]

This has been my experience in DF experts. 40 minute clears. DPS that can't do shit. Tanks that make it infuriatingly difficult to hit positional much less stay in reach of the fucking boss. Much less the tank in i200 couldn't be assed to pull more than one group at a time.

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