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

[Seravi Edalborez]

From what I'm hearing, the most "novel" thing it's doing is allowing people a taste of power at jobs they might not have leveled so they don't have to do FUCKING Sastasha or Toto-rak for the 800th time. Not that that metric is much use for those of you who either have everything at 60 or don't care about what isn't already.

[Kaisha]

And then you get a lvl60 healer or dps for the last 10 floors who don't touch 1/4 of their toolkit, and thus need severe carrying, or result in a wipe since they can't carry their weight when a mob-spawn trap occurs.

[Corrderio]

Or if you get a party of squishy 4 DPSs that trigger a mine and get wiped.

Or do well solo and get a fucking mimic/group trap...

[Alistaire]

And then you get a lvl60 healer or dps for the last 10 floors who don't touch 1/4 of their toolkit, and thus need severe carrying, or result in a wipe since they can't carry their weight when a mob-spawn trap occurs.

The amount of common sense shit people don't grasp in this is astounding. I made a macro for a few things and kept needing to add to it.

[The Stig]

And then you get a lvl60 [snip] who don't touch 1/4 of their toolkit, and thus need severe carrying

Ohhh I had this last night in my expert. 1st boss in Hullbreaker, no one killed the Courel and I eventually die as I couldn't keep up with the healing on myself due to the debuff the kitty puts on you (I also got caught on one of the telegraphed attacks as I was in mid heal, so my bad)

The other 3 do fine, then 1 DPS dies. PLD sitting on full MP bar, blows his cooldowns (sentinel, then hallowed ground). The other DRG DPS is also slowly dying. I ask PLD to use clemency on him, because the incoming damage wasn't that much towards the end of the fight. I get ignored, DRG eventually dies, and 3 mins later PLD manages to win the fight because it was all dodging everything and killing the adds.

[Fiye]

Had an AST who used Nocturnal, didn't touch Exalted Detriment once, and didn't pull cards.

At least the 41-50 drops weren't good anyway.

[Silenka]

Ah, so the most promising sounding thing still ended up being shit. Yep, that's the XIV I've come to know.

[Corrderio]

It's a shame too. Nyzul was one of my favorite parts of XI.

I was hoping the solo aspect would have at least posed a fun challenge, but it's not and from what I heard some jobs will be god awful at attempting to solo.

[Hioki]

Not so much that it's shit, it's just not nyzul isle. It's like a nyzul isle -2.

[Alym]

Going to have to disagree. It's just shit.

[Hioki]

Going to have to disagree. It's just shit.

The event has potential, more than diadem. It mainly needs tweaks and variety. Both of which can be introduced into the system. I didn't leave the event early cause it was boring though. So that makes it less shit at least.

[Destinye]

It's just the usual:

Yoshi Hype: "THIS EVENT WILL BE THE SHIT."
Initial Previews: "Hey..that actually looks pretty cool..."
Yoshi tidbits: "You'll be able to level separately which also offers an exp reward after a set of floors."
More Yoshi Hype: "YOU CAN GO IN SOLO OR UP TO 4 PLAYERS AND PARTY COMPOSITION DON'T MATTER!"
Last Previews before launch: "This will be awesome, I love the separate interface and it has traps? Maybe that means it will have puzzles too."
Yoshi during final testing: "So, how do we make the content shit for no reason or than we can't release something TOO enjoyable? 99% of silver chests explode? No upgrades based on stupid formula? How about let's not let them choose floors when they complete it!"
Programmer: "But it's so easy to jus..."
Yoshi: "No! The formula must not change. The content has to be shit in some way."

For real though, I really wish I was a fly on the wall in the meetings because I can't seriously picture anyone sitting there saying "They think they'll get an upgrade but the chest will explode! Oh oh and we force them to do floor 1-40 again for no upgrades because that makes total sense!"

[Corrderio]

For real though, I really wish I was a fly on the wall in the meetings

You and me both. I really wish I knew where they decided to take a good idea and bastardize it.

[Karbuncle]

You and me both. I really wish I knew where they decided to take a good idea and bastardize it.

Somewhere before 2.0

[Twilight Sky]

Well the whole thing just sounds like Phantasy Star Online challenge mode, but that was enjoyable..

[Almalexia]

Palace is more SMT than Nyzul, which is gratifying in its own ye-olde-dungeon-crawler kind of way.

Perhaps I'm not completely disappointed because I radically lowered my expectations after Diadem. I thought Diadem was going to be FFXIV's take on Dynamis, but instead we got about 50 people standing in a kill pit while some dudes dragged overpowered mobs to their doom for a couple hours. No hope for decent gear, either; the best you could hope for were a few event currencies.

Things used to be different, you see.

[Niiro]

Perhaps I'm not completely disappointed because I radically lowered my expectations after Diadem.

Leaked 4.0 teaser:

Spoiler: show

[Twilight Sky]

Just came out of a disaster Stone Vigil. Can anyone really be this stupid? The poooooooooor healer! I didn't have trouble tanking this, but on boss fights, the BLM was taking any and every dodgeable AOE. MNK died on last boss because she was tunnel-visioning. It's ok. I know beating the shit out of something with your hands and feet can suck you in. Healer was like (non verbally) "OK fuck it, I'm not reviving anymore.." Sometimes you got to be that way with MP sinks.

Palace is more SMT than Nyzul, which is gratifying in its own ye-olde-dungeon-crawler kind of way.

Perhaps I'm not completely disappointed because I radically lowered my expectations after Diadem. I thought Diadem was going to be FFXIV's take on Dynamis, but instead we got about 50 people standing in a kill pit while some dudes dragged overpowered mobs to their doom for a couple hours. No hope for decent gear, either; the best you could hope for were a few event currencies.

Things used to be different, you see.

I'm certain everyone from FFXI thought that. Diadem was a huge disappointment for me.

[Shenrien]

$30 mount.

[echo]

The sad part is a ton of people are going to buy it and they'll make more.