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

[Alistaire]

Only complaint I have about phasing out Eso tomes is the fact that gear is probably going to end up under a hunt currency or shoved into loot pools of some current dungeons or ala Mythic gear being exchanged for "antique" or whatever currency like you got from your Satasha HM spam days.

And the complaint is? Just that at some point another set of dungeons won't have new glamour gear? As a desynther either of those 2 options listed are fine by me.

[Hitoshura]

Today was an insanely grueling day. Usually a bit after work my raid starts, a couple of days ago our Ninja who is a humongous asset to our DPS has to leave due to his job. Our old healer comes back out of nowhere and decides to join again so luckily the new healer we had join us has a very well geared Warrior. Now I am the main tank, and I will admit it was a crazy transition from doing OT dps on WAR but I loved the challenge, took up most of our raid but we got our clear thankfully regardless of all these insane last minute changes. Also our main tank was the one who repped that Ninja in DPS department and he is doing the most now on his Monk, which is ironic. Tomorrow is A6S.... kill me plz. Can it be Sept 27th already?

[Hafa Nana]

Ever since FF XIV has been launched, SE has noted in all quarterly and yearly Financial Results strong performance of the game. The latest financial results (for the Three-Month Period Ended June 30, 2016) are the first ones when FF XIV’s performance has not been mentioned (check out the Digital Entertainment section). This looks symptomatic to me.

[Grieverbk]

This should not have happened.

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/XTZYd...e-done&fight=9

[Alistaire]

edit: you took a whole party of classes in? and got top, 5th and 9th place dps huh?

[3.141592]

Yo dawg, I head you like grey, so we put grey on your gear so you can have grey while having more grey
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr0ZjVQWEAA_qvv.jpg

[solracht]

that shit better be crafted gear

[The Stig]

Probably new dungeon gear.

MNK and NIN look quite decent though minus the eye patch. Very smart.

Healer, caster are OK ...

Not sure what to feel about BRD/MCH

[3.141592]

Probably new dungeon gear.

MNK and NIN look quite decent though minus the eye patch. Very smart.

Healer, caster are OK ...

Not sure what to feel about BRD/MCH

I think they showed the Healer outfit in a live letter and it was supposed to be "tomestone gear", but don't quote me on that.

[Modoru]

MNK would be so much better dye-able.

[Alistaire]

that shit better be crafted gear

From a reddit post, it's the tome gear. Link to SE page http://press.na.square-enix.com/prod...h-34-media-kit

Click screenshots tab, that pic is under the title "Patch 3.4 - New Tomestone Gear"

[echo]

They aren't even trying with gear design anymore.

[Corrderio]

Seriously, that's some of the laziest designs I've seen yet. It looks like mid-tier/dungeon gear.

[The Stig]

Oh it's tome... gear

Yeh the design is why I lumped it together as dungeon gear.

Last patch or so of the game before expansion (sort of..., I doubt another tome will be introduced) and this is what we get?

[Kiarax]

Default colours look pretty bland but the outfit designs are (mostly) nice. Ironworks gear at the end of 2.X looked way worse. I actually like a couple of the pieces of the melee sets and the tank set. Caster set could look good in different colours. Healer and ranged sets are pretty meh though. Not sure why everyone has an issue with it honestly. One thing this game does right is not having awful over designed abominations for gearsets that a lot of other MMOs suffer from, I think these look good, better than most of the tome sets that have been released (job specific ones are the only ones with standout quality).

[Alistaire]

Save the good designs for raid, that's Yoshi's masterplan to get people back into raiding. :D

[solracht]

too bad normal mode exists

[Alistaire]

too bad normal mode exists

But we know that Yoshi counts that as raiding since Yoshi said the Alexander format has "gotten more people into raiding".

[Lokus]

Make the tome gear ugly so crafters can make us pretty with the plethora of glamour recipes! Dungeon sets have ended up looking better a lot of the time anyways.

[Hitoshura]

When I began playing last year our FC was very healthy and always had at least 20-30 active players on, but then again this was around right before HW came out and afterwards so it could have been a lot of players returning. Now we're lucky to see more than 5 on, and a lot of people left or quit. One of our main leaders just up and quit. Left everything as is. It's kind of sad to see the FC slowly die like this but we obviously can't force people to play. I don't blame them, raiding is literally now the only reason I do play. Don't get me wrong, I do like to try to help but the rest of the static not so much. One of the girls have been wanting us to get her a clear for Seph Ex, and I have been wanting to go as well because I never actually killed that ugly POS, but anytime we try to get people nobody else from my static (including members of the FC itself) wants to contribute. Nobody basically wants to do anything but raid in this game and now that includes myself. Anytime I think of even leveling a new job, I cringe at the thought. If anything aside from trying to better my character for the raid content, I want to play as little as possible. I don't mind paying my sub fee if we keep raiding, but if we do break at some point I don't plan to keep playing. Sure hope 3.4 is worthwhile, we find ourselves here in these threads everytime talking about how bad things are and then they release a patch that might have a few cool things but not all and we are usually okay with that. I am not sure if people are going to let that shit pass this time. Around 2 weeks away from us, and they really have to turn things around for a lot of people or this game is just also slowly going to die. (again)