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

[Taint]

Diadem is a fucking mess.

My first run went great, organized, constantly doing Fates/Spirits etc, EM went smooth.

Since then every group has had people drop right after the main Objectives or the entire zone is AFK at the EM entrance.....zero chance Diadem makes it more than a week at this pace.

SE really needs to show the progress on EM so people are working towards something.

[Destinye]

Yep, noticed that once I hopped onto my aether character lol. (Not 100% better on JP DC but it's so much worse on aether..like always.)

If they're going to try to rip off other MMOs, they could at least rip off PSO2 properly and have a 'trigger' item you could use to force the event or greatly influence its chance of popping. It's funny how quickly it went from:

"k objectives done, let's go do some fates, get some lockboxes while hoping for the EM to pop..oh and minions, those 2-12m minions."

to

"K, zoned in gonna go afk at the EM spot while you guys do the objectives/objectives done? time to gtfo." in less than a week.

[Taint]

Wow so EMs are random.....

Diadem is the worst content I've ever seen.

[Shenrien]

Idk, Voidwatch was pretty bad.

[DragonReborn]

Idk, Voidwatch was pretty bad.

At least voidwatch you played the game. And collected logs.

[Shenrien]

I mean you can go on BTN if you really want that experience back in Diadem lol.

[Taint]

Idk, Voidwatch was pretty bad.

Voidwatch is light years better than Diadem, especially early on when it was a challenge.

Voidwatch, zerg fest, but required you to organize procs and stuns. Farmable, gave us teleport spots, some of the gear was Best in slot for years, some of the rare drops were broken. Even if you had the best drops you could farm Empyreal weapon upgrades or sell them for gil. Lots of win with Voidwatch even though it was dull once lights were figured out. People still do Voidwatch 5? years later.

Diadem is already dead content.

[Destinye]

Yeah, I mean VW wasn't the greatest thing around but I had a ton more fun doing it even if my loot was 99% ores/logs that later made me a fortune lol. The only reason people were interested in Diadem 2.0 was the Emergency Mission, the discovery of i280 weapon and the aetherial gear which ended up being i265.

The only thing guaranteed about Diadem 2.0 is you get to do FATEs.

[Alistaire]

Voidwatch reminds, me, I wish I could /fume @ Diadem and make it completely different.

[Carth]

The unfortunate part is I heard the Emergency Missions are actually pretty fun, but you have to coordinate 72 people to do it. And that's if you bother to wait for the thing to pop.

[Alistaire]

Fun might be overselling it. Been thinking about it and it's not far off of a suped up version of some of the Labyrinth of the Ancients fights: stuff goes on in the middle but don't ignore the stuff in your corners.

[Taint]

EM itself is cool. Yes very LoA-ish.

If there was a way for the zone to influence when it pops it would be 10x better. But an event where people literally AFK 40minutes is just dumb.

Every 50 Fates there should be an EM with a Zone guage.

[Worm]

The unfortunate part is I heard the Emergency Missions are actually pretty fun, but you have to coordinate 72 people to do it. And that's if you bother to wait for the thing to pop.

Coordinate seems a bit strong of a word. I tanked the wind thing until it died and we killed the crystal. The big cat spawned and we fought that and killed adds until it died. It's pretty basic stuff. The pop timer is what really kills it. I like some of the lower level IV and V mobs too, they're fun to fight but there's not a ton of benefit to it.

As long as a few people kill adds and each person calls a platform it seems like you're good.

[Destinye]

Heh no coordinate is the right word, because if there's absolutely none of it it/s a clusterfuck to the point of zoning in is an immediate death before you even fully load. The fact they added a lower level that you can't fly in you'd think there would be something special about it.

[Raineer]

I mean you can go on BTN if you really want that experience back in Diadem lol.

I've been having so much fun gathering in Diadem. It's like gathering dynamis.

Choose exactly what I want, (mostly) when I want, die a little in the process. Good times.

[Silenka]

Has anyone gotten a message after beating a fate/mob in Diadem that says something like "the smell of blood calls an even stronger monster?" because right after we got that and moved on to our last objective the EM popped.

[edit] nevermind, it's just a mission thing to finish a single lv IV monster kill. Carry on.

[Kaisha]

They really ought to double/triple up on armor drops from lvl60 dungeons. Having leveled an alt out of boredom, if you don't grind the i235 Garo PVP gear at i150 or throw millions of gil at crafted i250 (which most players won't have at that point), it's painstakingly slow to do the iLvl climb from 3.1->3.5 dungeon requirements, made worse by there only being two dungeons per tier these days.

[Silenka]

All nullified by diadem. Just spam diadem. Forever.

[Worm]

They really ought to double/triple up on armor drops from lvl60 dungeons. Having leveled an alt out of boredom, if you don't grind the i235 Garo PVP gear at i150 or throw millions of gil at crafted i250 (which most players won't have at that point), it's painstakingly slow to do the iLvl climb from 3.1->3.5 dungeon requirements, made worse by there only being two dungeons per tier these days.

Even just for glamour ffs.

[Lucavi]

Before they start throwing more gear at me, how about throwing me a fucking glamor storage system IE WoW and Diablo so I can eat my old outfits and stop clogging up valuable inventory space.

This game needs to shed the last of its old, ancient, archaic 2004 tech, both in its jank (the absolutely abysmal "jogging with weapon in hand" animation) and in its inventory system.