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

[Kiarax]

Yeah I dunno why anyone gives a shit. A decent WAR or PLD offtanking would probably keep up with the DPS I get in shitter PF farm groups anyway. At least with 2 tanks if there's a fuckup you can recover from it extremely easily, also means healers can throw out their DPS a little easier too. I'm fucking terrible and undergeared on my SCH and can still throw out like 150 DPS in Shiva EX.

[The47thSen]

Wait, Shiva can be done with 1 tank?

[Seravi Edalborez]

Yeah, you just heal through it (or get lucky and get the same weapon form the entire last phase). Not that bad.

[Greedouw]

lag has been so bad for me since this last patch (West Coast ya'll)

[Ezek]

http://puu.sh/dziDE/638a06786e.png

Dat primetime packet loss.

[kisada]

yeah my lag has been horrific since the last patch. is tonight's maint supposed to fix it?

[Shenrien]

Square is so vague when it comes to any information about patches it's retarded. All it says is applying hot fixes for 2.45.

[The Stig]

Is cogentco classified as west coast? I'm unfamiliar with US stuff.

I've been facing lag since last Friday, game is playable, but I will frequently not dodge things and mess up combos/ninjitsu. A tracert shows all my packets are fine (15~20mb) until it gets out of the UK and it hits cogentco servers where it spikes to 100ms

[The47thSen]

Reclaim failed twice in a row

[Eidle]

Wait, Shiva can be done with 1 tank?

you can also do it with one healer. I was in a PF group and the whm asked if he could try to solo heal, so we let him because we were feeling confident i guess after a few kills and it went fine.

I almost feel more comfortable solo tanking shiva because I know how to move her and position her so well. some solo tanks i feel move her around too much and it takes away from dps.

[Alistaire]

Yeah I dunno why anyone gives a shit. A decent WAR or PLD offtanking would probably keep up with the DPS I get in shitter PF farm groups anyway. At least with 2 tanks if there's a fuckup you can recover from it extremely easily, also means healers can throw out their DPS a little easier too. I'm fucking terrible and undergeared on my SCH and can still throw out like 150 DPS in Shiva EX.

Kinda bad logic there. Can't really compare a great offtank to "an average pf dd", if your likelihood in any dps thru pf is "average" you gotta look at an offtank likely being "average" too.

But the main point is that you're right; who gives a shit? Apparently it's some of the people setting up pf's; I've been in good dual tank ones as well as solo. I've been in smoother ones with 2 tanks than some solo, though the smoothest was solo-tanked. The proper response to being asked to consider switching your pf should be "yeah sure, I'll just check if they're ok with it", and if they're on farm status, they should be, or should at least figure they can do it cause there's no real change in the strat other than "no tank swap".

Of course there's also the complaint that a lot of people who either make or join "farm" pf's have no business doing so. Last one I did the solo tank wasn't even dodging the inner bomb when combined with ice brand. That "farm" ended up with 1 win, and I got my daggers so I'm happy about that at least.

[Charismatic]

Its times like this when I kinda miss the smaller population size of FFXI where you basically knew a huge chunk of the folks that were out there and you already knew who the shitters were.

Dudes on Bismarck knew of the Blazingtigers (I partied with him while he was leveling as BRD/SAM once and oh so many lols in that party) and Leonmarcs of the world before even getting in a party with them.

[Alistaire]

Smaller population and a system that didn't have you doing half your content with people on other servers. There's a few people that get a bad rep, but yeah it's nothin like it was on xi.

[Taint]

100% Thought I'd finish my Zodiac yesterday. Needed 6 Dungeons and was off work. 1/1 Snowcloak around 9am. 0/39 until 9:30pm I got Qarn.....WTF RNG. Still 4 Dungeons to go so I won't finish until Sunday at the earliest.

[Sephiroth]

1 tank Shiva has been the standard on Ragnarok since the start, even the learning/clear groups were doing it. I don't think I've ever been in a 2 tank group. Different strats for different servers I guess.

[Taint]

1 tank Shiva has been the standard on Ragnarok since the start, even the learning/clear groups were doing it. I don't think I've ever been in a 2 tank group. Different strats for different servers I guess.

The 2nd tank doesn't do anything, we've always single tanked it as well.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Got curious and got a premium gift bag from the event, gave me a Xelphatol Apple <_<

Also, furniture from this is trade-able but not MBable. So look forward to PF spam.

[Ratatapa]

The 2nd tank doesn't do anything, we've always single tanked it as well.

Tank always die in single when when i'm not healing

[Kaisha]

Another morning, another fuckload of packet loss making the game near unplayable. Why is this happening outside of primetime when there should be the least stress on the servers throughout the routing?

[The47thSen]

you can also do it with one healer.

I spend most of the time in cleric's when I'm scholar. Heck, I did too when as whitemage, dumped a lot of aeros/aeroras and stones. Shiva is incredibly easy to heal. I just make sure medicara is up all the time.