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

[Taruina]

This sums up our phase 2 experience.

you're going to regret muting it when you get to teraflare

[Elcura]

So what you're saying is...

Nope. Not even slightly.

Well gee wiz, that's not asking for much I guess.

I'm not asking for anything! I didn't realise complaining about MNK/GL was asking for the world on a platter as well.

you're going to regret muting it when you get to teraflare

That's when you start turning the music back on.

[Rocl]

To all of my children
To all of my children
To all of my children
To all of my children
To all of my children
To all of my children
To all of my children

make it stop

wow stop wiping in the same spot / so quickly

anyone playing w/o music is awful true story

[Rocl]

anyone playing w/o music is awful true story

i forgive you all because it's christmas tho

[Seravi Edalborez]

wow stop wiping in the same spot / so quickly

anyone playing w/o music is awful true story

It's not wiping at that spot (idk what's playing during parts we hate), just I hear that every time on transition hoping it'll be the last time.

[SamanosukeShiva]

I just turn off music completely for t13, bad battle music is bad.

[Kaisha]

T12's the only raid BGM I can stand after a period of time, probably because it keeps looping, and there's no second/third part of the music it has to rollback from every wipe.

You'd figure with the add phases' set duration in T13, that they could have timed a proper Answers theme to loop for it that continues until enrage, while just playing T12's music or something new that's lower key.

[Deadgye]

I redid my sound sliders so that BGM was even more prominent above everything else (except voice) the first time we got to t13.

[Sephiroth]

I can't, it'll be worth it when we're in final phase for more than 20 seconds.

I know how you feel. Every time we've seen phase 4 it's that.

I love Answers but the way its presented in T13 isn't good if you're constantly wiping. I went with the music super low setting but I want it on for final phase which we are just starting to reach.

[Corrderio]

Farming Shiva EX again tonight (0/8 on PLD/NIN gear.... dunno why the former since I haven't even tried to tank since I came back) and post Diamond Dust she was invisible and untargetable on my screen.

[Kaisha]

You likely had a nice lag spike during her "She's reappeared btw" packet. Was a problem on Garuda dating back to 1.0-era, and is still a problem in ARR.

Still a stupid problem to not have multiple checks on.

[Qeomash]

Should be simple to implement something where if you target someone, and their target is completly unknown it should force an update.

...Or just make the bosses never untargetable, just invincible when they want them to be.

[Corrderio]

You likely had a nice lag spike during her "She's reappeared btw" packet. Was a problem on Garuda dating back to 1.0-era, and is still a problem in ARR.

Still a stupid problem to not have multiple checks on.

Yep. Weirdest part was I couldn't screenshot it either. Tried to PrintSrn and got an error message about being unable to save. Stranger yet was I was playing through Steam and couldn't even snag a screenshot through F12. Yet my overlay worked... hmm....

[Deadgye]

Yep. Weirdest part was I couldn't screenshot it either. Tried to PrintSrn and got an error message about being unable to save. Stranger yet was I was playing through Steam and couldn't even snag a screenshot through F12. Yet my overlay worked... hmm....

Whenever something bad happens in ffxiv, the screenshot function stops working. Thus making it a pain in the ass to take screenshots of hilarious stuff like invisible twintania or avatar due to render/load errors, gigas only showing floating weapons, etc. Even more annoying is that ffxiv captures print screen and prevents it from passing to windows, so you have to have something else in the foreground in order to print screen into paint.

[Kaisha]

Should be simple to implement something where if you target someone, and their target is completly unknown it should force an update.

I'm being reminded of the my dark age of playing ARR on PS3. You couldn't even cast on people in your party list if their 3d model wasn't target-able. Forced you to spam AoEs if you did FATEs since the model limit on that stupid console is 30.

Yep. Weirdest part was I couldn't screenshot it either. Tried to PrintSrn and got an error message about being unable to save. Stranger yet was I was playing through Steam and couldn't even snag a screenshot through F12. Yet my overlay worked... hmm....

FRAPs has yet to fail me for screenshot taking.

Spoiler: show

Unless nVidia driver crashed which requires me to exit fraps and re-open it for it to hook back into the game

[Narol]

I joined a roulette trial last night, got Garuda HM in progress, new person soldiery bonus, and as soon as I zoned in, they vote abandoned. I am not sure how that is even possible at this age and day....Garuda wasn't hard back in the day, surely not now with better gear available. I was in an utter loss for what I had just witnessed. Scrub players, man. I wonder if I had the same instance you did since we share data center lol.

I've never had a vote abandon. Just some embarrassing wipes from people who think you can ignore literally every mechanic in there (you can't ignore the sisters if the party lacks the DPS to kill Garuda fast enough, and you can't all clump up and get aoe'd to death especially if you have derpy healers).

Just because something is easier now than it used to be doesn't mean you can just faceroll it and ignore every mechanic in there. Sadly, that's why things like primals, Second Coil, etc are so hard for the majority of players: They think they can put zero effort into things rather than just minimal effort.

[Andradi]

Farming Shiva EX again tonight (0/8 on PLD/NIN gear.... dunno why the former since I haven't even tried to tank since I came back) and post Diamond Dust she was invisible and untargetable on my screen.

Are you on an AMD card? Used to sometimes get stuff like that alone with periodic slowdowns and crashes until enabling the low LOD settings as per here.

[3.141592]

To ppl who farm lights and go afk for the entire fight / only auto-attack: pls go fuck yourself and die ~

[Almalexia]

Spoiler: show

Unless nVidia driver crashed which requires me to exit fraps and re-open it for it to hook back into the game

More than anything, I want this shit to stop. I've updated to a new driver every release since ARR came out and this is still not fixed. No other game crashes the driver like XIV does. Goddamn.

[Kaisha]

More than anything, I want this shit to stop. I've updated to a new driver every release since ARR came out and this is still not fixed. No other game crashes the driver like XIV does. Goddamn.

Sometimes I wonder if it's just the nature of how I play MMOs, where I run them borderless fullscreen (why doesn't every modern game support this still?) and alt-tab frequently while running other shit that makes use of the GPU's time.

Of all the drivers I've tried the past year, v344.75 on my 460GTX has been the most stable, but it still occurs the odd time. For whatever reason, if the driver farts, it's almost always immediately as I hit a skill on my hotbar.