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

[Eidle]

i raise you that to titan HM all DPS + 1 healer dying with 5.5k HP+ leaving me the sch + MT and OT finishing it off, and it happens quiet a bit during bright when farming lights. . .

I hadn't had a bad titan HM in my DR trial....until last night. Wanted to get some quick tomes, queue for DR trial, had in progress checked. Get dumped into a 20% echo titan HM. We wiped again and got 25% echo, wiped again. I had to leave, I was about to be very mean.

[octopus]

Striking, healing, striking, healing

FUCK YOU WOD. Shit's already hitting the floor

Meh, I still have never seen healing drop on my runs lol...

[Niiro]

3 tanks in WoD and not 2 testicles to be found between them all.

Also it's PLDx3 90% of the time.

[Katlan]

Bard body in WoD doesn't exist. Done 20+ 2nd boss runs and have seen everything else multiple times... Including those stupid belts that have a 25% drop rate. Only thing I want for my bard and that HP will be nice for t13 because I refuse to buy the poetic body because it's utter garbage

And you know the first time I see it drop I'll lose roll to another Bard who is in i90 gear or pure poetics

[octopus]

Recently I've seen BRDs leaving after 2nd boss, this explains why...

[Edelweiss]

Striking, healing, striking, healing

FUCK YOU WOD. Shit's already hitting the floor

Maybe when they go to increase the HP of A and S-Ranks, they can actually add in non-Striking and Healing drops for WoD.

[Niiro]

WoD should have had 2 chests per boss.

With NIN gear added into the mix the shit has just gotten ridiculous.

It's bad enough they even put belts in there to begin with.

[Lucavi]

A glamour wardrobe would be nice. Destroy the item and keep it in your glamour wardrobe to be used anytime you want. Could even be a furnishing or use that useless inn cabinet for it.

Diablo 3 has a slick version of that; every item that ever hits your inventory is "saved" for glamor and you can pay a lil fee to poof it onto any base armor or weapon. I'd love to see that here, but heh, the Japanese trying to code things on a PC game is damn near a joke in of itself.

[vrumpt]

Diablo 3 has a slick version of that; every item that ever hits your inventory is "saved" for glamor and you can pay a lil fee to poof it onto any base armor or weapon. I'd love to see that here, but heh, the Japanese trying to code things on a PC game is damn near a joke in of itself.

Guild Wars 2 moved to this same system as well. Last time I logged in it was cool looking at the catalog of every armor in the game.

[lolwut]

I hadn't had a bad titan HM in my DR trial....until last night. Wanted to get some quick tomes, queue for DR trial, had in progress checked. Get dumped into a 20% echo titan HM. We wiped again and got 25% echo, wiped again. I had to leave, I was about to be very mean.

I abandoned a Titan HM last night, the party was horrible and I dropped after we failed at 10% echo with a healer, tank, and 3 dps dead during heart. You may have picked up one of the abandoned slots when the healer and I dropped.

[Lucavi]

Guild Wars 2 moved to this same system as well. Last time I logged in it was cool looking at the catalog of every armor in the game.

That's good to hear!

[Raldo]

"But the amount of memory that would take!!" SE cries, "We can't save that much data associated to your character! We'll be bankrupt in a week!"

Terrible.

[Katlan]

WoD should have had 2 chests per boss.

With NIN gear added into the mix the shit has just gotten ridiculous.

It's bad enough they even put belts in there to begin with.

I think smallest loot table for any boss in WoD is 11 items.. That's just fucked for 1 piece of loot per boss. The fact they didn't think adding 2 items per chest boggles my mind. We don't want 2 chests, we want 2 items in the chest. If it's 2 chests per boss then it will be like coil where each chest has its own loot Table

[Raldo]

If it's 2 chests per boss then it will be like coil where each chest has its own loot Table

Deep down you know that even if it was 2 items per chest, each loot slot would have its own loot table.

[Niiro]

But they made it so the new dungeon chests drop a crafting item and a piece of gear, rather than one or the other.

So don't worry, we can get ilvl 100 gear without so much hassle easier now, all is well.

edit: also Odin should drop 2 pieces at a time, it's vanity gear ffs and it's not even new

Even the fact that they didn't go back and change the token pieces into the new single slot ones at 1-2 tokens a piece is fucking absurd

[Corrderio]

I think smallest loot table for any boss in WoD is 11 items.. That's just fucked for 1 piece of loot per boss. The fact they didn't think adding 2 items per chest boggles my mind. We don't want 2 chests, we want 2 items in the chest. If it's 2 chests per boss then it will be like coil where each chest has its own loot Table

I can only imagine how bad it will be when Engineer (Yes I know that isn't the name, but I'm calling it that so shudyap) gets its own loot pool "Because we want them to look different from BRDs" or some other BS reason.

[Kaisha]

"But the amount of memory that would take!!" SE cries, "We can't save that much data associated to your character! We'll be bankrupt in a week!"

Yeah, let's budget glamor information to every single equipable item in the game instead!

Take GW2's system, but require glamor prisms to register a piece of equipment to the list. Let's SE keep their retarded system in some form.

[Karbuncle]

Yeah, let's budget glamor information to every single equipable item in the game instead!

Take GW2's system, but require glamor prisms to register a piece of equipment to the list. Let's SE keep their retarded system in some form.

I pretty much requested something like this on the OF a day or so ago. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Glamour-system.


Also, A random complaint from me... kinda. I have a lot of qualms about the open world in XIV, how it feels just... hollow? Or something? I can't quite place my finger on it but I've never really "remembered" spots in XIV like I remember them in other games. If we take XI, I could tell you what zone you were in, within reason, by a screenshot... If you showed me screenshots of zones here, I might be able to go "Oh, thats uh.. thats that one place!" to a few of them, but names.. eh? no... Regardless, I was watching this and something was mentioned that kinda struck a cord with me.

It should start at the time...

Every point doesn't apply to my complaints, but... a few of them do. Still don't know why I can't attach myself to FFXIV's open world like I so easily did with other games. I even know areas more keenly in GW2, a game I didn't play as much. I want to attach myself to FFXIV's open world, its certainly beautiful enough in some places and the landscape is amazing... but I can't just.. love it like I want too. Is it simply the lack of NMs and reasons to explore the open world? I mean, theres not much exploration when everything there is to explore has a quest marker already... IDK.

[Raldo]

Certainly a valid complaint. It's probably due to the lack of memories attached to any given location. Like you said, you're in, you hit your quest/hunt/whatever, and you're out. These reasons are what come to mind for me to explain it.

• FFXIV lacks danger, so there's no places that you'd remember 'cause there's nowhere that's difficult to reach.
• FFXIV lacks any extended open-world grinding, so you don't get the scenery engraved into your mind out of sheer repetition.
• FFXIV doesn't have any specialized areas for their NMs, so while the hunt mobs are zone-based, they're not restricted to any one particular area to give that spot some flavor. FATEs could fill this niche, but since the rewards don't differ from FATE to FATE (with a few exceptions), it doesn't really work out that way...
• and of course, as you mentioned, the quests are all explicitly lined out for you, so there's little reason to explore. You know you won't find any obscure NMs, nothing on the map means no quests, etc.

I bet RPers and Fishers probably remember the open-world areas the best.

[Damane]

Certainly a valid complaint. It's probably due to the lack of memories attached to any given location. Like you said, you're in, you hit your quest/hunt/whatever, and you're out. These reasons are what come to mind for me to explain it.

• FFXIV lacks danger, so there's no places that you'd remember 'cause there's nowhere that's difficult to reach.
• FFXIV lacks any extended open-world grinding, so you don't get the scenery engraved into your mind out of sheer repetition.
• FFXIV doesn't have any specialized areas for their NMs, so while the hunt mobs are zone-based, they're not restricted to any one particular area to give that spot some flavor. FATEs could fill this niche, but since the rewards don't differ from FATE to FATE (with a few exceptions), it doesn't really work out that way...
• and of course, as you mentioned, the quests are all explicitly lined out for you, so there's little reason to explore. You know you won't find any obscure NMs, nothing on the map means no quests, etc.

I bet RPers and Fishers probably remember the open-world areas the best.

I disagree with the bold part when you lvl up fishing, enjoyed quiet the some scenerys in nomans world while fishing and noticed nice little small things like birds etc.