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

[Taruina]

Got my first Dreadwyrm weapon on my alt's secondary class last night.

And Bahamut seems to only drop BRD bodies.

[Mabubeezareel]

The probablem is with Mount Roulette. It means I have to choose from either:

A. Re-doing a shitload of complex keybinds to make my Mount Roulette button be in a hotbar other than #1
or
B. Not using Mount Roulette

I know, I know, simple answer is "B", but that still doesn't justify what is quite literally a pointless update that added nothing but frustration for me and others in similar situations. All they had to was make the hotbar replaced when interacting only with objects and not mounts.

[Raldo]

I guess it never occurred to me that anyone would put their mount button on hotbar 1. Mine is off to the side on hotbar... 7 or something; one of the shared hotbars.

The update did actually benefit me, in that it's now easier to fire the cannons in dungeons that have them (rather than mousing back and forth from temp hotbar to ground target, I can leave the mouse there and just hit 1 to re-trigger the cannon), but I do agree that adding it to mounts was unnecessary.

[octopus]

For people using a controller, you can just press R1 and get the cross hotbar 1 back.

[Mabubeezareel]

Yeah, my control scheme is pretty unique. I play with a PS4 controller, which I have used Xpadder to map some basic keyboard keys to various buttons on it. Combine that with clever use of hotbars and keybinds in-game, and I have over 95% of my most commonly used functions available on the PS4. For example, I have my R3 button mapped via Xpadder to "2", set Mount Roulette in my first hotbar and bound it to "2", and then disabled in-game mapping of the R3 button. This means that I have a single, one-button gamepad press for both mounting/dismounting, which is now completely broken when my Goobue or Magitek mounts get summoned from Mount Roulette.

[Niiro]

Can you create a macro for activating mount roulette?

cause if so:



If not then fuck, nvm.

[Raldo]

I seem to recall people wanting to do that, but not having any success. I think keyboard users got around it by making a hidden (or not) shared hotbar with one of the slots bound to a specific keypress, but that doesn't help controller users (afaik).

You could try to macro /ac "Mount Roulette", but I'd be surprised if it actually worked

Oh wow, googling shows that people do have success with /ac "Mount Roulette"

[Mabubeezareel]

Don't think that would work for me, since I also have my L2/R2 mapped to Ctrl/Alt, and then have other keybinds setup on my first hotbar for various combinations of Ctrl+Alt/1+2 (basically 8 actions). Same goes for the touchpad and PS buttons, which I have mapped to 3/4, giving me an additional 8 actions when coupled with L2/R2 (Ctrl/Alt).

I do have hotbar 1 set as shared for all classes, while other hotbars are not. Guess I could swap everything I have on hotbar 1 to hotbar 2, and set hotbar 2 to be shared but not hotbar 1.

[Mabubeezareel]

Or maybe just pick a completely unused hotbar and move everything on hotbar 1 to that one, so I don't have to worry about copying everything from hotbar 2 (which is in use for all my classes) to hotbar 1.

[Niiro]

It's not even that troublesome considering you can copy/paste whole hotbars.

[Raldo]

Before you go and change anything too drastic, you might want to read this. It sounds like that may have been a mistake/oversight.

As part of a quality of life improvement in Patch 2.5 we made it so when interacting with objects that feature actions (such as the cannons found inside Castrum Meridianum) the abilities would automatically appear on your hotbar/cross hotbar, instead of being displayed exclusively on the pet hotbar.

However, as you pointed out, we have confirmed that this change is happening to field mounts as well. We are planning to address this issue and we will update you as soon as we hear more!

Sounds like they only meant for that to happen inside dungeons where the actions are actually important, and that "field mounts" may have been a mistake.

[Mabubeezareel]

Well fuck, I'll leave everything as is then and just wait for them to fix that. I'll deal with using a static mount until then instead of using the roulette.

[Bigsyke]

Had an awful Syrcus tower run and just when I was about to lot on the final boss drops I get 90000. Followed by 3102 because that shit never got fixed since release. Logged back in 15 min later to find myself outside and Syrcus tower wasn't cleared for the weekly...

[Niiro]

I was cleaning up my "XIV stuff" folder when I came across the pre-release leaked pics of a bunch of stuff in the .dats and I noticed something.....



There have been models for the Odin armor with the cape since before release yet we still don't have it on either piece in-game.

[Arthars]

The BRD is my raid group is an alt:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1960187/

His alt has seen every FCoB drop minus the head. His main (also BRD) has less the half the gear.

yea man.... my wife's account has brd almost complete and blm 4/6 left side dreadwyrm

my main only have all the useless NIN gear that i only use for glamor cos poetic is much stronger compared to those dreadwyrm i had....(fucking nin body/legs/neck useless piece of shit)

[Sephiroth]

Worst part abut WoD is I always seem to start tanking when the MT dies. I'm BLM.

Just had a run where I died due to that on Cerberus, got raised 10 seconds later and immediately caught in the purple shit and died again. Somehow even with double weakness for 2 minutes I finish the fight 50 DPS higher than the second highest. So many bads.

[Icarian]

How come WoD's queue as a tank takes so long (30ish minutes)? is nobody doing WoD? Or just that everybody suddenly wants to play tank? I used to get instant queues in ST.

Makes getting the tank body so much, much worse...

[Narol]

I just hate how WoD attracts so many mentally deficient players. Cloud of Darkness is like... a supremely easy boss, yet people just never bother to attempt the mechanics.

Meteors coming down? Someone else will get them.

Gotta kill clouds? That's annoying and tedious.

Shadow lurkers popping up? Lol they go away in one hit, who cares about racing to do it.

Hey guys why are we wiping repeatedly, we're not doing anything wrong, lol this fight is just hard I guess.

Seriously, between that and the fact that I've done literally something like 20 runs and have never even seen BLM body (literally 10 MNK bodies, something like 5-6 NIN bodies, 3-4 tank bodies, etc), I'm thinking I just stop giving a shit about the area. Glamour pieces aren't worth the sheer level of drooling retardation you see in the average WoD DF.

[Kaisha]

This is starting to get silly.

Could easily condense some of the oft-used options into a sub menu of the list like we have with LS invites.

[cute]

More than 25 World of Darkness and still I have not gotten WAR body.