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  1. #1
    Nikkei's Hoe
    Worse than her at uno

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    Eanae Hikari
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    Gilgamesh
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    Cerberus
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    Hyjal

    How healthy is your server?

    Ultros has been in a steady decline for over a year now. Endgame players have been steadily leaving in droves to Gilgamesh since Collision left sometime last year leaving no true hardcore groups on the server and very little true competition at the top (server first A4S didn't even happen until last week). Population is on a steady decline and the number of statics who can be considered even mediocre is at an all time low. With the static killer that was A3S ripping apart groups it seems to be a common thing on Ultros to pack it up and head to Gilgamesh rather than try and rebuild. As an FC leader it's made recruitment at even the social level extremely rough, if not impossible, and we've even lost about 6 members in Gilgamesh in the last week alone. Is this just an Ultros thing? Why do people think Gilgamesh has magical healing powers that will make them not be shit any more?

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    A. Body
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    Chocobo (where my main is) seems to be..holding. Sargatanas (one of my alts) I seen a huge decline but the usual OMNICRAFTER LOOKING TO RIP YOU OFF!, SAVAGE SEEKING BRD/MCH! PFs and such, but it's as usual crowded in GoblinShire. Static wise though, I'd say across the board on the servers I play has been blowing up/dropping quite nicely after knowing we have 2 months till more content. You're right though, A3S is pretty much the t8 of this generation where it's making or breaking groups. (Yes T8 wasnt hard but 7 was even easier.)

    I BELIEVE the main thing about Gilgamesh is the fact it's one of the unofficial RP servers due to Balmung always being full, so people seem to go there for a "fresh perspective"...I mean if you're going there to raid I pity you.

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    Ridill
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    Ramuh
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    I am sure there is a steady decline amongst all servers. Its seen on gilga also, but it has a higher population so its not as obvious. A lot of people are quitting left and right though, even those people you would think are not going anywhere

    As far as Gilga though it's probably the worst server to come to if you want to do high end raiding and your not already on -at least- A3S. If your on A1S or A2S its basically gtfo lol. Its the fastest progression server (i think?) and the tolerance for obviously bad players is very low in general

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    Salvage Bans
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    Neon Sea
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    Excalibur

    Excal the same it always is, Legacy server so a lot of the same faces come and go depending on patch cycle. Every server is taking the hit right now man.

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    E. Body
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    Warren Castille
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    Balmung
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    Ragnarok
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    Cenarion Circle

    Balmung's raid scene is quiet. There's usually some groups in PF looking for statics or replacement members but to my knowledge there's not much of a community there. Admittedly, I'm not really into that scene so I could be wrong. Server feels mostly like casuals and roleplayers.

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    The Shitlord
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    Kharo Hadakkus
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    Hyperion
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    Sylph
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    Rivendare

    Hyperion seems fine, but I really only log on for 1-2 dungeons/day and maybe sitting in the quicksand chatting with FC/LS peeps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaneTheBrawler View Post
    Hyperion seems fine, but I really only log on for 1-2 dungeons/day and maybe sitting in the quicksand chatting with FC/LS peeps.
    its far from fine, lol. Ive seen the same ppl on pf sittin there for hours tryin to fill as1/2 groups, usually starts around reset day, and carries on sometimes even until friday.

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    A. Body
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyall View Post
    Balmung's raid scene is quiet. There's usually some groups in PF looking for statics or replacement members but to my knowledge there's not much of a community there. Admittedly, I'm not really into that scene so I could be wrong. Server feels mostly like casuals and roleplayers.
    Yeah...essentially you want to avoid Balmung and Ragnarok from what I hear, especially Balmung unless you're an RPer. Seems everyone in DF I end up with that comes from there are douchebags, idiots, can't play their job a worth shit, staying in character as a 'novice' at their job in level 60 content and too busy trying to talk to the boss that's busy slashing everyone's face.

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    Salvage Bans
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    Harold Saxon
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    Odin seems to be getting a fair few transfers to it. It got EU first in savage coil, so i'm hoping it will be the end game server for EU once the new servers happen.

    Still seems to be a massive lack of Bards/Mech's.

    But, seems I've got a stalker: https://www.reddit.com/user/themightysaxon - and had to password our TS due to him spamming porn :/

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    filthy liars!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Destinye View Post
    Yeah...essentially you want to avoid Balmung and Ragnarok from what I hear, especially Balmung unless you're an RPer. Seems everyone in DF I end up with that comes from there are douchebags, idiots, can't play their job a worth shit, staying in character as a 'novice' at their job in level 60 content and too busy trying to talk to the boss that's busy slashing everyone's face.
    I'm from Balmung, the average player is pretty bad when compared to other top NA servers, but it wasn't always this way. I transferred here to play with friends shortly after 2.0 launch and there was a healthy raiding community for quite some time. Unfortunately 2.1 was released and a lot of the players either packed up and left or slowly stopped raiding altogether. I'd say most statics on this server hardly last longer than a single patch.

    Plus, other than a few FCs with one or two statics there isn't much of a high end raiding community left. Even the good players hardly play with each other outside of their own FC because there isn't any meaningful content besides the 4 static raids. Compared to 2.1 when the EX primals were released barely anyone plays together anymore. The endgame linkshells I'm a part of don't say much most of the time besides infrequent banter across FCs.

    Unfortunately, many of the players who still play on my server don't want to admit to this, but ever since 2.1 the endgame community has been dying slowly. At least that is the case on Balmung.

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    It's all dicks and airplanes
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    Balmung

    Balmung's endgame communities died largely in part because the people running it were retarded. Lots of those companies died because of their poor leadership and their players ended up forming smaller defecting companies. No one took their place and many transferred out when those companies died out due to losing members and the ability to have a competitive endgame push, leaving us with what it is now.

    It was a relatively small scene on the top end of things to begin with. Once those went, it was more or less said and done. Once the remainder dries up, it's going to be very difficult to play here for endgame. It all became fragmented and it's only getting worse as the game continues to be what it is.

  12. #12
    Dragoon Princess
    My Little Ixion

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    Sargatanas
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    I feel like Sargatanas has stayed mostly the same. Maybe a small decline in the endgame community. A3S is just culing a lot of the groups that were middle of the pack / upper mid skill level. There are 3 groups clearing A4S atm and that was how FCoB was for the longest time. I'm betting the disparity between when other groups finish A4S will be longer then previously.

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    filthy liars!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nep View Post
    Once the remainder dries up, it's going to be very difficult to play here for endgame. It all became fragmented and it's only getting worse as the game continues to be what it is.
    I'd argue that Balmung is already at the point where it is difficult to play at endgame. Unless someone is a part of an already established group it's nearly impossible to form new groups with players strictly from Balmung. There's a serious lack of talent on this server. Unfortunately, many of the midcore players are also incapable of making the adjustments necessary to fill a lot of the empty spots. A lot of arrogance coming from the players who are in those groups or from those who want to join them. This leads to a lot of people butting heads and I've seen it countless times. Recently, I left my static due to boredom with the game, but I'm one of many who has done this recently and in the past. So, you're right that the community is fragmented and it will only get worse.

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    Puppetmaster
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    sarg felt like med-high during fcob

    now its like med-low. savage killed it maybe w

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    Resident Moogle
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    Raiding scene on Hyperion feels like a quarter of the size it was compared to FCoB times going by the amount of PFs for it.

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    Relic Weapons
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    Ragnarok seems to be increasing due to Angered recuitment efforts. They've been inviting ppl from other EU servers for a while now.

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    Remit One (1) Custom Title
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    My bubble of people on Cactuar seems fairly vibrant....but a lot of the better endgame statics I know of have dissolved or replaced half of their members. I even left my raid group, but to focus on school rather than a desire to quit. My replacement had obligations for part of last night, so I filled back in, and our BLM wasn't around. Filled in about an hour, but that might be an outlier.

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    Impossiblu
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    Balmung
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    Valefor

    Echoing the sentiment that Balmung is awful unless you're casual, rp, or retarded (or a mix of the above). My static is around where most of the remaining statics on Balmung are: stuck on the add phase of A3S. The few statics I've helped with things on downtime or group vacations have all broken within a month of formation, and the players in them are often subpar or worse (DPS that can't break 800, healers who can't heal, etc.). The members in my group are some of the better that Balmung has to offer, but we (myself included) can't realistically call ourselves the top-est of tiers.

    You're much more likely to find OF SJW can'tplayshitforshit DRGs who don't keep up Heavy Thrust caliber players than anything else. That said, the server itself is still packed solid because of all the RPers and eRPers running around, but in terms of actual endgame and midgame content, little of it is being run and even less of it is being completed.

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    Sandworm Swallows
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    Aether as a data center seems okay from the DFs I get. There are as many idiots as there are decent players, it's not heavily weighted towards one or the other. Siren on the other hand has always been mainly a lower-population casual server. Earlier this year pretty much all the notable raid FCs migrated to another server (I don't remember which one) leaving Siren with a very small population that participates in endgame at all. (To illustrate how small, the housing wasn't even full up before subdivisions were added and afterward it took months for free housing to dry up). Even when the server was more active before this lull, 80% of the PFs I joined for anything didn't get enough members or were too bad to clear the content we were attempting. Which all leads me to say that Siren is pretty much in the shit. In these quiet times between patches it gets even worse. You get to know exactly who sticks around even when it's dead like this. I keep having to clean up my flist because (Deleted) crops up about once a week, people moving servers left and right. I would move too if I didn't have so many assets and friends here...

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    Bagel
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    Rag is meh too, Legacy server but you can feel the decline as alot of people are rather AFK in Idlyshire, and alot of FC are looking for members to complete rosters non stop. There are a few groups going, but its definately alot less than before. It is also very hard to do/organize things at the right time (EU evening time.)

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