Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Meresgi]

Hitting 100% on a synth yet failing because it also hit 0% durability....come on now. I can kind of see how that makes sense, but if anything create the item and make me have to repair it or some stupid shit.

you're taking the casual right out of the game in the sense that you can't get anything done in an hour's time, especially if you're grouping up.

What? I can easily knock out 6 leves within an hour or knock out 5-8 crafting leves depending on where they are. Even grouping up for battlecraft leves doesn't take that much time and if you are grouped up, that means the leve should go faster and you have people who can teleport each other.

[Kaelan?]

Hitting 100% on a synth yet failing because it also hit 0% durability....come on now. I can kind of see how that makes sense, but if anything create the item and make me have to repair it or some stupid shit.

^ This

If they would only make a single change to crafting, let it be this. 100% failures are so fucking annoying, and they're not rare at all, especially if you're on a harder synth.

[miokomioko]

I'd even feel better about it if it forced progress to stop at 99% if they broke.

[plue]

I dunno if you can even put casual in a sentence with FFXIV, with the amount of time it takes to navigate through the menus and actually craft a finished product, unless you're going to be talking about how quickly FFXIV will scare casuals away.

Yes, I would agree that the limited amount of content is catered to the casuals in the sense that you can log on, warp to a crystal and do or join some leve, but with all the time wasted navigating through clunky menus from a combination of imput lag and no keyboard shortcuts for individual sections, you're taking the casual right out of the game in the sense that you can't get anything done in an hour's time, especially if you're grouping up.

Honestly, this game is weird in that way.

On the one hand, they made all the quests and leves EXTREMELY casual, the leves are 30 minutes long with more time spent running between mobs than fighting. This is system is even more boring than XI's grind parties, at least there was always constant action there. The missions are pretty lame, all you do is run around, and they're made in a fashion that you can't really fail *yawn*. I did a couple Behests and Faction Leves, and was expecting something similar to Garrison in XI, but the difficulty and interest level in these was quite underwhelming. My biggest gripe is that there's zero party play involved, which includes no way to LFP, no way to search for a party, and a completely fucked up Skill Up bug.

On the other hand they made everything else take forever to accomplish. I mean, you can't even buy an item without hours of time, not to mention getting from one place to another. It takes me longer to get to the Aetheryte to do my leves, than it does to finish them, WTF.

[Noob]

Onion helm is really ugly, the "special" DVD we got was the same shit that was on youtube, journal is decent, shoes are crap that don't work for me. Idk I feel bit cheated lol, but I guess we get to play 8 days earlier with buggy ass crap like "target is already claimed" when trying to attack something yet it can still kill you. Also the shitastic casting time and complete lack of content. Shit that can one shot you which completes axes exploration in certain areas (had a water monster shit head one shot me when trying to get to nine leve camp in black shroud.) SOoo yeah, not too impressed atm.

In b4 Hyan and M~w/e come and white knight for FFXIV.

That last line caught me off guard HARD as a mother fucker! I laughed soooo hard. I remember the time when we just called idiots like them "SE fanboys". I find it so funny the title's changed to white knight lol

Mods, can we start a poll as to whether or not their titles should both be set to white knight? Pretty please?

[Kuroanagi]

That last line caught me off guard HARD as a mother fucker! I laughed soooo hard. I remember the time when we just called idiots like them "SE fanboys". I find it so funny the title's changed to white knight lol

Mods, can we start a poll as to whether or not their titles should both be set to white knight? Pretty please?

How juvenile

[millionsknives]

That last line caught me off guard HARD as a mother fucker! I laughed soooo hard. I remember the time when we just called idiots like them "SE fanboys". I find it so funny the title's changed to white knight lol

Mods, can we start a poll as to whether or not their titles should both be set to white knight? Pretty please?

I prefer SE Defence Force. Gives a better image in my mind.

However now I've realised you can hide people, forum time is so much more fun

[Elcura]

That last line caught me off guard HARD as a mother fucker! I laughed soooo hard. I remember the time when we just called idiots like them "SE fanboys". I find it so funny the title's changed to white knight lol

Mods, can we start a poll as to whether or not their titles should both be set to white knight? Pretty please?

Your name says it all.

Only because you're complaining about it, and this is the complaint thread.

Meko: The "random" NPCs aren't random - they sell shit from the other 2 cities that aren't available in your main city. All of the other craft vendors sell their own tools, including BS/Arm and LW/Weaver.

I wasn't planning on complaining in this thread. But I'll be damned, you got me.

[miokomioko]

I don't like that I can cast my fishing line into waters, and repeatedly attempt to wait for bites without any bait/lures on my hook. Such a stupid long animation to deal with if you do it on accident. Shouldn't even let you cast without bait.

[Dooom]

"Unable to claim the Copper Coblyn. Party leader is in another area"

Wut? I *AM* the party leader!

[Meko]

Only because you're complaining about it, and this is the complaint thread.

Meko: The "random" NPCs aren't random - they sell shit from the other 2 cities that aren't available in your main city. All of the other craft vendors sell their own tools, including BS/Arm and LW/Weaver.

I found most of the tools on various NPCs throughout Gridania. I went to the alchemist guild, talked to all NPCs, didn't find the alchemist tool etc. I found the tools in that little vendor section that is split into 2 parts with the appropriate sign hanging over the vendor booth.

[Koyangi]

1) No easy Search system like FF11, no reason this shouldn't be in the game at all.

2) No quick way to initiate things with a target, in FF11, I hit Enter on a person, it brings up, examine, chat, trade etc, in 14 I have to bring up " - " for all interactions.

3) Let us invite someone regardless of where they are, but then we of course need a search system that doesnt suck ass. Making it so the person has to be loaded in front of/near me to invite them is retarded.

4) They put a lot of work into the Leve system and crafting system seems to have been where all the focus went into other than the graphics and design, but basic functions need to be in the game, like a delivery box or Mog House type system too.

There's probably more, but my brain hurts right now.

[shindycat]

1) No easy Search system like FF11, no reason this shouldn't be in the game at all.

2) No quick way to initiate things with a target, in FF11, I hit Enter on a person, it brings up, examine, chat, trade etc, in 14 I have to bring up " - " for all interactions.

3) Let us invite someone regardless of where they are, but then we of course need a search system that doesnt suck ass. Making it so the person has to be loaded in front of/near me to invite them is retarded.

4) They put a lot of work into the Leve system and crafting system seems to have been where all the focus went into other than the graphics and design, but basic functions need to be in the game, like a delivery box or Mog House type system too.

There's probably more, but my brain hurts right now.

^^^^ this

[Zeille]

Uh, not every finished item you make is a masterpiece, especially at level 12 making a level 1-5 synth. Makes perfect sense.

Now if you actually failed that synth, then lol @ you. Not going to happen.

I was in total agreement with this yesterday... and now I'm laughing at myself.

Level 13 Leather and I blew up a simple Sheep Leather synth

Did everything exactly as I normally do, even had Maker's Muse and Preserve come up. Synthesis failed 5 times in a row on white using normal synthesis. I kinda scratched my head and HQed the next one lol. Was the weirdest thing.

[Dantrag]

It's because we don't actually have control Only control we have is if we press nothing but bold and want to fail <_<;

[CasualPlayer]

There is always a chance to fail on any crafting action just like u could fail a lvl 1 synth in XI at lvl 100. I think the abilities are the compromise in this game though. You could've used hasty hand for your leather. Probably wouldn't fail it both tries and you'd have saved some time.

[CasualPlayer]

It's because we don't actually have control Only control we have is if we press nothing but bold and want to fail <_<;

I lol'd

[Elcura]

I found most of the tools on various NPCs throughout Gridania. I went to the alchemist guild, talked to all NPCs, didn't find the alchemist tool etc. I found the tools in that little vendor section that is split into 2 parts with the appropriate sign hanging over the vendor booth.

I have no idea how you're missing the tools man. All crafting jobs sell the appropriate tools at their guild. It's the same NPC that allows you to use facilities. If the town you're in doesn't have a guild, it'll be in the booth where you found it. Alchemist's guild is in Ul'dah, if you didn't look there you didn't look very hard.

Gathering jobs are the same. Only DoM/W have weird buying points for weapons.

[Meresgi]

Someone said there was a way to reply to tells if you sent the person a tell already in chat? I must be oblivious to what it is or its not the usual method, because ctrl+R, alt+R, shift+R all don't work. What is it?

[Elcura]

Open chat box and ctrl+r. However, it only seems to work after you manually tell that person. If some speaks to you, you need to do /t firstname secondname before you can ctrl+r them.

Talk about a step back.