Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Noob]

I've been playing it every day since CE day one. Every day since day one the game's gotten less enjoyable. Hope kept me continuing on. More and more I'm coming to realize their isn't going to be a miracle patch. It's starting to set in that this game will most likely never be what we'd like it to, ultimately never having the list of needed fixes made.

[Meresgi]

I've been playing it every day since CE day one. Every day since day one the game's gotten less enjoyable. Hope kept me continuing on. More and more I'm coming to realize their isn't going to be a miracle patch. It's starting to set in that this game will most likely never be what we'd like it to, ultimately never having the list of needed fixes made.

Eh, I honestly dont mind the game, been playing off and on since prestart. I'm having some fun, just grinding away on certain things. There is a lot that annoys the piss out of me, but no more so then any other MMO on market.

[Kirbyprime]

The crafting scene isn't all too unbearable now. It's still pathetic since we don't have an AH or some form of in-game ingredient search or something but at least finding materials is somewhat easier now with people leveling up.

I did however give up leveling my Gladiator and only using my Conjurer for duo'ing because of the annoying RNG leveling system.

[Lordender]

SE remaining silent on a lot of issues is giving me a bad vibe. It is not a question of IF they will fix it but more of WHEN.

[Noob]

SE remaining silent on a lot of issues is giving me a bad vibe. It is not a question of IF they will fix it but more of WHEN.

^This. This is the reason why my doubts are starting to really set in. The list of flaws is adding up more and more every day. With no fixes coming from A/CB/OB testing feedback paired with their silence, I will be canceling this month.

[Neg939]

Probably my own damn fault but I'll rant anyways...
I really appreciate crafting items only to throw them away because my inv was at 77/80 when I started.
Didn't even get a warning like.. "Attention dear player, you are about the drop valuable crafted goods in favor of a dodo feather +1, clear your fucking inventory. Thanks"

[miokomioko]

You can't? I constantly side step it, jump behind them as soon as I see the animation, they do the animation facing 180degrees away from me, and I get slept, slowed, blinded. I've had it miss me sometimes and sometimes ive been hit by it but "dodged" it as it had no effect on me and didnt register as a miss or evade o_O

I know they removed the ability to side-step some moves, like Opo-opos' and Marmots' kicks, but I have side-stepped some Dodos' Belches, Puks' backflip move, and now it's even easier to get away from Funguars' Queasy Cloud. Lag and being stuck in an attack animation both have a big part to play in avoiding shit, unfortunately.

[Lucavi]

^ This is all true. I was annoyed when they dropped the opo-opo dodge, because that move comes out every 5 seconds, and it seriously hurts as a mage. It's almost as bad as the does having a WS for both front and back; both of which horribly rape.

[Cureslime]

Mob AI is retarded in the game. Oh...I'm below 50%? I'll WS every other attack. Oh...I'm below 25? I'll WS 90% of the time. Every mob is the same. No thought or effort was put into it.

I finally ground out level 20 today. I'm done with grinding in this game until they add fun content. I'm just going to do my leves and faction leves and make sure my bazaar is stocked.

I am having the most fun just playing the market in the game. Finding out what sector of the market isn't being served and gouging to high heavens. It's very fun to do this in a new economy. Take away that and I would probably not log in except to do leves.

It's really crazy that S-E seems to be clueless on how to do ANYTHING properly when they've made FFXI into a perfectly good game over the years. They can't even get the common sense stuff right.
"Oh hey Bob, people are complaining that there is nothing to the crafting system and that you're just supposed to hit rapid every time."
"Damn, well, just lower the success rate of rapid synthesis and add in an epic fail. That should fix it. Nah we don't need to test it at all. We're still in post-launch beta."
Really, S-E?

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Mob AI is retarded in the game. Oh...I'm below 50%? I'll WS every other attack. Oh...I'm below 25? I'll WS 90% of the time. Every mob is the same. No thought or effort was put into it.

I finally ground out level 20 today. I'm done with grinding in this game until they add fun content. I'm just going to do my leves and faction leves and make sure my bazaar is stocked.

I am having the most fun just playing the market in the game. Finding out what sector of the market isn't being served and gouging to high heavens. It's very fun to do this in a new economy. Take away that and I would probably not log in except to do leves.

It's really crazy that S-E seems to be clueless on how to do ANYTHING properly when they've made FFXI into a perfectly good game over the years. They can't even get the common sense stuff right.
"Oh hey Bob, people are complaining that there is nothing to the crafting system and that you're just supposed to hit rapid every time."
"Damn, well, just lower the success rate of rapid synthesis and add in an epic fail. That should fix it. Nah we don't need to test it at all. We're still in post-launch beta."
Really, S-E?

This, and I raise you retarded enimty to the point where party play is impossible without taunt or provoke for 1 star 30 leves. We tested it, one cure at half health of a mob results in instant hate. Even a buff like stoneskin pulls hate at half health. The best was when a weakened lancer popped speed surge and got killed for it(he was just standing next to the mob, not fighting), even though the mob was almost dead. Mobs popping in groups of 2, then having two groups on top of each other is getting old, along with mobs running back to their spawns and regening to 100% so you have to fight 4 mobs at once.

[Lordender]

At the following time, we will be performing FINAL FANTASY XIV maintenance on all worlds. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

[Date & Time]
From Oct. 7, 2010 23:00 to Oct. 8, 2010 3:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XIV


MAGIC PATCH GO! j/k

[Galkaeater]

Fixed an issue where players were able to navigate their menus faster than normal.

[Kuroanagi]

All world maintenance after a scathing online review.

Coincidence?

[Priran]

Fixed an issue where, under certain conditions, players found what they were looking for in a market ward.
Fixed an issue where the character limit for Lodestone blog posts was 20 characters less than intended.
Fixed an issue where "Anima" was regenerating.

[person2007]

Nah. They're just fixin' Lodestone.


For 6 hours

[fussel]

You Conjurers are doing something wrong if you get so few skill points.

Party of 5, skill rang 12-14.

You gain 71 conjury skill points.
You gain 74 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 191 conjury skill points.
You gain 94 conjury skill points.
You gain 36 conjury skill points.
You gain 97 conjury skill points.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 112 conjury skill points.
You gain 50 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
You gain 99 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 99 conjury skill points.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 92 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 200 conjury skill points.
You gain 108 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 26 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 26 conjury skill points.
You gain 175 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 75 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 195 conjury skill points.
You gain 46 conjury skill points.
You gain 61 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 55 conjury skill points.
You gain 75 conjury skill points.
You gain 67 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 191 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 28 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 65 conjury skill points.
You gain 71 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 28 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
You gain 51 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 33 conjury skill points.
You gain 32 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 42 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 54 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 54 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 31 conjury skill points.
You gain 34 conjury skill points.
You gain 88 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 238 conjury skill points.
You gain 217 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 31 conjury skill points.
You gain 34 conjury skill points.
You gain 53 conjury skill points.
You gain 107 conjury skill points.
You gain 110 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 112 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
The dreadwolf is defeated.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 114 conjury skill points.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 107 conjury skill points.
You gain 100 conjury skill points.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 141 conjury skill points.
You gain 159 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
You gain 50 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
The thistletail marmot is defeated.
The lightning beetle is defeated.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 290 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 57 conjury skill points.
You gain 42 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 36 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 47 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 92 conjury skill points.

/edit: I just started working on that parser, stuff might be wrong here and there. Especially when we had to run and didn't actually kill the mob we started attacking.

[miokomioko]

I'm curious what your weapon/damage may have looked like... I feel like there might be too many variables at play in affecting skill point gains.

[Priran]

He's probably spamming spirit dart? I think the complaint is that you have to be a useless dick to get good skill in a party as a Conjurer, because healing gives you jack shit.

[fussel]

Removed constructive stuff from the white/black/grey knighting SE Attack/Defense/SPAM Force Thread full of Nerdrage. See random speculation.

[Karnja]

You Conjurers are doing something wrong if you get so few skill points.

Party of 5, skill rang 12-14.

You gain 71 conjury skill points.
You gain 74 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 191 conjury skill points.
You gain 94 conjury skill points.
You gain 36 conjury skill points.
You gain 97 conjury skill points.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 112 conjury skill points.
You gain 50 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
You gain 99 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 99 conjury skill points.
You gain 37 conjury skill points.
You gain 92 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 200 conjury skill points.
You gain 108 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 26 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 26 conjury skill points.
You gain 175 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 75 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 195 conjury skill points.
You gain 46 conjury skill points.
You gain 61 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 55 conjury skill points.
You gain 75 conjury skill points.
You gain 67 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 191 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 28 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 65 conjury skill points.
You gain 71 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 28 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 59 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
You gain 51 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 33 conjury skill points.
You gain 32 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
You gain 113 conjury skill points.
You gain 42 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 54 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 54 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 31 conjury skill points.
You gain 34 conjury skill points.
You gain 88 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 238 conjury skill points.
You gain 217 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 31 conjury skill points.
You gain 34 conjury skill points.
You gain 53 conjury skill points.
You gain 107 conjury skill points.
You gain 110 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 38 conjury skill points.
You gain 112 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
The dreadwolf is defeated.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 43 conjury skill points.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 114 conjury skill points.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
You gain 102 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 107 conjury skill points.
You gain 100 conjury skill points.
You gain 109 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 141 conjury skill points.
You gain 159 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
You gain 56 conjury skill points.
You gain 45 conjury skill points.
You gain 50 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
The antelope doe is defeated.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 39 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
The arbor squirrel is defeated.
You gain 35 conjury skill points.
You gain 95 conjury skill points.
The thistletail marmot is defeated.
The lightning beetle is defeated.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 40 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 290 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 101 conjury skill points.
You gain 57 conjury skill points.
You gain 42 conjury skill points.
You gain 44 conjury skill points.
You gain 36 conjury skill points.
You gain 111 conjury skill points.
You gain 41 conjury skill points.
You gain 47 conjury skill points.
The aldgoat nanny is defeated.
You gain 92 conjury skill points.

/edit: I just started working on that parser, stuff might be wrong here and there. Especially when we had to run and didn't actually kill the mob we started attacking.

Party of 5 you say? how did you deal with the skill up bug?