Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Vilmos]

All leves done in 3 hours. No reason to log on until Monday. If at all.

This game is in need of serious content additions.

I also love getting new crafting gear that increased my stats by 10 in each, my first book, then having 6 Standard attempts fail in a row on white orbs. A 20 leve as 26, which the book was for as well to help. Good times had by all... Eat my ass with a spoon SE.

[Sephiroth]

I never had a problem with 10s in Grid apart from BTN leves which could sometimes have wolves guarding my trees. They moved the wolves in the way of battle leves.

[miokomioko]

All leves done in 3 hours. No reason to log on until Monday. If at all.

Don't care about exping? 15-man parties are fun... and shit averages out to make random-skill gains not as bad as they seem when you're solo and taking forever to kill one mob.

[Sephiroth]

If leves are the only thing you like in the game you may as well quit now.

[Yoli]

15-man parties are fun...

That's a matter of personal taste. I don't find them all that fun at all.

[Lucavi]

It's still nothing compared to the original Emerald Moss Lone Wolf debacle.

Hopefully it hits urban legend status some day. That shit was harsh.

[Vilmos]

Don't care about exping? 15-man parties are fun... and shit averages out to make random-skill gains not as bad as they seem when you're solo and taking forever to kill one mob.

I'm almost 47. I don't care about XP. SP is nice though.

And no, I was in a 15 man party yesterday on my 18PGL. In 3 hours I got one rank. I could have soloed 2 in that time. There is no fucking way the RNG is averaged out in partys to justify that. Kill 4-6 mobs and get 0-100 SP total. Yea, I was having a satandamned blast. First and last time I will stay in a party that bad for that long.

Leves aren't the only thing I like in this game. It's currently the ONLY thing to do. Spending hours on end hitting Standard is not fun by any means. A game that has so much RNG and so little content is pathetic. Server population has dropped so drastically that the RMT and bots out number players(afk and actually playing). To get to the few decent grind spots you need 4-7 anima total for a one way trip. Then get there and see that the camp(s) are already taken by full party(s).

With the SP being lowered to reach R20, there is no real rush/need to get a class to 20 until then. If SE makes it a drastic drop that is...

tl;dr

No content game is fail and boring. SE needs to pump some morphine in this dying shit and fast.

[Sephiroth]

Large party SP is fast if you're in the level range, but I'd still prefer it to be a base amount of 300 with extra given for bonuses like mob chain or dealing lots of damage/cures.

[Vilmos]

Large party SP is fast if you're in the level range, but I'd still prefer it to be a base amount of 300 with extra given for bonuses like mob chain or dealing lots of damage/cures.

I would love ANY kind of standard or consistency in this game, besides disappointment, frustration, failure. Damn, something as simple as you stated would be cause for a circle jerk if they implemented it. Getting to 32MRD was mind numbing up to this point. I had to watch movies or Family Guy or something to stay awake while party grinding.

Even their announcements lack a standard:

]FINAL FANTASY XIV System Maintenance {Nov. 15}
]System Maintenance {Nov. 4}
]Maintenance on All Worlds {Oct. 28}
]All Worlds Maintenance {Oct. 21}

This is the last 4 announcements(sans recovery/time changes/completions) where a patch was/could be implemented. So, if we go by the last "System Maintenance" we can guess that they will use the 3 hours to defrag Final Fantasy XIV this time? Instead of just the servers? Or to cook a turkey? Maybe to reactivate their WoW accounts for Cataclysm and update to the new patches? (Now I'm just digressing and poking fun on that one.)

* I hope it's the turkey. Then again, that is supposed to be here late November too....*

[dubs]

Don't care about exping? 15-man parties are fun... and shit averages out to make random-skill gains not as bad as they seem when you're solo and taking forever to kill one mob.

Err if 15 man parties are so much fun why is your highest, and only, combat class rank 18?

[Cureslime]

15 man fishing parties!

Partying is a lot more fun than soloing but with the way exp currently works it still sucks ass. It's a constant rush to hit your highest sp/time skills and you can't relax for even a second. Once they fix the exp system to give people identical sp in parties it'll be a lot less stressful.

[Meresgi]

Leves just need to give you a bonus amount of SP if you complete them, depending on difficulty. Like 1k SP for 1star, and then up by 500 increments or something. I really dislike having to find a party and just grind. I find myself missing WoW's quest system where at least though I was grinding, I was doing more then just grinding on a single mob type for 5 days straight...

[Katlan]

]All Worlds Maintenance {Oct. 21}

Nice to know the patch is the day after day1 CE ppl's 2 free months expire. Way to go SE, sure fire up that fail. I havent logged into the game for 6 weeks, I'm sure as hell not paying for a month just to check out any differences that should of been there (plus more) for retail release 2 months ago

[sruon]

Nice to know the patch is the day after day1 CE ppl's 2 free months expire. Way to go SE, sure fire up that fail. I havent logged into the game for 6 weeks, I'm sure as hell not paying for a month just to check out any differences that should of been there (plus more) for retail release 2 months ago

Ya, except Oct. 21 was a month ago :/

[SayomiSassaki]

The think i dont understand, is ppl crying for doing other thing then party, when they play for year at FFXI who has only a party system for exp and not even Leves system for help...

And about the SP system, there is some problem with the amount (expecially for GLD who need to tank and gain less because they can't hit the mob enough), but i dont want that the SP amount is the same for everyone in the party... The idea behind that is to stop the leeching of exp for not doing your job and/or being afk when in party, two thing i really hated in FFXI.

[Cureslime]

The think i dont understand, is ppl crying for doing other thing then party, when they play for year at FFXI who has only a party system for exp and not even Leves system for help...

And about the SP system, there is some problem with the amount (expecially for GLD who need to tank and gain less because they can't hit the mob enough), but i dont want that the SP amount is the same for everyone in the party... The idea behind that is to stop the leeching of exp for not doing your job and/or being afk when in party, two thing i really hated in FFXI.

People expect more than just grindfests with no point behind them these days.

I'm not a FFXI expert but I think the afk/leeching problem was more an issue of players knowing they couldn't be easily replaced so they basically disappeared whenever they wanted to. Losing a critical player meant lots of waiting and waiting and searching so it was better to just keep the crap player partied. In FFXIV individual party members have no leverage because each individual doesn't matter to the party. You can have 5 players or 15 players and still get good exp. Once they readjust hate so other classes can tank effectively it will be even better.

If you have a person afking constantly you can just kick them (or if they're really bad kick them and blist them) and continue at basically the same pace. You can easily tack on a minimum requirement to gain sp in a party that for a person to qualify they must perform one damaging/helping action while the mob is engaged. That's why I think even sp amounts across the board are a good idea.

[Yoli]

The think i dont understand, is ppl crying for doing other thing then party, when they play for year at FFXI who has only a party system for exp and not even Leves system for help...

I can only speak for myself. The biggest difference is that I enjoyed parties in xi. They were smaller, everyone's performance mattered more, everyone had a more specific role, and I didn't have to spam 1 for hours on end to auto attack. I don't really enjoy parties here, and to make it worse I've had fairly bad luck getting them as opposed to in xi.

In FFXIV individual party members have no leverage because each individual doesn't matter to the party.

That's my issue with it, basically. And I see why they did it, and it has it's up-points. I still don't like it too much though :: shrug ::. I'm hoping future adjustments will at least make it a bit more entertaining. Also, once other stuff /does/ get brought in, maybe I'll find something else I enjoy to fill my time. So I'm sticking around some.

[Katlan]

Ya, except Oct. 21 was a month ago :/

durr.. I just looked at the "21st" part of it lol

[ono]

Initiated a teleport for myself while in the Adventurers' Guild in Gridania, system window asked to confirm the teleportation and then I was just standing around for two minutes, no animation or anything. So I went back to the menu, went back to teleport, picked the same destination and game d/c'd with an error message. Logged back in, still in my original spot, picked teleport again, and I was down 4 anima. I was able to teleport the second time though.

[Purrrfect]

Initiated a teleport for myself while in the Adventurers' Guild in Gridania, system window asked to confirm the teleportation and then I was just standing around for two minutes, no animation or anything. So I went back to the menu, went back to teleport, picked the same destination and game d/c'd with an error message. Logged back in, still in my original spot, picked teleport again, and I was down 4 anima. I was able to teleport the second time though.

Had that happen to me at Emerald Moss once shortly after release. Cost me 12 anima to get to LiLo...