Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[Sephiroth]

I did leves for gil if it was a nice amount or at Nophica because I'm there for mining leves anyway. I also tried to do Cedar because that elemental leve can be awesome. I got 18 crystals and a cluster just off the leve mobs once. I didn't see 18k as a bad gil reward anyway, making that in five minutes from a leve is much faster than it takes to make that crafting. Goldsmith shit doesn't sell, or doesn't sell fast. And when it does it's worth little.

[Crizto]

Most of my gil was from leve spamming lol. I don't have time to craft for money usually lol

[miokomioko]

On gil: Prioritizing leves that yield equipment rewards is far more profitable. 13,000 gil isn't much compared to a belt that will sell for 40,000 on top of the gil reward. I had a pile of gil myself from spamming Rank-30 leves a long time ago, but I'm still sitting on that pile.


I was really hoping that these new bazaar icons meant you could set your icon to specifically "seeking" "selling" or "need repairs" so you could advertise the primary purpose of your bazaar and people could seek you out with intent. Since you have to stop in your tracks to check a bazaar, I've stopped looking at random bazaars unless I'm really bored.

But nope. Whether someone has a bazaar filled with overpriced shards, or a bazaar with just a bronze pickaxe needing repairs, it's all just a brown baggy.

[The Q]

I was really hoping that these new bazaar icons meant you could set your icon to specifically "seeking" "selling" or "need repairs" so you could advertise the primary purpose of your bazaar and people could seek you out with intent. Since you have to stop in your tracks to check a bazaar, I've stopped looking at random bazaars unless I'm really bored.

But nope. Whether someone has a bazaar filled with overpriced shards, or a bazaar with just a bronze pickaxe needing repairs, it's all just a brown baggy.

Ditto. I was hoping for the same, possibly multiple icons to show if one is doing multiple transactions, or at least one but prioritized so that repair icon would be shown before any other. SE dropped the ball hard. Hope they can pick it up.

[The Q]

lol my bad had it in repair seek and forgot. ignore this

[Sephiroth]

I wish auto sort wouldn't sort crystals. Or at least be smarter. I want it to group by type of crystal, IE put the six shards first, then the six crystals, then the clusters. I had it set like that myself but auto sort ruined it and grouped by element.

[Sephiroth]

I just failed a leve because of that stupid attack bug where you can't attack. I was fighting an imp and killing it fine, but the bug appeared and I couldn't top up my HP before it used its over powered special. I came back, started buffing myself and the same thing happened again. Disengage and re-engage didn't fix it. Neither did changing classes. I of course died again. Then my time runs out.

That maintenance tonight had better be fixing this.

List of things I hate about the November patch:

Silver needle nerf making it almost impossible to skill up goldsmith.
Iron ornamental hammer nerf.
Punishing Barbs nerf, it's almost useless on a class other than THM now.
HP nerf.
Alchemy's lanolin nerf. Doesn't affect me yet however.
Mining node changes.
Lay of the Land changes, I now have to equip them all.
The new SP system, it's faster to solo apparently.
The bug I just bitched about.
Inventory sort is so bad I have to turn it off. And then turning it off resets everything (except my crystals which is the most retarded part of the sort) to how it was before the sort. I mean what the fuck?
Selling stuff to NPC is slower and easier to sell the wrong item.

List of things I like about the patch:
The lag gone.
The mostly improved UI.
Changing difficulty in leves, although I've yet to use it.
Crafting buff lasts longer.
More gathering leves.
Arrows stacking to 999.

I can live without all that, except the lag. I'm not sure that was worth all the negatives the patch brought.

I certainly preferred the game pre-patch.

[Telliani]

Changing difficulty in leves, although I've yet to use it.

THat one's nice. Did an imp one with my friend (it would give me 30k~ gil), and the first imp we couldn't get below 75% 3x's before it'd start spamming it's main attack, so I dropped it down to 1 star after just so we could finish it.


edit: the inventory sort is kind of annoying, it seems to scroll a hell of a lot more instead of staying where it you last picked an item (for synthing). Used to be able to pick an item, then for the next, scroll from that item down to the next. Now it seems like I have to start at the very top every time I want to add another material. edit again/ or was. doesn't seem to be doing it now. ugh.

[Purrrfect]

(except my crystals which is the most retarded part of the sort)

Who needs to even go to the crystal screen other than to see a count which takes all of 2 seconds?

[Sephiroth]

THat one's nice. Did an imp one with my friend (it would give me 30k~ gil), and the first imp we couldn't get below 75% 3x's before it'd start spamming it's main attack, so I dropped it down to 1 star after just so we could finish it.


edit: the inventory sort is kind of annoying, it seems to scroll a hell of a lot more instead of staying where it you last picked an item (for synthing). Used to be able to pick an item, then for the next, scroll from that item down to the next. Now it seems like I have to start at the very top every time I want to add another material. edit again/ or was. doesn't seem to be doing it now. ugh.

The most annoying part for me is when I'm killing shit I don't want it to auto sort because it will be a pain NPCing it if it's mixed in everywhere. So I keep auto sort off. But then it resets everything back to before I ever sorted it. I think I'll just do it in reverse, keep sort on but turn it off when NPCing stuff. The junk should be at the end then. It will also help with crafting mats, I like them all together as the last items rather than scattered everywhere.

Who needs to even go to the crystal screen other than to see a count which takes all of 2 seconds?

Using that logic they may as well not have an inventory sort at all.
I like my crystals to be sorted by type, not element. I don't want to have to scroll to find out how many wind shards I have, it's an extra step and an annoyance. On the other hand I don't care how many clusters I have. Clusters should be at the bottom. Hopefully they'll add that option in a future update.

[Crizto]

I would like to complain about selling items to NPCs. I think after selling 2-3 Iron Needles consequetively the whole window will freeze and I have to either wait for it to reset or exit and re-enter completely. Takes me like 10 minutes to sell 20 needles or something lol.

[Yoli]

Punishing Barbs nerf, it's almost useless on a class other than THM now.

Is that really a justifiable complaint? I think punishing barbs was a bit ridiculous before, when any class could just put it up and kill most anything. "Anything" is an exaggeration, but that has to have been one of the most exploitable abilities around.

As far as crystal sorting goes, that's preference really. I like it sorted by element :: shrug :: The difference between that and autosort on your list of 100 items though, is that you have a lot less scrolling to do in order to find out how many fire shards/crystals/clusters you have than you'd have trying to find how many stacks of X you have scattered about in your inventory.

Since this is the complaint thread: since the patch, I've been getting some leves registering as already completed when I pick them up, which has kept me from doing them. That's been frustrating.

[Gulkeeva]

opps posted that wrong thread about pugs anyway.. my complaint is... they need to fix group exp .. this maintenance so I can exp raptors to lvl LW on ;/

[solracht]

Since this is the complaint thread: since the patch, I've been getting some leves registering as already completed when I pick them up, which has kept me from doing them. That's been frustrating.

Relogging has always fixed that for me.

[jPuff]

I would like to complain about selling items to NPCs. I think after selling 2-3 Iron Needles consequetively the whole window will freeze and I have to either wait for it to reset or exit and re-enter completely. Takes me like 10 minutes to sell 20 needles or something lol.

Yeah, same with exchanging items with your retainer. You have to constantly baby it or it gets all fucked up-- so irritating.

[Yoli]

Relogging has always fixed that for me.

Hmm. I never even thought to try that, I should have. Thanks, I'll give it a go if it happens again.

[Sephiroth]

Is that really a justifiable complaint? I think punishing barbs was a bit ridiculous before, when any class could just put it up and kill most anything. "Anything" is an exaggeration, but that has to have been one of the most exploitable abilities around.

As far as crystal sorting goes, that's preference really. I like it sorted by element :: shrug :: The difference between that and autosort on your list of 100 items though, is that you have a lot less scrolling to do in order to find out how many fire shards/crystals/clusters you have than you'd have trying to find how many stacks of X you have scattered about in your inventory.

Since this is the complaint thread: since the patch, I've been getting some leves registering as already completed when I pick them up, which has kept me from doing them. That's been frustrating.

I don't disagree that it was over powered and needed nerfing. I just think they nerfed it a bit too much. It runs out very quickly when subbed and takes ages before you can use it again. Part of the game is using abilities from other classes so I don't think it should be the way it is.

I guess I'll just accept that sort isn't perfect and live with it. SE have said they'll add more options, they can't do any more than that.

I think this patch may fix your leve complaint and hopefully the action bug I mentioned. That said, I had your leve problem the other day and after completing one leve on that gate the completed one became usable for some reason. Someone said logging fixes it too. My guess is rezoning is what fixes it and why it worked for me after teleporting back to the leve gate.

[Riposte]

Wouldn't putting on "Affinity" traits make such abilities better on other classes?

This game's party system isn't very good, I don't know why people say so. It is somewhat functional for random grinding, but it is useless for leves and behest and quests. Mind you FFXI's system didn't work there either. At least with this system they have potential.

It would be useful if you could somehow instantly search/start recruiting potential party members for every leve you share and in doing so you as a recruiter weren't limited to one leve or quest. Making a party for leves should be as easy as accepting leves.

[Sephiroth]

Wouldn't putting on "Affinity" traits make such abilities better on other classes?

True I guess. It will be useful sometime down the line.

[blythe]

So I came in here to see if anyone had mentioned this "attack bug" where all skills become greyed out all of a sudden during a leve. Frustrating.
But...

I certainly preferred the game pre-patch.

Seriously????

Combat classes were completely unplayable to me before the patch. Now at least we have a proper, rational MMORPG where you're not penalized for killing things in an efficient manner.