FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread XI: "How you liking that Beta Phase 5?"

**Niiro** · 2012-06-01 16:27

Originally Posted by Diddy Kong

They could just make auto-target like they did in 11....

Ahem:

They could just make an AH like they did in 11....

They could just make a macro system like they did in 11....

They could just make a client side UI like they did in 11....

They could just make a search function like they did in 11....

etc.

If only SE's hindsight wasn't 20/6879.

**Niiro** · 2012-06-01 16:28

Originally Posted by Diddy Kong

How come sometimes I can't use a Pummel > Concussive Blow combo even if Pummel hits? Or Pounce > Demolish?

Your direction is off.

**Diddy Kong** · 2012-06-01 16:34

Originally Posted by Niiro

Your direction is off.

Meaning?

**Raldo** · 2012-06-01 16:37

Originally Posted by Pummel

Delivers a melee attack. Damage increased when executed from in front of the target.

It doesn't exactly make it abundantly clear, but unless you fulfill the directional requirement for the added effect, then you cannot combo into the next attack.

Weaponskills without a directional bonus can be done in a combo from any direction.

This means that in order to combo off of Pummel, you must strike the target from the front. In order to combo off of Pounce, you must strike the target from the back.

**Diddy Kong** · 2012-06-01 16:40

That's pretty retarded. Thanks though.

**Raldo** · 2012-06-01 16:53

Yeeeeeep, a good number of people are hoping they'll see the light and nuke the directional requirements from combos.

**Drako** · 2012-06-01 20:07

Originally Posted by Raldo

Yeeeeeep, a good number of people are hoping they'll see the light and nuke the directional requirements from combos.

i like the directional requirements, but i would like if they make it easier to show in which direction you are..

**Grey Jorildyn** · 2012-06-01 20:23

Imo the best thing they could do is make the directional requirement optional but keep the bonuses for doing so.

I know mnk isn't a tank class or anything but with the enmity they can generate on mistress, they could tank it fairly if they could do all their combos from any direction. Perhaps that's their way of declaring what's a tank class in their view and what isn't.

**Niiro** · 2012-06-02 01:05

That solution is so blatantly obvious it's been suggested by fucking everyone since the day after they introduced combos.

Chances of implementation: very low.

**Diddy Kong** · 2012-06-02 22:22

What do the lights mean while crafting?

**Datonare** · 2012-06-02 23:04

I believe it's just general success rate? Pure white = highest chance of success, then yellow, red and prismatic. White is probably - 0% chance to fail (still have a chance to fail depending on level/gear, etc.) and the rest of 'em probably just have a set reduction in success rate, but I'm just guessing at this point

**Niiro** · 2012-06-02 23:23

Conversely, the less stable the color the more potential quality you can gain.

**Godfather** · 2012-06-03 00:07

I stopped playing when they started charging money and decided to come back around the first week of April to see how things were going with the updates. When I came back, I saw that they had done the server merges, and that my character was flagged for a rename. A little investigation showed me the process that they used for the renaming on merged servers, and that the Lodestone showed that the character on the new server with the same name had no activity since July 2011.

I got caught up with work and some other real life issues and just recently tried to engage customer support to see if there could have been a mistake with which character got flagged for the rename. Here is the conversation I had with their live chat support. Does anyone know of a method to get to a higher tier of customer support that might actually... do something useful for me?

-GF

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**Gokulo** · 2012-06-03 01:12

Forget about it, lol.

**Dro** · 2012-06-03 07:29

Probably a stupid question but this is the principle of this forum, why everyone in this game is so focused on DPS when parsing ? Overall damage make more sense to me, it's not like you are actually doing damage every second of the fight.

**Datonare** · 2012-06-03 08:16

Man, I just woke up and have deleted what I was going to say like 3 times. DPS is more of a broad, easy to compare number. If Player A does 26843 damage over the fight and Player B does 23506, player B is not going to have more DPS than Player A just like Player B doesn't have more damage than Player A. The two numbers go hand in hand.

**Niiro** · 2012-06-03 10:38

That depends entirely on how a given parser handles calculating DPS.

**Jamison** · 2012-06-03 10:42

Originally Posted by Dro

Probably a stupid question but this is the principle of this forum, why everyone in this game is so focused on DPS when parsing ? Overall damage make more sense to me, it's not like you are actually doing damage every second of the fight.

I think the answer others will give you is that higher DPS is important because of things like (but not limited to) mob regen, where just doing more damage doesn't necessarily mean the you/the team is doing better.

**Charismatic** · 2012-06-03 11:40

Originally Posted by Niiro

That depends entirely on how a given parser handles calculating DPS.

^

**Diddy Kong** · 2012-06-03 16:06

Is there a world transfer option? Friend wants to move to my server and we can't find the option to world transfer.

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