What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

[Melody]

Not sure if we had a thread like this, but I'm making one anyways. Here's mine.

Fuck Ifrit Primal Fight. God damn japanese can't even coordinate properly to me to at least hint what strategy they're going to pull. Ended up fucking bum rushing him and watched Ifrit breathe on them and get wiped the hell out. I sat there and tanked him on Carbuncle for 20 minutes straight before I said fuck it and gave up. I was not amused. The lack of fucking healers on Ixion is ridiculous. Even among the english players, only like 2-3 people have a fucking healer. You shitting me? I'm now forcing myself to go Scholar so I can fix this issue. In the mean time, here's something fun I did with my new toon I made last night.

[Nandito]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

The fact there's no option to instant queue another or even the same dungeon with the people you find on duty finder.

Cross-server, why must be such a cruel mistress? Nothing sucks more than having fun with a group of people and then never seeing each other again.

[Jarre]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

New error thinking character is still logged on when you logged off 2 hours ago for lunch >.<

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

Firewind uses Sleepga! It's Super Effective!
"Special" Tank uses Overpower! It's Not Very Effective! White Mage has fainted!

[DakAttack]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

Bees.

Final Sting is a pain in the ass. I've only survived it once.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

Stun is your friend.

Also if there's a SMN in the group have then summon Titan to tank the bees.

[DakAttack]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

I wish it were that easy.

[Malacite]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

The Market Boards.

I HATE trying to look up items for pricing. God how I miss FFXI's AH (never thought I'd say that) for the general ease of use; look up an item, check sales history, backtrack a few menus to my inventory and list it.

Not in XIV. Oh no. First you gotta look up the item on the boards and hope there are some even up for sale to compare prices, otherwise it's 100% guess work - no records of sales at all, only current listings. And then once you're done that, leave the boards and go over to the stupid bell to call your retainer and go through a million more menus. Then repeat the process for any other items you want to sell. Oh, and nevermind how aggravating it can be just trying to target the fucking bell in the first place when lots of people are crowding it.


It's a complete clusterfuck and I would love to have a proper AH while maintaining the use of our retainers, at least for the purposes of browsing items for prices @_@;

[Mezlo]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

i agree mal... dante goldenpaws right?

[DakAttack]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

The Market Boards.

I HATE trying to look up items for pricing. God how I miss FFXI's AH (never thought I'd say that) for the general ease of use; look up an item, check sales history, backtrack a few menus to my inventory and list it.

Not in XIV. Oh no. First you gotta look up the item on the boards and hope there are some even up for sale to compare prices, otherwise it's 100% guess work - no records of sales at all, only current listings. And then once you're done that, leave the boards and go over to the stupid bell to call your retainer and go through a million more menus. Then repeat the process for any other items you want to sell. Oh, and nevermind how aggravating it can be just trying to target the fucking bell in the first place when lots of people are crowding it.


It's a complete clusterfuck and I would love to have a proper AH while maintaining the use of our retainers, at least for the purposes of browsing items for prices @_@;

When you list an item, there's a button in the upper right-hand corner of the pricing box that takes you directly to that item's current listing. You're welcome.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

This is Mal we're talking to though :3

[Malacite]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

Eh? I didn't see that lol ><

Still doesn't fix the lack of a price history though, or the ungodly congestion at the Retainer Bells X.x (I tend to do my stuff from my Inn room now).

And yes, Dante Goldenpaws :3

[Nandito]

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Just attempted the Titan battle, multiple times, with different party members twice, and this is all I gotta say:

Is it an Internet problem I'm not aware of? I see that move coming a mile away and yet people either stand there until it's half-way done or take the long way instead of strafing completely to the side. Figured it was just the mages being rooted by their spell animation but nope, saw plenty of times where they weren't casting and got caught. Even the melees...

[Aeni]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

@Nandito

Check the official forums. People complaining that certain IPs they're connecting to are laggy as hell and most of those resolve to the data center in Quebec, Canada. It's all aboot the crappy ISPs!

[Malacite]

Re: What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

yeah apparently Excalibur (can't independently confirm this) is in Montreal.