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

[Nestama]

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The only green dungeon gear (body, mage) I ever got was the level 44 cowl from Darkhold (and that was only because no one wanted it). Any other time mage gear dropped, my Need rolls would always be out-rolled, even if I luck out and roll a high number for a change (I usually always roll 30 or less). Today, while helping a FC buddy through Brayflox, I asked them if it was alright for me to roll Need on the Battlemage Robe should it drop. They said it was okay (they got everything else in the dungeon). We beat the boss, Battlemage Robe drops, I roll Need for 17 and... they get it instead.

As much as I hate getting angry within games, that... it was really, really hard redirecting the F bombs that had launched (they claimed it was an accident, after stalling on their roll for around two minutes, after the BRD and WAR left).

[Aeni]

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There's a lot of jerks in the game. There's the time we ran Brayflox and a bow dropped and this 44 archer rolled need on it even after admitting it was a downgrade (then why the fuck do you roll on it you asshole) So I feel your pain Nestama (mind you, my Archer friend also rolled need since she needed it)

[Carter]

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My pet peeve is getting to level 15 and finding all the side quests have run out...to face the grind!

Some relief starting another job only to find very little to do...other then guildleves etc... I like threaded story quests dammit!

[Nestama]

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There's a lot of jerks in the game. There's the time we ran Brayflox and a bow dropped and this 44 archer rolled need on it even after admitting it was a downgrade (then why the fuck do you roll on it you asshole) So I feel your pain Nestama (mind you, my Archer friend also rolled need since she needed it)

Makes you wonder why SE didn't make it so that you can only Greed on something that is clearly inferior to what you're equipped with.

Anyway, all day today I did Brayflox in the hopes of getting Battlemage gear. All day. 8 hours later, I still don't have any Battlemage gear. I was pretty close to getting some Battlemage pants half hour ago (rolled 51, my second highest Need roll ever. Highest is 71 for Acolytes Robe and that was also out rolled). The SMN, who knew I was after Battlemage gear, out rolls my 51 and takes the pants instead. This SMN already had Battlemage Robe, Hands and Belt. I dropped a f??? in party chat, because at that point I was just so bloody frustrated that I got nothing... but hey, at least I know I'm a pretty damn good SCH (which is level 50 and never used because lolsmn).

This game, I swear. I think the only way I'm going to get anything is if take three people in my FC hostage and force them to party with me in Brayflox.

Lowest roll today for Battlemage Belt was 4. BLM rolled a 60. That was when I dropped the ???? bomb for the first time in both FC chat and FFXIV overall. THIS GAME. You're mutating my kind and gentle personality into a whining mess of an uncaring blob monster!

[Firewind]

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I'm not defending looting on gear you don't need, but Materia melding can make lower iLvl gear actually better than higher iLvl stuff. A lot of the Amdapour Keep, Militia and Rose Gold gear comes to mind when compared to Darklight Gear.

[DakAttack]

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The airships in this game are fucking stupid.

[Mezlo]

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how does the color with the gear work? blue is AF gear, but i dont know about the other colors.

[Taskmage]

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There are two kinds of greens. Uniques that drop from gold chests in dungeons, and crafting and gathering "AF." The former have no materia slots, but tend to have stats equivalent to what an item with a level requirement 5 or more levels higher would have, and have special art that looks awesome. They can't be converted to materia or sold, but they can be turned in to your Grand Company for a small reward of seals when you outlevel them, if your rank is Sergeant Second Class or higher. The latter is crafted by level 48+ DoH, have better stats than normal crafting/gathering gear, and but can only be equipped by one class. These do have materia slots, and the art resembles what your guildmaster wears. idk if you can convert or sell them, but why would you ever want to?

Purples are aetherial items, and they drop from silver chests in dungeons and leves. They have no sockets, but have stats roughly equal to what an HQ crafted item of the same type would have when socketed with materia. When you're done with them, they can be sold for gil, converted to materia, or turned in with your GC for seals.

[Malacite]

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You can indeed convert the green AF into materia - you can also HQ them, something I'm aspiring too as I've been crafting like a madman busting out so many HQ's it's making my FC's head spin. :D


My current peeve is also related to crafting; they nerfed EXP scrolls and spirit bond severely. They jacked up the cost of the level 2 scrolls from 600 seals to 2300, made it so the bonus EXP only applies to the base EXP of a synth and not the total (after quality boosts etc) so no more insane 10k+ per synth like I was getting in 1.0, and to top it all off, only the base EXP of a synth is calculated when contributing towards spirit bond. It's that final point that pisses me off most of all, as it means generating crafting Materia is a very long and very expensive ordeal.


Quite honestly, it's complete bullshit, especially when the bonus EXP from completing FATE and Dungeons etc. all contribute to SB on DoW & DoM classes.

[Aeni]

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I'm not defending looting on gear you don't need, but Materia melding can make lower iLvl gear actually better than higher iLvl stuff. A lot of the Amdapour Keep, Militia and Rose Gold gear comes to mind when compared to Darklight Gear.

Except in this case the bow didn't have any materia slot on it and cannot be converted (as almost all colored items are, anyway) and because of DF, we ended up with 2 archers (not big of a deal for me because I'm a tank, but it is for DD) So this isn't even an issue where SE could fix, this is purely a societal kind of issue, where consideration would've gone a long ways for this "guy".

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My current peeve is also related to crafting; they nerfed EXP scrolls and spirit bond severely. They jacked up the cost of the level 2 scrolls from 600 seals to 2300, made it so the bonus EXP only applies to the base EXP of a synth and not the total (after quality boosts etc) so no more insane 10k+ per synth like I was getting in 1.0, and to top it all off, only the base EXP of a synth is calculated when contributing towards spirit bond. It's that final point that pisses me off most of all, as it means generating crafting Materia is a very long and very expensive ordeal.

Because your FC has credits to spend at Rank 5. Talk to your FC leader and have them use it if you really need the exp.

[Malacite]

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My FC insists on always having the 5% battle EXP buff -_-'


I told them the Spirit Bond buff is waaaaaay more valuable (or even Control +5)


But that doesn't make up for the ridiculous discrepancy. I get a shittonne of SB doing FATEs and dungeons etc. but barely any crafting.

[Mezlo]

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What's FC?

[Malacite]

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Free Company.

[Mezlo]

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When you are doing the mainline story quests and complete them and get to pick your reward, are those tin, silver, etc coins you can opt for good for anything? Or is it just NPC'ing them for like 100 gil?

[Aeni]

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My FC insists on always having the 5% battle EXP buff -_-'


I told them the Spirit Bond buff is waaaaaay more valuable (or even Control +5)


But that doesn't make up for the ridiculous discrepancy. I get a shittonne of SB doing FATEs and dungeons etc. but barely any crafting.

Not sure what you are doing wrong, but I SB all the time crafting ... maybe the problem is you're only making one or two things per session, either to complete a leve, or to make something for someone. You actually need to sit down and craft, and not just make 2 things and go, WTF, I'm not SB'd yet? And you can't say, well I did, I made a shit ton, because you need to define that in actual numbers. To give you a perspective, simply making 15 brass ingots will level you up from 16 to 17. And making only 15 brass ingots isn't going to SB your gear. If you level multiple crafts, you'll SB without knowing you did and you could SB multiple times with the same set of gear for 2-4 levels across the profs (e.g., 3 to 4 times per set means you can get materia from every piece of gear 3 or 4 times over just leveling profs simultaneously)

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When you are doing the mainline story quests and complete them and get to pick your reward, are those tin, silver, etc coins you can opt for good for anything? Or is it just NPC'ing them for like 100 gil?

Strictly gil conversion pieces. There's no other redemption for those things. Since I craft pretty much everything I ever need (and the rest for my Warrior is gained through dungeons and quest rewards) I opt for gil every. single. time.