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

[Malacite]

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So, last night was my first real encounter with retards.

I switched from SMN to SCH because it was late and I just wanted a fast invite. Learning how to heal on that job for the 1st time with 2 moronic DD's was less than pleasant. The SMN kept attacking whatever mobs the tank wasn't, and the LNC (yes LNC, dude didn't even have DRG) just kept pulling and doing whatever he could to make the PLD & I's lives hell. Like pulling and tanking the first boss... thankfully the shmuck left shortly after that as the PLD told everyone to hug the left side when we got to the big open lake. Naturally our retard LNC ran straight through the middle aggroing every mob on the way and bringing them to us. We survived (barely) except for him, so he respawned and came back, aggroing yet more mobs though this time he died before reaching us and then raged out. None of us could understand how he'd even gotten that far along the story.

Then BLM joined us and we eventually won the whole thing and I got most of the loot including Battlemage Gloves! :D


I gotta say, SCH healing was interesting, but I honestly do not like the Fairy AI at all. I assumed (based on what YP himself had previously said in a live letter) that it would auto-attack like the other summons while helping heal. Nope. It just sits there, and you constantly have to manually use Place to move it near the melee so they can be hit with her AoE Regen. It's f'ing stupid, worse than healing with PUP imo...

[Firewind]

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From the person that was yelling that Cross Server Duty Finder wasn't going to be horrible at all.

[Malacite]

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1 bad instance out of at least 20 so far is a pretty good rate.

[Fliegar]

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Did Castrum Mari-something last night, and had a tank insisting we finish it in 20 minutes. We clear the first boss, and as we arrive at the second, one of the DPS decides he's had enough of the tank's attitude and tells him off. The tank then proceeds to sit in the corner of the room, saying that he won't leave until we finish or someone else leaves first. With some creative kiting methods, my brother (as a WHM) and I managed to down the adds and keep them away from the party until we downed the second boss, but the group fell apart shortly after.

There desperately needs to be a kick function in this game, as far as Duty Finder parties go. Having someone afk and sit there because they don't get their way and ruining the dungeon for 7 other people really sucks.

[Aeni]

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You have absolutely NO idea what the fuck happened in my fight, yet you think you're better and talk down to me. Seriously dude, check yourself, your ego is WAY out of hand...

Unless your DPS is retarded (and I don't think they were, because you managed to actually face the end boss), then you weren't doing your job. Get the dragon out of the green puke and he won't regen. I've done Branflax at least 10 times and never, ever wiped, doing it as PUG or as static. This boss fight is seriously all on the tank, not even on the DPS, because two things are going on:

-Dragon has a seriously nasty poison attack that's a rectangle protruding out front, you need to avoid taking it in the face
-Dragon will regen if he sits in his own puke, which makes the fight stretch for eternity

The DPS has nothing to do other than (a) DPS and (b) don't stand in the puke. The tank has way more things he needs to do on this fight. Don't get angry at me ... you just need to evaluate what went wrong on the fight.

[DakAttack]

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Did Castrum Mari-something last night, and had a tank insisting we finish it in 20 minutes. We clear the first boss, and as we arrive at the second, one of the DPS decides he's had enough of the tank's attitude and tells him off. The tank then proceeds to sit in the corner of the room, saying that he won't leave until we finish or someone else leaves first. With some creative kiting methods, my brother (as a WHM) and I managed to down the adds and keep them away from the party until we downed the second boss, but the group fell apart shortly after.

There desperately needs to be a kick function in this game, as far as Duty Finder parties go. Having someone afk and sit there because they don't get their way and ruining the dungeon for 7 other people really sucks.

Castrum Meridianum is so popular it shouldn't take you and your brother long to find a new group in the duty finder.

[Malacite]

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Still infuriated by the beyond-shitty levels of SB rates on DoH & DoL.

[Firewind]

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GSM is now worthless on Balmung. Note that it costs 400 Gil to make a single Electrum Ingot and even if you gathered the mats, why sell them for less than that? You have 400g worth of mats you could just sell separately.

[DakAttack]

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If they're cheap enough, you can buy them and relist them at more reasonable prices. Plus, the ones at 310 are being sold in groups of 99, so I'm guessing that's off limits to a lot of people who want only one or two.

[Malacite]

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I don't know if it's RMT, Legacy Players or just plain old stupidity but raw (and even some processed) materials are worth shit all on Excalibur.

I bought a stack of electrum ore last night for only 60 gil per ore. NQ is around 36, Cobalt is 60~80, and mythril is 120 for some reason. Sold 1 stack of mirror apples last night @ 68 gil per, undercutting the next sellers by just 1 and then suddenly some asshat loads up 5 stacks all at 55 each.

Seriously WTF is wrong with people? SE *needs* to fix the markets by removing the ability to see what others are listing at, it's killing the economy by allowing morons to actively destroy the value of anything.

I am so glad I held onto my gil from 1.0 now, because at the rate things are going quests and materia will be the only real way to make money - especially if SE doesn't start cracking down on the teleport bots. The one bot I've been seeing for 2 weeks now has finally graduated from Banemites to Ornery Karakul, driving fleece prices through the roof making weaving a serious bitch to level.

[Firewind]

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The 99 stacks are clearly undercutting idiots really. Note again that the current prices on Balmung mean that each Electrum Ingot costs 400 Gil to make.

5 Wind Crystals @ 32 Each = 120
4 Electrum Ingots @ 60 Each = 240

So selling an Electrum Ingot for less than 400 on Balmung just makes no sense. You are getting less per ore and Wind Crystal if you farm it all yourself. It's caused the price of endgame gear to crash too since all the 49 gear needs Electrum Ingots, and quite a lot of the Lv50 stuff uses Electrum Ore, but because everyone has switched over to that, the market has flooded and the prices crashed for anything using Rose Gold stuff.

[Mezlo]

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I'm going to start crafting this weekend... While LFG with Duty Finder for The Brayflox bullshit...

[DakAttack]

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Completed the main story. What a load of horseshit. This story was not Final Fantasy caliber.

Way to put your B-team on writing, scripted scenes, and voice acting, Square-Enix.

[Mezlo]

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Why do I have the feeling it's just Dak and the storyline / ending is really good?

[Malacite]

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Other people are saying the same thing.


So far I'm finding it to be just OK - it's better than XI's initial story was by far, so I'm reserving judgment until the expansions come out because it wasn't until CoP that XI's story telling really took off. At the same time though, I feel I have to agree with my friends in that the monotonous nature of the quest-grinding seems to detract from the plot too much. I dunno, somehow the dialogue and story scenes in XI were just better. It doesn't help that so far the plot (I'm just in Coerthas now in terms of story) is heavily based off of Zilart with hints of FF6 mixed in.