Moonfire Faire – Bombard Backlash (07/30/2012)

[Jadi]

I don't know if you are one but for us controller users it's even harder. Especially now that there are no collisions enemies can stack in one spot in one mess of polygons.

Honestly why didn't they just copy XI's targeting?!

This one looks like it but under the hood it just doesn't function in fast paced situations the same way.

It's not slow, it's just as fast as XI's (trust me I'm very fast at claim) but it's the tab order that it chooses that is messed up. (goes right from the center of the player then wraps around the left edge of the screen, not closest to players center like XI, also can't target behind the camera like in XI.) I think that must be what people are complaining about.. I dunno I play with joystick so it feels about the same to me..

[JillyBean]

I have only done quest in Gridania. It appears I have completed the full set of achievements.

I have 4 questions if any of you know:

Is Bombard Ash the item collected no matter what city you quest in?

Is Bombard Bloom the only firework able to to obtained in this event (other than the ones for sale for 10g at other NPC)?

Is there any way to buy more than one Bombard Bloom at a time? (/sigh)

Is there any reason to go to any other city to participate in this quest?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

[Laraul]

It's not slow, it's just as fast as XI's (trust me I'm very fast at claim) but it's the tab order that it chooses that is messed up. (goes right from the center of the player then wraps around the left edge of the screen, not closest to players center like XI, also can't target behind the camera like in XI.) I think that must be what people are complaining about.. I dunno I play with joystick so it feels about the same to me..

This is the exact same behavior as in FFXI (as I recall). People are probably complaining about the large number of players/mobs on screen at one time. With the number of characters on screen at once you see in FFXIV, the same number would slow FFXI considerably. This would slow the cursor down as well making it easier to target. But you never see this number of characters or mobs at once in FFXI.

[Antanias]

Glad to see the firework cannons are back, but where do you get a blue spinner from?

[Opabinia]

If you want to set off fireworks (in the 'device'), you don't need to supply them; just ask the npc next to it to set one off. If you want to set off the other types, there is a small wait time.

[Quesse]

Interesting event..

Uldah: There is literally so many people doing it outside of Uldah there is a slight chance you will never get a successful dance in. This happened to me once. Just completely unlucky.
Limsa/Grindy: There are so few people, I've had all 4 balloons pop every time and you get no ash.

At least in Uldah, if you get just one dance in successfully, you can just sit out the rest of the time until you get duty complete and still get all 20 ash.

[insaneshadow]

So, aside from the prizes you get for exchanging the ash, is there anything else you can obtain? Like, masks or...I don't know. I'm not asking because I want more, I'm asking since I got what I wanted (through the ash exchange lady) and I want to know if there are any other prizes to obtain. If there aren't then I can get back to questing and getting my Archer to the level cap.

[Enfarious]

No, there are the following:

• Normal: Selects everything
• Friendly: Selects all friendly targets (players and NPCs)
• Enemy: Selects all hostile targets
• Party: Selects only party members

These bombs are NPC's, so Friendly would be the one you'd want to use, but other players also select under it, so it doesn't help at all.

And I use a controller, so I do this all the time too. It's infuriating! That...and I always save my camera position in a way I don't want...

/target <stnpc>
not work?

[Felis]

Make a macro

/targetnpc
/firedance

spam it

good idea ^^
thanks

[Zdenka]

# of bombs increases with # of people in the area.

Uldah on Durandal right now literally has ~20-25 bombs at the same time near the end, and many people are AFK increasing the # count while not really helping so nearly always 1 balloon gets popped. This is probably with ~80 people there. Not sure if theres a cap on people/bomb ratio.

0 Pop = 20
1 pop = 10
2 pop = 6
3 pop = ?
all pop = 0