How is Skirmish "Fuss Free Content"?

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Originally Posted by Eliseus

Skirmish is a joke; even a caveman can do it.

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I dunno man, I saw people come out dead from it lol

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Originally Posted by Eliseus

Skirmish is a joke; even a caveman can do it.

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*ignoring the Geiko refrence for a different one*

I should hope so! Captain Caveman kicks butt!

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Originally Posted by Amherst

It can be in this game, what with dwindling player base.

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Except, y'know, what with the reported doubling of the active population since January...

so.... this thread exists.

The amount of time you took to make/post in this thread you probably could of made a group for skirmish.

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Except, y'know, what with the reported doubling of the active population since January...

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Citation needed.

You are missing my point, I asked what the "fuss free battle content was" . When I read this, it sounded like you would talk to NPC and then enter battlefield with other players. I understand now this was misleading. Thanks.

Fuss free is in reference to these weapons being shitty, and for people who can't beat Garuda. You can also trade them, sell them, give them.

I'm curious as to what post made you think it would be like Campaign. The DEV announcement where it was claimed it would take place on islands, instanced, require a party, be in the support of grand companies, have rewards like primals, etc? Or was it the lodestone post where they said the exact same thing?

Did you think "We are bringing monsters to the island to fight" would somehow translate into subbing dancer and derping away in the worst open battle gameplay any game has ever seen, including Superman for N64? Damn, I'm gonna win the war today! What's the plan? Grab a monster...and HOLD IT FOR 15m! Max 'dat XP!

Fucking terrible. You should feel bad for thinking Campaign was good to begin with, let alone wanting this to be similar.

Whilst Campaign was bad, the concept is not. I think that with a few tweaks, a Campaign style battle would be great for XIV.

only fuss free for now but it will be harder to find when people get everything, up till 2.0 then it should easier to get a party with the content finder(which i think will be wow's dungeon finder).

its fuss free...set up party recruit from menu, go to uldah, shout a bit while crafting... or if you only want to join it yourself, just do search and put yourself on seeking party status

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its fuss free...set up party recruit from menu, go to uldah, shout a bit while crafting... or if you only want to join it yourself, just do search and put yourself on seeking party status

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better chance of winning the lotto, than getting a party from the search function

I really want something like Campaign... Now THAT was fuss free.

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Originally Posted by Churchill

Fuss free is in reference to these weapons being shitty, and for people who can't beat Garuda. You can also trade them, sell them, give them.

I'm curious as to what post made you think it would be like Campaign. The DEV announcement where it was claimed it would take place on islands, instanced, require a party, be in the support of grand companies, have rewards like primals, etc? Or was it the lodestone post where they said the exact same thing?

Did you think "We are bringing monsters to the island to fight" would somehow translate into subbing dancer and derping away in the worst open battle gameplay any game has ever seen, including Superman for N64? Damn, I'm gonna win the war today! What's the plan? Grab a monster...and HOLD IT FOR 15m! Max 'dat XP!

Fucking terrible. You should feel bad for thinking Campaign was good to begin with, let alone wanting this to be similar.

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This person certainly doesn't seem fuss-free, and reeks of elitism.

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Originally Posted by Lurex

You are missing my point, I asked what the "fuss free battle content was" . When I read this, it sounded like you would talk to NPC and then enter battlefield with other players. I understand now this was misleading. Thanks.

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Making a party isn't fuss. Also, your posts are exceedingly childish.

I formed a PUG and we died 4 times and once ran out of time. We just didn't have the right set up. But I had a lot of fun and I don't mind dying. Glad to know about the drops I like that its random. To me if I'm having fun thats all that matters.
Its new and different.

Yesterday I formed a PUG party (2 of them my LS mate), 2 of them are JP . That was my first fight. Glad the tank perform well. We also had a good DDs (dunno if it include myself). we roll the 2 islands without difficulties. It was a fun fight.

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Originally Posted by Eliseus

Skirmish is a joke; even a caveman can do it.

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And get a TV show about them doing it that we all generally forgot about.

Unless its solo content its going to be tedious atm to do in FF14, as FF14 has about 25 players on any given server at one time. Those are the latest estimates I have read.

Faux Pas?

OP is exactly why party search system isn't used among NA community. Because it's not fuss-free and can't be done in 1 single click, they would rather instead whine at forum and play victim card. Bravos.

Dissapointing content? Have you even done it yet?

I think you people find the SMALLEST things to complain about now...

Original Troll Post is obvious Troll post.

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Except, y'know, what with the reported doubling of the active population since January...

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Originally Posted by Ingolf

Citation needed.

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Yeah, I'm interested in this. Source? And no, reactivating a sub for legacy and never playing doesn't count.

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Originally Posted by Amherst

Yeah, I'm interested in this. Source? And no, reactivating a sub for legacy and never playing doesn't count.

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It was in one of the recent french interviews. Blizzard counts dead/inactive/trial and multiple under one IP for their sub numbers, so resubbing for legacy counts too.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It was in one of the recent french interviews. Blizzard counts dead/inactive/trial and multiple under one IP for their sub numbers, so resubbing for legacy counts too.

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So it counts because of how Blizzard operates? Sorry, don't agree there.

Anyway, thanks for pointing that out. Though I'm sure it's nothing more than people trying to snag that lifetime discount.

Edit: For the record, I wouldn't really have counted anything aside from maybe the trial players for Blizz games either. But that's just me.

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Originally Posted by Reika

Funny thing is, everyone wanted this player search feature so badly so they can flag themselves as lfg in search. I think just because it is GUI instead of a txt command, people still wont use it. People are still sitting mainly in Uldah shouting as they did before it was added.....

I put up party recruitments all the time for things I need to get done or want to do, and only the JP players ever use it. NA/other players continue to remain oblivious to the feature....

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If its help your after feel free to hit me up when I am online, I dont mind helping anyone as long as I am not busy. I will help players when they ask, but I tend to not reply to very many shouts due to the fact if I did I would not get anything I need or want completed.

I got a pug pretty quickly earlier today, went fairly smooth even after people started leaving, you can just /say in the vicinity of the area and get a coupla reps. One thing I don't like is the *gasp* difficulty. Stupid motherloving tree. D:< sooo close...

What are you talking about? I got into a skirmish on short notice, and walked out of it with a giantsgall longsword. Oh yeah, we didn't even have a proper tank. I'd say skirmish is very accessable.

It's such a pain in the ass to get to know new people and make friends...god, I hate how MMO's "force" you to interact with others.

>_>;

Got the speed clear in skirmish with the 7 people that were on the LS at the time on whatever the hell jobs they wanted to be, only 1 tank 1 whm. It's a lot of fun and definitely doable with random people and it feels great knowing that something will drop.

Hell we almost won with 5 people last night without a BRD and still only 1 WHM. We ran out of time with the tree at 50%.

FF14 Community at its finest..

LOL are you kidding? all you need to do is "/l hey, anyone wanna do skirmish?" and you get 8 members. Not exactly difficult or time consuming.

If that doesn't work, I suggest you find a new LS.

I think it's considered fuss free because:

A) forming a party for new content takes 5 minutes
B) you just run around an island and kills stuff (no thought required)

TL;DR

Fuss free content - some assembly required

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Originally Posted by Alerith

Which version of XI did you play? Despite all the DRK jokes, I see them in every bit of content.

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Hmmm. Something tells me that my time in XI and your time in XI didn't much coincide. Poor DRKs were the pariahs of the game for a while, or so they felt.

R

I love the members of the FFXIV community, that insult the community at large while being a part of it.

It's like saying "Your Mom." jokes to your siblings.

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Originally Posted by Lurex

I don't consider any of those above comments "fuss free". All my friends in game left long time ago, and most of the 6 ls's I have are empty. Gosh, I was thinking this would be like Campaign, what a big let down.

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"Fuss free" doesn't mean "solo."

If you can't shout and form a party for brand new content, then you're doing something wrong. Make a new LS if the ones you have arent useful.

To me, the least fuss-free part is simply the prerequisites.

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Originally Posted by ShivenCasull

The content doesn't require a serious gear check, and the most difficult part is learning the NM mechanics.

Finding a party in an MMO doesn't really count as a "difficulty".

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Finding a party in a deadbeat MMO like this one is actually quite difficult, but we can always pretend this game is like the rest of the games out there.....

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Except, y'know, what with the reported doubling of the active population since January...

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Link please or you are lying....

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Originally Posted by XxOstiaxX

Link please or you are lying....

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post751954

Maybe only a select few people actually read interviews about XIV.

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Originally Posted by XxOstiaxX

Finding a party in a deadbeat MMO like this one is actually quite difficult, but we can always pretend this game is like the rest of the games out there.....

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I've never had trouble finding a party. Occasionally it will take longer than I'd like, but every time I try I can usually get enough people for anything you can think of.

Finally, the word "deadbeat" doesn't mean what you think it means.