This Isn't Fun, This Isn't Challenging, This Is Aggrivating.

One thing is for certain, trying to gather people to pray at the diety stones is not going to help, because every one wants to try and kill the mobs. On Excalibur we downed a few of the trees, but the trees were soon replaced with more to stomp our face in the Ul'dan stones. Another maintenance is coming up, most likely for more death updates. Probably related to the stones, and that area we cannot access, but is in the lore, "Carteneau Flats."

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You missed the point /topic.

The lore states to try it with a mass of people, one person nor 4 does anything substantial.

How did I miss the point of the topic, it is pointless to stand around trying to kill the mobs which constantly spawn, ya, I agree it was fun for the first few times, then you want to either watch or try to see if there is more to the lore post.

People in Ragnarok are still fighting the good fight, and we're starting to believe it might actually be doable XD
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I think it's funny how everyone wanted the NM to roam around after the final save and they gave it to them but people still complain lol. Maybe its not exactly what you want but you got it. Just be careful what you wish for.

Wheres my immersion?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Honestly I was expecting something more akin to the final battle from Crisis Core, a battle of attrition that eventually becomes apparent it is impossible to win.

But with the limits of 1.0 we have to settle for level 90 monsters? It's fun either way.

Ya they have overly hinted at the fact that we are to pray at the stones and "Call for help" from the gods, 1 or 2 people praying won't do anything get 50-100 to mass pray and probably something will happen, I foresee if people keep doing this all mobs get aoe and will 9999 everyone that continues to fight. I think this the mobs are their for a sense of dread, and for sake of story most people in an event of this go and pray to their gods for help. I think we are to do this or else they will keep making it harder for us.
The latest Journalist post talks about Eorzeans going to pray to the gods, then the most recent update states "call for help" who else is left for us to call upon and return for this final encounter that has been stated that they will return. They, the gods won't return if there is not a great outpouring of prayers to them if 1-5 do it the gods will think "oh not that big of a deal" but if 50-500-20,000 people do it the gods might go "oh crap something is happening to our people we must investigate". And to give us a speed boost at restoring anima, for what? Killing mobs in town, I think not!

Come Eorzean's get your praying on so the heavenly might of the 12 will strike down these obstacles.

He had one down to about 85% until some griefer deliberately led it away so it would regen. We definitely would have had it otherwise.

Xmbei exactly, however, many people are writing that post off as it already happening. A retelling of, "Living on a pray."

I don't think anyone will mass people by the stones until a group does it, which is next to impossible because no one wants to leave precious Ulduh as usual.

The thing is we are meant to lose at this point. Trying to find a way to win now is like trying to find a way for Romeo and Juliet to live when you know it's going to end badly.

It makes sense, you still try to find a way to win or save people when all seems lost, who just gives up? See all the people throwing their bodies at the 90 mobs, they are not giving up for sure, they want to take one down. That argument makes it more likely there is a way to hold them off till Dalamud drops on us and all is lost, and us adventurers are flung into the future.

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

The thing is we are meant to lose at this point. Trying to find a way to win now is like trying to find a way for Romeo and Juliet to live when you know it's going to end badly.

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yes its to end badly but the 12 won't return on their own volition. Yes it seems rather obscure and "pointless" to you but for the event it fits... I can't wait till like 3rd update they go okay all mobs are level 100 NM so like lvl 150 they all have AOE 9999 Damage that burns every 3 seconds and has a radius of the whole area so all die no matter what. yet people will still fight so the next update will be "Okay guys go pray to the stones"
People are so obstinant that Fighting must be the only content for a game, no other form of accomplishing a task.

I am not saying people shouldn't be fighting them but I think they have a quicker respawn timer expecially for the harder to kill mobs like the juggernaut. People can still do that, but I don't think that is what SE had in mind for us to do exactly right now...

has anyone had success with the praying at the stones? i tried to get it organized in uldah on hyperion but only a handful showed up.

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Originally Posted by Xmbei

yes its to end badly but the 12 won't return on their own volition. Yes it seems rather obscure and "pointless" to you but for the event it fits... I can't wait till like 3rd update they go okay all mobs are level 100 NM so like lvl 150 they all have AOE 9999 Damage that burns every 3 seconds and has a radius of the whole area so all die no matter what. yet people will still fight so the next update will be "Okay guys go pray to the stones"
People are so obstinant that Fighting must be the only content for a game, no other form of accomplishing a task.

I am not saying people shouldn't be fighting them but I think they have a quicker respawn timer expecially for the harder to kill mobs like the juggernaut. People can still do that, but I don't think that is what SE had in mind for us to do exactly right now...

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Well I wasn't saying it was pointless really. I'm just thinking that you can't get upset about fighting a losing battle when the plot is that we are supposed to lose. I for one am enjoying the lvl 90 mobs. I'm not helping with the fight with hopes of actually killing the things, I'm helping with the fight because it's fun to roleplay and it's fun to join in on a group endeavor.

Just don't be disappointed if there is no way to "win" this event... y'know?

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

The thing is we are meant to lose at this point. Trying to find a way to win now is like trying to find a way for Romeo and Juliet to live when you know it's going to end badly.

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then whats point logging in? if i know its just gunna end badly where i die or spend the next 10 days auto attacking the same mob seems pointless and not worthwhile.

Guess this is fine for some people though. I was hoping for something i could "experience."

Hey OP. Uninstall your game like me :D

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Originally Posted by viion

then whats point logging in? if i know its just gunna end badly where i die or spend the next 10 days auto attacking the same mob seems pointless and not worthwhile.

Guess this is fine for some people though. I was hoping for something i could "experience."

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I would say the point to logging in now is to witness the end. We're not logging in to win anymore. In fact, how would you feel if you did accomplish something? You would probably expect some kind of recognition, which won't happen because we are past the save point.

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

Well I wasn't saying it was pointless really. I'm just thinking that you can't get upset about fighting a losing battle when the plot is that we are supposed to lose. I for one am enjoying the lvl 90 mobs. I'm not helping with the fight with hopes of actually killing the things, I'm helping with the fight because it's fun to roleplay and it's fun to join in on a group endeavor.

Just don't be disappointed if there is no way to "win" this event... y'know?

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lol yes I know, I was enjoying it, lol don't get me wrong. I was fighting the mobs and just clicked for me after we killed a Marbolo, hey I think I should go pray to Nald'Thal, you know for the protection of his city so I ran noticed I was only one there (on Gungrir) and prayed 2 times before running back, then thought why not state this on the forum the word will spread better that way then trying to shout in this chaos lol. I find it interesting that I am not the only one to get this idea.

I am organizing with some friends now we almost have a full party, we are going to see if 1 pt can do something if it does, we will Screen shot it and prove it to others and get more people to do the same.

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Originally Posted by viion

then whats point logging in? if i know its just gunna end badly where i die or spend the next 10 days auto attacking the same mob seems pointless and not worthwhile.

Guess this is fine for some people though. I was hoping for something i could "experience."

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I am wondering if there is a Pray Counter or something of like 1000+ prays and it triggers a cs and the gods wrath comes down and repels the mobs. I know speculation, but who knows if people don't try. I think that would be a cool experience if that was the case! but I am not keeping them to high myself for a CS but I still think the god stones and praying to them are key to have something occur in the game... Ohhhhh maybe A CS commences of the god decending then a NPC version of them spawn in the middle of the fight and starts fighting with us? :D oh how epic that would be.

i wonder if we need to wear those new special rings too? we had 10 ppl at the thm guild stone and nothing happend so it might have to be a larger group.

We have our rings on and factored in going to our own deity too, we are going to try a few things. 7/8 going soon.

It is a given that they are planning different things during the apocalypse. I think we should all just sit back and see what happens. Whatever does happen, it will no doubt be amusing.

Interesting thing about doing a /pray on the stones is that it detargets the stone which doesn't happen with normal npcs.

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Originally Posted by Req

Interesting thing about doing a /pray on the stones is that it detargets the stone which doesn't happen with normal npcs.

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Which makes me think something is going on behind the scenes with the npc because it always drops if some program is running and causes a change from the npc or entering a cs, So I think it tracks the amount of prayers applied. who knows but what Req says is true which makes me and should others scratch there head and say "why?"

We are going to pray doing the world tour haha... This should be interesting.

it would be nice to be given a sign that praying is kinda working

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Originally Posted by Empyrean

This Isn't Fun, This Isn't Challenging, This Is Aggravating.

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Lol...This sums up FFXIV v1.0 quite well.

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Originally Posted by Poppa

it would be nice to be given a sign that praying is kinda working

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I think that is part of the doing nothing... its changing it ever so slightly? like a counter? Might have stages? I am unsure of course but like if it is prayed at enough maybe the dialogue when examining it will change from like "shines brightly" to shines more brightly" to "Shines brilliantly" and so on and maybe the humming gets louder too? We can hope but as said before too never will tell if we don't try maybe every 100 or 500 or 1000 prays? excessive maybe but thats why you need larger numbers it goes a lot quicker. to test.... What is there like 500 people or more killing mobs in Uldah? what if they take 10-20 minutes to test this theory... The mobs are not going ot go anywhere... this should be known... so whats the harm in trying something first...

i believe that praying has to count for something. i tried to kneel at a stone and i did not detarget, however when i pray i always detarget

It's not, and if the next update turns this on, you can bet no one is even paying attention to it since they tried and nothing happened.

Well I dont find it challenging or anything just stupid. Seriously there is useually 85 players online (total) and I dont even bother logging in there really isnt any point to. The only time players will be logging in in numbers is to see the final cutescene. I really dont see the point in even keeping the servers up, Yoshi just needs to give us the final cs and we all go do whatever til alpha, beta or 2.0.

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i believe that praying has to count for something. i tried to kneel at a stone and i did not detarget, however when i pray i always detarget

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Because were you to pray at that stone while on Living on a Prayer you would have gotten a cutscene. That's all. It amazes me that the second anything hits hard or doesn't take much damage, everyone immediately gets into conspiracy theory mode Ebon Panels anyone? and they refuse to accept that Square, once again, put in something impossibly hard.

There's a mob called "Imperial Guy" at Uldah now... seriously? I think SE is trolling us at this point xD

Does, nothing with about 12-13 people ; ;

Are there imperials around all the stones? Or just Alythk's in the Black Shroud?

The Imperials are only around certain stones, but most of the outdoor stones, yes.

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