Has this game ever made you angry?

Probably a few times. Things like a dc at the end of an expensive craft, particularly toxic groups, being blamed for other peoples mistakes when you're outperforming everyone by double and the group agreeing with it, extended periods of lag. Though I could count the occasions on one hand, it never lasts long and it's usually when I'm tired. You just have learn to roll with misfortunes and shrug it off and life feels a lot better when you aren't constantly frustrated.

My own biggest issue is more with getting discouraged too easily when things go bad. I tend to kick myself from groups after 2-3 mistakes and didn't clear the new Trial on Normal for a week because I felt I just wasn't playing well enough to queue, despite clearing and almost hitting orange on EX 3 days later. I take slip ups and off-days rather badly regarding confidence.

The game itself has never made me angry (annoyed, yes a few times). But I've definitely run into my fair share of people who I'd love to share a few words with.
I think the last thing that made me actually angry was a run of SoS I got in Trials Roulette. There was a newbie but before anyone could finish explaining one of the tanks pulled. Got to the qte, didn't pass the first time, newbie says sorry. No big, but the tank then puts up a huge fit that we failed it. Second pull we pass the qte, but then for some reason neither of the tanks pull an lb3 and of course we wipe. So the tank and the one healer just decided to sabatauge the whole thing and continually fail the qte until everyone left. I wasn't mad for myself, more so towards the newbie.

When seeing RMT and bots.

I get angry at the button bloat a lot. Sometimes to the point of quitting for a year at a time.

I sincerely hope they address the button bloat issue in upcoming expansions.

I can hear people furiously typing already! And to that I remind you I say "button bloat" not "ability bloat". There are a number of abilities in this game that have zero reason to be on different buttons.

As examples...

-abilities dropped from the rotation as you level but are kept on bars for synced content should just auto upgrade or downgrade via traits
-Enkindle Bahamut should replace Summon Bahamut
-Abilities that are mutually exclusive should replace eachother (like Blizzard IV and Fire IV)

Fixing things like this would not limit rotations by much if at all but would at least clean up keybinds

The game itself never made me angry but I absolutely hate it when I join a trial or dungeon or anything and people are being rude especially to those that fail the duty.

'BS!!!! I WAS SOOOOO OUT OF THAT!!"

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Originally Posted by Gemina

'BS!!!! I WAS SOOOOO OUT OF THAT!!"

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Game: Your character's pinkie toe was detected in that telegraph.

You: so I just lose that, right?

Game: Yes

You: phew

Game: The rest of your body too

You: Wait, wha--

*Gets one-shotted*

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Originally Posted by Gameovers

The amount of stop and go I'm dealing with in the story of HW. Seriously my friend told me this is the best plot so far and right when I get into the plot of Nigghog I'm thrown randomly and forcefully into another sideplot out of nowhere. Like really video game? Let me get into the plot without jerking me out of it to see characters you can't keep dead. T.T I'm just started playing so I hope it gets better but the pacing is all over the place at the moment.

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Compared to the next expansion, Stormblood, the pacing is actually very well done. If you hate the pacing now...well, you are in for a rough time to say the least when you reach Stormblood. However, if you can push through the pain and reach Shadowbringers it is totally worth it.

I don't really get angry at the game. Just annoyed or frustrated. Things like questionable game design for instance, like how some jobs have overlay abilities that activate when under certain buffs while other don't. ex. SMN Firebird Trance changes Ruin 3 and outburst to Fountain of Fire and Brand of Purgatory but on GNB I have to macro Gnashing Fang, Savage Claw and Wicked Talon to their respective gcds. Even WAR does it better with Infuriate buff.

However the big thing that's annoyed me consistently this expansion is how they gutted the tanks to the point where tank stances and enmity generation are redundant and all you are is a glorified dps with higher defense. Case and Point: the only 'new' defensive skill among all the tanks (GNB*) this expansion, from 72-80, is Dark Missionary. A raid aoe that buff that puts it in line with other tanks, that's it! Some will argue Nascent Flash but that's only used for self healing and allowing the healer to maybe cast one or two attacks and with the new fix to it in 5.3 it only solidifies that fact. Also NF used to be built into Inner Beast, when under Defiance, in 4.0.

Tanks used to be a value proposition. You get a Tank and a DPS (stance) for the price of one job, and in some jobs even a healer. Now you are just a DPS. No need to worry about enmity cause its handed to you freely, no choosing defense over offense and no utilizing different tool kits and planning out when to use them. Though the latter is party dictated by raid design it also comes down to the homogenization of the jobs tool kits. They all have a raid wide party buff, single target party buff, 20% def buff, 30% def buff, invul skill and a gimmick exclusive.

Yoshi achieved his "balance" but at what cost? Not quite a phyrric victory but more of an undoing of great ideas that just needed to be flesh out more instead of removed entirely. I think the tank forums speaks for itself on the state of tanks.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Compared to the next expansion, Stormblood, the pacing is actually very well done. If you hate the pacing now...well, you are in for a rough time to say the least when you reach Stormblood. However, if you can push through the pain and reach Shadowbringers it is totally worth it.

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To be fair, SB was def paced better as it one didn't have huge lumps of dead space between patches and imho I think stormblood goes from migo to shiro and back way better then random'y stopping the plot to see a character who should've died. But I'm one of the few people who likes stormblood. I find Heaven'sward overrated and full of rose tinted glasses. Like everyone forgot HW got us Dia, the longest content lul ever. ( not counting tom clancey's The division aka covid ) and lackluster plot threads that go nowhere. SB has way better content flow and just better content so she may find it better then going though HW now. But that's just my opinion.