Does anyone enjoy duties where ...

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Originally Posted by Asako

I would like if when doing it you could reorganize the hotbar.

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You can!

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When playing as a different character in instanced quest battles, actions on the additional hotbar can now be rearranged.

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Yes, I do. Its a change of pace, and gives a different perspective in the story that you may not get outside of cutscenes otherwise.

I generally don't, because I get frustrated and don't understand what's going on. The Ranjit vs Thancred fight was the absolute worst. Oh wait, no, In from the cold was worse. Wait, that first quest as a dancer was worse, even though it was ME!!

I get confused easily

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Originally Posted by Taliriah

Cool. I love to have to janitor my hotbars for the sake of some occasional gameplay gimmick.

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It takes like ten seconds, and the alternative is having things on the wrong hotbars.

And it's a duty-specific thing so you don't have to switch them back afterwards.

They're pretty great, outside of the ran'jit one (too long) and the very first alphinaud one (boring). I find them to be a nice change of pace from generic questing and they've done some real fun narrative tricks in them.

Not the ARR ones anymore there all too easy now after all the changes.

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Originally Posted by Bun_Vivant

Does anyone enjoy duties where you're forced to fight as an NPC using a ridiculously simplified set of skills ?

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As you can see, yes. Some people like them. Maybe as a change of pace, maybe as a look into the life of a character they like, maybe as a piece of actual gameplay(however simplified) rather then cutscene #487, or maybe any number of other reasons. As with every other topic, we dont all agree with any one take. Most of us would say that Ranj'it has too much health(drop his health by like 33% and that duty would flow much better IMO). Ive always been amused that In From The Cold is both the best and worst of these, depending on who you ask(im on the best side personally).

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Originally Posted by Bun_Vivant

you're forced to fight as an NPC using a ridiculously simplified set of skills ?

I loathe these duties. Not just because they're immersion-breaking, but because they just are not fun IMO.

The Thancred-vs-Ranjit one is particularly bad.

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Worst required content in the game, particularly when they combine a completely new skillset with in-fight text you have to read to decode what the hell stupid trick it is you need to pull off. And as you say, terrible for immersion.

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Originally Posted by Boblawblah

I generally don't, because I get frustrated and don't understand what's going on. The Ranjit vs Thancred fight was the absolute worst. Oh wait, no, In from the cold was worse. Wait, that first quest as a dancer was worse, even though it was ME!!

I get confused easily

https://media1.tenor.com/m/7QhoA9wcs...onfused-no.gif

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Actually wonder how many people dropped dancer immediately because the first job quest is so poorly explained.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

As you can see, yes. Some people like them. Maybe as a change of pace, maybe as a look into the life of a character they like, maybe as a piece of actual gameplay(however simplified)

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Ah yes, the "actual gameplay" where the outcome is usually scripted anyway.