Level 77 Thancred Duty - Abitrary and frustrating

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Originally Posted by CrisGer

The problem is NOT about having to play another class..it is just freaking stupid junk to force the player to use so few skills for no effect and then after suffering for fruitless attacks and having to run away from the same AOE over and over and listen to that old creep drivel in (yes we get is he is bad, mean nasty..just get on with the sotry)....they tell us to fire and NOTHING FREAKING Happens you get frozen over and over and can do nothing..and you die. It is totally stupid scritping and writing and shows a complete lack of imagination on the part of SE. I still have no clue after watching spoiler lableed You Tube vids how you freaking fire the final bullet, NONE of the skills WORK at that point so how do you fire a bullet...and by the way how to you know at the start how many bullets he even has?

it is totally stupid to put this kind of crap into the main story. Put it where the uber gamers who LIKE to suffer can play it over and over on their own for some special prize.

really a sad dark moment in a superb update

Dont do it again SE

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I really so agree. I cant do this one, maybe Im a little slower than most, but I have been trying 7 days, several times a day. I am about to give up game, because Im not enjoying doing this

I didn't like this duty, but not really hate it either. The only thing irksome is using the duty action on the enemy as it is luck based since they move around a lot. You have to complete the long cast time and do the full animation while they are still standing there or it misses, not to mention be all up in their face. Finish the cast time and are in mid animation but they move? You miss, git gud scrub. It has a bit of luck to it and if you have bad luck you will hate this duty more. Honestly duties that hinge on 1 thing only that if failed will fail the duty no matter how perfectly you played otherwise are the ones I hate the most. The last 2 duties in Stormblood I would consider the worst offenders since they are 2 parts with full fights, I am glad I don't have to do them ever again.

If people are not able to complete a fight that is EASY but long, I do not want to imagine how it is to play with these people. The fight only needs a fix and is to increase the damage of Thancred

It was an easy fight, the mechanics are minimal and mostly just dodging with an almost absurd amount of time to do so. But....it was soooo booooring. It went on entirely too too long. When it came to fighting him again later as myself I didn't even want to do it.

I like these types of encounters, but by all the gods they just drag on too long for no reason at all. It was one of those things that makes a somewhat good and intriguing, bad guy, and makes them a nuisance

The role quests are bad too, but at least they were much shorter. What makes those worse is we are forced to play a dumbed down version of our own class in them.

I liked it as well, it would be nice tho if for future fights like this that they give us more than 4 buttons to push. It does get a bit stale mashing one button over and over again for 10-15 mins

I had fun with it.
The people that complain your role has changed strikes me as odd, since no matter what role might have been in play your goal was the same.

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Of all the duties, this one is by far the worst and most boring. I keep failing - mostly because it's just the same mechanics over and over and I lose concentration. I fail to see the purpose of this. It's more like an endurance test than anything else.

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Originally Posted by Windsun33

Of all the duties, this one is by far the worst and most boring. I keep failing - mostly because it's just the same mechanics over and over and I lose concentration. I fail to see the purpose of this. It's more like an endurance test than anything else.

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I mean I can follow the argument that it's kinda boring....
But not being able to do something (repetitive) for 6-7 mins without some sort of mental breakdown?
How can u even play this game?