Level 77 Thancred Duty - Abitrary and frustrating

I absolutely LOVED this fight. It's easily my favourite quest battle in the game. So much happened during it, so much character development right there in battle, it was amazing and so emotional. And the fight was fun to play, too. Sure, Thancred's combo doesn't do a ton of damage, but it's not like you have to slowly whittle down his whole health bar just with that. The special attacks that you get do a ton of damage, somewhere like 1/4 of his health bar iirc. Getting those hits in is exciting and speeds up the fight tremendously. It was so much fun. Please, SE, give us more of these kinds of meaningful battles.

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Originally Posted by Nayout

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

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There are people of all types that play FF14, some younger, older, disabled, etc etc etc. You say it is easy, maybe it is, yes, to you. Other people find it difficult, like myself, an older player. 'These people'? I cant imagine how it is to fight with someone that is quite so biased :)

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Originally Posted by Besame

When I saw I had to play a tank just to showcase their new "Gunbringer type" at 77. I stayed away from the game 5 days. I came back, finished only to find another round in yet another Ran'jit encounter after Mal's Well. Hesitant to come back at all. This will be my last SE xpac. If I wanted to play a tank, I'd make one. Put this crud in something other than the msq.

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This being your last expansion because of *a couple encounters*

Are you actually serious? That is a REALLY weak reason for this to be your last just based on that.

Honestly, this one isn't the worst. It was a bit long. But the solo duties that are the worst are the ones where you have to redo parts of them if you screw up the second or third parts. Break them up or something.

I liked it and I had fun. :x
I could tell Thancred was giving his best and Ranjit was just not easily going down. If it was shorter, it would have seemed he got trashed too quickly or something. It's an RPG, no need to rush it.

If anything, it was dragging a bit. Could have been definitely shorter.

I think people are missing the point of this. Its so you see how Thancred feels and get an insight in his struggles not only with what can be a equivalent to a disability in that world but his feelings of loosing one out of two people.

Is it long and tedious...yes but i think its meant to feel that way so you feel the tiring pressure of Thancred fighting someone out of his level and putting everything on the line to protect his family (though the english translation does annoying change his pre battle lines to not fit this context) And its the use of the ammo minifillia made for him and the gamble of his life that pulls through.

Not every fight is a steam roll. Some fights are long tiring slogs that exhaust you physically and mentally and I think final did a good job showing that and how Thancred was willing to risk everything while suffering knowing he was going to forever loose either Minfillia or Minifillia.

I personally really enjoyed it; I find the Roleplaying Quests to be really cool. I enjoyed how Thancred's only aether power felt more and more like it was killing him and how Ran'jit eventually starts punishing you for doing it when he can see you. I'm going to agree with something that was brought up here, though: it definitely takes too long. I understand the reasoning for it (Ran'jit is a very beefy boy and fighting him, especially fighting him to a standstill, should be tough to do), but I think if he had a third less health than he currently does, the sequence would be dramatically improved.

The only problem I had with this and the similar role quests is I did not have an easy way to determine what all the skills were for. I was suddenly just thrust onto a new character with different skills and no way to pause and no actions screen to see what all the skills do, at least on PS4... And also the dialogue just flies by far to quickly, would really love a wait system or something just to be able to read the dialogue and learn what the skill buttons do.

I despise the role-play instances where I'm forced to play as a character with the rotation of a lvl 15 character. And to echo many posts in this thread they just take way too long.

This also goes on with the occasional instanced content where you play as your character vs a big bad npc like the Zenos fights in SB. I just love yawning through a non-threatning fight for 5 minutes for it to end with a dues ex machina of them winning the fight anyway despite never being in danger.

Just show it to me in a cutscenes instead of insulting me by wasting my time.