The importance of communication and role Specific Chat commands
I want to start out with a thank you to for finally responding to us in the PVP forums it has been so long. Hopefully this means there will finally be communication between the English Community team and the PVP community again...
That being said this post is mainly designed to give feedback to the English Community in regards to more commands in The Feast in the event the chat ban is not lifted(Although it is very clear a lot of players wish it to be lifted).
I am going to split this section into three parts:
- Diamond, Platnium, and Gold Tier Macros
- Chat Commands that should be added
- Ways to help Silver, Bronze and Unranked Players
Diamond, Platnium, and Gold Tier Macros
Communication is the key to victory, and in Diamond->Gold Games players that want to be the best know that through teamwork and communication they can succeed.
Information through these chat macros ensured the players understood their surroundings better and understood their role collectively as a team.
Tiramisu of Primal created a google doc where the PVP community could post macros that they used before the chat ban was put into motion, below is just a taste of the kind of complex communication that players used from this doc (please note there are way more macros and commands based on your job/role):
http://pastebin.com/VkqWwJ3F
“Ready to Stun <t>”
“Stunning <t>”
“Stun DR on <t>”
“Ready to Sleep <t>”
“Sleeping <t>”
“Sleep DR on <t>”
“Ready to Bind <t>”
“Binding <t>”
“Bind DR on <t>”
“Ready to Slow <t>”
“Slowing <t>”
“Slow DR on <t>”
“Ready to Silence <t>”
“Silencing <t>”
“Silence DR on <t>” (fix this too)
“Ready to knockback”
“Knocking back <t>”
“<t> Sleep Resist, hold stun”
“<t> Stun Resist, hold sleep”
“<t> Bind Resist, hold bind”
“<t> Heavy Resist, hold heavy”
“<t> Slow Resist, hold slow”
“I’m going to sleep the pet!”
“I’m being slept!”
“I’m being stunned!”
“I’m bound!”
“I’m slow!”
“I’m silenced!”
“Burst ready!”
“Bursting <t> in 10…. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…. Bursting!” (countdown macro)
“Play defensively”
“Get to the top”
“Kite around bottom”
“Attack <t>”
“Using limit break on <t>”
“Stack Ranged and Melee LB on <t>”
“Kill healer than tank”
“Kill healer than melee”
“Kill healer than ranged”
“Attacking {Healer/Tank/Melee/Ranged}, please attack {Healer/Tank/Melee/Ranged}”
“{Healer/Tank/Melee/Ranged} has {X number of} stacks!”
“{Healer/Tank/Melee/Ranged} has 10 stacks, don’t kill them until the last 30s!”
“Kill the pet!”
“Tank don’t pick up medals”
“Melee don’t pick up medals”
“Ranged don’t pick up medals”
“Healer don’t pick up medals”
“Tank pick up medals”
“Melee pick up medals”
“Ranged pick up medals”
“Healer pick up medals”
“No one pick up that medal drop!!”
“Let medals go back!”
“Boxes spawning in 30s”
“Boxes about to spawn”
“At least we tried hard team!”
Tank
“I can’t pick up anymore stacks”
“They are focusing me!”
“No more cooldowns!”
“Full swing on <t>” (should also mark target)
“Weapon throw on <t>”
Healer
“I have no MP!”
“I have no cooldowns!”
“I am about to die, run!”
“I am attunement!”
“Please purify full swing tank!”
“Please purify full swing Melee!”
“Please purify full swing Ranged DPS!”
“Watch our Line of Sight Tank!”
“Watch our Line of Sight Melee!”
“Watch our Line of Sight Ranged DPS!”
“Please turn on tank stance!”
“I’m being focused, please assist!”
Paladin
“Using Tetsudo!”
“Using Cover!”
“Using Clemency!”
“Using Divine Veil!”
“Using Hallowed Ground!”
“Use Tetsudo!”
“Use Cover!”
“Use Clemency!”
“Use Divine Veil!”
“Use Hallowed Ground!”
Warrior
“Using Holmgang on <t>”
“Using Mythril Tempest!”
“Using Thrill of War!”
“Use Holmgang on <t>”
“Use Mythril Tempest!”
“Use Thrill of War!”
Dark Knight
"Sole Survivor on <t>"
“Using Living Dead!
“Use Living Dead!”
White Mage
“Using Sacred Prism, Please get in the bubble!”
“Using Asylum, Please get in the bubble!”
“Please stack for Cure III!”
“<t> is slept, please don’t attack them!”
Astrologian
“Please get in my bubble!”
“{Melee/Ranged/Tank} you have {Card}!”
“Collective Unconscious on C”
Playing with this Job
“Please give me {Card}”
“Don’t use Retrogradation as sleeping targets”
Scholar
Playing as this Job
“No more aetherflow!”
“No more fairy!”
“Come close for Deployment Tactics!”
“Come close for Fey Illumination/Whispering Dawn!”
“Virus used on <t>!”
Machinist
“MCH Please Peel for me with your CC”
Bard
"ManaSong/Report"
Summoner
“Virus used on <t>!”
Black Mage
“Sleep tank!”
“Sleep healer!”
“Sleep Melee DPS!”
“Sleep Ranged DPS!”
Chat Commands that should be added
I believe that there are lot of chat commands that need to be added, the chat commands we have are basically General PVP chat commands however they are not very well designed for specific roles, such as Tanks or Healers which require a much different style of PVP than a DPS.
The Commands we have now are:
Hello
Good Match
Thank You
Nice Job
Purify Not Ready/ Purify Ready
Adrenaline Rush Not Ready/ Adrenaline Rush Ready
Collecting Offensive Supplies
Collecting Defensive Supplies
Collecting Adrenaline Supplies
Attacking Tank
Attacking Healer
Attacking Melee
Attacking Ranged DPS
Stopping Tank
Stopping Healer
Stopping Melee
Stopping Melee DPS
Collecting Medals
Get The Medals
Everyone Attack
Fall Back
Commands such as Attacking Tank, Attacking Melee, are useless for a healer to use and should be:
"Attack The Tank"
"Attack The Healer"
"Attack The Melee"
"Attack The Ranged DPS"
Basically communicating to the party that the focus should be the tank,healer,melee, or ranged DPS. "Attacking" instead of "Attack" is confusing since healers don't attack (we "Stopping")
An example of some more commands
"Come close to me"
"Your out of my Range of Healing"
For Tanks commands such as
"Full Swing Used on X"
"Sole Survivor Used on X"
"Living Dead Used"
"Holmgang used"
Other than this there should be commands to warn our teamates that they "Should Not Pick up Medals"
So something like
"<Melee DPS Name> Do not get medals"
"<Tank Name> Do not get medals"
"<Healer Name> Do Not get meadals"
"<Ranged DPS Name> Do Not get medals"
of course there are ways to say this already by hitting the "Stopping <Role>" "Get The Medals" commands given but it is very broken english.
( Stopping Tank, Get the Medals or Stopping Tank, Collecting Medals to try and explain to the tank to not get anymore medals)
Ways to help Silver, Bronze and Unranked Players
The PVP meta is vastly different than the PVE style of play. When thrown into the wolves new players must quickly adapt with very little information or get mauled by the pack. Information on how to PVP, and how the feast works is not clearly explained in the game. The only Active Help that new players get is this:
http://imgur.com/vqYIqyP.png
On the lodestone there is a very large webpage which explains how the feast works which NEEDS to be explained in the game in the active help or through other means (Hall of Novice for PVPers?)
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...sden/thefeast/
The source of why there was such a "Toxic" atmosphere in the feast could probably stem from lack of information on the gamemode itself. For example Tanks not knowing what Medal drops look like, or knowing that if they take too much they gain Vulnerability Stacks (Heavy Medal).
In Conclusion
The purpose of this thread is not to debate if the chat ban should be removed or if it should stay, but basically Feedback to Squarenix to share insight on how much high end communication is used, give ideas on what chat commands need to be added, and to expain that Role Specific Commands are much more important than the general pvp commands which were given.
Please share your thoughts below, and maybe add a few more commands which you think should be added.
