/r/ffxivdiscussion: A Complete Fundamental Guide to Crystalline Conflict
/r/ffxivdiscussion: A Complete Fundamental Guide to Crystalline Conflict
Neat little guide I read on the ffxivdiscussion subreddit I thought I'd share here as well. I've always enjoyed PVP in this game despite the netcode issues, ever since the early days of FL (secure) where we had access to all our skills and not just the designated PVP skills. Anyhow, this is a very thorough guide on the Crystalline Conflict, so if you like CC I highly recommend you take a peek as it contains some very good info.
Original Post:
Hello! Tal'ke from PvP Revival here. (Please visit the Reddit thread for the PvP Revival discord link)
Our community has been ramping up efforts to educate players about FFXIV's PvP modes and generally create a more pleasant experience for everyone who wants to give it a try. With Season 12 almost upon us and a lot of new players joining our community and expressing excitement over the rework, I wanted to share "A Complete Fundamental Guide to Crystalline Conflict" (Please visit the Reddit thread for a link to the guide's Google doc), a guide written by F'ool Pr'oof. He's a mentor and well known player in various PvP communities, consistent Top 100 finisher for the entirety of Crystalline Conflict's existence, and solid community tournament competitor.
In both its Casual and Ranked forms, we know Crystalline Conflict is a daunting mode to learn, and there's a lot of factors and quirks to the game that aren't explained to beginners anywhere in the game (unless you're willing to go diving into patch notes or sifting minute-by-minute through a Live Letter). This guide covers A LOT of the nitty gritty details and rules of this mode, and we hope that it helps anyone aspiring to give the ranked ladder a try during Season 12!
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Notable Comments:
I feel like while this guide is certainly comprehensive on what CC has to offer, it doesn't really help with onboarding new players into the mode. My biggest gripe when I started doing PvP (mostly frontlines, but I imagine it's similar) was getting into the different approach to damage dealing and how to play your kits. Things like how to best use CC, positioning for ranged and how to react to damage, the importance of damage bursts and maybe even a "rotation" that could be executed, some of these stuff are imo sorely missing from pvp resources because I rarely see them. Would go a long way to maybe include some sections on that.
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It doesn't help for one simple reason, CC is too damn fast, way faster than your average 5v5 game and outside of high level play it's a completely random s***fest.
Step 1 is to learn how to track everything and make actual plays instead of tunnel visioning on autopilot. Then you realize how much effort you need to put in to actually get anywhere, notice that the amount of people playing it seriously is extremely tiny and decide to do something else while randomly pressing buttons for your battlepass every 4 months
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Aethercon hosted a panel back in September that was titled, "Why Win Trading in PvP is NOT a Problem". I highly recommend FFXIV players to watch it; it's about 30 minutes long. I dropped the time-stamped YouTube link below so it cuts straight to the presentation itself.
https://youtu.be/kycgrug1DVA?si=LJYaozdiH4To1YJy&t=817
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As much as I love CC ranked, the lack of matchs at any time that is not prime hours is not worth the hassle when there are other pvp games I could find a match on. I hope the one DC ranked ladder improves on this but am not willing to go out of my way to just play ladder
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Hello
I have played ranked at a crystal level or so on multiple dcs, multiple regions, and in tourneys, as well as being semi-staff in revival
A, cheating is really just not that common. As in, there have been MAYBE two people who GENUINELY cheated in games since I started in s7 and they've been banned to my knowledge. The other common accusation is wintrading, which, again, uncommon. If you see something, open a ticket in revival so that we can look into it, and you can report in game via (If I recall correctly,) [System Menu] -> [Support Desk] -> [How do I report PvP-related incidents?]. A lot of what gets thrown around as "cheating" is usually just ping issues (these are very apparent in PVP) and a lot of what gets called "wintrading" is usually just people trolling (still reportable if its bad enough.)
GL in next season!
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...o_crystalline/
Feel free to praise, criticize, and discuss this guide amongst yourselves below, cheers.