Many little issues

FFXIV is a great MMO. Its core systems and gameplay are solidly designed, and I've been having a lot of fun with it for a year now.
There are, however, many many little nigglings with the game that, combined, push me to not want to play, at length.

Share all the little issues that bother you about XIV here :3

I'll start:
When you disconnect even momentarily from FFXIV and try to log back into the character you disconnected from, you get this message for as long as 10 minutes after your disconnect.

Note that when you get this message, your internet connection has already been re-established; and this is definetly something on Square-Enix's side. 3:
http://i.imgur.com/jEclTAJ.png

I've NEVER seen this message more than once, especially nowhere near for 10 minutes.

I have seen it up to 5 minutes, but not 10.

And it is not only the Character you disconnected with, but all on the same server/server range.

I don't know what a "niggling" is, but sounds racist lol

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Originally Posted by IveraIvalice

I don't know what a "niggling" is, but sounds racist lol

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let me help you with that

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggle

I've seen it for 10 straight minutes - even after closing down the game entirely and relaunching it. It sucked particularly because I missed out on the Low-Level duty roulette bonus experience because of it.

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

let me help you with that

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggle

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Beat me to it :3

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

let me help you with that

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggle

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I have learned something today :p
Still funny sounding though lol

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Originally Posted by Sousoulsu

I'll start:
When you disconnect even momentarily from FFXIV and try to log back into the character you disconnected from, you get this message for as long as 10 minutes after your disconnect.

Note that when you get this message, your internet connection has already been re-established; and this is definetly something on Square-Enix's side. 3:
http://i.imgur.com/jEclTAJ.png

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This issue is pretty infuriating, especially if it ever happens while you're in a dungeon. Sometimes it even makes up some other error as 3102 goes away(90k again or 10102) and you get to wait another 3-5 minutes(usually how long i have to wait on it). It's ridiculous. Besides that problem I really hate the limitation on blacklist(can't blacklist in dungeon, no cross server blacklist, can still see blacklisted people's chat in instances). The last one is not being able to queue in duty finder while chocobo is out and not being able to kick chocobo out of pt so i can queue if I'm in a city or in the wards.

Ah 3102... 10 minutes you say? Try 3 days - a week haha. Happened to so many of us back at launch (myself included) haha =p.

http://wac.7725.edgecastcdn.net/8077...08/zmFN4sL.jpg

But yeah, 3102 and other errors that may come with it (or even cause it) are quite annoying.

One thing that's an issue with me is not being able to queue for anything with your companion chocobo out... Though at current, considering how everybody and their dogs trying to level Rogue/Ninja it's a welcome issue since if it weren't for that the duty finder may be even more congested than it currently is for melee DPS. I do feel very sorry for anybody who just started the game as a LNC or PGL and can't even get into Sastasha in a relatively reasonable timeframe because of all the rogues and ninjas.

My biggest issue with the game is the slow paced combat.
2,5 sec gcd?
"Instant" means 0,5-1 second (did you know benediction is supposed to be instant?)

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Originally Posted by Kiara1

My biggest issue with the game is the slow paced combat.
2,5 sec gcd?
"Instant" means 0,5-1 second (did you know benediction is supposed to be instant?)

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That bothers me, but it's something that isn't seen as an "issue" by SE.
The 2.5s GCD certainly is sluggish-feeling, especially when you want to do something tricky (like Lethargy a mob after a tank dies before it kills a ranged). The pace of the game doesn't allow that.

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Originally Posted by File2ish

Ah 3102... 10 minutes you say? Try 3 days - a week haha. Happened to so many of us back at launch (myself included) haha =p.

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Yeah, I remember that crap, I didn't play the first month of 2.0 because of it. 2-5 minutes is still super annoying, Until recently I had to deal with it on a daily basis multiple times due to bad internet.

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Originally Posted by Sousoulsu

That bothers me, but it's something that isn't seen as an "issue" by SE.
The 2.5s GCD certainly is sluggish-feeling, especially when you want to do something tricky (like Lethargy a mob after a tank dies before it kills a ranged). The pace of the game doesn't allow that.

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Yes Id love if we couls do clutch stuff like that. Like say you are fighting titan and he is using his stomp and your healer is kinda low. Then aas a blm I would use the magic resist buff but it still takes a second for it to apply so it would be too late. Same if I were summoner and used virus on titan. That would mean we could react to the boss' attack instead of learning his rotation and use it 2 sec before his attack

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Originally Posted by Kiara1

My biggest issue with the game is the slow paced combat.
2,5 sec gcd?
"Instant" means 0,5-1 second (did you know benediction is supposed to be instant?)

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This right here....

Its not the 2.5 gcd that's the issue but the animation. I've died countless times becuase I used HG or Holmgang near death only to be killed during the start animation and the skill still gets used and now im dead with my "oh #$%@" skill used up.

Skills have a 2.5 gcd but they take .5-1 sec for the actual skill to take effect in most cases because of that starting animation.