Sorry to Say, but I can't play no longer.

I know Many of you won't Agree with me but I am going to say it anyways.

I have played constantly for the last 6 to 8 months. Leveling, Farming, Doing Raids, Fates, Farming Tomes, Buying Gear, Farming Relics etc. I went from a New Account to having 11 level 80 characters with 535 Queens Blade Level Weapons and in 520, 525 IR Armors. An the lowest life I ever had was 112,000 life to a Max of 120,000, had the BEST Materia VII and VIII even over melded 90% of my armors. So there was time invested in to ffxiv, Steam shows 3,899.8 hours invested.

An honestly I am disappointed in Endwalker cause I honestly wanted to see how Hydaelyn and Zodiark play out, it's a really great story. But honestly I logged in to my 80's and found out all my life 120,000 was brought low to 28,000 and all the materia was at 24 for VIII. All my time and effort wasted for what? Just so they could ruin the game and make what me and everyone else worked so hard on mean crap.

I dunno about you but my time is valuable and I won't do it again. I am sorry but you have to understand what they did is like Having a full time job only to find out your NOT getting paid for it and at the end they fire you. Was a good run and I hope whoever else still plays you find it worth it or play it in moderation.

Your stat values are the same as before the squish! The whole point was to reduce horrendously large numbers!

100k,1k... all the same if the percentages stay the same!

All is well, really! ^^

This is just sad, but all of us will feel burn out at a point.

hurrr durrr i want BIG number, BIG damage, need dem 1 million damage dhit/crits! hurrr durrr

I would like to say I want Big Damage, Big Numbers etc but it's not really that. I was actually checking my stats before I made the post. They actually did kill some stats, cause as I play a whm my Spell Speed was 2200+ and now it's down to 900 something don't remember the exact since am not online. I know everyone is think boo hoo poor baby. But it's not like that. I worked hard to get my stats person on every character and busted my butt. But all that work was for nothing, I mean how can I go from 2200+ spell speed down to 900 something when my GCD was 1.3. Sure tell me the percentages are the same ya not exactly the SAME. It's like saying lets see a V8 corvette with 350 horsepower that gets a 4 cylinder with 60 horsepower that's NOT even the same or close to the same. "Oh it's a V8 they just down sized it to make space or get rid of the big numbers. An it just wasn't on the whm it was on ALL my other 10 level 80's

This does not bother me. In the original Final Fantasy series, the damage cap was 9999, and that was just fine. Heck in Breath of Fire 1 it was 999. Numbers mean less than nothing to me. The quality of the game does, and this game is a quality game. Seems a bit petty to quit over something like that, but to each their own. Have a wonderful life friend.

Ok, I had a whole big thing I could have said, but I'll just put it plainly. Have fun with whatever else you choose to do. They aren't going to reverse course on this. You understand what they did, you understand why. At this point, the more of you who quit over this kind of petty nonsense, the faster I can get back into the game.

I turned flying text off a while ago and never went back. As long as the boss is dying, people are getting healed and I know the job I don't care to see more clutter. *shrug*

i dont want to be rude, but its just stupid to quit the game over such things. You can exactly the same now as before the stat squish (only difference are the numbers)

Okay.
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I would like to respond to this "Your stat values are the same as before the squish! The whole point was to reduce horrendously large numbers!

100k,1k... all the same if the percentages stay the same!

All is well, really! ^^ "

My Previous comment was correct and incorrect. I logged in to the game and have the correct info now. Stat Values are not the same not even close to the same. I "Had" being key word here a Warrior that had a 1.3 Global Cool Down for skills and it was made that way for the purpose of popping Inner Release and getting off 6 Fell Cleaves, but if you was lagging you might only get 5and now the GCD is 2.3 for skills. An Inner Release was changed so you no longer get 15 seconds of it, instead you get 3 hits no more no less. Blade Weapons have also taken a Hit you used to have 531 of two stats and 126 of another. Now it's at 210. Plus Defense and Magic Defense on the warrior was 7800+ and now it it down to 2728. Plus skill speed was 2200+ and now it is 683 those are FACTS and if you don't believe me I can log in my warrior and show you.
Those simple "stat Values are NOT the same as before the squish." Take some time and check what you could do before and couldn't do and tell me nothing has changed. Tell me you can still do all the stuff you did before the Patch can do now or not. An example would be Dalriada the Raid was done with 2 whm's, 1 ast, 1 bard, 1 mch, 1 sam and 1 rogue a total of 7 people no tank. Tell me you can still do that (an before you think sure lets get everyone with 10,10,10 stats and prove this person wrong) The 7 of us didn't have all 10,10,10 some didn't even have a 10 on any stats.
All I am saying is the Patch, Update, Expansion screwed us over and not for the better. If you don't see it that way fine continue playing. But I personally am not gonna waste anymore time on a game that fucked over us hard working people on a game that we used to love. Peace out done commenting on this.

First, I'm sorry you had to experience the somewhat aggressive response from some others. That was unnecessary.


Second, if you do chance to read this - I think it helps to think of 'your loss' as being instead 'a re-balancing'. The other person mentioned large numbers and it all being the same. You've indicated it's not. Fine. Meh, really.



I think what it comes down to is you spent a lot of your time and energy improving your char to a point in the past, only to find when you log back in that previous devotion you put into the game has just been wiped away.


I get that. I somewhat feel the same since I recently came back but restarted with a new char. Only to find the hard grind on lower levels I'd put in on earlier chars no longer exists. I'm getting exp if I sneeze these days, and the abilities/mechanics that used to be either exist no longer or have been altered.



I understand your sense of your previous effort being not really worth it, but I feel that it's a false sense, mainly because ALL existing characters were affected the way that yours was. Comparatively you are still in the same place as others who have your same experience would be. Comparatively. :)


And honestly the game devs going back and reviewing existing gameplay/mechanics/balance/gear etcetera, I think this is necessary to keep the game healthy.


I'd rather they would continue to do that, than not. Otherwise the state of FFXIV would suffer like WoW currently does.



I hope you're enjoying life wherever you may be and whatever you may be doing now. :)