Power of the Echo... Questing

I was just watching my son as he was attempting to complete the same quest for the 5th time. I noticed, as he started the quest, a message saying something to the order of "The power of the Echo grants you extra strength". He then proceeded to beat the quest with no effort what so ever.

At that point I remembered reading something the Producer had said regarding this.

This is fine and dandy for people who don't want any challenge but some of us would rather fail 100 times than to have the system automatically empower us to beat the quest/battle with little to no effort.

I think, at the very least, there should be a setting allowing us to Enable/Disable this feature. Please, I beg you, do not force this help upon us.

This is seriously one thing that would lead me to depart the game. If nothing is done to stop this kind of thing from being forced on those who prefer a challenge, where will it stop? I dare say it wont!

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The "Power of Echo" is a little buff that you can remove if you don't want it.
I remove it all the time cuz I hate it ;P

Welcome to final fantasy 14-The cake walk

Eh, it's a little stupid. Especially considering just how much of a buff it gives you (rediculously strong). I just click the little icon and go on about my day.

I havent even noticed the icon.. what does it look like, and where does it appear?

It appears where regular character buffs go. For example protect, food etc.

On another note does anyone know how much it buffs health and damage?

Honestly, I'm not really all in for this echo buff business in coil BUT new turns are coming out. T5 is needed to unlock T6 and I would like to have more people being able to do T6 for when my static isn't raiding. I have a feeling my first few weeks of T6-9 pugs when my static isn't running is gonna be an elitist fare.

As long as T6-9 provides a challenge, the buff doesn't mean anything as you will only get outdated gear. Good thing is that, if you are trying to beat it first time buffless, you can cancel the buff out

Yoshi-P has already said you can opt-out of using the Power of the Echo buff at any time. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

It's dangerous to challenge content, take this buff.

after doing some tests in instanced battles ofc i intentionally failed in them

after i got the echo buff my max dmg & HP got buffed by around 25%

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Originally Posted by Jynx

It's dangerous to challenge content, take this buff.

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Stealing this for my sig

Speaking of the ECHO, i remember having it once in the GLD lvl 30 quest, after half way i realise how strong it was making me, so i intentionally died to start over removing the buff.

Where am i getting at ? ECHO being added to Coil after 2.2.

I hope alot of people will have the decency to get rid of the buff when failing whatever turn theyre doing.
Coming from Demons soul, Dark souls and more recently Dark souls 2, im not afraid to say that if it was me, i'd rather fail all day than get a win nor me or the group deserve

I didnt clear T5 yet, but it annoys me already to know lot of players will complete T1-5 only because they have the ECHO helping them.
Kinda like T2 allowed lot of bad players to get past T2 and would never have if they were doing it legit.

Must say I am confused. I never ever saw that buff and I play since release lol. I thought this was about the upcoming echo buff for Coil but this thread started last Year already. So we do have a "helping hand" buff in place already now? Where and how do you get it? When you wipe 10 times on a job quest or also in instances?

To remove it, just right-click the buff off at the top of your screen.

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Originally Posted by TomTom1968

Must say I am confused. I never ever saw that buff and I play since release lol. I thought this was about the upcoming echo buff for Coil but this thread started last Year already. So we do have a "helping hand" buff in place already now? Where and how do you get it? When you wipe 10 times on a job quest or also in instances?

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After failing a soloed instance quest, when you go in again you'll see a message as part of the instance start-up spam that "The Echo gives you power beyond your limits" (or something similar. Not sure if it applies on any failure or just if you die.

Thanks for the explanation. Can't remember if I ever had it although there was the one or other job quest where I died once or twice before I completed it.

I think Echo for regular instances kicks in at about the third or fourth attempt.

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Originally Posted by CUTS3R

I hope alot of people will have the decency to get rid of the buff when failing whatever turn theyre doing.
Coming from Demons soul, Dark souls and more recently Dark souls 2, im not afraid to say that if it was me, i'd rather fail all day than get a win nor me or the group deserve

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This really means : "Look, i'm better than the other !"
People will do it easily, yeah, so what ? Don't think that they deserve it less than people that waited to be in full ilvl 90 gear to kill Twintania.
It's just a game. Play it the way you want.