Alexander loot systems sucks :/

[Nadirah]

How is healing A4 stressful? I am on my SCH and our static whm usually goes astro for it just for the fun. If your healers are good and your tanks, you basically can skip every single mechanic and just brute force it. cept adds ofc.

You just said it. "Static".

You can't have pugs(even my FC run has a few) and ignore the healer debuff, adds and orbs.

I get dps that eat orbs then get one shot by lazers. I get tanks that forget their job includes orbs. I get dps that panic when adds come out and want to group them for aoe. I get healers that soon as the debuff goes out proceeds to pretend there isn't another healer on the other side of the room and runs it through all the dps to reach a melee on the other side.

And I play both SCH and AST.

[dark494]

Please do not change the loot system for alexander. Do not pander to the lowest common denominator that just happens to be the ones that come here to complain and whine because it's not handed directly to them on a silver platter for no effort or time spent. The rest of us are fine and happy with the current system. We'd much rather be able to challenge the turns as many times as needed and compete over 3 different drop pieces rather than the 15+ or so that would drop before.

[WinterLuna]

Please do not change the loot system for alexander. Do not pander to the lowest common denominator that just happens to be the ones that come here to complain and whine because it's not handed directly to them on a silver platter for no effort or time spent. The rest of us are fine and happy with the current system. We'd much rather be able to challenge the turns as many times as needed and compete over 3 different drop pieces rather than the 15+ or so that would drop before.

Pretty much this.

[Sapphic]

The only difference here is how stupidly boring these runs are. I know savage is coming up and will revamp things but my god, I was tired of every floor after 2 runs. It took a while to get that way with the coils.

For me its down to the story, I was routing to progress in coil to see the story unfold, and getting the next cutscene was the cake, loot was secondary on the first kill, not an incentiive.

Alex stoory is, in comparison, lackluster. Goblins? Too hard to take them serious, IMO Goblin story would have been better as a Hildibrand questline. Alex story should be on par with Coil.

[Klamor]

Well, if your point is that Alex is not endgame content, why suggest that they keep a loot system catered for endgame content ?

My point was not to keep a loot system that you say is "catered for endgame content." My point was that the loot system is what it is. The OP, IMO, is too casual for content to be catered to suit their needs (or more accurately, wants). However, the side point is that the story-mode Alexander is not actual end-game content, but is actually catered to suit people like the OP, which is obviously contradictory to the point of OP being too casual to be catered to. It's a purely rhetorical point that does nothing but belay just how much, or really how little, some people actually respect the game for what it is. The sheer fact that players demanded a new loot system, got it, and then turned around and bitched about it mere hours after people are getting all four floors cleared via the Duty Finder simply expresses how little regard they actually have for the developers or any other player other than themselves.

[SaitoHajime]

Pretty much this.

Well apparently the JP side is complaining about it too. BisEX and RavEX is what it should of been honestly but that's my opinion

[Giantbane]

Please do not change the loot system for alexander. Do not pander to the lowest common denominator that just happens to be the ones that come here to complain and whine because it's not handed directly to them on a silver platter for no effort or time spent. The rest of us are fine and happy with the current system. We'd much rather be able to challenge the turns as many times as needed and compete over 3 different drop pieces rather than the 15+ or so that would drop before.

The current system works, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved. A4 & A3 loot aren't handled well imo. They could stand to make 1 spring (A3) and 1 shaft (A4) a guaranteed drop since you need four of them and they only drop on 1 floor (well, spring drops on A4, but it has to compete with the shaft). They could also stand to add another chest per floor (or at least for A3 & A4 since these have the leg/chest parts).

I don't think either of these ideas is "pandering to the lowest common denominator".

[Arkista]

Well apparently the JP side is complaining about it too. BisEX and RavEX is what it should of been honestly but that's my opinion

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...81%84%E3%81%A6

Here is their thread, pretty much got the same reply as us. Please wait.

[Ronyx]

LOL this system is far better than the old one but anyhow... hold your horses cuz they will add more loot probably next Tuesday to make things easier as usual as they said in the last Live Letter.

[Reynhart]

Please do not change the loot system for alexander. Do not pander to the lowest common denominator that just happens to be the ones that come here to complain and whine because it's not handed directly to them on a silver platter for no effort or time spent.

Please do not listen to people who think "RNG" equals "effort or time"...