Did the game get too complicated, or am I just an idiot?

[Waliel]

Here's to all of these people: Blood of the Dragon and Enochian are meant to fall off. You're meant to screw them up. When you go into a fight blind, not knowing when boss changes untargetable etc, you're meant to fail. And adjust. And succeed after.

There are also fights, where the buff is 100% guaranteed to fall off. And that's also fine. Just suck it up, and try to think of smarter timings of the buff, rather than what I assume is just playing like it's a dummy fight and then being disappointed over and over again when it isn't.

This sounds all fine and good, until you get hit by unavoidable damage that interrupts your cast and you lose all your stuff. The problem isn't avoidable things -- you learn to keep 100% uptime while doing all that, and letting the buffs drop at the right moment. The problem is interruptions based on pure RNG that you can do nothing about.

[Katchoo]

As you say, I'm pretty sure the case with BRD was that SE just didn't want have some class having a free pass when it comes to boss mechanics. Melee has to stand where the boss is, with very little room for "smart positioning for a safe spot".

There is certainly a lot of truth here and i agree with you to an extent BUT don't the majority of AOE target a specific player? I mean you can stand anywhere and you will get targeted by something. I totally see what you are getting at tho, it's not so much about the actually DPS balance but more the fact that BRD got it easy with it not messing up there rotations and so forth. It's a case of job difficulty i suppose.

[Odowla]

This sounds all fine and good, until you get hit by unavoidable damage that interrupts your cast and you lose all your stuff. The problem isn't avoidable things -- you learn to keep 100% uptime while doing all that, and letting the buffs drop at the right moment. The problem is interruptions based on pure RNG that you can do nothing about.

Except all the way through A3 savage no unavoidable damage interupts you. You only get interuptee if you like, get cleaved, or get hit by a floor aoe, though, in savage, that usually kills you

[Memoe]

They probably just panicked when they were not seeing double flares flying aboot.

In all seriousness all that I can think of is that they were expecting you to do AoE damage with Fire II if there were 3 or more mobs around and then pop in a nice-looking flare combo to end it. Try that next time and if you're still getting harrassed then I have no idea what the problem is. Another tip is to change to Roegadyn so you can crush their skulls if they whine for nothing.

[Mizunoko]

Cmon over to Faerie server ^_^ everyone is super chill here and its all about casual progression and just having fun. None of that "OMG YOU USED THIS SKILL INSTEAD OF THAT SKILL? THATS LIKE 10 WHOLE DAMAGE DIFFERENCE MAN YOUR SLOWING US DOWN" crud xD. Which is what people actually used to say to others when i played on one of the more hardcore servers in the past. Although that was a bit of an exaggeration of how it really went its still somewhat how it went.

[Shuri]

People that come from WoW ruined dungeon finder.

[Subucnimorning]

I would laugh it off if you really are in an acceptable range DPS wise and are running into these people. I pugged my way through the MSQ dungeon/trials and didn't run into any of these type of people, might just be bad luck you are running into? Everyone I have pugged with have been very nice.

[Lucael_Shikaree]

So I been playing FFXIV in it's current form for 2 years (5 if you count 1.0). That whole time I have not had any issues. I have been able to carry myself in a dungeon or a boss fight just fine. As a BLM, I been using Raging Strikes when it's not on cooldown, casting Fire III to get my Astral III up, then Fire/Firestarter, then Bliz III to regain my MP with Umbral III, and Thunder, Bliz or Scathe in the split second it takes for my MP bar to fill up, rinse repeat.

Then here comes Heavensward and suddenly I'm being booted out of dungeons left and right and being insulted for being a drag on the party. I don't get it. I just been doing what I always been doing, along with adding Ley Lines to the mix (still on level 53 so nothing else new yet).

So am I doing something wrong here? I mean this has not been an issue until now.

Or maybe you should get a better weapon than 110 one? http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/7805203/

[Core1019]

So I been playing FFXIV in it's current form for 2 years (5 if you count 1.0). That whole time I have not had any issues. I have been able to carry myself in a dungeon or a boss fight just fine. As a BLM, I been using Raging Strikes when it's not on cooldown, casting Fire III to get my Astral III up, then Fire/Firestarter, then Bliz III to regain my MP with Umbral III, and Thunder, Bliz or Scathe in the split second it takes for my MP bar to fill up, rinse repeat.

Just to check something with the way you worded it (I don't think you're making this mistake but good to cover all grounds). You are spamming fire 1/firestarter til MP is low, right? Not just once?

[Ronzeru]

Its prolly just a gear thing lol