3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[NinjaDante]

the imbalance between astrologian and other healers is ridiculous aspected benefic is a bit OP especially when you consider that a monk can completely shut down a scholar by removing their aetherflow

[mdha02]

Personally, I'd like to see a ranked 8vs8 CTF someday.

I would PvP of there was a CTF mode.

[Delmontyb]

Greetings,

Now that the Feast pre-season has kicked off, we'd like to collect as much feedback as possible.
Thank you for assistance!

4 on 4 - Light Party Ranked should include seasonal rewards.

As for the general PvP Feast mode, I'm loving it. I wish it was easier to see players who have a high metal count, and those who have a low metal count... In 8 on 8 matched party it can be pretty crazy trying to locate the target without using the score board.

I also would love to have the ability to setup our own private matches.

[Delmontyb]

Greetings,

Now that the Feast pre-season has kicked off, we'd like to collect as much feedback as possible

I think for all PvP modes it would be great if damage didn't interrupt cast times, but only slowed them down or delayed them. Skills that would stun, knock down, etc. would still cancel the cast, but trying to do any casting in PvP is very difficult.

For example, if a spell takes 3 seconds to cast, hitting that person wouldn't cancel the cast ,but make it take 4 or 5 seconds, additional hits, would push it further, out to a set max.

Anyway, thanks for your time and consideration.

[Delmontyb]

I would PvP of there was a CTF mode.

That would be awesome.

[Delmontyb]

It would actually be kinda fun to have an 'undersized party' mode for The Feast where you can join to train with friends too nervous to jump straight in with the chaos of 8v8 or the stress of rankings. Obviously no rewards would be given, but the level 50 dummies in WD Pier can only help so much. Or if it was out in the open world it would give us something productive to do while waiting for the wretched 4v4 queue to pop.

Private matches are a must, not just for practice, but just for fun with your friends.

[whythehate]

These random pugs #healersfault

Blm/smn left to free cast #healersfault

Someone dies when they have full focus, pop b4b and then proceed to run out of the healers sight #healerfaults

The dps have 0 focus and we lose due to awful dps #healersfault

Fkn beginning to hate these pugs.

Ended my night 30/40, funny thing 8 out of 10 losts I had a blm in group , only won 1 game with a blm on group.

[Teiren]

Queue times were a huge issue, I really enjoy the lower queue times now, but I suspect it will become impossibly long as interest decreases. They don't have enough incentives or a good enough system to make FFXIV PvP self sustaining, and once people start leaving it feeds itself with poor queue times causing more people to leave. Not to mention when score based matches start happening, the queue times would skyrocket.

I realized I forgot to give context. What I mean is I'm looking at all the complaints about people getting matched with literally anyone. That certainly helps solve the queue time issue, but it's clearly not a good solution. It's like something you to do at the expense of all else. Then again, I suppose there is no other way to counter long queue times.

And when I mentioned wintrading, I meant how they're not planning to reward ranked parties. Once again, this helps to counter wintrading, but it's also clearly not a good solution because it comes at too much of an expense.

[Vejjiegirl]

the imbalance between astrologian and other healers is ridiculous aspected benefic is a bit OP especially when you consider that a monk can completely shut down a scholar by removing their aetherflow

I don't agree with this. The biggest weakness AST have is getting CCed and Focused while my party are debuffed.


If your chasing them around and they are spamming aspected benefic on themselves and another dps is attacking their teammate it is very hard for most Astrologians to keep up heals, especially if Essential Dignity or Synastry are on cooldown.

This becomes even more of a problem for the AST if a Summoner is left to play around. If a Summoner successfully spreads dots around with bane it becomes extremely hard for an AST to keep up healing UNLESS they are not the focus or CCed. If you spread DoTs around and then focus/CC the AST they will be forced to Run around and ASP Beni, and as you burst them down (Or lock them down with sleep) the DoTs are eating away at the whole party.

This is also the main weakness of Noct Sect if your just running around spamming Noct buffed Aspect on yourself while your party are slowly dying to DoTs then its going to be extremely hard to make any kind of recovery especially since ASP Beni is so taxing on MP.

[Koltik]

All this talk about matchmaking.

Let me just remind everyone what happened to WD when they implemented rank matching. It died.

In the perfect world we have enough of a population for match making to work and not kill queues, but be careful what you wish for. If doing this means increasing queue times from 1-3 minutes to 5-45 minutes, no thanks.