I actually feel sory for the designer of the next 24man raid

[St0rmchild]

Why do you keep believing this is just a server issue ?

I'm running on DF and it's just heartbreaking to see fully geared players; relics, raid kit and everything not even bothering to do game basics like move out of AoE or recognize a boss telegraphing.

[ManuelBravo]

Why do you keep believing this is just a server issue ?

I'm running on DF and it's just heartbreaking to see fully geared players; relics, raid kit and everything not even bothering to do game basics like move out of AoE or recognize a boss telegraphing.

/facepalm had a friend in Phoenix who use to tell me similar stories...He came to Balmung...Not 100% fix but less complaining that is for sure. I'm not saying it's the server it self, IT IS THOSE WHO PLAY IN IT. Welcome to MMO Raids. It's heart breaking yes. People Troll all you can do is black list them, before exiting so you no longer party with them. Eventually you can weed them out...unless you black list hits max.

[jameseoakes]

/facepalm had a friend in Phoenix who use to tell me similar stories...He came to Balmung...Not 100% fix but less complaining that is for sure. I'm not saying it's the server it self, IT IS THOSE WHO PLAY IN IT. Welcome to MMO Raids. It's heart breaking yes. People Troll all you can do is black list them, before exiting so you no longer party with them. Eventually you can weed them out...unless you black list hits max.

Seems a little unfair to blame an entire server you don't even play on

[Kit-Kat]

/facepalm had a friend in Phoenix who use to tell me similar stories...He came to Balmung...Not 100% fix but less complaining that is for sure. I'm not saying it's the server it self, IT IS THOSE WHO PLAY IN IT. Welcome to MMO Raids. It's heart breaking yes. People Troll all you can do is black list them, before exiting so you no longer party with them. Eventually you can weed them out...unless you black list hits max.

You don't queue with people from your server, but datacenter too. The server card is pointless here.

[ChloeGrace]

..all you can do is black list them, before exiting so you no longer party with them.

Black listing only blocks you from seeing them in chat, and party via PF. It does not prevent you from being matched again in DF (as much as I wished it did).

[Kosmos992k]

Why do you keep believing this is just a server issue ?

I'm running on DF and it's just heartbreaking to see fully geared players; relics, raid kit and everything not even bothering to do game basics like move out of AoE or recognize a boss telegraphing.

Indeed. I suspect it's just as disheartening to the content designers of the 4-man instances to watch similar things there. I mean why bother designing mechanics when half the active population will ignore them after running the dungeon once or twice while gearing up?

[Yonanja]

Indeed. I suspect it's just as disheartening to the content designers of the 4-man instances to watch similar things there. I mean why bother designing mechanics when half the active population will ignore them after running the dungeon once or twice while gearing up?

Then maybe they should design content and mechanics that people CAN'T ignore and still complete the dungeon? If the mechanics doesn't really do anything, why even bother with doing them correctly, as you can just ignore them for the most part and still down the bosses without issue?

[Kosmos992k]

Then maybe they should design content and mechanics that people CAN'T ignore and still complete the dungeon? If the mechanics doesn't really do anything, why even bother with doing them correctly, as you can just ignore them for the most part and still down the bosses without issue?

Overgearing is the largest issue with content falling away. Ideally stricter level and ilvl sync would fix that, but players whine and complain if you do that. Just as they whine and complain that content is too easy - even though the ease is due to overgearing.

[Greedalox]

Overgearing is the largest issue with content falling away. Ideally stricter level and ilvl sync would fix that, but players whine and complain if you do that. Just as they whine and complain that content is too easy - even though the ease is due to overgearing.

Well you really have to argue what 95% of the playerbase would do. If they don't do raids on EX Primals then once they reach the gear level of the highest dungeon at the time it would be a direct halt on vertical progression (Our only progression).

Simply making higher gear not work anymore doesn't seem like it'd be proper incentive for the bulk of players.

[Kosmos992k]

Well you really have to argue what 95% of the playerbase would do. If they don't do raids on EX Primals then once they reach the gear level of the highest dungeon at the time it would be a direct halt on vertical progression (Our only progression).

Simply making higher gear not work anymore doesn't seem like it'd be proper incentive for the bulk of players.

the only difference other than look with an i90 and an i270 gear set is numbers. That's all. ilvl sync doesn't change anything except the numbers. So if you're arguing that ilvl sync discourages players with i270 gear because their gear does "not work anymore" then you're really saying that those players won't run the content because they don't see big numbers when they hit things.

I hope that the incentive to run things is other than what you suggest it is. It most certainly should be.