Squadron limit break (Ungarmax) can be used in regular duties by any job

[Imagerror]

If you search for Ungarmax on the forums, you'll find absolutly nothing more than two days old posts.
And on reddit, only one very small post of a twitch clip can be found. And that absolutly doesn't consitute a good bug report. At most, it's a "look at this person cheating". But nothing more.

I have no idea why people say that it was reported 4 months ago. The very first acceptable report was done yesterday. (At least in english, that is.)

If there's someone to blame, it's us, the community, for thinking that stuff get reported and fixed without us having to do anything.

Like contacting GM Services ingame and known employees you're in contact with via DM on social media who sent it up the ladder but never got a reply?

[Taika]

The intent was to verify that reporting it as a bug wouldn't be a goose chase to the GMs handling it.

Alright, well, for future reference, you can also report bugs in this forum section in case the in game feature doesn't work for some reason: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...31-Bug-Reports

[Imagerror]

Well considering their crafters dont get in trouble for data mining to prep mats and rotations so they have fully melded new gear ahead of everyone else i dont think they would punish world first clears even if they did use it.

You even know how datamining works?
- Receipe and
- Hidden node wise?

Asking for a friend :')

[Alistaire]

I doubt it.

Someone mentioned the mass Salvage ban in FF11. The game never fully recovered from that. Most all those players never came back. SE must have realized they just took a bite out of the hand that feeds them.

Uh...wut. I was there for that and the game definitely flourished well past that time. Not that it even needed to "recover", 500 bans may sound like a lot but even with its small base of 500k subs that's 0.1% of a loss.

[Salted]

I mean fflogs added a check to invalidate any log with ungarmax yesterday early in the day, so any talk about world firsts using it are ramblings of jealous uninformed people lol

[Lauront]

While a neat idea, it will boil down to melee buff always because nothing trumps raw damage in this game. That's why unless you can skip a mechanic or it's prog, people rarely touch tank or healer LB.

It's not that neat an idea. It's just another buff that'll become baselined into their calculations of how long an encounter should take. Also, I assume the poster meant spell speed, not attack speed, and that is extremely useful for BLM (less so for SMN or RDM for obvious reasons), but not to the point where it would beat out a flat damage increase. If they were to do it, it'd just need to be a flat damage increase for all DPS.

I think a lot of content in the game in dungeons, story mode trials etc., is too easy, and it pisses me off that they take this as the "official" version and relegate the harder version to some flimsy "lul muh embellishments" mode; if anything, the minstrel should exaggerate it in the reverse direction - saying the easy mode only seemed so easy because of how he embellished your abilities.

So, you have a situation whereby people can't run even basic content because the stuff before proper raids/savage content is just a cakewalk and nothing they have implemented seems to help in resolving this, particularly as POTD requires virtually no development of your skills between floors 1 - 100, and above that it's a different type of experience to the regular game, so not directly transferable. It's a tough one, because they don't want to deter new players, but having seen some of them, you do have to wonder if it's a case of a bought account... should all non-savage/extreme content be dumbed down to that level? I'd hope not.

I would like it if the "hard mode" dungeons were a stepping stone between easy-mode and more difficult content, but they're not.

I agree with Kresus that it's kind of laughable having the Echo/blessing of light/whatever in savage/extreme content. Having maxed out gear for it should suffice to clear it if you're at the right level of skill.

[Imagerror]

I mean fflogs added a check to invalidate any log with ungarmax yesterday early in the day, so any talk about world firsts using it are ramblings of jealous uninformed people lol

Removing said entry from the combat log tracker will not upload it to fflogs and anyone using would be smart enough to just do so I imaginem so there is little merit to this.
However it is my understanding that every combat log is tracked and traceable by SquareEnix StaffMember so any spike in DMG would significally be seen?

[Jonnycbad]

I doubt SE will mass perma-ban anyone for this, maybe a 3-day suspension. Perma-ban is excessive without previous warnings. Many were perma banned for Salvage Dupes in FFXI on their first offense and these were decade-long players.

[ExKage]

Word on the street is that buffs removing cast time (dualcast? swiftcast?) may actually be bypassing the implementation of stopping Ungarmax being used outside of squadrons.

[Kallera]

I doubt SE will mass perma-ban anyone for this, maybe a 3-day suspension. Perma-ban is excessive without previous warnings. Many were perma banned for Salvage Dupes in FFXI on their first offense and these were decade-long players.

That really depends on how long this has been known and exploited. If claims that people were using this to make gil hand over fist via clearselling are true, should you really just slap a 3 day vacation on them?