The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Tanathya]

I'm reading this and I'm confused. SAMs don't really help tanks or ninjas in that sense. Ninjas and WARs apply the slashing debuff FAR earlier than a SAM possibly could outside of Meikyo Shisui, and if a SAM chooses to use their opener to get a slashing debuff up, that hurts their overall rotation. SAM is literally pure pDPS...they don't really have raid utility in the same sense that the other DPS classes do. Even BLM can provide utility, like mana shift. I know that with WARs, on an optimized rotation, their literal second skill, Maim, applies a slashing debuff.

That's taken out of context. Probably on me, it's alright.

[Makeda]

Bard and Machinist not having access to Division despite generating the highest enmity by far. Likewise, both being the only jobs entirely dependent on another (Dragoon) to increase their damage.

For Bard, "Raging Strikes" doesn't count? Sure it's on a long cooldown, but it is 10%.

[RiyahArp]

it's true, you can't compare stoneskin and benison that easily. they are different skills with different purposes. however, if i had to choose i would always take benison.

it's not stoneskin - but it's by far the better skill (at least after they removed the lily requirement)

I'd rather stoneskin, if just for Eureka. One of the worst things this game is doing is not allowing for many abilities to go beyond your party, and it really cramps the game up.

[HyoMinPark]

For Bard, "Raging Strikes" doesn't count? Sure it's on a long cooldown, but it is 10%.

Raging Strikes is on an 80 second cooldown. But again, it’s not the same as Disembowel—Disembowel is +5% damage at 100% uptime during any given fight. It automatically outweighs Raging Strikes. By a long shot.

Here’s an example: during my current best parse of the tier (Demon Chadarnook, 9:22), I used Raging Strikes 7 times. At 20 seconds duration, that’s 140 seconds of +10% damage. Compare that to Disembowel...at +5% damage for 9 minutes and 22 seconds. Again, Disembowel outweighs Raging Strikes by a long shot. No other job has that sort of dependency. I lose ~400 DPS outright by just not having a DRG.

[Kohdo]

Why is using that slightly-off shade of white for certain dungeon drops still a thing? I get why they'd use it for dyeable gear (so we buy the pure white dyes from the Mog Station) but on undyeable gear it just makes it hard to colour match.

[Vhailor]

Non-FFXIV-related: The 1000-character initial post limit here on the forum. Seriously, why in the fuck is this still a thing?

FFXIV-related: The utter lack of difficult 4-person content. People have been asking for it since ARR released. Why is the lack still a thing? And no, Yoshi-P making bullshit excuses about gotcha-style difficulty doesn't count. There has been plenty of 8-person content in which a single death spells doom. I fail to see why such challenges can't be shifted to 4-person content.

[tymora]

Phoenix Down...

[Reynhart]

I lose ~400 DPS outright by just not having a DRG.

You don't lose anything, the raid loses 400 DPS on you by not having a DRG paired with you. That's the definition of raid utility.

If you weren't there, the raid would also lose what you offer as utility.

[Alleo]

Why cant we still not be friends with our alts? It would be great if we have our alts in the list from the very beginning. Its completely annoying to have them join the FC since the alt need to be online to get a friend request and a FC invitation. We pay more to play with alts so it would be nice to have it a bit more comfortable with that too.

[Ryaz]

Beast tribe daily limit. We're already limited by individual tribe limits. Just makes it really tedious to catch up with more and more tribes being added.