We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[HyoMinPark]

And lastly, I have skill speed because I like mashing buttons fast. I already broke a D-pad.

That doesn't change that skill speed is horrible on a BRD, and will cause GCD clipping. If you're playing it properly, you already spend a lot of time double-weaving in 2/3 of your songs, and, if you have high-enough Crit to proc both of your DoTs fast enough, most of your time in AP should be spent at 3- or 4-stacks (+12% or +16% haste). Is that not fast enough? I personally hate it because each clipped GCD is less damage overall.

You do realize that, unless you actually get enough Skill Speed to reach the next GCD tier, each and every point after your current threshold is worthless, yes? For example, the High Crit and 2x Tomestone ring builds for BRD put us at 983 Skill Speed; that's a 2.40 second GCD (threshold for 2.40 GCD is 982 Skill Speed). The next tier above that - 2.39 GCD - requires 1049 skill speed. If you sit at 1048, you still have a 2.40 GCD, and those 65 points of Skill Speed are worthless. You don't go any faster.

If you're adamant about having BiS or BiS equivalent, you don't blatantly meld suboptimal stats on to it. That's the opposite of BiS... I guess if you want to clip, then you do you... but it's suboptimal for the job. There's no changing that.



As for your gripe about O2S and not winning loot: why didn't you buy the loot you wanted with the pages you received? 12 books is 2 pieces of gear - head, gloves, or boots. If BRD is your main, buy gear with your pages. I'd have to double check my gearset, but I know the headpiece that tier was BiS, and I'm fairly certain the boots were, too. Voila! Two pieces of BiS. That's the purpose of you getting a page each clear - in the event you don't get the piece you need, after a few weeks you can buy it. Sure there as aspects of the page system that could be worked upon, but it's much better than Coil, where if you didn't receive your loot as a drop, you were completely SOL until the next week, or the next, or the next.

It’s not the best situation, but I’ll take waiting and buying gear with pages over not having a system like it at all. I had to buy most of my gear in both Deltascape and Sigmascape with books thanks to RNG. Sure, I couldn’t use them on off-classes, but since I don’t play them nearly as much as I do BRD, the i360 gear is more than enough for them. Only reason I would need i370 is if I got real ballsy suddenly and decided to learn how to heal UwU—which isn’t on my list of things I want to do at the moment (maybe at a later date though).

I'm with both Moro and Miste in that I feel your blaming of raiders and raids are misplaced with regards to your personal gear progression. Whether or not this was your intent, I don't know, but it's certainly came off that way as this thread progressed. I understand wanting to only do content with friends (I started the game very much like that), but if your progression stagnates because they are busy/aren’t logging in/etc., that’s not the fault of the game or raiders either. Not trying to argue; I’m just saying.