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

[Hamada]

Just a reminder on what started this exchange :

As a tank who doesn't have millions to spend on Pentalmelded acc, I never had any trouble clearing the dummies as long as I had the ilvl to enter the corresponding content. I don't say that you should keep your materia slots empty or anything (Which, by the way, was the situation I used on my "5% DPS on DRG" example). So again, unless you tackle Savage with a competitive mindset (Which is fine, but hardly shared by a lot of the playerbase) using Tome/Raid acc as a tank is nowhere near "gimping" yourself.

Do everyone a favor and please do not give advice to people:

....It's this kind of mentality that gives me low level tanks with accessories that have spell speed and mind in them in level roulette because they wanted to play a "mage tank".

Christ....

Melds do not cost " millions" as you said, TANK! you are not melding a crafter. This game hands you materia doing your experts and weekly 24 man, this is not an excuse. Do not make excuses for poor play. This game is easy as is and you want people be even worse. There is DPS checks all over the place that people fail to meet from wearing improper gear/ melds/ going into dungeons way under geared.

Oh THOSE. Yeah the devs need to take action with that as well. They seem to have a big problem with changing anything that isn't the new thing. Tanks up to SB can still wear STR accessories, but also everything else. Again, another oversight by the loveable devs. Or maybe not an oversight. Just didn't care.

I do not think that is the issue. Now I am assuming this point because of lack of communication but I think it has to do with cultural differences. I do not think the devs expected people to put such minimal effort. Look how Reynhart is speaking here, how much you want to bet this doesn't exist or at least happens a lot less, in the Japanese community?

If they really were in touch with us, they would put measures in the game to stop people severely gimping themselves real fast by preventing entry like ilevel scans for higher content.

Also stop using stawmans, no one is asking for "to invest millions in crafted/ pentamelds" we were all talking about PROPER MELDS, meaning USING THE CORRECT STATS for your gear, and that is mostly about the 100% 2 slots in tome gear. Please try to understand the conversation better. Also if we are talking about crafted gear, people really should have VI materias in the 100% slots, while the overmelds are Vs or IVs, there is NO EXCUSE NOT TO DO THIS!!!!!