Everything is dead?

[HyoMinPark]

Never have I been thankful or barely even noticed any differences in any of the classes. None of them bring anything unique to the table.

Have you even played most of the classes? I’m looking at your Lodestone, and you are still a Conjurer at level 57. You should have picked up a job stone for White Mage at level 30. That’s one reason you probably find things boring—CNJ stops getting skills at level 50, and WHM gives you more skills to play around with.

That said, I don’t think you can really judge any of the classes considering it doesn’t appear that you’ve actually played any of them—unless you have alts floating around that have actually leveled any of the other 16 jobs.

It's meaningless over-the-top visual overhead that brings nothing but epilepsy to the table.

You know you can turn off the flashy effects of player attacks, right? Character Config > Character Configuration > Character tab. Scroll down to Battle Effects Settings: you’re allowed to pick “Show All”, “Show Limited”, and “Show None”. Personally, I prefer to keep myself on “Show All” and everyone else on “Show Limited” (party members only) and “Show None” (non-party members).

That said, I do find it a bit contradictory that you’re complaining about how flashy everything is on one hand—and then complaining that nothing is impactful... But considering you’re missing half of your toolkit—and considering that you haven’t gotten to SB or ShB levels to learn those skills—its no wonder you haven’t found any impactful skills yet. The lower levels have been pruned repeatedly since SB.

60 hours into the game haven't seen a single shred of evidence for this.

??? There are ranged mobs literally in the very first dungeon (Sastasha): the archers before the last boss are all ranged. The reason you probably don’t notice them in dungeons that often is because tanks gather the mobs and move them towards the ranged mobs that refuse to move. This is so the DPS can AOE the entire trash pack. In the overworld, the Roselets in Central Shroud are ranged: they’re a level 10 mob. I’d wager you just haven’t been paying attention, considering how much you’ve rushed through everything else.

Nothing in the world is a threat to me or has ever been in this game or has required any kind of strategy or even thinking on my part whatsoever.

This is an intentional design. FFXIV 1.0 had level 99 mobs in its overworld, but when they shut it down and redesigned it for A Realm Reborn, Yoshida (the producer/director) said that he wanted to make the overworld more friendly to newer players. That included removing dangerous mobs. That said, low levels that run into an A-rank or an S-rank can get one-shot fairly easily.

You're right, there's more; but it's not even close to being the most active. And it's barely an MMOPRG. Looks to me like it's barely an ORPG.

When Shadowbringers launched, there were unofficial censes estimating that active characters was over 1,000,000. Even if FFXIV isn’t the most popular MMO out there, it has a very sizable playerbase. Yoshida said that FFXIV’s sub count is the highest its ever been when Shadowbringers was released. It’s in a bit of a lull right now because we’re a few weeks before Patch 5.1 is released—and people tend to take breaks between patches—but it’s still very active. Far more than 100,000 players.

Or maybe you're wearing rose-tinted glasses? Who knows?

Personally, I think you’d already decided that this game isn’t for you before you even made this thread—which, as I said before is fine; this game isn’t for everyone—but you still came here to rant without the intention to be open to anyone who might be willing to try and change your mind. You just wanted to rant for the sake of ranting—and, quite frankly, you’ve been extremely aggressive in this thread for very little reason. The post above mine where you’re cussing out Hasrat for literally no reason is proof of that.

I don’t think that this game has what you’re looking for, so it may be best if you just stop playing it. Not saying that in any malicious way; but what’s the point in continuing to play a game when you can’t even find one reason to enjoy it?


Btw, the only reason that I keep suggesting you find an FC or make some friends is because you have been complaining about how there’s no necessity to group up with other players. This gave me the impression that you aren’t really into solo play—hence why I told you to go find some people to do group play with. This game can be enjoyed with friends and solo—I play with friends a lot, but I also have alts that I play solo on when I want some me-time—but you have to be willing to find aspects about it to enjoy. And I don’t really think that you’re willing to do that.

[roses_of_may]

Btw, the only reason that I keep suggesting you find an FC or make some friends is because you have been complaining about how there’s no necessity to group up with other players. This gave me the impression that you aren’t really into solo play—hence why I told you to go find some people to do group play with. This game can be enjoyed with friends and solo—I play with friends a lot, but I also have alts that I play solo on when I want some me-time—but you have to be willing to find aspects about it to enjoy. And I don’t really think that you’re willing to do that.

This game has no solo play. I'd rather watch paint dry my goodness. I play solo games all the time. FF, DS, etc. The only thing this game seems to have going for it is other people (aka the MMO aspect) and even that it does badly. The only good thing about this game seems to be the community and maybe the story but fuck me I'm done clicking through glitter dust for 40+ hours.

I don't mean to shit in your cereal but you're absolutely right, this game isn't for me. Thanks for all your help again.

[HyoMinPark]

This game has no solo play. I'd rather watch paint dry my goodness. I play solo games all the time. FF, DS, etc. The only thing this game seems to have going for it is other people (aka the MMO aspect) and even that it does badly. The only good thing about this game seems to be the community and maybe the story but fuck me I'm done clicking through glitter dust for 40+ hours.

Literally everything but the instanced content (dungeons, trials, and raids) in this game are catered to solo play. You can do the entire MSQ relatively solo, aside from queuing for the mandatory group content. ShB introduced Trusts, so that you don’t even have to do the ShB dungeons with randoms anymore—you can just do them with NPCs. You really haven’t been paying attention if you think this game encourages copious amounts of group play. Honestly, I’m not even sure what you want now: to group up and play with others or to just do things on your own. You seem to be contradicting yourself with each post... but whatever.

I don't mean to shit in your cereal but you're absolutely right, this game isn't for me. Thanks for all your help again.

Trust me, sweetheart: I already knew that the minute I read your opening rant. You really haven’t disappointed me in any way.

Hope you at least have a nice rest of the day/evening.