why has Role Playing in battle become a thing

[Jettinson]

I don't mind it since it is like 1% or less of the whole content that I do and I already stare my character all day
And if people are struggling with NPCs stuff or do not like, just do Very Easy and there you go.

Also even without being a NPC it would not matter, most of single player duties are brainless so not much of a difference

[Thi]

What your missing there is things like aligning buffs with gcd windows, job guage resource management, weaving ogcds, etc.

As for the fights, I agree that the MSQ fights are easy to zone out in. They should be harder. If you can't perform even a somewhat decent rotation you shouldn't have enough dps to clear.

As for constructive criticism on these roleplay battles. If we are forced to have to do them, they should teach players a lesson on how those jobs work and have an enrage timer that would trigger if the player was not performing the lesson taught. ie, on Alisaie if you do not perform x amount of melee combos and finishers over the course of the fight you won't have enough potency to clear. Or if the Graha fight required Enochian uptime, and became harder to clear each time you dropped it because of enrage.

[StormyFae]

job guage hardly needs management since they build off the same brain dead combo almost all jobs you do the same 1-2-3 combo to build it then u hit 1 button as 100 is typically the max u can build you can only use two thats nothing, and weaving the ogcd is just adding a 4 to the spam its rather simple lol im not missing that its just not that "skill required or brain power required" as you think it is you could do blind folded with one hand while paying attention to netflix or something its so pathicly stupid game play lol

[Violyre]

Personally, I like them. That way I don’t have to whip out the Echo to find out what happened to people closest to our character. Though in fairness, one could consider it like an Echo. They’remactually telling you what happened later to trigger the Echo, but they put these Echos in the place they’re meant.

You are welcome to your opinion though, I’ll respect that. We all have something we greatly dislike.

[noxen]

It's almost as if the game is an MMORPG.

:thinking:

[Infindox]

I actually quite like the RP fights because I think it's neat being one of the NPCs that you see all the time and help you out with. There are a few I thought were annoying (Estenin's one was in particular) but otherwise a neat idea.

[Kuro_Matsu]

Ah forgot Estinien.

And who else did Hien's part before they changed it to make it easier? I sure did. That was brutal.

Wait, they nerfed it? Playing as Hien was fine for me but going back to AST afterwards I did fail once. The battle wasn't that hard to be honest (from my perspective). I was just surprised it changed form Hien to us and totally zoned out. But if I remember correctly this is where they began to give you an "easy" option after failing these solo instances. I did the easy option on an ALT and it was trivial to the max. No need to dodge anything and the enemy is no longer an HP sponge. Kinda took the fun out of it. But it you're in a hurry to get through it, it works just fine. Or if you struggle I guess as well.

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And a point to OP. I understand your frustration even though I'm not bothered by these RP sessions. When they first implemented it I thought it was amazing. These things are essentially playable cut scenes. So instead of just reading and getting 3-5 frames of action you actually see the whole thing through. Just be happy that they are short and happened not too often. And if you really dislike them - fail and choose the "easy mode" to get through it faster. Otherwise just play it through and move on.

[RinaB]

I dont mind it, what bothered me a lot in 5.55 was there were new abilities and they had this one button combo thing. The new abilities didn't bother me but if ff14 goes in the direction of ff15 1 button combo mash I will unsub.

[TaleraRistain]

I love it, and if you're worried about the immersion idea, just consider it another manifestation of the Echo. So you can think of this as all your player still seeing and experiencing this through a memory or such. Yeah, the Echo hasn't been shown to do that, but that could be one way to just headcanon it.

[Theodric]

I only had an issue with such battles when they were limited to three buttons and the enemies were damage sponges. The faster paced battles with more buttons to press have been a lot more enjoyable to me.

Besides, it's nice to not have every victory ever revolve around the player character. I don't play the game to sate my ego, after all.