PvP is simply garbage

[Petite]

FF pvp feels like a phone game. Characters just iceskate sliding around

I concur that it is really stiff. The game's slow as snails tickrate brings a ton of caveats like the movement weirdness, imprecise position-based AOE snapshots and abilities getting interrupted immediately after their animations have started.

Unfortunately, you don't need fast servers for PVE content as much as you do for PVP. So these issues will likely remain forever.

[Sacro]

I concur that it is really stiff. The game's slow as snails tickrate brings a ton of caveats like the movement weirdness, imprecise position-based AOE snapshots and abilities getting interrupted immediately after their animations have started.

Unfortunately, you don't need fast servers for PVE content as much as you do for PVP. So these issues will likely remain forever.

Yeah it's actively awful. I can hit Chaotic cyclone on my warrior, die, then I see my damage happened, but I didn't get the healing from it. These things need to be instant.

[Garten]

I honetsly think that ppl are just trolling me at this point, like.. it's certain.. ppl in my team NEVER NEVER GO FOR POTS and never try to stop enemies to heal themselves on pots.. like never.. cause yes. my enemies instead go for them

[Ransu]

Decent pvp before 6.1 was an accident and the dev.team made sure to fix it. It works as intended now.

I wouldn't call what we had before as decent....It was overall pretty garbage.

The general concept of what we have now is pretty good, but pvp will never be amazing in this game as long as there's no dedicated pvp team.

[Sacro]

I wouldn't call what we had before as decent....It was overall pretty garbage.

Yeah the PVP that everyone was raving about... was still hot garbage.

[JamieRose]

It was garbage before, it's even worse now. The balance is still horrific, the matchmaking is godawful, the ranking system is a joke. There's nothing fun about PVP now or ever.

The only people having fun with PVP are probably using hacks and cheats.

[Sacro]

It was garbage before, it's even worse now. The balance is still horrific, the matchmaking is godawful, the ranking system is a joke. There's nothing fun about PVP now or ever.

The only people having fun with PVP are probably using hacks and cheats.

Or who have never played a half decent pvp game in their life and don't know any better.

[tsuchii]

Some people, like myself are after mounts/achievements. So yes, some people do.

I'm this TBH. I wanna get over the rewards and NEVER see the garbage that is FFXIV PVP again.
Seriously the worst thing next to housing. And to think everything else in the game is stellar.

[Ransu]

It was garbage before, it's even worse now. The balance is still horrific, the matchmaking is godawful, the ranking system is a joke. There's nothing fun about PVP now or ever.

The only people having fun with PVP are probably using hacks and cheats.

Sounds like you're just really bad at pvp.

[NightHour]

The things that are killing the vibe for me regarding PVP are

- The amount of uncleansable limit breaks / abilities - such as WHM Polymorph.
- Random Nature of MCH's chain saw - Sure it's only 3% but it's super frustrating when it happens, remove it and buff blast charge or heated blast.
- One shot LB's that ignore Guard - Ninja and Samurai come to mind

The biggest peeve I have with PVP is how effective layering cc is.

You can legit be stunned for 10-15 seconds as a Tank and have absolutely zero way of counter playing.

If you purify you'll just end up chain cc'd again.


I legit don't understand why we can't have a diminishing returns system like WoW


- 1st CC of a kind is 100% duration
- 2nd CC of the same kind that hits you in a short period of time after the 1st is 50% duration
- 3rd CC of the same kind that hits you within a short period of time after the 2nd is 33% duration

After the 3rd CC of the same kind, you're immune to that kind of CC for a short period of time


So if you get binded, binded again and then binded again, you'll now be immune to bind effects for a few seconds.