When you Love the Story, but are Really Bad at the Gameplay

[Packetdancer]

To all that, I might add that newer fights (at least starting somewhere in ShB) often start with a "teaching" phase: "Here are the Lego bricks this fight will be using."

This an excellent addition to that advice, yes. As an example for anyone not certain what Apkallu means, look at E12N (the normal mode of the final Eden raid).

First, the fight starts out by tethering to each of the memory crystals. It shows you that Leviathan's crystal means two line AoEs with the center of the arena being safe. Ramuh's crystal is a circular AoE in the center of the arena, where you need to be out away from the boss. Ifrit's is conal cleaves to the front and rear of the boss. And Garuda's is conal cleaves to the cardinal directions.

The fight will do each one of those individually, demonstrating what the crystals each do. Then when you come back to those crystals later, it now tethers to two of them, and will do both associated attacks at the same time. Meaning if it's Leviathan and Ramuh, you need to be away from the boss and in that center safe column.

[Carin-Eri]

Congratulations!! You've come a long way since your first post, you should be proud of yourself.

Arguably not far enough - but thank you all the same, do appreciate the sentiment

[Fhaerron]

Simple really.

Do you enjoy yourself? If yes then keep playing. If no, then stop playing.

Reason I play this game is because I enjoy myself, the others before I stopped because I didn't enjoyed myself anymore.

[Carin-Eri]

Simple really.

Do you enjoy yourself? If yes then keep playing. If no, then stop playing.

Reason I play this game is because I enjoy myself, the others before I stopped because I didn't enjoyed myself anymore.

It isn't really as straightforward as that. I love the game - but I don't enjoy the fact that, for reasons already explained, I'm not very good at it.

[Seera1024]

Arguably not far enough - but thank you all the same, do appreciate the sentiment

As long as you are making progress on your skill, that's all that matters. Regardless of the speed of said progress.

[Fynlar]

Well, this thread has been a trip (don't mean that in any sort of derogatory way)

It was mentioned earlier in the thread that a part of your issue could be from having a poor connection, and I'm still wondering how true this might be for you. How often do you feel like you get hit by things you shouldn't have been hit by, for instance?

Having even just half a second of extra latency (in other words, seeing things happen on the screen half a second later than they're actually happening) can drastically impact one's performance in a game like this. If it's extreme enough, you may simply not see certain mechanics until it's too late for you to manage them in the way the game intends for you to do so.

Basically, I'm wondering how much of your issue is actually you legitimately being "bad" at the game versus how much of a handicap you might have without even realizing it. Players of online games who have only ever played under laggy or otherwise unfavorable conditions might come to regard those conditions as just "normal" when they're actually anything but.

[Carin-Eri]

Well, this thread has been a trip (don't mean that in any sort of derogatory way)

It was mentioned earlier in the thread that a part of your issue could be from having a poor connection, and I'm still wondering how true this might be for you. How often do you feel like you get hit by things you shouldn't have been hit by, for instance?

Having even just half a second of extra latency (in other words, seeing things happen on the screen half a second later than they're actually happening) can drastically impact one's performance in a game like this. If it's extreme enough, you may simply not see certain mechanics until it's too late for you to manage them in the way the game intends for you to do so.

Basically, I'm wondering how much of your issue is actually you legitimately being "bad" at the game versus how much of a handicap you might have without even realizing it. Players of online games who have only ever played under laggy or otherwise unfavorable conditions might come to regard those conditions as just "normal" when they're actually anything but.

Yeah - poor connection was an issue for sure. What didn't help matters was that I'm in the UK, but I was playing on the NA server (due to the friend who suggested I try the game being on said server). I'm not sure I ever saw the connection status (on the login screen) as anything other than 'Poor'. I was, as you say, getting hit by AOE attacks despite (from my perspective) being outside their area of influence.

However, I recently swapped Home World to Phoenix on the EU server and that did improve the whole latency thing for me. For one, the connection status is very rarely anything other than 'Excellent', and for two it has marginally improved matters. I'm still a bit too slow and clumsy reacting to mechanics a lot of the time but can at least say that latency has little or nothing to do with it.

I guess this did contribute toward my performance being a little less terribad than it was.

[Larirawiel]

I was, as you say, getting hit by AOE attacks despite (from my perspective) being outside their area of influence.

This is a general problem of the game. Even a latency of 0 ms will not fix it because the server tick rate is too slow. It happens also when i am a healer in a raid. The WHM has an instant ability, which restores all hitpoints of a target. The tank has low HP, i use this heal ability, the tank still dies and the ability is now on cooldown. It is also caused by the slow server tick rate. There is nothing you can do against it. :/


Cheers

[Remolia]

I am not bad at the game, but really hate (coz forced to do it) the main story (still cant even complete it :S)

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Lets trade!!! >.>

[Carin-Eri]

I am not bad at the game, but really hate (coz forced to do it) the main story (still cant even complete it :S)

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Lets trade!!! >.>

What is it you hate about the main story?