Development Team: PLEASE PLAY YOUR OWN PVP

[Dreadz]

After playing for a few days im hanging it up until changes come....its infuriating to play again 90% ranged jobs drg and nin included as a true melee dps. I have to work EXPONENTIALLY harder than other jobs to be viable and i proudly consider myself skilled at my job. I even broke down and tried several matches as smn and i couldnt believe how much easier it was to sit back and blast people playing half as efficient as i do on my melee dps while still doing triple the damage with ease. Whats crazy is...I dont even mind losing matches its really just gotten to the point where in its current state cc is just not fun and i refuse to quit my playing my favorite job just to pick meta ranged jobs with crazy cc / easier dealt damage just to boost my win rate.

It is really funny how much better most ranged jobs (excl. DNC and BRD of course) are then most melees jobs. The can dish out the same damage, play off point and avoid all AoEs by doing so, have access to debuffs, CC, shields and gap closers. Compare RPR LB to BLM LB, both are functionally the same thing, whereas RPR has to use it in a group to get any value, BLM can use it in safety away from the enemy team, not to mention BLM LB's is double the length of RPR's LB. Then you have the damage, BLM does 12k to a single target and 8K AoE, RPR does 8k single target, both jobs LB button turn into a big finisher, except communio has a cast time and immediately ends RPR's LB, Foul has zero cast time and does not end BLM's LB.
This isn't to say RPR's LB is useless, it charges faster and the guard break into retreat can be game winners, especially in OT, but BLM's LB 10x more consistent and useful.

[MonteCristo]

All valid points excluding getting cc'ed to hell on lb activation and focused down

[Osmond]

.......I still got another week in me to see the results of the change. So far right now, I'm just relaxing doing other content, not going hard into PvP atm. It's interesting that idk.....no one isn't happy about the new changes. I'm still waiting to see the results of the demotion system, the feedback I mean and that's going to take a bit more time.

[MonteCristo]

CC is beginning to see less and less interest...clock ticking

[Oni_Akuma]

I would like to make an additional thread to this forum. And it would be labeled balancing around these things for a fun and competitive pvp.

Alliance [the normal objective we have]
Alliance Battleground [WoW Battleground, capturing objectives and killing targets] like this:
https://youtu.be/ATveeqVMQyo
- Example: 3 factions. 3 alliances per faction. Objective- Capture and destroy enemy faction buildings while defending your own. And Enemy base has Faction leaders to fight like a raid boss
Battleground Arena [1v1 , 3 v 3, 5 v 5],
1 v 1Dueling and more

[MintnHoney]

@OP, the team did play their own PVP.
That resulted in the mega BLM over-buffing when YoshiP was bulldozed over and over.

[Oni_Akuma]

@OP, the team did play their own PVP.
That resulted in the mega BLM over-buffing when YoshiP was bulldozed over and over.

The best thing for the community is him not playing a new mode or any mode

If you are the creator of the game and do not play or hardly even touch the game you don't deserve to make update suggestions.

The WoW devs actually played a bit their game till they didn't and severely messed up the game.

[Nanne]

@OP, the team did play their own PVP.
That resulted in the mega BLM over-buffing when YoshiP was bulldozed over and over.

Well he still made it to crystal before the buffs so it wasn't that bad

[MintnHoney]

The best thing for the community is him not playing a new mode or any mode

If you are the creator the game and do not play the game you don't deserve to make updates

Oh no, he does play the game.
He's just the face of the FFXIV development team, trying to play in a mode where people, upon recognizing him and his name (because names aren't hidden in CC), would likely focus target him hard for the sake of memes and internet clout.
So chances are, if he was otherwise unrecognizable, he probably wouldn't have had such a bad time, we wouldn't have had the massive overbuff to BLM, and he wouldn't have had to release statements deflecting accusations of favoritism, and run back some of those buffs like they did.
But, well, that's in the past, I guess.

In the meantime, I have a hard time believing the rationale behind some of their changes as of this last patch, and we suffer as they play around with the nerfs and buffs. But that's also normal, and they're not very good with subtlety, so expect to get rocked even more as the patches continue.

[MonteCristo]

Well he still made it to crystal before the buffs so it wasn't that bad

He had game genie enabled