Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[ChrysOCE]

Yeah, being a former holy priest from WoW, overhealing hurts my soul. But, it hardly means anything in FFXIV.

In fact, when I dps or tank, I frequently see the healer throwing HoTs on the party even before the pull. It's a safety net, sure.

But, it's always struck me as wasteful and bad design. Square Enix needs to reduce how fast healers regain MP. Knowing what spell/ability to use at the right time should be core to the healer role.

I love WHM but, yea, they need to do something (for starters, stop with the cushy ilvl sync!). I'm throwing out Raptures and Solaces, completely unneeded, just so I can do a Misery to break up the Holy or Glare spam. Tanks may be sitting there thinking, you don't need to solace me, what else am I gonna do.... not play healer, I suppose.

[Renalt]

Yeah, being a former holy priest from WoW, overhealing hurts my soul. But, it hardly means anything in FFXIV.

In fact, when I dps or tank, I frequently see the healer throwing HoTs on the party even before the pull. It's a safety net, sure.

But, it's always struck me as wasteful and bad design. Square Enix needs to reduce how fast healers regain MP. Knowing what spell/ability to use at the right time should be core to the healer role.

I was a Disc Priest before I discovered how amazing Druids were.

That said...talking about WoW made me remember the Glyph system and I think that would be a neat addition to 14 if able to do something similar in which we can make choices to add variants to our abilities.

I know people will meta the hell out of it but I like to be creative or go against the norm.

[Cincierta]

To the pld tank I had on an alt mnk that purposefully let me die after accidentally hitting Thunderclap on the first boss of Prae and aggroing it, then openly admitting to the mpk:

Not only do I hope you step on Legos for the rest of your lifetime, I hope you never get what you want out of savage runs, you get tiny rocks in your shoes, and I honestly hope someone does the same to you.

[Renalt]

To the pld tank I had on an alt mnk that purposefully let me die after accidentally hitting Thunderclap on the first boss of Prae and aggroing it, then openly admitting to the mpk:

Not only do I hope you step on Legos for the rest of your lifetime, I hope you never get what you want out of savage runs, you get tiny rocks in your shoes, and I honestly hope someone does the same to you.

I hate tanks like that. Tanks should be like "No one gets to die before I do!" and immediately takes back all the aggro.

[Fyrebrand]

That said...talking about WoW made me remember the Glyph system and I think that would be a neat addition to 14 if able to do something similar in which we can make choices to add variants to our abilities.

I wish we had something like those "Minor Glyphs" that just did little things like change the aesthetics of abilities. I WISH I COULD HAVE THIS FOR MY WHITE MAGE, OMFG!!!!

[Renalt]

I wish we had something like those "Minor Glyphs" that just did little things like change the aesthetics of abilities. I WISH I COULD HAVE THIS FOR MY WHITE MAGE, OMFG!!!!

City of Heroes had the ability to not only change the animation of most abilities but also change the colors of it. Frankly City of Heroes still to date has THE BEST character creator ever. Between all the models for the character itself, the outfit, the powersets, the powers themselves, and the animations of said powers...unrivaled. Seriously the next best MMO in those terms is country miles behind City of Heroes.

[Kacho_Nacho]

But MP after death should regen faster. I hate having to wait for mp to rez because i screwed up

I agree. It's disproportionately punishing for a MP user to die compared to any job which does not use MP. When a MP is rezzed they should have the same MP they had at their disposal when they died.

What's interesting is the shortcuts provided to characters so they can rejoin the party are spaced just enough away for them to regain their MP by the time they make it back. It's seems nonsensical and overly complicated that Square Enix rather make a character run a long distance to regain their MP than simply give that character their full MP and have the shortcut teleport them to where the rest of the party is.

I love WHM but, yea, they need to do something (for starters, stop with the cushy ilvl sync!). I'm throwing out Raptures and Solaces, completely unneeded, just so I can do a Misery to break up the Holy or Glare spam. Tanks may be sitting there thinking, you don't need to solace me, what else am I gonna do.... not play healer, I suppose.

Yeppers! The Lily system definitely needs some tweaks. It's awful that white mages are forced to throw out unneeded heals just to get the Blood Lily.

I was a Disc Priest before I discovered how amazing Druids were.

That said...talking about WoW made me remember the Glyph system and I think that would be a neat addition to 14 if able to do something similar in which we can make choices to add variants to our abilities.

I know people will meta the hell out of it but I like to be creative or go against the norm.

I'd love to see the glyph system implemented in FFXIV. Sure, players will meta it just like they meta everything else. But, it would great to have some means to customize jobs.

[Denji]

if you're gonna queue for event shit, remember to get some rest goddamn.

i'm sick and tired of people queueing and then being completely braindead because they've rotted out all their neurons doing ally roulette 500 times a day and just stop trying. healers who don't heal, tanks who don't tank and dps who just all stand completely still and barely do their rotations let alone mechanics.

come the f on.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Innocence in trial roulette. Should be pretty clean, right? Except one healer was a first-timer, slightly undergeared, and getting overwhelmed; and the other was, in his own words, "so f'ing high right now", barely doing anything at all and eating every mechanic that came his way. We cleared, but by the end only two people were still alive, and barely.

[BRVV]

the other was, in his own words, "so f'ing high right now"

"Did... did the big guy just turn into an angel or am i too high?" /j

For real: s*cks