Here we go again

[Caitamm]

How many players get punted off the platform in Skydeep because they can't seem to be able to focus on the raised arms of the boss, left and right? This was a savage mechanic back in E4S on Titan Maximum by the way. Not hard mind you, but it's ironic in a way.

Big raised arms of boss is NOT a savage mechanic, btw. Before it showed up in E4S titan it was an attack used by the TRASH mob before final boss of Mt. Gulg. It was a NORMAL mechanic that was brough INTO savage.

If a player is missing that kind of tell, they're simply not paying attention. This is accounting for getting flustered as well, because when flustered you really aren't paying attention. But the thing is, with XIV every encounter is scripted with minimal variation (e.g. it'll hit left instead of right this time, but same mechanic with same type of tell at the same timing). Just go again with the intention of improving rather that brute force flinging oneself into a wall.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Weren't you the one complaining about snapshots on M2 as well? We still complaining about your skill issues?

Sir, thats bait

[Larkeicus767]

Sir, thats bait

I should've known, you're right.

[caffe_macchiato]

Weren't you the one complaining about snapshots on M2 as well? We still complaining about your skill issues?

You did it! You won! And almost a million people have unsubscribed from your game. You no longer have to worry about “bad” players!

How about you do yourself a favor and remove everyone from your friends’ list and inner circle who doesn’t live in Bay Area California. Because I guarantee you they are not playing the game as you intend. They are either being clipped or they are intentionally stepping into mechanics (“cheesing”) to avoid being hit. Either way they are not abiding by the game design having been made for those with 30ms latency or less. Well? How does it feel to be alone? And how does it also feel knowing that the vast majority of gamers, and people in general, expect more from their games than you do?

[Larkeicus767]

You did it! You won! And almost a million people have unsubscribed from your game. You no longer have to worry about “bad” players!

How about you do yourself a favor and remove everyone from your friends’ list and inner circle who doesn’t live in Bay Area California. Because I guarantee you they are not playing the game as you intend. They are either being clipped or they are intentionally stepping into mechanics (“cheesing”) to avoid being hit. Either way they are not abiding by the game design having been made for those with 30ms latency or less. Well? How does it feel to be alone? And how does it also feel knowing that the vast majority of gamers, and people in general, expect more from their games than you do?

You know what, I'll bite, if only to shut that trap of yours for long enough.

I don't live in the Bay Area, I don't even live in the US whatsoever, I play with 113 ping most of the time and somehow I've not run into as many "clips" or "snapshots" as you do. Do yourself a favor instead and actually try to learn the game mechanics that take you at least 50 hours to get into. If you actually expected more from the game than I do then you'd AT LEAST be doing savage content before coming in to complain about stuff. You want the game to cater to you, you want the devs to bend for you. How does it feel to be so conceited and a Karen that you keep complaining about difficulty MONTHS after your last tantrum? How does it feel to have less skill than some actually disabled people that play this game and engage with content in a much better way than you do? Hell OP has a more healthy way of fixing the "difficulty problem" than just consistently complain that the devs need to dumb content down for the likes of you. You're not gonna be sitting here telling me "people expect more from their games" than I do when the BS you're "expecting" is for the game to treat you like a toddler and grab your hand through mechanics just because you have poor problem solving skills and bad mechanical skill.

[Ser_Arven]

You did it! You won! And almost a million people have unsubscribed from your game. You no longer have to worry about “bad” players!

How about you do yourself a favor and remove everyone from your friends’ list and inner circle who doesn’t live in Bay Area California. Because I guarantee you they are not playing the game as you intend. They are either being clipped or they are intentionally stepping into mechanics (“cheesing”) to avoid being hit. Either way they are not abiding by the game design having been made for those with 30ms latency or less. Well? How does it feel to be alone? And how does it also feel knowing that the vast majority of gamers, and people in general, expect more from their games than you do?

I play on NA from Australia with 300 ping just get an exit lag sub and move on.

[Mawlzy]

If grouping up with other people or practicing a fight for a while is jumping through hoops to you, I'm really sorry to say this but I honestly just don't think this game, or the genre is for you. It's an MMO, and while 14 has gone through great efforts to make group play avoidable, at the end of the day you are expected to play the game with others.

You're right that FF14 is no longer right for me, but you are wrong about my enjoyment of MMOs.

I used to play this game with other people. They have all left. The way FF14 has changed in its emphasis on content and combat design means that I no longer enjoy it, thus I too am leaving.

However, I get on just fine with the MMO genre. I am currently enjoying one I have played for many years.

If anything, the issue is that FF14 has always been an outlier in the MMO field. It is a nostalgia-fest for those who have played the (mostly) single-player games in the FF series. Perhaps because of this, it frequently seems to be skating by on past laurels ("oh look! it's Prishe! everybody clap and get teary-eyed") at the expense of developing original, interesting content.

This laziness extends to refusing to implement difficulty options which are industry standard for MMOs. Although it's clear from these boards that offering such an option would enrage those that it does not impact, for reasons I will never fathom.

I periodically feel like this community has a severe problem observing visual telegraphs that aren't an orange circle. The second boss has telegraphs that linger for multiple seconds. You are not using your intuition to connect dots, you're waiting to see an orange aoe that fires too quickly in this scenario. You are not too slow, you are not THINKING. Are we saying you should not have to think in a dungeon?

Oh em gee! Thank the gods you're here! You've solved it!

Clearly what is going on here is that veteran gamers have decided to attempt to solve mechanics by NOT THINKING.

I wonder if this is because of all the creeps who keep telling us MSQ dungeons are brain dead? Thanks for the help!

[Merriner]

Honestly? i respect this take, not trying to change the DF version. Objectively speaking, the version when doing it with the Trusts SHOULD be easier because first and foremost, the Trusts are SO bad. I don't know whos idea it was to make them do such low damage and almost never do AoE's but its genuinely painful. Secondly, if one is using the trusts, they're likely a super casual player just wanting to do the story (Which is perfectly fine, I did not mean "Casual" in a derogatory way) or just not really up to interacting with folks at that time.

Ive always thought the trusts were bad if im being honest. on average trust runs take nearly 4X as long as a sub par party found through DF.

Mind you, all of this is coming from someone who LIKES the difficulty of the new dungeon. I will be sad when its nerfed (I can nearly guarantee the incoming damage will be nerfed). Much like i liked strayburough (Minus that one boss with the seemingly random moving dudes that stun you or whatever, then they used the mech for honey Bee, but i digress).

My advice? while its likely not something you want to hear, queue for it. maybe try tank ideally WAR or PLD so you have healing if needed. Ideally WAR tbh for the mob packs. or a DPS like RDM. something with healing. I actually found the last boss to be more difficult than the 2nd one, but different people are better at different things.

I too am getting up there in age. it absolutely sucks when dexterity and hand eye coordination take a turn for the worse. but you can absolutely continue improving it if you want. as well as problem solving on the fly. those were the 3 main things that hindered me once i hit 30 ish XD

[JadeCurtiss]

Oh em gee! Thank the gods you're here! You've solved it!

Clearly what is going on here is that veteran gamers have decided to attempt to solve mechanics by NOT THINKING.

I wonder if this is because of all the creeps who keep telling us MSQ dungeons are brain dead? Thanks for the help!

You're right, I should practice being more sardonic and unpleasant. That'll make more people listen.

[Darty123]

You're right, I should practice being more sardonic and unpleasant. That'll make more people listen.

Its hard to reason with someone who idolizes Mao Zedong, wouldn't even bother anymore with her.