Thread: Glaring issues that were NOT addressed in 2.1

I agree with the OP.

Particularly on the stats being a bit more transparent.

I'd like to know exactly how STR/DEX/Parry relate to your parry reduction and parry rate; a visual percentage in my stats window is much more convenient than having to swap all my gear and gather monsters and run a parser and back-calculate my rates while trying to pinpoint the tiers or caps on a chart.

Just show us the damn number in our menu.

New battle music please or at least an option to turn it off so that we can listen the default dungeon BGM. How hard can it be to add more tracks in-game?

Originally Posted by omniwaink

There are also tons of unexplained mechanics. In PVP, Bards take a potency hit when they are farther away from a target, but we have zero idea how much and from what distance. Is it a 50% loss at 20 yalms? 20% loss at 20 yalms? Do we hit the same at 10 yalms as we do at 1 yalm? No one knows.

While I never do PvP, this raises a sense of urgency on the idea I had a while back to put a number underneath the health bar of your target telling you how far away it is (4y, 10y, 15y, etc). Originally I figured it would be a good idea for ranged stuff that can only be executed at a distance (like shoulder tackle), but if distance determines damage in PvP, I would think it would be a much smarter idea at this point, far better than just eyeballing it and guesstimating distance.

I can't even explain how disheartening it is that Community Reps respond to posts about having freckles on the aesthetician, yet threads like this with legitimate issues that affect everyone get overlooked or ignored.

Originally Posted by Akuha

While I never do PvP, this raises a sense of urgency on the idea I had a while back to put a number underneath the health bar of your target telling you how far away it is (4y, 10y, 15y, etc). Originally I figured it would be a good idea for ranged stuff that can only be executed at a distance (like shoulder tackle), but if distance determines damage in PvP, I would think it would be a much smarter idea at this point, far better than just eyeballing it and guesstimating distance.

TERA does this and I highly doubt it would be impossible in XIV. Good suggestion.

Originally Posted by Hvinire

Hey all,

We brought up some of the issues raised in this thread and wanted to share the responses with you now:

In regards to showing the chance for critical hits, the team remarked that there are currently no plans to display this in the UI. Players can assume simply that as the stats that affect this grow larger, the effect will become greater.

Hvinire can you relay to the team precisely how insulting this sort of response is to the player base?

We do the math with our stats and we know how to observe and extrapolate the tiers and formulas for how stats work and at what rates we will see changes in those effects. The point - it's a waste of a player's time and effort to do so when the exact change could simple be displayed in our character menu.

For instance - Strength changes the amount of damage blocked/parried when you successfully block/parry and the damage reduction percentage is a static value. To see that value I have to go outside and get attacked and proc a block/parry to see it. People have already tested point for point what the effective change is - and saying "as the stats that affect this grow larger, the effect will become greater" is untrue when your system has hard tiers where you literally will not see a difference in the effect until you reach a certain goal number. Add the percentages we're asking for in the character menu. It's not a complicated request!

Sorry if I sound harsh but I don't like being lied to and having my concerns trivialized.

Originally Posted by Dhex

Hvinire can you relay to the team precisely how insulting this sort of response is to the player base?

It's....really not insulting at all, it's basically saying: "Use common sense, the larger the number the greater the %." Having it shown is more of a convenience than necessity.