It's become a chore to even log on to the game

[Mihael_Longclaw]

The reason they took out elemental weaknesses is because in 1.x everyone and their mother rolled thaumaterge and used nothing but thunder because nothing resisted it.
Also you think blm as is would even be allowed to do Ifrit when their strongest attacks are fire spells?

This is exactly my point, they should scrap it in it's entirety. It makes no sense whatsoever killing Ifrit with Fire based spells.

Stop using ARR and 1.0 as examples, use earlier FF games and basically any RPG with elemental affinities and they handle it with much more finesse than this game

[Amyas]

This is exactly my point, they should scrap it in it's entirety. It makes no sense whatsoever killing Ifrit with Fire based spells.

Stop using ARR and 1.0 as examples, use earlier FF games and basically any RPG with elemental affinities and they handle it with much more finesse than this game

Okay, so if they remade blackmage and just had it do elemental damage without the umbral/astral crap, what do you think would happen? "LFM Ifrit EM 3/8 need five blackmages"
That's what they're trying to avoid -_-

[NefGP]

This is exactly my point, they should scrap it in it's entirety. It makes no sense whatsoever killing Ifrit with Fire based spells.

Stop using ARR and 1.0 as examples, use earlier FF games and basically any RPG with elemental affinities and they handle it with much more finesse than this game

And to further that, no we didn't all just "spam thunder". Elemental bonus damage actually did considerably more damage on right mobs - even though stone was MND based for example, as a THM I could still cast it on Flies for more damage than my thunder 2 (lv 30 at the time soloing leves at Cedarwood). The wheel was a bit screwy though, as Fire was weak to Wind but beat Water (seriously wtf?) but at least it was there in classic RPG fashion.

As for "taking a break", I'm more than a little pissed having played since the original beta, dumped a good chunk of time and money into the game (not to mention having countless debates with people who'd written the game off not to abandon it, that YP really was going to save it) and was ecstatic to hear about the legacy bonuses (esp. the life time discount as I'd paid for XI for about 9 years running as hoping XIV would take its place as something new and better).

That's why I made that other thread about feeling betrayed - buyer's remorse, if you will. All that hope and good will only to end up with (pretty) mediocrity? Sorry but that's just unacceptable. SE is one of the few developers left out there known for taking risks (it's what Squaresoft was built on) and delivering masterpieces so to see XIV turn into yet another rehash of WoW-inspired MMOs that have flooded the market for the last decade is both depressing and insulting. It's bad enough Kitase went grossly over budget with Crystalis Novalis and Wada allowed garbage like All The Bravest to be published (and rushed Tanaka & Komoto to release the game too early and then using them as scapegoats) ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I have nothing against YP personally - in fact I applaud the guy for his resolve and dedication. But the community needs to take a stand for quality control now, because the horrors of power creep are already bearing down on us and no one here wants to see this game wind up another flash in the pan like DoC, Conan, SWToR etc etc.

To the haters: If FFXI was such a bad game (and it had many faults), how is it then that it's been SE's most successful entry in the series, won multiple awards and kept a healthy 500k+ subs for over 7 years as a 2002 PS2 game? Or that every MMO since WoW has been a dismal failure, having to switch from a subscription based model to F2P within a year or 2. The sooner the industry realizes that WoW was a freak accident and not something that can be easily (if ever) replicated the better. Even Blizzard likely realized this when they halted Project Titan to completely restart it.

[Laf]

log in
dig the map
do dailys
stare at awesome ground tiles in Uldah for the rest of the day

[Dazd]

Game caters to the lowest common denominator=boring shallow game with nothing to really do other than new raid stuff every 3 months when it comes out.

[Davionx]

You should take a break

[Black91CRX]

You should take a break

It really does help

[Mihael_Longclaw]

You should take a break

I have been taking a break, for a month and a half or so now, I previously only logged on to level my chocobo, customise our house and talk to my FC and friends. I just recently took initative to unsubscribe my account.

I still want to hear about this game and if it will become something I'd enjoy, but until then I have no plans to come back to the game.

[Vanidin]

Stop logging in. That was my solution.

[Jacien]

I canceled my sub, but I'm gonna stay here responding to every single post in my thread which is obviously meant to rile up players.