Things I think need fixing up or changed.

[Goldhawk]

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I've already said I'm not going to bother replying to your childish fanboy replies. Yeah, I get it, you like the game. That doesn't mean every single aspect of the game is perfect and just because I'd like some adjustments doesn't mean you have to be nonsensical about every little damn detail.

I really hope you're just misreading my points because some of your replies make absolutely no sense considering what I'm trying to pitch here.

[Woggers]

I give up, you win the troll award OP. Good game.

[Dano]

some of these complaints are pretty petty and pointless.

oh btw, press F to face target while you are casting to avoid cancelling your spells. Playing on a gamepad? look at your keybinds and change them accordingly.

level your archer to 34 for quelling strike.

learn to use aetherial manipulation for movement.

[LeonBlade]

I've already said I'm not going to bother replying to your childish fanboy replies. Yeah, I get it, you like the game. That doesn't mean every single aspect of the game is perfect and just because I'd like some adjustments doesn't mean you have to be nonsensical about every little damn detail.

I really hope you're just misreading my points because some of your replies make absolutely no sense considering what I'm trying to pitch here.

It's not about being a fanboy, it's about being sensible. I asked you what you meant about talking while on a Chocobo, you refuse to respond to me. You're acting like a child, it's annoying, just delete this topic.

[lol123]

op you need to be a little more respectful to how you treat others here and in-game if you act like that on your server good luck on finding teams to do coil and ex primals with.

[OranKells]

It's not a troll.

I respectfully disagree. The special snowflake My-opinions-are-more-important-so-i'll-make-a-new-thread-instead-of-adding-to-the-hundreds-of-others-already-there mentality Most of the complaints are nonsensical and rambling, some of it is a game design choice and problems that can be solved by either tweaking the keybinds slightly and turning off utorrnet sucking up bandwidth in the background.

the fact that he responds to rebuttal with personal insults that sounds like they came out of my 12 year old nephew when I beat him at basketball?

obvious troll

PS I was dropped on my head as a child and developed dsygraphia. NOT COOL MAN

[wicked-one]

This whole Thread: OP choosed the wrong class for him.

[Ametrine]

I compensate the lack of movement 3 ways-
1) Zoom the camera WAAAY out to give me a large view of enemies on screen.
2) I got into the habit early on to use the right stick to move the camera's angle all the time.
3) I put in target filters, letting me tab through enemies faster.

You can target things that are ON SCREEN, but only attack them within a certain range. You may want to dig into the character config and be sure that your set to automatically face a target. That might help a bit, too.

I'm on PS3, as a White Mage and I had played Scholar, so I feel some of your pain. You just gotta realize that you can really put some distance between you and your targets, and make good use of cool downs like Surecast (making it impossible to interrupt a spell) and Quickcast (making ANY spell pop instantly), both of which are vital BLM skills. The distance factor is a balance between us mages and most DoW classes. BRD is the exception, having movement and good damage.

But BRDs are NOT meant to be total damage dealers, they have important utility in parties with their songs. So, a bard SHOULD be concentrating on damage, staying in motion, AND keeping their buffs up on allies. This is the difference between a good bard and a GREAT bard.

This is compared to Black Mage, who is supposed to position themselves in a safe(r) area in each battle and keep the damage coming onto the enemies and transposing at the proper times to keep their mana up. 100% damage dealer.

If aggro is the issue, stop attacking, run to your tank, let them get the aggro back, and return to a safe spot. It's painfully easy to outpace a tank if you are hammering your spells.

[TomTom1968]

I can agree to some of the points. Mage gear looks crap. 90% of it, no matter if below or at or higher than Level 50. Not only crap but even embarrasing sometimes. I always thought it's the developpers way to force people into levelling even faster so they can put something on they like lol. And Vanity does not help that much on your way to 50 because you can't project an item with higher Level on your base item.

I also find the aggroing and Heavy effect terribly annoying. Below Level 50, all enemies leave you alone as soon as you are out of their level (10 levels above or something). But there is no comparison of Item Level sadly. You are Level 50, they are Level 45, ATTACK! When I am doing my beastmen quests, I kill more random mobs that annoy me with their Aggro than mobs I have to kill to fulfill my quests. BTW, OP: to one of your problems (9), there is a solution. In the settings there is one checkbox where you mark enemies automatically when they aggro you. Uncheck this and you can use the map and it only brings the map up.

Rest of what you said is learning and timing, most of it at least. Slightly annoying for sure here and there but for most of the points you have mentioned, there is a workaround or they fall into the category "learn to live with them".

[AiChyan]

1- Gear: Yes it is ugly, not much to do that and I bloody hate cowls. Thankfully vanity exists now so you have other options.

2. Casting issues: I can't say much since I play WHM and not BLM. I just agree with you on casts falling on dead mobs or in my case dead people and therefore wasting abilities. The interruptions you just have to be very careful about, I get interruptions when I move my controller a bit and frankly its our fault. At times interruptions happen for no real reason or casts simply don't go off. Not sure if its a lag or latency issue or what.

3. PvP just sucks: yes.

5. Raiding completely sucks: No. Raids are supposed to be more complex than normal content and require everyone to fully understand their role. This is how raids happen.

7. Allow us to talk while on a mount: I'm guessing you mean to NPCs? Yes please. I don't see auto-swap happening any time soon though.

8. Increase content other than hard boss fights: how is trading dungeon loot going to fix this? Anyway as others mentioned you have tribe dailies, crafting and treasure hunting too

9. Fix enemy aggro on maps: Its annoying as hell -.- For a very long time I refused to do dailies because they heavy debuff drove me mad