Thread: To the Complainers... GTFO, 1.18 ROCKS!

Originally Posted by AarosLunos

See this is where you are wrong. Competent THM/CONs actually agree with this adjustment. Then again they weren't out there actively spam healing in the first place. pre 1.18 CON was a very ambiguous class that lacked a clear defined role. It has that now.

Ok, so XIV now finally have a mage class strictly for healing (White mage). They need to take away CON's nuke abilities and get rid of those masochistic ancient spells (it's just painful to cast them). Make it purely a WHITE MAGE job.

We still need a Black Mage job with capable spells!

Originally Posted by Punainen

Apparently only melee players like the mage adjustments. They seem to have something AGAINST mages, like we're supposed to be their peons that just serve them and make THEIR fun possible, without having any fun ourselves. I like the Grand Companies, but I am seriously hating EVERYTHING else they've done with this patch. I need to get a melee class to cap asap because CON/THM are freaking GARBAGE now.

I play Con and Thm main -- I like the change, you'll be lying if you don't agree that it was pretty tactless and "automated" to play these jobs prior to this change. Now you have to actually manage your hate and MP and actually strategize with another mage in some situations.

It actually feels like a game. So no they're not garbage, they're just not mindless to play now.

I'm not coming to this thread to say anything bad about 1.18. In fact i believe it is a huge step forward for ffxiv. I did come to this thread to give my opinion and that is the title of this thread is completely ignorant. Players have the right to debate here and you can tell them to gtfo all day long but they aren't going to. I'm sick of reading all this name calling here. Plenty of people are bringing up valid arguments and points. Stop trying to combat them by calling them complainers.

Originally Posted by Bita

I'm not coming to this thread to say anything bad about 1.18. In fact i believe it is a huge step forward for ffxiv. I did come to this thread to give my opinion and that is the title of this thread is completely ignorant. Players have the right to debate here and you can tell them to gtfo all day long but they aren't going to. I'm sick of reading all this name calling here. Plenty of people are bringing up valid arguments and points. Stop trying to combat them by calling them complainers.

Arguments aren't valid just because you say they are. There's a lot of difference between debating and the petulant whining certain undesirables have enacted since the patch.

The fact is.... Those people you talk about in your last sentence wouldn't exist if you ignored them. so let them come here and rage quit. Don't fuel the fire and reply to it. Ignore that shite and move on. But by golly if i don't see you arses flaming every good suggestion.

Overall, I really like the new update and I'm very excited to be playing this game again.

Auto attack is the best improvement by far. Because of it I actually enjoy battles. I find myself using more abilities and strategy since I'm not constantly racing back and forth between my basic attack and my other abilities. It just feels like I'm not longer fighting against the interface to play.
Quests giving SP now is great. There's finally a reason to take these quests and explore the world and lore surrounding them. I find them rather addicting!
The public dungeons (or at least the one I've done) are a lot of fun and present a nice sense of purpose and comradeship for groups!

The only changes I'm not too sure about are the huge MP cost for spells and reduced SP rewards. I don't like that CON is being shoehorned into healing. What is the point of having a class with both recovery and attack magic if they're going to be forced into one or the other. Overall, I don't think it's as bad as players are saying, but it does need a little tweaking.

FFXIV is finally starting to look like the game I thought it was going to be when I bought it. With chocobos and airships coming next, all I need is Mog houses and I'll be set!

Gondai: We’ll continue to break up what we’re working on over a number of patches, first 1.18 and then 1.19, and so on. It’d be impossible to release everything all at once. But I hope people won’t judge us too harshly on that, saying stuff like “Is this all there is to patch 1.18?!” It might not be for us to say, but I think things are going smoother than we expected, so please wait just a bit longer.

There it is, from Mr Gondai himself. He's going to be so disappointed with you guys, so very, very disappointed.