Party play 1.18 , experience.

**Synthesis** · 07-22-2011 09:59 PM

So because of my no MP in instant I decided not play solo as ARC 30. I formed party with friends, R33 THM and R32 GlAD.

We went for mistbeard cove to exp, we used to exp there before patch, nice place for 3-4 party members, good sp.

First party play experience after patch 1.18 is horrible. Mage was out of HP while we fought second mob, siphon Mp didnt save him. Useless. Doesnt matter if he is conj or thm, every cure spell consumes like 1/3. So for party play this is pretty out.

Another thing I tanked mobs with my ARC, constantly repated Provoke skill from GLAD didnt change a thing - it doesnt work after all. But its nice that enmity icon is at least blinking, thats nice.

I died first, Glad died after me. Mage was standing.
What to add, solo didnt work in morning for me. Party play with glad, arc and thm didnt work too.

Am I supposed to do solo-leves now ? I didnt try yet.
Anyway 1.18 brought whole gameplay down. My linkshell is small, we usually form just 3 members or light parties.

**Synthesis** · 07-22-2011 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Jin_

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What's wrong kiddo ? There sure has to be some MP fixes for mages as well as better enmity for gladiator, he has got enmity green after using provoke skill. You should learn some manners pherhaps.

**Murugan** · 07-22-2011 10:31 PM

First day of a major class re-balance, it will take some time for people to get used to the new battle mechanics/emnity system.

It may be that further balancing will be needed (in fact they all but confirmed this prior to the patch), but I think you should have some patience before declaring that partying is impossible. If people are reaching the final boss of Darkhold already then it is pretty absurd to think that Mistbeard has been rendered unplayable by the changes. Especially at mid levels it will take people more than a day to adapt to their classes' new play style after a major patch like this.

**alexi14** · 07-22-2011 10:40 PM

Get used to what mate? There is nothing to do now. All there WAS to do was camp behest, and now we can't do that. I'm sitting afk in uldah playing fallout 3. I LITERALLY have nothing to do.

**Karbine** · 07-22-2011 10:44 PM

I can't agree with you cause I haven't tried it yet, but I do agree that it seemed to work fine in the dungeons as a PT. I also think we have to reposition ourselves in terms of leveling and find out what works.

How much SP were the monsters giving you when you did kill them? What was the big problem? Regular hits or special abilities? Aggro? Links?

**Validas** · 07-22-2011 10:46 PM

Maybe.. just maybe.. and keep in mind I'm just a lowly R30 LNC...
but maybe.. we'll all have to learn to play this game differently now seeing that it's a new battle system.

I do agree the MP costs for a lot of these healing spells are quite high which will make things difficult, but DoW classes can self heal as well if they put a few ranks into a DoM class.

I believe we're all just so used to being somewhat invincible that it's second nature to charge into a battle thinking that we will decimate the mob(s) like we used to if we're of appropriate rank. I'm guilty of totally botching a 3-man behest last night because of this.

tl;dr : Things changed, time to re-think how we approach battles.

**Zephir** · 07-23-2011 02:58 AM

REAL PROBLEM is for person with small LS or with time play different or not compatible with the biggest part of the FFXIV players

Before 1.18 2-3 person can exp theyr job 1 level at day simply with leve.

This mean that people that only play 2-3 h a day can reach 50 without problem.

Now if a person can't log in crowded moment and don't have a medium /big LS gain exp can be a real problem.

Other little problem is that, a lot of time, player do leve/party/other with a preformed group (friends/LS mate/static) and without a intelligent party system now for certain type of players exp is really really cut off.

With a /sea all system or with the possibility to exp with grind on all type of monster (like FFXI) prblem is solved...but now.....sometimes..this can be a pain...

And I like 1.18 update very much.....but can see a group of FFXIV players a little "damaged"

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