Thread: 1.18: Wipe your tears and open your eyes!

Good points OP, sadly when this game started it held players hand, now its time to let it go, but players are too weak to survive and adapt on their own. Similar things gonna happen to Anima, already happen to gil, now enmity, and MP management.

When a challenge is thrown at you, try to over come the obstacle and do the best you can. Not get on forum and asking DEV for a hand to hold.

Patch 1.18 Filter of the weak.

Originally Posted by NoctisUmbra

Agreed, however I wouldn't go as far as call it a filter of the weak. That's a tad... aggressive lol.

To me it essentially gives players more room to improve and display their skill, and have it pay off in the end with their friends and shell-mates appreciating their hard work. It gives players room for progress. A challenge to rise to.

FFXIV was lacking that more than anything.

What I believe is happening mostly is that due to the "easy-mode" status the game had before, almost anyone was amazing at whatever they would strive to accomplish. Now with the introduction of a necessary level of difficulty, a lot of players who believe they were amazing tanks/mages/DPS find that what supposedly made them amazing does not work anymore. It takes effort to reach a level of effectiveness they previously had almost subconsciously.

I prided myself in being a very good tank. Some would say I had delusions of grandeur, stating I was my shell's main tank. With 1.18 I realized how I used to not have to do much at all to hold hate and tank, and that the skills I had did all the work for me.

I have since embraced that change, and am now both researching and working on improving my tanking to be the best it can be.

i guess calling it "weak" is kinda aggressive but it was aimed at those whiners on the forums. Some people in my shell are asking tips and strats from more experienced players in my shell who adapted the system, watching this actually makes me happy, because they are trying to improve instead of complaining.

If players cant even adapt to small basic battle changes like this, idk what they gonna do in/to this game.