Cutscenes and timed instances

[Nuru]

if your party gets pissed off because you want to actually watch and read the story at least one time then maybe you should look at the people your partying with.. if they cant respect you wanting to watch the story that you are enjoying then they don't deserve your help with said dungeon.. yeah it sucks because its hard enough as is to find a group but you shouldn't have to deal with douche bags even though more often than not its inevitable..

Well its not like they are yelling or anything, but before entering, they ask that you skip the cut-scenes. The only thing that has really frustrated me in these parties is that most of it is all the same LS, and whenever an item drops, they see the claim as their own, even if it drops under mine. I could have had a Revolutionaries Bliaud, but decided i'd give it to the Gladiator since he claimed "I have a CON and THM at 50."

People got pissed and claimed they would report my character name on some endgame website if i didnt give them my Bladedancer's Boots. I decided to keep them anyways, and argued that if they continued to be idiots, i would manually disconnect form the dungeon and find a different party.

[Darrkness]

Well its not like they are yelling or anything, but before entering, they ask that you skip the cut-scenes. The only thing that has really frustrated me in these parties is that most of it is all the same LS, and whenever an item drops, they see the claim as their own, even if it drops under mine. I could have had a Revolutionaries Bliaud, but decided i'd give it to the Gladiator since he claimed "I have a CON and THM at 50."

People got pissed and claimed they would report my character name on some endgame website if i didnt give them my Bladedancer's Boots. I decided to keep them anyways, and argued that if they continued to be idiots, i would manually disconnect form the dungeon and find a different party.

yeah just because your in a LS group doesn't give you the right to ALL of the drops.. how much you wanna bet that most of the people in that LS were whinny teenagers and that "I have a CON and THM at 50" was just so they can get the item to sell for 999999999999999999 in the wards just to hang over everyones heads and say "haha look what i got!" (which is a HUGE pet peve of mine) /sigh i hate dealing with douche bags..

[redmage]

Definitely support the option to have the timer start as soon as the last person is finished with their cutscene. I can understand some folks like to rush or don't want to watch a scene again and again, but I've always disliked it when people pressured folks to just skip if, even if it's their first time watching it. But it could all be solved if SE just simply did as you've all suggested.

[Darrkness]

yeah i don't understand the whole "zerg" thing, whenever i hear that i'm reminded of star craft lol

[Nuru]

lol what i mean by zerging is running through the dungeon while monsters aggro and attack, just to hit a portal and de-spawn the mobs. In other words, that is what the intentional strategy is for the first few maps of the dungeon, which is, needless to say, "linear"

I understand that dungeons weren't necessarily for ranking up anyways, since you cant get passed R50, but I believe that some dungeons should be as trivial as the Water Temple in Zelda. (I went there.)

[Darrkness]

I understand that dungeons weren't necessarily for ranking up anyways, since you cant get passed R50, but I believe that some dungeons should be as trivial as the Water Temple in Zelda. (I went there.)

wow.. water temples from zelda are a little extreme.. lol those have always been intensely hard in every zelda lol but back to subject. i don't like rushing dungeons like that, even if there is no extra exp to be had there is still always gil and drops that i would want from the regular mobs if anything to put up in the wards for some profit heck you work hard for it i'm sure

[Nuru]

wow.. water temples from zelda are a little extreme.. lol those have always been intensely hard in every zelda lol but back to subject. i don't like rushing dungeons like that, even if there is no extra exp to be had there is still always gil and drops that i would want from the regular mobs if anything to put up in the wards for some profit heck you work hard for it i'm sure

Then again, the dungeon's design isn't the player's fault. All us players do is find the best way to complete it, rinse and repeat. However, there are only 2 dungeons in the game, while one is linear and requires strategy, the other is more free-roam and contains a puzzle.

[Darrkness]

i haven't played through the game all the way yet (top lvl of 27 and rank 24) i didn't realize there were only 2 dungeons. only 2? really? what are all of the nodes that i see around the map everywhere? i thought those were diff dungeons.

[Nuru]

i haven't played through the game all the way yet (top lvl of 27 and rank 24) i didn't realize there were only 2 dungeons. only 2? really? what are all of the nodes that i see around the map everywhere? i thought those were diff dungeons.

No those are just encampments, which serve as focal points for doing guildleves. Instanced Dungeons are quite new. but there are more to come if you read through the latest Producer's Letter.

[Darrkness]

i understand about the encampments i'm talking about the blueish purple beams of light scattered around the map away from the main encampments where you initiate the leve quests.. you can see them on the main map when you pull it up