Bleeding Ifrit again...

[EdenT]

Slow and steady we have played together whenever we can, pushing thru the UI lag, waiting on patches, loving the look of the game immensely.
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Should I pay for this experience as well now? I am really upset today, this has tarnished the experience I have enjoyed all year.. I've worked HARD for all year.

It's not that we've been working "hard" since BETA to get one class to 50. It's that we have worked hard collectively in the time we have available, because we enjoy playing together.

Fighting through the dreadful UI and server lag, trying to keep motivated after spending hours at a time managing inventory between us (Trade function is a nightmare!!!!!) and now animation lock and removal of action queing (yes, they're being fixed in the next patch...)

...and then there's crafting - we worked hard trying to get a good stock of ingredients and craft components for recipes across the board between us and the simplified versions have now made that work obsolete.

We voted that we could accept radical change in Eorzea. We have enjoyed residing in this world that is being developed. We have been reassured by the Dev team that the game will be both casual and hardcore friendly. Surely a fight with a 15min recast after completion is something that is meant to include this "Casual" crowd.

Most of my other classes are between 20-30, so by working at it, I will get a shot soon. Maybe not the case for Faz just yet, but if we PowerLvl (*shudder*) then we may have the classes high enough soon.

...but is this a reasonable thing to expect of "Casual" players? "Hardcore" focused content is certainly needed, but for recurring elements such as Primals/Espers/Aeons in the series, this is something ALL FF players should be able to experience in full force.

Our extent with the lower lvl battle was "Oh we need to complete this" - /shout, got someone in a brief time who brought an additional character. We started watching the CS "Ooh Ifrit looks cool" then enter the fight and literally 2 seconds later, Ifrit had been defeated by this guy solo. This suggests the fight is really easy, even for people at the "Recommended Level"

We don't want easy. We just want a chance to play. Mushy put it perfectly.

EdenArchangel you're a gem. If switching servers were an option, we'd do so just to take you up on that offer. As for a LS - we live in Australia (1hr ahead of Japan) so we have limited options for LS events & parties when in our peak (which is also the peak time in Japan) and are not online when there's many english speakers about. We make every effort to play with Japanese folk, and have made a couple of friends too, but they also do better with someone they can easily communicate with, so we're not top pick at the times we play. We'd be best suited to a JP linkshell, or oceanic (if they even exist anymore...some tried at launch, not heard much since).

The lacklustre Auto-Translate dictionary makes this even more difficult, and I even took the effort in XI to learn a few phrases in romaji to help get a foot in the door with a pt! The dictionary doesn't have enough depth for complex organisation, especially strategy. You can mostly make-do, but there have been times when a Japenese person has left a party of ours because we've tried to Auto-Translate some instruction/direction and they have not understood, seen a Japanese shout for the same thing and left.

This was content introduced to the game. Not content already in the game. The development team should have seen this coming. With all their looking forward and developing a completely new engine and reshaping the fundamental systems of the game, maybe they forgot to have a play themselves?

I wonder if any devs choose to play as the Archer class?