Ailments, the bad guys and you

[Alsbet]

One thing I feel like we are limited to when it comes to fighting mobs and bosses is dealing with status effects. All one can really do is land dots and Vulnerability on high level enemies. Its all well and good, damaging and dealing more damage, but I really wish there was more variety.

We got abilities that are supposed to inflict "Sleep" or "Bind" yet in higher level fights they do nothing but occupy space in your hotbar. Enemies got no problem hitting you with paralysis, silence, petrification, etc. They however are immune to it. I understand something like Alexander or Omega not being affected but not a bloody squirrel. Mobs can always get hit by these effects and build immunity like when one tries to stun constantly.

I don't know, would having such options make fights easier? Or perhaps more tedious?

[Knahli]

I used to like when Bind actually wasn't resisted by average trash in dungeons for the rare case where the tank died and you're trying to slow down the damage and pick off what's left of the group without wiping. Very minor and random but it gave the skill some use.... but they took that away at some point and I honestly didn't understand why.

I like the idea of it being incorporated into mechanics though. If not with bosses then at least with trash. As you say, the skills are underutilised and it would be a small way to bring a little diversity into the fights.

[Deceptus]

Bind, Sleep (repose), Slow.

All things that used to work and now don't for "reasons".

IMHO if it has a cast bar, it should be able to be silenced or show something that definitively says "can't stop this". A shield or something.

[Archchancellor]

Mobs can always get hit by these effects and build immunity like when one tries to stun constantly.

We do get immunity to debuff's like stun and sleep in PVP.

And there is food that give Resistance to ailments.

Red Drop
Blue Drop
Clear Drop
Purple Drop
White Drop
Black Drop
Yellow drop
Green Drop

[Ramesses]

I'll be succinct...there are several mobs in-game that give all sorts of ailments but the one that absolutely gets on my nerves till tomorrow are the Morbols. I would actually pay to have thmi not interact with my character. True story.

Even in other Final Fantasy games, their Bad Breath is just... *(smirks)*

[Rongway]

We got abilities that are supposed to inflict "Sleep" or "Bind" yet in higher level fights they do nothing but occupy space in your hotbar.

These are solo abilities, and can be useful in solo duties when they are meant to be used.

Not everything has to be useful in every situation. SMNs have a tank pet, but they should never be using it in a proper party and would generally be better off just killing things faster with a DD pet when soloing after a certain level. Likewise, BLMs have Sleep, but they should never be using it in a proper party and would generally be better off just killing things faster with fire when soloing after a certain level. But in certain duties, it can be helpful to sleep a group in order to focus on single mobs for safety.

[Kurando]

These are solo abilities, and can be useful in solo duties when they are meant to be used.

Well I'd say this isn't entirely true. Look at Tri-Bind for example, it previously was underused as the Bind effect generally didn't work on higher level mobs (in duties) whilst the damage it inflicted didn't justify the MP cost so usage was seldom to say the least. However after it was readjusted during DWT it found new life, so one action suddenly wasn't useless anymore so it's definitely not impossible to give the likes of Tether, Sleep, Repose etc some kind of boon under certain conditions.

[KageTokage]

I do find it a little odd how XIV has opted to mostly faze out the use of crowd control effects when other MMOs like WoW tend to regularly see use of them even in their raid encounters.

[Rongway]

I do find it a little odd how XIV has opted to mostly faze out the use of crowd control effects when other MMOs like WoW tend to regularly see use of them even in their raid encounters.

It was one of several choices by the devs so as not to compel specific party compositions for each fight. If a raid boss can be dealt with by putting it to sleep, people won't want to do that fight unless there's a a WHM or a BLM in the party.

[KageTokage]

I was thinking more that generalized effects like snares/silence/stuns that are widely available thanks to role actions could be utilized more in raids.

The last time I recall them being needed was for the succubus in the Forgall fight and stuns also could be used to prevent some of Diablos' abilities from going off as long as his shield wasn't active.