Thread: 5.3 Preliminary Patch Note

Originally Posted by PeppermintBrown

Though I actually like morbols, I agree on the design of the place. The middle area's okay if a bit bland, but the start and end make my eyes bleed. I actually rarely have issues finishing AV when it comes up in roulette but I just hate looking at the place.

All that green and mustard yellow is a sin.

Originally Posted by Krotoan

When you think of bad smells (I.E. "bad breath") what colors come to mind?

I don't think of bad smells at all lol it absolutely makes sense, I just think it's really ugly. Which is the point I suppose, that it looks gross and smelly.

Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I mean, I'm still gonna hate Aurum Vale just because the place is so damn ugly, so it's a lateral move to me. Seriously, why did ARR need so many gray caves, and who thought that filling one of them with yellow gas and morbols was an improvement?

Several of the ARR dungeons were actually modified 1.X dungeons. Pretty much all of the 1.X dungeons were cave tunnels and SE made the 2.0 dungeons by blocking off the various alternative paths between rooms. Sastasha, Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, Cutter's Cry, Dzemael Darkhold, and Aurum Vale were all built this way.

Originally Posted by Gula

I believe they're specifically referring to the aesthetics. The ARR dungeons are all terribly dreary and ugly places. Like the actual horror hole known as Haukke Manor.

The aesthetics for those dungeons were inherited from how they were created. SE built most of the 1.X dungeons by assembling a bunch of generic cave tunnel and cave room pieces and then decorating them with various door, wall and object sets. You are in several cases going through copies of the exact same room with different furniture.

At least the crafted plants from Aurum Vale look nice when you put them in a normal garden. There's a pretty ground cover and a large bush with blossom-buds all over it. Much better than Toto-Rak's neon carnivorous things.

I don't understand the correlation between people thinking that their opinions are fact and also being incredibly uninformed about like... the entire game.

Like this man hadn't even done an alliance raid but he thinks he can figure out which mechs are garbage.

You haven't even seen mechanics.

Maybe before trying to define the best or worst ways people learn the person attempting to outline these rules shouldn't be entirely in the dark about the majority of the game they're referencing.

Originally Posted by Goji1639

I've played a lot of different video games in my life; ones with GOOD gameplay. There are certain basic rules they all follow, that all developers know.

MMORPG's are admittedly, consistently at the absolute bottom in terms of gameplay quality. The bar is set really low and you all expect very little, that much is apparent. It doesn't change the fact that when designing fights there are certain things you just don't do. Coincounters BS is one of those things. A mechanic that bad in a game where even decent gameplay is expected would be humiliating.

I just like the idea of FFXIV elevating itself a tiny bit by removing some of the design failures in old content. You people just fight this kind of change because I guess you don't know any better.

Or you just want easy predictable mechanics because that's all you can handle.