Stop ignoring Crystalline Conflict

[Niyuka]

I think they did it because FFXIV is designed with this philosophy in mind everywhere. Dont stress anyone, every button is equal, every skill level is fine. The whole idea of skill differences mattering is a big problem as you can see in a myriad of design decisions. Those of us who care enough to post here and try to become better are the tiny minority I guess. Its supposedly great that I get matched against players who have trouble reacting quick enough to me just splatting them because they need to click their self-heal. Or that I can matched with teammates who just charge in alone, respawn, and run in again. Its all good, fine gameplay as intended.

[Cheremia]

I think they did it because FFXIV is designed with this philosophy in mind everywhere. Dont stress anyone, every button is equal, every skill level is fine. The whole idea of skill differences mattering is a big problem as you can see in a myriad of design decisions. Those of us who care enough to post here and try to become better are the tiny minority I guess. Its supposedly great that I get matched against players who have trouble reacting quick enough to me just splatting them because they need to click their self-heal. Or that I can matched with teammates who just charge in alone, respawn, and run in again. Its all good, fine gameplay as intended.

And saying it's just casual is false, too.

If i wasn't lazy i would post some scoreboards with me, the ast, outdpsing every single person in my team, dying less, taking more damage (sometimes, not all the time, am not perfect), etc.
On Crystal.
The thing is, not being able to lose rank just means that people just need to get lucky with streaks to get anywhere.

And I don't think its bad to expect people in crystal to NOT to the panic thing after a wipe to run in 1v5 every time just to horribly die.
I don't think it's bad to expect your team doing more than, say 300000 damage. That's really low and i have a lot of screens with people doing that amount or under.

Being bad in casual and low ranks is fine, but one could expect ranked to be better, which it just isn't.

As "salty" as the op may seem, there is nothing wrong with expecting people to at least press buttons, y'know?
But taking something a little serious around here is a nono it seems like. You don't need to tryhard to be decent and if you try a little bit, it suddenly becomes more fun.

[Shizzle]

Casual mode is just that casual. However I find Crystalline and pvp overall in FF trash tier with the majority of the player base tunnel visioned or facerolling a keyboard who cant focus fire in ranked. I've seriously seen PUGS in 10 man Warsong and AB focus targets better in WoW compared to our community and I've been with FFXIV since beta and 1.0 which is sad. There's ALOT of issues with the PvP mode and one shotting is just a little fluff to be mindful of positioning and learning to who to avoid.

Try coming into a ranked match with two actual healers WHM and SCH or a AST and hope that after the DRG or SAM is downed that you're team of random derps is actually going to focus fire and not try pummeling the warrior whilst the healers are free casting its a shambles there really needs to be a limitation of what roles are allowed in a match preferably 1 tank 1 healer and 3 dps to balance matches. I've been trying to climb out silver as i enjoy competition of ranked but its banging head against a wall frustration when matched with people who can't focus fire on specific targets >.<

[Vatom]

No open chat you FF flower wouldn't be able to handle it trust and believe Im one of them that get very toxic when I notice people being the bad.
This wont help anything sorry I though maybe this would be cool back when it first dropped but then as I was climbing to Crystal I notice the constant clicking of GM or Nice job yeah no lets not go there, You think you want it but you don't.

This one shot BS is getting annoying too Sam is too powerful, Mch shouldn't have a one shot... WHAT! Ive played over 600 games and 1/3 of that was Mch and I only seen that proc once..so what does that have to do with anything with cheating or team fights. Yes I would be happy if they just mad it a 16k or 12k aoe dmg shot but to totally remove it without a solution is only screwing with the balance of power thats already an issue and trust me Mch and Sam are not the problem

Wanna know how to beat any sam. Here you go attention and distance, If a sam is dumb enough to fight 1v1 run from them when their about to cast break line of sight and heal when needed not at 3/4 1/4 to 1/2 being the highest sams can only do a max 24k dmg(28k if debuffed) with 2 GCDs. They cant kill you, if you have low mana thats your fault for over healing or getting caught out without a plan or noting where heals on demand are at. Oh they have 3 dashes Yeah and keep going till they use them its a 20s CD bait them or stall them from the party make their number game a flop. Oh but they have CC only purify the stun.. done. If you see stickers floating you cant cc other then imp for like 6 secs so run after that they can't do any thing but purify. Oh but we were talking about the one shot right you see them have a buff on them or the sam is spinning their sword for the more sharp eyed people dont hit them. But what if I do hit them... spread out run till the debuff is gone dont guard you will only die, only one person might die if you dont imp him or silence before they try to use it guess what should pay more attention. BUT WAIT there's more! if you CC with even a bind they cant use it "BOOOM" mind blown I know anything but a heavy will stop it and give you enough time get the debuff off you . Merry Xmas kids now go out and kill sam, also stop trying to nerf them more Jeez.

And believe if they turn it in to a 30k AOE Lb or 50% but I don't need the debuff believe Ill main sam and 1v9 everyone that isn't a sam

Observe how people are playing and play off them you will never get a perfect team but if you can find at least one person each match that is doing plays start thinking of combos off of them you be surprise how much you can carry with 2 competent people and 3 meat shields. Also note even if you done believe so team comp does make a difference though they player pushing the buttons make the most difference you can note if they have a tank or not or if they have alot of CC or not.


I do this every match even in causal and I come out with at leave 7-14 kills 1-2mil dmg and depending on if I tank or heal could be the same

How about We get better before jumping on to builds when you haven't even played every class and mastered one

And like earlier causal is causal its a pool of all skill groups just playing to play, you want to win with some what competent player go play rank make it to crystal and see what really cheaters are like. Trust and believe you wont want open chat then.


Also though the leeroy tactic isn't 100% good but sometimes needed when you dont have a tank or if your team hesitant BUT expect to die and its only worth if your team gets one kill in exchange and it has to be priority like a healer or melee or tank
sometimes it can't throw the enemy in disarray but this is usually in the lower ranks thats the only way your living from that. If your a power role never do this only melee can this even be an option