Another plugin feature being added to the game official (Job Icons)

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

tell console player that "top phase 5 simulator" is not unfair

you're a joke

Simulator help's you more than 3000 illegal 3rd party tools, its not a debate, its a fact

You realize the sims are available to anyone who owns a computer right? An object that 99.9% of people playing FF14 will likely have in their household?
One of the statics I'm helping with TOP has several console players, and they all use the sim to practice the phase we're on. The sim even supports controllers, so you can just plug & play to truly emulate the experience.

because otherwise it becomes too easy

If a mechanic's difficulty is solely based on whether or not you know anything about it / being forced to spend hours getting deep into the fight & wiping 50 times to sort out all the 'gotcha!' instant kills, it was never a hard mechanic in the first place, it was a tedious one. There's plenty of savage / ultimate mechanics that require problem solving & high execution even if you've trained on the sim all day, like in TOP alone we have Playstation markers of P2, basically all of P1, lots of P3, Sigma and Delta trio due to the plenty of RNG involved in the mechanics and relatively short time frames in which to execute the mechanics.

One of the best examples of difficult mechanics this game has had is actually in DSR, where despite being the very first two mechanics in the fight and as such can rapidly prog on both of them, Strength & Sanctity of the Ward have very high execution requirements that delayed pretty much every streaming world prog group for the better half of day 1 on its launch. No tedious 'get 9 minutes into the fight' bs to them, just strict execution checks that tons of groups wiped to even long past getting deep into the fight.

There's also plenty of factors the sim itself doesn't teach, such as simulating what actual damage is like during said mechanic since it uses random values so your healers still have to learn any nuances to healing during said mechanics, or simulating what sort of mit you'd need for certain mechanics. You could practice Gigaflare's edge movement all you like as a healer, but you'd never know what your resource charges/instants/mits look like until you experience it yourself and have to heal on the move.

[SeiyaSoiya]

Why would being able to practice a later phase more efficiently mean it needs to be tuned to be harder?

because otherwise it becomes too easy

[Iyrnthota]

because otherwise it becomes too easy

It doesn't become any easier, it just becomes quicker.

[Kaurhz]

Freely accessible external tools should not mean the said game should be tuned around the expectation that everyone will be using them.

That's just downright poor game design. Games should only really be designed around systems embedded natively within the game.

[GTK0HLK]

The job icon is a ui thing. Your argument is dumb to complain here about headgear. Can you hroth stop complaining in every thread about your headgear issue when its not even relevant? Thanks.

If you want them to stop, ignore them, unless they repeat it multiple times in the thread.

I get you want retaliation, but the rest of us responded accordingly.

[SamSmoot]

Job icons? Don't we already have icons to represent jobs?

[4clubbedace]

Job icons? Don't we already have icons to represent jobs?

job icons next to names in chat

[Sinesters]

I hope they add all the mods! that people like, complaining about mods, is the most stupid thing ever!