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  1. #1
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    Maximoose's Avatar
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    Atlanta Moonshade
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    Sagittarius
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    Red Mage Lv 80

    A way to change job during a cutscene when a dungeon is found

    Sometimes when i wait for a dungeon to start i equip a different job than the one i was when i started to search for a job, and when i'm in a cutscene and the dungeon is found there, i can't start the dungeon while in a cutscene because i have another job equiped. The only way to start the dungeon then is to skip the cutscene and then change the job but the thing is i want to see the cutscene expecially when it's a MSQ. I kinda wish there was a way to chane job while in a cutscene so i can start the dungeon and then when im done with it restart the cutscene with no interuption.
    Maybe there is already a way idk
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
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    Pictomancer Lv 100
    The only way to skip the cutscene and still be able to restart it is to be on the correct job before the cutscene starts. Most (not all) cutscenes will let you accept the queue pop if you are on the correct job, and then you can restart the cutscene after you get out of your duty. If you queue for a duty, you should avoid starting cutscenes on the wrong job.
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    Gisela Thorne
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    Zodiark
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    Black Mage Lv 100
    Or there should be an option to cancel the cutscene, not just just skipping it, considering the feature is clearly already in the game but only usable when you are on the right job.
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    Minali Flo'uf
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    Twintania
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    Ninja Lv 100
    Such an option would be very nice. Still remembering farming the Yafaemi Healing set during a content draught pre-EW. 30-60 minutes waiting was the norm, not the exception (especially as a healer). Yes, ofc I can just not switch jobs and not start any cutscenes, in theory. But no way in hell I am afking doing nothing for such a long time, repeatedly, just in case the queue might pop at some point. (I guess you can always craft or gather things, but I'm not an omnicrafter with every character.)
    And even without such an extreme niche example, I can imagine more people having this issue once Dawntrail drops. With two new DPS jobs to level, DPS queues will be worse than they already are...
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    Larc Grumbles
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    Excalibur
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    Blue Mage Lv 80
    Additionally to what Rongway stated, there should be a way to make the 'queue popped!" window RE-APPEAR if you accidentally hide it either by:
    -selecting 'wait' while in a cutscene (no way to get it to return until you've left the cutscene0
    -entering a cutscene while the window is open (often, cutscenes can come out of nowhere while doing quests that may just start with npc dialogue or even after you've begun speaking to an npc with no way to cancel doing so, forced into a cutscene while the window is open and you're unable to change jobs)

    These are frankly unacceptable UI issues that should embarrass Square Enix and the FFXIV team. Hell, I'm embarrassed for them. They made a game where I can queue up and play 19 different jobs, and I can't simply hit 'accept' on the duty window and have the game automatically change me to the correct job as I magically get teleported to a dungeon?

    Why are we still forced to deal with this, when they're adamant on adding AI companions to make these dungeons even harder to be an experience you'll get to have with human players?
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
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    Quote Originally Posted by Post View Post
    These are frankly unacceptable UI issues that should embarrass Square Enix and the FFXIV team.
    I enjoy the game a lot and am willing to forget a lot of the bad programming practices when they make things that work despite them. However, the team is incredibly bad at UI/UX and I wish they would hire some UI/UX folks who have studied Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen because it's plainly obvious from a lot of usability issues that they haven't.
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