Thread: Forked Tower premade patch coming before 7.3

Originally Posted by AvoSturmfaust

Completly wrong, did you ever just out of curiousity in the Balance Discord the non standard "Reaper" Guide? You will see things you never thought about, people think always your Rotation is Static and you cant do much, but you can do more then you can imagine if you look deeper

and critfarming is actually btw a minmax way too

Can you non-standard Reaper be played with Skillspeed instead of CRIT like a Black Mage?

Originally Posted by Volgia

I mean NGL, I'm kind of scratching my head here about what a min-maxxer in FFXIV looks like. Maybe a tight party composition for parsing and fishing out crits and speed runs, you can't very much theorycraft in this game, there is only one way to play it.

If I wanted to play a skillspeed Machinist I wouldn't meet any DPS checks, if I wanted to go play a full Piety White Mage I would be trolling my runs, the design even with stats is too stiff.

They are players whose goals is to fill 99.9% of the globals in a fight with something, as well as doing the 'Parser Game'. For them, figuring out what is the best GCD before the fight ends is top goals. They do care a lot about min-maxing every little sliver of stat.

It's fine, they do what they must to have fun. I personally find that kind of thing way too stressful for me, because the fights ends up feeling almost like a spreadsheet, which is exactly the reason why I don't enjoy healing in this game.

I do like to play my jobs well (which is not much these days), regardless of not going to such extremes for min-maxing when I try high end content.

Originally Posted by Mawlzy

What a fascinating reading of the situation.

Surely the system was changed because JP boycotted the content, while NA/EU caught fire?

Pretty sure it would never occur to the devs to make a change to prevent people from (allegedly) "behaving poorly." Certainly not an off-patch warmfix.

The ability to make a pf and queue in to FC is the change that makes the content doable.

The instance locking is a change that prevents sniping/griefing.

The first is a solution to the dev failure to make the content playable by any reasonable metric.

The second is a solution to community behavioral issues. Especially because this also ships with the ability to see how many ciphers people have put in. It's a pre-emptive measure to prevent some bad actor from hoarding up on ciphers to force their way into a premade run.

I cannot stress enough that this change only does one single thing, and that is prevent snipers/griefers from trying to throw a wrench into 48 other players organizational efforts.

Whoever designed this entrance method to Forkyou Tower should be fired

Originally Posted by DoubleJustice

The ability to make a pf and queue in to FC is the change that makes the content doable.

The instance locking is a change that prevents sniping/griefing.

The first is a solution to the dev failure to make the content playable by any reasonable metric.

The second is a solution to community behavioral issues. Especially because this also ships with the ability to see how many ciphers people have put in. It's a pre-emptive measure to prevent some bad actor from hoarding up on ciphers to force their way into a premade run.

I cannot stress enough that this change only does one single thing, and that is prevent snipers/griefers from trying to throw a wrench into 48 other players organizational efforts.

I don’t understand the whole cipher lotto entry anyway… just make it one per person. The only point to being able to put in more would be to try to make it more likely you will get in than someone else, which makes no sense when this really can’t be done without organizing groups. Burning the cipher at the reliquary itself is cute and immersive to the story, but it would’ve fit better if we had that for a Normal mode, and put the current version as a direct entry in the Duty Finder with PF.