FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN WEEKS OF FUCK YOU FRIDAYS
SIR KUPSLOCK KUSS THE POMFURY WAS READY TO RUMBLE (but world race finished too quickly)
AND JUST LIKE THAT, THIS EXPANSION'S RAID IS ALL DONE WITH, BOTH IN NORMAL AND SAVAGE. WELL, STILL GOT WEEKLY FARMING GOING ON, BUT CONTENT WISE, WE'RE DONE.
IT'S PVP AND OCCULT CRESCENT ALL THE WAY DOWN… UNTIL 7.5 ANYWAY
ENJOY WHATEVER OTHER GAME YOU'RE PLAYING UNTIL THE EXPANSION. I GOT TRAILS BEYOND THE HORIZON AND DRAGON QUEST VII REIMAGINED COMING UP MYSELF.
AND NEXT WEEK, 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RAGE THREAD, BRING OUT THE PARTY HATS OR SOMETHING.
OFF-THE-THIRD-ROPE RULES :
UPPERCASE IS NOT ENFORCED, BUT ENCOURAGED : RAGE LIKE BEING THE HEEL IN THE UPCOMING FIGHT
EVERY REPLY SHOULD BE EQUALLY ENCOURAGED TO CAPITALIZE WHEN NEED BE
OPTIONAL : TL;DR IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR POST, WRITTEN IN 4 WORDS (EG : BRINGING OUT THE CHAIR), OR IN HAIKU IF YOU WANT
READ EVERYTHING IN THE VOICE OF GYM TRAINERS WITH THE NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE THAT WILL NEVER GO
UNTAGGED SPOILERS WILL GET PINNED DOWN FOR THE COUNT
SUBREDDIT RULES STILL APPLY, LIKE NAME DROPPING AND WITCH HUNTS.
WHEN IN DOUBT REFER TO THE FLOWCHART OF RAGE
HALL OF RAGE
- LAST WEEK'S TOP VOTED THAT IS NOT BUBBLE WRAP : KRILLIN ALWAYS HAS THE BIG STORIES TO TELL
- LAST WEEK'S PERSONAL FAVORITE : IT'S MESO TERMINALS ALL THE WAY DOWN
THE MEGA LIST OF MISSPELLED WORDS
IT'S BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER. READ THROUGH IT FOR LAUGH, OR SUBMIT YOUR OWN AWFUL MISSPELLINGS THAT EITHER MADE YOU LAUGH OR YOU'RE TIRED OF SEEING (LIKE TOMBSTONES AND SCRIPTS).
JOIN THE SALTWORKS DISCORD FOR OUT-OF-THREAD RAGE AND VENTING. WE GOT A DEDICATED ALL-CAPS CHANNEL, BUT ALSO GENERAL AND COMIC RELATED CHANNELS.
IF I SEE ONE MORE STUFFED ALPHA I SWEAR I WILL PERSONALLY TURN OMEGA INTO A SPEAK AND SPELL!!!!!
IT’S THE WATERMELONS FOR ME. GRRR. I CANNOT EVEN DESYNTH THEM.
AND NOW I GET 2 STUFFED BOM BOKO. BRING ME ONE MORE OF THESE, RETAINER, AND I WILL STUFF THEM SOMEWHERE YOU WONT LIKE.
SOMEONE SENT ME A TELL COMPLIMENTING MY GLAM JUST AS MY QUEUE POPPED SO I COULDN'T ANSWER THEM! BY THE TIME THE RAID WAS FINISHED, I TRIED TO SEND A RESPONSE BY EITHER THEY DISCONNECTED OR WERE IN AN INSTANCE OF THEIR OWN!
THANK YOU KIND STRANGER! WHEREVER YOU MAY BE!
I HAD AN OLD BUDDY FROM A YEAR BACK VISIT THE SERVER I AM IN AND I HAD JUST POPPED INTO DOOMTRAIN EX AND SAW HIS MESSAGE. CAME BACK AND HE WAS GONE =(
CRAZY? I WAS CRAZY ONCE. THEY PUT ME IN A RAID. A SAVAGE RAID. A SAVAGE RAID WITH BATS. AND BATS MAKE ME CRAZY. CRAZY? I WAS CRAZY ONCE. THEY PUT ME IN A RAID. A SAVAGE RAID. A SAVAGE RAID WITH BATS. AND BATS MAKE ME CRAZY. CRAZY?.....
WHY DOES EVERY MELEE PLAYER I MEET GLEEFULLY THROW THEMSELVES INTO ME AND MY COTANK'S DEBUFF. YOU POPPED YOUR DEBUFF EARLY SPECIFICALLY TO AVOID THIS.
TL;DR AVERAGE DAY IN AFKLINES
ONLY 10 MORE FRONTLINE WINS FOR SNOWMAN MOUNT, THEN I'M NEVER PLAYING THIS GARBAGE MODE AGAIN (UNTIL NEXT BATTLE PASS OR NEW MAP ACHIEVEMENTS.....)
GNB PREMADES FARMING NOOBS, AND AFKER STACKS IN EVERY GAME THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO KICK OUT. AT THE SAME TIME PEOPLE TRY TO VOTE KICK SOMEONE LEADING (GUY MADE BAD CALL AT THE START OF THE GAME, SO BETTER KICK HIM OUT. EVERYTHING JUST TO NOT HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME).
ACTUALLY IT MAKES SENSE, MOST OF DECENT PLAYERS ARE DOING SAVAGE SO
FRONTLINE ENJOYERSPEOPLE WHO HATE THEMSELVES ARE LEFT WITH THIS SHITSHOW.I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO USE THE MOUNT. TIME TO GET MY CLOWN GLAM AND QUEUE FOR ANOTHER GAME.
IT'S HORRIBLE RIGHT NOW. THE OTHER DAY, I NOTICED ONE OF OUR TEAMMATES AFK BEHIND A PILLAR IN AN ENEMY BASE. INITIATED A VOTE DISMISS. VOTE DISMISS REJECTED. THEY ENDED UP FORGETTING TO MOVE AND GETTING KICKED TOWARDS THE END OF THE MATCH.
IT'S SO IRRITATING.
I WISH THEY WOULD IMPROVE OR CHANGE AFK TIMER. SOMETHING LIKE IF PERSON DID 0 DMG AFTER SOME TIME, THEY WOULD GET KICKED OUT. IN PVE PEOPLE MOSTLY DON'T TOLERATE SOMEONE DOING NOTHING, WHY SHOULD IT BE ANY DIFFERENT FOR PVP.
THEY ARE GETTING CREATIVE WITH HIDING SPOTS TOO. I NOTICED GROUP OF PEOPLE JUST RUNNING AROUND THE MAP, AND OF COURSE AT THE END OF THE MATCH I SEE THEY ALL HAD 0 DMG DONE. ALSO THAT CAVE OVERLOOKING ONE OF THE CENTER NODES, I SAW SOMEONE HIDING THERE FOR THE WHOLE GAME. IT'S BAFFLING, THEY ARE CLEARLY SITTING AT PC, WHY NOT AT LEAST TRY TO FOLLOW THE TEAM AND PRESS SOME BUTTONS..
I HALF-JOKED YESTERDAY THAT THE EXP YOU GET SHOULD SCALE OFF THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE YOU DO. THEY WOULD NEVER DO IT, BUT IT MIGHT ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TRY AND PLAY THE GAME MODE INSTEAD OF AFKING OR THROWING BY WALKING INTO ENEMY TEAMS AND GETTING KILLED ON PURPOSE.
SADLY TRUE, I DOUBT FRONTLINES WILL GET ANY CHANGES LIKE THAT. I THINK REWARDS BASED ON PERSONAL PERFORMANCE WOULD BE MORE FAIR THAN BASED ON TEAM PLACEMENT. SO EVEN IF TEAM IS BAD, IT'S STILL POSSIBLE TO GET DECENT REWARD BY PLAYING WELL.
MAYBE FOR BATTLE PASS REWARDS THEY COULD INCLUDE TASKS SUCH AS "WIN 10 GAMES WITH 20 OR MORE ASSISTS", "CAPTURE 5 NODES" OR SIMILAR (I'M SURE A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD HATE THIS THOUGH).
IT'S A SHAME, REALLY. FRONTLINE CAN BE REALLY ENJOYABLE WHEN YOU GET A TEAM THAT ACTUALLY WANTS TO PLAY, BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE THERE JUST TO GET IT OVER WITH.
WHY CAN'T I BLACKLIST SOMEONE WHO IS OFFLINE!?
RECENTLY COMPLETELY CUT SOMEONE OUT OF MY LIFE AND INSTEAD OF JUST LOGGING ON, RIGHT CLICKING THEIR NAME IN MY FRIENDS LIST AND HITTING BLACKLIST, I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THEM TO LOG IN, OR LOG IN WHEN THEY HAPPEN TO BE ONLINE, AND ONLY THEN I CAN BLACKLIST THEM!?
SQUENIX WHAT IN THE UNINTUITIVE. I DO NOT WANT THIS PERSON ON MY FRIENDS LIST.
MY ONLY CHOICES ARE TO EITHER KEEP THEM THERE FOR NOW AND CHECK PERIODICALLY TO SEE IF THEY LOG IN, OR KEEP NAMESEARCHING THEM. NEITHER OF WHICH I SHOULD HAVE TO DO!! LET ME JUST BLACKLIST THEM!!!
lemme add to that- why can't I blacklist someone from a previous login?! D<
I forgot whatever the reason was, but I forgot to blacklist someone before I DC traveled back, and when I tried to- it threw the above error
EITHER BECAUSE THE DEVS HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE KIND OF SCENARIO WHERE SUCH A THING WOULD BE NECESSARY, OR BECAUSE THE DEVS ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD MAKE SUCH A THING NECESSARY. /halfjoking
ADDING PEOPLE AS FRIENDS WORKS THE SAME WAY!! WILD THAT THE BLACKLIST ALSO DOES. THAT’S SO MUCH WORSE.
BUT SERIOUSLY, I PLAYED AT LEAST A DOZEN MEDIOCRE F2P GAMES IN THE LATE 2000s AND EARLY 2010s AND EVEN THEY DIDN’T HAVE FRIEND LISTS THAT WORKED THAT WAY. IT’S SO WEIRD. WAS FFXI LIKE THAT?
MY NEW STATIC CLEARED THE M9s AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER, I FELT CONFIDENT AND SURE OF MYSELF.
ALSO A LITTLE NUMB AS SHOCK HAD SET IN THAT WE CLEARED SO QUICKLY.
MY PREVIOUS GROUP WAS ALL ABOUT CLIQUES AND MAKING JUDGEMENTS ABOUT MY HEALING WHEN THEY, THEMSELVES, WERE FAILING MECHS, MIT CALLS AND SKILL CHECKS, BUT THE VERY FACT THAT I PARSED BLUE IN MY NEW GROUP !AND! WAS CONGRATULATED FOR MITTING AND HEALING WELL, JUST FELT GREAT.
I'M STARTING TO FEEL A LITTLE LESS BITTER ABOUT BEING EXCLUDED FROM GROUP ACTIVITIES IN MY LAST STATIC BECAUSE I'M WASN'T SOME OLD FRIEND FROM A GAME I DIDN'T PLAY. MORE LIKE SEEING IT AS A FAVOR THAT FORCED ME TO MOVE ON, FIND PEOPLE THAT MATTER AND CARED ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER.
EVEN KNOWING THAT TWO OF THE BIGGER OFFENDERS IN THAT LAST STATIC CLEARED WITH GREYS JUST REMINDS ME HOW MUCH OF A HEADACHE PLAYING WITH THEM WAS. I RATHER EARN MY CLEAR WITH A TEAM THAT WANTS ME THERE THAN A GROUP THAT COULDN'T GET PAST THEIR OWN DRAMA.
HONESTLY SEEMS LIKE THE LAST GROUP WAS JUST USING YOU AS AN EMOTIONAL PUNCHING BAG/SCAPEGOAT TO HIDE THEIR OWN F UPS. GLAD YOU'RE WITH GOOD PEOPLE NOW AND GRATZ ON THE CLEAR, YOU EARNED IT!
SALTED EARTH IN M10S IS. HM. INTERESTING.
ALSO ON ONE PULL THE PF DRG FAT FINGERED ELUSIVE JUMP DURING THE DEEP IMPACT (FAR BAIT TB) CAST AND PROMPTLY ATE SHIT. I'M NOT EVEN MAD, THAT WAS FUNNY AS HELL.
M10S SALTED EARTH TIMINGS ARE GIGA CURSED, BUT IT'S THE BEST KIND OF CURSED WHERE YOU HAVE TO 1ST GCD SE ON OPENER SO YOU CAN TWO-TARGET SnD ON THE THIRD DIRT BEFORE THEY LEAVE FOR INSANE AIR. HOWEVER IT'S CRAZY TIGHT.
I'M MILDLY FRUSTRATED BY PF BEING FULL OF CLEAR PARTIES FOR M9S BUT PEOPLE DIE TO THE BATS! I DON'T GET IT! HOW ARE PEOPLE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE BATS IF THEY'RE CLEAR READY?!
COMPLETELY BATTY
I'M CLEARED AND THE BAT STOMP IS THE ONLY MECHANIC THAT STILL SCARES ME.
NOT AS RANGED; THAT MECHANIC IS SO FREE FOR RANGED AND I STILL SEE RANGED EAT IT OCCASIONALLY WHICH IS FUNNY.
BUT AS MELEE TRYING TO FIGHT FOR UPTIME, THE OT MUST ACCEPT CUCK POSITION AND WAIT. A LOT OF TANKS DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT THAT
MY DUDE, YOU'RE LEVEL 100. WHY ARE YOU STILL DOUBLE STACKING STACK MARKERS IN M9 AND KILLING EVERYONE?
LEVEL 100 ≠ SKILL, SILLY!
HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ME TWICE IN M9N
TODAY HAS BEEN STRUGGLE AFTER STRUGGLE FOR ME. I CANNOT CATCH A BREAK.
FIRST I SNEAK INTO A FARM PARTY WITH THE HELP OF A FRIEND ON AN ALT SO I CAN CLEAR DOOMTRAIN EX AND GET A WEAPON FOR SAID ALT SO I CAN HELP SAID FRIEND IN M9S. WE GET IN AND MY INTERNET IMMEDIATELY SHITS ITSELF AND I HAVE TO LEAVE WHILE APOLOGIZING PROFUSELY AND SWEARING UP AND DOWN THAT IM NOT TRYING TO TROLL ITS JUST THAT I LITERALLY CANT USE ANY OGDCS AND ITS A 50/50 ON IF I CAN EVEN MAKE IT THROUGH MY 123 COMBO.
I THEN HOP BACK ONTO MY MAIN TO DO ROULETTES. I GET NECRON AND DURING THE SECOND PHASE I MISS THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE GRABBY HANDS IS AIMED DIRECTLY AT ME WHILE I HAVE THE TANKBUSTER. I DO NOT NOTICE IN TIME, CAUSING ME TO BE DRAGGED OVER TO THE PARTY AND DROP THE TANKBUSTER ON THEM. SOMEONE IN THE PARTY BLOWS UP ABOUT A HEALER RESCUE TROLLING AND I HAVE TO SHAMEFULLY EXPLAIN THAT NO, NO ONE RESCUE TROLLED. IM JUST BLIND AND DUMB AND GOT HIT BY AN AOE THAT PULLS ME.
I TAKE A BREAK TO CRAFT. MY INTERNET SHITS ITSELF AGAIN AND I DC MID-CRAFT. THERE GOES MY MATS. WHATEVER. I DONT EVEN CARE ANYMORE.
30 MINUTES AGO I SEE A BIG FISH I HAVENT CAUGHT YET IS UP. I HEAD OVER, DO THE PREP AND ALL THAT. A FELLOW BIG FISHER ROLLS OVER AND WE DO THE STANDARD FISHER GREETING AND TELL EACH OTHER GOOD LUCK AS THE WINDOW STARTS. I HOOK THE FISH FIRST CAST BUT ACCIDENTALLY HIT REST INSTEAD OF REELING IT IN. IT DOES NOT BITE AGAIN FOR THE REST OF THE WINDOW. MY FELLOW FISHER FRIEND HEARD THIS HAPPEN TO ME AS HE WAS SITTING DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME AND GIVES ME HIS CONDOLENCES.
IF ANYONE NEEDS ME, I WILL BE PLAYING DEAD IN THE NEAREST BODY OF WATER WHILE WONDERING WHAT COSMIC DEITY I PISSED OFF TODAY.
I HAVE NOTHING MUCH REALLY TO ANGRY ABOUT RIGHT NOW EXCEPT WHO THE HELL THOUGHT "EXIT GAME IF GAME START BUTTON RETURNED ERROR" IS A FUCKING GOOD SHIT?
ACTUALLY TO THINK ABOUT IT I DON'T REALLY LIKE A12 P1'S BGM NO OFFENSE TO THOSE WHO LIKE IT TBH, I ENJOY A11S SO FAR MOSTLY CUZ THAT BGM IS A BANGER
EDIT: DAFUQ IS M12? MUST HAVE BEEN MY MITIGATION SHEET
Try No Kill plugin. I would consider it essential.
thx, but man imagine needing a plugin for something that shouldn't even be needed and not even a "in-game" thing cuz smol indi company :/ at least this doesn't happen as often for me but god i cannot imagine how utter shit this could be for NA people these days
i don't think i have ever seen a game that exits the app entirely on error & need to reenter auth info THEN launch the game even back 2010, usually it would only require relogin from inside the game...
FURTHER TO LAST WEEK, I TAKE IT BACK.
EXPERT ROLOS PUT ME IN MISTWAKE WITH A SMN WHO WAS ABSOLUTE TOILETS. THE DUTY SUPPORT-APPOINTED TANK WAS NOWHERE NEAR THAT BAD.
THE SMN BLEW UP EVERY ROCK THEY FEASIBLY COULD, GOT PETRIFIED AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE, were somehow surprisingly ok at boss 2's take on Envy Engulfs, AND SEEMED TO PICK THE POINT WHERE THE MOST LEVIN ORBS' LINE AOES INTERSECTED EVERY TIME.
LIKE, OK, FINE, I DON'T THINK I'M GOOD ENOUGH FOR EX OR HARDER, I STILL SCREW UP, AND THERE ARE SOME MECHANICS I JUST DON'T GET - SO I'M NOT EXPECTING PEOPLE TO BE AMAZING, BUT SO LONG AS PEOPLE ARE GIVING THINGS AN EARNEST GO (EG THE DRG THIS WEEK WHO REALLY STRUGGLED WITH CLOUD DECK BUT STILL GAVE IT A TRY AND GOT BETTER AS THE FIGHT WENT ON; THE WHM IN DOHN MHEG WHO WAS RECEPTIVE TO POINTERS, ETC) I DON'T REALLY MIND.
THE CHARITABLE EXPLANATION IS THE SMN HAD BAD REACTION TIMES/HIGH PING/WAS GENERALLY HAVING A BAD DAY/NOT QUITE CLOCKED THAT, BY L100, DANGER PUDDLES SHOW UP TOO LATE TO BE A RELIABLE WARNING AND YOU OUGHT TO INSTEAD BE LOOKING AT OTHER INDICATORS (EG CAST BARS, ATTACK NAMES, WHAT THE MODEL'S DOING, STUFF LIKE THE SPOKES COMING OUT OF THE ORBS)/ETC - BUT PART OF ME DOES WONDER IF, SINCE THE SMN SEEMED TO BE GETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOT LEARNING FROM IT TO THE POINT WHERE IT FELT LIKE THEY WERE DOING THE ""ANTI-MECHANICS"" AS IT WERE, THIS WAS DELIBERATE? I DON'T KNOW.
IN CASES LIKE THAT I JUST LEAVE THE PLAYER ON THE GROUND SO THEY CAN'T FUCK US UP ANY MORE.
THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.
POP-POP-POP-NEVER-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-GONNA-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-GIVE-POP-POP-POP-POP-YOU-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-UP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-NEVER-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-GONNA-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-LET-POP-POP-POP-POP-MEMES-POP-POP-POP-POP-DIE-POP-POP-
LOL HOW DARE YOU!!!??
I ONCE INCLUDED IN A CONTRACT FOR A FULL TIME ADMIN THAT THAT SPECIFIC MEME (INCLUDED IN ANY COMPANY BASED/RELATED COMMUNICATION) WAS GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE FIRING. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SIGN.
FUCK YOU
ALL IN THE SPIRIT OF THE RAGE THREAD
I WISH I HAD A STABLE ENOUGH SCHEDULE FOR A STATIC. I TRAVEL A LOT AND CHANGE TIME ZONES FREQUENTLY SO IT'S JUST NOT IN THE CARDS FOR ME AT THE MOMENT. I HAVE A LOT OF FUN RAIDING REGARDLESS BUT PF AND WAITING FOR GROUPS TO FILL IS A BIG PAIN POINT THAT I WISH I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH
ON THE PLUS SIDE, I LOVE RAIDING ON AST!!! I DID SCH THE LAST TWO TIERS AND IT WAS FINE BUT I NEVER GOT TO THE POINT WHERE I FELT LIKE I WAS FULLY PULLING MY OWN WEIGHT, BUT ON AST I'VE FOUND A REALLY GOOD RHYTHM. CLEARED M9S TODAY AND EXCITED TO MOVE ON TO M10S
LOOK, I KNOW MMO PLAYERS DON'T GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOIT FOOTBALL BUT I NEED TO RANT.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE TWELVE I NEED EITHER INDIANA OR OREGON TO KEEP UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROM BEING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
I'M A FLORIDA STATE FAN AND I CANT LIVE IN A HELLSCAPE WHERE I HAVE TO SAY "MIAMI ARE THE CHAMPS" FOR A WHOLE FUCKIN YEAR.
I'D RATHER BE MADE TO LISTEN URIANGER GIVE A LECTURE ON THE AETHERIC (IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL THAT) PROPERTIES OF ARCHON LOAF.
I'm rooting for Oregon. As much as I hate them in the regular season, I gotta root for the former Pac-12 to have some glory. As much as I want a good story like Indiana, I gotta root against them because Mendoza was immature about the way he transferred out of Cal. So, defaulting on Oregon.
(you're not alone, sports fans who play FFXIV exist)
Man M12 IS A FUCKING DISAPPOINTING BOSS PRESENTATION WISE COMPARED TO THE ELEVEN FIGHTS BEFORE IT..
HE'S BASICALLY WHAT THE FUCK IS HE EVEN DOING HERE? HIS P2 IS ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE WITH MECHANICS THAT ABSOLUTELY MAKE NO FUCKING SENSE FOR A WRESTLING BOSS REALITY MANIPULATION, ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION CLONING
AND HE'S A FUCKING SILENT BOSS TOO. JUST LAME ALL AROUND. (NO COMMENTS ON THE ACTUAL FIGHT)
W H Y T H E F U C K DO I NEED A VPN TO PLAY FFXIV NORMALLY? IS IT A KOREAN MMO WHO'S SERVERS ARE LOCATED IN KOREA? (FUCK YOU MAPLESTORY), I JUST WANTED TO PLAY AGAIN ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES OF ALL TIME, SQUARE ENIX INCOMPETENCE KNOW NO FUCKING BOUNDS HOLY SHIT FROM MISMANAGING FFXIV TO CANCELLING SEVERAL GAMES WHERE YOKO TARO WAS INVOLVED, MY SUBSCRIPTION ENDS IN 3 DAYS I GUESS ILL GO BACK TO PLAYING SPACE MARINE 2 AND DONT COME BACK UNTIL 8.0, I HOPE EVERYONE MANAGES TO ENJOY THE GAME WITH THE CONSTANT FUCKING DDOSES.
USE CLOUDFLARE WARP ITS FREE, NOT A VPN, AND STOP MOST DDOSES
WARP IS IN FACT A VPN BY DEFAULT, THATS HOW THAT WORKS. IT DOES NOT HELP IF NOT USED IN WARP MODE.
MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT ITS A DNS SERVER, NOT A VPN.
Changing DNS servers cannot by itself help if the servers are getting DDoS'd. The DNS system just maps hostnames (for example, na.finalfantasyxiv.com) to numeric IP addresses (like 13.33.109.112), which are what your computer actually needs in order to send messages to those hosts. DNS alone has no impact on how the traffic is actually routed between your computer and the remote server, or on how much other traffic is being sent to the server.
That's a good point. And checking more, its both. 1.1.1.1 is the dns service and warp is a vpn. The come bundled in the same little bit of software. In any case, its free and fixes the issue.
I ENJOY THE TRANSITION FROM PEOPLE RAGING IN ALL CAPS ABOUT VPNS to calmly explaining the pros and cons and how they actually work.
EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION DESERVES CALM.
Cloudflare has a DNS. WARP is there VPN service built on top of their existing infrastructure. (WARP also has an option to just encrypt DNS traffic rather than your entire connection, but it defaults to full encrypt.)
WARP uses the wireguard protocol last I checked if you’d like more info on that.
Cloudflare, as you can imagine, has a lot of services on offer.
I FINALLY ENDED UP CLEARING M9S AFTER BEING STUCK AT ENRAGE FOR A WHILE BECAUSE OF PARTIES WHO WOULD WIPE EARLY IN AND BE CLEARLY NOT ENRAGE TO CLEAR PARTIES.
WITH THIS GROUP I WAS ALREADY DONE AND MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT BUT TURNS OUT IT WOULD BE A ONE AND DONE KIND OF PARTY WITH ME AS ONE OF THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE WHO DIED.
LIKE IM GLAD I CLEARED AND SO GODDARN HAPPY BUT HOLY SHIT AINT I EMBARRASED I DIED TO THE CIRCLE BATS AT THE VERY START DUE TO MISJUDGING A DISTANCE. THIS IS GONNA BE PERMANENTLY ETCHED INTO MY SOUL.
MAKES ME THINK I WAS THE PROBLEM ALL ALONG
THE COMBACK CAMPAIGN FOR RETURNING PLAYERS. COME PLAY FOR FREE FOR 4 DAYS.
HEY SQUARE-ENIX...WHY NOT GIVE US SUBBERS 4 DAYS ADDED SUB TO OUR ACCOUNTS FOR ALL THIS CRAP DC'ING ?
YEAH, I'D CERTAINLY BE A LOT MORE TEMPTED BY THE COMEBACK CAMPAIGN IF I COULD BE REASONABLY CERTAIN THAT THOSE FOUR DAYS WOULDN'T BE SPENT STARING AT 90002 ERRORS AND QUEUE TIMERS. (ALSO "HELPS" THAT WITH THE LAST ONE, I JUST RAN THROUGH THE MSQ AND THEN BAILED CAUSE NOTHING ELSE SEEMED WORTH THE HASSLE)
I have no idea whether they would give players free time or not, but I'm pretty sure they're not going to do it if there isn't something done to reduce the number of them. Because then it creates an expectation that every time it happens, they'll give out more free time.
THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE COMPENSATING US EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS, HELLO? WE’RE PAYING FOR A SERVICE AND THAT SERVICE IS BEING INTERRUPTED EVERY DAY! YEAH, WE NEED TO BE COMPENSATED.
While I can see your point of view, I seriously doubt that's going to happen.
TO THE SCH I HAD IN MY ROULETTES LAST NIGHT. DUDE, YOU'RE LEVEL 100, IN THE MOST RECENT DUNGEON. LEARN TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN SPAM PHYSICK. TRASH PULLS WERE BASICALLY ALL PHYSICK SPAM, MAYBE AN ADLO (NO RECITATION) BEFORE THE PULL, MAYBE A SUCCOR FOR BOSS RAID WIDES. NO EXCOG, NO INDOM, NO LUSTRATE, NO SOIL, NO FAIRY SKILLS, JUST PHYSICK. JUST PHYSICK, ONLY PHYSICK. LEARN THE REST OF YOUR KIT. (my rage was mostly asuaged for the rest of the evening by the amazing astro I had in my next dungeon who I don't think touched a single gcd heal the entire dungeon, but man, that sch who clearly doesn't know their kit)
COMING BACK FROM AN EXTENDED HIATUS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE ROTATIONS ARE ANYMORE OR WHAT IS GOING ON IN STORMBLOOD MSQ. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? DO I STRUGGLE AND RELEARN MY STUFF OR MAKE A NEW CHARACTER AND TRUDGE THROUGH ARR AGAIN
Watch a video recap of ARR and HW, or worst case do New Game+. I don't think you'll want to start over.
What the other reply said, but you can also rewatch cutscenes in inn rooms and/or check your list of completed quests to read the journal summaries.
A9N IN DUTY FINDER THIS WEEK. I'M USED TO IT BEING QUITE BAD BECAUSE OF THE GENERATORS AND THIS RUN WAS NO DIFFERENT. I WAS ON HEALER AND THE PERFECT LEGEND TANK DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO GENERATORS AT ALL. I JUMPED ON THE PLATFORMS HE NEEDED TO TAKE THE MOBS TO BUT JUST... DECIDED TO RUN THEM OVER TO A DIFFERENT PLATFORM WHICH WASN'T GLOWING THEN WHEN THE FAUST SPAWNS, HE DRAGS IT INTO THE FIRE, WIPING US.
WE DON'T EVEN GET TO PULL AGAIN AS EVERYONE BUT THE MAIN TANK (WHO KEPT CLEAVING PEOPLE), 2 DPS AND ME, ONE OF THE HEALERS LEFT THE DUTY. WE REFILLED WITH EVERYONE BUT A HEALER, SO I FIGURED I'D TRY TO SOLO HEAL IT. (A HEALER JOINED NEAR THE END BUT COULDN'T GET INTO THE FIGHT)
I'M NOT EXACTLY A GOOD HEALER, BUT I WAS MULTITASKING HEALING PEOPLE GETTING CLEAVED BY THE TANK, DOING THE GENERATORS BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WANTED TO DO THEM, ESUNAING THE SCRAP BURST DEBUFFS AND PLACING THE MOBS CORRECTLY ON THE GRATES AND WE CLEAR THIS ATTEMPT. NO-ONE DIED EITHER.
I'M QUITE PROUD OF MYSELF SINCE I'VE NEVER REALLY SOLO HEALED A FIGHT BEFORE SO IT WAS A NEW THING TO ME. I LEAVE AND GET 0 COMMENDATIONS FOR LITERALLY SOLO HEALING THE FIGHT AND DOING THE GENERATORS FOR PEOPLE. THAT'S WHEN I FELT A LITTLE BAD AND QUESTIONING WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER BECAUSE I'M USED TO GETTING COMMS ON HEALER AND TO GET 0 FROM SOLO HEALING SOMETHING LIKE THIS KIND OF HURTS GIVEN I GAVE IT MY ALL WITH THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
COMMS (OR A LACK OF) DON'T MEAN SHIT AND PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS COMM THE PERSON THEY THINK WAS THE MVP. PEOPLE CLICK WHICHEVER RANDOM PERSON, WHOEVER HAS THE BEST GLAM, THE GUY WITH THE FUNNY NAME, THE PERSON WHO PLAYED LIKE SUCH SHIT THAT THE COMM WAS SARCASTIC, ETC. I FIND I RARELY GET ANY COMMS AFTER SPENDING THE ENTIRE DUTY SCRAPING PEOPLE OFF THE FLOOR AND SUSPECT THAT "I DON'T WANT TO PUSH BUTTONS OR PAY ATTENTION OR MOVE" CONTRIBUTES TO BOTH.
THAT, AND SOMEONE SOLO HEALING USUALLY JUST ISN'T OBVIOUS TO THE REST OF THE PARTY. THEY'RE NOT TRACKING WHICH HEALING SKILLS ARE RESTORING THEIR HP OR WHICH HEALER IS USING THEM. I'VE WRONGLY ASSUMED ONE HEALER WAS SLACKING IN A DUTY AND THEN OBSERVED THE DARK MAGICKS AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT, THAT HEALER WAS HEALING THEIR ENTIRE ASS OFF AND IT WAS THE OTHER ONE THAT COULDN'T MANAGE MORE THAN A SINGLE MEDICA 3.
99% OF THE TIME, THE KIND OF PLAYERS WHO NEED TO BE CARRIED THAT HARD ARE COMPLETELY UNABLE TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR PARTY AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN ODDLY TALKATIVE NPCs, LET ALONE IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO CARRIED THEIR ASSES AND COMM THAT PERSON.
THEY PROBABLY WERE ASHAMED THAT THEY COULDN'T DO THE SAME THING.
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS MADE ME DROP FFXIV AFTER MY RAID GROUP BROKE UP ON M8S.
FRIEND GOT ME A MONTH OF SUB TIME FOR XMAS
FINANCIAL SITUATION UNCHANGED AND NOW HAVE TO DROP FROM NEW RAID GROUP THAT WAS GONNA LET ME BENCHWARM
SEE YOU ALL IN A FEW MONTHS I GUESS/HOPE
AT LEAST YOU CAN USE THAT TIME TO SORT OUT YOUR FINANCIAL ISSUES.
HAPPY NON-FF14 RAGE: GOT THE PLAT FOR DRAGON QUEST 1+2 REMAKE. PHENOMENAL GAMES, I LOVE THEM ALOT. UNFORTUNATELY NOW I AM SUPER BURNT OUT ON TURN-BASED RPGS, WHICH MEANS I WON'T BE ABLE TO ENJOY DRAGON QUEST 7 REIMAGINED AT LAUNCH. BUT I'LL TRY TO GET OVER IT SOON.
NEW YEAR SO NEW ROUND OF DUMB PAPERWORK SO I CAN GET PAID. THEY HAVE ALL MY INFO WHY DO I NEED TO FILL EVERYTHING OUT AGAIN?
I'M SEEING AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE IN M10S ARENA SPLIT PROG WHO ARE CLEARLY NOT GOOD ON SNAKING/DOUBLEALLEYOOP. AN AWFUL LOT OF YOU THINK YOU'RE CAPABLE OF JUMPING AHEAD AND BULLSHITTING YOUR WAY THROUGH MECHANICS AND YOU DEFINITELY AREN'T. ESPECIALLY NOT IN THIS FIGHT WHICH REQUIRES SOME MEASURE OF PRECISION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO AERIAL PARALLELS.
PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR PROG POINT, LEARN TO RESOLVE THE MECHANIC PROPERLY, AND STOP TORTURING THE REST OF US. RESPECT THE CONTENT.
I RAGED ABOUT NO EFFORT, SOMEONE MAKE THIS OUTFIT POST ON FFXIVGLAMOR BUT IT HAS GOTTEN SO MUCH WORSE.
EVERYONE JOINING XIV WANTS TO LOOK LIKE THEY ARE PLAYING A CHINESE GACHA GAME.
BUT I SPENT TWENTY DOLLARS ON THE LATEST <THING> AND DYED IT <<COLOUR!>> AREN'T YOU IMPRESSED BY MY CREATIVITY?
[INSERT BUZZ LIGHTYEAR MEME]
“UNABLE TO OBTAIN THE BIG BANG TICKET (PHAENNA). INSUFFICIENT INVENTORY SPACE.”
WHY
IS MY PARTY
STACKING EVERY SINGLE TARGETED AOE ON TOP OF EACH OTHER
LITERALLY EVERY MECHANIC SOMEBODY RUNS TO OVERLAP THEIR AOE WITH ANOTHER PERSON
FOUR OF THEM JUST STOOD IN THREE STACKED AOES AND A STACK MARKER AND WENT SURPRISE PIKACHU WHEN HALF THE PARTY DIED.
AND THEN I GOT 90002'D AS THE ONLY SURVIVING HEALER
I'M NOT ACTUALLY ANGRY RIGHT NOW BUT KINDA F YOU KRYSTA FOR HAVING SUCH INSANE RNG. THREE EX MOUNT DROPS IN ONE NIGHT, INCLUDING ONE CASE WHERE SHE LEFT THE INSTANCE BEFORE SHE COULD CLAIM IT ONLY TO HAVE THE BOSS DROP ANOTHER OUT OF PITY ON THE VERY NEXT PULL. SAVE SOME LUCK FOR THE REST OF US.
(Also thanks again for helping with those last two Hesperos Savage clears I needed! Glad we didn't have to try to pug during Savage Prog week. Enjoy your small army of mounts!)
BIT OF POSITIVE YELLIN' FIRST- YA BUNNY FINALLY MADE IT INTO ENDWALKER PROPER.
UNFORTUNATELY, TO GET THERE I HAD TO ENDURE THAT SHARLAYAN WANKER FOURCHENAULT.
CHRIST, THAT MAN IS A BASTARD. AMELIANCE BETTER BE A DAMN SAINT IN COMPARISON, OR I SWEAR TO GOD I'M KIDNAPPING EVERYBODY IN THE LIMSA AETHERYTE PLAZA, STICKING THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LEVEILLEUR ESTATE AND USING THEM TO SUMMON A PRIMAL OF PURE MEMERY.
SECOND RAGE- SO WHILE I'VE BEEN POUNDING OUT MSQ, I'VE ALSO BEEN CATCHING UP ON SOME OF THE SB/SHB RAID STORYLINES. PROBLEM IS, OF COURSE, WHEN YOU DO A RAID AS PART OF A QUEST... IT WARPS YOU TO THE RAID ENTRANCE AFTER THE RAID.
SO NATURALLY THE QUEUE ALWAYS POPS DURING A NICE LONG MSQ CUTSCENE... AFTER WHICH I HAVE TO TELEPORT BACK TO THE MSQ LOCATION TO PICK UP THE CUTSCENE AGAIN... WHICH IS USUALLY JUST ENOUGH TIME FOR THE QUEUE TO POP AGAIN.
OF COURSE I COULD JUST FOCUS ON THE MSQ AND FORGET THE RAID LINES TILL AFTER I'M DONE (OR VICE VERSA)... BUT MY ADHD ASS WOULD BURN OUT FASTER THAT WAY. AT LEAST I ONLY HAVE TO DO THIS ONCE PER RAID. SOON, I SHALL BE FREE OF THIS SISYPHEAN TORMENT.
ON A RELATED NOTE- WHY DOES MY JOB GOTTA KEEP GIVING ME SHIFTS THAT FINISH AT MIDNIGHT? BY THE TIME I GET HOME AND FIRE UP FFXIV EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE SERVER IS CLOSE TO PACKING IT IN FOR THE NIGHT.
AND WHILE I CAN PLAY ON MY STEAM DECK AT WORK, I HAVE ENOUGH TROUBLE WITH THE DNC ROTATION AS IT IS WITHOUT THROWING IN MY RETAIL ROTATION IN THERE TOO. UGH.
IF YOU TRIED TO SNEAK INTO MY ENRAGE PARTY WITHOUT EVER SEEING ENGAGE I 100% PASSPORT CHECKED YOU AND KICKED YOU. DON'T EVEN TRY TO PRETEND LIKE YOU ARE READY TO CLEAR THE FIGHT WITH MORE THAN 8% BOSS HEALTH.
I SAW 40% PROG POINT MORONS TRYING TO GET IN, DON'T MESSAGE ME AFTER WONDERING WHY, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY I BOOTED YOUR TIME WAISTING CANDYASS.
OH AND THE AMOUNT OF ACTUAL BRAINLETS JOINING WITHOUT READING AND SUGGESTING A DIFFERENT STRAT CAN ALSO KICK ROCKS. MAKE YOU OWN PARTY IF YOU WANT A SPECIFIC SETUP.
YOUR WEEKLY SERVING OF EORZEA ACCORDING TO GARFIELD - WEEK 245. NO, I HADN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THESE, JUST TOOK A HOLIDAY BREAK.
SUGGEST YOUR OWN STRIPS AND SCRIPTS AND I'LL MAKE THEM FOR YOU
the world first comic is so real lol
WHY DO I HAVE TO COUNT ON OTHER PLAYERS FOR TRIALS LIKE BATTLE ON THE BIG BRIDGE AND NOT RANDOM NPCS LIKE USUAL?!
NPCS ARE A MORE RECENT ADDITION TO THE GAME AND ALAS THE DEVS ARE PRIORITIZING ONLY ADDING THEM TO THE GAME FOR CONTENT THAT IS STRICTLY NECESSARY TO PROCEED IN THE MSQ
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BECAUSE 1, PROGRAMMING FOR 8 IS A LOT MORE WORK THAN PROGRAMMMING FOR 4, AND 2, IT'S OPTIONAL CONTENT, THE ONLY OPTIONAL CONTENT THAT HAS DUTY SUPPORT ARE ARR LEVELING DUNGEONS.
Missed opportunity not to make the transition for m12s be that you kill the Lindwurm and suddenly hear No chance...
Anyway PF is PF but the frustrating thing is feeling like it's my fault. Currently progging Hell in a Cell but the second adds phase is giving groups a lot of trouble. Also seeing an annoyingly large number of deaths on Vamp Stomp still.
Man I got beamed so often during prog while I was killing my add I started invulning during it lol. Catching a cleave in the back ain't fun. I'd be like why am I dying!?...Oh.
GETTING ONLY DEEP MAGIC RINGS FROM BUNNY CHESTS IN OC DESPITE PLAYING A TANK AND A DPS
YES, IT'S RNG
NO, 5 VERY SAME DEEP RINGS OF MAGIC IN A ROW IS BS
SELL ON MARKETBOARD. USE MONEY TO BUY WAR ACCESSORIES. PROFIT?
GODDAMNIT ISN'T ARCADION CURRENT CONTENT ANYMORE? OR SAN D'ORIA? I FINALLY HAVE THE TIME TO WORK THROUGH THE RAID STORYLINES, BUT I CAN'T PROGRESS BECAUSE APPARENTLY THERE AREN'T ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR BOTH SAVAGE AND NORMAL STORYMODE STUFF. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEEEEXT
SAN D'ORIA ISN'T TECHNICALLY CURRENT ANYMORE BUT IS PART OF THE ALLIANCE RAID ROULETTE.
THAT SAID, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOW WORKING ON THE NEW SAVAGE RAIDS WHICH CAME OUT THIS WEEK, SO PEOPLE DOING NORMAL RAIDS OR THE ALLIANCE RAID WILL DEFINITELY BE LESSER.
WHY DOES THE ONE FATE I NEED FOR MY ARR RELIC BOOK ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO POP?!?!
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize one of the ones I needed was a "talk to the npc when they show up to pop the FATE" and not one that just appears as a puddle on the minimap. Maybe it's one of those ones?
There were a handful like that -- I used a guide to help know which ones. There are also the North/South Gate Fates, which only pop after completing another fate first. But there are a couple fates that seem to be much rarer than all the rest.
I eventually logged for the night then, then I got it within a few minutes of logging in the next day.
Big Bagoly Theory never pops - it is the bane of my ARR relic books
This one and Quartz Coupling took foreeeeeever.
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I GUESS I REALLY CAN'T CALL MYSELF A BABY RAIDER ANYMORE...WITH A DAY 3 M9S CLEAR UNDER MY BELT. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DAY 2 WE GOT TO 0.1% BUT GREEDY DPS COULDN'T STOP GETTING DDS LONG ENOUGH TO PULL IT TOGETHER FOR THAT LAST BIT.
I WON'T SAY MY SURPRISE SUCCESS IS BECAUSE I SWAPPED TO TANK THIS TIER BUT I WILL SAY IT FELT FAR MORE COMFORTABLE THAN I WAS EXPECTING IT TO. I FELT CONSTANTLY BUSY ON OT BUT NOT IN A WAY THAT WAS STRESSFUL SINCE IT WAS MOSTLY GO AWAY AND DO THE THING. ALSO BASICALLY POPPING ALL OF MY PARTY MITS ON COOLDOWN, STARTED GETTING INTO A GOOD RHYTHM WITH IT. REPRISAL ON THE FIRST ONE VEIL ON THE SECOND ONE, FLASH THE WINGS FOR STACKS, INTERVENTION ON THE MT WHENEVER I HAD GAUGE I WASN'T USING FOR MYSELF. I MADE AN INTERVENTION MACRO IT'S SO USEFUL. IT WILL HIT THE MT IN A RAID AND THE HEALER IN A DUNGEON, EZ.
I ALREADY HAVE A COMPLAINT THOUGH, TANKS ARE NOT HOLDING THEIR BURST FOR THE FLAILS. IT TOOK ME A FEW PULLS TO FIGURE OUT THAT I HAD TO SO I COULD KILL THE FIRST TWO QUICKLY AND THEN ONLY NEEDED HELP WITH THE THIRD ONE. ONCE WE'RE ALL BETTER GEARED WE WON'T HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY BUT THIS IS WEEK ONE, DO YOU WANT A CLEAR OR DO YOU WANT PRETTY NUMBERS. TBH I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT CONSIDERING ACCORDING TO THE PLACES THAT RECORD SUCH DETAILS I HAVE NOT CLEARED YET LOL. BUT I GOT THE BOOK AND THE EARRING TO PROVE IT.
I'M PRETTY EXCITED TO GET INTO M10 TODAY AND SEE HOW IT GOES. THIS WAS ALSO MY FIRST SAVAGE CLEARED WITHOUT HE OF THE GUIDES...IT WAS NICE. I ALREADY HAVE THE NEXT RAIDPLAN IN HAND, THIS FIGHT IS GOING TO BE ESPECIALLY INTERESTING AS A FRESHLY MINTED SAVAGE TANK.
DEPENDS ON TANK. AS PLD THERE ISN'T MUCH TO HOLD AND I WILL NEED HELP.
GNB IS GREAT FOR HOLDING EXTRA THO
SICK OF LIMSA BRINGING UP ASSASSINATIONS OUT OF THIN AIR LIKE IT'S A GOOD THING. GO BACK TO NSFW RPING. IT'S GOING FROM UNHINGED TO NEXT LEVEL UNHINGED. TAKE THAT SHIT TO REDDIT.
Retroactive rage.
HAVE WE HAD THE DISCUSSION ABOUT CRINGY MACROS? ESPECIALLY FROM HEALERS? ESPECIALLY FROM INSULTING HEALERS WITH EDGY NAMES? ESPECIALLY FROM EDGY HEALERS WITH EDGY NAMES THAT FAIL MECHANICS AND DIE?
FUCK YOUR HYPOCRITICAL BULLSHIT AND LEARN TO HEAL BEFORE YOU USE THOSE ONLY-FUNNY-TO-YOU MACROS ON PEOPLE.
I CLEARED THE NEW EXTREME! IT’S SO MUCH F FUN, AND THE CHEESE STRAT MAKES IT TEN TIMES EASIER, WOW. SCREW ARCANE REVELATION, HAHA!
IT'S SUCH AN EASY MECHANIC THOUGH?
COOL THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT BRO
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WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH M10S AND FIRE/WATERSNAKING / DOUBLE ALLEY-OOP? I HAVE SPENT THE BETTER PART OF 12 HOURS WIPING TO THIS SINGLE MECHANIC DESPITE PROGGING PAST IT. EVERY GROUP IS DOUBLE ALLEY-OOP PROG. ADDS WAS MORE FUN TO PROG THAN THIS MESS. AT LEAST ADDS FUNCTIONED REASONABLY CONSISTENTLY. THE AMOUNT OF CONSECUTIVE PULLS THAT GET TO DOUBLE ALLEY-OOP AND JUST DIE IS MADDENING. WHAT IS WITH THIS ULTIMATE-LEVEL MECH OF SO MANY VARIATIONS AND SOLUTIONS? ON THE RARE CHANCE I ACTUALLY FIND 7 OTHERS WHO AREN'T PROG LYING AND CAN GET PAST THE MECH, HALF OF THEM DIE ON THE TOWER MECH. IT'S... LIKE, THE EASIEST MECH BEYOND THE OPENING PHASE. THEN BETWEEN BARDS AND DANCERS YOLOING THEIR POSITIONS HALF THE TIME DURING MECHS AND OTHERS JUST NOT KNOWING THE MECHS, I CAN ONLY CARRY A GROUP SO HARD ON A WHM OR SCH IF YOU JUST LEGITIMATELY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO.
I WAS SO EXCITED BECAUSE LIFE WORKED OUT TO BE ABLE TO NOLIFE THIS TIER FROM THE START FOR 4 DAYS AND I AM SO INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED. DEBATING IF I EVEN WANT TO BOTHER WITH THE REST OF THIS TIER.
ON THE UPSIDE, THERE'S A DECENT AMOUNT OF USE CASES FOR MEDICA 1 IN THIS FIGHT WHEN ILVL IS NOT YET MAXED OUT.
TBH, I THINK THE FACT THAT IT'S 2 MECHANICS IN A SINGLE TRENCH COAT IS THE BIGGEST CAUSE. "OH YEAH, I CAN TOTALLY DO SNAKING, MY PROG POINT IS TOWER :)", COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'VE GOTTEN RED DEBUFF THE LAST 5 PULLS AND STILL HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO NOT SHOOT PEOPLE WITH WATER CONES.
I SPENT EXTRA PROGGING THE MECH CUZ OF EXACTLY THIS. I WOULD DROP FIRST FIRE PUDDLE, GET SHOT BY A WATER, GET REZZED LATE INTO THE MECH, AND WE GO INTO TOWER WITH 8 ALIVE. RECOGNIZED THE PROBLEM I'D BE AND SPENT THE EXTRA TIME ON IT, BUT I BET A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THAT SELF AWARENESS OR PATIENCE.
THIS WAS ME LAST NIGHT, ALTHOUGH I WAS 100% AWARE OF THE FACT THAT OVER THE COURSE OF ALL MY PULLS, I HAVE ACTUALLY GOTTEN TO PRACTICE RED TWICE ACROSS 2 LOCKOUTS
I'VE GOTTEN RED MAYBE 5 TIMES, BUT 3 OF THOSE TIMES, THE BLUE TEAM SHOT A CONE ACROSS THE ARENA AND OBLITERATED US
I AM SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE BEING BLUE BECAUSE I ACTUALLY GOT TO PROG BLUE
GENUINELY, THE PARTIES IN WHICH WE PROGGED THE FARTHEST AND CLEANEST IN A SINGLE LOCKOUT WERE THE ONES WHERE PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO TALK OUT THE ISSUES, ASK QUESTIONS, AND ADMIT WHEN THEY NEEDED TO REVIEW SLIDES BETWEEN PULLS.
PEOPLE REALLY DO UNDERESTIMATE HOW MUCH FASTER BEING SELF AWARE AND PATIENT CAN MAKE OVERALL PROG GO. THEY'RE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY.
Fr. Playing a healer this tier so I go to healer jail for aerial now that the raidplan got updated but GEEZ, it usually feels like I'm helplessly watching a trainwreck unfold as people run around like headless chicken for some reason and then we get nuked over and over. Only got to arena split a couple times due to this. Glad to have got at least some prog in but c'mon...
WHY IS PF JUST SAVAGE NOW, I GET IT BUT LIKE IVE ONLY BEATEN 3 DT EXS AND FFXIV IS MY COMFORT GAME AND ALSO I HATE GETTING M12 IN ROULETTES BECAUSE THAT BOSS MAKES ME NAUSEOUS AND WHY ARE THERE STILL DDOSES
STOP PRETENDING YOUR LOG-IN SERVER IS BUSY AND UPGRADE YOUR 10 YEARS OUTDATED SERVER PROTOCOL. I WANNA PLAY, NOT WAIT !
It's been three weeks, I'm just going to say it. Not in caps because this might be slightly long.
7.4 spoilers ahead, woop woop, I repeat spoilers ahead, turn back now or forfeit your right to bitch, because otherwise it would be a wall of spoiler tag.
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Listen I know people were thirsty for some Krile closure, and I get it, but 7.4's MSQ was...not great. It returned to a lot of the 7.0 issues, and the big issue that's haunted DT overall, is pacing.
First off, we're dropped into the Mist Continent, we can see the Alexandria crater, then we turn around and walk basically ten feet to Treno through the mines. Already this big, dangerous continent is suddenly much smaller if two of the major settlements are within binocular veiw of each other. And if this is the same electrope mine that Alexandria and Lindblum were fighting over, this planet-wide war looks like the size of the average HOA neighborhood dispute.
But I can overlook that as convenience. What I can't overlook is Krile's whole arc.
If DT had been paced better, if we didn't come to Alexandria until the intermission patches, if 8.0 took place primarily on the Ninth and Krile had spent a lot of time here getting to know the people then her arc here would be expected. Even good character development knowing that we're going to leave eventually.
What we get is not that.
We're asked to hand out drinks on one of our errand "get to know the area" quests and it's here Krile has her existential crisis. Keep in mind this is based on absolutely no attachment to it other than it's a city of Millala.
1) Krile doesn't know she has family here at this point
2) There's no evidence to state that Krile was born here, at all, as opposed to Alexandria itself
3) Krile could likely not name the favorite food of Treno let alone anything else about the culture.
But we're expected to believe she has this deep abiding connection to the place as opposed to say, Ul'Dah, which are also descended from the migration of the Lalafel of the Fifth catastrophe. And she has this connection based on essentially two hours and talking to a handful of people. "Oooo where do I belooong" is something that you expect from someone who has been put in Treno working on their problems for a period of time. But not only is her crisis of conscience crammed into one patch, it's crammed into one quest. Because as soon as we turn in the quest we were working on, she is reassured that she belongs wherever she can call home, and it's not where she has to be born.
Great. Fantastic. Heart wrenching and poignant.
Poignant? I mean pointless.
Because she still was told this by someone she doesn't find out until later she was related to. By the time she understands she has actual family here, she's already made up her mind to fucking leave. We couldn't even hold this existential crisis long enough for her to find out she actually has a real connection to Treno. The game has to move on because the patch is wrapping up.
This is not "a return to 6.0!" We are "not back!" This is regressing. This is 7.0's pacing. We are dropped into a zone, we learn the bare minimum of the people there, we solve whatever crisis they had in five quests or less and we're out!
This was not closure for Krile, this was an obligation they got rid of. They kept hearing "what about Krile's story" so they dumped in a patch and that's it. As my friend put it, "Alphanaud got all of Heavensward, Krile got 7.4. Alisaie gets porxies."
Because there is not a freaking chance Treno is going to be relevant again unless we're evacuating people. As far as Krile's development? That's it, that's your lot, the story can't be actually assed to give you more than this.
The dungeon? Fun. Fights? Fun. Doomtrain? Lots of fun. The story? A downgrade in quality. Back to 7.0.
That's not even me being slightly pissed that we went there because were were blocked on a lead for the key, we find out from the Milalla that "oooo! can't tell you about the key, they took those records. But ooo fate's eyes are on you! Spooky! Mysterious! Eldery nonsense!"
Then we go back, Shale's made some progress. Do we get to see the progress? NOPE END OF PATCH.
So yeah, had to get that off my chest somewhere.
I hate to break it to you, but that was basically all of Shadowbringers too. We'd go to a location, learn about its people and history, kill a Lightwarden and then fuck off.
Like I don't disagree that people are hyperbolic about how good 7.4's story was, but it does feel like XIV's storytelling right in its bones. Melodramatic character arcs and the main characters solving things with improbable speed because the universe bends for we, God's chosen people.
PFFFFT!!! LOL!
I DO NOT LIKE KRILE('S CHARACTERIZATION).
BEFORE 8.0 I WAS PRETTY NEUTRAL ON HER AS A CHARACTER IN GENERAL. SHE'S BEEN MORE CARICATURE THAN CHARACTER. THEY KEPT TRYING TO STICK HER PLACES (E.G. EUREKA) WITHOUT EVER GIVING HER TIME TO JUST BE. MY GRANDFATHER THIS! MY GRANDFATHER THAT! AND THEN THEY TURNED HER INTO A LIVING LINKPERL AT THE VERY LEAST, SHE GAVE OFF THE VIBE OF A MATURE, EXPERIENCED ACADEMIC AND RESEARCHER. CRAZY IDEA! HOW ABOUT WE REPLACE SOME OF THOSE (OPTIONAL) FETCH QUESTS WITH (OPTIONAL) CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT QUESTS?
AS OF 8.0, SHE FEELS LIKE A CARDBOARD CUTOUT OF AN UNFINISHED CHARACTER THEY KEEP STICKING PLOT POINT STICKY NOTES ON. I INTERACT WITH ALL CHARACTER DURING AND BETWEEN EVERY QUEST. HOW WILL THEIR DIALOGUE CHANGE BASED ON WHATS JUST HAPPENED? GOTTA READ IT ALL. WHY WAS SHE (DURING SEVERAL QUESTS) GIVING OFF PETULANT CHILD ENERGY? WHY WHENEVER WE DID A DUTY TOGETHER, DOES SHE (TRY TO) GET ME HIT/KILLED AT LEAST ONCE DURING EVERY BOSS FIGHT?
I ENJOYED 7.4 BECAUSE I DISREGARD KRILE'S CHARACTERIZATION BY DEFAULT AT THIS POINT. THE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS THEY DUMPED ON HERE WAS NONSENSICAL. I HAD MORE FUN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY GUY WITH THE BALLOONS ACROSS THE WATERWAY WAS TALKING ABOUT. HER COUSINS WERE AWESOME AND LEFT GREAT IMPRESSIONS, DESPITE THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME WE SPENT WITH THEM.
DON'T YOU DARE, SQUARE ENIX.
DON'T GIVE ME THE HOPE THAT PERHAPS THE TWINS MIGHT BE SITTING OUT THE NEXT EXPANSION.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR LITERAL YEARS. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET TO EXPERIENCE AND EXPANSION WITHOUT ALPHINAUD FUCKING WARBLING AROUND IN MY EAR FOR A WHOLE EXPANSION?
I DON'T EVEN CARE WHERE THE STORY GOES. I MAY NO LONGER HAVE TO BABYSIT A KID WITH A WHITE SAVOUR COMPLEX AND HIS SISTER. I DARE TO HOPE.