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I fully believe that's what Hio believes. Can't think of any other reason why she'd insist upon the things she does.

As for Nashred, I'm pretty sure he just wants FFXIV battles to be more like FFXI battles, which were predicated on certain mechanics but without following such rigid fight scripts. The key to winning a battle in XI wasn't learning from YouTube and then working to memorize a script -- rather, it was knowing mechanics and using your party setup to mitigate those mechanics. Ultimately, XIV simply comes down to beating a DPS check while surviving mechanics by moving to the correct spots on the battlefield.

Regardless, XIV's battles are fun when you get in a good group, and the fundamental elements of XIV will not be changing to be more like XI.

Feel like anyone saying knowing what a mob does makes it easy also needs to play FFRK and do the highest difficulty fights without ever abusing restarts. RNG can nail you good for hours while some people will claim 1/1 EZ Mode. The former will be far more likely without question, and it's generally a single-player game.

Nope, I was able to find FFRK on Youtube. Therefore it's 100% easy mode. No challenge at all.

Dark Souls is also on Youtube....

Exactly, not sure why people love to deny this though or shift it to "this is a static group mentality!"



Sadly that's the biggest problem with general XIV playerbase - They don't even know how to hit the buttons and they refuse to learn it because they won't touch Sky,Sea etc training dummy. It doesn't teach you the content but if you're a DPS job, it teaches you your rotation because your goal is to get it down faster and faster in the time allotted.

It's literally the little things people can do to improve themselves. We all make mistakes but I bet people will say "In Dun Scaith Deathgaze is extremely hard because the mechanics are hard!"

Even though his main mechanic is literally not stand the portions of the deck that will cause auto death during Death IV and putting your back to a HUGE VERY VISIBLE BLOCK OF ICE to not get knocked off.

My experience was similar doing it on day 1. Only about 4 of us figured out what the big ice walls were probably for on the first pull. But on the second pull only about 3 people still hadn't figured it out.

You know me pretty well.

It is like playing a game like duck hunt and the ducks always come out in the same place, eventually you learn the pattern and shoot before you even see them.. That is how FFXIV feels and yes memorizing is a skill but people know what I mean. Now you make the ducks come out faster it makes it a little harder and that is all FFXIV does to make a game harder. Now if the ducks come out at random it is a whole different game and requires a whole bunch of skill not just memorization. This is what I want.

I do not want them to be exactly like FFXI though either..

I just want to use abilities like stun that make a difference in how a fight works out. I would like to see elemental magic make a difference and other abilities vs just dps'ing and dodging your way through every fight.

I miss fights like early on Glaviod fight where s a skilled small party could take him down and a full party with a brew could still die.


I remember this fight in abyssea where a large group of black mages tried to burn it down and wiped on this mob. Tesee and I beat it with just a monk and whm using a strategy that took us 1.5 hrs to bring it down. It was the coolest thing ever, we had a huge crowd gathering and cheering us on but I think a few were there waiting for us to wipe to steal it. But the fight nearly wiped us several times and required us to adapt and change gear to like evasion gear to avoid certain moves. I miss having to strategize vs memorizing places to stand.

Every fight in FFXIV is no different and groups that beat the fight do it the same way every-time.



The fight are not hard they are just memorization game like simon says. For some memorizing probably is tough.

I would like some randomizing. A raid each boss opens with the same move it closes with the same move and does every move in the same order every time you enter. Why cant it randomize it moves? It would stop people from just memorizing a fight.

You know it was fun the first 6 month because it was different but how long has the game been out now and it has not changed anything.


I mean you memorize a fight and can be sped along by videos. Stand here, move here, now move, pull a switch now move here. Yea it takes time to learn the moves but it does not use any skill except memorization.It requires very little gaming skill. As long as you can memorize a progression you can get through anything in the game..
Trying to get enough people that have memorized the fight together is the hard thing.,




Edited, Jan 25th 2017 4:33pm by Nashred

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Sorry, but I can't really be sympathetic toward RDM when it doesn't even crack the top 3(personal opinion) jobs in XI that experienced difficulty accessing or being outright excluded from content.

I get that being the refresh ***** in order to get invites to content was probably not the desired style of play, but that was dictated by the game and not the community. If the content is difficult than players simply fall in line with easing that difficulty as much as possible via group composition. Too easy, players sway back toward the 'speedrun' mentality and just throw a handful of RNG or BLM at the problem.

That's going to happen in any game where you have players who are trying to optimize their time spent on content. It was especially prominent in XI mostly because the time required to complete most content was far above that of any more modern MMOs.


Edited, Jan 28th 2017 7:44am by FilthMcNasty

Ha ha, seriously? loldrg still filters after all these years?

My earlier comment wasn't about RDM having it the worst or some degree of pissing contest between jobs. It was more a snipe at some people playing the game not as intended and then forcing that expectation on others.

Are you kidding? Almost EVERYTHING we did in FFXI was decided by the players, rather than the developers. Between blink tanks, SMN healers, burn parties, chainspell>stun, etc, and even more basic things like EXPing on IT+ mobs, did we EVER play FFXI the way the devs intended? The developers may create the tools, but you can't always predict how the players will decide to use them. FFXI players were incredibly good at finding ways to completely break the intended game design.

Well SE took away Tesee house, she is so upset.
Took us a little longer to move than expected and finally got all in saT so I loaded up the PS4 so she could log into her house. It also was the last thing she did before packing the PS4 away.They did not even give 100 percent of the money away. What is worse is she kept her subscription going even though we have not played in 3 months just to log into her house to keep it. All that work she did, I had to get up at 3:00 am to get it for her too.

SE is becoming a garbage company. They can fix a problem they created so they ***** a long time customer. Now she does not want to play any SE game.



Edited, Jan 30th 2017 1:20pm by Nashred

The idea is that housing space goes to people who are actually playing the game.

I may not love their solution here but a solution was needed and this one makes as much sense as any. The time limits were widely publicized among the community as well as the exact steps needed to maintain your house.

Like I said, I'm OK with SE freeing up abandoned houses. However, I think that if you still have an active account and are still paying the subscription, you shouldn't lose your house just because you haven't logged in.