What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

[Firewind]

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Circus Tower this week. We downed the first boss and rolled on the item. This conversation happened on Teamspeak:

Me: *Clicks Pass on Monk Belt, doesn't notice the victory music play*
Tank: Hey, Reiko? I thought you wanted Sands or the BLM gear for Roleplay?
Me: Yeah I did, what's up?
Party: *Giggling*
Tank: Check your inventory
Me: *checks* Oh, FFFFFFFFFF-are you kidding me? -_-
SCH: Ow, that sucks...
Me: Okay, who here can invite to BH?
SCH: I think [redated] can invite you later.
Me: You know, I wouldn't have minded if the gear was remotely useful but not even the Monks wanted the damn thing *facepalm while cracking up*

*After the raid*

Me:*still facepalming* Oh wow, I can't trade it, NPC it or turn it in for seals.
SCH: Time to level Monk then?
Me: I'll pass. Time for Hunts.

[Melody]

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Yeah. The Hunt community on Balmung is really nice. There are a few "entitled" people but I ignore them. After doing hunts I was able to get my sand. I stayed up longer than I should've when I did them. So I ended up missing raid, my leader wasn't mad since he was proud of me progressing my gear.

[Firewind]

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So public shaming still works?

If the NM hunt community is pretty close knit like on Balmung, it's surprisingly effective to report early pullers to the BH officers. It's easy to tell what was an accident and what was someone getting over eager over someone who is deliberately trolling. It's a case of donm't assume malice when stupidity is a perfectly reasonable explanation, at least the first time.

[Melody]

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Yeaaaah! Got my weapon this morning. Unweathered it too. Book of Diamonds get! I'm starting to wonder however if I should attempt to do my Novus/Nexus weapon for Scholar. :c

[Malacite]

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So public shaming still works?

[Firewind]

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It's pretty easy to farm Sands and Oil on Balmung now Melody, so I wouldn't worry too much about losing an Oil or Sand in ST (losing a UAT still sucks though >.<). Get an invite to Bounty Hunters as pretty much the entire N Hunting community is in that LS now. You have multiple organised alliances running every day, and the LS has enough influence to keep everyone pretty civil about it now.

The new policy about early pullers for example is letting them die and refusing to raise them. Remember one troll DRG doing it, then bitching at everyone in /shout. I think he got blacklisted by half of the NM Hunting community right there XD

[Malacite]

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Even when there are rules, people still go back on 'em.

I ended up really flipping out after one incident, ranted about in on the forums (didn't swear or actually post the player's name though) and SE cited me for some BS or other and I got banned lol :/ (from the forums, not the game). All I was doing was trying to address this exact problem with the community, asking on how to proceed and SE's like "nope, sedition." WTF?!

[Melody]

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Yeah I had gotten the UAT, which is what I wanted. But I had rolled low so I didn't expect to get it. When I got it I was like "YES!" I think RNGeesus was giving me a break, since I had even lost my Healing Earring in T6 to the other healer. I am usually nice in PUGs but with the way people act. Fuck 'em. I'm needing on all the things if there are no loot rules since people don't back down anyways. But the other healer was an ex-Static member, so I feel some form of happiness for them. Their FC dragged them into a lesser Coil group and we ended up giving her a farewell party by beating LeviEX and King Mog EX with her.

tldr: Fuck pugs.

Also. Gold sellers are getting fucking smarter? When did this happen? I woke up this morning, only to find out I had a friend request. When I get one I usually check my chat log to see if someone messaged me. Some guy named Surefire Jones ended up sending me a tell this morning and then a FR, it was RMT trying to mess with me. I fear they will be able to hold conversation soon.

[Malacite]

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But you can only get 1 or the other, not both, so wtf? Weird.

And yes, I hate it when people do that shit and then feign ignorance. Some people are just OCD and hit that fucking Need button before even realizing what they've done - I honestly think it's dumb that unlike in FFXI, you can't pass after lotting. I liked that you could do that in XI, just in case you accidentally hit the button or decided at the last moment you'd rather not take it. It's not like it would hurt anyone, so why not include it as an option?

[Melody]

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Oh for fucks sake. Why do people insist on lotting on UAT's when other people need them. Went into Turn 6 today. I announced it, 3 FUCKING TIMES "I need the UAT." I proceeded to exclaim this at the party was being built. After we went in and we waited for the tank to pull, then again when we won the fight. The OT was like "SORRY MAN." You fucking pigheaded moron, you have your UAT weapon while I still have my T5 weapon. Stupid fuck. But RNGeesus was nice to me today, I ended up getting a UAT in ST.

Funny story, I went into ST expecting not to get shit.
Defeated Amon. Oil drops. UAT drops.
Me> Rolls a 43 on UAT. - FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Me> Rolls a 99 on Oil - Thank you RNGeesus

We beat the last boss. Loot goes out.
You obtain an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone.

Me > O_O WTF?!

The Summoner that was in the party with me rolled a 84 on the Tomestone and yet I still got it? I don't understand this concept. Shouldn't I have gotten the Oil instead? But I'm not complaining since I am sitting at 1.1k Soldiery and waiting for the reset. Also sitting on 650 hunt seals. Only need 100 more until I can get my Oil and unweather the son of a bitch.

[Firewind]

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Name a fight that matters where Flare Spam rotations are even viable without destroying your own damage. Or even Flare itself, I only find myself ever using it in T6 on the central Bramble, and that is only if Swiftcast is up (it won't be, not in that fight). Whereas on my SMN I can just go Bane > Tab > Fester > back to Raffy, or just stick Garuda on it for a couple of Wind Blades before siccing her back on Raffy

I think the only time Flare Spam is ever viable is on T6 trash, but if you are having to Flare Spam there, the DDs are idiots for not burning down the crystals.

[Malacite]

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That's funny because even at i90 both BLM and SMN outstripped me by a good margin in T4 a few patches back and it's not like I was slacking. I don't find the potency increase from HT combo to be worth it since it's a huge drain on TP - 2 combos (4 actions) does 300 potency of AoE damage for 380 TP. In the same time I could just Ring 3x for 360 TP for the same amount and 1 fewer action. Doomspike will do more damage upfront and doesn't require any combo shenanigans, but it's AoE range is much shorter and will generally hit fewer enemies - RoT is more reliable for hitting a group. The only major advantage DS has is that I can pop it from outside of the mob's AoE where as RoT requires I put myself at risk.

As for Bard using TP song, that means they're doing less damage with their AoE so while the DRG is free to spam a bit more, it basically evens out. By contrast a BLM can just spam fire 2 into flare (or Quad-Flare if they really want to spike damage) and utterly eclipse a DRG. SMN can also pull a lot of AoE damage with Bane in a very short amount of time. Don't go spewing BS about me not playing the game or understanding the Job I play, DRG is geared for single target dps and to that end I'd actually rather we got the old Dragonfire Dive back as it was way, way stronger in 1.23 :/

[Firewind]

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Actually saying DRG has bad AoE does prove to me that you don't play the game and you don't play DRG. Basically it's Doomspike Spam, or Ring of Thorns Spam. Please note that RoT and DS both hit for more than my Fire II's do.

Doomspike: You have two options here, you can open with HT-RoT-DS then Doomspike spam until it's HT refresh time, or you can just skip the RoT and go HT-DS spam. DRGs have 1500 TP thanks to Invigorate and TP regens at 60TP/Tick, and that doesn't even count a BRD's song.

Rng of Thorns: Basically HT-RoT until out of TP which takes a while with the DRG's TP pool.

Remember that you have 1-14 other DDs with you depending on the fight as well. That is kind of an important thing to remember.

That said its not like AoE even matters in this game, which is why the BLM is worthless in endgame content. My original post was more pointing out that you only do huge pulls of you have two BLMs or BLM and BRD/DRG/SMN.

[Malacite]

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LOL no. Even Bard will outstip us easily enough. Doom Spike's AoE is too narrow (and TP intensive) and I forget the other one's name atm (the one that combos off heavy thrust) but it's potency is terribly weak without the combo, and doing the combo over and over is neither damage nor TP efficient. It's basically there as a desperation/last resort tool more than destroying hordes of enemies.

You wanna AoE, get a damn BLM or SMN. Maybe at some point we'll have a melee dps that can effectively AoE (DRK? NIN is a possibility as well but I doubt it)

[Fliegar]

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What? So long as you have the TP to burn, Dragoons can do pretty awesome AoE damage in a short period of time.