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

[Aeni]

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Of course, to be fair, I've also seen the exact opposite, where some random PUG we pick up is complaining that (me) tank is bothering to mark the mobs at all, complains when I am moving them (repositioning) or gets impatient and starts to run ahead to pull the mobs and then bitches at (my friend) healer for not keeping him up. All of this while wearing gear from Tam Tara Deepcrofts. This in Stone Vigil.

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It's hard to pin-point where they went wrong, which makes it hard to described why it's bad. My biggest complaint is the voice acting, which is so terrible for every single character, that my brain menstruated out of my skull. The overall story could have been good, but they made the decision that you're special. You can defeat primals not because you're awesome, but because you're different. It's like a teen-ager's wet dream. You defeat the final bosses not because you've been leveling and strengthening your skills, or you employed sound tactical decisions, but because you're special, and I wont go and spoil it any further.

You're not the only one ... the voice acting is really horrible (I turned on JP language and it instantly became better, mostly cause SE used famous seiyuus for the JP language portions), but it could also be that the script is also a bit ... off. The story is also a bit meh, as it seemed very rushed, compared to 1.0, where I actually did like the story and the pacing of it.

[Firewind]

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The elitists are why why time we can't find an 8th and have to PUG a player in the Duty Finder, that WHM and myself switch to swimsuits before accepting. The reactions are always hilarious since they range from elitists raging and storming off, or people seeing the joke and joining in.

You haven't lived until you've seen a party runs dungeons or clear out trash in 8 mans in swimsuits.

[Malacite]

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[Firewind]

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Conversation when the Free Company picked up a random as an 8th man in a Titan Run. I can't remember the exact details since I didn't screenshot it but it went something like this:

Random PUG: Fucking noob WHM in AF.
Me: You know that's the Relic chest right?
PUG: Fuck off BLM no darklight hands. *quits*
Me: They're relic gloves...
*Free Company starts cracking up on Mumble*
WHM (I think): Dude, we should have let him on Mumble, it would have been hilarious to troll him in Cascadier

[Firewind]

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The Elitists are going Full Retard tonight

[Mezlo]

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I agree with Mezlo (wow I never thought I'd say that)

What do you mean? You named your freaking "A Guide to the Black Mage" after me... You agree with everything about me, and that's not a bad thing.

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/trumpets

[DakAttack]

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And the reason you can fight Primals is because the Echo makes you resistant to being Tempered. Basically if Primals don't get enough worship they start forcing people to worship them in a process called tempering. You don't NEED the Echo to fight them. You would know this if you didn't skip all the cutscenes. You meet a group during the Titan Arc that took down Titan last time he was summoned and not one of them has the Echo. They send you because you took down Ifrit! You proved yourself to be badass enough to ice a fucking Primal in the first part of the game's storyline. They would have asked for your help with or without the Echo. The Scions also see what you can pull off and have no problem with sending you in with their support.

This sums up what I'm complaining about. I don't like the idea of having my hand held by neither the Echo nor Hydaelyn.

[Firewind]

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^ In that case Skyrim sucks too.

I agree with Mezlo (wow I never thought I'd say that), the story was great and it did exactly what it was supposed to do: start the Seventh Umbral Era. There is one hell of a sequel hook after the credits which sets up a great story arc, and it wraps up the whole Dalmund and Empire invasion arcs nicely. It also looks like we will be learning more about the primals and their roles in Eorzea.

The story is about the rebirth of the Scions and you becoming a new Warrior of Light (or the Warriors of Light re appearing if you did it with a Legacy toon). Also the cutscene skipping, especially in the last dungeons is the stupidest thing to do. All of the fights and scenes are epic, especially when coupled with the cutscenes. I won't spoil the names of the bosses to avoid spoilers but all of the loose plot threads were tied up nicely.

Now I will say that the story suffers from pacing problems, it's something that all MMOs really suffer from if they go heavy on the story. SWTOR was the same, though thankfully it was only the Jedi Consular that has horrible pacing if you played only storyline quests. FFXIV...The whole running around as a diplomat bit so you could go fight Primals did get a bit tedious and the story really don't get interesting until Coerthas. Still the storyline, while hardly original is entertaining and the narrative flows well, plus the game really does make the fights feel epic. The combination of cutscenes and having the fights have dialogue that can be entertaining, hilarious and downright tearjerking at times from the NPCs that actually help you does draw you into the fights and actually give you that sense of urgency.

And the reason you can fight Primals is because the Echo makes you resistant to being Tempered. Basically if Primals don't get enough worship they start forcing people to worship them in a process called tempering. You don't NEED the Echo to fight them. You would know this if you didn't skip all the cutscenes. You meet a group during the Titan Arc that took down Titan last time he was summoned and not one of them has the Echo. They send you because you took down Ifrit! You proved yourself to be badass enough to ice a fucking Primal in the first part of the game's storyline. They would have asked for your help with or without the Echo. The Scions also see what you can pull off and have no problem with sending you in with their support.

And you have no imagination Dak. The game doesn't exactly say "Oh you took down X boss by doing Y" because you may well have roleplayed it as something different. Your character could have been outwitting opponents and picked because they were cunning enough to make sound tactical decisions in the fight. The NPCs also flat out notice you've been getting stronger and more experienced as well. Honestly your argument doesn't really seem to hold water and it just seems like complaining for the sake of it.

[DakAttack]

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Why do I have the feeling it's just Dak and the storyline / ending is really good?

It's hard to pin-point where they went wrong, which makes it hard to described why it's bad. My biggest complaint is the voice acting, which is so terrible for every single character, that my brain menstruated out of my skull. The overall story could have been good, but they made the decision that you're special. You can defeat primals not because you're awesome, but because you're different. It's like a teen-ager's wet dream. You defeat the final bosses not because you've been leveling and strengthening your skills, or you employed sound tactical decisions, but because you're special, and I wont go and spoil it any further.

[Malacite]

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Other people are saying the same thing.


So far I'm finding it to be just OK - it's better than XI's initial story was by far, so I'm reserving judgment until the expansions come out because it wasn't until CoP that XI's story telling really took off. At the same time though, I feel I have to agree with my friends in that the monotonous nature of the quest-grinding seems to detract from the plot too much. I dunno, somehow the dialogue and story scenes in XI were just better. It doesn't help that so far the plot (I'm just in Coerthas now in terms of story) is heavily based off of Zilart with hints of FF6 mixed in.

[Mezlo]

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Why do I have the feeling it's just Dak and the storyline / ending is really good?

[DakAttack]

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Completed the main story. What a load of horseshit. This story was not Final Fantasy caliber.

Way to put your B-team on writing, scripted scenes, and voice acting, Square-Enix.

[Mezlo]

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I'm going to start crafting this weekend... While LFG with Duty Finder for The Brayflox bullshit...

[Firewind]

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The 99 stacks are clearly undercutting idiots really. Note again that the current prices on Balmung mean that each Electrum Ingot costs 400 Gil to make.

5 Wind Crystals @ 32 Each = 120
4 Electrum Ingots @ 60 Each = 240

So selling an Electrum Ingot for less than 400 on Balmung just makes no sense. You are getting less per ore and Wind Crystal if you farm it all yourself. It's caused the price of endgame gear to crash too since all the 49 gear needs Electrum Ingots, and quite a lot of the Lv50 stuff uses Electrum Ore, but because everyone has switched over to that, the market has flooded and the prices crashed for anything using Rose Gold stuff.

[Malacite]

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I don't know if it's RMT, Legacy Players or just plain old stupidity but raw (and even some processed) materials are worth shit all on Excalibur.

I bought a stack of electrum ore last night for only 60 gil per ore. NQ is around 36, Cobalt is 60~80, and mythril is 120 for some reason. Sold 1 stack of mirror apples last night @ 68 gil per, undercutting the next sellers by just 1 and then suddenly some asshat loads up 5 stacks all at 55 each.

Seriously WTF is wrong with people? SE *needs* to fix the markets by removing the ability to see what others are listing at, it's killing the economy by allowing morons to actively destroy the value of anything.

I am so glad I held onto my gil from 1.0 now, because at the rate things are going quests and materia will be the only real way to make money - especially if SE doesn't start cracking down on the teleport bots. The one bot I've been seeing for 2 weeks now has finally graduated from Banemites to Ornery Karakul, driving fleece prices through the roof making weaving a serious bitch to level.