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Final Fantasy 14 (FFXIV)
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Doesnt seem being completely out of the loop has hurt me here - even tho the game got great reviews and lots of positivity in general, just a month in and people going a bit meh on it o.O
Had no internet for over a month and RL just way too hectic to play much of anything, so Ive not yet ventured in! Excited to get going soon tho
And yup, GTA is a thing, big fan back when it was a simple top down (!), hardly played a few hours total of 3/4/exp packs (gotta be honest, thats how little I payed attention ^.^), but with the press 5's gotten, I know Im gonna go in and check that out - also the last several https://www.humblebundle.com/ packs have had some great content, Ive just downloaded over a dozen games - SO much to chip away at!!0 -
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Sounds like your taking the game a little too seriously. If it was genuinely your own lack of skill that caused the wipe then by all means take some time to do another role for a change or get some more experience in the healing role doing other things.
I've not healed a group yet in XIV (or played it at all since 2.0 even). But, if it's anything like other MMORPGs, then these scenarios happen from time to time. You mention it was a PuG - been in a million of those, sometimes meeting skilled players who are a joy just to play with and sometimes (slightly more often!) meeting idiots who don't know how to play their class, understand an encounter, or how best to aid the entire group. Those bad groups are part of rolling the dice going into a PuG, and poor players often don't even know the cause of the failure but will loudly express it was someone else's fault.
Still comes back to - it is just a game. Play it if you enjoy it more than it stresses you (tanking and healing come with *some* stress!). Maybe try join a guild/company/whatever it's called in FF, that have a similar play style and approach to the game you do?
(Oh, and don't diss dps'ers! May not come with stress, but any decent player appreciates having someone that can squeeze every drop of dps out while not overstepping threat/aggro lvls 0 -
TheBandicoot wrote: »Feeling a bit lost now on where to go with the game. I'm level 32, initially ACN and unlocked the SCH job. I tried healing the next story dungeon, Brayflox's Longstop, but had a miserable experience ending in a wipe. Don't know whether to blame the tank(it was a pug group) or my healing.
Not sure what to do with myself. If I want to go down the SCH route full time I need to grind a few thousand GC seals to reset my stats so I can put my points into Mind, since I was putting them into Intelligence as an ACN. Then I would want to run through all the previous dungeons a few times to practise my gameplay skills, and probably do Haukke a lot to gear up. But I'm not sure I enjoy playing SCH enough for all this. Or that I am physically capable of the micro needed for proper pet control, since I have been playing. I could always go level THM instead and play SMN, but I feel like I'd be letting myself down playing a mindless DPS class that is not valued anywhere as much as a tank or healer, no matter how good you are.
Also, general social anxiety problems are flaring up from playing the game. While I want to be a good healer(and take advantage of shorter DF times), I'm not sure I can mentally handle the responsibility, especially at higher level and endgame. When we wiped at Brayflox I just Alt-F4'd the game, blaming myself for the wipe. That kind of experience makes me consider dropping the game entirely.
It is a really fun game though. It has problems. but I think the biggest thing I would like to change is to make leves give more exp, so you can do them instead of FATEs. I can't imagine that the way areas like Aleport or Costa del Sol are dominated by roving bands of characters killing FATE mobs in 1 hit is what the developers intended. People should be playing dungeons or doing leves for exp when they run out of quests, but it seems most people don't like playing with others in the dungeons and just want to get through them. The way the game suddenly forces you to play with others in three consecutive dungeons for story progression is poorly handled I think. I know personally it just put me off playing for a while until I built up the courage to do the dungeons.
Brayflox is where dungeons start to pickup in difficulty e.g. mobs start to hit harder, tanks need to be able to dodge, etc. If you could heal in the previous instances then I don't think it was your fault, and no need to worry if it was! I can relate to this playing as War, especially on the first run or two, but feck it! No point in worrying about it
Patch 2.1 will increase the Exp earned in dungeons, so that should help things. Have you tried crafting/gathering? It's fun and might take your mind of other things for a bit! One thing I used to do was keep my Smn and War at near the same level so I could run a dungeon on Smn first and then brave it on War. I did eventually stop this, but it might be something to look into?
One other thing, try and join a free company that has some friendly, but go for one that doesn't have 200+ people in it would be my advice.0 -
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Brayflox is a good place to run a few times and get the nice gear (Battlemage set looks incredible, but took me about 20 runs to complete set
, also good practice dungeon for more complex mechanics.
I just hit 45 so going for my AF now..... gogogogogo0 -
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Well, I'm finally back in as of today
Drowning in quests, figuring what I'm meant to do with bags jammed with "dated" gear....
Not liking what I'm reading here about CS, one thing I loved about FFXI is the level of manners thru most of the community. CS's were rare enough, but if I remember rightly, there were no icons or anything to show u we're watching one and it wasn't like everyone was at that point in the storyline. So u could enter whatever that bone tower was called while in an exp party and someone looked like they were just idle a few mins. No one ever said anything, it was understood what was happening and it was all good.0 -
Well, I'm finally back in as of today
Drowning in quests, figuring what I'm meant to do with bags jammed with "dated" gear....
Not liking what I'm reading here about CS, one thing I loved about FFXI is the level of manners thru most of the community. CS's were rare enough, but if I remember rightly, there were no icons or anything to show u we're watching one and it wasn't like everyone was at that point in the storyline. So u could enter whatever that bone tower was called while in an exp party and someone looked like they were just idle a few mins. No one ever said anything, it was understood what was happening and it was all good.
You can other hang on to your old gear so you can use it for levelling other classes and give it to a retainer(which will you get later by following story quests if you don't have one yet), or you can convert it to materia(again, follow quests to unlock that), or you can sell it on the Market Board.
The way it works is the character goes idle and their health bar in the party list changes to "Viewing cutscene". But if even one person skips the cutscene they can keep on playing, start the boss battle, etc while the cutscene viewers just stand around. That's what happened to me, we'd reach a boss arena, a scene would play showing the boss arriving or whatever, I'd watch it, then by the time it was finished I'd find the rest of the group had already killed the boss and had left me behind as they moved on with the dungeon.
Don't get me wrong, I never had any problems with cut scenes until the last two dungeons. In all the previous ones people were very courteous, never said anything, generally they would take the time while the scene was playing to type a boss strategy into the chat, that kind of thing. The problem only really becomes apparent in the last two dungeons, which are 8mans(everything up to that is 4man), and which drop currency which you need to buy end game gear. So you get people who just want to do the dungeon as quickly as possible and get the currency. That conflicts with people who are following the main story, are doing the dungeon for the first time, and either get pressured to skip cutscenes or just ignored. It creates horrible drama.
If that thing another poster said about adding a "Story Mode" checkbox to the LFG interface in an upcoming patch is true, great, that will solve the problem. Or the people who want to grind should not be using the dungeon finder, they should be forming their own parties. Or they should be grinding other dungeons that are not part of the main story. Because the current setup just left a really bitter taste in my mouth after a levelling experience I had really really enjoyed as part of a great game.0 -
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Unfortunately from what i can tell those that are playing from boards we seem to be spread across 3-4 different servers so no real community.
Yeah, I dont think we could be much more spread out if we tried lol!
Ive been meaning to write some thoughts on this, but wanted to get some end game in first. I kind of went about things backwards, I got several crafts to 50 first, then caster classes (white/black/scholar) to 50 and a gathering (bot) to 50.
I started this thread hyped as f***. Gave V1.0 more time than I should have. Once the novelty wore off, a brief state of denial followed until I eventually accepted it wasnt happening. I was happy SE came out and acknowledged the game wasnt up to scratch and they would go back to the drawing board.
I decided I'd give the reboot a little time before trying it out, knowing I almost certainly wouldnt be giving this MMO a 3rd chance. Towards the end of November I was reading a preview on patch 2.1 and figured its time I gave FFXIV:ARR another go
The game is pretty unrecognisable, almost entirely for the better. The cities havent changed much apart from zoning and npc's, but as for the rest of the world, they hit delete and started fresh. They needed to and what a great job they did! Every ability and spell has been messed with. Theres quests galore and a storyline that runs from the moment you arrive til well after you have hit the current level cap.
The good:
A long and well structure storyline that will send you all across the world, reward you with items, money, exp, and unlock dungeons as you go.
There are dungeons! (Silly this even goes on a list, but in 2010 there werent any!)
Convenience exists in ARR. Decent options to let you search for or create parties. Or queue for cross-realm instances.
Encounters are well thought out and enjoyable.
UI is no longer a laggy clusterf***.
The inventory has been very well done. Each equippable slot has its own storage space, and entire gear sets can be created and selected with a single click.
Level sync is well utilized, allowing players above the specified level to take part in FATEs and dungeons without being way out of whack in power.
A perhaps novelty achievement - but fun all the same, you can buy a house (and furnish it) as a free company (guild). It's actually good craic! It serves as a nice hang out and adds an extra layer of bonding to your FC mates. We got one which neighbours to 2 other FCs we are friendly with. Complete with sex dungeon and all (perverted lot!)
You can use your mounts to fight along side of you and they are actually useful. Complete with own skill tree and armor (aesthetics only).
Aesthetically pleasing. Armor, environments and effects are all done to a great standard.
The bad:
The game is too solo-centric (pre hitting cap anyway). In XI you were pee'ing against the wind trying to do anything beyond level12 by yourself. This game took the direction of being more friendly to solo play but didnt seem to know when to stop. Open world quests can be done in a group but you cant share quests, and even if you and whoever you have teamed up with have the same quest active you will be basically doing it as if you were alone - appearing on the other persons screen as if you are interacting with nothing. Most (possibly all?) quests which are instanced as part of either the story or class-specific must be done solo. And a big kicker, they introduced daily dungeon roulette's in the last patch, which can only be done solo - hopefully that will change!!
Most optional quests are very dull. Its a kill X amount of Y, talk to A, B & C, or collect items off the ground. At level cap, you can do daily faction quests which attempt to vary in style, but its nothing to write home about. While every MMO has some form of this, ARR doesnt even attempt to pull it off with any flare or variety.
Classes feel watered down (!). Not to a disastrous degree, but you can feel like maybe a spell or ability is missing.
The cross-class system has been dumbed down to hell. XI had a real intelligence about it, and surprisingly even V1.0 had a better system
Some might find this good, but I think its a bad choice. The gearing path is out of whack. You get tomes (a form of currency) for doing high level quests and the daily random instances (as a level cap char). With these you can purchase the highest ilvl items in the game without actually having to go into proper end game content :S Basically you are given nearly a full set of gear from you class quest, pretty much handed to you at 45 and 50. There are 2 types of tomes atm, 1 which you get in ample supply which gets you ilvl70 (decent) and the other gets you ilvl90 (afaik the current top level) which is slower to collect (and has a weekly cap).
Thats the bones of it anyway. The game has come a loooong way and I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys MMOs. Equally so to a new comer to the genre, the game holds your hand plenty. Even with its extra time in development, the game is still a baby as MMOs go. With that in mind, I would say someone who can play 10-12 hrs in a week would experience plenty with a 3 month sub. With hindsight, I would have taken the 3 month sub over the 6 month ^_^ But the game is growing and even with some breaks I'll be returning again and again Im sure.0 -
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