At this point all I can conclude is bowmage is going to rise from the grave in 5.0 because they're incapable of remembering further back than the last expansion.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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At this point all I can conclude is bowmage is going to rise from the grave in 5.0 because they're incapable of remembering further back than the last expansion.
RPGCrazied
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Yay, disconnects and high ques! /s And its not even the 20th yet, I'm scared.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Is that bit I posted from the job guide out of date/inaccurate then? It wouldn't be the first time official stuff did not reflect the current state of the game.
fluffydelusions
Member
I'm done until Cold Steel quest is fixed. I did all side quests I could find. Apparently there is some streamer that is playing with Towelliee and he was clicking the cold steel quest for 5 hours and couldn't get it. I did it for about 20 minutes with no luck.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Yeah, there's definitely more voice acting. It was explicitly stated that there would be.
Yoshi says NO!
I could probably use a break but man, first impressions of stability are pretty shit. =/ When you combine this with a server "upgrade," it seems SE either underestimated things or...kind of screwed up. =P
That said: RDM and SAM are awesome. Great, great fun. RDM feels so smooth.
That said: RDM and SAM are awesome. Great, great fun. RDM feels so smooth.
So i'm still on the ARR MSQs, is this affecting every dungeon or only the ones in Stormblood
Just want to know if I should bother logging in later today lol
Literally just the one MSQ instance.
Barring general server stability with people DCing.
RPGCrazied
Member
First it was 200 people in que, got in, DC'd, then its 600+ in que. Ugh.
I'll have to test it to see if it's a noticeable difference.
fluffydelusions
Member
2500 attempts damn
https://twitter.com/itmejp/status/875807529686716416
https://twitter.com/itmejp/status/875807529686716416
I think my issue is it's not even just stability? Like 100% of the problem is the solo instance mandate without any ability for the game to queue people for it. The player base tries with self-imposed lines, but it won't work for a combination of reasons (if MSQ instances are per-server, and one of three field instances in your server doesn't line up, your two that line up are getting boned; people cheating in general, etc), and they tell us they have more than enough capacity to handle people but they want to go easy on the servers.
Which is fine, but then what you do is design a way to let people try to progress. 3 hour queue? Sweet, at least it's something. But this isn't really a problem of "wow we're way more popular than we thought!" so much as trying to fill a gas tank by funneling gas through a life saver. This combined with the hash they made of the combat change announcements just feel... slope.
it totally is; after the discrepancy is greater than thirty, the lower Mana generates at half the normal rate until you get back to within thirty.
fluffydelusions
Member
You would need base game and stormblood
RPGCrazied
Member
Should we not even bother logging in on the 20th? Will the que's be so large, what is the point?
Offshore Breeze
Member
Been out of the loop for a few months, but opened up my SCH. Got rid of all the red actions that have been removed. For some reason, trying to drag Ruin and Bio 1 onto my hotbar isn't working. It's automatically turning Ruin into Broil and Bio into Bio 2. Am I missing something stupid here? Can you not have weaker variants of spells if you have the stronger one unlocked or something?
GuitarGuruu
Member
I don't know why people expect it to be that much worse at launch. Chances are people that want to play already have it preordered for the early access. I find it hard to believe someone would wait until the 20th just for shits. Only thing would be new players catching up with the potions if they became interested but certainly again I feel like they'd be in early access. Don't know where people expect this big influx of Stormblood purchases to come from on the 20th.
They would need to get FFXIV ARR as Stormblood only includes Heavensward. If it's their first time registering the game they can the get FFXIV Complete edition which comes with everything plus the 30 days free.
Chie Satonaka
Member
I took a nap.
I believed that maybe they'd have some sort of solution in place for this.
How foolish I was.
I believed that maybe they'd have some sort of solution in place for this.
How foolish I was.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Look at your traits, you probably have one that changes Bio to Bio 2. Not sure about broil/ruin.
Cool, thanks for the confirmation. It's more than a 50% cut, so it looks like you are going to want to keep that balance.
"Broil Mastery" and "Corruption Mastery" make the buttons change as you level. If you level sync down to something that doesn't have Broil/Bio2 the buttons will automatically go back. They did this to pretty much anything that they decided was a replacement of an earlier skill (Broil will auto-become Broil II at some point).
But yeah, it means the loss of a DoT.
In all honestly, I still keep standing still as a bard because I keep thinking I have a cast bar.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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So it looks like Red Mage is something that's good for beginners to get into.
The management of white/black mana isn't too complex. It seems the only thing that changes up what you do is VerHoly/Verflare at level 68/70.
Since you will have to decide which one to use after Enhanced Redoublement if you want the Verstone/Verfire proc 100%.
Samurai seems to have a decent dose of complexity at a glance. And it seems like there will be even more once the Kenki gauge and associated abilities are unlocked.
What I posted has to do with keeping one mana higher than the other at 80+. It only matters for using VerFlare/VerHoly after Enhanced Redoublement. which you won't get until level 68/70.
The management of white/black mana isn't too complex. It seems the only thing that changes up what you do is VerHoly/Verflare at level 68/70.
Since you will have to decide which one to use after Enhanced Redoublement if you want the Verstone/Verfire proc 100%.
Samurai seems to have a decent dose of complexity at a glance. And it seems like there will be even more once the Kenki gauge and associated abilities are unlocked.
What I posted has to do with keeping one mana higher than the other at 80+. It only matters for using VerFlare/VerHoly after Enhanced Redoublement. which you won't get until level 68/70.
"Please just stop playing our game."
I have so many followup questions. But yoshida said words so I assume we're all placated
Bandaging fixes while keeping the servers up just seems counter intuitive at this point.
Although taking them down leads to the same problems when they go back up.
GuitarGuruu
Member
At least he made a statement. In a way I do feel for them as this is kind of a cluster fuck but really what more can they do.
harriet the spy
Member
Quick questions:
If I had stormblood on PS4 but not steam but I shared a character - what happens then ?
Also - if I already have the game and a low level character, do I get that sub level 25 free sub ?
If I had stormblood on PS4 but not steam but I shared a character - what happens then ?
Also - if I already have the game and a low level character, do I get that sub level 25 free sub ?
KanameYuuki
Member
So, how hard is it to play SAM? Reading the skills sounded that basic rotation was a bit complicated, do they feel natural?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Haven't tried it yet myself, but it seems the general consensus is that it sounds more complicated on paper than it actually is to play.
Retro Edge
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SAM is pretty easy and pretty innovative, works good.
Red Mage is much harder in my opinion.
Can't got to the new zones or level past 60 on the Steam account. Probably can't gain EXP on the new jobs as well. Not sure.
Um maybe not arbitrarily gate 90% of your player base on launch day then tell them to log off and come back another time?
KanameYuuki
Member
Pretty good then, gonna give it a shot and see if it will replace MNK as my DPS class, I thought Red Mage was gonna be the easier one quite interesting to know that.
Honestly what bugs me the most is that it's not all instanced battle content--like, if they had a very narrow window to fit people through, it wouldn't just be the one quest that's a problem. But it's not, they're limiting per-content which means the content that gets hit the most--the super-early mandatory MSQ thing--is getting backed up, but stuff after it is fine because almost nobody's hitting that. Job quests seem to be functioning fine after the initial issues. The non-solo instances are fine. There's an insanely specific bottleneck they've created, that 2.0 should have alerted them to, and like eight hours later all they can do is repeat the statement from this morning but put Yoshida's name on it so it feels personal.
The whole mess would feel a little less annoying if it was just straight borked instances across the board, but the way this has broken just makes no sense. The servers expected us to all log in, they had a plan in place expecting to need to shard across across multiple instances of a zone, they block most stuff behind the main story... and are then shocked when people try to do it? But then they planned HW around avoiding exactly this kind of thing.
Maybe aliens abducted Yoshida mid-HW. Maybe that's what happened.
Really I think most of my salt is that if you had plans to do stuff with other people, the stupid instance is fucking them up. Not allowed to go in as a group, have to go in solo, but have to do the solo thing to get to the group thing. It'd be less frustrating on some level if we were all in the same boat, but it's turning into RNG divisions for no reason.
DrForester
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TLDR: We're not doing shit. Deal with the Instance Lottery.
GuitarGuruu
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I agree but at this point that ship has sailed.
(but not to Kugane..)