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Same as what you said except anywhere at anytime INCLUDING DUNGEONS GAH!

Sometimes as a tank it is nice to switch to the next target in line while the DPS finish off the first in order to start building up some enmity ahead of time. There are some DPS players out there who have evidently adopted the strategy of "***** killing this thing all the way, I'll move on and let the tank finish it". This can result in whole parties moving from target to target without actually killing anything.

DPS! Kill stuff!

Why do some mob attacks randomly cause heavy when I'm trying to run past them on my chocobo? It's not like they have any shot whatsoever at killing me, so all it does is slow me down and tick me off. Annoying!

Someone who seriously undercuts the market for no reason.

4K HQ item suddenly listed for 1K annoys me to no end. Today I just said ***** it, bought all the 1K items and relisted them for 3K. Already sold one, and the rest will sell fast. Hopefully the rival crafter will see there are still 10 items listed on the AH and not make any more of those things.

On that note, going to make a requested item only to go try to post it on the board and see someone already beat you to it.

#1 When you tank something pre-50 and MARK enemies so you dont have to give every mob 33% of your enmity and struggle through the fight, but can give the main target 80%, and the followup targets each 10% so people can absolutely UNLOAD on the first guy, and they just attack whatever regardless of numbering.

#2 People running away after they got hate from attacking something they shouldnt, and make me drag everything else i'm holding after them to get into range of the monsters to provoke it back.

#3 Speedruns. I just hate them. They make me stress out to save 2 minutes of time. Not worth it.

#4 The kick feature. It's abused and used on anyone who goes "This is my first time", or anytime someone dies in even a reasonable and understandable way. Or even if they just flatout dont like your face.

#4.5 The Party Finder and it's elistist requirements and asshattery. "Must know fight" = ok. "Must have cleared it before" = reasonably ok. "Must never be hit by any attack or you get kicked" = unreasonably bad.

#5 People who undercut, not by 1-100 gil, but by 5.000-10.000 gil on an item that steadily sold 10 times a day for 15.000 gil.



They fixed this.
System Configuration -> Sound Display -> Scroll down -> Player Effects Volume -> Other PCs.
Set that to 0. And anyone outside of your party wont make any sound anymore. Dragoons spamming spins are history then.

oh yes, forgot one...

the main one...

#6 Someone shouting for a weapon or tool to be made that they need desperately, you have a bit of free time and are in a good mood. You dig through your retainers, find most of the ingredients, make a HQ for someone. Tell them not to worry about paying you for it and that they should just take it. You're happy, they're happy... and the very next day you find that item with YOUR signature on the market boards, undercutting the other items you put up. Happens more than you think.

And in light of events a mere two minutes ago.

#7 Logging into the game, going "Good Morning" to your FC at 7:55 AM, and the purple text pops up saying "We're starting maintenance soon, please logout"



Edited, May 2nd 2014 7:58am by KojiroSoma

I hate when whms use that ability that flings monsters away. Often, I'm getting ready to hit something as part of my hate rotation when BAM, the whm sends the mob way out of range for no reason other than to do it.

This is yoshi's idea of "a dangerous world." Getting heavy status from monsters who won't chase you more than 7 feet.



To be fair though I CAN kind of understand the fail comments. It's a gigantic waste of time to have people who get hit by ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING. in your party and needlessly wasting your healer's MP, especially to raise you. What if you happen to not have a bard? Potions are worthless as main cures from SCH and WHM suck your MP very fast after a 800+ mp raise numerous times. Titan is a good example, you won't be clearing it if you have people who get hit by every weight or bomb. Garuda, people who stand in tornados and with Ifrit healers who gets the party assaulted with roar.

It's on of my persoal annoyances to see PF comments like x = kick, but at the same time I can understand because I'd rather not waste time with people, especially healers, who get hit by every mechanic, especially in Leviathan. It is unreasonable to expect someone to not get hit at all (it is possible though, I went through all of Leviathan Extreme without taking any damage from anything that isn't a natural mechanic, e.g tail swipe, roar, tidal wave etc), but at the same time, they're obviously talking about people who can't dodge things that are dodgable. People love to use lag as an excuse so it starts getting a bit hazy on who actually is lagging vs who just plain sucks.

Though it is easy to tell -

Someone truly lagging either network or PC wise will actually run a lot slower than other players, for example if you and the lagger run from point a to point b, the one lagging will be running at 'walk speed' and significantly slower than you. So if you see someone running just fine and claim to lag...guess again ^^

For crafting, I severely hate undercutters. XIV is honestly the only MMO I've played (and I've played more than 17 for longer than 3 years) where people seem to DESPISE making money.

Edited, May 2nd 2014 5:07am by Theonehio

Yeah, that's one of the many things SE took a huge step back on. In FFXIV 1.0 - 1.23 I can accept raise/teleports at any time if I close the dialog box, they vanish after a bit but I at least can choose to revive again.

I think it's mostly due to changing from "menu based" navigation outside of just a main menu.

RE:Undercutting:

Devil's advocate, I can kinda understand why they do it.

Right now, listing an item on the Market is a complete chore, unless there's some secret I'm not aware of. First, you need to know what it is selling for. So you open the Marketboard, look the item up and make your decision what to sell it for. Then you most likely have to close the Marketboard (because the Summoning Bell is too far away from the Marketboard to have both up simultaneously from what I could see), and then ring your Retainer and tell them to sell the item.

Okay, item #1 listed.

For Item #2... you gotta send the Retainer away, open the Marketboard, get an idea of what to list the item for, blah blah blah.

For each item. You can try to remember, but with all the /emote spam, people running around ontop of you, crafting sounds, etc... sometimes its hard to remember, esp when you're selling similar items. "Gee, was that the Craftman's Cunning Materia or the Craftman's Competence Materia that was going for 5k?" And if you forget, you have to go look it up.....again.......then summon your retainer......again.

Selling stuff is just a hassle, and I can kinda understand if people want to make sure it sells, not end up in the retainer's inventory a week later. I've found materia is pretty lousy for this, my one retainer still has 7 materia on her that haven't sold (that I listed 4+ days ago), and I even undercut by 20%. I've got a bunch of materia on me, that I just simply don't feel like going through the hassle right now to actually list.

Now, if we had some sort of way to view the going prices while in the listing interface, that'd be a LOT better!

This is why it's such an idiotic problem, you can see the going prices as well as filtering between Materia laced and HQ only for example while listing, it's how people constantly adjust their prices 1-30k below yours.

Ya, when you have your retainer out, choose to sell item, upper right corner of the screen. There's a history of what's it's sold for and the current stock that's on the market with listed prices. No need to do what you're doing right now.

I go analog to alleviate this issue. Pen and paper at the desk.

You do know you can check the price history of an item straight from the retainer's sale menu, right? No need to check the boards first. The price history menu is on the same page you set the sale price.

I've found that there definitely seems to be some disconnect with tanks and enmity in this game. I have not yet leveled a tanking class, but from running dungeons on my drg and now cnj, some tanks REALLY struggle with threat on multiple mobs and some seem to have better control. So far, it seems that Warrior\Maurader class has the easiest time, and the sword and board classes are struggling. It could just be the experience level of the tanks in question, but I have to wonder if SE didn't quite take into account a proper level of AoE tools for each tank class when they designed dungeons. It's a much bigger deal than it was in XI when we basically fought one monster at a time.




I recently obtained that one - from that water quest for Conjurer and my first thought was "what a useless spell. Where is my cure II that as a healer class I should have a lot sooner than 30? Why do I need a random aoe knockback spell when my role is to cure people?"

I understand what Yoshi was trying to do - whm in XI was one of those classes that just couldn't solo. At all, really. Sure you could deck yourself out in the whm hauby, level up your club and Hexa Strike the **** out of things - but it was far from ideal compared to other classes. He's giving us more tools so that we aren't so dependent on others in a solo context...

I'm just not sure that the design of this particular class\job makes much sense in a group context. It *feels* like I should be getting more healing tools, not more dps tools. Spamming Cure I has so far been an extremely boring experience. Getting Esuna and then fighting that ONE coeurl in Satasha was the highlight of my night last night, and only one person even got hit with the paralyze. Disappointing.

So I guess my point is - in defense of whm's everywhere... the job right now is so mind-numbingly boring that they are probably using it just for the troll = excitement factor. I know, it sucks for you when you are trying to do your thing, but wow - I REALLY hope that this job gets better with later levels, or I fear I, too, will be one of those whm's you hate.