The Frontlines TopicFollow

I'm surprised we don't have a Frontlines topic yet. Soooooooooo fun!!! And now that the queue issue is fixed, I love it even more. I'm almost capped on Soldiery via Frontlines alone and have enough myth for my next atma book, and I haven't even made a dent on the one I'm working on right now!

But yeah, I'll start off with a question for everyone. Do you have a Grand Company that just dominates any matches you're in when you're around? For me, it's always the Maelstrom that wins 90% of the time. It's becoming expected in my FC and LSes for me to shout "CURSE YOU MAELSTROM!!!" whenever I get out of a match. It's almost enough to make a guy defect...but I love my Immortal Flames too much lol.

Feel free to post your experiences/war stories/awesome moments here, I bet there's plenty of them!

Do you get the tomes whether you win or lose?

Supposedly in my server group the Adders are the ones that dominate. But the two I did last night were a Maelstrom win and a Flames win. So I dunno.

Either way I had fun. Very happy that the pvp unique skills are available to everyone there. Do wish the CD's were a bit lower. Full Swing done at the right time let's me pound a clothier down in 3 GCD's, but then I'm left chasing another half dozen targets for three minutes without actually being able to kill anything.

But that's a minor issue really. There tends to be enough people that it's not a big problem.

Yeah, doing pvp in this game as a healer is like painting yourself with target reticules. I got tired of it pretty fast.

And yep, people will inevitably ***** about you not doing a good job, nevermind the fact that a lot of the time you will be completely stunlocked from full HP to death and not be able to do anything.

Edited, Jul 12th 2014 8:10pm by Fynlar

The successful runs I've had, the healers hang way back. Really the healers that aren't alone are really hard to kill, considering the other players will stun or bind you as you get close to the healer (assuming the other players aren't just looking for huge dmg numbers and kills at the end). Stay near the 3 main bases and with your group. If your group wants to run off one by one to die while trying to take something, let them go die. Unless the majority of the group communicates that they are going after a target you should hang back.

Well that was fun for a while. I did a few rounds today though and the strategy seemed to be "bring as many WHMs as you can for heals and holy spam so no one can possibly kill your team." That's not so much fun for everyone else...

I lost every match today because opposing teams would ride into a base with 4 or 5 WHMs. How can you compete with that?

Edited, Jul 14th 2014 12:01am by Karlina

It's rediculously unballanced yeah.

It doesnt matter how many DPS you bring, all that matters is the amount of healers. Even 3 healers over 2 make your team the stronger one.

They should limit the amount of healers/tanks/dps back to set numbers, or this rediculousness wont ever stop :/

Yeah when I first saw my BLM char in frontlines I was like "... uh, why am I wearing all this purple relic.... oh."

Fought a very organized team. Tanks harassed mages, BLM focused on CC, the two healers stayed behind and covered each other as well as the party. Very well organized, executed like they had done it many times before. It was impossible for me to get an in without being collapsed upon, and even if we did get someone down, the healers were quick to raise. It was fairly incredible.

Would love to have a group like that myself but... diving our free company on Grand Company Lines made it kinda impossible.

FYI Seeing a lot of people that don't realize there are separate actions and bonus stats for PVP that are still in effect for Frontlines, considering a lot of people are doing this that didn't do PVP consider this a friendly reminder. (Had a fellow BRD ask me how the hell I did a knockback, which led to a conversation and more than half of the Alliance having no clue what I was talking about)

I haven't been back to try this event, but it sounds like it's getting pretty good reviews. I didn't care for the PvP that I did get to try in XIV(mostly due to combat system issues), but it's nice to see that they have been able to find a way for PvP to be engaging outside of the standard arenas.

Anything that I need to cast while running (scathe, lethargy) I assign to the buttons.

As a blm in pvp, I always have Fire III, Fire I, Blizzard III, and Macro for Swiftcast flare on the R + buttons.

The R + directional pad I have my long cast sleep, manawall, the aoe pvp spell, and fire II.

On the L + buttons I have the pvp instant cast sleep, the pvp non-elemental targeted attack, scathe, and lethargy. (scathe and lethargy are awesome in pvp!)

On the L + directional pad I have the limit break, the pvp skill that allows me to cast for a time without interruption, my cure spell, and my pvp skill that removes debuffs.

I set sprint as an all job skill, on PS4 it is on hotbar 8 (i think) and I get there by holding L trigger, then pressing R trigger and one of the buttons.

Sorry I dont know the names of the pvp skills, I memorize them by the icons and what they do.

Edited, Jul 15th 2014 10:16am by Valkayree

Use the extended crossbar controller option. It makes it so when you are holding R2, and then also hold L2, it brings up page 2 of your crossbar without having to hit R1 a couple times to switch bars. It's pretty slick, and once you get the hand of it, you'll never need to use the R1 button in combat ever again. I place all of my CD's on page 2 now, then just splice them in effortlessly between skills on page one, just by holding both shoulder buttons down. Works just as good in PVP.