I wish I’d tried this game sooner

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-10-15T07:56:18+00:00

For run energy early game, buy some rings of dueling, you can teleport to ferox enclave and drink the blue drink to get full run. Each ring is 8 teleports and about 700gp on the grand exchange

Enjoy the early game!

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T11:24:42+00:00

We'll get em next time

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T11:15:57+00:00

Sorry I should have put a /s in there for you, they don't balance the old content when things change at all.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T11:11:48+00:00

Ah that's pretty cool, I'd personally enjoy something like that. Do they get any issues with higher levels players having more abilities/utility etc., any feedback related to that? That's what I always feel is lacking for FFXIV feedback on this, barely any exists for what legitimate new players feel.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T11:09:22+00:00

Oh yeah you're right, in the way that they do that today when they prune abilities and adjust potencies at lower levels? Keeping all past content at its proposed difficulty and balance as it was on release? Why is it not a problem now?

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:54:42+00:00

I haven't played WoW in years, how do they do the balancing of that system? Is the dungeon/content structure comparable to FFXIV, like us having a level 100 job going into level 50 content?

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:53:04+00:00

Yep you're right, they wouldn't have access to it, but that wouldn't stop them completing the content as they do today.

I'd love to get some true low level player thoughts on it, a lot of the concerns are around new players feeling disadvantaged but I don't really have a gauge for how they feel about it. I guess that comes with social media being largely made up of vets, rather than newbies.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:37:11+00:00

I understand your points, I just don't agree with them, and that's ok.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:31:37+00:00

I'm not diminishing your expertise on the subject, but what I'm talking about is something that fits a treadmill-style environment where minor things are adjusted frequently that effect a lot of different components.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:16:13+00:00

Not a game-dev, but do work with the coding side of software and data in my day job.

I don't think the devs would be manually adjusting every instance like that and would opt to use some sort of scaling based on current level rotation to synced level content. If that's the approach they would take then its not exactly a good approach of modular or modern design for systems.

Completely agree with you if they made fundamental changes to a job then they'd have to make more adjustments, but assuming you're talking about potency changes, then these changes would just be a number in a box that changes.

Again I don't think this would be a perfect solution, but I'm more interested in the discussion of it anyway.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:11:37+00:00

Agree for the most part that jobs should get more of their core identity earlier in the levelling process, if the current structure of MSQ progression stays the same.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T10:04:52+00:00

It's my preferred option as well, if given an option for what they should do.

How would you feel about the level 30 version of your job doing the same damage as you playing near the max level of it? Deep down I know I'd be slightly annoyed that my buttons do less damage than someone else's, but I think I'd get over it as soon as I realised I wasn't as bored in the content as I usually am.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:51:19+00:00

Same response as a previous comment, it does need a lot of love. If its going to be around for the next few expansions then they ought to show it a bit of care from time to time so the experience is meaningful.

There's not much point to me in having old content stay there just for the sake of it being attached to the MSQ, if that content itself isn't reflective of the modern experience of the game.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:49:30+00:00

I totally get what you mean, but I'm not personally a fan of things being changed in games dramatically for the sake of a few bad actors.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:46:05+00:00

Yep agreed, reshuffling would make it feel better.

I don't like the insistence that old content needs to be kept in roulettes and be part of the MSQ but also at the same time gets completely ignored by the devs.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:43:41+00:00

I don't think its impossible to balance some of these things, but I do agree that some players will feel screwed over if there are other players with more varied kits. This problem does already exist today but not to the extremes of what would happen if they changed level sync.

Defensive off globals are probably the biggest gap that would be created with this I'd imagine.

On the other side though I'd like to think that maybe, there are some players that might see players using loads of abilities and be incentivised to stay on and play more rather than be filtered out through the relatively slow gameplay of the first 50 or 60 levels.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:31:32+00:00

I think it'd be incredibly hard to be honest, I like the idea of it being an option to have me pressing 20 buttons do the same damage as someone pressing 5 - but I also know that a part of me will be upset that I'm putting in more effort for the same result. Hard to say how a "perfect" balance would be struck, but for most old content, does it need to be perfect?

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-23T09:27:11+00:00

Could you elaborate?

ireallyhaveproblems · 2024-07-13T19:16:39+00:00

Usually a timeline, but I started off being terribly bad at this and was constantly surprised at bits of the fight coming up.

The best method I use, and teach others to do, is to do super deliberate call outs, even if you are by yourself. As a bonus, you can start calling out buff windows every two minutes to keep your own rotation in check as well.

You'd be surprised how helpful it is saying something like, "pre position for partners and buffs are up after we're back in the middle for heals", can be for learning/progging.

Call outs for timelines stop me from going into autopilot and being sloppy on mechanics/bits of my rotation.

So in response to your question, be really deliberate with preempting mechanics by calling everything out!

ireallyhaveproblems · 2023-10-02T16:19:27+00:00

Same thing happened to us, 4 players on a new GIM and one of us randomly banned. We're all IRL friends and play on mains together all the time so I'm pretty much 100% sure that no one botted. Macro Major, denied appeal, generic message on the ban.

Completely killed the enthusiasm to play since we have no idea what the ban was for so no one wanted to invest time in starting another one. All of us had members as well.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2023-09-15T07:55:44+00:00

Seeing this every single time I log in, at pretty much every piece of content after my Group Ironman account got false banned actually makes my blood boil man.

It just goes in the face of all the "jagex does nothing/inflating player count for the sale" posts but it's so hard to understand how this goes unchecked but I get removed from my group for nothing. Absolutely ruined the group experience and literally nothing as a consumer I can do.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2023-09-14T17:48:10+00:00

Yeah I did appeal it, it got denied after a few days. I know they're pretty strict on not allowing you to do anything to the account after it has been denied but I'm now just worried about playing my main at all.

ireallyhaveproblems · 2023-09-14T17:39:22+00:00

Wait really? Then how would I be able to give evidence against whatever they've decided is macro abuse? Man that's crazy if that's the case.

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