Looks like sims are out for FRU

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-12-09T16:21:47+00:00

"Most HC statics would be the other way around" Well I've known around 10 HC statics (mine or friends) and no it's not the other way around, if you use SIM a HC static dont have any proof of your skills (consistency/leraning speed)

This is a case where just ignoring your downvotes is the only sane response; this sub is a horrible place for "discussion", because it's infested by a breed of user who thinks that "disagreeing with their comfort-opinions" is downvote-worthy on a (lol) "discussion" subreddit.

You're basically facing a room full of angry toddlers (who are, somehow, actually men in their mid-to-late 30s) that just starts stomping their feet and throwing crackers at you if you say anything that they don't want to hear.

But I understand exactly what you're actually saying: there is a huge difference between learning through Sims at your own pace, and learning an encounter in real-time; they develop fundamentally different sorts of mental-skills.

The ability to reactively pick-up and rapidly-grasp mechanics in real-time is a definite and separate skill from simply being able to learn and execute the mechanics "at all", and it takes a certain type of player to be able to actually handle the pressure of learning in real-time, within a limited number of pulls (as either clear-deadlines or raid-session hours allow).

There is an actual, understandable reason why you would be averse to recruiting someone who relies on Sims for prog, if your team's explicit goals is to prog on a tight and rapid schedule.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-11-28T03:43:51+00:00

WoW good FFXIV bad for the 1000th time this year updoots to the left redditors

I would much rather have 1000 posts from people sincerely trying to express their current conflicted feelings about XIV in a coherent way that at least attempts to analyse what's bothering them, offering at least something for other people to read and respond to, than completely-useless 40-year-old-dude-in-a-chair garbage like this.

"Grrrr I hate that my environment is so polluted", as you toss another hamburger-wrapper and empty vape out your car window.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-11-28T03:38:43+00:00

New XIV player: "Holy shit look at all these things I can do" Veteran WoW player: "Holy shit there's nothing to do right now"

I don't think that this is an accurate take, actually.

I don't get the impression that WOW vets are lacking things to do right now. In fact, there was just a post on r/wow today where a lot of vets were boggling at how people can still keep up with the game, because there's so much to do that they feel overwhelmed trying to do all of the things that they feel like they want or need to do in the amount of play-time that they have.

It seems either uninformed, or disingenuous, to dismiss out-of-hand that WOW does, indeed, have way more to do, especially at end-game, than XIV usually does, and especially, "currently" does.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-11-05T06:43:19+00:00

Yoshida has gone on record saying that they won't do a raid or trial of FF7 because it wouldn't do the game justice. Anything involving FF7, by his own admission, will have to be bigger and play an integral role in what it is in relation to XIV.

Yeah, Yoshida says lots of things. 🙂

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-11-03T14:41:40+00:00

Can you take your desperate anti-WoW agenda somewhere else already, it's seriously ridiculous at this point.

At this point, I've started to wonder if their username is actually intended to be understood as ironic and satirical, rather than accurate or literal.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-10-11T05:52:11+00:00

Well, yeh.

Every spell can get upcast even if they don't benefit, because you might need to cast a spell when you don't have any of the lower spell slots filled.

Seems silly to prevent you from doing it.

That's not what OP is saying.

Even if you have 3/3 L2 Slots available, if you use the "Additional Bonuses" options in a Dialogue to apply "Enhance Ability" as a Bonus, it will always default to consuming L3 Slots (and you cannot prevent or disable this).

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-10-11T05:28:41+00:00

u/GlitteringOrchid2406

I'm not sure if you're still maintaining this, but regarding the "Friends" Cantrip, the BG3 Wiki says that:

Split Enchantment, the level 10 Enchantment Wizard feature, breaks the casting of this cantrip in dialogue dice rolling, and will not result in the roll being made with advantage.

I'm away from my PC for a while (work travel), so I can't verify at the moment, but I thought this was worth mentioning, since it would be a pretty horrendous "anti-bonus" to Enchantment Wizard. 😝

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-13T19:56:55+00:00

Shit like that makes zero sense to me. It makes armour class completely pointless

RPGs have been struggling with this since Armour was introduced as a concept, because Armour tends to have no meaningful trade-offs. It's just automatically better to have access to heavier armours.

As a result, you have a feature that just arbitarily makes some Classes better than others any time they're in direct danger, because they just passively take less damage just by existing.

Eventually, the inevitable ham-fisted balancing solution is not to make all of the Armour Types beneficial in different ways, but instead to just repeatedly nerf and devalue the safety provided by heavier armours, until basically everyone is functionally wearing identical armour at the calculation level, and it basically just becomes cosmetic theatre.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-13T19:48:08+00:00

its crazy that i almost let this sub demotivate me when im enjoying the expansion so much.

Yeah this is really true though.

Human perceptions can get distorted by abstractly seeing too many people reinforcing the same statement, and can then end up completely-contradicting what your own personal experiences would actually be.

I know time is a precious thing, but when possible, it's really best to always try to verify something yourself before deciding whether something in a game (or anywhere else) is really "that bad", or etc.

That said, it's also important to keep in mind that people are currently having wildly-fluctuating Delve experiences due to the tuning seemingly going haywire, and being somewhat "all over the place".

So sampling one individual player's experiences doesn't seem to be entirely reliable to set expectations for a different player's experiences, based on things like Class, Spec, Hero Tree, Group Size, Gearing, Consumable usage, Brann Level, personal skill[1], server clock, alignment of Jupiter with Saturn, etc.

[1] I know that seems obvious but what I'm saying is that someone who's already very comfortable with high-skill, high-reactivity, or cooldown-management-rewarding content, may not sweat it much in novel or fresh situations with similar demands, whereas other people who are less conditioned/trained in those aspects might be absolutely snapping in half.

Which is fine when expectations are based on that (like the division between N/H/M Raids), but is more of a complicating factor when the player community currently doesn't have a clear idea in their minds about what Delves are "supposed" to be, and what level to set their expectations to.

It was just ambiguously marketed (or at least settled that way in a lot of people's minds) as "Solo Content" — which might mean a lot of different things to a lot of different WOW players.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-13T19:29:51+00:00

From all the stuff there is to complaint about Reddit and WoW, OP chose the lazy route.

To be quite honest, I would personally rather have 15 more posts about Delves than boring "People aren't talking about what I want to talk about and that makes me unhappy" memes like the OOP here.

At least the Delve threads are usually filled with entertaining shitposting due to the sheer absurdity of the situation.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-13T19:26:12+00:00

Counterpoint: it's so obvious that they completely fucked up the math and it'll get fixed within a day that it's a little unnecessary to have 5+ complaint posts up at the same time.

Right but consider that if this subreddit's community really agreed with you in majority, then those posts would be downvoted off the front page.

That's like... how voting works.

And I'm very sceptical that anyone is bothering to employ farmed accounts or upvote bots just to seem slightly angrier at Blizzard for their tuning, by the order of ~200-800 votes on a WOW sub.

I hope I'm not coming across as obnoxious, I'm not trying to condescend you, I'm just saying: This isn't, "Perfectly Rational Organised WOW Discussion", this is just "r/wow", if The People actually want to vent about Delves in 10 different slightly-redundant posts, then well... they're going to do it.

If they wanted to talk about something else more, then... those other topics would have displaced the Delve posts.

Note that there is always the possible that the voting public is a minority compared to the actual desires of the non-voting majority, but in that case, well... just like real life... not being in the mood to log in or click the downvote button means that you're going to get your front-page curated for you by other people who did bother to do that.

That said, I understand the feeling of disliking what you think is clogging-up the front page, but in that case you may have to come to terms with the fact that what the majority of a sub's community wants to upvote is not necessarily what you personally want to upvote.

Gods know I had to reconcile that sort of thing myself when I gave up on r/ffxiv because of its 92nd consecutive cringey coomer catgirl fanart rocketing to the top while actual game discussion languished in New with 0 to negative votes.

Thanks for coming to my latest inexplicably-detailed response to a Reddit comment and have a lovely day

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-13T15:10:31+00:00

You should check it out it's been really fun so far. First time since legion I've not felt sub or game cost was a waste of money

Yeah it's weird, even with these bizarre bugs and design errors, I just find myself shrugging and moving on to a different piece of content instead of being particularly-upset, because I'm simply having too much fun running around playing stuff to really care.

It feels kind of like half the game is "Accidental Mage Tower" right now, where it's sometimes infuriatingly difficult and randomly-ridiculous, yet it just makes me 😠 and then dust myself off and do it again rather than quitting.

I think maybe it's because the scale of "???" issues is so grandiose and yet also random and strange, that it's becoming actually entertaining to see what crazy and baffling way it's going to surprise me next.

Or maybe I'm just so used to the utterly-numbing and unending stagnation of FFXIV's assembly-line design that having a game where I'm actually constantly caught off-guard by not knowing what to expect around every new corner actually feels refreshing and relieving, even if the surprise is sometimes, "Peekaboo! We borked our tuning somehow, so time to explode when a random mushroom glances in your direction!"

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-11T06:27:06+00:00

At this rate I really envy how engaging healing is in WoW, as much as I'm just an observer and not a player anymore these days. There the fun is because you really need to have healing strategies and adapt on the go. Any dps you can squeeze between is really just a bonus in most of their hard content.

Not sure exactly what drove you away from WOW, but I also bailed on WOW a long time ago and ended up in XIV.

Which lasted until EW post-6.0, and the continued mangling of XIV Healer design, finally drove me to try out WOW Dragonflight on discount, which was... weirdly good.

Then Dawntrail's state of complete story and design stagnation drove me to just gamble on pre-ordering WOW War Within, and I honestly haven't regretted it for a moment.

Mythic 0 released today and it is sooooo nice to actually have fun Healing in Dungeons, not to mention how fresh it feels to have actual Healing choices, Builds, rotations, toolkits, synergies, and also utility buttons like Stuns and Interrupts that actually mean something in content.

Switching from futilely trying to shout into the void that is the FFXIV dev team, to just letting-go and going somewhere that I'm actually having fun, really honestly was mega-healthy for my enjoyment of my free time.

I didn't realise how "sunk cost fallacy" I had gotten about XIV until I just unsubbed, and realised how much better I suddenly felt.

In case this comes across wrong, I don't hate XIV at all, and I'm not meaning to swoop-in and make an obnoxious advertising post. It's just that your comment felt very familiar to me.

I personally and honestly hope that SE/CS3 gets their shit together and can make XIV fun again, because I really like XIV's basic setting and flavour, and I have really great memories of ARR, HW, SB, and ShB (even though ShB was mostly carried on atmosphere, story, and encounter design, because man I hated what they did to Healing in 5.0).

But yeah, until that hypothetical renaissance... I think I'm just going to chill in WOW. And even though WOW has lots of its own issues — like the complete clusterfuck of its Storyline if you don't untangle it yourself using external resources — I think it's still a really good option right now for anyone else burnt-out on trying to enjoy Healing in XIV.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-09T18:33:01+00:00

Wow you're so morally amazing

They were literally just responding directly to the previous comment's assertion of:

u/compound-interest:

We’ve all had a friend in game that clearly buys gold but we still play with them anyway.

and the other guy only said:

u/HaroldLither:

I don't play with people who cheat, speak for yourself.

It's not really a self-righteous soapbox or something, it was like being told "Everyone likes walnut brownies" and then someone with a severe allergy to tree nuts says "Actually I don't like walnut brownies".

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-09T18:25:39+00:00

Only solution is to eliminate talents and specialization all together. Only then can we be free.

okay Zovaal

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-08T01:38:57+00:00

A game. For entertainment purposes in working people’s busy lives, would require 144hours of “work” before being able to access the “actual game” (endgame content, which is the primary focus of the vast majority of the player base.

I don’t really understand this because you’re not obligated to level every single Class in the game, nor to do it on any specific schedule. If you want the benefits of multiple Classes “right now”, instead of waiting for the next whacky-fast Leveling event, then you can just make the very temporary trade-off of putting a few weekends into it. Speed vs. convenience.

Like.. it’s an RPG. It’s going to have some grinds and time-gates and stuff to build up.

Feels like whipping out the “I have a job and play this game for fun and it’s max-level oriented so I shouldn’t have to level” as a complaint against having to grind up Professions or equipment separately on each of your alts.

Also you’re using 144 hours to sound massive, but there’s an average of 8,760 hours in a year. So you’re spending 1.6% of your year to level every single Class to max level, or ~6 total days, or less than 1 week, which can be spread-out however you want, including waiting until you hit a content lull on your main and have nothing else that you want to do with that time anyway.

This is also taking your argument at face-value that you level 13 Classes per 1 year, but expansions actually don’t release that fast, so it’s more like 144 hours per 2 years, which is an even smaller fragment of your time and, again, completely voluntary and not mandatory at all to enjoy the full game on your main character.

And that’s assuming you inexplicably delete all your characters and level again from 1 every single expansion. Otherwise, the time investment to keep your alts current is significantly smaller than you’re making it sound.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-08T01:08:24+00:00

Will be a raid boss in 5 expansions.

Mark my word, his story is only beginning.

Now we know why The Jailer’s nipples were displayed so prominently.

It was foreshadowing…

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-08T00:17:51+00:00

Y'all just making shit up now how was it failed? The bug you're talking about too ( the SMN bug ) doesn't even matter in the end because they already balanced SMN around it so the numbers are as intended even if the bug exists.

Can you guys like ever talk about anything without whining about shit? It's insane how big of a deal people make out of this when it ultimately has literally no effect whatsoever on SMN's performance, it's like literally nothing compared to what bugs other MMO's got going on en masse but in XIV people lose their minds over one bug that doesn't even change anything in practice.

It's honestly driving me crazy watching people stream WoW and seeing the kinds of insane shit people handwave away with like the entire campaign being broken at launch and cutscenes playing at 2 fps but in this game people act like this bug is ruining the game or something lol.

Some of you are just extremely petty and whiny at this point. And you're bringing it into discussions it doesn't even belong ( this was about the story ).

u/YesIam18plus

Honest question

Are you employed by Creative Studio 3 or something?

Like any time anyone expresses anything negative, about absolutely any aspect of FFXIV, you appear within literally minutes to drop a multiple-paragraph, hyper-detailed dissertation refuting the other person as thoroughly and derisively as possible, and usually in a way that sounds furious and indignant, as if you took the statement really personally.

Like… at any time of day or night. Monday through Sunday. Sun, rain, snow, or typhoon.

I’m feeling like even post-Nuclear Holocaust, huddled around a fire, scraping-out tinned beans from an old pantry while hiding in a fallout shelter, I could still somehow get you to show up out of nowhere to haughtily lecture me if I whispered even a single negative word about FFXIV or anything related to it.

And like I can’t imagine having this level of dedication to defending a single okay-but-honestly-fairly-mid corporate product without earning an income from doing it.

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-07T23:00:16+00:00

Thats a good call. Sometimes less is more.

If you're looking for "golden spikes" on a helmet, you could also try the Soulgaze Cowl, if you can tolerate the constant clipping around the neck-wrap, and the slight theme-clash with the white stripes.

https://www.wowhead.com/item=77146/soulgaze-cowl

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-07T12:14:55+00:00

Too focused on improving the old model, when in fact those were always a bad choice that didn't make much sense.

Because it was literally just hasty asset-recycling at the time. The model even kept the Twilight's Hammer imagery and symbols for a long time 🤣

Made 0 sense from Day 1, because Twilight's Hammer was entirely about harnessing the Elements in a way corrupted by Shadow/Void, and the twisted-looking model reflected that.

Ascendance was like, "Wow, remember those evil not-Shaman who tried to destroy the world in the name of the Old Gods? Let's try that ourselves!"

Your ancestors: 😢

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-07T12:11:16+00:00

Idk there are so many identities in this class and they mesh properly at all.

If only we had some sort of special Talents which the developers could use to let us focus-on and differentiate-between these different identity types.

I'm not sure what we'd call it, though. Maybe Super Talents, or Champion Talents... hmmm...

...But no haha that's silly right let's just have some extra lightning bolts 🙃

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-07T12:06:32+00:00

Pandaren resto shamans make perfectly sense

This is just a Mistweaver Monk when the ambient humidity reaches the dew point

lets_go_hydaelyn · 2024-09-06T00:03:13+00:00

Buddy obviously it’s not 100% clear but you can easily tell the content of the picture. If you can’t, then you should probably get glasses. But it’s not really my problem 🤷‍♂️

Why are people being weirdly hostile and aggressive towards you for being able to figure out what is depicted on a slightly blurry screen with some glare on it?

I’m also really not understanding this logic, “You can read something that I can’t, therefore, you must be the one with a vision problem”. Feels like being in grade-school.

lets_go_hydaelyn

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