That second post. This bitch is acting like she's gonna get kicked out of her real house. Honest question here because I've only dipped my toes in the game again; Maybe I was just insulated from those parts of the community in Warcraft, but what is it about 14 that encourages this "living through my character" to such an insane degree?
I think you just get a different type of insanity in both games. FWIW I stopped playing WoW in WoD after getting my Blackhand M Kill. But I found Warcraft players much more egotistical and openly dramatic (would argue with each other over voice in raid or publicly in gchat), they didn't so much have a "living through their character" attitude, but more felt like they were living a power fantasy through anonymity (I've seen people create opposing faction alts to harrass others because their guild cleared a raid boss faster than them, or PvP drama more times than I can count.)
I'm casual enough that I haven't even touched savage raids, so there's no way I could ever reach that point unless I get off my ass to find a static. I'd be interested in watching a progging livestream, though. Got any recommendations?
I wish I could, but I'm limited to PF and I've still got to clear P3S.
You need to have P4S cleared to do ultimate. I cleared it with a static. I don't enjoy PF, it's a big waste of space and wasted time. Doing ultimate in PF is near impossible.
Idk, Bard's silence drives me fucking INSANE in CC. I hate them so much.
FFXIV is built more as a secondary social hub, especially when your irl social life is terrible. Because it has a wide range of fashion (even though most overly obsessives types pick either slut style or edge style 90% of the time) to make you stand out a little bit if you at least try so you can feel unique if you try, everyone looks generally good looking for the most part which is nice if you're insecure, housing in general despite it being a pain in the ass to get access to is huge in having a curated social space, the in-game moderation is strict enough that people feel generally "safe", and the story gives everyone who plays the game a fairly deep avenue to discuss something.
I made Crystal. Bards are really only any good the higher up you go in CC. The lower your rank, the less buffing teammates matters because they suck. I still think WHM needs a few more tweaks, but this was a pretty good small patch all things considered.
I played a bit of it this morning and I'm surprised; the balancing as limited as it is is much better than it was prior. Gunbreaker actually feels much better to play now. Dancer actually has a competent edge in PvP matches if their party can properly coordinate. It's surreal to me because I can't name one game where Squeenix ever got competitive gameplay right and no chocobo racing doesn't count.
I think diminishing returns on crowd control needs to be looked at in frontlines, it is very fucking shit having 20 people target you with a stun, silence, heavy, polymorph, etc and only having one cleanse.
I forgot about that now that you mentioned it. I honestly don't know what they can do with that except maybe make a separate version? Because the CC I don't think would work in tandem with large scale battles. Honestly a BG centered on big team battles would be kinda based now that I'm thinking about it.
Getting CC'd to death is usually the result of bad positioning, in a even team fight wasting all your CC on one player is a bad strategy.
Chain CCing one guy unless they have like 3+ stages of battle high (maybe 2+ if this is early game) is a stupid idea, CC is limited and takes too long to come back for how fast it is to die in Frontlines, how hard it is to coordinate CC in FL, and how penalizing death is due to battle high as a mechanic it is just a bad trade in a large scale engagement. Also due lack of healing power in current PVP, relative to pre 6.1 where I could spam cure 2 for about 30 seconds straight, have medica 2/assize, AND have lily heals which give regen, bursting is fairly easy now so you don't need to CC the WHM for a year just to pray they'll die. The biggest reason everyone just sits and does nothing, unless they're int-ing, in FL is usually three reasons.
It's incredibly frustrating to die because your team pulled back to capture objectives rather than putting the squeeze on blue team which is currently in the lead and engaged with the entirety of red team. People can't interpret anyrhing more complicated than "more players=kill, fewer players=run"
I ran into a few cheaters myself. It is a problem. What I don't understand is how spastic Redditors are. They seem to think this should be the bestest competitive experience and can't enjoy what's there.
Basically what the cheats do is take away your need to pay attention at all, it removes the need for certain situational awareness skills.
