Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company
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Klokateer636
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Crystal Conflict is a ton of fun, but by God is it rough trying to get a win.
In about 30 matches, I've got 4 wins.
In about 30 matches, I've got 4 wins.
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So I've playing a lot of PvP and so far I've reached Gold and I've played about twelve hours of it. So far ranked play has been really boring. Every team I have fought against has been a stack of WAR > WHM > DRG > MCH > SAM every. Single. Time. Grand majority of my matches have been that exact match up and I've learned how to mitigate them as a WHM, but I get really tired of fighting the same classes every time. Balancing also needs a little work because as it stands Dancer is essentially an auto lose or a missing player because their presence is basically non-existent.
This is the same problem with classes like BRD, GNB, RPR, DRK, SCH, and BLM all of which range from mediocre to being sub par in their kits. BRD suffers from having animation locks and a casting attack that does too underwhelming damage to compete with MCH at the moment and GNB has little variation in terms of damage and mitigation making them basically a poor man's melee job. RPR only has their LB going for them and they do meh levels of damage and DRK has an annoying immunity buff but otherwise has too niche abilities to compete against PLD and WAR.
It's got some good bones to it, but it definitely needs some fine tuning. It's not horribly balanced at the moment (although that mitigation buff samurai has needs to go there's no reason for it to exist), but they need to tune up the niches a bit more because ranked meta is just the team stack I mentioned above.
This is the same problem with classes like BRD, GNB, RPR, DRK, SCH, and BLM all of which range from mediocre to being sub par in their kits. BRD suffers from having animation locks and a casting attack that does too underwhelming damage to compete with MCH at the moment and GNB has little variation in terms of damage and mitigation making them basically a poor man's melee job. RPR only has their LB going for them and they do meh levels of damage and DRK has an annoying immunity buff but otherwise has too niche abilities to compete against PLD and WAR.
It's got some good bones to it, but it definitely needs some fine tuning. It's not horribly balanced at the moment (although that mitigation buff samurai has needs to go there's no reason for it to exist), but they need to tune up the niches a bit more because ranked meta is just the team stack I mentioned above.
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Made the mistake of going onto the official forums. I swear the community is severely illiterate and can’t handle anything remotely grey in morality. I’d take EW criticisms more seriously if people didn’t make such cancerous takes. Also many of them now want Ishikawa gone and the return of the ARR and HW writers. I even saw someone cry about how they hate that the “mature and dirty” humor of ARR and HW is gone and that the humor now is childish. It’s sad that people will only accept sex jokes and South Park style dirty humor.
Sorry for the MATI but it’s just sad seeing people go on about the game’s plot while completely missing the point of 95% of it.
Sorry for the MATI but it’s just sad seeing people go on about the game’s plot while completely missing the point of 95% of it.
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The problem with SCH is that it relies too much on the rest of your team being competent. Recitation+Bio+Deployment+Mummify will melt most of the enemy team's HP (and keep them melted) but you need the other people in your team to finish the job. I've noticed a really bad trend of people just outright ignoring the easy kills I serve up in favor of running away because someone got deleted or the party got spooked by enemy CC.
It also doesn't help that SCH's LB fucking sucks.
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The main problem with PvP is the exact reasons those classes are so good (Minus MCH it just has a good LB) you can't communicate with your team at all. The braindead simple classes that can just work on their own are of course going to rise to the top, if there was group match making or even normal party chat I promise you there would be a different group of classes that can work together up there.
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Play more Casual matches, you tryhards. That's where you can actually see some team variety. It's also where you're gonna beat your head against a wall the most because the competency of the players you get matched with seems to switch around hourly. You can spend an entire hour on a winning streak and the next on a losing streak because your team goes from being decent to steamrolling to actual retards.
The reason why you'd see a stack of WAR > WHM > DRG > MCH > SAM is because they're meta as shit. It's easy to notice when halfway decent players playing any one of those classes in a Casual team can tend to be a respectable threat by themselves.
DRKs are annoying as shit because they end up being very good at holding a position and not dying + buying time for their team to regroup in a tight spot + retards will often fall prey to their AoE + bind.
SAM kind of needs its mitigation buffs for self-sustain and damage, because I guarantee you if there isn't a higher priority healer to target, everyone with half a brain is going to shut down the Samurai first and foremost since they can be pretty lethal if people aren't paying attention.
The reason why you'd see a stack of WAR > WHM > DRG > MCH > SAM is because they're meta as shit. It's easy to notice when halfway decent players playing any one of those classes in a Casual team can tend to be a respectable threat by themselves.
DRKs are annoying as shit because they end up being very good at holding a position and not dying + buying time for their team to regroup in a tight spot + retards will often fall prey to their AoE + bind.
SAM kind of needs its mitigation buffs for self-sustain and damage, because I guarantee you if there isn't a higher priority healer to target, everyone with half a brain is going to shut down the Samurai first and foremost since they can be pretty lethal if people aren't paying attention.
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Another thing- I hate how this community has no fucking middle ground at all when it comes to talking about the positive and negative aspects of the game. If you say anything remotely negative about the game or criticize it you get rabid fans screaming at you for not thinking Yoshi P is God. On the other side you also can’t say anything positive or defend the game without the opposite side accusing you of being a shill and a white knight. I don’t even talk about XIV outside this forum anymore because the slightest disagreements are met with hostility. You either have to slavishly love the game or hate every bit of it.
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You can easily filter the illiterates from the people that can actually read by how they feel about Sorrow of Werlyt's storyline. Or the entirety of the Garlemald section in Endwalker, that one clearly split the readers from the retards.
The people that'd leave Garleans to die will almost never understand that they'd be considered the villains in the setting. Same with people that think Yotsuyu doesn't deserve empathy because "she worked with imperialists", albeit these people are a lot rarer than the ones that call you a fascist for liking Garleans.
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WHM so far has been the top meta class hands down in scrims because even if a WHM player is really bad they're still contributing god like utility to their team. Even if they time the CC wrong, they can still mitigate a player for a split second and other competent players can capitalize on that. Even if they don't know how to use LB effectively, they can still yeet and delete a player to 25% health and grant someone an easy kill. Also they can heal and AOE heal with their prot and damage aoe burst. Basically even bad WHM players are still better than nothing.
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What about the people who think that there should have been a massive trigger warning preceding a suicide scene/that a suicide scene was an absolutely out of left field, jarring twist that had no business being in the game at all?
Ways you can tell a lot of the game's playerbase isn't very grounded in reality with their expectations.
Sunflower Samurai
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As you said the first mistake was going to the forums but yeah you will only find mouthbreathers wanting asspats for being "smarter" or more smug than the devs/writers
You get some posters that take the game to heart to extreme measures, say they're gonna quit but 3 months later they're back to bitch again because they dont actually care about what they write about and just ERP in between content drops
The DRK megathread has been my favorite salt-mine in ages
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I've seen a lot of shit takes on characters and the story in my time playing the game, but this one is new and sadly very believable (probably because I avoided any form of spoiler talk like the plague until I finished 6.0).
Did they forget Zenos tried offing himself by cutting his throat the first time before Elidibus piloted his body around like a skinsuit, complete with blood and the actual cut just barely being offscreen? Or the backstory behind Dark Knight? Or that the very first dungeon has an optional room filled with traumatized girls that were heavily implied to have been raped over and over by pirates before you showed up? Tesleen and Edda Pureheart? How about that Raen and Hyur pair in Eulmore you see at the start of Shadowbringers (the "Canary" that can't sing anymore)? Remember how that ended with him realizing he killed her by letting her "ascend", and he's barely functioning if you talk to him again after healing him?
Speaking of the OF:
Makes for some funny reading. The original poster is a known troll who makes deliberately inflammatory threads to rile up the forum. Naturally every time it's about to fade into obscurity it gets a bump to bring it right back to the front page.
Makes for some funny reading. The original poster is a known troll who makes deliberately inflammatory threads to rile up the forum. Naturally every time it's about to fade into obscurity it gets a bump to bring it right back to the front page.
Sunflower Samurai
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Lmao i went to check back (pls forgive me for the sin of phone posting but)
The op is kinda funny
Although Delirium is also a "lol free spender button" like WAR, to me its still different because you can weave your shit in between GCDs
Oblation at current dungeon difficulty is fine and you deadass dont need more than Shadowall + Oblation + Reprisal and fucking TBN on top of that even on big pulls
Salted has its new drain on its pvp version because of abyssal drain not being a thing in it, its draw in would be neat in PVE though
Lmao people complained about abyssal drain being filler and now this nigga bitches that carve has shared CD, if anything maybe Carve should have a tiny heal in proportion to dmg then
Its retarded that he bitches about muh no GCDs when both PLD/GNB and WAR just have one extra thats there to refresh their mechanics, and bloodspiller/quietus are a thing
Maybe DRK could get more than a very unnoticable dmg increase after an MP gcd or some shit
Anyways thanks for listening to my sperging (or not), but its still a funny thread full of copium
The op is kinda funny
Although Delirium is also a "lol free spender button" like WAR, to me its still different because you can weave your shit in between GCDs
Oblation at current dungeon difficulty is fine and you deadass dont need more than Shadowall + Oblation + Reprisal and fucking TBN on top of that even on big pulls
Salted has its new drain on its pvp version because of abyssal drain not being a thing in it, its draw in would be neat in PVE though
Lmao people complained about abyssal drain being filler and now this nigga bitches that carve has shared CD, if anything maybe Carve should have a tiny heal in proportion to dmg then
Its retarded that he bitches about muh no GCDs when both PLD/GNB and WAR just have one extra thats there to refresh their mechanics, and bloodspiller/quietus are a thing
Maybe DRK could get more than a very unnoticable dmg increase after an MP gcd or some shit
Anyways thanks for listening to my sperging (or not), but its still a funny thread full of copium
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I mean the whole idea is that she's literally Satan.
That's not a joke by the way, both are godlike mythical beings accociated with light who caused mankind to be "exiled from paradise" or sundered in her case. It's just she goes for more of a Gnostic angle without there being a evil god on the other side.
Klokateer636
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Loved it. Especially the mecha on mecha fighting. Was disappointed we didn't get to use it in EndWalker.... yet.
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That was probably the best part of Garlemald's section in EW for the actual impact itself and what it more or less represents for that whole story. I actually went back over there before the following cutscenes to see if anything could be found, their was a similar thing in one of the SB Drk quests so I had to give it a try. Alas, their was not.