Post AXS87FJYMqISk7eQ8u by aj@gayrobot.club
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(DIR) Post #AXRU2Xg2fhHc4zN8Pw by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T06:15:50.097335Z
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man. WHM gameplay has been fucked up for a while now—the best way to use your limited healing resource is to burn it on downtime overheal—but ever since Afflatus Misery became strictly damage-positive even without raid buffs, now you do it in uptime too, and something about it just feels unavoidably off. I know Square doesn’t want to do Energy Drain style spenders anymore, but…pretty please?
(DIR) Post #AXRULepEJpjrkdmhl2 by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T06:19:17.768648Z
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it really doesn’t have to be a big gain—just enough that I feel like I have access to even a small amount of skill expression. just a pinch. a smidge, even
(DIR) Post #AXRXcasSYAKIIC3wbw by sleepmode@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T06:39:01.826927Z
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@aj I don’t go here but I have had friends complaining (a little bit jokingly) about the “strive-ification of ffxiv” and uh
(DIR) Post #AXRXcbU2ISNsAjdxBI by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T06:55:57.846551Z
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@sleepmode the game has been subject to a lot of streamlining over the years, for better or for worse. a lot of those changes make some sense individually—“there’s no situation where you don’t want to do X, so we made X automatic”—and a lot of them don’t, and are aimed mainly at pacifying a certain type of optimization-minded mind goblin, or reducing the damage a single incompetent player can do to a casual pick-up group.regardless of whether any individual change was justified in a vacuum, though, several straight years of these types of changes have left the game feeling kinda empty for a lot of people who are really invested in the high-end combat content. they removed a lot of jank, but have largely replaced it with nothing
(DIR) Post #AXRZ3mXlNpbIFOuV6m by sleepmode@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T07:07:31.997617Z
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@aj yeah god I don’t envy anyone in charge of combat balance/encounter design in a game like that. having to make high-end combat interesting and mechanically engaging while also accounting for the fact that you fundamentally can’t actually do anything substantial about differences in skill/playstyle/priorities in random groups of people would be a god damn nightmarethough by that same token, there are a lot of cases where seemingly frustrating points of friction are actually what make something interesting in the first place, but how do you reduce friction while keeping the game interesting and accommodating for different players and group compositions
(DIR) Post #AXRZUFOyiAcvHMQ9k8 by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T07:16:52.386114Z
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@sleepmode “well, players expect to get new skills and abilities in an expansion, so we have to add some skills and abilities, but you have 2-3 hotbars of shit already, so what do we do?”
(DIR) Post #AXRZXboLqoVreHtMAa by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T07:17:31.596114Z
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@sleepmode “well, players expect to get new skills and abilities in an expansion, so we have to add some skills and abilities, but you have 2-3 hotbars of shit already, so what do we do?”fast forward 4 expansions and suddenly, everyone has a suspicious amount of abilities that are just preprogrammed followups to other abilities that share a button
(DIR) Post #AXS1bGU9sXI5NoyimG by sleepmode@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T11:31:09.508955Z
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@aj ah yes, that’s what we need: four hotbars worth of autocombos
(DIR) Post #AXS7C7vLAlvdJc5aHw by Muffinlord@retro.pizza
2023-07-07T13:15:40Z
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@aj i hate the ff14 "time to lean, time to clean" approach to healing in general. I want to heal in dungeons, not have to supplement the DPS :/
(DIR) Post #AXS7C8a6jCXRM3A8pc by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T13:34:33.249272Z
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@Muffinlord oh man oh man. the healer situation in XIV is starting to get fucked beyond belief, and I think even casual players are starting to get frustrated with this. I’ve seen more than one healer die at the start of a boss in Dead Ends, then watch their party easily clear without them and realize that their role was never actually required. this sucks!…but that’s what happens when you repeatedly reduce outgoing damage, repeatedly bloat tank healing, and let players progress as far as they want without ever learning the basics. it’s impossible to design engaging healer gameplay if you never want to let anyone fail.shit sucks, take me back to frantically toggling Cleric Stance trying not to have a heart attack in The Vault.
(DIR) Post #AXS7RFu1n2DoPAgmTA by Muffinlord@retro.pizza
2023-07-07T13:36:24Z
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@aj look just let me play whack a mole with regen and medica 2 and stop asking me to help burn down the bosses that's your job
(DIR) Post #AXS87EbwyxQ0YtFbBA by Muffinlord@retro.pizza
2023-07-07T13:38:20Z
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@aj what i really miss is playing a druid in WoW. I could do any role, I could do them good, but only one at a time. I'm not even sure restoration druids had any attacks. Maybe the little moon laser but if i started doing dps in a pug people would vote kick me and they'd be right to
(DIR) Post #AXS87FJYMqISk7eQ8u by aj@gayrobot.club
2023-07-07T13:44:52.294798Z
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@Muffinlord yeah. I just dropped WHM halfway through Endwalker and never really looked back, 14 just isn’t interested in designing the kind of cool triage scenarios I live for.the most fun thing about healing is almost always that hanging-by-a-thread crisis, where you know for certain that it’s you standing between the party and certain death, and the most fun thing about DPS is having all 20 of your plates spinning and feeling like you’re directly connected to an angry facet of god. FF14 healers live in this horrible middle zone where it’s rare for anyone to be in meaningful danger, but you have only one plate labeled Dia. just gimme something to do please, I am BEGGING you for a reason to heal
(DIR) Post #AXSomWlcZzq0or99Gq by Muffinlord@retro.pizza
2023-07-07T14:08:11Z
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@aj monkeys paw curls now every trash mob hits like a tankbuster