AF3 Gallery.
Not a fan of SMN and AST sets; rest are decent. Wasn't a fan of PLD originally (I still like the AF2 a little more), but it's far from awful.
Thankfully, the BLM AF3 isn't terribad looking like their AF2 was (I dare say that gear was a factor in why I burned out and quit for 3.1, lol).
Why did it push them away? Why couldnt they be bothered to play through the quests? If they really hate the story, why couldn't they just hit esc, hit skip, and move on? And what is so different about end game? It's the same progression of dungeons. In fact, if you want the tombstones for gear, your still farming all this old dungeons and trials you wanted to skip past. Every raid zone, ever trial, every dungeon is tied to quests and progression, just like the msq. So yes, I do fully believe, if you don't like the early game, it doesnt get all that much better or different later on.
Well if you are idly standing around 80% of the time twiddling your thumbs instead of contributing to the run... you'd be no different from a BLM spamming ice.
That cannot be explained away by: "I'm new and uncomfortable and don't want anyone to die because I went into cleric at an inopportune moment".
By GCD I mean the "global cooldown" itself, not the skills you have at your disposal but the windows, i.e. uptime during a fight. Most DPS and Tanks will be over 90% only missing windows because of mechanics (except if, they are bad/lazy/what have you) and you think it's "okay" for a healer to sit at 60% or even less uptime doing nothing during several windows ? Really ?
I actually do think it's ok and so do a majority of players. If they rolled a healer they want to heal, not dps. Don't get me wrong, I get that dpsing is good but as I've said but the community of this game and the mindset of healers having dps comes off as a bunch of elitist dicks that are enforcing it and even Yoshi P said he didn't like it, especially when new players see people talk about it.
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I've done thousands of dungeons but on a normal average run, your healer isn't going to be spamming dps abilities.
It's akin to the archetypal Vivi look they seem fond to have us modeled after...and that's fine, especially compared to the AF2 set BLM had. A brown paper sack over our head paired with a Speedo would've been better than that abomination.
DRK one looks like parts AF2 combined with Behemoth King (pvp heavy armor set) and the Hellfire set.
I forgot that was functional already!
But yes, I'm on Gilgamesh....
We've intentionally done this before.
Our healer berated us, but we insisted we had their best interest at heart, for fear of them getting bored.
Our healer said they hate us all, but still remains our friend and even still heals for us! ^_^
WE'RE THE BEST GROUP A HEALER COULD ASK FOR!
That's because WoW became a phenomenon and drew in a deluge of non-MMORPG players. That's what I mean when I say you don't necessarily want more players for the sake of more players. You get the XBox Live competitive shooter crowd, the hyper casual crowd, you start catering to all of them and you dilute the product you were originally creating to your vision if all you care about are numbers and the money that comes with it.
And that's a very real concern people should have for FFXIV because Yoshida may be a rock star that saved the company and somewhat a franchise, but corporate Square Enix can still overrule him if they see something is generating money even if contrary to his vision of the direction he's guiding the ship towards.
Luckily, for now, Square seems happy to let him do what he wants while they cash in on $150-$200 action figures.... *twitches and resists pre-ordering Cloud... heaven help me when Tifa is put up for pre-order.... Fran is on wait list already (she's cheaper though)* >_o
Yet they have a Vincent statue that's on pre-order wait list and it's only a mere $50.... give me the whole case in that quality and I'll buy them one after another, but nooooooo $150 action figures...
But that's true Vivi quality BLMery there! D:
I kinda like DRK better than what they've had previously, but I don't play DRK so I've not stared at their sets much.
I hope Samurai get a set with hakama pants instead of the robe design at some point. Gosetsu has 'em already.
Last edited by Faroth; 2017-05-23 at 06:06 PM.