general

It honestly feels like DRK had more buttons at level 50 in HW than it did at 80 in ShB.

Kinda

Though a lot of those buttons were redundant

And not just ones removed through turning some skills into traits, turning some into role abilities, etc

Like, wasn't there a fuckton to Dark Arts before?

Yuh

And they just kinda removed that

Also, does Yoshi-P just absolutely hate DoTs?

Honestly they had it right the first time, but for every expansion after it’s just kinda gone in weird directions

Who knows

Like, the complete SMN rework, that's one thing, but it seems every DoT that still exists has been nerfed besides the low level healer ones

Brd is a good example of that actually

I'm pretty sure the BRD ones last 15 sec longer but have half the potency

Dots used to proc all your damage sources of bard, but now that’s not even the case anymore iirc

That's a significant damage loss, because you're doubling the potency, but only increasing the amount of ticks by 30%

err, halving the potency*

It is actually double the ticks, server ticks are at 3s intervals in this game and the dots went from 15-30 right

Unless I’m misremembering

30 to 45

Wait, I don't know math

Oh wait they’re 45 now

thats 5 more ticks, not 3 more

I missed that completely

I thought you were referring to old changes, didn’t realize they increases the duration again

Okay, so if its 50 pot, 30 sec, 10 ticks, 500 pot. 25 pot, 45 sec, 15 ticks, 375 pot

So it lasts longer, but does 75% of the damage.

75% of the total damage over a longer duration.

It’s pretty funny actually, bard aoe used to be all about putting up multiple dots to get procs for your big damage sources, but now it’s not even worth putting them up outside of 1-2 targets

Since they don’t proc your shit

Did you have to DoT each target individually? I stayed away from shadow priest in WoW because it was an absolute beast for all of Legion, but I HATED using a GCD and 1.5s(before haste) applying Vampiric Touch, another GCD for Shadow Word: Pain, swapping target, repeating for every single target in a fight

You did that up to about 3 targets yeah

After that it wasn’t worth it iirc

Pain in the ass honestly

I wanted to try BRD when I started playing in 2015, until I found out that you had to hardcast everything starting at 52, so I stayed away from ranged until returning and saw that they decided to get rid of that.

I loved HW BRD, that shit was my jam, the 1.5s casts let you weave an off-global every gcd and move around mostly freely

Was fun

"Mostly" freely is the problem.

Xiv also has a kinda weird mechanic where your casts technically go through to the server about 2 3rds into the cast time

Which means you can move freely after a certain point without interrupting your cast

It's because with the best possible connection you can have, you're running at a minimum of 250-300ms

The game had a built in 100ms for some reason back in ARR but that was fixed in HW

I dunno, everyone I've seen has said they definitely experience some latency

I mean not outside of just normal latency though

I meant between the time you press a button on your client and the time the server registers it, sorry

Everything is server-side so you’ll get latency based on your proximity to them

Yeah

But the built in weird shit is gone

Cuz right now, I can pop a defensive, and the delay between the time I press the button and the time the animation starts for activating it is SIGNIFICANTLY longer than when I activated an ability in WoW with 30-40ms

Oh yeah and I get wanting free movement, I started on BRD in ARR because of that, but xiv kinda just doesn’t have much that requires that free movement

It feels longer than when I played with 120-150ms

I don't have a problem with hardcasting, I'm just like

"...Why would I bother playing this for 51 levels, moving freely, then have to hardcast or do absolute shit for damage? Why not just play BLM in that case?"

Understandable, though ironically brd and mch did absolutely cracked damage in hw

People used to straight up skip the 1% extra damage from having a caster in your party to bring both

Yep, I heard people were mad that BRD got to do good damage in ARR while moving freely, so they made them hardcast in HW, and then they did MASSIVE damage.

Also on the latency thing, I wouldn’t know for sure since I don’t really know anything about wow, but isn’t most stuff client-side there?

Some stuff is client-side, some stuff is server-side.

Like cooldowns, mitigation etc

The client and server have to communicate regardless, but the server for WoW reads data what feels like 50 times more often than FFXIV

Yeah the server ticks are a lot faster, I know that

It's not really a problem, just something to adjust to

If you want there’s a kinda grey area tool that fixes a lot of those issues called xivalexander

Most of the latency is because xiv waits for a response from the server before it lets anything go through, Alexander just kinda skips waiting for that response and let’s your abilities go through when you hit them

I've mostly adjusted at this point, the thing I still have a little bit of adjusting to get used to use popping multiple oGCDs, because some oGCDs have animations or some type of delay before letting you pop another

Yeah it’s jank

But it's really not a big issue for me; I stopped playing WoW... right around 9.0.5's release, so I think end of March, beginning of April, picked this back up in August I think? So I had a good amount of time to disconnect, didn't hop right from one to the other.

Fair enough

The latency wasn't as much of an issue to get used to as the snapshotting was.

That is the biggest thing I’ve heard talked about from people coming over yeah ahah

I think in retail, the only snapshotting that exists still is for one ability for feral druids, which I don't know why it still has it.

Also I’m sure you’ve been told/know, but addons and similar things aren’t really supported

Though at the same time SE has no way of seeing what you’re doing with your game files, so there’s tons of stuff out there

It’s just not official

Yeah, I've pretty much gleamed "Don't talk about it in-game, don't put it out there publicly, you're fine otherwise"

Yuh

I have ACT, mainly to track my own performance, but that's it

Japan has stricter laws about collecting data from users iirc, even if the game could do it I don’t think they’d be allowed to

I'll just make sure not to take screenshots of my bunny girl with a monster cock flailing about

lol yeah

Well even if you did as long as you didn’t post it publicly they couldn’t do anything about it