Should I continue playing?

[Chi-Z]

I'm not really a social person, and I've hit the crystal tower. I've tried one raid, just to try it, but I just kept getting whipped around and yelled at by the healers. Not loving it, to say the least. Any hope that npc support comes back in later quests?


Edit: Well, if you get knocked down get back up. Took an honest look at my play style, fixed my bad habits, and looked up some guides for bosses. Cleared CT like it was nothing. Maybe it was naive to blind run raids, but it gave me a good look at the community for better or worse.

[dameon2k]

To my knowledge NPC support exists for anything you would actually have to have it for all the way through parts of the third expansion. I have never heard any plans for using duty support for raids though. I do think it is likely once they get done with story dungeons they will go back and do support for the dungeons that do not have to be completed in story. That is just my opinion though. I doubt they will do it for raids but since people are not always doing older content maybe they will eventually. It would be a long ways away though.

[Veotax]

Duty Support, dungeons with NPCs, is just for Dungeons from here on out. There will be 8-man trails (the boss fights with no dungeon attached) you'll have to do, those are all (with one exception) multiplayer only.

There are a bunch of 24-man raids like the Crystal Tower ones, but only the three Crystal Tower ones are required for the main story.


If you can't stand multiplayer instances at all, then you might want to stop. The main story is only able to be played completely solo up until you finish the ARR main story, ending with destroying the Ultima Weapon, which you have done.

[VaryNia]

Originally posted by Chi-Z:

I'm not really a social person, and I've hit the crystal tower. I've tried one raid, just to try it, but I just kept getting whipped around and yelled at by the healers. Not loving it, to say the least. Any hope that npc support comes back in later quests?

If this is the only thing that bothers you, continue playing. You only have to do the three raids and then you can play dungeons with NPCs again, safe for trials, those do also not support NPCs.

If you are on an EU DC, I would be willing to help you with the raids as a healer.

[FreshMint]

Originally posted by Chi-Z:

I just kept getting whipped around and yelled at by the healers. Not loving it, to say the least.

Don't fret too much about this, occasionally there's the bad apple here but don't let it get to you or ruin the overall experience.
When you queue for content, all of you are, in the end, just working towards the same goal of beating the dungeon and usually you don't really need to speak up if nothing is happening anyway. It does pay off to be open to suggestoins from others if they have them though.

This is coming from someone that got over social anxienty in df by accidentally queuing for Sastasha,

[LoadedVirus]

I am not a social person, I do not group up outside of duty finder and rarely if ever need to chat to anyone is game. I just do my role, loot and leave. I have been doing this since launch and have not seen a single need to go any further then that, Savage content onward is cool and all but completely unnecessary even if you want the best gear (granted you won't be able to min max your secondary stats). Your problem from what I can gather is a skill/experience issue which when you play more and get comfortable with the game will not be an issue, you WILL get better and people will stop yelling at you... then you can enjoy things at your own pace.

[Under there]

i don't believe that anyone gave you an especially hard time in a crystal tower raid

[causality]

Originally posted by Chi-Z:

I'm not really a social person, and I've hit the crystal tower. I've tried one raid, just to try it, but I just kept getting whipped around and yelled at by the healers. Not loving it, to say the least. Any hope that npc support comes back in later quests?

GCBTW. Community is gatekeeping CT now.

[tap and die]

As much as SE wants to add more solo features like duty support and trust for instances, I don't think this game is solo friendly in terms of gameplay. It's just incredibly boring to play it solo.

[Integrity]

You should quit.

[Don Lobo]

Originally posted by tap and die:

As much as SE wants to add more solo features like duty support and trust for instances, I don't think this game is solo friendly in terms of gameplay. It's just incredibly boring to play it solo.

As someone who made friends only 3000 hours in (at endgame), I wholehearteadly disagree. You can go through the entirety of the MSQ, and do most other content without having to depend on virtually anyone, with the only real exceptions being the trials and raids. FFXIV is incredibly solo friendly, is just not a single player game.

Also, boring is a subjective qualification. What’s boring for you, isn’t for others and shouldn’t even be considered when evaluating whether the game is solo friendly or not, because everyone’s experience will be different. What matters is whether the game accommodates and facilitates going through it without actively having to wait or depend on others, and It most certainly does.

[The Grimm Reefer]

Probably the most solo friendly mmo I've ever played.

[Slaanesh]

If you fell the need for someone to even validate you than no

[ArkAngel]

Running blind the first time is acceptable imo. The problem with CT, is that most players will have run it 1000s of times so get frustrated easily. It's not rare to see sprouts, especially tanks, who don't know what they're doing getting chewed out by their alliance.

Just let people know you're new at the start, and it'll be fine most of the time. Of course, there's always going to be toxic people wherever you go. People like to parrot that XIV has a non-toxic and friendly community. I disagree, it's only less toxic compared to other MMOs but still has a lot of unchecked toxicity.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

I understand some games require bare minimum social interaction, but if that's how you want to play it, then you need to actually go in to the fights with at least basic knowledge of what you're doing.

Or just ask what to do.

[Kitsune Dzelda]

I remember once in a Crystal Tower raid someone once said, "Im new here, I dont know what were doing."

At which point someone else replied "Dont worry, we dont either."
Never change, Crystal Tower raid, never change.