LogFAQs > #962952022

It took way too many tries to get one Frontline win today; something like six attempts. My plan had been to get two or three Seal Rock wins today, on a day off from work, so I could pop the x10 achievement there and only worry about Frontline during the Onsal Hakair days for two more wins over there, but no! Six attempts for one damned win. I swear I am cursed. Whenever I get close to finishing something, and any amount of luck is involved, I get screwed over by said luck. Triple triad cards, legendary fish, matching for pvp, clears for certain raids, the last field note? Forget about it. If the bad luck wasn't so consistent or persistent, I'd be past the 80% mark on achievement points right now, past the 150 mark on mounts not counting the few cash shop ones, probably close to 90% minions, and much more relaxed and less inclined to take breaks from the game out of frustration. Not because I've done what I wanted and have projects outside of the game, but because XIV vexes me with its luck element.

So yes, of course I take pride in getting stuff done in this game, and share roughly 3/5 of that pride, because the luck element is a rusty nail I find at every turn. I love this game, and it handles rng or pure grind better than some others of its ilk, but there is so much room for improvement in the places it really counts.

I used to be ninth on Gilgamesh in achievement points before the forced break two and a half years ago. Fifteenth or sixteenth despite my work schedule until some people moved in from other servers. I'm struggling at twenty-third or so, caring more about milestones such as 20k--five more levels on Dnc will topple that with ease--or 80% of available (non-season event) points, which is a few hundred points away. A few hundred points or more... easily overcome if the luck element didn't single me out to counter-weight the exceptionally lucky.

Pardon my rant, but seriously, sod rng with an overheated curling iron, and chuck it into freezing water before that heat wears off. I just want what is fair, within a reasonable amount of time, with what time I have to play this thing.