Mount and sprint, so that I don't have to keep them on hotkeys. In WoW I also use it for gathering, but the UI requires clicking in FFXIV..
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Mount and sprint, so that I don't have to keep them on hotkeys. In WoW I also use it for gathering, but the UI requires clicking in FFXIV..
MagicWithEarvin
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But Kain is a Dragoon and Kain is cool.
Dragoons are awesome, tbqh. That Jump attack has nice animations.
That reminds me, I still need to pay my sub fee for the next 3-6 months...
Is Mog down during maintenance as well?
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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MagicWithEarvin
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It's in about 4 hours, right? I think last time Mog Station was down during maintenance.
MomoPufflet
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So less battle intensive stuff then. That makes sense. I was probably trying to be too creative with it.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Yep! Maintenance is in roughly 4 hours at 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST and will run until 3:00 AM PST/6:00 AM EST.
demosthenes
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edit: nvm i'm stupid -_-
MagicWithEarvin
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Basically, hot bar 1 and 2. Really easy to set up and I picked up on it easily. I mapped the keys on the software provided.
Psssst... don't terminate Dawn Cunanan from the FC
chickdigger802
Banned
maintenance during primetime for america. sweet.
can someone give me a basic summary of what are bards? thought they would be more of a support role... but all the ones ive encountered hit like a truck in dungeons.
can someone give me a basic summary of what are bards? thought they would be more of a support role... but all the ones ive encountered hit like a truck in dungeons.
Bards hit like a truck in dungeons and can tag everything with one button in FATES. I loathe them.
Edvardelis
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Support classes don't really exist in this game. They're basically DPS who have party wide buffs.
Looks like I'm golden till early next week, so I don't have to worry about making sure I get my sub up tonight.
Still debating on the 90 or 180 sub. I got burned with the 6-month sub fee for SWTOR where I paid up front and quit after 2 months. Won't happen here, but still it might be better to start off with a smaller amount and see if it still has me hooked in three months.
Still debating on the 90 or 180 sub. I got burned with the 6-month sub fee for SWTOR where I paid up front and quit after 2 months. Won't happen here, but still it might be better to start off with a smaller amount and see if it still has me hooked in three months.
chickdigger802
Banned
end game for TOR.... sigh. At least pvp was kinda fun, well huttball was for me lol.
FallingEdge
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How do you feel about that class? I've been hearing that WAR can't tank after Titan. I have no idea. Sucks about finding out about their healing properties.
Level 35 tank here.
Another question, is there a hot key for targeting the enemies that are targeting you?
MagicWithEarvin
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I thought Bards were appreciated since they compliment healers and such?
chickdigger802
Banned
Tab, because every enemy should be targeting you!
Ah Huttball. I didn't do too well as a Sage outside of some stuns and keeping the runner alive.
End game was...meh at best and Open World PvP was a joke on Ilum.
I really liked Huttball. Probably because PvP tanking was actually useful
SoraanTribal
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Man, doing Titan Hard Mode with a PUG (server-only) and we got him so close. 10%. Have regressed since then. 
/sad
/sadFallingEdge
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rofl.
Yeah but when in the main world and I'm trying to tab between enemies, I sometimes get the ones way off in the distance. Sure I can shift+tab but was wondering if there is a hot key available. I'd check myself but I am at work atm
rofl.
Yeah but when in the main world and I'm trying to tab between enemies, I sometimes get the ones way off in the distance. Sure I can shift+tab but was wondering if there is a hot key available. I'd check myself but I am at work atm
You could always go into options and make it so tab only works with aggroed enemies.
Edvardelis
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SMN is basically load dots, hit certain abilities on cooldown, and spam Ruin when you've done everything else. Ruin itself doesn't add a whole lot so you can run around while the DoTs tick and not lose much in the way of DPS, assuming you don't use Ruin II, which you can cast on the move. (I save that for the Blind.)
Drawbacks are the lack of burst and the pitiful range of Bane, which makes using DoTs on multiple targets difficult. Our absolute worst situation is a bunch of adds running around.
Weekly maintenance. not sure what they are fixing, but FFXI had it at the same time every week. Hopefully it won't be nearly as regular as that, but it could very well be.
chickdigger802
Banned
Is endgame here much better though? I guess you can always level up a new class... but pretty much exclusive FATEing just bores my mind.
guardian leaping with the ball. So good.
Where does one ever need to pop Cover as a paladin? Sounds useful, but dps guys are usually long dead before I realize they need help (._. )
Pai Pai Master
Banned
They're doing another server upgrade, to make room for new worlds, prepare for server transfers, and fix some of the issues we've been having with Duty Finder on Amdapor keep. And a patch.
Weekly maintenance during prime time seems REALLY STUPID.
notworksafe
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Not only that, but us Dragoons put up a debuff to help you do even MORE damage!
Pai Pai Master
Banned
It is always prime time somewhere. You're playing a Japanese game so big time maintenance is going to be during Japanese business time when people are working.
They don't have weekly maintenances scheduled, this just happens to be when they are doing the next set of server upgrades.
Hey guys, we should do Garuda HM. eh? ehhh?
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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rofl.
Yeah but when in the main world and I'm trying to tab between enemies, I sometimes get the ones way off in the distance. Sure I can shift+tab but was wondering if there is a hot key available. I'd check myself but I am at work atm
Map one of your keys to "Targest Nearest Enemy". I pretty much use this exclusively over Tab. You can also click on the actual enemy or click on the name of the enemy in the enmity list.
You could also make a mouseover macro (<mo>) or you can use the /bt command to target the closest enemy that is targeting/attacking you. I suppose the latter is what you were originally asking for.
chickdigger802
Banned
global game, global offices... stagger it up?
You pretty much lose 1 day a week to maintenance. 4 weeks a month, so 4 out of 30 days month sub is 'wasted'.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Except this isn't a weekly maintenance. This is an update to enhance their infrastructure. They are not doing any periodically scheduled maintenance at this time.
Sorry dude. but monks that only do that are awful. They also have a lot of work to get the most out of their damage.
I think here you end up getting more challenging and varied dungeons instead of what was offered in SWTOR with HM which just threw a bunch of level 50s at you with no real new enemy patterns from what I remember.
I will say it had a more engaging, personal storyline than FFXIV, but I like the overall story better here.
They are much more focused on JPN players right now I believe to help maintain and grow the userbase, so they don't have maintenance during JPN primetime. Sucks, but I'm not gonna stress over not being able to play for a day.
FallingEdge
Member
This is really good to know. Was thinking they might have it only based on what they had historically done with XI.
Do you need to add anything to the /bt command for it to work or does it just target the enemy on its own?
Shouta
Member
Nope. Monk is pretty easy for damage. The thing they lack move that produces guaranteed burst and their AOE is a bit middling. But crits for Monk, especially on Bootshine and True Strike from behind, are very powerful. They also can go for a long time without needing TP because of lack costs and a lot of skills that can be used to give breathing room for TP to regen.
The combos that I use, I have macroed:
Dragon Kick -> Twin Snakes -> Snap Punch
Bootshine -> True Strike -> Demolish
Dragon Kick -> Twin Snakes -> Rockbreaker
I just go down and up that macro so my buffs are intact and I drop Instant skills inbetween.
SMN are fine in damage. A big damage source they have is DOTs which can't be parse currently. They can burst using Fester and Energy Drain if need be.Fester in particular can crit for pretty good damage. I hit it for 700 or maybe a bit more with Raging Strikes up at around 44/45.
In fact, Garuda is meant to aid SMNs in doing burst damage. Their last skill increases the timers on DOTs which means you can keep tossing ruins until the Fester timer is reset then burst, all without having to reapply.
Huh, not really? Monk isn't rocket scientist and there really isn't all that much work to it aside from maintaining your position. Apply Fracture/ToD in there and do your combos to keep buffs up and insta-damage.
Torquill
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I promise you it's more than standard weekly maint. That simply doesn't take a full working day. They also wouldn't schedule regular maint on the NA servers in NA prime time.
Except the NA/EU data center isn't in Japan. And it's not like its cloud based or something like that that they can super easy control from JPN or the scale up would have been much faster.
Edvardelis
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That's a level 40 skill not a Garuda skill. Even Emerald Carbuncle has it. Between that and being ranged, you could argue that Ifrit's only really useful from level 30 to level 40.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Nope. It works on its own.
notworksafe
Member
Heh, I wouldn't worry about weekly maintenance guys. Once the server stuff gets sorted it'll be up for months at a time, just like XI and 1.0.
razgriz417
Member
Son of a bitch, took me 8 online pickup orders from 8 different Walmarts in my area in the last 24 hours to get a copy of the game for my friend and I (tho it seems like i could get ahold of 2 others tomorrow) and now I find out there's maintence from 8pm to 6am T.T
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