Actually that PLD seems to be using DL gear and relic+1, same as almost everyone else in the group, except for the BLM using Vanya, seems to be mostly their high aoe damage and good Holy stun combined with good defensive skill rotations that make it seems like the tank isn't taking much damage.
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| LFT Full Relic and DL Required
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Actually that PLD seems to be using DL gear and relic+1, same as almost everyone else in the group, except for the BLM using Vanya, seems to be mostly their high aoe damage and good Holy stun combined with good defensive skill rotations that make it seems like the tank isn't taking much damage.
It doesn't help that the path we're taking gives the boss a blunt resist, so your damage output is already being affected.
Unknown Soldier
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The way I silence turn 2, I only stop dpsing for 1 to 9 seconds per high voltage. You can still drop greased lightning though. It is not easy though.
diablos991
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Demand > Supply
tiggerkiddo
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This is why I gather my own shards and utilize the leves that give me tons of them, that way I'm never short. If you don't want to gather shards, make a deal with a gatherer who can net you some so you can avoid those crazy prices.
It's crazy that SE made the shards required for 1-50 crafting. I don't even think the game starts using Crystals and Clusters until the endgame recipes.
I'm level 50 mining and 50 Goldsmithing. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to gather shards :lol
Torquill
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I think they are giving themselves room to grow with level cap increases.
Level 1 gatherers don't realize they could easily sell 10,000 of them and don't want to gather for 8 hours to scrape it up when they could be leveling.
Level 30+ gatherers can 100% other stuff also worth 30-40 gil a whack.
And if someone DOES drop 10,000 on the AH at a deep discount, someone else (often me) will snap it up and sell them off in chunks of 200 or 500 at a couple gil below the previous going rate.
I'd imagine the dev team is going to reintroduce Signet in the near future.
Titan book looks cool, but they should have made it larger than the other books because reasons >.>
diablos991
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The Titan DRG spear looks terrible though. I don't get stabbing people with a blunt rock. The DRG weapon looks like something used to breach locked doors, not kill dragons.
BumperLips
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It really sucks on ADS though, if he say, pops cannons/laser/firestorm and you're in 2nd form.
Without perfect balance, this is the only time I get caught with my pants down. HAVE to rely on a PLD silence.
But if you get lucky you can time it just right (I believe it's 25 seconds recast for the smaller nodes, and 20 seconds recast for ADS) so that you won't drop dps (besides doing arm instead of dragon kick)
What I did was watch youtube videos and timed the time between them. They come between 21 and 29 seconds apart depending on what other spells he casts.
So I have a timer that starts on the macro for arm of the destroyer and it just times out well to where if I always use a skill off gcd I'm ready to silence at the 21 sec time. But, frequently I'm dodging aoe and miss a gcd, so I tell the pld to get next silence.
But if it takes 27 sec in the 21-29 for example, if I get back into the right stance I tell the pld to hold his silence. It only works because the pld is good.
Just did my first Sastasha as a healer. Was crazy. Having to explain how to use limit break, how to pull mobs , telling the dps not to rush ahead, that the tanks must keep aggro at all times. And the final boss...my god what a mess, but we did it and had a lot of fun, i remember when i was a newbie so i didnt go all elitist on them.
cpp_is_king
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I started out on a non-legacy server having never played, and same thing happened to me but I was the newb. Guy kept telling me to use my Limit Break and i was like wtf are you even talking about, what's a limit break? Finally he told me to hit P and drag the thing down to my action bar, and I was like holy shit I had no idea that was even there.
Unknown Soldier
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Sumie's a cat.
A guy on the official forum commented that his group takes the path that leads to Rot, Gravity, and Ballast. It seems like Ballast would be aggravating on ADS but he says it's a lot easier than dealing with Chain Lightning.
Since yesterday I have been trying to transfer a 1.0 character from Balmung to Ragnarok and I can select it and it has the message "This character may be transferred.", but when I click to next I receive:
"The World Transfer service is unavailable, or the website is currently under maintenance.
Please wait and try again."
I have try googling about this problem in the last day and I don't find anything, just that for some minutes during the maintenance the world transfer services would be down. But is already 1 day failing for me :/
Someone else has this problem?
"The World Transfer service is unavailable, or the website is currently under maintenance.
Please wait and try again."
I have try googling about this problem in the last day and I don't find anything, just that for some minutes during the maintenance the world transfer services would be down. But is already 1 day failing for me :/
Someone else has this problem?
Augemitbutter
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decided to finally join the titan train. gave him a few tries in doodie as main tank and dd to learn the basics. got a competent group with med-good gear the next day. he fell just after a few tries. tanking him was fun as a warrior, when you have to manage your cooldowns and react to his attacks. pretty satisfying. walked out with a new axe, which looks like a big chunk of meat. i have all 3 primal axes now 
relic after a few tomes.
relic after a few tomes.
decided to finally join the titan train. gave him a few tries in doodie as main tank and dd to learn the basics. got a competent group with med-good gear the next day. he fell just after a few tries. tanking him was fun as a warrior, when you have to manage your cooldowns and react to his attacks. pretty satisfying. walked out with a new axe, which looks like a big chunk of meat. i have all 3 primal axes now
relic after a few tomes.
Gonna suicide a few times via DF tonight to get a feel for Titan, then I'lltry to get in on a GAF group.
....soon.
cats are midgets to me...
and no need to change stuff up now, we killed it, nice clean run with solid proof we now have the fight down.
now for the tanks to figure out t4 so we can get that down
Gold_Loot
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Hey Valus. Welcome aboard. I've been quietly playing on Midgardsomr since launch (Due to RL friends being there) Currently playing with the SoB FC (Star Onion Brigade).
I have 2 characters, Spire Saga and Solvice Saga. Send a tell if anything.
Maybe that server is not open for creation when you are trying to do it?
One of the reason was taking away Alchemist's ability to turn clusters into crystals and crystals into shards. They really gimped Alchemy along with giving all crafts the ability to make dyes.
diablos991
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Killing the rot node is a terrible idea! It provides the boss with a haste attack that basically doubles his casts. It makes that fight truly unbearable.
Ballast and gravity field are not difficult to deal with at all. The team just needs to deal with the rot, paralyze stunning, and tank swapping.
Below is a list of the ability removed and the buff granted from each node. (I bolded the route my team takes)
Monitoring node - Initial node
Sanitary node -> Ability: ballast - Buff: piercing resist
Attack node -> Ability: gravity field - Buff: blunt resist
Quarantine node -> Ability: allagan rot - Buff: haste
Defense node -> Ability: chain lightning - Buff: slashing resist
Disposal node -> Ability: firestream - Buff: magic resist
diablos991
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It's very easy without 3 healers. The problem with the DF is competency, not composition.
Afaik, most groups don't use 3 healers anyways and go 5 DPS to end the fight faster. Still getting the short stick though in DF since you'll have 2 healers 4 DD.
Sir Griffith
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Had such a rough time with Garuda last night, and I don't even know why. Did it with all FC mates and we all have at least 4-7 DL pieces and AK gear, but we just couldn't win. We looked up the strats on youtube and it looked simple enough, but we just kept getting wrecked after the 2nd set of adds spawned. Kinda frustrating. Will down her this weekend, though.
Augemitbutter
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good luck! fun fight.
Torquill
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I did it without 3 healers in partial DL/AK/AF gear as a dragoo.
Torquill
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Well...
It will give you 2 tanks, which makes the fight harder than it needs to be.
For all the Tumults at the end i guess
I got my relic in a party of three healers, it was a bit overkill, but we did some DoT damage as well and it went by just fine. Less stress for everyone involved. Of course I'll just be quoted now by people saying that they solo-healed it very easily and everyone just avoided every AoE possible because that's how good they are in their 5th try.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Being in the FC doesn't mean they are skilled or knowledgeable of the class they play.
If things get bad, just pull out the DPS parser and see who isn't pulling their weight. That way numbers are backing up the kick-from-party decision and hopefully they don't freak out in FC chat.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Pokemon thread is that way ------->
No! Do not fall to the dark side! Our buffs are coming!
i'm gearing my smn on the side :/
So, today was a great progression day.
Joined DF groups for CM and Prae that were already in progress. Turned out that they were doing speed runs and both times I joined for the last boss and got locked outside. Took me about 15 minutes to finish the story...
I then started my relic quest and unlocked Ifrit HM. I'm currently 3/3 on Ifrit with DF groups. Thankfully the fight is stupidly easy, otherwise farming the weapon would be a pain in the ass.
Killed the Chimera with a PUG between Ifrit runs and am now on the AK part of the relic quest.
I'll definitely wait for my Ifrit weapon to drop before I go to AK and Garuda can wait until I'm far enough into the relic quest.
Joined DF groups for CM and Prae that were already in progress. Turned out that they were doing speed runs and both times I joined for the last boss and got locked outside. Took me about 15 minutes to finish the story...
I then started my relic quest and unlocked Ifrit HM. I'm currently 3/3 on Ifrit with DF groups. Thankfully the fight is stupidly easy, otherwise farming the weapon would be a pain in the ass.
Killed the Chimera with a PUG between Ifrit runs and am now on the AK part of the relic quest.
I'll definitely wait for my Ifrit weapon to drop before I go to AK and Garuda can wait until I'm far enough into the relic quest.
Little known, but tumults can be stunned after the third stomp, only really useful in the final phase. The fight can be solo healed with this method. 1 tank, 1 heal, 6 dps goes pretty damn fast.
You misunderstood him. He meant that they went the path that led to the boss using rot, gravity, and ballast.
giving up the war dream for easy mode pld huh
If by second adds you mean the sisters the best way to handle it is to kill the first set and LB the second. Some will say the third but you shouldn't be getting to the third honestly.
When she puts up the purple storm where you need to gather in the middle have blm LB the sisters and kill them. This will give you a big chunk if time to nuke her and even when the purple must goes the tank will take here to the side where she will bring up the gales. During this period of time you should be able to nuke her down before the third set of sisters and if the third set comes out she should be left with nothing so you can just ignore them.
Pretty basic fight overall just remember after she blows up the rocks move over and attack. When plumes are out kill satin one and keep attacking while moving around the side with her. Lastly for the sisters kill green then red and that's about it.
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