The first boss really annoys me because you have to go looking for him and when I find him I find it quite fiddly to target him in that little bubble. So even if I get there in time to save the Enochian it can still f**k up. I quite like the last boss though as I think it's a good fight overall.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| Raiders of the Void Ark
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The first boss really annoys me because you have to go looking for him and when I find him I find it quite fiddly to target him in that little bubble. So even if I get there in time to save the Enochian it can still f**k up. I quite like the last boss though as I think it's a good fight overall.
Yeah.
You can sometimes get lucky and find him right away. Other times, though, it takes a while to find him, and even with a Swiftcast Blizzard IV it can be difficult do find him in time. And even if you do, staying within the bubble can be frustrating, especially with the AOE circles he places in it. As for the final boss, you're probably one of the few who enjoy it, but I'm glad for you. I wish I could find some pleasure in it.
skLaFarebear
Member
That feel when the rest of the party wipes in a dungeon and you clutch the last boss by yourself.
Doin my best to rep the team Bard as the best job.
Doin my best to rep the team Bard as the best job.
Lanrutcon
Member
Same. Need some new 60 content that isn't disgustingly hard/unfun.
irfaanator
Banned
Yeah.
You can sometimes get lucky and find him right away. Other times, though, it takes a while to find him, and even with a Swiftcast Blizzard IV it can be difficult do find him in time. And even if you do, staying within the bubble can be frustrating, especially with the AOE circles he places in it. As for the final boss, you're probably one of the few who enjoy it, but I'm glad for you. I wish I could find some pleasure in it.
ive had the 2nd boss be stuck in an infinite loop of summoning adds while we kill them b/c there were so many
Haha, that sounds like fun.
irfaanator
Banned
anyasok
Neophyte
After finishing HW (I started a month ago from scratch), I really have no motivation to pretty much do anything else. Tinkered around with the other classes (DoW, DoM, DoH, Extras) but nothing that would make me stay. Only the story kept me going.
Capped out on esoterics this week and on Alex which leaves me pretty much with nothing until Tuesday. I know I am in the minority here, but I will probably unsub once I hit i190 (or i200 with esos) and resub when new content lands.
The way I see it, they need to raise the weekly ESO cap (make it at least 1000) and make Alex loot eligible for at least 2 playthroughs for each floor
Capped out on esoterics this week and on Alex which leaves me pretty much with nothing until Tuesday. I know I am in the minority here, but I will probably unsub once I hit i190 (or i200 with esos) and resub when new content lands.
The way I see it, they need to raise the weekly ESO cap (make it at least 1000) and make Alex loot eligible for at least 2 playthroughs for each floor
skLaFarebear
Member
Can't even stress how quality the post-2.0 content has been. Especially 2.4 and 2.5.
Just finished
Excited to see if I can make it to HW before my sub runs out.
Just finished
the fight against Nabriales and it was a pretty awesome fight. And the music has only gotten better as well.
Excited to see if I can make it to HW before my sub runs out.
Yeah.
You can sometimes get lucky and find him right away. Other times, though, it takes a while to find him, and even with a Swiftcast Blizzard IV it can be difficult do find him in time. And even if you do, staying within the bubble can be frustrating, especially with the AOE circles he places in it. As for the final boss, you're probably one of the few who enjoy it, but I'm glad for you. I wish I could find some pleasure in it.
I guess it's the masochist in me that likes that fight ha ha! Though the last time I did it I actually got knocked off the platform which was pretty embarrassing. He did the move right in the middle and I guess I didn't stack up close enough. :-(
TastyOreoFriend
Member
This is my reaction to most NPCs in the game. I hate ye olde english. Its like being forced to read hamlet and any other Shakespearean drama over and over again...
IrrelevantAlex
Member
Just got back into this. I have a level 50 Paladin and not much of anything else. Left pretty early maybe 2.1 or so , got to ilvl76. I got all this story to go through which is awesome. Realized that if a dungeon wasn't story required I never did it as in I just did Qarn for the first time.
Getting all this darklight gear handed to me after doing stuff to buy it is pretty funny.
Won 10k on my first mini jackpot, then not so good on the 2nd and 3rd haha.
Really enjoying for the 6 hours I messed around with today. I need to figure out what to do daily wise to best spend my time. Leveling Duty and Main Scenario Duty and Slphy quests for that big goofy mount seem like the way to go.
Getting all this darklight gear handed to me after doing stuff to buy it is pretty funny.
Won 10k on my first mini jackpot, then not so good on the 2nd and 3rd haha.
Really enjoying for the 6 hours I messed around with today. I need to figure out what to do daily wise to best spend my time. Leveling Duty and Main Scenario Duty and Slphy quests for that big goofy mount seem like the way to go.
Making it faster to get loot would only make it easier to reach the point where there's nothing to do if you're only maining one class and have 0 interest in Savage before it hits DF.
the_sun_king
Member
Maybe I'm weird, but I like Neverreap. It's quite fun and silly (especially that last fight). I wonder if it's because I main DRG/WAR and not a Disciple of Magic?
I don't hate it, it's just dreadfully boring and it'd be nice if roulette decided to toss me fractal instead of giving me Neverreap 4 times in a row.
Probably. It's a nightmare for BLM that requires you to stand still to reach good dps.
I'm getting a little more comfortable with tanking the more I run the starting dungeons for practice.
As someone who's been a dps since day 1 and this being my first "real" mmo (been playing since January), it's been an interesting change of pace trying to get out of that dps mindset and getting comfortable with taking the initiative with encounters.
This video in particular has been super helpful for someone new to tanking like me
As someone who's been a dps since day 1 and this being my first "real" mmo (been playing since January), it's been an interesting change of pace trying to get out of that dps mindset and getting comfortable with taking the initiative with encounters.
This video in particular has been super helpful for someone new to tanking like me
I like it as a healer because it's less stressful than healing Fractal. Almost two months and people still can't handle the last boss.
You know... I prefer Fractal over Neverreap, but I don't know exactly why. I guess Neverreap just somehow feels longer. I guess it is because Fractal has more varied encounters and more exciting music. It just feels slightly more threatening too, which makes it feel more exciting.
Also, Neverreap has those damn Vespes. I hate those things. Why do there have to be so many bees in this game, and why is my character so allergic to them?
Also, Neverreap has those damn Vespes. I hate those things. Why do there have to be so many bees in this game, and why is my character so allergic to them?
look at the opening post community part
TastyOreoFriend
Member
Are you on the aether data center? The same is happening here as well. Its not as bad past prime time, but during? I think it was me and maybe 6 others watching for call outs and trying to cap points. I blame slaughter for pushing the mindset. It was never this bad when secure was the only front line.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Primal Immortal Flames are pretty bad, I commend those who can get wins with them because I'm really really lucky to get a win. Close to 30 matches this week and only 3 wins to show for it...
irfaanator
Banned
yea b/c seal rock is lvl 60
Part of it is ending up in Flames alliances that only have 2 healers for 24 players. That doesn't work out too well in any sort of mass fight.
I find the opposite, but let's be real - there's so many matches going, a lot with random players just trying to get their Eso capped, that there's no real pattern. It's all in your head and/or your experiences. It's not like original frontline or wolves den, which had a smaller community. Most players are playing Seal Rock right now. A lot are playing casually. So it's really random what kind of group you get unless one of the GCs has a premade going on.
The one benefit Immortal Flames seems to have is faster queues though.
That happens, it's not a game breaker if everyone plays well. Bigger problems tend to be things like, people trying to go for kills off on their own, people abandoning nodes early while the rest of the alliance is fighting, or people just plain spreading out way too far and then taking forever to get to where they need to be.
There is, I'm more perplexed as to the why.
I'm on Primal, it seemingly(for me anyway) only got bad this week. I got into it not that long ago and the Flames were generally following the objective aside from the odd straggler, but now it's just gotten out of control with entire Alliances charging.
Yeah, here's my scoreboard:
This is part of the reason why I'm getting my WHM up to 60 now.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I can understand why folks don't like to go heals in pvp because other than smn's, you're the number one person to kill first and who likes that. I figure there is a large group who hear that Flames have short queues and join so they can get quick esoterics. Many of my games result in everyone scattered all over the map and not listening to directions. Oh and kicking people who try to lead, I see that quite a bit.
I really like Fractal a lot. But this means it's been my go to dungeon for everything and so now I appreciate Nevereap because it's a change of scenery.
SliceSabre
Banned
Being a healer in PvP is awful. I hadn't played PvP since it came out cause I hated the way it felt as a healer.
Once I got to 60 I decided to give Seal Rock a try to see what it was like. Went in as a AST and I distinctly remember at one point three Flame Warriors each used Holmgang on me in succession and I thought to myself "Wow... I don't know what I expected." It is no fun once you realize that the class you are playing has "Kick my ass as hard as you possibly can." sign on it. Watching people ignore your tank smacking them just so that they can beat the hell out of you is an amazing and fearful sight.
Once I got to 60 I decided to give Seal Rock a try to see what it was like. Went in as a AST and I distinctly remember at one point three Flame Warriors each used Holmgang on me in succession and I thought to myself "Wow... I don't know what I expected." It is no fun once you realize that the class you are playing has "Kick my ass as hard as you possibly can." sign on it. Watching people ignore your tank smacking them just so that they can beat the hell out of you is an amazing and fearful sight.
Anyone got any crafting tips? The crafting system is one of my biggest issues in this game and is why most of my crafting classes are only level 5-10, except weaver which is still only 25.
Now I don't mean the process of crafting itself, I love that it's more involved than just 'press button, get item'. No, my problem is that you have to have crafting materials in your personal inventory to use them.
Because of this, and the fact that there is such a huge range of materials, it takes me 10-15 minutes to get them from my retainer, then I'll spend maybe 5 minutes at most crafting before I either run out of a material or find I need a new one for a new recipe. This problem is made worse by many materials being multi-class, so it's nearly impossible to know just by looking if you'll need a material or not, so you just grab what you think you might need until your inventory is full. And ontop of that the retainer inventory doesn't have any option for automated sorting by material type as far as I'm aware, and it would take a ridiculously long time to sort them manually, as well as being a constant process when you get new materials.
The game really needs a system like WoW or ToR where crafting can make use of items in your bank, as well as your personal inventory. At the moment the crafting just feels so....clunky. It really just isn't fun due to the restrictions with material access.
Now I don't mean the process of crafting itself, I love that it's more involved than just 'press button, get item'. No, my problem is that you have to have crafting materials in your personal inventory to use them.
Because of this, and the fact that there is such a huge range of materials, it takes me 10-15 minutes to get them from my retainer, then I'll spend maybe 5 minutes at most crafting before I either run out of a material or find I need a new one for a new recipe. This problem is made worse by many materials being multi-class, so it's nearly impossible to know just by looking if you'll need a material or not, so you just grab what you think you might need until your inventory is full. And ontop of that the retainer inventory doesn't have any option for automated sorting by material type as far as I'm aware, and it would take a ridiculously long time to sort them manually, as well as being a constant process when you get new materials.
The game really needs a system like WoW or ToR where crafting can make use of items in your bank, as well as your personal inventory. At the moment the crafting just feels so....clunky. It really just isn't fun due to the restrictions with material access.
Audioboxer
Member
Almost level 49 now.
Managed to snag another TT card. 59 cards now, eeek. Got one from one of the new NPCs in Old Gridania. Drop rates are pretty low on these new guys.
Just seen last night Summoner's tend to be flavour of the week right now ;( I swear I chose that class back when ARR first came out! Just felt a caster would be easier on a DS4. Think I'll try a healer next. I like healing, but I worry I'll suck and will find it hard on the PS4. Most of my experience comes from a trillion hours playing medic on TFC/TF2
Managed to snag another TT card. 59 cards now, eeek. Got one from one of the new NPCs in Old Gridania. Drop rates are pretty low on these new guys.
Just seen last night Summoner's tend to be flavour of the week right now ;( I swear I chose that class back when ARR first came out! Just felt a caster would be easier on a DS4. Think I'll try a healer next. I like healing, but I worry I'll suck and will find it hard on the PS4. Most of my experience comes from a trillion hours playing medic on TFC/TF2
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
The game is in a permanent state of death, reality just sometimes disagrees.
I mean you have 100 inventory spaces on your person. I think you should pick one craft and level it fully then do another and do the same. This way you aren't sitting around with skins, cloth, and foodstuffs crowding your inventory at once. Just one or the other or the other other. Honestly, I don't know how one's inventory would be full if you don't do crafting, since a good 50 items on me at any one time are crafting items I'm too lazy to deposit.
Secondly, decide how you want to progress with leveling. Most people use turn in levequests. Find one around your level whose recipe doesn't suck shit and focus on collecting materials to create that turn in item. Make a bunch of them and spam the leve. Inventory clear, experience gained, no waste and no running around.
Or be completely insane like me and calculate how many turn ins you need to do to reach your target level and purchase just enough materials and create just enough items to turn them all in. There are several good crafter leveling guides out there, so the idea is that you don't need materials to make -everything-, you just pick a few things you are going to spam to level and concentrate on getting those materials.
It's easy to get overwhelmed, so the best thing to do, really, is to not get overwhelmed and keep things manageable.
Even picking just one craft to level, the issue is knowing which materials you need and which you don't. Even for weaving you can need cloth, leather and metal at least, but with no clear indication of which, so you have to trawl through two retainer inventories for all of each.
Chat on the right of the screen? What mockery is this?
Just seen last night Summoner's tend to be flavour of the week right now ;( I swear I chose that class back when ARR first came out! Just felt a caster would be easier on a DS4. Think I'll try a healer next. I like healing, but I worry I'll suck and will find it hard on the PS4. Most of my experience comes from a trillion hours playing medic on TFC/TF2
You're in luck if you want to try a healer, lvl a SMN to 60 also means your SCH will be 60.
Also pretty much all classes get to be "in" at some point in the game life, don't worry about it.
The Last Wizard
Member
So before I get too far leveling one or the other, which is the better tank? Warrior or Paladin.
The people saying that are joking. I hope you know that.
This will always be the wrong question; the right question is always going to be which you enjoy more because balance tweaks can happen at any time and completely flip things around.
At the moment, WAR is going to just have more openings in general because they're in a really good spot right now and you pretty much always want one in an 8-man. PLD/WAR and DRK/WAR are both really solid raid pairings, and there's a reason DRK and PLD swap out for A1S/A2S was a thing while WAR was a constant. At the same time, double WAR (while workable) isn't really the popular comp so the other tanks are still valued.
Alternate answer: WAR. Triple Fell Cleave OP