That's not how you boost Ultros tourism economy!
Time to go to Balmung to find a nice waifu.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| Raiders of the Void Ark
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That's not how you boost Ultros tourism economy!
Time to go to Balmung to find a nice waifu.
Add phase is variable and not set in stone so it's a place you could, in theory, make up a little bit of ground. The rest of the fight appears to be hard timed. The thing is that enrage always appears to happen at exactly the same time in his rotation, so that's what you should be checking out, not the overall time.
I totally can see this being the case. I'll likely be experiencing that pain over the next week or two if all things go correctly.
Even the leveling just doesn't feel as... okay this is a poor choice of words but bear with me... exciting as it was in 2.0. I mean there were so many skills to get and I got to learn how to
barely
I'm already quitting in my mind thinking about this.If you raided at 4am, you probably would be
Gamer @ Heart
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Galen. Please find a way to take delivery of your brothers PC on monday and hide it for 30 minutes.
Record what happens next
I will pay you for your services
Record what happens next
I will pay you for your services
HylianScribe
Member
Dead game? Dead game.
3.1 can't come soon enough so I can grab the popcorn.
https://soundcloud.com/jonathancoulton/you-wouldnt-know
Gamer @ Heart
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For eve, it will likely be a whole new game. He was playing on a calculator.
Consider it done, dear friend.
HylianScribe
Member
Im not a pro Bard, but it's all I've played so i'll give you what I can.
Every single one of your stat points should be in dexterity
You need to level a pugilist to 12 for Internal Release
You need to level a Lancer to 34 for Blood for Blood
(*Edited)
As for songs look at job actions here - http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Bard
Sing depending on what your party needs. There is even a song to make you run faster when you wipe
PS, you don't always need to have songs going.Bard DPS is all about stacking your buffs properly in your rotation and managing your DOT's while weaving high impact attacks in between when they either proc or come off cooldown. Are you dealing with a bunch of mobs? Get your DOT's going on all of them. Windbite and Venomous Bite need to go on preferably buffed by Internal Release and Straight Shot. Flaming Arrow needs to come down early on packs of mobs. Your Bloodletter and Rain of Death can instantly refresh when you crit with a DOT so the more often these attacks are up the more you can smash face.
Wanderers Minuet is your own personal song that you dance in and out of depending on the situation at hand. While in WM you cast your bard attacks for 30% more damage. Learn how to do this. You know how to cast shit, so this should be easy.
At 54 you should at least be critting for 1k+ on Misery's End, BloodLetter & Empyreal Arrow. Hopefully a better Bard than me will give you some better advice.
Critical Elk
Neo Member
The enchaced versions are given by traits, and do not have an effect when you cross class the base skill.
We were wondering about this since we killed the adds really fast on our best attempt and had to wait around longer than usual for Living Liquid to come back. Mank lost stacks RIP.
HylianScribe
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FF XIV related cosplay prop (Garuda's Spine - BRD): http://www.volpinprops.com/garudas-spine-final-fantasy-14-part-2/
Aside from what Jaeyden said, which is to pop buffs all the time and DOT EVERYTHING so you can mash Bloodletter, some of your Archer 'derp' skills (aka the super situational ones, like Blunt Arrow, Shadowbind, Repelling Shot) can be just popped for extra damage if you know the enemy doesn't require a silence or you're in position, etc.
Bear in mind any song that's not Foe's Requiem reduces your damage.
tiggerkiddo
Member
You have a nice casual population, sell that.
Sweet. Thanks, so I don't need to keep leveling these guys right now. Yay!
That sounds like a bad idea.
Welcome to Bard.
Do not stance dance Wanderer's Minuet.
Maybe you should stick to melee/smn after all...
Basically the long and short of it is that you have a ton of cooldowns available to you, so you just need to use them correctly. Since you're getting up there in levels, most of this advice should be super helpful. Maybe moderately helpful. I'm not sure.
Songs are pretty straightforward. Foe Requiem is used when there is a BLM/SMN in the party comp since they benefit the most from it. It doesn't lower your damage, so feel free to sing it. Once the cast of a song finishes, it will stay active and slowly drain your MP. When your MP runs out, your song ends. You can turn off the song at any time by "re-casting" it.
Army's Paeon is for whenever you or your melee/tank friends are low on TP. Mage's Ballad is for when your healers or casters are low on MP. Battle Voice is a buff that makes whatever song you're singing have extra effectiveness for like 20-30 seconds. I forget how long. It's substantial. These two songs will lower your damage output by 15% whenever they are being played. Do not pop cooldowns during these songs.
Warden's Paean is only used for Warriors using Berserk. In other words, let the healer handle it and don't use it. Wanderer's Minuet should be up at all times because dat damage. Do not stance dance it. Not worth it, IMO.
Straight Shot is a vital skill to keep active since it raises your crit rate. Internal Release is a must to have cross classed from PGL because it increases your crit rate. Crits are good. Keep your dots up constantly on a single target enemy. This becomes easier when you have access to Iron Jaws (56 I think?) because it will refresh both dots at once if they are active.
If you're doing aoe rotation, if there are up to three targets get Straight Shot up, lay down Flaming Arrow, hit Rain of Death, and then cast your dots on each enemy while hitting Rain of Death whenever it procs. Once you dot them all up, dot them again or use Quick Nock or Wide Volley. If there are more than three targets I just drop Windbite on everything and try to keep it active while hitting Rain of Death procs (there will be so many).
If you're critting under 1k you either
a) don't have a lot of crit on your gear (which is fine)
b) are singing Ballad/Paeon
c) are not in Wanderer's Minuet
d) not keeping Straight Shot active
e) Looking at a low potency attack crit (Venomous Bite/Heavy Shot/Repelling Shot/etc)
f) some combination of these. Straight Shot won't affect damage, but will impact how often you will crit.
Most of all, don't worry. Soon you will experience the glory of the crit Sidewinder and revel in all of the damage. Then you'll go back to booping the enemy with arrows and wishing you stayed BLM so your dps numbers would be higher.
tiggerkiddo
Member
The TLR is go play NIN. Oh and Drama's advice for DoW jobs is lousy
R is go play NIN. Oh and Drama's advice for DoW jobs is lousyThe fact that it takes so much longer each level doesn't help either. I leveled majority of the classes just doing one LLDR/guildhest/maybe a couple leve quests a day. Until the 40s that was enough for a level (or more!). Now it takes so many runs, fate exp is also behind proportionally from what it was, and they managed to fuck up leves so it's so tedious to try and grind them out. I'd actually love to try out the new stuff for a couple classes, but grinding The Dusk Al Aery Vault of tedium sounds like hell. I just give up after first dungeon that barely impacts exp and go play another game so I can have some actual fun.
It'd be really great if they gave us some new leveling opportunities that didn't revolve around grinding the same content we've already done a thousand times over. Lock it behind having a 60 character already if need be, but just give something.
irfaanator
Banned
is that a new class?
its like a sanic
SliceSabre
Banned
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
There's a trial available on PSN and PC if you want to try it before buying.
tl;dr shush gravy
No
Get a better warrior
Pretty much everything you said but exactly this. This is where I end up. I'm like oh, maybe I should level my DRK. Then I think about running dungeons three to five times to level and I decide to just not. Because if I do then I'm stuck with an awfully horrible grindy level that gets even less exp than the one before it. It's disheartening, and yeah, all of the supplemental exp gets are so much crappier than they used to be.
Eh it's whatever. Use it before the pull and then again right after adds np np.
Congratulations!
If only you had the correct rotation like those other GAF members and you could have cleared before them... oh wait
HylianScribe
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Congratulations!
If only you had the correct rotation like those other GAF members and you could have cleared before them... oh wait
Eh...don't. Not our business, like when you have 2 nodes in Seize and the group wants to camp the other GC at their spawn to milk even more points...just back off. Don't pull aggro.
Critical Elk
Neo Member
I have played enough seize that this makes perfect sense. Maybe I do need a new hobby.
Congrats to you and your group! I know you all put a lot of time/effort into it, so it's nice to see it pay off. \o/
Congrats!
Man, I figure you'd at least know I was joking about that. I'm a slave to the Warrior's Paean as well. I blame Felix.
Wat. How did I miss this. Looks like Korra finally lost it.
Congrats!
Looks like the male catgirl found someone, how sweet.
John Cena and the DRG looking for an aoe circle were pretty good.
I laughed.
Hey guys, I just resubbed after taking a few months off. I cant tell if im still in the Gaf FC on Ultros or not. It wont let me click on the Free Company tab in game at the moment. If theres anyone in game willing to check for me, my character name is Kitsune Shinukage.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/7829400/
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/7829400/
tearsofash
Member
It seems that you are not, the free company shows up on the profile right underneath grand company, and nothing is there for you. I know sometimes they get rid of people who were inactive, but you are welcome to reapply, ^_^
Thanks for checking. Going to try reapplying now
So close to hitting level 50 finally and actually have some time to play again.Actually im having an issue on the Guildwork site. Im already a member there but when I try to fill out another Application I get this error: You do not have permission to view this page.
Do I just need to ask in game for someone to send me an invite or do I need to go through the GuildWorks site? My user name is Squadron if that helps.