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[iammeiam]

My spring rolls have been legendary lately. When it doesn't matter. Because we keep running it until everyone has one.

RNG gonna troll.

What floor does the belt item come from in Midas?

A5/Midas 1. Chain trades for belt.

 

[Omni]

Oh boo. I thought it was A6 so I grabbed something else from A5. Next week I guess ;_;

 

[PowerTaxi]

I've rolled less than 10 on the last 3 out of 4 birds I've seen. It's really amazing in all honesty. I have no problem rolling a 97 on garbage fiend music though.

I think I've run the range of 1-10 trying to get a pedal.

 

[studyguy]

Ran bismark like 30 times yesterday.
1 Bird. Rolled a 20, time to kill myself.

 

[Sorian]

Ran bismark like 30 times yesterday.
1 Bird. Rolled a 20, time to kill myself.

I farmed it for a good few hours on Saturday and Sunday. Rolled a 55 at one point which I knew was a shit roll and would lose, of course there were 3 rolls greater than 80. What really gutted me is I rolled a 6 on the next one that dropped and the guy who won rolled a 55.

 

[scy]

My spring rolls have been legendary lately. When it doesn't matter. Because we keep running it until everyone has one.

RNG gonna troll.

"Hah, I rolled a 91, guess this one's mi---fuck."
"Oh man, another 91, guess this----fuck."

 

[studyguy]

That feeling when something you want drops and immediately someone goes
I ROLLED A 99 LOL

 

[PowerTaxi]

21

¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Glendemonium]

You're on Lamia too? What's your character's name? o:

Eugene Tracewood.

Moved to Lamia to join a friend/co worker who hopped but he rarely logs in (wife+small kids) so I'm still getting settled in.

 

[ebil]

WAR friend just joined an in-progress A5n. Party kept wiping on Faust with 4 DRGs. lol.

 

[aceface]

Belt is only from chain which only drops in A5.

edit: must remember to refresh before posting

So that this post is not wasted: People of Ultros, I'm still looking for one melee dps for Midas Savage raid group! Dragoons, Ninjas, or Monks, we need you!! Times will be Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 9:30-11:00pm eastern time. PM me here or /tell Tomo Takino in game. New raiders are welcome!

 

[edgefusion]

Ah, okay. Are there any sites that show the geography of the worlds? Seems weird I'd have to just ask around rather than easily find out.

If there's any chance you're gay I run an almost 100-strong LGBT linkshell on Odin, always open to new members.

 

[PowerTaxi]

Finally.

 

[Valor]

I one shot loot all of midas last week, so here's hoping I have the same luck. So far only took me two attempts at 5. Fingers crossed.

 

[Redx508]

FINAL FANTASY XIV Dev Diary Chapter One: Sound Design

"The first chapter of a new FINAL FANTASY XIV developer diary series highlights the creative mastery that goes into the highly-acclaimed music and sound design of Heavensward"

new xiv video

 

[Sorian]

FINAL FANTASY XIV Dev Diary Chapter One: Sound Design

"The first chapter of a new FINAL FANTASY XIV developer diary series highlights the creative mastery that goes into the highly-acclaimed music and sound design of Heavensward"

new xiv video

Without clicking this link or really ever planning to watch this, a part of me hopes it devolves into how they didn't copy anyone for Sephirot's music.

 

[studyguy]

S O K E N

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

I one shot loot all of midas last week, so here's hoping I have the same luck. So far only took me two attempts at 5. Fingers crossed.

I had the exact same luck! I have a feeling I won't be so lucky this week. A7 will still be a pain and I know I got so lucky getting loot the first time there. Last week I took the acc, pedal, crank, and spring. I figured I would take a spring since I'll be capping for the lore chest this week. This week I'll likely take the belt and get the hands/feet. I'm only gonna be gearing my main class and then blm in midas gear.

 

[Kagari]

I one shot loot all of midas last week, so here's hoping I have the same luck. So far only took me two attempts at 5. Fingers crossed.

Struck out three times already this morning. RIP.

 

[scy]

I one shot loot all of midas last week, so here's hoping I have the same luck. So far only took me two attempts at 5. Fingers crossed.

We failed Felix. It was a tragedy.

 

[Alric]

Ran bismark like 30 times yesterday.
1 Bird. Rolled a 20, time to kill myself.

I farmed it for a good few hours on Saturday and Sunday. Rolled a 55 at one point which I knew was a shit roll and would lose, of course there were 3 rolls greater than 80. What really gutted me is I rolled a 6 on the next one that dropped and the guy who won rolled a 55.

Ran it 50 times on Saturday, saw it drop 5 times. Rolled a 39, 40, 38, 27, 17.
Then ran it another 10 times and saw it drop once, but still haven't gotten. 60 Runs, no luck for myself yet.

 

[irfaanator]

Ran bismark like 30 times yesterday.
1 Bird. Rolled a 20, time to kill myself.

time to believe in the heart of the cards

 

[Ken]

Loot auctions when.

 

[Sorian]

Loot auctions when.

Skip that middle man step when Korra wants to pay off the group.

 

[studyguy]

YoshiP pls I wan birb

 

[Squishy3]

WAR friend just joined an in-progress A5n. Party kept wiping on Faust with 4 DRGs. lol.

Which is also really weird because Normal Hummelfaust seems to take even less time than Faust because there aren't endless adds spawning. :lol

 

[Kagari]

time to believe in the heart of the cards

When you coming back?

 

[iammeiam]

YoshiP pls I wan birb

It's ok, we'll eventually learn you unlock the Bennu by losing 500 bird rolls, and you'll have the last laugh.

 

[HylianScribe]

Unlike SE which won't even let you post other player's names in screenshots posted on the OF (and the XIV subreddit mods also enforce this), apparently Capcom is actively telling its player base to publicly shame rage-quitters until they can do something about penalizing them.

http://kotaku.com/capcom-wants-street-fighter-v-players-to-publicly-shame-1762191853

 

[Sorian]

It's ok, we'll eventually learn you unlock the Bennu by losing 500 bird rolls, and you'll have the last laugh.

Where are my "You tried" achievements? Add a title for fucking up a pony/bird roll 100 times. Give me something to adequately show how low I fell by farming WoD so long for that card.

 

[Kagari]

Bennu will be the reward for getting all the birds, just watch.

 

[Arkeband]

So I came back yesterday after being away for every other day of patch week having a wedding + honeymoon, managed to knock out A5-A8 and Seph NM before reset.

Thoughts: (negative first)

These fights are fucking long.

I kind of don't see us downing these in ~2 minutes like we could A1-A4, even in i240 gear, but maybe I'm just having trouble adopting that future PoV.

The few sources of Materia Grade V are simply a chore to farm to slot up our temporary i220 gear, then progression i230 gear, and then BiS i240 gear.

The game really, really needs some kind of Jewelcrafting-like profession like in WoW and provide the illusion of choice with colored materia slots and some meta surrounding that. Right now it's just saying "congrats on your piece of gear, enjoy some mandatory Diadem."

Positive:

The fights are more interesting than 3.0's, hands down. And Alexander's story is actually going in a mildly interesting direction. I don't know if this patch is the breath of life the game needed, but it's going to keep me occupied until at least 3.3.

 

[Sorian]

Bennu will be the reward for getting all the birds, just watch.

Probably, that's the only reason I've been farming these. I gave no shits about ponies but I'm getting in now for Bennu God.

 

[Sorian]

So I came back yesterday after being away for every other day of patch week having a wedding + honeymoon, managed to knock out A5-A8 and Seph NM before reset.

Thoughts:

These fights are fucking long.

I kind of don't see us downing these in ~2 minutes like we could A1-A4, even in i240 gear, but maybe I'm just having trouble adopting that future PoV.

The few sources of Materia Grade V are simply a chore to farm to slot up our temporary i220 gear, then progression i230 gear, and then BiS i240 gear.

The game really, really needs some kind of Jewelcrafting-like profession like in WoW and provide the illusion of choice with colored materia slots and some meta surrounding that. Right now it's just saying "congrats on your piece of gear, enjoy some mandatory Diadem."

These fights will definitely be longer because there are mechanics that have to happen. The farming side of me says that kind of sucks but I actually appreciate them for one thing. This is the casual content and it's fairly difficult for what casuals are used to. My issue has always been that the floor of this game is way way to low compared to the ceiling. This might help raise that a bit, will see. I can only hope relic step doesn't require midas farming like the last step.

As for the last point. I guess if you are a cutting edge raider but let's be real. Materia IV can be obtained like candy and for the vast majority Materia IV will be more than enough for anything required as time goes on and lore/midas tokens pile up.

 

[Kagari]

Probably, that's the only reason I've been farming these. I gave no shits about ponies but I'm getting in now for Bennu God.

Seph one probably going to be the biggest pain. Pug groups can't do that fight real well on Ultros yet...

 

[Sorian]

Seph one probably going to be the biggest pain. Pug groups can't do that fight real well on Ultros yet...

No bird drop in our 10 clears :/ RIP

Spoiler

No card for me either

The fight might feel better for pugs once poverty weapons hit in 7 weeks and all of the gear accumulated up to that point but yeah, I'm not holding my breath. Baby steps though, I don't have rav or bis and PF can

Spoiler

usually

farm those no problem so it's still just time and luck for me regardless.

 

[HylianScribe]

Skip that middle man step when Korra wants to pay off the group.

We have a bird farming static to avoid a repeat of that for now. Though RNG was bad to us last night (no drops). Besides, I have to save the pay off for the one that matters - the final EX Primal drop in case it won't be farmable by most pug groups until it will likely be too late to score that world first Kirin Bird.

Seph one probably going to be the biggest pain. Pug groups can't do that fight real well on Ultros yet...

If you have a static, you can probably convince them to farm it for birds every now and then. But yea, atm with pugs it's not something you should waste time on. However, Thordran is just as big of a pain in the ass if you're pugging. It's the length as much as people still screw up the fight. I mean, even solo healing it now, you only kill him before the ice/tether/meteors phase. Solo tank/heal is not viable farm method do to the RNG required to survive the double melee knights (it pretty much has to have the sword oath target the tank or it's gonna be a wipe). I'm waiting to farm Thordan consistently in about a month when people are more around 230 and you can possibly push to kill during the dive bombs/tether/dragoon jump/rage phase.

 

[irfaanator]

When you coming back?

when bara can carry me through a4s

 

[Sorian]

We have a bird farming static to avoid a repeat of that for now. Though RNG was bad to us last night (no drops). Besides, I have to save the pay off for the one that matters - the final EX Primal drop in case it won't be farmable by most pug groups until it will likely be too late to score that world first Bennu.

ftfy

Going to race you for world first. Being Card King wasn't enough.

 

[iammeiam]

Where are my "You tried" achievements? Add a title for fucking up a pony/bird roll 100 times. Give me something to adequately show how low I fell by farming WoD so long for that card.

It is sort of weird that they haven't embraced extending content lifespan via achievements more. SCoB Savage proved out that they couldn't design an existing content tier with nothing but achievements as rewards, but it really does seem like they could get away with tossing in achievement unlocks in existing content to give people Other Things to do. Undersized parties and min iLevel sync give them a ton of options.

These fights are fucking long.

I kind of don't see us downing these in ~2 minutes like we could A1-A4, even in i240 gear, but maybe I'm just having trouble adopting that future PoV.

Monday night DF makes them even longer I think. I don't know that any floor will go down as fast as A1, but both 7 and 8 took so long I learned new things about how much could repeat last night.

The few sources of Materia Grade V are simply a chore to farm to slot up our temporary i220 gear, then progression i230 gear, and then BiS i240 gear.

The only 220 thing I'm sticking Vs in at this point is the weapon; I'm leaving a bunch of meld slots free for the moment because I think I might need to meld in ACC after picking up Lore boots next week, but the stuff I do meld is just getting IVs. Anything with potentially less than a month of life in it just isn't worth it to me. For i230 I'll maybe stick Vs in the chest, but since they don't persist through upgrades... Just not convinced it's worth it.

Then again I poverty melded my Kirimu coat back in the day and am mostly picking up crafted gear to make this the last week I need to bother with normal drops. I'm lazy and cheap.

 

[Arkeband]

It is sort of weird that they haven't embraced extending content lifespan via achievements more. SCoB Savage proved out that they couldn't design an existing content tier with nothing but achievements as rewards, but it really does seem like they could get away with tossing in achievement unlocks in existing content to give people Other Things to do. Undersized parties and min iLevel sync give them a ton of options.



Monday night DF makes them even longer I think. I don't know that any floor will go down as fast as A1, but both 7 and 8 took so long I learned new things about how much could repeat last night.



The only 220 thing I'm sticking Vs in at this point is the weapon; I'm leaving a bunch of meld slots free for the moment because I think I might need to meld in ACC after picking up Lore boots next week, but the stuff I do meld is just getting IVs. Anything with potentially less than a month of life in it just isn't worth it to me. For i230 I'll maybe stick Vs in the chest, but since they don't persist through upgrades... Just not convinced it's worth it.

Then again I poverty melded my Kirimu coat back in the day and am mostly picking up crafted gear to make this the last week I need to bother with normal drops. I'm lazy and cheap.

I'm definitely doing IV's in i220, but I can see myself finding ways to justify slotting V's in i230 depending on savage progression.

I just think this is a part of the game that could have been fresh and fun if it was supported in 3.0, but squeezing it in mid-expansion just feels wrong.

 

[creid]

I've never pony farmed in my life. I joined a Shiva group last night, whistle immediately dropped, I rolled a 99. I feel like a monster.

Spoiler

Only two more dropped in the next few hours ;.;

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

The worst is when people that go swimming in Leviathan Ex roll on the god damn pony. I hate Levi ex farming for this very reason. Guy rolls a 95 and he fell and I roll a 30. I only do pony farms when I'm very bored for the day and I'm more interested in the birds. EX primals also have some nice glams.

 

[Sorian]

The worst is when people that go swimming in Leviathan Ex roll on the god damn pony. I hate Levi ex farming for this very reason. Guy rolls a 95 and he fell and I roll a 30. I only do pony farms when I'm very bored for the day and I'm more interested in the birds. EX primals also have some nice glams.

Just as annoying when the person who goes swimming in the clouds wins the Bismarck bird. Fuck that.

 

[impact]

Unless you're talking serious world-first progression (and based on how Midas is going maybe even if you are), AST's weaknesses aren't a big deal. They have a slightly weaker healing kit than WHM but it's functional enough. Optimization-wise WHM/SCH wins, but almost nothing in this game really needs optimization.

Play it if you want. It's fun. It's functional. Its problems are only evident in situations relevant to only a few.

Besides, this week's outcast job is next patch's flavor of the month.

alright, fuck it. AST is my second class then. I'm good enough to carry.

what are the essential cross skills?

 

[Frumix]

alright, fuck it. AST is my second class then. I'm good enough to carry.

what are the essential cross skills?

Protect, Cleric Stance, Aero, Swiftcast, Stoneskin

 

[ThinFinn]

Just submitted an application to the FC.

Accept me in guys!

 

[Valor]

Struck out three times already this morning. RIP.

Ended up 2/4 pieces in my... six runs today including a charity 5 for the party I somehow cobbled together thanks to Yunie. Got my sweet neckband and materia'd that bad boy up. Such swagger.

We failed Felix. It was a tragedy.

He's used to it.

 

[gryvan]

Ended up 2/4 pieces in my... six runs today including a charity 5 for the party I somehow cobbled together thanks to Yunie. Got my sweet neckband and materia'd that bad boy up. Such swagger.

You mean the most amazing run ever!

 

[scy]

Monday night DF makes them even longer I think. I don't know that any floor will go down as fast as A1, but both 7 and 8 took so long I learned new things about how much could repeat last night.

Man, on A8 I ran to the corner expecting the dodge part to happen again and realized I was being dumb running in place while people kept hitting the boss (and dying to AoEs).