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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT2| RIP Bowmage 2015-2017.
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rip duck is late
Got to put it off until next week.
BITE ME!
Duck get in here there's like 20 people waiting on the front lawn of the GAF house for you lol
AuthenticM
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WAIT FOR ME
AuthenticM
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uhhh, guys. The game keeps crashing when I boot it. On PS4. This is the first time this happens.
edit: welp, it appears the PS4 version doesn't work right now. There are issues with PSN.
edit: welp, it appears the PS4 version doesn't work right now. There are issues with PSN.
Zomba13
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AuthenticM
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IT WORKS
First one left a lot to be desired, but 2nd time through was a relative breeze once mechanics were known.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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After watching some old cutscenes I want them to give PLD
the ability to use two swords in Sword Oath like Raubahn did. He's a Gladiator yet he can dual wield but PLD (Gladiator) can't?
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
SoundPulse
Banned
As long as you know to LoS ecliptic meteor, you're probably going to do okay. Nobody bothers with the towers anymore lol.
It's actually kind of funny to watch the raid faceroll everything else and then watch an entire alliance just drop dead.
It's actually kind of funny to watch the raid faceroll everything else and then watch an entire alliance just drop dead.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
We should do these runs again once the new players are able to do the Void Ark alliance raids but yeah I had a great time with GAF FC doing all 3 towers.
AuthenticM
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It was fun!
Ha, nice picture.
Yup, thank you GAF for all of this! I don't think I'd ever have done the crystal tower without you all. This + finishing up all the content leading up to 3.0 has been a fantastic night!
Now, finally onto HW content.
Unknown Soldier
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Yes, this was better if for no other reason than a full actual battle took place
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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That egg is eggcellent.
cultureculture
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Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Oh my god loooool
Team Alucard
Banned
Grats!
I got my lance within my first few clears of Zurv, but then the Axe took me about 50 runs. -_-
Still no Birb either, and I imagine it will be extra rough getting those last 30 clears as most competent ppl have probably stopped running it since you can buy the bird now. I was in a 6 DPS solo tank solo heal party and we still didn't skip soar. Shit was a disgrace.
So, I finally decided to give this a whirl after they extended the trial period.
I think I'm getting too old for this kind of game, early game is excruciatingly boring. I assume it gets better later on but I just have no will to keep going through all the story exposition (I really don't care about the story, if I'm honest) and go-talk-to-this-guy quests.
I think I'm getting too old for this kind of game, early game is excruciatingly boring. I assume it gets better later on but I just have no will to keep going through all the story exposition (I really don't care about the story, if I'm honest) and go-talk-to-this-guy quests.
I hear you. It seems pretty grindy, but then so was wow. I still don't know much about the leatherworking, mining, etc... the only thing I think that separates this from wow are the graphics and the community.
The community makes the game super fun, and I feel this game lacks that. Maybe it's just me. But WOW handled this aspect so so so much better. I just re-subscribed and I'm already considering dropping it.
As much as I love the game, I don't think I could recommend FF14 to anyone if they don't care about the story at all. The dungeons are pretty, the art and music are really good, endgame fights are fun, it delivers in the FF fan service department, but the "gameplay loop" at level cap isn't worth the grind if you're not invested in the world, characters, story or community.
Stone Ocean
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He's not supposed to be a PLD, he's a BLU
creid
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It's the difficulty. * is hard, ** is harder, etc.
Gameplay sucks until level 30 or 50 for most jobs. It's a factor of having a horribly slow GCD meaning a ton of downtime until you get your full kit and have more things to push off the cool down. This part definitely gets better.
As someone who gave up on ever caring about the story or characters after one too many "SHOCKING EVENT! -> LOLJKITSFINE" loops, the best thing I can say about the story is that in Heavensward patches there's less of it to trudge through to stay current but that's a few hundred Go to X now Go to Y quests down the line for you.
There's some fun stuff that opens up in endgame, level-cap combat is considerably more interesting than at the start, and I like the focus on the relatively smaller 8-person raid groups and longer encounters over WoW's fixed 20 man approach to mythic, but a large part of why they're at some point adding in level and story skip potions is because the entire experience of getting to endgame right now is not great if you're coming at FFXIV from an MMO Player perspective and not an FF Fan perspective. It's awkward because once you hit 'current' the story becomes an extremely minor part of your playtime, but until you get there it chokes off most other things.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Showdown
Hmm, that could work better actually.
Hmm, that could work better actually.
PLD 60-70 job quest line involves you losing your shield arm because of Jenlyns doing something stupid again.
dryuriev7777
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I'm always a bit nervous when I play tank because I don't wanna mess things up, but it's also super nice going into a trial for the first time as a tank and doing so well that people compliment and say that it's the cleanest run they've had and walk away with all of the commendations.
because you could've been doing the crystal tower weekly for aether oils ¯\_(ツ
_/¯not trying to be an asshole, there just is a better way to get aether oils while still spending all your lore on umbrites
Unknown Soldier
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FFXIV subreddit makes me want to go play some FFXI today
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
As a big FF fan since VII, i agree. I found all the MMO mechanics well done and fine, but the game shine if you care about it setting. The rest is all you can expect in a AAA MMO but with soul. I found it the opposit of BDO where the gameplay is on par with action game but lack any kind of soul or storytelling.
Glendemonium
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So much PotD... but it looks badass at 60 with the Makai and Shire gear.
(Yes, my photoshop skills are rusty, wanted to get in on some of that April Fools fun!)
(Yes, my photoshop skills are rusty, wanted to get in on some of that April Fools fun!)
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