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Yugiri? T_T
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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On the subject of people comparing 2.5 to 3.5
I think it makes sense to also compare the two high points, which for ARR is 2.5 and for Heavensward it's definitely 3.3 (end of Dragonsong War).
HW didn't place its climax towards the end like ARR but in the middle and I felt it hit higher highs than ARR.
I semi often run Final Steps of Faith just to hear the music.
HW didn't place its climax towards the end like ARR but in the middle and I felt it hit higher highs than ARR.
I semi often run Final Steps of Faith just to hear the music.
Well that one's sorta out of their hands.
Wait till you finish 2.55. LOL.
Also, hurry up, there are some great Tataru quests towards the end of 2.x!
Tataru will be the game's final boss in about 10 years from now.
Shut your face she'll never betray me and if she goes on the dark side so will I. The world will tremble before Queen Tataru. She's my queen from this day, until my last day.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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She's probably the only lala I can stand... dunno why. Maybe cause she's not annoying or creepy. >.>
I look forward to it, lol.
D=
She's a legit fun character!
I try to like Wedge, but... something bugs me about the guy <_<
Not even a question. Nanamo is useless and Tataru is bestest.
Is *that* our future WWE collab? I'd form a tag team with Tataru.
DrForester
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Why does do Crystal Tower queues take only a few minutes for World of Darkness and Syrcys Tower, but 30+ minutes for Labyrinth of the Ancients...
What we needed was Shantotto to take over during the crossover event...
Or just turn over Eorzea to best Boss-taru...
What we needed was Shantotto to take over during the crossover event...
Or just turn over Eorzea to best Boss-taru...
Glamor farm, maybe?
Unknown Soldier
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Sounds to me like Tataru actually turned face
Six tanks required as opposed to just three. As a tank, I loved how Labyrinth was designed to utilize tanks and give them something to do, but apparently there are not enough tanks in the game to make it work.
Of course, tanks are the ones stuck with 30 min queues in Dun Scaith, so the three tank set-up isn't ideal eithet.
DrForester
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Wow. I never noticed the tank numbers before...
Nice, Parashu is probably my favorite looking Axe
Uh. My dude. You do realize that there was barely anything for tanks to do in Labyrinth, right? There is so little for SIX tanks to do that they're given button pushing duties in Behemoth because there are two things to tank. Ideally that would have been a ranged dps' job to push some buttons and healers. Instead tanks are set up at towers because otherwise they're just junky dps. It isn't a lack of tanks, it's a lack of interesting things to make tanks do.
Team Alucard
Banned
It is mine!
Final run count:
Zurvan: 99
Thordan: 84 (This was a miserable fucking experience btw)
Ravana: 56
Nidhogg: 48
Sophia: 34
Bismarck: 18
Sephirot: 2
Total HW Ex primal runs to get this bad boy: 341
Final run count:
Zurvan: 99
Thordan: 84 (This was a miserable fucking experience btw)
Ravana: 56
Nidhogg: 48
Sophia: 34
Bismarck: 18
Sephirot: 2
Total HW Ex primal runs to get this bad boy: 341
You only had to do sephirot twice? What a hard life.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Reason #1 I'm waiting until after SB to farm birds. Fuuuuuuck all that. :lol
Team Alucard
Banned
Yeah I got real lucky there, however I actually really like SephEx (that phase 2 DMC music is sooooooooo good), while absolute shitpits like Thordan and Zurvan I had to run forever. >.<
Ravana and Bismarck are both faceroll difficulty at this point and the drop rates are pretty generous. If you really want a bird theirs' are extremely easy to get. You can kill ravana in like 2 minutes flat now, its hilarious.
That's exactly what I'm doing. But I'm a gluten for pain myself: only 500 mentor roulettes to go for the Astrope mount!
Mentors made of grains, confirmed.
Stone Ocean
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Does it play the Midgardsormr theme?
So many missed opportunities with music on most of these mounts.
Yeah it's the regular flying mount music
DrForester
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I ended up with decent luck with birds. Zurvan was the only one I had to totem buy. I got Bismark, Nidhogg and Thordan pretty early on. Sophia and Seph took a while. Ravana took many runs, but it's sucha quick and easy fight, it wasn't too bad.
Thordan and Zurvan were the worst fights.
Nidhogg and Seph were both fun fights.
Team Alucard
Banned
Totally agreed. Seph is probably the most fun fight mechanically, but the presentation in Nidhogg (especially the music, the way the 3rd phase theme syncs perfectly with Akh Morn is so godlike) is just so amazing that he gets the nod for me. Sophia is also great of course.
I'd rank the HW primals as such
Nidhogg > Seph > Sophia > Ravana >>>> Bismarck >>>>>>>>>>>>Zurvan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thordan.
What we needed was Shantotto to take over during the crossover event...
And here i almost thought that "thing" only happened in a nightmare i got ....
Behemoth isn't the best fight for tanks, I acknowledge. I do miss fights like Allagan Bomb, Bone Dragon, Dullahan, and thr original Atomos that did take advantage of multiple tanks quite well. Technically, Bone Dragon can be done by three tanks, but a minimum of five is a massive help. Likewise, Atomos was best handled by the two tanks on each team alternating adds. Dullahan was always an all hands on deck fight with its adds.
While I generally really like Mhach and Dun Scaith, they don't really give much for the OTs to do except to grab short-lived adds and absorb a few hits. I do understand the switch away from six-tank raids, but I wish they would avoid giving us so many one-tank fights in raids. I would kill for a proper fight against three bosses at once. Or some enforced tank-swapping at least.
Bone Dragon: More tanks = more provoke wars, it just ends up being worse than 'helpful' honestly.
Atomos, ever since it came out (at least since later on in 2,1 when I got to it), one tank just went dps on Atomos and one dealt with the adds. I've never seen tanks alternate adds in Atomos.
You literally only need 3 tanks in LotA. Even back in 2.1, one tank in each group just acted as a worse dps. Hell in BD and that boss with the pots, many of the non-main tanks didn't even tank the things that they could (ie the eyes in the final section of BD, the non-sandman adds in the pot boss)
I'd love for some fights that actually give all tanks things to do (actual tanking, not the meteor shit in Dun's final boss) where if the tanks don't do it, you'll wipe. Just to give tanks that want to tank something to do and force tanks who dont want to tank to tank or to gtfo and queue as a dps.
DrForester
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Yeah Nidhogg was just an amazing presentation of a fight. And I did enjoy the mechanics of it as well.
Hatching Tide 2017 starts today.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2017/Hatching_tide/
you can get a egg mount.
Team Alucard
Banned
ThorEx is awful dude. Its just a ridiculous gish gallop of mechanics that don't fit or flow well together at all.
This is mostly funny because I think Thordan EX has the distinction of being the only FFXIV fight another MMO's raid developer dissected to praise.
Thordan stands out as one of the best content delivery decisions they ever made--it had an effective communication to the player base (mechanics>dps!), invoked some raid nostalgia, hit a difficulty level the player base desperately needed at the time, was forgiving enough to not seem punishing, and delivered a really solid spectacle.
It's not my favorite fight ever, but I have a lot of respect for what the developers did with that fight, and how well it fit into what the player base needed at that point in time.
Thordan stands out as one of the best content delivery decisions they ever made--it had an effective communication to the player base (mechanics>dps!), invoked some raid nostalgia, hit a difficulty level the player base desperately needed at the time, was forgiving enough to not seem punishing, and delivered a really solid spectacle.
It's not my favorite fight ever, but I have a lot of respect for what the developers did with that fight, and how well it fit into what the player base needed at that point in time.
Shy Fingers
Banned
I'll give you best fight in Heaven's Ward.
Best On-Content Fights for me:
T12 > T13 > Thordan
After that it's a jumbled mess of what beats what. Really disappointed at the fights in Alexander as a whole.
the_sun_king
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Got my egg mount, now back to waiting for the FedEx truck to deliver P5...
to each their own but i think it's the best heavensward ex primal easily. it doesn't have any of the stupid bullshit like skipping soar/tethers etc. you had at release as well. the only thing you'd do when he first came out was make him leave early and skipping the last 2 sets of mechanics
sophia and zurvan are not very well designed in terms of dps pushing.
Critical Elk
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This was a pretty interesting read, it's too bad he didn't do any of Alexander. I wonder if any other mmo raid devs ever look at Alexander and think, "Who thought four legs and nisi was a good idea."
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