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Sweet. Stormblood is getting rid of Lalas. Happy day indeed!
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Sweet. Stormblood is getting rid of Lalas. Happy day indeed!
In general they kind of need to approach healing (and tanking) to some extent so that there's a lot more to healing than simply a series of one-time pass/fail checks. Otherwise it'll always come down to either strict HPS checks that necessitate better throughput OR lenient enough that it comes down to take what offers the most outside healing.
But I guess we often come back to that point, huh.
IonicSnake
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There are a bunch of different katanas besides the relic one in the benchmark.
Here they are.
Here they are.
the_sun_king
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P5 has completely taken over my life so I had no idea about the live letter and the benchmark lol.
Good to see DRG AF gear continues to be awesome.
Good to see DRG AF gear continues to be awesome.
Kudo
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Last one looks sweet as heck, can't wait to get that on my Lala Samurai.
IonicSnake
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yaffi
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PS4 limitations!
IonicSnake
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You're going to have to put on shoes to take them off.
Perfo
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Very stupid questions for expert about the avarage level equipment. Does each equipment slot bear the same importance or let's say a CHEST lvl in the total avg. score is worth more than an Earring of the same level? I need to reach lvl 200 quickly to advance the story and I was thinking focusing on accessories is, tomes-wise, less costy than main equip.
iirc it's weapon > chest/legs > arms / helm / belt / feet.
Shy Fingers
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For the ilvl they're all weighted the same, so for trying to get over an ilvl restriction, whatever is cheapest/easiest.
Now for how effective the item is, Thorgal here is correct:
I love me some giant hat on staff clipping.The latest Blind spell from BLM
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Yeah it's basically a mini Holy.
I noticed it has a cast animation though.
It's going to suck if they don't give you automatic Surecast when using it.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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I just hope they balance the two new AST cards. It looked like one of the new ones debuffed an enemy in the trailer but unclear.
Hey my family now has 4 ps4s in 4 states. We are looking for games to play together. MMOS came up and I noticed ff14 is kinda free? So we've never touched MMOS before is this a good starting point? Money is a bit of an issue in that we don't want to pay monthly fees but would be willing to buy the game and expansions if they are one time buys.
So few queations:
-Is FF14 free? If not how long does the trial last time wise?
-is ff14 easy to get into for beginners?
-if ff14 doesn't seem like the right game are there any other free or one time buy games we could play as a family? Was thinking destiny might be good but something less shoot would be better. Also we like Sci if more than fantasy.
So few queations:
-Is FF14 free? If not how long does the trial last time wise?
-is ff14 easy to get into for beginners?
-if ff14 doesn't seem like the right game are there any other free or one time buy games we could play as a family? Was thinking destiny might be good but something less shoot would be better. Also we like Sci if more than fantasy.
FinaruDensetsu
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I like how the new trailer showed a single new cooldown looking move for PLD. Why even have this job if they don't care about it?
They literally showed one new move per job though, so I'm not entirely sure why you're singling out PLD here.
I agree that it's not as cool as WAR getting a gap closer or flamethrowers, but then again, what is?
Stone Ocean
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- Not free, paid game and $13-15 monthly sub. Trial has no time limit but you can play up to level 20 IIRC.
- It's pretty beginner friendly.
- Haven't really dabbled with F2P MMOs in almost a decade but maybe Guild Wars 2 would be up your alley? That one is completely free up to the expansion, which is a one time purchase.
Heavensward brought 5 new job actions and Yoshida said a similar amount was coming for this new expansion (but an equivalent amount would be culled/altered in the combat ability revamp). The one move they showed appeared be a mini holy which means AOE damage, if casted it can be spammed. Its definitely not the only complaint but a chief one was that PLD had near zero utility in helping with AOE damage unlike DRK and WAR. Every other job aside from MNK and the two new jobs only showed one new move too. Wait till May to be angry about it
• The free trial is now unlimited with a stop point in progression once you reach level 35. To proceed past level 35 and the subsequent main scenario quests, you will have to purchase A Realm Reborn. A new license will grant you 30 days of game time free with monthly payments ($12.99 or $14.99) being necessary after said period. You can view the restrictions in place for the free trial via this link.
• It's a fairly simple game to pick up and play, but you might encounter some initial difficulties if you're new to the genre. Fortunately, they've made quite a few strides since initial release to ease new players into standard MMO mechanics.
• Destiny is most likely your best shot, but Warframe might be something to consider as well. Warframe is completely free, however, it incentives microtransactions as progression can be quite the time sink otherwise.
That benchmark renewed my hype pretty handily. The SCH AF is looking pretty nice but the AST AF isn't too bad either, and both of them have some new toys that make me very interested to see what their effects are. I'm not really worried about the leveling process, but I assume there will be a similar Tome bottleneck at the start as before so I will have to pick one to focus on for at least a few months.
Yup. I'm fine with AST being reworked as long as the role as a whole gets a good look at. They didn't deserve their undertuned launch state any more then they deserved to be OP now.
The class will be a lot more fun if it can move away from the Draw Balance or you fail playstyle, but not at the expense of returning to an undertuned state. SE not having a new healer to worry about means that there shouldn't be any excuses about making sure the current three are all in a functional/competitive state by level 70. I don't expect everything to be perfect from the get-go cause MMO expansion launches never are, but still.
Looking cool is one thing, but there's a whole puzzle here and we can only see one corner. A bit early for doom and gloom.
Yup. I'm fine with AST being reworked as long as the role as a whole gets a good look at. They didn't deserve their undertuned launch state any more then they deserved to be OP now.
The class will be a lot more fun if it can move away from the Draw Balance or you fail playstyle, but not at the expense of returning to an undertuned state. SE not having a new healer to worry about means that there shouldn't be any excuses about making sure the current three are all in a functional/competitive state by level 70. I don't expect everything to be perfect from the get-go cause MMO expansion launches never are, but still.
Looking cool is one thing, but there's a whole puzzle here and we can only see one corner. A bit early for doom and gloom.
Capped tome gear will likely be shared by role this time around, since you'll be getting your AF set from job quests. Which is an excellent move IMO!
They mentioned the new Job AF gear will be quested like it was in vanilla ARR, lvl 70 quest. Unofficial translation is they didn't like the item level gap they were seeing with fresh lvl 60's trying to get geared up enough to start doing end game content (aka the two dungeon tome grind to get up high enough to do Alexander 1-4 normal and the extreme fights) so they made it easier to get the gear needed to bridge that gap by making it quested rather then grinded. The actual tome gear this time is shared right off the bat.
That's actually pretty amazing, especially with the boosted inventory space. Combine that with the fact that healers (and tanks too i guess) are gonna be in high demand to scoot all the new RDMs and SAMs through the 60s and I might be sitting pretty with 2 raid-compatible healers sooner than i thought, class balance notwithstanding.
How long does it take to get to 35? I imagine we'll be largely slow
If it's your first time ever playing an MMO then it probably will take a while yea. The genre has a few unique gameplay things that might take some getting used to, like party roles, the aggro system, ect
You can stick to the Main Story quest and a single job and level up pretty quickly doing that, but there's a lot to do off the beaten path, and in this game you can swap to a different job on the same character and that will be at level 1, so you technically have a fair amount of time you can waste.
Right now the game also actively encourages leveling at least one or two extra jobs for cross class skills as well, although that is going away soon i think.
If you're a beginner, it'll take quite a while especially if you're engaging in other activities besides active story progression.
The thing to keep in mind though with the free trial are the restrictions in regards to player interaction. It'll be tough to play with your family properly as you won't be able to create a party for you all to join.
If you're not looking to play past the free trial or the free game time (30 days) with a license purchase, I wouldn't recommend Final Fantasy XIV or other similar MMOs.
WeaponKnight
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My new 1080 got delievered today!
I ran the benchmark 3 times.
My old setup with best settings:
My old setup with maximum settings:
After installing the new card, maximum settings:
Common data:
The card has this weird button behind it that apparently overclocks it, so I might do some more testing.
I actually bought a regular 1080, but after a lot of delays, drama and bad customer support the shop said they were going to send "something extra" as an apology for my troubles. Turns out the "something" was a flippin' Galax 1080 HOF...
I ran the benchmark 3 times.
My old setup with best settings:
Code:
Score: 8864
Average Frame Rate: 60.707
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (VRAM 2017 MB)My old setup with maximum settings:
After installing the new card, maximum settings:
Common data:
The card has this weird button behind it that apparently overclocks it, so I might do some more testing.
I actually bought a regular 1080, but after a lot of delays, drama and bad customer support the shop said they were going to send "something extra" as an apology for my troubles. Turns out the "something" was a flippin' Galax 1080 HOF...
The name of the NA benchmark blog post made me laugh.
I have nothing to add. Just that it was funny.
I have nothing to add. Just that it was funny.
Oh bummer...didnt know this
It's the hilt of a samurai sword. Known as a tsuba.
More than just this design is used for samurai sword tsubas, but you get the idea.
Any pro gatherers want to give me the low down on farming Diadem? I decided to blow a bunch of my blue scrip tokens on the Minekeep/Fieldkeep sets and I want to start uberfarming.
Stuff like cordials, rotations, generally what to do. I know about this legend at least.
Stuff like cordials, rotations, generally what to do. I know about this legend at least.
DrForester
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New SMN AF looks almost exactly like the Heavensward one. Disappointing....
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