WoW boosts of equivalent value (because it doesn't have story locks) are $60
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WoW boosts of equivalent value (because it doesn't have story locks) are $60
It reeks of the MSQ being a huge barrier to entry for new players, especially if you're not feeling the ARR stuff.
$50 to go from 0 to SB ready in no time is a big enough chunk of cash to make sure you're srs about it, but vanishingly small when it comes to the amount of time the whole process takes. Getting leveled and clearing all the story takes a ton of time, and being able to sidestep that isn't nothing.
Yes, please. I hope that is the case.
Until 4.1 I wonder if they'll keep limited per patch.
Stone Ocean
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Yeah, basically this is an option so people who want to play with their friends don't have to spend 300 hours on the game to get to the starting line, let alone catch up
Yeah you're basically paying for 3-4 months of sub time being skipped and given.
Abstrusity
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No LOLNIN or LOLDRG, only RDM SAM MNK BRD WAR PLD SCH AST :^)
Stone Ocean
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Plus this also helps current content as well, since with this being an option Square doesn't have to come up with more ways to get people to queue up for obsolete content.
Actually, yeah, it looks like it's just the auto-attacks, not the GCDs specifically. Which probably means Shield Oath might just be off blocks.
And Sheltron was 50 and it's the only ability on the bars with a cost that fits as it's targeting the bar. Which makes me think WIP still.
UtterlyPerplexed
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Yes, but I have seen people desperate to play SAM and RDM who are complaining about the need to grind 10 levels just to be able to start Stormblood's main scenario ASAP.
AlphaDragoon
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I still can't believe they didn't do anything to Skill Speed. That stat is still trash for the majority of all jobs yet they said "this is fine". XD
Shield Swipe wasn't on his bars to check, or has a new icon I guess. There was another 120 TP cost skill (aka, Shield Lob cost) that I didn't recognize on the bars too, along with the 110 TP most-likely-AoE skill.
Most every job wants SSPD to some extent, especially with how bad DET is. MCH has the lowest SSPD in any sets (base or practically base) while everyone else is somewhere in the mid-500s to 599. Like, DRG is after 599 for their rotation to time out properly, even NIN with clipping gets to the low 500s.
Stone Ocean
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Huh? Skill speed is useful for tanks, MNK, DRG and was really useful for BRD
It's $50 for a pet.
You can try bargaining with the other healer I suppose
Thanks, I've been repeating it over and over in my head in JP and couldn't figure it out, I guess I got stuck lol
Should have just used jisho
Ranged dps:
"Graze all of the things"
Melee:
What are the details on this?
Dandy Crocodile
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YASSSSS I can skip all the 2.0-2.55 stuff and get straight to Heavensward. I haven't played since I beat 2.0 cause the thought of all the patch stuff was hell to me.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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What do the new ast cards do?
Didn't they say Diversion is a sort of combined Raging + Quelling Strikes, or did I misunderstand that?
So is that saying the level boost is limited to one job?
Stone Ocean
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One job, once per account
Yeah until patch 4.1 because they want to monitor how it's being used or something like that.
Happy's Summary document of the liveletter
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ScQ9gCqZlghtQJgdbSuwJdXIaFBYjOOj5teGmKCDeY/preview
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ScQ9gCqZlghtQJgdbSuwJdXIaFBYjOOj5teGmKCDeY/preview
$18 to skip the ARR story, $25 to skip the HW story (includes ARR skip)
$25 to skip one pre-SB job straight to 60, limited to one skip per account until 4.1
So $50 to take a brand new character or account to SB-ready; launches 6/16.
AST is on the heap of jobs they didn't talk about.
Based on HW, expect drips and drabs of information and then covert tooltip pictures out of E3.
No, it's just literally Quelling Strikes.
AlphaDragoon
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Yeah, but to have Skill Speed in the mid 500s - low 600s you're basically trying to nix it from most of your gear, only having it on a few pieces. If you just have Skill Speed on most of your stuff you get to like 700-800 or higher which is terrible. So if you're actively trying to keep it down lower and they keep pushing it onto gear to make it higher than that, it's still bad.
They need to just do the thing they seem to be avoiding like the plague and make Skill Speed affect your TP restoration to a degree so you don't bottom out super fast. And even then some classes will not want it like NIN and MCH.
yes also for Machinist
Stone Ocean
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If the process of leveling taught anyone anything tanks that whine about healers DPSing or don't ever use CDs or stances "because they don't need them" wouldn't exist
Hell yeah
J_ToSaveTheDay
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Same here. Do Jump Potions go live now or when Stormblood comes out? I have a main that's at Moogle King in ARR (not even 2.0) but I'd rather just use a Jump Potion to hop my brand new alt up to Heavensward. I wouldn't mind working thru HW before SB comes out since I never played it, but I'm kinda ok with just going straight to SB if they're not gonna release the option to buy Jumps until SB comes.
I traditionally play tank and I keep seeing Warrior is the most fun (and most effective), though I was Paladin back when I quit. Trying to decide if I want to keep tanking or take a massive L to my Duty Finder queue times and go Monk... I know the mechanics well enough for both from my previous play, and I like both...
Never played Ninja either and think it looks cool, but not gonna bet on an unknown class for lack of playstyle knowledge and lack of effectiveness knowledge -- I'll work on that manually sometime down the road.
just be aware you cant use them on the new Jobs Red mage and sam .
Stone Ocean
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Potions go live alongside Stormblood EASame here. Do Jump Potions go live now or when Stormblood comes out? I have a main that's at Moogle King in ARR (not even 2.0) but I'd rather just use a Jump Potion to hop my brand new alt up to Heavensward. I wouldn't mind working thru HW before SB comes out since I never played it, but I'm kinda ok with just going straight to SB if they're not gonna release the option to buy Jumps until SB comes.
I traditionally play tank and I keep seeing Warrior is the most fun (and most effective), though I was Paladin back when I quit. Trying to decide if I want to keep tanking or take a massive L to my Duty Finder queue times and go Monk... I know the mechanics well enough for both from my previous play, and I like both...
Never played Ninja either and think it looks, but not gonna bet on an unknown class -- I'll work on that manually sometime down the road.
Same here. Do Jump Potions go live now or when Stormblood comes out? I have a main that's at Moogle King in ARR (not even 2.0) but I'd rather just use a Jump Potion to hop my brand new alt up to Heavensward. I wouldn't mind working thru HW before SB comes out since I never played it, but I'm kinda ok with just going straight to SB if they're not gonna release the option to buy Jumps until SB comes.
I traditionally play tank and I keep seeing Warrior is the most fun (and most effective), though I was Paladin back when I quit. Trying to decide if I want to keep tanking or take a massive L to my Duty Finder queue times and go Monk... I know the mechanics well enough for both from my previous play, and I like both...
Never played Ninja either and think it looks, but not gonna bet on an unknown class -- I'll work on that manually sometime down the road.
they will release june 16th on Mogstation .
AlphaDragoon
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Just Quelling. At the moment it looks like Raging Strikes got fully booted from the game. Although all the role skills are not known so it may still be there in another name.
I really want to know what they're doing to ranged support stuff; they referenced support from the role actions, and that bards have songs for further, but zero mention of hypercharge/promotion, and we didn't see a gauge for Foe Req.
HW proved out that making them level normally didn't really make people learn how to tank or heal either. At least a jump potion requires a real dollar-value commitment from the person skipping, and since it's one-per-account they're going to end up stuck learning whatever they jump.
It's possible you'll get people fresh off the turnip truck dropping $50 to ruin your SB queues, but I'd guess everything they've seen in Korea and China indicates the people dropping actual real money on jumps are more likely to try to not be totally incompetent.
HW proved out that making them level normally didn't really make people learn how to tank or heal either. At least a jump potion requires a real dollar-value commitment from the person skipping, and since it's one-per-account they're going to end up stuck learning whatever they jump.
It's possible you'll get people fresh off the turnip truck dropping $50 to ruin your SB queues, but I'd guess everything they've seen in Korea and China indicates the people dropping actual real money on jumps are more likely to try to not be totally incompetent.
Yoshi-P definitely made a point of noting early on that Raging Strikes wasn't on his hotbar, but said "if you don't see a skill you use here, don't worry, there's probably something to replace it."
Yeah, right now I thinking of using it on Scholar/Summoner assuming it works for both.
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