Mega Man's Electric Sheep
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It's telling me to use heavy shot on the targets and I had no idea I had that, and I don't know how to use it lol. Thanks for the suggestions though everyone
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It's telling me to use heavy shot on the targets and I had no idea I had that, and I don't know how to use it lol. Thanks for the suggestions though everyone
tiggerkiddo
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Keep them on obey at all times. Also be sure to place them somewhere safe if need be
And Turn 9 looks absolutely crazy, who knows how crazy will the last turn of Coil be.
Yeah, I've found myself pointing out places for my carbuncle to retreat to. A lot of it is just me not prioritizing.
I want to fight some re-animated Allagan soldier zombies in the final Coil.
Yup. The problem with support classes in MMO's, particularly those designed around the holy trinity, is that either your support buffs are either too good to pass up (in which X job ends up being required in a raid)...or too terrible that you find yourself never being invited.
Moreover, you generally only ever need one of those support classes in a party/raid. Two becomes a crowd, and that second support is generally considered useless and better replaced by an actual DPS job.
I think WoW in Wrath of the Lich King had it figured out. All classes/specs were designed to bring some support ability to the raid (which was a buff or debuff that was shared amongst 2-3 other specs in the game, and all specs were designed to do equal DPS (or at least the best they could balance it to).
This is the dream but it never actually happens.
So I talked about reducing hotbar clutter by using macros and this is a peek at what I have working so far...
tell us your secrets
(I have macros just like it, but without the fancy icon changes)
Unknown Soldier
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working as intended
Is your alt a tank or dragoon?
I setup Hotbars 1 to 3 (2 and 3 are hidden) to have the same exact buttons from 4 to 12. Buttons 1 to 3 are macros and change depending on stance. These three buttons perform the action and then change the main hotbar to a previously-hidden hotbar.
Macro for Dragon Kick on Hotbar 1:
/micon "Dragon Kick"
/ac "Dragon Kick" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 2 <wait.8>
/hotbar change 1
Macro for Twin Snakes on Hotbar 2:
/micon "Twin Snakes"
/ac "Twin Snakes" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 3 <wait.8>
/hotbar change 1
Macro for Snap Punch on Hotbar 3:
/micon "Snap Punch"
/ac "Snap Punch" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 1
The wait.8 and hotbar change to 1 for the first two macros is to account for idle time when I need to go back to default stance. I also setup a macro just to do '/hotbar change 1' in case of other issues. This setup means I have to wait 1 second after I hit Dragon Kick before I mash the '1' key for Twin Snakes.
Hotbar 4 is above the main hotbar and is my buff/cooldown hotbar. Hotbar 5 is a special one for Perfect Balance that uses similar macro concepts where main hotbar changes to 5 if I use Perfect Balance. The abilities on hotbar 5 are the ones I often use during PB, No special macros on this hotbar other than to switch to hotbar 1 when I am done with PB.
Macro for Dragon Kick on Hotbar 1:
/micon "Dragon Kick"
/ac "Dragon Kick" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 2 <wait.8>
/hotbar change 1
Macro for Twin Snakes on Hotbar 2:
/micon "Twin Snakes"
/ac "Twin Snakes" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 3 <wait.8>
/hotbar change 1
Macro for Snap Punch on Hotbar 3:
/micon "Snap Punch"
/ac "Snap Punch" <t> <wait.1>
/hotbar change 1
The wait.8 and hotbar change to 1 for the first two macros is to account for idle time when I need to go back to default stance. I also setup a macro just to do '/hotbar change 1' in case of other issues. This setup means I have to wait 1 second after I hit Dragon Kick before I mash the '1' key for Twin Snakes.
Hotbar 4 is above the main hotbar and is my buff/cooldown hotbar. Hotbar 5 is a special one for Perfect Balance that uses similar macro concepts where main hotbar changes to 5 if I use Perfect Balance. The abilities on hotbar 5 are the ones I often use during PB, No special macros on this hotbar other than to switch to hotbar 1 when I am done with PB.
tiggerkiddo
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and my primary alt job never got gear! Count yourself fortunate
It's getting sad that whilst I main as PLD and has the highest ilvl, I don't really play it as much as my Bard anymore.
That said, I will still Tank for friends and FC members, but in reality when I do roulettes or do dungeons via pf or df, I pretty much only tank when I absolutely need to.
That said, I will still Tank for friends and FC members, but in reality when I do roulettes or do dungeons via pf or df, I pretty much only tank when I absolutely need to.
Ozzykamikaze
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So I talked about reducing hotbar clutter by using macros and this is a peek at what I have working so far...
That's kind of awesome.
Ah okay, sadly I have no horizontal hot bars to spare, plus it's too late to change it at this point
Quests never get better, you're in it for the boss fights and dungeons.
Alright, got my three gathering classes started along with alchemy, carpentry, weaving & leatherworking. It'll be nice to have some chill stuff to do on my Vita while the wifey watches the ol real housewives.
When's the first REAL dungeon? I'm about to play totorak and hatali was the first dungeon to get sort of interesting.
When's the first REAL dungeon? I'm about to play totorak and hatali was the first dungeon to get sort of interesting.
As much as I hate to admit it...yup.
Exploring new areas / story developments are pretty cool too of course.
Qarn is probably the first dungeon that is actually mechanical and that is 34, I believe? But once you are in the 20s, dungeons start to present challenges to learning your class.
Brayflox is the first time you realize low level tanks suck.
IMO the first real fun one is brayflox, and that's at lvl 32.
Iorv3th
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Looking for some help .
Bought the game today on PS4. Yet I don't remember the password I used when I created my account during the beta. When I try to use my e-mail address for the forgot id/password recovery it tells me my e-mail address is not associated with an account.
I can not change my account ID in the launcher as it will not let me on ps4. My PSN is linked to an account that exists I just don't remember the password or have a way to reset it?
Any ideas?
edit: Figured it out for some reason the e-mail addresses are case sensitive and it changed it on PS4 to Myusername@gmail.Com with capitals in it.
.Bought the game today on PS4. Yet I don't remember the password I used when I created my account during the beta. When I try to use my e-mail address for the forgot id/password recovery it tells me my e-mail address is not associated with an account.
I can not change my account ID in the launcher as it will not let me on ps4. My PSN is linked to an account that exists I just don't remember the password or have a way to reset it?
Any ideas?
edit: Figured it out for some reason the e-mail addresses are case sensitive and it changed it on PS4 to Myusername@gmail.Com with capitals in it.
tiggerkiddo
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Crit vs. Determination for a BRD, which is better?
Having never played a BRD at high level I'd assume determination since you don't have the handicap that BLMs do of having to wait for long cast times.
Pellegri Testament
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Seen a lot of back and forth on this one on what few threads appear on the official forums. As far as I can tell though both are about equivalent priority wise so you want as much of both as you can get without sacrificing accuracy(that means skipping on most of the skillspeed crap unless you have no other choice on high ilvl gear).
It really depends on fight though, t6/7 it could go either way, but as far as t8 goes I would say from experience crit is the better of the 2. The longer you can potentially chain together bloodletter procs the better, tp management is hell in that fight and you really do not want to be sitting in army for longer than is absolutely needed since you need very high dps.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Got my LNC to 30 and started leveling my MRD for dragoon last night. I'm astonished at the exp bonus you get for having a lvl 30 class.
Should make leveling other jobs much easier than I thought.
Should make leveling other jobs much easier than I thought.
It's best to level a class to 50, which means that any other class you level will have a 50% bonus exp.
Of all the things that you could nitpick about. Nevermind that lots of us with Thrones inspired names have been reading the books since the 90's and are not doing it because it happens to be a TV show that is en vogue at the moment.
You summon them and they stand around doing nothing while you adventure. What's to learn?
theSlacker
Member
So did they change it so that fractions actually work in the /wait command instead of just rounding up?
njean777
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So I have been putting all my extra points into strength (I am a lancer) is this the right way to go? If not will I be able to respect at all? It says I cannot, but I just want to make sure. I am level 31 now so I have put a considerable amount of points into strength. Another question I have is it better to go for more armor as a lancer or items with more strength?
yes.
go for more strength always. gear with more strength should naturally always have more armor anyways.
njean777
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Well the reason I ask is because I ran an instance today and the armor I got had more strength, but less armor than what I had gotten from quests. I got some pretty decent gear from a pair of quests I did maybe 2 levels prior than the gear level from the instance. The armor had more strength but less armor, so that is why I was asking.
hum. there is this weird thing with the lower level dungeon armor where tank gear is also classified as lancer and dragoon gear when it really shouldn't be iirc. just get the one with more strength.
lazybones18
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where should I go for Level 30/35 Grand Company Levequests? Still only have seen 20/25 levequests
Razgriz-Specter
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Anyone have a guide for the glamor system?
Will finally be getting back on when I get paid tomorrow, was my most wanted feature back before I stopped playing because of the PS4.
Will finally be getting back on when I get paid tomorrow, was my most wanted feature back before I stopped playing because of the PS4.
So I talked about reducing hotbar clutter by using macros and this is a peek at what I have working so far...
actually, dont you still need demolish and snap punch on your bars for openers
lazybones18
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guybrushfreeman
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You can respec for 10,000 GC seals at anytime by the way. As they mentioned it's all just dumping your points into your main stat anyway though so it only matters if you want a different build for end game than you had leveling.
In the normal cycle, yes, you can't use Snap Punch or Demolish without being in the correct stance so I have to go through bars 1 and 2. I have a hotbar 5 set up just for Perfect Balance.
Perfect Balance macro basically just uses PB and switches hotbar to 5. Hotbar 5 has buttons for the PB opener and Rockbreakers for AOE spam. These are just the normal actions without macros. One button on that hotbar takes me back to hotbar 1 when PB is done.
EDIT: I am DRG 44 now and trying to apply a similar macro style to it. I have plenty of horizontal hotbars because I only share 1 between all classes. I use shared vertical hotbars for class changing.
Those are at the Observatorium in Coerthas. All three GCs are represented there.
Dre_G_Writer
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I had no idea what a macro was until I saw your gif and read this post. Will have to try that later.
Thanks for that because I was JUST about to ask what are macros since I saw some dudes in the game talking about it in chat.
Also man, I got a Monk, but my skills don't take as long as your to activate. Your cooldown seems like it takes forever.
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