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Final Fantasy XIV |OT5| All You Need is Gil
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Yup. Somehow Lonestar got pushed back off the side and had to start the climb again. We were going over some of the good points of XI, and while there are alot of things I really dont miss, open world travel challenges was not one. Hopefully the expansion or whatever large patches introduce some actual open world danger for high levels. Some places you just shouldnt be able to poke around unless you have a chocobo partner or one other person you know? Open world chests in random areas would be nice too.
thetrin
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Decided to take a break from doing animus on my DRG and started leveling ACN for a change of pace. Got ACN to 20, and I'm really enjoying the class.
Probably going to go SMN when I hit 30. I don't know if I'm going to hit 50 with it, but for now, I'm really enjoying it.
Probably going to go SMN when I hit 30. I don't know if I'm going to hit 50 with it, but for now, I'm really enjoying it.
Probably going to start leveling another class soon myself. 2.3 unfortunately did not add much in the way of the sort of content I gravitate towards, so leveling another class or two is probably the smart thing to do in cases like this.
Besides, would be nice to have DPS options outside of DRG.
crackbabyjr
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I was trying to figure out how to turn into a tree. Today I succeeded.
From what we were talking about earlier:
goddammit Bloodberry...
Sadly, I think the Original Dunes bloodbath is lost to time, unless I can find it on my home PC (or someone else saved it). The storage site where I last used it died.
I did have some of this newer Dunes bloodbath
WickedLaharl
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yep. the s rank by swiftperch yesterday was gone for me almost the entire fight on ps4 and i only got 5 seals despite being there the entire time with a full party.
That skirt looks really out of place lol.
It's worth it for the DPS boost over the Rosenbogen at least. Sitting at 320 DET, 529 CRIT right now. So good, for a bard anyway.
Plus, now invariably the Bow is gonna drop in T9 this week. That's just how Murphy rolls.
You should all go make a thread and post them in it.
Man why you always gotta come at people so hard? Why so aggro? They want to post about their nostalgia with former FF11 players now playing FF14.
Augemitbutter
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it's not so bad on chaos cluster. 5 min. prime time. sometimes shorter.
I played about 3 matches before Scything/Exelon got into one and earned four times as many (loss multiplier and FC buff not included) as many marks from losing all 3 than they did winning one
Interesting post about RNG from the devs.
That of course doesn't give me any comfort regarding the non-HQ ruby earrings I made yesterday. Ended up with 98% quality and non-HQ. Hnng, my fault for being lazy on the synth.
That of course doesn't give me any comfort regarding the non-HQ ruby earrings I made yesterday. Ended up with 98% quality and non-HQ. Hnng, my fault for being lazy on the synth.
Mind giving me a simplified run down of the post? I can't get the page to load on my phone.
Bomber Bob
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That was a pretty interesting read, thx studyguy!
It really is funny that while immortal flames get dump on for the win/ratio records, in the end we do get more exp points. It really did backfire on those players who abandon IF for Mael for PVP.
If you're doing any crafting and get 99% for HQ, you better pray to RNGesus because we got Fire Emblem up in here... essentially.
When it comes down to it, people don't actually want pure RNG. They want predictable behavior, which results in a better experience for players overall. I mentioned this earlier in the FC chat but I think SE should look into Pseudo-Random Distribution for certain game systems, particularly Atma. A summary of how PRD works in DOTA2:
"Blah blah blah mathematics blah blah blah stats blah blah cognitive biases blah blah it's all in your head dealwithit.gif."
"Blah blah blah mathematics blah blah blah stats blah blah cognitive biases blah blah it's all in your head dealwithit.gif."
Pankratous
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Outer La Noscea is a terrible place for atma farming alone. Most of the fates are single mobs with large HP pools. Sigh.
Can someone explain Titan EX bomb pattern? I keep getting latency issues there and so it is hard not to get hit.
The first phaze is bomb in the center. What do I do there?
Then there is the landslide one which I don't understand either.
Generally I don't understand what I have to do with those bombs.
The first phaze is bomb in the center. What do I do there?
Then there is the landslide one which I don't understand either.
Generally I don't understand what I have to do with those bombs.
They re-posted the forum post on reddit, so I was able to read it.
So, they're using True Random Number generators for thier RNG. That's more or less fine for equipment drops, those are more an issue with unwieldy loot tables than anything else.
For crafting though, that's a problem, because crafting isn't supposed to be truly random. If you have a 98 percent chance of HQing an item, craft it a hundred times, and you has significantly less than 98 HQed items, than the reported number is wrong and highly misleading.
That said, some failure, even at 90+ percent, is to be expected, so while the numbers in this game are almost certainly a bit misleading, I don't think they're all that far off.
Hard to say for certain, without larger samples to work with however.
So, they're using True Random Number generators for thier RNG. That's more or less fine for equipment drops, those are more an issue with unwieldy loot tables than anything else.
For crafting though, that's a problem, because crafting isn't supposed to be truly random. If you have a 98 percent chance of HQing an item, craft it a hundred times, and you has significantly less than 98 HQed items, than the reported number is wrong and highly misleading.
That said, some failure, even at 90+ percent, is to be expected, so while the numbers in this game are almost certainly a bit misleading, I don't think they're all that far off.
Hard to say for certain, without larger samples to work with however.
Bombs explode based on which ones fell first. Go to the last bombs to fall, and run to a gap once the oldest bombs start to explode.
Landslides will ring out your character if you're hit by it. Simply stand outside the AOE indicators you see on the ground, before they disappear, so you don't get hit.
Is it easy to see which bomb drops last? I never pay attention or seem to notice that...
Hiroshi_Minagawa said:
Crafting an item a hundred times is still a very low sample size. As somebody who has had level 50 in all crafts since November, their implementation of random numbers in crafting is fine in my opinion. Maybe it is because my statistics professor years ago hammered this point home, but I understand that 99% is never a guarantee.
Statistics high-five!
98% doesn't mean you're gonna end up with roughly 98 out of 100 success rate.
It means that every single attempt, separately, has 98% chance of a success.
Which also means 100% of attempts could fail.
On a side note, fuck Ramuh.
cloudzack117
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so after patch 2.3 where is the best place to farm sol tokens besides the hunts? im guessing any of the 3 new dungeons? i know they nerfed bray's output
I find Frontlines are good for Soldiery, especially if your queue is quick. They're usually 15 minutes long, and you're guaranteed 25 Soldiery, regardless of how your team places overall. If you don't actually care about winning, this is the most consistent and least frustrating source of Soldiery.
What alternative would you want with the removal of RNG from crafting?
1. All crafts are HQ if you meet stat requirements.
2. NQ/HQ system is gone.
Either alternative will make crafting way too easy when they've worked hard to create a crafting system that actually involves some sort of effort past hitting 1 button.
Lanrutcon
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I'm all for effort. And I'd be all for RNG + effort, if the results mattered. There's a crafting class, an entire class, devoted to making weapons. Can they make the best weapons in the game? No, they cannot. Why not? Why are the best weapons in the game only available, specifically, to non crafting classes? That makes no sense. I appreciate that ARR is trying to make crafting something special, but they should have the conviction to go all the way. Otherwise they're just like every other MMO where crafting is a sidenote in a story about killing things.
If the RNG lets you.
RNG in boss drops isn't bad for the CT stuff (UATs and Oils really do seem to drop about a third of the time); it's basically a small chance to HQ the drop. Mirrors and ponies though are awful.
RNG to HQ is arguably advantageous for lower level crafting, too. I'd rather have a 1/3 chance to HQ a leve item than be SOL because I can't meet the mandatory HQ requirement.
RNG to HQ is arguably advantageous for lower level crafting, too. I'd rather have a 1/3 chance to HQ a leve item than be SOL because I can't meet the mandatory HQ requirement.
We managed to finally spawn it tonight on Ragna thanks to BG info. Had 3-4 people in my pt cooking while we ran around eating.
Hunts in the weekend get kinda worse, there are so many ppl that the S Rank tend to disappear even before they are engaged and people end up panicking and attacking them. :/
The biggest deterrent to making craftable items being the best in an MMO is the presence of RMT.
We popped it last week on Ultros using Finger Sandwiches. Nice to know there is a cheaper method. X_X
EDIT: Oops, double post.
Lanrutcon
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I can, on the more populated servers, go pay to be carried through the raid of my choice.
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