I stopped letting others handle the eggs because I was convinced I was the only DPS that knew how to.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT5| All You Need is Gil
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I stopped letting others handle the eggs because I was convinced I was the only DPS that knew how to.
You could use that argument for anything.
show me your skeleton
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sorry for such a rookie question but is there any way to keybind abilities to keyboard keys on the ps3?
Hopefully it means tanks won't be so insistent on pulling entire rooms.
I only pull entire rooms because everyone pushes me to do so because they want to finish asap.
Usually if I pull one or two groups of mobs at a time the pugs bitch because I'm going too slow.
tiggerkiddo
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Well yes that too...it's kinda why I only healed high level DR, those dungeons aren't as easily speed run, well except for maybe HM Haukke and that hardly comes up as of late.
Always gonna happen, if folks can SR something, they will.
Of course, if you actually had people that were competent enough to comprehend the mechanics of a dungeon, and knew how to play their class. The only real difficulty out there were some of the extremes and Coil.
The problem is it's dependent on player position. AM out of an AoE thinking you're safe/badass right into another person standing in another AoE. Let's not get into probable lag issues where a player appears to be one place on your screen and is another on his/her own and everyone elses.
This is pretty true. Totorak SRs are some of the most ridiculous things I've seen. Makes that dungeon slightly less annoying. But only slightly.
That said, I wonder if these dungeons will be harder to SR because of the i70ness. If so, I wonder if corpse tanking will become a thing in them like it is in T1. Never underestimate the laziness of the community.
RellyRell28
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Do we know yet what type of gear the new dungeon are gonna have
In a good group, that's mostly not an issue. You're either AM-ing to the healers or ranged. Or in the case of turn 6, to the offtank.
If we can save time, and it's not a bannable offense, it's gonna happen.
HylianScribe
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It wasn't just the difficulty, but that the rewards were the exact same as doing much easier content.
Most people do not run 4 man content for the difficulty, they run it to either farm myth, farm seals, or SB, usually all 3 at once. There's been times when I've struggled through much easier dungeons that Pharos due to people ignoring mechanics and not stopping so i can explain them (ex my whole group goes left at the start of WP and DPSes adds then tries to attack tonberry stalker while I can barely get out a "no" before I have to spam healing, BRD tanks demon dragon in AK because tank dies instantly after a full explanation, ect ect). You basically HAVE to assume your DF group is gonna be subpar until they prove otherwise, which does mean that pre-nerf Pharos would have been a lot of wipes, especially compared to easier dungeons. Considering i could avoid all that by not even unlocking the dungeon...hah.
So yea. If you answer to "why would I run this objectively (by consensus) harder 4 dungeon for the same rewards as this much easier one" is a nebulous "cause fun lol" then the result will be the same every time. No one is gonna want to DF something like that. If they wanted to have fun while wiping there's content made specifically for that in raids with better rewards, even if it's just achieves/mounts/vanity/w/e.
Have you tried Start -> System -> Keybind?
Disable direct chat and map out your keys the way you want them.
that hildibrand
tiggerkiddo
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Most DF tanks don't believe in defensive cooldowns...
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
I don't understand why some people are like that. It just seems like a good idea to take some of the pressure off the healer when possible, especially when you know you're going to have a lot of incoming damage.
I'd chalk it up to ignorance rather than spite
AlphaDragoon
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To this day I don't get why people are deathly afraid of this place (even pre-nerf) and Aurum Vale. They're both easy. ARR's AV is like Disneyland next to 1.23's AV and even that version wasn't all that bad.
Thanks for the shout-out, Isaccard!
Concerning the issue with movement, I do share some of the complaints a few have regarding BLM. I do use Aetherial Manipulation quite a bit, though, especially in T9. Also, my control scheme is likely very...odd compared to other BLM's. I'm very mobile in my playing, since, in-battle, I always have the right mouse button held down [to control the direction of my character]. I use A/D on the keyboard to strafe [so I can continue facing my target], and E to Sprint [which I use a lot]. I have all of my abilities bound to my mouse [with Left Shift as the modifier]. I also "cast-clip" a lot of my spells. This is done by moving slightly just before the cast finishes [I usually strafe super-slightly to the left/right]. If you do it correctly, your spell will finish regardless and you can begin the cast of your second spell earlier [instead of simply letting it finish]. It only saves a few milliseconds here-and-there, but it all adds up.
As for the buffs, I am happy to see an increased in potency for Fire/Blizzard spells [although the Manawall nerf will forever pain me, I loved that thing!]. It doesn't really make our class less RNG-reliant, but it at least makes it so if we don't get a Firestarter/Thunderstruck proc for a while, our DPS shouldn't suffer as much [the increased potency of Fire I helps in this].
It would have been nice to see them revert to the way the mana regeneration in Umbral Ice used to work, though. Sometimes the game seems to take a while for that first tick, and if it comes at an odd time, I usually have to wait a second for the final tick before going back into Astral Fire, or I cast a Scathe in-between so I'm not sitting there doing nothing. The timing was a lot less strict before they changed it, so you could still get that final Umbral Ice tick even after going back into Astral Fire. It was a lot less rigid in that sense, although I've more-or-less adjusted to the way things are now.
Either way, the patch notes are listed as "Preliminary", so there could be more changes for BLM not yet listed. Unlikely, but you never know! Even as things are, though, I'm pretty satisfied in being a BLM.
Concerning the issue with movement, I do share some of the complaints a few have regarding BLM. I do use Aetherial Manipulation quite a bit, though, especially in T9. Also, my control scheme is likely very...odd compared to other BLM's. I'm very mobile in my playing, since, in-battle, I always have the right mouse button held down [to control the direction of my character]. I use A/D on the keyboard to strafe [so I can continue facing my target], and E to Sprint [which I use a lot]. I have all of my abilities bound to my mouse [with Left Shift as the modifier]. I also "cast-clip" a lot of my spells. This is done by moving slightly just before the cast finishes [I usually strafe super-slightly to the left/right]. If you do it correctly, your spell will finish regardless and you can begin the cast of your second spell earlier [instead of simply letting it finish]. It only saves a few milliseconds here-and-there, but it all adds up.
As for the buffs, I am happy to see an increased in potency for Fire/Blizzard spells [although the Manawall nerf will forever pain me, I loved that thing!]. It doesn't really make our class less RNG-reliant, but it at least makes it so if we don't get a Firestarter/Thunderstruck proc for a while, our DPS shouldn't suffer as much [the increased potency of Fire I helps in this].
It would have been nice to see them revert to the way the mana regeneration in Umbral Ice used to work, though. Sometimes the game seems to take a while for that first tick, and if it comes at an odd time, I usually have to wait a second for the final tick before going back into Astral Fire, or I cast a Scathe in-between so I'm not sitting there doing nothing. The timing was a lot less strict before they changed it, so you could still get that final Umbral Ice tick even after going back into Astral Fire. It was a lot less rigid in that sense, although I've more-or-less adjusted to the way things are now.
Either way, the patch notes are listed as "Preliminary", so there could be more changes for BLM not yet listed. Unlikely, but you never know! Even as things are, though, I'm pretty satisfied in being a BLM.
crackbabyjr
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New Black mage change: High Allagan staff has been removed from the game.
Unknown Soldier
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I found out Tira streamed it but I didn't know you watched it
Yeah we all know about your drunken singing now
tiggerkiddo
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*Psycho strains play*
LowParry
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tiggerkiddo
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No one takes a BLM into second Coil, how do we know Makoto isn't a figment of our feeble imaginations, trying to imagine things that are not really there but we think belong there somehow?
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Woo hoo! Survived my first time tanking normal Brayflox! I was pretty squishy, though. Healer kept up by the skin of his teeth on a couple pulls, and I was blowing through cooldowns to stay alive, but we did it. Got a new helm and ring, which I hope will make me a smidge less squishy in the future. Just gotta work on kiting the dragon better in the future, as he had his foot in the poison every now and then, so started regaining health, dragging the fight out.
crackbabyjr
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Makoto is a robot created by Alena who is a moon man since they refuse to talk in mumble. Even though Makoto was caught once making a noise by Krael he is just shy.
To be fair, a certain tank in my static does sometimes attempt to switch me over to the side of Summoner. I refuse, of course, as I am [and always will be] a Black Mage at heart. Still, he does try.
A Makoto that is not a Black Mage is not Makoto!
I still don't know how that happened. Perhaps my brain-waves interacted with the Mumble program without my knowledge. It was strange, for sure.
thetrin
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Finally found a group and did CT for the first time to prep for Syrcus Tower. It's dead easy when you're ilvl 90, obviously, but quite a lot of fun.
Really want to get Mog EX done today so I have all my Ramuh prereqs out of the way.
Also, got 3 atma last night. Up to 7 now. So close...
Really want to get Mog EX done today so I have all my Ramuh prereqs out of the way.
Also, got 3 atma last night. Up to 7 now. So close...
Have you guys seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBC_fQ9FR_k
6:58 Turn 8 with a Paladin pushing 350 DPS.
http://i.imgur.com/0Ue1K55.png
My jaw dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBC_fQ9FR_k
6:58 Turn 8 with a Paladin pushing 350 DPS.
http://i.imgur.com/0Ue1K55.png
My jaw dropped.
This seems really crazy. Not sure how they are doing this.
So I just got to 50 (PLD), and I'm struggling to find any reason to do anything beyond unlocking high level roulette, and doing that along with low level and story once a day each until I get all the myth (i90) gear followed by clearing what I missed for completions and accessories.
Also, my pugs seem to be getting dumber, does the Ultros FC have room and do they have voice? I'm on behemoth right now, and would love to meet some people who would be willing to roll with me as I learn t1-5 and the like.
Also, my pugs seem to be getting dumber, does the Ultros FC have room and do they have voice? I'm on behemoth right now, and would love to meet some people who would be willing to roll with me as I learn t1-5 and the like.
oh god no I don't want to dps pls
Ascenion
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Last time I was on (Friday night) I believe we were at 506 members so I think there is room.
WTH!?!?! How is that PLD getting nearly 1k hits?
edit: I can see he's using strength potion, in sword oath the whole fight, and it looks like he's wearing gear that has det/crit on them.
I gotta check out if my PLD can push 200 dps hard if I wear dps gear.
Haha, my first thought as well.
Not sure how this is possible. Impressive. O_O
tiggerkiddo
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Time for me to make Gilga go dps tank when we get to T8.
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