worlds collide
But yeah, the early game (...and a lot of the late game quests, actually) are pretty dumb. It's really about the fun content itself with raiding. Plus, GAF.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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worlds collide
But yeah, the early game (...and a lot of the late game quests, actually) are pretty dumb. It's really about the fun content itself with raiding. Plus, GAF.
Its one of the better Final Fantasy main series games to have been released in quite some time, with an interesting story and soundtrack.
It looks great in motion and has some pretty cool enemy designs
It has a pretty good amount of GAF players.
Pretty much the same reasons I stuck with XI above all else.
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Was talking about this earlier in the FC, but does anyone think that Mizuta will ever contribute some tracks to XIV, or that Uematsu will return for some new ones to add to Soken's already unique stuff? After hearing Breaking Ground from the latest XI expansion, kinda makes me wish they would.
HylianScribe
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The dream...
EndcatOmega
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We know the Heavensward theme at least is Uematsu.
Whoever blew up the SA2 market is an evil genius.
Spiritbonding so boring.
IT WAS YOU. You're on the list. With Xtech.
Spiritbonding so boring.
IT WAS YOU. You're on the list. With Xtech.
irfaanator
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lol
It is a crime I can't make that character in XIV.
Aeriscloud
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I hope so, but if not we'll always have Ugamoro I guess.
Why would you go through that pain several times?! I'll never understand. Seriously, I'll transfer to Ultros so you can do mine as well -.-
Also, spell speed on the book? Wad? Not to mention lvl4 crit? 29?! One IV materia costs almost a mill on Phoenix..
Pai Pai Master
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Until level 50, the game is basically a traditional Final Fantasy adventure with some co-op sprinkled in. Use that time to learn the ins and outs of your classes and nail the mechanics that the dungeons and trials teach you, and then at level 50 the real challenges and deeper progression opens up. The story is pretty good too, it's like an amalgamation of a bunch of Final Fantasy concepts from over the years (Warriors of Light, Eidolons, Ultima Weapon, etc).
Obviously there's stuff you gain access to earlier like your Chocobo and some of the pre-50 dungeons are legit challenging, but most of your focus pre-50 is going to be running through the story and leveling different classes for cross-class abilities. The real meat of the MMO side of the game is in the post-50 climb.
cultureculture
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On his rod i believe and yea the prices on phoenix are horrible, good thing i raid and dont need a relic.
After melding my accessories and fucking that all up, Duncan Duskwright helped me out and explained a lot of stuff to me regarding melds and such. I slept on it, woke up and... I'm not sure I wish to bother with crafting at this stage. Perhaps I'll attempt to get into the high end crafting/gathering game in the expansion but its basically too late now. =/ Time to sell my materia!
Pellegri Testament
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http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2q2tch/job_statweight_updates/
Skillspeed on there is also not taking into account how fast it makes you burn through tp, so don't take those SS values as fact.
I went Spell Speed + Det for the rod, as Spell Speed has been shown to be the 2nd best stat for BLMs after Det, and full Det and Crit for the SCH book.
Why I would do this, multiple times? I take you're not a healer. We're last for both Tomestones and Carboncoats, at least in my group, so that means 7 weeks before having a chance of getting the tomestone, and we haven't cleared T12 yet, so that makes a few weeks more for the Coat, at least until 2.5 hits. At full Det and Crit, the SCH book is fairly comparable to the 130 one.
So getting a better weapon for my alters is even more out of the question. But this game allows you to play every class, and I want my jobs equipped as best as possible. Actually once I get the tomestone I'm gonna use it on my BRD, for which I bought Kirimu stuff a few days ago even if I never raid with it.
Pai Pai Master
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So hows Ninja?
It's my first DPS at 50 but I like it. Mudras are fun to use and give you something to do outside of the GCD.
Boss Man
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Can you even save character settings on a single client? I've been wondering about that. Would like to use a second character with my same settings.
Rebalances prob.
More likely we'll just get a couple new skills/traits with the level cap more than anything else. Here's hoping GLD/PLD gets a fucking DPS rotation... branch off of Riot Blade or something.
The 1.XX era is over when we were getting radically different skill abilities every few months.
PLD getting an actual DPS rotation would be good, and yeah, I'd tack it after Riot Blade. Holy Blade maybe?
But, yeah, would love to see a few existing abilities like Holmgang reworked.
Right now Riot Blade is incredibly TP inefficient, you can murder your TP spamming it quickly. I somehow doubt we'll get much more off of that, but it'd be interesting. We'll see I guess. There's a lot of skills that were dropped from every class on the transition of 1.0 to 1.18/1.23 Who knows if they'd come back in one form or another.
Just go full STR spec and spam Halone in Sword Oath for 400+ DPS.
Since Halone generates increased enmity however, I'd worry about the PLD pulling off a Tank running with Vit spec accessories. Warriors have a rotation they can use that generates no additional enmity, so they can go wild in STR spec and still not have to worry about stealing enmity. Well, not worry too much anyway.
I kinda hope Warriors get an outright DPS stance in the expansion. If PLD's get a DPS rotation that doesn't generate increased enmity, then come expansion time Warriors go back to being a niche tank class.
Not sure how that'd work though...
Yeeeeeaah, honestly I'd like to see more PLD moves being activated by Shield Blocks. It's a PLD mechanic that's underutilized right now. Also, yeah, pacification in PvE's kinda pointless.
You can't really have a tank going DPS without the other one doing extra threat to compensate. Still, the threat difference should still be in favor of the active tank due to the stance multiplier. Of course, I'd love a non-Halone DPS combo but it's whatever.
if all else fails, just tank in Sword Oath. The dream.
Edit: also more Fractures
Well, out of Defiance Warriors have no innate enmity multiplier, and neither Storms Eye or Storms Path generates any additional enmity over what any melee DPS would doing attacks of the same potency.
Enmity tends to run closer because of things like Tank swaps, and Warriors having to jump into Defiance to take larger hits, but if Warriors are just going through those two combo's without swapping or jumping into Defiance, a PLD's lead will eventually be pretty big.
Trojita
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Aegis Boon was my shit. Fuck bloodbath, Aegis Boon + Bulwark would have been great.
It would've been so good, especially against bosses who like to auto attack right after a big hit.
Mhmhmmm...but WARs who are trying to max their dps while OTing will be using BB combo, not just SE/SP repeatedly. Can be very annoying but they will.
And alternating the BB combo might be the right move for a given group, but my own personal experience tells me that the 10% damage debuff on the boss is more important than the slight potency loss. Especially right now, given that most groups aren't overgeared for final coil just yet, and struggle with Vit/healing checks and such.
Yes? The original point was an OT going full dps will require extra MT threat to compensate. Properly using other abilities for added utility isn't full dps. I mean, in similar light, a good PLD OT may be using Stoneskin as well if utility/extra group survivability is what you are after.
A. Shield Oath/Defiance will flat out hold with no issue against Halone spamming PLD in Sword Oath, regardless of accessories.
B. Turning off Defiance is your DPS stance.
I'm quickly learning that this is your go to catch phrase.
Stance Dancing PLD is the only way to do it, man.
The opening is usually the most difficult part to hold aggro, and depending on left side gear differences on top of the STR accessories (even slight ilevel difference) can make it near impossible to hold aggro for that first burst. After that yeah the threat difference becomes larger and larger, the only time it can raise an issue is after a tank switch.
I really wish they'd change PLD stance dancing to be more like every other damn jobs's stances. PLD is only one who gets their combos broken, is on the GCD, AND it costs a resource. What the hell? Being able to weave Sword/Shield seemlessly would be a huge boon. I'd like that before any third combo option.
I mean ... neither do Paladins. And BB has innate higher potency (20) and better base STR (25, I think?) if we want to get technical I guess.
Pretty much this. Going full DPS from the OT perspective means always dropping whatever gives the highest potency per second. So PLD is Halone + Fractures and WAR is BB + Fractures with 100% Eye uptime. I think this even counts Infuriated IBs just for the 300 potency hit.
If we're not max DPS but just STR spec OTing, that means Storm's Path or Stoneskins as needed and doing threat dumps (e.g., Riot's Blade, early Eye refresh) too.
Whatever.
You are costing me GCDs.
A: I can steal enmity off Vit specced PLD's easily if I'm using full STR accessories, even with Defiance off. Yes I can probably hold against a STR specced PLD in Sword Oath, but because they're going to be constantly spamming Halone, I suspect I'd need to spam BB's Combo's to stay ahead. Which means no Storms Path, no Storms Eye, no Maim, etc etc.
Should be able to weave these things in with good use of Unchained and Berserk, but with just baseline skills, I'd be a bit dubious.
B: Not really, yeah you do higher DPS out of Defiance, but it's still just our baseline attacks with no modifiers. Sword Oath has an actual damage modifier attached to it, albeit in in the form of more powerful auto-attacks. Once PLD's get an actual DPS rotation to use, their Sword Oath DPS will outright trump Warrior out of defiance DPS.
Granted, Warrior has more offensive cooldowns, buuut, Sword Oath has no time limit to it's use.
Mind you, Warrior's could get more potent DPS abilities in the expansion, and render all of this entirely moot.
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