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DrForester
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Still tying both new gear sets to doing coil is just stupid.
"We got this new Dreadwyrm gear in coil, but if you don't want to do coil, we have this fantastic poetic gear you can get instead, and instead of doing coil, you upgrade it by doing coil!"
You obviously don't understand. The poetic gear isn't for people who don't do coil. It's for people who lose the loot rolls or never see specific pieces drop from their weekly clears. There is some stupidity around but I don't think it's game side.
Edit: The upgraded poetic is what I'm talking about the ilvl 120 stuff is for everyone and no matter how much you whine is perfectly fine for anything that you will be doing.
Holy shit, you beat it with a Dragoon.
I mean, you still get the i120 gear without coil. And it's vastly far above anything you need for non-coil content.
i130 is BiS options alongside the Coil stuff. My BiS setup is primarily Poetics gear on the left side, for instance. Not entirely sure why this needs to be stuff available everywhere at the start of the gear cycle.
I mean, you still get the i120 gear without coil. And it's vastly far above anything you need for non-coil content.
i130 is BiS options alongside the Coil stuff. My BiS setup is primarily Poetics gear on the left side, for instance. Not entirely sure why this needs to be stuff available everywhere at the start of the gear cycle.
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edit: shit.
We need to move on to more important topics like docbon's progress towards four-star cooking.
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Pro-tip: if you're a night owl, particularly a West coast bought owl, wait until after the weekly reset to do your expert roulette.
That way you can get two roulette bonuses, in under 24 hours, since roulette bonuses reset daily at 10am, while the weekly reset is 1am post.
Conversely you could just wake up early to do it, but that's crazy talk.
That way you can get two roulette bonuses, in under 24 hours, since roulette bonuses reset daily at 10am, while the weekly reset is 1am post.
Conversely you could just wake up early to do it, but that's crazy talk.
Pellegri Testament
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If this were just about any other mmo, non raiders wouldn't even get thrown upgrade items at any point. Non raiders in anything else would have to deal with getting lesser than normal raid mode gear and be happy with it until another content patch(6+ months later) came out and made said gear irrelevant and threw non raiders a bone, or they have to do an easier difficulty and get lesser gear for it.
The fact that all people have to do is wait 3 months and then they get thrown upgrade items for doing next to nothing is hardly considered a bad thing when the only other alternative is they get nothing and live with it. For the content that non raiders are doing, ilvl 120 is more than enough, anything higher and they either have to wait or they have to actually raid.
irfaanator
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I'll watch from the sideline
But Pelligri, I want hand outs. Won't you please help me?
The only new content that came out this patch that, for the majority, necessitates Ironworks and Augmented Ironworks is the Final Coil. You can easily do everything else in gear from last patch, and the base Ironworks (which as you know, is available to everyone) is overkill for it too so wanting Augmented Ironworks to do non-FCOB stuff is a weird demand.
Unless you really wanted to dye Ironworks there's no good argument for having the upgrade mats be found out of raid so soon into the patch.
I expect you'll be forced to breed it and the baby will be at half it's level, maybe.
Not the words I'd use.
DrForester
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Yikes. I figured there's be some Novus weapons pretty fast. People could have farmed atma, Alex and materia early, only having to spam the books.
Jesus fucking christ. He leveled NIN to 50 and spammed the books and the light in almost as much time as it took me to go from novus to nexus. Fuck sleep.
To be fair.
You can get everything for base Relic and zenith either ahead of time, or real fast.
He probably already had the Atma's, probably already had the Alexandrite and Materials, and probably started off with 2500 soldiers for the books.
Regardless, getting to 50, doing the books, then grinding out to Nexus am in one week is some impressive, and scary grinding.
Hope the guy gets some sleep for a few days.
You can get everything for base Relic and zenith either ahead of time, or real fast.
He probably already had the Atma's, probably already had the Alexandrite and Materials, and probably started off with 2500 soldiers for the books.
Regardless, getting to 50, doing the books, then grinding out to Nexus am in one week is some impressive, and scary grinding.
Hope the guy gets some sleep for a few days.
This is the most annoying part about the upgrade items, to me. Locking vanity behind coil alongside the stat boost just sucks. I just want to look fabulous, Square, don't tell me to git gud too.
The way they're doing it makes a lot of sense in terms of slowly opening content to everyone, but it winds up creating alternating patches that piss various groups off. Even numbered patches annoy a portion of the non-raider base since almost everything is not for them, odd numbers cause some raiders to get outraged over filthy casuals getting gear upgrades they don't need.
It's not like anybody needs to be i130 to clear anything in this game, including final coil. T13 already downed; clearly if you need better gear it's just because you're not good enough.
I just started
Luckily the "hunting community" on Durandal is alive and kicking, so there's no problem with finding people for them.
Lol no to your spoiler. The average good player still needs to be in the ilvl 120 range (and those that cleared did to with their pentamelded HQ crafted stuff).
A few more pieces of vanity gear attached to Hunts would've been a good idea. That said, some loss in interest was inevitable. They couldn't make the Tome reward nearly as lucrative this time around, and sands and oils were only going to keep people doing hunts for so long.
Next time people need a lot of Soldiers though, watch out. Hunts are probably one of the more lucrative sources of Soldiers right now.
Next time people need a lot of Soldiers though, watch out. Hunts are probably one of the more lucrative sources of Soldiers right now.
irfaanator
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too bad sastasha hm is the worst dungeon ever
FFXI did it right years ago with Sea and Sky. You could do it with 8, 10, 15 people and certantly wasn't "faceroll" content. Shit, if they wanted to copy instanced content there is Dynamis!
I'm still not even done with my Animus books yet this guy does it in less than a week.
I need this person's schedule.
irfaanator
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My actual point is this: Not everyone has the same skill level. Not everyone can achieve the same DPS/HPS at the same gear level. There are people for whole SCoB and old EX primals will remain a struggle until they outgear it to a ridiculous degree. Welfare oils and sands made it a lot easier for people to clear outdated, non-relevant T5 in 2.3, even though the "average good" player didn't need to be anywhere near that. I'm guessing there are a ton of people who will be stuck behind T9 until the 2.5 welfare patch comes out and makes it easier to crazily out gear and reliably PUG. There are people who will need i130 to clear content balanced around a much lower iLevel, and pretending it's incomprehensible why anyone not in final coil would want the best gear is silly.
It's less that I think Square should be handing out i130 and more that I find "you don't even endgame why would you want this gear" an annoying argument. Everyone likes bigger numbers and curb stomping things.
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These people suck and don't deserve good gear anytime soon, I don't care how someone wants to spin it. This game is very much a PvE experience and if you are ignoring part of the experience then they can ignore you when they are placing gear.
What's the official number of ilevels you're allowed to out gear something the first time you clear it before you're too bad to be worth notice?
Is 10 OK? So the statics that will ride the welfare patch hard to get to i130 to finally clear content balanced around i120 are acceptable?
Personally, I think it's less a "you don't raid, why worry?" but more "you don't raid, why feel so entitled to it?" Especially so early in the patch.
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