Consider this patch might have to last though May and June though... gotta stagger those carrots as much as possible to keep people coming back.
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Consider this patch might have to last though May and June though... gotta stagger those carrots as much as possible to keep people coming back.
irfaanator
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to add from before. Hunts ended up being way better than dungeons for gettings tomestones so nobody really did dungeons that patch cycle.
When they first launched they were the easiest & fastest way to get myth, sol, and upgrade items for sol gear (the highest ilv gear you could buy at the time). This meant everyone on the server was doing hunts and due to various other hunt bugs/issues (low hp on all marks, the marks disappearing after X number of people populated the zone, and higher credit requirements which resulted on most groups getting no credit/low credit when they waited for other groups) everyone was whining about early pulls and getting no credit.
Yeah I'm totally expecting this.
Trojita
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Hunts were the best. Long live hunts!
snooOOOZZE.
But if other jobs have Odin themed armour I'm interested in seeing what it looks like. Current set is kind of ugly IMO.
Oh, definitely, but if they're staggering I just think they're doing it wrong. Lead with the big shiny tomestone, then add in coat which is less impressive but will still provide gains, then finally twine to upgrade the items from the first thing for more damage and more vit to give people the final Optimus Prime push.
Article has a picture of the Primal Focus quest, so... it's CT Focus basically.
If I am reading right the upgrade items for allied seals might be carboncoat only at first as well? I don't see anything about encrypted tomestone.
Well, all the more reason for the crafted weapons to be i120 to fill this gap. Then they can put the Tomestone in with the Carbontwine for getting i130 weapons.
It sounds like the crafting item drop in Labyrinth of the Ancients and Syrcus Tower from bosses.
You question my ability to gather allied seals? Don't make me come on Mumble at 6 am to rap a remixed version of 'Forgot About Dre' called 'Forgot About Jay' with lyrics about hunts.
Augemitbutter
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expect 2 middle fingers if we get trolled with hunts again.
Trojita
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Are you taking up the helm of Stalkhawk again!?
Hm cool. I hope they look hideous so I don't want to go broke buying them for glamour.
Also increased hunts for PS3 users aka me = rip. I'm going to start shouting fake spawn locations to distract the server while I locate real ones so that they can actually load for me.
Enjoy running all the way into sylphands for nothing, suckers.
Trojita
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Better than i120 poetic weapon then I wonder?
It refers to not being better than the best weapons, so probably better than poetics. When melded.
I wrote this before Kagari posted and I'm keeping it because I think the whole thing is weird.
The thing here is that I think that kind of puts the tomestone weapons in a weird spot since even badly statted crafted i120 will be meldable, so depending on the Ironworks substats the path is something like HA -> Crafted i120 -> Ironworks i130 with the Ironworks i120 being semi-useless.
I guess a lot depends on the recipes for the crafts, too. The thing with tome weapons is that you don't need gil; if these are four star crafted weapons involving demimateria or mastercrafts or whatever, it's still going to lock people out? It just seems overcomplicated.
The thing here is that I think that kind of puts the tomestone weapons in a weird spot since even badly statted crafted i120 will be meldable, so depending on the Ironworks substats the path is something like HA -> Crafted i120 -> Ironworks i130 with the Ironworks i120 being semi-useless.
I guess a lot depends on the recipes for the crafts, too. The thing with tome weapons is that you don't need gil; if these are four star crafted weapons involving demimateria or mastercrafts or whatever, it's still going to lock people out? It just seems overcomplicated.
It sounds like a substitute for the base poetic weapon.
CRYSTAL TOWER FOCUS.
RellyRell28
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No official patch notes yet it see. I though they usually come out around this time
Tomo to be running Friday Night CT/ST/WoD Help Night confirmed.
Bone Dragon will be tanked in whichever spot pisses off the largest portion of the participants.
Well, keep in mind that it's really hard to meld high stats on a weapon since their caps are really high. Still, we'll ahve to see them.
And is it that big of a deal for Ironworks i120 to be useless ~4 months into it? I mean, I guess it's awkward but I think the HA/Shiva -> Crafted i120 -> Ironworks i130 / Zodiac i125 -> Dreadwyrm i135 is fine. It also depends on how long the delay is for the Tomestone to get added. I'm expecting 2.51 so people have a few weeks to get coats without competing for twines on their weekly lockout + we don't know how time gated they make the crafted weapon.
But, you are right that it pretty much makes the i120 useless now and kind of forces an extra step to make it usable.
I like ST better unless I get hit with ice like 6 times in a row which seems to happen often.
Ya'll know me. Still hunt with the FC.
But I been low key.
Hated on by most these newbies
Who got GAF'd. Hunts killed too fast? Then complain in shout chat.
Low tomes, only five seals and no logs.
Mad at me cause
I can't invite the whole server with my macros...
How is this a good thing when they still need to revamp the system. Christ even recently with hunts its still toxic as hell when I was doing them for Alex.
Best patch.
Pyros_Eien
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I actually did CT yesterday cause I was bored, it was even more boring than I remembered. But the run went surprisingly well, there were a couple of really geared DPS so stuff was exploding fast. We did take longer to figure out who was tanking what and who was standing at the towers than we did to kill Behemoth though. 8 tanks in the raid, "who wants to MT the boss", took 30secs for one to say "oh well, I guess I'll force myself to do it". Then 4-5mins to figure out who the 4 tanks standing at the towers were, and somehow one tank claimed Iron Giant tank role without even being asked, crazy. The other tanks did I don't know what, probably DPS or something. But eh, it took like 40mins I think so it was decent enough, and I almost got a piece of loot that I didn't want.
How so? Toxic seems to be used to describe third community related thing in FF14 so I'm lost on the context in this case. Early pulls or something?
I guess I don't see the benefit in turning the i120 poetics weapon into a base item you buy and sit on, unused (except for glamour because SPACESHIP), until you get another thing that makes it relevant again. If the end state is Ironworks 130, why create a whole side-path with this crafted stuff with such a short shelf life?
Also this is going to do bad things to the Crit/Det IV market I think, and that was already a mess.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I did Sycrus Tower the other day and it felt pretty easy. I wasn't the MT so that's probably why.
I just ran around and hit things. I figured out what to do for a few things just by watching where people moved. The only thing I messed up on was those 3 ice blocks that you can hide behind to avoid one of the bosses' attacks.
I was wondering why I couldn't target them then realized too late that you're supposed to hide behind them.
I just ran around and hit things. I figured out what to do for a few things just by watching where people moved. The only thing I messed up on was those 3 ice blocks that you can hide behind to avoid one of the bosses' attacks.
I was wondering why I couldn't target them then realized too late that you're supposed to hide behind them.
dark_chris
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This thread DOES move fast when the game isnt up. =p
InsaneZero
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people here have a lot to talk about when it comes to how to ruin people's fridays
Pellegri Testament
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Early pulls, not making it known that a hunt exists in the area until the horde is on it, blaming people/fcs for doing shit when it was someone else entirely.
Toxic as in a giant pissing contest as to who screws/blames the most people. It's the same thing in every mmo, just how it's done differs between them.
I guess it really depends if there is a leader in the raid. I played it for the first time last night and there was a guy with text macros explaining what to do in each room and assigning each alliance to a role with waymarkers and markers. It was over pretty quickly.
Blames people for what, though? Early pulls? From my hunt experience I'm trying to find opportunities for something that would be considered toxic.
Nowadays, everybody wanna hunt like they found an A to claim
But nothing is up when they look around
Just a bunch of dead zones
And Ultros server act like they forgot about Jay.
Hunting was peaceful and awesome until the 3rd day when GAF came in
No one was innocent.
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