Oh I have them. When I say I need them I mean I need to use them. I use all of them quite a bit.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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Oh I have them. When I say I need them I mean I need to use them. I use all of them quite a bit.
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Dreadwyrm Boots of Striking to add to my Demon Chestpiece of Striking from World of Darkness.
Good day for MNK loot
Congrats dude.
UpsideDownAce
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Dreadwyrm Boots of Striking to add to my Demon Chestpiece of Striking from World of Darkness.
Good day for MNK loot
Envious of those boots mate. They're sweet~
Get ready for t12 aka the monk just punches the boss until Bennu land phase
BlueBadger
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tiggerkiddo
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Watching Prey laugh off my adlo'd targets made for a sad raid night for me.
irfaanator
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you in cleric stance/b4b?
Pyros_Eien
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Sounds like you forgot to turn off Cleric, I had that happen once, apparently didn't queue correctly, well turns out, it doesn't work well. Other thing that happens is someone standing in an aoe, the bubble won't pop necessarily if you crit, but the value on the absorb is too low. As a backup generally the WHM should be stoneskinning people during the transition and as much as he can to have pretty much everyone but the tanks stoneskinned in advance. This way even if you mess up an adlo, it doesn't pop.
I'm playing this on a laptop with integrated and discrete graphics. I want to play it with the discrete, When I launch it with integrated I'm able to play, the client is fully updated. But when I launch it with discrete, it is asking me to install the client updates. How do I get around this?
Uhh, so this is kind of weird. There's a post on the front page of the FF14 Reddit about a group I was in...
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2u330x/was_i_beeing_rude/
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2u330x/was_i_beeing_rude/
The counter to that argument is, if you are doing more DPS, then you have more tolerance for mistakes on mechanics.
Hey Korra (or anyone else doing an Atma>Animus while having completed a Zodiac already), follow this guide to reduce the amount of time you need to spend in the Zodiac stage:
http://i.imgur.com/2IMnbEw.png
http://i.imgur.com/2IMnbEw.png
Yeah yeah, dead boss is the best mitigation, you don't have to rub it in man.
No rubbing in here. We've been getting blown up in the zoo for last 2 sessions.
Gotta tank those sins stacked together.
dark_chris
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Had a run with a newbie tank today. told them not to always use the maim combo as a primary cause you need to gain hate from the enemy.
Didn't know what hate is and explained it.
The newbie was very thankful for the explanations. =)
I really enjoy helping new peoples.
Didn't know what hate is and explained it.
The newbie was very thankful for the explanations. =)
I really enjoy helping new peoples.
Yeah, that should help DPS via shadow flares and dot spreads. I'll be doing that next run. Also need to get 3rd Sin next to Storm. Videos I was watching before, to base our strat on, they didn't bother stacking the sins, but they were killing them faster, so they didn't need it like we do right now. Main issue is we need to clean up dive bombs though.
Easiest thing for dives is split into two groups of 4 and divide into right and left. Should eliminate some of the clipping damage.
Not when most of the poetic gear for my class is garbage *-*.
That said, it is absolutely ridiculous we haven't seen a single bard item from Turn 10 3 months after killing it and continuing to do so every week. I'm pretty upset about this game's horrible loot system.
Some really good stuff here. I thought I'd weigh in on my stance on "fireweaving".
Let me get this right out of the way: I don't use Manaward/Manawall/Apocostasis/etc. for the sole purpose of fireweaving. If I do use these abilities [to deal with the mechanics of a fight] and Firestarter just happens to proc after my Fire I, that's of course ideal. However, I don't use it in my usual rotation to "hope" for a Firestarter proc.
That being said, I do still fireweave, using my Thundercloud proc. Basically, if I get a Thundercloud proc I'll wait until after a Fire I before I use it. This is to buffer the Fire I spell in-between the insta-cast Thunder III/Thundercloud, to see if a Firestarter will proc. If I have both Firestarter AND Thundercloud up at the same time, I'll use my Firestarter, then a Fire I, and THEN my Thundercloud.
I know what you're thinking. "But wait! The longer you go without using your Thundercloud proc the greater chance of another one proc'ing in its place effectively overwriting the first!" ...And you're correct in thinking so, however the odds of a Firestarter proc after a Fire I is much higher than a second Thundercloud proc, as I sometimes go through several rotations without a single Thundercloud. The chances of a second Thundercloud to proc within the 3-4 seconds of waiting to cast a Fire I before the Thundercloud is pretty unlikely. I'm not saying it can't happen [in fact, it's happened to me once or twice] but I personally feel the added benefit of using that Thundercloud to buffer Fire I spells [in the hopes for a Firestarter] to be much more valuable. I've gained many Firestarter proc's this way.
Already doing that. Panic is just strong in people right now.
Divebombs were the relaxation time for me. There's little easier in this game than rotating the camera and getting the hell out of the way. This is just like a slightly faster Leviathan!
Phase 1 is zzzzzz
Phase 2 is actually surprisingly hard because Shadows don't screw around and flare stars are dicks.
Phase 3 is really not on healers so it's a respite
Phase 4 is weird though, it looks pretty easy and predictable on playback but then actual execution is tough as nails and you have to plan for more or less all the damage coming out
I think the best advice I can give to people struggling through the fight is to stop looking around and just do your own job and your job only. If somebody fucked up and went the wrong way it's their fault not yours!
Other than that, running to the left or right edge area first then spreading out to avoid the Storm should also help.
Yup, already doing that too. Just panic is all.
Outside of stacking sins, nothing to change unfortunately but practice. I watched our game tape and have specific points for each when dodging but it's just a practice to get rid of panic thing, everyone knows what to do.
We have 10+hrs dedicated next week to get er done.
PhillipCostigan
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Yes... burn the lalas. Burn them all...
It's off the progression path and drops i80 accessories, so other than having fun with the best designed fight in the game, there's really not much to do there. Tanks might either be rotated between multiple duties they might've selected or dropping to go hunting.
0 point to doing Ultima HM except for clearing your first time. It's a shame as it's an excellent tool for new players to learn how to dodge. That's the big issue with the game right now, all the fights that would be perfect for new player learning curves have been invalidated or players are just carried through. So no one learns how to deal with mechanics until "oh shit this is really hard" coil mechanics. It's no wonder there are so many bad new players. It's not their fault, it's a game design issue. They need to separate players into easy, medium, and hard content (hopefully Alexander does this) and most importantly, give no reason for hard level players to do easy or medium content.
To solve your problem though, set up a PFer that says "SOLDIERY BONUS" and you'll probably get enough people.
Augemitbutter
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finally got nexus sitting in my armory. i didn't think this thing would finish one day.
I got it on my 2nd WoD, and got my DRG feet on my 3rd WoD. Basically done now except for weekly run + glamour pieces which I'll just randomly lot on. Feels good.
I feel bad for all the BRD's, tanks, and BLM's running for their body.
1 method that seems to work for me when evading the storm dive on t13 (especially if it spawned on your opposite direction while evading bahamut's dive, this seems to be the hardest to evade for me) is to run diagonally towards the absolute left/right of the arena instead of running around the circular edge of the arena to evade
plenty of times i still got hit even if i moved quickly around the edge to evade, but so far haven't been hit yet with diagonal run
best case scenario you still have sprint/or still in sprint
if you're wiping at 1%, then it's best to change the timing of your cooldowns, if you used it on storm on 3rd phase you will only get 1 cd for last phase on the boss, but if you use it right at the start of the last phase you can use them twice (last phase is 4 minutes 30+ seconds i think, most cd are under 3 minutes)
and save the x-pot for last phase as well
plenty of times i still got hit even if i moved quickly around the edge to evade, but so far haven't been hit yet with diagonal run
best case scenario you still have sprint/or still in sprint
if you're wiping at 1%, then it's best to change the timing of your cooldowns, if you used it on storm on 3rd phase you will only get 1 cd for last phase on the boss, but if you use it right at the start of the last phase you can use them twice (last phase is 4 minutes 30+ seconds i think, most cd are under 3 minutes)
and save the x-pot for last phase as well
Pyros_Eien
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Oh yeah I definitely do that, everyone should, but that's not really fireweaving since you have to wait a full GCD anyway, so you have plenty of time to see if you proced firestarter at that point.
True, but you'd be surprised how many BLM use Thundercloud before Firestarter.
tiggerkiddo
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Nah, CS wasn't even on. It seemed to be a product of lag because the entire group was plagued by it. I didn't really use it since I'm still getting the hang of healing the fight.
Unknown Soldier
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What about adult lalafells? We can sacrifice those too!!
Pyros_Eien
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Well if it was on single prey, it must have been really bad lag cause there's ample time to get it done, even late and with a hardcast. That said, there is always lag on basically every heal, the heal will finish casting, visually heal for the amount, but only heal I don't know like .3secs later or something. This is most infuriating on tank deaths where you can see the popup for Physick 2800! Lustrate 2000! and the tank is as dead as a rock, or for WHMs when they use Benediction but the tank still dies.
This happens often with Adlo in general, where the shield applies after the hit you're trying to shield if you cast too late. Knowing in advance when the hit is coming helps a lot with that. At least for me as a euro, that's how it goes, like for Revelation I can adlo right after the cast starts and while on my screen I finish casting before Revelation ends/hits the tank, it'll generally heal the tank and shield him after the revelation hits.
Not a huge deal and haven't had an issue with single Prey though since you have like 6seconds to get Adlo off. Double prey on the other hand, even with Swiftcast on the 2nd one, it sometimes doesn't go through fast enough(though it's probably also me reacting too slow on the first cast and off GCD abilities> cast not queuing properly at times).
That said a lot of people have reported having terrible lag lately. From the sounds of it, a major router somewhere is fucked up. I remember several years ago when I was raiding in wow, I had to change ISP because Telia fucked up some crap in the Netherlands which I was routed through to the US and me and everyone else routed through that node would get unplayable lag and it lasted like 2months(I swapped after a week though). I changed ISP and didn't have a single issue after that. Changing ISP is easier over here, as we actually have choices though, from what I heard it's not an option in many places in the US. Could try using WTFast or whatever or another VPN solution to see if it fixes it.
Why is it always Sastasha with low level roulette as a dps T_T ? And why was the conjurer in cleric stance the WHOLE run, never dpsing anything ? Had I not healed the tank as a thaumaturge (and doing better heal too >_>) some pulls we would have wiped multiple times. He then said he couldn't heal because he had no more mana, well no shit.
I don't rage but some people just make me sad...
I don't rage but some people just make me sad...
tiggerkiddo
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That is a scary poster. Run away, run far far away.
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