DarknessTear
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Yeah, the field themes in this game really are amazing.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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Yeah, the field themes in this game really are amazing.
EndcatOmega
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'Easter La Noscea' should be a real zone.
Tried raiding for the first time today. Cleared both Labyrinth of the Ancients and Syrcus Tower in one sitting.
It was... different from what I expected. I used to raid in WoW, back in vanilla, BC and WotLK, but this was nothing like raiding was in WoW back then. I remember raids being fairly-slow-paced, requiring careful tactics and lots of communication. This was nothing like that; in both dungeons, everyone was just rushing ahead like crazy, nobody spoke a word and half the time I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I even got locked out of the final battle in the Labyrinth since I stopped to watch the preceding cutscene while everyone else kept rushing on. In the end I cleared both dungeons on my first try though with zero wipes.
I do realize that these are the easiest raids in the game, but even so, I just wasn't expecting them to be quite so casual. There's no way in hell you could have ever run Molten Core in vanilla WoW with a group of randoms.
Anyway, I didn't really have a point to make or anything, just thought I'd share. I kinda kept putting Crystal Tower off since I figured that raids would require more planning and preparation and stuff like that, but these two instances at least didn't seem all that different from regular dungeons. I'm sure Coil is a different matter entirely though.
It was... different from what I expected. I used to raid in WoW, back in vanilla, BC and WotLK, but this was nothing like raiding was in WoW back then. I remember raids being fairly-slow-paced, requiring careful tactics and lots of communication. This was nothing like that; in both dungeons, everyone was just rushing ahead like crazy, nobody spoke a word and half the time I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I even got locked out of the final battle in the Labyrinth since I stopped to watch the preceding cutscene while everyone else kept rushing on. In the end I cleared both dungeons on my first try though with zero wipes.
I do realize that these are the easiest raids in the game, but even so, I just wasn't expecting them to be quite so casual. There's no way in hell you could have ever run Molten Core in vanilla WoW with a group of randoms.
Anyway, I didn't really have a point to make or anything, just thought I'd share. I kinda kept putting Crystal Tower off since I figured that raids would require more planning and preparation and stuff like that, but these two instances at least didn't seem all that different from regular dungeons. I'm sure Coil is a different matter entirely though.
irfaanator
Banned
LotA, ST, and WoD are meant to be "easy" compared to coil so that you can run with randoms, but yea coil is probably what you would call the "raids" of ffxiv.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
First Coil is old enough content that it's still a bit faceroll-y, just to warn you.
Pyros_Eien
Member
This is basically why it's different. WoW raiding then was quite different than WoW raiding now. Now they have LFR which basically is completely dumbed down raids that everyone can complete at all times, like the reverse hard mode of a raid. This started iirc in Cataclysm and was made "better" in the further expansions.
Though even when considering that period of time, CT is basically Molten Core/Naxxramas(wotlk). No equivalent in BC that I can think of though, BC was a pretty challenging expansion overall and even the 20mans weren't really easy. For MC, it's like doing MC when you had AQ40 gear or whatever, rather than at launch which was decently challenging still. Naxxramas in wotlk I think is the better example in that period of time, it was extremely easy to do even in pugs and only a few fights posed any sort of problem. CT is about the same, and it also helps a lot that people outgear it by a ton nowadays, LotA is like ilvl 52 to enter or whatever, but most people go in there with i110+, so nothing is actually much of a challenge.
It's not much different than current wow is my point, but the period of time you played wow didn't really have that yet. If you do Coil though, you'll see it's not all easy. First coil is pretty easy now obviously, but even second coil remains kinda challenging especially T9, and Final Coil is a fair challenge.
wsoxfan1214
Banned
I just played with the worst fucking tank I have ever played with
Doing duty roulette and get Brayflox. This motherfucker refused to move out of the fucking AoE attack on the last boss. I tell him multiple times that if I have to Esuna him and heal him constantly, it will nuke my MP and we'll wipe. He acknowledges it and then proceeds to not dodge at all. That and he didn't move the boss out of the poison pools after we tell him to.
Fuck that. Left, going to work.
Doing duty roulette and get Brayflox. This motherfucker refused to move out of the fucking AoE attack on the last boss. I tell him multiple times that if I have to Esuna him and heal him constantly, it will nuke my MP and we'll wipe. He acknowledges it and then proceeds to not dodge at all. That and he didn't move the boss out of the poison pools after we tell him to.
Fuck that. Left, going to work.
SliceSabre
Banned
Just beat Ramuh for the first time and it went just like the Leviathan battle.
Feels weird that I prefer first time fight ignorance battles over ones where almost everyone else seems to be aware of what to do. All I remember from the fight was someone saying get the orbs after we wiped once, the second time went off without a hitch except for one of our tanks getting pissed off at the other tank. And that theme music is fucking awesome.
Getting all these extra Solidarity stones for first time completetion is certainly nice though!
Feels weird that I prefer first time fight ignorance battles over ones where almost everyone else seems to be aware of what to do. All I remember from the fight was someone saying get the orbs after we wiped once, the second time went off without a hitch except for one of our tanks getting pissed off at the other tank. And that theme music is fucking awesome.
Getting all these extra Solidarity stones for first time completetion is certainly nice though!
tiggerkiddo
Member
Life as a potato is harder than I thought
You disgust me.
Bite her ankles.
SliceSabre
Banned
Please potato is a racist term for us Lalafells
We fought hard for the rights we have today and we are still fighting, like for the right to sit in chairs that allow our feet to touch the ground.
I do agree that I miss large raids from the early 2000s that made you take your time, instead of blasting through everything.
Yeah, going in blind and actually learning a fight, winning said fight, then taking the time to teach others / asking if they are new (especially in a duty finder) feels best. You really end up learning fights when doing the extreme versions though.
Yeah, going in blind and actually learning a fight, winning said fight, then taking the time to teach others / asking if they are new (especially in a duty finder) feels best. You really end up learning fights when doing the extreme versions though.
SliceSabre
Banned
Opps Soldiery.
You have good taste; that's pretty much my favorite track in the entire game.
Potato is fair game! The game's North American community manager said so!
Altered Juice
Member
i wonder how many people that said "fuck this shit!" when they refused to work for their 2.X relic will actually attempt to get a 3.0 relic thinking it will be different.
#DeadI had to make a gif of this
Position hack. External tools are able to meddle with the packets sent to the server to feed it the wrong coordinates. You can make the game think you went really fast to some other spot. I can think of a few reasons why the server allows this to happen but it's really annoying when you see it. One of the most out there uses of it was to clear T5 (and T8 I think) ahead of everyone by teleporting just outside of Twintania's range while still keeping aggro on it. The boss wouldn't be able to execute the attacks and everyone on the ground would beat it down. Pretty sure people who beat T8 that way got some kind of a ban and newer fights have some measures against this kinda thing.
I had to make a gif of this
Now I have to get those two minions.
PhillipCostigan
Member
how do I get the tonberry
i neeeeeeeeeed ittttttt
i neeeeeeeeeed ittttttt
by doing a loooooooooooot of treasure hunting using Timeworn Boarskin Maps.
HylianScribe
Member
This is what late night hunts are all about.
http://www.twitch.tv/gamernightlive/c/6129697
IF ONLY THIS WAS AN S RANK!
http://www.twitch.tv/gamernightlive/c/6129697
IF ONLY THIS WAS AN S RANK!
SliceSabre
Banned
Welcome!
Tank lala is horrid, your PoV is alot lower so with big targets its rather annoying.
DarknessTear
Banned
If you want to move your PoV up that badly as a lala tank you could always just lock on. :3
cultureculture
Member
There's a setting to shift the camera position up/down - think it's at the bottom of the list for camera settings like camera speed and stuff.
Institutionalized Racism.
Nice!
I went all parry and acc like a scrub because the guides said so. Now I want to change to acc/det/crit but not sure if worth it to minmax. Probably not. Will wait to 3.0 to see what's up with the new relics.
Going 31 DET 22 Crit and 22 Acc on my relic, how much negative gil am I going to have?
I have only 2m gil to my name
It took me 3m roughly to just slap 8 IV's (failed twice) from what was 8ACC on my curtana yesterday to 8+ Crit. They averaged 360k.
Ratchet1848
Member
Going 31 DET 22 Crit and 22 Acc on my relic, how much negative gil am I going to have?
I have only 2m gil to my name
I've never had more than 1.8 million and I am 68/75 with 25det/25crit/25ss with 600k left. YMMV. Now that extra 6 Det is going to put a dent in your wallet but the rest should be a breeze.
Edit: Sorry, 18ss
SliceSabre
Banned
Joined a bunch of friends in their FC and they helped me catch up on a few things I've missed or didn't know about over the past year I've been gone.
During ST raid I was whm because that's just what I do and friend was whm as well. He mentioned preferring WHM over SCH whereas I've leveled both. Other friend mentioned I was already more useful than our WHM friend and I'm still ilvl 91. Later in the raid WHM friend revealed he never actually leveled BLM to get Swiftcast shortly after I rezzed a downed Bard.
Other friend declares vindication when I mentioned I have it and I cannot respect any healer who doesn't have it. I have disowned this whm friend as per protocol. Healers without Swiftcast get no respect from me.
During ST raid I was whm because that's just what I do and friend was whm as well. He mentioned preferring WHM over SCH whereas I've leveled both. Other friend mentioned I was already more useful than our WHM friend and I'm still ilvl 91. Later in the raid WHM friend revealed he never actually leveled BLM to get Swiftcast shortly after I rezzed a downed Bard.
Other friend declares vindication when I mentioned I have it and I cannot respect any healer who doesn't have it. I have disowned this whm friend as per protocol. Healers without Swiftcast get no respect from me.
Did everything right.
InsaneZero
Member
If you can have only one macro as a WHM, it'd be Swiftcast + Raise. Swiftcast makes so much of a difference that I would advise any new WHMs to get that first ASAP before doing anything else.
I had to make a gif of this
Okay, that just made my day.
PhillipCostigan
Member
hey, i got a new 3DS today with Monster Hunter 4 and Bravely Default
I'm new to MH and I know some of FFXIV GAF plays it, so hit me up at some point
drop me your friend codes
1049-1274-7067
I'm new to MH and I know some of FFXIV GAF plays it, so hit me up at some point
drop me your friend codes
1049-1274-7067
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