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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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RellyRell28
Banned
Dammit AK why u no gimme lost treasure.
May be coming back. I imagine I'm incredibly behind on current gear progression and could use a bit of direction on what I should be aiming for at this point. I have a few soldiery tank pieces and at an iLvl of 98. Got my Bravura to Zodiac but never bothered to start the upgrade process
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Syrcus Tower and WoD gear will be your friend while you save up poetics. You probably mean Zenith for your Bravura, in which case you can buy the Soldiery weapon while you work on your Atmas and other upgrade steps.
You can always join or make a learning party with a fight like T5. You don't have to jump in the deep end via DF.
I also think T5 is very straightforward once you've done it once or twice to know the mechanics. If people are struggling with T5 though, T9 is going to be a real shock. That fight is pretty stiff. It amazes me just how many opportunities there are to wipe your whole party with a simple mistake in just the first phase alone.
But personally I hope they don't get in the habit of nerfing these fights any more than they do. There has to be some selection of actually challenging content in the game for people without statics. I think they nerfed well. They softened up most of the fights but they leave the final boss with some bite. I like that.
Demoskinos
Member
It's a good thing I didn't have any competition...
Super Jelly.
cool time lapse video denmo made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AH0MtiFtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AH0MtiFtM
Oh wow, that makes me feel good, I'd be second still
Edit: Oh, third actually. That guy in second still has one more game to play.
Pyros_Eien
Member
For catchup gear, there's 3 things you need to make sure you do every week:
- Cap poetics(just run whatever, it's easy) and prioritize left side upgrades, legs/boots/helm/belt are the interesting slots for tanks iirc, with legs being kinda so so but a good upgrade due to being a high stat slot and demon being garbage
- Get a WoD drop, might take a lot of runs to get something usable though, and depending on your class there's not really that many drops but then you can go for glamour or other classes, for tanks you want the chest from last boss as highest priority and boots/helm/belt aren't too bad otherwise until you get poetics
- Do the weekly CT quest which involves doing LotA+ST+WoD once each for a carbontwine(or coat once you're done with twines). Unlocks after you've completed WoD in Mor Dhona.
After that, just farming soldiery+sands of time in ST is good for the other slots, shiva EX for bracers, and if you're already on zodiac then do your relic for sure as it's best in slot until the expansion and is actually content you can do on your own unlike final coil.
HylianScribe
Member
One more day till Heavensward panel, get hype.
JSoup
Banned
And there seems to be a free login week gong on!
Can hop in, get my fill and get out before I spend any money.
Demoskinos
Member
You think that now. And in a week you'll be at the gold saucer offering to do indecent things for a Bahamut triple triad card. You can't escape now.
RellyRell28
Banned
Seriously tho Fuck You Amdapor Keep. This is North Shroud Atma all over again.
Khrysler Jerikho
Member
It says the code has already been used.
There's this though
http://support.na.square-enix.com/faqarticle.php?id=5382&la=1&kid=70333
There's this though
http://support.na.square-enix.com/faqarticle.php?id=5382&la=1&kid=70333
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I hope we get a raid based on the 4 fiends and chaos at some point. I'd love to hear the awesome FF1 songs brought up to date and given good treatment.
Four Fiends theme properly Soken'd would melt some ears.
I don't know if they want to stick to the pattern of recreating old FF locales for raids though, but there is a Wind-up Kain minion and Dark Knight Cecil helmet coming with Heavensward so who knows!
I'm really starting to see how justified the hatred of AV and Dzemael is. The dungeons themselves aren't even the worst thing, it's the fact that they're flooded with sub-50 players. I've got DPS complaining at me for not 100% clearing the dungeon after they've had to wait 40 minutes to get a group, and they're completely right. Whenever I do low level roulette as a tank I go out of my way to clear as much as the group wants, and if it's someone's first time I go out of my way to teach them the dungeon. I've lost sight of that in AV/DD due to having to run them something like 20 times now.
Every time I check the Delivery Moogle Plush page on the SE store the release date gets pushed back. It went from December to March to April to now June.
I hope Amazon carries the Heavensward CE so I don't have to deal with this incompetence again.
I hope Amazon carries the Heavensward CE so I don't have to deal with this incompetence again.
TastyOreoFriend
Member
I learned the same exact lesson, and lost my alex as a result
Not even Tri-Failure helped. Gonna go DRG for the remainder.
Pyros_Eien
Member
One trick that works well for maps that have too much crap is to kite the adds out of leash range. This would work especially well with Titan-egi tanking the cyclops so it doesn't follow you around, just throw Sustain on it to get initial aggro, then run away from all the little adds until they leash back(and make sure to move Titan-egi so he's not in range for them to reaggro). Do this twice, finish cyclops, then mop up the adds.
That said, the adds are mostly a non factor, they don't hit hard and die fast. Just make sure you refresh Shadow Flare when they pop up and then spam Miasma II, it's not very powerful but it gets the job done on my SCH np. If you stay close to Cyclops and behind it, there's very little risk involved and you don't have to aoe taunt stuff or what not. Just heal yourself back up after it's done and keep going. Trying to kill those massive add spawns with Bane is a waste of time(though Bane will kill like 4 quickly if you can afford it).
Titan on sic with rouse and spur as needed, when adds spawn Shadowflare yourself + Miasma II + Blizzard 2 until dead. Rinse and repeat for second set. Sustain and heal yourself as needed. I never failed one after I learned that. Chocobo also helps.
JSoup
Banned
AlphaDragoon
Member
Got T12 tonight. One more to go.
Congrats!
Have fun in T13, it's my favorite encounter in all of Coil [First/Second/Final].
Keep at it! Once you reach that stage, you've more or less won. Just fine-tune everything a bit more and you'll emerge victorious.
Beat of luck to you and your group.
PhillipCostigan
Member
We hit the second Rage cast in T13 yesterday. First phase was a lot cleaner too. I stopped going for my back positional during Megaflare so the AoE field isn't on the stack point and I'm now keeping Greased Lightning stacks through Earthshaker. Also using Fists of Earth more reactively for Gigaflare and Rage.
Got it to I think 57% or something last night, maybe a little lower which isn't bad although I'm not happy with the damage I'm putting out for some reason. Sometimes we're skipping the Flatten before Giga and sometimes we aren't. Hopefully when I get my Poetics pants next week I won't need as much accuracy and can go back to Black Truffle Risotto. I should probably start investing in Strength potions as well when we get closer to the last phase.
Ideally I'd like us to see Phase 3 by the end of this week which I think is very doable provided we sort out the balls (pls stop trying to grab my balls it's rude) and we get the add pickup sorted so Drama isn't getting murdered when it spawns.
Got it to I think 57% or something last night, maybe a little lower which isn't bad although I'm not happy with the damage I'm putting out for some reason. Sometimes we're skipping the Flatten before Giga and sometimes we aren't. Hopefully when I get my Poetics pants next week I won't need as much accuracy and can go back to Black Truffle Risotto. I should probably start investing in Strength potions as well when we get closer to the last phase.
Ideally I'd like us to see Phase 3 by the end of this week which I think is very doable provided we sort out the balls (pls stop trying to grab my balls it's rude) and we get the add pickup sorted so Drama isn't getting murdered when it spawns.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Definitely the more..."unique" turn, I'll say that much. >_<
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Really wish I could play the ps4 version already it's such a huge upgrade over my current pc. Danm thing is 8 years old xD
tiggerkiddo
Member
Yay, finally got a nibble on my post looking for a FCoB.
Of course my luck, it's on a different server...but sometimes sacrifices must be made...=/
Of course my luck, it's on a different server...but sometimes sacrifices must be made...=/
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Also doing coil in 15 fps or lower is true hard mode
I think last phase of t9 dips down to 10 at times lol.
I think last phase of t9 dips down to 10 at times lol.
First day of play is over, I liked it alot. Ended up lvl 15. I'm not sure what's the purpose of the guildleve, they recharge every x hours and they're basically quest ? Are they for leveling when you change class and you can't repeat normal quests ?
Any link to a resource I can read on arcanist/scholar macro ? (Planning on going Scholar) And the stats you sometimes get upon level up, so far I'm banking the points, is this a permanent choice ?
Any link to a resource I can read on arcanist/scholar macro ? (Planning on going Scholar) And the stats you sometimes get upon level up, so far I'm banking the points, is this a permanent choice ?
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Leve quest are for leveling gathering, crafting, and battle class alts.
Those points are not permanent as you can reset them later at a cost. But if you are going sch, dump it all into mind.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Leves are just repeatable quests for other classes yeah, since the normal quests are only done once. They're mostly used for crafting and gathering leveling though, since those suck. You can have up to 100 so you shouldn't bother using them unless you want to, they're pretty repetitive.
Stats aren't permanent but you won't respec them until later in the game, so you might as well pick something good. If you play arcanist, you'll want mind for scholar or int for summoner. If you want to play both equally, then int is probably the better choice as it has more impact on your role.
Macros I guess google might land something, but macros are kinda things you use based on your needs, there aren't must have macros for either class, it's just if you want to put some stuff together for a specific situation then you can look up how to make one. Scholars kinda useful ones would be stuff that has both /ac "whateverthespellis" <t> /ac "whateverthespellis" <tt> so it tries to cast on both your target and the target of your target, for when you have the tank targetted and want to virus/energy drain without losing your target for example.
Augemitbutter
Member
AK was my shit dungeon too. enjoy.
tiggerkiddo
Member
That Turn 11 area was really cool looking, reminded me of the fight with
Jehct in FFX.
Aeriscloud
Banned
I really hope this is something they do in the expansion. Finding a new coil static this late into patch has been an absolute disaster. Something that led into the 8+ man content would be nice.
But how will Drama reach her sigh quota if that happens? Tengetsu can only mess up so many times!
Depends on how you do it, fates = RNG (aka maybe or maybe not), if you're good at sol farming, you might be able to get enough maps in that time?
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