And somehow people still can't get this right.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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And somehow people still can't get this right.
No, it is important. It means that if you can't melee for any reason you'll still be guaranteed a proc even when you overcap on mana.
Muh casts tho
SoundPulse
Banned
People barely know how to stack in Nidhogg, you can't expect them to cross over to the other side.
(please stop giving me nidhogg, trials roulette kthx)
(please stop giving me nidhogg, trials roulette kthx)
I got stunned while walking back to the other side okay
I just did Nidhogg (part 2) last night and didn't hear anything about any stacking mechanic lol.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Tell me about it hahaha.
Pirates expansion, let's make it happen
SliceSabre
Banned
The trouble I run into with Susano EX is that DPS dying to stupid shit or tanks not readying themselves for tank busters and by the time we're at the lightning bolts and people not jumping the gap me and the other healer are trying to inject mana potions into our eyeballs.
I can't wait until Lancer Quest dude returns in the Gridiania storyline screaming about courage or some shit.
SoundPulse
Banned
In the Final Steps of Faith, you're supposed to stack and share damage when he marks someone with the giant four flashing inward arrows for Akh Morn. What usually ends up happening in the DF is that one or two people actually stack, they all die, and it's probably a wipe as people furiously try to explain what stacking is, lol.
To be fair, I think it's the first time you're likely to see those arrows. Doesn't stop people from needing it explained again in Alexander, tho.
Zenos feels... very badly written. Kind of like he is nothing but the raw manifestation of a specfic villain trope. Like he's the anti-ARR-HW big bad villain right down to the effort put into him.
Its so bad my wife was in the room saw him for pretty much the first time, made a mocking line based on her first impression of him, then he actually immediately after said almost the exact line she mocked him with.
Its so bad my wife was in the room saw him for pretty much the first time, made a mocking line based on her first impression of him, then he actually immediately after said almost the exact line she mocked him with.
Wow, yeah, one guy mentioned stacking in the chat but nobody actually explained what it was so we just kept going ham. It worked, but I can see why people are going to be having a hard time with SB content, since newer players like me are running through HW content with people who are overgeared and kind of unwilling to explain mechanics since we can usually get away with ignoring them.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
No your just LTTP.
I myself dislike Bismarck for many reasons and this is a sentiment that all of my IRL friends who play the game also carry. Heck it's been a general census for a while now.
BossDarkseid
Member
Does it change at all from Normal?
Just did Stormblood MSQ today, gonna start doing the 70 dungeons etc tonight or tomorrow...but the urge isn't quite there with the new Tomes in a few weeks.
It's the first time if you only follow the MSQ, yeah. There is singularity reactor EX and Sephirot before that patch-wise, but those are optional.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
He's basically lazy asexual non-Dio Luca Blight.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Maybe it just went too easily, but it was basically tank an add hit it a few times, repeat.
For how cool it seemed the actual fight let me down.
She had an original voice that fit,
HW sounded weird but still fit but now later in HW her voice sounds different once again as it is far deeper and older sounding.
It doesn't remotely fit.
Susano is an absolute mess in PF. It's literally the most basic you can get mechanically and people just don't seem to ever catch on.
Coming up on 30 Lakshmi clears and haven't seen a single mount drop yet. At least I'm fully geared minus the Susano weapon but I think I'm kind of burnt out on Lakshmi now so I'll tackle the mount later on.
You have to fire the dragon killers or whatever, it's basically steps of faith all over again.
SusanoEX is pretty good for planning out cool downs practice, though. Just assume everyone is going to fuck up constantly, and stagger CDs to cope. It's not like there's any one role that is more competent than the others--I've had healers chase me down with the stack marker because I managed to not die to their terrible line-baiting and they don't understand that I'm running away to be able to LB3 everyone up after they're done dying to their own stupidity and instead 2-stack and wipe us.
I dunno, I've reached this zen state where I assume at least one lightning will fail per 4-set and have accepted it. First time I've had a reason to plan in Lightspeed use for MP preservation reasons and not just I want to run around while casting reasons.
I dunno, I've reached this zen state where I assume at least one lightning will fail per 4-set and have accepted it. First time I've had a reason to plan in Lightspeed use for MP preservation reasons and not just I want to run around while casting reasons.
Yeah it does change a lot. New mechanics are very easy to understand/handle though.
I saw 2 today and lost both. fml.
Nothing is. Yay job mechanics that take 1+ minutes to setup!....
BossDarkseid
Member
Ah, sweet. Gonna look the EX Primals up and start tomorrow. I want to do the 70 dungeons first though.
Nothing is. I've felt fights so far haven't been kind to MNK and DRG at times, but Life of th Dragon takes the cake. It's badly thought out
It's just mechanically a very uninteresting fight. I didn't start HW until 3.3, so Bismark was just pure steamrolled and treated as a joke on my very first try. All I had to do was one tank swap. However despite overgearing, I could still see the fun in a fight like Thordan or Sephirot Ex, but didn't apply in Bismark. Heck if I get Bismark normal in Trial Roulette, it's a more demanding fight.
Lakshmi is almost already like that, and it'll just get worse as gear gets better. There's pretty much nothing to the fight bar popping this one thing every now and then. Also as a tank I'm not a fan of encounters that don't have some kind of tank swap mechanic, or just something that requires another tank like A11s. Makes fights boring and I just feel like I should have came as my MNK instead. The saving grace for Lakshmi is the music
Just curious what the problem is exactly?
I mean Bismarck doesn't rank high on my list of primals either, but it's more that its bland than poor. I at least dig the two snakes segment with the buffs. Keeps the party on their toes, at least by a small margin. Also its a nice rush getting his core exposed on the first pass. It does deserve more mechanics to shake things up certainly, but is it just how straightforward it is that is the problem?
Robin64
Member
I could cry with joy. Got into a DF group that had everyone already understanding how to beat Menagerie, and we were able to execute it first time. After days of beating my head against people leaving and vote abandons, this is such an amazing feeling.
Still going on record to say it needs a nerf, though. Or Echo.
Still going on record to say it needs a nerf, though. Or Echo.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
That's probably going to be more Tactics Ogre Ivalice than FF XII Ivalice. Pretty sure XII doesn't represent Matsuno's ideal conception of Ivalice due to all the interference from others.
It'll need a nerf. Echo won't stop people falling off
I'm not kidding when I said my random PF practise group killed it on the very first blind run attempt. Having cleared it more since, yes we would have got lucky on the add phase, but everything else is pretty straightforward. Just got to pay attention and react
Yoshida already told us to brush up on our FFT lore.
Tactics Ogre stuff is already in the game a plenty. (Fractal and Neverreap drop Tactics Ogre gear, the level 69 dungeon drops Ogre Battle gear)
There's only three instances where people can fall off and they're all easily avoidable! Just run at the boss, run at the pulsing tornado, don't move.
Stone Ocean
Member
What's that, the floor is frozen? Time to run after Diamond Dust finishes casting!
I need to start getting smarter with healer CD use, I was mostly saving Thin Air for blade phase and some of the tighter Ukehis, using it during thunder tango sounds awesome.
Fuck your Eye stacks, time to play Super Mario
If that logic applied to everything the game would be so easy. What do you mean the entire Alliance has ran off and are now hiding behind a shield? I'll stay here and DPS the boss.
Never overestimate the general awareness of the playerbase
I was actually surprised the Raen princess from the Ninja storyline didn't show up in the MSQ, you'd think that'd have been somewhat relevant. :thinking:
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I don't know if you have done the Ninja job quests yet
but she shows up there instead.
Spehornoob
Member
Dark Knight quests are the best quest lines in the damn game.
Yeah, the Stormblood stuff is pretty good.
Dark Knight 60-70 quest spoilers
Them bringing back the girl that poisons you in 3.2 was pretty good and how you save her being abused by her corrections officer, plus it going back full circle and us meeting the guy we actually gave the medicine to in Quarrymill is really good. I haven't done the level 70 job quest yet but'll probably get there today or tomorrow.
Agreed. Like, the other job quests don't come close. I was checking out BLM quests for Stormblood after experiencing how amazing the DRK quests were, and I was equally blown away at how trite and bad they were in comparison.
Who could have guessed that the edgelord class has the best writing of all the classes?
Stone Ocean
Member
Ya'll making me want to level up DRK. Are the SB quests on the level of the 50-60 DRK storyline?
I sure need some good job questing after 10 more levels of fucking Sylphie and those BRD army dorks or whatever the fuck they are since I stopped paying attention after I hit 50.
I sure need some good job questing after 10 more levels of fucking Sylphie and those BRD army dorks or whatever the fuck they are since I stopped paying attention after I hit 50.
