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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Demoskinos
Member
Most likely tomorrow.
adversarial
Member
Ah, I see. I hated Guild Wars 2 because of that. I absolutely love having the distinction of being the tank and have the healer watching my back. All hail the trinity.
I think we laughed because we thought it would crash the servers when everyone tried to get back in, but it seemed to work fine. Plus I'm sure some people here were ones staying logged in all day at their retainers
Dougieflesh
Member
I hope Omega normal isn't as difficult for people as the final SB trial was. I really don't want to struggle to get my weekly loot each and every week.
Shy Fingers
Banned
Even if it is, they will end up learning it. Since they have to farm it, they'll at least learn how to get by. Just might be rough in the beginning.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this but the Beyond-Savage difficulty fight coming in the odd patches is being designed by Kenji Sudo. (Titan, A3S, etc.)
First tier of Omega being designed by the person who's in charge of the 24 man alliance raids, 2nd by Refurbisher designer, 3rd and 4th by Kenji Sudo again. 4th tier fight is going to have unique stuff in Savage (Like A8S) and is supposed to be slightly more difficult than A12S.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...ge_will_be_as_easy_as_creator_savage/djqawhd/
First tier of Omega being designed by the person who's in charge of the 24 man alliance raids, 2nd by Refurbisher designer, 3rd and 4th by Kenji Sudo again. 4th tier fight is going to have unique stuff in Savage (Like A8S) and is supposed to be slightly more difficult than A12S.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...ge_will_be_as_easy_as_creator_savage/djqawhd/
I'd imagine at least the final fight in normal mode to be as difficult as that.
-> proceed to get tanks that don't take Rampart, Reprisal, Provoke, or Shirk.
I feel like getting better and better skills in Role Action has simply made many of the situations worse.
Man, and here I consider myself pretty optimistic...
Maybe like it's leg or something, if you're lucky
Shy Fingers
Banned
Nope. Hopefully it feels more like we're taking on Omega than what Alexander did.
It's the only way I can sleep at night, don't take this away from me!
If we do right limb, left limb, fuck it in the head we go again I'm going to just frown.
The secret is to just do 3-4 AM PFs instead of sleep. Who needs to dream up nightmares, face them yourself!
The secret is to just do 3-4 AM PFs instead of sleep. Who needs to dream up nightmares, face them yourself!
I know they're super in love with mid-fight QTEs, but I'm hoping we've passed the expiration date on calling QTEs new.
Will we fight baby Omega in his subconscious or something.
I was kind of right about Alexander! Just inception crystals instead of straf dolls.
<insert salt about Raid Finder meaning we never gathered outside of what should have been the best Alexander entrance but ended up just being a dead space on the map they later modeled in-instance so we could fight Worst Faust.>
I don't even think we'll end up fighting Omega at all, tbh. I don't think that's going to be the goal of the raid series at all. The initial slide was just "Interdimensional Rift - Omega: The Bend of Time."
It just wouldn't make sense with the way the story previously handled Omega, we're probably going to be dealing with whatever threats exist in the Interdimensional Rift and trying to recover Omega
If you didn't finish all of Heavensward (going into Stormblood) don't read this or click the link
Although there is this interesting thing Krile says when she's standing around before you go up and talk to Lyse on the platform https://puu.sh/v1Pxo/68528283f4.png
Matchew
Member
I was there a few days ago, but I think I was 46 it was awful. I played pvp...
The recommendation I've seen so far is to grind Palace of the Dead.
As a tank, doing and re-doing the highest-level dungeon is your best bet since you'll have a super-low queue time. You can do PVP to mix it up if you'd like but that's probably the way to go.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I was literally in the same exact spot as you this week. Its awful. Do your daily dungeon / guildhests if you haven't its a good chunk.
Also I didn't really touch my hunting log until around then and a its -huge- basically free chunk of XP.
Stone Ocean
Member
"Interdimensional Rift" is a FFV reference. Spoilers for 3.5 and beyond (up to SB ending):
Both Omega and Shinryu are optional bosses in FFV's Interdimensional Rift dungeon. That's where they both originated. If they take this reference to it's natural conclusion, then possible bosses in the raid series would be Omega, Shinryu, Gilgamesh, and Exdeath. Since we already fought Shinryu, maybe they'll take inspiration from the FFV GBA addition of Neo Shinryu? Too hard?
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
It's pretty clear that the final boss of O12 will be
Gilgamesh riding Omega while wielding Exdeath.
Considering the number of deviations we've had from the source material already,
and how we'll have twelve tiers by the end, I'm not expecting it to follow FFV's format too closely. But we're definitely getting Exdeath. Maybe even tomorrow.
We'll see if they can salvage Gil from Hildy's universe. I'd like to see them try.
and how we'll have twelve tiers by the end, I'm not expecting it to follow FFV's format too closely. But we're definitely getting Exdeath. Maybe even tomorrow.
We'll see if they can salvage Gil from Hildy's universe. I'd like to see them try.
I understand that, I just think it's hard to see Omega as becoming a boss in this unless it becomes corrupted by something from the Rift. The goal of Garlond Ironworks will probably be retrieval of Omega so other people can't use it, and they confirmed it went in stasis after the battle with Shinryu.
adversarial
Member
I thought it wasn't until next next week? Is it out tomorrow?
Demoskinos
Member
Maintenance is tonight. Its been two full weeks since the official release the timeline has Normal Raid coming 2 weeks out Savage in another 2 weeks.
Well
Gilgamesh is already used. ExDeath might show up. Shinryu is a current trial. Omega Prime will most likely be the final boss. As for IR enemies: Califisteri wad already used and Apanda. Twintania is gone and Halicarnassis.
So maybe Catastrophw, Azulmagia, And Necrophone. Plus various collections of enemies from 12 and 13 as trash.
So maybe Catastrophw, Azulmagia, And Necrophone. Plus various collections of enemies from 12 and 13 as trash.
All these FFV references... I should really complete it at some point. Only ever gotten to when you get Krille iirc.
GW2 is nice for what it is but I got bored with it pretty quickly. I heard they added trinity stuff but that by itself didn't interest me enough. I know a few people that still log onto the OG GW from time to time too. Again options are nice but I definitely seem to prefer trinity mmos myself. Healing is bae. I hate tanking and like DPSing far less, only like DPS with healing or supporty options like RDM and the ranged. DPS queues are bad in general, and when the only new jobs are DPS it got worse. How could anyone have foreseen this.
I am kinda salty that despite there not being new new tanks or healers "to screw up class balance" that was about the only thing they seemed to do in regards to both outside of the class wide role adjustments, but in a nutshell I guess things did up up better off. I just feel like they thought because they only released 2 dps they were allowed to slack in that regard. Anyone else feel that way? lol
Just ask them to take them in that case I guess? There's a rule that if you allow people to make a bad choice in your game someone somewhere is going to make it, but I do think overall this is definitely preferable to what we had. Some choices are much better or worse than others depending on the situation for sure, but I haven't seen a single one that's always going to be a bad choice (like some of WoW's talents post rework, although they were likely better about buffing/nerfing them than SE is gonna be). Like when we saw the 71 point Frost Mage in WoW had to deal with that there too, and that didn't change all that much when they dumbed down talents there either, but the amount of objectively bad choices did go way down. I think it did here too.
As long as they continue to adjust things as needed (like now) and fix some of their more questionable design choices we should definitely have better class balance and cohesiveness than last expac for sure. It's not as good as I was hoping but yea.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
My expectations for Omega are quite low after creator.
Shy Fingers
Banned
After them trying new things in the leveling dungeons I have some hope.
Then again, it took until A9 for them to add in the "Carry an object" mechanic from Neverreap into a raid scenario.
Oh, I usually do, at least in the case of Shirk (because I am now the laziest tank due to this with PF randoms). It's more the case of becoming the bad guy for asking.
Was mostly just noting the whole Provoke situation of before to the current situation. At least now there's no "I don't have it" excuse, which admittedly is a huge step up.
I keep telling myself there had to have been more to this mechanic in the original A9S design. There had to be.
My MT/OT not having shirk really rubs me the wrong way but I guess it's still early.
They failed algebra. That or their gear is too low to hit 450 without 3 Discerning Eye.
They failed algebra. That or their gear is too low to hit 450 without 3 Discerning Eye.
Stone Ocean
Member
I mean, maximizing collectability and the amount collected go hand in hand since there's really just one rotation. As you progress in gear the number of collectables you can get also goes up because of Impulsive scaling
I think role options bug me at this point because just let me have all 10 at once and decide what I want to bind. Stuff like Esuna being in there and optional bugs me because it didn't used to waste a cross-role slot before! It's not like most of the role actions are fun/cool/flexible.
I have told you and anyone else who will listen 234,464,243 times that the reason the batteries do a small amount of damage when you place them is clearly because they originally applied a vuln to make having one person do two sets in a row impossible. Enforced responsibility swap/tank swap/etc.
Then around the time they decided the A11S ATM was too hard if you had to push a specific button, and I assume when the NA localization decided to fuck up A12S debuff names (literally the connectivity between the Alex tier bosses!) they removed it.
I have told you and anyone else who will listen 234,464,243 times that the reason the batteries do a small amount of damage when you place them is clearly because they originally applied a vuln to make having one person do two sets in a row impossible. Enforced responsibility swap/tank swap/etc.
Then around the time they decided the A11S ATM was too hard if you had to push a specific button, and I assume when the NA localization decided to fuck up A12S debuff names (literally the connectivity between the Alex tier bosses!) they removed it.
Shy Fingers
Banned
MrAnderson
Member
Hey Everyone,
Quick question. I've been trying to get back into the game, but wanted to see if I could get my 1.0 character back from Square. After about 3 tickets of them saying they couldn't find it, I go to make a new character today, and BAM, there he is. I see my current job is listed as a level 50 lancer, but when I go to log in with him I get the following message:
"To log in with this character from version 1.0, you must first specify the Disciple of War or Magic class you wish to begin the game as. You are also granted one opportunity to edit your character's race, tribe, gender, appearance, and name."
Now, the way that reads to me is "Hey, you get to start all over!". I was wondering if someone could clarify that for me before I start.
Thanks!
Quick question. I've been trying to get back into the game, but wanted to see if I could get my 1.0 character back from Square. After about 3 tickets of them saying they couldn't find it, I go to make a new character today, and BAM, there he is. I see my current job is listed as a level 50 lancer, but when I go to log in with him I get the following message:
"To log in with this character from version 1.0, you must first specify the Disciple of War or Magic class you wish to begin the game as. You are also granted one opportunity to edit your character's race, tribe, gender, appearance, and name."
Now, the way that reads to me is "Hey, you get to start all over!". I was wondering if someone could clarify that for me before I start.
Thanks!
You remake your character at the start of 2.0 iirc. They just start with all their gear in calamity salvagers
Pretty much; literally any more involvement or, I dunno, randomize where the adds dropped. Something.
Really, it's just the boss just doesn't have enough HP for you to need them to. The fight totally gets sketchy with respect to tower HP when you look at the second rotation of the final phase. It's just we got to treat second GA-100 as the enrage instead and go from there.
Yea, i understand better now. I do think that the really obvious stuff should just be baseline and the more situational stuff be crossrole. Like 3 things from every set of crossrole options should just be baseline. Provoke Protect Shirk Swiftcast ect
This is my main complaint with cross role. Especially if I don't know a fight beforehand. How the f*ck am I supposed to know if I will need Esuna? When would I ever not take Protect? And then like WHM got so much of their old stuff just put on cross role no wonder they felt shafted (even if they are better than we thought).
More of the cross role stuff imo should be hand lifted from PvP (I can't believe I am typing this) and no brainer stuff like Protect/Esuna/Swiftcast should just be baseline for everyone. Like Life Grip is basically Deorbit which is an AST only thing in PvP. Miasma 2 is in there still as an AoE knockback for SCH. I'm sure a lot of people have played at least a few new matches by now to know what I mean with random revamped kinda cool class specific abilities. If Role abilities can get that kinda work put into them that'd likely be much more fun.
I hated doing anything not solo in GW2 because of their non-trinity system. Everything was chaos and dungeons were nothing but corpse runs, World V World was fantastic though.
creid
Member
I started with a full stack of Hi Cordials last night and ended up going through about half of them.
I seem to already be getting the max collectability per hit, so how is the bolded true? Is it because I'll have fewer misses, since my chance to fail the gathering chance will be lower?
Dammit, I forgot all about the GC hand ins!