ShadowRunner
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Any news on a pro patch?
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Role specific you had a one in 3 chance usually. Tank, DoW or DoM, so there's a pretty good chance you'd get something anyway unlike higher levels when it's all over the place. They also might not feel it's worth the effort then either since SAM and RDM start at 50 and the majority of players will be 50 or higher. Few players will be below that and they'll level really fast, especially with the more recent buffs to EXP.
Having said that I'd like it as well. Also for Lv 50, 60 and 70 dungeons if only for glamour
So looking through Monk's datamined tooltips, one interesting thing I noticed is that the tooltip for Greased Lightning has changed.
It use to say: "Increases damage dealt by 10% and attack speed by 5%."
Now it says "Increases damage dealt by 10% and reduces weaponskill cast time and recast time, spell cast time and recast time, and auto-attack delay by 5%"
Has it always done this and the prior tooltip wasnt accurate? Or is it an mechanical change where, potentially, all of our oGCDs could have their CDs reduced by Greased Lightning as well?
It use to say: "Increases damage dealt by 10% and attack speed by 5%."
Now it says "Increases damage dealt by 10% and reduces weaponskill cast time and recast time, spell cast time and recast time, and auto-attack delay by 5%"
Has it always done this and the prior tooltip wasnt accurate? Or is it an mechanical change where, potentially, all of our oGCDs could have their CDs reduced by Greased Lightning as well?
This is the pro patch isn't it?
SuperStiltzkin
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Yeah, tanking can be kinda boring. And yet I ended up capping all three tanks jobs first for some reason (the queue times). As someone who has played 90% as a WAR, I do find going back to PLD a little more interesting cause the job does have some more utility skills that I can use like Clemency, Divine Veil, Hallowed Ground, Tempered Will, Cover. Though I use Cover more just because I can and it makes me feel like I'm doing something unique. Using a Hallowed Ground during a tank buster feels pretty good. Using clemency to heal someone feels pretty good. Using Divine Veil during Nidhogg's Akh Morn feels pretty good. They're no fell cleave, but I like the feeling of "I'M HELPING."
I like that PLD offers support utility. Maybe this time their support will be really useful.
E_Darkness
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Still waiting for my preorder code from Amazon UK. This is kinda silly.
Abstrusity
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It decreased auto attack delay, and your GCD, as well.
Monk has no cast times, because Monk has no spells, so that didn't much matter -- although pugilist with something like cure might now be affected. Don't know why you'd want that though.
Stone Ocean
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There will be a Pro exclusive setting in the menu once early access starts.
It's in the patch notes, but its just for 4k TVs.
I always preferred playing DPS. I started as a DRG in ARR and used MNK as my DPS class in HW. But the tank queue times and demand was too good to pass up. I also enjoyed the greater sense of responsibility and impact in duties.
I was mainly a WAR before. I don't really care about meta so much, but I'm not a fan of increased emphasis on Fell Cleave and I've always liked PLD's support abilities.
Pyros_Eien
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You can't get cure anymore regardless?
I did a summary of the changes I found on reddit, gonna paste it here for people who care about monk. In general, it's pretty small stuff and not much has changed from the preview build it seems. Also datamining info is missing traits, which might be pretty important since a bunch of the older traits are gone.
Can't seem to figure out how to spoiler a list, so SPOILERS AHEAD DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT CLASS SPOILERS. Athough it's all already revealed info, just numbers differences.
Retro Edge
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Since you didn't even have any overview over your glamour or armor sets and it's implemented as worst as it possible can get, it doesn't matter anyway. Collecting different or many sets is almost impossible except you have a big ass notebook where you organize the stuff that you have and that is missing for the 3726 gear sets in the game. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯God, this is, for years, my biggest complain about the whole game. I have the 3 Eorzea Collection catalogs at home and they help a little, but my God is collecting glamour a pain in the ass in this game...
Tomorrow morning. Maybe.
Stone Ocean
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Unknown Soldier
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It's an axiom of fantasy armor that the less it covers, the more protective it is!
ShadowRunner
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Will it only be available to those who have purchased stormblood or will it apply to the base game?
Yeah, I was aware that it already reduced GCD and that Monk doesnt have anything that is casted. I was more curious about the oGCD stuff like Steel Peak, Elixir Field, ect and what they are classified as. Looking more into I can see that they are just generically referred to as "Abilities", so they wouldn't be impacted.
Ugh, I hope that's not leveling gear. I don't want to have to be bothered glamouring over leveling gear.
Damn it why
The only way I choose classes in this game is based on ones that have a reasonable amount of oGCD abilities and proc based/randomized rotations, because the 2.5 sec GCD feels SO SLOW at baseline, and early rotations of 1->2->3 repeat forever, use your damage buff every 90-120 seconds are mind numbing. But I actually love the combat once you add in oGCDs, procs and rotation randomness, and buff/debuff management.
As such, while they buffed Pal quite a bit, I hope they addressed some of the gameplay aspects I didn't like as much to give a bit more of an interesting rotation. While powerful "press Requiescat then spam Holy Spirit" doesn't sound FUN, hopefully in actual play it'll be better though. And I loved old War, but mostly just for the gameplay feel (never played any endgame stuff where actual damage mattered), I really hope it doesn't feel too different in stormblood.
Guess there's nothing really to do but wait and see how things feel, I always struggle in XIV to read changes and understand how they will actually play out. I just really hope that the most complex and interesting tank to play (be it Pal, War or Drk) is sufficiently rewarding in that it is more powerful in some aspect if that difficult/complex aspect is played properly. My nightmare is that the simplest tank is also the most powerful, because while complex rotations are fun for me, doing so but gaining nothing from it takes away almost as much fun as the complexity adds.
As such, while they buffed Pal quite a bit, I hope they addressed some of the gameplay aspects I didn't like as much to give a bit more of an interesting rotation. While powerful "press Requiescat then spam Holy Spirit" doesn't sound FUN, hopefully in actual play it'll be better though. And I loved old War, but mostly just for the gameplay feel (never played any endgame stuff where actual damage mattered), I really hope it doesn't feel too different in stormblood.
Guess there's nothing really to do but wait and see how things feel, I always struggle in XIV to read changes and understand how they will actually play out. I just really hope that the most complex and interesting tank to play (be it Pal, War or Drk) is sufficiently rewarding in that it is more powerful in some aspect if that difficult/complex aspect is played properly. My nightmare is that the simplest tank is also the most powerful, because while complex rotations are fun for me, doing so but gaining nothing from it takes away almost as much fun as the complexity adds.
Hi guys, I am just starting to play again after finishing Heavensward months ago. I am up to the latest main quest which is to infiltrate this new Wall dungeon (patch 3.5). Unfortunately I need ilvl 230 for this and I left my character with only ilvl 217! Do I really need to get through these quests to access Stormblood? How the heck can I get my ilvl up that high in a short amount of time? I really hope I don't have to do a bunch of grinding...
Dreamwriter
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BLM FLARE GOT BUFFEDTomcat said:
Has an actual MP cost now rather than all your MP, and the cost goes down for each Umbral Heart you collect, which means you can use the spell in your rotations much more often.
That's for the 4k resolution, right?
I assume the base setting will have higher framerate on the Pro in 1080p.
huh had no idea patch is up for download
that twist of fate enemy might lead to return of fate train
this is new tome gear perhaps?
only 1 grade 6 materia max when forbidden melding? so perhaps a total of 3 grade 6 materias including the default 2 slots max?
wow rdm embolden is 80 seconds cooldown, that's.... a strange number
Now that is some ugly ass footwear. Instant glamour
RPGCrazied
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Whats this 2nd patch nonsense? Only got 1 on PC. Was a few gigs. Now it just says game can't be played under maintenance.
Yeah it's part of the patch so after the update you should be able to switch it regardless if you have SB or not.
Standard is being replaced by whatever PS4's highest setting was, and the new setting is for PS4 Pro.
Yeah I'm assuming that's the case.
Stone Ocean
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You're supposed to download 6gb~ worth of files, they deployed those in two sets, if you started it later you'll download 6gb in one go but if you downloaded a 2gb early patch you need to download the rest
Dreamwriter
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2am Pacific Friday morning
Honestly so far I'm super amazed that relatively small changes since the media blitz of "NONE OF THIS CAN BE USED AGAINST US BECAUSE TEMPORARY" showing; small potency adjustments, mostly in weird places, but the overall trends hold out.
In honor of that new armor set, TBT!
It's not that this is new, more that the waifu races (Female Au'ra emotes in specific) and a lot of gearing choices have never made it seem like they shy away from going the risqué route. They're not TERA, I guess.
But jesus christ do I hate the way some of that stuff looks on Lalafell; I don't care if everybody else wants to run around half naked, none of that stuff looks right on Lalafell bodies. :|
This still has the bad NA translation for the new Army's Paeon; Paeon is an attack speed increase but is not a damage buff. I think we found that out from Famitsu a while back, and it's confirmed in the datamining.
In honor of that new armor set, TBT!
It's not that this is new, more that the waifu races (Female Au'ra emotes in specific) and a lot of gearing choices have never made it seem like they shy away from going the risqué route. They're not TERA, I guess.
But jesus christ do I hate the way some of that stuff looks on Lalafell; I don't care if everybody else wants to run around half naked, none of that stuff looks right on Lalafell bodies. :|
This still has the bad NA translation for the new Army's Paeon; Paeon is an attack speed increase but is not a damage buff. I think we found that out from Famitsu a while back, and it's confirmed in the datamining.
I think what makes it work is that the male equivalent gear is every inch as absurd.
Aahahahahah the male version is amazing of that lewd outfit.
I'm gonna have so much defense with this.
Step aside uraeus coat theirs a new #1 glam in town!
Lv 45 WHM Legs and Lv 44 DoW and DoM gear. Those coliseum stuff