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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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I was more disappointed with Zenos an anything:
the Empire losing both Ala Mhigo and Doma is solely a result of his incompetence. He could have easily killed the WoL twice, but keeps letting him go because "the hunt" I mean I get he's bored and needs a fight with an equal to feel something, but he puts this need above the Empires interests in retaining its territories. This is horrible leadership and I wish we would have gotten more scenes of the Emperor chastising him and Zenos in return caring even less about holding his official job.
Ultimecia's Castle would be a perfect raid in this game. I want it.
He doesn't really care about the Empire from what i've gathered. He was a test subject, his father basically despises him and considers him a monster. He thinks his grandfather was weak and a coward, etc.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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I have to agree that she did do stuff befitting of a leader. It will make her development in future patches even better.
I was there... which is exactly why I said what I said. Theres her getting embarrassed by Zenos, her getting embarrassed by enhanced Fordola. I guess she gets credit for subduing Fordola after I beat her?
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DrForester
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Top of Kugane Tower before maintenance be like...
Looking through a bunch of old parses, that's really about what I'd expect from the OT in a PF clear party. I don't think you'd have to be in tank stance all the time to be second on threat, though?
I was main tank. I stayed in tank stance, so we could keep the same people one and two on the enmity list so the same person would get the cleave. I didn't want to fall to number two and get surprised by the OT attack.
Lmao, i never realized this .
djplaeskool
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Got SAM to 59 right before the shutdown.
So close...
I'm so sick and damn tired of Lv50 duties. Fuckin' hell.
So close...
I'm so sick and damn tired of Lv50 duties. Fuckin' hell.
In an ideal Lakshmi party, the OT can shirk you, so you should theoretically never have any enmity issues where he'd sneak up on you because he's giving you 25% of his enmity every 120s, and he shouldn't have to provoke the boss often enough that it becomes a problem.
if it does become a problem, tell the DPS they have abilities that also reduce their enmity so they don't sneak up as easily to number 2.
SynthFetish
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Once SAM hits 62, things really start getting fun.
WonderRade
Member
guys we are a mary sue because we are a primal, so its totally forgivable 
bizzarewars
Banned
Finally got MNK to 50! The Artifact Armor set looks awesome.
DrForester
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So, who watched all the credits...
And got a little misty eyed with that final picture of Yda and Papalymo came up
It's still the armor I wear after 4 years lol
I'm more interested in whether
they will ever go into details of where Omega and Midgarsommer came from.
Compared to ARR and Heavenwards I do think that Stormblood tries to humble the WoL a bit.
Few of the natives seem to know or care who you are. You suffer the two losses to Zenos. They even let Alphinuad /Alisae beat you over the head with how stupid it was to go after him that second time. And, maybe I just didnt notice it before, but there seems to be a lot more mention of your "mysterious team of adventurers". Though by the end you are back to being super awesome.
LordKasual
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25 item slots per body part = 300 slots dedicated to gear
+Inventory = 200 slots for whatever
That's 500 without retainers (In FFXIV 3.0)
+2 Retainers = 350 slots
That's 850 item slots....
I mean I guess it's not very much if you do alot of crafting and you omit the armoury?
hosannainexcelsis
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The "team of adventurers" has been mentioned before as a narrative justification for multiplayer trials/dungeons, but Stormblood lampshaded it more than the story has done previously. I was especially amused when after Susano showed up Lyse said, "The Warrior of Light has a lot of adventurer friends - who knows? Maybe some of them randomly decided to take a fishing trip to the East." Pfft.
I was in a very frustrating Susano EX group in which our WHM and AST could not manage their MP at all. 2 minutes into the fight and they were already less than 1/3rd. It's as if lucid dreaming just doesn't exist to them. Our AST went diurnal (of course they did) and thus we had absolutely no mitigation. Their idea of healing was to spam Cure III and helios as much as possible, it's amazing we even got the thing to 7% several times before inevitably wiping because they failed to heal us through ukehis, and god forbid someone electrocute our side by accident, it would take them 10 seconds to respond.
gjkdlagjak
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Lyse LB's Fordola? Pretty sure I beat her into submission and she happened to LB at the end
I mean I like her as a character sort of design style and stuff, but overall she was the weakest character of the expac by far, hell you could probably argue she's been the weakest Scion storywise and the least paid attention to even in her own expac so far. I dunno, I mean overall I'm fine with her being gone, but like most of this expac felt like her shoehorning herself in to situations.
Is it not even like mental math? I'm pretty sure I read that a lot the JP skills for scholar reference like stratagems instead of magic skills. Feels like a lot of the skill names and effects sound better with that approach.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Uhm what? To be fair... Lyse beats her and you are more of the suppressor in that fight. Were you not paying attention?
I'm more interested in whetherthey will ever go into details of where Omega and Midgarsommer came from.
I don't think SE will ever reveal where Omega actually came from. Even in V Omega is an otherworldly being right? A lot of people were thinking XIV would answer that question with Omega being present in Eorzea, but now we see it's just a traveler, albeit on extended stay. I'm thinking Midgardsormr traversed the void in a way the Ascians cannot, as he seems well beyond mortality and more on the level of Hydaelyn and the Twelve.
I like that the raid itself has essentially become this giant amalgam of all our past adventures joining together to help us. Nero & Midgar showing up to help the usual crew with Cid. Wonder who else shows up later if anyone.
Errrrr....
I don't think they come from other dimensional versions of Hydaelyn like the Warriors of Darkness or the Ascians do. The wording seems different? I take it that both (this) Omega and Midgardsormr are literally from other planets in deep space, but from the same dimension (or shard, whatever they call it). Space is something they haven't really touched on much, but I think they should explore it further in future. There was already mention that the Allagians managed space travel at some point but not to what extend. And we know shit's happening on the moon.
All we need now is a fleet of Ragnaroks and an Adel raid. <3
All we need now is a fleet of Ragnaroks and an Adel raid. <3
BlitzEngineer
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I'm a bit late here but I'm pretty sure RDM loses Dualcast if an autoattack lands. I never tested this but it was stated a bunch of times pre-release on reddit ect. On top of that, Displacement is a dps gain so it should always be used and on CD whenever possible. Your autos are really piddly because you have 0 stats that they scale with so even a low potency oGCD like Displacement easily wins out.
Xux
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I know all that; I'm just amused they picked computer screens appearing for the animation instead of, say, a big book that appears and flips through its pages or lines of text or zoology drawings floating around.
Considering that we're dealing with the Void and the Rift in this very expansion, I wouldn't be too surprised if it's actually the Omega from FFV we're dealing with. XII's version of the weapon was kind of interesting in how it hinted that it also came from the void, and we're going to Ivalice after all.
It seems like there's something special about Hydaelyn's position in the void or closeness to the rift that lets it draw in characters from other universes, but that's just random speculation on my part.
It seems like there's something special about Hydaelyn's position in the void or closeness to the rift that lets it draw in characters from other universes, but that's just random speculation on my part.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I said I was going to level Samurai but I remembered that I really liked Ninja so I'm doing that first.
Hide is really awesome now.
It looks like you can use Doton on a pack of mobs and use Hide before it actually hits them so you can get another immediate Ninjutsu use.
Hide is really awesome now.
It looks like you can use Doton on a pack of mobs and use Hide before it actually hits them so you can get another immediate Ninjutsu use.
Matt Attack
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Doton > Hide > Katon > Kassatsu > Katon makes me very giddy on large packs of mobs.
Man, I don't even know if I could find a way to vent that much MP on Susano. I healed it for the first time earlier and there's no real GCD need in the first half of the fight (barring untimely dice fails or people playing in the sea) so it's mostly just DPSing until post ultimate with an early Lucid and Thin Air to get their cooldowns rolling while staying at 80-90% MP. I did it as WHM but AST can basically do the same and even extend their first Lucid when extending their pre-pull card anyway and have that cover the first half of the fight. I basically just threw rocks for sword phase and let the AST handle most the GCD burden with shields / Earthly Star while I let a pre-cast Med 2 and oGCDs handle anything else. Because I had rocks to throw.
After tanking a bunch of Susanos in PF, I kind of just assumed the MP situation was more dire than it ended up being when I got around to healing it. From the WHM side of it, Lucid is up pretty often, Assize is up a lot, and Thin Air handles any actual GCD burn time (that I tended to waste on DPSing because I get antsy sitting on cooldowns) so it seems pretty hard to actually run out of MP.
I've talked about it before but the idea of Allagans that went to space to colonize or whatever and end up coming back because they received a message as the Allagan Empire was falling but between the distance the message needed to travel plus the travel time back they only just arrived (this could also be a cool world event ala Dalamud, where each subsequent patch the spaceship gets bigger) they're more interested in what happened to the Allagan Empire and learning about the world as it is now and may not be inherently evil. (And the 60-70 summoner quests also start planting the seeds to imply that not every Allagan is bad)
I tried to put Susano Ex, it went about as well as you'd expect. 2 wipes and the MT says "My wife needs me to take out the trash, bye" and poofs.
Thing that sucks with PF now is that it's actually rare to see a party that wants anyone without a clear. The mechanics of this fight are incredibly easy, so I don't understand what the issue is.
Thing that sucks with PF now is that it's actually rare to see a party that wants anyone without a clear. The mechanics of this fight are incredibly easy, so I don't understand what the issue is.
Razgriz-Specter
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Finally able to play after 2 days busy and the servers are down...
CambriaRising
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Second maintainence this week too.
FF's version of space is the void or at least something very similar to it, from my understanding, as the reference to 'star' is referring to the planet and not the universe. Omega and Gilgamesh, and I believe Ultros and Typhon, are void travelers through each FF entry they appear. Lightning, too, since she appeared in an event early into 2.0 and IIRC has been confirmed canon to XIV. Although quite how she, Ultros, Gilgamesh, and Typhon manage to traverse the void without sacrificing their corporeal bodies is quite another mystery. I suspect Midgardsormr might know of it. You could be right and space travel is how Midgardsormr gets around, but given the FF multiverse connected by the void is canon, I'm inclined to believe we're dealing more with the rift between worlds rather than straight up space travel. Perhaps the two are one and the same in the FF multiverse. World of FF certainly hasn't made things any simpler either. Or Dissidia. I would like to know where in the divine order Hydaelyn stands, as it is quite literally the Great Crystal, or at least -a- great crystal. Personally, I think XIV is at the epicenter of the multiverse, or Hydaelyn is.
We must have been in the same party. I saw that exact excuse used.
Razgriz-Specter
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Oh Jesus, just learned about the mount with Nidhogg's theme...
there goes a massive time sink.
there goes a massive time sink.