I saw it a couple times immediately after Heavensward dropped. Everyone was playing Dark Knight in those first 2-3 weeks.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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I saw it a couple times immediately after Heavensward dropped. Everyone was playing Dark Knight in those first 2-3 weeks.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I thought he only
got the power until later after the scientist guy did the experiment on Fordola? Or maybe they mentioned it somewhere else and I forgot.
So I'm getting back to it sometime next week. I bought Stormblood a few days ago with my PUR 70% trade in deal. Can someone answer this question for me: Why the fuck won't it update without an active sub? I tried it this morning before work and told me I needed one. So instead of having it download the 50+GB during work, I'm gonna have to do it after work. WTF?
How to run out of MP as an AST: DPS.
The efficiency on our DPS spells is ridiculously bad. If I DPS thoroughly throughout phase 1 of Susano EX, I'll reach the midpoint with less than half MP probably. If anybody screws up mechanics and needs major healing or (god forbid) dies, then that's even easier.
Last night I did Susano EX and people were messing around not taking it very seriously, so we had 4 deaths in phase 1. I had to use lucid dreaming before the phase transition!
In the end it's no big deal, though. I mean, if an AST can't make it through with all of the MP regen tools they have at their disposal, then that's pretty sad. A single lucid dreaming + celestial opposition recovers a massive amount of MP. Add a ewer if you're feeling shaky. And cast lucid dreaming under spear if you can. I wouldn't say ASTs have infinite MP, but if they're putting any thought into it whatsoever, it's hard to completely run out unless people are dying left and right. And this is totally ignoring the MP benefits lightspeed has for those times when you need to cast a ton of heals in rapid succession.
Stone Ocean
Member
Nobody cares about it anymore. Even silver chests are ignored now
For some reason it won't start check for updates until you actually log in, most other MMOs I've played do it as soon as you open the launcher
Yes; they ignore silver chests and then get mad when they don't have enough DPS to beat the boss.
Stone Ocean
Member
If you have 69/69 you have no reason to care about silver chests while leveling and at that point any non-strength or rage pomander is garbage
Trojita
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Disabling Traps and revealing the floor layout are trash 🤔
Stone Ocean
Member
It's pretty irrelevant if you're not looking for silver coffers, yeah. Sprint, peek at the entrance of the rooms for the passage, go kill mobs till it opens and done. Traps won't really do anything to you unless you're running 4 SAMs and step on a mine and a summon trap at the same time.
I only use Sight pomanders near the end to make the final floors go a bit faster.
I personally get better results on my controller by timing button presses. Slide casting is something I use when I know I have to be getting some place soon, but have time to get there. Sliding along lets me keep casting as I sidle my way to a pre-determined spot to handle mechanics while minimizing dropped casts due to full movement. If you really have to skedaddle, that's when you use Swiftcast or Triplecast or whatever instant spells you have.
You can also use it for dodging stuff, like this bard, who dodges the Gravitational Anomaly aoe ground puddle while still finishing his cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3A5MUBbgIA
Honestly surprised the dragoon didn't die, there. >.>
There's also this amusing slide cast video by a black mage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3A5MUBbgIA
I spend most of PotD trying to not be in the same room as the rest of the party. Melee love to react to me trying to pull something across the room into a hall by running face-first into traps. Can't blow me up if I refuse to be in the room with you!
I don't care if they want to get chests, but I do care if they want to make Mimics happen and then drag them to me like it's my problem. You made it, you eat the Pox. :|
Lucid + Celestial Oppo at pull is amazing for Susano; basically wall-to-wall Malefic spam with barely a dent in MP, in P1 and then Lucid and Oppo are both back up in time for the Ult and ideally another AOE card. Beyond that point it gets a lot more touch-and-go, but the pull Lucid times out really nicely for crazy early DPS with wiggle room for greedy and/or dumb melee eating things they shouldn't.
Final phase in most PF groups is a GCD economy struggle; DPS feeding three of four electrocutions to the full party means a lot of time wasted keeping everyone up that could be spent hitting the boss with tiny stars.
I don't care if they want to get chests, but I do care if they want to make Mimics happen and then drag them to me like it's my problem. You made it, you eat the Pox. :|
Lucid + Celestial Oppo at pull is amazing for Susano; basically wall-to-wall Malefic spam with barely a dent in MP, in P1 and then Lucid and Oppo are both back up in time for the Ult and ideally another AOE card. Beyond that point it gets a lot more touch-and-go, but the pull Lucid times out really nicely for crazy early DPS with wiggle room for greedy and/or dumb melee eating things they shouldn't.
Final phase in most PF groups is a GCD economy struggle; DPS feeding three of four electrocutions to the full party means a lot of time wasted keeping everyone up that could be spent hitting the boss with tiny stars.
SCH only really struggles with MP when it's out of CDs and needs to heal a lot, which is actually nothing new. They probably should bring the MP cost of Succor (and maybe Adloquium) back down because that's really all we have for emergency GCD healing, and they're very inefficient spells. MP is completely fine in controlled situations.
Thin Air plus Lucid Dream at half mp = lolol
piratepwnsninja
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I'm at the JapanExpo in Paris for work, but had to take a video of what people fighting Lakshmi were doing. Lol
https://twitter.com/TheRyanMcCabe/status/883341761485123584
https://twitter.com/TheRyanMcCabe/status/883341761485123584
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I guess is time to level up PLD.
Trojita
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E_Darkness
Member
Well time to go drown in materia.
adversarial
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It boggles my mind that a DPS meter isn't implemented in the game. I know a lot of people complain about it, but that's the only way to figure out if you have a DPS that's literal trash and is holding the group back. Coming from WoW, a lot of the stuff that is standard seems to be absent from this game, but goddamn am I loving it. Hoping to get into a Savage group.
If DPS becomes too visible to players, it suddenly becomes obvious which jobs aren't getting the TLC they need, and I think they might be trying to avoid that.
But it's really hard to try and guess what this development team is up to.
Their reasoning is to try and discourage toxic behavior
Well that's not working.
Dougieflesh
Member
It would be a welcome wake-up call to a lot of the player base. I've done some Sus ex parties where we wipe if I don't use every heavy cooldown (Ninja) I have on the sword. Hearing horror stories of people hitting enrage with over 20% hp left is crazy.
Trojita
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Yoshi P wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants a game that has had some sever dps checks to not have a way to check what a parties problem is.
The people that would complain about job imbalances are going to be using a dps meter anyway.
Vic_Viper
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Anyone have a good guide for how PVP works now? Is it the same format from before 4.0?
Never tried out PvP but now that im working on 4.0 content ive been alil curious. Just tried out my first match and it was alot of fun but I really had no idea what I was doing lol.
Also, it says I dont have room for anymore Tomestones. What should I buy for either my lvl 62 NIN or lvl 55 SAM currently? It doesnt seem like anything I can buy will really help me out accept maybe the lvl 60 gear for SAM.
And is there a good short Recap for Heavensward?
Never tried out PvP but now that im working on 4.0 content ive been alil curious. Just tried out my first match and it was alot of fun but I really had no idea what I was doing lol.
Also, it says I dont have room for anymore Tomestones. What should I buy for either my lvl 62 NIN or lvl 55 SAM currently? It doesnt seem like anything I can buy will really help me out accept maybe the lvl 60 gear for SAM.
And is there a good short Recap for Heavensward?
hikarutilmitt
Member
I'm learning now:
If the party fails with large pulls it's the tank's fault
If the party succeeds on a big pull it because dps was good and healer did their job.
Man :|
If the party fails with large pulls it's the tank's fault
If the party succeeds on a big pull it because dps was good and healer did their job.
Man :|
I mean, I'd rather have it. That information is useful to have on hand when DPS requirements actually are a thing, and having no official way to see it hasn't exactly stopped users from coming up with their own ways of checking.
I can just at least somewhat understand the desire to keep meter lords out of the game.
Hentailover
Member
Well, it sort of makes sense. If party failed big pull, it means tank overpulled. If party wins, than it means dps and healers are up to snuff for such a pull.
That's sort of a trade off for insta queues for tank. They have a respondibility of a party leader. They gauge the team's performance and lead accordingly.
LordKasual
Banned
those were the days
I'm progressing on BRD, but i spend most of my time these days leveling healer because fuck these queue times.
DrForester
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Next expa soon needs to just be a tank and healer job, no new dps.
Let the dps enjoy those queue times.
Let the dps enjoy those queue times.
TheMrPliskin
Member
I'm having a lot of good Frontlines matches today, not a whole lot of people that are afk and the matches have all actually been fairly competitive. This is the first time I've played it since the EXP changes so I have to wonder if that's part of the reason why I seem to be having a better experience now since I assume that most of the people who were just there for the EXP have left to do other stuff.
SliceSabre
Banned
Man I sure have been running into a lot of tanks trying show off their dicks in dungeons and pulling clearly too many mobs or not paying attention to the dps make up when large pulling.
And I don't mean Expert roulette tanks but tanks currently leveling and aren't equipped to tank third of the mobs in the first section of the dungeon in one go.
And I don't mean Expert roulette tanks but tanks currently leveling and aren't equipped to tank third of the mobs in the first section of the dungeon in one go.
tfw you throw on duty finder and have to wait 30 whole seconds to queue.
tfw you have to actually attack a few times instead of just flash
tfw you have too many material VI and nothing else to meld on
Really though, one would think they'd do more to entice tanks than throw free shit at them. Doesn't feel like this moves the needle much tbh.
tfw you have to actually attack a few times instead of just flash
tfw you have too many material VI and nothing else to meld on
Really though, one would think they'd do more to entice tanks than throw free shit at them. Doesn't feel like this moves the needle much tbh.