You should play SAM. Their Kenki gauge is exactly this. Almost all their oGCDs are tied to kenki which you naturally build and expend. A lot of people lost their shit over Iaijutsu and 1000 potency Midares but in practice their major kenki dump, Hissatsu: Shinten takes the potency edge over Iaijutsu.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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MikeBison
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I don't really understand what you're saying. How does a 300 potency attack take the edge over a buffed a 720+50% move? You're just weaving shinten in between things.
Huh, thumbs are the two things you don't use on m+kb. Controller is pretty fun though, it's relaxing and feels like a you're playing a different game. I like to switch to controller when I'm doing mindless grinds like leveling.
Pretty sure your guy was doing even less dps if he was only using verthunder, that's a 5 sec cast lmao.
EndcatOmega
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Oh for sure; I was just saying I didn't see much of a point in holding it for a future odd level when you could use it on an even level now, is all.
I was paraphrasing but you can read the math here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/6eo01u/some_advanced_indepth_theorycraft_about_samurai/
Stone Ocean
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AST is arguably the strongest healer at the moment. I don't find it particularly fun since the job is kind of basic now but a lot of people seem to enjoy it.
You can get 260 gear for poetics at Idyllshire
You'll be missing a ton of great content, particularly from Heavensward. Getting through ARR's MSQ definitely can be a slog, though.
I might stick it out. Just got my mount so travelling might be a bit less tedious now anyway!
I boosted an alt to 60. I've been playing since launch and I was horribly confused with how much stuff there was to unlock all at once. I think it's better to just level and unlock all of the important stuff naturally.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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AST is much more fun than before, imo. The only thing I dislike is braindead easy damage. I'm pretty sure I hit malefic III for 10k a couple of times... I guess this goes for every healer though since I dislike how cleric stance is not a stance anymore and makes things easier.
Stone Ocean
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Oh, ok, the item I've been losing rolls on Susano is just the crafting item and I've never actually seen a mount drop in fuck if I know how many runs
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I think it's the most involved out of all the healers. We ended up with more buttons to press than fewer, especially after seeing what you got with Sleeve Draw or watching Earthly Star positioning in addition to before. The dmg "rotation" is as boring as ever but that was nothing new.
Outside of a few of the same old complaints like 20% Balance needing nerbatted and making Spear more useful I'm pretty damn happy with the job, definitely moreso that last expansion. And I loved it then.
Still working on Heavensward, but a couple observations:
1. STOP working with Ascians. Just dont do it. There is nothing gained so useful that its worth cutting a Faustian bargain with an evil shadow person.
2. Your chocobo is MVP, even if they arent written into the story. My bromance with my chocobo is the stuff of legend.
3. HW's story is at least fourteen times better than ARR. All the new characters - Azure Dragoon, Iceheart, The "Mongrel", the bug/crabs - I cannot wait to see what they do with Stormblood if it holds up this kind of quality and momentum.
1. STOP working with Ascians. Just dont do it. There is nothing gained so useful that its worth cutting a Faustian bargain with an evil shadow person.
2. Your chocobo is MVP, even if they arent written into the story. My bromance with my chocobo is the stuff of legend.
3. HW's story is at least fourteen times better than ARR. All the new characters - Azure Dragoon, Iceheart, The "Mongrel", the bug/crabs - I cannot wait to see what they do with Stormblood if it holds up this kind of quality and momentum.
Yes, you can grind (completely uncapped) Yellow Scrips to get blue quality i300 gear, but the gear iself is sort of underwhelming compared to melded crafted i290 white quality gear. It's mostly there for glamour or if you don't want to bother overmelding stuff (it should be noted that there is currently very little point in overmelding anyway since everything is easily obtainable in crafted white, non-melded gear). The tools and body pieces are the more interesting slots to fill since their crafted equivalents require a lot more (expensive) melding to be better.
Thanks, sounds like I'll just do the 70 quest and move on to my next DoH and DoL.
HelloNewman
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I got my Warrior to 60 and aside from one healer telling me go go go go go it was pretty fun.
Stone Ocean
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Collectibles + leves, yes
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I didn't even really use leves for fishing outside of opportunity. Just went and explored every fishing location with Field Manuals, then went on to fish the Tiny Tatsunoko and farmed some Dusklight Aethersand (I mean, I was going to farm it anyway so I might as well get some xp while doing it). Made a few millions selling leve and GC turn-in fish, too. Outside of 68 to 69, it was pretty painless. I guess that's not the most efficient way but to me fishing is all about exploring and filling your log anyway.
But yeah, don't use leves on Miner and Botanist (for the 60 to 70 grind anyway). Farm collectables instead, it'll buy you every single Tome of Folklore before you even reach 70.
But yeah, don't use leves on Miner and Botanist (for the 60 to 70 grind anyway). Farm collectables instead, it'll buy you every single Tome of Folklore before you even reach 70.
Likewise, Culinarian and Alchemist both are pretty easy to get to 70 via collectibles, if only for a mountain of IVs to explode when trying to overmeld the new gear for no real good reason besides wanting to.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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SAM was one of the things that prompted my post. I've heard a lot of talk regarding how things change a lot at 62 with the Kenki Mastery trait which lets you start generating Kenki for real.
That and my Tam Tara leveling roulette and just general thought regarding Blade & Soul's combat.
Ideally this would be present from low level just like Blade & Soul does it from the start and just builds it up over time as you unlock more skills and get more points to spec different abilities (FFXIV doesn't have this but it would still work without).
I'm actually planning on getting SAM to 70 after I finish with Ninja. I have heard nothing but good things about SAM's max level play so I'm looking forward to it.
I had the issue too, i reset my modem and router, and it seemed to fix it.
The music in the Lochs is amazing, though.
Sammy Samusu
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Update from my early impressions!
I gotta say the game got a lot better, I'm just level 30 but I'm having a lot more fun now between all the content that it's been unlocked one after the other (chocobo race, retainers, challenges, etc).
I'm also doing some quests that are finally challenging my abilities, and the amount of filler side quests is diminishing. The story is also moving and getting better.
Oh and the thing that keeps me going for SURE: I want to master archery fast so I can change to another job, probably to carpenter lol. I love craft jobs.
I gotta say the game got a lot better, I'm just level 30 but I'm having a lot more fun now between all the content that it's been unlocked one after the other (chocobo race, retainers, challenges, etc).
I'm also doing some quests that are finally challenging my abilities, and the amount of filler side quests is diminishing. The story is also moving and getting better.
Oh and the thing that keeps me going for SURE: I want to master archery fast so I can change to another job, probably to carpenter lol. I love craft jobs.
You can switch to other jobs when you hit level 10 on one.
Hmmm... gets a bit too bombastic for me I think. Find myself reaching or the volume button.
Sammy Samusu
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I know but the game told me not to.
Go back to Tibia.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Ten Chi Jin looks so cool in videos.
Can't wait till I hit 70 so I can actually test it out.
Have you tried that WTFast thing?
Never used it before but it might help.
Can't wait till I hit 70 so I can actually test it out.
Have you tried that WTFast thing?
Never used it before but it might help.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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seems like ixion spawned when i was asleep...
don't think i'll camp it any longer, this is getting stupid
Agreed. I have 7 horns. I figure I'll just get the rest if I happen to be on and he pops. I'm not going to put effort into camping him, especially since he spawned around 4am last night.
Ten Chi Jin is SO WEIRD when you first try it. I think I got rabbits the first 2-3 times I used it, then you forget all you know about muscle memory and learn to not rush it and it becomes second nature.
So, so happy with how ninja turned out this expansion.
KeyBladerXIII
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Well, the music in Rhalgr's Reach is going to be stuck in my mind for quite a while.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Yeah, I didn't get it at all, but now I see I've been missing out big time.
They even give you a hint in the name -_-
Personally, it was having to press the Ninjutsu button after each mudra to execute each Ninjutsu that made me fight with 3+ years of muscle memory. Kept trying to do my full Suiton sequence the first few times even though I was aware of how it worked, lol.
this was actually 1.0 battle sytem afaik
