Jeez man just quit the game already. These changes are all looking fantastic.
Tired of the negativity brewing when Stormblood overall has had huge improvements and been a great success.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Tired of the negativity brewing when Stormblood overall has had huge improvements and been a great success.
Dragoon changes are fine I guess but I just want a change to the Eyes mechanic.
I can lose attention waiting for the swords to come down in Susano EX\ and forget to reup BOTD and bam there goes 2 eyes, now I only have 1 eye when Susano comes back out. Probably still feel bad in stuff dungeons and anything with long jumps.
I can lose attention waiting for the swords to come down in Susano EX\ and forget to reup BOTD and bam there goes 2 eyes, now I only have 1 eye when Susano comes back out. Probably still feel bad in stuff dungeons and anything with long jumps.
Wait, what? That seems to be a pretty big thing to announce this late. It wasn't like that before right?
I mean the start of Stormblood?
AST as a healer is in a completely different place from 3.0, and is less reliant on Balance for 100% of its value to the party. This is a kind of obvious move to make in the expansion, on the level of something you'd think they'd have known they wanted to do before EA. It's just odd that they made the obvious move on a month delay instead of just doing it day one, since everything that's happened since has been super predictable.
The minimal overall rDPS gain from Balance is going to be counterbalanced in some ways by the increased frequency of useful card combos (Spear joining Arrow in the "not Balance but also not completely loathsome" category), the strength of AST's kit, etc.
oh i know, balance was pretty much going to get hit. the spear change was a nice surprise tho.
Unknown Soldier
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Suck it PLD's, there will be no double PLD comps for you
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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WAR is now beast again anyway.
If you think MCH heat change looks "fantastic" you don't understand the job.
SCH fixes are bandaids and do little to fix fundamental problems.
I don't know how to put it that I can both like the game and despise the ineptitude of the dev team.
Casual statics that care more about what jobs they enjoy than doing it the 'most optimal way'?
At the very least double astro before the nerfs
INSTANCES ARE BACK
BABY!
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/23cc8fdbce0d2e8ae08fe7fd472c1ffd8acf6183
IN ALL SB ZONES
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/23cc8fdbce0d2e8ae08fe7fd472c1ffd8acf6183
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Just glad I have multiple 70s cause damn
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Wow in all zones? Unexpected.
The MCH changes are pretty solid for the casual tier, at least. The loss of Cooldowns is going to be a thing people will math out and frown at , and Overheat not getting put back at 20 is kind of crap, but the Stabilizer change is at least a step towards less punishing. It's literally the best I was hoping for at this point--4.2 will probably bring the FotM overbuff again, and it's possible the post-50 feel will be weird with the reduced heat build, and I don't think we needed the nerf to heat gain over 50 once they made the Barrel Stabilizer change, but it's a hell of a lot better than just what they'd told us in advance.
The job identity is on some level perma-fucked this expansion since everything they used to have the advantage at was moved cross-role to give Bard access, but with my lowered expectations I'll take it.
Right, but that doesn't explain why it's happening in 4.05. It was the big, obvious, expected thing; should have just been there from 4.0.
The job identity is on some level perma-fucked this expansion since everything they used to have the advantage at was moved cross-role to give Bard access, but with my lowered expectations I'll take it.
Right, but that doesn't explain why it's happening in 4.05. It was the big, obvious, expected thing; should have just been there from 4.0.
They leaped before the patch even came out.
It's mostly because of Stormblood, they've staggered the release of some of the end game activities to give people time to level and gear up and each takes some downtime to patch in.
Though it's pretty unlucky too your free time lines up almost exactly with the downtime, servers went down at 10.
If I want to play Tank dark knight is still the worst ye? I'm working through the vanilla content because I wanted to be a DRK because cool greatswords but if they suck maybe I'll just stay as PLD
They are fine, I find DRK quite fun.
Regardless, play what you enjoy. All jobs are viable for all content in the game. If you want to be a DRK, be a DRK. (and again, they are fun imo. - Level 63 just now but I'm enjoying it)
Why are they adding instances back for EVERYTHING IN SB? Wasn't the only problem The Lochs because dumb Ixion?
Dark Knight doesn't seem like many changes. Still last place tank?
New treasure map dungeon is cool. Still never had the chance to go to Aquapolis.
i320 requirement for V3/V4 is a bit rough. I sure hope Creation tomestones give i320 gear in that case.
Dark Knight doesn't seem like many changes. Still last place tank?
New treasure map dungeon is cool. Still never had the chance to go to Aquapolis.
i320 requirement for V3/V4 is a bit rough. I sure hope Creation tomestones give i320 gear in that case.
Dougieflesh
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The Plenary Indulgence changes are greatly appreciated. What an unbelievably useless skill it was.
they were still riding the "wait and see" train.
the nerf to heat gain I wanna say is because they know people were trying to not overheat. seems stupid with the stabilizer change, but its expected that not everything is going to make sense when dealing with SE
Im okay with this
If they did that, instances would fill up faster than they already do
It's probably 330 considering current omega gear is 320
Tome stone gear will definitely be 320.
If they're fun, that's all that matters to me tbh so this a huge relief. I've been messing around with RDM too which has been fun also! but more fun that playing DPS is not having 30 min plus dungeon queues!
Yeah well it sucks for people that play with their friends/partners/etc. (aka not people who just join a pf group so they can teleport into the correct instance)
Many times, I've had to go out and into an area just to meet up with someone, even when instance 1 had 3 people, 2 had 4 people and 3 had 1 person, it still separates us. You should at the very least be able select someone in your party member and choose a sub command that says "join same instance" or something similar to the way Guild Wars 2 does it.
That way people who are genuinely playing together for non hunt/fate stuff don't get punished.
Yeah they are fun, Some people miss not having to manage mp as much anymore (since they changed Darkside to not constantly drain mp now) but overall it's fun to play imo.
RDM is hella fun too. Switched from DRG main to RDM main <3
doesn't matter for premade parties, only if you're queuing in via matchmaking.
320? Don't agree. It would be redundant on release
Snapshot King
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Not sure how I feel about only really getting a 20 potency boost on one combo, but it's nearly the same as Pallys 30 potency loss on Holy Spirit. I don't know. Still planning on playing DRK but it'll be disappointing if they're really the worst of the three.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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new tome gear will be 320, maybe upgradable to 325~330 at some point with some annoying to collect item
It would be inline with the way they've done things so far, and tome gear is mainly to keep players who don't have the time/inclination to raid relatively geared up
It would be inline with the way they've done things so far, and tome gear is mainly to keep players who don't have the time/inclination to raid relatively geared up
SuperStiltzkin
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Yes, instances will help me farm those goddamn manzasiri hairs.
Did you guys forget how Normal - Tome - Savage gear works or something.
Edit: To be less snark, X - X+10 - X+20; tome gear with a +10 ilvl upgrade via the raid and eventually in the 24-man raid. 24-man raid drops equivalent to base tome gear. Crafted should be the same as Normal, assuming we have a crafted set for the entry tier anyway. This puts it at 320 - 330 - 340, with the O4S weapons being 345.
Edit: To be less snark, X - X+10 - X+20; tome gear with a +10 ilvl upgrade via the raid and eventually in the 24-man raid. 24-man raid drops equivalent to base tome gear. Crafted should be the same as Normal, assuming we have a crafted set for the entry tier anyway. This puts it at 320 - 330 - 340, with the O4S weapons being 345.
Snapshot King
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Tome Gear is going to be i330, with Savage gear being i340 and upgraded Tome Gear being i340 with items you can get from either Savage or from weekly clears of the 4.1 Raid. Tome Gear is never the same ilevel as normal.
320 would be wildly inconsistent with every single tier of gearing since we've had normal raids.
Normal/Crafted 320, Tome 330, Upgraded Tome 340/Savage 340. Anything else is a massive departure from how tome gear has worked forever. It has to upgrade to parity with Savage, or they destroy the entire gear catchup cycle.
Saving up tomestones for three weeks to buy a weapon of equal iLevel to Susano would be a special kind of soul-crushing, at least.
Normal/Crafted 320, Tome 330, Upgraded Tome 340/Savage 340. Anything else is a massive departure from how tome gear has worked forever. It has to upgrade to parity with Savage, or they destroy the entire gear catchup cycle.
Saving up tomestones for three weeks to buy a weapon of equal iLevel to Susano would be a special kind of soul-crushing, at least.
Capped tome gear has been 10 ilvls above normal raids since HW started. Eso was 200, upgradeable to 210, etc. as it continued through the patches. Makes no sense for weekly capped tomestone gear to be the same ilvl as normal Omega.
I don't think Tome gear in 3.x was the same ilevel as the normal raid gear. Probably remembering incorrectly?
I'm betting savage will be i340. Tome 330.
looking at the old gear, signs point to 330, with it being going to 340 on upgrade. this is on the idea that they are still going to follow the normal raid being 20 ilvls below savage.
Edit- you said it before my post
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
Ahhhhh dammit the Balance nerf finally hit me.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Yeah, you guys are right. It's been so long I honestly didn't remember but the Susano comparison makes it obvious.
I have every non-healer Susano weapon now -_-
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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It's actually insanely stupid to have instances in all zones. Gotta farm that tiger chievo somehow.... fkn stupid.