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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
- Thread starter Ken
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Not yet but a few groups are in the second phase.
no they beat the dps check
big spoilers for O4S
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No, but the top stream on twitch (elysium) just got to
neo exdeath
Wow. Epic as f**k. Are they intentionally evoking T9 with that I wonder?..
BreezyLimbo
Banned
wait if that guy is in this game
does that mean ultimecia is in this game
@_@
does that mean ultimecia is in this game
@_@
Alex
Member
I said as much awhile ago but I felt like the new curve was obvious within release week. WHM is likely going to be a slightly preferred defacto healer with an AST or SCH as an accent for progression content. All three are in a solid spot after the fairly minor adjustments but WHM is just so solidly built and reliable that it seems like the obvious choice with the way the new abilities came out and how even trivial content was changed (65+ shit hitting WAYYY harder than HW). When they change game flow like that it's often for a package reason.
XIV has a really wacky community in its idea of balance. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Heck, for DPS the bulk of the classes are nearly on top of each other in terms of number tuning, like a 8-9% curve with Samurai as a mild outlier. Parser accumulation proves that, but you'd swear that some of them were worthless with the way some carry on.
Now whether you like your job or not is on the individual, I whine more than my fair share in that regard. Lots still need some good QoL pushes but only a few need even mild throughput changes, at least based on current content.
Lord help some of these people if they played another MMO. I mean 30%+ gaps are not abnormal in this genre. 10% across the board, even with the reduced complexity of the system variation is outstanding
Being realistic, half the time the meta and general perception of balance in XIV is often just one big meme.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Just like the real game!
Well, as a reward for tackling the hardest content I think it's pretty great.
Just watching these guys getting stomped is hilarious. Fight looks brutal.
TheMrPliskin
Member
That transition is incredible, this fight is one of my favourite things I've seen in the game.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
OS4:
Hey, dawg I heard you like mechanics, so we put mechanics inside the mechanics
Stone Ocean
Member
Wrong game Breezy
SliceSabre
Banned
What's next, judgment nisi?
I'm assuming at 50% it starts using Akh Morn and Temporal Stasis because fuck it why not
Downed O2S as well, fun and balanced fight all around, while it's not specially hard once you have the mechanics down, I think it won't be puggable for most people, a couple of mechanics require a semblance of coordination.
Nice to have a tomestone right in the first week, even though I'll have to wait the whole seven weeks (as always ;() since I'm a healer.
Nice to have a tomestone right in the first week, even though I'll have to wait the whole seven weeks (as always ;() since I'm a healer.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
My raid was cancelled because our WHM dc'd like right when we started progressing O1s. lol, oh well.
Yeah,
I saw that part where they put the stack mechanic inside of someone with the A11S triangle marker mechanic and was like "da faq".
I wouldn't be surprised if this fight had almost every mechanic, and then Neo Exdeath starts doing triple dive bombs at 40% health.
I wouldn't be surprised if this fight had almost every mechanic, and then Neo Exdeath starts doing triple dive bombs at 40% health.
To fuck with your timing.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Because they'd need to tie the telegraphs to the animations then, which means they'd need mostly only fast animations. And that means they'd have to rework every single fight almost which sounds like quite a lot of work.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
markers go away at 80% right? that 's when it's decided
Literally the whole game works like this, it's just most obvious with AOEs.
Ever have a tank swear up, down, left, and right that they had a CD up but they died anyway?
Ever had a healer bemoan Benedictioning their own dead body?
Ever moved towards the end of a castbar and had the cast complete anyway, even though you were moving and it should have canceled?
The game has a lot of latency stuff going on, and part of the whole thing is that it 'locks in' damage and effects somewhere in the very tail end of cast bars. That means there's a short window at the end of the cast where nothing you do matters, because the game has already calculated what's going to happen next. While you think you moved early, as far as the server is concerned you moved after it completed the mechanic and the order you see it play out on your screen is secondary.
Over time you get used to it and learn how to make it work for you. It's dumb, but you learn when you can run into something that should be deadly because by the time the server realizes you're there the window is over. Slide casting (abusing that section of the cast bar between the server locking in that you've cast a thing and your client completing the cast) is an important part of caster mobility. You accept that you'll get hit by things and leave a body on the other side of the room;
It's not great, but it's deeply baked into the game's cores systems at this point and I'm guessing would be an epic struggle for them to remove. Instead they just say the game is supposed to be playable at 250ms ping and you can lump all the latency weirdness into that.
So my account really might be gone for good. Can't log in to the email my SE account is connected to and support just emailed me saying "reset your password." Thanks jackass. I'd do just that if it didn't mean that you'd send a link to an email account I can't access. That's a lot of hours down the shitter. I'm not sure I wanna start over. This would be the third time. I still vividly remember all the damn cutscenes, all the boring initial quests, going through a list of hunts and company quests and running back and forth between two fate events to reach the level prerequisite to advance the story, the stupid story quest where you literally just get ingredients for some dumbass banquet at the beach or something. The last thing I remember is completing some cool Egyptian temple dungeon and being in some snowy place killing dragons and shit.
I also just miss my cute little White Mage. And I went through the trouble of dying my Chocobo white. I don't even remember how to do that. This shit sucks man. At this rate I'll never even play Heavensward or Stormblood. And I don't wanna pay to start there.
I also just miss my cute little White Mage. And I went through the trouble of dying my Chocobo white. I don't even remember how to do that. This shit sucks man. At this rate I'll never even play Heavensward or Stormblood. And I don't wanna pay to start there.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
If you can't recover your account there is a level boost and story skip options now.
Stone Ocean
Member
v2 is a pretty fun little dance. Got it to 65% today so we should be clearing it tomorrow.
And god bless the new Plenary. This thing is soooooooooooo helpful vs heavy AoE damage
And god bless the new Plenary. This thing is soooooooooooo helpful vs heavy AoE damage
SuperStiltzkin
Member
What happened to this DoM armor? Is it gonna be another tier of armor and we'll be getting DoW variants as well?
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Man, I kind of just want to take off and raid the rest of the week lol
Yup.
This puts it at 12-ish hours for O4S?
same comp my group is looking at which sucks because what am I going to blame for our failure now
we start in 15 minutes. i'm gonna fall off everything.