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Xerophyte posted:Frontlines is half a level. If that's good or bad tends to depend on what level you are. At L80+? It's great! At L30? It's not. Waaaaait. What? You just queue in job to get the bonus and change jobs and whatever you join as = Frontlines?
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Waaaaait. What? You just queue in job to get the bonus and change jobs and whatever you join as = Frontlines? Yes. I have leveled most of the melee jobs in Endwalker by playing Scholar. To my shame I admit that I actually played Monk, since I needed a DPS for trusts anyhow and I kind of enjoy MNK unlike the rest of its misbegotten kind. I should hand in my caster card.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Waaaaait. What? You just queue in job to get the bonus and change jobs and whatever you join as = Frontlines? you gotta load in on the job you queued with because thats how queues work, but you can change class at the spawn point in frontlines to any class you want. you get the xp on the job you queued with
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May 9, 2024 00:12
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Yeah -- I think it may be intended to let people balance on the fly if they load into an Oops All Melee DPS party, but it's handy to let you level every job in Frontline without having to learn all of them.
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May 9, 2024 00:15
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goblin week posted:they'll only get better at like level 95, at this point it's sunk cost fallacy ZenMasterBullshit posted:Most of them are just worse stats than the last tomeset upgraded until the 95 dungeon. The 96 whites (HQ) I think usually equal them or get just above as well. If you're geared at the end of an expac you don't actually need any of the gear you're given until over halfway through the expac, usually. I mean yeah no poo poo but don't be the goober who keeps wearing it up to 100 Oxyclean posted:Playing devil's advocate, but if you have a messy armory chest / things at a lot of different levels and/or end up leveling a lot of stuff at the same time, I feel like you'd end up with a lot of clutter since it'd be easy to end up with like, 95 gear, 97 gear, 99 gear, the multiply that by multiple roles. It's a bit flimsy of an excuse when you can just wander over to your GC and drop off old poo poo for seals
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May 9, 2024 00:21
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Yeah Frontlines allows you to change jobs at the home point. It's not just good for leveling, if you care about PVP you can also adjust your job to match your opponents.
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May 9, 2024 00:21
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Failboattootoot posted:Yup, and the corollary to this is you can sell the quest rewards for shitloads of money. You would think this wouldn't be the case since everyone is doing MSQ and should be getting them, but no. HQ quest rewards were consistently going for 100k+ during EW launch window. You're overlooking the fact that some people level multiple jobs during MSQ and you only get one set of gear from quest rewards now. So people who don't buy poetics gear or already spent all their poetics have an incentive to buy gear.
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goblin week posted:they'll only get better at like level 95, at this point it's sunk cost fallacy Nah they'll have better ilevels starting at 93. The stat differences may not be huge at that point, but they're still better.
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May 9, 2024 00:56
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goblin week posted:anyway further in EW: i tried doing the 89 trial with duty support and after half hour I gave up. God. That'd've been so cool to do but they kept dying like flies. Good one, though. Fun fact, only one of the scions is programmed to do all of the mechanics correctly. Everyone else has at least one they’re scripted to mess up. Now whether the ai actually accomplishes this stated purpose, that’s another matter. But programming-wise, that was the intent.
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Kwyndig posted:You're overlooking the fact that some people level multiple jobs during MSQ and you only get one set of gear from quest rewards now. So people who don't buy poetics gear or already spent all their poetics have an incentive to buy gear. Some of that gear will also be leve requests, so people powerleveling crafters may be buying them to save time on material hunting.
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Buying your leve turn-ins is cowardice, I say, sending my retainer out for yet more almasty fur
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Ytlaya posted:Healers seem like the weird exception that get easier in many ways as you get higher level, since you seemingly just keep getting extra buttons that pop off powerful (usually instant-cast) heals, while other jobs usually have to integrate their new buttons into rotations. AST seems like maybe it's more complex, but I get the impression both Scholar (my highest at 79 currently) and WHM (I think 67 or something) follow this pattern. A lot of this is also because of abilities getting culled/consolidated for healers just like what happens for other jobs. While healing is much easier overall now than it used to be, you straight-up just have less buttons to push at lower levels than you used to as well
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Waaaaait. What? You just queue in job to get the bonus and change jobs and whatever you join as = Frontlines? yep, I've been playing drg in there while levelling every other job
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goblin week posted:anyway further in EW: i tried doing the 89 trial with duty support and after half hour I gave up. God. That'd've been so cool to do but they kept dying like flies. Good one, though. What? I've run that 5+ times and never once had an NPC die. It should be impossible for them to die unless you yourself kill them with overlapping mechs and I can't recall any of those in that trial offhand.
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May 9, 2024 01:47
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HPanda posted:Fun fact, only one of the scions is programmed to do all of the mechanics correctly. Everyone else has at least one they’re scripted to mess up. It’s Y’shtola, of course.
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Offkorn posted:What? I've run that 5+ times and never once had an NPC die. edit: i can't find that video but there are many other people that have had backflip issues like this. Video tweet in link: http://twitter.com/frostwight/status/1468047850894462981 iPodschun fucked around with this message at 02:20 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 01:50
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I wonder if there's something going on depending what role you play as, like if both healers are NPCs are the other NPCs less likely to die because Urianger can't be trusted to raise them or something?
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Y'shtola should screw up all mechanics that involve markers because she's blind, she can't see them.
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Funky Valentine posted:Y'shtola should screw up all mechanics that involve markers because she's blind, she can't see them. She's blind but she has aethersight which means she can actually see all of them perfectly.
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Offkorn posted:What? I've run that 5+ times and never once had an NPC die. You can murder them pretty easily as tank, especially during the last phase if you move the boss as if the other 7 party members don't exist and go to the tiniest safe corner and they'll all die running through the bad after they finish dodging in the big safe corner.
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Yyyeah exactly. Specifically what got them every time was Heroes' Sundering which just straight up kills non-tanks. 🥲
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goblin week posted:Yyyeah exactly. Specifically what got them every time was Heroes' Sundering which just straight up kills non-tanks. 🥲 ???
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That attack is a conal based tankbuster, so yeah, if it gets pointed at non-tanks they're going to bite it.
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MadFriarAvelyn posted:That attack is a conal based tankbuster, so yeah, if it gets pointed at non-tanks they're going to bite it. Yeah if the Scions are dying to Heroes' Sundering somebody is pointing it at them, and Thancred doesn't do that.
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Is there a good source for how to increase GC rank beyond a certain point (whatever I'm at now seems to be the cap from ranking up "normally")? This item that gives a random Stormblood or earlier mount seems handy. Currently I mainly just use my GC points on retainer coins. A few years ago I remember doing some stuff where I kept sending my NPC squad guys on missions, but I never did the thing where you actually do an instance with them.
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Lord_Magmar posted:Yeah if the Scions are dying to Heroes' Sundering somebody is pointing it at them, and Thancred doesn't do that. "Amusingly" however if you go in as a tank it assumes you're going to Main Tank and he doesn't try to get aggro, even if you don't have stance on. This can lead to partymurder.
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Ytlaya posted:Is there a good source for how to increase GC rank beyond a certain point (whatever I'm at now seems to be the cap from ranking up "normally")? This item that gives a random Stormblood or earlier mount seems handy. Currently I mainly just use my GC points on retainer coins. You gotta do some instances.
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Ytlaya posted:Is there a good source for how to increase GC rank beyond a certain point (whatever I'm at now seems to be the cap from ranking up "normally")? This item that gives a random Stormblood or earlier mount seems handy. Currently I mainly just use my GC points on retainer coins. https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Grand_Company_Ranks this is for maelstrom but same will apply to all of them. Key points are GC hunting log, completing flagged squadron missions (the ones where you send the team out and wait for them to report back) and completing a number of command missions where you actually roll with your squad.
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Ytlaya posted:This item that gives a random Stormblood or earlier mount seems handy. Currently I mainly just use my GC points on retainer coins. Others mentioned how to get rank but I'll add here that those boxes are pure gambling and you're more likely to get minions worth a few hundred gil than a mount. If you care at all about relics would instead suggest dumping them all on the various Anima and Zodiac resources. Bombard Cores in particular are 20k each and you need 4 per weapon so it'll keep you spending for a long while.
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Ytlaya posted:Is there a good source for how to increase GC rank beyond a certain point (whatever I'm at now seems to be the cap from ranking up "normally")? This item that gives a random Stormblood or earlier mount seems handy. Currently I mainly just use my GC points on retainer coins. You have to do 5 missions with them for the rank up, and then another 5 to get the exercise emotes. I would not recommend running Hardflox on any of those, they're terrible at the midboss where you have to AOE the bombs away.
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Rynoto posted:Others mentioned how to get rank but I'll add here that those boxes are pure gambling and you're more likely to get minions worth a few hundred gil than a mount. My island lockbox luck has been pretty good overall though. Between my two characters I've pulled five of the lockbox mounts and two of the ticket mounts.
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Halatali is relatively quick as a command mission, at least as a healer. I ran that 10 or so times for the exercise emotes. There's some encounters you can skip, and the bosses don't punish the horrible AI too much.
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Ojjeorago posted:You have to do 5 missions with them for the rank up, and then another 5 to get the exercise emotes. To save some headache, for the rank up you need to do 5 unique dungeons, so you can't just run the same one 10 times to get both rewards. You'll need to do 5 different dungeons for the rank, and then whatever you feel like to get the remaining 10 dungeon runs for the achievement that gives the emotes.
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iPodschun posted:The GC lockboxes help calm any gacha urges I may get in other games, at least. A reminder that my pulls are going to be garbage anyway. I have gotten a few good things out of the lockboxes: zu horn from the 3.0 boxes, Conditional Virtue and Flying Chair from the 4.0 boxes. I've managed to pick up the Zu and Flying Chair mounts, too. And at this point, other than the remaining mounts, I've only got a handful of Minions left, and most of them are the good ones, like Ugly Duckling, Wind-Up Tonberry, and Copycat Bulb. Also, looking at my list of what I have vs what's left to get, I think I've managed to get a few of those minions from Ventures... gonna need to double check that... I still haven't gotten around to starting Island Sanctuary yet...
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I got the Conditional Virtue and Copycat Bulb minions out of the GC lockboxes after keeping up with them for years, definitely worth the occasional seal dump
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A bit off topic, but the "raiding roguelike" Rabbit and Steel is out, for those that like the design of raid fights and want some more of that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfcz9XtYVQ Edit:  They're even doing a no-stakes World First Race for Lunar difficulty tomorrow.
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Mainwaring posted:https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Grand_Company_Ranks this is for maelstrom but same will apply to all of them. Ah thanks. I guess I'm a "First Storm Lieutenant" currently, based on the listed cap. The idea of doing 5 instances doesn't sound too bad. Is it maybe best for me to be healer for them? Rynoto posted:Others mentioned how to get rank but I'll add here that those boxes are pure gambling and you're more likely to get minions worth a few hundred gil than a mount. It doesn't ensure that you'll get one you don't already have? That's definitely a lot worse, then. iPodschun posted:My island lockbox luck has been pretty good overall though. Between my two characters I've pulled five of the lockbox mounts and two of the ticket mounts. I haven't even started the island stuff yet. Is it sorta like the equivalent of the Doma stuff from Stormblood or something?
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Onean posted:A bit off topic, but the "raiding roguelike" Rabbit and Steel is out, for those that like the design of raid fights and want some more of that. Amazing game. Loved the demo, highly recommend to anyone honestly.
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