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Fishious posted:Turn 6 is actually a good fight for BLM if they're not dumb and you don't get totally dicked by RNG, more flare chances than any other turn. Sorta like Titan EM if you don't get gaoled. 376 was my last parse. Only BLM buff that's needed is to Scathe. If double damage chance were tied to current Astral stack level (giving BLM 70% of their standing DPS while moving), plus it refreshed the current Astral Ice/Fire stack, I think BLMs would be okay. Nothing fucks your DPS harder than losing stacks after a bad bout of encounter RNG. Vine + bulb (or idiot on the other end of the vine) = gotta ramp up again if you don't have am instant Fire III proc ready. Varance fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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You can't auto-attack during casts, so it will only go off during a CGD and the point was DPS loss while running; if you're running around chances are you're not in auto-attack range. Not much is also an understatement. ^^^You can stand completely still and never have to use scathe and your potential DPS is still too low for a pure-DPS job. Buffing scathe won't change that. Also keeping stacks in that situation depends on your strategy for floral trap, if you sit in briars you should never lose it. I don't know how line-of-sight method fares for BLM because I've never done it. Fishious fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Varance posted:Only buff BLM that's needed is to Scathe. If double damage chance were tied to current Astral stack level, plus it refreshed the current Astral Ice/Fire stack, I think BLMs would be okay. Nothing fucks your DPS harder than losing stacks after a bad bout of encounter RNG. Vine + bulb (or idiot on the other end of the vine) = gotta ramp up again if you don't have am instant Fire III proc ready. Actually, there's an argument to be made to allow a second Firestarter proc to stack instead of just one. This solves a couple problems - being able to sit on a firestarter proc without wasting any means you can "store up" a few seconds of movement without losing DPS, you don't risk triggering two procs back to back and wasting one (if you're spamming Fire as fast as possible), etc. It's a pretty small change that would have a big effect.
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Varance posted:Only BLM buff that's needed is to Scathe. If double damage chance were tied to current Astral stack level (giving BLM 70% of their standing DPS while moving), plus it refreshed the current Astral Ice/Fire stack, I think BLMs would be okay. Nothing fucks your DPS harder than losing stacks after a bad bout of encounter RNG. Vine + bulb (or idiot on the other end of the vine) = gotta ramp up again if you don't have am instant Fire III proc ready. Monks constantly lose greased lightning in fights like titan, and perfect form can only help so much. I'd have to imagine the interruptions in buffs is taken in to account for these fights.
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Hey, is <ZEON> still around on Exodus, or any Exodus goons left? My partner and I just resubbed and our old FC was completely dead when we came back, and we don't want to pay for a transfer to Excalibur.
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Turn 5 CLEARED YESSS yes yes. I wasn't expecting to watch a video and 5 hours later find a group that could do it but thankfully our neighbors in Mist are awesome. I even managed to not die to a twister on the 2nd farm run. Now for Turn 6...
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I've never died to twister, but the HP buff for old content is the only thing saving me, because I get hit by dive bombs all the time 
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KaneTW posted:Please link some. (Volt Catfish doesn't count) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=429994008 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430003360 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430006219 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430114373 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430120439 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430340422 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430336608 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=430335111 Some relevant quotes: "sometimes the FC helps and sometimes it doesn't, it just depends on who's on I guess." "I call for FC members (and football, on occaision) to join every time and I get literally one or two responses, so it's back to the random trough." "To be honest if you are getting into EM primals at this point it's either wipefest or carry, with little middle ground." I might not be on Excalibur, but reading posts like that, I think it's reasonable to say exactly what I did: "the potential for problems is still there." Kyrosiris posted:so saying that opportunities aren't there is specious as all hell. I never said they didn't exist. I said, "If you want to actually get into endgame raiding, it might be an uphill battle." I didn't think that would piss people off quite so much, but this is the MMO HMO, so I guess I should have known better.
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URL grey tea posted:Turn 5 CLEARED YESSS yes yes. If I never hear the Lahabrea/Twin boss music again it'll be too soon.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Monks constantly lose greased lightning in fights like titan, and perfect form can only help so much. I'd have to imagine the interruptions in buffs is taken in to account for these fights. And that's after you've already lost 10 seconds or more of regular rotation DPS time, which is how you lost the stack in the first place. There's a point to be made about adding/changing a cooldown to throw on a stack of Greased Lightning, like how Warriors have cooldowns that refresh/add stacks of Wrath. Varance fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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robodex posted:Hey, is <ZEON> still around on Exodus, or any Exodus goons left? My partner and I just resubbed and our old FC was completely dead when we came back, and we don't want to pay for a transfer to Excalibur. ZEON is still around. Send a tell to Adrek Aldeno, Lunia Gael, Axel Xalidin, or Aldis Anselhelm. Let any of them know that Weltnarok told you to get an invite from them!
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Jun 30, 2014 03:00
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I've been levelling a Marauder, and putting my bonus attribute points into Strength for quicker kills during quests. There's a way to reset this, right?
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Jun 30, 2014 03:21
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Yes. You can buy an item from your grand company quartermaster for 10,000 seals that resets your attributes on whatever class is currently equipped.
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I'm sorry you have to cast one spell to get yourself back on rotation while I have to cast 9.
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seorin posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=429994008 Every single one of those posts can be remedied with "speak up louder on ffgoons organization subforums or IRC" and "join football school". Plus, it's 8 people whining out of a total of 490 (current population), so it's 1.6% of ONE goons FC. If you aren't getting what you want out of PBC, go over to DGKK and see if their community fit better. Seriously, coming from the ghost town of Sargatans 1.0, this was a refreshing change and I cannot state enough how joining goons was the best  I've ever spent.
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seorin posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=429994008 Half of these people aren't on Excalibur to begin with. About another quarter are people who are just laying out the facts of modern MMO encounter design. I don't recognize the other forum/character names on ffgoons but that makes me think the remainder are the type of people who pipe up once or twice in an evening and ask for a "learning" party or w/e and then give up when they don't get bites in ten minutes. You aren't on Excalibur so why are you even trying to tell us our business? Transfer to Excalibur and join PBC and see how it is for yourself, or gently caress off because otherwise this is just a dumbass attempt to import drama about a group you're not even a part of.
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Weltnarok posted:ZEON is still around. Send a tell to Adrek Aldeno, Lunia Gael, Axel Xalidin, or Aldis Anselhelm. Let any of them know that Weltnarok told you to get an invite from them! Ok cool, will do. We aren't planning on doing end game stuff but it'd be nice to not get spammed with constant random FC invites
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SpaceGoku posted:You aren't on Excalibur so why are you even trying to tell us our business? Transfer to Excalibur and join PBC and see how it is for yourself, or gently caress off because otherwise this is just a dumbass attempt to import drama about a group you're not even a part of. Stop getting angry about video games. I posted the links because I was asked to. I don't care what happens on Excalibur, nor would I suggest a new-to-FFXIV goon roll anywhere else. There are plenty of testimonials in this thread from goons who transferred to Excalibur and are very happy with the decision. I just said it's not a perfect solution to all problems for everyone, which should hardly be controversial. However, if you're having problems in-game and transferring is a viable solution, I'd still say it's your best bet.
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The Chairman posted:Frontlines, a 24 v 24 v 24 PVP instance that auto-scales your gear and rewards various currencies Holy poo poo that's pretty much enough right there to turn my 'maybe' into a 'definitely'. Wolves' Den was pretty rear end but this sounds great. The rest of your list makes me realize, however, that there actually is quite a lot of content I've gotten through on my old character that I really don't wanna do again so I guess it's worth the thirty bucks to transfer and fantasia. I want to ditch my BLM because it's super boring (and given current discussion I guess also super gimp) so that makes me torn between Warrior and Dragoon. I know the answer is always going to be "why not level both" and that's valid I guess but let's say I kind of wanted to focus on a 'main'. Which will be easier to take through the content I'm going to want to take it through? Which is more, well, fun? Being a mythical Good Dragoon sounds pretty cool.
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There are already a billion Warriors in PBC, Dragoon 4 lyfe. Come join the cool kids club at the bottom of The Navel.
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seorin posted:Stop getting angry about video games. I posted the links because I was asked to. I don't care what happens on Excalibur, nor would I suggest a new-to-FFXIV goon roll anywhere else. There are plenty of testimonials in this thread from goons who transferred to Excalibur and are very happy with the decision. I just said it's not a perfect solution to all problems for everyone, which should hardly be controversial. However, if you're having problems in-game and transferring is a viable solution, I'd still say it's your best bet. Even if you're not convinced that PBC is the right place for you (if you're looking for a smaller guild, or feel like you won't be able to do structured endgame raiding content because everyone who wants to do it already does, or any other reason), Excalibur is definitely the server you want to be on. There are dickloads of guilds on the server, and some of them will be what you're looking for if you decide to leave. Check on the official forums or any host of unofficial forums (I think reddit has a reddit thing for recruitment maybe?) and you'll probably be able to find what you want. Despite what you may think, a lot of them are recruiting - there are tons of guilds that are just now getting into coil2, guilds that have one coil2 team and are trying to make a second, or guilds losing static members that need replacements. If you have soldiery/CT2(soon)/coil 1 pieces (which you can get relatively quickly), you'll have little problem finding somebody that wants you. I'd give PBC a shot, at the very least - and if it's not your jam, then go somewhere else. It happens.
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Speaking of getting angry about video games -- how many times does that horrible woman want me to go back to Vesper Bay? I try ignoring her, but she has a magical earring to spy on me. She should at least get the aethernet or something. Tsk. I was lured in by the steam sale and decided to roll up a CNJ on Excalibur so I can lurk there, too. It's a lot of fun so far! ... Except for said horrible woman.
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Question. I've gone back and forth with other MMOs in the past, and this seems fun. Is there a quest pass system? I missed the big sale on it on steam and I'm having a hard time pulling the trigger on a 20-30 dollar game that i'm going to have to pay 15 bucks a month to play. I dont mind a monthly fee, But it would be nice to try it out first. If not, I can wait for a sale, or use some googlefu and get a cheap key. But Free would be ideal. I mean I made it a whole 2 hours into wildstar before giving up on it so understand my concern.
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Ershalim posted:Speaking of getting angry about video games -- how many times does that horrible woman want me to go back to Vesper Bay? I try ignoring her, but she has a magical earring to spy on me. She should at least get the aethernet or something. Tsk. You'll be returning to Vesper Bay all the way to level 50... and then still going back there despite the story making you think you won't be going back.
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Axle_Stukov posted:You'll be returning to Vesper Bay all the way to level 50... and then still going back there despite the story making you think you won't be going back. Noooooo! Oh well. At least I finally got my own chocobro... But seriously, she should get an elevator or one of those bells that retainers have or something.
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seorin posted:Stop getting angry about video games. I posted the links because I was asked to. I don't care what happens on Excalibur, nor would I suggest a new-to-FFXIV goon roll anywhere else. There are plenty of testimonials in this thread from goons who transferred to Excalibur and are very happy with the decision. I just said it's not a perfect solution to all problems for everyone, which should hardly be controversial. However, if you're having problems in-game and transferring is a viable solution, I'd still say it's your best bet. You were asked to show proof of people complaining about not being able to get into endgame content on Excalibur. You posted a bunch of links to people who either 1) aren't on Excalibur, or 2) aren't complaining about endgame content. e: There's also the comedy option third group of the one person who pipes up once or twice in IRC to ask for carries through whatever but never actually speaks in FC. SpaceGoku fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Ershalim posted:Noooooo! Oh well. At least I finally got my own chocobro... But seriously, she should get an elevator or one of those bells that retainers have or something. I give them credit for addressing in story why you can't just teleport there to turn in your million drat quests that lead there, and the explanation actually making sense.
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Another question about classes: say I wanted to main Paladin. Is there always room for a paladin in a party? Say, for raiding or something, does generally only one paladin come along, or can two fit into a raid pretty easily? Would I have trouble getting into parties and raids and such if I wanted to play only Paladin? And if so, does Warrior also have this problem?
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Daily Forecast posted:Another question about classes: say I wanted to main Paladin. Is there always room for a paladin in a party? Say, for raiding or something, does generally only one paladin come along, or can two fit into a raid pretty easily? Would I have trouble getting into parties and raids and such if I wanted to play only Paladin? It's better to run one of each, but you can do two of either without any serious difficulties. If you're a warrior, you'll need to level a gladiator to 24 anyway to get provoke, and since the two tanks can share a lot of different gear, it's probably a good idea to just take it the rest of the way to 50. It's really easy and painless to level something just by doing your daily roulette every day, so you could do something like max paladin, then do roulette on warrior every day until it's 50. Best of both worlds.
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Daily Forecast posted:Another question about classes: say I wanted to main Paladin. Is there always room for a paladin in a party? Say, for raiding or something, does generally only one paladin come along, or can two fit into a raid pretty easily? Would I have trouble getting into parties and raids and such if I wanted to play only Paladin? Since the Warrior adjustments a few patches ago most end game groups will take one of each, however running two Paladins is still viable and extremely common opposed to running two Warriors which just doesn't happen for current progression content.
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Sendo posted:Since the Warrior adjustments a few patches ago most end game groups will take one of each, however running two Paladins is still viable and extremely common opposed to running two Warriors which just doesn't happen for current progression content.
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Thanks for the answers. Still deciding between WAR and PLD (I decided against DRG) and while I guess I could do both I suppose I need to level them both anyway as subs before I have to decide. One last question: I know you can rename your character (I want to give mine a ~*lore friendly RP name*~) if there's another character already on the server with that name. My question is, can I make that character myself, or does it have to be on somebody else's account? I have no more friends who play this game. 
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Daily Forecast posted:One last question: I know you can rename your character (I want to give mine a ~*lore friendly RP name*~) if there's another character already on the server with that name. My question is, can I make that character myself, or does it have to be on somebody else's account? Nah, you can make it yourself.
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Daily Forecast posted:Thanks for the answers. Still deciding between WAR and PLD (I decided against DRG) and while I guess I could do both I suppose I need to level them both anyway as subs before I have to decide. Yeah, you very much are going to want to level both a bit. If you decide to main Paladin, you don't have to go as far into Marauder, but if you want to main Warrior you will absolutely be going 22 levels into Gladiator. Provoke isn't optional, like Swiftcast isn't optional for serious healers. Other things are highly negotiable. It might be useful for a tank to pick up Stoneskin, as there are situations where it's useless for a caster to waste the MP and time on it but it's still moderately useful. Invigorate can be a no-brainer for maximizing effectiveness. No matter what though, you will absolutely want to snag at least some tanking skills from the other tank class. There are situations where both are useful, so there isn't a wrong choice.
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Yeah. Not really new, just returning after around four or so months. I got bored as anything with this game, but on a character I played previous to this one I got 50 warrior and loved it a lot. Not sure if I want to go with Warrior again or try something new with Paladin! Both seem like excellent choices. I'm trying to transfer servers but Excaliber doesn't show up in the list. Is it unavailable sometimes? When's a good time to try?
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Varance posted:Does Greased Lightning screw with your TP regeneration and the TP cost of your attacks, in addition to cast speed and damage? No. Managing Astral stacks is an order of magnitude more important to BLM DPS, lest you have to stand in place for 3 seconds, burning a bunch of MP for half the regular damage to get a full stack back up. I don't think either need the challenge of maintaining stacks reduced, RNG on fights happen and there is nothing you can do about it, but it is bad RNG that happened to you and not the other DPS so it's not going to wipe the encounter (unless you're carrying). You got screwed out of a good parse it sucks. Since the DPS ceiling for monk nears 500 they can have bad luck and still top charts. For a BLM wasting GCDs is a lost precious chance to keep up with everyone. Hopefully the buffs raise the ceiling for BLM since it will still keep the same challenge in playing BLM (which I enjoy in many fights, in particular T9 and Titan EM) and buff both the good and bad luck parses.
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Ershalim posted:Noooooo! Oh well. At least I finally got my own chocobro... But seriously, she should get an elevator or one of those bells that retainers have or something. There's a slightly faster method of getting there: Warp to Limsa Lominsa. Use the Aetherite to go to the Arcanist's guild. From there, go down to the docks and take the ferry to Vesper Bay (80 gil). Much faster, albeit very slightly more expensive.
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I just got my Artemis Bow Animus over the weekend, so I'm getting ready to start working on the Novus. What stats should I be loading onto the bow? I was thinking of doing Accuracy and Crit, but a friend was bringing up how much Determination you can put on the Novus vs. other weapons at the same ilvl, so now I have no idea. Have any of the numbers masters in the thread looked at a good stat build for the Bard Novus?
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EbolaIvory posted:Is there a quest pass system? I missed the big sale on it on steam and I'm having a hard time pulling the trigger on a 20-30 dollar game that i'm going to have to pay 15 bucks a month to play. I dont mind a monthly fee, But it would be nice to try it out first. Not sure what a quest pass is, but I assume it's a free trial? FF14's first month is free, but you can't (currently) get around actually buying the game. You should be able to find it for $15 pretty reliably, though. Check SA-Mart if you have to. Also, if you only want one character -- which is the most common use case by far, since one character can do every class -- it's only $13/month. edit: It's (still?) USD$12.50 on Amazon right now. pksage fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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