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SirPhoebos posted:I'm guessing I'm not the first person to accidentally hand in current gear for the GC Expert Delivery. The default option hides gear that is in gearsets, I believe, so I don't think I've ever actually done this.
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Magil Zeal posted:The default option hides gear that is in gearsets, I believe, so I don't think I've ever actually done this. Fun fact: this is only true of GC turn ins, levequests don't discriminate
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Magil Zeal posted:The default option hides gear that is in gearsets, I believe, so I don't think I've ever actually done this. Huh, wonder how I hosed up then
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:23 |
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ilifinicus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joHtggknBRo I hope they revise the current red scrip system. The possibility of blowing up or wasting weekly scrips is one of the things that makes me think "gently caress it" more than anything else. I don't mind wasting hundred-thousands or even millions of gil because that is easy to get if you put your mind to it, but the brick wall of the weekly cap is a different beast. It also seems like a lot of the complexity is needless--why are the caps so low and the costs so high, forcing you to go with an in-between of spending scrips on tokens then exchanging the tokens? Is it a server back-end thing? Not to mention the somewhat esoteric means of acquiring all that you need to craft a 2-star item--there are a lot of individual steps involved when you stop to consider it! I mean, it functions in a sense, but there seem to be about two or three more steps in there than there need to be, to me. Magil Zeal fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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I've probably gotten rid of gear on gearsets more than I'd like to admit accidentally (usually through materia conversion). Is there a setting to turn on a warning that says "hey this is in a gearset, sure you wanna do this?" cause that'd sure be swell.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:26 |
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seiferguy posted:I've probably gotten rid of gear on gearsets more than I'd like to admit accidentally (usually through materia conversion). Not that I'm aware of, but items that are in a gearset have a special icon on the bottom-right of the inventory graphic.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:29 |
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seiferguy posted:I've probably gotten rid of gear on gearsets more than I'd like to admit accidentally (usually through materia conversion). There's a little icon on anything that is in a gearset, and you can right click it to pull up a list of what gearsets. Fister Roboto posted:I always love people who come up with these ridiculously lengthy "rotations" rather than just learning to play it by ear. Ugh seriously, that's basically my favorite thing about WAR, I don't think in terms of "rotation" I think "what do I need to do right now, and what cool poo poo can I get away with?" Optimizing for the particular fight and party composition can turn you from good to great, too.
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Eej posted:Chyea and friends switched to DRK for A3S, thereby cementing DRK as king of MT mountain. This just means my decision to hit 60 with DRK next is the right one. Unfortunately my group has more or less forbidden me from playing anything other than monk for raid content. Well, once we replace the guys who skipped out on us (for the second time), anyway.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:37 |
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Boten Anna posted:There's a little icon on anything that is in a gearset, and you can right click it to pull up a list of what gearsets. It doesn't appear when you're turning in stuff to the GC, I think. Which is responsible for my turning in low level gear from time to time.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:37 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:It doesn't appear when you're turning in stuff to the GC, I think. That's because, at least for Expert Delivery, there's a scroll bar at the top which has as one of its options, "hide items in a gearset" or something worded similarly.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:39 |
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Magil Zeal posted:I hope they revise the current red scrip system. The possibility of blowing up or wasting weekly scrips is one of the things that makes me think "gently caress it" more than anything else. I don't mind wasting hundreds or even millions of gil because that is easy to get if you put your mind to it, but the brick wall of the weekly cap is a different beast. Are there any flowcharts or simply laid out, yet specific instructions for the path to take once you have DoH classes to 60? I find myself overwhelmed by the whole process.
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Thundarr posted:This just means my decision to hit 60 with DRK next is the right one. I might give DRK another try when 3.1 rolls around and I see what (if any) QoL improvements they get. With my Warrior getting 56 last night (and learning from FC chat that Raw Intuition is in fact very good since they changed parrying, even without the I've been neglecting doing EXes and Alexander as MNK, though. I don't have hardly any tank gear waiting for WAR 60
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ApplesandOranges posted:It doesn't appear when you're turning in stuff to the GC, I think. For several patches now, by default it hides everything in your armory chest, and there's others that hide anything not in a gearset and such in a drop-down menu at the top of the window. Please check it out!
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:41 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:macros Don't use macros in combat if you care about playing well.
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Things Raw Intuition works well on: - Single targets, especially bosses - Multiple targets if they're both few and small enough that they all stay in front (relatively rare, all things considered) - Enemies that melee-swing a lot - Enemies whose specials can't be manually dodged, but can be parried (quite a few miscellaneous cleaves fall under this) Things it works poorly, if not counterproductively, on: - Multiple targets if they're either numerous or large enough that they fan around to your sides to politely give each other room (read: most trash packs) - Enemies that use a lot of non-parryable (notably: magic) damage - Enemies which like to make orange ground markers to manually dodge When used in a situation where its auto-parry will kick in for most or all of the incoming damage, it's like an Inner Beast with a much longer duration, since parries are a flat 20% damage reduction now.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 19:55 |
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It's REALLY satisfying to use one that one fractal boss that hits you a ton of times in a row, or for any mechanic like that of which they have been putting in more because of Raw Intuition
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If you are going to use macros for combat, go get a bot for combat assist.
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Ciaphas posted:. Luckily law tomes fall like rain and law gear is cheap. It won't take too much effort to get yourself some starter gear. I had to stop buying law sets for future alts because my retainers are out of room.
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Okay, okay, I won't use macros at all.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:07 |
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Is there any unofficial word on how well the game plays with Windows 10? I have Windows 7 and I will probably wait to upgrade till I hear something on that.
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Been playing just fine on Win10.
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Vil posted:Things Raw Intuition works well on: How does Raw Intuition and Awareness work together? I never tried it and now I'm curious which would take precedence (I'd assume Awareness). How about popping RI and then canceling the buff altogether? Only really useful if you need that one extra stack right away but if you're doing dungeon mobs and know RI will be back up before the next time you can use the stack+parry it seems like it'd be a decent ogcd thing to do. e: as long as you have nothing else that needs to be done for that ogcd, I mean
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ilifinicus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joHtggknBRo I'm kinda curious why he Reclaimed in the first place. Nothing in his opening rotation, before he said "This is looking like a reclaim", was RNG-dependent. What went wrong?
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The problem with Awareness is that it is poo poo compared to Internal Release or Featherfoot except for maybe some marginal use situations. I do wish the crit healing from side/back thing was a feature and not a bug, that was actually an intensely interesting mechanic. kafziel posted:I'm kinda curious why he Reclaimed in the first place. Nothing in his opening rotation, before he said "This is looking like a reclaim", was RNG-dependent. What went wrong? He's probably trying to HQ
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Boten Anna posted:It's REALLY satisfying to use one that one fractal boss that hits you a ton of times in a row, or for any mechanic like that of which they have been putting in more because of Raw Intuition Goblins have a triple-swing move, but somehow, it's more satisfying to see a half-dozen or so goblins' parries on each hit, as opposed to just smaller numbers. GreatRedSpirit posted:How does Raw Intuition and Awareness work together? You will auto-parry anything from the front, and hits taken from the side and/or back are normal hits. Boten Anna posted:The problem with Awareness is that it is poo poo compared to Internal Release or Featherfoot except for maybe some marginal use situations. Wait, what CC skills do you have again? SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Eimi posted:Not everything is about dps numbers. This exactly. I loved BLM for how relaxed it was with long cast times and a simple rotation. I like leveling, so I have plenty else to play when I want something more active, but BLM was great for doing stuff with friends when I'm tired (which is most of the time).
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Niton posted:Incidentally, SealRock.jpg, or "why bad RNG doesn't matter at all": This. I do not enjoy the 2.x pvp, but Seal Rock is Good and Fun. Doubly good because of the fast queue times for now, which will probably taper off sooner or later. So please at least try to help your team though if you queue. Don't be the person who queued for their esoterics and actively harms the enjoyment of the people in there because they care about pvp.
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kafziel posted:I'm kinda curious why he Reclaimed in the first place. Nothing in his opening rotation, before he said "This is looking like a reclaim", was RNG-dependent. What went wrong? Honestly it just looks like he was counting on miracle procs or for that HT to succeed. His CP is too low for the rotation he was attempting. Also he was a specialist and didn't even have Nymeia in his bar. I think he needed an extreme amount of luck to be able to HQ that item.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Wait, what CC skills do you have again? Flash, provoke, convalescence, featherfoot, internal release
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seorin posted:This exactly. I loved BLM for how relaxed it was with long cast times and a simple rotation. I like leveling, so I have plenty else to play when I want something more active, but BLM was great for doing stuff with friends when I'm tired (which is most of the time). That was the nice thing about ARR Black Mage. Your rotation was dead simple and very forgiving, and the challenge of the class was executing it with long hard cast times in fights with movement and positioning. You clipped casts to move when you could, and if you had to cancel a cast to move out of something, it was fine, because you could just start casting again. None of that's true anymore. Well, except the part about long hardcasts, that's still very much in effect. I feel like they could easily fix the entire class by making Fire IV and Blizzard IV instant-casts, or like 1 second cast bars maybe. Suddenly every problem that's ruining the way it plays drifts away. You still have the same concerns and priorities, but you don't have the headache of it anymore.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:43 |
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Boten Anna posted:Flash, provoke, convalescence, featherfoot, internal release Featherfoot doesn't work on bosses, only trash IIRC. Awareness is better even if its situational because it will work.
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armoredgorilla posted:Featherfoot doesn't work on bosses, only trash IIRC. it barely even works on trash. featherfoot is a garbage ability
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I'm not in love with Awareness, but it's a tossup as to whether I like it better than Second Wind and both of them solidly trounce Featherfoot in my book. The other four are gimmes.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:49 |
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Vil posted:I'm not in love with Awareness, but it's a tossup as to whether I like it better than Second Wind and both of them solidly trounce Featherfoot in my book. The other four are gimmes. Not getting crit is pretty nice. Pair it with other defensives.
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# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:51 |
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kafziel posted:I feel like they could easily fix the entire class by making Fire IV and Blizzard IV instant-casts, or like 1 second cast bars maybe. Suddenly every problem that's ruining the way it plays drifts away. You still have the same concerns and priorities, but you don't have the headache of it anymore. They could also make it feel a lot less strict if B4 could finish even after Enochian expires. Maybe even make that the goal, like trying to not clip a DoT - if Enochian expires, B4 gives you a full, fresh Enochian instead of just a partial refresh. Possibly up the cooldown on Enochian to compensate (though that just makes movement at the wrong time gently caress you even harder). Personally, I'd be happy if B4 and F4 refreshed Umbral/Astral. You'd still use F3 and B3 to quick swap to the opposite, but you wouldn't have the headache of juggling your Umbral/Astral timers along with the Enochian timer and your mana. Then it would really feel a lot more like an evolution on the 2.x BLM instead of a departure to a near completely different playstyle.
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hmm, do i take this ability that's useful and negates the downside to raw intuition or do i take an entirely useless ability because i dont do any content outside of bismarck extreme
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Don't be like that. Look, from all I know, defensive cooldowns are multiplicative, not additive. (The go-to example being that if a PLD turns on Shield Oath, Rampart, and Sentinel, they do not get 85% damage reduction, but closer to something like 62%, which the math bears out.) If you could tell me for a fact that evasion is treated additively, as opposed to multiplicatively, I would consider using Featherfoot in place of Awareness. In the absence of such evidence, however, and owing to the fact that WAR is a little short on CDs that reduce magic damage, I'll take Awareness and use it to keep my incoming damage non-spiky as I have pre-HW, or pair it with Raw Intuition and cheese the drawback. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Speaking of crafting a bit earlier up in the thread, where do I go to learn "how to craft" these days? I sort of have it all figured out low level, but now that I have some classes at 50+ everything has gotten a lot more difficult. Things take like double the steps and I'm a bit lost as to how to HQ anything. I did notice that people are actually using the elemental brand synth in conjunction with the new ability that boosts them, but that's all I've really figured out. Is there a guide to rotations somewhere? Googling leads to like 8 million different rotations and none of them seem to really get me HQ on even this level 50 stuff. I have CRP, WVR, ALC, and CUL all at 50 and I'm working on getting the others to 50 but I'm mostly limited by leves at the moment. EDIT: Similar question, when should I upgrade my gear from 50-60? Obviously at 60 I'll just make a full HQ crafted set, but when in between? Poultron fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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The problem is that featherfoot and awareness are both dumb
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Still less-dumb than Second Wind or Haymaker.
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