Dr Pepper posted:

Wow. That's so much that even the level up stat points you get don't really matter.

Tempted for Arcanist now to just throw them into piety so I don't have to worry much when switching between Summoner and Scholar for such a minor benefit.


My mind was pretty blown when I noticed that when you enter something in the chatbox your character will actually move their lips like they're speaking.

Fister Roboto posted:

If you want to mitigate magic damage, you can stack Storm's Path, Reprisal, Disable, and Rend Mind with an E4E proc. Assuming they stack multiplicatively, that's 62% of normal damage. Add a Sacred Soil for 56%. Then there's also Virus and Dragon Kick/Delirium which would reduce the target's INT to 76% of normal, but who knows how exactly that affects damage. Keep in mind that setting all this up would take a huge amount of coordination and luck.

Kazinsal posted:

I've run out of mana a handful of times as WHM around 45. Am I dramatically loving up or does this happen less at 50?

Sentient Data posted:

Once you reach the end, the stat difference between "best" and "worst" for your particular class amount to far less than a single percent (and are minimal even by level 30 which is where the training wheels start to come off), which means the difference is purely cosmetic. Choose based on looks, and run through the character creation options for each clan - some clans get options that others don't (some have muscle sliders, one variety of Lala doesn't have visible pupils, some only get certain hair/skin colors, etc)

When people say the true endgame is pretty princess dressup, they aren't really joking. I never cared at all about the paper doll and diva-management type of games, but FFXIV changed all that. The art direction is simply phenomenal. Take your time and ignore that the quests even exist, just wander around the towns once you get settled, and pay attention to the set backgrounds.

Look at the shelves in that corner over there, there's actually STUFF ON THE SHELVES. It's not just some 5-polygon rectangle with a bookshelf texture, there are boxes and jars and even modeled handles on the tiny little drawers. Check out the archery guild, and actually look at that giant ceremonial bow hanging on the wall - you can see how the individual pieces of wood were formed to put it all together. The tables on the goldsmith guild? Little piles of silver solder next to where the background craftsmen are working. The NPCs turn their head to you to see if you're doing anything interesting, pieces of clothing (even tights) have wrinkles and seams at the appropriate places, leather and burlap and velvet and every other kind of material have actual textures that each look different in the lighting, metal pants make a slight chainlinky jangly noise as you walk, over on the side table of a random room that you probably never look at has a loving dish with a candle in the center that is filled with a half inch of oil that ripples and refracts the room. If you're out in the rain, your clothing will actually get noticeably wet and have its color/texture/reflectiveness slightly altered. If you're in a windy area, your hair and loose parts of your clothes will blow. When you're out in the desert, shadows cast by mountains and clouds actually loving move with the sun.

The game is more beautiful that you will ever expect, take the time to look at it and appreciate it

Dr Pepper posted:

There are racial stat differences. However, the difference between a race with the highest specific stat and the lowest is about 7 points. In a game where stats have reached the hundreds.

Third World Reggin posted:

Sarrisan posted:

Be sure to use Shroud of Saints proactively. If you see you're mp is at 70% and going down, pop shroud. by the time you need more mp, it should be off cooldown again. Sometimes you wanna save it for phase transitions but I don't think this matters anywhere you will see for a long time, if ever.

Additionally you may be overhealing, or you're party is loving up and taking way too much damage. You may also be undergeared and forced to spam heals to keep up.

An optimally played WHM who is healing and dpsing will naturally lose mp over time. It's up to you to know when to hold back and conserve, though this should only be an isue if your dps players suck rear end and are taking forever to kill the boss or whatever.

Also watch those holy's. They are amazing but drain your mp like nothing else.

ilifinicus posted:

did you stop using Cure once you got Cure 2?

Kazinsal posted:

Haha, no, I'm still using it for most (read: almost any non-"oh poo poo") heals.

Kazinsal posted:

I think I'm not using Shroud of Saints enough. I'll start popping it when I see an actual drain in my MP below 70% then. I thing occasionally I might be overhealing but often I just get stuck in duty roulette with tanks who poo poo. Also, I'm level 44 and my average iLvl is something around 35. I think it might be old rings since I don't seem to get many of those.


Haha, no, I'm still using it for most (read: almost any non-"oh poo poo") heals.

Dr Pepper posted:

Then at 56 you get Assize and MP problems vanish.

Sarrisan posted:

EDIT: also, you didn't mention this but just as a general tip, remember to use all of your moves. I still occasionally see white mages at level 50+ who don't use regen for some unholy reason, or who save divine seal for emergencies when the cooldown is 60 loving seconds.

KaneTW posted:

Sorry, if you can't appreciate a cute foxgirl hitting things with a weapon 3 times her size your opinion is garbo.

KaneTW posted:

Dunno, some of the lewder outfits are still pretty cute. Devilicious is probably the best outfit in Tera period.

KaneTW posted:

What? No. Elin aren't even close to how children look, jesus christ.

KaneTW posted:

Mentally they're adults, and as above they don't look like children. Not sure where you get that children part from.

Hy_C posted:

Chairman wanted me to post in here

The Chairman posted:

that is Tera content and belongs in the Tera thread

Unguided posted:

I've seen enough posts gushing about catgirl dressup both here and in chat that I'm not surprised someone would defend Elin.

Colgate posted:

Everyone who plays an Elin in Tera is probably on an FBI watchlist.

Also are you seriously going to post that in every thread in the MMO HMO?

Hy_C posted:

well chairman wanted me to post it in the appropriate thread so i did

Colgate posted:

If the Chairman wanted you to roll an Elin in TERA, would you?

Colgate posted:

sorry for being jaded that there are creepy pedo goons out there. i am very aware of it since it was posted in three separate threads.

Brannock posted:

FFXIV goon FCs harbors an out pedophile who is extremely smug and condescending about raiding proficiency

Third World Reggin posted:

a weird way to say stop talking about the pedo who said things in this thread