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A4S was something like a month after the patch, yeah. So many raid parties got ground the gently caress up by A3S in that time too.
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So, was Midas savage undertuned this time, or just right?
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Mar 11, 2016 07:52
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It was cleared right around when Yoshi expected it to be, and I've heard nothing but praise for the fights, especially compared to Gordias. I think Midas was, overall, a much bigger success.
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Mar 11, 2016 08:10
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:It was cleared right around when Yoshi expected it to be, and I've heard nothing but praise for the fights, especially compared to Gordias. I think Midas was, overall, a much bigger success. Overall, Midas feels like an apology for Gordias, both in normal and savage versions.
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Mar 11, 2016 08:18
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My static and I made our first serious attempt at Midas Savage tonight, and we genuinely had a lot of fun learning the fight. We got him down to 45% in just one lockout. I've got a good feeling. p.s. I really wish people would go with the M1-4 denomination rather than A5-8.
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Mar 11, 2016 08:20
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Midas Savage is definitely a lot more fun than Gordias Savage. I dreaded raiding every night even after clearing Gordias. In Midas, I don't even realize how time passes because it's so much fun.
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Mar 11, 2016 09:40
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 Till sea swallows all!
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MohShuvuu posted:Midas Savage is definitely a lot more fun than Gordias Savage. I dreaded raiding every night even after clearing Gordias. In Midas, I don't even realize how time passes because it's so much fun. A6S is just boring at this point. gently caress getting to Vortexer just so everyone can learn how to position ice properly. At least it's only 6 minutes.
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Mar 11, 2016 11:41
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Fister Roboto posted:My static and I made our first serious attempt at Midas Savage tonight, and we genuinely had a lot of fun learning the fight. We got him down to 45% in just one lockout. I've got a good feeling. Eh i think the A5-A8 is going to work better overall because I'm 99% sure the last section is just going to be called Alexander in fitting with the naming theme going on so far.
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Mar 11, 2016 12:10
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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/285648-FC-Chest-Looting Someone forgot to set proper permissions on their FC chest and is now mad at GMs.
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Mar 11, 2016 14:58
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Fister Roboto posted:p.s. I really wish people would go with the M1-4 denomination rather than A5-8. Then what will we do if the next raid set is called, like, Grooples, or Mongler, or something else that starts with a G or an M
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Mar 11, 2016 15:04
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B1-5 S1-4 F1-4 I think I'll keep T1-13 too for now. 
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Mar 11, 2016 15:08
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Verranicus posted:http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/285648-FC-Chest-Looting Most people in that thread are being reasonable, because having a completely open chest is like an unwatched free candy bowl at Halloween. Eventually some rear end in a top hat is going to come along and empty it. But totally  at the OP for thinking the GMs should give him the items back, they weren't removed via exploit so they won't do poo poo to return them. Best case scenario those items just plain cease to exist if they ban the guy or clear the items out of his inventory and retainer space. Worst case they've already been redistributed hither and yon by the forces of capitalism through the market board.
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Mar 11, 2016 15:17
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Kwyndig posted:Most people in that thread are being reasonable, because having a completely open chest is like an unwatched free candy bowl at Halloween. Eventually some rear end in a top hat is going to come along and empty it. I like the person comparing it to real life theft and saying it would be legally punishable in the real world so it should be in FFXIV.
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Mar 11, 2016 15:23
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In WoW they frequently will help with things like that even when it's your own fault, so that might be what they're expecting.
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Mar 11, 2016 15:24
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I set my guild stash so everyone could take everything out, and they did. Please give me my stuff back!
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Mar 11, 2016 15:51
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Got my trial started today, tried to get a character set up on excalibur - no dice. 11AM is a decidedly non peak time. Any idea what gives?
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Mar 11, 2016 16:54
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2 weeks after a major patch 24/7 is decidedly peak time.
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Mar 11, 2016 16:55
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hmm balls. Train of thought: after making a character, is there a login queue for busy servers or just a "spam the bejeezus out of join" or what? Basically, if I want to play tonight, how hosed am I?
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Mar 11, 2016 17:02
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There's a login queue but you almost never have to sit in it, and if you do it's for like 1 minute max. Once you've made your character you're golden.
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Mar 11, 2016 17:04
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KaneTW posted:A6S is just boring at this point. gently caress getting to Vortexer just so everyone can learn how to position ice properly. At least it's only 6 minutes. So it's T9 all over again with 5+ minutes of doing the first 80% of the fight to the point of it being near-zero risk so you can get a few seconds of learning positions for the last(?) phase of the fight?
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Fister Roboto posted:My static and I made our first serious attempt at Midas Savage tonight, and we genuinely had a lot of fun learning the fight. We got him down to 45% in just one lockout. I've got a good feeling. No, shut up. It was painful enough when people tried to say SCoB or whatever all the time. Also A6S is pretty much on the same level of gently caress you as anything in A1-4S except maybe the intended way to do Nisi. I don't know why they made the finicky hard to learn, easy to instantly wipe guy the last guy.
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Mar 11, 2016 17:08
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We cleared A5S in our first week of attempting it without too much trouble. It's definitely a fun fight looking forward to A6S next week.
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ChickenWing posted:hmm balls. If you believe, you can get in. (you're going into a weekend, when there's a major PVP event thing going on, odds are not good) However if you must roll a character somewhere else, keep your eyes open for when excalibur opens up, or pay to transfer your character over to excalibur. The pros of being on excalibur are huge, you will get a lot of support from goons with just about anything. E: At last count there are about 1,200 goons on Excalibur between the 3 goon guilds. orange juche fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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ChickenWing posted:
You are p hosed tbh Basically you should get up at 4 AM EST to try your luck for best results. Server population changes constantly so if you're waiting for a status update either through third post ITT (which says it's open this very minute actually it's open right now) or SE's blog updates then you'll probably be missing out. What most end up doing is trying to log in right before going to work/school/whatever to test if you can create a character. To save time, it's a good idea to create a character wherever, save that character's looks and then loadup a ready-made character whenever you try out your luck. The alternative to this process is to just start playing anywhere and paying $18 for the transfer which bypasses server population check. Note that brand new characters are reportedly not being able to transfer so wait at least 72 hours after character creation before trying to transfer. My advice is that if you've already paid for game time via buying the game then just start playing wherever and transfer when you can.
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Freak Futanari posted:Then what will we do if the next raid set is called, like, Grooples, or Mongler, or something else that starts with a G or an M Well, the next set is almost definitely going to be called Zoe (after the daughter of Midas), so I don't think we'll have to worry about that.
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I'm still kind of reeling from everyone insisting on calling Labyrinth "Crystal Tower" even though the entire set of raids was in the Crystal Tower.
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By the second night of actually trying at A5S my group got to about 3% and only failed because most of us forgot that we need to keep an eye on our grumblygut status around that point in the fight. It's a really fun fight to do progression on.
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Well I got my first 60 the other night and spent all of yesterday finishing the story quests up to the antitower and gathering up all the optional level 60 dungeon quests. Sometime Sunday I'll need to see about asking in the FC about chain running all of them to give other goons some newbie bonus tomestones. Then it'll be time to start bringing some other jobs to 60.
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If I decide to finish my WAR to 60 (It was my main in all of ARR) how rough is learning to stance dance? I never even knew it was a thing before leaving, and now worry that I'll get screamed at by the group if I don't do it enough/right in dungeons (not to mention trials). Deliverance looks like an Offtank's wet dream.
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DeathSandwich posted:Well I got my first 60 the other night and spent all of yesterday finishing the story quests up to the antitower and gathering up all the optional level 60 dungeon quests. Sometime Sunday I'll need to see about asking in the FC about chain running all of them to give other goons some newbie bonus tomestones. Then it'll be time to start bringing some other jobs to 60. Between newbie tome bonuses, dungeon gear, music and cards that should be fairly easy to coordinate. GlitchThief posted:I'm still kind of reeling from everyone insisting on calling Labyrinth "Crystal Tower" even though the entire set of raids was in the Crystal Tower. LotA is kind of a clunky shorthand. I do see a fairly even split between folks calling the last piece WoD or CT3 though.
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ChickenWing posted:hmm balls. Check the lodestone site about account creation restrictions and attempt to make a character at the times listed. There will be open windows but they are small. I got in at 5 EST on a Saturday for my roommates character. It's possible you just need to believe.
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CT123 was the correct short hand and everyone who called it ST and WoD was dumb. Next one is Vark2 btw don't call it anything else.
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Even if it doesn't take place on the Void Ark?Talmonis posted:If I decide to finish my WAR to 60 (It was my main in all of ARR) how rough is learning to stance dance? I never even knew it was a thing before leaving, and now worry that I'll get screamed at by the group if I don't do it enough/right in dungeons (not to mention trials). Deliverance looks like an Offtank's wet dream. Stance dancing as a warrior is really easy, since it's an off-GCD toggle, especially now that you have a ridiculous HP pool. The one thing you need to keep in mind is that unlike the other tanks, turning on tank stance doesn't give you any immediate benefits, because it only increases your max HP and healing received. If you have 2000 HP in deliverance and a mob is about to hit you for 2100, just turning on defiance won't save you. That being said, in dungeons, the main reason to use tank stance is for threat. I'd keep defiance on for trash mobs, especially if you're doing large pulls, but it's usually safe to go with deliverance for bosses after you establish a threat lead.
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Belzac posted:No, shut up. It was painful enough when people tried to say SCoB or whatever all the time. Vortexer is like the easiest of the four to execute. As long as you have a breakdown of how the mechanics work the fight is literally just putting your three way marks in their appropriate places and then individually telling your members "you stand HERE and then you stand HERE and then you stand HERE". The biggest sticking point my group ever had was getting the positioning for ice pools down pat because it's actually pretty tight. If anything I'd say A6S has exactly the kind of difficulty I would expect from a hard progression raid because it conforms to the Dark Souls style of difficulty that was most of coil - while learning to execute mechanics, it's chaotic and blows up easily. Once you know it, nothing ever really changes, and flawless performance becomes easy. I saw that pattern on every single robot as we were running through it. The biggest bitch in that fight is front-loaded with loving Blaster and his loving charging mirage fuckers. gently caress. Profanity. At least if a DPS or two gets caught out in the first charge it actually doesn't affect the run as a whole too badly.
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Talmonis posted:If I decide to finish my WAR to 60 (It was my main in all of ARR) how rough is learning to stance dance? I never even knew it was a thing before leaving, and now worry that I'll get screamed at by the group if I don't do it enough/right in dungeons (not to mention trials). Deliverance looks like an Offtank's wet dream. It's super easy to stance dance as WAR. Like Fister said, tank stance for trash pulls, dps stance on bosses after you have hate. And no, no group is going to yell at you for not stance dancing unless you're in tank stance as OT that's awful. bleuraindrops fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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Yeah don't be the rear end in a top hat in Void Ark who stays in tank stance the entire time. Not only are you doing less damage, but you're also causing the main tank to do less damage because they have to hold threat off of you (unless the main tank is also a warrior because lol warriors). There's one on every run.
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Meiteron posted:The biggest bitch in that fight is front-loaded with loving Blaster and his loving charging mirage fuckers. gently caress. Profanity. At least if a DPS or two gets caught out in the first charge it actually doesn't affect the run as a whole too badly. Always gratifying to see that the raid design team's love of divebombs will never go away.
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Meiteron posted:If anything I'd say A6S has exactly the kind of difficulty I would expect from a hard progression raid because it conforms to the Dark Souls style of difficulty You've said a lot of dumb things but this is probably the dumbest.
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