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Mr. Nice! posted: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. I got my character made, had to refresh the "allowed" list a couple times
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ChickenWing posted:I got my character made, had to refresh the "allowed" list a couple times Welcome to Excalibur! Join goons, have fun.
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Mar 11, 2016 19:33
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ChickenWing posted:I got my character made, had to refresh the "allowed" list a couple times Congrats!
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Mar 11, 2016 19:35
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I think it's inevitable that every time I run a dungeon for the first time, usually as a tank because fast queues and most forgiving in terms of mechanics, all the MNK gear drops. It's like the game is trying to hint at something.
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Mar 11, 2016 19:40
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It means that many monks have passed through there and died, and the dungeon residents have been carrying their gear around as a trophy.
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Mar 11, 2016 19:41
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Tortolia posted:Welcome to Excalibur! Join goons, have fun. That's step 3. Step 2 is getting ahold of my fiancee so that I can make her character too 
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ChickenWing posted:That's step 3. Step 2 is getting ahold of my fiancee so that I can make her character too What's your name in game?
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:What's your name in game? Matheusz Alamyr
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ApplesandOranges posted:I think it's inevitable that every time I run a dungeon for the first time, usually as a tank because fast queues and most forgiving in terms of mechanics, all the MNK gear drops. It's like the game is trying to hint at something. I had a run of Vault while leveling Paladin where I swear the entire goddamn Monk set dropped.
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Mar 11, 2016 20:21
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ApplesandOranges posted:I think it's inevitable that every time I run a dungeon for the first time, usually as a tank because fast queues and most forgiving in terms of mechanics, all the MNK gear drops. It's like the game is trying to hint at something. This happened to me as MCH. Half of the drops were WHM/SCH or MNK.
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Mar 11, 2016 20:25
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Just tried to tank Library with a SMN in my group who only spammed Ruin III til he ran out of mana. No dots. Any time we tried to explain what he was doing wrong he just said 'lol shut up'.
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Mar 11, 2016 20:36
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It's his $15, he's playing the game the way he wants to play it. What are you, an elitist?
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ChickenWing posted:That's step 3. Step 2 is getting ahold of my fiancee so that I can make her character too Welcome to hell nerd.
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Verranicus posted:Just tried to tank Library with a SMN in my group who only spammed Ruin III til he ran out of mana. No dots. Any time we tried to explain what he was doing wrong he just said 'lol shut up'.
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Mar 11, 2016 21:02
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Aphrodite posted:It means that many monks have passed through there and died, and the dungeon residents have been carrying their gear around as a trophy.  About 70% of the drops I've seen in Antitower and Lost City HM has been DRG gear.
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Mar 11, 2016 21:05
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Digital_Jesus posted:Welcome to hell nerd. Hell? Some of the best time is spent playing with the wife....Ithankyou. 
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Mar 11, 2016 21:14
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I ran Void Ark about 12 or so times over the course of a few weeks and the tank helmet didn't drop once. Then 3.2 hit, I was swimming in Esos, got the DRK helmet, and guess what dropped the next time I ran Void Ark!
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Digital_Jesus posted:Welcome to hell nerd. yeah missed the boat on this one. Hyperion is full AF already I guess. Looks like no catgirling until tomorrow when I inevitably wake up at stupid in the morning.
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ApplesandOranges posted:I think it's inevitable that every time I run a dungeon for the first time, usually as a tank because fast queues and most forgiving in terms of mechanics, all the MNK gear drops. It's like the game is trying to hint at something. I had a full set of Plague Doctor and Plague Bringer gear through sheer greeding the last EXDR. I didn't even have a caster at 60 and I had a full set of swank gear waiting for them! Antitower and Lost City HM are kind of doing the same thing, only I'm winning greeds less.
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Is Shiva EX notoriously difficult? The party wiped like 10 times. DPS was low during the add phase which is weird, because it was me, a Dragoon, and two Black Mages.
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At least you won't run out of Ventures anytime soon! Honestly, if it wasn't for the beast tribe materia free money train, EXDR greeding would be my best source of income.
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SonicRulez posted:Is Shiva EX notoriously difficult? The party wiped like 10 times. DPS was low during the add phase which is weird, because it was me, a Dragoon, and two Black Mages. shiva ex is one of the easiest, if not THE easiest ex primal
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Velthice posted:shiva ex is one of the easiest, if not THE easiest ex primal By far the hardest mechanic is getting an emote to freeze at the right time.
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Velthice posted:shiva ex is one of the easiest, if not THE easiest ex primal Must've just been a weird party then. drat the Duty Finder. Is Ifrit not the easier EX primal? I don't exactly remember him, Garuda, and Titan, but I know Titan was a bitch.
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Titan Normal popped for LDR today and it was amazing how much... easier it was. I didn't even remember that they'd toned down the mechanics for Normal that much. I mean it's still unforgiving in lag or if people have no idea how the fight works, but people going in with the mindset of 'oh hey, don't stand in glowy zones and kill new targets first' won't find it that bad.
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SonicRulez posted:Must've just been a weird party then. drat the Duty Finder. Is Ifrit not the easier EX primal? I don't exactly remember him, Garuda, and Titan, but I know Titan was a bitch. Ifrit will happily wipe stupid df groups all day long for pushing him over into his enrage, and he gives you several opportunities to let this happen. Same thing can also happen in levi ex. Shiva is literally, hit her until she dies with the only fail=wipe check being the adds.
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I dunno, Garuda EX melts pretty hilariously fast these days. But I guess technically speaking she has more deadly mechanics than Shiva does.
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Shiva EX is completely trivial if the tank knows how to properly position her, else it goes south quickly and repeatedly.
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One time the tank in our shiva ex party that my dumb fc leader roped into doing endless loving runs for her weapon had enough and started turning the sword stance on the party or stave. The one you're not meant to split damage on. Its been a while.
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Ignimbrite posted:One time the tank in our shiva ex party that my dumb fc leader roped into doing endless loving runs for her weapon had enough and started turning the sword stance on the party Bow will completely murder anyone it hits. It was probably that. Sword is split damage, staff is just a bunch of aoes
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When I want solid information on 2 year old primal fights I make the SA thread my top priority.
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Sword has a split damage attack right at the beginning, and then a number of other attacks that should either hit only the tank or nobody at all. (And I guess the knockback too but it barely tickles.) And yes, Shiva was probably the easiest ex primal at her time of relevance. She's the only one for whom I've seen PF farm groups (and even DF groups) have a reasonably good success rate with. I guess they were all right with Garuda and Leviathan too in their respective days. NB that for all level 50 ex primals, you will have a much less aggravating time if you put yourself in party finder for an unsync run and advertise newbie bonus poetics, as opposed to trying to clear it at level 50 via duty finder. In some cases, like Leviathan and Ramuh, you'll have an easier time mechanically if you furthermore only look for 4-5 people total instead of 8. (This cuts down on chaotic Leviathan phase pushing from too much DPS, and makes Ramuh zapping much easier to coordinate.)
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Vil posted:Leviathan hahahahahahaha Edit: pretend I have a .gif here of three people and two corpses sliding off the stage during the first arena tilt after the barricades go down. THAT was the Leviathan PF experience during its heyday.
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fount of knowledge posted:hahahahahahaha Turns out that is still the Levi EX experience when mentor roulette is feeling saucy and dumps you onto the Whorleater.
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I farmed the poo poo out of Leviathan in its heyday. PF was definitely a bit hit or miss, but people in farm parties were still largely competent at staying on the boat (or they slid off every single time and got replaced after a few rounds). It may be that Balmung players were just better than Excalibur players at looking around to know their surroundings, out of practice from not getting caught ERPing.
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Vil posted:It may be that Balmung players were just better than Excalibur players at looking around to know their surroundings, out of practice from not getting caught ERPing. Everything I've heard about Balmung players implies that they don't care if they get caught ERPing because they just do it in the adventurer's guild in Ul'dah where everyone can see
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Meiteron posted: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. So, Bugdad Ex again, you say? bleuraindrops posted: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. If you really want to endear healers to you, pop a cooldown while you're in Deliverance to at least keep yourself roughly as tanky.
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Thundarr posted:Turns out that is still the Levi EX experience when mentor roulette is feeling saucy and dumps you onto the Whorleater. Nah, that's just the game not so subtly telling you that you shouldn't bother running Mentor Roulette since apparently the lousy reward for doing it wasn't enough.
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Ifrit EX is the easiest fight. Just bring a MCH.
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