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Mithross posted:10 Levi and ramuh EX clears per drop, 5 drops needed from each. That would actually be fairly painless so long as they dropped unsynced. Plus you'd only want 3-5 people so it would be easier to organize too.
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vOv posted:It's a good thing you've all been saving up your Mhachi Matters, right? Panic! at Nabisco posted:Relatedly, I picked up a Eikon Leather Corselet of Casting, and the stats are...incredibly good for an i220 item for BLMs. Melded to hit the crit cap (which is easy, two Vs and a III) it's weighted higher than even the Augmented Hailstorm Coat, though not as high as the Midan Coat. So if you're a BLM and you aren't planning to do A8S any time soon, it's the next best thing!
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LeviEX isn't that bad unless you take a couple dummies. Ramuh EX though...gently caress off. I don't think I knew what was going on at any point.
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SonicRulez posted:LeviEX isn't that bad unless you take a couple dummies. Ramuh EX though...gently caress off. I don't think I knew what was going on at any point. e: RIGHT. Also, water conducts electricity. DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:If you get shocked, get someone else to hit you with the lightning circle attack. If you get tethered, pick up three shock balls. If you're a tank, also pick up three shock balls, you "need" to resist his tankbuster (dunno if you still do with i230 gear). Kill adds before Judgment Bolt. Isn't that it? What am I forgetting? You forgot the shockingly difficult "don't stand in the water when lightning circles go out".
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Anyone can tank ramuh easily now with 3 stacks, but he'll still blow up anything, including tanks in i230 gear, if you don't get the resistance.
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Hey, TPT, can we get someone in to fix the sinkhole under the stable?
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Leofish posted:Hey, TPT, can we get someone in to fix the sinkhole under the stable? You put enough chocobos in that stable, and the problem solves itself eventually.
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Ramuh is easily the most annoying EX boss, and it doesn't have to be. Stuff that ruins it: - Tank not getting surge protection right away - Melee DPS deciding to fight next to the tank and getting hit by the tankbuster - A SMN forgets to move their pet off Ramuh at the add phase and pushes him into engrage - People being assholes about not shocking people out of fear (thankfully you can adlo / stoneskin a feared person and they can usually survive the shock attack at 60) That said, if the next phase included Heavensward primals, I'd probably be okay with that. Ravana and Bismarck are pretty easy now.
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Next phase involves HW ex primals, but you have to solo queue for them.
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Mymla posted:Next phase involves HW ex primals, but you have to solo queue for them. And Thordan will be the most efficient.
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Another common Ramuh pain point is people being overaggressive about cleaning up orbs, resulting in not enough orbs for tanks (esp. when dual tanking) or tethers. This wasn't that big a deal even at 50 until you had like 6+ lying around, and unsynced you hardly need to worry about it at all. Generally leave at least one orb lying around in the vicinity of the tank, and maybe 3 or 4 lying around otherwise for any other purposes that are needed, and clean up extras beyond that. Unsync, you can leave even more lying around than that, it won't be a problem. You still run into this pain point in HM, which is extra amusing since orbs lying around either do nothing or basically nothing in HM, and they're really just used for breaking tethers since the tank buff also isn't a thing there. And there are only 2 orbs per round in HM, so if you have some well-meaning dipshit who's too used to EX cleaning them all up, and tether people grabbing orbs before seeing if there are even 3 to grab... Granted, of course, it's HM so that won't kill you even if two people stay tethered the whole fight, but it's still annoying. Zapping is much easier to coordinate with more like 3-5 people instead of 8, since it's more likely that any given person gets a thunderstorm circle to zap with. Both zapping and tether-breaking benefit appreciably from voice chat, though you can always go with the old numbering method if you really want. For tether-breaking, it helps to know the sequence of events: - Tether goes out - People get marked for terror - Terror goes out - Thunderstorm goes out, terrored people hopefully get zapped - Thunderstorm creates 4 orbs, break tether with those It is possible to break tether with pre-existing orbs right after it goes out, but it seems like half the time when someone tries to do that, they get marked for terror and (unless they're very quick about grabbing orbs) just waste 1 or 2 orbs and have their stack fall off before they get to 3 anyway.
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Was there ever a reason to run Ultima EX over and over?
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seiferguy posted:Was there ever a reason to run Ultima EX over and over? Didn't it have BiS accessories for a while?
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Let's see, it came out in 2.1 when the cap was i90. It offered i80 necks and rings, while the first trio of ex primals offered i90 rings (Garuda), earrings (Titan), and bracelets (Ifrit). Notably, all of these were in unlimited supply - setting aside the difficulty at the time of actually killing them - while other i90 options from tomes and coil were still subject to weekly limits. That said, your main would have had all of 2.0 to stockpile tomestones (and maybe run some coil), so chances are they were already geared in i90 accessories as it was. But it was still useful for a. gearing alt jobs and b. possibly better secondary stat options than the competition.
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Verranicus posted:Didn't it have BiS accessories for a while? Nope. It only dropped i80 accessories when all of the other accessories in the game (first coil, Myth, and from the first three extreme primals) were i90.
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As I was telling people last night, with Levi EX, yo, you need to freaking slow your roll post 51%. Otherwise he just pushes through three mechanics, phase changes, and you die. Getting people to ease up on their DPS? Surprisingly hard. Telling them to just stop DPS entirely, much easier. There's a reason why farm parties of it tend to go with 5 or 6 people instead of 8 these days.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Nah, they're going to make it as an item that's a prize for coming first place in both Triple Triad and Lords of Verminion tournaments. if SE did this the tears would be endless
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I got my weapon drop the first time I ever cleared Levi Ex in 2.4(?) and my pony drop the second time, later that same day. I've never stepped foot back in it. 
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SwissArmyDruid posted:As I was telling people last night, with Levi EX, yo, you need to freaking slow your roll post 51%. Otherwise he just pushes through three mechanics, phase changes, and you die. It's easy enough synced to 50 that running it unsynced just overcomplicates it.
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Unsynched you can run it with a light party though.
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To get stat allocation items you will have to get them from coming in first place in chocobo races and the drop is not guaranteed.
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I did some Chocobo races for MGP to finish off my Tortoise and I was blown away by how awful and janky the whole experience is.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:As I was telling people last night, with Levi EX, yo, you need to freaking slow your roll post 51%. Otherwise he just pushes through three mechanics, phase changes, and you die. The clear solution is to run with an all-tank party.
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nuru posted:I did some Chocobo races for MGP to finish off my Tortoise and I was blown away by how awful and janky the whole experience is. It used to be worse. They neutered NPC AI in races with the latest patch. At least the experience boosts allow your chocobo to rank up pretty dang quickly. About 45 minutes of racing for me got me from 1 to 20.
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nuru posted:I did some Chocobo races for MGP to finish off my Tortoise and I was blown away by how awful and janky the whole experience is. Part of that awfulness is by design. There's a stat that makes your chocobo actually respond when you tell it to do things. This doesn't make it less awful, but at least you know now that someone actually planned out your suffering.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Nah, they're going to make it as an item that's a prize for coming first place in both Triple Triad and Lords of Verminion tournaments. Luckily since the golden saucer is straight up not in the Chinese version of the game, it's never going to be required for relics.
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What happened China? You used to be cool.
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Mithross posted:Part of that awfulness is by design. There's a stat that makes your chocobo actually respond when you tell it to do things. This doesn't make it less awful, but at least you know now that someone actually planned out your suffering. This is not true, said stat does not exist.
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Ohtsam posted:Luckily since the golden saucer is straight up not in the Chinese version of the game, it's never going to be required for relics. Interesting. Did they say why that was?
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Gambling is illegal in China, even fake gambling in fake games.
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The PAX East schedule is live and Yoshi-P and Koji Fox have a panel. Guess they're not blowing off PAX (or at least PAX East) in favor of Fanfest.
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The FF14Forums.txt account is starting to show up in more places. https://twitter.com/FFXIV_Memes/status/717679162337599488
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https://twitter.com/ff14forums_txt/status/716475457764519937
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EvilElmo posted:How can I add all the +10'ers in here in game? Create a Linkshell, give it a stupid Aussie themed name then ask ppl to identify themselves in FC chat, then invite them to said linkshell. or, add them to your friends list, but there is no friends only chat.
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Does this Midan gear business mean that it takes 7 weeks to get your Lore weapon?SwissArmyDruid posted:As I was telling people last night, with Levi EX, yo, you need to freaking slow your roll post 51%. Otherwise he just pushes through three mechanics, phase changes, and you die. I might be wrong, but I feel like you can still hammer it in as long as people intelligently stop for adds and push the button. I remember in farming my LeviPony there was a tank who was ultra insistent on not pushing phases and I rolled with it because it made sense. I helped someone get a clear a little while back and no such thing happened though. We made it through.
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SonicRulez posted:Does this Midan gear business mean that it takes 7 weeks to get your Lore weapon? That is exactly what it means. A lot of us will be getting our weapon at some point this week. Or if you're crazy like me you earned yourself over 300 lore yesterday to get it.
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SonicRulez posted:Does this Midan gear business mean that it takes 7 weeks to get your Lore weapon? Either that, or you head into Midas Savage to get your tomestone early, yes.
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