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If anyone owns a house in the Mists, either plot 4 or 6 or subdivision 34 or 36, and is looking to dump it for a Shirogane house can you contact me in game? I'd like to grab one of those lots, I can't give you gil in exchange but I'm 70 in all crafts and I'll gladly lend a hand in crafting furniture for your new place as thanks for letting me get first dibs on the property. Lela Katra in game.
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hobbesmaster posted:Piling bardam's to the first boss however is just annoying. Depends, do you have some healer food, eye for and eye up, 9 lustrates ready to go, and selene hanging out?
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I did my first siren song yesterday tanking and let me tell you, if things continue the way they do I dont know if I would bother doing multipulls. The summoner was content with dropping the ground targeted aoe and the red mage forgot they had aoe in the first place for 3/4 of the dungeon.
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Anyone have a current guide to SCH? I've cleared Omega with some ease, and I'm starting to do EX Primals. Although my fight mechanics are sound, my numbers aren't where they should be, I think. Specifically, I'm thinking I need to consult some outside resources on how to better my game - specifically on learning to take manual control of Eos. It seems daunting, but I want to read up before I make further judgments.
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Toshimo posted:My rule of thumb is that if you don't care for something another player is doing, you communicate to them like an adult instead of being a giant manbaby. It's had a pretty good success rate. Speaking as a tank I have a 100% success rate at controlling the rest of the party's actions by just typing something quick into party chat between pulls. "This is a double pull", "This guy is a single, then doubling the next two", "pulling up to (x)". I don't think I've ever gotten a complaint about it, so far everyone I'm with seems to trust that I know what I'm doing (even if it's singles), as long as I tell them what I'm doing in advance. Cao Ni Ma posted:I did my first siren song yesterday tanking and let me tell you, if things continue the way they do I dont know if I would bother doing multipulls. The summoner was content with dropping the ground targeted aoe and the red mage forgot they had aoe in the first place for 3/4 of the dungeon. Going into a dungeon with people I don't know I spend the first minute checking levels (if it's sub-70) and then gear. Based on the above and the dungeon I'm on I do either a single or double pull at the start to test them out. If it goes well, I pull big. If it's a shitshow, I pull singles. And same deal I'll always end that pull by typing something like "well that went well I'll pull big" or "that was rough, I'll stick to singles" and it more or less keeps everyone behaving. You sort of intuit how well a pack goes based more on how fast it dies over how low your hp gets - because a good group will have the healer contributing as well.
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Throne of Bhalz posted:Anyone have a current guide to SCH? I've cleared Omega with some ease, and I'm starting to do EX Primals. Although my fight mechanics are sound, my numbers aren't where they should be, I think. You can bind keys to the pet hotbars. The trouble is training yourself to remember that you're now in charge of those spells, too. Something like Advanced Combat Tracker's Special Spell Timers would be very helpful to alert you when those spells come off cooldown.
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Any eurogoons on the EU datacenter want to join a raid static for omega savage and various ex primals? We raid at 18 UTC / 19 BST / 20 ETC / 21 EEST on Mondays and Thursdays. We need 2 dps, preferably one melee but everythings welcome
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Meiteron posted:Speaking as a tank I have a 100% success rate at controlling the rest of the party's actions by just typing something quick into party chat between pulls. "This is a double pull", "This guy is a single, then doubling the next two", "pulling up to (x)". I don't think I've ever gotten a complaint about it, so far everyone I'm with seems to trust that I know what I'm doing (even if it's singles), as long as I tell them what I'm doing in advance. This seems like a lot of work, lol. I normally just pull what I've determined to be good groupings and 99% of the time no one ever says anything. Sometimes someone will request we do bigger pulls (or they say something at the start), and it's super rare I ever get anyone pulling things because I don't. If they do pull things, depending on the situation I'll either grab it because it's not a big deal, or I let them get killed. The current EXDR dungeons hit fairly hard for our current ilvl (especially since you're getting fresh 70s in there often) so I don't string together too many pulls these days. Same goes for leveling dungeons, since you can never outgear them, I generally keep it to single pulls or maybe grouping 2 smaller pulls. I've yet to have anyone complain and we still finish things quickly. Once we get the new tome gear on Tuesday and our ilvls start rising above the dungeons I'll start doing more grouped pulls.
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This discussion is why I rerolled from tank  You people urging me to join a FC, is it worth it even to join a random one for leveling? I'm guessing you get some passive bonuses. If I'm gonna play this game again I think I'd want to transfer to an European server, so no (re)joining the goon guild unless there's space on the new server goons fled to (still wanna know why I'm "too late" for that migration) I.. . I just wanna play with the cool new jobs 
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Throne of Bhalz posted:Anyone have a current guide to SCH? I've cleared Omega with some ease, and I'm starting to do EX Primals. Although my fight mechanics are sound, my numbers aren't where they should be, I think. Hey scholarchat, I'll  post. Eos control pretty much amounts to "Figure out where to have the drat fairy stay (Middle of the arena for Lakshmi EX, no issue just tagging along behind you for all other current content so far, including Susano), and keep on "Obey". Keep in mind that because the fairy will still single target heal, you want to start hitting your AOEs right as the single target GCD is coming up. If you just click it once, your fairy will have a fairly vague idea of when it should do things. (Click once, and enjoy the Whispering Dawn going off after Ukehi has long passed, for instance). Generally what works for me is knowing the fight and starting to yell at Eos to start doing things about 5 seconds before the ability will hit. Like, Ukehi has just started the cast bar, and I'm already spamming whispering dawn. Goes off a second early? Not a problem, we need that mitigation. Whispering dawn: Raidwide AOE DOT heal. Meh. Use it, your AOE healing is really limited anyway. Fey Covenant: Situationally useful extra mitigation. Fey Illumination: Use in conjunction with whispering (and rouse) to pump out some disgusting healing numbers, or as an "oh poo poo" button when you need the fairy to heal tank harder. It's been mentioned before, but SCH really shines when paired with an AST or WHM. DoubleSCH on susano EX for instance is an exercise in pain and frustration worse than double-AST cardgames. Oh you want to know about DPS on SCH? Uhh... Chain Stratagem should be on cooldown pretty much always (again, know the fight and know when there's an effective time to pop it. Susano EX for in most groups for me is opener -> second sword -> as much as I can last phase. ) Otherwise, throw a dot here or there, weave in a broil/broil II as you feel more comfortable with the fight and when you know when the damage is coming. Try not to overheal. If you're healing Ex endgame content for the first time, DPS if you can, but don't make it a priority. This isn't a levelsynced Titan HM where you can just semi-afk. While an extra howevermany DPS from you is good, it's not as good as the 2-4k out of an actual live DPS and/or Tank. And if your DPS isn't pushing out numbers your numbers won't really matter in the long run. If you're comfortable with content/your group, Eos stays at home, and a Sicced selene comes out. For the record I do this for Deltascape 1, 2, and 4. None of this probably applies if you're an actual engame raider though. I just pug this poo poo.
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Fey Union/Aetherpact is so loving bad lol
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Your Computer posted:(still wanna know why I'm "too late" for that migration) The EU goon group is on the first of the two new EU servers to open (Omega), where SE was offering free transfers and bonuses for making new characters. Enough people in general switched -- probably a significant amount of the EU players previously still on NA servers after the NA stuff got moved to California -- that they opened a second new server, and then disabled transfers to the first one entirely. You can still make a new character and get the new character bonuses, but transfers are out. I do believe the free transfer and transfer bonus is still in effect to the second new server, however.
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Minrad posted:Fey Union/Aetherpact is so loving bad lol v0v Hey look the main tank is no longer taking any damage while I can res the dumbass redmage who won't even feed me mana.
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Your Computer posted:This discussion is why I rerolled from tank "Too late" means that you missed your opportunity to switch servers while transfers were free, so now you can still switch but it'll cost you real human currency. edit: Kobata posted:You can still make a new character and get the new character bonuses, but transfers are out. Oh... well rip I guess.
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I don't think I've ever seen a dps or healer pull stuff on their own. Everything else aside I'd much rather have a smooth run than a fast run. That's really all I have to say about that. I've been leveling black mage again from 60, now 65, and it's a lot of fun. Far easier to manage than I thought it would be (I didn't BLM much at 60). I feel like an engine of destruction when I get into the groove, and the biggest idiot on earth when I gently caress that up because unlike loving up a mudra my dps comes to a screeching halt if I drop enochian without realizing it or cast the wrong thing because muscle memory isn't there yet and whoops now I have no mp and no umbral or astral anything. That happens more often than I'd like.
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Kobata posted:The EU goon group is on the first of the two new EU servers to open (Omega), where SE was offering free transfers and bonuses for making new characters. Oh man, free transfers? Why didn't I learn about this sooner If the other server still has free transfers, where do I find out about it and what do I do to get it? It would be nice to play with goons but  that idea if I have to create a new character since it already took me months just to get to 40.
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Leal posted:If anyone owns a house in the Mists, either plot 4 or 6 or subdivision 34 or 36, and is looking to dump it for a Shirogane house can you contact me in game? I'd like to grab one of those lots, I can't give you gil in exchange but I'm 70 in all crafts and I'll gladly lend a hand in crafting furniture for your new place as thanks for letting me get first dibs on the property. Lela Katra in game. I'll be (hopefully) moving to Shirogane and my mists house is in one of those plots (I think).
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Just unlocked SAM and poked around on it a bit on a dummy plus the level 50 quest. It'll possibly change later, but for AoE trash would you want to get the 10% speed and damage buffs up before doing AoE or is the time taken STing those combos gonna cost damage? I guess if there isn't a boss soon you could use Meikyo Shisui to apply the buffs quicker.
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Just the damage. You'll usually run out of TP anyway, so doing it faster isn't much use.
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I've been meaning to ask... how much of this story stuff is original to the game, and how much was added/changed for ARR? Like, I kind of assumed "the Calamity" & the anonymous Warriors of Light was meant to be an in-game way of acknowledging all the stuff that changed from the 1.0 version (ala WoW's Cataclysm), but not being familiar with the original I'm starting to wonder. Is all the story stuff basically the same as it was from the beginning? Still enjoying, early game is definitely pretty slow (which is not helped by the fact that I apparently just cannot resist the temptation to dick around in side classes when I'm already pretty committed to Pugilist... to say nothing of crafting/gathering professions!). quote:High level sam play is all about gauge management. You want to be dumping kenki into shinten but you also need to have enough kenki to kaiten your midare's and huge bananas, you want to keep some around to yaten/gyoten as needed, and you need to keep below or above certain thresholds depending on if hagakure or guren are about to be up. Can I just say, I genuinely appreciate how loving incomprehensible it is to read you guys' discussions of high-level play. I'm being geniune here, it makes me really excited to get to the point where classes have interesting decisions to make on a rotation-by-rotation basis. (Same's true for all the class discussions, I just picked a SAM quote for bonus incomprehensibility with all the gratuitious-Japanese names  )
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OWLS! posted:v0v Hey look the main tank is no longer taking any damage while I can res the dumbass redmage who won't even feed me mana. in practice it heals the tank once then they need to move for a gimmick and your fairy stands there doing nothing until you manually disable the ability I feel like it would at least not be obnoxious to use if it only disabled embrace, and not all fairy abilities.
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Ghost of Starman posted:I've been meaning to ask... how much of this story stuff is original to the game, and how much was added/changed for ARR? Like, I kind of assumed "the Calamity" & the anonymous Warriors of Light was meant to be an in-game way of acknowledging all the stuff that changed from the 1.0 version (ala WoW's Cataclysm), but not being familiar with the original I'm starting to wonder. Is all the story stuff basically the same as it was from the beginning? 2.0 is 5 in game years after 1.All the stuff that happened in 1.0 is still canon. Watch it on YouTube of you are interested..
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Ghost of Starman posted:I've been meaning to ask... how much of this story stuff is original to the game, and how much was added/changed for ARR? Like, I kind of assumed "the Calamity" & the anonymous Warriors of Light was meant to be an in-game way of acknowledging all the stuff that changed from the 1.0 version (ala WoW's Cataclysm), but not being familiar with the original I'm starting to wonder. Is all the story stuff basically the same as it was from the beginning? The story stuff is, more or less, the same from the beginning. Everything that happened in 1.0 is canon and you'll run into a lot of references to it. Obviously things got mildly retconned but they've tried to keep as much as they could.
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UHD posted:I don't think I've ever seen a dps or healer pull stuff on their own. Everything else aside I'd much rather have a smooth run than a fast run. I think the only time I've seen DPS/healers pull stuff on their own is when I was first starting out as a babby tank learning the ropes in sastasha or something, and people would get impatient and run ahead. And also one chucklefuck in a DD run who was purposely trolling by running ahead and pulling all the packs and dying (we booted him as soon as the game let us) And yeah I'm kind of tempted to get back into BLM with the new changes. I didn't like it in 3.0 because juggling enochian AND astral/umbral buffs was TOO MUCH MAN, but making enochian a thing that just lasts forever as long as you don't drop astral/umbral solves that issue for me, personally. And the move that lets you immediately teleport back to your ley lines is a nice touch, too. That said, I already have a dps at 70 and still want to get a healer & tank leveled up, so the idea of grinding another dps from 60-70 is just not appealing right now. Ghost of Starman posted:
Man, I play samurai and I still don't know what people are saying when they describe the moves in words.
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Your Computer posted:Oh man, free transfers? Why didn't I learn about this sooner It should be Louisoix and you transfer there by logging into mog station and trying to transfer as usual, when the price tag comes up it should say 0.00 instead.
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What causes the wildfire spike in Retainer Fantasia prices? I see it every so often (it's always when I actually feel like going to buy one, of course), but it happens in factors of 10. I guess the most recent one would just be the general population bump, but going from 4k to 70k in a week or so seems wild for what is ostensibly not the most uncommon item from quick ventures?
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Ghost of Starman posted:I've been meaning to ask... how much of this story stuff is original to the game, and how much was added/changed for ARR? Like, I kind of assumed "the Calamity" & the anonymous Warriors of Light was meant to be an in-game way of acknowledging all the stuff that changed from the 1.0 version (ala WoW's Cataclysm), but not being familiar with the original I'm starting to wonder. Is all the story stuff basically the same as it was from the beginning? All story quests you are doing are original to 2.0, there is no leftover 1.0 content save for two dungeons later on.
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The lingo is obtuse and the resources around the game leave a lot to be desired (there are basically 3 or 4 half completed wikis) and one of the main knowledge dumps is Reddit. That said, high end stuff is high end stuff, but half of the lingo is just synonyms for stuff that you'd find in other games (dailies and leves, guilds and free companies, chat rooms and linkshells, etc).
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Aquapolis 2 looks to be more of the same, but with some new gimmick coming in 4.1? Apparently there's Rowena's new outfit and catfish minion to get in there, among other things. Can't wait to get screwed by RNG.
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Rainuwastaken posted:Aquapolis 2 looks to be more of the same, but with some new gimmick coming in 4.1? More of the same is good with me, Aquapolis is some of my favorite content to do with my friends. I seriously can't wait for The Lost Canals of whatever
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Xun posted:It should be Louisoix and you transfer there by logging into mog station and trying to transfer as usual, when the price tag comes up it should say 0.00 instead. Ah, thanks! Oxygen Deficiency posted:But...like.... there probably won't be many goons on there fyi. Yeah... Goons are always great to play with, but having a 250+ ping is just not fun. It's a shame I missed that transfer to Omega though.
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Rainuwastaken posted:Aquapolis 2 looks to be more of the same, but with some new gimmick coming in 4.1?  The lil catfish dudes were my favourite part of SB.
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OWLS! posted:If as a healer you aren't telling your tank "Pull until you find a door" then I just don't know what to say. and then your dps dont aoe and you go oom an the tank runs out of cd's and you wipe. the end.
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Your Computer posted:Yeah... Any content you can queue for can be done cross-server as far as I know, so you can still play with goons. It'll just be slightly more of a hassle.
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Hey tank chat, just have a question about when it's good to drop into DPS stance while tanking. Back in HW I would play Warrior and drop into Deliverance all the time. Defiance doesn't have the damage received reduction and the extra DPS meant I could bloodthirst crowds and keep my health full on big pulls. I've swapped to Paladin for Stormblood but I'm finding myself cautious about dropping Shield Stance while doing big pulls because of losing out on that 20% damage received reduction; trash can have some serious damage in big packs, after all. Bosses aren't a problem. I start in Shield, do my threat line once and go back to Sword/DPS lines. I can't see myself losing threat, and I'm thinking I may not need Shield to start. I'm worried that I won't have that initial threat burst to keep ahead of DPS while they unload their openers. Am I being over cautious in these situations?
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cheetah7071 posted:If I'm a summoner paired with a blm I would gladly give them mp if they had a macro saying "mana shift me now so I can flare more"  whether I'm Summoner, Red Mage or even another Black Mage.
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i am tim! posted:Hey tank chat, just have a question about when it's good to drop into DPS stance while tanking. Back in HW I would play Warrior and drop into Deliverance all the time. Defiance doesn't have the damage received reduction and the extra DPS meant I could bloodthirst crowds and keep my health full on big pulls. I've swapped to Paladin for Stormblood but I'm finding myself cautious about dropping Shield Stance while doing big pulls because of losing out on that 20% damage received reduction; trash can have some serious damage in big packs, after all. I don't drop shield when doing trash packs unless its 1-3 mobs. I keep shield on for my halone at the start then never go back in unless half the raid is dead. You should be fine what you're doing. I've also parsed at 94% on Lakmishi as a pld doing this process. And 80% on susan because my group doesn't have the tanks dps the sword.
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