LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

Gearscore was a saga that cannot be repeated in just a forum post. Essentially, though, for about 3/4ths of wotlk the pub raiding playerbase of wow that had just formed because of the ease of raiding access lost they got drat minds.

Toshimo posted:

Anyone know the approximate droprate of TT cards from dungeons?

RME posted:

square please accept my application to rename my miqo'te C'hat Nunhdercock ty and twelves bless

Red Red Blue posted:

I can see Lakshmi/Susano Extreme groups with a 315 ilvl requirement in the party finder right now, even

kirbysuperstar posted:

Thundarr posted:

I never did understand why they named that track Battle Theme 1.x when it is the battle theme for Final Fantasy 2

Khisanth Magus posted:

Any guesses on what the next set of Omega will be? 5 is obviously over. My guess is either 4 or 6. Both kind of have endgames that would fit the way that deltascape was setup.

Eopia posted:

Basically anything that hasn't already been used elsewhere is fair game, especially with them being able to justify it with 'Omega can't tell the difference between fiction and real history'.

As a personal guess though, I'm gonna say it's going to be one of the other games Omega has shown up in, although I'm not sure which one.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I'm starting to level MCH, and I have to ask: Is leaving off Gauss Barrel from 60 -> 62 an okay thing to do a la the advice we used to give people from 50 -> 52?

Khisanth Magus posted:

Any guesses on what the next set of Omega will be? 5 is obviously over. My guess is either 4 or 6. Both kind of have endgames that would fit the way that deltascape was setup.

Concurred posted:

Yo so re: Susano EX, what's the idea when the storm cloud is in front of him and someone gets tagged. Do you run to some gently caress off location and expect the group to move so the don't get blasted, or do you run to back of arena but don't move off alignment so the group moves as little as possible, but enough to not get shocked?

Concurred posted:

I mean literally directly in front of him.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

i'm the tank who makes sure that your buffs run out before pulling
yoship intended you to start the fight at greased lightning 0 and by gods you'll do it

Sade posted:

You're starting down a path that leads to literally becoming Zenos yae Galvus

Concurred posted:

Ok good. So the times when I did that and someone yelled at me for moving, they were dumb.

Vil posted:

There's also the possibility that Omega expands on the whole "heroes" thing and throws you against FF5's dawn warriors or party members.

Then again, the last wing will almost certainly have Omega proper as its final encounter, so whatever pattern there is would have to account for that.

Leofish posted:

So, what you're saying is I should the PotD haircut and have my blond locks flow long?

Khisanth Magus posted:

Any guesses on what the next set of Omega will be? 5 is obviously over. My guess is either 4 or 6. Both kind of have endgames that would fit the way that deltascape was setup.

Leal posted:

This is something I never got. Like at all. It is so widespread that there has to be some sort of "logic" behind why so many tanks do it but I can't think of it. Killed the first trash group? Stand still for 10 seconds. Walk into the boss room? Stand still for 10 seconds. Killed the boss? Stand still for 10 seconds. There is always this dramatic pause.

RoboJoe posted:

Apologies for the delay in response!


Great, thanks, that gives me an idea of what to aim to do on my Red Mage. I have unlocked Kugane Castle and Temple of the Fist so I've got access to the Expert Daily Roulette now, so I'll keep doing those to gear up my Red Mage to try to do those Primals or the raid (or maybe just focus on my Paladin and level him up until I need to do those things).



I do use my cooldowns as much as possible to lessen any burden on the healer (and so they can DPS more) by rotating through them all while I'm fighting groups of enemies (and also on the bosses), they're basically never not inactive so I wasn't sure if I was wasting them doing it like it.

I guess I should try pulling more packs together, but often I'm doing a dungeon I've only done once or twice so I'm not sure where more packs are or how hard they can hit so I'd rather play it safe. The next time I'm in a dungeon I'm more familiar with I shall try to gather more things together.

Also at the start of dungeons I always say that I'm Inexperienced with the auto-translate so people know I might not be so good.



I usually stop at the entrance to a boss room to make sure everyone is going towards the barrier or inside it (or not watching the cutscene for a final boss), or I'll stop moving if I don't see players dots on the minimap moving at all, but otherwise I try to keep a steady pass and keep going to pick up a new pack when the current one is dead.

I'm not sure about the moving around thing when I have a pack though, I'll try to stand as still as possibleso it's easier for the DPS to attack them, unless I need to move out of an AOE although sometimes there are so many I have to move a lot and I'm not sure if that's right.

As a tank should I be trying to get out of all the AOEs and cone AOEs or is it ever okay to stay in them? Not from a laziness point of view, but more should I make sure I have a cooldown up and not move so the DPS don't get interrupted doing what they're doing?

One last question after all this: do people ever want to do dungeons at all after doing the daily roulettes? I wonder if asking in my FC (I'm in PCD) to see if anyone wants to tag along and do a bunch of dungeon runs with me tanking is a good idea and would help me and others?

I feel so stupid about worrying so much in a videogame like this when I'm about to hit that queue button in case I mess up a dungeon and make everyone wipe and they all get mad.

brokenknee posted:

DISCLAIMER: This was my experience in Heavensward and all of the content up to 70 in Stormblood.

This level of micromanagement will only lead to you frothing at the mouth about how you absolutely hate being a tank.

The basic idea is that once you've either spammed your OP until empty or you've smacked that boss in the face with Butcher's Block, you're free to do whatever the hell you want to in the name of M A X D E E P S. I do feel there is -some- merit to the idea of "you are about to lose the lead" notices because honestly when I'm on the boss fights I'm not in tank stance most of the goddamn time, and I'm looking at when I can drop my next M A X D E E P move.

Or perhaps I just need to it's entirely possible

Colgate posted:

Should I queue for Sunken Temple of Qarn and Cutter's Cry? I was wondering, since they're optional, they wouldn't get much play in the leveling roulette, especially since Qarn looks REALLY punishing for new players from the video I watched.

nuru posted:

1) Keybinds are going to be person specific but I think unless you have mutant hands putting anything on 6 through 0 is madness. Your combo can fit 1-6 (or ` through 5, whatever) and the rest just place based on how often you need to hit them.
2) Step 1 honestly is not to use macros for battle classes. Shirk is not too bad though, assuming you're the OT:

/micon "Shirk"
/macrolock
/merror off
/ac "Shirk" <tt>
/ac "Shirk" <t>
/merror on

This will use Shirk on the mob's target.

Elentor posted:

I don't have a huge knowledge of every class in this game but at least from the ones I've played up to max content level (Black Mage in the beta, Dragoon, Scholar, Summoner and now I'm leveling Samurai) the class mechanics seem way more convoluted than they had to be and most of the individual buttons themselves are not very fun even if the skills are technically well animated. I think this goes from the theme of the skill to the actual class design - In WoW everything is designed to make you feel powerful. When you hit something you listen to the sound of smashing melons because that one skill is designed to be your ultimate power breaking the enemy apart. When you hit something with a blade in FFXIV you listen to a metallic clank as if the hit had been deflected. It's not even the satisfying clank of mining.

As for the class design, they suffer a serious case of not understanding that less is more. Sometimes when you add more tools you end up making the solution clearer instead of harder. Crafting in HW is a good example - once the rotation was figured out, crafting using specialist tools was a joke, which was compounded by the fact that they were made unnecessary in the first place relatively early. But the rotation itself was very straightforward and the fact you had 10 or so extra buttons did not increase the complexity tree at all because some of their conditionals were overwhelmingly obvious. Again, I can't speak for how would I perceive every job because I haven't played all of them, but none of the rotations I've seen are particularly hard and they don't feel very class-defining to me, they're just very crowded.

Take combo actions for example - combo actions are a single action split across several buttons for no real reason other than crowding your action bar (thankfully that seems to be going away in PVP so hopefully they'll bridge the change to PVE), so they're really something that will never empower the player - you have your real average action damage spread across multiple buttons, they're slow gameplay that will still punish you for latency or being slow because of the fact they're multiple actions even if it's really 7-8 seconds for a single action, and they will punish you for stopping it halfway. That might be adding some risk/reward but ultimately you're really interrupting the player from completing what was already a decision made seconds ago and you could have achieved the same with the player having to decide whether or not he wants to insert other actions instead of running away.

So all of these negatives can result in a single skill being spread across multiple levels instead of giving you actual interesting stuff to use and I think this really dilutes how powerful and coherent the class feels. I don't think the order is great either, a bunch of gameplay-defining stuff only comes very later on. And the worst decision that is tangentially related to the amount of buttons is the fact that to some classes like DRG/SAM most actions are really just your mechanical rotation and it's boring as hell. Even the utility you get feels underwhelming compared to the stuff a Rogue gets in WoW. And this is how everything ties up with the skill creep not being used to make you feel powerful, the payout for knowing what every single one of your button does is "congratulations you can now deal the base DPS we've spreadsheeted for you." And you don't really need that many buttons to achieve that, in the end I still think I have a more interesting decision tree with just shred+rake+rip+savage roar than the three SAM sen-generating combos + Iaijutsu + everything else.

cheetah7071 posted:

On a completely different note, I just did the Real Escape Trials of Bahamut puzzle today. Anybody in a city that it's heading to, I highly recommend it! Apparently my team set the record for fastest completion at 34 minutes

Khisanth Magus posted:

Any guesses on what the next set of Omega will be? 5 is obviously over. My guess is either 4 or 6. Both kind of have endgames that would fit the way that deltascape was setup.

Kalenn Istarion posted:

This post reminds me, how did that game you were making turn out?

SwissArmyDruid posted:

* Minimal UI elements. I don't need the HP/MP/TP bars as large as they are, I just need three short little bars that could even be stacked up on top of eachother, thanks. And I don't need a pair of giant axes or horns to remind me what stance I'm in. Same goes for target HP bars.

KoB posted:

You can already do this. I think its CTRL-Home. Select a UI element and press it a few times. It will get bigger then roll over to small.

Colgate posted:

Question earlier to someone who mentioned it. I didn't realize manually placing Eos did things. What does that do exactly?

Zinkraptor posted:

I feel like FF6 stuff would be better used 'integrated' into the setting like the FF3 stuff, especially since the FF14 empire is basically just the FF6 one