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Wertjoe posted:To add to the MNK discussion, I recently got the ilvl 330 chest (creation tomes thingy) from the 310 and it doesn't have any crit chance. Which is a bummer because I really like hitting my final chakra often and it seems counter productive to put that into the game then make the gear lean a different direction. It feels a little bit like a downgrade to me? I'm bad at the game though. its 20 ilevels worth of strength, so yes its better
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Is the new DPS meta to just run in and start smacking stuff before the tank has a chance to grab the pull and position everything and then run around in circles like an idiot, making it harder for the tank to pick the mobs back up? I'm asking because I'm leveling a DPS class right now, and the single-target only dragoon in the Cloud glamour, I assume, knows the latest tricks. e: I want to add another complaint because holy poo poo have I not been able to get done what I want to get done in this game today. I want to be in the Frontlines you guys post where you actually win. I could PvP for 1000 years and still have a 0% 1st place percentage. Garbage. I'm never going to get that loving horse. For my own sanity I have to give up on trying to obtain certain things because I'll hate myself before I get them. HackensackBackpack fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 18:50
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Die Sexmonster! posted:No one's commented on this, but it's honestly no big deal. Typically, healers of any class know their role is to push buttons so people don't die. You will see a cross-section of players: on one side, people who DPS like it's going out of style and still keep everyone up, on the other, people who loving scramble to keep HP bars topped off. Every healer falls within this spectrum! Thanks, I did trial DR w/a healer buddy and it went OK. I admit the giant maps and endless AoE is stressful at times. I'll never do Savage/ex-primal raiding so it's very calming in an odd way too.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:08
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nuru posted:
Yes, this is the point of the quote. The game in PUG 8 mans was to see which healer caved and healed somebody first, double scholar parties would more often than not have both SCH dragging out that first actual heal not from a fairy for extreme durations.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:23
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Emalde posted:Yes, this is the point of the quote. The game in PUG 8 mans was to see which healer caved and healed somebody first, double scholar parties would more often than not have both SCH dragging out that first actual heal not from a fairy for extreme durations. OP implied it died in HW. My point is it's alive and well in Stormblood too.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:30
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if you cast Protect you're the one healing from then on. sorry but that's the rule
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Aug 20, 2017 19:32
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nuru posted:OP implied it died in HW. My point is it's alive and well in Stormblood too. Savage doesn't count, everybody already knows specifically when and where heals are required 
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Aug 20, 2017 19:51
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Countblanc posted:if you cast Protect you're the one healing from then on. sorry but that's the rule Good rule imo
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Aug 20, 2017 19:58
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Leofish posted:Is the new DPS meta to just run in and start smacking stuff before the tank has a chance to grab the pull and position everything and then run around in circles like an idiot, making it harder for the tank to pick the mobs back up? I'm asking because I'm leveling a DPS class right now, and the single-target only dragoon in the Cloud glamour, I assume, knows the latest tricks. You can help (but not carry entirely) your team by talking about what you're gonna do and then brute forcing your way. When ice pops, don't bother with the ice. Kill the people who are attacking the ice. Explain "Dead guys can't hit ice" or something else quick in that long rear end period before the gates go down. You'll get some knobs who mock you (Happened to me in the Shatter type where like every small ice lights at the very beginning) but some will at least be willing to give it a go. That's all you really need, especially if one is a healer. You just need a murder pack. Bad DPS are bad. You can't help that. I just don't sweat it. If they die, they die.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:59
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Not in Europe, Amazon in US Sorry yeah this is what I meant, in the UK rather than America. Welp. Wonder if we'll ever get it 
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Aug 20, 2017 20:23
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Sorry yeah this is what I meant, in the UK rather than America. Welp. Wonder if we'll ever get it Could be worse, as a Canadian the key works for us but we can't actually get them ourselves from the US Amazon without a bit of trickery and they don't offer it on the Canadian Amazon.
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Aug 20, 2017 20:25
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Obligatum VII posted:I recently got a 13k Stone 4 crit in O3S. It was beautiful. I think a teared up a little. I stacked crit instead of spell speed figuring I'd try to get the most out of the assize cooldown reduction on cure 2 crits, although spell speed probably would have been a better bet ultimately since I am beginning to realize how few cure casts I actually end up using. Yeah, still my main beef with lillies. I Cured more in the 61-69 dungeons than I do in EXDR!
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Aug 20, 2017 20:26
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Sorry yeah this is what I meant, in the UK rather than America. Welp. Wonder if we'll ever get it It'll either be an O2 promo or Mog shop item at some point
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Aug 20, 2017 20:56
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Leofish posted:Is the new DPS meta to just run in and start smacking stuff before the tank has a chance to grab the pull and position everything and then run around in circles like an idiot, making it harder for the tank to pick the mobs back up? I'm asking because I'm leveling a DPS class right now, and the single-target only dragoon in the Cloud glamour, I assume, knows the latest tricks. If you're not in flames, turn off freelancer and your win rate will skyrocket. At least, when playing at EST times. I suspect GC competency shifts around based on the times you play, but definitely during EST times, flames are utter trash.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:13
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Countblanc posted:if you cast Protect you're the one healing from then on. sorry but that's the rule Look, I just want to avoid that awkward several minutes where everyone stands around expecting protect, ok?! It's not even that most of them care, they just don't want to run out of range and force the healer to re-cast it.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:16
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Countblanc posted:if you cast Protect you're the one healing from then on. sorry but that's the rule I'm so used to casting Protect b/c everyone keeps running away from me in LLDR
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Aug 20, 2017 21:21
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Countblanc posted:if you cast Protect you're the one healing from then on. sorry but that's the rule What does it mean when you start casting Protect and the other healer slams the Swiftcast + Protect buttons to get theirs in before yours
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Aug 20, 2017 22:17
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Josuke Higashikata posted:It'll either be an O2 promo or Mog shop item at some point Or maybe we could buy three issues of a literal physical gaming magazine, in the 2010s
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Aug 20, 2017 22:23
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Mango Polo posted:What does it mean when you start casting Protect and the other healer slams the Swiftcast + Protect buttons to get theirs in before yours probably that they aren't paying attention to what the other healer is casting because why would you in 90% of the content
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Aug 21, 2017 01:09
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Mango Polo posted:What does it mean when you start casting Protect and the other healer slams the Swiftcast + Protect buttons to get theirs in before yours it means you won
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Aug 21, 2017 01:18
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I find healers that want to sit back and do nothing but dps are usually terrible at both, so my ideal runs as a healer involve both solo healing everything and doing more dps than the other healer, because it just isn't really fun any other way imo
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Aug 21, 2017 01:24
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I find healer DPSing incredibly boring because the rotations aren't anywhere near as complicated as actual DPS rotations so I vastly prefer content where I actually have to heal.
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Aug 21, 2017 01:26
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vOv posted:I find healer DPSing incredibly boring because the rotations aren't anywhere near as complicated as actual DPS rotations so I vastly prefer content where I actually have to heal. I really miss Bio 1 and Aero because it made me a bit more involved, what with watching the timers and all.
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Aug 21, 2017 01:37
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Velthice posted:probably that they aren't paying attention to what the other healer is casting because why would you in 90% of the content I don't even watch enemy castbars, why would i look at a teammate's
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Leofish posted:Is the new DPS meta to just run in and start smacking stuff before the tank has a chance to grab the pull and position everything and then run around in circles like an idiot, making it harder for the tank to pick the mobs back up? I'm asking because I'm leveling a DPS class right now, and the single-target only dragoon in the Cloud glamour, I assume, knows the latest tricks. I've been playing tank for daily roulettes lately and outside of exdr people start wailing on trash the second I pull it usually, even if I mention big pulls at the start I could swear that wasn't a thing pre stormblood most of the time, I genrally played dps and remember waiting for the pull to finish
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POLICE CAR AUCTION posted:I've been playing tank for daily roulettes lately and outside of exdr people start wailing on trash the second I pull it usually, even if I mention big pulls at the start Level skips and new expansion hype have brought a load of new players and returning players that might as well be new. The same thing happened on HW release too--I should know, I was one of them then. On one hand this means more money going to better/more content, but it also means in the here and now, you'll find a lot of people in 5060 and ex that haven't encountered much of the "dungeon meta," such as it is, or fully grasped a lot of mechanical nuances. You see this especially in the Bardam's Mettle through Castrum Abania stretch if you level your tanks via dungeon spam; a surprising amount of people have no loving clue what the pillars and stack markers mean because the only times they show up in MSQ mandatory content before then is stuff that is 8 man (thus having generally enough people to do it for them) and/or skipped with the HW jump. Really highlights the need for a more explicit and comprehensive "hall of the intermediate" that goes over some common mechanics indicators and play concepts like big pulls, the idea of a rotation, cooldown use etc. Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Aug 21, 2017 02:46
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Mister Olympus posted:Really highlights the need for a more explicit and comprehensive "hall of the intermediate" that goes over some common mechanics indicators and play concepts like big pulls, the idea of a rotation, cooldown use etc. So what you're saying is we need more Bardam's Mettle second bosses where you literally cannot do anything except the mechanics. Sounds great in my book.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:55
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I hope there's a Bardam (Hard) that doesn't have a single actual fight in it.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:59
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Bardarm hard will have Sadu, Magnai, and Cirina as the three bosses
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cheetah7071 posted:Bardarm hard will have Sadu, Magnai, and Cirina as the three bosses This would rule. Cirina's gotta be the final boss.
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I played up to lvl 29 a long time ago and I'm now looking to get back into it but feeling a little overwhelmed. Is there anyone who wouldn't mind answering a bunch of questions via in-game PM while I figure this all out again? Thanks. I don't even know if friends lists are gated by realm?
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VelociBacon posted:I played up to lvl 29 a long time ago and I'm now looking to get back into it but feeling a little overwhelmed. Is there anyone who wouldn't mind answering a bunch of questions via in-game PM while I figure this all out again? Thanks. I don't even know if friends lists are gated by realm? They are. If you are on Excal, and are online right now, feel free to /tell Your Buddy.
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Mister Olympus posted:Level skips and new expansion hype have brought a load of new players and returning players that might as well be new. The same thing happened on HW release too--I should know, I was one of them then. Sounds like an average Friday on Excalibur. People still tank the Dragon in the bone zone in CT and it's been 3 years?
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Aug 21, 2017 04:03
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 Now I never have to worry about this again.
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EponymousMrYar posted:So what you're saying is we need more Bardam's Mettle second bosses where you literally cannot do anything except the mechanics. Something more than that--if one person fails everything in BM but the other three only fail one mechanic, everyone still passes. Pillars can always be healed through. There is never anything that explicitly spells out to anyone "When a gray pillar with a striped orange circle is present, one person must stand in it." Alder posted:Sounds like an average Friday on Excalibur. People still tank the Dragon in the bone zone in CT and it's been 3 years? Some things though (like this and whoever upthread was talking about getting hate from randos who didn't want them to LB mid-dungeon) I just have to chalk up to weird differences in data center culture Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Aug 21, 2017 04:10
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Let me use ranged LB in the 2/3rd of the dungeon. It's not like it's gone forever 
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Aug 21, 2017 04:18
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I'm not in Excal sadly. I'm figuring it out with a buddy though. I'm a 29 guardian so I guess I should be happy a few roulettes and I can pally up.
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My static finally cleared O3S tonight. Our first pull was a 0.5% enrage and that really demoralized everyone, we took another 12 attempts to finally clear it (hitting enrage only once over that time period). Excited to be repeatedly turned into a bloody smear by Exdeath until 4.1 comes out!
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Reached lvl 30 but my lvl 30 action is greyed out still. Do I have to go train this somewhere or do I get it from the lvl 30 class quest? Thanks.
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VelociBacon posted:Reached lvl 30 but my lvl 30 action is greyed out still. Do I have to go train this somewhere or do I get it from the lvl 30 class quest? Thanks. You usually get an action from finishing the class quest, yes.
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