|
On that note, for the next primal fight at least try to run it with a normal party. It has one of the best music + phase transitions in the game and if you stomp it with a level 70 buddy it'll be over faster than you can appreciate it.
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 22:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 21:14 |
|
|
Do everything at min ilvl. Never unsync.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 22:58
|
|
|
Saint Freak posted:On which difficulty? On hard if you get tethered one of the people in the tether needs to pick up three of them. Do tanks still need to pick up orbs on hard? I only tanked that fight once and I recall people yelling at me about orbs but nothing more specific than that
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 23:01
|
|
|
Ainsley McTree posted:Do tanks still need to pick up orbs on hard? I only tanked that fight once and I recall people yelling at me about orbs but nothing more specific than that Leave the orbs in place on hard. You'll need three of them to break tethers but orbs only drop two at a time so it's a huge pain if there aren't a bunch left over when you enter that phase.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 23:03
|
|
|
Thundarr posted:You can fish up a sea monster and then build an aquarium for your house and put the sea monster inside*. Or you can fish up an adorable turtle or chocobo or goldfish bucket to follow you around. Or stab fish with a spear and turn them into sand that you sell to crafters for a profit. Or hang out with an assassin who fishes as a hobby between jobs. When I started fishing in SWG I knew I was... hooked. Since then if a game has fishing I know I'm going to spend way too much time on it. WoW has been the worst fishing enabler.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 23:14
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:Since then if a game has fishing I know I'm going to spend way too much time on it. Same. I'm the kind of person who collects everything (yes it's me, I'm the one who has actually finished my Pokedex in every game). My Fisher level is my highest one so far, has been my highest level for a long, long time.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 23:39
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:When I started fishing in SWG I knew I was... hooked. Since then if a game has fishing I know I'm going to spend way too much time on it. WoW has been the worst fishing enabler. Yes..yesss...welcome.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2017 23:46
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:When I started fishing in SWG I knew I was... hooked. Since then if a game has fishing I know I'm going to spend way too much time on it. WoW has been the worst fishing enabler. Not only is there fishing, there's fishing while wearing cool fishing hats 
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 02:02
|
|
|
Slenderpals East is looking for a full time Bard or Scholar for Savage raiding! We logged our very first clear of O3S tonight, but are losing our Bard to the dreaded Real Life Circumstances. We're a bunch of midcores at heart that raid twice a week, Mon/Thu 8:30-11:00 EST. If you'd like to get in on dat raiding business, message me here on the forums, through the goon Discord as Fiaryn, or in game as Fiaryn Kilif. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 04:19
|
|
|
a kitten posted:Not only is there fishing, there's fishing while wearing cool fishing hats Did you censor your name in the tell but not the party list????
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 07:35
|
|
|
 The pain has finally ended.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 07:45
|
|
|
Filthy Haiku posted:
Not until that image pans over to show crafters and gatherers
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 07:46
|
|
|
yeah, you gotta show us your desynth levels.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 07:51
|
|
|
Thundarr posted:(Only certain sea monsters may apply, Nepto Dragon is right out until they make an outdoor aquarium sized to fit a whale) what they really need to do is make aquarium walls. like, room walls, except it's glass and you have a nepto dragon swimming about.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 07:56
|
|
|
Well, I found out it's trivially easy to solo Urth's Fount as a 70 RDM.  Shame he doesn't have a horse, but it's time to farm up some glamour items and get vindication for horrible, horrible duty finder parties I tried it with in the past. The only vaguely challenging part is Sanngetall, and that only hits for like 12k out of a 31+k HP pool.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 08:10
|
|
|
A. Beaverhausen posted:So...I have to heal honestly? AST kind of sucks at DPS. You will do less than the other healers by a fair margin, and you will really only ever have one dot, one single target nuke, and one AoE nuke. The reason for both the apparent simplicity and lower damage throughput is basically cards. There are some intricacies about AST DPS at 70, but it's mostly based on how to get your mileage out of Earthly Star, and how much your card/buff oGCD abilities are delaying your malefic casts and if it's enough of a delay that the Lightspeed penalty is less. And honestly, that last point is kind of why I think AST isn't as fun as the other healers. The AST card/buff game leads to a lot of oGCD abilities being used on top of one another. It's not terribly organised.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 08:21
|
|
|
whm and sch both have two dots and a nuke. sure their potencies are higher, but let's not pretend their rotations are substantially more interesting than ast's.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 12:13
|
|
|
White Mage has Assize, the best ability in the game, so it's definitely the best Healer to deeps on. Love me some big Assize
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 12:30
|
|
|
Josuke Higashikata posted:Love me some big Assize Too bad yoship doesn't
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 13:56
|
|
|
I don't really understand the usage of the word "nuke" in regards to healer dps. It's usually used to refer to the basic filler spell, right? From what I understand, "nukes" in MMOs usually refer to very high damage abilities with a long cooldown/high cost. Or am I just using the spells wrong?
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 14:11
|
|
|
Zinkraptor posted:I don't really understand the usage of the word "nuke" in regards to healer dps. It's usually used to refer to the basic filler spell, right? From what I understand, "nukes" in MMOs usually refer to very high damage abilities with a long cooldown/high cost. Or am I just using the spells wrong? Nuking in MMOs from how I understand it just means "kill that thing by casting spells at it" and that's it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 14:14
|
|
|
Gravity looks cool and sounds cool and that's all that matters about the spell.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 14:14
|
|
|
installing. rolling white mage so i can buy friends.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 14:27
|
|
|
Josuke Higashikata posted:Did you censor your name in the tell but not the party list???? I didn't censor anything, what are you even saying?
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 14:35
|
|
|
BrightWing posted:Gravity looks cool and sounds cool and that's all that matters about the spell. It's too bad it requires a target, making it inferior to God's own spells, Miasma 2 and Holy.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 15:19
|
|
|
After leveling an Arcanist to 7 I can see that the game is pretty much the same as when I tried it years ago, but I'm taking things much slower, reading all the quest text and that's helping. I still think the maps are awful, especially in showing transitions between city and surrounding countryside. I expect it takes a while for the actual story to get going and that's fine. I can see myself getting into all the collecting and crafting but multiple classes... no. I still feel like an alt makes more sense for me if I want to play different classes. I can't imagine how you would even level another class if your first one has cleared all the quests in the area.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:10
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:After leveling an Arcanist to 7 I can see that the game is pretty much the same as when I tried it years ago, but I'm taking things much slower, reading all the quest text and that's helping. I still think the maps are awful, especially in showing transitions between city and surrounding countryside. Quest XP is bad for any classes past your first because all non quest XP is doubled for a class not your highest.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:14
|
|
|
a kitten posted:I didn't censor anything, what are you even saying? in the gil-selling tell you got, there's a big gap that looks like a black bar due to the ocean behind it. I thought it was you censoring your name too until this post
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:15
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:I can't imagine how you would even level another class if your first one has cleared all the quests in the area. If you're on a class lower than your highest you get a big bonus to EXP (+100% for 1-59, 50% for 60-70). Things like roulettes and Palace of the Dead slam EXP down your gullet. For the love of god do not alt.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:15
|
|
|
Being able to play every class on one character is by far the best feature of this game and it has ruined every other MMO for me
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:18
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:I expect it takes a while for the actual story to get going and that's fine. I can see myself getting into all the collecting and crafting but multiple classes... no. I still feel like an alt makes more sense for me if I want to play different classes. I can't imagine how you would even level another class if your first one has cleared all the quests in the area. You say that, but you know what's way more miserable than leveling an alt class without main story quests? Leveling an alt class WITH main story quests. Trust me, you will not want to do MSQ stuff more than once, and this will only become more true when you get to higher levels. You can level alt jobs up really fast using regular dungeons and this randomized dungeon thing called Palace of the Dead that you'll unlock at some point. You also get a substantial exp boost to any jobs that are lower level than your highest level job (I think 100% if the lower job is under 60, and 50% above that).
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:19
|
|
|
Shows I have alot to learn about this game. I'll stick with the Arcanist for now. I do have an old L10 character on Excalibur, a Thaumaturge? I can save him for possible goon shenanigans.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:22
|
|
|
World War Mammories posted:in the gil-selling tell you got, there's a big gap that looks like a black bar due to the ocean behind it. I thought it was you censoring your name too until this post Oooooh! Yeah I can see that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:26
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:After leveling an Arcanist to 7 I can see that the game is pretty much the same as when I tried it years ago, but I'm taking things much slower, reading all the quest text and that's helping. I still think the maps are awful, especially in showing transitions between city and surrounding countryside. As someone who was just recently where you are, the first 20 levels or so are by far the roughest. Once you start getting attuned to the various atheryte beacons the map issue and traveling in general becomes much less of a pain since you can just teleport to and fro relatively quickly. The minimap still fucks with me all the time though because the scale of the icons feels off at max zoom distance so it always feels like I'm over shooting a mark.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:33
|
|
|
To be fair, it is unfortunate that you can't feasibly level alt jobs through questing, but honestly the questing in FFXIV kind of sucks anyway, so really the game is saving you from yourself. Most of the appeal of the side quests comes from the story, so there's not much reason to want to do them more than once. Meanwhile, a lot of the instanced content is pretty engaging, so it works out (minus certain low level dungeons with very little going on).
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:37
|
|
|
Zinkraptor posted:To be fair, it is unfortunate that you can't feasibly level alt jobs through questing, but honestly the questing in FFXIV kind of sucks anyway, so really the game is saving you from yourself. Most of the appeal of the side quests comes from the story, so there's not much reason to want to do them more than once. Meanwhile, a lot of the instanced content is pretty engaging, so it works out (minus certain low level dungeons with very little going on). And with the armory bonus you shoot through those lower level dungeons at a super quick rate. I'm on my second job and still don't know my way around Sastasha or Haukke Manor, because I've only run them both maybe 3 times.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:46
|
|
|
Ainsley McTree posted:Being able to play every class on one character is by far the best feature of this game and it has ruined every other MMO for me Eh, other than having to buy character slots, alts in GW2 are essentially the same thing with all the shared storage (banks, crafting, weapon and armor skins) and account-wide mechanics and unlocks. Most of the best gear is account bound too. And you can make copies of your anime princess or play differently looking ones without buying makeover kits. You don't share quest progress but since very few things are unlocked through story progression that's not much of a problem.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 16:55
|
|
|
Are there MMOs where questing is the fun bit rather than everything else? I can't imagine if it was better to level by collecting 8 Wind Cores from those drat sprites instead of running The Vault.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 17:17
|
|
|
SonicRulez posted:Are there MMOs where questing is the fun bit rather than everything else? I can't imagine if it was better to level by collecting 8 Wind Cores from those drat sprites instead of running The Vault. SWTOR comes to mind.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 17:26
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 21:14 |
|
|
Zinkraptor posted:To be fair, it is unfortunate that you can't feasibly level alt jobs through questing, but honestly the questing in FFXIV kind of sucks anyway, so really the game is saving you from yourself. Most of the appeal of the side quests comes from the story, so there's not much reason to want to do them more than once. Meanwhile, a lot of the instanced content is pretty engaging, so it works out (minus certain low level dungeons with very little going on). If you want more sidequests to use to level your other classes, you get 6 levequest allotments per day. There's also FATEs which function as little pick-up cooperative quests. Add roulettes, dungeons, hunting logs, daily hunt boards, and so on, and there's an absurd amount of quest-like and not-so-quest-like methods to level.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2017 17:28
|
|
