Meiteron posted:

Additional context:

The actual Bahamut fight is phase 3, with the first two phases being Twintania and Nael respectively, with their own mechanics dialled to 12 (thats right, we're going beyond 11) and hard enrage timers of 3min 30s and 3min per enemy. Presumably Bahamut will also have a hard enrage timer but, haha, no one is expecting to find out what it is for awhile.

This is trio attack #4 out of an expected five. To even see this you had to get past three other trio attacks, all entirely different, which are basically Twin, Nael, and Bahamut doing 1-3 of their mechanics each, simultaneously.

You may note in that video that Bahamut is at ~11.8 million hp remaining out of an initial ~13.5 million, so you get a sense of how early in the Bahamut phase this actually is.

At this point in the fight, one datamined enemy has not even made an appearance yet.

E: I understand how decimals work!

Holyshoot posted:

are the people who might actually get a world first kill streaming? seems kind of weird to do as it could let other guilds use your strats. It's why the world first wow guilds never stream their progression.

Captain Oblivious posted:

Spoil me.

Who is it? Neo Bahamut? Bahamut Zero? How dumb does this poo poo get

Archyduke posted:

The Verminion challenge log thing gives 10k and does not care at all if you win or lose. You can go, sign up for a match, get into it, and just AFK until you lose while you tab out and look at something else. Repeat twice and you have a nice little amount of MGP for next to no effort.

Ainsley McTree posted:

I’ve got a SMN question.

For your dots, does contagion affect damage at the time of casting, or for the duration of contagion? So for example if I cast contagion, and apply the dots just before it expires, do the dots do extra 10% damage for their full 30 second duration?

And if that is how it works, and I cast bane, do the additional mobs also take 10% damage? Or just the one that I actually put contagion on?

A. Beaverhausen posted:

gently caress me, thank you for this

mistaya posted:

So, Kojin's sworn rep was possible today. No emote, no mount, no new pet? That's disappointing...

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

You have a solo duty, but you don't even get to fight the Shredder. smdh

Mr. Nice! posted:

PLD chat - i'm trying to max dps. How often should i be casting holy spirit outside of requiscat? Is there any place that lists relative stat weights.

Holyshoot posted:

raided like how? if you mean care about world firsts and raid ungodly hours, they do it even more in wow now. And when they're done they have to re-clear the place 4 more times on alts because they have to class stack now and have 5-8 alts all at the same ilv as their main.

mistaya posted:

So, Kojin's sworn rep was possible today. No emote, no mount, no new pet? That's disappointing...

Fister Roboto posted:

Pretty much never. Theoretically you would want to if you had enough skill speed to have a 2.26s GCD minus latency, in which case you could squeeze a single extra HS in. Even then you'd need to get some sheltron blocks or some other external source of MP to have enough for it.

stat weights

Bleu posted:

No, I mean as in 'm-muh proprietary strats' because sometimes you will literally get impossible mechanics and nobody will be willing to admit it for fear of giving your COMPETITORS the EDGE THEY NEED to claim the prestigious WORLD FIRST MAGIC DRAGON KILL. That was cautionary moral of the fable of C'Thun the Laser Eyeball, and his eventual babies were the horrible chthonic mutant websites like Elitist Jerks.

Also twitchbux obviously but that attitude you described really died before streaming took off

A. Beaverhausen posted:

A guy I know brags about being in Elitest Jerks back in the day, without ever realizing it made him sound like such a grognard tryhard. He still carries that arrogance of how important he was in that scene into his everyday life and it's pathetic .

Hogama posted:

Thundarr posted:

It was possible yesterday

But yeah, disappointing that there was no mount or dance. Even if it's the dumb lazy cabbage patch thing they do.

On the other hand, the turtle armor is pretty great.

Skaw posted:

There's also still one more rank. Moogles, Vanu and Vath also went to 8, with the allied quest bringing them to 9. They ended reputation on Bloodsworn, and wrapped up on Allied with the quest.

Mr. Nice! posted:

I had read something about using HS once during the physical rotation if you were going to overfill your mp. I shifted around gear for less skillspeed, though, and you can't do it as easily at 2.42 as you can at 2.36.

I'm just looking at some of my parses and coming short of top PLDs and trying to sort out the difference. I'm not able to sustain >4k dps for long outside of burst phases and this doesn't seem right.

On the subject of openers, I've taken to casting holy spirit when there's 2 seconds left on the countdown timer and it's a great way to start fights.

Thundarr posted:

It was possible yesterday

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

It was? How did I wind up a day behind? Maybe I didn't do it on launch day like I thought.

Meiteron posted:

There are plenty of people streaming if you feel a desire to feel smart and see something exciting, just not everyone.

The entire endgame community is looking at this fight, speculating on progress, salivating for every new 60 second twitch capture that shows some new ridiculous mechanic. The first group to get the clear are going to get major acclaim, and if what is current knowledge about the fight is any indication, it will be well earned.

World-first progression is something additional, almost separate, from the rest of the video game. It's a competition with your peers, a race, and you are not obligated to help the people you're racing against because you are racing against them.

SL the Pyro posted:

I had to get off my rear end and do the Halloween event when I realized they brought these prisms back.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

One of the early verminion challenges is super easy to win and it's quicker to win it than it is to actually lose a match. It's only a matter of sending a handful to each of the targets before you tab out.

I'd need to be logged in to double check which challenge it is but I believe you only need the regular Mandragora minion to cheese it. Maybe someone will be reminded by what I mean by reading this and elaborate further.

Mr. Nice! posted:

PLD chat - i'm trying to max dps. How often should i be casting holy spirit outside of requiscat? Is there any place that lists relative stat weights.