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Hah, one of the Mol Warriors hits on the WoL after the Naadam. This is like the 3rd or 4th time this happened now. They really ramped that up in Stormblood, huh?
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SirPhoebos posted:Whenever they get around to adding Sephiroth, I would love to see them split it into two parts and have the half everyone remembers be Savage only I hope the theme is just one winged angel. Touch it up a little, or don’t, I don’t care
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HenryEx posted:Hah, one of the Mol Warriors hits on the WoL after the Naadam. There's a bit in I think the BSM quests where this gladiator you make gear for compliments the quality of your work, and then asks what else you can do with those hands, and says she'll think of you when she uses them in battle.
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Bizarro Sephiroth LOOKS more like a JRPG final boss. The 90s were weird though, everything had to have Christian imagery.
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Die Sexmonster! posted:Bizarro Sephiroth LOOKS more like a JRPG final boss. The 90s were weird though, everything had to have Christian imagery. Blame Evangelion for that, plus organized religion being foreign and exotic and thus super cool to add into your story.
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Honestly I like Safer Sephiroth's design more as a final boss but I tend to go for the 'evil angel' archetype.
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Argas posted:They should just make leylines give a group buff while it's up (don't have to stand in it) and make procs oGCD. But on the other hand, AMing to the person with the stack marker and then BtLing back to your leylines is incredibly fun.
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Argas posted:They should just make leylines give a group buff while it's up (don't have to stand in it) and make procs oGCD. Ah, your flaw is in assuming people won’t stand in it anyway
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Ainsley McTree posted:I hope the theme is just one winged angel. Touch it up a little, or don’t, I don’t care No, no touch ups. Original OWA only. Bloopy PS1 synth backing real-people vocals is how Uematsu-san intended it and every remaster and/or cover since has been an insult to our pedigree. e. Also one of the bosses in the FF7 Omega raid had better be Gi Nattak. Mazed fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Bring back Midgard Zolom I want to see what dragon daddy has to say about it
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Ainsley McTree posted:I hope the theme is just one winged angel. Touch it up a little, or don’t, I don’t care 1. Birth of a God deserves love too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwQnEfbh0U 2. I guess you don't get the same joy I do out of watching fan bases bitch. Three poop sock minimum if you want to hear about Sephiroth's cottage cheese!
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What exactly is the deal with the weird, dissociative people-sprouting-from-people-sprouting-from-women-in-ecstasy-sprouting-from-monsters aesthetic that Final Fantasy likes to use for its final bosses? Is it drawing on some style of imagery that I'm not familiar with, or is it just something one guy did for SNES pixel art to look impressive and then decided to keep around? I'm noticing that 1-4 have basically just big spooky monsters for their final bosses, 5-7 have this particular style with the sprouting (except Safer Sephiroth), and then 8 onward go more toward the Safer Sephiroth motif of having an identifably single person that looks like they've had a botched metamorphosis.   I find it visually interesting but at the same time it makes me feel like "oh... the fight is completely abstract at this point huh"
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HenryEx posted:Bring back Midgard Zolom 
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Most of them aren't very fun to do as a healer, as you ineffectually shower your enemy in sparkles and rocks. Especially ones like Zenos when you want to dump a bunch of fel cleaves into them.
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homeless snail posted:hate to break this to you Yes, uh...  Hence my reference to dragon dad
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Cephas posted:What exactly is the deal with the weird, dissociative people-sprouting-from-people-sprouting-from-women-in-ecstasy-sprouting-from-monsters aesthetic that Final Fantasy likes to use for its final bosses? Is it drawing on some style of imagery that I'm not familiar with, or is it just something one guy did for SNES pixel art to look impressive and then decided to keep around? I'm noticing that 1-4 have basically just big spooky monsters for their final bosses, 5-7 have this particular style with the sprouting (except Safer Sephiroth), and then 8 onward go more toward the Safer Sephiroth motif of having an identifably single person that looks like they've had a botched metamorphosis. I remember from Elentor's FFVII LP that he said that there was a period in Japanese horror/sci-fi media that was all about poo poo like this. He even has a bonus update where he goes into the history: https://lparchive.org/Final-Fantasy-VII/Update%20108/
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Cephas posted:What exactly is the deal with the weird, dissociative people-sprouting-from-people-sprouting-from-women-in-ecstasy-sprouting-from-monsters aesthetic that Final Fantasy likes to use for its final bosses? Is it drawing on some style of imagery that I'm not familiar with, or is it just something one guy did for SNES pixel art to look impressive and then decided to keep around? I'm noticing that 1-4 have basically just big spooky monsters for their final bosses, 5-7 have this particular style with the sprouting (except Safer Sephiroth), and then 8 onward go more toward the Safer Sephiroth motif of having an identifably single person that looks like they've had a botched metamorphosis. I just noticed that there's a refugee lady from Neo Exdeath's horrible amalgamation hanging out in the Tower of Kefkas! For NED it kind of made sense, since Exdeath was literally a tree that a shitload of demons had been trapped in and NED is all those demons coalescing into a singular entity. For Kefka I honestly don't know, it probably was more meant as a bizarre, abstract process of apotheosis resulting in the birth of a beatific angel form (by which point you were really ready to smack the smug off Kefka's face). The first time I beat up Bizarro Sephiroth and Safer Sephiroth showed up, I figured that I had somehow interrupted his rise to godhood and left him a mangled mess and he was now *extremely pissed* given the look on his face before the camera pans out.
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So, someone finally got POTD floor 200 solo It was a matter of time, given how pretty specifically suited RDM is for that challenge and the highest I'd seen before generally being either at the 190 boss or dying slightly after it, but still impressive.
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Omegascape should 8. And be one of two things. Fights where we get a instance action called Drain, and we just hit that over and over again for 12 minutes then just a do cursory amount of damage to end the fight. That or whatever the gently caress really, as long as every boss theme is Man with The Machine Gun.
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Kefka's tower is literally the warring triad fused together and twisted with his visage crawling all over them.
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Cephas posted:What exactly is the deal with the weird, dissociative people-sprouting-from-people-sprouting-from-women-in-ecstasy-sprouting-from-monsters aesthetic that Final Fantasy likes to use for its final bosses? Is it drawing on some style of imagery that I'm not familiar with, or is it just something one guy did for SNES pixel art to look impressive and then decided to keep around? I'm noticing that 1-4 have basically just big spooky monsters for their final bosses, 5-7 have this particular style with the sprouting (except Safer Sephiroth), and then 8 onward go more toward the Safer Sephiroth motif of having an identifably single person that looks like they've had a botched metamorphosis. I dunno but I would buy any of these vans
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:You need a party that understands the fight, for sure. I was in a NidEx farm party shortly after 4.0 came out, and it felt great to finally nail the dps and timings just right to get Nidhogg to 0% before the phase shift (he does his dives then immediately falls over). Will be totally trivial to get there by the end of 4.x as ilvl creep happens, of course. On the other hand I healed a synced Thordan normal last week (with 2 sprouts!) where we did the same thing to the Pope Dad (he just keeled over right after Knights of the Round). It was amazing.
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While diving into a PS1 Final Fantasy music hole I found the gooniest (but also best?) thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ECwiEeh-Y
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It's so weird, of all three healers I feel like I suck as a WHM more than the others, because I'm throwing out so much stone and not healing as often as I should. No one's died from that reason yet though so  I guess because AST has other things to manage and not much dps, and SCH always has the fairie. A. Beaverhausen fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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A. Beaverhausen posted:It's so weird, of all three healers I feel like I suck as a WHM more than the others, because I'm throwing out so much stone and not healing as often as I should. No one's died from that reason yet though so WHM gives you heals over time, so you’re doing it right. Run a parser to see just how right 
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Die Sexmonster! posted:WHM gives you heals over time, so you’re doing it right. The day I out dps a (bad) dps I'll be sure to post it. It will be a celebration.
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A WHM can actually compete with a good DPS on a megapull while they're spamming Holy.
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I'm almost at 50 on WHM, so I will soon know the glory of Holy
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I'm almost at 50 on WHM, so I will soon know the glory of Holy Good news, you get Holy at 45! Mine's only at like 51 so I haven't yet had the opportunity to do the Thin Air + Presence of Mind + Holy fun times.
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Mazed posted:No, no touch ups. Original OWA only.
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Yo can i just mention how hilarious the SB quest fanfare is? It's so, i dunno... wrong. I felt this way ever since i first heard it, and it kept poking that part of my brain that made me think "i know this from somewhere.... gat dangit was is it." Every single time i completed a quest. Drives you insane. It felt really out of place, somehow. And when i advanced the story and found out what song it's a part of, it was even worse. There's so many downer or somber quest lines you end with this pompous, march-like overblown fanfare. It makes me want to pump a baton every time i hear it. I don't even really remember the HW fanfare, but at least it was inoffensive enough to be forgettable. I still kind of prefer the OG ARR quest fanfare.
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HenryEx posted:Yo can i just mention how hilarious the SB quest fanfare is? It's so, i dunno... wrong. Every time I hear the SB quest turn-in, my brain goes "...the faaaabric of our liiiiives!"
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Well I mean, the Heavensward quest accepted and completed jingles are *also* borrowed from another song (Solid). Though I guess they're a bit less awkwardly out of place when you finish a downer quest.
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Ainsley McTree posted:I dunno but I would buy any of these vans I don't know about the other two but the Tower of the Gods looks to be based on Dante's Divine Comedy and Michelangelo's Pieta. The first tier is Dante's Satan submerged half-way in a frozen pond as punishment from God, the second tier is Purgatory where you suffer to achieve forgiveness, and the final tier is the ascension to Heaven and meeting God, with the visual depiction being a interpretation of Michelangelo's Pieta, in which Mary is cradling the body of Jesus.
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SirPhoebos posted:I remember from Elentor's FFVII LP that he said that there was a period in Japanese horror/sci-fi media that was all about poo poo like this. He even has a bonus update where he goes into the history: https://lparchive.org/Final-Fantasy-VII/Update%20108/ This is a great answer, thanks
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vOv posted:Mine's only at like 51 so I haven't yet had the opportunity to do the Thin Air + Presence of Mind + Holy fun times. don't forget assize, by far the best skill in the game (earthly star would be a contender if it wasn't so laggy) 60 WHM was great after being freed from the shackles of old cleric stance at Stormblood launch, but now with all the new skills it's incredibly good at 4-man dungeons.
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Is there any better way to farm poetics than "shove my face at 50/60, stare at party finder for first-timers, weep miserably?"
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Unsync one of the 100 poetics dungeons? Amdapor Keep Hard or Keeper of the Lake are probably fastest.
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