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I've been making it my mission to get all of my crafters to 70 and actually do all of the class quests since stormblood got rid of the worst part of them by giving you generic quest materials instead of making you gather/pay for them yourself. What's really blown me away is how consistently good all of the crafting storylines are, especially since it's for a thing that a very small fraction of the playerbase will give much of a poo poo about or get past the first 30 levels of pain on even one crafting class. I'm too used to wow where quests for crafting professions are for you to make a specific thing and then eat poo poo, go back to grinding out crafts. Also the end of the Heavensward culinarian questline is perhaps my greatest moment in all of my crafting thus far. I get a literal shokugeki no soma tasting orgasm scene, it's the best.
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1-50 Crafting loving sucks and I hate it. So I've taken to levekitting my rear end to 55 every 2 1/2 weeks. I figure I can get them all to 70 or nearly 70 by the the time 4.4 drops
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Mar 10, 2018 06:55
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https://www.fflogs.com/reports/NmwYH3aqbKM68JxF#fight=15&type=damage-done "I'm a whopping 1k below the top WAR for this. This can't possibly be gear-related. Do I really suck that hard?" ^ This was me a few minutes ago, stressing over how I have been parsing progressively worse in Savage fights despite improving my rotations/execution on all fronts. Then I compared the top WAR's parse to mine, and found that the only difference in our rotations was that he did two extra Fell Cleaves and his party was more competent. Turns out, gear really does make a really loving big difference! I feel less lovely now. On a lighter note, I've seen God Kefka.
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Mar 10, 2018 08:22
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Thumbtacks posted:Does anyone have pictures of the Rabanastre gear? https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/duty/ae1bf71a899/ if you click coffers -> item pages there are often multiple screenshots of the items eorzea database is very good
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Mar 10, 2018 09:45
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:The edge is calling tonight! Lay down your arms and let ME DESYNTH THEM ALREADY
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Mar 10, 2018 11:30
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None of the 60-70 crafting questlines really stood out to me, but none were really terrible either. I got kind of annoyed with how much endless praise they drop on you. Nearly every quest would have at least 30 seconds of your class buddy lamenting how lovely they are and how perfect you are and oh Jesus god why am I such garbage and why am I allowed to stand in your radiance? Alchemist and culinarian were probably the best, with alchemist being another episode of Eorzean SVU and culinarian you end up adventuring with a good hearted dope who is actually useful and gets to do heroic stuff himself. HW culinarian is still the crem doo lah crem though and nothing really came close. *edit* it is nice that a lot of the crafting and gathering quests add something permanent to the world map somewhere and I hope they keep up with that. ParliamentOfDogs fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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SL the Pyro posted:https://www.fflogs.com/reports/NmwYH3aqbKM68JxF#fight=15&type=damage-done Yeah, you're not doing as bad as you felt. My static has hands down two of the best tanks on Lamia(Our Paladin has #2 on all fights, and our Warrior teeters #1-2, except on Kefka for some reason but he's still among the top ten) and you're not too far behind our Warrior on our latest parse for Kefka. Keep it up!  Really wish our dudes had more time though, only reason we haven't beaten God is we've only been doing two lockouts, at most, each week since people have been busier. Skaw fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Mar 10, 2018 13:06
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Thumbtacks posted:They've been the only thing I've ever glamoured to my hands, I've worn them for like four straight years. Anathalia.
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Mar 10, 2018 13:52
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Oh right! I still see you around every so often But yeah it's basically all I ever wear, if I took them off I don't know what I'd do with myself.
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Mar 10, 2018 14:47
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Blockhouse posted:Monk has some fantastic animations and your attack speed makes hits super satisfying Then you see the ridiculously tiny numbers and everything feels like a wet fart. This is ofcourse an illusion as you're farting in the bosses face (or rear end, whatever) so fast you're basically airblasting it's skin off. The solution is to never play anything but monk and remain in blissfully ignorant Nirvana. Stay true to the path.
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Mar 10, 2018 16:04
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Speaking of monks, what's the ideal way to use Dragon Kick, Rockbreaker, and Demolish in multitarget fights? I'm guessing I probably want Dragon Kick on basically everyone since it doesn't really get in the way of an AoE (unless I should be using Arm of the Destroyer in that form but it generally seems to do too little damage for too much TP to be worth it), but not sure about Demolish. Unless I PB I can only reliably have it on three targets but if I do that I can't Rockbreaker at all, so I'd guess the ideal application is to keep Demolish on one or two big targets and use any spare Coeurl GCDs on Rockbreaker, but that significantly cuts my AoE damage.
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Mar 10, 2018 17:58
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Arm of the Destroyer at 5+ Rockbreaker at 2+ Juggle demo on 2 targets if it can tick for most of its duration, (so you'll look like Demo A Demo B RB Demo A Demo B RB), otherwise stick to RB spam PB is 60s now so you can RB every pull
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Mar 10, 2018 18:06
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Thumbtacks posted:Speaking of monks, what's the ideal way to use Dragon Kick, Rockbreaker, and Demolish in multitarget fights? I'm guessing I probably want Dragon Kick on basically everyone since it doesn't really get in the way of an AoE (unless I should be using Arm of the Destroyer in that form but it generally seems to do too little damage for too much TP to be worth it), but not sure about Demolish. Unless I PB I can only reliably have it on three targets but if I do that I can't Rockbreaker at all, so I'd guess the ideal application is to keep Demolish on one or two big targets and use any spare Coeurl GCDs on Rockbreaker, but that significantly cuts my AoE damage. If you're fighting two targets use Demolish on each one after the other then Rockbreaker the third time round if you can hit both (Snap Punch one if you can't), repeat. If you're fighting three enemies or more just Rockbreaker every time cause three enemies is when Rockbreaker's total potency beats the dot. (and definitely use PB to drop 5 Rockbreakers with as many buffs as you can stack in a row). Unsure on the exact numbers for Arm of the Destroyer but I believe at five or more enemies you're better off using Arm, below that you can maintain Dragon Kick on two enemies at a time due to the duration so put it on whichever two have the most HP when it cycles round. Obviously take into account how much TP this is going to chew through and if you'll have time to regenerate it before fighting anything else.
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That's pretty much what I expected. Good to know my initial thoughts were basically right. Soon I'll hit 62 and I'll get the crit chakra passive which should help quite a bit, I'm not sure how much that speeds up chakra generation but right now I basically only build them up between pulls or when I have a GCD to spare when I need to line up buffs/debuffs without clipping. I appreciate that monks aren't really changed that much between 50-70, just some good QoL abilities/passives. It's also not that hard at all to remember which abilities need flank and which need rear. every so often i have to double check the tooltip to make sure I'm doing the right thing, but overall it's not particularly difficult to remember and flows pretty well. I appreciate that it's not CONSTANT dancing between rear and flank, it makes it a bit more involved. I don't really understand how riddles and stance charges work, but I'll figure it out once I get them and dick around with them a bit, I guess. Riddle of Earth seems useful to hold GL stacks for as long as possible, and Fire's clearly a cooldown, but I don't know how Wind's works or if they share a cooldown between the three of them. can't wait to have three damage cooldowns to use, though, so far i just have inner release.
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also is Eureka going to be an actual relic (preferably armor) or is it going to be like palace of the dead style item progression? i'm finding it surprisingly difficult to actually find much information about that
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Thumbtacks posted:also is Eureka going to be an actual relic (preferably armor) or is it going to be like palace of the dead style item progression? i'm finding it surprisingly difficult to actually find much information about that From what we've been told it's going to be an actual relic, we just don't know anything about what the process will involve.
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Mar 10, 2018 19:13
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ActionZero posted:From what we've been told it's going to be an actual relic, we just don't know anything about what the process will involve. It's going to involve the removal of what's left of my soul, I'm pretty sure.
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From the short showcase Yoshi and Foxclon did, it's basically farming monsters and exchanging them for upgrade mats, or using the mats directly to upgrade your AF3 sets.
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Thumbtacks posted:It's also not that hard at all to remember which abilities need flank and which need rear. every so often i have to double check the tooltip to make sure I'm doing the right thing, but overall it's not particularly difficult to remember and flows pretty well. I appreciate that it's not CONSTANT dancing between rear and flank, it makes it a bit more involved. What I do to keep my goldfish mind straight is put my flank attacks on 123 and rear attacks on CTRL+1/2/3.
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Hra Mormo posted:What I do to keep my goldfish mind straight is put my flank attacks on 123 and rear attacks on CTRL+1/2/3. I prefer to needlessly complicate things by putting Bootshine on 1, True Strike on 2, Snap Punch on 3, and then Dragon Kick on Shift+1, Twin Snakes on Shift+2, and Demolish on Shift+3. That way I keep my forms together, although it does mean I swap back and forth between 123 and Shift123 on basically every attack, which is what I'd be doing anyway
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Thumbtacks posted:I prefer to needlessly complicate things by putting Bootshine on 1, True Strike on 2, Snap Punch on 3, and then Dragon Kick on Shift+1, Twin Snakes on Shift+2, and Demolish on Shift+3. That way I keep my forms together, although it does mean I swap back and forth between 123 and Shift123 on basically every attack, which is what I'd be doing anyway I do this too. For some reason "direct damage combo" and "status effect combo" makes more sense to me than "rear combo" and "flank combo". Probably because pugilist was my first class so I spent the most time with it, and the game starts you off with the direct damage combos and slowly introduces the status effect actions as you level up.
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I'm weird then. I weaved the two together and basically alternated rear and flank attacks when I was leveling MNK. Just did half circles around the bosses.
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Thumbtacks posted:I prefer to needlessly complicate things by putting Bootshine on 1, True Strike on 2, Snap Punch on 3, and then Dragon Kick on Shift+1, Twin Snakes on Shift+2, and Demolish on Shift+3. That way I keep my forms together, although it does mean I swap back and forth between 123 and Shift123 on basically every attack, which is what I'd be doing anyway This is the way I've been doing it since ARR launched, so you are on the True and Right path.
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it's the only way that makes sense, i dont know how else you'd organize it that'd be like playing dragoon and putting the True Thrust combo on Shift 123 and the Impulse Drive combo on 123. Madness.
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I can respect that, when I swapped the positions of Bootshine and Dragon Kick I basically had an instant meltdown.
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Thumbtacks posted:it's the only way that makes sense, i dont know how else you'd organize it This is exactly how my drg is set up.
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Thumbtacks posted:it's the only way that makes sense, i dont know how else you'd organize it I have it in order of skill obtaining. 1 - Bootshine 2 - True Strike 3 - Snap Punch 4 - Twin Snakes 5 - Demolish 6 - Dragon Kick So my button presses are like 6 4 5, 1 2 3, 1 4 3, 6 2 5 etc. It's muscle memory.
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Mar 10, 2018 22:40
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EponymousMrYar posted:I have it in order of skill obtaining. You loving degenerate
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EponymousMrYar posted:I have it in order of skill obtaining. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Uhh it’s this actually: Bootshine- circle True strike - x Demolish- triangle Dragonkick- right Twin snake- down Snap punch- up
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EponymousMrYar posted:I have it in order of skill obtaining. 
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Captain Oblivious posted:You loving degenerate I also don't use Arm of the Destroyer at all, even on 5+ mob packs because I'm apparently the only one who knows how to AoE as Melee DPS in EX Roulette these days and I save that TP for more Rockbreakers 
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Wait until you see my usual button rotation which consists of Shift-7 Q Control-4 Control-Q 2 1 Shift-Q Shift-2 Shift-6 Shift-4 6 edit: i'm only half-way joking, that IS actually a button combination i press more or less regularly. HenryEx fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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EponymousMrYar posted:I also don't use Arm of the Destroyer at all, even on 5+ mob packs because I'm apparently the only one who knows how to AoE as Melee DPS in EX Roulette these days and I save that TP for more Rockbreakers Eh it’s a judgement call you have to make. If the other dps is half way decent or the tank and healer are savages I find I have plenty of tp to use arm of the destroyer on big packs after the PB rockbreak bonanza.
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Thumbtacks posted:it's the only way that makes sense, i dont know how else you'd organize it True Thrust - 1 Vorpal Thrust - 2 Full Thrust - 3 Fang&Claw - G Wheeling Thrust - T Impulse Drive - 4 Disembowel - 5 Chaos Thrust - F
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I've got a friend in my FC who's willing to decorate houses given a budget. Would a million gil be reasonable for furnishing a small house?
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1 - One Ilm Punch 2 - One Ilm Punch 3 - One Ilm Punch Shift + 1 - One Ilm Punch Shift + 2 - One Ilm Punch Shift + 3 - Form Shift
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Lizard Wizard posted:I've got a friend in my FC who's willing to decorate houses given a budget. Would a million gil be reasonable for furnishing a small house? It might be a bit on the skimpy side, depending on what you want. It'll help a lot if you can craft stuff given mats (or find someone willing to do it, which should include most of the bored goon omnicrafters).
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Sadly, I'm on a different server with other kinds of nerd trash. What would you suggest, 2 million? 1.5?
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Today I did Raid Roulette as AST. I was a little worried, but I managed to keep everyone (save one) alive through everything and got four commendations at the end. But I was in the party with a Dragoon who went to the wrong Atomos corridor in spite of waymarkers being up, who then died to Behemoth meteors, and then died to Ancient Flare and refused to accept my Raise, would not get in with the rest of the party after a wipe so I could reapply Protect, and then died to Ancient Flare and refused another Raise. When she finally hit it, it was after the second Ancient Flare and she immediately ran at the boss to attack him. While her HP was still low. Needless to say, she was outside of healing range and died to the floor. 
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