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Skaw posted:Lucia's reveal is more about Aymeric than Lucia herself. She's a dyed in the wool pure blooded Garlean capital P Patriot, sent to spy on the bastard son of the most powerful man in Ishgard. She defects because of his determination and charisma, knowing full well she'll never be able to go home or see her family again. If he can convince a literal enemy of the state to follow him, surely he can be the catalyst that convinces Ishgard to correct course from their terrible history and break the endless, manipulative cycle used by the theocracy to perpetuate the hate. I don't know how pureblooded garleans can be expected to be spies of anything, what with the big obvious sign stuck on their forehead
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Cythereal posted:Funny thing is, Count Fortemps made a much bigger impression on me than Haurchefant. He's the guy who repeatedly, when people question you being allowed into Ishgard early in HW, points out that you're the one who killed Gaius van Baelsar, destroyed Ultima Weapon, and slew a whole bucketload of primals. It's an effective argument for shutting people up. And he lets you crash on his couch while you're theoretically in exile. Right, but The only reason you meet Count Fortemps is because of Haurchefant getting you a meeting with him and by extension Ward status.  No doubt on the issue of the Count though. He's a cool dude.
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Mar 13, 2018 06:50
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Do they usually drop patch notes closer to the maint starting or ending? I wanna read about my soon to be FFXI level grind.
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Mar 13, 2018 06:52
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Cythereal posted:I'm still struggling with cutscenes forgetting that I'm playing a healer. I always assumed that gameplay mechanics are heavily divorced from the underlying 'reality' and that saving people from utterly fatal wounds is not actually a thing healers can do.
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Mar 13, 2018 07:03
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Hra Mormo posted:Drk to 50 and especially the capstone quest is really good. After that though if you're not super into the edgelordyness it goes down the drain, but never to the level of the truly lovely job quests like Pld before SB. The 50-60 stuff doesn't really stand out, but the 60-70 quests are still the best of the SB job quests. Schneider Heim posted:Does PGL/MNK ever reach Fist of the North Star's level of punching awesomeness? That's the only class I don't have yet. PGL is pretty great. Monk's best stuff is the 50-60 quests. vOv posted:I always assumed that gameplay mechanics are heavily divorced from the underlying 'reality' and that saving people from utterly fatal wounds is not actually a thing healers can do. The way that kind of stuff tends to be represented is like accelerating the body's natural healing process and numbing the pain. If it was a wound that the body couldn't heal by itself in any way, like a severed arm, the magic really just makes you feel better. Brainamp fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Mar 13, 2018 07:06
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Hra Mormo posted:Drk to 50 and especially the capstone quest is really good. After that though if you're not super into the edgelordyness it goes down the drain, but never to the level of the truly lovely job quests like Pld before SB. If your take away from DRK 50 to 60 was “just edgelordyness” then man you were not paying attention. A significant plot point is Moogles accidentally(?) antagonizing your Dark Knight buddy into grasping that being an angsty closed off rear end in a top hat actually limits you as a Dark Knight. Like the whole thesis of DRK 50-60 is “DON’T be a brooding friendless rear end in a top hat like early 2000s Batman”. And then 60-70 is more or less a direct continuation of 30 to 50s themes.
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Schneider Heim posted:Oh cool! I've been thinking of unlocking DRG next. PGl 1-30 is to this day probably my favorite job quest in the game. After pgl I would put cul 50-60 and then drk 30-50. War 60-70 a solid runner up, followed by weaver 1-50. On average, I would say goldsmith has the best job quests in the game. ARR, HW, and SB are all consistently top tier, while not being the best. Every other job has sections which falter. Edit: Patch notes are up https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/5ad19879fc01a5d878af9a7f90f29e4a2394c5b4 Man does Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Mar 13, 2018 07:28
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For DRK unlock requirements, all I need is to have started the HW storyline? Since it's a job that doesn't have an underlying class? Or do I need either GLD or MRD to 30?
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Mar 13, 2018 08:07
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Schneider Heim posted:For DRK unlock requirements, all I need is to have started the HW storyline? Correct. Neither the HW or SB jobs have a base class requirement
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Failboattootoot posted:PGl 1-30 is to this day probably my favorite job quest in the game. After pgl I would put cul 50-60 and then drk 30-50. War 60-70 a solid runner up, followed by weaver 1-50. No word on relic in the patch notes. 
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Mar 13, 2018 08:10
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Eureka sounds so bad, Hope I'm wrong
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edit: nah
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Mordiceius posted:No word on relic in the patch notes. :think:
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YoshiP reports about Ungarmax. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv...113#post4611113 YoshiP posted:- Prior to midnight JST, 2/27, 25 characters across 21 accounts were confirmed to have used Ungarmax in 8-man duties.
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I call bullshit that they were able to detect each and every use of Ungarmax prior to February 27th. Yoshi-P can come out and report this as nicely as he wants, but given how widespread knowledge of the bug was, I call bullshit that there were *only* 21 accounts worth of people who used it before in 8-mans.
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Mar 13, 2018 09:33
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I call bullshit that they were able to detect each and every use of Ungarmax prior to February 27th. Yoshi-P can come out and report this as nicely as he wants, but given how widespread knowledge of the bug was, I call bullshit that there were *only* 21 accounts worth of people who used it before in 8-mans. Where did he claim they detected each use? He explicitly says 'confirmed'
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I call bullshit that they were able to detect each and every use of Ungarmax prior to February 27th. Yoshi-P can come out and report this as nicely as he wants, but given how widespread knowledge of the bug was, I call bullshit that there were *only* 21 accounts worth of people who used it before in 8-mans.
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Mar 13, 2018 10:09
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Nessus posted:I imagine they examined the records for 8-mans that they have, which I expect are not permanent forever but do go back a couple weeks or so. If they'd had a better system they would have probably found more uses during the period when it flared up the first time. They can also be 100% sure that anyone using Ungarmax in 8-man content at all is breaking the rules. Yeah, note that after feb 27th he was able to detect players using it everywhere, but before he only mentioned uses in 8 mans. I imagine the server keeps more detailed logs in 8 man instances than elsewhere, to help catch cheaters and troubleshoot bugs in their endgame content.
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Philonius posted:Yeah, note that after feb 27th he was able to detect players using it everywhere, but before he only mentioned uses in 8 mans. I imagine the server keeps more detailed logs in 8 man instances than elsewhere, to help catch cheaters and troubleshoot bugs in their endgame content.
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Mar 13, 2018 11:00
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No increase to glamour dresser size? Gah I was really hoping they'd at least give us like an extra 100 slots or so.
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Mar 13, 2018 11:13
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What is the stat priority for Samurai? After getting it to 70 I found I like it a lot and am switching mains from DRG.
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Mar 13, 2018 11:37
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Yeah, this is diadem 3
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homeless snail posted:Yeah, this is diadem 3 Oh yeah. Relic seems to be weapons and armor both now. Hope you like grinding literal thousands of crystals. First 2 steps gets your poo poo to i345. Not sure what's after. But we got 3 crystals in 30 minutes of faffing about, and you need 1300 just to get the weapon to 345.
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Philonius posted:Oh yeah.  See you in 4.3, then.
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Haha going by the patch notes alone, Eureka sounds even more insufferable than I expected  Also, good job making protect more powerful I guess?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:
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Mar 13, 2018 11:58
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Philonius posted:Oh yeah. "The quantity and frequency with which protean crystals can be obtained will increase with the elemental level of enemies, the greatest yields coming from those at level 20 or above."
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ImpAtom posted:"The quantity and frequency with which protean crystals can be obtained will increase with the elemental level of enemies, the greatest yields coming from those at level 20 or above." True, and at chain 10 and 20 you get increased droprates. We were killing level 2s. I imagine the boss fates drop a stack too, so not sure at this point how much grinding it will really take. But the relic weapon caps at i355 now, and the relic armor at i350. Given how easy it is to get a Byakko weapon / sigma normal , that's just not fair. In previous patches the relic always worked up to the current best achievable 'casual weapon' , so it should be i360. And given that sigma normal armor takes zero effort to get, the armor should at least be i355 if not i360 too. I heard they have 5 materia slots though, so I guess it's an upgrade if you spend a few million gil on your set.
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Mar 13, 2018 12:47
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Dear Square, please stop letting that one old FFXI staff member manage and develop major content. Nobody wants to loving play FFXI again, even in Japan.
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Mar 13, 2018 12:57
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i hope when they do diadem 4.0 it just disconnects you from ff14, crashes the game client, and then force launches playonline and navigates you to the engrishy menu of ff11 subscription options
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orcane posted:Also, good job making protect more powerful I guess? That's just in PvP. I was about to laugh about Wildfire being nerfed, but these ability changes are just for a method of play that only robots use. Edit: Asimo posted:Dear Square, please stop letting that one old FFXI staff member manage and develop major content. Nobody wants to loving play FFXI again, even in Japan. I hope all the people who still cling to the glory days of FFXI are the first to bitch about Eureka being a pain in the rear end. HackensackBackpack fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Mar 13, 2018 13:01
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congratulations yoshi the content you delayed for months and axed a dungeon every other patch for is the literal worst content to ever be put into the game
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Philonius posted:But the relic weapon caps at i355 now, and the relic armor at i350. But do they look cool?
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this isn't even content. it's a field full of monsters that you just tediously grind. you'd get the same experience by rolling a new character and heading out into the starting zone to grind mobs, except without a system designed just to make the whole thing more tedious.
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perhaps if the monsters would sometimes drop loot with random stats..
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kirbysuperstar posted:perhaps if the monsters would sometimes drop loot with random stats.. rip the whole pvp system wholesale, speed it up so you get some weird actiony combat system with a 1.0-1.5s gcd, throw in random loot drops and upgrades with the item system from POTD, boom you've maybe created some weird and at least unique diablo action island instead of "hey guys remember ffxiv 1.0"
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thankfully absolutely everyone is dunking on this and calling it garbage so maybe, just maybe, they'll nerf the poo poo out of the grind for it so you can at least reasonably get the cosmetics from it looking like a nice, dried out content drought to 4.4 though, assuming it's alliance raid + 1 dungeon + random hard trial again
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orcane posted:Haha going by the patch notes alone, Eureka sounds even more insufferable than I expected That's a PVP change. Asimo posted:Dear Square, please stop letting that one old FFXI staff member manage and develop major content. Nobody wants to loving play FFXI again, even in Japan. His name is Nobuaki Komoto. Learn it, that you may focus your rage upon it.
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I'll still play this just long enough to get a dyable version of the RDM hat, since the color of the set doesn't quite match any of the red dyes But geez Eureka looks horrible. Guess I won't be doing the weapon grind this expansion, and I say that as the sort of turbonerd who ground out multiple anima weapons in HW.
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I never even touched Diadem at any point and this was like "well... I guess there is a bit of novelty in seeing what looks like the FFXIV version of the Normandy Beach Landings, but I have been doing this stuff for 30 minutes and only got like 2 crystals." Hell, the level 1-3 enemies in the starting area look straight up bot-able.
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