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Like, yeah, the game does actually explain to you in tutorial text how the elemental wheel works. I could forgive you for thinking "am i really supposed to remember which element goes where every time esp. when i'm new?" cause i thought the same and initially even thought weakness/defense was governed by the element opposite on the wheel. But then i took a closer look at the wheel and it literally has lines connecting every element to the next to show their interplay. Hell, when you target a mob, the element you need to take for defense (with a shield) and the element you need to select for more attack (sword) literally light up in bright colors. There's a lot wrong with Eureka, but all of what that post described is actually wrong with the player instead.
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I get the "no hand holding" design aspect, but from a gameplay factor it's not all that fun (for me). I don't mind mob grinding every once in a while, but it was discouraging to only get up to level 3 after an hour.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:38
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Boten Anna posted:Heavensward was sad and depressing and everyone did dumb poo poo and died and was entirely too based on Game of Thrones, which sucks rear end and is made by an rear end in a top hat. I liked it overall but I mean the big plot payoff in the end is that they reinvent the worst government ever devised that isnt (outright) fascism whoo yay There's some decent points in here but maaaan the opening sentences are trying way too hard lmao
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Mar 30, 2018 14:08
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The whole point of Eureka was to not hand-hold the player through it, to make them discover how it works on their own, but who the gently caress cares about dev design intent, because guides spelling out exactly how each step works were plastered all over the internet as early as a week after it launched, and the infographics soon thereafter. Whatever it is they were trying to pull, it doesn't work anymore because we (the playerbase as a whole) communicate with eachother outside of the game a lot more readily than in the Everquest or FFXIV days. There is no hoarding of information anymore.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:34
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Eureka is okay when it's me and my FC mates getting drunk in voice together chasing the train around, buuuuut just about anything is okay when it's you and your buds doing it together and getting drunk, so it's not quite high praise.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:42
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Boten Anna posted:this dragon is too old and wise to give a poo poo about lifting a talon to make everyone's lives not absolutely miserable again god i hate all these ishgard people i dont want to do anything for them." and of course they kill off ysayle because game of throoooooooooones Oh come on let's be reasonable. The GoT way to kill off Ysayle would have been immediately after she learns that everything she believes is bullshit and some random no-name Ishgardian stabs her in the head at the height of her despair. Instead she got to choose to go out like a badass.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:57
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SwissArmyDruid posted:The whole point of Eureka was to not hand-hold the player through it, to make them discover how it works on their own, but who the gently caress cares about dev design intent, because guides spelling out exactly how each step works were plastered all over the internet as early as a week after it launched, and the infographics soon thereafter. Community content in game has gone the wayside of permanently miss able content in games, made completely obsolete with the existence of data miners and the internet.
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a medical mystery posted:The only good part in the Ravana themes is when the intro to the second comes in like Duel of the Fates right when he's swinging his glowing red antsaber around All of the parts of Ravana's themes are good, unlike Lakshmi's.
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Mar 30, 2018 15:54
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What’s the fastest way to grind poe? I’ve been slacking on buying unidentified poo poo for my HW relic and now I’m at that stage and regret it I guess I can just take like a month and naturally get enough to buy all I need, but it’s not gonna be fun
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Mar 30, 2018 16:10
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The main flaw with Lakshmi is that there's no party dance sequence to go with the Bollywood music. The fight is just mechanically boring but that's not the fault of Her Wicked Wiles (which is a cool and good song). On the other hand you *have* to perform the dance of ringing steel when fighting Ravana at level or he'll bounce you off the stage. Good thing that Unbending Steel is also good music to perform to!
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Mar 30, 2018 16:12
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We got a mini schmup in the middle of a primal, now we need a mini DDR in the middle of a primal. Hell, you can just take the emote dancing GATE and throw it in there.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:30
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Lakshmi's theme is okay but I was expecting it to get AMAZING after the phase change and instead it just stayed the same. I've been spoiled by Shiva and Sephirot, I guess.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:39
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Thumbtacks posted:What’s the fastest way to grind poe? I’ve been slacking on buying unidentified poo poo for my HW relic and now I’m at that stage and regret it You can also get unidentified items from the ARR beast tribes which is really easy and fast these days, instead you should be spending all your poetics on buying Umbrite because you literally need to buy like 12k poetics worth.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:40
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I finally got around to doing the level 50 DRK quest and it was very good. Highly recommend leveling the class.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:45
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jalapeno_dude posted:Lakshmi's theme is okay but I was expecting it to get AMAZING after the phase change and instead it just stayed the same. I've been spoiled by Shiva and Sephirot, I guess. The edge is calling tonight! 
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Mar 30, 2018 18:14
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:The edge is calling tonight! AND THEN SHE LEAVES YOU TO DIE! Sephirot is the only primal who's philosophy was interesting enough that I'd kill to get to know more about the society that invented him as their god. And all of his idea was told in the dumbest buttrock possible.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:26
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EponymousMrYar posted:Lakshmi's better than Ravana. Jesus Christ
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Mar 30, 2018 18:32
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Also lol at the person last page who said SB gave everyone fun aoe. RDM has like the most boring aoe I've seen since rogues spamming fan of knives in WoW
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Mar 30, 2018 18:33
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idk man it's consistent with the rest of the class atleast.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:36
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Of the classes I've leveled the only ones who have an interesting AOE rotation all the time are DRK, SAM, BLM and healers. BRD, SMN and WAR are fun enough when their burst is up but pretty boring otherwise and PLD, NIN and RDM are pretty boring all the time.
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Mar 30, 2018 19:06
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yeah, they wouldn't let me bring my skinny caramel macchiato in here I finally discovered /gpose... still haven't cleared Stormblood, but I've finally made it to the endgame!!    
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Mar 30, 2018 19:20
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Yeah, gpose is fun. 
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Die Sexmonster! posted:Yeah, gpose is fun.  daaamn
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Countblanc posted:Also lol at the person last page who said SB gave everyone fun aoe. RDM has like the most boring aoe I've seen since rogues spamming fan of knives in WoW RDM is in desperate need of Verblizzard and Verwater aoes so it can do Scatter > Blizz > Scatter > Water to at least make it not Scatter x Infinity on 4+ targets.
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Mar 30, 2018 21:01
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/gpose?   balmung quicksand, 3 AM  WrightOfWay posted:Of the classes I've leveled the only ones who have an interesting AOE rotation all the time are DRK, SAM, BLM and healers. BRD, SMN and WAR are fun enough when their burst is up but pretty boring otherwise and PLD, NIN and RDM are pretty boring all the time. SMN is probably the only AOE rotation that has any depth to it, and that's mostly from trying to figure out the merits of DoTs+Bane vs. another Painflare. That said, Deathflare/Akh Morn makes big numbers show up so it's okay.
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Axle_Stukov posted:RDM is in desperate need of Verblizzard and Verwater aoes so it can do Scatter > Blizz > Scatter > Water to at least make it not Scatter x Infinity on 4+ targets. Well it's Scatter x Infinity until you can throw some Moulinets in but it's still at best a two attack AoE moveset. The five Moulinet combo feels great when you get the opportunity to use it though.
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I showed 4 outfits to Masked Rose and he gave me 52 points for all of them. All 4 outfits, exactly 52 points each. I'd have assumed that 52 is his "well, at least you wore SOMETHING in every slot i guess" general judgement, but one of the outfits did actually wear the Ultima necklace he was asking for! Still exactly 52 points! What the heck, dude.
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WrightOfWay posted:Of the classes I've leveled the only ones who have an interesting AOE rotation all the time are DRK, SAM, BLM and healers. BRD, SMN and WAR are fun enough when their burst is up but pretty boring otherwise and PLD, NIN and RDM are pretty boring all the time. Monk AoE is pretty fun especially with the PB changes. You now have a burst window where you also get a couple Forbidden Chakras off followed up with the usual jumping in then out positional dancing since their AoE skills are split between cones and circles. I also kind of like how chakra works in AoE because you get so much of it and it’s tied to your tp regen skill but also your single target nuke so you can definitely make the wrong decision there. Also depending on mob health it’s sometimes better to start passing your dot.
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Thundarr posted:Well it's Scatter x Infinity until you can throw some Moulinets in but it's still at best a two attack AoE moveset. Meanwhile, this isn't a problem for WHM, who's AoE moveset is Aero 3 and Holy. Clearly Scatter needs to be bigger in all aspects.
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Die Sexmonster! posted:Yeah, gpose is fun. Are those glyphs on your sword part of the model or the animation? Either way, what weapon/ability is it?
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vOv posted:Are those glyphs on your sword part of the model or the animation? Either way, what weapon/ability is it? Looks like Caladbolg Anemos. The ability is definitely Blood Weapon and it's always done that. Makes me wish I had taken some screenshots when chaining Bloodbath and Blood Weapon together, because then I'd hold up the sword while the glyphs were still there and it looked almost as metal as that.
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EponymousMrYar posted:Looks like Caladbolg Anemos. The ability is definitely Blood Weapon and it's always done that. Huh, I have DRK at 62 and I guess I never looked too closely at it.
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Mar 30, 2018 21:55
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EponymousMrYar posted:Meanwhile, this isn't a problem for WHM, who's AoE moveset is Aero 3 and Holy. Healers mostly just spam one button but minimizing the number of healing GCDs adds depth to an otherwise simple rotation.
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EponymousMrYar posted:Meanwhile, this isn't a problem for WHM, who's AoE moveset is Aero 3 and Holy. Holy is in all ways better than Scatter though so whm AoE never really feels as boring as rdm does before their mana bars fill up. E: plus having to ask "do I need to heal in the next gcd or can I Holy" is more interesting gameplay than "Scatter until 3 or fewer targets" Thundarr fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Tried to do A8S with a PF party. Three hours later, everyone is still dying to the same mechanics. I guess I'm never going to clear this. 
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What role actions should I be taking as RDM? I've been taking swiftcast, diversion, lucid dreaming and mana shift but I'm not sure what I should pick for the last slot.
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Traxis posted:What role actions should I be taking as RDM? I've been taking swiftcast, diversion, lucid dreaming and mana shift but I'm not sure what I should pick for the last slot. Addle is my default but Surecast isn't awful
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EponymousMrYar posted:Looks like Caladbolg Anemos. The ability is definitely Blood Weapon and it's always done that. Blood Weapon, yeah. I have the Caladbolg, but I've been using this one:  since I never went past the Sharpened stage, so couldn't get a duplicate for the glamour toilet. 
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Tried to do A8S with a PF party. A8S is absurdly difficult, and in fact it may be easier synced than unsynced. I'm not sure but given all the instant death it has...
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Eopia posted:A8S is absurdly difficult, and in fact it may be easier synced than unsynced. I'm not sure but given all the instant death it has... You almost have to admire just how much of an extra mile they want to punish you for Savage modes, or the default bahamut coils. Mess up a mechanic? Get hit for 90k damage. That was for level 50 content at what, i80 as the item level? Here we are at level 70 with item levels in the 360 and I still don't think we are at that level. Maybe a War can with thrill of battle? Then you go into the Alex Savage raids and they're hitting you for like 250k damage.... Its just an absurd amount is what I'm getting at.
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