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Oxyclean posted:How much is a set of the crafted gear going to run? How often do they put out new crafter gear? Not often but there will almost assuredly be a new set to coincide with the new beast tribe in 4.3.
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so I've been taking my time through Stormblood. Just completed The Sirensong Sea yesterday or so. I just learned that there is a trex mount in Eureka? Time to marathon through Stormblood
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Apr 23, 2018 17:27
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Oh. Get CRP and WVR to 50 next and the rest of them will be a lot easier.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:33
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I haven't play since Stormblood launched; are warriors still garbage? I sort of want to play again.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:39
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Warriors are now the king of tank mountain, go for it.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:40
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The downside is warriors are more boring to play than they used to be. They are pretty good right now as far as usefulness as a tank goes. It's drk that are getting looked at for improvements (again).
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Apr 23, 2018 17:44
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Thundarr posted:It's drk that are getting looked at for improvements (again). Blood Price duration extended by 2 seconds. Dark Passenger potency increased from 100 to 110.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:15
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Rainuwastaken posted:"Improvements". Considering their track record with DRK, I'll be legitimately floored if it's anything more than something like: Abyssal Drain has a new icon.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:17
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Dark Knight "Unleash" now unlocks at level 52
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Apr 23, 2018 18:19
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I would honestly be fine if the only change in DRK was Darkside getting an additional +5% damage. Most of the complaints about the job (from a performance standpoint, if people don't like the gameplay that's fine) are massively overblown.
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Saint Freak posted:Dark Knight "Unleash" now unlocks at level 52 i'm quoting this post so it's in my posting history when the 4.3 patch notes come out
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Apr 23, 2018 18:37
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DRK is actually good and complaints are bandwagoning.
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Apr 23, 2018 19:38
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Oxyclean posted:How much is a set of the crafted gear going to run? How often do they put out new crafter gear? I'm kinda worried I'll dump a ton of gil on crafting gear only to lose interest before making my money back / better gear gets put out. Specialties are a bit weird, and it really depends on the patch which ones are the best/most profitable. The most important thing it grants is a +20 Craftsmanship/+20 Control soul crystal, and access to a handful of specialist recipes, which usually get unlocked a patch or half-patch later anyway. You can switch them for a scrip fee, so it's not a big deal if you made the "wrong" choice. There are no real "wrong" choices though. Except for CUL. Don't become a CUL specialist. Hobgoblin2099 posted:How do I go about getting scrips? I wanna get a raincoat for my Chocobo. Bonfire Lit fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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Apr 23, 2018 19:39
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Last night I spontaneously jumped into Byakko EX with some FC peeps as a White Mage without having really healed high end content at all this expansion. It was actually really goddamn fun. That's a great fight. I'm also set to sub in for casual raid night in Sigmascape. How confident should i be about that given i can heal Byakko EX without much fuss?
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oh no blimp issue posted:DRK is actually good and complaints are bandwagoning. I main and love DRK and also think it's good but disagree, mathematically it's fine on the offense but it was over-pruned in the HW to SB transition, and lost a lot of core identity (Reprisal especially should have stayed a DRK exclusive). Other tweaks are needed to make it feel and flow a bit better; TBN is a fantastic ability and job defining but it comes too late so levelling it is a pain, Sole Survivor is useless, Shadow Wall is absurdly weak vs. Vengeance/Sentinel, there's no good reason Plunge is 5 yalms shorter than every other gap closer, etc.etc. It's far from as bad as people make out but it does need attention. A Great Big Bee! fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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DRK isn’t bad or incapable of doing it’s job. It can tank any content in the game. DRK’s problem is that it exists in the same game as PLD and WAR, both of whom make DRK in it’s current state look like a sad, stupid forsaken child. So lore-appropriate, but I’d still like to see it brought up some.
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:I main and love DRK but disagree, mathematically it's fine on the offense but it was over-pruned in the HW to SB transition, and lost a lot of core identity (Reprisal especially). Other tweaks are needed to make it feel a bit better; Yeah, totally agreed. it's fine mathematically but it feels janky to play too often. I hope they don't just give it more numbers, I'd prefer to see some skills reworked and maybe some QoL things.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:45
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The thing DRK has going for it is The Blackest Night. It's arguably the best single ability in the game, and I hope devs don't touch it, except to possibly make it available earlier so DRK isn't so squishy when levelling.
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For me they just need to make DRK more unique and fun, since SB I feel it plays the worst out of the 3 tanks. Not sure about how the job balance is, main issue I'm having with the job is that it feels rather unrewarding and dull to play compared to both WAR and PLD.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:26
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It's hard to make something feel as good as WAR does when you rip off 8x Fell Cleaves.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:45
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Kuvo posted:8 decimates on 10+ mobs? That's so rare cause generally I'm tanking 10 mobs and trying not to die.
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LethalGeek posted:That's so rare cause generally I'm tanking 10 mobs and trying not to die. Que together with a trusted healer, (preferably a white mage for those sweet holy stuns) rotate defensive CDs as needed and then just enjoy the carnage. I do this in any dungeon that allows big pulls and its a blast! 
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Choyi posted:(preferably a white mage for those sweet holy stuns) You never need to heal if you stun lock every mob and kill them before they can attack you
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Aero III + Holy. 
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Last night I spontaneously jumped into Byakko EX with some FC peeps as a White Mage without having really healed high end content at all this expansion. It was actually really goddamn fun. That's a great fight. To be quite honest I think it’s hard to say  There are a lot more mechanics to keep on top of. Byakko has like 2 mechanics vs train which is much more complicated. If you’ve raided before I heard train is a relatively easy fight.
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Apr 23, 2018 22:58
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Just lol if you've never tanked as a WHM.
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Ride The Gravitron posted:Just lol if you've never tanked as a WHM. I, too, remember T9.
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Xun posted:To be quite honest I think it’s hard to say train is honestly pretty nasty as far as first-raid-in-tier fights go
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sunken fleet posted:I haven't play since Stormblood launched; are warriors still garbage? I sort of want to play again. Based on this I'm assuming you are familiar with early SB warrior but I'll drop a quick explanation for people who perhaps are not. The core issue with Warrior was that so much of your DPS revolved around fitting as many cleaves as possible into your buff windows. Optimal play involved an extremely rigid procession of GCDs to make sure your gauge is at the right level at exactly the right time. You spent almost the entire time you're not in zerk preparing for the next zerk. 4.0 warrior had a super high skill ceiling, easily the highest of the three tanks. Worse, your DPS dropped like a rock the more you moved off the ideal rotation, either through player error or the thing you're fighting forcing movement or downtime. They probably could have made tweaks to how it worked to accommodate people who had difficulty with it, but what they actually ended up doing is shrugging and tossing nearly the entire concept. Now, berserk is dead, long live inner release. IR is all you have now. During IR, every attack that normally uses beast gauge uses no beast gauge at all so you can drop 5 cleaves in the window without issue. In addition it forces a double crit on each attack. Instead of having to get all your ducks in a row before a buff window now you just hit one button and unleash the loving fury. So on the one hand that's much better for warriors of all skill levels because the core contributor for DPS is now braindead easy. On the other hand people are (rightly, in my opinion) complaining that perhaps Warrior is now too braindead easy and not as satisfying to play. Oh, and they called a complete mulligan on Shake it Off, admitting their original idea was pointless and stupid. It is now an AoE shield like Succor which powers up by consuming defensive buffs if they're active (IB, Vengeance, Raw Intuition) and gives Warrior some nice defensive party utility.
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Reiterpallasch posted:train is honestly pretty nasty as far as first-raid-in-tier fights go chadarnook is unquestionably easier, it does feel odd
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Chardanook reeks of them playing it too safe, the fact there is 0 randomness to the paintings makes the gimmick even less involved then Catastrophe's savage gravity gimmicks. Chardanook could probably have used some of the randomness Gaurdian has, lord knows you have 10 years for the Possession cast to actually finish and see what paintings were being picked.
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  can you spot the problems? zero use of the impulse drive/disembowel/chaos thrust combo, and the two finishers should be at the top of the list but he only used those like 2/3 of the times he did the 1 2 3 combo
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Griz posted:
As far as exdr pubbies go, that's not even that bad. It actually used its AOE combo mostly correctly.
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Griz posted:
I mean, outside the lack of the Chaos Thrust combo, that looks pretty reasonable. And Full Thrust SHOULD be ahead of Wheeling/Fang and Claw if it's the only finisher he's using, since it does more damage then either of them AND he's hitting it every time. They even did their AoE rotation and popped Life of the Dragon, which beats the standard pubbie experience. I mean, that's a bard there, Disembowel sure would have been a real nice thing to have, but as far as pubbies go that's like a 85% DPS Dragoon and I expect far, far worse out of my roulette buddies anymore.
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That tank was doing insane DPS for an EXDR though. The group DPS puts it above the 95th percentile for all Hells Lid runs on FFlogs. Edit: that's literally higher than any recorded parse for a tank in the dungeon. Seems like a timing issue. Point still stands that the tank was really really good. jalapeno_dude fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Apr 24, 2018 07:46
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They just added the stupidest loving mount in the world to the mogstation and I love it forever.
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I love petulant Market Board crafters. I've been undercutting this guy by 1 gil for the last 3 days and every time he notices he slashes all of his prices by 100k (and then everyone else follows, so it's not a thing where he's just hoping I'll give up, he can't exactly just put his prices back after). He's trying to offload three items to my one, so he's hurting himself three times as bad as me. And I don't even care if I sell this stuff really, crafting is just an idle diversion to spend my uncapped tomes for me, but he's become my New Favourite Game. I love it. I'm gonna see if I can single handedly crash all the i350 prices on the server I'm on by antagonising this dude.
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MarquiseMindfang posted:I love petulant Market Board crafters. I've been undercutting this guy by 1 gil for the last 3 days and every time he notices he slashes all of his prices by 100k (and then everyone else follows, so it's not a thing where he's just hoping I'll give up, he can't exactly just put his prices back after). He's trying to offload three items to my one, so he's hurting himself three times as bad as me. And I don't even care if I sell this stuff really, crafting is just an idle diversion to spend my uncapped tomes for me, but he's become my New Favourite Game. I love it. It's me, I'm the gently caress on Excal who sees boar leather being listed for 3k+ per HQ and make some to list for 1.5k
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Meiteron posted:Based on this I'm assuming you are familiar with early SB warrior but I'll drop a quick explanation for people who perhaps are not. That sounds cool actually, thanks for writing this up. I was really not enjoying struggling every fight to put out subpar DPS back when I was playing, I guess I'll re-up my sub and check out this stuff myself. In the first place, braindead sounds about right for my level of technical video game skill.
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