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My experience when leveling melee DPS was that the TP bars of the rest of my group never moved, with the exception of warriors and the incredibly rare case I got grouped with another melee. I think all the PLDs in duty finder spam flash all day long.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:And this may or may not have something to do with the fact that not a single loving tank knows what Total Eclipse or Overpower are. I hit Total Eclipse on 3+ packs until I'm at 0 TP in every dungeon from Dzemael onwards and I can count the number of times I've been Goaded or Tactician'd on one hand.
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Elentor posted:That's a good name. I mix meat and dairy all the time. If you have any advice, I'm open to it. I haven't done much with chocobo races. I tend to get back into every Make It Rain event, but I'm not really doing anything else of import in game right now so bird breeding could be fun. I'm on Gen 3 with this bird. I haven't been spending any MGP on training food so I've been just leveling it up in races. This one has 220 for max speed as its cap and 260 for stamina. Endurance and cunning are 180 and acceleration is 140.
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Leofish posted:I mix meat and dairy all the time. If you have any advice, I'm open to it. I haven't done much with chocobo races. I tend to get back into every Make It Rain event, but I'm not really doing anything else of import in game right now so bird breeding could be fun. Breed birds looking for amount of 4 stars their grandparents have, remember that your chocobos stars are actually never ever used. Since stars can't evolve up or mutate, 1,2 or 3 stars are the same in that they can't yield 4 stars, so the odds of having a 4 star trump whatever else comes along the way. If having a chocobo filled with 1 stars is the price to pay and it would make leveling it too miserable then feel free to skip this advice for the generation but always keep in mind that more amount of 4 stars = the better. Your endgoal is a max stamina/endurance/cunning chocobo with something to increase his stamina bar. I prefer a passive (Increased Stamina 3) but the potion race ability works too. The other ability should be Super Sprint. Super Sprint won't work as well in earlier generations (regular Sprint + Stamina refill is better at low levels) but it's the best skill you can have later on. The earlier you focus on getting the stars proper the less you have to worry about later. Once you have a max sta/end with super sprint you can afk win most sagoli road races. If you have a max sta/end/cun then you guarantee most costa del sol races as well.
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pupuru posted:thanks a bunch! I'm finding it tough to work out what the "optimal" rotation for a crafter is just because there seem to be a bunch of different paths and every single post has a different one. there's an incredibly giant word doc if you want the exact details of everything, but is an honestly dizzying amount of information to paraphrase it: every macro/rotation has 3 stages essentially an opener an inner quiet phase and the finisher the opener consists of some establishing stuff, later on you'll get certain actions that can only be used on the very first crafting step. After that it generally includes starting Comfort Zone, since you want that running as long as your craft will take long enough, establishing inner quiet, since it's permanent. Much later, you'll start getting things that make you want to start the Progress bar, because they don't scale at all with buffs that might be trailing at the end of your craft, like Piece by Piece the opener ends when you move into what's called the inner quiet phase, the goal here is to use a combination of buffs and touch action to maximize both the amount of quality you build up, and the number of IQ stacks you build within the constraint of your CP and the crafts durability. This part changes a lot, depending on your level range and gear, but almost all of them look like: some durability management buff like waste not/manip, a steady hand (II), and then touch actions until the need to refresh. For a long time, you can use a decent fallback of Steady Hand II and Hasty Touch spam, which the idea here is to just maximize your overall chances to get IQ stacks, because all your CP can go into durability and steady hand buffs Once you're getting close to the point where you need to leave some durability/cp to actually finish the craft, you get to the finisher. This is where you get a payoff for all your IQ stacks that you've built up in an attempt to get a massive boost to quality, and of course, to finish the progress so you actually craft the item. The absolute most basic finisher is a buff like Great Strides, and then the strongest touch action you can afford off it, ultimately this will be one of the Byregot skills, which consume the IQ stacks and get stronger for each stack consumed. Eventually you can get a few buffs going before that final touch action, and while it will take a while to have the stats to make all three pay off, the important ones to know are Innovation, Great Strides, and Ingenuity I/II. After you do this final touch action, you simply finish the craft with some synthesis spam, which for a long time will be careful synthesis (II). Early on since you don't have byregot skills, you might use rumination to consume your IQ and get CP back from it, which you can use to either finish the craft in less durability cost, or maybe cheat out an extra touch action. if you want the full explanation, the giant doc is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1aDMxZOjhdmzsilToDvsrwqfcUOs6NKxhsCBa1IwVQ be warned it is a truly dizzying amount of information. The part I was just talking about is covered in Part III: Intermediate Crafting Guide, and goes into more detail and points out some of the more nuanced stuff i elided over
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Vermain posted:I hit Total Eclipse on 3+ packs until I'm at 0 TP in every dungeon from Dzemael onwards and I can count the number of times I've been Goaded or Tactician'd on one hand. I mean, same, but then when I go and play Dragoon or something I keep waiting for people's TP to get to the point of needing Goad (I would think around the 2/3rds full mark) and it NEVER EVER HAPPENS. I've just resigned to the fact that I can't win.
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RME posted:if you want the full explanation, the giant doc is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1aDMxZOjhdmzsilToDvsrwqfcUOs6NKxhsCBa1IwVQ While I appreciate and admire the effort that went into it, the thought of reading that entire document is the stuff of which nightmares are made.
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Jun 23, 2018 16:48
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Elentor posted:It's just a huge waste of time to run them for a 30k profit because of the reasons aforementioned by Mymla. The joke you missed about the "I gathered the items therefore it was free" is because your math is not accounting for time spent much like the people who think gathering mats themselves for a crafting made the item free. I never even considered it was referring to my time spent, because it takes like ten minutes to knock out a solo map from purchase to counting my loot. I guess I need to look into crafting again.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:I mean, same, but then when I go and play Dragoon or something I keep waiting for people's TP to get to the point of needing Goad (I would think around the 2/3rds full mark) and it NEVER EVER HAPPENS. This is my experience as DPS. I stick with things I'm more likely to need in random groups (Leg Sweep, Second Wind, Diversion, etc). I'll worry about min-maxing in Savage stuff.
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Hey Goons, I'm reinstalling FFXIV right now, and I wanted to see if there would spots available in any of the FCs before I paid a transfer fee to move to Excalibur. It's been about a year since I've played. I think I have a lvl 60 Astrologian and 58+ Dark Knight. If there is room, I'll go back and get to work on the Discord info in the OP over the next few days. I just thought I should check here first.
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Jun 23, 2018 17:28
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Cabbit posted:I never even considered it was referring to my time spent, because it takes like ten minutes to knock out a solo map from purchase to counting my loot. I'm not sure how the market is right now but for the majority of HW you could sit and realiably craft 10m worth of profit in an hour making only low-risk items so you can see how 1.6 million in ten minutes trumps 30k-40k by a lot. It's not that people don't notice these opportunities, it's just that they don't care. Like I said, there's a place for them and if you don't have the setup needed to do something more profitable then by all means do whatever you need. But market opportunities like these are all over. When deciding what to craft my spreadsheet was set to ignore materials whose difference between crafting/making was less than a certain % of the profit, that net value usually being 40k-50k per material because having a 180% profit over a 150% wasn't worth the time making these materials. Which means that some people were profiting 40k-50k selling intermediary materials. Which is in itself a lot, lot, lot more than 4k gil per minute.
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Cabbit posted:No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. The effort/money curve is kind of a wash with maps, and it's useful for kind of zoning out while clicking off the Challenge Log or whatever. The price of the maps also varies whenever they release new content or glamours. I have bought a bunch of maps for sub-10k each and then sold them 2 weeks later for 75k+ each. I used to do the Gazelleskin maps a few times a week, and it's a great way to earn tokens, cash, and loot. Good nights usually wind up with several hundred mendacity tokens, ~400k gil, plus whatever drops from the canals. In terms of profit per unit of time, raw materials is a fun market to play because it goes from being very desperate into "I'm not pursuing anything that isn't 1500 gil per swing". Even just selling vendor stuff on the MB can be extremely low risk and have a good ROI; I spent a few months buying tempura platters for ~2080 gil from the vendor and selling them in packs of 3 on the MB for 15k+ for the stack. That's 10k in profit for running between a stall and the retainer bell. Phone fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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I just craft palladium nuggets, zelkova lumber, tama-hagane or oroshigane ingots in HQ and sell them at 25k per piece. edit: I did this shortly after the stack limit was raised, and i'm now sitting at a little over 200 nuggets, i think. I sometimes sell them in bundles of ten for 22k each and they don't sell quickly, but i still made ~12-15 million just passively selling these piecemeal and regularly restocking them. HenryEx fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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When housing glamours were released running to the desert tribe NPC, buying steel and selling it on the MB was a 1m profit per stack. That only lasted a few hours but that was pretty great.
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Jun 23, 2018 17:54
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I see Redolent Rose no longer tells you that your glamour looks like hot poo poo by default. 
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Mordiceius posted:Mordiceius & Masami's 1st Annual Housing Decorator Battle Royale: A Fight to the Death... OF STYLE Mordiceius posted:
If you still haven’t entered, you have  two hours left! In two hours, entries close and I’ll post a list of all entries for anyone who wants to see the contestants.
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Elentor posted:While I appreciate and admire the effort that went into it, the thought of reading that entire document is the stuff of which nightmares are made. i looked at the document after reading this post and i thought it said 32 pages, which seemed rather reasonable then it just kept scrolling and i realized it said 322 pages and i was like oh but i downloaded it anyway for later perusing 
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Reminder to all Euros hanging around on Chaos that there is a Cross World Linkshell you can join in order to chat with other fashionable Euros, ask around in the Discord or in here to get hooked up!
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Leofish posted:I mix meat and dairy all the time. If you have any advice, I'm open to it. I haven't done much with chocobo races. I tend to get back into every Make It Rain event, but I'm not really doing anything else of import in game right now so bird breeding could be fun. Also, against NPCs at R300 Sagoli just stick to the left and go AFK, against players: * Do as much cornering as possible. You can shave 2-3 seconds off Sagoli Road with proper cornering. * Save Sprint Items for when you hit 0% stamina from a Frenzy or a Meteor * Use Frenzies as soon as you get them if there's an NPC behind you because they like insta-stealing and using against you. Frenzies are murder * Skip boxes if the next item is a Frenzy, a Meteor, or something bad for you in general. You need to delay those for as long as possible. If the player you're racing against is good and right behind you, he might expect you to skip the box and skip it as well, in which case don't skip it and enjoy seeing them being frenzied. * Hitting enemies deal AOE Stamina damage. Abuse this as much as possible to screw over players near you. Here are two videos if you want a reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpDCo3Q-Hs - Notice how the guy who's first insta wastes his Frenzy, probably out of muscle memory, because you need to be super fast against the NPCs as they steal very fast. He lost position due to worse cornering, if he had waited a bit longer he could have used on me, there was no point in wasting it so fast. Also notice that you can dodge the last enemy through his right, a lot of players ignore that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePycrsOr3sI - Use this as a reference for cornering. I cut the recording before the score screen, but the top three were all sub 1:17:50, I think I got 1:17:20. In general if you can get under 1:18 you'll win against NPCs 95% of the time, even when they meteor you.
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Vermain posted:I hit Total Eclipse on 3+ packs until I'm at 0 TP in every dungeon from Dzemael onwards and I can count the number of times I've been Goaded or Tactician'd on one hand. I once used goad on a tank and he stopped to say thank you in chat and I didn't know if it was sincere or not so I've never done it again 
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Tangents posted:I once used goad on a tank and he stopped to say thank you in chat and I didn't know if it was sincere or not so I've never done it again They were probably sincere if they were a PLD or WAR (DRKs don't need it). Keep doing it buddy!
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Tangents posted:I once used goad on a tank and he stopped to say thank you in chat and I didn't know if it was sincere or not so I've never done it again WARs don't need it as much in 60+ dungeons since they get Fell Cleave as a non-TP GCD (which helps the regeneration) and their own TP heal, but under that it's very appreciated. I routinely spend half of the Dragon fight in WoD out of TP, and nothing feels worse than getting gimped to what's effectively a 3 second global cooldown.
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So can someone do the maths, is it better to just spam overpower over and over again against 3+ mobs or to do single target storm's eye /path to get enough beast gauge for steel cyclone?
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Samael posted:So can someone do the maths, is it better to just spam overpower over and over again against 3+ mobs or to do single target storm's eye /path to get enough beast gauge for steel cyclone? That's a weird way to spell Decimate
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Let's say we do 2x Storm's Path combo to get the 60 gauge for Cyclone, and then do Cyclone on 3 mobs, which takes 7 GCDs, we have 2x 640 potency (Storm's Path combo) + 200x3 potency = 1280 + 600 = 1880 potency over 7 GCDs, so about 268.5 potency per GCD. Or we could do 3x130 = 390 potency per GCD by just spamming overpower, given that we hit all those mobs. And we do that from the get go, without mobs dying off on us while building gauge. Even if we up to, let's say, 7 mobs, the combo-cyclone path with come out to 382 potency per GCD (only if you actually get the full 7 GCDs in tho) and Overpower is at 910. So, even taking into consideration things like Infuriate and actually not always needing two full Storm's Path combos, on average Overpower will win at 3 mobs and just gets better the more mobs there are. Provided you have the TP. Though it also gets more difficult to hit more mobs with Overpower vs the stance Aoes. Feel free to switch to Cyclone/Decimate whenever your Berserk/IR is up tho. HenryEx fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Entrance to the 1st Annual Housing Decorator Battle Royale has now officially closed. Judging will take place over the next 24 hours. The winners will be announced during a pool party in The Goblet, Ward 1, The Brimming Heart pools at 12pm (noon) PDT, Sunday, June 24th, so grab your swimsuit and a bottle of Realm Reborn Red and come out for the party and winner announcements! Below you will find a list of the entrants for this competition. Please visit any you wish and leave messages of encouragement in their guestbooks! pre:Estate Category Name District Ward House Abilizer Sparkler Mist 15 37 Alris Rackham Mist 18 48 Arturia Zaldra Shirogane 6 33 Avelyn Bruchgeld Mist 17 19 Bolow Santosi Shirogane 5 51 Cherry Pepper Goblet 1 2 Disco Lemonade Goblet 15 25 Emerald Ares Mist 11 18 Fooma Ring Goblet 6 24 Genovie Montevere Shirogane 11 40 Howl Jenkins Shirogane 6 50 Hungry Harvey Goblet 1 7 Linavi Ivanil Lavender Beds 1 26 Mac Zehn Shirogane 12 28 Never Early Mist 12 50 Oliver Cox Goblet 7 3 Rosineaux Montevere Shirogane 11 39 Shere Nekomiko Mist 1 23 Tango Sleepyfish Lavender Beds 6 52 Vanas Genei Shirogane 5 37 Very Nice Shirogane 3 58 Apartment Category Name District Ward Wing Room Emerald Ares Lavender Beds 8 1 2 Eskra Lahmli Shirogane 1 1 35 Oliver Cox Lavender Beds 9 1 20 Onorai Pyre PBC House 1 199 Ophelia Juliembert Lavender Beds 6 1 18 Rosineaux Montevere Mist 2 2 9 Shere Nekomiko Goblet 1 2 13 Vanas Genei Goblet 1 2 3
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quote:[16:39]You earn the achievement “Mountains out of Gil-hills”!  I have waited years for this. why can't we turn the loving FC tags off for these cases 
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The ultimate in poo poo sandwiches: a 43 minute Ridorana run where I carried the entire group through multiple near-full wipes (save our competent DRK), died a single time to LB3 the rest of the group on Yiazmat, rolled a 94 on Construct 8, and lost to a 96 from someone I probably ressed 7 times.
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43 minutes???? Jesus, that's almost a speedrun to me. My last Ridorana run, which wasn't notably terrible based on past experiences, had my protect run out before we reached the third boss. (I was the only one who never died, and my entire group sans me died on The Darkening Pommes Frites at 40%, so i missed my group's protect rebuff outside the boss arena) I don't think i've ever had a sub-50 minutes ridorana run, tbh, they usually land well north of the hour mark
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God. Foul is some kind of spell, isn't it?
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Cabbit posted:God. If only I could be so grossly foul.
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Cabbit posted:God. Yes, as well as a verb and an adjective.
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HenryEx posted:43 minutes???? Jesus, that's almost a speedrun to me. My last Ridorana run, which wasn't notably terrible based on past experiences, had my protect run out before we reached the third boss. The ones I've done so far have largely been fine, save the usual speedbumps (people dying to Tsunami, people unable to do basic arithmetic, etc.), but this one was a unique kind of awful. My favorite part is still the RDM in my group that pulled Construct early, ate poo poo, got ressed, utterly failed the pop quiz, ate poo poo, and then DCed. Who are these people?
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After over three hours of judging, I'm finally done and have selected the housing competition winners. Masami and I had such a hard time picking a winner that we actually going to to give out a bonus prize to a second house we liked. I hope you can all join us at the pool party where will announce the winners tomorrow.
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I don't envy the PoE people who have to judge hundreds of hideouts and literally thousands of transmogs for their contests. There were around 20 houses, I think I shortlisted half of them for my list and it was extremely hard to pick favorites.
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HenryEx posted:Let's say we do 2x Storm's Path combo to get the 60 gauge for Cyclone, and then do Cyclone on 3 mobs, which takes 7 GCDs, we have Ah yeah my bad, I meant decimate but okay, it seems I have been doing my aoe combos wrong all this time  Thanks for working it out for me.
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my god what is up with this game's obsession with Uldah. There's been next to nothing about Gridania post 2.0 and even less for Limsa, but now it's onto the third round of the extended adventures of nanamo ul namo? The ARR Uldah story was pretty good but the rest has been loving terrible
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