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DRK feels really squishy when you're leveling it compared to PLD and WAR. I don't know if that gets better at 70 but if I pull as big as I do with the other two tanks in 50ish content I tend to die.
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You can also macro all your abilities to say things like “The darkness is overtaking me!” Or “Blood, blood! More blood!” And isn’t that just the best?
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Spuzzz posted:My biggest problem with tanking is deciding on one. I like the paladins flashy moves, the warrior is great off tank and the dark knight is good all around and has great quests. Warrior is the best tank at literally everything, and seems to be the dev team's baby considering how often they get mid-expansion retooling. I personally prefer DRK because The Blackest Night is fun to use, but you can't go wrong with being an axe dude. Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:DRK feels really squishy when you're leveling it compared to PLD and WAR. I don't know if that gets better at 70 but if I pull as big as I do with the other two tanks in 50ish content I tend to die. Worlds different at 70. TBN is crazy, and once you have access to Dark Arts -> Abyssal Drain you steal so much HP from giant packs of enemies it should be illegal.
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Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:DRK feels really squishy when you're leveling it compared to PLD and WAR. I don't know if that gets better at 70 but if I pull as big as I do with the other two tanks in 50ish content I tend to die. I too, feel that DRK is squishier than an equivalently-levelled PLD. PLD gets extra mitigation just standing there because of their shield. DRK doesn't get their short-duration, spammable mitigation skill until level 70, then everything's kosher. Until then, you've got to depend on...... Anticipation.
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Big Pulls on DRK feel really good. Love slamming out endless shields + abyssal drains + quietus for 30 seconds until the whole pack of dudes is dead.
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I wish Paladin had more Holy magic. I like being able to use Clemency to save low HP Healers or DPS, at least.Harrow posted:I can't really get into WAR's whole aesthetic, I think. I've never really been into the berserker archetype, I guess. I actually like the Berserker job class (well, the X-2 version at least where it has actual abilities), but I can agree. WAR is so weird in XIV, especially since it's typically a speedy sword-using type in other games in the series. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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You guys are making it hard for me to decide on my first tank job. I suppose if they can all do 99% of the tanking needed, I should first go with the DRK since it has a good story.
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My favorite FFXIV tanking story is how the group with the world's first kill of ultimate bahamut had a DRK as the main tank. All the nerds theorycrafted on they would do this and what advantage it gave them since no other group was event attempting a kill with DRK. When asked the tank said "because it's fun and I like it"
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Algid posted:You can't port into Idleshire without seeing Rowena's center for cultural appropriation, where she wears the latest glamour with a market value in the millions of gils. Then you can go right outside and see catgirl orphans surviving on week old pineapple pudding and attempting to disguise games of high stakes gambling as a children's stickerbook. Slowfix is wrong, jingleshine is what makes the world go around, no matter what form it takes. Citzenship is meaningless while Catpital controls the means of production, and egalitarianism is impossible if players don't own the fruits of their labor. i'm the landed gentry in 14 and you'll find my name is embroidered on all that i craft
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There's a fuckdiculous amount of leeway. They can all do like 170% of the tanking needed.
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DRK does have slightly obnoxious gameplay because a ton of it is like "DA -> X". You have this Dark Arts tax where you have to make sure to hit the DA button before you do pretty much anything. Not awful or anything, but I can see it being annoying that you have to keep hitting DA before lots of other buttons.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wish Paladin had more Holy magic. I like being able to use Clemency to save low HP Healers or DPS, at least. My favorite thing about playing PLD is when a healer gets pasted in a dungeon and just burning cooldowns/clemency and still finishing the fight. More difficult to do that in 8/24 man content. The other tanks have better dps, but only PLD has that feeling of being invulnerable.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wish Paladin had more Holy magic. I like being able to use Clemency to save low HP Healers or DPS, at least. Yeah, it's a shame that you need to wait so long until you get some holy magic to work with. I like using Clemency as well, but you've got to be careful as some healers take it as a insult for some reason. You can still sneak it in during an alliance raid to save a DPS and most of the time they won't notice, at least.
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FutureCop posted:DRK is hard to play because if you roleplay properly, you will wonder why you are bothering to serve those pathetic party members of yours: why save them from their inevitable fate? You are not their slave: leave them to die like the badass you are and move on to slay the true threat. SAM is hard for me to roleplay because I have to kill myself after ever encounter for bad DPS
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Okay, I need the new China-exclusive 30s Shanghai mogstation set to come to us sooner rather than later. http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/54156799.html
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Why has nobody mentioned how stupidly overpowered Paladin is because they have a skill that flat out let's other people ignore a mechanic?
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Wacky Delly posted:My favorite thing about playing PLD is when a healer gets pasted in a dungeon and just burning cooldowns/clemency and still finishing the fight. This but opposite when the tank dies and I manage to Heal/Revive through it anyways.
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Renegret posted:My favorite FFXIV tanking story is how the group with the world's first kill of ultimate bahamut had a DRK as the main tank. The real great part about this is at the time everyone was crying about how terrible dark knight was and weren't worth bringing to raids because they're so bad. It goes to show that most people have absolutely no clue about anything related to game balance
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unseenlibrarian posted:Okay, I need the new China-exclusive 30s Shanghai mogstation set to come to us sooner rather than later. 
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wish Paladin had more Holy magic. I like being able to use Clemency to save low HP Healers or DPS, at least. I think it's neat that paladins get exactly one spell for aggro, one for healing and one for damage. It gives me the same feeling as building a magic knight character in a tabletop: "I'm mostly a fighter and not so hot at magic, so if I can only choose a couple spells, which ones fill out my toolkit the best?" But Holy Spirit does come super late and Clemency is ridiculously expensive before Divine Magic Mastery at 64. I hope the new expansion brings us another magic knight, because PLD, DRK and RDM have been super fun for me.
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Aithon posted:I think it's neat that paladins get exactly one spell for aggro, one for healing and one for damage. It gives me the same feeling as building a magic knight character in a tabletop: "I'm mostly a fighter and not so hot at magic, so if I can only choose a couple spells, which ones fill out my toolkit the best?" But Holy Spirit does come super late and Clemency is ridiculously expensive before Divine Magic Mastery at 64. I know the leaks suggest otherwise, but I’m still hoping BLU becomes a tank so you can have a red white & blue mage party
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Ainsley McTree posted:I know the leaks suggest otherwise, but I’m still hoping BLU becomes a tank so you can have a red white & blue mage party Hell yeah. Though if there's a blue mage I'll probably get it to level cap whatever role it is.
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unseenlibrarian posted:Okay, I need the new China-exclusive 30s Shanghai mogstation set to come to us sooner rather than later.  Skaw posted:Why has nobody mentioned how stupidly overpowered Paladin is because they have a skill that flat out let's other people ignore a mechanic? I love the ones that burn their "ignore everything" button just to ignore some autos.
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Preorders for Encyclopedia Eorzea 2 are up. https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/1041763783138525186
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Rainuwastaken posted:Preorders for Encyclopedia Eorzea 2 are up. Oh poo poo 
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FFXIV and expansions are on -50% sale at Humble.
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Got mine pre-ordered, the first one was so good.
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Dwesa posted:FFXIV and expansions are on -50% sale at Humble. Well gently caress, I bought this game 2 days ago.
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Rainuwastaken posted:Preorders for Encyclopedia Eorzea 2 are up. And here I thought my budget was secure this week. The first book was really good, I look forward to the new stuff. Incidentally, that mage in blue in the preview images wearing a set already in the game?
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Rainuwastaken posted:Preorders for Encyclopedia Eorzea 2 are up. The EU link doesn't go anywhere  SE!
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wish Paladin had more Holy magic. I like being able to use Clemency to save low HP Healers or DPS, at least. It seems like more gets added with each expansion, so it might be something that becomes a bigger and bigger part of the job each time the level cap increases. If that's the case, it could be kind of a cool progression, as you go from a humble gladiator, to a knight, to a holy knight, to a blessed defender of the weak wreathed in holy light at all times. Glagha posted:DRK does have slightly obnoxious gameplay because a ton of it is like "DA -> X". You have this Dark Arts tax where you have to make sure to hit the DA button before you do pretty much anything. Not awful or anything, but I can see it being annoying that you have to keep hitting DA before lots of other buttons. Yeah, I could see that being annoying. I'll give the job a try for sure but I could see myself getting really tired of always having to hit Dark Arts before doing things. Ainsley McTree posted:I know the leaks suggest otherwise, but I’m still hoping BLU becomes a tank so you can have a red white & blue mage party I always thought tank made a lot of sense for BLU, especially given how many of the job's appearances in previous FFs had to do with intentionally getting hit by things. Harrow fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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 Reminder that if you're an EU player and looking for a raid group in 4.4, we're recruiting!
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Azubah posted:And here I thought my budget was secure this week. The first book was really good, I look forward to the new stuff. I don't recognise the hat, but the dress is the healer set from the first set of Heavensward 60 dungeons. It's the Valarian Shaman set. There are recolours available as vendor gear somewhere in Stormblood.
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Rainuwastaken posted:Preorders for Encyclopedia Eorzea 2 are up. Just preordered it just in case it turns into a shitshow like how Vol 1's stock was
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oh no blimp issue posted:The EU link doesn't go anywhere Found it from poking around on the store
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I don't recognise the hat, but the dress is the healer set from the first set of Heavensward 60 dungeons. It's the Valarian Shaman set. There are recolours available as vendor gear somewhere in Stormblood. The hat is the preorder bonus. It's Matoya's hat
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Yeah I found it too! I've preordered that mother fucker like no bodies business.
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Renegret posted:My favorite FFXIV tanking story is how the group with the world's first kill of ultimate bahamut had a DRK as the main tank. They would have killed it quicker without the drk.
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Holyshoot posted:They would have killed it quicker without the drk. cool!
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