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Captain Cappy posted:Is there any proof that someone has been DDOSing the servers? It feels way to convenient to blame everything on it especially when it has been going on non-stop forever. I feel like maybe Squenix's terrible coding has caught up with them and they don't know what to do about it. You post like a real weirdo.
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I mean, if we're tinfoil hatting why not go all out DDOSes will continue as long as WoW is bleeding subs at a prodigious rate.@!#*%$# ACTIVISION!!! 
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Nov 25, 2018 01:23
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Ainsley McTree posted:The low level ones that just look like walking sticks are pretty jaunty, that’s what I went with. I ended up picking up the Inferno Rod, because the silver matches the silver accents on the coat nicely and it looks loving awesome lit up, though I ended up picking up a low level staff that looks alright too.
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Nov 25, 2018 01:35
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dolphinbomb posted:Scholar also has the best glam options. <3 BAE
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Nov 25, 2018 01:44
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Violently Car posted:piss cave is actually fun as a warrior once you know how to do it as a fairly new tank who got blind dropped into AV the other day: please tell me How To Do It
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Nov 25, 2018 02:05
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Blockhouse posted:as a fairly new tank who got blind dropped into AV the other day: please tell me How To Do It Well, specifically as a Warrior: The answer is Steel Cyclone forever and to use your cooldowns properly for big pulls. It's harder on Paladin or Dark Knight because they don't have Steel Cyclone, but a Dark Knight can use a Dark Arts + Dark Passenger combo if needed for survivability. Paladins can I guess just flash a bunch if they realllly just need to survive. For the opening room, which is the hardest part, stick to the left wall and try to carefully pull things with your ranged aggro grabber, then run back to a safe spot. Assume your allies are idiots who don't pay attention to where they're standing and get them as far away from the adds. Bosses are standard fare. Keep in mind that you can dodge nearly everything Coincounter does by looking at the cast bar and just walking out of range of the attacks. Once you're out of the first room, honestly, it becomes a fairly standard dungeon.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:10
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Violently Car posted:For the opening room, which is the hardest part, stick to the left wall and try to carefully pull things with your ranged aggro grabber, then run back to a safe spot. Assume your allies are idiots who don't pay attention to where they're standing and get them as far away from the adds. Bosses are standard fare. Keep in mind that you can dodge nearly everything Coincounter does by looking at the cast bar and just walking out of range of the attacks. Once you're out of the first room, honestly, it becomes a fairly standard dungeon. This is the big thing. Do Not Big Pull the first room of AV unless you're unsynced. You can't handle it, the healer can't handle it and the dps can't handle it. After the first room you're generally free to do things normally (double pulls are generally fine) but that first room is a killer designed to get you in over your head.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:16
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Here's the way to do Aurum Vale: open the duty finder and hit leave.
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Captain Cappy posted:Just got my BLM to level 70 and it seemed fun until I had to do mechanics. Yeah.  It's really fun in a vacuum but I just can't handle it with stuff to dodge. I'm too bad.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:17
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Violently Car posted:piss cave is actually fun 
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Blockhouse posted:as a fairly new tank who got blind dropped into AV the other day: please tell me How To Do It WE DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE ENTIRE ROOM. We just want to cut a path straight from the ramp to the boss room entrance. First pull: you're going to want to grab the first few dudes right in front of you, and then make your way to the left. Turn them facing outwards, if any patrolling adds get in range, you want them hitting you, not aggroing onto the healer, and then you have to reposition and poo poo. Second pull, hug the left wall, and then LoS everything that aggros around the corner, just inside the line that demarcates the boss arena. We big boy tanking now. Breaking LoS makes the ranged mobs close the gap, stacking them with everything else melee. From there on, if you use your cooldowns well, you should be fine. Let the morbol seeds hatch, they increment the combo counter and can stack XP multiplier up. Uhhh.... eat the fruit? SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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Nov 25, 2018 02:22
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I would rather do Aurum Vale than any of the following: - Brayflox - Totorak - Qarn (Normal) - Dzemael Darkhold - Dusk Vigil, sometimes, depending on my mood
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Time to go finish this Alexander stuff. Won't be too long until I finally step into actual level 70 raid content, at which point I suppose I'll start actually communicating with the Excalibur goon guild I'm part of.Violently Car posted:piss cave is actually fun as a warrior once you know how to do it Ah, that's the dungeon where this healer blamed a wipe on both the tank being undergeared (they had like level 40-45 gear) and on me (on my summoner) not using that mana transfer on him. They then dropped group.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:51
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Monathin posted:I would rather do Aurum Vale than any of the following: I would literally do all of those, in sequence, on my MCH, in exchange for getting out of a AV run.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:52
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AV is super easy and way faster than the listed dungeons if the tank knows how to LOS pull and the players are able to do the boss mechanics. This is admittedly a fairly large "if".
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Nov 25, 2018 02:54
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If farming two ARR relics taught me anything, it's that the best way to run Aurum Vale is to sac pull and skip most of the trash and get out of the instance ASAP.
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even if your AV run is going "well", you're still in AV. At least Brayflox looks cool
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Captain Cappy posted:Here's the way to do Aurum Vale: open the duty finder and hit leave. God I hate this sentiment so much. AV blows, but what blows harder is sitting through a 20+ minute dps queue only for the tank or healer to bail because they didn't roulette into a dungeon they wanted. Quit being poo poo and do the dungeon.
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homeless snail posted:even if your AV run is going "well", you're still in AV. At least Brayflox looks cool AV has Malboros which are the coolest enemies in final fantasy, automatically making it cool.
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Ytlaya posted:To be honest I'm a little disappointed that, even level synced, higher ilvl apparently allows groups to steamroll these Alexander fights. *Brute Justice comes in* *transformation sequence* *bombastic music* *dies 20 seconds later*
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Nov 25, 2018 03:20
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If you're doing AV not in squad dungeons you get what you deserve.
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Vitamean posted:God I hate this sentiment so much. AV blows, but what blows harder is sitting through a 20+ minute dps queue only for the tank or healer to bail because they didn't roulette into a dungeon they wanted. is joke!
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Saint Freak posted:If you're doing AV not in squad dungeons you get what you deserve. Leveling Roulette exists, my dude
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Countblanc posted:AV has Malboros which are the coolest enemies in final fantasy, automatically making it cool.
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Saint Freak posted:If you're doing AV not in squad dungeons you get what you deserve. exactly; you get a fun dungeon with some cool mechanics. who could ask for more?
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:*Brute Justice comes in* I had watched this youtube guide and was all like "hell yeah I'm familiar with these mechanics now, let's do this" and then the boss either dies before it can do all its mechanics, or failing a mechanic just makes a player lose like 1/4 of their health.
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Has anyone else seen bot tanks in leveling roulettes? I don't even know if they're bots but they run really weird like the squadron AI does and basically move a few yalms forward then stop and repeat that for the whole dungeon. I thought it was just a newbie at first but one of the dps said it was a bot and the guy didn't respond at all. Do people on playstation just run like that all the time? Is this just another conspiracy theory? Thanks.
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Ytlaya posted:I had watched this youtube guide and was all like "hell yeah I'm familiar with these mechanics now, let's do this" and then the boss either dies before it can do all its mechanics, or failing a mechanic just makes a player lose like 1/4 of their health. Watching guides for old content will always be like this. Watch stuff on extreme primals or current content if you feel like it, but watching videos on old normal modes will generally be a waste of time due to ilevel increase.
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Captain Cappy posted:Just got my BLM to level 70 and it seemed fun until I had to do mechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dybFvTcAOf4 repeat after me: healers adjust
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Ytlaya posted:I had watched this youtube guide and was all like "hell yeah I'm familiar with these mechanics now, let's do this" and then the boss either dies before it can do all its mechanics, or failing a mechanic just makes a player lose like 1/4 of their health.
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Captain Cappy posted:Has anyone else seen bot tanks in leveling roulettes? I don't even know if they're bots but they run really weird like the squadron AI does and basically move a few yalms forward then stop and repeat that for the whole dungeon. I thought it was just a newbie at first but one of the dps said it was a bot and the guy didn't respond at all. Do people on playstation just run like that all the time? Is this just another conspiracy theory? Thanks. I ran Aurum Vale yesterday with a tank who wouldn't answer any of us in chat, gobbled up all the morbol fruit before the first boss even started, wiped us (because he never ate the morbol fruit after the fight started) three times, and then dropped, still without ever saying a word once. The other DPS in the party swore up and down that this guy had to be a bot, so it's not just you who thinks they're out there.
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It's really cool how much content is in this whole raid series. I expected it to be like Coils where there were only a few quests, but this one has quests/cutscenes for every single encounter.
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i want the fending chest piece from skalla so i've run it a handful of times today it's irritating because since it's current content you don't get a guaranteed drop of something you can wear at the end, so i'm just trying to get lucky. doubly annoying since the only people queueing for this are people who need it for MSQ progression really. so i'm getting a lot of  at least i'm probably a good tank?  and at least it's fun to tank lvl 70 dungos where i have full rotation
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Ytlaya posted:It's really cool how much content is in this whole raid series. I expected it to be like Coils where there were only a few quests, but this one has quests/cutscenes for every single encounter. Omega?
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Phone posted:Omega? No, I'm doing Alexander. I haven't done any SB raid content yet. I took a break after finishing the pre-patch SB MSQ to go back and do the Heavensward raid content (already did Warring Triad, going through Alexander now). edit: Basically it was a neat surprise to have this be so much more involved than the Coils stuff was (which was cool, but didn't have nearly this many quests) edit2: It's also a lot more convenient than Coils was, since as a healer it only takes 5-10 minutes in duty finder each time (as opposed to waiting for something to pop up in party finder) Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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I did Alexander a few weekends ago and was blown away by the story. It's really, really good and full of character and great set pieces.
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The real question: which is the better buttrock track, Rise or eScape?
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Ytlaya posted:edit2: It's also a lot more convenient than Coils was, since as a healer it only takes 5-10 minutes in duty finder each time (as opposed to waiting for something to pop up in party finder) Yeah alexander is in the raid roulette, while coil isn't. Very likely due to the reason that there is no story/savage version of Coil and so the synced down pubbies would have issues getting trough most of it, meanwhile storymode Alex should be a walk in the park just as you stated, since its tuned to be much lower challenge in the first place.
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Ibblebibble posted:The real question: which is the better buttrock track, Rise or eScape? The correct answer, as always, is OBLIV~III~ON
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