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RDM is my main because it's my favourite FF Job, but the added bonus of it being easy to play has been really nice for the way I've generally played this game in bursts. Before I was BLM and coming back after a long hiatus to a bunch of new dungeons was a thing. Heck, even coming back to the two new exdr and Alphascape was kinda tough as RDM because I didn't really get any explanations when I said I was new to the fights. Doing them as BLM would have been hell. I still don't even know what the heck was happening in O11N. I honestly really like that on top of being relatively simple, RDM is a bit more reactive then other jobs. I've been levelling up BRD and while I kind of like it, maintaining my dots is driving me crazy. Monk positionals are tough to keep up with / remember, SAM felt manageable until 60-70 when my bars just exploded with all the kenki stuff. I got NIN to 50 and the Murdra stuff was actually more fun/engaging then I expected, but I'm sure I'll feel differently about the class after another 20 levels of skills though. Also, I feel bad I can take a full load of role abilities now but I'm barely touching the things. It feels like I just have too many, and not enough keybinds or presence of mind to use them.
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If I ever see a RDM unironically cast Vercure in a regular duty, they lose any chance they had at getting a comm from me.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:20
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Choyi posted:If I ever see a RDM unironically cast Vercure in a regular duty, they lose any chance they had at getting a comm from me. Good thing every heal I cast is ironic, especially when I'm playing healer.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:28
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i’ve been gradually leveling a healer on the side but have never had to heal beyond say copperbell just due to the nature of leveling queues and playing with friends last night after a lousy day i once again queued with my healer and got aurum vale with a new tank after that i tried to wash it down with a chill trial roulette and we almost wiped to ifrit hard............... i don’t think i’m cut out to be a healer 
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Nov 28, 2018 16:32
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Choyi posted:If I ever see a RDM unironically cast Vercure in a regular duty, they lose any chance they had at getting a comm from me. Eh, sometime you gotta prep dualcast and there's no enemies in sight
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Nov 28, 2018 16:36
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Mango Polo posted:O commends Had an o11n run last week where I had to double rez both healers twice, mana shifted on CD, and was still top dps. 0 commends.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:44
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Thundarr posted:Had an o11n run last week where I had to double rez both healers twice, mana shifted on CD, and was still top dps. that means your glamour sucks
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Nov 28, 2018 16:50
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Ibblebibble posted:Good thing every heal I cast is ironic, especially when I'm playing healer.  The other day I was tanking, and the healer let me die because he wasn't paying attention and was just spamming stone. He apologized so I said, if you had ANY idea how many times I've done the same thing you wouldn't feel bad at all.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:51
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Ibblebibble posted:Good thing every heal I cast is ironic, especially when I'm playing healer. Those are the only heals you should ever cast as a healer. After all its GCD that could have been better spent on stone/broil/malefic.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:57
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Last week I healed a DRK wearing unaugmented Shire gear in loving Castrum Abania. Playing healers is suffering
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Nov 28, 2018 17:03
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Renegret posted:that means your glamour sucks How dare they not appreciate my full crimson LotA set!
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Nov 28, 2018 17:06
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You can qualify for Castrum Abania in Shire gear?
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Nov 28, 2018 17:10
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I don't think any of the story dungeons have an ilevel requirement.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:15
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Xyven posted:Last week I healed a DRK wearing unaugmented Shire gear in loving Castrum Abania. Playing healers is suffering dealing with inferno's tankbuster must have been a nightmare
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Nov 28, 2018 17:17
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hey here's a dumb question about minor optimizations: what's the best ability to use for opening pull on a boss as DRK? unmend? plunge? DA plunge?
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Nov 28, 2018 17:18
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Kaubocks posted:hey here's a dumb question about minor optimizations: Dark Arts Plunge, gives you an enmity lead.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:21
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Kaubocks posted:hey here's a dumb question about minor optimizations: I prefer Unmend as it lets me position the boss easier. I don't usually DA Plunge.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:21
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Kaubocks posted:hey here's a dumb question about minor optimizations: iirc you pull with unmend so you can fit DA-plunge into a later ogcd window
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Nov 28, 2018 17:22
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Leal posted:RDM is the perfect "My FC capped 1 hour into reset and I have to play with pubs" class. Bad party members who can't stay alive? They get a rez thrown on them within half a second cause I saw it coming. Vulnerability stacks cause they can't not get hit by stuff? Apocatastasis. Healer bad and died? Rezed and a mana shift to get them back in the game. Everyone bad and getting vuln stacks? Addle. Healer bad with throwing heals? Vercure. Tank got like 5 stacks of poison? Erase. Same: 
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Nov 28, 2018 17:34
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Saint Freak posted:I don't think any of the story dungeons have an ilevel requirement. They do not. And they should.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:58
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So I finally played Summoner some more while doing the 65 job quest (since I've been leveling as Scholar because it's way faster and I collected a bunch of healing gear while going through the MSQ on my Ninja), and I really like the visuals when I'm blasting stuff with the upgraded Ruins. Makes me feel like a badass. I find managing Dreadwyrm Trance to be fairly straight-forward too, though obviously I don't have access to the Bahamut mechanic yet. Speaking of the job quest, the 65 one was surprisingly tough. Took a long time to kill that guy (I actually failed the first time because I was using Titan; apparently I needed Ifrit/Garuda for the DPS). I feel like I might just enjoy casting DPS more than melee DPS. The rotations aren't necessarily less complex, but they involve fewer buttons that you don't generally need to hit quite as fast. edit: Unrelated, but it was funny finding out that "weaving" is apparently just "using oGCD skills between GCD ones" which is this really simple thing I thought everyone did. Why have some special term for it? Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Nov 28, 2018 18:18
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Because "weaving" is one word. It's only fitting for a game that uses "enmity" instead of "threat."
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Nov 28, 2018 18:28
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Ytlaya posted:which is this really simple thing I thought everyone did Oh boy you should run a parser of some kind and and then weep forever.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:30
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It means different things in different MMOs and can be really complicated in some. Weaving in Aion for example involved animation canceling your auto attacks in between buttons such that you would still get the damage but there'd be no delay between your skills.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:30
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Ytlaya posted:So I finally played Summoner some more while doing the 65 job quest (since I've been leveling as Scholar because it's way faster and I collected a bunch of healing gear while going through the MSQ on my Ninja), and I really like the visuals when I'm blasting stuff with the upgraded Ruins. Makes me feel like a badass. I find managing Dreadwyrm Trance to be fairly straight-forward too, though obviously I don't have access to the Bahamut mechanic yet. Speaking of the job quest, the 65 one was surprisingly tough. Took a long time to kill that guy (I actually failed the first time because I was using Titan; apparently I needed Ifrit/Garuda for the DPS). 70 SMN is fun because you get Demi-Bahamut but with the downside of everything getting really complicated if you want to play absolutely optimally. It's just weird going from 50 where it's basically just watch your DOT timers and it's entirely brainless to 60 where you're slightly more carefully timing burn phases and stuff but it's still pretty simple to 70 where you're pacing out cooldowns across a 3 minute rotation, timing out dots and cooldowns to line up for optimal DPS and using Addle as an oGCD damage spell which is still my favorite dumb consequence of the way Bahamut works. Glagha fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Nov 28, 2018 18:31
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Saint Freak posted:Oh boy you should run a parser of some kind and and then weep forever. 
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Nov 28, 2018 18:32
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Saint Freak posted:Oh boy you should run a parser of some kind and and then weep forever. Do this but instead feel really great about yourself, because you're undoubtedly better than 80% of people already.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:33
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Glagha posted:70 SMN is fun because you get Demi-Bahamut but with the downside of everything getting really complicated if you want to play absolutely optimally. It's just weird going from 50 where it's basically just watch your DOT timers and it's entirely brainless to 60 where you're slightly more carefully timing burn phases and stuff but it's still pretty simple to 70 where you're pacing out cooldowns across a 3 minute rotation, timing out dots and cooldowns to line up for optimal DPS and using Addle as an oGCD damage spell which is still my favorite dumb consequence of the way Bahamut works. I don't think you actually use Addle to proc Wyrmwave anymore, if the guides I've been reading are anything to go on (because there's no way I'm not 100% maining SMN now that I have a glam for it that makes me happy).
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Ytlaya posted:edit: Unrelated, but it was funny finding out that "weaving" is apparently just "using oGCD skills between GCD ones" which is this really simple thing I thought everyone did. Why have some special term for it? Wait, I thought it was a crafter class.
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Nov 28, 2018 20:30
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Cabbit posted:I don't think you actually use Addle to proc Wyrmwave anymore, if the guides I've been reading are anything to go on (because there's no way I'm not 100% maining SMN now that I have a glam for it that makes me happy). I don't think it's a matter of you can't so much as you shouldn't, because Addle is really good for reducing an enemy's magic damage and wasting it on a 150 potency attack is incredibly dumb, especially in a coordinated setting. That's my theory on why it's not in guides anymore, at any rate.
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Nov 28, 2018 20:36
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I finally got around to getting some screenshots of my BRD and MNK glams, which I was missing from my convenient screens to pull out. 
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Nov 28, 2018 20:38
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Kaubocks posted:i’ve been gradually leveling a healer on the side but have never had to heal beyond say copperbell just due to the nature of leveling queues and playing with friends If you want to have a(n even more) bleak opinion of humanity, level healer from start to 70 purely on Duty Finder Roulettes. I've... seen some things...
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Nov 28, 2018 21:28
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It's not my job to use defensive cooldowns, its the healer's job to keep my health up defensive cooldowns are to be ONLY used for looking cool during phase transitions
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Nov 28, 2018 21:34
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:defensive cooldowns are to be ONLY used for looking cool during phase transitions don't dox me
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Nov 28, 2018 21:34
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MechaX posted:If you want to have a(n even more) bleak opinion of humanity, level healer from start to 70 purely on Duty Finder Roulettes.   Xyven posted:Last week I healed a DRK wearing unaugmented Shire gear in loving Castrum Abania. Playing healers is suffering Having run it while grinding out SCH 69 (nice), Castrum Abania adds no small amount of suffering. I'd had to pay a bit of attention while running Doma Castle, but I managed it fairly. Then Abania comes up and I'm wiping to single trash pulls and ending other encounters with 0 aetherflow, 0 mana, and a dead DPS. I did 1.5 (I crashed after the first wipe to the three-elements guy) Abania runs before deciding that I'd just finish up by coasting through a Doma Castle run and save myself some sorrow.
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Nov 28, 2018 21:55
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Ragnar Homsar posted:I don't think it's a matter of you can't so much as you shouldn't, because Addle is really good for reducing an enemy's magic damage and wasting it on a 150 potency attack is incredibly dumb, especially in a coordinated setting. In O8S with a little bit of effort you could line up all your Addles to both happen during Bahamut phases and apply during LoJ casts. It's little things like this that reassure me that SE actually cares about fight design.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:54
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jalapeno_dude posted:In O8S with a little bit of effort you could line up all your Addles to both happen during Bahamut phases and apply during LoJ casts. It's little things like this that reassure me that SE actually cares about fight design. Then you remember Suzaku EX exists which just goes gently caress YOU to all possible openers for everyone by having the boss jump away at the loving 15 second mark.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:16
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I haven't played since early HW and I'm super lazy when is the next 8 man raid patch?
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Nov 28, 2018 23:40
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Masey posted:I haven't played since early HW and I'm super lazy when is the next 8 man raid patch?
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Masey posted:I haven't played since early HW and I'm super lazy when is the next 8 man raid patch?
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