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I fell into an in-progress Orbonne group on boss 2, we managed that, but bos 3 killed us. One of our parties didn't have the DPS/coordination for the add phase, which is a really brutal DPS check, on top of everything else. Luckily once you've seen it once, CId's attacks are pretty predictable, you just have to pay attention. The trickiest ones I found were Crush Weapon being so fast, and getting people into circles for Duskblade. Ghimlyt Dark however, is pretty damned great and probably the best 4-man of the expansion. I assume the new hair shows up for sale after you beat the 24-man? It's listed as being at the Gold Saucer on Garlond Tools. Hunter Noventa fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Hunter Noventa posted:I assume the new hair shows up for sale after you beat the 24-man? It's listed as being at the Gold Saucer on Garlond Tools. Correct. Also: Double check that spoiler tag, possibly expand it since the ability's a bit of a spoiler as well.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Ghimlyt Dark however, is pretty damned great and probably the best 4-man of the expansion. I thought it was okay but Swallow's Compass is far and away my favorite dungeon of the expansion.
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Ghimlyt makes a very strong impression but none of the fights are that interesting and having a good narrative reason for there being an endless parade of trash doesn't make the trash any better. I think they've been pretty consistently knocking dungeons out of the fuckin park lately, so this one doesn't really rate imo
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Jan 9, 2019 05:27
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Mechanically and as a storypiece Ghimlyt is fine, but there's next to nothing new to see and
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Jan 9, 2019 05:38
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I was expecting Zenos-dibus as the dungeon boss. Also, you'd think people would be more concerned that the Warrior of Light might fall into a coma, costing them the war at an inopportune moment.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I was expecting Zenos-dibus as the dungeon boss. At this point I'm half convinced they're all secretly petrified of what'll happen if something doesn't eventually take the WoL down.
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homeless snail posted:Ghimlyt makes a very strong impression but none of the fights are that interesting and having a good narrative reason for there being an endless parade of trash doesn't make the trash any better. I think they've been pretty consistently knocking dungeons out of the fuckin park lately, so this one doesn't really rate imo I am a big fan of it, but mostly because the trash was mostly small with one big dude in it so it was easy for me to AE as a samurai, which makes it better than every single instance in this expansion except the first 3 by default, and I definitely like the bosses in it more than kugane or temple.
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https://i.imgur.com/Fr8EVzW.gifv Book Parkour 360 No Cast Saint Freak fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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I think at some point someone in Azim Steppe mentioned that it makes no sense how few people there are in each tribe. Does Varis's speech imply that everyone was split up across the different shards of Hyda-mom? Is that something we already knew?
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I do have to admit, I was not expecting those 24 man bosses. "I am Mustadio!" uh... what version of FFT did I play because I'm drat sure that he wasn't a sniper me-, oh poo poo, he sniped all three alliances to death. oh poo poo, it's Agrias! ... God drat lady, chill the gently caress out with this trash talk! Wait, who is this person in the brown cloak who looks lik- NO PLEASE TG CID SHOW MERCY Also, having ALL the bosses in a raid or trial fully voiced needs to be the trend going forward. Hell, go back and voice old trials and bosses too. MechaX fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Jan 9, 2019 06:16
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So what the gently caress is up with blue mage's tooltip?
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Captain Cappy posted:I think at some point someone in Azim Steppe mentioned that it makes no sense how few people there are in each tribe. Does Varis's speech imply that everyone was split up across the different shards of Hyda-mom? Is that something we already knew? no, that's just ps4 limitations
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Finished the new trial and raid via Duty Finder. Overall the FFXIV community is pretty good! However, those assholes who get all high and mighty about wipes on completely new content are the worst. Clearing each boss only took 2-3 attempts, but we had multiple sanctimonious assholes in chat by the end.
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Not a big fan of all the wasting of my very precious time [citation needed] that Ghimlyt does. Would I know who the final bosses were if I didn't skip 99% of the cutscenes?Truga posted:no, that's just ps4 limitations Varis is trying to port us to a better gaming platform.
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Captain Cappy posted:Not a big fan of all the wasting of my very precious time [citation needed] that Ghimlyt does. Would I know who the final bosses were if I didn't skip 99% of the cutscenes?
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MechaX posted:I do have to admit, I was not expecting those 24 man bosses. The final boss was the only character I expected. I'm glad Antipyretic plays, though! Captain Cappy posted:Not a big fan of all the wasting of my very precious time [citation needed] that Ghimlyt does. Would I know who the final bosses were if I didn't skip 99% of the cutscenes? They've been standing around in cutscenes that involve Varis lately.
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Wow, that truly was a higher difficulty raid. The 2nd boss is just memorize the mechanics, but oh god what a clusterfuck the final boss is. I hope everyone didn't forget everything from earlier raids. I don't regret skipping all the cs this alliance raid, holy balls all these  Hopefully I didn't miss much in the grander plot of things doing so.
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I barely squeaked out a raid clear (1:35 left on the clock?). The mechanics, the story, the mechanics, the setting, the mechanics, Montblanc being a spaz, THE MECHANICS!!! All of the tells are pretty clear and the windows are generous. Nothing feels like it's an HP sponge the same way Rabanasty or Lighthouse were. fuckin hancock
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I'm not really sure about (Ivalice 3) the lightning marker during add phase. I got targeted by it once and it obliterated me instantly, but other people seemed to be surviving it. Maybe I had a debuff from being clipped by one of the big AoEs, I dunno. Other than that I was able to figure out pretty much all the mechanics after getting wrecked by them once, so at least there's nothing terribly obscure or arcane going on. Just lots of fun and hoping the rest of the alliance manages to make their dps checks. The last fight is hectic as hell, but in a good way. I like the 4 man but oof so much downtime while bosses jump away. Snakedad is ok. Not super exciting but it's not like I hate the fight either.
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So apparently there's a post-Ivalice quest on the airship. It addresses a lot of concerns I saw from Winequest, like giving Gegeruju a fake wine or taking advantage of Drest.
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Solovey posted:so i am a full-time working adult with slow internet who will probably not have a chance to play any of the new content until tomorrow at the earliest, but this bastard is literally my favorite character in the whole final fantasy franchise and so i gotta know, can somebody please spoil me, what is he doing here. what the heck is he DOING in this storyline he's a teaser. at the end of the raid quest, he shows up at the lighthouse with a bunch of imperials in a cutscene to show that the empire is Up To Things and possibly hinting at more stuff in the future.
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The spriggan and I took the moogle to the cleaners for 17k points in one hand, feels good. Some guy was complaining in chat about mahjong not giving MGP, but gently caress that guy. Best thing the saucer has ever gotten.
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Phone posted:shamwow? Yes, that's the quest.
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ImpAtom posted:I'm not sure what it is about the mechanics that make people go nuts because they're not that complex. It's TG Cid. If you weren't afraid for your life before, you clearly didn't play enough FFT to know any better.
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Nodosaur posted:sure are a lot of people clinging to Varis, Solus, and Elidibus!Zenos are actually RIGHT on various forums and communities, despite this patch doubling down on making them assholes. If people like Garlemald after this patch, I'm legitimately going to think they're kinda into boot-licking fascism. Varis loving outright says he wants to make a master race. This poo poo ain't subtext; it's TEXT but in all caps and in giant, neon letters.
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Finally, at long last we defeated the true villians and are free from the Scion's nefarious overhold on the plot and major characters I mean, I did feel a little bad for Alisiae, but it was telegraphed so hard before the dungeon. It's...actually been so long since we did stuff wholly without them, I wonder who the WoL be bothered to do stuff by now.
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The Ghimlyt Dark is ok. It could have been amazing but the last few packs are all. "Kill everything? Have another? ... Kill that? HAVE ANOTHER?" That poo poo can gently caress off.
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Vanderdeath posted:If people like Garlemald after this patch, I'm legitimately going to think they're kinda into boot-licking fascism. Varis loving outright says he wants to make a master race. This poo poo ain't subtext; it's TEXT but in all caps and in giant, neon letters. "All races are inferior and must be one!" as he looks at me, the Godslayer, an adorable catgirl.
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Nodosaur posted:sure are a lot of people clinging to Varis, Solus, and Elidibus!Zenos are actually RIGHT on various forums and communities, despite this patch doubling down on making them assholes. Writing team is really tired of people wanting to wear SS uniforms and have basically pulled the big red lever they had to force the issue in the most hamfisted way possible and it's absolutely hilarious E: Big G is still in the clear though, they let us have that at least.
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Nodosaur posted:sure are a lot of people clinging to Varis, Solus, and Elidibus!Zenos are actually RIGHT on various forums and communities, despite this patch doubling down on making them assholes. Gamers love fascism. If you make your villains even SLIGHTLY comprehensible and human in their motivations they will want to join the fascists, every time. Emalde posted:Writing team is really tired of people wanting to wear SS uniforms and have basically pulled the big red lever they had to force the issue in the most hamfisted way possible and it's absolutely hilarious The Garleans were always racial supremacists, to be fair. Varis is just saying the quiet part loud.
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I've seen discussions on Reddit trying to Galaxy Brain Varis' speech after the break. They were claiming he was trying to tell the Alliance the Ascians' plans by acting like an unhinged madman. The posts kept mentioning the weird fixation on the moths near the chandeliers.
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Now let's be fair. Garlemald superfans might not all be fascist-sympathizers. (4.5 spoiler) Some of them may be such fanatical internet atheists that five or six massive apocalypses just to get rid of the fukkin wizards would be worth it.
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Emalde posted:Writing team is really tired of people wanting to wear SS uniforms and have basically pulled the big red lever they had to force the issue in the most hamfisted way possible and it's absolutely hilarious There's roughly zero chance the Japanese writing team cares about any of that, and the overall plotlines have probably been established for years anyway.
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