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Jan 22, 2019 15:31
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Blue mage was a mistake.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:34
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Clarste posted:I mean, Square-Enix's goal is to get people to keep playing, regardless of whether they're enjoying themselves, so in that sense it kinda worked? If a bunch of people came back to try out the new weird class, then maybe some of them will stick around for other stuff? Seems like a plan, maybe. It stops working really fast if it’s not fun. I know I’m not resubscribing over a limited job in the future, for instance. Failboattootoot posted:Also, and maybe I am just bad, but I am mustering like 230 dps with it which is terrible. I’m pretty sure BLU is actually just pretty terrible performance-wise, outside of a few situationally horribly broken skills.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:40
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Currently the only reason I'm even playing BLU is to do the Masked Carnivale which is basically the only motivator to do ANYTHING with that class save for I guess filling in a checklist of who gives a gently caress spells, like 4 of which I ever use and two of them were given to me for free by the game for just playing blue mage.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:43
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Blue Mage is amazing because I've made nearly five million gil and counting over the last week by making and selling HQ level 50 caster gear for horrifically inflated prices.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:56
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Blue mage rules because of it's victory emote.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:59
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I like BLU but so much of it seems so half baked. It feels like Yoshi P was too stubborn on his vision that the job can't be standard and got fed up of players demanding it so he just said gently caress it and gave the reigns to Mr. Atma of all people. Of course the job was going to be doomed to dogshit RNG if you let someone like him have his way. The strange thing is that the learn rates for most of the stuff really isn't that bad except for the primal spells. Dunno why they felt like the primal spells should be so hard to learn.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:07
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Magil Zeal posted:The strange thing is that the learn rates for most of the stuff really isn't that bad except for the primal spells. Dunno why they felt like the primal spells should be so hard to learn. "Uh oh, all the content for our new highly promoted feature can be finished in one or two days.............uh make the drop rates garbage so we can pad it out a bit"
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Jan 22, 2019 16:19
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Magil Zeal posted:The strange thing is that the learn rates for most of the stuff really isn't that bad except for the primal spells. Dunno why they felt like the primal spells should be so hard to learn. It took me 25 tries to get mind blast.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:39
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Note Block posted:It took me 25 tries to get mind blast. That's pretty unlucky, but it's also a pretty small fraction of the amount of primal kills I've gotten over the past three days.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:56
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orcane posted:"ran boss X 56 times to get my skill" is not a big problem The problem is that a primarily solo job shouldn't be having to do group content (or at least, not as much of it). Like yeah, the learn rate is stupid, but not as dumb as having to be in there to begin with.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:58
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Glagha posted:Currently the only reason I'm even playing BLU is to do the Masked Carnivale which is basically the only motivator to do ANYTHING with that class save for I guess filling in a checklist of who gives a gently caress spells, like 4 of which I ever use and two of them were given to me for free by the game for just playing blue mage. But you're playing it. And so are lots of other people. Whoops, turns out that means it's a success. Nobody at Square will ask or care why you're playing it. See also: Eureka. Hate playing content is the exact same as playing content.
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Jan 22, 2019 17:05
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The way I see it, BLU has potential, but they need to do one of two things with it: A) make it a normal job like I suspect it was at some point during development (this one is absolutely never going to happen), B) buff it to high heaven. Just go all out in letting it solo the content it can actually enter. All of ARR will be soloable come 5.0 (except maybe T8S?), and the vast majority of HW content will be soloable by 5.5. So just cut loose, stop caring about balance in 4/5 year old content.
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Jan 22, 2019 17:25
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Pretty sure the LoV area didn't even last a day before it emptied out so BLU already cleared that incredibly low bar. As an aside, I hope if BST or PUP gets added as the next limited job it'd let the devs gently caress around with those job's pet AI without the risk of screwing up SMNs and SCHs. If they do something good maybe it'll even find its way to the actual pet jobs.
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Jan 22, 2019 17:28
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I tried to join parties for farming Mind Blast, but pubbies are brain-dead and don't know how to speedrun the dungeon. So I ended up just grinding BLU to 50, gearing up with Augmented Ironworks, and then soloing the dungeon over and over until I got it. It probably took about 20 runs, 5-6 minutes per run. I wish I could do the same with Aurum Vale but the first boss is a little too tough to solo reliably, even fully geared at 50. I'll have to make parties to try and farm it and set a required ilvl.
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Jan 22, 2019 17:34
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:"Uh oh, all the content for our new highly promoted feature can be finished in one or two days.............uh make the drop rates garbage so we can pad it out a bit" At least someone understands mmo design
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Jan 22, 2019 18:00
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Note Block posted:It took me 25 tries to get mind blast. Not an empty quote. Also Aurum Vale is really miserable with an all BLU party, it was every worst dps pub party every time. Rastan Beeza fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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Jan 22, 2019 18:02
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It's even worse, sadly. Normally Coincounter is good for a nearly guaranteed laugh as he paints his club with some poor sprout, but most BLU players I've seen actually dodge his super spin.
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Jan 22, 2019 18:19
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Rastan Beeza posted:Not an empty quote. Really? I was in a party of 3 BLU undersizing the place and we just Ram’s/Dragon’s Voiced the place to hell and it was great.
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Jan 22, 2019 18:24
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I couldn't imagine having Ram/Dragon's voice for Aurum because that would have required running Cutter's Cry and gently caress that noise. I got my mind blast on my first run with a full BLU team - I'm glad I did because if it took me 25 runs I probably would have not seen BLU through to 50 or whatever. Requiring spells for quests despite the spells going on to have zero relevence to the quest is kinda silly.
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Jan 22, 2019 18:30
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 Yoshida said this wouldn't happen....
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Jan 22, 2019 18:38
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Imagine not playing content just cause it's bad This post made by Eureka Gang
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Jan 22, 2019 18:44
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This game sure does look pretty on a new video card after you’ve been playing it on a toaster for years.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:10
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Mordiceius posted:This game sure does look pretty on a new video card after you’ve been playing it on a toaster for years. This. I recently upgraded from a 2g videocard from a decade ago to a 1070 6g and being able to run the new raids on max settings with no dropped frames is just the best.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:26
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Oxyclean posted:I couldn't imagine having Ram/Dragon's voice for Aurum because that would have required running Cutter's Cry and gently caress that noise. Or you could just do the Chimera trial for the ARR relic.  Vitamean posted:
It was obviously going to happen. It happened Day 1 even!
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Jan 22, 2019 19:46
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Or the Go Go Gorgimera FATE in between attempts for Loom.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:04
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I ran cutter's cry so I could spend less time mindlessly grinding exp later
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Jan 22, 2019 20:25
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Or you could just do the Chimera trial for the ARR relic. This is Corrosive Projection cyber bullying all over again
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Jan 22, 2019 20:33
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Oxyclean posted:I couldn't imagine having Ram/Dragon's voice for Aurum because that would have required running Cutter's Cry and gently caress that noise. I spammed Cutter’s Cry with two other BLU and it was piss easy. Plainscracker/Peculiar Light for the first couple rooms, Acorn Bomb to skip the oasis rooms, tail screw and then kill the bosses with a fish. I think we cleared the place in six or eight minutes with three people? Doing poo poo like that was a lot of fun for me. Bringing skills together like that is the BLU experience.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:40
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I guess I should try to get Tail Screw before I keep trying to go after other skills. It sounds really useful.
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Jan 22, 2019 20:50
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I rejoined because BLU but also because I missed tarus. So instead of playing BLU I'm going through the staggering amount of story I missed so I can dick around with Astrologian.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:05
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orcane posted:"ran boss X 56 times to get my skill" is not a big problem This is the same community who seems to think repetitively doing one thing over and over again is no problem and people who do have issues with it "can't handle it", as if its a difficulty issue.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:27
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Repetition is the core mechanic of the MMO genre. The thing you're expected to repeat should be fun though.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:36
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DizzyBum posted:I guess I should try to get Tail Screw before I keep trying to go after other skills. It sounds really useful. You can get it from the scorpions in the river just outside of Ala Ganha (or however you spell it). Just have a friend beat one up for you and save yourself the trouble of loading into Sastasha HM eight times.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:37
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Of course, if you're trying to complete the whole spellbook, you have to do Sastasha HM anyway.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:43
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 Glass Dance looks so cool, pun unintended. Now to grind Ifrit until I get Eruption. And then I can look forward to grinding Seiryu EX until I get his dog and Tamamo. Yaaay, RNG grinding. 
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Jan 22, 2019 21:58
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Well, you've decided to do the things, so surely you must get something out of that? It is a very neat looking skill, to be sure.
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Jan 22, 2019 22:02
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Magil Zeal posted:That's pretty unlucky, but it's also a pretty small fraction of the amount of primal kills I've gotten over the past three days. You don’t need the primals to finish the quests. You need mind blast. It also takes a lot long to do than most of the primals. RNG for blue mage sucks butt for all the spells, not just primals.
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Jan 22, 2019 22:17
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I must have been so lucky because I got all the BLU spells on like my third try at most, the longest was Level 5 Petrify from Haukke Manor
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Is Tam Tara really the only place to get Mind Blast? I could swear there were Piscodemons somewhere else in the game.
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