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Does ping affect activating abilities? The rotations in this game are pretty static so there shouldn't be a problem, but i'm wondering if there's an issue like the UI not letting you send your next command until the server thinks your GCD is up, and then the server not starting your next GCD until you receive it making your GCD 2.5s + ping? Also is there a way to show when you can move at the end of your cast due to ping like in WoW?
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CJ posted:Does ping affect activating abilities? The rotations in this game are pretty static so there shouldn't be a problem, but i'm wondering if there's an issue like the UI not letting you send your next command until the server thinks your GCD is up, and then the server not starting your next GCD until you receive it making your GCD 2.5s + ping? Also is there a way to show when you can move at the end of your cast due to ping like in WoW? The game has a pretty generous buffer, so if you send your next spell input like 0.5-1 second before the GCD comes up it will cast as soon as possible after the GCD. Keep in mind that this behavior doesn't work if you're using macros; there's no buffer, so you will be making your GCD 2.5s + ping + reaction time. Don't macro GCD abilities for this reason. Ping is pretty important for oGCDs though. It's easier to weave 2 abilities between GCDs at low ping. This is really important for Ninjas.
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Mar 1, 2019 13:08
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S.J. posted:I'm literally leveling a character up right now because MCH looks cool as hell and I love the concept SE basically never discusses job changes in advance (presumably the "if we change our minds later some people will be mad at us" philosophy), so we don't really know anything about what they plan on changing, or even what they consider problematic.
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Mar 1, 2019 13:36
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We usually find out specifics when patches are released, yeah. Sometimes we get semi-vague previews, like the class showcase video for Stormblood where a WAR did 6 Fell Cleaves in a row.
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Mar 1, 2019 13:50
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Hey, I set up a green screen room in the PBC house if anyone wants a place to crop out their character. Room 129, I set the name to "green screen" and enabled guest access. I think that's it? Go hog wild if you think you'll find it useful. I think you can probably do the same thing with reshade, but this doesn't involve installing another program and I think it'll work pretty well for my purposes. 
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Mar 1, 2019 14:02
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holy cow what is that outfit? 
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Mar 1, 2019 14:26
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AMISH FRIED PIES posted:holy cow what is that outfit? Good taste, friend.  Hat: (hidden) Body: Skallic Jacket of Healing Gloves: Emperor's New Gloves Legs: Replica High Allagan Pantaloons of Healing Feet: Skallic Shoes of Healing I flip flop on the pant dye a lot, they line up exceedingly well with the chest when I dye them to match.  But for real, all the Skallic sets are great, except maybe the scout one. I'm trying to get the maiming chest/gloves and then I'll have the full set. I posted the tank set two days ago, I think. Easily my favorite of all the design contest sets.
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Mar 1, 2019 14:51
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I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like the Skallic set and its weird-rear end collars.
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Mar 1, 2019 14:57
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Overwatch Porn posted:thanks for this! i'll probably hit you up on discord sometime to pester you with more questions; drk is really interesting but feels super overwhelming Just think of Dark Arts as a 140 potency OGCD skill and it gets a lot easier. Keep 2400 MP in stock in case Bloodspiller comes up and that's really the hard part of the DPS rotation.
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Mar 1, 2019 15:06
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Did the MSQ fight against Ifrit yesterday - kind of neat since it's the first fight (I think) that has a boss throwing different types of AOE at you. When we were done, I checked a summary video on Youtube about the fight to see if I missed anything. Apparently there's the whole thing where he spawns an object and if you don't kill it, it OHKO's everyone? It's funny because I didn't even notice that when the fight was happening  . I'm too busy looking at people's health bars and healing them. Overall I have to say group stuff (guildhests, dungeons) has been disorientating so far because I haven't played any of the other classes outside of conjurer yet and I don't know what the hell any of them are doing. Fights feel really chaotic. Is there a way to turn on stuff that shows what skills people are using on-screen, or is this something that you can only get in third-party extensions?
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Mar 1, 2019 15:08
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There aren’t any 3rd party extensions or plugins for this game.
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Mar 1, 2019 15:11
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Ibblebibble posted:It's me, I'm the brokebrain who loves current MCH gameplay and finds that BRD gameplay at high levels just gives me a loving headache. I haven't tried MCH yet, but fuckin' agreed on BRD. I don't understand how BRD is fun for anyone. It feels like it has a bunch of mechanics layered on top of one another specifically to add complexity and for no other reason. I'm just constantly scrambling to hit whatever just lit up while also trying to make sure my songs keep rolling while also trying to make sure I keep up my buff and DoTs and... There are parts of BRD I love. I love the animations. I love the song weaving. I love having a few little support abilities I can throw out there. But throw in all the other stuff, all the procs and DoTs and buffs and charges, and it's just a total mess. I don't really want it to change much because people who play it clearly love it and if I don't like it I can just play a different job, but man I just can't understand why anyone would subject themselves to it. I think my ideal job would be like, what if RDM but it had Ranged DPS role actions. Something like that. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Mar 1, 2019 15:13
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Bruteman posted:Overall I have to say group stuff (guildhests, dungeons) has been disorientating so far because I haven't played any of the other classes outside of conjurer yet and I don't know what the hell any of them are doing. Fights feel really chaotic. Is there a way to turn on stuff that shows what skills people are using on-screen, or is this something that you can only get in third-party extensions? You can toggle on/off or minimize effects from other party members and players in the in game config, the game has a a lot of customization options overall. I'm not at my gaming pc atm, but I believe the option for toggling effects is under one of the tabs in "Character configuration". edit; nvm just realised I misread that you wanted to see the name of what skills and abilities people use on screen, and that I'm not sure you can do, there is the combat log window you can set up for looking at that I suppose. Other then that you'd have to set up ACT (advanced combat tracker) a 3rd party parsing tool which can display all kinds of combat info and has parsing overlay options etc. Choyi fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Mar 1, 2019 15:23
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BRD snapped into place for me when I realised all the things you need to refresh share timers. So you start a fight by hitting both dots, straight shot for the enhanced crit, and popping your song of choice. That's it. For the next 30 seconds, you only need to worry about spamming heavy shot on GCD and hitting the stuff that lights up; refulgent is on GCD so it 'replaces' heavy shot, which you can weave with bloodletter/rain of death OGCD if you're on Mage's Ballad, Pitch perfect has a very noticeable noise when it hits 3 charges so you can hit it when you hear it pop, and Army's Paeon... exists. Once you see your song has ~5 seconds left you can hit Iron jaws to refresh your dots, straight arrow for the crit and swap to your next song. I know I'm oversimplifying, but once you break it down like that it's really not that bad. Until you hit a mob then you're trying to keep up 5-6 dots while spamming quick nock and rain of death, then everything goes to poo poo 
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Mar 1, 2019 15:23
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One of the most important parts of learning any class, before you care at all about optimizing wildfires or whatever your class does, is keeping your gcd rolling and using abilities on cooldown. I’ve seen lots of peeps before spend a ton of time on getting rotations exactly right and then you check the logs and find they dropped like 10 gcds over the fight. Nothin’ gonna fix that.
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Mar 1, 2019 15:56
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Harrow posted:I haven't tried MCH yet, but fuckin' agreed on BRD. I don't understand how BRD is fun for anyone. It feels like it has a bunch of mechanics layered on top of one another specifically to add complexity and for no other reason. I'm just constantly scrambling to hit whatever just lit up while also trying to make sure my songs keep rolling while also trying to make sure I keep up my buff and DoTs and... i like having a rotation that's relatively freeform and gives me things to react to, instead of "press these exact buttons in this exact order, forever". also mage's ballad on big groups is the closest state to divinity that mortals can reach.
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Inflammatory posted:i like having a rotation that's relatively freeform and gives me things to react to, instead of "press these exact buttons in this exact order, forever" IMO RDM is really good for that too.
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Inflammatory posted:i like having a rotation that's relatively freeform and gives me things to react to, instead of "press these exact buttons in this exact order, forever". With BRD I just hit the proc as soon as I see it, with SAM Shinten lights up and do I hit it, or do I need the kenki for banana? Oh poo poo I tried getting more kenki, finished a Sen combo and now I can't hit the dot and Hagakure isn't up and oh god. I can follow a strict rotation or react to immediate stuff, any short term planning I just can't handle. v vInflammatory posted:also mage's ballad on big groups is the closest state to divinity that mortals can reach.  (But with Rain Of Death) Oxyclean posted:IMO RDM is really good for that too. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Mar 1, 2019 16:34
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Oxyclean posted:IMO RDM is really good for that too. it really is the best class
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Leraika posted:I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like the Skallic set and its weird-rear end collars. the body pieces are all weird agreed but the skallic healer pants are pretty dope so there’s some goodness there imo
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Is there a good guide somewhere for the general differences between different jobs in the same role? The short description is mostly flavour differences, and the official site is just a list of all their abilities which isn't especially helpful without context.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Is there a good guide somewhere for the general differences between different jobs in the same role? The short description is mostly flavour differences, and the official site is just a list of all their abilities which isn't especially helpful without context. I only started playing a few weeks ago so I can't vouch for whether this is good/up to date info but this dude has a video series along the line you're describing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs3zVWS6tGs
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Mar 1, 2019 16:47
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Is there a good guide somewhere for the general differences between different jobs in the same role? The short description is mostly flavour differences, and the official site is just a list of all their abilities which isn't especially helpful without context. https://youtu.be/FwQf6H7ESo4
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Mar 1, 2019 16:48
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https://twitter.com/umadori0726/status/1101501725360435201
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Mar 1, 2019 16:52
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I didn't realize the male RDM /vpose was different than the female one but it makes sense. (female RDM does a sassy hair flip instead of the collar adjustment)
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IcePhoenix posted:I didn't realize the male RDM /vpose was different than the female one but it makes sense. (female RDM does a sassy hair flip instead of the collar adjustment) I'm still loving angry about the female RDM AF3 set. Give me the cravat you cowards. 
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Inflammatory posted:also mage's ballad on big groups is the closest state to divinity that mortals can reach. BLM in their leylines with an Enhanced Arrow begs to differ.
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Mar 1, 2019 17:16
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Leraika posted:I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like the Skallic set and its weird-rear end collars. It was literally voted into the game, so yeah maybe
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I'm not a huge fan of the hats or the collars, but I like the rest of the sets overall. I don't think it was the one I'd have voted for but it looks cool enough.
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Schubalts posted:Please tell me the Rogues' Guild shows up again during Ninja's later quests.  You better have your dimbers dambered, mate
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Rainuwastaken posted:BLM in their leylines with an Enhanced Arrow begs to differ. Starting a pull with Double Foul is my way of punching upgeared RDM's in the face to assert BLM dominance. Playing BLM makes me very competitive about stupid things, it turns out. Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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No Mods No Masters posted:I only started playing a few weeks ago so I can't vouch for whether this is good/up to date info but this dude has a video series along the line you're describing It's a MrHappy video, so no, it's not good info.
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Mar 1, 2019 18:35
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DizzyBum posted:It's a MrHappy video, so no, it's not good info. I still cannot get over the fact that one (or more?) of the supposed "leakers" have dunked on MrHappy more than once. vvvv: but his MrHappy insults were very real. 
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Mar 1, 2019 18:45
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that was one guy who was fake as poo poo
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Mar 1, 2019 18:47
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Groggy nard posted:Sarting a pull with Double Foul is my way of punching upgeared RDM's in the face to assert BLM dominance. BLM is just so drat SATISFYING. When you get a chance to explode everything, you work to grab it.
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Mar 1, 2019 19:34
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MrHappy is the reason Bone Dragon gets tanked north, so that's the only reason you need to hate him.
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Mar 1, 2019 19:56
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Bobfly posted:BLM is just so drat SATISFYING. When you get a chance to explode everything, you work to grab it. When I play anything but BLM I feel like I'm not doing as much as I could have done as BLM. But when I play BLM I also feel like I'm chasing a dragon while playing BLM because a lot of mechanics mean I'm not living up to the BLM potential. And then once in a blue moon all the aoe markers seem to target other people and the healer keeps adlo/ noct up on me which is code for "I also play BLM, I got you"
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I play BLM in dungeons because in 4-man your personal performance really matters. Same with 8-man but I'm lazy and go RDM. For Alliance raids though I only go RDM because you barely matter and there's rarely any good aoe situations in them.
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Mar 1, 2019 20:10
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Argas posted:I play BLM in dungeons because in 4-man your personal performance really matters. Same with 8-man but I'm lazy and go RDM. The best reason to play RDM in alliance raids is to immediately slam the LB button when you get your third charge
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Argas posted:I play BLM in dungeons because in 4-man your personal performance really matters. Same with 8-man but I'm lazy and go RDM. I also enjoy RDM in alliance raids but for a different reason. Thankfully it's mostly the same at 50 so it's not a super dumbed down version like BLM is.
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