FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood

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Leal: Oct 2, 2009

Also the good thing about Squaddie dungeons is that they don't give you any sass.

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# ? Mar 29, 2019 17:54

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# ? May 25, 2024 00:15

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

Phone posted:

I�ll make you a left side

That'd be sweet as hell, thanks! I'm reinstalling tonight so I'll hit you up when I'm back in-game

Huh, apparently I haven't even been kicked from Please Be Careful for inactivity :toot:

# ? Mar 29, 2019 17:55

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

@harrow and ciaphas

tell me what classes you plan on playing

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:29

jalapeno_dude: Apr 10, 2015

Eimi posted:

Make sure you run five different ones to get the promotion to captain.

Can someone list five dungeons that aren't impossible for squadrons to handle the mechs? I haven't touched them since I tried to heal Halatali while leveling WHM and found the bosses utterly impossible.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:30

Oxyclean: Sep 23, 2007

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Running squadrons feels like masturbating with work gloves on, watching scrambled hotel room porn.

It'll get you there, but it's a miserable experience the whole time.

I can stomach it now and then, but it makes palace of the dead and toto rak in levelling roulette fun by comparison.

Really? Squadrons have some annoying parts but the NPCs are so overtuned that it feels like runs go much faster on average. All important mechanics target you so there's no pubbies to mess it up. The only real annoying one from memory was Brayflox because the AI isn't capable of not standing in bad on their own and repositioning them is a nightmare. AI tank is a little bad at picking things up, but they're not a primadonna, and the healer is one of the least honest motherfuckers around.

Plus you can go at your own pace and have no queues. I'll take that over waiting 15 minutes to get a Totorak.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:51

Orcs and Ostriches: Aug 26, 2010; The Great Twist

My average LLDR run, outside of shitters like Stone Vigil, is like 20-22 minutes. Stone Vigil usually comes in at like 25+, which is more but not egregiously so. Just random DF people so I'm not stacking the group with people I know are awake. I don't find squadrons, even when functional, that much faster.

And it's completely subjective, but I find every step of the way is just miserable. It's more functional if I tank, but it's so simple to dungeon spam levelling for them, especially 51+. I'm not sure why, just nothing works properly when I'm running squadron stuff. Tanks can't hold threat, archer dps is nothing special, healer is just asleep half the time. And some of the dungeons are probably literally impossible as dps, which to me would be the whole reason to run AI squads. It's so tedious and annoying to work around their limitations, pf is more palatable for me.

Like I say, it's subjective, but for me the cons are way higher than skipping queues.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:04

Blockhouse: Sep 7, 2014; You Win!

Is there a good squad dungeon to run from 60-70 or is it just not worth it at that point?

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:05

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

Phone posted:

@harrow and ciaphas

tell me what classes you plan on playing

My only 70 is RDM and I'm gonna play that for 4.2+ MSQ stuff. I'll be leveling DRK as well but that's a lower priority because I pretty much just started so it'll be a while :v:

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:08

Orcs and Ostriches: Aug 26, 2010; The Great Twist

I think the only dungeons in range are Sohm Al and The Vault, which at least should be functional for them.

So you'd have to just spam whatever's highest you can access. I haven't run either of them with squads though.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:10

Lily Catts: Oct 17, 2012; Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

In the full Shadowbringers trailer, who's the one saying "become what you must; become the Warrior of Darkness" by the end? I tried watching the one with JP voices and it sounded like Akira Ishida, who voices Elidibus? I'm not so sure.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:17

Blockhouse: Sep 7, 2014; You Win!

Schneider Heim posted:

In the full Shadowbringers trailer, who's the one saying "become what you must; become the Warrior of Darkness" by the end? I tried watching the one with JP voices and it sounded like Akira Ishida, who voices Elidibus? I'm not so sure.

It's the same actor who says all of the other Enigmatic Figure lines I'm pretty sure?

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:21

GuyUpNorth: Apr 29, 2014; Witty phrases on random basis

jalapeno_dude posted:

Can someone list five dungeons that aren't impossible for squadrons to handle the mechs? I haven't touched them since I tried to heal Halatali while leveling WHM and found the bosses utterly impossible.

Halatali, Toto-Rak, Brayflox, Stone Vigil are easy ones. I ran the fifth ages ago but it might have been Sohm Al.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:22

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Phone posted:

@harrow and ciaphas

tell me what classes you plan on playing

uh RDM i think

appreciate the largesse :tipshat:

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:29

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

They should've added Ivalice moogles instead of Hrothgar IMO

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:37

Oxyclean: Sep 23, 2007

Harrow posted:

They should've added Ivalice moogles instead of Hrothgar IMO

They could totally get away with making one model for both genders too.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:49

Impermanent: Apr 1, 2010

Has there been any official word on the direction of RDM in Shadowbringers?I I love the concept and the proc-based gameplay but it's just a notch more simple than I'd like.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:49

Blockhouse: Sep 7, 2014; You Win!

There's no word on the direction of any jobs and there won't be until May

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:50

Thundarr: Dec 24, 2002

jalapeno_dude posted:

Can someone list five dungeons that aren't impossible for squadrons to handle the mechs? I haven't touched them since I tried to heal Halatali while leveling WHM and found the bosses utterly impossible.

Avoid Pharos Sirius and WP Hard. Both have bosses that are extremely frustrating to have their mechanics targeting you 100% of the time, and depending on your job you squad will be hard pressed to keep you alive.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:59

Oxyclean: Sep 23, 2007

If I'm remembering correctly, Last boss of WP Hard in Squadron is easier if you just do it wrong don't reposition. I think you need to nuke all banners, but it's way easier to manage then the proper strategy.

But I think in general none of the Hard dungeons are worth it for EXP.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:03

johnny park: Sep 15, 2009

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

My average LLDR run, outside of shitters like Stone Vigil, is like 20-22 minutes. Stone Vigil usually comes in at like 25+, which is more but not egregiously so. Just random DF people so I'm not stacking the group with people I know are awake. I don't find squadrons, even when functional, that much faster.

And it's completely subjective, but I find every step of the way is just miserable. It's more functional if I tank, but it's so simple to dungeon spam levelling for them, especially 51+. I'm not sure why, just nothing works properly when I'm running squadron stuff. Tanks can't hold threat, archer dps is nothing special, healer is just asleep half the time. And some of the dungeons are probably literally impossible as dps, which to me would be the whole reason to run AI squads. It's so tedious and annoying to work around their limitations, pf is more palatable for me.

Like I say, it's subjective, but for me the cons are way higher than skipping queues.

I have the same problem, tanks can't pick up aggro and healers will often just stand there and let me die to the mobs that run past the tank to attack me :shrug:

# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:33

SwissArmyDruid: Feb 14, 2014; by sebmojo

Schneider Heim posted:

In the full Shadowbringers trailer, who's the one saying "become what you must; become the Warrior of Darkness" by the end? I tried watching the one with JP voices and it sounded like Akira Ishida, who voices Elidibus? I'm not so sure.

We think it's an NPC related to the Crystal Tower series of 24-man raids. I say "related", rather than "involved" because the circumstances of that person's existence allows for a lot of "yes, but not really because", and that's before things are further compounded upon by this whole shard-hopping stuff.

And then there's the crystal leprosy going on, which is bound to be all kinds of its own weirdness.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:35

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# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:39

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Impermanent posted:

Has there been any official word on the direction of RDM in Shadowbringers?I I love the concept and the proc-based gameplay but it's just a notch more simple than I'd like.

The only jobs we know are getting relatively major changes are WHM, MCH and MNK, if I recall, those have been called out as needing the most help.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:02

Failboattootoot: Feb 6, 2011; Enough of this nonsense. You are an important mayor and this absurd contraption has wasted enough of your time.

Hunter Noventa posted:

The only jobs we know are getting relatively major changes are WHM, MCH and MNK, if I recall, those have been called out as needing the most help.

Yup. Drk as well.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:07

Orcs and Ostriches: Aug 26, 2010; The Great Twist

I'm curious what sort of skill changes will come. RDM, despite being on the simple side, and SAM especially feel like complete packages rotation wise. A lot of people want an amount of group utility for SAM which is a fair request, but I don't know how that will get shoehorned in.

Looking forward for whatever tidbits pop out in May for sure, although I doubt we'll see the full picture until launch.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:25

Impermanent: Apr 1, 2010

maybe RDM will get DoTs they have to keep up, that would be a novel addition

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:41

Eimi: Nov 23, 2013; I will never ~~log off~~shut up.

I really like RDM for its simplicity and the fact that I'm not stuck chasing a timer like BLM is. I'd hope any changes keep that aspect to the class. Only thing I'd really wanna see is an ice and water spell so that we round out getting all the elements.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:43

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

Impermanent posted:

maybe RDM will get DoTs they have to keep up, that would be a novel addition

pls no

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

I'm curious what sort of skill changes will come. RDM, despite being on the simple side, and SAM especially feel like complete packages rotation wise. A lot of people want an amount of group utility for SAM which is a fair request, but I don't know how that will get shoehorned in.

I really appreciate how well SAM flows. At first its combos and multiple resource systems seemed odd to me, but in practice everything fits together really well. I never really feel like I'm going out of my way to keep up my DoT or anything--it feels like a natural consequence of how I want to use my abilities already.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 21:45

Unhappy Meal: Jul 27, 2010; Some smiles show mirth
Others merely show teeth

Impermanent posted:

maybe RDM will get DoTs they have to keep up, that would be a novel addition

RDM getting Fracture you heard it here first.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 22:17

Leal: Oct 2, 2009

I just want an AOE nuke for RDM.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 22:19

Thundarr: Dec 24, 2002

Leal posted:

I just want an AOE nuke for RDM.

What, doublecast Scatter not good enough? :colbert:

(Yeah a more interesting AoE rotation would be nice and 5x Moul is great fun but requires enough setup that you rarely get to use it)

# ? Mar 29, 2019 22:33

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

I'd say they should call it "Ardor" after the Red Mage's best spell in the FFXII Zodiac editions, but I'm pretty sure that already means something in FFXIV

# ? Mar 29, 2019 22:35