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johnny park posted:aetherial reduction gives shards/crystals/clusters i think Based on what I've been reading it only gives crystals and clusters, which results in everyone swimming in those two but shards are going for 100 each on marketplace.
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Eimi posted:I still need to do Baldesion Arsenal but no clue on how to get a group for that. I'm assuming there's a discord somewhere. You just snipe a portal and let the others deal with it
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Apr 4, 2019 22:08
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Yeah purchased maps don't count towards the cooldown, only harvested. Problem is, I'm not sure anybody is harvesting low ranking maps.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:08
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah purchased maps don't count towards the cooldown, only harvested. Problem is, I'm not sure anybody is harvesting low ranking maps. Nobody does the 60 party maps either, which has funnily enough resulted in the orchestrions that drop there and not in the 70 one being inflated to worth millions in gil.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:12
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Rastan Beeza posted:Nobody does the 60 party maps either, which has funnily enough resulted in the orchestrions that drop there and not in the 70 one being inflated to worth millions in gil. That just reminds me I've got a 60 Dragon sitting in my key items I need to do so I can start doing maps again. Can those be soloed or do I need a party.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:14
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Aquapolis is level synced and not really soloable. You don't need a full party either though, a tank, a healer, and 2 or 3 dps is fine
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Apr 4, 2019 22:16
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I don't remember the Shinryu fight and didn't understand any of the mechanics but we won so hooray?
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Apr 4, 2019 22:23
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I feel like the fight just isn't very good? Mechanics aren't conveyed well, it's hard to see things, the camera is a mess. IDK though, it might just be because I had no idea what was going on.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:29
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Kwyndig posted:That just reminds me I've got a 60 Dragon sitting in my key items I need to do so I can start doing maps again. Can those be soloed or do I need a party. Can confirm Aquapolis isn't feasible to solo, but the map encounters themselves are easy for geared 70s. I've been doing them off and on the last couple months to fill in some gaps in my mats stockpile and for the odd rare item. FactsAreUseless posted:I feel like the fight just isn't very good? Mechanics aren't conveyed well, it's hard to see things, the camera is a mess. IDK though, it might just be because I had no idea what was going on. TBH it's pretty good but can be overwhelming the first few times. There was a lot of salt about it at SB launch.
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isk posted:TBH it's pretty good but can be overwhelming the first few times. There was a lot of salt about it at SB launch.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:34
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FactsAreUseless posted:I feel like the fight just isn't very good? Mechanics aren't conveyed well, it's hard to see things, the camera is a mess. IDK though, it might just be because I had no idea what was going on. I like that the capstone fight leaves you feeling slightly overwhelmed the first time, personally.
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FactsAreUseless posted:The group I was with wasn't interested in communicating in any way so that was part of it. Yep, that'd do it! Requires some level of coordination with tank stacking and AoE pointing (and an interrupt on the adds in the first phase). Then there's the icicles to look out for. It's easily the most difficult end-of-launch-experience encounter in FFXIV; Praetorium & Singularity Reactor are basically victory laps.
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Most of Shinryu's big skills don't have a normal visual marker, so it depends a lot more on knowing the skills and reading the cast bar. All of his big primal skills, for example, don't have consistent language but need to be reacted to differently. Standing in the puddles for hellfire, for one, and avoiding puddles for judgement bolt. Other stuff like knowing how to position the big conal aoe earthshakers, or being prepared for his giant knockback attack take experience from the fight as well. I liked it, but it plays a bit different than normal story mechanics.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:39
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Kanfy posted:I really liked Shinryu. It was an incredibly good capstone fight
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Apr 4, 2019 22:59
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Most of Shinryu's big skills don't have a normal visual marker, so it depends a lot more on knowing the skills and reading the cast bar. I mean, the puddles make logical sense at least. Stay in the water to not get toasted, get out to not get electrocuted.
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Apr 4, 2019 23:09
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Almost every single mechanic in Shinryu appeared in older content or has a similar mechanic in older content. It's almost exclusively about recognizing the mechanics and understanding them.
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Countblanc posted:I have no idea how wow's tippy top difficulty compares to ffxiv's in terms of quality or quality, but wow has a pretty successful history of midcore content that just feels either absent or in very short supply depending on the patch in ffxiv and I wish SE would try their hand at that. Preferably in a small group stage but I know that concept has been pretty thoroughly ignored by SE barring the very weird deep dungeon FFXIV has a thriving midcore scene, it’s called savage raiding. Mythic in wow would be equivalent to UWU right now, and that’s about it? Basically the tippy top for ffxiv is what’s smaller than wow, not the midcore level.
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DontMindMe posted:drat, so diving into crafting log completion, I'm realizing the worst part is shards. I'm not hugely into crafting, but if I need them I usually just end up taking some from the fc chest. I'm constantly capped on some of the crystals so I also sell those and then use it to fund more shard purchases. I have gone out and just gathered them myself but that's very boring. Sometimes a hit will give you like eight shards though instead of just the one so that's nice when that happens. I wouldn't really recommend this method unless you also want the achievements for gathering in specific locations.
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Apr 4, 2019 23:37
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does wow really only have like 4 midcore fights every 6 months? oof i didnt realize it was so dire across the board
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What is 'midcore'
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You like to grind or be challenged but you don't want to form a static
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the cevo-open of raiding basically e: or maybe it was esea-o, whatever people who want to improve and do harder stuff but for whatever reason dont want to go super deep Countblanc fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Countblanc posted:does wow really only have like 4 midcore fights every 6 months? oof i didnt realize it was so dire across the board
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ImpAtom posted:Almost every single mechanic in Shinryu appeared in older content or has a similar mechanic in older content. It's almost exclusively about recognizing the mechanics and understanding them. It's exactly this. The main difference is that, while Singularity Reactor and Royal Menagerie are both pop quiz fights, the former is a curb stomp by design and the latter is intended to actually pose a challenge to people at the appropriate ilvl. That Tidal Wave 10 seconds into the fight is still one of the all time great FFXIV troll moves though.
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The problem with Royal Menagerie is that it's way too tough on the healers in my opinion. Tanks can barely help take the strain off of them by playing good because the only tank buster is Akh Morn and there's nothing else for them to position for really.
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Impermanent posted:You like to grind or be challenged but you don't want to form a static TIL i am midcore
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DontMindMe posted:drat, so diving into crafting log completion, I'm realizing the worst part is shards. The only sanity-preserving way is buying them on the MB from bots which exist exclusively to gather and sell them. If they didn't exist the entire economy would melt down. (Note that people often forget to take the cost of shards into account when pricing intermediate mats, so it's often worth checking the prices of e.g. leather/cloth rather than just reflexively buying skins or w/e)
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Thundarr posted:It's exactly this. The main difference is that, while Singularity Reactor and Royal Menagerie are both pop quiz fights, the former is a curb stomp by design and the latter is intended to actually pose a challenge to people at the appropriate ilvl. Should've equipped your coral ring.
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Thundarr posted:That Tidal Wave 10 seconds into the fight is still one of the all time great FFXIV troll moves though. Tidal Wave wiping an entire group right after the battle starts is up there with Raubahn Savage for "fondly remembered Stormblood launch window events". Like say what you will about Royal Menegerie, it lets you know right off the bat that it's there to try to kick your rear end.
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johnny park posted:What is 'midcore' It's where you want to progress with a guild, but don't want to do mythic raiding (and all the grinding that entails.) Non-mythic raids in WoW scale with the number of players, so the middle difficulty (heroic) lets you progress through each raid tier in an organized group without having to worry too much about dropping low performers. It also lets you be a lot more flexible about raid composition, which is nice because there's less social pressure on any individual person to be present. This would be more difficult to implement in FFXIV given the static raid size, and comparably small number of players. It's also why I don't raid in FFXIV. 
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Mashing a button is not good game design and so the Shinryu/Susano fights, incredible as they are, will always be marred in my mind.
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Lenore03 posted:Mashing a button is not good game design and so the Shinryu/Susano fights, incredible as they are, will always be marred in my mind. Yeah, I like the sudden "oh god do a thing" but there's definite accessibility issues there. The hilarious thing is they just introduced the Duty Action button and even use it in Lakshmi but the other two storyline trial fights use this other mechanic that had never* shown up before. It feels doubly bad in that light. It gets triply bad when you realize that the button mashing prompt only happens for one person in Susano so you get to this bit in Shinryu that it's entirely possible you've never seen before and you get completely thrown off because up until then you've never had to press random buttons that weren't mapped (at worst you were given a substitute hotbar). You get tossed at this completely new thing you've never seen before which if you don't figure it out in a few seconds you die. Sudden unexplained button mashing is my second least favorite FF14 mechanic, beating out "we're gonna give you a debuff that you need to read the description of in order to not kill your party wait what do you mean you're on a controller" but still not quite as bad as "we're gonna give the boss a buff that you need to read the description of in order to not kill your party wait what do you mean you're on a controller". *: I think it was also in one of the Alexander fights or something? It hadn't appeared before in a MSQ fight though.
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Apr 5, 2019 01:32
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for people who don't know, if you're on controller you can do the button mashing prompts easily by circling with the dpad
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somepartsareme posted:for people who don't know, if you're on controller you can do the button mashing prompts easily by circling with the dpad and on keyboard you can just slide your palm across all the keys
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If it helps, on kb/m you can press literally any button and it'll count to the buttonmash.
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i like the button mashes but i certainly wouldnt want to do them every fight. love to go hamburgers on my spacebar
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