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I remodeled my house's ground floor and basement. Ground floor.   Basement:    More pics here: https://imgur.com/a/YtAOCFU Excal Goblet 3, #41
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Apr 8, 2019 02:14
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Ciaphas posted:I remember kinda liking AST Ast is good and the problem is that the Balance is too good.
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Apr 8, 2019 02:22
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rhoga posted:I remodeled my house's ground floor and basement. Here's some pictures of my AST glamour, taken in Rhoga's new studio.  
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Apr 8, 2019 02:32
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Yeah, AST is fun and fine to play but the card system should be "what can I do with the cards I have drawn" but is instead "fish for balance"
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Apr 8, 2019 02:33
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I like white mage more than astro
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Apr 8, 2019 02:52
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Clarste posted:Also, looking through the skills, Monks are also all in kanji (except Mantra), Scholars have really long kanji skill names that got turned into Latin I guess, and Black mages have Faira and Faiga and Faija and that's really funny to me. This is kinda interesting. I remember that in a previous interview that Koji was asked about why the English translation calls the spells numerically like "Fire 1, Fire 2, Fire 3..." instead of the decision to translate them based on their Japanese -Ra, -Ga, and -Ja counterparts. It basically boiled down to simplicity's sake, due to confusion being caused by which abilities are area attacks and which are single attacks. Granted that's still a problem with the skills under their numerical function, but whatever. For an online game it feels a bit more user friendly. The English in-game lore for spell names is pretty great though. Great Gubal Library (Hard) posted:Proceedings of the Council of Magi: Proceedings of the 284th Convocation of the Amdapori Council of Magi
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Apr 8, 2019 03:07
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let astrologian use their cards to magic burst off their own skill chains
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Apr 8, 2019 03:09
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Astrologians should store their teammates in card form and deploy them as necessary
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Apr 8, 2019 03:09
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Had my mind blown today: got back into the game recently. Because I'm dumb and can't connect with a character I haven't played in forever, I'm starting fresh of course. I decided to check some quick tips and... HOLY poo poo How did I not know that just by the Arcanist's guild's aethernet there's a ferry that brings you two meters away from the Waking Sands. Relationship broken with Horizon, now Limsa Lominsa is my new best friend!
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Apr 8, 2019 03:10
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Apr 8, 2019 03:16
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My bags are starting to fill up with gear and items, what do I do with all the gear and items got? Anything worth keeping?
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Apr 8, 2019 04:04
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Anything you like the look of, go to the inn and flush it down the glamour toilet, you can put 200 things inside that. Gear you can donate to your GC if you want seals, or desynth it or sell it idk. There's not much that's actually worth saving unless you plan on using it for glamour or it took you effort to get.
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Apr 8, 2019 04:11
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The problem with AST is draw itself. Healing in savage means you plan with your cohealer when you use which cooldowns for the entire fight to maximize dps uptime. All of that planning does not mesh with random card draws, so because you can't count on having a spread bole, it's just better to use the reliable option and fish for more damage with balance. The only way cards would work is if you have a set hand and each card had its own cooldown, so you could plan out when you use which card and on whom for the whole fight. Anything short of that won't fix the balance problem. LITERALLY MY FETISH fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Apr 8, 2019 04:26
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I have hardly ever touched Savages and do most of my healing in dungeons. I like AST a lot more than WHM (other than Gravity being level 52) and while I would agree that Balance is definitely the "best" card, the only "bad" card has been Spire, which I imagine they are going to have to rework anyway if they are removing TP. I would personally hope that if they rebalance the cards, they do not nerf Balance, but instead buff Spear and Arrow in some way.
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Apr 8, 2019 04:36
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They're actually removing TP?
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Apr 8, 2019 04:38
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Ciaphas posted:They're actually removing TP? yes, TP and MP are merging into an exciting new resource called MP
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Apr 8, 2019 04:42
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Make the cards take an instant form of another class's random spell and remove the cards' effeect on the tuning of the efficacy of AST. Sometimes you get an adlo, sometimes a Verholy, sometimes a raise, sometimes a Fire 4, sometimes a painflare, sometimes a medica. Believing in the heart of the cards gets you a holy.
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Apr 8, 2019 04:56
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Countblanc posted:yes, TP and MP are merging into an exciting new resource Did they actually say they're being merged or just that they're removing TP? Because I hear this "they're being merged" thing a lot and that's completely different from just removing TP, imo. But oftentimes it seems like people are just assuming that all moves with TP costs will be given MP costs without that actually being stated anywhere. And I don't think that makes much sense given the differences between how TP and MP work. There's no reason that most moves can't just have 0 cost at all: they're limited by cooldowns and your rotation anyway.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:11
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Apr 8, 2019 05:13
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Every class is now getting a Heat Gauge.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:24
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they are not going to make melee AoE free
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Apr 8, 2019 05:31
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Mr. Locke posted:Every class is now getting a Heat Gauge.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:32
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Mr. Locke posted:Every class is now getting a Heat Gauge. 
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Apr 8, 2019 05:43
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Blockhouse posted:they are not going to make melee AoE free why not
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Apr 8, 2019 05:43
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Clarste posted:There's no reason that most moves can't just have 0 cost at all: they're limited by cooldowns and your rotation anyway. TP and MP costs are there specifically so that players will eventually run out of resources and be unable to sandbag through encounters. Even if they manage to squeak by any DPS/Healing/Tank LB check. Also making all of the TP classes abilities free screws over the current MP using classes because they continue to burn a resource (BLM mostly doesn't care but other casters and healers do.) Thus it's a reasonable expectation that they won't change the underlying design theory and just convert costs into MP and adjust numbers to maintain how much you can do until you're running on empty.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:46
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Blockhouse posted:they are not going to make melee AoE free It'd be nice if they did so I never need to see a Goad macro again. Especially the ones from tanks who can't be bothered to use cooldowns or notice I'm at like 10% MP because I've been force feeding them Benefic 2s to keep them up but they just go and pull the boss anyway. Okay so that was only like one tank but still.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:47
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Nessus posted:Oh word, like in Yakuza? gonna smash a bicycle over the emperor's dumb helmet
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Apr 8, 2019 05:48
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pray for my aunt posted:gonna smash a bicycle over the emperor's dumb helmet tenspeed
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Apr 8, 2019 05:58
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Yozora Heart's Guide to Galaxy Brain Ninja Strats: 1) Flub your mudra and get a bunny. 2) See that Kassatsu is off cooldown. Press Kassatsu before you clear the bunny. 3) Press your Kassatsu Bunny like a knob 4) Hit Mug 5) Enter Ten Chi Jin because it's time to suffer 6) Move. 
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EponymousMrYar posted:TP and MP costs are there specifically so that players will eventually run out of resources and be unable to sandbag through encounters. Even if they manage to squeak by any DPS/Healing/Tank LB check. The situation of people flubbing their way through an encounter is so rare it’d be laughable to base a design decision around it. Anything that matters for balance is going to have a strict DPS check that already limits how many corpses you can have. Who really cares if some group takes 20 minutes to kill a dungeon boss? The only reason mp is a resource for non-healer casters is to limit their ability to endlessly raise people and mana shift to healers. Just removing tp actually is a viable option. RDM and SMN won’t run out of mana doing aoe even now, lol BLM. TP is already far more limiting to aoe than mp ever was.
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Apr 8, 2019 06:27
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EponymousMrYar posted:TP and MP costs are there specifically so that players will eventually run out of resources and be unable to sandbag through encounters. Even if they manage to squeak by any DPS/Healing/Tank LB check. I mean, resource costs realistically only serves 4 purposes: make dungeons slower when you are physical dps heavy, poo poo on samurais for building skill speed, stop the healer from casting holy/gravity/miasma 2 forever, and curtail infinite rezzes. Of the 4, only the latter is actually important. Secret 5th reason: ruin a melee dps's loving day when they die, rez, invigorate, and die again before invigorate is off cooldown.
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Apr 8, 2019 06:29
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jokes posted:Make the cards take an instant form of another class's random spell and remove the cards' effeect on the tuning of the efficacy of AST. Sometimes you get an adlo, sometimes a Verholy, sometimes a raise, sometimes a Fire 4, sometimes a painflare, sometimes a medica. ...so, you mean what Minor Arcana does?
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Apr 8, 2019 06:50
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SonicRulez posted:Yozora Heart's Guide to Galaxy Brain Ninja Strats: I hit 50 on NIN earlier in the week and have already done this a few times. As a SMN main it's nice to know that other jobs have an equivalent to fat fingering Aetherflow.
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Apr 8, 2019 06:50
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SwissArmyDruid posted:...so, you mean what Minor Arcana does? Yeah but cooler and better
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Apr 8, 2019 06:53
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Elves!   
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Who really cares if some group takes 20 minutes to kill a dungeon boss?  Failboattootoot posted:I mean, resource costs realistically only serves 4 purposes: make dungeons slower when you are physical dps heavy, poo poo on samurais for building skill speed, stop the healer from casting holy/gravity/miasma 2 forever, and curtail infinite rezzes. Of the 4, only the latter is actually important. Or to put another way: What is going to keep BLMs from flaring away everything in dungeons? (Nerfs/Limitations to AoE is a possibility.) What is going to keep 8 mans from being dominated by casters in order to maximize how much healing can be done? (Removal/tweaking of Mana Shift and Refresh abilities is a possibility.) What is the point of DRK's mana management if they don't need to manage it? (tweaking of most of DRK's abilities and Dark Arts most likely.) It's a pretty big change.
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Apr 8, 2019 07:08
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I personally think MP should be a healer-only thing anyways. It seems like MP for BLM/DRK could be better served with a class mechanic/bar/gauge. DRK basically uses Dark Arts in the same manner as the ammo mechanic from MCH. BLM MP is a bit more linked to MP but it would be so much better off if their class gauge visualized the MP regeneration ticks as a bar or whatever that was only enabled in umbral ice. Now it's just like "I hope my tick goes off quick so I don't stand around like an idiot waiting for a tick so I can blast this instant fire 3 off", or I guess you can use the tick tracker addon? Otherwise I can't think of a class that isn't a healer where your MP matters outside of, like, rezzing, that wouldn't be better served with a class gauge. e: or BRDs just put foe's requiem on a cooldown. jokes fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Apr 8, 2019 07:33
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I can't remember the last time I had to wait for a tick as a BLM. Between Foul and Thundercloud procs you can just drop into Umbral Ice with fuckall for MP and it's fine. Black Mage's class gauge is already an unholy amalgam, it doesn't need more. Casters should use MP and have to engage in some kind of basic mana management. It's purely aesthetic, but aesthetics are good.
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If the healer runs out of MP, the group is gonna wipe soon anyway, so why does it matter if the Samurai has TP or not? I don't really care about Summoners using MP or not, but the current TP system is almost entirely superfluous. Which is presumably why they're getting rid of it. The reason they can't just dump all existing TP costs into MP is that MP regenerates at a very different speed from TP. Not to mention stuff like DRK. Doing that would screw over the current balance a billion times more than just deleting TP from the game and forgetting it ever existed.
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