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When I was working on my zodiac weapon way back in 2.whatever, I was on the step that needed the rare drops from the dungeon bosses. They all went smoothly except for AV, which took more than a weekend chainrunning that poo poo. And even then:SonicRulez posted:But the worst dungeon is Neverreap. I agree with this.
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I just ran Neverreap somewhat recently and it's not too bad. Unless you get a braindead group that screws up the totem boss constantly.
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May 20, 2019 18:02
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Hommando posted:Looked him up in FFlogs and his very few parses are exactly what you'd expect. He also has consistently not used blizzard IV in over a year. I wish we had. He threw his little sexist tantrum during the last bit of the last boss. Before then, he was just being weird about his bad rotation, and that didn't seem like a good enough reason.
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May 20, 2019 18:05
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Boogalo posted:AV is great because done correctly it takes about 25 minutes the sign of a truly great dungeon
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May 20, 2019 18:18
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I enjoy AV even though the first and third chunks of it are kind of awful. Coincounter is a joy though, because there's almost always that one person that's forgotten he doesn't do AoE indicators. Watching them go splat never fails to get a chuckle out of me.
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May 20, 2019 18:23
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when I heal AV i get annoyed by how often DPS just stand there and eat the coincounter's gaze attacks. it's never a huge crisis but every preventable esuna or heal I throw out is one less damage spell dangit
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May 20, 2019 18:34
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i heard there were people slamming coincounter itt and i have come to right this wrong
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May 20, 2019 19:09
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Qarn objectively isn't a bad dungeon by ARR standards, but when I was leveling NIN and got past level 35 the game just basically said HEY I BET YOU LIKE QARN and gave it to me as my roulette for a week. Even now it's coming up about 40-50% of the time.
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Infidel Castro posted:Qarn objectively isn't a bad dungeon by ARR standards, but when I was leveling NIN and got past level 35 the game just basically said HEY I BET YOU LIKE QARN and gave it to me as my roulette for a week.
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May 20, 2019 19:20
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FactsAreUseless posted:I get Sastasha about six times in seven, but Qarn also turns up a ton because there's that post-50 quest where you have to go back and run a level 35 dungeon for some reason. They should have kept the quest that made you run a guildhest and dumped the one sending you into Qarn IMO.
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May 20, 2019 20:14
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AV is a legitimately good dungeon, Coincounter is always fun especially if you're tanking because even if everyone else dies you can solo it effortlessly. Also, the first and last boss don't have the same mechanics; the last boss doesn't apply a dot and uses its stacking debuff in a different way. The worst dungeons are Darkhold and Cutter's Cry for being the blandest slogs possible.
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May 20, 2019 20:50
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AV is probably the best dungeon out of the group "dungeons that got ported from 1.0 instead of made brand new", a category that is entirely crap dungeons.
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May 20, 2019 20:54
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I honestly really enjoy AV as WHM. Also SAM and BARD. Big pulls and poo poo to do. Also story for the day. Tank was doing tiny pulls in Arboretum Hard. I asked for bigger pulls he said lol no. I pulled everything. He ragequit. We still survived. Big dick WHM tank.
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May 20, 2019 20:55
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Cutter's Cry is the worst dungeon because the boss will wipe most groups once or twice.
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May 20, 2019 20:57
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brainwrinkle posted:Cutter's Cry is the worst dungeon because the boss will wipe most groups once or twice.
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May 20, 2019 21:33
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iirc, you can stun or silence the big hits that tends to kill people. Even if your party members all die, the boss's auto attacks are weak enough that it's relatively easy to solo or duo it.
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I have completed Cutter's Cry twice in roulette. The first time everyone wiped on Chimera twice due to not paying attention to the attack patterns. The second time I ran it, I ended up soloing the Chimera as MCH because everyone else wiped due to ignoring the attack patterns. The Chimera is a poorly designed boss, IMO. Also the rest of it is terminally boring and ugly.
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May 20, 2019 21:42
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faptown posted:I just ran Neverreap somewhat recently and it's not too bad. Unless you get a braindead group that screws up the totem boss constantly. 3/3 bosses have prolonged invuln phases. The bees are back. The tornadoes are annoying. And it's in the worst HW zone (or second worst, whatever). It's just the pits. Overwatch Porn posted:AV is a legitimately good dungeon, Coincounter is always fun especially if you're tanking because even if everyone else dies you can solo it effortlessly. Also, the first and last boss don't have the same mechanics; the last boss doesn't apply a dot and uses its stacking debuff in a different way. Stacking debuff -> eat fruit to not die. The 3rd boss has adds kinda sorta, but that's the difference and it's not a very big one. This game has way too many great dungeons for it to suffer Aurum Vale being included in that list.
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May 20, 2019 22:13
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CC has cactuar, and thus is good
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AMISH FRIED PIES posted:Funny how no one's mentioned Stone Vigil as being a slog. Stone Vigil's a sanity/role check. If everyone uses their cooldowns liberally and the tank pulls things carefully it's pretty ok. The only really dangerous part of it is the ice sprite hallways and the one optional room because the sprite's blizzard spell hits like a truck. It also not being a slog may be because when I ran it a whole bunch, usually what would happen is that people would mess up the first pull and immediately ragequit. All of the groups that could actually handle the first pull made it through smoothly. It was a very binary experience 
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May 20, 2019 22:26
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monkey's paw curls and AV is replaced with AV+ with unskippable cutscenes and unintuitive speedrunning tactics
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May 20, 2019 22:27
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May 20, 2019 22:39
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Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Here's me now (I posted this a couple of pages back):  and here I am at the end of Heavensward, back when I was both a catgirl and a DPS: 
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May 20, 2019 22:42
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Shadow Bringers brings forth a new dungeon. Aurum Vigil (Ultimate).
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i would unironically enjoy a new version of aurum vale
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I'm excited to see Snowcloak (Hard) in 5.1.
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Me at the end of HW:  Me partway through SB:  Me at the end of SB: 
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Now  HW 
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! i didn't start playing until a week or so after stormblood launched, so instead i can give you the first ever screenshot of my perfect boy:  and the most recent vanity shot i took over the weekend:  i've come a long way ~
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May 20, 2019 23:26
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Here's me now:  And here's me just a bit, I think, before SB launched: 
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May 20, 2019 23:28
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Here's a few days before Stormblood launched:  Someone else took this one a patch ago:  I don't really change much. But sometimes I'm short:  Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 20, 2019 |
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May 20, 2019 23:29
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SB   HW  Sticking wit dat yellow theme.
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Any tips for pushing desynthing for Armorer, Weaver, and Goldsmith from 300 to max? Dungeon drops from leveling classes to 70 helped me get to that point, but now I guess I need to find a method to push up to the point where I can desynth Ghimlyt Dark drops.
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Pierson posted:I got bored of catboy so I've decided to try roegadame until ShB hits. The biggest and most important question to answer now though is what body items have no sleeves to best display the gunshow? Alliance Vest of Striking is good for SAM/MNK but I'm gonna need alternatives for DRG/WAR. I remember liking the Ala Mhigan maiming body for drg and used it for a long while. There is something kinda funky w/ what there is of sleeves, iirc, but using the gloves from the set and dying them the same color as the body make them look like elbow length gloves. E: Having looked it up, it was me using velveteen half gloves, not the Ala Mhigan set gloves. https://xivstyle.com/combat/currency/alamhigan/maiming/ Melomane Mallet fucked around with this message at 23:47 on May 20, 2019 |
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DontMindMe posted:Any tips for pushing desynthing for Armorer, Weaver, and Goldsmith from 300 to max? Dungeon drops from leveling classes to 70 helped me get to that point, but now I guess I need to find a method to push up to the point where I can desynth Ghimlyt Dark drops. Run level 70 dungeons until the end of time. Use Mendacity and Centurio Seals to buy lower level items (330/360). Accessories are all cheap, and there are cloth belts you can buy. Shields are cheap (I think) for ARM. Meld stuff before you desynth it. Buy a tinker's calm potion and bacon broth. Each materia adds like 4% to your chances, plus the bonuses from the pot and food. Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 00:08 on May 21, 2019 |
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! Here's a bad one I took during the big group photo near the end of HW, though this isn't my favorite glamour I had during that period:  And here's some pics I took of my current RDM/BRD glams a patch or two ago:   What gun is this? Looks great.
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i don't have any great shots of myself from heavensward except this one, of me trying to be cool like my girl Lucia but i've gotten much more sophisticated in the last couple years (and even discovered /gpose!)  i also tried being an elf for a while but it just didn't feel the same
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Arist posted:What gun is this? Looks great. Armageddon, it's step 2 of the HW relic.
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:Towards the end of Heavensward I asked for yearbook photos of everyone's characters, and I'm doing the same again! Post a nice picture of your character for the thread, and if you took it and still have it, your picture from Heavensward! My first and last HW screenshots pre-Fantasia:   My last HW screenshot, four months later (because I was levelling everything to 60 before moving on):  And then now one of my more recent screenshots, or rather gifs: 
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tote up a bags posted:The roulettes should just not choose dungeons that aren't within X levels of the party average or something, that was if I go in fully stacked with my 70 crew we don't end up melting down when it picks tam-tara for the 100th time That defeats the entire point of the dungeon roulette, which is to force max level players to help out new level 20 players who need to clear the dungeon for the MSQ. If it was based on the average party level then the low level dungeons wouldn't come up, ever, and it would become impossible for new players to level up. They don't want you doing roulettes with a full 70 crew.
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