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Blockhouse posted:They had to make Alphinaud and Alisaie twins because they couldn't afford to make another model an extra job at ARR launch wasn't ever in the cards I mean, yeah. This sort of thing would have been decided in the basic design phase and the end result would be fairly different than we got.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:06
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Dancer seems much more buff based to be fair. An amount of their dps seems to come from sharing their standard finish buff and getting espirit from their partner, and sabre dance just looks ridiculous.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:07
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ImpAtom posted:Wait that seriously is why Alpha Nerd and Alisaie are twins? Yep, so they could get two characters for one model.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:07
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Kwyndig posted:Yep, so they could get two characters for one model. That is amazing.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:08
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Dr Pepper posted:Yeah I think they would have saved themselves a lot of headaches if they had made a fourth "Support" category back in 2.0. But, alas. I would've liked that, I think it would've opened doors for jobs that I'd really enjoy (unsurprisingly, given my whole Scholar thing). On top of Bard and Dancer I could see it being a place for Time Mage, a combat-oriented take on Chemist, or possibly a version of Blue Mage that isn't vaguely insulting. The only problem is that I could see those sorts of jobs becoming essentially required takes for a serious team, which is something XIV's dev team both hates making and apparently can't resist if they get close (see: Bard, and probably Dancer). There's a reason that all of those jobs I mentioned are some level of indispensible in other Final Fantasies.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:08
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Why make a fourth role when ranged physical dps is basically already the support role. Yoshi-p, redesign MCH to fit this framework, you coward! Poops Mcgoots fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Jun 25, 2019 04:12
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Kwyndig posted:Yep, so they could get two characters for one model. How serious was the dev being when they revealed this?
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Why make a fourth role when ranged physical dps is basically already the support role. I mean, on one hand yes, because I want MCH to be my kind of job (and in most instances in the series it's in that mix, Edgar has a lot of that going on), but on the other hand like I said there's more types of job that fit that framework that'd be more magic-flavored, and they'd still be competing for DPS slots which was a problem in the first place. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Jun 25, 2019 04:18
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Considering there's ice mages I once heard tell that there were people who did only ice spells ever, this can't possibly still be true can it?
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Jun 25, 2019 04:30
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I once heard tell that there were people who did only ice spells ever, this can't possibly still be true can it? i feel like this is a thing that maybe happened once in 2.x and people act like it's an endemic problem still. ive certainly never seen one
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Jun 25, 2019 04:33
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somepartsareme posted:i feel like this is a thing that maybe happened once in 2.x and people act like it's an endemic problem still. ive certainly never seen one I've seen it, but it was Sastasha and it was a clueless sprout who hadn't realized THM was supposed to cycle between fire and ice. All they knew was that fire made them run out of mana super fast. We set the newbie straight by the end of the run.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:40
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hobbesmaster posted:How serious was the dev being when they revealed this? (Alisaie's look was designed first and Alphinaud was twinned from her, by the by.)
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Jun 25, 2019 04:41
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somepartsareme posted:i feel like this is a thing that maybe happened once in 2.x and people act like it's an endemic problem still. ive certainly never seen one A few patches ago someone actually mathed out the dps of an ice mage, the link is somewhere in these 1927 pages.
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Cythereal posted:I've seen it, but it was Sastasha and it was a clueless sprout who hadn't realized THM was supposed to cycle between fire and ice. All they knew was that fire made them run out of mana super fast. We set the newbie straight by the end of the run.
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Jun 25, 2019 04:44
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Cythereal posted:I've seen it, but it was Sastasha and it was a clueless sprout who hadn't realized THM was supposed to cycle between fire and ice. All they knew was that fire made them run out of mana super fast. We set the newbie straight by the end of the run. yeah not knowing how to play the job is one thing, but the "im not using fire spells because im a role player and you dont pay my sub!" mage seems like a creature of the gamer's frightened collective imagination
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I've seen blizzard 3 only mages (plural, more than one run) in Keeper of the Lake, during 4.5.
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Jun 25, 2019 05:06
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somepartsareme posted:https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/20/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-fest-2018-report/
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I once heard tell that there were people who did only ice spells ever, this can't possibly still be true can it? I encountered one today. They aren't super common but there's more than 0.
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somepartsareme posted:https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/20/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-fest-2018-report/ During the Q/A his only question is about houses with erotic roleplayers and it takes YoshiP nearly 10 minutes to explain the TOS to him. ahahaha
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Fat and Useless posted:A few patches ago someone actually mathed out the dps of an ice mage, the link is somewhere in these 1927 pages. IIRC it's not even terrible? You'll be doing less than tanks, but it's significantly higher than "basically zero". The deal is you have to still know how to ride your GCD and push cooldowns which an "ice mage" BLM probably won't be doing 
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Jun 25, 2019 05:58
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Captain Oblivious posted:Another victory for the consistently superior english script. For real. I don't know any Japanese, but everything I've heard about the Japanese script is that it's bone dry. Comparatively, the English script is bone wet, if you catch my drift.
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Jun 25, 2019 06:05
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FactsAreUseless posted:Everybody wants to be David Foster Wallace, but they all seem to forget that even David Foster Wallace ultimately didn't want to be David Foster Wallace.  Kwyndig posted:Yep, so they could get two characters for one model. I can't believe there are people who seriously want Tanaka and 1.0 back in earnest. Everything about that game was clown shoes.
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Vanderdeath posted:
It's weird. I can appreciate stuff from vanilla wow, which is something I played. I can appreciate stuff that FFXI did, which I never played. Then comes FF XIV 1.0 and everything about it sounded miserable.
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Jun 25, 2019 06:26
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Vanderdeath posted:I can't believe there are people who seriously want Tanaka and 1.0 back in earnest. Everything about that game was clown shoes. Alisaie and Alphinaud were not in 1.0.
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Jun 25, 2019 06:32
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Some days I can play this game for 10 hours with no problem. Some days I get a fatal direct x error within 5 minutes.
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Jun 25, 2019 06:35
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 Joined an in-progress expert roulette as a healer where the previous healer left after the first pull. The tank wasn't much better.  At least he did big pulls.
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Jun 25, 2019 06:37
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Mayor McCheese posted:During the Q/A his only question is about houses with erotic roleplayers and it takes YoshiP nearly 10 minutes to explain the TOS to him. ahahaha This got some FFXIV youtuber extremely mad at him for *wasting precious QA time* 
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Jun 25, 2019 07:07
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what the hell I thought I was a pretty bad dragoon but at least I've used Fang and Claw and Whirling Thrust ever in my life
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Draxion posted:what the hell If you push a button on cd, you're in the median range for dps.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:JESUS gently caress, SE, IT IS NOW WEEK-OF. WHERE ARE THE NAMING CONVENTIONS THREADS. I know, right? I've been waiting for the same. While scrolling though the OF I found posts that said they didn't reveal Au'ra names until the day before the race became playable. So, I guess wait until Thursday? 
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why would you want a lore-compliant name when you can just call your viera Wabbit Season or whatever
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Here's the secret about people who want to play 1.0. They want to play some version of 1.0 that existed after YoshiP took over. Launch and pre-YoshiP 1.0 was even more lacking in content and poo poo.
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Draxion posted:why would you want a lore-compliant name when you can just call your viera Wabbit Season or whatever Edit: I realized I made an identical post about my dumb viera joke name like, a week ago, so instead I'll throw in that a few people in my FC have been going off of viera names in FFTA and FFXII, although the impression I get is that the pool is a little limited. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Jun 25, 2019 07:33
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Dunno if it was linked but the countdown's already peaked with the 24th's art.  Other pics unrelated I'm just really hype.    
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Emalde posted:IIRC it's not even terrible? You'll be doing less than tanks, but it's significantly higher than "basically zero". The deal is you have to still know how to ride your GCD and push cooldowns which an "ice mage" BLM probably won't be doing Found it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/9l56ha/ice_mage_dps_numbers/ https://imgur.com/a/lt1WGAJ Just the ACT graphs Fat and Useless fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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It's FC photo time for everyone!     
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My wish for 5.0 is they remove the restriction on switching glamour plates in the open world. gently caress is it irritating to have to teleport to a city, switch plates, then return to where you were before.
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TheHeadSage posted:My wish for 5.0 is they remove the restriction on switching glamour plates in the open world. gently caress is it irritating to have to teleport to a city, switch plates, then return to where you were before. That's probably not going to happen thanks to the horrifiying mess of backend code they're dealing with.
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Arzachel posted:That's probably not going to happen thanks to the horrifiying mess of backend code they're dealing with. Honestly, I'm surprised Raubahn Ex was one of the only major problems in Stormblood. Man am I loving glad I don't have to hear that theme that much anymore.
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