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I did not prepare adequately for this expansion and I'm looking forward to quoting this in 1900 pages when I forget to prepare for the next one too
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 14:31 |
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I didn’t prepare for anything, bring on those open gates!!
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I prepared by deleting 400 slots worth of items off my retainers that I couldn't be bothered keeping or selling anymore (one retainer was full of random gear from ARR, somehow). It was satisfying.
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Yay, new expansion, new thread. ![]() Since this is only a page in and there's probably going to be new folks trying the game, I will give the most important realization I had once the game finally clicked with me: don't play it like WoW. By this I mean to just... take it slow. Do side quests, experiment with new classes, talk to random NPCs, putter around, if content is available then there's probably no harm in spending some time in it. Nothing really ever goes obsolete unlike old WoW expansions and your friends can sync down to help you with dungeons and trials and still benefit. The intentionally slow pace of the early game will wear you out if you try and blitz through to the "endgame", and there's really no reason to rush to 80 anyway. You'll get there eventually, and by the time you do you'll have been introduced to all the content you'll ever want from an MMO.
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Full patchnotes https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/330f2b280067d69d85b17831c66712a499e97484 Job guides also up and updated https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/dancer/
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Dear Ozma You ![]() Are ![]() Dead ![]() Finishing off Baldesion Arsenal at the last minute before the new patch felt pretty great.
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I melded the remnants of my mainstat materia and cleaned a few things out of my inventory. The rest of the things I want to clean out will come when I drop them in the glamour bin ![]()
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No Flash? No Tempered Will? No Shield Swipe? Yet Cover gets to stay for some reason. Does anyone even use Cover? e: Oh wait, instead of Flash I'll be spending my MP on Holy Circle for MP based AoEs. But that's only at high level. super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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super sweet best pal posted:No Flash? No Tempered Will? No Shield Swipe? Yet Cover gets to stay for some reason. Does anyone even use Cover? I really missed flash on my warrior when they removed it in stormblood. That said, paladins getting total eclipse at level 6! and the combo followup at 40 is a worthy tradeoff.
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BRD changes are pretty rough, not surprised we ate a nerf but having raid utility kind of felt like the job's identity and we've lost all of it ![]()
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Philonius posted:I really missed flash on my warrior when they removed it in stormblood. Yeah, that mitigates it a lot. Still going to miss Tempered Will the most. Having a knockback immunity every few minutes was fun.
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mmmmmm those are some juicy loving PVP memes![]() I'm ready to rip and tear my way through some frontlines ![]()
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super sweet best pal posted:Yeah, that mitigates it a lot. Still going to miss Tempered Will the most. Having a knockback immunity every few minutes was fun. It's still there. Tanks, melee and ranged DPS now all get the 'arms length' role action. Two minute cooldown.
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super sweet best pal posted:Does anyone even use Cover? Cover fuckin owns
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Philonius posted:It's still there. Tanks, melee and ranged DPS now all get the 'arms length' role action. Two minute cooldown. Yeah, just saw we're getting it. I think that's all substantial complaints I had about ShB rescinded.
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Philonius posted:It's still there. Tanks, melee and ranged DPS now all get the 'arms length' role action. Two minute cooldown. 6 second duration. The 10 second duration was what really made it nice. Oh wells.
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Lol I'm still trying to finish Stormblood
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Protect still lives, in poverty form Autocorrect turned pvp into poverty, I’m going to leave it like that Cao Ni Ma fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Whoever is first to get a pubbie tank throwing a poo poo fit for not getting protect at the start of the dungeon, wins. And also loses.
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Rest in peace AST, going back to tanking. Seriously though, I was fine with the card changes and I can understand having to tune down personal DPS but it looks ridiculous written out like that. If it also feels bad to play I'm out of the healing game. But also Freeze has a use now so that's pretty attractive.
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GNB utility got nerfed for some reason. SMN's weird firebird regen got buffed to something useful.
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I feel like all healer balance is done in some theorycraft vacuum that doesn't exist of 8 man raid healing where you mostly only have to heal and nobody uses oGCDs properly, and that's it Oh well, the ast buffs and some tiny WHM buff in 5.0.5 will be great!
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Looking forward to Rip & Tear in Frontlines.
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obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5nV9aKthU Minrad posted:mmmmmm those are some juicy loving PVP memes Hah, there's actually an ability named "Draw and Junction" in that Record Keeper mobile game. It comes from one of Squall's special moves.
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I'm going to play the Doom (2016) OST until I hit ShB zones with GNB rip and tear
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Getting a raptor stance AoE owns. Also I still play on Adamantoise with friends. Is there any goon cross-world ls on Aether? If not, any interest in making one?
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I've got the drat Shadowbringer's music refrain stuck in my head and theres no cure till it comes out.
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Welp, I just finished HW after putting this game down for a long-rear end time, so should be nice powering through SB so I can SB. Might pick up GNB like everyone else to give tanking a try, especially if SCH feels like crap after the changes.
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Looking over the changes, I'm leaning towards swapping towards BLM or SMN from MCH. Good thing I like both my outfits for those.
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Looking over the job guide, I am really excited for the RDM changes. It's the one job I play that wasn't either heavily revamped or totally gutted--instead, it's just expanded a bit and streamlined in a good way (hell yes spells sharing buttons!). I was actually thinking about leveling BLM or SMN in Shadowbringers (once I'm max level on GNB), but I think RDM might stay my main caster. EDIT: Oh hey, they decreased the cooldown on GNB's Superbolide from the preview build. That's a good move. Harrow fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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FFXIV designers: "Healers should do less DPS and have fewer DPS buttons so they can be more about pure healing." Also FFXIV designers: "Except White Mages."
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Philonius posted:Whoever is first to get a pubbie tank throwing a poo poo fit for not getting protect at the start of the dungeon, wins. going to make a macro saying protect incoming to see how long i can stall dungeons
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strong bird posted:Please look forward to it That isn’t even WHM’s new spam nuke, at 72 they get Glare which is a 300 potency Stone. mrfishstick fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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End of Heavensward:![]() End of Stormblood: ![]() I want the gates thrown wide already.
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It'll be around a little less than 100 minutes until patch preload (Yoshi-P said it during the patch notes stream that just ended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQOXry59p0 A rip of Titania's theme from the stream during the breaks. ![]()
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So since the media tour GNB gained a bunch of potency across the board, DNC lost a bit and their crit/dh buff was nerfed by 10% (but gained 5s) and new MCH gained potency pretty much across the board but lost a bit on their 1 and Heat Blast. Old jobs that aren't being reworked don't seem to have changed much. Warrior's Shake it Off starts at 12% now, which is nice.
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strong bird posted:Please look forward to it See I wouldn't care so much if AST had SOMETHING to weave into during the recast wait time since they get faster casting but nope. Going through the start of an expansion as a healer is so painful.
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Hoping this beats out Heaven Sword for my favorite expansion.
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 14:31 |
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Apparently it was confirmed there's now a global 90 fps cap on the game during the patch note reading, lol.
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