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Professor Beetus posted:I will say (level 87-90 EW spoilers) I was actually slightly disappointed we didn't get to meet Azem in the storyline (not sure if she shows up in a sidequest or anything, I haven't gone back to do any yet). It would be kind of awkward I guess but I trust they could have pulled it off reasonably well. Well (87+ MSQ spoilers) you meet an Azem, just not your prior incarnation  Generally though I think it’s best that they leave the player’s past life up to the player’s imagination. It might have worked to show Azem but I think it’s a better move to just say some funny things about them and leave it at that.
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Yeah having a drk at 90 and a pld at 87, I've had a blast playing drk and im still waiting to see what makes pld so incredible. Holy sheltron still feels anemic and it feels *awful* when i have to disengage for a gcd or two, so maybe the extended confiteor combo really makes the difference.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:35
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Hellioning posted:DRK is either top damage dealing tank or second most after Gunbreaker. DRK has to mash The Blackest Night and play that game of chicken, which encourages them to not use their tank cooldowns until after it pops.
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Oxyclean posted:e: Minor gripe, but I decided to work on my ARR Sightseeing log after finding a website that just tells you exactly when they'll be available... only now i'm roadblocked by #9 cause the weather in Gridania is snow for the event... Hah, that's extremely mean. Anyhow, if you're willing to do Cool Crimes then there's a dalamud plugin called "Tourist" which gives you in-game timers for all the ARR sightseeing log locations. It also puts glowy orbs in the world for them, same ones as are there for the sightseeing log in the expansions. It is very handy, because gently caress the ARR sightseeing log. Gobbeldygook posted:I haven't tried any of them since EW, but several of the HW Ex's were difficult to impossible to solo at 80. All of those were doable by specific jobs at 80, and aren't too bad for most at 90. Z1T9 is doable, but does indeed require an invulnerability. I did a few attempts at A4S, A8S and A12S on Sage. Xerophyte fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Dec 19, 2021 22:38
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Pwnstar posted:Beastmaster questline where the trainer is just straight up Steve Irwin, leaping onto the backs of Behemoths and Dragons just for the fun of it. thats just Lyon. and yes he should be the job trainer.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:42
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Countblanc posted:thats just Lyon. and yes he should be the job trainer. Every time we did Dalriada and Lyon showed up my friend could not resist giving Lyon the voice of a bloke popping over to IGA in his thongs.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:46
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Xerophyte posted:
could you really do A4S? i had to bring in a friend to clear it for some drops i wanted because judgement nisi was putting both stacks on me and instakilling me
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Dec 19, 2021 22:48
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Begemot posted:We can cure tempering now, clearly we just need to make a planetary-scale porxie and figure out how to transport it to another dimension. Shadowbringers role quest capstones isn't far off from this.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:52
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Does anyone have a good rule of thumb for 83 line rotation mechanic? The quadrant rotation is simple enough for me but that other one just slides over my brain lol What I do is point the camera to face the snakes so that the lines are columns, with safe zones either columns 1 and 3 or 2 and 4. Then I turn the camera 90 degrees in the direction of the arrows, and imagine the same pattern as before, and go to a safe zone in my imagined pattern. e: oops didn't notice I had an old browswer window sitting around
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Venuz Patrol posted:could you really do A4S? i had to bring in a friend to clear it for some drops i wanted because judgement nisi was putting both stacks on me and instakilling me Hrm. Looks like you're right and I have the memory of a goldfish. I must've noped out and promptly forgot about it, since I'm still at 1/5 kills for Sins of the Savage Father II. There was nothing I needed there, unlike the other two.
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Dec 19, 2021 23:04
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Mordiceius posted:I've been watching my wife go through the story and it's been interesting seeing some of the stuff in the 80-83 content a second time. (General Endwalker spoilers) After the 83 trial, when Zodiark/Amon-Fandaniel die, Amon says something along the lines of "The me I was would hate the me I became" or something like that. Which has a different vibe after playing through the later zones. There are quite a few moments like that. Akasa/dynamis made perfect sense to me as soon as it was brought up. you know why? because think of the 2 things you need to summon a primal: 1) a bucket of aether crystals and 2) raw emotion. emotion and prayer have always had an inexplicable power in FFXIV and now there's something to finally explain it a bit. i think it works really well.
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Xalidur posted:Level 87 Stuff, Early: I can't decide if this zone is the best thing they've ever put in the game, or a little *too* indulgent. Either way I'm very excited for my Emet fangirl wife to get here so that I can hear her squeal with delight. As soon as Hermes described why he created Metion, by first thought was "OH NO!  "
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Kerrzhe posted:Akasa/dynamis made perfect sense to me as soon as it was brought up. you know why? because think of the 2 things you need to summon a primal: 1) a bucket of aether crystals and 2) raw emotion. emotion and prayer have always had an inexplicable power in FFXIV and now there's something to finally explain it a bit. i think it works really well. Not just that but countless quests throughout the game. XIV has a lot of moments where courage, hot-blooded anger, rage or other strong emotions grant you power above and beyond what you 'should' have. Characters comment on it and everything. It's Anime Friendship Powerup but dynamis just codifies it as an actual thing in the setting rather than something we accept because anime.
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Xerophyte posted:All of those were doable by specific jobs at 80, and aren't too bad for most at 90. Z1T9 is doable, but does indeed require an invulnerability. derra posted:Limitless blue and nidhogg were both soloable at 80 without echo. Blue (and Ravana) were easier on dps, and nidhogg I did on WAR just fine. You ignored the tether mech and just did mechanics of the final phase normally.
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SirPhoebos posted:As soon as Hermes described why he created Metion, by first thought was "OH NO! 100% this. And now I'm a little further in and they're really pushing to give someone with obvious mental health issues major responsibilities. Oops. I wonder if these things could be related~
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Kerrzhe posted:Akasa/dynamis made perfect sense to me as soon as it was brought up. you know why? because think of the 2 things you need to summon a primal: 1) a bucket of aether crystals and 2) raw emotion. emotion and prayer have always had an inexplicable power in FFXIV and now there's something to finally explain it a bit. i think it works really well. I wonder how many people did the Dancer job quests in Shadowbringers and were just  throughout the entire latter half of this launch.
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Dark Knights have always been powered by love.
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Steelion posted:Yeah having a drk at 90 and a pld at 87, I've had a blast playing drk and im still waiting to see what makes pld so incredible. Holy sheltron still feels anemic and it feels *awful* when i have to disengage for a gcd or two, so maybe the extended confiteor combo really makes the difference. IMO it does. Presuming you start with 4 Holy Spirits, it's 8 GCDs at range (and the first 4 have self-heals)
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I love Holy Shelltron. With the reduced numbers its heals actually feel really good even if they don't have the impact of Darkest Night
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Steelion posted:Yeah having a drk at 90 and a pld at 87, I've had a blast playing drk and im still waiting to see what makes pld so incredible. Holy sheltron still feels anemic and it feels *awful* when i have to disengage for a gcd or two, so maybe the extended confiteor combo really makes the difference. Holy Sheltron feels nearly as good as TBN to me now.
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Holy Sheltron (and Bloodwhetting and arguably Heart of Corundum) is definitely better than TBN now. On top of mitigating/healing more damage under most circumstances they don't cost a resource and are far less punishing if you mistime them.
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Gearhead posted:I wonder how many people did the Dancer job quests in Shadowbringers and were just LMAO I didn't even think of that. I should have leveled dancer to 90 and done the MSQ on that instead of switching out for machinist. 
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Holy Sheltron's sfx are amazing and really do make it feel like you're slapping down a meter of steel between you and your foe.
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Professor Beetus posted:LMAO I didn't even think of that. I should have leveled dancer to 90 and done the MSQ on that instead of switching out for machinist. I swapped from MCH to the other during late ShB and liked to rotation so much that I just stayed with it as my main. The MSQ has me jumping at SHADOWS right now regarding that Job.
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LP Updates, hot and ready. Now in delicious ninja flavor.
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SirPhoebos posted:As soon as Hermes described why he created Metion, by first thought was "OH NO! To me, (87 MSQ) the big "oh no" moment was when he casually mentioned her sisters, who he had already sent out into the universe. Like, dude, your job is literally to be in charge of the concept testing facility, you should know better than to skip the entire peer review process!!
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Begemot posted:To me, (87 MSQ) the big "oh no" moment was when he casually mentioned her sisters, who he had already sent out into the universe. Like, dude, your job is literally to be in charge of the concept testing facility, you should know better than to skip the entire peer review process!! He's not releasing them on the star so they won't disrupt the ecosystem. What could possibly go wrong?
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Nessus posted:I also would not be surprised if we do not go there for that very reason though. Mercydia is also apparently the ancestral homeland of the Mi'qote, which makes everything about G'raha hilariously ironic in retrospect. If we do go there I hope its like Fist of the North Star but instead of Ken we get a doe-eyed catgirl who can punch people to death before they even realize they're dead.
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Begemot posted:To me, (87 MSQ) the big "oh no" moment was when he casually mentioned her sisters, who he had already sent out into the universe. Like, dude, your job is literally to be in charge of the concept testing facility, you should know better than to skip the entire peer review process!! Samesies.
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Just had a LDR where I was tanking with my WAR and at the end the healer said 'BTW you do heal a bit excessively. It's mindful of you, but you could have gone a bit lighter on that  '.So in summary, WAR rocks.
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doing FATES as a warrior, just gathering 30 peeps to beat on me, then hitting bloodwhetting when I get low on health is incredible I have a friend who mains Gunbreaker and I think the reflected glory of Nascent Flash has compelled them to start leveling a warrior
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Discussing the 87 spoilers above, I really was floored that the universe was apparently just that bleak. Like fuuuuuck, everywhere else in the galaxy/universe just dead except for Etheryis? jfc also lmao that he sent her out with that question rather than perhaps something more reasonable like "is there other life in the universe?" I think the original inhabitants of Etheryis were just kinda dumbasses tbh.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Mercydia is also apparently the ancestral homeland of the Mi'qote, which makes everything about G'raha hilariously ironic in retrospect. I mean this is the very expansion where he reveals his ancestors were slaves at the time of the empire.
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Professor Beetus posted:Discussing the 87 spoilers above, I really was floored that the universe was apparently just that bleak. Like fuuuuuck, everywhere else in the galaxy/universe just dead except for Etheryis? jfc Well Emet Selch laid out nicely: Herems asked the wrong question. Spoilers for finished MSQ: But it kind of seems like Meteion sort of made things worse, both in her asking the question persistently to some she encountered, but also because of her dynamis basically creating a feedback loop. As she started to despair, she started to bring those she encountered down as well. It's possible stuff is goin well in other parts, Meteion just didn't see it before she started to spiral. Although, Midgarsomar seems to also think there's very little out there of hope, but he was fleeing the Omicrons.
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cheetah7071 posted:The limited job I want to see is Azem. Mechanic is summoning shades of NPCs you've met over the course of the game using the Azem job crystal, gathered and compiled similar to how blue mage works Mascot, a limited class where you wear ridiculous outfits to gain access to two different classes abilities, for example, a Tonberry outfit gives you Samurai and Black Mage.
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mikemil828 posted:Mascot, a limited class where you wear ridiculous outfits to gain access to two different classes abilities, for example, a Tonberry outfit gives you Samurai and Black Mage. Tonberry should clearly unlock Scholar (and Marine).
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cheetah7071 posted:Every tank except dry got a broken-feeling button Its okay DRK got the best mitigation this expansion big dick dps
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Professor Beetus posted:Discussing the 87 spoilers above, I really was floored that the universe was apparently just that bleak. Like fuuuuuck, everywhere else in the galaxy/universe just dead except for Etheryis? jfc It's not clear if the universe is empty or just the areas Meteion observed. A sample size of 108 worlds is still pretty small.
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I just hit the first credits on Stormblood!  There were some good surprises at the end, but I still feel a bit unsatisfied. I'll hold off judgement on the expansion for now, as I felt similarly at the end of .0 of Heavensward and I really loved how that resolved. Looking forward to starting the post-launch MSQ tomorrow. One thing I will say though is that a lot of cutscenes in this expansion were not made with a bow wielder in mind. sirtommygunn fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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sirtommygunn posted:One thing I will say though is that a lot of cutscenes in this expansion were not made with a bow wielder in mind.
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