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There hasn't been any serious patch delays since 5.3 when they were moving everything over to working from home. Outside of that, things have been on a pretty similar schedule to past releases. Obviously, delays can still happen, but I don't see any reason to think there's going to be a 6+ month wait for 6.1 right now.
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wizardofloneliness posted:There hasn't been any serious patch delays since 5.3 when they were moving everything over to working from home. Outside of that, things have been on a pretty similar schedule to past releases. Obviously, delays can still happen, but I don't see any reason to think there's going to be a 6+ month wait for 6.1 right now. I would expect a late-January live letter announced within the next two weeks. Then a second live letter in late Feb, with a mid-March release.
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Countblanc posted:What is ostensibly promised for 6.1? PvP changes, alliance raid, was there anything else? Was island sanctuary slated for 6.1 or just a nebulous "after 6.0"? Australia is also promised for 6.1 the whole continent, to every player.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:19
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I did a hunt train today and was kinda annoyed by the multiple instances at first but wow, what a bang for your buck.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:20
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:It was literally Christ Mas weekend. People have families. also sales are still suspended so there's nobody new getting ff14 for christmas
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Dec 28, 2021 06:25
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Countblanc posted:What is ostensibly promised for 6.1? PvP changes, alliance raid, was there anything else? Was island sanctuary slated for 6.1 or just a nebulous "after 6.0"? They said island sanctuary was starting with 6.1, which means it's probably 6.15.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:27
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I'm still on the main story. I've completed everything up to the Altiascope. Props to Hermes/Amon/Fanfandiel for being a boss in this expansion three times.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:37
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who is the most fought character, incidentally? my best guesses are ilberd or zenos.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:46
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that dumbass Imperial Roegadyn kept coming back for more
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Dec 28, 2021 06:48
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Diablos is fought at least three times across three different expansions, making him one of the most recurring villains while still not being that important in the grand scheme of things.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:55
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Barreft posted:Yeah I play stoned out of mind, and so far Summoner seems great for me. The hardest thing about summoner is when I commit to Ifrit and I'm stuck w/ either doing a dash in for movement or stuck hardcasting 2 spells. (Ruin IV and a Swiftcast help but that requires brain power and only gives 5 seconds).
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Endorph posted:who is the most fought character, incidentally? my best guesses are ilberd or zenos. There's 4 encounters with Ranjit. 5 if you wanna include E11. All in one expansion too.
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Endorph posted:who is the most fought character, incidentally? my best guesses are ilberd or zenos. If you count Zodiark, Hermes has been fought four times, and if you count Zodiark EX, five.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:01
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Kongming posted:Diablos is fought at least three times across three different expansions, making him one of the most recurring villains while still not being that important in the grand scheme of things. I want him to show up again as an ally or something when we do eventually do more Void stuff. Just finally deciding to cut his losses and join up. He'll be a boss fight anyway.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:04
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Waffleman_ posted:If you count Zodiark, Hermes has been fought four times, and if you count Zodiark EX, five. hasn't ilberd been fought five times? heavensward msq, baelsar's wall, dark knight job quest, shadowbringers msq, endwalker msq.
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Waffleman_ posted:If you count Zodiark, Hermes has been fought four times, and if you count Zodiark EX, five. It's part of why the takes about "HERMES AND METEION OUT OF NOWHERE" drive me up the wall. Sure we didn't know who Meteion was by name until 6.0, but we've been fighting dynamis despair manifestations since at least 5.0 (with dancer) and the sharp-eyed have wondered what's up with despair a while now, and in some way or another we've been up against either Hermes/Amon himself directly or fighting the things he deliberately helped create since literally 2.0. Hell he indirectly helped orchestrate the Seventh Umbral Era, I'm certain Lahabrea hit Fandaniel up for deets about how to make sure the Lunar Transmitter would cause Dalamud to crash. Dude's been trying to ruin our day since literally before the relaunch. So yes, Hermes/Amon/Fandaniel has been a loving rash throughout the entire game that we've had to deal with, and I'm certain we'll be dealing with YET MORE of his poo poo posthumously when we finally go to Meracydia.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:07
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Do people pug savage raids like extremes? Being able to join groups that are at the same point in progression as you with no pressure is way more fun than having to commit to a group and get locked to the instance when they disband after recruiting in broadcast for an hour like in WoW.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:13
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titan, titan hard, titan egi, titan ex, titan hard gabu ver., titan eden ver.
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Dec 28, 2021 07:16
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CJ posted:Do people pug savage raids like extremes? Being able to join groups that are at the same point in progression as you with no pressure is way more fun than having to commit to a group and get locked to the instance when they disband after recruiting in broadcast for an hour like in WoW. Somewhat, yes, with the early bosses happening more consistently than later ones. You'll probably find some decent pugs for P1S on day one, but you'll probably have to wait a while to find a good P4S group (people will need to even get that far).
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CJ posted:Do people pug savage raids like extremes? Being able to join groups that are at the same point in progression as you with no pressure is way more fun than having to commit to a group and get locked to the instance when they disband after recruiting in broadcast for an hour like in WoW. Yes they do. They'll usually call out what PUG strat they're using and what part of the fight they're at. Fun terms include stuff like 'E8S Ilya', E9S Happy Tethers, or E12S Line lions. Joonbob does FANTASTIC visual guides on strats that become popular. Edit: Pug strats are also usually not the most refined way of doing a mechanic. Usually Pug strats are whatever works Week 1 and doesn't require some 5head uptime for clearing but sometimes things can change. (e.g. E8S people started doing Knockback Mirrors which took me a few pulls to get the timing down after having the fight on farm.)
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From a few pages back:Ferrinus posted:I'm guessing they want to make each job place at most one debuff on enemies to make things not get weird in 24- or 48- player content. There was a period in early 2.0 where people were hitting hard caps of the number of debuffs a mob could have and it was loving SMN and SCH over. They had to balloon out the debuffs to what their memory budget for mobs could reasonably allow and it was still kind of a problem. 2.x definitely soured YoshiP (and probably a lot of the design team) to DoTs as a design.
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Today in Pandemonium 4 I encountered what was either a deliberate troll or the worst tank ever born, as I managed to steal aggro from the tank as healer, with the boss at 50% health, and keep it for thirty seconds before dying. He also used the tank limit break (when not on the floor).
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Dec 28, 2021 07:35
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SpaceDrake posted:2.x definitely soured YoshiP (and probably a lot of the design team) to DoTs as a design. Remembering in 2.x how Spell Speed was a dead stat for SMN because dots didn't get any damage benefits from it. So gearing was all kinda of cursed.
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SpaceDrake posted:From a few pages back: Not that it stopped them from giving NIN, AST, MCH and DRK DoTs. And also giving PLD a non-cross-class GCD DoT in HW. Literally every job in HW had at least one DoT, with most having two or more.
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Kongming posted:Diablos is fought at least three times across three different expansions, making him one of the most recurring villains while still not being that important in the grand scheme of things. It's great, we just keep dunking on the jerk and he deserves every single time.
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Dec 28, 2021 08:06
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It is insane how bad side quest XP is. It should be tripled.
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Counter argument: it's fine
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In my scientific opinion, a side quest should give the same amount of experience as a fate. Bing bong so simple
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Ivypls posted:titan, titan hard, titan egi, titan ex, titan hard gabu ver., titan eden ver. And for a limited time Titan unreal! Edit - isn't he in an ultimate as well?
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CJ posted:Do people pug savage raids like extremes? Being able to join groups that are at the same point in progression as you with no pressure is way more fun than having to commit to a group and get locked to the instance when they disband after recruiting in broadcast for an hour like in WoW. yes, with the caveat that almost everyone running savage in PF is a complete liar about where they are in prog
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Fiye posted:Yes they do. They'll usually call out what PUG strat they're using and what part of the fight they're at. Fun terms include stuff like 'E8S Ilya', E9S Happy Tethers, or E12S Line lions. Joonbob does FANTASTIC visual guides on strats that become popular. that was such a wild tier. i knocked out e7 week 1, felt like everything was way too easy then i had to actually give up and find a static for clearing e8, that was such a huge jump in difficulty. biggest jump between floors i can remember since hw launch. t9 probably felt similar.
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Macaluso posted:Another person I commissioned to draw my WoL has finished Just wanna add that this is adorable and just makes me more excited about the two commissions I have out right now. 
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re tank responsibilities chat i'm curious how people view dragging the boss back to the center/aligning after mechanics. i've flip flopped a couple times on the matter but currently i'm in the "move the boss as little as possible" part of the cycle so if the boss runs over to the side or turns to do a targeted mechanic i'll usually slot myself into their relative 12 o'clock position asap and just hold them there. maybe pull them out from the wall a bit to give melee dps room to move around or if they have mechanics that benefit from having them centered in the arena when they go off i'm doing normal content tho so i assume poo poo gets more interesting in ex and savage
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Oneiros posted:re tank responsibilities chat i'm curious how people view dragging the boss back to the center/aligning after mechanics. i've flip flopped a couple times on the matter but currently i'm in the "move the boss as little as possible" part of the cycle so if the boss runs over to the side or turns to do a targeted mechanic i'll usually slot myself into their relative 12 o'clock position asap and just hold them there. maybe pull them out from the wall a bit to give melee dps room to move around or if they have mechanics that benefit from having them centered in the arena when they go off I favor recentering/orienting the boss within reason, but I think consistency and not hanging their rear end in the deathwall are the important parts.
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All tanks should be required to play a melee dps and a healer so they know what good and bad tanking look like. I feel like being a tank gives you almost no feedback on how well you're doing.
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eden’s verse was the first tier i progged primarily through PF and it was so misery inducing i never used PF for a single fight in promise wl2 prog is gaze mirror prog is kb mirror prog is wl1 prog is adds prog is light rampant prog PF absolutely slaps dick for the freedom of just being able to hop in and out whenever you drat well please but it comes at the cost of consistency which is a price i just don’t feel i’m willing to pay anymore. hard to make meaningful prog when the community gloms into awful strats and can’t even get to where the party was advertised as the prog point. there isn’t really a point to this post. i’m still just cranky about e8s tbh lmao. ilya lr was loving terrible though come on. got myself a good static for promise/ultimates and i’m riding this group as long as they have me/until i retire. i highly highly recommend statics if you can find seven other people who share the same goals as you
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i think a lot of bosses now have phases where they teleport back to the middle and re-align themselves which are good opportunities to reset positioning without having to do a weird little curving kiting move but  from when i play melee dps i mostly appreciate the tank being consistent in a fight. if the boss has turned and i've moved to their rear end then i appreciate it if the tank keeps them pointed that way till the next mechanic but i can also deal with them resetting the boss as long as they do it consistently and also aren't dancing around between mechanics. but i know some people like it when the boss is always returned to facing a certain heading so i dunno
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Mister Olympus posted:that was such a wild tier. i knocked out e7 week 1, felt like everything was way too easy then i had to actually give up and find a static for clearing e8, that was such a huge jump in difficulty. biggest jump between floors i can remember since hw launch. t9 probably felt similar. E8S was the first time I had a meltdown because I Just Didn't Understand Light's Rampant and thankfully my static took the time to breakdown poo poo so I can grasp it and actual prog it because holy poo poo that mechanic wasn't fun to figure out because the feedback was knocking a single item off the shelf and the whole cabinets coming crashing down on you. Kaubocks posted:got myself a good static for promise/ultimates and i’m riding this group as long as they have me/until i retire. i highly highly recommend statics if you can find seven other people who share the same goals as you I got myself a good static back in creator and half of us are from those days and we occasionally have to rep 1 person an expansion now but man its good to know you have a group to prog, clear, get a BiS set or two, and be able to gently caress off and do other poo poo until next tier.
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Oneiros posted:re tank responsibilities chat i'm curious how people view dragging the boss back to the center/aligning after mechanics. it extremely depends on the encounter tbh. i am a strong supporter of recentering the boss and facing them north again, with the caveat that i’m doing everything in my power to prevent them from having left center in the first place. if recentering the boss would require spinning it then it’s not worth the trouble. i more highly prioritize facing consistency so melees know where to hit their positionals. if the boss’s rear end is in the wall then gently caress it, sprint, make one big move and get it over with asap. for most bosses you don’t really have to worry that much about it. some bosses teleport back to center of their own accord quite frequently. an example of a boss worth positioning is, i feel, P3N. it only jumps back to center sometimes, and it’s easy to drag it somewhere by accident during the big circle fire aoes or the fire that sections off the arena. first on the priority list is make the required dodges as close to the boss as possible so it never moves in the first place. if you moved it about halfway out of center, it’s likely fine to just leave it there for the time being until it recenters itself as long as you consistently face the boss in the same direction. most people don’t care where the boss is more than they can just knowing where it’s looking. if you ended up with the boss at the wall, i’d make the sprint to just pull it back to center. last P3N i did i was off tanking. the main tank was doing laps around the arena to dodge aoes and i literally could not predict where the boss was going to be. if i don’t know where the boss is going to be, that makes attacking it and doing mechanics simultaneously pretty dang hard. it was frustrating enough that i just provoked, recentered, and stayed in control. tl; dr because i’m rambling — do what you can to avoid the boss moving at all in the first place. if the boss is noticeably out of center due to mechanics or your own positioning, make your movements quick with a little spinning as possible. boss placement and facing consistency is the most important thing. signed: someone playing monk this past week
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I've always drifted in and out of statics tier by tier, so sometimes I would start prog with a static then PFed on my own time after-hours and ended up clearing on PF weeks before the static. Other times, like Verse, I had to give up on PF midway through. Over time I've gotten less and less consistent in being able to do those hours all the time, so PF has become the answer. Even then, a consistent long-term static is a much rarer thing than all that, in my experience.
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