Countblanc posted:

you too can live this blessed life, by only queueing for content with your friends who are also good.

meteor9 posted:

I am constantly perplexed that as a MCH I am constantly either top or second highest DPS in drat near all content I do. With friends? Almost always top. Okay, what about randos (and a friend logging cuz i never installed anything)? Somehow still top, even in raids full of melee. And yet, if i go to my fflogs history, I'm mostly grey or green in everything.

This tells me a few things, but I guess the most important thing it tells me is that you can suck out loud forever and still be able to clear drat near all content with practice, even current EXes (and even some group prog on Savage!) if even a low performing, low-range-DPS player can do it??

EDIT: I think I meant to be inspirational? Maybe?

Mr. Nice! posted:

You gotta remember when you look at fflogs you're comparing against people who already have weapon upgrades from savage. You won't be able to keep up with them at all.

What this also means is that you're a good dps and you press your buttons when they pop up. A lot of people do not press their buttons on cooldown. A lot of people are not very good at dps.

meteor9 posted:

I don't know why this still feels so wrong to me I flub my combos and timers on everything I ever do someone please hit harder than me!

sirtommygunn posted:

Lol that we took a massive detour and got involved with saving an old mining town all so we could get through a single wooden gate, and that it didn't matter at all because Ran'jit was there waiting for us anyway.

Gobbeldygook posted:

Here's a short guide to soloing stuff in EW:

HW Extremes: all now farmable by any tank and at least some DPS classes except for S1T7/sephirot which is tank only. You have to either survive Chesed by being a tank (or according to FC chat, a Sage?) or burst him down to 65% before he casts Chesed (easy for DPS) but then you have to kill him before he murders you. I couldn't do it in a few tries on red mage, might be doable by some classes by cheesing the ability to effectively reset all of your cooldowns by dragging out the add phase.

Alexander Savages: I easily soloed all of them as a warrior except for A4S and A8S. A4S might be doable by DPS the end of the expansion, the problem is the fourth leg puts a debuff on you and another player that explodes you if you have them both, which you do if you. You can't holmgang through it, so either the leg needs to die within a few seconds or you die. There's so much poo poo going on in A8S that I have no idea what exactly the problem was but I just called in someone else for the clear. Of particular note, A9S is easily soloed by even white mage (I don't know how the fight is "supposed" to go but it looks like a ton of mechanics don't trigger when you're solo?) so you can grind out the step to complete your anima weapons here solo.

Stormblood extremes:
Pool of Tribute: Impossible to solo now and probably forever.

Emanation: Can probably be soloed by any tank without echo. You do need to know the mechanics or you'll get yeeted off the platform over and over.

Shinryu: Soloed on warrior at 25% echo, maybe doable by dark knight? There are a couple yeet mechanics, but the real challenge is the enrage timer. Once he gets to 23% you face a very tight (with current gear anyway) DPS check which you will fail unless you've dealt with the Reiru add mechanic. Unless you heal them to full ASAP they apply 3 stacks of damage down debuff to you shortly after tethering to you and then another stack (refreshing the duration of the first three) about 30 seconds later, probably guaranteeing you have it up when you are in a DPS race. So you either have to heal them to full OR completely absorb the attack with a barrier effect. Warrior can do it with rampart+thrill+shake it off for the first hit, followed by bloodwhetting before the second hit and DRK can do it with TBN, I guess GNB MIGHT be able to do it with brutal shell but idk, paladin might be able to pass the heal check but I don't know if they have the damage for the DPS check.

Tsukuyomi: Impossible to solo now because all three meteors go on you and they despawn each other, so you have to kill her before that matters. That might be doable by some DPS classes next expansion?

The Great Hunt: It was already soloable by some classes in ShB and more classes now, probably farmable without echo. The hardest part about the fight at 90 as warrior is doing enough hits to fill his bar and trigger a landing, killing him in one landing is trivial.

Jade Stoa: Easily soloed by warrior at 25% echo, maybe DRK. Same story as Shinryu: if you completely absorb the first part of State of Shock then you don't have the damage vuln debuff applied and can survive his KILLER KOMBO, or you can invulv the second hit.

Hells' Kier: Very hard to solo by warrior with ilevel 583 and full pentamelds with 25% echo. The DPS check is extremely tight (it came down to the last hit for me after a lot of attempts). The repeated forced tank swap mechanic applies an 18 second damage vulnv debuff that makes the boss's autos hit for 60k if unmitigated, so you also have to perfectly manage your defensive cooldowns to survive.

Wreath of Snakes: Probably impossible for now, but possible in a gear tier or two. The tank swap mechanic does irrelevant amounts of damage and you can survive phase 2 Forbidden Arts by using an invulnv or popping all your cooldowns, but you have eat three stacks of damage down debuff twice. I got him down to 7% and could maybe do another 1-2% with better play but not 7%.

Omega Savages: I soloed O1S and O5S without too much difficulty, I tried to do O4S but the one time I hit the hard enrage the boss was still at 17% so lmao, haven't tried the others.

CJ posted:

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Kaubocks posted:

the bird is dead and i'm onto dracudad, and boy is bloodrake some hot backwards nonsense lmao

squirrelzipper posted:

Speaking of soloing, a WAR just solo'd P1N heh. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFcZCEny4x4 and Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/s9nvl8/pandaemonium_asphodelos_the_first_circle_warrior/. I don't think it's a big deal, doesn't seem practical, it took over an hour, and it's Normal. But it is funny!

bewilderment posted:

Honestly I wouldn't mind having a WoW-style normal bossfight (maybe in a regular dungeon) where the boss is just constantly making GBS threads out damage at semirandom targets along with partywide attacks so the healers don't have a chance to DPS because they've really gotta be hitting the basic heals. P3N is kinda close the way the offtank starts getting constantly slammed but apply that to the whole party

Hogama posted:

The most recent job history post I did. (It has links to the rest.)
I still gotta do new posts to start on the Endwalker changes, especially since we're about to have the second adjustments made in 6.08.

quote:

60 - Troubadour (adds an additional effect to the song currently being sung; Mage's Ballad increases maximum HP by 15%, Army's Paeon reduces physical vulnerability by 10%, Wanderer's Minuet reduces magical vulnerability by 10%. Can only be executed if a song is currently being sung, 30 second duration, 180 second recast time). Enhanced Dexterity III moved from 32 and buffed (adds +24 Dexterity, up from 6).
62 - Sonic Thrust (potency 100, or combo after Doom Spike for 170, to all enemies in a straight line in front of you, 120 TP)
64 - Caustic Bite (potency 120 + potency 45 for 30 seconds, or 450 total, 60 TP), Stormbite (potency 120 + potency 55 for 30 seconds, or 550 total, 60 TP), Bite Mastery (Trait, replaces Venomous Bite with Caustic Bite, and Windbite with Stormbite)

bewilderment posted:

Honestly I wouldn't mind having a WoW-style normal bossfight (maybe in a regular dungeon) where the boss is just constantly making GBS threads out damage at semirandom targets along with partywide attacks so the healers don't have a chance to DPS because they've really gotta be hitting the basic heals. P3N is kinda close the way the offtank starts getting constantly slammed but apply that to the whole party.

Pigbuster posted:

Erg posted:

i did find what looks like a typo in the Bard writeup though. The stormblood section lists

the entry for 62 is a Dragoon skill. idk what should be there though

Macaluso posted:

The thing that DOES feel really clunky though are Grim Swathe and Guilloitne. I hate that they require you to have an enemy targeted to be able to use it. Why doesn't it just do the attack in front of you and whatever it hits, it hits? I mean the tooltip literally says "all enemies in a cone before you" which to me would imply just whatever is on front of you. But the fact that you have to target something means a lot of times I'll be going to do those attacks and nothing will happen because the enemy that's targeted is like slightly to the side of me or something.

Gruckles posted:

The zone instance division is a manual thing, not dynamic. So they setup Mor Dhona to be split up at the start of the expansion because it's where the starting quest is, and everyone has moved past that by this point but they haven't undone it yet.

super sweet best pal posted:

Did they hire the guy who used to flip switches for Marvel Heroes?

drat Dirty Ape posted:

I think this is every cone attack. It's been a WAR complaint forever.

Flapjack Monty posted:

After in-depth scientific analysis over the last Alliance Raid roulette I did, I've determined that female Lalafell voice 4 is the worst in the game.

Macaluso posted:

The thing that DOES feel really clunky though are Grim Swathe and Guilloitne. I hate that they require you to have an enemy targeted to be able to use it. Why doesn't it just do the attack in front of you and whatever it hits, it hits? I mean the tooltip literally says "all enemies in a cone before you" which to me would imply just whatever is on front of you. But the fact that you have to target something means a lot of times I'll be going to do those attacks and nothing will happen because the enemy that's targeted is like slightly to the side of me or something. Reaper feels really good and it's great how fast trash packs melt but those things are kind of annoying. I understand there's positional stuff baked into Reaper's whole gameplay but trash packs feel too chaotic to really make that feel good. This is also the first melee DPS I've played. I know everyone who plays melee dps classes is used to positionals by now but... just let me do the AOE things without targeting something

Hogama posted:

I've seen people no-joke leave groups because of this voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syvH_kLVYK8