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ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

boloney posted:

My love, in what way do you think they measured it to be 'easier'

I mean feeling less pressure to focus so hard probably makes it feel easier to get into and play.

Also stop posting like that, it's just weird.




Speaking of PVP SGE's ult is really fun but I don't like the rest of the kit but boy oh boy is MNK fun. Just flash step on an enemy and stun them then burst em down.

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Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist

Electric Phantasm posted:

So I'm too used to greeding all the equipment in alliance raids and didn't realize the newest ones have a weekly cap. So my piece of equipment for this week is a hat for a role I don't even play(healer) ha ha ha ha...:negative:

You only make that mistakes once per tier.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

You only make that mistakes once per tier.

YOU might.

boloney
May 29, 2021

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

I mean feeling less pressure to focus so hard probably makes it feel easier to get into and play.

Also stop posting like that, it's just weird.




Speaking of PVP SGE's ult is really fun but I don't like the rest of the kit but boy oh boy is MNK fun. Just flash step on an enemy and stun them then burst em down.

That's quite the reach, my dear

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!

i've been trying out different classes in pvp all day, and i think i've settled on ninja. i got a chain of 4 lbs and it was super sick hell yeah

Mix.
Jan 24, 2021

Huh? What?


when i brought up pvp i didn't mean to enable it in this thread :smith:

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!
https://twitter.com/RubberNinja/status/1514198437729689608

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014



The new PvP Scythe is so loving absurd, I don't even play Reaper and I still had to buy it

Gnossiennes posted:

i've been trying out different classes in pvp all day, and i think i've settled on ninja. i got a chain of 4 lbs and it was super sick hell yeah

Ninja feels absolutely bonkers even before taking Seiton Tenchu into account but I haven't looked at the other melees too closely yet

Vitamean
May 31, 2012

I did like one match of casual and figured if ranked queues are gonna pop off any time it'd be now, and I might get a cool plate kit out of it. Bronze 2 right now but it's been going okay!

Mix.
Jan 24, 2021

Huh? What?


https://twitter.com/mane_tank/status/1514291574695292931?s=20&t=TtHM5a_nVey0iPyhFuqGLQ

Unlucky7
Jul 11, 2006

Fallen Rib
Weird, I wanted to queue into the new Raid but...It says about a half hour? As a tank? Granted I have not done a 24 man this close to launch.

I hope it is because of the maintenance coming in couple of hours.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Unlucky7 posted:

Weird, I wanted to queue into the new Raid but...It says about a half hour? As a tank? Granted I have not done a 24 man this close to launch.

I hope it is because of the maintenance coming in couple of hours.

Tank's never quick for alliance raids compared to dps. You only need 3.

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

Also, mine said the same thing yesterday as both a healer and a DPS, (or, rather, 27 and 24 minutes respectively) but my DPS queue popped really quickly, so maybe take that with a grain of salt.

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



hopeandjoy posted:

FFXIV mods can only replace existing files; if people have modded emotes, they show up as whatever the mod replaced to the server and also to anyone else who doesn't have the same exact mod installed. For example, I have the funny haha meme dance modded over the Bee's Knees emote, so when I type in "/beesknees" my game shows the Specialist dance, but as far as the server and people who don't have the mod are concerned, it's the regular old Bee's Knees dance that plays.

As for static custom poses, those can only be made with clientside programs and they are strictly for gposing. You can't even run the posing function unless you are actively in gpose. I don't think they could even interface with a system that sends emote data to the server, nor do I think the programmers want to, for obvious reasons.

they're talking less about "mods" and more about glitches/exploits that let people use emotes they normally couldn't, like /doze-ing while not on a bed, that absolutely are registered server-side and appear to other players

Firebert
Aug 16, 2004


idk how many times I ran this dungeon but first time I ever saw her drop I rolled a 96 :cloudnine:

Firebert fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Apr 14, 2022

Senator Drinksalot
Apr 30, 2013

Kiss me up, touch me, fuckin' rock my world holmes, I don't care
PvP is real real good now, hell yeah

bagrada
Aug 4, 2007

The Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering!

I forgot to take a picture of my main card but didn't do anything clever with it yet anyway. So instead here's Soldier 76 leading a team of wabbits to save the Easter payload from the dastardly Astra team.



My first frontline was fun, went in as dancer because its the longest range class I had experience with and hotkeys set up for so far. We did pretty well securing a solid second after a rough start and got sandwiched between the two enemy forces way too often. I think I prefer the breakneck 5 minute new mode win or lose but I'll start grabbing that daily frontline duty xp for my leveling classes.

Warrior's pvp skill where you yank someone to you then heavy them, is that supposed to be on a delay or was I lagging? I played 3 matches as one and every time I used that I'd see the tether go out, they'd get slowed but still be doing whatever, then a second or two later they'd sail through the air towards me and immediately run off again with the heavy wearing off as they got to me.

HackensackBackpack
Aug 20, 2007

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?
Got to try CC and I love it so much. This is a million times better than the Feast.

I've tried three jobs so far. MCH is so-so, I love PLD and I don't like WAR at all. I'll try a few more over the next few days. I've already gotten /determined and I bought the MCH goggles because you can dye the lenses finally and not the frames.

Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us
Are we able to get minions in on these portraits? I have an idea for mine, but it would basically require one.

Offkorn
Jan 16, 2008

Borderline Anti-Social Schizoid
Crystal Conflict trip report:

- 'Focus the Healer' is apparently an esoteric, completely unimaginable strategy.
- Retreating/regrouping if multiple people die is unthinkable.

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



HackensackBackpack posted:

I bought the MCH goggles because you can dye the lenses finally and not the frames.

Wait WHAT??? :aaaaa: Holy poo poo guess I'm buying those.

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!
https://twitter.com/yumezo14/status/1514184333694672899

Vitamean
May 31, 2012

After some finagling and tips from the thread and friends I've settled on a hud for CC as well



I've got some important quick chats (pushing forward/falling back) on mouse buttons, some out of combat ones (Hello, Good Match, Nice job, and Sorry) to the right where I can click on them as necessary, and the pull back/regroup chat command on alt+3. Icarus macros for the rest of my party members, although I don't really use them to target a specific person more than just "I'm about to get swarmed, lemme smash these and hope someone's in range to get me out". LB status on a modifier above my actual LB button so that they share a purpose.

Put the enemy party frame above the friendly party frame and make my party's frame smaller, primarily because as sage I don't really need to target anyone outside of switching who has Kardia, which I don't need the full frame to judge who needs it. The map info/round info is far away so it's a ton of eye movement to check but I don't check it outside of when I have downtime.

Thankfully there's separate HUD elements for CC party than normal party.

Also can I say that the Sage LB is bonkers when used right. I've used it to poison enemies on the 50% holding point and get them off, to protect my team while pushing (especially since you're allowed to move it once), and it's invaluable when there's a lot of ranged in the enemy group because there's nothing funnier than invalidating MCH LBs or even bomb self-destructs in the volcano zone.

Vitamean fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Apr 14, 2022

Unlucky7
Jul 11, 2006

Fallen Rib
Question about CC: Will be screamed at by a 15 year old?

Vitamean
May 31, 2012

I mean, you won't hear them screaming at you. Worst thing that can happen is someone spamming Good Job! when you get close to losing but who cares lol

Twibbit
Mar 7, 2013

Is your refrigerator running?
They literally cannot communicate to you outside of premade chat messages you have to put on your hot/crosshotbar.


These are getting too fun

Twibbit fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Apr 14, 2022

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001



The natural order, overturned!

W.T. Fits
Apr 21, 2010

Ready to Poyozo Dance all over your face.

The great cat-owl-clysm, faithfully recreated!

Mister Olympus
Oct 31, 2011

Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies
i understand this from a wow player perspective of "if someone beats you in pvp the standard etiquette is to make an alt on their server/faction and dm slurs at them" but generally reports on people like that actually get acted on so nobody in 14 does it, at least not in game. (they might on reddit)

S.J.
May 19, 2008

Just who the hell do you think we are?

I'm going to be remaking my Dante and Vergil glams for DRK and SAM and I can't wait to pvp in them

Shadowlz
Oct 3, 2011

Oh it's gonna happen one way or the other, pal.



Took a break from the MSQ slog to do my card. I'm loving the funny ones I've been seeing but unfortunately I am not that creative.

S.J.
May 19, 2008

Just who the hell do you think we are?

Shadowlz posted:

Took a break from the MSQ slog to do my card. I'm loving the funny ones I've been seeing but unfortunately I am not that creative.



it's a good card tho

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



Offkorn posted:

Crystal Conflict trip report:

- 'Focus the Healer' is apparently an esoteric, completely unimaginable strategy.
- Retreating/regrouping if multiple people die is unthinkable.

i think we should keep beating on the warrior who is self-healing the entire team's damage output

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!




I need to think of a better one.

Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!



i've had a lot of fun making obnoxious glowy portraits for as many classes as possible

SettingSun
Aug 10, 2013

Crystal Conflict is a goddamn blast. Loving the dark knight kit they have going on in pvp right now.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Oneiros posted:

i think we should keep beating on the warrior who is self-healing the entire team's damage output

Well maybe they'd be dead by now if we focused even more, ever think of that?

Failboattootoot
Feb 6, 2011

Enough of this nonsense. You are an important mayor and this absurd contraption has wasted enough of your time.
Done a lot of CC since the patch went live. Series level 15, bounce back and forth between ranked and casual. Almost made it to silver but then didn't, such as life.

My current takes is that the mode is fun but there's definitely clear winners and losers in terms of job balance. Warrior and Samurai in particular are obscenely busted. I have no idea why you would play any other tank or melee dps, and I've been trying them.15 second aoe stun on warrior, effectively 7 second cd aoe bind on samurai and also samurai has the biggest lol I just no effort killed your team limit break out of everyone (at least until people figure out what not to do to live).

The amount of CC across the board is also kinda unreasonable, but really they just need to make bind work like it does in every other mmo and have it prevent you from moving and not from turning. Taking the Stun off primal rend (or making it single target) will also go a long way to making things feel less lovely.

On the whole, I am fairly impressed by the balance. Minus these 2 jobs it mostly seems reasonable. Although reaper is a dumpsterfire. But it was a dumpsterfire before the revamp too so no surprise there.

Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Apr 14, 2022

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



Failboattootoot posted:

Done a lot of CC since the patch went live. Series level 15, bounce back and forth between ranked and casual. Almost made it to silver but then didn't, such as life.

My current takes is that the mode is fun but there's definitely clear winners and losers in terms of job balance. Warrior and Samurai in particular are obscenely busted. I have no idea why you would play any other tank or melee dps, and I've been trying them.15 second aoe stun on warrior, effectively 7 second cd aoe bind on samurai and also samurai has the biggest lol I just no effort killed your team limit break out of everyone (at least until people figure out what not to do to live).

The amount of CC is also kinda unreasonable, but really they just need to make bind work like it does in every other mmo and have it prevent you from moving and not from turning. Taking the Stun off primal rend (or making it single target) will also go a long way to making things feel less lovely.

On the whole, I am fairly impressed by the balance. Minus these 2 jobs it mostly seems reasonable. Although reaper is a dumpsterfire. But it was a dumpsterfire before the revamp too so no surprise there.

i can say that up at gold+ tier people are a lot smarter about not feeding the sam lb monster (and also i seem to get focused with extreme prejudice when i don't have lb). still happens, of course, especially when people get desperate in overtime and aren't paying close attention to everything, but it's a lot less certain

i'm enjoying cc overall so far but i would agree that the amount of, uh, cc? seems a bit much. combined with the lag the feeling of half your buttons not working at any given time is just kinda bleh. the cases of mass instant death i find i don't mind so much because they just feel like a part of the back-and-forth and are hilarious/infuriating/demanding of grudging respect depending on which side of it you're on

Oneiros fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Apr 14, 2022

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Ibblebibble
Nov 12, 2013

I love playing PLD in pvp because it doesn't matter if they decide to focus the healer first, they're going to be forced to focus me instead :v: Just a lovely little stun goblin running interference on the enemy team.

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