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Only week two and I'm already pulling hate in Aglaia multiple times as a Dancer. Get your acts together, pubbies! Or at least let me have a drop so I don't have to keep running this.
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Thundarr posted:Only week two and I'm already pulling hate in Aglaia multiple times as a Dancer. Get your acts together, pubbies! Or at least let me have a drop so I don't have to keep running this. I'm sorry, what?
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Apr 23, 2022 02:58
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S.J. posted:I'm sorry, what? As I said. Somehow I pulled hate on two different bosses in one run. Not usually my expectation when I'm running a ranged phys job!
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Apr 23, 2022 03:01
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Thundarr posted:As I said. Somehow I pulled hate on two different bosses in one run. Not usually my expectation when I'm running a ranged phys job! Were you actually getting agro because all three tanks were dead/had stance off/did no damage (seems unlikely) or did you just get hit with one of the triple tank busters because your alliance's tank was dead? (Happens all the time) Edit: I guess as phys ranged the latter would also require the rest of the DPS in your alliance to not be pressing buttons, but yeah.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:06
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Theris posted:Were you actually getting agro because all three tanks were dead/had stance off/did no damage (seems unlikely) or did you just get hit with one of the triple tank busters because your alliance's tank was dead? (Happens all the time) Main tank died, both other tanks were derps who weren't maintaining healthy agro, every other dps was a derp who wasn't pushing buttons. Twice!
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Apr 23, 2022 03:14
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Thundarr posted:As I said. Somehow I pulled hate on two different bosses in one run. Not usually my expectation when I'm running a ranged phys job! I can relate, last night I was playing MCH and grabbed aggro on every single boss in Aglaia. Seeing the swirly red tankbuster marker and just typing an "oh no" in chat to mark my death.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:15
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super-redguy posted:I can relate, last night I was playing MCH and grabbed aggro on every single boss in Aglaia. I take eating a tank buster as DPS to be a sign of honor but that's just also kind of sad some times
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Apr 23, 2022 03:23
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S.J. posted:I take eating a tank buster as DPS to be a sign of honor but that's just also kind of sad some times Make Third Eye as Samurai a 50% damage reduction for 1 second so they can eat tank busters in Alliance Raids when they inevitably are the third target for a triple buster.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:28
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S.J. posted:I take eating a tank buster as DPS to be a sign of honor but that's just also kind of sad some times I play a lot of ranged DPS so while it's nice to know I'm popping off, I also shouldn't be the one eating tankbusters. That's supposed to be the SAM's job!
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Apr 23, 2022 03:28
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i dont know if this has been anyone else's experience, but Crystal-tier matches seem way more like stomps than any other rank. as in, once a team wins a fight more decisively than 1-2 kills it just begins snowballing to an extreme degree with how LB charges (and specifically how impactful WHM LB is, which both teams will have the vast majority of the time). respawn takes roughly 15-20 seconds - longer than the advertised 10 due to respawn/death fadeout animations - and that can be a third of a LB in many cases and with the strength of WHM + DRG LB the winning team will be able to coordinate another wipe in many instances and end the game. it isn't bad necessarily and it certainly beats the 10+ minute OT fiestas that seemed to plague Gold-Diamond, but it can be a bit much. e: also the wind map blows (lol!) because of how bad the initial mid fight is. just truly awful. shame too because the wind gimmick owns.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:50
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I definitely think LB should either be changed to a proper cooldown or alternative methods of building it up for the losing team should be made available (collectable orbs on the ground or whatever). It's giving me bad Overwatch flashbacks, where the ult economy meant that winning the first fight gave you an unreasonably huge advantage over the enemy team if you were able to coordinate ults well. The middle of Cloud Nine could use a slight redesign, too, like having some small flanking pathways or whatever.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:56
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Algid posted:Soge is on Excal so you're competing against a dude with multiple FCs running subs 24/7 who has flooded the house skin market to the point it's the cheapest server on Primal for years now. Soge owns over 80 houses (as of last August) across the data center. Probably well north of 100 now.
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Apr 23, 2022 04:14
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gently caress the housing barons. Strip their houses. I don't care if they have multiple characters, or accounts. 
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Apr 23, 2022 04:21
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Put 'em on the streets IRL.
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Apr 23, 2022 04:27
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the house barons are funny
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Apr 23, 2022 04:28
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Make their houses our houses. 
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Apr 23, 2022 04:28
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  Twenty more wins and I can go back to using other titles.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:03
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I hate how the 10 win ones isn't CC, only Frontlines 
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Apr 23, 2022 05:14
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Kazy posted:I hate how the 10 win ones isn't CC, only Frontlines I really should've counted how many matches it took me. I think it was only like 20, but it's hard to tell how much influence I had. I figure feeding Fantasia into the summoner swarm had to count for something, and Bard is also pretty good at sniping the ice on that one map so I topped "damage done to other things" a few times. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 05:25
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Kazy posted:I hate how the 10 win ones isn't CC, only Frontlines Only two more to go for me. Insanely annoying how luck based it is. But it has been a nice way to get experience for jobs I don't like playing.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:27
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Pro tip - If you want to make some money, sell airship materials. A lot of FCs just got their first house and need airship materials. Darksteel and Coke are needed in the thousands. Base mats will go for high prices, but intermediates will go for higher prices since people want to just buy and turn in. Look up airship/submarine materials and start unloading.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:32
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Consummate Professional posted:Only two more to go for me. Insanely annoying how luck based it is. Queueing as a group can help. 4 SMNs or 4 SCHs acting in concert will really tilt things in your team's favor https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/u4ursl/frontline_is_not_in_a_good_place_after_61/
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Mordiceius posted:Pro tip - If you want to make some money, sell airship materials. A lot of FCs just got their first house and need airship materials. Darksteel and Coke are needed in the thousands. Hey, thanks! I can mine stuff and I want a bunch of money.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:44
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:so i started pvp and uh... i am not very good at it lol my honest to god advise is two-pronged first, read your tooltips. I know this sounds obvious but when I was starting out I made a lot of assumptions on how skills worked based on their PvE counterpart and only going back to read them later did I realize they sometimes did something extra. particularly pay attention to the potency numbers - unless PvE content potency directly translates to HP damage done before buffs and debuffs, so knowing what skills you can stack together in a short period of time to do burst damage can help you pick targets, or if you have bind/silence effects to help shut down the opponent. second, queue for matches. Just Go. Do It. the matches are quick and, truthfully, you lose nothing by queuing for ranked. you're gonna lose a lot, and you're gonna die a lot, but it's important to take a step back after a loss and think about what you could've done differently. personal anecdote - when I started getting higher ranked in sage, I was poking around in the front lines a lot and getting punished for it. So I started hanging back more. that worked out great, but also on the standard and volcano map I'd start getting routed by enemies who'd use the side paths to strike us in the back. So now I pull the camera as far back as I can, and try to make sure I at least have a general idea of where all five of the enemies are at the start of the match. I can't track them forever, but I can at least prevent them from coming up from behind me now. aside from that, just try not to get tilted. there's no shame in getting a string of losses, even if you're trying to rank. sometimes it happens. you're still getting currencies (and exp) for your troubles. if you feel yourself tilting take a step back.
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Consummate Professional posted:Hey, thanks! I can mine stuff and I want a bunch of money. Just off the top of my head, sell Darksteel Nuggets, Cobalt Plates, Wolfram Ingots, and Garlond Steel. Hundreds of each are needed.
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Vitamean posted:my honest to god advise is two-pronged thanks, lol yeah after my wild tilting in Magic the Gathering i feel pretty ok losing in these PVP matches. I just won a game with a double kill limit break in overtime so I feel like I'm doing my part in most of these games at least, I kinda want to try all the jobs in here because they all seem pretty cool. But I do also want this XP to go to my jobs that need it lol
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to add to pvp advice - with few exceptions, the worst thing to do in PvP is to die. this probably sounds obvious but there's a few systems in place that make this especially so that may not be entirely clear at first. especially in the lower ranks one of the best things you can do to up your winrate in CC is to realize you're low on MP, fighting 3v5, and out of defensive buttons, then Sprint back out of the fight and Standard-Use Elixir yourself while you wait for your team to respawn. very rarely is it worth it to "be a hero" and dive in to save a teammate, in large part because FFXIV's PvP just isn't really designed in a way where that's possible. this isn't like an FPS where you can absolutely go huge and win a 4v1 by a mix of skill, adrenaline, and luck - FFXIV is a game of cooldowns and math, and you just don't have enough abilities to do anything meaningful in those sorts of situations aside from die yourself. there's exceptions to this and it can be worth keeping your eyes open for them but that sort of stuff comes with experience. "I need to not die" is a much easier mantra to keep in mind while you learn the ropes.
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Love when you get a warrior player on your team that believes they're invincible and tries to take on the entire 5-man enemy team by themselves. Again. And again. And again.
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Mordiceius posted:Love when you get a warrior player on your team that believes they're invincible and tries to take on the entire 5-man enemy team by themselves. Again. And again. And again. This is what keeps me from playing warrior in pvp. My main survival strat currently is that there's usually someone more important to target than the bard so I can focus on shooting folks as long as things haven't gotten weird.
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Hm, I understand people marking the enemy WHM in CC (because being sniped by that loving laser is annoying as hell), but uh, probably don’t try to run through the entire enemy team *just* to get to that WHM. Also, trapping someone in an explosive trap with Mountain Buster is quite satisfying, almost as satisfying as dropping Bahamut on an entire team
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All the wolf marks I've gotten out of actually playing PVP has provided me a new Bard glamour.  It's the full Republican's Sagittarius Set dyed Marsh Green and the Yoichi Bow dyed Soot Black.
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Algid posted:Soge is on Excal so you're competing against a dude with multiple FCs running subs 24/7 who has flooded the house skin market to the point it's the cheapest server on Primal for years now. Uh alright I mean I'm on Gilgamesh on Aether, not 100% sure where this Soge stuff is coming from, whoever that is. But if I'm in the area I'll watch out lol
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Apr 23, 2022 07:19
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The Heavensward LP takes on a giant robot! Who would dare miss this?
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Mordiceius posted:Love when you get a warrior player on your team that believes they're invincible and tries to take on the entire 5-man enemy team by themselves. Again. And again. And again. I love these warriors who are super confident in their survivability as red mage because they low to ride low hp and then rely on guard to protect them while they heal up, and then they just die to my DOTS and it's beautiful
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Ah, frontlines. Love to DRK LB and then instantly get perfectly chain-hexed by WHMs.
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So, I've got a mod installed that has an interesting interaction with the new PvP builds: The Demi-Alexander mod has replacement animations and effects for every Demi-Bahamut move... as of 6.0. But it doesn't have behavior programmed for its PvP summoning animation, so it tries its goddamn best.
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Is it just me, or have they fixed the CC matchmaking? The past two days all the matches have been pretty balanced with quite a few mirrors. No more all DPS one side 2 tanks and a healer on the other.
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Apr 23, 2022 11:28
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I started giving RDM a shot and I've had surprisingly consistently good results, so long as I basically stick to Black Shift except to Silence people.
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Spoke too soon. Just got one against the instant loss team of WM/War/Pal with only a Gunbreaker on my side. Love to be cc'd into oblivion 24/7.
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Runa posted:I started giving RDM a shot and I've had surprisingly consistently good results, so long as I basically stick to Black Shift except to Silence people. This is absolutely the way, I just blasted straight through gold into platinum as rdm with only a single loss. The damage output is astounding
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