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Bruceski posted:Hippos go vroom vroom. There's your plot right there. To paraphrase: Hippos may look like badly-stuffed rubber sacks, but what they're stuffed with is muscles...and hate. 
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Unlucky7 posted:I think I need a bit more help with CC. When is the best time I should try to make a run for the crystal if my team is on the defensive? Always wait for your team to respawn unless you absolutely have to run in and guard to stop an outright win. Don't be that guy that runs in 1v5 and dies for no reason. Even just a 4v5 can be dicey if you don't have a quick kill lined up to even out the numbers.
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Itzena posted:To paraphrase: Hippos may look like badly-stuffed rubber sacks, but what they're stuffed with is muscles...and hate. IRL hippos kill more humans per year than sharks do. Extremely territorial, extremely fast swimmers, and they weigh as much as a small truck.
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Jun 9, 2022 00:03
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also they do that poop spray thing so sitting behind them in a cart is... brave
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Jun 9, 2022 00:06
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:IRL hippos kill more humans per year than sharks do. Extremely territorial, extremely fast swimmers, and they weigh as much as a small truck. They didn't implement hippos as enemies in this game because they'd be too drat powerful.
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Would honestly love a big build up to a fight with a hippo. Feel, Hear, Run.
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Consummate Professional posted:Would honestly love a big build up to a fight with a hippo. Feel, Hear, Run. We don’t need more purposefully unwinnable solo duties ok.
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:IRL hippos kill more humans per year than sharks do. Extremely territorial, extremely fast swimmers, and they weigh as much as a small truck. Hippos probably have the best K/D ratio on humans. Confirmed OP. https://youtu.be/mfPCFQfOnLg
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Awesome! posted:also they do that poop spray thing so sitting behind them in a cart is... brave Especially considering when you hit second rank the tribe transitions to a food delivery service. Ah, fresh hot meals, only sometimes seasoned with hippo poop.
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Jun 9, 2022 00:57
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Itzena posted:To paraphrase: Hippos may look like badly-stuffed rubber sacks, but what they're stuffed with is muscles...and hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-j8nbpq4E
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On the one year anniversary of my first Newbie Journal, I humbly invite you all to the Stormblood LP
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Sanguinia posted:On the one year anniversary of my first Newbie Journal, I humbly invite you all to the Stormblood LP Welcome to the cousin from the other side of the family of expansions. (Stormblood is perfectly fine, but it's in between two fan favourite expansions so it gets kind of a bad rap)
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Jun 9, 2022 01:46
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 Waking up at 6AM means I get this lil booger a day early 
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Jun 9, 2022 02:32
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coming back after a two month break and still can clear p1s on an alt job with poo poo gear, idk why people are so afraid of harder content
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:IRL hippos kill more humans per year than sharks do. Extremely territorial, extremely fast swimmers, and they weigh as much as a small truck. I suppose being an elephant helps.
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Trash Ops posted:coming back after a two month break and still can clear p1s on an alt job with poo poo gear, idk why people are so afraid of harder content While P1S was kind of fine but lost all of its interest when we decided to follow a guide, progressing P2S was negative fun and probably one of the worst activity I've done in the game, killing any interest to do Savages ever for me. I'm exhausted after one hour of having to concentrate on the same stupid mechanic that me or someone will inevitably fail and ruin the run because one death equals a fail attempt usually.
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Having done my first savage tier ever in Endwalker, and having no experience of raiding in any other MMOs before playing FFXIV, doing Savage prog, at least to me, is more of a factor of patience and willingness to continue even after seeing the same mechanism over and over again. Eventually you see something enough that muscle memory kicks in and you enter a flow, and almost don't even have to think about mechanisms or how to resolve them. You do have to commit to regular sessions though, which not everyone has the time to do. My casual static did 4-5 hours a week in two slots, and we cleared P4S just before DSR came out. The only fight that almost broke me was P3S, which was probably a harder and more annoying prog than P4S, but eventually we got through it.
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P4S was nice enough to put the hardest mechanic in the raid tier near the start of the fight. If it had been at the end I don't know if I'd ever have managed.
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Worth pointing out that just because one person is on a poo poo geared alt job, the rest of their group would likely have much better gear. You could probably have one player do zero damage and still make the p1s DPS check no problem if everyone else has a bunch of savage gear.
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As usual, the optimal position to be in for learning savage fights is "worst person in the static but not quite so bad that they kick you", because when you die it's a chance to learn from your mistakes but when other people die it's a tedious waste of time.
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So I am not a fan of savage content, I don't hate it, but I really just don't engage with it because, well it is hard group content. I like hard content in games, but I like hard 'Solo" content, where I am more free to learn at my own pace, and can tackle it whenever the mood strikes me. With Savage (and above) content I have to align my desire for harder more strenuous gameplay with a regular schedule that just does not mirror when I desire to engage. With harder tasks, I get sudden bursts of energy and desire for the content and when I get beatdown a few times, I sometimes decide to cool off doing something less difficult for a while.
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If you don't want a schedule, there's always party finder. Although, that has worse problems. If you don't clear this session in a static, at least the group is improving and next session you'll probably collectively do better. If you don't clear this session in a PF, next time you'll be with a completely different set of seven people, who are probably somehow even worse than the current people, so it's a lot more frustration and treading water.
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Also once strats are established in partyfinder it seems impossible to shake them loose even if it sucks. At least in a static everyone can collectively agree that this sucks and think of a way through it together whether it's from just using another guide for that mechanic or doing our own thing completely
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Xun posted:Also once strats are established in partyfinder it seems impossible to shake them loose even if it sucks. At least in a static everyone can collectively agree that this sucks and think of a way through it together whether it's from just using another guide for that mechanic or doing our own thing completely Fortunately they've nearly died out but as recently as two weeks ago I saw P4S part 2 markers placed such that you'll die if you stand on the marker in the relevant mechanic (you actually have to stand slightly to the left of the marker, or use more sensible marker positions). It can also be a bit disorienting if multiple strats do coexist (or more commonly, the same strat but different player assignments) and you have to adjust from one week to another what you're doing
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One thing I will say - try Ultima Unreal if you haven't. It really isn't more difficult than many of the hardmode trials you've encountered in the story since then. It's really not a true savage fight except that it hits hard and people will die. The only complicated things are coordinating a tank swap (not complicated) and aetheric boom. There are a bunch of dumb strats re: aetheric boom that really make things harder than they need. For the first two booms, the entire party (minus main tank) should stack behind the boss and get knocked back together. Then the seven of them should soak the 2 or 3 orbs they need to soak. This trivializes the mechanic. If you have slow dps or die a bunch, you'll have LB3 by the third one, and tank LB3 trivializes the third boom. On the third one, with tank LB3, everyone can solo an orb so everyone just runs and grabs one. Tanks can soak 2-3, so if I'm MT I grab the two orbs nearest the boss. If you do have high dps and/or minimal deaths, LB2 won't completely trivialize the mechanic, but it simplifies it. With LB2, still just have people run to balls. Who cares if they die - you're miles ahead of the enrage if you only have LB2 by the third boom. With cooldowns as tank I'm still able to solo two orbs with an LB2 and the rest of the party deals with the remaining two. If you are unsure of doing the fight, just queue unsynced into the level 50 fight so you can watch the mechanics. I have taken brand new people into the fight and cleared with a single pull. The name seems scary, but you should absolutely do this fight!
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finally did hildi's new one, top tier, back in form, god bless this gentleman and the animation teams
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The pre-quests to unlock the elephants is rough. I do not care about any of these people
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Keep it up, gamer.
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Sorry that you’re a bad person
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Badger of Basra posted:Sorry that you’re a bad person Sorry man. They should try being little catfish people instead
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Macaluso posted:The pre-quests to unlock the elephants is rough. I do not care about any of these people 
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Let me be clear the part where the hippos come into play I do care about that. The bit of quests before that with the Au Ra girl and the figuring out where the baby will live and whatever was snoresville. Should've just started me off with the drag racing hippos edit: This new song is bangin' Macaluso fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Macaluso posted:Let me be clear the part where the hippos come into play I do care about that. The bit of quests before that with the Au Ra girl and the figuring out where the baby will live and whatever was snoresville. Should've just started me off with the drag racing hippos Aww I thought those were really sweet myself
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It's so weird seeing a Hildebrand quest be yellow after they've been blue this whole time.
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Doing Prae this morning, and I never noticed how shocked_pikachu.jpg I look when Gaius asks the question:
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Warmachine posted:Doing Prae this morning, and I never noticed how shocked_pikachu.jpg I look when Gaius asks the question: Ha! How very glib.
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Shotgunning multiple questlines to get to a new unlock doesn't tend to lead one to care about the contents of said prerequisite.
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Qwertycoatl posted:P4S was nice enough to put the hardest mechanic in the raid tier near the start of the fight. If it had been at the end I don't know if I'd ever have managed. Yeah, sometimes they're nice like that. Imagine E8S, but Light Rampant is near the end 
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Not a million years would could I have predicted the Lightwarden and VOLLEYBALL stuff with the new Hildrabrand quests
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