Jabbering Idiot posted:

Nice! This sounds sick and fun as hell. Do games often swing like this? What rank range was this? I heard a lot of folks having a rough time getting stuck in gold with the new ranking system so far, but I dunno if it's just because they're simply used to the old system and maybe everyone's expectations of their performance is higher than it maybe should be right now, as harsh as that sounds.

Doomykins posted:

omg how can Giott be so cool

Did all 4 Warrior of Dorkness side quest chains.

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

You know what? I'm coming around on Island Sanctuary and starting to like it: it's relaxing, absolutely 0 demand and you can go at your own pace as long as you gather stuff to craft, can set your own schedule and it's flexible, and it's absolutely cute having the animals and minions hanging around.

I do hope they keep updating it even if it's minor stuff/new things to buy. Also morbols pls

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

You know what? I'm coming around on Island Sanctuary and starting to like it: it's relaxing, absolutely 0 demand

Macaluso posted:

What do you mean there's increasing demand on lots of stuff!

Regalingualius posted:

P7S spoilers:

https://twitter.com/najacentura/status/1565513271830261760?s=21&t=3AAY6dUsYcKzVkFo3GZNog

Crackerjack posted:

I watched a couple streamers do Orbonne Monastery earlier and it made me think... "Huh, I wonder what the High Seraph looked like back in FF Tactics," and then "Huh, I should try to glam that."





Captured the spirit, I think!

CJ posted:

Machinist PF prog going well.

Doomykins posted:

omg how can Giott be so cool

Did all 4 Warrior of Dorkness side quest chains.

Oxyclean posted:

Please tell me they have to manually add ARC separately from BRD.

Jabbering Idiot posted:

I've seen this mentality among PUG raiders frequently on NA XIV. I find it unfortunate and exclusionary for a few reasons, at least as it compares to using macros.

People that don't know what the strategy is by its name forces them to google it, something that some players are immediately at a disadvantage to do.

Supposing they ask the party lead, they may be disallowed from joining, get kicked, told to just google it, or discover that no one can explain the mechanic and they only know the strategy name. If you're relying on everyone simply copying what they see in a video, and it doesn't go right, macros and players listing their positions in chat can help point out mistakes. They can even easily be re-played mid combat as a raid shot-caller which might help players learning an encounter.

Parties that aren't farm parties should expect wipes to happen, and being able to communicate about the mechanic will help. "Playstation" might be easy to decipher, but "Gigabrain," "Dwayne" or "Xeno" doesn't help you communicate about the mechanic at all, either you know the strategy by the name or not. If you don't know a strategy, a macro explains it way more concisely and you can adapt to a different macro if you actually understand the mechanic and not just a single approach to it. I mean, I was able to do this poo poo in Japanese. No, I don't speak or read Japanese.

Non-cooperative players are hardly removed removed at the 'marker dance' until after wipes, because people just assume that they were aware of where they'd stand by process of elimination, or players just entirely forget where they planned on standing, or they get bored and pull.

Some players don't want to look up a guide of the fight before trying the fight. They're playing the game to play the game.

It's fine to make your PF exclusionary, and that's often what people are trying to do, but I don't think it's a good thing to do in general, especially if you like challenging content. In the long run, the harder you make it for most players to participate, the fewer players you'll have to play with. I think our community's norms for PF and group strategy have some impact on the relative amounts of difficult content clears when compared with other communities. Notably, JP ones are much higher, and that probably stems from a few factors, but I don't see why this this little wall created by players isn't one of them, and why people that care shouldn't try to knock it down.

It will probably improve most player's quality of life, too! In general, anything you can do to make stuff quicker and easier is normally embraced by the community as "optimization," so it's kind of a glaring omission for the NA players to not also adopt macros! You can still keep your silly names for them, just put it in the macro!

Regalingualius posted:

P7S spoilers:

https://twitter.com/najacentura/status/1565513271830261760?s=21&t=3AAY6dUsYcKzVkFo3GZNog

Arist posted:

No, but they do have to manually remove MCH

Oxyclean posted:

Yeah, I figured the intent was to exclude MCH, it'd just be funnier if they were like "...but we would take an ARC"

Electric Phantasm posted:

Actually how far can you take the base classes in the MSQ before it becomes absolutely unfeasible?

Electric Phantasm posted:

Actually how far can you take the base classes in the MSQ before it becomes absolutely unfeasible?

hopeandjoy posted:

Lv 31.

More seriously I’d say at Lv 50.

Bruceski posted:

"why do I have these buttons next to each other?"


Shot myself right into the deathwall last night on our first P5S pull. "Wait, does Bruceski not have enough hp to survive the initial AoE?" "Nope, I was just trying to help."

blatman posted:

i have bio keybound to 2 and "eat fairy for aetherflow" keybound to 1, it owns when i eat fairy when hes supposed to be casting some fairy nonsense

Dareon posted:

SuperKlaus posted:

Having trouble determining if Pack Wolf Boots or Eaglebeak Boots are obtainable. Were these PvP rewards from once upon a time, and can I get them now somehow?

Gnossiennes posted:

ngl kinda creeped out by someone modding a lalafell into a garleanfell

edit: my bad it's a dunesfolk thing??