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I love getting rescued when it’s obvious I’m the only one who forgot the mechanic. Keeps me humble
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Based on the expected return values listed for tomorrow's best option (horn > scythe x2), I'm guessing Friday is a recommended rest day for the workshop?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Where are these recommendations at? MadFriarAvelyn posted:Poking Paradise Discord https://discord.gg/pokingparadise Thundarr posted:Based on the expected return values listed for tomorrow's best option (horn > scythe x2), I'm guessing Friday is a recommended rest day for the workshop?
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Thundarr posted:Based on the expected return values listed for tomorrow's best option (horn > scythe x2), I'm guessing Friday is a recommended rest day for the workshop? Looking at projections I don't think we can expect huge returns like the start of the week, but yeah if you take tomorrow off you're probably going to find better for the rest of the week.
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Sep 23, 2022 01:08
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the most annoying rescue I ever had to deal with was one time where I was tanking an alliance raid (void ark?) and I was pulling one of the halves of the split boss to the edge opposite the other tank like you do and then I get rescued because I wasn't taking a convenient enough angle for some dickhead healer who had gone northwest instead of west like I did (or whatever, it's a round arena and it was like a 45 degree angle of difference) it had exactly zero effect on the play or the situation, but it was infuriating because it was so unnecessary like, clearly I am pulling the boss in the correct direction (to the edge), I have enough anxiety tanking, just let me do my job
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Sep 23, 2022 01:28
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Corbeau posted:That's exactly what I mean: those well-in-advance situations are the only situations in which stuff like rescue works... in this game. I don't particularly have any trouble rescuing someone who isn't in a situation where even an insta-cast wouldn't save their rear end. As long as you are keeping an eye on your DPS (or rarely tank) you can often tell preemptively who is loving up. That's half the fun of playing healer is realizing "oh, this person is way off where they need to be." Sometimes it is a gamble (do I rescue a BLM or trust they are going to teleport themselves) but usually it's not too hard. You just need to be focusing on the entire party and a good healer should be doing that anyway. I wouldn't complain if Rescue was more responsive but it's easy enough to know when you need it. (And this is with randos. With statics/groups I have to imagine it's VERY easy to recognize when Johnny Fiveascians is standing in the tankbuster spot again.) (I don't really care how WoW does stuff because 'basically requires mods' is ridiculous and designing your game around those mods is ridiculous.)
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Where are these recommendations at? https://discord.gg/eWqxu9E7m3
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Sep 23, 2022 03:24
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WoW does not require mods and does not design around those mods most of the time for most of the content most people access. Sometimes there is a mythic fight that is heavily trivialised by mods, but no fight actually requires them no matter what the playerbase says. Also, the mod everyone uses in WoW is in FFXIV and they do roughly the same thing in both game (remove the need to think for yourself through mechanics).
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Lord_Magmar posted:WoW does not require mods and does not design around those mods most of the time for most of the content most people access. the difference is that everyone openly uses dbm and cactbot is a rarity from what I've seen
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 Today I learned you can roll zero. I wanted that twine!!!!!!!
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SirSamVimes posted:the difference is that everyone openly uses dbm and cactbot is a rarity from what I've seen Anecdotally, I don't think it's a rarity. But people can't talk about it so it's not as visible.
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savage clear rates are consistently about 1% of all active players. extreme primals are a bit more but not much more. there is no other content in the game where cactbot is even mildly helpful. no ones firing up cactbot for aglaia unless theyre also using it for the big stuff. it is actually quite rare to be using it.
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Corbeau posted:Anecdotally, I don't think it's a rarity. But people can't talk about it so it's not as visible. As someone in multiple discords for end game content, it's a rarity even among the tiny portion of the game population doing savage/EX stuff. ACT is pretty ubiquitous but cactbot is fairly uncommon
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why did mods even come up, we the conversation was about server ping rates and lag. weird jab at wow out of nowhere.
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I used to use ACT-based scripted callouts for stuff like animation telegraphs, but nowadays I don't have to spend so much of my focus on basic rotation and movement (I've gotten better, and I swapped from playing bard to playing tank) so I haven't bothered setting any up since like, Stormblood.
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:savage clear rates are consistently about 1% of all active players. extreme primals are a bit more but not much more. there is no other content in the game where cactbot is even mildly helpful. no ones firing up cactbot for aglaia unless theyre also using it for the big stuff. it is actually quite rare to be using it. Seen someone using it on P7 normal. Or they're absurdly good at guessing which fist will punch. They were moving well before the markers appeared, and just enough to get out of the way instead of "head to the guaranteed safe spot in the back".
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Bruceski posted:Seen someone using it on P7 normal. Or they're absurdly good at guessing which fist will punch. They were moving well before the markers appeared, and just enough to get out of the way instead of "head to the guaranteed safe spot in the back". On Normal for both arena designs you can just run to the front of the platform and dodge both punches.
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Really hope that concert comes to America. I went to the first one in LA and it was incredible and I remain sad as hell that whatever plans they may have had for the 2nd one to come stateside got killed by the pandemic.
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Lord_Magmar posted:On Normal for both arena designs you can just run to the front of the platform and dodge both punches. Yup, and that's what I do. They didn't.
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iirc savage tier clear rates (not just someone popping in to try the first turn, but actually cleared the tier) tend to hover around 5-15% of endgame characters for NA and up to nearly 30% for JP servers and i think things like cactbot may be more prevalent among raiders than people realize. i get invited to a shitload of statics' discords when i sub in and there's usually at least one person using it. even in pf with randos i've seen people using it to put callouts in chat
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Cactbot doesn't tell you which fist is punching until the marker comes out. Assuming we're talking about the left/right knockback punch.
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SettingSun posted:Cactbot doesn't tell you which fist is punching until the marker comes out. Assuming we're talking about the left/right knockback punch. Oh. Well then I guess the guy was just lucky a lot. I've seen odder streaks, shouldn't have jumped to conclusions.
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Yeah to be clear cactbot will tell you some really cheaty things but not really in p7 (or in savage). I'm sure there are cheatier mods out there that would actually telegraph that sooner?
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I always run to the middle so I'll have the same distance to run either way when the marker appears
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FuturePastNow posted:I always run to the middle so I'll have the same distance to run either way when the marker appears Yeah, if I know where I'm going there's no need to hesitate.
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cactbot also has a fishing plugin but it's been replaced by a better one in Gatherbuddy
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Oneiros posted:iirc savage tier clear rates (not just someone popping in to try the first turn, but actually cleared the tier) tend to hover around 5-15% of endgame characters for NA and up to nearly 30% for JP servers but endgame characters are already a minority. thats the thing. thats the reason i quoted 1% all active characters. most people play this game up to cap and then stop. or they never even get there. you are talking about fractions of fractions of players and going "well that must mean its like everyone"
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Dangit, I planned to get a screenshot after the fight but the fences disappeared. In the new dungeon you know those fences on the final boss? I found out today that if the angle is just right you can get blown through the seam between two of them and into the poison.
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SettingSun posted:Yeah to be clear cactbot will tell you some really cheaty things but not really in p7 (or in savage). I'm sure there are cheatier mods out there that would actually telegraph that sooner? impossible, your client has no idea until the server tells it to draw the marker/play the animation the only reason it worked on e4s punches is the server has to tell the client "okay play the left glow, left glow animation" and the animation is so long that you have that information way in advance
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Bruceski posted:Oh. Well then I guess the guy was just lucky a lot. I've seen odder streaks, shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. Isn't the order of the punches fixed ? Like in P1, it seems the flails are always in the same order at the start of the fight.
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aers posted:impossible, your client has no idea until the server tells it to draw the marker/play the animation I remember on that fight in particular there were players that would know if the "Plate Fracture" breaking the platform (the big windup-slam, not the punches where his fists glow) was going to hit front or back in advance, and not just left or right. I'm fairly certain there's no way to determine this visually or logically for the first punch, and yet they would run front or back correctly on the targeted side. I figured that was cheating, at least. Even if there wasn't much gained from that in particular.
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 Finally got the head, it's a shame that's not dyable. Still gonna try and make it work in a Halloween glam. Are there any good chestpieces for tattered clothing or mummy bandages or something?
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:but endgame characters are already a minority. thats the thing. thats the reason i quoted 1% all active characters. most people play this game up to cap and then stop. or they never even get there. you are talking about fractions of fractions of players and going "well that must mean its like everyone" oh, i'm not disputing that it's a small fraction of total players. as you said stuff like cactbot/triggernometry/whatever are basically completely unnecessary in normal content and it'd be pretty silly to run them there unless you had a very specific, niche need they somehow fulfilled i was just noting that, among people who actually do end-game raiding, i think their use probably more prevalent than commonly understood
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hexwren posted:I have enough anxiety tanking, just let me do my job I see this a lot, and should probably post this in the newbie thread, buuuuuuut as a tank of 15 years across various games: You are not made of glass and you have all the tools you need to do your job at a base level of competence. Unless you literally fall asleep at the keyboard you won't lose aggro. Any situation with a boss you have the tools to survive--I was TRYING to die in EX4 the other night after all of the rest of the party died, and it still took me a solid 15-30 seconds of standing in every mechanic I could find to do so. The most hair-raising situations you'll be in generally involve trash pulls between bosses--keep calm and roll your mitigation cooldowns. You won't be very efficient at first, but after enough pulls you'll get a sense for what the cadence looks like, how to judge how many you need and when, and what priority you should use them in. Tank-xiety is an illusion your brain is playing on you. You're a bloody juggernaut capable of throwing the entire party on your back after your healers and DPS decided to dance in the bad mechanics and died (I should know, I've done it a lot). You will almost always be the last person standing through no fault of your own. You'll do just fine. Now, given the mechanical complexity of modern MMO boss design, the tank role is almost entirely superfluous to encounter design. In this essay I will
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Tanxiety isn't about how difficult the job it's that people are looking at you while you do it. You're standing in front of the class giving a speech about your summer.
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 3 out of 7. 11 fish to go for a 100% filled log.
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Hello fellow ffxiv goons! I got into the game a couple of months ago and it has summarily consumed my brain. I am currently struggling with the beginning of SB, which is pretty dull to be honest. I hear it gets better around 65? Please tell me it gets more interesting. I am possibly a bit burnt out from HW, but I really want to unlock things and progress. I'm a WoW refugee (played for 14 years) and ffxiv is so much nicer. So many things to do. Such a kinder community. A ferret lives on my shoulder. What a time!
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