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Tyshalob posted:Is Excalibur like permanently closed to new character creation? I've tried to create a character at even the most off-peak hours I could and character creation was still disallowed. Yeah it's congested right now.
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Tyshalob posted:Is Excalibur like permanently closed to new character creation? I've tried to create a character at even the most off-peak hours I could and character creation was still disallowed. Congested servers just straight up block character creation, it's not time of day based.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:11
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It's not permanent however. They review and change server status periodically, usually around patches.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:18
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If a server is "congested" that status only changes with a patch so your next chance will be 6.35 sometime in March
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Feb 16, 2023 16:41
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As ever, I am interested in giving this another shot. I heard something about positional skills being removed. Is that accurate?
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Feb 16, 2023 18:09
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Ah, well, it used to be that congestion was evaluated every few hours or so and you could get in during off-peak hours. Guess I'll go find somewhere else to play.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:12
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BurningBeard posted:As ever, I am interested in giving this another shot. I heard something about positional skills being removed. Is that accurate? Not totally, but they've been reduced.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:12
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BurningBeard posted:As ever, I am interested in giving this another shot. I heard something about positional skills being removed. Is that accurate? Positional are mostly removed. Most melee classes still have positional on their combo finishers, but that's usually it. MNK no longer has to constantly shuffle back and forth because they have a positional on every move, they just need to position themselves for Demolish and Snap Punch only.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:14
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IthilionTheBrave posted:Positional are mostly removed. Most melee classes still have positional on their combo finishers, but that's usually it. MNK no longer has to constantly shuffle back and forth because they have a positional on every move, they just need to position themselves for Demolish and Snap Punch only. Good to hear. Thank you. Never liked attempts to make mmo combat more frantic. Not that it shouldn't be, just that it always feels mushy and unsatisfying to me.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:39
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The potency bonus of positionals were reduced a lot as well, so it's not the end of the world if you miss one and a flank attack hits a rear or something. It's more a loss to hold the gcd to get into position than it is to just keep your gcd rolling.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:40
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I noticed on DRG the Raiden Thrust activation no longer requires that both positionals landed correctly either, so you can actually use it solo.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:43
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Because of the lowered emphasis on positionals you can get a lot more mileage out of your true north charges too so you need to move even less.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:03
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Crucially all remaining positionals are just for a small potency boost, so they never impact your rotation if you miss them
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Feb 16, 2023 19:06
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It's normalized so all the melee jobs now have two positionals, one rear and one flank. If you don't do them you'll lose a few percent damage but you'll also just naturally land one if you stay on a boss's rear end
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Feb 16, 2023 19:09
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also helps to remember that there's a hard line between what counts as flank and rear at the enemy's intercardinal positions. someone else probably has the image to clarify what I'm saying, but basically you don't have to run alllll the way between the targets rear end and shoulders to execute positionals.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:16
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SAMs no longer generate extra kenki for hitting their positionals, now it's just a minor potency boost like everyone else. edit: Also the circles under your target had an update semi-recently, and is much better at showing where the divide between rear and flank is.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:17
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DRG has more than 2, though. I believe chaos Thrust is still a rear, Fang and Claw is a flank, and Wheeling Thrust is a rear. And those are all pre-60. Plus Wheeling chains off of Chaos anyway so you don't actually have to move in between. And I think Trick Attack off NIN still gets a small bonus from the rear, but that's on a 60s cooldown and needs Suiton to work anyway. Oh my gosh, a couple of jobs have 3 instead of 2! Still way better than old MNK having 6.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:19
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Vitamean posted:also helps to remember that there's a hard line between what counts as flank and rear at the enemy's intercardinal positions. someone else probably has the image to clarify what I'm saying, but basically you don't have to run alllll the way between the targets rear end and shoulders to execute positionals. Something like this. 
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Feb 16, 2023 19:31
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Stand in the exact geographic center of the boss, then you only need to take 1 step in each direction.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:46
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Aphrodite posted:Stand in the exact geographic center of the boss, then you only need to take 1 step in each direction. Lol. This would be me. I'm just low key stressed about doing group content and didn't want the responsibility of healer or tank. But positional skills stress me out too because of my bad eyesight. Sounds like it's really no big to miss these so that's good to know.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:55
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BurningBeard posted:Lol. This would be me. I'm just low key stressed about doing group content and didn't want the responsibility of healer or tank. But positional skills stress me out too because of my bad eyesight. Sounds like it's really no big to miss these so that's good to know. Or play as a ranged or caster DPS with no positionals and no responsibilities the responsibilities of healers and tanks are less than they look, and in normal raids/trials a tank is frequently just a dps who's harder to kill
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Feb 16, 2023 20:11
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tank responsibilities mostly amount to running a couple cooldowns on trash pulls and, in harder content, running cooldowns according to a schedule and knowing when to swap agro with your partner. boss positioning kinda matters but I think of it like how dps standing on the right places so they don't clip each other with attacks or whatever also matters.
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Feb 16, 2023 20:15
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Aphrodite posted:Stand in the exact geographic center of the boss, then you only need to take 1 step in each direction. but unironically. a player might instinctually try to stay outside the red boss circle, but there's no reason you can't, and often times reasons you should. particularly in endwalker, where boss circles have become so large i can slap down a sacred soil dead center on the boss, but if the tank stands north of the circle and everyone else south of the circle, nobody's gonna get any mit or regen from it
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Feb 16, 2023 20:19
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Yeah hitbox circles are so dumb that I can't heal from one side to the other.
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Feb 16, 2023 20:21
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the one change I'd like to see to hitboxes is to have thin lines at their rear intercards drawn in from the outer edge towards the center, to help guide people into hitting their positionals from closer in the boss's hitbox.
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Feb 16, 2023 20:33
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As usual, I’m looking into different means of accessibility people have used to get the game working for them, and I stumbled across this. Kind of fascinating to see someone go through facets of the game point by point and be very explicit about which components of the game are accessible, and how they are accessible. Dunno if anyone cares, but I thought it was fascinating and informative. https://youtu.be/z8dlJmcfAjs Wish I were playing on PC because you can use a text to speech addon to pick up dialogue for you. Also, I really hope the addon bullshit doesn’t escalate, since I think addons with PC are the most accessible way to play the game. Would be a shame if those got torched because a few insufferable nerdlings can’t handle not being perfectly optimal at raiding.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:23
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Qwertycoatl posted:play as a ranged or caster DPS with no positionals and no responsibilities  BurningBeard posted:I really hope the addon bullshit doesn’t escalate, since I think addons with PC are the most accessible way to play the game. Would be a shame if those got torched because a few insufferable nerdlings can’t handle not being perfectly optimal at raiding.
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Feb 16, 2023 23:23
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Pretty much, you usually don't hear much about addons other than when an Ultimate releases, it seems. Last time an Ultimate came out, the same thing happened, IIRC. Some idiot streamed showing them using cheat addons and it blew up for a little while. The Gshade idiot just extended it a little this time. The devs have all but said they don't care about addons in most cases, unless you're using them to harass someone in some way.
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Feb 16, 2023 23:54
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BurningBeard posted:As usual, I’m looking into different means of accessibility people have used to get the game working for them, and I stumbled across this. Kind of fascinating to see someone go through facets of the game point by point and be very explicit about which components of the game are accessible, and how they are accessible. Dunno if anyone cares, but I thought it was fascinating and informative. I really like the visual alerts system. It's not something that helps me personally, but I just like accessibility options in general. For those that never fiddled with it, it puts an audio visualizer on the sides of the screen, with different colors for BGM, game sounds, system sounds... A useful-seeming measure for those with auditory disorders.
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Finally got my newest episode of Welcome Sprout out. This one goes over a quick glance of each of the jobs. Might not be helpful if you already know the game, but if you're new and kind of wondering which class to pick at the start, maybe it will give you some ideas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-uOFecj3E
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Feb 17, 2023 08:16
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It was good that Hancock, Yugiri, and Tataru all decided to make a cameo during the Ivalice quests to state emphatically that no characters you like want anything to do with this bullshit.
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Funky Valentine posted:It was good that Hancock, Yugiri, and Tataru all decided to make a cameo during the Ivalice quests to state emphatically that no characters you like want anything to do with this bullshit. And Hancock didn't either.
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Hancock rules
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Honestly I don't really remember that much about the Ivalice stuff, why is it held in such poor regard? What about the story turned people off?
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Maxwell Lord posted:Honestly I don't really remember that much about the Ivalice stuff, why is it held in such poor regard? What about the story turned people off?
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Feb 18, 2023 11:16
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For me, it was the storyline quickly devolved into a completely impenetrable mass of names and places that had no reference point anywhere else in the game, all delivered through people just standing around and dryly talking to each other. It's all of the problems with FF14's presentation in microcosm. But where the MSQ lets you soak in it over several hundred hours and moves you around and breaks it up with exciting stuff, the Ivalice stuff is just...talking. So much goddamn talking about things that were pretty quickly sliding off my brain. The bosses themselves are fun, though I never remember how the Lord of Thunder guy works.
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Feb 18, 2023 11:17
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Maxwell Lord posted:Honestly I don't really remember that much about the Ivalice stuff, why is it held in such poor regard? What about the story turned people off? Imagine playing a game where there's a sidestory. Said sidestory is utterly completely divorced from what exists in the main story. There is no connective tissue in any direction, at best everyone is charmless to an insane degree, presenting insanely dry and boring rear end lore, and the story drags on roughly thirty hundred times longer than it should, to the point where actively mashing X through the story and skipping everything still takes close to an entire hour because of how completely, impenetrably dense it is.
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Yeah, my primary issue with the Ivalice storyline is that it just feels like "remember these other games? That's happening here now" with very little integration into the actual FFXIV setting (as compared to other FF lifts/references, which in my experience are worked into the setting much more seamlessly). I mean, I guess the basic setup of the FFXIV world allows for this long-forgotten mythical kingdom and its associated pseudo-deific entity to just sort of be hanging out, but it just feels much clumsier than the standard. As others have mentioned, it doesn't help that the NPCs are pretty unlikable compared to the average, especially since they have so much more work to do to justify the story.
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It doesn't help that it's probably the worst non-Nier part of the game for Obvious Crossover syndrome—most of the rest of the game can stand on its own without the "oh I recognize that name" neurons firing, but the Ivalice raids basically live and die entirely on Hey It's That Guy energy—and the preexisting characters that show up outside of it are written really strangely inside the bounds of the raids. I tend to judge it more harshly for the former, since it's at least nominally trying to fit in the setting (unlike Nier, which is for its story flaws at least not trying anything but "we're doing a crossover do you like it") and falls on its face doing so since it has three raids of quests to tell you about an entire chunk of the setting it made up to fit the Ivalice stuff in. e:f,b
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Honestly, I feel like for me Orbonne Monastery does a lot of the heavy lifting narrative-wise. It's one of my favourite instances in the entire game (beaten out by Seat of Sacrifice) and the in-game narrative storytelling is second only to the 4.3 trial. That said, now that I think about it, outside of Mathbot and the Red Chocobo (Savage) memes I'm not too fond of the rest of the storyline, both in terms of the actual raids and the story itself. The story suffers a lot from the same flaws as the Nier raids, in that it's mostly focused on going HEY REMEMBER THIS OTHER UNRELATED GAME rather than building a narrative on its own merits, and if you haven't played Tactics it's very, very easy to get lost in the references. There's also the fact that it was also setup for Bozja, which itself turned out to be a wet fart of a storyline.
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