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Detheros posted:I just leave nier raids and do something else tbh I'll take an agonizingly long Nier raid over Lab any day. It's a coinflip on Syrcus because the music in Syrcus kinda slaps. But Lab is just so loving awful.
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Feb 26, 2023 21:41
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Kazy posted:LotA isn't even a real Labrynth The ancients are like 12 feet tall, it's real hard to build a labyrinth for them.
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Aphrodite posted:The ancients are like 12 feet tall, it's real hard to build a labyrinth for them. The ancients in question are the Allagans, not the other ancients. 
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Hard-queueing Tower to get the Popola set, gently caress the haters  Speaking of Alliance roulette though, yesterday I got into a Void Ark with four other SMNs, a SGE and a WHM who got dropped and replaced with a SCH. Combined with the WAR tank it was like a high school book club plus one jock who enjoys hanging out with the nerds. 
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Feb 26, 2023 22:24
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The onion set owns but you can get a better dyeable version now for trophy crystals so there's not much point unless you're helping a sprout
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Feb 26, 2023 22:41
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Feb 26, 2023 22:58
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a cartoon duck posted:it's insanely important to pull the dragon as far north as possible so we have even more time to ignore all the skeletons running towards the dragon and exploding are there any other bosses where the accepted strategy is clearly wrong
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Feb 26, 2023 23:15
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Zokari posted:are there any other bosses where the accepted strategy is clearly wrong Only cowards eat the fruits on Aurum Vale
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Feb 26, 2023 23:16
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Zokari posted:are there any other bosses where the accepted strategy is clearly wrong for rofocale everyone stays in the center for his flashy rear end attack even though you take less damage on the sides of the ring
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Feb 26, 2023 23:17
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Detheros posted:for rofocale everyone stays in the center for his flashy rear end attack even though you take less damage on the sides of the ring wait seriously lol
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Detheros posted:for rofocale everyone stays in the center for his flashy rear end attack even though you take less damage on the sides of the ring It's not well telegraphed, but far as I am aware it's line falloff damage and you're "supposed" to track him as he goes around the arena then run to the side relative to where he stops. Not sure that I'd call stacking in the middle and just healing wrong exactly, since it's not dangerous and stacking makes healing up the extra damage trivial. It doesn't cost anything, unlike the evil dragon north strat.
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I’m only ever in LotA with the dumbest healers on Earth so any time someone tried tanking in the center 75% of the entire raid goes down.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:05
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It's educational. That will be an important lesson. 
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Feb 27, 2023 00:16
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hopeandjoy posted:I’m only ever in LotA with the dumbest healers on Earth so any time someone tried tanking in the center 75% of the entire raid goes down. 75% of the raid being dead but still managing to win is the ideal outcome for an Alliance Raid boss.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:18
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Timing the Death Gaze kill so everyone flies offstage is ideal (so long as you slapped Arm's Length first)
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hopeandjoy posted:I’m only ever in LotA with the dumbest healers on Earth so any time someone tried tanking in the center 75% of the entire raid goes down. I did a quick fate on my 80 WHM today to level up and had to rez someone and spent so much time finding the button. So, I don’t play healers for reasons other than the amaro
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Feb 27, 2023 00:30
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super sweet best pal posted:Tank the dragon in the center! The aforementioned "Bone Zone" is the ideal place to be. Make the healers do a little something. And watch the really undergeared players explode. 
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Runa posted:wait seriously yeah it’s a line prox damage but no one really runs to the side because even on day 1 the full damage wasn’t really that much more than a typical transition raidwide
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Day 1 I absolutely saw some confused deaths at the center wondering what they screwed up but it wasn't a wipe so everyone just soldiered on. After all the deaths on Hashmal it was probably a relief.
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Everyone loves hanging around the center for any big attack for some reason.
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That's because too many fights have gather points in the center. Although speaking of braindead Alliance Roulette, Void Ark is a cakewalk. The bosses are easy, the trash is easy, the only possible gently caress up point is if the tanks don't separate the adds during the last boss and even that is survivable to an extent these days.
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Zokari posted:are there any other bosses where the accepted strategy is clearly wrong for p6s in the current savage tier, there's a limit cut style mechanic where every player gets hit by a super-wide cleave in sequential order. you could point odd-numbered cleaves northwest and even-numbered cleaves northwest, and simply stand so far in the boss' hitbox you can slide in and out of cleave-pointing position in the space of a slide-cast, but instead party finder decided the best strat is the "diamond weapon limit cut", where you point the cleaves in all four intercardinal directions, with tiny safe slices east and west and way greater distances to direct cleaves which sucks as a caster. naturally if you try to make a pf party with the nw/ne strat, most people won't join you because it's not the one strat they learned from some half-assed day 1 guide, and the ones who do join didn't read your pf description and will throw a hissy-fit when they realise your party uses a different strat then the latest extreme trial with another limit cut mechanic where people actually do use the ne/nw method. i haven't actually gone back to p6s in a hot minute so i dunno if people would apply these new lessons to other still-current fights, but knowing pf they will never stop being set in their terrible ways on the flipside, the current unreal trial has a mechanic where the best way to deal with it is to do it the "wrong" way: a surprisingly hard-hitting line stack where missing even one person kills everyone in it, except dying in that phase actually heals you to full and puts you in a zombie state where you run up to and auto the closest other player, so the easiest way is to just have the stack haver eat it solo and not even suffer a weakness penalty for it
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My static team doesn't look up any guides or information about fights. We pretty quickly settled on the NE/NW strat and after we finished the fight we looked up what the standard strats are because it's fun to see where we naturally landed on the party finder strat and where it's different. When we learned what PF strat was for photogenic cells, we were confused and horrified.
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a cartoon duck posted:for p6s in the current savage tier, there's a limit cut style mechanic where every player gets hit by a super-wide cleave in sequential order. you could point odd-numbered cleaves northwest and even-numbered cleaves northwest, and simply stand so far in the boss' hitbox you can slide in and out of cleave-pointing position in the space of a slide-cast, but instead party finder decided the best strat is the "diamond weapon limit cut", where you point the cleaves in all four intercardinal directions, with tiny safe slices east and west and way greater distances to direct cleaves which sucks as a caster. naturally if you try to make a pf party with the nw/ne strat, most people won't join you because it's not the one strat they learned from some half-assed day 1 guide, and the ones who do join didn't read your pf description and will throw a hissy-fit when they realise your party uses a different strat The reason is because doing four directions gives plenty of time to run out and the other person to run in before it comes back around. When it's every other swing you get too many idiots who don't stand right.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:The ancients in question are the Allagans, not the other ancients. You seen the size of Xande and Amon? Allag loved cosmetic bone-lengthening genetic-surgery.
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Yeah, the Allagans loved them some giant people. A good chunk of their nobility underwent titanizing and their mad descendants still clog Mor Dhona's roads to the Crystal Tower.
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https://twitter.com/CeejayXIV/status/1629734249443082240
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah, the Allagans loved them some giant people. A good chunk of their nobility underwent titanizing and their mad descendants still clog Mor Dhona's roads to the Crystal Tower. Specifically, they used Sephirot's ability to grow huge to beef themselves up to large lad sizes.
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YggiDee posted:Timing the Death Gaze kill so everyone flies offstage is ideal (so long as you slapped Arm's Length first) Tag yourself with the triangle marker first so people follow you, then run away from the safe spot and arm's length the knockback
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I would never do something so depraved. Not on my home DC anyway.
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YggiDee posted:I would never do something so depraved. Not on my home DC anyway. When I was playing Age of Wushu, the goon clan had a couple hard rules: A) Don't gently caress with the group Tai Chi practice that gives everyone XP bonuses. B) If you do gently caress with it, use a non-clan alt. Your statement reminded me of that.
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Don't forget, while Arm's Length has a long cooldown, gap closers do not, and they do a great job of helping you
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Maximum Tomfoolery posted:Don't forget, while Arm's Length has a long cooldown, gap closers do not, and they do a great job of helping you Wait really
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Yeah, there's even a lot of knockbacks that can't be blocked with Arm's Length, but gap closers will cancel pushes every* time. Second boss of the first EW alliance raid has one that I make a point to cancel, just as a flex. *There may be pushes that are too fast for this to reasonably work on, like Lakshmi's big push, if not mitigated by the duty action. Also most gap closers require a target to dash to, which isn't always available.
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It's Stormblood Time! Bring your helmet, we're goin' back to war
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Bruceski posted:The reason is because doing four directions gives plenty of time to run out and the other person to run in before it comes back around. When it's every other swing you get too many idiots who don't stand right. the actual reason is that the previous half-remembered instance of limit cut cleaves used that positioning, except for diamond weapon it was because of the massive gaping hole in the center of the arena that necessitated it. people manage it just fine in the latest extreme trial, and that's people farming content where they try their hardest to get as close to a vegetative state as humanly possible, i'm sure people doing savage raids once a week can handle counting to eight early on in a fight
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Electric Phantasm posted:Wait really Gap closing mid-knockback is one of the coolest feelings in the game.
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