Relyssa posted:

The Ul'dah monetarist lalafells are absolute scum and you're meant to hate them. Dunno what his beef with Nanamo is, but so far I can understand the reaction to meeting some characters the game explicitly sets up as villains and wanting them gone. I don't read it as wanting the entire race exterminated, just the ones he's met so far. I don't even think it's "ironic racism", just a reaction to villainy.

orcane posted:

What other mandatory lala contacts do you have at this point in the game other than monetarists, corrupt/criminal Ul'dah guards, Gegeruju and Nashu's stalker ()?

I mean there's Tataru and Papalymo, but the former is barely even a character yet and the latter is as boring as the other core scions.

Alxprit posted:

I do think that Lalafell could do with not looking quite as baby-like as they do, but it's not like they can change it at this point.

flatluigi posted:

fwiw the twins are young but I've always had the impression that the game wants you to think of them as your peers in all of this. it's going to be colored a bit by how old you personally are and how old you consider your WoL, of course, but "why do I care about these children" is the wrong position to sit on imo

flatluigi posted:

the twins are teenagers, old enough to have graduated Wizard College which means they're probably like 17 since it's a piece of media from Japan. they are not ten year olds lol

flatluigi posted:

it's the new player thread so nobody is going to post direct spoilers but you are rapidly approaching some of the story points that do have significant effects on the rest of the game, so just try to take the reassurances to keep an open mind instead of just rushing through so you can erp in slightly different surroundings or w/e

flatluigi posted:

i genuinely don't actually care if someone erps in the game, it's far from my thing but if it's how someone wants to spend their time i can't stop them. you don't need to get defensive about it

Like Clockwork posted:

If you're being made super miserable by ARR and it's impacting your enjoyment of the game, you stop playing (many do this), stop posting to mash through 2.x being a slog faster, or you get the drat skip. You don't post through it and throw a tantrum at anyone who tells you to just get the skip if you're that miserable about it and don't want to quit.

Ojjeorago posted:

That’s nice but lay off the edgy nazi jokes, this isn’t 4chan.

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Like Clockwork posted:

This is the playerbase that needed to have an expansion that was dedicated to The Empire Is The Baddies You Stupid Fucks so I don't think I would trust Garlean soldier #73636262 RPers to not be fash unfortunately

Kwyndig posted:

Perhaps like me they're tired of "ironic"racism even against fantasy people and think calls for the extermination of a people to be beyond the pale.

FeatherFloat posted:

I mean yeah, that's where it is for me. Yes ARR is slow and kind of sucky, we've all been there, but it feels different coming from someone whose sense of humor is calibrated at the "wanna kill the cute/small things in this game, hate them so much, amirite guys?" level. I think I've gotten too used to most of the forum's population having gone on an irony detox and not needing to prop up their enjoyment of an anime weeb video game with defensive/derisive making GBS threads on the parts that are insufficiently manly/macho/western/normal/something.

jjac posted:

The HW studio change where they're directed to stay within human hearing wavelengths definitely helps.

Doomykins posted:

I love Crash Bandicoot tho.

Endorph posted:

lalafell are mostly fine to me as someone who plays one but yeah i dont like their walk waddle

Endorph posted:

i dont know what that means tbh

Endorph posted:

i dont know what that means tbh

That Little Demon posted:

Relyssa posted:

lalas are commonly referred to as potatoes, op

Ibram Gaunt posted:

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Jonny 290 posted:

so here's where i'm at with 47 on WAR

* always best weapon/chest, rest within 10 levels (soon will be looking at ilvl but not really a thing yet)
* tank stance on all the time for now
* always food (what's best for this? isn't the first stat listed the strongest or something? I'm just eating stuff that offers bigger than max bonuses on all 3 stats, ie says +10 max 50 and i have 300 base stat so i'm maxed, right?)
* rotate CDs on trash pulls including my sleeper favorite arm's length
* AOE on 3+, single chain on 1-2
* Keep provoke open and use it/tomahawk on any adds that creep into the fray after initial pull
* Be nice to healers (esp since i'm doing lower dungeons in DF) and start pulling easy, get a vibe check halfway through and if they want to try, pull doubles
* spin big poo poo towards the back, eat cleaves, don't dance around like an idiot because the melee dps needs all the help they can get

Do i have the basics down?

Jonny 290 posted:

so here's where i'm at with 47 on WAR

* always best weapon/chest, rest within 10 levels (soon will be looking at ilvl but not really a thing yet)
* tank stance on all the time for now
* always food (what's best for this? isn't the first stat listed the strongest or something? I'm just eating stuff that offers bigger than max bonuses on all 3 stats, ie says +10 max 50 and i have 300 base stat so i'm maxed, right?)
* rotate CDs on trash pulls including my sleeper favorite arm's length
* AOE on 3+, single chain on 1-2
* Keep provoke open and use it/tomahawk on any adds that creep into the fray after initial pull
* Be nice to healers (esp since i'm doing lower dungeons in DF) and start pulling easy, get a vibe check halfway through and if they want to try, pull doubles
* spin big poo poo towards the back, eat cleaves, don't dance around like an idiot because the melee dps needs all the help they can get

Do i have the basics down?

Jonny 290 posted:

so here's where i'm at with 47 on WAR

* always best weapon/chest, rest within 10 levels (soon will be looking at ilvl but not really a thing yet)
* tank stance on all the time for now
* always food (what's best for this? isn't the first stat listed the strongest or something? I'm just eating stuff that offers bigger than max bonuses on all 3 stats, ie says +10 max 50 and i have 300 base stat so i'm maxed, right?)
* rotate CDs on trash pulls including my sleeper favorite arm's length
* AOE on 3+, single chain on 1-2
* Keep provoke open and use it/tomahawk on any adds that creep into the fray after initial pull
* Be nice to healers (esp since i'm doing lower dungeons in DF) and start pulling easy, get a vibe check halfway through and if they want to try, pull doubles
* spin big poo poo towards the back, eat cleaves, don't dance around like an idiot because the melee dps needs all the help they can get

Do i have the basics down?

Ohtori Akio posted:

Ohtori Akio posted:

Relyssa posted:

You don't really have to worry about food if you're not doing high end endgame stuff since the stats won't matter that much. As a WAR you can more than most afford to pull extra since you have a good amount of self healing, and single pulling will probably just make things slower for no real benefit. The rest sounds about right.

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Bruceski posted:

Warrior's self-healing comes in at 56/58 aside from single-target Storm's Path (which isn't going to keep you up in a pack). You can do double (or sometimes more) pulls before then and have tools to blunt the incoming damage, but don't have ways to get yourself out of trouble like Raw Intuition can. It depends on the dungeon and who you're running with, there are a few breakpoints that get ugly when someone just doesn't have the tools yet (the main thread was just talking about Haukke, where people are downranked to 31 and have skills from their upgraded job but a healer who's actually leveling might be 29 and just have Cure I as the only button to press).

The main thing to remember for multi-pulls is that tanking cooldowns are better used on trash than saved for bosses, it feels unintuitive since bosses are big but the incoming damage is often much lower.