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kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
please dont' mock my lina inverse spec

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Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

How does into botes?

Is this person trying to constantly quadflare or... what?

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

Homeboy.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Speaking of dps, had a bard doing sub 900 dps in a11s. Mother fucker. Why join these parties thinking you're going to sneak under the radar? The only people who can carry 1 person half assing it are pros who are doing that poo poo for money, PF is not going to provide it.

Chinese Batman
Jun 28, 2008




:suicide:

Chinese Batman fucked around with this message at 08:50 on May 10, 2017

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Lootmaster clear party for a friend. Skip soar or disband!

Smart Car
Mar 31, 2011

... Zurvan has an enrage?

Chinese Batman
Jun 28, 2008

Smart Car posted:

... Zurvan has an enrage?

I got murdered by it and I still don't believe it!

Chinese Batman fucked around with this message at 10:41 on May 10, 2017

Sinners Sandwich
Jan 4, 2012

Give me your friend's BURGERS and SANDWICHES, I'll put out the fire.

Whats better, playing Stormblood on launch day or playing it the month after?

I may have a tiny laspe in health insurence

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009

Sinners Sandwich posted:

Whats better, playing Stormblood on launch day or playing it the month after?

I may have a tiny laspe in health insurence

Not dying is better than playing Stormblood on launch day.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Being dead = 0 DPS

So try not to be dead.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Sinners Sandwich posted:

Whats better, playing Stormblood on launch day or playing it the month after?

I may have a tiny laspe in health insurence

Don't skip out on something like that for the catgirl game.

Obligatum VII
May 5, 2014

Haunting you until no 8 arrives.

Chinese Batman posted:

I got murdered by it and I still don't believe it!

How was the group good enough to not get murdered by repeated tethers, but so bad that they couldn't meet the DPs req to avoid enrage?

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Sinners Sandwich posted:

Whats better, playing Stormblood on launch day or playing it the month after?

I may have a tiny laspe in health insurence

Catgirl butts are twice as fun when you have oxygen in your lungs, comrade

Farg
Nov 19, 2013
I'll go against the grain and say you'll probably be fine for a month!

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Obligatum VII posted:

How was the group good enough to not get murdered by repeated tethers, but so bad that they couldn't meet the DPs req to avoid enrage?

If you're not pressing any buttons its easy to move for tethers.

POLICE CAR AUCTION
Dec 1, 2003

I'm not a princess



If anyone else has been too much of a lazy poo poo to preorder Stormblood, greenman gaming has keys for 17% off with an additional 7% coupon if you're on their mailing list. Applies to the CE as well.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Doesn't appear to apply to their UK storefront.

At least for me.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

POLICE CAR AUCTION posted:

If anyone else has been too much of a lazy poo poo to preorder Stormblood, greenman gaming has keys for 17% off with an additional 7% coupon if you're on their mailing list. Applies to the CE as well.

ty!

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Works fine for the AU/EU code.

Waldorf Sixpence
Sep 6, 2004

Often harder on Player 2
What time does an expansion/large patch usually come out? I might book a day or two off work but I don't want to book release day if the game won't be live until 4BST or whatever.

PRADA SLUT
Mar 14, 2006

Inexperienced,
heartless,
but even so
Link a RAF?

E: And which server to join

PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 16:00 on May 10, 2017

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

kirbysuperstar posted:

please dont' mock my lina inverse spec

it's clearly a megumin spec, lina inverse actually gets poo poo done :colbert:

Rainuwastaken
Oct 30, 2012

Another blue ribbon for Hecarim.

Truga posted:

it's clearly a megumin spec, lina inverse actually gets poo poo done :colbert:

Thus did the Seventh Astral Era end, and the forums were plunged into darkness and war once more.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

So I have my Tank, healer and DPS all at 60 and have well over 500 comms, to get the stupid crown I just need to hit 1000 dungeons, right?

Shy
Mar 20, 2010

PRADA SLUT posted:

Link a RAF?

E: And which server to join

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3726688
Excalibur

HackensackBackpack
Aug 20, 2007

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

Truga posted:

it's clearly a megumin spec, lina inverse actually gets poo poo done :colbert:

SAM relic Chunchunmaru confirmed.

Oxygen Deficiency
May 19, 2008



Does anyone actually run Mentor roulette? I never have.

I did run it once by complete accident when I assumed that Frontlines roulette was at the bottom of the DR list. Boy was that a surprise! Luckily the sprouts were very grateful and were pretty chill overall.

Maguoob
Dec 26, 2012

Oxygen Deficiency posted:

Does anyone actually run Mentor roulette? I never have.

I did run it once by complete accident when I assumed that Frontlines roulette was at the bottom of the DR list. Boy was that a surprise! Luckily the sprouts were very grateful and were pretty chill overall.

Mentor roulette doesn't offer a good enough reward for me to ever consider running it. Why yes SE, I would love to spend an undetermined amount of time with people that don't know what they're doing for jack poo poo. Especially with the ARR EX primals being in the roulette. A pathetic amount of lore/scripture and a dumb mount after 2000 runs is not a good motivator.

I had a leveling roulette with a puglist that did 3 dps in copperbell mines, and an arcanist that did bio on a single target in a group and then spammed ruin. Clearly I want to do mentor roulette and have an increased chance of meeting people like that again.

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


Maguoob posted:

I had a leveling roulette with a puglist that did 3 dps in copperbell mines, and an arcanist that did bio on a single target in a group and then spammed ruin. Clearly I want to do mentor roulette and have an increased chance of meeting people like that again.

I thought the point of mentor & mentor roulette was to help people not be like this. Unless you did try to help and they acted like dicks, then my apologies.

Mentor system kinda seems dumb because I'm not sure I've run into a single mentor that was helping people. Novice chat is mess and I left it because everyone was talking about P5 and I'm spoilerphobic.

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Anyone had any issues with the pre-order code from GMG not working?

e: Nevermind, I guess it takes a couple minutes before the code activates.

Ibram Gaunt fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 10, 2017

m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe

Oxyclean posted:

I thought the point of mentor & mentor roulette was to help people not be like this. Unless you did try to help and they acted like dicks, then my apologies.

Mentor system kinda seems dumb because I'm not sure I've run into a single mentor that was helping people. Novice chat is mess and I left it because everyone was talking about P5 and I'm spoilerphobic.

Where does your responsibility as a mentor end? Yes, I can tell you about the fight mechanics but I've never leveled a NIN past 15 so how am I supposed to be able to comment on your rotation?

Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Mentor roulette is ok for getting WT newbie points but not much else. Anybody with the giant pegasus is a crazy person.

As for what to provide as a mentor, don't sweat it too much. Offer advice if somebody is clearly struggling, but if they want in depth information that you don't know then it's ok to say you don't know (but maybe this website can answer your question).

Thundarr fucked around with this message at 17:17 on May 10, 2017

Rainuwastaken
Oct 30, 2012

Another blue ribbon for Hecarim.

Maguoob posted:

Mentor roulette doesn't offer a good enough reward for me to ever consider running it. Why yes SE, I would love to spend an undetermined amount of time with people that don't know what they're doing for jack poo poo. Especially with the ARR EX primals being in the roulette. A pathetic amount of lore/scripture and a dumb mount after 2000 runs is not a good motivator.

I had a leveling roulette with a puglist that did 3 dps in copperbell mines, and an arcanist that did bio on a single target in a group and then spammed ruin. Clearly I want to do mentor roulette and have an increased chance of meeting people like that again.

Nice work completely missing the point of Mentor Roulette.

m.hache posted:

Where does your responsibility as a mentor end? Yes, I can tell you about the fight mechanics but I've never leveled a NIN past 15 so how am I supposed to be able to comment on your rotation?

Your responsibility ends where your knowledge on a subject does. It's totally fine to not know everything about NIN and just have to shrug at someone who asks. Just don't be totally surprised when the roulette specifically designed to match you with newbies and those who don't know any better....matches you with newbies and those who don't know any better.

m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe
It's ok, I'm not anywhere near mentor status anyways.

I'll help out on fight explanations just so we don't wipe. It generally doesn't matter in any instances up to AV as long as the Healer and Tank knows what's up, but eventually there are DPS check mechanics (Sunken Temple (HARD)) that need explanations or you'll never beat it.

Choyi
Aug 18, 2012
I feel that if you don't have some experience with every class and most all game content, you shouldn't be a mentor. And if you're running something you're new to maybe at least just remove that silly crown icon so you're looking a little less like an rear end.
More often then not, the mentor's encountered is in dire need of mentoring themselves by being real bad at their current class and the game in general.

I'ts almost like the whole thing is a poorly implemented system.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Maguoob posted:

Mentor roulette doesn't offer a good enough reward for me to ever consider running it. Why yes SE, I would love to spend an undetermined amount of time with people that don't know what they're doing for jack poo poo. Especially with the ARR EX primals being in the roulette. A pathetic amount of lore/scripture and a dumb mount after 2000 runs is not a good motivator.

I had a leveling roulette with a puglist that did 3 dps in copperbell mines, and an arcanist that did bio on a single target in a group and then spammed ruin. Clearly I want to do mentor roulette and have an increased chance of meeting people like that again.

Did you try to, you know, mentor them at all?

Oxyclean
Sep 23, 2007


To be fair, they said levelling roulette, not mentor roulette and I kinda glazed over that.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Well it's not like you can only mentor people in mentor roulette.

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Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist
I try to be a bastion of good sense in our Novice Network, which is generally made up of bad opinions about class balance and anime porn chat. The most common sprout question is generally "how do I leave Novice Network."

It's a losing battle but there have been a few people happy for the help.

The whole system's pretty poo poo tbh.

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