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Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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lol, I resubbed literally the first day it was possible to still get the welcome back gearset. So should I play BRD, BLM or WHM for starting Heavensward?

I am literally incapable of making weighty decisions like this on my own.

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Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Aren't reports of queue times a little conflicting? I haven't played myself, but I seem to remember hearing that one of the factions had pretty okay queues due to basically no one joining them.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Yeah, I'm personally kicking myself a bit all the times I succumb to muscle memory and hit Bloodletter instead of RoD on AoE pulls. New bard rules once you get used to it. Sorry dislikers.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:

There is an option to allow R2+L2 to give you a 3rd hotbar and L2+R2 a fourth that you should look into.

This is helpful, but you now have 33 actions, not counting limit break, to 32 buttons.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Eimi posted:

Finding a new caster would be hard, in my limited FF experience. Black mage is already in the FF verse the one size fits all elementalist master mage. We have smn already. Sch was a dps, but is in as a healer. Whm is basically geomancer. What's left?

Calculator :getin:

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Arrgytehpirate posted:

I hit 28 BTN today and gently caress man this is painful. Even leves (which are precious and I am loathe to waste) don't make this feel fast anymore. I use food and a scroll from my GC and it's still not awesome. Am I missing something?

Afraid not, not much. Use the scrolls while you do levequests, and try to stick to the levequests that have as their icon either a girl with a basket of flowers or a miqo'te fishing, those show you an "evaluation score" while you're doing them and give more experience if you get it high enough. It won't be possible to only do those, though, even if your chances improve at level 35 due to them making up a larger fraction of the leve quests available.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Failboattootoot posted:

About that;



here is the DoW set from the same dungeon.

Don't struggle against the subligar, you're only causing yourself more pain. Embrace it. Become one with the subligar.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Failboattootoot posted:

I don't follow. Are you using a second CZ?

First 2 moves: MM -> CZ (provided step 2 isn't Good) Then use up your MM stack, using every Good for TotT, and hitting IQ if it looks like you're gonna cap out on CP.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Unlucky7 posted:

HEY GUYS I LOVE FRACTURE IN FACT THAT IS THE ONLY SKILL I USE EVEN WHILE TANKING COME TELL ME I AM AN IDIOT INSTEAD OF DISCUSSING WHATEVER THAT LINK IS I AM SURE IT IS NOT IMPORTANT.

Thank you.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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seiferguy posted:

Is leveling BTN / FSH as much of a slog as leveling up MIN? I only force myself to level that up because my retainer is a miner and he keeps catching up to me.

BTN and and MIN are the exact same deal, just in different colours. FWIW, though, they're much easier to level after 50.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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HelloPlatypus posted:

I started on Friday night with ~3 folklore books worth of scrip tokens done, and told myself that I wanted to get 5 by the end of the weekend.



I may have gone overboard. :(

Just 3 to go for FSH!

Oh god why have you done this to yourself? I've done six over the course of a week, and I really need a break now. How do you stand the tedium?

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Cao Ni Ma posted:

If they drop ps3 support, I wonder if they'll do another world revamp to get the world deinstanced. Thought it would be more likely when still in 2.0 since it feels like 3.0 areas just have too much space between them.

In a way I quite like the instanced zones, since they're as small as they are. Helps me to suspend disbelief better, as opposed to WoW for example, where the entire world fits into a few square km. It makes sense to me that I'm only exploring parts of the world.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Are there any good videos comparing the game's visuals on ps3 and ps4? Everything I've seen is slightly underwhelming, but maybe that's because I don't really have any means of watching in anything higher than 720p.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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ActionZero posted:

If you haven't listend to the new Alex Midas music yet, holy poo poo it's amazing.

That's some Shoji Meguro music (persona 5 when).

It also rules a lot.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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ilifinicus posted:

ITT: people who have no experience in sentai music and are not tired of their themes always sounding the same, thus being able to enjoy yet another remix of it through midas

Well, everything before the comma certainly applies, so I can't speak to everything after. :feelsgood:

It's a fun tune!

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Isn't there an emperor's new fisticuffs?

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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I quit this game in, I think, late September, for reasons not directly relating to the game itself. Has it changed much (or any) since then? Is crafting still miserable? I think I managed to meet the minimum requirements for 2 stars before going broke, specialising in ALC, BSM and LTW. Would I have some not-poo poo options for making back some shekels if I resubscribed, or would I stay broke?

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Shouldn't it be "moč"

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Ainsley McTree posted:

Part of me wants to glamour into a roebro but I can't think of any glamours that would make me look not stupid when I'm a healer. Wizards are supposed to be skinny, it is known (real ones, not level 30 wizards)

I recommend the Riviera or Oasis sets from the Gold Saucer. Classy!

E: Or go all shamanistic muscle wizard with the coeurl maro / talisman. The possibilities are endless!

Bobfly fucked around with this message at 16:14 on May 11, 2016

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Roegadude

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Unfortunately, you probably picked the class that takes the longest to pick up the pace. But it does get quite a lot more fun and interesting if you stick with it.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Dreeple are boring. Be a potato.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Scrublord Prime posted:

:yeah:

Although helping level crafting is also acceptable, I used the Ixali for culinarian just to skip dealing with ingredient hell.

Urgh.. I still have one retainer completely full of cooking ingredients I haven't worked up the gumption to clean out yet.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:



My hyper-casual butt finally did it. The sick deeps will soon be mine (in 3.3 when I can put spell speed on it (seriously gently caress whoever decided a BLM relic shouldn't have spell speed))

"Hyper casual"!

*has completed a relic weapon*

I mean, good job, but that's a lot of work to be willing to put into a game.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Fister Roboto posted:

The biggest question I have about the next patch is whether people are going to be idiots and call the raid VA2 or not.

You would prefer LCM? I don't know, I don't think it's that unlikely. The ARR raid was LotA / CT / WoD after all. Wasn't it?

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Melchior posted:

Finally got over the hump of disinterest in this game, mainly because the sub I paid for actively started this weekend. Plan for now is to take THM to 30 and then Archer to 15, after that maybe some tanking or healing Classes to diversify my dungeon queues to make farming GC tickets a little more lucrative.

Seems like there is a lot of content ahead of me (I just met the Sylphs a few quests back) so I kind of get that feeling I did when WoW first launched that I have a lot to see and do.

There's a shitton of content ahead of you.

The dungeon queues aren't really big enough to speculate in though, I think. If you like playing BLM then that's what I'd stick with if I were you. Branching out is cool, but bear in mind that the first levels are always the least interesting. (Do what you WANT, though, is what I'm trying to say)

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Where does the name bone zone come from, anyway? Is it a mr happy thing or something?

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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It's great. But (or because) it isn't terribly glamorous.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Haha. Got an error logging in, now 380th in queue. Oh well.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Sentient Data posted:

Since people seem to actually be taking it seriously, it's my failed attempt at an unsourced quote. I just liked the parts where it assumed dps shouldn't be healed and that a sch would basically ever be running out of mana if they aren't constantly raising or relying on succor as their only heal

It's true that the premise was off and the language was awful; but I, for one, think it's interesting to hear about how people triage at high levels when really trying to wring out max DPS.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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KoB posted:

Is that really an issue? Having to play the game is a problem?

A lot of the MSQ is pretty boring filler that could be trimmed away though, now that there's more (actually good) content to keep players occupied. Having to go through lots of tedium to get to the good parts is not encouraging, even though you might argue it's the core of MMO gameplay.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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This may be slightly off topic, but I've heard it said that FF14 doesn't hit quite the same highs as WoW. Now, I thought the 3.0 and 3.3 finales were insanely good, so I'm very curious to see what WoW did better. What do you all think?

E:

EponymousMrYar posted:

Agree with this. 2.x stuff needs a trim, some stuff in ARR could be trimmed a bit, but I'm having a hard time thinking what could be trimmed from Heavensward. It's pretty focused and covers all the bases, with everything I can think of already being sidequests.

They could do with increasing quest xp in HW enough to let you hit 60 just doing the story.

Bobfly fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jun 24, 2016

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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I don't really know what I mean though! I guess some fights are more interesting mechanically than anything in FF14 then? It must do SOMETHING better.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Liver Disaster posted:

Relic only offers a slight stat bump over a weapon that takes way less effort to get.

To be fair, the models are really intricate and some look really good.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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WHAT A GOOD DOG posted:

Paladin also looks the coolest and your off-GCD high damage silence ability looks cool. You stab a dude and then they explode.

Flash is a pretty cool ability because it's radial instead of conal like Overpower which makes things easier. It's just boring, though.

Ehhh, swings and roundabouts. I personally prefer how WAR is just you and your axe and sparks flying from hitting dudes so hard.

E: But serpent elite tank chest + serpent-crested shield + viking sword looks really good.

Bobfly fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jul 7, 2016

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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I think adding another cumulative 10-20% to your armoury exp bonus for each class higher than your current is not an unreasonable solution. It does get tedious.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Bring back beastmaster, let me fight alongside my pet dhalmel.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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Holy moly.

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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You'll need to spend the monday, too.

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Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
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DGKK is fairly quiet in the European afternoons. Are there more Europeans in the other goon guilds, or is it just that goons are overwhelmingly American? (I know the latter is true, but is it the only explanation?)

Also, what the heck is that shameful tank gear contest where none of the entries involve this:

Bobfly fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jul 29, 2016

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