Leal posted:

Post your catgirl

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

This dude is doing MCH right.

Opposing Farce posted:

Marks can be useful in low-level dungeons where you might not have the tools you need to effectively keep aggro but once you have your tanking stance and definitely once you hit 50+ you should have enough AoE threat generation at your disposal that keeping aggro isn't a concern regardless of what the DPS are doing, at least so long as you're paying even just a little bit of attention to the threat meters.

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

All Str right side (across like 25 ilvls), all stats into Str. I was going 1-1-1 Path-Eye-Block in Deliverance and steadily swapping aggro with him after 6-7 combos. I couldn't slow down too much or else I'd drop down to 3rd.

Minrad posted:

I never logged out in Sea of Clouds so I never caught this until today, but it might be my favorite HW loading screen.



Sea of Clouds would've been waaay cooler if it was more vertical, to distinguish itself more from Churning Mists. I would've loved climbing up some little spiral pillars or something, to look down on stuff waaay below me before getting flying mounts.

Eej posted:

It really doesn't because by the time you hand in enough to get a full set you'll be 58->60. Then your other classes won't need help because you'll have the gear to do 58->60 anyway.

That and you want to save up 350 scrips for each class' master books anyway.

FaintlyQuaint posted:

I don't think DRK is awful, just mediocre. The 120 second TP sustain in current gear for off tanking is pretty top tier garbage. I'd be less unhappy if it was at least 180 seconds, or Blood Weapon restored 100 TP on use or something. Dark Mind needing DA to be truly good against any magic busters is a bit meh, but I can live with that. DA Dark Dance being evasion instead of extra parry chance is really questionable, though, since you can't dodge tank busters from raid bosses (as far as I've found in Alexander). It's basically a trap DA use, kind of like Lightspeed for AST in how weird/bad it is. Carve and Spit returning 1/2 a DA on a 60s CD is really bad. If they either let it restore TP or a full DA it might not be so bad, but they'd have to increase the DA potency to match the opportunity cost or change how DA works on it. Dark Passenger also costing MP is very strange and I'm not sure why they decided to specifically punish DRK for using an oGCD when I don't think any other class has a major resource cost for an oGCD (excluding the monk GL3 dump move, I guess?). Plus having their threat combo both do nothing extra and be less potency than the Delirium combo might require a little bit of rethinking.

And Grit should definitely not cost ~23% of one of our resources or be on the GCD. Of all the things about DRK that is weird/questionable, that is probably the most bullshit one. Plus they really need to fix the client/server mana weirdness.

Vermain posted:

In addition to all that, they just don't serve a functional niche compared to the other two tanks, aside from "best MT DPS" (though by how much?). PLD has good party utility and is still the best defensive tank, Warrior has excellent single target/AoE damage, TP sustainability, and a pretty good coterie of defensive cooldowns now, and DRK has... the -INT debuff? I guess? There just aren't a lot of compelling reasons to take them along versus a different tank.

MadFriarAvelyn posted:

Seconding this, at least for CUL. I spent the last day grinding out Marron Glace for turn-ins and I went from having one masterwork book to all of them and a full set of Adept's for glamour. I can't even use any of them yet.

It was really cheap too.

Mazed posted:

Not sure if this ever really made the rounds at all, but I found something neat in the art book that came with the HW CE that tickles the nostalgia fancy, though is probably to be expected with a certain trio of significant statues that have featured prominently in Heavensward stuff.



Ultima Weapon? Not quite. Look at the tail, and especially the horns.

FEEBLE CREATURES, GO!

dreffen posted:

I am currently using a very obnoxious Living Dead macro

Vermain posted:

My A1 run this morning had a tank who wouldn't drag Oppressor over to the lasers, leading to two wipes, and when I suggested that he do so he said that he "shouldn't have to" because "this fight is easy." Unsurprisingly, we one-shot it after he left. vv

Garin posted:

You don't have to do jack poo poo with the Oppressors. You have to kill the small adds that spawn on the oppressors where the laser rests. The mini puddle is what keeps people from dying.

KaneTW posted:

ahem

Let me remind you that twintania was completely loving broken in a myriad of ways for literal months

T2 enrage was never fixed.

Magil Zeal posted:

The way I've usually used Blessing is after setting it up with Great Strides + Innovation and you simply cannot reliably pull off the discount Byregot's in a combo that way. I have it on my bar but I don't think I've ever actually used the ability.

So far I've found a lot of the new crafting abilities to be underwhelming compared to the old standbys, with the exceptions of Precise Touch (which is awesome) and the level 54 class-specific abilities.

Truga posted:

F13-F24 is the standard key set, it works in windows and in other games.

FF14 recognizes I pushed a button, but:


Like I said, I filed a bug report, considering it works elsewhere. Hopefully they'll fix it. Was just wondering if I'm missing something and it works for others.

Boten Anna posted:

If you've never played a tank before VIT accessories are a great exercise in learning where your cooldown buttons are and how to dodge AoEs.

Willias posted:

Also on the note of VIT or STR talk for tanks: VIT gives more HP in Heavensward than it did back in ARR, and jewelry now has more main stats than you get stat points as you level up. So a 180 piece of jewelry is +36 main stat, while you only get 35 stat points from leveling. With no VIT jewelry on, a Paladin and Dark Knight tank will only have slightly higher HP than the DPS of their group (around 12k HP with stat points put into STR instead of VIT, DPS will have 10k-11k HP). With full VIT jewelry, a PLD or DRK tank will have 16k to 17k HP (Warriors go up over 20k). It's a huge boost, and is very noticeable in the EX primal fights and Alexander.

If you go full VIT though, I still recommend keeping at least one piece of jewelry as STR, just to make sure you can out threat your DPS.

Mordiceius posted:

Arrgytehpirate posted:

I'm excited to see if red script armor will be better than HQ crafted. I'm really hoping it is so I can use the gil I'd have to use buying HQ on materia

Eimi posted:

Sort of, though I don't think any HM to -> Ex primal has been one to one. For example all the stuff that makes Ravana hard is no where in the HM version. The first three primals are probably the best, along with Leviathan, for showing you what you'll see in HM and then in EX mode. I guess Bismark is too come to think of it. Though the difficulty of that EX fight is entirely dps related.

Mr. Vile posted:

Does anyone know what the deal is with the new fisher abilities? The desciptions on them are lacking at best. Specifically I'm looking at Snagging, Patience and the two Hookset abilities.

Mr. Vile posted:

So how do you tell what kind of fish needs which hookset? Is powerful exclusively for the ones that make that ominous creaking sound that sounds like it'll snap your rod in half?

Whizbang posted:

They've been specifically saying for months they don't want you to be an omnicrafter. If you're upset you haven't been paying attention.

Eej posted:

If this new crafting system upsets you so much why don't you just farm Red Scrips, turn that into crafting mats, then hand those mats over to a friendly crafter to make yourself an HQ set of gear that you can gradually make better than the Scrip Gear over time?

Mordiceius posted:

With the changes to fates in HW, what's faster for leveling your other jobs? Fates or dungeons?

Ibram Gaunt posted:

The job NPCs are wearing relic armor, and have a special job related weapon. It makes perfect sense to assume its the relic is my point. Do you think that they'll "finish' the relic then just retroactively give all the NPCs the new model instead of the one they're using? because that's really dumb.

Ciaphas posted:

How are DPS levels for DRK and WAR comparing right now? I already have DRK at 60 while WAR's still 50 (and WHM at 52 ), but those Fell Cleaves look funny as heck. Not so much if they do comparable damage over time anyway, though.

Pews posted:

So I have literally only heard people talk of how terrible it is but... are there any guides on how best to level up desynthesis?

Mordiceius posted:

How many people do you need to reliably do EX primals now at 60?

Zerilan posted:

Can someone give a relatively unbiased rundown of the actual differences between the 3 tanks at endgame right now?

Also is DRK lagging behind a lot in mitigation/damage or is it mostly a matter of there being more poo poo players in that class still?

Doublestep posted:

do you think shields give more stats than 2handers or something???? like where the gently caress are you getting this less health poo poo

shields dont even give armor

Evader posted:

So I recently started, and my original plan was to rocket a WAR up to 3.0 then bring up a DRK as my 'real' main after that.

Everything was going according to plan, got my GLD to 22, got WAR to kill Titan . . .

Then progress came to a screeching halt.

Before Titan, I literally could just rocket up the MSQ line and get enough XP via sheer inertia to keep qualifying for further MSQs.

However, after Titan I needed to hit 35 before the next one, and then after that quick series of tasks I needed to hit 36. The pattern has held as I climb towards 38.

So now I am more or less clearing out every single quest in the area of the plot, and topping off on battle leves - instead of leaving all the side quests for alt classes. Doing piles of crazy +4 leves and such isn't getting me anywhere near as far along with XP as it used to, etc etc.

Now, this is all well and good and normal MMO grind curvature- just, this 34+ progress is slow as balls WITH sidequest support. Yes I can get almost a level a day for free by tanking a LLDR and such, but what I'm scared of is the 30+ grind when I get here with another class I plan to take all the way up. I get my best free time in sporadic huge chunks, and like to rocket up as fast as I can when I can. Hopping on every evening a bit for an instance is . . . not ideal. Meh.

Do I have the right of it, or am I forgetting something obvious that should be keeping me from getting speed-bumped while progressing the MSQ?

bonewitch posted:

It's tuned around level 50 characters with i120 gear. If you do it at 60 with i180 gear, its a joke.

You can go in level and gear sync'd though, but you're much less likely to get people willing to do that.

Failboattootoot posted:

Don't let these guys scare you off, there is still a lot of value to be had in getting your crafts to 60 regardless of how silly the endgame for crafting is. That said, do it because you like doing it. If you hate it, don't feel obligated.

Gammatron 64 posted:

I kinda want to do a Greco-Roman glamour. As far as I know, I'm going to want the Noct set and Flame Elite Set. It's... gonna take a long time farming allied seals, isn't it?

Are you supposed to toss your hunt bills after you do them?

kafziel posted:

Can someone give me some advice on not loving hating Black Mage at 60? Trying to keep Fire and Enochian up while dealing with anything that expects movement or cancels casts is just getting me pissed and headachy.

ilifinicus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joHtggknBRo

so, uh...

crafting, guys