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Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Mr. Nice! posted:

Didn't it take around two months to clear Nael on savage second coil?

One. 2.3 hit on July 7th, Lucrezia downed it on August 9th.

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Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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So apparently the Synastry changes were mistranslated, and it works even if you heal the target or yourself, which is amazingly powerful.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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YoshiOfYellow posted:

I don't recall Dzemael Darkhold being required but Aurum Vale will be needed to get the last rank in your Grand Company.

DD is required for a GC promotion too.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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nuru posted:

I can't decide if it's more or less fun to need to get a Shaft 4 weeks in a row for my dps job compared to running WoD 14 times for the Healing gloves.

To this day I'm still not certain that those gloves actually exist.

Also, I loved the aesthetic of T11, but it's still my least favourite Coil turn mechanically. Maybe I'm just bitter about bards using Repelling Shot during tethers.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Suitaru posted:

also if the lesser moon was named Dalamud what the hell is the greater/only remaining moon's name

Menphina.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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seiferguy posted:

Then there's also her Dissidia remake, which, uh... doesn't really look anything like the original.

That's because the Dissidia designs are based on the Amano artwork. See also: Blond Terra.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Rav EX is honestly one of my favourite fights in the game, alongside a few others like T9, Ultima Weapon Bard Mode, and The Singularity Reactor.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I ran into a bard using their Novus in Fractal once. It was a very long Fractal.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Sarrisan posted:

I'm talking about things before my time, but this is basically how the 24-man raids worked before too, right? To give people without the time/inclination to grind esoes and savage the ability to catch-up. If it just gave law- equivalent poo poo then what's the point?

Yep, the ilevel for CT gear was i80/i100/i120.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Tenzarin posted:

So void dark lvl 2 will be ilvl 200, haha. Why the gently caress do they have the 24 come out after the eso gear comes out?

Er, no? Each CT was 10 ilevels lower than the current 8 man raid. There is no way 3.1 Void Ark is not going to be i200 gear.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Colgate posted:

So I've been listening to thread and have been mixing in some Cleric Stance damage while I level my CNJ (recently now WHM) in duties. However, it feels like certain instances I just can't seem to do much of that in without damage piling up, and almost having people die (Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, in particular, seems to make me pay attention to healing, as well as certain guildhests. Haukke Manor seems fine though). I wish there was a way to gauge if I'm doing something wrong. Should I hitting Esuna every time I see poison and such pop up? That runs my MP a bit low.

The poison in Toto-Rak is a special case. If you cleanse the tank (or whoever the highest enmity target is) during the coeurl fights, the boss will immediately use its poison ability again.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Jetamo posted:

I play from the UK with a connection that can best be described as "two sheep licking each other's balls". I am the best at Titan EX.

Just think of it as training in the hyperbolic lag chamber. :downs:

Back when I was first doing T10, I was still on a 230 kb/s connection. Shielding double Preys was an... enlightening experience.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I really miss the days when we had crit on SCH weapons.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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nuru posted:

They did it again? :stare:

Ayyup.

quote:

Paladin weapon : Sword of the Heavens - Strength + 75, Vitality + 79, Determination + 66, Critical_Hit_Rate + 49 (75 physical damage, 52 magical damage, 2.24 sec delay.)
Paladin Shield: 30 strength, 31 vitality, 28 skill speed, 19 parry, 199 block rate, 549 block
Monk weapon: Knuckles of the Heavens: 105 Strength, 110 Vitality, 97 Crit, 65 determination.
Marauder weapon: Axe of the Heavens - 105 Strength, 110 Vitality. 97 Skill Speed, 68 Crit.
Dragoon weapon: Halberd of the Heavens - 105, 110, 97 crit, 65 determination.
Bard: Bow of the heavens, 105 dex, 110 vit, 93 det, 68 crit (68 Physical Damage, 52 Magic Damage, 3.04 delay)
Rogue: Daggers of the Heavens, 105 dex, 110 vit, 93 det, 68 crit
Dark Knight: Claymore of the heavens, 105 str, 110 vit, 97 crit, 68 parry
Machinist: Heavensfire - 105 dex, 110 vit, 93 det, 68 crit (68 Physical Damage, 52 Magic Damage, 2.48 delay)
White Mage: Cane of the Heavens - 105 mind, 99 vitality, 97 spell speed, 75 piety (75 phys, 104 magic, 3.44 delay)
Black Mage: Staff of the heavens, 105 int, 99 vit, 97 spellspeed, 68 crit (75 phys, 104 magic, 3.28 delay)
Summoner: Grimoire of the HEavens - 105 int, 99 Vit, 97 Crit, 65 determination (75/104/3.12 delay)
Scholar: 105 Mind, 99 Vit, 93 Det, 75 Piety (75/104/3.12 delay)
Astrologian: 105 Mind, 99 Vitality, 97 Crit, 75 Piety (75/104/3.20)

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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It's kinda weird that the final boss of Void Ark was the easiest. When I did it with a group of completely new players earlier, it was the only big fight we didn't wipe on at least once.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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My main experience with Diadem so far is fighting a Forgotten Wisent in a cave, which was a hilarious disaster where everybody died multiple times and some guy was whining about people aggroing crabs.

So yeah, Diadem is great.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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The main issue I have with the 40-50 stretch is that SV and DD are boring as hell, and I have had way too many hour long AV runs to willingly go in there.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I've run into BLMs doing around 350 DPS before. On Faust.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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DACK FAYDEN posted:

...oh my god I have to play Lord of Verminion

I forgot to look up how to get that penguin!

Can you farm tournament wins or will I have to like, pay people or something?

You only need 10 wins per tournament, so unless you're completely awful it shouldn't be that hard.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Truga posted:

Selene is a better tank than most paladins anyway, I don't see the issue.

Can confirm, fairies are infinitely better at tanking adds in Garuda EX.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Dante Logos posted:

So that's why some tanks pull away from my AOE! I was kinda wondering why that was a thing.

Nah, that's just the reaction some people have to bubbles. See also: People who refuse to stand in Sacred Soil.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I saw a 210 slaying earring in Diadem once where the sole substat was 11 skill speed. It makes me wonder just how low the stat floor on Diadem items is.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Oxygen Deficiency posted:

Any word yet on what ilevel the relics are starting off?

The base weapon is i170, with the completed relic at i210. After you've done the second step, it's i200.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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SwissArmyDruid posted:

Servers up, apparently they didn't need the extra one and a half hours after all.

I don't see any patch notes, though...

quote:

The following issue has been fixed:

・Summoning retainers would prevent the player from interacting with or summoning the retainers again.
・Under certain conditions, character names in the Friend List and Black List, as well as on sent and received letters would not be displayed properly.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I think my biggest question about that screenshot is "Why is Miasma II on 1?"

I mean, I have a lot of questions about that screenshot, but I don't want to look at it for too long.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Pews posted:

Is it a huge pain to make the sky pirate gear? Was about to just buy some pants off the MB for glamour but I figured they were probably a rip-off for NQ

The main barrier to making it is that they're specialist 2* crafts. Some of the mats are diadem mats, but that's not too big a deal.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Vil posted:

As annoying as it is in Qarn, it's even more annoying to get that from a level 60 tank. I'm totally forgiving of poor AoE threat in baby dungeons and somewhat understanding in the 30s (though they really ought to be getting the idea by then), but it's downright ridiculous to be level 60 and still not know how to keep everything pissed at you.

For some reason they really want to be edgelord DPS I guess it very often seems to be DRKs who have this issue. Which is extra hilarious since DRK threat is so strong you basically never need to use your single-target threat combo in the first place.

I've met a surprising amount of 50+ tanks who I've pulled aggro from simply from dropping Bane and Shadow Flare. Which I guess is slightly better than pulling aggro on single targets through Energy Drain and Broil at least.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Holyshoot posted:

The Japanese one disbanded as well?

https://twitter.com/Darkwis00/status/684414276606414848

Loosely translated:

quote:

The reasoning for disbanding the raid group is because of management of the group and my personality was purely garbage. Therefore I would like to apologize to the members of the raid who got affected by this. It has nothing to do with if we in general have caused any trouble nor does it have to do with being bored with FFXIV. I would like to believe even after disbanding that we are able to build a new community with new members for Raid Composition in the future

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Aphrodite posted:

I've seen people in FC chat asking for others to come join them in the guild house while they craft.

Why is that? Is there some kind of buff they're triggering?

It's a pain to hunt someone down to give them the finished item, and you can only send mail to people on your friends list.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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You should use Of Dragon's Deep or Bug Girl.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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A Moose posted:

I've just discovered the only title I could ever want: Punch Rockgroin, The Meat Axe! Problem is, you get it from running 50 high level dungeons. Does that count all the current content too, or just things that were current back then? Is that still obtainable? I'm only level 40 right now so it would be cool if I could get the best title in the game without having to solo old stuff 50 times.

The content that applies towards the tank mounts/titles is all 8 man raid content (except Turn 3), and all Ex primals. So you can either run a whole bunch of Coil once you hit 50, or wait till 60 and run Alexander normal mode for them.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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a kitten posted:

Anyone can (or maybe just the leader?).

Yeah, anyone can use signs. You'll sometimes see it with whoever's doing doors in Lost City. (Well, did, when people used to actually have to do doors.)

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Screw WAR, Eos is the real tank of choice.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Parsers are good because seeing SCH AoE numbers never gets old. Seeing a BLM do 400 DPS in EXDR does though, so I guess it's 50/50.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Yeah, Shadow Flare is your highest potency ability after Bio II and Miasma, (and the second highest potency ability that can't miss), so you really want to keep it up.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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It's just a shame that, even at 60, there are tanks who insist on standing just outside of Shadow Flare for some reason.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I think my favourite variant of that complaint is the claim that healer DPS doesn't significantly speed up a run, as if 25% of the party's total DPS is just a minor drop in the bucket.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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I'm just waiting for the miraculous day where a bard actually plays Foe's for me. The last time I remember that happening was back in... 2.4?, in Lost City, and the PLD told him to stop because we didn't have any magic DPS.

Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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Truga posted:

I have no idea how AST fares though. Is Gravity their only AoE option?

Well, they can CC Blizz 2, but that would be kinda pointless, so.

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Saigyouji
Aug 26, 2011

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The worst movement skill is Repelling Shot because a Bard used it whilst tethered to me in T11 once.

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