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petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
You'll also be getting xp from said quests with buying the expansion.

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petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Eimi posted:

The fact that IV is 3s cast, so .5 more, and doesn't mess with astral/umbral makes me worried about movement. But at least Hellioning is right. If its bad itll get buffed.

Two blizzard IVs means 75 seconds of enochian, so it'll be back up to use again, so keeping it up at all times is completely brainless. Add that each fire IV is more potency than flare, along with 5% damage from enochian, and fire I buff, and BLM single target got super buffed. Add in ley lines and sharpcast every 60 seconds too.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Mordiceius posted:

How are the new crafting/gathering leves? I was reading that going from 50-52 is like the big hump that's hard to get past. So I thought it might be easier if I just power through those two levels with leves.

As far as i can tell you should just ignore leves past 50 and just do collectables. Though I've only tried fisher so far.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Pierson posted:

So for those at 60 already what can people realistically solo?

I've found a lot of 50 things can be duo'd well enough, and almost everything below can be solo'd easily. There's the odd thing occasionally like Titan's gaols cause an instant wipe you can't do too much about. Main problem i get is the damage adding up over time so I think a healer could solo things I couldn't.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Minrad posted:

Oh, and actually looking around Asyz Lla, there's some pretty obvious spoilers for what the 3.1 raid bosses will look like if you weren't paying close enough attention at the end of the MSQ.

http://imgur.com/a/vfL92

Statues carved in the likeness of the Warring Triad, the first three primals the Allagans bound who Archbishop Thordan woke up before you fight him. I'm sure the gigantic angel wings on the central tower don't mean anything... (Kefka's Tower raid confirmed :hellyeah:)

That's brought up in the ex primals story, so not so sure.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Ciaphas posted:

Lore question, did the continent of Meracydia ever have humanoid inhabitants, or was it all dravanian from the word go? I'm wondering what our prospects are of going there in the future.

The Miqo'te came from there in the fifth umbral era.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Fister Roboto posted:

scholar would be a dps class that hits enemies with their books

You mean they aren't?

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUN8hLVpye4
Alexander might be cool.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

nuru posted:

Any word on whether the new X-Ethers / X-Potions / Raid food require specialization to craft?

Nothing does currently, you can craft everything fine with or without specializations.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Captain Oblivious posted:

Which is why omnicrafting isn't going anywhere and this whole specialization system is completely ineffective. Unless they tie it in more with red scrip gear and mastery books, it's going to be pretty ignorable I suspect.

That's because the point wasn't to make it so people can't omnicraft, but make it so people don't have to. The specialist skills are to make up for not having cross classes.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Every Alexander group I know that knows what they're doing still wants a bard or machinist, so I'm pretty sure the sky isn't falling like people seem to think it is.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Erg posted:

People keep saying this, but I think it only applies if your highest level character is 50 or above.

Unless the new armory bonus is tied to buying the HW expansion for some reason.

Nope, if your highest class is level 2 your level 1 classes will get 100% bonus.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Eej posted:

That's what happens when you kill one. You have to try to kill them close together. e: timing, that is, not position

They'll also both self destruct if your dps is absolute garbage.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Mr. Nice! posted:

I'm not at home but I'll take a look next time I get online and compare. I do have CT fall off usually before I get it back on, but not usually more than one GCD.

Clipping Disembowel/CT is still definitely better than letting them fall off at all.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Stormgale posted:

You don't need expansion to go above 50,

This is incorrect.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Use Eye always. You'll never be hit hard enough in most content to need Path. And even when you do need Path, just use it for a move coming up and then go back to alternating Eye and BB.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

This works well for me with my mmo mouse. I have a seperate bar with limit break and pvp skills. Still need to move things around a bit on the right side to make room for strength potions.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Holyshoot posted:

Play warrior if you enjoy not being allowed to hit any of your oGCD's because they will interrupt your 123.

I have no idea what this means.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
HT > RoT > DS spam, but pop blood to buff jumps and a pop a geirskogul. Assuming you don't need to save it for something soon.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Goblin jigs work well but brute leeches from blue scrips are 10000x better.

This is true for red scrips fish too. Never leave home without brute leeches.

petcarcharodon fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Aug 4, 2015

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Mordiceius posted:

Do the fish for Feast of Famine need to be HQ or is NQ acceptable?

I'd have literally killed myself if I had to get those HQ.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Pigbottom posted:

Is good to know It's not just me. Also, acording to this it seems there is an alternative way of unlocking Amdapor Keep: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/117761-Unlocking-dungeons

They simplified it to one way a long time ago.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/259453-Shame-on-you....

This is a good thread.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Friend of mine started leveling ninja recently. We noticed something interesting about the armor crush animation today.



Compare: https://i.gyazo.com/f29e3eebf090ac055c95c8b34f2609cc.mp4

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Heavy Thrust > Chaos Thrust combo > Phlebotomize > Full Thrust combo > Full Thrust combo > repeat works well for me for non blood of the dragon rotation. The 2.0 rotation works too but I feel with the new durations on some moves this works better.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Mr. Nice! posted:

I tried this out a few times on a dummy just to check it out and there are a couple of problems. I have a 2.37 gcd right now, but heavy thrust is still dropping before I'm able to reapply it. If I was any slower, it would drop before the second full thrust can hit. That is more damage lost than the one tick of phlebotomize that you clip if you go to the 2.x rotation. I don't know that it's possible to be fast enough to keep the heavy thrust buff up through three full combos, so you end up with a slight dps loss. In my runs on the dummy, yours came out about 15-20 dps lower. Not significant, but this also is a case with no moving

Decided to give it another test. Parsing only potency, mine ended up higher by one or two potency at 2.40 GCD. Definitely not a big difference but a difference nonetheless.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Mr. Nice! posted:

Check your crit rate. I had a few outliers with 2% crit and one with over 30%. That's why I ran it a few times to test. I'm not saying that it's necessarily bad to use that rotation, but if you have to move at all, you're definitely dropping heavy thrust on more than one GCD and that is bad.

It's a pps parse, so crit doesn't matter.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

kafziel posted:

...Different attacks have different crit rates...

This is not actually true.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Might as well get used to leaving it on obey anyways since Garuda will have no idea how to use Contagion.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Nice to see Diabolos again. I can't wait to see 24 people loving up doors now.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
As Adders on aether datacenter my experience is that we can't win even if luck is on our side in every possible way.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
It's relatively common advice to save your sidequests for another job. That's the least efficient way to do things however since the armory bonus is a thing that exists.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Kirin has mount music now. It's the 2.0 main title music. That's interesting.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I think it's quite evident that the next patch's MSQ will be quite Ul'dah-focused, with the Yda and Papalymo stinger.

I assumed that was supposed to be a hint for 4.0 and Ala Migho liberation.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
You might as well go full anime fantasy in your anime fantasy MMO and be the pretty cat/dragongirl you always dreamed of being.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Ignimbrite posted:

So Exodus's Idylshire got a little bored:


This is new and interesting content.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

SonicRulez posted:

Where do you go to see this?

That's just steam. You can also use /playtime ingame to see the shameful amount of your life you've wasted.

petcarcharodon fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 7, 2016

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013
Looks like a translation error actually. All three other languages have a different quest listed.

petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Fister Roboto posted:

Chair close the thread

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petcarcharodon
Jun 25, 2013

Thundarr posted:

I kind of hope that Zurvan and Goddess in 3.3 and 3.4 get different mixes of the FF6 fierce battle theme if only so their birds don't all share the same music.

I'd assume they'd play the music for the second half of their respective fights.

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