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Tekne posted:The tater in Eureka seemed to have a revelation when he recalled that they called the entity an eikon instead of a primal. Isn't Odin such an entity along with the Warring Triad? Yup. By the definition Unukalhai uses, Odin's not just a simple Primal, but a true eikon. What differentiates eikons from Primals is still flimsy, but the one thing we do know is that eikons are more powerful than Primals.
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Philonius posted:Isn't eikon just the Garlean world for primal? Technically it's the allagan word for primal, but Garlemald wants to be Allag 2.0, ideally without the self-destructing.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:39
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"Primals cannot be suffered to live!" - Garlemald "Let's model ourselves after the people who decided to use Primals as batteries and use their exact same methods and machinery." - Garlemald The fact that Xande made a pact with THE DAMNED makes me wonder if Varis is going to do the same and become a reference to Mateus taking over Hell.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Yoshida's done a good job but it's getting blatantly stagnant. It's also about 200k active subscribers ahead of where Heavensward was at around the same point in the patch cycle, and is likely producing a lot more in profits from Mogstation purchases. Businesses, by their very nature, are conservative institutions until they're forced to be otherwise. Neither Yoshida nor any theoretical replacement is going to rock the boat by introducing dramatic changes to the formula that's continuing to make them money.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:09
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I don't think the issue is yoship, but rather Komoto keeping large swathes of the game anchored firmly in game design ideas from 15 years ago. He'd be hard to displace but imo that would be the personnel change that would make the biggest difference, if we're going to talk about things that players have exactly zero input or influence over. Yoship isn't going anywhere unless he's promoted up to a position that prevents him from having any time for FFXIV. He's a rock star inside SQEX since he basically saved the company from bankruptcy. The formula for updates may be getting a bit stale but it's hard to argue he's been doing a bad job given the results.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:36
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I can't believe we still have TWO more eureka zones to slog through. Each one probably worse than the last I also only realized last night that you need 31 total light grind crystals to finish out a pagos weapon. I'm legit impressed that pagos has 3 different garbage grinds at once all in one singular piece of terrible content
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Sep 7, 2018 14:38
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Leofish posted:I've just found myself with maybe one or two of a bunch of little things like threads or raw mats. Not always enough to make something but I've got RPG potion syndrome with it. "I might need it later." With 1676/1708/493 before matcha hq and cp hq medicine can craft 35 and 70 durability 3* hq crafts with little to no hq mat requirements. as for making money, go find a hole in the mb and fill it. I was making crimson ciders and matchas over the weekend and I noticed that cumin seeds weren't on the MB, I think I sold ~350k's worth at 3500+ per mat. there's a bunch of furniture that has cheap mats, so that's an avenue. making levekits is not a bad route either; i was selling hq linen shirts for ~35k a pop. That said, we are on the cusp of a new patch so having lots of raw mats on hand is going to be a solid investment. Competing at the pointy end of the high end gear market in a patch lull is really rough; it took me 3 weeks to sell a HQ sledge that started at 1.1 million and eventually sold for 700k after changing the price twice a day. Phone fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 14:56
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Never giving a poo poo about relics has never served me better than in the era of Eureka
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Blockhouse posted:Never giving a poo poo about relics has never served me better than in the era of Eureka  Between that and not caring about housing, my brain is really saving me some trouble
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Blockhouse posted:Never giving a poo poo about relics has never served me better than in the era of Eureka I was pumped to finally get a neato glowing weapon for my DRK, but SE can gently caress right off with another light grind, let alone one inside Eureka. Think I'll just keep waiting for them to release crafted glowy versions of the Sophic weapons and call it a day...
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Unless they nerf the hell out of the pagos grinds, the next two eureka zones are probably going to run into some real population issues. Plenty of people I think eventually just knocked out anemos but pagos is just too much bullshit for most people
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Sep 7, 2018 16:23
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Am i the only person who thinks the games updates being predictable both in content and frequency is a good thing?
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Farg posted:Am i the only person who thinks the games updates being predictable both in content and frequency is a good thing? No, I'm with you. I don't see a problem with knowing what's coming as long as what's coming is, like, good. If all of the new content was bad or mediocre I could understand this disappointment but aside from Eureka, Skalla, and Return to Ivalice's story bits I think everything in SB has been great. Now "I would like more of everything" is definitely a complaint I understand far more than "it's predictable".
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Yeah exactly, patch 5.3 will have the second part of the 8 man raid, some new dungeoms, new msq, etc. But it will probably be of good quality so that's great!
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So there is some new speculation happening based on the patch trailer. If you couldn’t make out the dialog in the background, in English it is: “That way... sorrow... history must be changed. Ahead looms light, expunging all form and life. Twin dooms only you can forestall... a new you. Throw wide the gates so that we may pass. Ahead looms a calamity.” Could this mean time travel?
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Mordiceius posted:So there is some new speculation happening based on the patch trailer. That sounds exactly like Elidibus' argument that the WoL is doing too much good and will doom the world as a result. I have no idea who the speaker is but I'd not be surprised if it's Elidibus-Zenos offering some sort of pact to make a badness happen. My guess is convincing Varis to let them turn him into the Emperor of Hell. Thundarr fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Mordiceius posted:So there is some new speculation happening based on the patch trailer.
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:I can't believe we still have TWO more eureka zones to slog through. Each one probably worse than the last And you can't even start the light grind in earnest until 25. 
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Sep 7, 2018 17:27
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If you watch the Japanese 4.4 trailer (and either know the Japanese voice acting or look up a video on it) it becomes pretty obvious that the spooky voice is Zenos
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Blockhouse posted:If you watch the Japanese 4.4 trailer (and either know the Japanese voice acting or look up a video on it) it becomes pretty obvious that the spooky voice is Zenos Clearly my guess is correct then. 
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Sep 7, 2018 18:15
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Blockhouse posted:Now "I would like more of everything" is definitely a complaint I understand far more than "it's predictable". The predictable argument is mostly born from being a bitter vet who's been with the game long enough that the fancy splendor of stuff is wearing thin and you're just seeing the same old same old framework underneath. I was tearing up in joy at the splendor of the Chaos/Omega fights so while I am a veteran of the game I am certainly not bitter enough to find that awesome laser lightshows are no longer awesome
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Sep 7, 2018 18:26
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Mordiceius posted:So there is some new speculation happening based on the patch trailer. If there's going to be time travel, it makes sense it'd be in the patch where Chaos is a boss.
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Farg posted:Am i the only person who thinks the games updates being predictable both in content and frequency is a good thing? It's an MMO. You're in the overwhelming majority. So am I.
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Farg posted:Am i the only person who thinks the games updates being predictable both in content and frequency is a good thing? Predictable content = bad. Predictable frequency = very good. You know when to come back but you also know exactly what you're coming back to
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I'm 100% fine with things like "the next update will have an Alliance Raid" as long as they're varying up the story, setting, mechanics etc. I also like the idea of mixing some new ideas, just not when said new ideas are actually really old ideas which we moved on from for a reason.
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Depends whether you mean predictable in terms of fundamental gameplay, or predictable in terms of "story/quests are predictable/boring." The former is only bad if you dislike the gameplay, but otherwise it's a "dont fix what's not broken" situation.
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Unpredictable content got us Diadem and Verminion and Diadem again and two flavors of Eureka If it looks like a duck...
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Sep 7, 2018 20:57
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Sep 7, 2018 20:58
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Lizard Wizard posted:I just hit 50 on my black mage, how should I be using Flare? If memory serves your aoe rotation is now T4, F3, Flare, Convert, Flare, ether, Flare, transpose, repeat. Fire 2 sucks poo poo.
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Sep 7, 2018 21:02
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IIRC finish an Astral phase with it, ideally Swiftcast and on multiple targets
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I’m having some audio issues. The launcher doesn’t play music, and the background music misses soft notes or cuts out completely. I thought it might be a problem with my PS4 or my TV monitor, but it only seems to apply to FFXIV. I got no idea how to troubleshoot this.
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Rainuwastaken posted:If memory serves your aoe rotation is now T4, F3, Flare, Convert, Flare, ether, Flare, transpose, repeat. isk posted:IIRC finish an Astral phase with it, ideally Swiftcast and on multiple targets Ethers are part of my rotation? I never would have guessed.
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If you want to get wild, yes. You can do perfectly well without them by using the last bit of your MP in Astral on Flare.
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DrakePegasus posted:I’m having some audio issues. The launcher doesn’t play music, and the background music misses soft notes or cuts out completely. I thought it might be a problem with my PS4 or my TV monitor, but it only seems to apply to FFXIV. I got no idea how to troubleshoot this. was it working fine before they changed how the files are stored on PS4? Maybe things got corrupted and you need to verify the files(Assuming you can do that on ps4).
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Lizard Wizard posted:Ethers are part of my rotation? I never would have guessed. It lets you squeeze out an extra flare every 3 minutes (or whatever the cool down on ethers is) but honestly it’s not a big deal if you forget. Still, unless you’re using your ethers up on other classes, no reason not to use the suckers.
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Gally posted:was it working fine before they changed how the files are stored on PS4? Maybe things got corrupted and you need to verify the files(Assuming you can do that on ps4). It was. I’ll see what I can do about that when I get home. My sis thought I should uninstall and reinstall it, but I’ll try anything else first because that’ll take forever.
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Lizard Wizard posted:Ethers are part of my rotation? I never would have guessed. I crafted a couple hundred of them a few months back and just smash the button whenever it's available, because dropping four consecutive flares and a foul on a trash pack is delightful. Using a single target Flare at the end of your Astral Fire section is dicey because you're waiting on a mana tick afterwards; it's technically higher damage than Fire 1 but it's so clunky I wouldn't recommend it. Against trash packs, Flare is your entire Astral Fire section. Even with the whole depreciating damage on multiple targets thing, Flare is so strong that it makes Fire 2 completely worthless. Fire 2 was usable until they made Transpose have an 8 second cooldown, but nowadays you can just drop nukes and refresh your thunder dots all day long. This only gets more flare-heavy when you eventually hit 68 and can spend umbral hearts to stop flare from draining your entire MP pool.
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