Orcs and Ostriches posted:

So a few things I've noticed on AST.

Aspected benefic is loving expensive. 1440 MP at 70, vs 480 for benefic. It costs as much as helios.
Collective Unconsciousness seems to break as soon as I cast it a lot. Might be lag related, but it fails half the time for me now.
I've used Redraw during really laggy times, and it's given me the same card back. I haven't seen it happen when things are working nice, but it was pretty common over the weekend.

Tanks like moving out of Earthly Star. This is the best use of Rescue I've found so far.

M.c.P posted:

Marry someone good at jumping.

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

you could probably loving give people free subs and they'd still be hesitant to tank/heal and that issue is only compounded when you make three of the six non-dps roles Literally loving Garbage in the same expansion you introduce two cool-rear end dps jobs

ImpAtom posted:

Scholars are more than capable of keeping up with the damage output in the dungeons, they just have to actually use all their tools now. Emergency Measures and Dissapation now are something worth using instead of icing on a healing cake. A lot of Scholars are trying to play them exactly the way you could in HW and getting punched for it because SB expects you to be using more of your tools. It's absolutely a lot more work than it used to be but as a Scholar I've never had any trouble keeping up with healing unless my teammates are critically failing mechanics repeatedly (which is when healing should get outpaced)

Emergency Measures is on a 30s cooldown now and so should be used a lot more regularly than most scholars are using it. By not using it they're effectively turfing their healing ability. Likewise a lot of scholars are not manually controlling Eos and losing out on good regens. It's also worth remembering that Scholar shield can be incredibly hefty without actually showing up as health so a lot of the time you may be low but have a lot more effective health than it looks like, doubly so when you count their new ability that is a heal-below-50%. In general a major thing is that Scholars now should be using all their tools instead of DPSing while Eos does all the work/DPSing and occasionally using lustrate.

But seriously, if you are having trouble healing a Scholar, Emergencies Measures. It has a super-low cooldown now and is a huge-rear end heal. I've not done WHM or AST yet to say what their gimmicks are but I'm willing to bet "press the buttons you previously ignored" is relevant there.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

It was trash that was going to get pulled, it's in the way so you can't skip it. Pulling it before your tank is very dishonest.

Mordiceius posted:

The death of Cleric Stance has been so loving nice. Being able to effortlessly weave back and forth between damage and healing has been loving amazing.

It has also been a boon for PvP since we can actually occasionally kill people now.

UHD posted:

Haha motherfucking Estinien out of loving nowhere. Didn't think I'd see that guy again. Or that I'd be glad to.

cheetah7071 posted:

Just party with someone below 70 when you do trial roulette

slev posted:

I saw the dragoon tether buff for the first time and I kept running away from them because I thought it was a burning chains mechanic

Reiterpallasch posted:

does anyone remember when the reddit class balance brigade was swearing up and down they were quitting the game over whm nerfs

nuru posted:

If I could only get one thing it would be to make Fey Union activate quicker, rapidly fly to the target, and stay with the target.

OWLS! posted:

Are we back to the old MUH FUN PER HOUR bullshit? (or was it duties per hour? I don't remember.)

I mean, if you're brayfloxing dungeons, sure, maybe, but here's a reminder - back when ilvl90 and Brafylox HM runs were a thing - you didn't really have time to DPS as a healer, you literally just pressed ALL OF THE HEALING BUTTONS so that your tank would not die. The DPS as a healer meme during mass dungeon pulls in EX dungeons only came when you were out-ilvl-ing everything anyway.

These days I can throw out a shadowflare, and if I get precasting right I can Dot-instaDot-Bane Right as Excog trips and I actually have to start pushing the healing buttons, and I haven't out-ilvled content, so hey, I'll take that improvement.

Here's another unpopular opinion: Nerf Red Mage.

Reiterpallasch posted:

i'd love that, but considering how janky literally everything else involving the fairy is, i'm not sure that one's within their power to fix

e: there's no real point sitting on it, i guess, since this is pretty well-known in some circles and nobody's chasing world firsts--pets in ffxiv inherit their summoner's stats. someone probably forgot that healers could still meld direct hit, which must've made fairies resort to some completely nonsensical placeholder data or something, because a trivial quantity of direct hit currently causes the fairy to get 100% direct hits on fey union ticks.
there's no way this doesn't get nerfed.

nuru posted:

So did every MNK go SAM? I haven't seen a MNK since SB came out.

vOv posted:

Make it yell out quotes and 'attack' when you're in combat.

^{_{Dance to the song of ringing steel!}}

Augus posted:

Beating the 2nd boss of Bardam's Mettle without messing up should be a mandatory requirement in order to do raids and expert trials tbqh

Mr. Nice! posted:

Also remember the level 70 dungeons drop lots of i300 gear.

Augus posted:

maybe if you're bad!
you're off the team, Hobbes!

Shy posted:

That's kinda like whm, I'm just happy I have a branch with flowers on my screen

Dr Pepper posted:

Excuse me but Dancer needs to be the next healer.

_{Seriously though, any new healer needs to be something other than another flavor of spellcaster.}

Mordiceius posted:

I wish I could hit these people in the face with a brick.

Fister Roboto posted:

This reasoning is bullshit for the reason you said, it could just be a damage penalty. The real reason is that they want tanks to do poo poo damage. You can probably count on them fixing the 270 slaying problem by making all jewelry role locked.

UHD posted:

Wonder how many Ishgardian peons died making that thing.

Toshimo posted:

ImpAtom posted:

Scholar really does feel a lot better when fully geared. Honestly at this point I feel like if they buff it more than a feather-touch it's going to explode.

EponymousMrYar posted:

Meanwhile in Bertram's Mettle I've had a string of DRK's that don't use Abyssal Drain. Like, at all.

Only one of them held AoE threat decently.

vOv posted:

You mean it doesn't affect Lustrate/Tetra/Essential Dignity? That's surprising.

Shy posted:

Does the game prohibit you from rolling on minions, mounts, music rolls etc., things you already learned? Like it does for unique equipment.

ilifinicus posted:

just a reminder that when they say "1k tenacity" that means you need it to say 1364 on your character sheet because the base amount doesn't count

cheetah7071 posted:

If it's 320 then bolts are worthless

Mordiceius posted:

Tip for rolling on loot in Omega - let all all the other rolls go before you roll on the items you want so that eliminates some of your competition.

If you're going in wanting a spring and a Spring, Spring, Crank, and Lens drop, some people are going to roll need on all 4. So you'll have competition across all four. Pass on the Lens and the Crank and let the rolls play out on those before you roll need on the Springs as that will be two less potential rolls on the Springs.

Harrow posted:

Gah, how did I forget Sacred Soil? My first job to 50 was SCH