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FactsAreUseless posted:Bad things about Stormblood Those are all good things, actually.
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I don't think it's reasonable to expect a completely problem free first day of a popular MMO expansion, but it's also really loving stupid that they put in an instance bottleneck basically at the start of the MSQ, especially when the MSQ gates pretty much everything in the expansion. It's amazing to me because HW had two different quest chains at the start with two different solo instances in order to avoid this exact problem. It's like they did the exact opposite of learning a lesson.
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Jun 16, 2017 21:08
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super sweet best pal posted:Bwahahahaha! It's like all my namedays have come at once!
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Jun 16, 2017 21:36
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Blattdorf posted:The Block of Ala Mhigo.  Also shut up Mordicius, SE doesn't need you to white knight them. They hosed up and as a result a lot of people are blocked out of 99% of the expansion they expected to be playing today. A lot of those people planned around that expectation, taking off from work or whatever else. It loving sucks.
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Jun 16, 2017 22:59
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Heavensward launch was smooth as butter compared to this shitshow.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:24
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I'd honestly rather get booted from the server every 15 minutes if it meant I could get past this single stupid plot battle.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:28
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This is all due to a massive influx of new subscriptions thanks to Mrs. Freshley.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:45
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There's an unspoiled botany node that spawns just south of Raubahn, and if there are too many people around him it will get culled.
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Jun 17, 2017 00:33
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Made it past Raubahn, thought things would get better, but nope, there's just a handful of fetch quests and then you get another story battle. It's really astounding how badly they hosed this up.
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Jun 17, 2017 03:36
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I'm glad SS2 is dead because every bad white mage would start off a dungeon by slowcasting it and then yelling at me for not waiting for protect. If only protect could get the same treatment.
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Jun 17, 2017 04:01
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this works really well on loop
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Jun 17, 2017 05:05
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They're not going to change a thing because this is a problem that hopefully won't exist in a few days. All we can do is pray that they maybe spread things out a bit in 5.0 like in Heavensward (which I'm beginning to believe was just a fluke and not intentional), or perhaps that they use all the money they rake in from story skip services and advertising with Mrs. Freshley to upgrade their equipment.
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Jun 17, 2017 14:47
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Reene posted:Hello I have come to join you in this dead gay anime catgirl simulator. I play Johanna Nyave. For the love of god don't buy a story skip until they fix the MSQ bottleneck.
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Jun 17, 2017 15:30
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kaempfer0080 posted:I got SAM to 60 yesterday and now I, too, am cockblocked by cold steel. Can you get in if you keep spamming? Trying to decide if I should go for that, or level SAM other ways, or just go gather. Don't try to spam it if you value your time or sanity. Just do something else, whether in game or irl.
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Jun 17, 2017 16:00
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macfam posted:Can someone explain why AoE attacks always do less damage to each enemy instead of doing a flat amount of damage to every enemy inside its effect? Because AOE is bad. Please respect the content.
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Jun 17, 2017 18:10
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Serves you right for getting on board before it debarks.
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Jun 18, 2017 00:26
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A QUEST INTO THE SLOT. ITS BEST SERVED WITH COLD STEEL AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, RAUBAHN. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME GARLEAN BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED EORZEAS MOST DANGEROUS PRISON. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY GUILD CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN GUILD CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng
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Jun 18, 2017 02:17
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Blockhouse posted:I can't figure out what use if any Meditation has Try using it five times.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:26
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Hi, can we talk about how loving stupid it was to change tank AP back to 100% strength AND make jewelry locked by role? Because it's really loving stupid. It makes it so that good tanks will want to keep a set of 270 slaying jewelry (which is still all classes) because it's still best for dps. And they'll keep them either until the substats on fending jewelry outweighs the old slaying jewelry, or until they're getting one-shot through cooldowns. Or, most likely, until SE goes back and makes all jewelry role-locked.
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Jun 19, 2017 05:33
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Another big problem is that it really fucks over tanks in solo content.
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Jun 19, 2017 05:51
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Even if they make it so that savage bosses hit extra hard and tanks need a lot of HP to survive them, you still have the problem of excess HP being a waste. Like, if you need 50,000 HP to survive a tank buster, and you get some jewelry that increases your HP to 51,000, what does that extra 1,000 do for you? Absolutely nothing.
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Jun 19, 2017 06:39
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Minrad posted:petition to rename all the samurai abilities so they include "means x" in the name. like "Hakaze 'means downward slash'" or whatever the gently caress it means Same but also for red mage abilities. Mostly because I want the AOE ability to be translated literally as Little Windmill.
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Jun 19, 2017 06:53
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hobbesmaster posted:It lets you not die to the next auto attack. I'm assuming that 50k is enough to survive the tank buster and any followups. My point is that if X is enough for a tank to survive a fight, anything more than X is useless. DPS and healers will get jewelry upgrades that help make the fight faster, but tanks won't. Instead they get a slightly larger HP buffer. Exciting stuff.
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Jun 19, 2017 07:01
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I wonder how many folks on the writing team are fans of the Suikoden series, because the Stormblood storyline is basically a Suikoden game.
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Jun 19, 2017 17:06
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Captain Oblivious posted:Zenos does have kind of a Luca Blight thing going on I suppose. He's a lot more restrained than Luca of course, but he's got the whole "unstoppable beast of a man, and also crown prince of the bad guys" thing going on. I really hope the final battle against him is as epic as the one against Luca. Although Garlemald is a lot more like Harmonia than Highland I guess.
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Jun 19, 2017 17:38
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Ciaphas posted:My only real 'fear' re: sidequesting and lots of dungeons is that I might hit 70 before I finish the majority of the MSQ and 'waste' that XP Just do the MSQ until you hit a wall, then go back and do sidequests starting from the highest level ones. Definitely do sidequests that award aether currents ASAP, though, and fortunately it looks like none of those are hidden behind long chains now.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:37
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My god, the Azim Steppe is gorgeous.
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Jun 19, 2017 20:14
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Jun 19, 2017 20:32
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Jun 19, 2017 20:43
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Three days into the expansion and I've already been kicked from a party for not having enough HP as a tank. Great change SE, tanks doing too much damage really needed fixing.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:55
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Augus posted:what does your damage have to do with not having enough HP Since tank AP is back to 100% strength, you need to give up damage to get more HP, and vice versa.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:58
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I'd rather have more damage.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:01
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Have you considered that maybe SE made a really stupid change to solve a problem that didn't need to be fixed? I have seen very few if any people complain about tanks getting AP from vitality.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:04
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Die Sexmonster! posted:I mean, were you dying to a pull or a boss, or did they look at your HP and just decide you should have more? Not enough detail here for anyone to honestly comment. We made it past the first boss, and I died on the a trash pull. I was only pulling two packs at a time, so nothing too crazy. The white mage did zero dps, and one of the bards never used his songs. After the wipe the healer called me a retard for being undergeared and then they kicked me. Let me tell you it's really cool seeing people dogpile me for getting treated lovely by pubbies.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:22
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vOv posted:Yeah, I'm sure if tank damage used VIT then they would've been totally understanding and wouldn't have kicked you for some other idiotic reason. When tank AP was STR/VIT this was never a problem though. Before that change, I would do dungeons in DF in STR gear, and sometimes people would look at my HP and say "wow he must be an undergeared trash scrub, let's kick him" Die Sexmonster! posted:Come on man, dogpiled? It's three posters, and one of them is Mord. They don't even count as human. (Source: they logged into FC chat on Sunday and mocked people for trying to do the MSQ. "lol @ everyone who spammed Raubahn" IIRC. gently caress off) Yeah you're right, I'm just in a lovely mood right now. also lol
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Jun 19, 2017 22:32
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Farg posted:i mean, it says something that people in this thread are willing to side with pubbies over you Yeah, it tells me that people in this thread are just pubbies that gave $10 to lowtax. We wiped a single time, and the healer didn't say a single word until he complained that I was undergeared - I was wearing full 270 with a few 273s from quests up to this point. I couldn't possibly have better gear unless I dumped millions of gil on overpriced crafted gear for marginal benefit. I was even about to put on some vit jewelry when the healer decided to be an rear end in a top hat.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:36
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Reiterpallasch posted:even in weirdo str weight world, there's no way that 270 maiming accessories would be better than 350+ crafted fending accessories with str VIs melded, would there At some point yeah, the dps from fending acc substats plus a STR materia will outweigh the 270 slaying ones, especially with grade 6+ materia. The question is where that point lies. If we're still below that point, it would still be better to wear slaying accs if you can survive the fight with them, because any extra HP on top of that is almost useless. I'm 100% willing to adapt if I actually need the HP to survive, so it's not like I'm being overly stubborn here. In the next dungeon run I did actually put on some vit stuff because we were struggling. It's just that I think it's a really lovely change that didn't need to happen at all.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:54
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Here's what I actually posted yesterday just for the record.Fister Roboto posted:Hi, can we talk about how loving stupid it was to change tank AP back to 100% strength AND make jewelry locked by role? Because it's really loving stupid. It makes it so that good tanks will want to keep a set of 270 slaying jewelry (which is still all classes) because it's still best for dps. And they'll keep them either until the substats on fending jewelry outweighs the old slaying jewelry, or until they're getting one-shot through cooldowns. Apparently that's enough to get people here angry, for whatever reason.
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Jun 20, 2017 00:09
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Minrad posted:what if both fister and the pubbie are both wrong Well, yeah, I was wrong. Going straight STR and pulling multiple packs was a pretty bad idea. I just don't like people in DF who go straight from silent to rear end in a top hat over a single wipe.
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 The white mage AF "pants" return in all their glory.
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