JT Jag posted:

I'm looking forward to just being able to toss Flare for free thanks to Umbral Hearts

I'm also Pretty Pumped for Warrior. Twice as much Wrath as before? Sounds good!!!

a kitten posted:

We went a whole expansion and i never saw one person named Heaven Sward.
Disappointing.

e:

Foul isn't a very exciting name for my new big BLM spell.

Tsurupettan posted:

okay literally when i posted it, it didn't work. and it does now. it also didn't work for other people i asked. so this is one of those times when i complain and it instantly backfires.

i can tell you that for the 30+ minutes prior, the shortened links went to a non-existent page.

OWLS! posted:

Oh wait I'm dumb, it's still there. Just no more bloodbath.

Bloodbath, no!

Meiteron posted:

Good news for warriors! Your beast gauge does NOT time out like stacks used to. So you can stockpile 100 gauge and then walk around with it, and the next mob you see can instantly get three cleaves right to the face if you fold in infuriate.

Bad news for warriors: you know that extremely distracting Super Saiyan aura you generate when you picked up stacks previously? Yeah, you're basically going to be running around in that, all the time. All. The. Time.

Choyi posted:

Fancy hats?

SonicRulez posted:

We won't get stuff like Bartz minion and the PS4 wallpaper until the official release, right?

Mordiceius posted:

According to a Kotaku interview, YoshiP said Blitzball will come eventually but they can't decide if they want to make it a sport game or a team management game.

Edit: holy gently caress this new avatar is amazing.

Saucer Crab posted:

Mods please change this thread title to "idiot game for idiot people, but like a beta" too, thanks.

Fat_Cow posted:

i've been using this autohotkey script for over 6 hours on my desktop, no luck. Jesus Christ Square.

TheHeadSage posted:

I keep forgetting I have AOE thunder now at lower levels, but when I do remember, man does poo poo die even faster.

victrix posted:

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/cherry-mx-rubber-o-ring-switch-dampeners-125pcs.html

(ignore the pricing there, just the product)

The different mech keys have different sound profiles, I have a keyboard at work with zero resistance (no 'click') keys that have O rings and my office mate doesn't want to kill me (so far anyway).


Some years back I had a lovely laptop that had the most amazing micro-switch keys I've ever used in my life. I would absolutely love a full size keyboard with low profile keys that had those switches, it was so comfortable to use. The craptacular apple keyboard does not count.

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

i mean, paladin could do literally everything in HW, but by and large people really didn't bring them in progression content. can you explain why that is? spoilers: it's because ease of completion is a much more useful balancing metric than just ability of completion. i don't doubt that all of the tank jobs *can* clear all of the content, but if paladin can clear it x times easier than the other tanks, why bring the other tanks? i don't doubt a static of like seven other people you know would be fine with you playing warrior, or whatever, but if you don't think there will be a noticeable difference come raid-time when one of the tank classes does 25 percent more damage, survives way better than the others, is barely reliant on burst windows to do their top dps, and can mitigate ridiculous damage for the rest of the raid, you've got your head buried in the sand.

Thundarr posted:

So they didn't fully math out how their system works and as a consequence the ideal rotation is to deliberately do things the "wrong" way? Or would this have otherwise negative consequences on your dps output? I haven't redmaged yet so I'm not sure if don't this screws you in some other way.

Blockhouse posted:

same with sen and kenki for SAM which while not quite as bad is still pretty annoying

Lemon-Lime posted:

smdh if you don't get a boner every time some giant elder evil rear end in a top hat does their ultimate attack and you shrug through it.

Also when raid-wide AoE happens and you see all the squishies drop to 25% HP and you barely lose a tenth of your hitpoints and go "huh, was that supposed to hit hard?"

amazeballs posted:

I also have hats turned off on my character.

Wangsbig posted:

they are not wrong

Velthice posted:

From what I hear, war is now the class that has to work harder to do the same damage as drk and not as much as pld. It also has the least amount of utility now that path has been changed and slashing isn't nearly as valuable anymore since the dps classes that want it now just apply it through their normal rotations,

Harrow posted:

FFXIV is a Final Fantasy fanservice festival, really. As far as I'm aware they didn't go to that well too often in FFXI, but I really enjoy it in XIV.

Every FFIX fan must have cracked up when they saw Ozma.

Aphrodite posted:

But they still won't give us Doomtrain.

hobbesmaster posted:

It should work for party members, then I could finally get the datacron sightseeing log entry on the top of the Kugane tower.

Zaphod42 posted:

Yes please! It'll also get you some items to help you level up a bit faster.

Can you PM me your email address?

Mystic Cave zOWNd posted:

Looks like people are having issues with a certain trial.

Harrow posted:

I'm starting to get the feeling that maybe removing the fun from two of the tank jobs (and one of the healer jobs) in the same expansion that introduces highly-anticipated and really fun DPS jobs might not have been the best idea.

I do wonder if the DPS queue situation is actually going to level itself out or not, because going by reactions to tank and Scholar changes, there are plenty of "tank and healer players" who're going to be much happier with a new home a DPS.

Thundarr posted:

This is anecdotal, but in the last week I have run into a unusually high number of healers who are struggling to heal, even the ones who make no attempt to dps. I don't know if I'm just having bad luck with getting mediocre healers or if something else is going on.

Count Bleck posted:

No see we were finally gonna have Man and Dragon Peace but then a pair of eyes got really mad and turned into a big angry dragon that was like gently caress PEOPLE GONNA GO TEAR UP ISHGARD.

Then it died and we continued as normal.came back as a different huge loving dragon that you will again fight for all of an expansion

SettingSun posted:

Basically if people aren't dead, the healer is doing their job fine. With the changes to Cleric Stance healers have even fewer excuses to not DPS.

SKULL.GIF posted:

Skanker posted:

I'm not gonna jerk off and say I'm a good healer but I've raided and I know AST in and out. Something is wrong and I know it. I just can't speed run a warrior going ham anymore and it is deeply upsetting.

Lemon-Lime posted:

Yeah, that's pretty hilarious.

The ideal solution to the missing Flash problem would be to give Overpower the area and animation of Devastation and then remove Inner Beast and the current Devastation entirely, and then just give Steel Cyclone and Fell Cleave different effects depending on stance, just like Equilibrium has different effects depending on stance.

This would also mean you have your Deliverance finishers from 52 onwards instead of getting them parcelled out over 52-60, so it'll never happen.

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

reading on reddit rn that fell cleave out of berserk is a dps loss, lmao

Infinity Gaia posted:

The Melee DPS "I do not want aggro anymore" button is competing with too many important skills for me. Although for non-MNK you probably don't care about Perfect North so they should have enough room for it.

(Before anyone asks, Second Wind, Invigorate, Goad, True North and Leg Sweep. I guess I COULD replace Leg Sweep, I don't use it that often, but eh)

Also it's not even "I do not want aggro anymore", it's more like "I wish to get less aggro for this specific 15 second window of time" which helps not at all for the other 105 seconds.

Brother Entropy posted:

papercuts don't need to be healed and it's not just a binary of 'has tank lost aggro', the more aggro you generate the more your tank potentially has to focus on being in their aggro generating stance and less in their dps stance

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

i kind of thought that there'd be more mechanics to stun or silence because, you know, that's like half of our role skills on tank, but you know i guess not

pissdude posted:

It's honestly kind of hosed up how rewarding PVP is. I've pretty much stopped doing all of my regular roulettes (except Frontlines roulette) at 70 because you can just queue for Shatter and get 50 verities win or lose. I've almost completely geared up my 70 SCH in verity gear within a day or so just spamming PVP, and plan on tackling the EX Primals by tonight. It kind of takes the piss out of the job quest gear you get and the dungeon upgrades etc, the upgrade path is just so easy and spammably short it's strange

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Final Trial mechanic question.

How does his Akh Morn attack work?

You definitely don't stack it like the rest of the time. It looks like it targets a tank and tethers a single person to them. Do they stack it? Do they both take damage?

Harrow posted:

It's more that I'm trying to finish the 3.x stuff so I can finally start Stormblood and I don't really want to spend a few hours queuing for 50/60 dungeons to finish the quests. I only really wanted to unlock them for when I do the 50/60 roulette. Guess I'll just pause the MSQ for a while and do them so the quests stop bugging me.

Vadoc posted:

Depending on whether you want the xp for completing them or not to help with leveling, you could grab some people on Discord and do them all unsynched to complete them in less than 5 minutes.

Zaphod42 posted:

Like I just said, ex primals aren't in the trials roulette, right? I just figured. Also haven't seen one pop but I haven't done but two of the 50/60 roulettes so far since the queues are so long for dps.

And past roulettes required you to do everything to unlock them first, right? Maybe I'm crazy but I thought I remembered having to do all kinds of stuff to be able to do them first. I figured I had everything since I could already do it, although now that I think about it there's 59-60 dungeons I haven't done yet since I'm still 58 so the 50/60 wouldn't be available if it really worked that way.

But good to know.

nuru posted:

Fist seems like a slog but perhaps our dps was bad.

nuru posted:

Remind me to avoid Trail roulette for a while.

hobbesmaster posted:

Or remove enough equipment that you're below i280.

Oxyclean posted:

I like seeing how many people do or don't get the second bosses' gimmick.

vOv posted:

It definitely feels like I'm getting hosed out of caster gear but I don't know if that's just RNG or not.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

This final trial queue is the longest queue for content I've had by far.

it doesn't inspire confidence.

SettingSun posted:

Yeah I agree. Giving the things that used to give stacks (vengeance, berserk, etc.) give gauge again would be a good start. I can't tell whether SE wants WAR to stance dance or not. The level 70 skill strongly points to yes. I hate stance dancing, though, personally.

ImpAtom posted:

Even the classes thing doesn't make any sense to me. It's a 'patch' on a problem but we already have skill-altering traits. Just have Bane Mastery or something.

Ferrinus posted:

You're not wrong, since a full-length T4 is a total of 230 potency per target compared to F2's 144.

The only balance change I want them to make to Black Mage is to hitch Fire 2 back up to 100 potency, or at least 90 or something, so that "Fire 2 until your last Heart, then Flare" is always the best AoE rotation as well as the most intuitively obvious AoE rotation.

Fister Roboto posted:

Presumably from converting spiritbonded gear as well. Protip: dungeon gear can be converted now.

Fridurmus posted:

What in the world is all this I'm hearing about people using old i270 slaying accessories while tanking current content? Did SE gently caress something up and I didn't notice, or is this an overreaction to the change that reverted tank damage stats?

Harrow posted:

I think they've locked themselves out from this by adding five jobs that don't have an associated class. If they were to go back and start adding a second job to every class that doesn't already have one, I think people who main DRK, MCH, AST, RDM, or SAM might feel cheated because they don't get to level two jobs at a time.

It's probably more likely that they'll ditch classes whenever they do the inevitable Cataclysm-style (but hopefully better) rework of core Eorzea, though I hope they don't kill off some of the great 1-30 class quest lines in the process. If Pugilist's quest line went away I'd be really sad, for example, and the Thaumaturge one has some great moments, too.

Oxygen Deficiency posted:

Actually I really liked BLM in ARR so this sounds all good to me. I haven't tried SB BLM yet either but from what i've seen it looks really good.

ImpAtom posted:

The max ilevel for this expansion is 315 right? At least until patches?

nuru posted:

Not really relevant, he's correct that 315 is the max because there's no 320 left side armor.

YoshiOfYellow posted:

Geomancer healer would literally just be Conjurer though.

SKULL.GIF posted:

Seriously. Just straight up lift the FF5 Mix system for their big mechanic. It'd be like Ninja Mudras, mix together two components (out of probably four or five?) to get a specific potion effect.

After three magical healers it'd be nice to have a Machinist-style "mundane" healer.

SettingSun posted:

Actually that gives me an idea for a true caster tank: Time Mage. Instead of the support focus of FF5, it focuses on a damage smearing time shield. It would work a little like stagger, where any damage they take would be converted into a DoT which they can manage in some form of another. Their attack skills can include Comet and that acceleration bomb that Ozma had. Their class gauge could be "Inertia" which increases as their time shield smears damage.

Ferrinus posted:

What we need is a Calculator class who has a regular old numerical resource bar that goes 1-100, but instead of your moves having normal costs they all perform different operations on the bar - some add or subtract, some multiply or divide, some square or square root, etcetera. And your most powerful moves can only be executed under specific conditions like your resource is a perfect square or a prime number or a multiple of seven.

Bleu posted:

Meme races are all banished to TPT.

Pikavangelist posted:

This is a sensitive topic for me and many other players in this game so let's please try to be civil. I'm asking the player base, most of it, to please stop hanging out in Kugane and flooding the shout chat with memes and harassment. Kugane represents a rich culture that is important to some of us and it should be respected. It is an end game hub designed for people like me, people who identify as otaku who have a deep appreciation for Japan, and want to honor it in game.

Please go take your toxicity to Rhalgr's Reach and leave us alone. Kugane is what we've always wanted - a true place for anime and manga fans to live our dream. Its a safe haven for real fans of Japanese culture and art. Not a place to spam donald trump memes and talk about sex.

Please respect Kugane and just leave it. Do not take this from us. Do not ruin the beauty and majesty, and history that Yoshida-san has given us. It is deeply upsetting to me, and many other true fans of Japanese art, architecture, and history. Thank you.

Injuryprone posted:

Do Elezen males just not exist?

Cythereal posted:

I've been noticing as a fresh player to the game and going through LL and its class stories a lot, LL is clearly set up for major internal conflicts. Limsa Lominsa started the war with the kobolds because some ex-pirates decided they wanted the land ceded to the kobolds in a peace treaty. Large numbers of pirates pay lip service to LL's neutrality and the Code while continuing to do whatever the gently caress the want. Merlwyb's control over Limsa Lominsa is so shaky she's sanctioned a professional order of assassins to help her stay in control. Not even Ul'dah has gone that far. Most of Limsa Lominsa is a drunken trainwreck of a civilization that Merlwyb is just barely managing to keep on the rails.

I wish LL got more screen time, because the city did a lot to sell me on FF14. Gridania is a boring standard fantasy realm and Ul'dah is too Game of Thrones-y for my taste, but Limsa Lominsa is bright, colorful, has great music, has by far the most racial diversity in NPCs particularly those in positions of leadership, and I love the idea of a ramshackle pirate town trying to settle down and become a real nation.

Vermain posted:

I mean, Gridania's major internal conflict is the fact that it's run by a loving cult that reports directly to inscrutable, Lovecraftian entities who might decide on one hand to reassemble someone from the lifestream, and, on the other hand, decide that a refugee with an easily treatable condition should be allowed to suffer an agonizingly brutal death.

Reiterpallasch posted:

back to lowercase letters: you know, the one point of commonality among all the failed pf groups you've been in is...

Thundarr posted:

L2 + R2 + R3 isn't bad at all but is is more complicated than just clicking.

Samurai is a melee dps and a relatively simple one for the number of buttons you need to worry about, so it is probably one of the best fits for a controller.

Shy posted:

Those Mateus lunatics made a church

Fortuitous Bumble posted:

Does anyone on Excalibur want to do Susano Ex some time today or tomorrow? I haven't had very successful experiences with trying to clear in Party Finder so far. In game name is Ross Perot

It wouldn't be as frustrating if it was just someone misaligning the stormclouds occasionally, but instead it's things like repeatedly dying to churn, or failing the DPS check on the sword.

FrostyJones posted:

Post your ladies, laddies.

Brainamp posted:

Glamours!


Pretty sure that's a highlady.

Augus posted:

yeah, Roes don't even get that hairstyle pretty sure

Sarrisan posted:

You can meld str on fending gear, yes, and it is miles better than direct hit (direct hit is also worse than det or crit).

You don't have to worry about this much for leveling purposes.

Tsurupettan posted:

str is good and direct hit is good.

Obligatum VII posted:

Unfortunately there's no central repository of class guides. There's a google doc that I know of but that was for pre-SB BLM.

However, you're somewhat in luck, aside from AoE rotations, BLM gameplay is rather intuitive and straightforward, with the problem being that it will completely change at 60 Vs 50.

At 50 you fish for firestarter and thundercloud procs. Keep lightning DoT up and hammer out F1s with an F3 whenever you get a proc and B3 whenever you run out of MP (generally you should try to refresh thunder in umbral to give yourself some time to regen). You also F3 at the start to get immediately into Astral Fire 3. For AoE, you use F2 until you have just enough mana for a Flare, then you use that (ideally with swiftcast) and from that point you transpose, wait until you get an MP tick, and then delay maybe half a second more depending on your spell speed before casting F3 followed by 2 F2s and a Flare again. If you have convert or an x-ether up, you can tack on additional flares before transposing. Although come to think of it, now that Thunder 2 is AoE, you probably want to fit that in after the transpose before F3ing back to Flare. If you do that, you don't have to delay regardless of cast speed.

At 60, it's all about F4. At this point the name of the game is using F4s with a minimal number of F1s to keep up astral fire (and you can sub in F3 if you get lucky and get a proc or use sharpcast). Once you're out of MP, B3, same thing as 50 applies with trying to line up thunder refreshes in umbral (you should also try to avoid clipping the DoT as much as possible, although letting a thundercloud proc drop is wasteful, because as long as it gets at least a few DoT ticks, it beats F4 for potency and as of SB will no longer mess up your rotation timing). Cast B4 once to give yourself umbral hearts and then back to astral via F3. Thanks to the umbral hearts, your time in astral fire will be greatly extended, but what you do there doesn't change at all. I have no idea if it is better to start fights in umbral and do a B4 cast before starting into your first astral phase or not. Thankfully, your single target rotation does not change again at 70, it just provides a bunch of utility and now you also slip in a Foul cast whenever you have it up (although I prefer to save it for umbral phases where possible).

However, your AoE rotation DOES change at 68, because now umbral hearts applied to flare. Using flare will consume any remaining umbral hearts (effect is the same with 1 Vs 3) and now will only consume 2/3 of your MP. This allows you to flare twice before transposing if you have umbral hearts. Thus your rotation becomes B3, B4, F3, maybe an F2 or two, then two Flares, transpose, B4 for umbral hearts (same caveats with slipping in Foul applies here as with single target rotation and you still want to maintain thunder 4). Same stuff with convert still applies as with the 50 AoE rotation, though now you'll need max-ethers.

That's my general gist, but I'm sure I got stuff wrong or explained it poorly or forgot something.

Edit: I should've included this initially, here's the link to the google doc. Looks like it will be updated eventually but is not yet updated: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iws0GeBJv2fJLJOJX4TyywPy6f0x_eR5uHMC8EiyGLI/preview

Failboattootoot posted:

There's no functional difference tbh. Says me as I sit here glowering at shitass potd.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Quoting this for future reference

Renegret posted:

Triple casting flares is the funniest loving thing in this game. It's less funny when I forget to pop diversion beforehand but it's worth it.

Question regarding the new BLM rotation at 70. I'm doing:

bliz 4 > fire 3 > fire2 x2 > flare > t4> flare > transpose > bliz 4 > repeat (fouls where appropriate obviously)

I'm hearing some people say it's best to skip the 2xfire2s and just flare more. Has anyone actually parsed it out? The damage from the flares is huge but I feel like there's just too much downtime between flares.

Ferrinus posted:

I have, and on four or five enemies, your potency/second is marginally higher if you skip the F2s, while on six+enemies a pair of F2s mildly wins out.

IMO they need to slightly up F2's potency so that the intuitive AoE rotation is always the correct one but we're in pretty good shape either way.

Oxyclean posted:

Whats the 60-68 AOE roation look like?


It feels bad not being able to do the one thing your role is supposed to do?

Fister Roboto posted:

I think that the biggest thing that scares people away from tanking is thinking that even the slightest failure will result in a wipe. Knowing that your role isn't quite that critical, and that you can screw up sometimes and still recover, helps a lot in alleviating that fear.

Aphrodite posted:

People who like the new PvP should be shot 3 times and it should only require 1 button.

Ularg posted:

How hosed am I trying to get into Excalibur. I'm an American wanting to play with goons yet it seems it doesn't matter what time I try to create this character.

Ferrinus posted:

On six targets, a rotation including F2 does 5760 potency/20.5 seconds = 281pps compared to the Flare-only rotation's 4032 potency/14.5 seconds = 278pps, although to be fair this does ignore Thunder and assume a 2.5s GCD.

Obligatum VII posted:

It totally does.

And I hope Omega works out this whole "heroes" thing right at the end when we inevitably fight it and applies it to itself and suddenly starts pulling out straight up limit breaks and stuff.

nuru posted:

The odds of O4 Savage having an extra phase/form that O4N lacks is probably 90 percent.

Ferrinus posted:

With a 2.5 GCD you don't need a bridge at all, since B4 F3 Flare Flare is 14.5 seconds already. If we add 210*6 = 1260 potency and 3s for Thunder 4, we've got a F2-less rotation that lasts 17.5 seconds (just long enough to refresh it, more or less) and deals 302.4 pps.

Meanwhile, if we just replace a single F2 with a T4 in the long rotation, we get... 300.3 pps, which I guess means that a single F2 is worth it on 7 enemies and beyond..? I think you're right in principle.

Zaphod42 posted:

Anybody think its weird one of the new bosses names was "Alte Roight" ?? Probably just a silly coincedence since it sounds like it comes from another language.

But I can't help but think, our army of catgirlrs and potatoes will triumph over the alt right

Fridurmus posted:

I'm interested in picking up Bard after spending all of ARR, HW, and now SB on tanks (DRK and PLD both at 70 feels nice). What's a good basic rundown I can read for when I start reaching the parts where it matters?


e: ^^^ why isn't it a tank?

Cythereal posted:

With diving now in the game, I'm looking forward to the FFX tier or expansion.

Minrad posted:

We may still get an FF7 dungeon. There's an Imperial ship (submarine?) labeled on the southeast of the Yanxia map, and going to scavenge a scuttled Garlean submarine full of more of their experiments would be an awesome way to have a tribute to the Gelnika.

kirbysuperstar posted:

Hoary Boulder: It's all because of that &$*! pizza!

nuru posted:

What you're describing would fit exactly what they've done with Brute Justice and what I'm proposing for O4S. Also, stop quoting ten people in your posts

nuru posted:

What you're describing would fit exactly what they've done with Brute Justice and what I'm proposing for O4S. Also, stop quoting ten people in your posts

Truga posted:

if you can figure out a system where people will still run more than once per week, but isn't also worse in every single way, I'd love to hear it.

Mordiceius posted:

A real odd strat because you should roll on your preferred item last.

Saint Freak posted:

Look on the bright side: once people get their drop they stop playing for the week, so you will always be rolling against 7 other people who also haven't gotten their drop yet and your odds will never increase.

Wait

Bleu posted:

The Deltascape sets are almost painfully ugly. I have no glamour game and I don't care about glamour, and even I think they look terrible.

Zaphod42 posted:

lmao this owns

I ran through all the primals with goons and we didn't get a single pony drop. Then I punched them a few times with my friend, just 2 of us, and we got 2 of them to drop

Vitamean posted:

I don't think you need to do them all at once, or even as a full group - even rolling in as a stack of six means you have a much higher chance of getting what you want than going in by yourself.

Like it doesn't even have to be a set, static time. It's just weird to me that there's such a large pool of people on excal allegedly willing to help yet I see people in this thread complaining about solo queuing multiple times and coming out empty handed.

Philonius posted:

My dream is still to find a group of people to raid once a week for at most 2 hours with. I can justify blocking that off in my schedule. Unfortunately most people who are actually competent at the game tend to want to raid more than that, and people who want the same laidback schedule can be hard to get to show up consistently.

homeless snail posted:

Eureka is going to be incredibly good. Here's my evidence: Stormblood dungeons are great -> they're making one less dungeon on the patch that Eurkea will come out -> that missing dungeon energy will be transferred to Eureka via the law of energy transference -> Eureka is good.

This is also why Blitzball is going to be sick.

Mordiceius posted:

Open world pvp sucks and has never been good in modern (post 2005) MMOs.

Gearhead posted:

The core tenants of what the Garleans are doing are not incorrect.

The Empire is operating from the technically correct perspective that faith in a higher power can be unwittingly weaponized to carve a piece of the planet's soul off to create a new god at the expense of the world itself. Sealing these false gods away prevents them from being resummoned at further harm to the world and demoralizes target societies, undermining their faith.

Their ruling elite just happen to have a huge persecution complex from being the only humanoid beings in the world unable to use magic and have stories of being driven to the frozen wastes by magic users, which promotes a view that everyone else is out to get them.

Nero nearly turning into a pillar of salt in the World of Darkness brings another problem to light: The faith that Garleans have in science is hollow, it does not help to insulate them from the horrors that exist outside the circles of the world where science breaks down and magic takes over. Zenos' nihilism may be also related to this, because as a person who feels no connection to magic, realizing that all you are is a bundle of aetheric energy that thinks it is human, piloting a sack of meat around, has to be one of the most demoralizing things imaginable. He can quite possibly SEE that tangle of power that thinks it's alive in other people. He can see it fade away. And he knows, one day, he too will be washed away...

SwissArmyDruid posted:

In phase 2, Stormsplitter is a tankbuster that requires (in my experience so far) at minimum two cooldowns. (usually one of Rampart, Raw Intuition, Thrill, or Vengeance, plus Inner Beast) Anything less risks having to pick up the dry cleaning bill for turning into a fine red mist and getting all over everyones' clothes. Then, as everyone has said, tank swaps, and life goes on.

In phase 1, though, Susan does an unnamed tankbuster that's just a bitchslap of a backhand that will clip off 50% or more of your HP if left unmitigated. Ironically, this is the one that's more likely to make tanks pop, because it's not telegraphed, it's just thrown in between mechanics, between two autos. Like a Mountain Buster, but without the left hook to let you know that it's coming. It does come in regular intervals, however, so a tank should rely on Incoming Damage Senses to pop a cooldown accordingly. Or you could be a nerd and pin down his exact rotation, but Phase 1 is usually short enough that I found you can just roll mitigation through the entire thing and have Rampart off CD again for when you have to go pop bubbles.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Ha, you wish pubbies would do that kind of poo poo. That's why I recommend double-stacking mitigation there. I also pack Reprisal, but I save that for Ukehi.

Lemon King posted:

After a few months of grinding, I finally have the Archon Throne.

panda clue posted:

what in the world