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Glagha posted:I know I'm a weirdo for this but I've still always thought clicking or mousing over for anything is insane because I never know where my mouse pointer is that thing is invisible because I'm holding right click the last thing I want is to have to find my mouse pointer and make sure to click or hover the right thing in s heated moment. It's hosed up but in my head like quickly pushing F# > Key > Tab makes way more sense than trying to click anything. Then again I use my right hand, taking it off my mouse to press rarely used keys like potions which is, apparently "serial killer behavior" so what do I know. Better than clicking anything ever I click on everything, except when targeting the closest enemy (keybind on mouse) and some game menus
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Made it to Elpis after some delays where I realized I got too many levels to actually get anything from the MSQ lol. I am so glad all those tall bastards actually speak now instead of honking at 300% of everyone else's volume.
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The technical term is "weenwoon"
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I always thought it was kinda funny that Ascians talked like the parents from Peanuts. Besides all the post-sundering ones that spoke entirely in anime villain obviously
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Kheldarn posted:Dawntrail Bingo Card (Unironically give this to me, make it a platforming challenge for them to scamper up and open a door for us)
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Yapping Eevee posted:Excuse me, you're missing "Duty where you play as the Nutkin" Mandatory leap of faith? Devious. I think it'd replace In From The Cold as the most controversial story duty.
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The nutkin is going to be the next member of the Scions.
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Hellioning posted:Mandatory leap of faith? Devious. I think it'd replace In From The Cold as the most controversial story duty. We need to avoid mischevious fey transported from the First. Leap of Fuath.
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the game is actually going to turn primarily into a mahjong anime for this expansion
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Professor Beetus posted:I always thought it was kinda funny that Ascians talked like the parents from Peanuts. They reminded me of the Twili from Twilight Princess, personally, which made an A+ contribution to the melancholy of the whole Amaurot segment.
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Martman posted:the game is actually going to turn primarily into a mahjong anime for this expansion Which one? Because there are good and bad answers here.
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the george bush one
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Hellioning posted:Which one? Because there are good and bad answers here. the one whose manga is/was bogged down in an eternal tournament/match for a decade/decades following its last anime adaptation
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So the good one then
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Zeruel posted:you can do mouse over casting can't you? that would make healing on pc so much easier mouseover healing means macro healing, macroing any GCD is clunky as gently caress
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I just won a house auction, huzzah! Years ago when I had a house I dabbled in gardening, mainly making some Jute and Jute seeds. Is gardening still worth the effort or has the market cooled?
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YorexTheMad posted:I just won a house auction, huzzah! It's still good, though I dunno about jute specifically. I've been doing onions forever. Also grats!
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So I've been taking an alt through ARR to learn how to play on a controller from the ground up, and I have a couple observations. For starters, it's been like 7 years since I played through ARR, so I don't even really remember what they've cut, but drat does it feel like a chainsaw was taken to the story. And somehow the sylphs still occupy about ten percent of it. It generally just feels anemic, you barely get any context or sense of scale for the conflict between the allied nations of Eorzea and the various tribes, so much so that it feels like "wow, this poo poo was really a problem for these entire nations with armies and support from the scions, at least one of whom also has the echo?" A lot of the areas in ARR feel weirdly vestigal too, like you're only going to go there if you happen to see and/or care about the yellow quest markers on your map. The other big thing is going through the hunting logs and many of the side quests, an alarming number of them seem to involve murdering sentient creatures on a whim. Not sentient, but there's a quest in Costa del Sol that you get from Gegerugu that's essentially yo slaughter a bunch of buffalo because he thinks they're causing earthquakes. So I guess if you do all that poo poo your WOL is a straight up murderous psycho that will do just about anything someone asks of them. ARR has some weird vibes is what I'm saying, and I think some of the story pruning was much to its detriment. Hard not to recommend a story skip tbh.
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I've also been replaying to learn controller and I think ARR actually holds up really well, though I'm probably only, like, four-ish years removed from my first playthrough. There's definitely a lot of weirdness and the 2.x parts are uneven in their pacing, none of which is not surprising but I absolutely would not recommend skipping it on a first play.
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I don't really think the pruned quests introduced those issues, they were always there. Some zones did always feel vestigial to the main story outside of job quests, and ARR was generally weird about tribe stuff until patch content. Its pacing is slow with the important stuff heavily back-loaded. Would still definitely not recommend skipping unless someone finds it completely intolerable.
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TBF the hunt logs also include a bunch of imperials, too.
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Even in 2.x there were a few areas that I just never had any reason to go to. A few get touched on in job quests or the like, but some are just kinda empty set dressing. There are a lot of design decisions that are just a product of the time. Like the quests that are just collect 10 bear asses. Why? It's an mmo, that's why.
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OddObserver posted:TBF the hunt logs also include a bunch of imperials, too. Yeah but those are fascists, not people gay devil posted:I don't really think the pruned quests introduced those issues, they were always there. Some zones did always feel vestigial to the main story outside of job quests, and ARR was generally weird about tribe stuff until patch content. Its pacing is slow with the important stuff heavily back-loaded. Would still definitely not recommend skipping unless someone finds it completely intolerable. That's good to know I guess, it had been so long I couldn't remember if that stuff was better then or not. Stuff is getting good now that I am nearing 50 and taking the fight to the empire though, it just seemed like a weird meandering plot to get here. Story could have used a bit more focus imo. Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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There's a lot of places that lost focus in the quest culling. You used to spend more MSQ in Hawthorne Hut or Highbridge for example. You have zero reason to set foot into Outer La Noscea during the 2.0 msq though.
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It gets brought up a lot, but it bears repeating that ARR was developed at a breakneck pace, so pacing, tone, and overall world design was far more ad hoc compared to their later output. Even then, Stormblood's the first expansion where it felt like they'd finally developed a good internal process for plotting and world design so that the MSQ proceeded at a good clip without leaving any area feeling devoid of context or empty of content.
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Vermain posted:It gets brought up a lot, but it bears repeating that ARR was developed at a breakneck pace, so pacing, tone, and overall world design was far more ad hoc compared to their later output. Even then, Stormblood's the first expansion where it felt like they'd finally developed a good internal process for plotting and world design so that the MSQ proceeded at a good clip without leaving any area feeling devoid of context or empty of content. Eh, the east half of the Fringes and most of The Lochs are still pretty pointless. I'd say they didn't get it down until Shadowbringers.
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I'm doing ARR dungeons for WAR and it's amazing how much I forgot the maps to early areas since the last time I visited when I leveled SMN in early EW time. Although it's not my first tank ever I feel bad that I'm happily going the wrong way in the last few places and it's going p slow compared to my usual path. Also, I'm lvl 36 so I have all the DR locked and it feels weird knowing I can only do Leveling and Guildhest right now.
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Ojjeorago posted:Eh, the east half of the Fringes and most of The Lochs are still pretty pointless. I'd say they didn't get it down until Shadowbringers. I think they intentionally throw some areas in every zone that aren't going to get much use in the planned MSQ to fill out the world and leave room for future, unplanned stuff. Anden's Airs in Il Mheg had no purpose until the Pixie quests and then got a deeper tie-in with one of the EW Custom Delivery NPCs for example. Or Heimdall's Last Sight has had very little despite being a very notable landmark of a crashed Allagan ship on the moon. Ever visited the plateau east of Yedlihmad when the Arkasodara didn't ask you to? They've made less, but certainly better, use of it as each expansion went up to ShB, but I don't think they're going to completely stop, nor do I think they should. Having those places makes the world feel a little bigger, since they exist and can be visited irrespective of an explicit need to go there dictated by the MSQ. Onean fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Yeah, I think they've struck a good balance between MSQ-necessary locations and stuff for flavor at this point, even if there are some early zones with growing pains (looking at you, Heavensward). I think condensing zones much further would create something much more on-rails-feeling, and I appreciate that there's room to explore and screw around even if it's not particularly relevant to advancement.
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Sometimes it's cool just to have some scenery or area that isn't important to the story. Or poo poo like Nyunkrepf's ark just chilling on the edge of a zone.
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Silly question, but is there any reason to hang onto old moogle tomes?  e: And is there anywhere I can store outdoor furnishings without having a house? (Just FC room) Or just gotta leave them on a retainer? Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Oxyclean posted:Silly question, but is there any reason to hang onto old moogle tomes? You can turn old tomes into items but otherwise, I throw them out. Yeah you can only store outdoor stuff on retainers if you don't have a house.
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Oxyclean posted:Silly question, but is there any reason to hang onto old moogle tomes? Swing by the mogtome moogle just to make sure you don't want anything, since the previous event's items remain available while older event's tomes can be traded in for a consumable (I think it's just the Job Mastery one?). After that, no, there's no reason to hang on to them. They've never repeated a tomestone, so just toss any remaining when you've spent as many as you want.
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When is the next tomestone event, anyway? Been finally getting around to my backlog of other games, so I’ve fallen behind the times
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Regalingualius posted:When is the next tomestone event, anyway? Been finally getting around to my backlog of other games, so I’ve fallen behind the times here's the schedule they put up at the live letter: 
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Oh dang, the Yo-Kai Watch event started? I need to do that.
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I was watching some YT guides on the event and I realized...I kinda dislike all of the weapon designs alot. Thankfully I did buy all the minions so I bought the framer kit and now I'm free.
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Do achievement fates do anything for the event? I’d love to cross off some achievement prompts when I get into old zones.
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