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I am technically not a sprout but I'm discovering new things all the time
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One thing to remember in dungeons and raids: While you should try to avoid dying if possible, death is not something to get hugely worked up over either. Even a full wipe is not as much a problem as it is in most other MMOs. You have to run back to the boss and your equipment takes a small hit to durability. And by small I mean, one of the more recent raids where I got owned a lot because I don't know and can't remember mechanics, at the end of it my gear was probably down to around 64-68%. Which meant a few hundred gil to fix everything which, once you're getting to the point where you're doing those raids, is virtually nothing. This means that groups tend to be kinda chill, just tell people you're new to a raid or doing it the first time and they'll be very understanding. Things only get hectic when you get into (Extreme) or harder stuff, and that's never required, it's just for cool lookin' gear.
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Sep 23, 2022 02:01
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Electric Phantasm posted:They're talking about Y'shtola. I think 6.x has been veering that way. She kicks off some of the post-End of Days stuff by wanting to go back to the First like she promised, and she gets moments of vulnerability like falling asleep in a pile of books and "Froth and Foam!" Not to mention the WoL specifically gets dialogue opportunities to roast her. Like it's not a major arc *yet* but it feels like they're adding detail to her besides just being an always-cool sardonic catlady.
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Sep 28, 2022 09:36
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GloomMouse posted:Occasionally the Trust npcs eat mechanics and die, this includes the healer. Having levelled Trusts to 90 i can say it seems to happen with Alisae and Urianger the most Accurate
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Oct 1, 2022 01:20
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Without any spoilers, the main things that change in HW if you’re wondering how it gets better are: - the story gets a lot more nuanced. ARR has very obvious good guys and bad guys, HW is a story about a war that’s gone on for a long time and some people want it to end, some people want it only to end with the complete subjugation or annihilation of the other side, and some want it to keep going either because they benefit from the way things are or because they just can’t let go. - Characters themselves get more complex. Your allies start accompanying you more on quests rather than hanging at the Waking Sands or wherever, one character in particular gets a lot of sorely needed development, and in general the dialogue’s better and the VA has improved (largely because they’re now given direction.) -the flow of your journey from one place to another is much smoother, you uncover zones as you go and some aren’t open to you until the MSQ takes you there. It’s not being sent back and forth all herky-jerky as in ARR. The zones themselves are also generally really cool, there’s this cohesive atmosphere and mood that reflects the themes of the story.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:08
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I've said this before maybe in this thread but yeah there's a gulf between how dungeons work in most video game and tabletop RPGs and how they ideally work in MMOs, and it's because with the latter you're just trying to get this poo poo done
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Oct 9, 2022 02:46
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That expansion has a lot of High Drama moments so I’m grateful for the occasional respite.
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Dec 13, 2022 01:20
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Honestly I don't really remember that much about the Ivalice stuff, why is it held in such poor regard? What about the story turned people off?
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Feb 18, 2023 10:59
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hopeandjoy posted:Solution: do all side quests while you’re MSQing and level two classes. Hey those Moogles got me through HW crafting. (It's honestly the best source of DoH experience as far as I can tell.)
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Feb 22, 2023 09:55
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There’s very little FOMO outside seasonal events and tomestone hunts and none of the items there are like, significant. (I believe everything in the tomestone hunts is gettable through other means, and seasonal glams go to the cash shop after a while.) Speaking of the cash shop you barely know it exists outside of the occasional ad for something on the login page, it’s completely separated from the experience of actually playing the game.
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May 4, 2023 01:23
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Help Im Alive posted:Shortly after I started playing in 2020 I remember taking I think like three or four actual days to catch a fish outside cape westwind for one of the level 50 fishing quests. I don't know how that one compares to other rare fish or if I was just extremely bad/unlucky but I never tried going for anything super rare after that (It was satisfying to actually catch it though because people were selling them on the marketboard for like 50k or something ridiculous and I didn't wanna cave in) Oooh I think I know the one you're talking about and I've hit a wall on it myself. I keep catching the OTHER rare valuable fish that you get from double-mooching.
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May 4, 2023 22:01
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I think the crafting/gathering is what got the hooks in.
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May 13, 2023 02:19
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Okay, so Gunbreaker question- Is there ever actually a good time to use Superbollide?
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Jun 17, 2023 09:39
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It is easy to overthink these things and I say this as a player who's reluctantly gotten into the rhythm of pulling two groups. I do find the runrunrunSTOP pacing a bit weird in any role, like should I try to get anything off or just keep up until we end up wherever, but tanking you can at least keep a steady pace by spamming your AOEs to keep everyone on you. And as has been mentioned, most people won't care, and most people are reasonably polite in chat. Even if you do miss a mitigation ability and die people are generally pretty understanding (especially as this most often happens at the very start, you figure out what pace you're comfortable with and then go on.) Usually only takes a "MB" in chat if you really screw up.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:04
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The Eden raids are the most "essential" I'd say, they're a nice cap on the story and Ryne and Gaia are just the cutest omg
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Jul 25, 2023 18:01
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girl dick energy posted:
I like to describe the class as “tee hee axe go brrrr”
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Aug 3, 2023 02:00
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That Little Demon posted:Alright who wants to go gambling and clubbing tonight and pretend to be the weirdos from nigjt at the roxberry That should be an emote really
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Aug 5, 2023 00:36
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It's always interesting to me to see gil sellers in the plazas, because gil *really* hasn't been a concern for me at all and presumably only really becomes an issue once you've got a house. During the free trial I was constantly bumping up against the 300k limit. It's not like WoW where it can take forever to get out of copper/silver and actually start making gold. (Note: I have not played WoW in a while this may have changed.)
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Aug 6, 2023 22:38
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That Little Demon posted:honestly got wrapped up doing PVP for mogtomes for my stupid collector brain. The PVP is this game is... well, lol. Not very good? Honestly the most interesting thing is Rival Wings which I found 1 match in 3 hours (I am a DOTA fan). PVP is a thing you do for mogtomes and catbook (you haven't found catbook yet, but it's a thing) and you run it, accept that you have no real control over what is going on, get the tomes/stamp and move on.
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Aug 31, 2023 08:37
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While the ARR characters were pretty simplistic I grew to like them all the same. They worked for the story that was telling, which was a broad, simple fantasy adventure. I miss Minfilia.
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Sep 14, 2023 10:05
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FFXIV 1.0 was fundamentally a different game. It was deliberately slower and more grindy without much of a plot, and doing anything was way more involved. Gathering was this mini game of “hit the sweet spot!” (Go to the bottom floor of the Golden Saucer to try them out), something that wouldn’t be bad in a pure foraging/crafting game but was very annoying when you were just trying to get some logs to make a shield or whatever. The crafting itself was way more complex too. Everything was. The current jobs system didn’t exist. Mounts did not exist. Jumping did not exist, and the devs were confused why anyone would want that. Also it ran like crap and did so many things serverside that it is effectively impossible to recreate on private servers. There are compilations of the cutscenes online and it’s kinda neat if you want some lore but it’s also hella disjointed, and a lot of it was only put in after YoshiP was put in charge. Like I believe he spent one patch trying to improve the game as it was, then immediately turned around and said “the only way to fix this is to completely rebuild everything”. And things were desperate enough that SE agreed.
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Sep 14, 2023 22:58
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I do feel the need to turn off some effect on the latest Alliance raids because it's 24 folks' lvl 90 effects going off and it can be genuinely hard to see what you're even fighting, let alone their patterns.
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Sep 18, 2023 02:04
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It's a very intense song and maybe sometimes I'm just running FATEs.
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Nov 7, 2023 02:28
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girl dick energy posted:la hee That’s good running errands music so it works.
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Nov 8, 2023 01:35
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It starts pretty low key, which I found a nice pause after the High Drama of SHB, but I get why some may dislike it.
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Apr 5, 2024 03:11
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