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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Absolutely disgusting
Pyros_Eien
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Speaking of music, where is the portable Orchestrion? I really want this after having one in FFXV, makes it so you can setup a playlist of songs and then just ignore all the other musics in the game. Although I guess they should probably start by making the combat music optional, which it isn't atm. On mount music I've turned off like 3years ago and never went back, I much prefer listening to the theme of the zone than the mount music and with how long you spend on mounts it's annoying(also the constant breaks and changes in music when it goes mount > zone > combat > zone > mount is annoying).
Pretty sure that's called VLC Media Player running in the background.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Yeah I guess but that'd give a bigger incentives to look for Orchestrion rolls ingame and stuff. Atm they have super limited use, a lot of people don't even have houses/apartments, and those who do don't even necessarily spend a lot of time there anyway, so it feels a bit like a wasted feature. If on the other hand you could choose to play different tracks when you're questing or doing FATEs or what not it'd be great, kinda like potd. That's the one thing I like about potd, getting the Pharos Sirius theme playing gets my hyped for the 3floors or whatever it lasts.
Stone Ocean
Member
Why do they keep doing this shit? How hard is it to just put the bloody FFV boss music in it?
Did literally the exact same thing a couple days ago.
Estinien is great and Ysayle is one of the best characters in the game with her whole story and her theme. This scene is one of the best (major HW spoiler).
I lost my party like 20% into the dungeon, just sat back and enjoyed the show. Even got a commendation out of it.
Lol, that happened to my husband too. He was really into the story and was annoyed with how fast everyone was going, then after a certain point half of the group got totally left behind and the tanks were paying so little attention to everything else they didn't even know.
demosthenes
Member
How long into HW does it take tobget your flying mount. I thought I read it comes naturally via story missions?
The last two missions of the ARR story are among the worst things I've experienced in gaming. I wrote a longer post a few weeks ago on this exact thing when I did it. My group cleared things so fast I didn't even have time to finish cutscenes so it wasn't even coherent. Probably the most poorly designed thing I've encountered in a game in recent memory.
If you're talking about being able to make your chocobo fly, that comes in a level 52 sidequest in Ishgard. You also need to have reached the Dravanian Forelands in the MSQ.
I can't really think of anything that would have been easier with PLD/DRK than PLD/WAR, and having access to Holmgang meant more frequent invulns to trivialize more tank buster stuff. It'll be interesting to see if the numbers level off over time.
demosthenes
Member
Thanks.
It was just as bad at launch too. Incredibly poor design and they will probably never fix it.
DrForester
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Getting rid of cut scenes in dungeons was a good idea.
But I wish they had kept the 8 man final dungeon in SB and HW.
The problem is immediately obvious within seconds. It's still astounding to me they released the game with that design. It's much better in HW and up, as people have said, but goddamn the end of ARR is a disgrace.
I'm almost to Stormblood now. Can't wait!
True, I do find myself popping Holmgang more. I use it at least once per floor these days, mostly as insurance to stay in Deliverance.
I really miss Bloodbath. It made Deliverance so much safer.
Kwansu Dudes
Member
On the Final Trial, my first group wiped at 1% and I haven't had such success since...I'm kinda disappointed that I'll be stuck here for hours.
Edit: Just had an awesome group, wow!
Edit: Just had an awesome group, wow!
Does anyone have a hard time fighting the Ascians?
was a joke but
and
kicked my ass a bit as a healer. They're the only bosses where I felt like a bad player. I died at the end of the latter fight but luckily it was almost dead when it happened so my party just finished it off.
Lahabrea
Nebriales
Ascian Prime
There's a lot of stuff happening during that fight, so if people don't do the mechanics properly then they can take a lot of damage and debuffs that could be avoided.
You may be feeling overworked as a healer there because people might be ignoring the mechanics.
In case you were not aware, you can rewatch any cutscene using the book in inn rooms.
Some of the boss mechanics bother me. That
Ascian Prime
avoid the black holes on the ground, but in this fight you have to step on them to avoid a ton of debuffs?
Yeah, some mechanics get more complicated from here. The game usually does a good job of showing what you should and shouldn't do, though unfortunately there are exceptions where the tells aren't all that intuitive, or actively counterintuitive.
Thankfully, these are much rarer than the cases where what you should do is well telegraphed by the game.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
lmao, this.
I'm still working through Heavensward stuff so it'll be a bit for me still but I'm planning on 1 of each role. Levled BLM and AST a lot already and thinking of DRK for my tank.
I was originally planning one of each as well, but I couldn't decide between the SB dps jobs so I'm just (slowly) leveling both.
Yeah that's why I'm saving tanking for after I learn the game much better with DPS/healer. The biggest problems I see with tanks are them just doing whatever they want and not paying attention to anyone else in the team. So many times they'll just do big pull after big pull without even giving me a second to get my MP back and then get annoyed when I can't keep up. I've started snapping back tho and being like "well how about next time you give me more than 2 seconds to get my MP back and we'll see how it goes then", and they'll usually shut up when it goes fine afterwards.
I think as long as you're straightforward about being new at something then people are usually friendly and willing to accommodate. And if not, that's their problem and not yours.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
The next FF MMO's combat will be action based like DMC4.
Instead of people uploading videos of them just beating raids it will instead have people uploading videos like " Exdeath Savage solo without touching the floor", and "Another Primal Down Group Combo Video".
Instead of people uploading videos of them just beating raids it will instead have people uploading videos like " Exdeath Savage solo without touching the floor", and "Another Primal Down Group Combo Video".
I am really interested to see what direction the next FF MMO goes in. Just cause from what I've read/watched it seems like a lot of 2.0 onwards is just based off of what was built for 1.0. And after watching that one doc it seems like that was all built without having done any research into what current MMOs and such were doing.
So I'm very curious to see what they'll do when they actually take their time to research where MMOs have gone and what new things they can do with em. Obviously with where FF has been going in other games lately I wouldn't be surprised if it was more action oriented.
So I'm very curious to see what they'll do when they actually take their time to research where MMOs have gone and what new things they can do with em. Obviously with where FF has been going in other games lately I wouldn't be surprised if it was more action oriented.
Im sorry
lol, it's not a big deal. 95% of the tanks I play with are fine but whenever there's an issue it's something like that.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Whatever they do it better not be another tab target hotbar piano game.
It's been done to death in so many MMOs for decades with little innovation simply because WoW did it.
I think the issue is that the majority of games that try to innovate the combat fail in the raid department. If SE decides to risk doing a more action based combat, it would probably be something more akin to Kingdom Hearts/FFXV.
Starting over fresh 1-50 isn't gonna matter which class you pick, if you are worried about being able to pick what you want after that. I think you just care about opening up the Heavensward areas/city (by doing the main storyline) which would then let you unlock DRK. 1-30 is probably insanely fast for either MNK or DRG (I mean, it's pugilist & lancer until you hit 30, after 30 you can do the job quests)
I haven't tanked in a long time, so I'm not the best to answer questions about it - if you've done it in WoW you'd know what you were doing as far as just exping/doing non-endgame stuff goes. You'd be fine.
As mentioned above, 1-50 should be really really fast. I had everything at 50 around the time NIN came out, so I can't say this 100%, but I'd be shocked as hell if it didn't seem much better than back when you are remembering. 50-60 will slow down a bit, 60-70 is the new "stretch" and I have even done that twice since Stormblood came out and I have very limited playtime.
Welcome back!
I'm trying to play SAM a bit now but because I've played tank for so long I keep instinctively wanting to stand in front of enemies. It's already gotten me killed a couple times.
Also, unrelated, but I managed to see Ixion for the first time yesterday but didn't manage to get silver/gold. Do I just have to get more damage in or what?
Also, unrelated, but I managed to see Ixion for the first time yesterday but didn't manage to get silver/gold. Do I just have to get more damage in or what?
Stone Ocean
Member
I'd be down for action comhat but knowing Square they'd make one NA server in a really shite location so fuck that
Yes. Join a party. Getting enough credit solo is impossible. It's difficult to get full credit even as a party given latency/lag/dc issues.