It will be fine for all but the hardcore.
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It will be fine for all but the hardcore.
theSlacker
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Think its the being able the have complete freedom of movement while doing max dps that people hate on BRD for.
AlphaDragoon
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Well that ain't good, SE.
Only applies to computers that have been fully compromised by a virus and such, but still.
Only applies to computers that have been fully compromised by a virus and such, but still.
Ya, that and having the best utility with party mp regen and one of the best silencesin the game, and good aoe.
So its basically like a BLM and SMN but BLM does more damage with less skills. Gotcha
theSlacker
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The only macro that sorta works for DRG is macroing power surge to jump. No wait in between, just power surge first and jump second, with the /micon set to power surge. Be prepared for jump to shoot off first anyway sometimes though even when power surge is up.
Like someone else just mentioned, macroing gcd skills sucks because the wait command is garbage. Only thought it worked with MNK because some of their skills have hard set requirements for when a skill can be used so thought you could just put a bunch in a row and it would only use the one that could be used at that time.
Considering the long GCD you can play pretty much anything with a ps3 pad without issue. I was watching a friend play Titan HM on his DRG with a controller and he wasn't having any problems avoiding anything.
Yep. Considering how much every end game fight seems to involve aoe/movement of some kind, this is why BRD is so much better than any other class. There's no penalties for moving. No special positioning you need against the target and the only abilities you need to stand still for are the songs.
In Turn 2 we should both pull the first mini-boss going all-out with whatever we think would be max threat (short of using provoke)... I'm curious how close I'd be in Sword Oath since that seems to be the best way to keep threat, although ultimately really stupid to use in any progression raiding where you're actually supposed to tank things.
Ultimately though, I think WAR threat is better when similarly geared and the bursts are suitably bursty.
For those curious, here are our character sheets:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/1875282/ (me)
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/1638891/ (Bisonian)
I just have a 2nd hotbar with the buffs in (1st hotbar for the combos).
It may take some time to get used, but its fast to swap between hotbars 1 and 2 with just pushing L2 (disable any non-drg hotbars in fighting stance, theres an option in the menus for that).
I also thought this would work, but in practice, I noticed the wrong skill going off every once in a while, which led to me dropping stacks.
It works really well on paper, sucks in practice lol
The gaf fc already has four groups or so working through coil and were hardly hardcore. That excuse for a lack luster end game and short sighted plans for the future should end.
Sad but true. Our FC cleared Turn 4 the first week we saw it, on only our second week of running Binding Coil. We raid two nights a week for 2-3 hours and that was all it took.
Great, engaging, challenging fights... but now at Turn 5 we're essentially done with available content for a long while.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Yeah, I am in one of those coil running groups and I am far from hardcore. Take tons of time off for the wife and family along with other things and working 60 hours a week. I maybe get a few hours per day to game, yet I am on turn 4 of coil.
Time management is a hell of a thing and working towards goals instead of lollygagging around town begging for optimal groups gets a person pretty far in this game.
Relaxed Muscle
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Don't use macros for combos. What I do is set off-gcd skills or buff inside gcd skills, for example:
/ac "Internal Release"
/ac "Fracture"
So in the middle of the GCD you can start pressing the macro, will do IR before the GCD is UP and then will do Fracture.
I buffer cds in between gcds too but I'd rather have control over when I use then
BattleMonkey
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Shouldn't the OT be put in community by now?
And where are my transfers damnit, already losing guild mates who wouldn't wait and got sick of playing alone.
And where are my transfers damnit, already losing guild mates who wouldn't wait and got sick of playing alone.
This is not a fight you want! :x
Let me have my one victory and go face tank 2 dreadnaughts at the same time you sick freak.
I wasn't making excuses. I play almost every day and am not even on coil yet. Gaf by nature is hardcore. The fact that you can't see that means you should take a step back.
So does that mean I'm hxc or that you just have too much idle time?
Gaming 14 hours a week is A LOT. Also qualify that. Did you start at lvl 50 at the launch of ARR?
I work 50 hours a week and have a gf so I probably game 10-13 hours a week. I started at 0 and am currently working on my relic. You guys either started at a high lvl or are pushing a ton of hours into the game and should be honest with yourselves and others especially when jumping all over me about making excuses over endgame content. This game has a ton of content in it. If you can't see that I can't help it.
When you have to create artifical barriers to stop people from completing the highest content you have and the first update to the game is filling in content that should have been there at launch its hardly the players fault for playing too much or going too fast
Ah yes, the "unlike you I have a life" argument. Good job.
What's the deal with Turn 5? Too hard for the gear they supply, or is it just not available yet?
Made impossible by square Enix.
Relaxed Muscle
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Yeah, is a compromise but an acceptable one, given that you want to save the most time possible to get the most of your DRG dmg boost. Even if you're really fast changing hot bars is not really an option.
Robobandit
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How is it impossible?
Just because it hasn't been legitimately cleared yet doesn't mean it can't be done.
-looks at Absolute Virtue-
To this day it has never been explained to us how to beat that at the 75 cap lol.
Random elements that no one thus far has been able to figure out that kills you. Considering the nature of the previous battles ot makes no sense and when you have hardcore reading guilds going at it for weeks you know something is up.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Along with all the buffs/debuffs not being translated.
I see you didn't take my advice of taking a step back. I wasn't saying you have no life. I was quantifying my statement that I'm a normal gamer who is spending a normal to normal/heavy amount of time on the game.
Look you seem like you expect a ridiculous amount of endgame launch content which is something that iirc never happens. You also never said if you started ARR as a lvl 50 or not.
Ah then I should apologize to gattimansama. If learning japanese is part of the end game then surely that'll take me quite a while to accomplish
What I'm saying is that the end game content isn't enough to last 5 months until patch 2.2
I have a feeling we won't see it this week. Getting pretty impatient though, it'd be nice if my friends could finally transfer over so we could start coil :|
The nature of MMO endgame suggests it's overtuned on purpose to not be complet-able rather than people just missing something about the fight (and I say this without any knowledge of anything in turn 5 - just done a lot of mmo raiding in other games)
we.are.the.armada
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5 months? I thought we were getting new content in November D:
No, the 'new content' is the content that's meant to bridge the gap between AK/whatever and Coil, which probably should have been in there at launch.
And yes Gatti man, I started at 0.
Right now the end game consists of
2 8 man story dungeons
1 4 man dungeon
1 missing 24 man dungeon
1 8 man dungeon
3 hard primals
so basically HM titan and coil. which is supposed to last until 2.2. sure.
You said its lack luster and SE is being short sighted and accused me of making excuses about it when all I said was non hardcore will be fine. You are aware that there are tons of players still not at cap right? Then you go on to say turn 5 is broken because you haven't and others haven't beat it yet. That says you are basically right with the most hardcore of all players. If it hasn't been beaten in another month or two then maybe it's broken. Don't you think SE did that to slow people like you down? So that would be SE having foresight and not being short sighted lol.
hard core got there on the first week. i got there last week. also slow us down from what? it's the last thing in the game.
so you're saying they had foresight of their short shortsightedness? yeah, i agree with that.
patch 2.1, which is two months off give or take, contains no new content past coil. it's only filler content that should have been in the game originally. considering how many gaps in questlines there are, i'd say they have a lot of filling to do. there's also no player housing coming then, just fc housing, so they're not even padding it by giving us non-raid content.
So its basically like a BLM and SMN but BLM does more damage with less skills. Gotcha
BLM needs to stop to cast every time, they are actually quite gimped in fights that required a lot of movements.
SMN have no burst damage.
This content is supposed to be the gap between HM primals and BC. CT was supposed to be in the game originally to help people get geared for BC, but it's being re-tuned. SE should have made sure that BC was ready at launch or just left it out, since players can and do go farther than devs ever think they will.
I lift
No wonder PLD can only tank one mob at a time. They can only see one!
Tis a bad joke. I apologize
Torquill
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I use all 4 "right" hot bars ("left" is reserved for shared skills).
Come up with a list of "roles" you are in at any given time: single target DPS (with optional stun/slow duties), AE DPS, ranged DPS, defensive/healing, movement utility (creating/closing gaps with jumps).
Determine which skills belong in each role. There may be overlap, ie, life surge is both healing and single target damage.
Organize your skills across the 4 bars as you wish.
For me, this mitigates needing to hunt for skills. I know which bars have which roles so I can quickly switch to what I need.
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