I've been having a grand time with the expansion so far. I did the first trial yesterday and I have to say that was a great fight. I was expecting a walkover for some reason but he's not really. Took a couple of tries in DF with different groups but finally loaded in with a team that knew what was what and beat it one time.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Hydrophobic
Member
I really liked the mid-fight transition mechanic
in Susano. It was really simple but if simple stuff like that used occasionally gives cool looking moments I think I'm fine with that. I've really enjoyed going into dungeons blind so far and just figuring out the mechanics.
the button mash in case anyone doesn't want to know
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Quick dumb question,
With the expansions and higher level cap do the GCs get better gear?
With the expansions and higher level cap do the GCs get better gear?
Still? What the hell did the maintenance fix?
His Majesty
Banned
There are so many advantages to being a tank
- most engaging gameplay
- no queu
- lots of commendations
- people have to put up with you even if you suck, tanks are not expendable
and the story dungeons in the game are really, really easy, most of the time you can get by just freestyling
I do watch a dungeon guide beforehand though.
SliceSabre
Banned
Hydrophobic
Member
If you mean the items you purchase with company seals, I think the answer is no. I'm fairly certain it's no but without the game in front of me I can't confirm 100% right now.
Mister_Ruck
Member
Because it's very easy for them to reuse Monk gear for Samurai but making a new sword actually requires work.
Bethesda just recently launched an mmo expansion I see....
Plus they're rich!
Though seriously it could be anyone.
Alright, think I'm finally getting used to dark knight again.
I think the biggest hurdle for my mind to jump was to start relying way more on siphon strike for mana instead of BP.
Oh, and to stop using DP for solo targets entirely. My mind is still treating it like an oGCD so I hit it by instinct.
I think the biggest hurdle for my mind to jump was to start relying way more on siphon strike for mana instead of BP.
Oh, and to stop using DP for solo targets entirely. My mind is still treating it like an oGCD so I hit it by instinct.
Glendemonium
Member
Wow, totally forgot they added xp to PVP. Going to do that today after work, it will really help with the grind since I'm behind most of my FC.
PotD 51-60.
They're being DDoS'd? Damn, didn't know that.
Edit: here's the link to the correct lodestone note: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/dd506077db314182ddc2dc15b1d033d72da5630c
Metal Khaos
Member
I've been digging Shatter for PvP exp'ing. Doesn't feel as long as Frontlines and I've been getting good exp. Think the last one I got nearly 686k.
NegativeCero
Banned
See after waiting 30min+ as my DPS class I still haven't finished leveling yet, I've been tempted to try out my old WAR I left off at level 32. I remember it being fun to have a successful dungeon run but I also hadn't had a disaster either.
What's the recommended tank? Is WAR still considered the most fun to play? (I've heard PLD is kinda boring).
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Tanks can be quite fun, but after maining WAR/PLD since 2.0, I'm tired of it. I just want slash things with SAM. I hope I can gind a few kind souls on my FC for the plot dungeons.
Stone Ocean
Member
Tanks are for losers, play healers, enjoy the same benefits and also get to decide whether people live or die!
WAR is the most engaging tank but PLD got some really cool shit this expansion. DRK is in a weird spot gameplay wise, but they all seem to be pretty balanced - except PLD, PLD is prob gonna be the meta main tank.
I'm noticing a trend of tanks just pulling everything in SB dungeons, turning off tank stance mid-pull and expecting the new, under-geared healer to deal with it. Without saying a word.
Why are people in such a rush? Like come on now. Content isn't even a week old yet omg. And I don't know if any other healer has noticed, but some of these mobs hit a lot harder than anything in expert roulettes in HW. More than you'd expect
Just seems silly
Why are people in such a rush? Like come on now. Content isn't even a week old yet omg. And I don't know if any other healer has noticed, but some of these mobs hit a lot harder than anything in expert roulettes in HW. More than you'd expect
Just seems silly
Yeah with PLD finally settled for me, it's clearly in a good place.
The Requi+Spirt / FoF+Physical combo jump means we're always doing something. It feels much better than prior and weaving in interventions/veils to help teammates or self sustaining with clem if needed, mitigating feels really well rounded for once. My kit feels useful finally.
The Requi+Spirt / FoF+Physical combo jump means we're always doing something. It feels much better than prior and weaving in interventions/veils to help teammates or self sustaining with clem if needed, mitigating feels really well rounded for once. My kit feels useful finally.
Every expansion it's all about the mad rush to level cap and then the complaining about lack of content
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Summoner was my only level 60 class prior to SB, but at this point I don't see myself wanting to play it any time soon. I've been loving Redmage, and I am very curious to see how Bard and Dragoon play once I get them leveled. I've had no drive at all to get past 60 on SMN yet, even though the initial Bahamut reveal had me hyped.
This happened to me even in an early HW dungeon right after the SB patch, but with the changes to SCH, and me still having Augmented Ironworks armor, I couldn't mitigate and heal quickly enough, that it took two wipes at the dungeon start for a DPS to chime in for smaller pulls, not multiple rooms worth.
Same. Down to even the last line. lol
Yes. Your alternative is to buy a story jump potion.
nikos
Member
Thanks!
So last night doing Trials roulette.
We failed Nidhogg
We failed Bismark
We failed Bismark again
We beat Susano after like 3 tries
Without fail I witnessed shit like:
-DPS standing with me taking MT cleaves
-DPS fucking off and not attacking anything
-Healers ignoring a tank
-Healers fucking off and simply not healing
-OT provoking shit off me to cleave the party
-OT not picking up other add
-Everyone dying
-Everyone dying twice
-EVERYONE IS DEAD AGAIN AT 20% BUFF
At least my queues are fast.
We failed Nidhogg
We failed Bismark
We failed Bismark again
We beat Susano after like 3 tries
Without fail I witnessed shit like:
-DPS standing with me taking MT cleaves
-DPS fucking off and not attacking anything
-Healers ignoring a tank
-Healers fucking off and simply not healing
-OT provoking shit off me to cleave the party
-OT not picking up other add
-Everyone dying
-Everyone dying twice
-EVERYONE IS DEAD AGAIN AT 20% BUFF
People are fucking terrible, fullstop.
At least my queues are fast.
Stone Ocean
Member
I don't mind having to work the healing out, but too many times I'm getting tanks who do that and then lose aggro.
creid
Member
Frustrating seeing people already done with MSQ when my last few nights as a DPS have been:
Wait 35 min in DF queue > 90k > 5 minute wait to get back in > 35 more min in DF queue > get matched into dungeon w/o a tank > vote abandon > 35 more min in DF queue > DDOS 90k's me again.
Wait 35 min in DF queue > 90k > 5 minute wait to get back in > 35 more min in DF queue > get matched into dungeon w/o a tank > vote abandon > 35 more min in DF queue > DDOS 90k's me again.
Jump potion customers, everyone.
I only saw one leaf/returner do that can't be it.
They should really force jump potion users to do newbie dungeons or something to learn the game first.
Valonquar
Member
After maining DRK throughout all of HW, I never had any trouble holding hate. Not once. I could usually easily pull hate off other tanks as well for that matter.
Running level 70 instances in SB for tomes has been a nightmare. It's less than a week since release and I've already been bombarded by healer after healer insisting on bigger pulls cause their last run was faster with other tanks. I haven't gotten the hang of the wildly depleting/regenerating MP pool and how your emnity AND main defensive buff are shared by the same pool of MP where before you just had the cooldown rotation to deal with. It's super easy to accidentally deplete your MP too far, and either lose hate, or die. 2400 MP is too high IMHO.
Leveling PLD 60 to 70 now to see how it goes, and at 61 I'm already feeling like it's going to be WAY easier to manage.
Running level 70 instances in SB for tomes has been a nightmare. It's less than a week since release and I've already been bombarded by healer after healer insisting on bigger pulls cause their last run was faster with other tanks. I haven't gotten the hang of the wildly depleting/regenerating MP pool and how your emnity AND main defensive buff are shared by the same pool of MP where before you just had the cooldown rotation to deal with. It's super easy to accidentally deplete your MP too far, and either lose hate, or die. 2400 MP is too high IMHO.
Leveling PLD 60 to 70 now to see how it goes, and at 61 I'm already feeling like it's going to be WAY easier to manage.
Squall ASF
Member
The person/people responsible for the DDoS attacks can burn in hell. Wasted my evening repeatedly trying to knock out the 41-50 floor in PoTD so I can finally start from 50 and just couldn't make it a single run without my teammates or myself getting kicked. So damn frustrating because it's the one game mode where you get absolutely nothing if you don't finish so literally nothing accomplished other than me knowing what to expect in that floor range. At least I leveled up once from doing the daily roulette first. I won't make this mistake again, next time there's repeated kicks I'll do something else in the game or take a break.
Anyway, is there a special nuance to the floor 50 boss in PotD? I want to avoid repeating that floor range more than once tonight if I can haha
Anyway, is there a special nuance to the floor 50 boss in PotD? I want to avoid repeating that floor range more than once tonight if I can haha
These days, what's the real difference between grinding FATEs/PoTD/PvP vs using a jump potion? Either way you're probably not going to really understand your job very well. And a lot of the complaints here seem to be grounded in "not knowing the fights," and well if you start today then you're not going to know those old fights regardless.
BossDarkseid
Member
I can't imagine the DDOSers will still be at it by the weekend...
Stone Ocean
Member
Exactly. I had one boosted ninja in Sirensong whose rotation consisted of Kunai > AoE Kunai > Aeolian Edge combo > go out of melee range for Kunai > repeat, but lets not pretend this shit didn't happen before.
Game doesn't teach you shit, if you want to get through the MSQ as an ice mage its doable, jump potions arent making people any worse than they were before.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Thornmarch is taking forever to queue.
It's funny to think people would actually pay a large sum of money just to stop other people from having fun.