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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
- Thread starter Ken
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We're still relatively early in, but to the relative amusement of all involved the Creator comp is starting to pop up in a lot of the current speed clear stuff. So while there's no clear reason to take a machinist over a bard, people are starting to just bring both again. The more things change, etc etc etc.
Shanaynay
Member
You get to enjoy seeing people miss jumps in the distance while you're quietly relaxing in some hot water.
EN version of The Rising page is now up. Prizes are: Lyse minion, Gosetsu minion, Stormblood orchestrion roll, Answers ("Reprise version") orchestrion roll, ballooon furnishing, and flowers prism.
Also, Tale From the Storm #4: Othard's most Radiant bachelor
Also, Tale From the Storm #4: Othard's most Radiant bachelor
Boring.
Stone Ocean
Member
Rising continues to have the worst rewards
TheMrPliskin
Member
At least they're better than the Moonfire rewards.
Wind up Lyse makes it objectively worse.
Stone Ocean
Member
4.06a? Are we expecting anything but bugfixes?
Pyros_Eien
Member
Could be housing, but could also be putting in the groundwork for their 4.1 changes, they have cross server linkshells and what not coming iirc, so they're probably changing a bunch of stuff.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
I'm on a business trip until Tuesday.
If it's Housing i am going to be angry
If it's Housing i am going to be angry
Pyros_Eien
Member
Housing preparations, not housing housing. The patch itself is going to be nothing, but the fact they're doing structural maintenance for longer than usual should mean they're doing some server related stuff, so they might prepare for the new housing stuff, or for cross server functionalities they're adding(the pvp thing and the linkshell stuff). It won't be active, but doing some of that stuff now might help.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Holy shit is Feast 4vs4 annoying. Get a warrior, lose. So many idiots rushing out of range/sight then spamming Nice job when they die without apparently using any defensive cooldown. 20secs left and 5vuln stacks with medal lead? Better go attack people. Shit's terrible, and I can't tell if no chat is better or worse. Probably worse.
video guide from momo
【FFXIV】Melee Uptime Optimization Guide
【FFXIV】Melee Uptime Optimization Guide
Don't we all?
TheMrPliskin
Member
This is hard to argue against. I guess the wind up version can at least be ignored and you never have to deal with it again.
Somebody should tell him that no matter how much you love your rock music, educational videos are better suited with something nondistracting.
Like, holy shit. Even Xeno figured this out.
He's going to reupload it with the music either gone or mixed down even more so you can more clearly hear his voice. He also made a text version. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIh_EpHbx8OiVWyYnDkP43IDEHg_NkPV69PmNPvkrus/edit
Unfortunately this likely won't even get to the DPS you'll find in PUGs getting out DPSed by even Healers.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Man, I can't believe I had to actually vote dismiss someone today in Castrum Abania. I'm pretty sure they never ever read the messages in chat and played the way they wanted because we dont pay his sub bullshite. They just refused and I mean refused to get us out of the deathclaws on final boss. He'd just spam slugshot and enhanced slug shot on the boss while we were getting choppedd to pieces and the healer is wasting mp. Yup, I actually initiated the vote kick because the player was such a waste of time, lol.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Well you have Esuna as a role ability. They didn't replace it with anything so you get nothing for one of the SCH job quest anymore. Same for MCH they changed some stuff around and one of the quests give nothing.
Revolutionary
Member
My god, the Order Yet Undeciphered
remix is amazing.
8-bit
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Oh god it's a proper dungeon.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
There's that year where you just went around doing FATEs or whatever, that was pretty bad.
This was cute though. Though I have to wonder
if even half the people doing it have played a first person dungeon crawler. It's not a FF thing, either, they were receding into the background already by then.
Pyros_Eien
Member
That was a fun event, much better than the usual stuff. Bit funny since I just started playing a dungeon crawler yesterday(Starcrawler, some game I apparently kickstarted some years ago and that's finished now, looks nice enough so far).
Probably taking a break once my sub lapses though, not much to do until 4.1, and even then I don't know if there'll be much to do other than just run the first 24man a couple of times a week. I'm generally done with my weekly stuff by wednesday, and I don't even need to do any of the daily stuff anymore, I finished the Garo stuff, I have all classes maxed, I get enough tomes just doing random stuff for Khloe or close to so I don't really need expert even. It's pretty standard fare but like yeah, time to take a break for a little while I guess.
Probably taking a break once my sub lapses though, not much to do until 4.1, and even then I don't know if there'll be much to do other than just run the first 24man a couple of times a week. I'm generally done with my weekly stuff by wednesday, and I don't even need to do any of the daily stuff anymore, I finished the Garo stuff, I have all classes maxed, I get enough tomes just doing random stuff for Khloe or close to so I don't really need expert even. It's pretty standard fare but like yeah, time to take a break for a little while I guess.
So, I was considering picking this back up for a try. Any recommendations on a class for a returning beginner? I'm tired of playing the game alone so I'd like to find a friendly group of people to join. I'm a fast learner and I never do stupid stuff like pull before the tank or put myself in a situation that causes trouble to the healer.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Well, you could always be the tank- gladiator's a good class for a beginner tank as it's incredibly straight forward mechanically till 50.
If you don't want to do that, most classes are pretty simple at early levels so just pick one you didn't do last time; lancer/dragoon's weird to level though based on its levelling rotation is like one button at certain points, though.
If you don't want to do that, most classes are pretty simple at early levels so just pick one you didn't do last time; lancer/dragoon's weird to level though based on its levelling rotation is like one button at certain points, though.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Is there a good site for reading up on Hydaelyn, Eorzea, and general FFXIV lore, trivia, and details?
I can't believe it's not dancer!
I've been lvl 50 SAM for days trying to level up. Every time I select a MSC from Revenant's Toll it's for a hard dungeon (most are lvl 70 with a few exceptions). I don't particularly want to go to a dungeon since I don't feel competent as a tank, forgot how to access party chat, and finding a healer for duty finder is as much of a pain as it was 3 years ago. It's a shame that tomes are tied to them and the main way to rais your toon is grinding for tones in dungeons (unless there's another way I'm unaware of). I went to my free company to boost my rank and low and behold... it too sends me to a dungeon (Aurum Vale) in order to advance 🙄
I currently have 11 quests in my journal, 9 of them turned out to be dungeons.
I'd love to visit the Eastern kingdom village, but I haven't even made it to Heavensword content, and getting back into all of these systems and functions leaves me feeling out of my depth 😂
Maybe I've made a big mistake purchasing Stormblood hoping to get back into FFXIV.
Edit: Sorry for the vent guys. I think I'm just going to continue grinding and build up my SUM and SAM rather than doing quests... and just take a laid back approach.
I currently have 11 quests in my journal, 9 of them turned out to be dungeons.
I'd love to visit the Eastern kingdom village, but I haven't even made it to Heavensword content, and getting back into all of these systems and functions leaves me feeling out of my depth 😂
Maybe I've made a big mistake purchasing Stormblood hoping to get back into FFXIV.
Edit: Sorry for the vent guys. I think I'm just going to continue grinding and build up my SUM and SAM rather than doing quests... and just take a laid back approach.
Just level tank.
One of the common things said is "fake it till you make it" which is a thing you can do. If you want to be more frank, you can just use party chat (type /p and press enter, and the text field will be set to Party) to say you're new and you're a scrubby tank, and so the party will have to deal with it. Because ultimately if they kick you, you can get another dungeon in 2 seconds, but they have to wait much longer to get a tank in the instance or else abandon the dungeon altogether.
You can also queue for lower level dungeons to get back into the swing of things. Read the tooltips, hit a dummy for a bit, you'll gradually figure it out. Despite all the venting posts about bad players and such, it's generally in content where people should know how to play their classes by that point. Generally if you say you're new/haven't played for awhile at the beginning of anything instanced people are pretty accomodating.
Still don't understand why they depowered lower level DRK so much. I get that with newer tools you get both better MP recovery and better mitigation and but what about 69 levels before that? Wouldn't even be so confused by this move if the game didn't try and goad you into leveling content so much.
Mantra "At least I'm not playing MCH right now" doesn't help a lot.
Mantra "At least I'm not playing MCH right now" doesn't help a lot.