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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT2| RIP Bowmage 2015-2017.
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Adds in the new catkid for gathering and crafting
Stone Ocean
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I wonder what the FCoB clear rates would be if it wasn't locked behind beating Nael
This makes me glad they added an easier tier of difficulty. I didn't like the fact they added a significant storyline (and the only story I was interested in coming from 1.0) that was locked behind some of the hardest fights in the game.
The Last Wizard
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Where's the seasonal shop?
Edit: never mind found the shopkeeper.
Edit: never mind found the shopkeeper.
Maybe? But in the post-Alexander era people repaint Coil as something everyone was doing and clearing, when in reality any discussion of raiding is squabbling between a minority of the community. Nobody involved is actually arguing for the majority, we're all just repping our segments of the minority. Alex Normal is still one of the best design decisions they've made in general, they just failed to capitalize on it in any way. But the trend of actually taking the raid story to a point where everyone could get to it was a solid decision.
Alex Normal should be unlocked in odd patches. Its existence created more problems than it solved. By being a tier of gear on its own it forces previous gear set to be invalidated immediately. Which is bad. And then there's the question of storyline motivation.
The rapid invalidation of prior tier gear is a feature, not a bug. Crafted gear hits at the same iLevel and having that middle tier exist eliminates the penalty for starting raiding/returning from a hiatus at the start of a raid tier. It's a reset, but it's one that I think exists because they wanted it, not because story mode forced it. Primal weapons fall into the same thing, and those aren't a new concept at all--Sophia immediately made having i245 weapons meaningless. Whether or not the reset is popular is one thing, but things were designed to hit that as a goal, it wasn't an unplanned problem.
Today's progress:
- Cleared a gazillion Coerthas quests
- The entire plotline was fucking awesome
- Cleared Stone Vigil
- Maybe the best boss fight yet, loved the patterns, more fun than Titan
- Got Heavy Thrust+ at lvl40, can finally string my attacks without having to reset HT too much!!!
- Got the stun Jump attack from the Dragoon quest at lvl40
- Completed the seasonal event
- My head is small enough that it doesn't look like a tiny hat, TAKE THAT!!!!
- Cleared a gazillion Coerthas quests
- The entire plotline was fucking awesome
- Cleared Stone Vigil
- Maybe the best boss fight yet, loved the patterns, more fun than Titan
- Got Heavy Thrust+ at lvl40, can finally string my attacks without having to reset HT too much!!!
- Got the stun Jump attack from the Dragoon quest at lvl40
- Completed the seasonal event
- My head is small enough that it doesn't look like a tiny hat, TAKE THAT!!!!
I also did the optional Cutter's Cove dungeon which featured the CHIMERA boss at the end. And it reminded me of an oldie: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=448493
Remember this?! Wow what a bullshot! Lol. (Also that thread has amazing gems of replies and hot takes from everyone including me!)
I chose Narumi because she's Au Ra like me. Racism.
Remember this?! Wow what a bullshot! Lol. (Also that thread has amazing gems of replies and hot takes from everyone including me!
)I chose Narumi because she's Au Ra like me. Racism.
It's more like... alright, have crafted gear be the same level as raid gear. Fine. But say if I had midan BiS, I shouldn't have to plop down 25 mil to a crafter to get myself up to speed and waste time with Sophia if I wanted to raid.
Of course Refurbisher is tuned for 240 but let's not talk about that
I completely understand the objection to the expanded iLevel leaps each tier; it's mostly I think this is what they wanted to do and Normal let them do it vs Normal needing gear drops cornering them into a scenario where they did it on accident.
This is also where I root for whatever the odd numbered patch hard content is offering gear equivalent to the crafted/normal of the next tier, while simultaneously knowing if they tried it a giant chunk of the playerbase would riot.
I chose Narumi cuz I'm a racist like Duckroll
Stone Ocean
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And that only took 12 hours of listening to corny 80's songs
IonicSnake
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I chose Narumi because Au... clearly she had the better voice.
EndcatOmega
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Can I choose them all to fail?
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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I chose Narumi because she was the most friendly.
nice find duckroll http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=448493
this is a good one view the post.
this is a good one view the post.
GameWatch: The city of Kugane seems as huge as Ishgard. Will it be split into multiple areas?
Yoshida: We have split the big cities into two areas up until now, which made navigation and movements quite a pain. This time we have created only one zone, while maintaining the size. We also had some fun with the city, so when youre done with adventuring, be sure to go around the city and look for those aspects (laugh).
http://gamerescape.com/2017/03/01/gamewatch-interview-with-yoshida-details-on-4-0/
Dandy Crocodile
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While at first i wanted to lol at those posts the worry or skepticism was not really that unfounded back then .
taking an almost universally panned MMO , taking it off the servers for a year rebuilding it on a new engine and then re re releasing it with a paid sub model at a time where every single MMO either went FTP or B2P was unheard off .
Let alone in thinking it would become one of the most popular MMO's that is now getting its second expansion .
duckroll what kind of wizard are you, what black magic did you work to get matsuno to work on this game
Now that's a familiar name, did you used to post on the old dubstep forum? Pretty sure I remember you mentioning FFXI a few times
Stone Ocean
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Don't let the door hit ya on the way out, PS3
BossDarkseid
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Got through Floor 50 of PoTD with +28/+21. That boss was kinda fun, and looked something out of Yarnham by way of FF.
hosannainexcelsis
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duckroll the prophet
Unless they're already planning some sort of rework for them as part of some greater redesign that's just effort and manpower that can be directed elsewhere, though. They were separated because of PS3, and thus only "exist" in that state. It would probably be easier to do it for say, Gridania and Uldah though as they're largely flat and Uldah only has 2 levels to it with only a few loading points (and only one leading up to the second floor.)
MMO maintenance isn't always adding more and more stuff ad nauseum, often they do need to go back through and do housekeeping of earlier content - especially since the old cities are still heavily used. One of the best things WoW did was updating the entire world with Cataclysm.
It's a problem they're running into now where 1-50 is such a drag that they're going to resort to selling 'skip potions' to get past it. If a little bit of effort was spent touching up old areas as they go, the need for such drastic solutions wouldn't be so dire.
There's Dino's in some of the HW zones and there's huge enemies in diadem (lv 60 instanced zone) which will finally be rereleased in 3.55b.
No lies detected in my post.
Please carry my WAR through A9S and A10S. My new main. If only Angary could carry my carcass through this raid tier I skipped after retirement.
But even Cataclysm didn't touch all the areas in WoW, I mean, granted, Eorzea isn't as big as WoW was, but FF14's problem isn't even necessarily the leveling, it's the MSQ structure in ARR, which would require significant reworking and actively take away from development for new content, especially at this point in time.
It's also worth noting WoW made levelling incredibly streamlined and easy and still sells level boosts/bundles them with expansions. It was sub 10 hours to get an alt to 100 in the legion pre-event if you abused it right, IIRC. There will always be a market for boosts because everyone values their time differently.
I already did that with a retired WAR this tier. It cost him his house, his connections to the community, Literally All His Gil, and probably whatever self respect he had.
Unsure if worth, but the mount is pretty cool so I'm pretending it balances.
I already did that with a retired WAR this tier. It cost him his house, his connections to the community, Literally All His Gil, and probably whatever self respect he had.
Unsure if worth, but the mount is pretty cool so I'm pretending it balances.
Abstrusity
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Your idoru a shit.
I picked Ulala because she's short and is pretty much just Nico.
The easiest of carries then.
Abstrusity
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Well, not that bad. At least we're not stooping to worshiping a girl who
killed her own brother
Nah, I'd just fall into the lava along with you.
Even accepting this 'working on one thing takes away from another thing' (despite them having a bigger team and more funding than ever), I'd be satisfied with them spending dev time futureproofing their old stuff, because what they figure out there will propagate forward. Take people off whatever their next Diadem flop will be if they're low on warm bodies.
There's gonna be stuff in HW that people find obnoxious grinding through to get to 4.0 once SB is out, because the quest structure is basically the same, just with better production value in cutscenes. This is an as-of-yet unsolved issue that is going to continue piling up as the game gets longer.
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