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FFXIV Stormblood

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A new live letter is coming real soon. Are you ready for the patch notes reading at E3?
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>not playing every day
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"We don't want FFXIV to be a game that you want to play"

Ok then.
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Who here are ready to study the blade?
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>>379908192
I'm ready to watch this game bleed subs.
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2 more days I can't fucking wait.
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>>379907992
how do people login everyday? Don't they get bored?
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>about to fight Garuda

How far can I make if before SB drops? I harbor no delusions of actually finishing in time, but I wanna get as far as I can.
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>>379909295
Depends on how much you play, but you could probably get to the start of Heavensward by the 16th.
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>>379909295
If you nolife it maybe the end of heavensward.
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>>379909295
You might get into Heavensward if you rush.
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>>379909628
>>379909669
I'm off work two of the next three days so that'll help. I plan on working on it pretty much nonstop.
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>>379909295
You have 100+ hours to go before you reach Stormblood. Keep playing and see to it or buy a skip boost. But be warned that if you buy a skip most people will treat you harshly.
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>>379910191
>paying to skip content

Only fucking retards would do this
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>>379909069
>PvP
>tomes
>leveling
>crafting
>gathering
>raiding
>pony and birb farming
>Lord of Verminion

It's funny how it works. FFXIV has a lot of stuff to do, but instead of capitalizing on that Yoshida thinks that it's better if people just treat it as just another MMO that you play for two weeks and then quit.
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>>379910472
Correct. I don't get why anyone would pay to skip a game they already pay for. That would be like paying someone to spoil a movie after buying it on bluray.
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>>379910472
I mean, I guess if you don't make any distinctions over quality, then yes you'd be "skipping content"
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>>379909295

No chance
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>>379910472
Modern MMOs are full of fucking retards who pay to skip content, get bored and then quit without doing anything significant in the game.

And then people wonder why the genre is dying.
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>>379911219
>i don't like it so it's not content
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>>379910472
I'd buy it for an alt to be honest.
Too bad my alt is at The Vault with my new leaf so far.
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>>379911682
Your mistake is in assuming that "it's content" is an equivalent statement to "it's content that is good enough that you should want to do it".
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>>379911219
I've experienced plenty of fetch quests in my day; what's a few more? Besides, this game is set up to be almost as much of a JRPG as it is an MMO, and the plot is the majority of the reason to play those.
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>shitposting about jump potions again
We've already had this discussion many times. Fuck off.
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>BDO on XBOXS
No wonder there was so much shilling for it in XIV threads, besides the discount on Steam.
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>>379913312
>s-stop making fun of me for paying to skip content guys ;_;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onYgFHqyob8

xd
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xRoronoa' Batoussai'x: KIRISTE... GOMENASAI...
Kill me
I'm on Chaos and this is going to be unbearable
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>>379913807
At least they have good taste in anime samurai.
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>>379913923
>wanpiss
Nope.
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>>379907217

>We don't want to make content
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So, I'm at level 47, and I've been rubbing my face through PotD to level. Any other ways to go about it? Story quests pick back up at 49, right?
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Anyone have a source for Lore being the only old tomestone in SB? Thinking about capping lore and just letting it convert to poetics for 260 gear.
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>>379914542
Use your leveling roulette. There are also a bunch of sidequest chains that opened up in the back room of the Waking Sands that everyone misses.
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Wait are you fucking kidding me? This game is add level boosts too?
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>>379914074
>yaoi hands.
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>>379914570
for poetics being the only tomestone, I mean. I'm stupid
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>>379914570
>>379914867
It was said during the last live letter, but I don't have a timestamp or anything.
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>>379914542

Anon, they increased the exp from Main quest, how are you only level 47?

You should be ahead of your level always in main quest in vanilla
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>>379913070
I mean, that's cool if you enjoy it and everything, I'm not going to shit on anyone for having fun with something they like.

I just think it's kind of disingenuous to pretend that there's something incorrect about NOT feeling that way, or that playing through the four year old ARR main story is somehow integral to enjoying the current, most recent content, when FFXIV is explicitly designed as the sort of MMO where there's only a thin band of the most recent content that can really be considered "current" while all the older stuff pretty much gets folded into a mostly-inactive archive of legacy content.

I don't know if I'd really be able to bring myself to PAY to skip it, but I absolutely would prefer if the game let you select whether you wanted to start at the beginning of 2.0, the beginning of 2.1, the beginning of 3.0, the beginning of 3.1, or jump right into the beginning of 4.0, once you've already bought SB and it launches.
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>>379913312
Hope you never get into one of my groups, shitter. I'm kicking jump potters the instant I see them.
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>>379908437
kay

Reminder that wow is so desperate that they scheduled their next raid specifically on the same day as stormbloods release.
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>>379915724
WoW always did this, and not just with FFXIV.
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Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood in a nutshell ~Meanwhile on the melee DPS side~
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>>379915629
You're pretty retarded if that's what you think that comment means.
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>>379916392
Once again I have cut a worthless object...
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2004: we need to add lockouts and gates so guild leaders don't force their members to play the whole day

201X: we need to add lockouts to mask the fact that our game has no content
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>>379910472
BUT MUH ENDGAME. MUH RAIDING!!! IT IS THE ONLY THIG THERE IS! MUST BE MAX LEVEL 5 MINUTES AFTER CREATING A CHARACTER
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>>379916950
WTF WHERE'S THE CONTENT THIS GAME SUCKS
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When's the LL?
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>>379917528
FUCK THIS GAME SUUUUCKS. ALSO THE STORY TELLING IS SHIT I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE.
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>>379916392
Might as well have a BRD playing the world's smalles fiddle while a MCH blows their brain out in the background.
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>>379916392
I can't fucking wait when reality sets in and SAMfags are finally BTFO
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>>379912002
>>379910472
They said it themselves during the live letter, it's really only intended for people who are already players and not newbies, like for making an alt.
Something about having to go though 300+ quests that puts people off from making an alt. (even though they encourage you to use the subscription option that allows up to eight characters on a world, I don't know who would be masochistic enough to do this anyway though)
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How autistic are people who want dailies?
MMOs are fine even better if you don't fall behind by not logging everyday and doing some dumb ass dailies.
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>>379918857
>it's really only intended for people who are already players and not newbies
If such was the case then they'd lock it to accounts that already finished the game

But of course it isn't
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>>379916726
Goddamn it Anon.
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>>379919321
>If such was the case then they'd lock it to accounts that already finished the game
>But of course it isn't
Why would they so no to more money?
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Hey guys, instead of bitching about whm maybe you should listen what people that know what they're doing, such as Miunih, have to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42N_gc_-zI&feature=youtu.be
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>>379919321
Newbies are far less likely to shell out $25-50 additional dollars for a game they aren't sure they'll play for a long time, especially when you can get a big chunk of the skippable experience free.
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And back to XIV. Anthem looked neat tho.
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>>379919997
>YuruYuri picture
I hate people.
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>>379919997
Fuck off.
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>>379919997
XIV youtube community is absolute cancer.
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>>379919997
Miunih has never known a fucking thing in his life and we all know it
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Can someone who plays AST give Me some pointers as to how to play in 'serious' content?

So far I've only been doing POTD/Dungeons and I've been in the damage/regen sect, pretty much only healing with the emergency heal and an occasional aspected benefic.

As for cards I've just been fishing for Balance, holding it until I get extended/enhanced and sticking it on the best dps and extending it.

In a raid though should I be using Diurnial? I figure I can shield the raid with the aspected AOE heals before a big AOE. Speaking of AOE, is AST AOE prep just pop aspected AOE heal then put up barrier and stand still?

In a raid situation should I continue just fishing for balances and throwing away boles/spires/arrows to enhance them with until someone is low on TP (or mana) or just use Arrow/Spear on dps as soon as I get em?

For after the big AOE to top off raid I just use the spell that reduces cast times then Aspected AOE > AOE Heal > AOE Heal etc? I guess I could use the heal boost from the link spell if I want the bonus healing right?

Only other thing I can think of is in fights with tankbusters should I be holding a bole card as soon as I get it to protect the tank? Or should I be doing this and fishing for the AOE royal road affect in fights with big aoes like Titans ground pound or whatever

Sorry that's a lot of questions
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>>379919997
>hearing nerds talk for 3 hours
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>>379910472
But don't you want to get to level 70 as fast as possible and then complain there's no content?
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>the game is devolving
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>>379918732
>jap class in a jap game getting btfo
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>>379915117
Different Anon here, but I had about a ten level jump thanks to some PotD grinding when I went back to doing the MSQs around the sylph arc and I had to stop and grind more PotD because I was ineligible to continue after the Haurchefant quests finished. Shit was pretty gay.
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>>379921624
Why are SCH so fucking obsessed with damage?
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>>379915117
>vanilla
>2.0
This isn't WoW
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>>379910010
Don't be too bummed if you're not first into the gate in the new content in SB. It'll be waiting there for you when you're ready. No need to poopsock it, really.
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>>379919997
Wasn't this the guy that bitched because anger got a shout-out from yoshi for world first Creator and his group didn't get shit for world first Midas/gordias?
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>>379922256
Because it's figuratively their JOB, while fairy does all the healing.
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>>379921181
I don't mind reddit formatting that much but holy shit dude.
And yeah, you'll be going diurnal 95% of the time atm. Don't know if the shields blow scholar the fuck out in stormblood though.
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>>379922256
Why wouldn't we?
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>>379922256
Because arcanist is a DPS class.
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>>379922334
He's the guy who threw a shitfit every time anyone even tangentially related to FFXIV didn't do things exactly his way, from the dev team to a different raid team halfway around the world to the Japanese raid community not following his made-up 'rules' about when you can release videos of your clears
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>>379922565
I didn't type Reddit at all I'm on an iPad I think it auto spaces

Ok so I should be using aspected benefic as a shield? How often? Since it has 0 CD do I just use it before a big hit? I get using the AOE version as raid mitigation though
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>>379909295
You're fucked. When I finished the MSQ I needed to bridge into HW and that took nearly a week with all the horseshit leading quests that locked me out.

And they don't give any EXP since they were quests when the cap was still lvl 50 to lead you into the new expansion to lvl 60. A weeks worth of questing and I went from lvl 50 to lvl 52.
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>>379921624
fucking kek
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Then why do roulettes reset every day? Keep the bonus up, let me finish in 2 days.
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>>379915724
>Final Fantasy is so desperate they have to schedule ENTIRE EXPANSIONS on minor wow patches just so that their playercount doesnt fucking plummet for weeks as everyone else will be playing wow instead
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>>379921181
s/\n\n/\n/
Damn son.
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>>379915724
they released 6.2 on heavenswards release date too. not the first time.
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>>379923289

Why is the diadem bad? I've never gone there.
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this shit needs to go to /vg/ every time there is a thread up about it
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>>379923662
>don't talk about video-games on a video-game board reee
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>>379923406
You forgot /g at the end. Damn son.
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To be honest, since I pay monthly. they should make it so tomestones and lockouts can be entended to 1,800, of course it only increases an extra 450 per week but in that last week if you weren't able to play for the first three weeks you have an entire week to farm that 1,800 instead of missing 1,350 of it. Same with raid gear, you would get more chance to get a guaranteed item from it.

What do you think?
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>>379923406
I don't know what that means
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>>379923881
shiiiiiiet
brb committing sudoku
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You niggers said to grind frontlines for 235 ilvl, but I'm don't even have enough ilvl to do that.
I'm fucking pissed. If I have to grind lores I'll never make it to SB.
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>>379924167
>posting bastard elf
Indeed you must commit sudoku.
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>>379915724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbzKXsRD5E

>he thinks FFXIV is special
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>>379923643
beautiful location, fuckall to do there
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>>379923406
Are you counting newlines?
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Can't wait for faster mounts!
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>>379924260
What does a dog say?
ARF ARF ARF ARF
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>when your lala genes allows you to play the market boards better than other races
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>>379907217
>we dont want... that you have to log in every day
stackable pool of days worth of daily roulette bonuses when?
auto-dispensing water tank lasting multiple days for garden when?
all the daily quests being converted into stackable weekly quests when?
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>>379923643
Nothing to do, they shouldn't have made fates and instead made open world dungeons in the entire zone along with quests and missions.
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>>379923376
You have that backwards, blizzard delayed finished content desperate to stop everyone from leaving for sb
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>>379923643
bullet sponge enemies are boring, fates don't give enough rewards, rng with random gear being good or being shit, people quit the instance when they're done with the objectives so emergency missions are IMPOSSIBLE.
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>>379924016
The game should honestly just give everyone the same maximum number of tomestones and whatever else, and have the global max rise every day/week/whatever. Let people take a break, then come back and grind it out if they want to, or just not feel pressured to do it for the sake of doing it if they don't want to.

The only place it'd get kind of hairy doing it that way would be actual raid (loot) lockouts, because those are RNG drops shared between a group of players. There's no reason why you should fall behind on anything else if you take a break or join late.
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>>379924427
it's (supposed to be) a magic formula for replacing double new lines (aka "reddit spacing") with single new lines.
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>>379923841
its a general without the word general in the op
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>>379923643
tfw love Diadem as a gatherer
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>he cares about getting gear when the expansion is 5 days away

oh boo hoo the level 61 mobs will hurt a little :( better get that i270 gear!!!!
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>>379924849
>finished content
>wow

wew lad, you're a moron.
the PTR has recently barely been posted as "release candidate" and they havent even tuned the numbers on the class changes

they're winging it and have to release it this week because they literally ran out of their 11 week timegated content from the previous patch lmao
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>>379924991
Is there a rule for how often /v/ can talk about a certain game? No? Okay, come back when you've done something about the drawthread that's always up since you think you're a fucking hall monitor.
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>>379925097
You need i230 or something like that to finish the last MSQ dungeon of HW.

Actually come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the game waives iLevel requirements on raids/trials if you queue as a full party. I wonder if that applies to 4-man dungeons as well.
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>>379924016
>having to tome grind in SB
This kills the hype
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>>379910494
this list is retarded
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>>379925541
First two weeks is tome grinding all jobs with the uncapped tome and then farming hunts to upgrade it.

Enjoy.
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>>379924746
I think this picture sums up perfectly everything wrong with Lalafell and their playerbase.
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>>379925639
You're retarded.
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>>379925824
>>379925541

Tomes aren't in the game for 2 weeks. So you will beat the entire MSQ and be bored for a week while waiting for more content.
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>>379925541
>he thought 4.x would be any different than 2.x and 3.x
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>>379925824
You're forgetting an unbelievable amount of shitters who'll invariably go OH GOD WHAT IS THAT ON MY SCREEN it's your gauge you retarded chucklefuck who can't read the fucking notes
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he means they dont want to add dailys...right? right? or does it already have dailys?
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>>379925824
>farming hunts to upgrade it
Naaaw man. Naww come on. We are past hunts, right? Anything but hunts... please.
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>>379926076
I said uncapped tomes.
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>>379926179
Game has dailies and no, they won't lower the rate of doing old dailies from beastmen tribe in previous expansions to rank up.

So stupid.
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>>379925824
They already said that the typical tome gear is being handed out with job quests this go around so you'll hit end game with 290 gear and can sit around and twiddle your thumbs begging for raids.
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>>379926076
The uncapped tomestones (Philosophy/Law equivalent) will be in from day one. It's the capped ones that aren't going to be in at launch (also they'll be introduced on the fifth week along with Savage).

Hopefully this time they introduce the 2-star crafting recipes along with the Normal Mode raid instead of the Savage raid, so that you can not grind out upgrades for the uncapped tomestones and instead enter Savage with a mix of the NM/Crafted gear.
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>>379925248
>delay it
>still run out of time
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Is PotD making it harder to properly learn a job after a grind?
I never used it and don't really intend to, but doesn't muscle memory play a great part in learning a job?
Doesn't it fuck with it when you badly learn a job by grinding through PotD and pushing whatever buttons work for clearing that?
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>>379926609
The 290 gear is going to be the equivalent of the i55 AF1 from ARR. You still needed to grind out a i70 Darklight set before you started raiding.
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is now a good time to resub or should i wait until the expansion hype dies down? i stopped playing before the 3.5 content
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>tfw trying to stockpile crystals for SB
>mfw water clusters
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95% sure that healer queues will be almost the exact same as DPS queues. Fuck. I hate tanking

>>379926801
Didn't have any problems. I read and understood the tooltips so PotD worked better for me as I knew the rotation while I playing a level 60 job there. Once I hit lvl 60 I just went to hit some dummies and that's it.
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Here is the Stormblood timeline.

Up until July 24th, the only max level content will be two dungeons and two primals. Gear acquisition will be doing the primals for weapons (and possibly accessories if the rumors are true). This is not even multiple days worth of content but you will be forced to do them for tomes as it will be the best gear available. You will also need to do hunts to further upgrade said gear. Nothing else will be added until late July.

Upon the 5th week of the game's launch, Omega will open, now you will have access to normal mode gear which will undoubtedly be on the same terrible token system we saw in Heavensward. Savage will also unlock and likely be so easy it's cleared within the first few days. Even more casual but competent groups will clear it by the end of August.

There will be no new content until December, which will only include a single new dungeon, one 24 man raid and supposedly one extra hard version of an already existing boss.
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>Ninja gets a job gauge for their Ninki and Huton timer
>doesn't get one for their Ninjustsu Timer

Why the fuck not? That's more important than a Huton timer when huton extension is including in your rotation.
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>>379927473

How hard was Ravana Ex on HW release? I knew that Bismarck Ex was dead on arrival.
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>>379927474
I never thought about that but that's a really good point. They could pretty easily build it into the stupid Huton pinwheel thing.
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>>379927353
Healers should be dying out and thus becoming more rare, same with tanks. A lil of both are gonna switch off to be either of the 2 new dps.

So if anything you will probably have shorter queue times than you have now. But of course tank will be even more instant than before.
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>>379927473
Please tell me the AF at lv.70 quest will be dyeable and not have some retarded method to upgrade it just to dye.
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>>379926801
>Is PotD making it harder to properly learn a job after a grind?
I would say so yes.
The only time you can do a proper rotation is against a boss and they usually die very quick.

>>379927125
>Tfw I farmed Diadem before they changed it like crazy as a gatherer and I have over 200 Steel Sky Pirate Spoils
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>>379927353
>Fuck. I hate tanking
Too bad 85%+ of the player base hates it too, huh?
It could get even worse in SB with the new damage nerf and DRK/WAR being underwhelming and SAM/RDM being both DPS jobs.
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>>379927680
Both of them were quite easy.
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>>379927473
The live letter this tuesday will be talking about what's coming in 4.1
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>>379927764
The i290 AF3 gear is dyeable from the get go.
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>>379926885
Are people still trying to equate 2.x bullshit to 4.0's launch? The team's been ripping out all the crap people have been whining about for years now and openly telling people it's not going to be the exact same treadmill. Are you so cynical you can't see past your own nose?
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>>379911618
lmao a friend spent hundreds of dollars on warframe within days of starting it. then he quit within a week because there wasn't anything to do
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>>379927881

I thought it was just a Q&A?
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>>379927680
A lot of bads got stuck on bismark because of the add dps check.
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XIV already won E3 anyway.
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>>379927827
As a tank main, fuck tanking. I'm maining samurai.
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>>379927926
Gotta rev up them Soot Black dyes and retainers.
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>tfw your comfy PLD job will be invaded by best in role shitters

Guess I'll try WAR
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>>379928128
>not jet black
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Which one? (don't hate me, but i have no one else to ask)
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>>379919997
>Miunih "I go on xivg to damage control" Evans
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>>379928134
>making premature judgment based on an April build
Nigga, don't.

Only the patch notes will tell.
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>>379928218
black horns
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>>379928218

Right at least seems to fit the aesthetic, left looks like a fag.
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>>379928105
Tank here and I'll probably do the same after the MSQ at launch because lolqueues.
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So most efficient level grinding in PotD is to just do 1-10 then delete your character over and over again?
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>>379928218
They both look like shit if I'm being honest.
But black horns go better with your look
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>>379928218
Stick those horns up your ass.
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>>379927473
This is totally wrong though

June 16th: SB launches, max level content is 2-3 dungeons, 2 primals, hunts
July 4th: Omega Normal Mode launches
July 18th: Omega Savage, capped tomestones release

And 3.1 was early November, and they've already said that they're not going to make the mistake of waiting so long for 4.1 to release, so it's probably mid-October at the latest.
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>>379928516
No. Floors 51-60.
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>>379928504
Just gonna bunker down with my friends, thankfully one of them is autistic and hates both SAM and RDM and is more concerned with leveling PLD.
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>>379928608
How the fug do I do that
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>>379928516
nah 51-60 is faster if everyone in your group has high level gear.

If you're a 30/30 shitter it might take longer.
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>>379927974
AF3 is base gear given out to make sure everyone is the same equivalent power level when they hit 70. There will still be a tomestone grind post-leveling.
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>Spending $25 to gain levels(?) and skip one of Final Fantasy's biggest selling points: the story

On top of a game that you have to pay 20 bucks for the base game, 60 bucks total for the expansions that actually have the fun stuff in it, charges 15 bucks a month, and has some of the most ridiculous microtransactions I've ever seen in MMO history.

Anyone who defends this shit needs to kill themselves.
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>>379927827
>shitters complain about tanks and healers dealing too much damage
>SE caters to them and remove all complexity from those jobs
>50 min queues for expert roulette
At least the shitters will be happy
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>>379928750
Clear floor 50 then you can start on 51 every time you delete the character
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>tank and healer players drop so hard that the game becomes unplayable
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>>379928902
>I posted it again
I know it's hard to believe but some people don't want to deal with 500 boring fetch quests
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>>379907217
They're going the WoW route

how long before XIV the official app
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>>379927353
>>379927827
>dps will be dps and keep suck tank's dick
damage number whoring is real.
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>>379929134

Yeah, I don't feel like they thought this shit through much. The changes to War have me wanting to switch and I've played War since 1.0.
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>>379929213
It's already been announced.
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>>379928218
The black horns look better but lore wise you should probably go with the Raen (white one).
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>>379928598
>one thing wrong
>totally wrong
Do you have a source on normal Omega release?
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>>379929134
>we've increased the adventurer in need bonus g-guise!
>it's 1500 gil now!
>p-please tank!
Why even tank? The only perk is quick queues.
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>>379929398
It was announced years ago.
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What if Y'shtola isn't dead yet and WoL is going to Doma to find a cure to magic cancer caused by nippon steel?
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>>379927974
They haven't said anything remotely like that. They said that they're going to award your AF via your level 70 job quest because they want people to easily be able to use their class's iconic, job-specific gear.

That also doubles as a way to fix the Heavensward problem of people getting to max level and not having enough gear to enter the max-level dungeons because they had poor luck with their 51-59 dungeon drops (or don't you remember how shit it was that people had to show up to Neverreap/Fractal with NQ vendor gear from Azys Lla?), and prevents the situation from both ARR and HW where the first set of weekly-capped tomestones bought job-specific gear that didn't let you share it between all casters/healers/tanks/ranged/etc.

There's nothing in there about altering the flow of having a starter, freshly-leveled iLevel for new max-level players, and then having a series of upgrades including unlocked tomestone gear for people to go through prior to actually entering the raids, and there's no reason for them to eliminate those steps, because nobody really bitches about it and it adds longevity to the game for the majority of the playerbase.
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>>379929529
Not him but
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14SbRI6EBkgUfQxaQM-qIwN7c__Hvuk4vW6VN11OlKUo/pub
Early Access: June 16 2017 at 9:00 GMT

Release Date: June 20 2017 for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Mac
4.01(Omega Normal): July 4 2017
4.05(Omega Savage): July 18 2017
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At this point I'm playing the game at launch just to see how hard it will flop
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>>379929529
They've said it at least twice over the last two Live Letters, and it's how they handled Heavensward.
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>>379929875
Why would it flop tho?
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I'm retarded, the class changes are on the 16th regardless of EA right?
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>>379929828
Thanks
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>>379922256
Because it's all SCH mains care about. They, along with WAR mains, are the most arrogant cunts in the playerbase.
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>tfw you're a sproutshitter who watches every cutscene the first time through
>tfw no one ever tries to kick you because you're the tank
I have a feeling this will change when I get to the double tank sections, but for now, it's a pretty nice feel.
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>>379929395
every single tank in my FC except one is planning to switch to SAM or RDM

fucking hell
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>>379930147
I've never see a vote kick happen aside from afkers. No matter how bad or even when they are bming. You'll be fine.

Most players aren't cancerous and understand that watching cutscenes is part of the expiernce
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>>379930058
You're an idiot.
Alex normal ame ou halfway between heavensward and Alex savage.
Why the fuck you would assume otherwise, and not only that but PREACH your bullshit is well beyond me.
You thick cunt.
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>>379930147
no one kicks for watching cutscenes
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>>379930408
Nothing else about my post was incorrect and only shows how rigidly they follow the same formula.
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>>379928218
Male face 3 is trash, no matter what.
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>>379930121

Man don't lump the War mains that spent most of 2.0 being bland with the people that hopped onto the Fell Cleave change. I don't want to be a DPS that sometimes Tanks, I wanna be a tank that fucking tanks. The changes on the way look like shit.

Clunky starter, clunky stance changing, removal of bloodbath and mercy stroke. Two skills that won't even be put on my fucking bar and one I'll probably ignore 99% of the time. For the first time since 1.0 I'm genuinely thinking of switching, queue times won't be a deal for me because I duo with a healer anyway.
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>>379928902
I'd agree usually, but now that SB raised the cap to 70 you're basically missing what a lot of idiots who get into the game want now. To be at end game with their friends who talked them into this bullshit.

If the 1-49 story was at least half as compelling as the 50-60 stuff then maybe people wouldn't mind as much. (Those last few dungeons can make up for Waking Sands every 5 seconds, even with skipping CS and being totally lost in DF runs.) They're pretty shit though, and to really give a shit about the world you need to do most of the side quests as they pop up along the MSQ, which are even more boring outside of the minor exposition. In the end you have a huge second expansion of gates before the current one that has another set of gates. All of this stopping people from playing with their friends as they wanted to in the first place.

It's going to be abused a lot.
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>>379925248
They had to "delay" it, and by pure coincidence it just so happens to come out not within the same month, no within the same week, but on the exact same day as stormbloods release?

Buddy, they don't roll a dice to see when they release this stuff.
They're a big name game corporation and ffxiv is their only real competition in the mmorpg world.

I guarantee you, their release date was planned down to the last minute the moment stormbloods release date wan announced, they CANNOT let it release without some competition from themselves and just let it steal a potentially large amount of players from their own game that is already losing a million+ players every year.
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>>379930147
It's not possible to kick people at the beginning of an instance, and the 8-man cutscene stuff is really only an issue in two instances, where people will just do the fights without you anyway.
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>>379929994
Copying WoW even further while neglecting its unique charms.
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I'm leveling really slow at 50-60 right now, I'm playing tank and it still take forever. Is there somesort of buffs or bonus can do to maximize my lving experience? I really dont want to run 4-5 runs per level
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Samurai or Red Mage?

Which will be less popular?
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>>379927680
Ravana's mechanics were pretty tricky to get at the time, you couldn't brute force him the way we can now at that ilv
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>>379915724
Nu-Blizzard has done this for years. And not just for MMO releases either.

The Necromancer for D3 is being released purposefully when Path of Exile's expansion releases as well.

The worst part of it is the Blizzdrones continuing to claim that it's all a coincidence.
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>>379930121
Arrogant cunts because they want to have fun?
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>>379930664
>They could have left Deliverance alone since it pretty much already worked great, and instead focused WAR's SB changes on making Defiance viable again

>But six Fell Cleaves yo
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>>379930942
Honestly its hard to say. I'd give it to RDM being less popular, since all the hardcore weebs are going to roll on SAM as soon as they can.
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>>379930942
RDM less popular by a considerable margin.
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>>379930942
Personally playing RDM, hoping and assuming that SAM will be more popular, because of weebs and autists who wet themselves at it's damage output.
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>>379931082
>the crux of WAR fun will be pressing Fell Cleave 6 times
They just don't get it huh
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>>379930664
>the people that hopped onto the Fell Cleave change
That's why 99% of people even hopped on WAR in HW, though.
MUH
FELL
CLEAVEZ
And now look at how WAR's getting fucked. SE's doubling down on the DPS aspect of WAR because of retards. They memed themselves down this path.
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How do you hide names on crafted gears
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>>379930942
As soon as the June census is out I'm summing all of the playerbase's RDM levels and SAM levels.
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>>379930264
>the one that doesn't switch is a content respecting, defensive-stance-only, single-mob pulling autist
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>>379928218
None, play a real race such as Male Highlander
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>>379931429
You can't
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>>379930942
Probably gonna be SAM once people realize how high the skill ceiling in and how much flack people will get for being shit at it.
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In before PF is full to the brim with
>SAM LF static
>RDM LF roster
>WHM LF roster
>MNK LF roster
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>>379928969
Oh I thought that would be retarded because of DD levels
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>>379928539
lel

>tfw trying to level up paladin right now and the queues aren't instant because all the wars are rerolling
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>>379930924
pls help.
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Astrologian should have just been an advanced job for white mage. Since White Mage plays exactly like an Astrologian except with less shit to do.
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>>379932102
There's no way.

Blame SE for raising the level cap for no reason, and making those 10 levels take as much time as 1- 50.
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>>379929719
>(or don't you remember how shit it was that people had to show up to Neverreap/Fractal with NQ vendor gear from Azys Lla?)
Didn't quests give better gear than that

Side note I'm going back and doing sidequests I skipped to make leveling alts less boring and I missed a lot of that shit because at ~58-59 I got burned out and just went dungeon power grind to 60.
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>>379931337
I hopped off the WAR train because I really liked the (post-2.1) ARR version of the class more than the HW version, but I really feel bad for people who were still into it because they really kind of shit the bed and doubled down on the parts of it that were already overemphasized, while removing most of the stuff that was actually interesting and cool.

DRK in SB honestly looks like it has a lot more in common with what made WAR good in HW, and I'm not even just saying that to shitpost.

I think there's going to be a divide between WAR players who are into the class because of its versatility, utility, etc, who are probably going to end up rolling DRK (or at the least doing DRK/WAR and switching on a per-fight basis), and the ones who carry on about "so well designed, so much synergy" but actually just bask in it being overpowered, and they'll probably jump ship to SAM or something.
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>>379931981
>tfw playing WHM now out of spite
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>>379932253
WHM was fun in ARR.

>Graniteskin a tank before the buster
>having to Protect people being raised due to Proshell
>fucking Holy
>MP management was still a thing
>SCH couldn't into AoE heals so it was your responsability
Good times
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>>379932332
>raising the level cap for no reason

Need to string that carrot.

What MMOs have had been expansion level releases that didn't raise the level cap since EQ?
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Casual game. Play a real MMO. Or better yet, don't.
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>>379932663
GW2 just released an expansion 1 or 2 years ago and didn't increase lvl cap.
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>>379932663

FFXI didn't raise the level cap for fucking years but gear in that game could last you 70 levels.
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>>379932663
FFXI hung in there for a long ass time. Until Abyssea, which wasn't Yoshi P a big part of? I can't remember anymore.
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>>379932663
FFXI
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>>379932838
>gw2
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>FC runs out of things to spend tomes on
>Tell him to just decorate the house or something.

My mistake
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>>379932987
All our content is gated behind story and ilvl so raising the level cap makes even less sense.

It's like triple gating.
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>>379933186
whos the guy in the pictures?
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>>379926801
Play your job in a solo run on floor 51+. You will learn quickly how to play your job, or you will die.
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>>379907217
What is the point of an mmo if I dont log in everyday? Wtf yoshida.
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>>379932838
>GW1 released three expansions and never released either an expansion pack or even stronger gear than what was in the game when it first launched
>Its business and development model was that it could keep releasing expansions as basically standalone games on a 6-9 month dev cycle, and could have kept doing that for at least 5-7 years
>There was a clear upward trajectory in the quality of Prophecies - Factions - Nightfall
>And they all made really good bank, to boot

>But then they sniffed the money tree and threw it all away to make GW2
>And then fucked up Eye of the North by making it all a shitty teaser for GW2 stuff

The world sucks I guess
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>>379932332
Raising the lvl cap is really important though, especially to a game like ff14.

Imagine if they never did, we would be clearing the old dungeons even faster. What would be the point of doing new harder content? Why are there gear increases? We'd have all our new skills during the old dungeons.
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>>379910494
I think he means he doesn't want people to feel they have to login everyday or fall behind. DESU it's not really an issue as tomestones are getting easier and easier to cap. Scripts can do every easily in one evening and it's uncapped in stormblood if what people say is true
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>>379933260
Pretty sure that isn't the point of leveling.
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>>379933445
If this is actually adhered to, I have to say that there isn't any hope for this game moving forward. The bulk of the playerbase already plays for a month or two every couple major patches. Doubled down with the one dungeon every odd patch number. Things aren't looking good.
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>>379932527
WAR feels the same, outside of stance dancing changes and defensive cooldowns not giving wrath. I'll stick with them because I've always liked their cooldowns, but am making a SAM.

Really don't matter for me, because I do zero Savage content. So the min-maxing is pretty much lost on me.
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10 for base game, 15 for heavenward, 35 for stormblood and 13 monthly sub.
Phew, and I was interested on Red Mage for a while.
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>>379933342
an NPC that becomes important around when Heavensward content starts
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>>379933975
Stormblood comes with heavensward.
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>>379927025
What do you want to do? If you're planning on leveling SAM or RDM (or any DPS) through dungeons, then you'll definitely want to wait.
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Who
>finished grinding PvP and has all the Garo pieces
here?
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>>379933514
This is a problem with vertical progression game design. There's nowhere to go but up. It's the same reason that people complain old gear is pointless as soon as a new patch drops--you have no choice but to farm for new gear, your old gear is useful only as a means to get new gear.

In a horizontal progression system (see FFXI, GW1) you don't progress through ever-increasing numbers, but rather through completing content, acquiring gear with situational uses and cycling through it depending on the situation, and getting cosmetic rewards.

Vertical progression systems weren't meant to just keep going forever. It leads to older content becoming more and more redundant as time goes on. Look at WoW with it's level 110 characters, with characters that have literally millions of hit points.
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>>379933514
>What would be the point of doing new harder content?
The same reason we do new raids and dungeons - to get better gear.
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>>379934204
>PvPing at all
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>>379934008
Does it come with the base game too? (and the trial month)
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>>379934449
Heavensward either gets rolled into the base game or Stormblood, I'm not sure which. Someone else here will know. Either way, don't pay for it now.
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If you have multiple jobs at 60 and you go into leveling roulette as a healer at i230, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ANY GODDAMN IDEA HOW TO HEAL FUCK
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>>379934605
Its rolled into SB
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>>379934413
>being too casual to PvP

Don't you have an Au Ra or Cat to play dress up with, virgin?
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>>379934413
>not enjoying racking up kills as a BRD and after the match ends see you at the top of the list

Farshot too good.
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>>379933907
Defensive CDs don't give wraith?

How will xeno continue his offensive tanking play style?
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>>379934628
You don't pay my sub.
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>>379934449
>>379934605
There is a 80 dollar package that comes up with the game, both expansions and a month of sub.
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>>379934197
i wanted to get into MCH but yeah, considering how bad it's going to be for DPS i think i'll wait
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>>379934204
Stll need to level
>MCH
>NIN
>BRD
>DRK
>DRG

I hope I can do it before the event ends
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>>379934889
Isn't it cheaper to buy them separately then?
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>>379934204
All for every class? Fuck that.

The only ones worth it are WAR/DK, NIN/PLD, and DRG. Rest are garbo. Still need to get the DRG set, but I'll never level a DRG so wondering if I really care.
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>>379934413
>SMN in PvP
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>>379935035
Oh its only $60 my bad. But even at 80 I think the price is roughly the same.
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-XIV-Online-Complete-PC/dp/B071CMXD5H/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497225250&sr=8-3&keywords=ff14
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>>379935035
The complete edition is $60 not 80.
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>>379934859
Wasn't even that. The WHM DPSed and healed. He just sucked at BOTH. And I don't think he had swiftcast on him. SWIFTCAST. WITH A LEVEL 50 BLM IN HIS PROFILE.
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>>379928218
Left is less disgusting, but holy shit don't use that face.
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>>379933907
It's going to be interesting to see how WAR's superior lineup of baseline mitigation tools (especially now that they got to upgrade Foresight into Rampart) compares to PLD and DRK being able to use their IB-alike active mitigation skills from their DPS stances.

My gut-level reaction is that WAR is going to fall pretty far behind, but I'd love to be surprised and find that all three tanks have good niches.
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>>379934628
i see you've encounter your first neflix healer
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>>379935312
not him but what's a good male midlander face?
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>>379935298
Maybe the rest of the group was the problem then. Are you upset that he didn't raise you when you died from standing in aoe?
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>>379935390
>Warlords of Garlemald
>niches
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>>379927827
Just gonna keep being DRK because it's the only proper edgelord class. I'll DPS more if they make a necromancer or void/blood mage.
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>>379930942
Red Mage will have more people afk in the end city.
Samurai will have more people actually playing it.
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>>379929569
I like it.
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>>379935596
I don't get it
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>>379929569
Because window lickers still exist
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>>379929569
Yeah but you can quick queue on a tank to get dailies done faster as opposed to waiting 15-20 minutes. I would use my WAR to catch my NIN up on gear in HW because the grind was so much faster.
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>WARbabbies spend all of HW calling PLDs cucks abd jacking off to MUH FELL CLEAVES
>now that PLD might be on top WARbabbies are crying about "Muh tank balance"

Get fucked
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I'LL CUT YOU TO PIECES
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>>379933483
Some skills from the expansions were STRONG and required for a lot of good builds. May as well have put in a stronger fucking sword
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>>379935545
the ones at the bottom, 5 and 6 I think, are pretty decent. Anything but that absolute baby face is okay.
>>
Huton shouldn't even have a countdown until you hear battle music.
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>>379934376
Another problem with vertical progression is it acts as a reset every cycle like ARPGs do with seasons or ladders etc.

You already know going into an expansion that everything you do is for naught (ultimately) because the next expansion is going to reset everything to push box sales and bring in newbs.

This is a cycle that won't be broken. The stranglehold that the WoW model has put in place for 13 years now has not been altered or changed. MMOs are destined to whither and die.
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>>379936581
Why not just make it permanent :-)
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>>379935545
Just don't pick 2, and never ever use facial hair unless you're using face 3.

I'd probably go with face 4, if I had to play a Midlander.
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>>379936581
Same with Monk forms. Being able to formshift to Coeurl and have it be permanent until combat started would be such an awesome QoL change.
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>>379936352
>everybody memes about SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED when this fuckface gave my groups way more trouble
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>>379936581
Shield oath and Sword oath shouldn't even have mana cost in the first place let alone how expensive they are.
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>Have over 200 million gil from selling A12S
>Struggling to find anything worth spending it on

At least it made getting the blessed crafting tools pretty easy
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>>379936834
DID I JUST HEAR A FILTHY RAT
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>>379930942
On paper right now, RDM damage is kind of disappointing but fun to play.
If SAM damage is as crazy has people say, he will definitively become the new FOTM.
And the new dungeon king.
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Just had a few ideas for both useful and hilarious RDM macros for Verraise, thought I'd post a few:

>"You're back <t>, don't waste it or you're gonna get verslapped."

>"<t> is back, can I go back to being a dps?"

>"Dammit <t>! You threw off my mana balance! I forgive you though."
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>>379935573
The rest of the group had it's own problems, but he played like shit for having so much leveled. If this is what jump potion fags are gonna be like, I'm going to be leaving duties like crazy.
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>>379936897
I'm still a little annoyed that they didn't cut the Oaths down to 1.5s half-GCDs like Meditation.
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>>379936834
People complain about the last boss being a heal check but keeping a retarded tank alive after he gets 6+ stacks of vuln up is much harder.
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>>379935656
Do you have your skills macro's with lines for party chat?

>Anon has embraced the {Darkness}
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>>379936720
I like the reset button, mostly. I wish some old stuff would be useful beyond quality of life and cosmetics but I enjoy fresh starts that put people on roughly the same level for people who join late. It also refreshes the game experience in my opinion, as otherwise you'd lose that new character progression feeling forever
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>>379907217
shit like that is why i have absolutely no faith in the dev team anymore
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>>379936720
I've never seen anyone complain about vertical progression who didn't ultimately reveal themselves to be an absolute idiot. You're no different.
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>>379935774
You know exactly what's up. Have a (You).
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>>379936581
well its not as bad anymore, they changed it so hide refreshes ninjutsu CD. so you can huton then hide -> unhide before pulls
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>>379936352
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>>379937043
This reminds me of that autist who had cringey pre-planned lines for every situation imaginable while playing video games with this girl IRL

Anyone have the image?
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>>379937159
No I'm silent for the most part. I even get to tank shit by myself in the corner or ON THE EDDDDGE of the arena
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>inventory 100/100
>retainer #1 175/175 Venture Complete
>retainer #2 175/175 Venture Complete
>market #1 20/20
>market #2 20/20
>all left side armoury chest slots full

rip
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>>379937531
Stop hoarding shit you don't need.
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>>379934795
>Tfw you're top 3 in damage as a WAR
It's always an awesome feel.
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>>379937531
>he hasn't bought more retainers
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>>379937531
Better start collecting more jewelry anon
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>>379936834
it's the first fight in heavensward that taught people how to position
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>>379937043
>that last one
... But verraise doesn't affect your mana balance?
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>>379937441
Nevermind found it
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>>379937531
Stop hoarding useless shit. Sell it already, I haven't once had both my inventory and my ONE of my retainers full.
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>>379937251
#BRINGBACKTANAKASVISION
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>>379937676
Dude I can't sell this shit fast enough
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>>379937676
Problem?
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>>379937687
>tfw top damage as DRK by a good 200 DPS
>and there's no NIN or WAR

It's more of a stuck-on-an-elevator-and-the-building-caught-fire feel.
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>>379919997
>3 and a half hours
oh wow its the sargon of ffxiv
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>>379937531
You gotta let thing go anon. I'm taking in the new expansion as fresh as I can and sold everything I own. Armory chest has just the required stuffs, I've maybe on tab worth of glamour stuff on my retainer and that's it. Inventory is stacked with aetheryte tickets and some random tokens which I need to discard when I login next time.
can't wait to swim in GC seals after the Gordian gear can be turned in
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>>379937176
As you said the old stuff continues to be pushed farther and farther into obscurity. I'd contend that giving people whom have done the content already decent incentive to get through the old content has potential to at least shake up this decade old system and at least give something different.

>>379937332
I'd wait for an actual counter argument, but this is /v/ so I know better.
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>>379937892
Anon, we were talking about PVP.
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>>379937794
lol
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>>379937676
>potential glams or leveling gear for alt jobs
>crafting meterials
>don't need
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AST feels like such an awkward class

It has all these options but pretty much anywhere I've looked it's 'fish for enhanced balance unless you're in dire need of TP/Mana'

The 'not beacon of light' move has a 20% potency buff attached to it so is often popped just for that because it's rare than only tank + one other person needs heals (it's usually either single target or raidwide damage)

The move that removes cast times seems to just beg you to overheal massively since Aspected Helios > Helios nearly tops off a raid instantly anyway

It has all this cool stuff but I feel like it just boils down to chasing balance cards and AOE healing. I'm so rarely even out of cleric because you can just toggle out , hit Essential Dignity Aspected Benific to instantly top someone off and continue


Or am I just massively misreading the class
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>>379937796
>>379938029
What part of all my market board slots being full are you people not getting here
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>>379938124
>leveling gear for alt jobs
>LEVELING
>FUCKING
>GEAR
What the fuck do you think palace of the dead is for? You don't need gear.
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>>379938124
We're going to get a glamour log just you wait...

The Glamour Log has a monthly fee to use
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>>379937676
But I might NEED it at some point, you never know!
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>>379938340
>doing potd to grind 50-60
No thanks
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>>379938312
>right click
>have retainer sell this item
It only hurts once m8.
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>>379929569
Best reason to play tank, skip the shittiest part of lore/scrip farming with instants
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>>379938041
>take my ancient faggotry seriously
Come up with something less boring then.
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>>379938294
Spear needs rework, Ewer/Spire should just be on card.

Spread should allow you to hold that card meaning when you Draw again you can't obtain the card that is in your Spread giving you a 1/5 chance of a card instead 1/6
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>>379938460
I hope they never increase inventory space to fuck over you hoarders.
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>>379938124
>Not having everything at 60
It's very liberating getting all the jobs that wear a type of gear to max level. Trashing all your low level gear feels great.
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>>379937153
Its not a heal check, its a retard check. The one who suffers the most just happens to be healers.
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>>379938342
>The Glamour Log has a monthly fee to use
Don't joke about it, buddy!

>>379938381
I hate how HW crafts need ARR material and it will most likely continue in SB.

>>379938124
>>potential glams
I have the same problem, but the stuff I have can't be bought back, like the maid outfit. SE needs tto make those armoire-able and buyable with gil for those who had it once.
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>>379938612
I only hoard important things.
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>>379938612
They won't for retainers since they make dosh from people buying extra retainers.
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>put single soot black dyes at 15000 gil a piece when there's players selling 10 of them for 450 gil
>it sells super fast anyway
whew
this is babby's first MB but damn it's working well
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could anyone help me start on ultros?
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I know they are slowly going to increase inventory, but couldn't they have given 50 inventory instead of 40 so when you see your inventory dots in the hud it isn't fucking ugly to look at as it is 5x4 and not 5x5 like the rest
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>>379938520
Have a (You) for trying.

>>379938535
Spear is the worst card by a wide margin. Due to the fact you have to coordinate with people for when they pop their CDs. Which let's be fair. Isn't going to happen.
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>Have AST and SCH at 60
>Got my glamours sorted
>Got my Gathering jobs to 60
>Got POTD weapon/armour to +99 for quick levelling SAM on launch
>Finished Alex, all EX primals, MSQ, Hildebrand Quest, got Squadron to 40, done the 24 man raid a bunch

Anything major I'm missing out on in terms of preparation and completion? I'm pretty new and it's my first expac. I'd have liked to level crafters but I'm a bit burnt out and want to see if SB changes stuff. Plus I'm poor as fuck (2mil Gil)
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>>379938479
I can't even find out if this shit is worth anything without it being a huge pain in the ass when slots are full.

I mean the answer is going in and seeing what shit I have on there that the market cratered on and is now worthless but it's still bad times.
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>>379939231
I wasn't aware dismissive contempt was considered "trying".
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>>379939031
some people are lazy and just buy up anything if they can skip crafting or gathering.

for instance it costs 50 gil (or free) to make a clothcraft glamour prism but it sells on the marketboard for 5000 gil per prism.
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>>379939204
Japanese game engine held together by rubberbands, please understand. Hai.
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>>379939368
Definitely too late for anima weapon, but if you like the glamour, might want to get started as SB will make it a lot easier to finish it off.
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>>379938535
I think the only way they would ever get non-balance cards to be appealing is if the card modifiers were seperate cards drawn from a seperate deck, meaning not using those cards would be a waste.

but instead we're getting the lady and the lord or w/e they are
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>>379936720
This is true but I think it's ultimately a better way to design the game than trying to make sure that all the old content has to be a part of every player's experience (note: probably not the "best" way to design a game, but just "better" than trying to force people to go through the entire game's history sequentially).

There's something to be said for focusing the majority of the playerbase into a pretty narrow band of current content, rather than diluting the activity in all content by trying to keep it all relevant at the same time.

They could probably do a better job at pushing people to do older stuff and they could definitely do a better job at making sure that whatever content is "current" is full-featured enough to feel like you usually have stuff to do, though.
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>>379939438
That gil is from soot black dyes only.
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What if AST cards could stack?
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will /ourguy/ return?
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>>379939231
Holy fuck

I thought Spear was a cast time reduction and Arrow was a melee skill boost like Hutton

Holy shit I just read the Spear description, I can't tell if it's really good or fucking trash. Like lining it up with say a NIN before they blow B4B, IR, DwD, Duality seems strong as fuck but in PuGs it seems trash

So who gets priority for Arrows? BLM because cast times?
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>>379939948
Who?
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>>379939593
>>379939231
Could Spear be changed so that once used it can reduce the cooldown on skills ALREADY on cooldown? Similar to some of the skills/traits added in SB like the SCH's Aetherflow or SMN's Enkindle things
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>>379940030
BLM is basically the only job that actually wants arrows and even then a balance is still better.
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>>379939806
your server has a lot of edgelords
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>>379939438
It costs 320 gil for the 2 undyed velveteens, crafting them is a waste of them.
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>>379939438
>it costs 50 gil (or free)

plus the cost of the crystals and other materials

not exactly 5k (and much less if you buy the cloth from say, thge Sylphic vendor) but not exactly free

People seriously don't consider the crystal cost when making things
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>$10 for Fantasia potion
>$18 outfits
>$18 to skip ARR
>$25 to skip HW
>$25 to level a job to 60
Japs are the only people who can out-jew the jews.
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>>379940364
$30 moogle mounts
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>>379940358
clear prisms drop from dungeons (or you could buy a stack of 99 for dirt cheap on the mb) and the crystals can be obtained from maps or gathering
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>>379938614
That's the main reason why I grinded every job to 50 back in ARR, it freed so much slots in my inventory it's not even funny.
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>>379940193
So I'm thinking now from an empty hand

If Balance/Arrow - Spread
If Anything else - Royal Road

Next draw
If Balance/Arrow again - play drawn version
If Same Royal Road effect - play Spread then RR
If better RR effect - RR then play Spread

Does this sound correct?

In a situation where I have a Balance held and draw another one, I don't want to RR a 100% Balance/Arrow to get a 150% Balance/Arrow so I should just cast one of them and continue fishing for an upgrade to my held card, correct?
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>>379939414
Last one. On the house.

>>379939494
Jesus Christ I remember in FFXI when they'd patch something dealing with mobs in Cape Terrigan and you'd be able to one shot cure bomb undead NMs. Nips know how to spaghetti code.

>>379939595
I agree with as you've said "best" and "better" ways to design the game, but it should be defined as "cheaper" in my opinion. The only thing that we could probably debate a long time about is not allowing the playerbase to be spread across different levels of content. Which I guess FFXIV has to succumb to, given the relative size of the playerbase. I feel the growth of WoW and TBC was due to the various different tiers of raiding that guilds were doing.

>>379940030
What >>379940193 said, but SMNs can get a little bit extra if they're at some Spell Speed break point for another tick or two of DoTs.
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>>379940364
Cash shop served me well since thanks to them, the servers moved 6000 kilometers closer to me. Or at least according to Squeenix, the relocations were funded by the mogstation.
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>>379940923
Ast gets a skill in SB that can just fold your card, even though you can do it with a macro now, so you can just not accept it to be used as royal road fodder if you don't want to, another skill that gives you both a card drawn, and spread as well as either lord/lady
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>>379940984
>some Spell Speed break point for another tick or two of DoTs.
That's not how SpS interacts with DoTs. All SpS does for DoTs is increase the potency per tick, it does not increase the amount of times a DoT will tick.
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>>379940784
>the crystals can be obtained from maps or gathering

But they still have value, because if you don't use them for crafting you could have sold them
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>>379939595
XI had a truly 'open world' design in that you could just go anywhere you wanted and do its stories, if you were high level enough. You weren't stonewalled by pre-requisites everywhere you went like you are in XIV.

XIV's problem is that nearly all of its content is locked behind a non-optional story. You go through all the content sequentially, and then you arrive at the end and logically that's all there is left to do--instead of allowing you to go through it in whatever order you please.

That being said, XIV does a lot better job of keeping old content relevant than WoW does. The majority of WoW's content is completely redundant.
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>>379940984
Foxengine is the only good one that's made in Japan. Too bad it'll most likely never see daylight again.
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>>379941258
Do crystals actually sell for anything on your server?
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Waiting in this game keeps me from progressing.
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>>379941232
Also, Arrow doesn't increase your Spell/Skill Speed at all, it's just a general haste buff. Spell/Skill Speed and general haste buffs can interact with each other though, which is why NIN wants little to no SkS due to Huton.
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>>379931054
Also last year when the Overwatch beta started the same day as Battleborn's release.

Though Battleborn deserved its death for being a piece of shit.
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>>379940160
That's the way it probably should work, or at least make it viable in any capacity. But, you know. PS4 limitations.

>>379940923
Pretty much, and as >>379941231 said, we had to macro fold a shit card but they felt compelled to waste a new job ability on giving us one in the job/traits menu. Thanks Yoshi.

>>379941232
Thought they changed that with HW? I haven't dicked around with SMN since ARR. So my mistake.

>>379941584
Pachinko is where's it's at.
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Why is everyone hyped for this expansion?
The expansion offers nothing more than the last, technically less, and yet people wont shut the fuck up about it.
>inb4 swimming
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>>379941231
Yeah I know about folding. The only real time I've been using it though is when I have a better RR effect than the drawn card would give me AND the card is bad

I see it as Enhanced > Extended > AOE is that correct?

So if I have enhanced and draw anything but Arrow or Balance (which I spread) I fold it

If I have extended I will RR bole, spread Balance or Arrow and fold anything else

If I have AOE I will RR any card and fold Spire/Ewer

That sounds right in my head
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>>379941871
I like this game.
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>>379940364
>that image

There's someone on my server called like Lalafel Roaster...
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>>379941854
>Thought they changed that with HW?
Nope. That's how it's always been. Spell Speed actually did nothing at all for DoTs until HW. You shouldn't talk about subjects you lack experience in. It makes you look bad.
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>>379941871
People enjoy the game and are fine with getting more of the same?
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>>379941871
I like this game, also RDM.
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Paid level boosts that give you an instant high level character with all previous progression content flagged as cleared are pay to win.

You're paying for level ups, which require you to win within quests, battles, and dungeons that can in theory be failed and are failed by some players. You're also paying to have mandatory content flagged as if you've beaten it and this is, again, content that can be failed and is failed.

I'm ready for the S-E FFXIV drones and Blizzard WoW drones to come at me with their fallacies that try to twist what it means to win.
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>>379941871
I like just about every other aspect of this game other than the gear gating.

Story's been amazing too post 2.55.
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>>379940364
>Asia xpack coming soon
>Buying that outfit when you have about a few other Japanese-esque sets coming to you soon
That outfit is more for roes who want to look more barashit and chicks who want to be a sukeban before placing the $18 outfit on a retainer.
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>>379942013
S'ok, worse things have happened. We can spoon later to make each other feel better.

>>379941871
YOOOOOOOOOO-ing intensifies.
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A Realm Reborn gave us Arcanist, Summoner, Scholar, Rogue, and Ninja. Three dungeons per patch, while still getting new content on the side just like Heavensward. No cash shop throughout almost the entirety of A Realm Reborn.

Cash Shop shows up just before Heavensward at the end of A Realm Reborn. Idiot drones on the forums defend it saying the money will go back into the game. People who say that it will slowly consume new content as more is added to the cash shop and less to the game are criticized by idiot drones saying it's just a slippery slope fallacy. Cash shop releases with $25 Sleipnir model which was already in the game and used by Odin, at the same time they put in an Odin trial fight that could have dropped it. Cash shop later adds more content that was already in the game, Nero and Livia's magitech mounts, and sell it an absurd price.
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>>379939231
>>379940030
Spear is trash not just because of coordination, but because coordination wouldn't even help much.

There's two ways Spears can """help""" -
Short cooldown things that are free damage or influence rotations. Time it perfectly for Aetherflow or Ninjutsu/OGCDS and they can use those things 20% faster - Which in essence means that they get 20% more damage/utility out of that one card for only those specific abilities, and that's if they get to use them again and it isn't time wasted between mobs. Though that's not fair because technically Balance time could be wasted in the same way.

They could also pop longer cooldowns while the card's going and have those back 20% faster too. But is it going to be an extra use? If you cut a 3 minute cooldown by 36 seconds, is that a third cooldown you could fit into the same fight or just the second one coming up sooner?

As opposed to balance, which works immediately, is 20% for ALL damage during that time cooldown or not, and works multiplicative with their other cooldowns. There's no contest.
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>>379942042
>>379941991
did you forget where you are?
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>>379942376
Heavensward debuts with a new race, three new jobs but no classes, and only 2 dungeons per patch. We get the same amount of side content as we got in A Realm Reborn, making it questionable where the extra development resources went. Over time, the cash shop began adding more and more items instead of putting them into the game in the side quests and events we used to get that rewarded similar things. The prices on said cash shop items have also steadily increased.

Stormblood is imminent and we're going to be getting paid level jumps now too, which gives them an excuse to never have to put in effort to improve the older parts of the game, whilst also making more money off of it. Despite charging more, and putting less into the game, while putting more into the cash shop, idiot drones defend it still. They use the excuse that it paid for the new servers instead, but the new NA server fucked over more of players than it benefited. Faggot west coast and Australian players gloat whilst jerking off each other's schadenfreude boners. Stormblood already clearly has less content than Heavensward, with no new race, only two new jobs, and a massive gutting of abilities whilst dumbing everything down. PvP is suffering even more by being gutted down to only 10 abilities.
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>>379941282
What. Half the game was gated by some shit or another. Later in the game, say 2 expansions in, it was getting higher level people to help you sync down and do content you couldn't find people for like the missions, unlocking stuff, getting passes and keys and crystals and FUCK. It wasn't exactly UO where they dump you off and you go cut wood for money, end up making a boat with your wood, go fishing on your boat, fish up a map, then learn cartography or pay other people to solve the map so you can be a fucking pirate because why not.

FFXI is pretty far removed from these more linear games but let's not pretend it was sandboxy or really open
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I'm sort of new to MMO's, XIV being my first since Runescape 06. I just saved Minfillia and the gang. I know I'm still a ways away from stormblood, but is there any benifet to just preordering the game now?
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i'm hyped for stormblood and all but new areas only means about a million more sidequests

my autism wont let me progress to the next area until all those exclamation marks are cleared
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>>379942313
Nigga das gay
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>tfw your server is growing
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>>379942556
no
you wont benefit from any of it that early
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>>379942556
yes there is
you get a 30% xp bonus ring up to level 50 if you preorder
but you get enough xp from just doing the main quests to reach 50, so just buy stormblood later if you feel like it
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>>379942556
Yes, you get access to RDM and Samurai from the get go if you buy Stormblood. It's lvl 50 requirement and isn't gated by any missions.
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>>379942556
If you own stormblood you can unlock SAM and RDM at 50. The preorder comes with some earrings that boost xp gained below level 50. That's it.
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>>379942520
>making it questionable where the extra development resources went.
They went into XV. XIV paid for XV.

Hopefully now that XV is out, SE will put more money into XIV patch development, but I'm not holding my breath.
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>>379942671
Oh you.....

>>379942556
No, not really. Unless you're interested in the new jobs. If the game doesn't keep you interested before you hit the expansion blocks, chances are it won't keep you interested beyond.
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>>379939141
Apply to the FC Golden Ratio, search for Emin Thonall, Mister Blaster or Fluffy Tail and check the free company page to apply. Mention /v/ or something so people know you're not a random.
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>>379942719
>>379942556
The Ala Mhigan earrings boost kill EXP by 30% up to 50 (in before kill EXP isn't good), though they aren't in game yet, just part of the preorder bonuses which will be available in...Whenever the fuck it's suppose to come out
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>>379941991
>>379942042
>>379942141
You're missing the point.
People are more hyped for this expansion, without a race, with only 2 classes, and a much much weaker storyline.
In every-way stormblood is shitter than heavensward, but people are more irrationally obsessing over this expansion far more than the last.
Keep in mind, that things may actually get worse. The class rebalancing is very likely rushed from what weve seen. And the DPS queues are already bad and only going to get significantly worse.
At like half the player base is claiming to change mains to red mage.
Why does everyone pull out their dicks and jerk off instead of approaching this with a level of even headed skepticism?
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>>379942864
>Hopefully now that XV is out, SE will put more money into XIV patch development
lol this will never happen
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>>379942520
>Stormblood already clearly has less content than Heavensward, with no new race
A race is not content. It is cosmetic, cash shop fluff. The game doesn't need new races.
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Who's ready for Lord of Verblitzball? Coming patch 4.3
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>>379942291
And yet people will buy it because they are stupid with their money.
I know this because I did because I wanted the pants.
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>>379941871

It's a solidly built MMO. Korean MMOs have way too much jank and P2W in most cases, WoW is decrepit and old, ESO is good so I play it on the side.
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>>379942223
The only winning move is not to play anon. Both are wasting their time but one is also wasting money
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>>379942687
I went to limsa today, I saw at least a dozen greenleafs running around in just the atherite plaza
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>>379942520
>Australian players gloat
>tfw australian player on a US server and just thankful that my latency has improved slightly
Even on JP servers my latency is still ass. I'd kill for oceanic servers.
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>>379942959
Have you actually played heavensward? it was lackluster aside from it's story.
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>>379942959
>much weaker storyline
its not even out yet you queer
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>>379942959
>Why doesn't this game I don't like cater to me.
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>>379943032
>>379942864
Don't respond to pasta.
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>>379942959
>without a race
Fuck off.
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got the carls jr discount, what should I buy on the mogstation
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>>379942959
Because children and transsexuals are retarded, the two primary groups which FFXIV happens to appeal
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>>379941871
I'm not, only a blind person can't see that it'll be a downgrade from HW, which was a downgrade from ARR.

I'm just here to see how far it'll sink.
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I dropped legion 2 months ago and I've never played for XIV, Red Mage Looks fun and Dragoon looks cool. Would you recommend buying it now or should I wait for some kind of sale?
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>>379942560
save them for other jobs retard. you only do story quests and dungeons for your first job.
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>>379943052
Depends on how they do it, really.
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Really though what I wish for more than a bigger inventory is making more gear armoire-able and a ton of shit not regular inventory items. You have 75 key item slots and fuck if I've ever had more than 10 in there, meanwhile my inventory is clogged up with ventures, beast currency, gear tokens, relic quest items, etc.
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>>379942864
nah, now its gonna fund VII cashgrab and fanfiction hearts 3
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>>379943329
Wait for a sale, by the end of the year the problems will have been fixed too.

HW was awful and grindy at launch.
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>>379943329
Try the free trial.
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>>379942959
>New zone maps
>Swimming added to new and old zones
>DPS re-work
>stat re-work
>U.I. Huds
>More storage space
>Sword DPS
>No more Ranged DPS cast bars
>Return to ivalice
>Raids going to be directed by the same balance designer of SMT Nocturne.


Because we should have gotten all of these in HEAVENSWARD. Also

>Much weaker story

I wasn't aware you could time travel. The expac isn't even out you double nigger faggot.
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This is the shit we have to deal with on leviathan now.

Just kill me now, my server went to shit.
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>>379943378
Why? leveling via sidequesting is shit, its easier to POTD if i wanted to level something up
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>>379943060
>And yet people will buy it because they are stupid with their money.
I mean $18 is nothing to me.
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>>379929569
Waiting around for some retard to pull is mind-numbing.
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>>379943885
>its easier to POTD if i wanted to level something up
its also easier to shoot myself in the face instead of living, but that doesn't mean its the best option.
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>>379942959
>and a much much weaker storyline.
The lead-in is weaker but I'd rather have that than how they handled the aftermath of the sultana's assassination.
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>>379943761
>littlecheeks
>gay

amazing
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>>379942223
you're not wrong

paying to skip content that otherwise is tedious begs the question of it being there in the first place.
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>>379942560
>Moogle Post quest goes to Ala Mhigo
>no idea who the fuck these people are because I never did the letter recipient's quests
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>>379929628
Y'shtola is safe from ever dying, because she's used as the poster character for FF/S-E crossovers. People who think she's dead have very little sense of modern S-E's marketing.
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>>379943761
>normal people enjoying a game
>REEEEEEEEEEEE MY SERVERS SHIT NOW FUCK THE SJWS

Can you get any more pathetic?
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>>379943761
From a douchebag that listened to his friends to server transfer to Proudmoore in WoW..... Leave. This menace will not subside.
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>>379941282
> if you were high level enough
>You weren't stonewalled by pre-requisites everywhere

hey dumbass, leveling is a gating system. Always has been, always will be. You were stonewalled plenty in XI untill you were the right level. Not to mention the levle gate prevented you from getting your chocobo and other much needed things.

You blind nigga.
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Things that will most likely get changed before release

MNK damage
SAM damage
AST healing
PLD damage

Things that will stay the same
WHM being in the shed
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>>379944168
>Balmung refugees
>normal people
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Shitty Chink MMO Expansion No. 4 > E3
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>>379943052
Can I do the Jecht Shot?
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>>379942223
>literally every other MMO
>Well these quests are part of our """intricate""" story, but sometimes people make alts or move to play with friends or just don't give a shit, and there are plenty of ways to outlevel the content, so we should let them pick up the story in chapters or otherwise just don't if they don't care

>FFXIV
>Well these quests are part of our """intricate""" story, we shouldn't let people skip it - Unless they gives us LOADSA MUNNAY
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>>379944389
>balmung refugees
>people
FTFY
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>>379942959
I wont suffer bad queues since I have a guild and many of them will play heal and tanks too. My raid group will also go with me into dungeons when I play RDM.
I want to see new areas already and new dungeons, tiered of HW for 2 years. I like the game concept itself, so its fine if its the same but with a new coat of paint.
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>>379944343
>SAM Damage

No. They won't touch SAM Yoshi.p wouldn't have talked it if the dev team planned on changing it.

Most likely we'll see MNK and AST changes.
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>>379943761
>make BLM alt
>call it Pence
>stand outside their fc house attacking their target dummy
>thunder casting only

That will scare them off
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>>379944159
>never did coil
>WOW YOU SURE HELPED ME DURING ALL THAT CRAZY STUFF IN THE COILS ANON
>haha..yeah..
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>>379930942
RDM due to the fact that this is the same game where I had a new player earlier scared off by RDM over how it relies on procs to work, compared to SAM being pure DPS-shitter with big damage button.

It boggles my mind that we're less than 5 days away from SB and there are STILL people that think RDM will be a buffer job when the holy trinity exists.
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>>379944168
Spotted the faggot, bet you erp with bara au ra as well.

The problem isn't someone being a normie, wanting to suck dick or lick fish tacos. The problem is why do you have a FC dedicated to that shit and why are you advertising it. It's an MMORPG where lots of people are probably not even playing their real gender and you will enver meet irl so why does that shit matter. Just enjoy the game.

It's the same as someone making a thread with them stating they are a girl gamer, it's not relevant, you didn't need to add that detail. Could have just said we are a friendly social guild and been done.
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>>379941871
I like the story and gameplay.
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How is FFXIV's RP community compared to WoW's?
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>>379944603
actually if you didn't do coil the people involved with it don't even mention it.
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>>379942864
>XIV paid for XV.
SE makes plenty of money elsewhere to play for 15.
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>>379944764
filled with trannies and wannabe traps.
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>>379944603
To be fair Alisae has dialogue where she goes "wow it's too bad we never finished Coil" to make you feel like a shitcunt
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>>379944764
Mostly furrybait ERP
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>>379944764
not as funny
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>>379944793
you're wrong m8, i never knew coil had a story line until alisaie mentioned it in one of the post-HW cutscenes
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>>379942959
>People are more hyped for this expansion,
Not true. Heavensward was so hyped it got banned on /v/. Stormblood hasn't gotten banned yet.
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>>379944764
Go take a look at the /vg/ thread.
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>>379944764
*nuzzles against you* :||3 >///< nyaa!
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>>379944921
iirc that's only if you start it and don't complete it

if you don't even touch it at all, she acts like you actually did it
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>>379944693
>tfw too intelligent for SAM
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I wish they add something on the HUD that lets you what know position you're curently hitting something from

with 4 black mages in your party blowing up your screen it's hard to tell sometimes
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>>379945046
DON'T
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So, who's going to be WoL's love interest in SB?
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>>379944402
With the Tidus minion only attainable from buying a stream pass for Fanfest 2018
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>>379945117
What the fug
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>>379943268
The Carls Jr. thing gives a discount? I thought it was just the cup.
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>>379942223
>can in theory be failed

That you need to add this disclaimer kind of says a lot more than anything else in your post
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>>379943329
Try the Free Trial. You can play up to level 35.
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>>379945176
Lyse.
Then she rejects you because the WoL isn't allowed to be happy and loved
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>>379944975
she doesn't mention that you were involved, they just say she was off doing shit with it. if you actually did coil she greets you much differently, and has more respect for you.
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>>379945176
>implying WoL will ever love again
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So lads what do we do? These threads won't last much longer, and the only place left to discuss FFXIV will be /xivg/.
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>>379945268
The thought of shitters paying to clear Steps of Faith is both real and horrifying.
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>>379937043
You are the most autistic cancer I've ever seen
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>>379945418
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>>379944764
As someone involved in it? Its not bad, if you avoid the bullshit from /vg/ and actually stay away from the whores and bullshit.

Then again, Drama is Drama, drama bullshit will always happen, just how RP is.

So. Pretty similar?
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So for AST changes in SB outside of Earthly Star, which looks fantastic for timed AOEs - the main change is minor arcana right? Is it essentially just

>turn a Spire/Ewer into a heal/nuke?

It adds some nice complexity to the priority system AST has though. Since AOE seems to me to be the weakest royal road effect in 8 man content, would you essentially use this every single time you draw Spire/Ewer (when they aren't neeeded of course) and RR Bole/Arrow only? I guess if you've got a balance/arrow held and you can AOE it that's fine, but I feel like it would be better to just hold onto it fishing for a better enhancer and spend the Ewer/Spire on a free big heal or Nuke

Sleeve draw seems kinda eh, it kinda takes away from the planning the class is built around and will probably usually draw awkwardly
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>>379945405
>all that mouth blood
>people still think Y'shtola's not dying
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>>379945127
>>379944693
>>379930942

Honestly, Red Mage seems so absurdly easy to play it's difficult to not see it as the forthcoming casual Job half of the community play as. You literally need only eleven button prompts and instead of a rotation, it's merely a priority system only differed slightly in sequence by consequential procs and white/black mana balance numbers.

Samurai seems more challenging to play.
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>>379945368
>>379945405
Being Warrior of Light is suffering.
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>>379945418
Make a separate stormblood general
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>>379945479
It was already nerfed into oblivion at Heavensward's release. You don't even have to touch the dragonkillers anymore.
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>>379944764
It's exactly the same, just with lower population than WoW in its heyday.
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>>379945479
There were definitely people selling it on my server when it first released.
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>>379945557
Hope restored.
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>who will Maelstrom fuck over this match
Can we have some decent frontline with only 2 sides already?
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>>379945624
I don't think you actually did to start with but most DF DPS was so bad you were fucked even with them
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>>379945418
We'll get a month or so of threads after launch. Then I imagine they'll start being rarer, maybe one everyday that's slower. Then we'll get an event that'll bump things up again, then it'll die down until 4.1.
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>>379945620
>/xivg/ invades said separate general
>/xivg/ erp mod deletes/bans said separate general
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>>379945601
Priority systems frighten the player base, and you can be damn sure there are going to be people who fill up one mana to 100 before touching the other, or who fuck up their proc usage, or who never use Impact, or use their melee combo before 80, or use the wrong finisher, or don't use finishers at all, or use finishers with both mana at equal amounts.
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>>379945557
>range ban
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>>379907217
So basically they want people to get people to pay them and not have to offer them anything in return?
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why don't you guys like au ra male face 3
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>>379945769
>welp, you guys are shitters
>can't we have a game when failstrom wins?
>oh well
>let's go fuck adders!
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>>379945769
Yoshida said he is planning to create a map like that for PvP.
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>>379945879
And then RDM is 'rebalanced' in 4.2 because you can't have player skill disparity.
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>>379945879
>I'm a mage not a fencer
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>>379945107
owo what's this???
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>>379945620
People tried it before, /vg/ mod just banned it.
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>>379946007
People make it look like a gay clown. Fortunately faces don't matter when you're playing the game, you ERPing faggot.
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>>379946150
pls no
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>>379945562
Minor Arcana basically means that there's no such thing as a worthless card draw.

If you can't use the card directly, you can Royal Road it or Redraw it.
If Redraw fails to produce a card you can use directly, you can Royal Road or MA it.
If you MA it and you get Lord, you get a free off-GCD attack for 300 potency.
If you MA it and you get Lady, it replaces your next GCD heal and you can instead use that GCD on a Malefic III for 210(?) potency.

In a certain sense it sort of represents how far AST fell from the original concept of being able to draw one of six randomly-selected-but-theoretically-equal buffs to being a Balance bot that sometimes uses Bole, but at least now the worst your luck can absolutely get is "Free 210 potency every 30 seconds".
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>>379945793
you did because back then your ilvl was much lower.
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>>379946329
Well I got a 3 day ban for making one of the threads on here earlier today despite the entire board being waifu garbage and E3 threads. The mods are laughably biased
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>>379945603
>WoL looks confused when Aymeric asks what would you like to do for yourself
>end of 3.4 that look of resignation the WoL when Alphinaud assumes you will assist them of course
>3.5 WoL looks angry when the leaders start planning on kicking off a war to free Ala Mhigo anyways
WoL's life is just endless conflict, and even if you try your hardest and manage to win completely, you'd end up loosing like how the WoD did.
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>>379946142
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>>379946526
>admitting to ban evasion
You aren't too smart, huh?
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>>379945769
The secret is to not bother them during the early game. The average maelstromfag is as spiteful as he is incapable of following directions.
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>>379946642
Bare in mind that concept art literally predates ARR.
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>>379946673
Restarting my phone isn't difficult
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>>379946007
Because it's fucking deformed. The facial structure is fucked, it's horribly deformed like someone grabbed the head and stretched, and the eyes slant to such a degree that even japanese people would call it racist. The horns are the worst kind of nonsensical as well.
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so now that i max crafting what the fuck i do with all this kupo nuts
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>>379946150
Nah, Yoshi has done it before where he told the players they need to actually get good before twisting things. He pointed out that players were playing MCH incorrectly, and then people finally figured out how to make it into one of the best DPS in HW.

I'd imagine with how long they've had to work on two of the most demanded jobs and decided to keep them as DPS, that we're avoiding another situation of "team too stressed, we're retreating to our castle vacation and never releasing 3 jobs at once again" and instead going to be a case of the devs telling people to learn to understand the new UI and stuff.
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>>379946673
Oh no that thing he did once, it would surely be impossible for him to do it again.
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