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/xivg/ - Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward General

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Patch notes are out Edition

>Patch 3.1: So Goes Light, So Goes Darkness:
>Patch notes:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/cc5b2ba8ffd64cef26cb0e0cdac97104f8e7308e

>Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRTO7co_Yc

>Letter from the Producer:
XXIV: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/269279
XXV: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/269284

>3.07 Patch Notes: Heavensward
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/patchnote_log/

>FF14 Resources
(Includes: /xivg/ Free Companies/Linkshells & Resources/Guides.)
http://pastebin.com/cRb2g2PA

>Previously on /xivg/!
>>121422550
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First for gas all lalas
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>[2.0] To accommodate various connection speeds and latencies, the ninja abilities Ten, Chi, and Jin have been adjusted.
Can we still speculate? Ninja is finally playable?
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boys
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Please post c@s!

tfw noone wants to do stuff and depression creeps in, thanks square
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xth for 5 months wait for a QoL patch, a shitty 24man and FC hunts
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>>121462648
C-can they be client side finally?
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btw, nth for Lalas.

Time to sleep!
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>>121462668
spooky boys
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We heard you like hunts, so we put hunts in your hunts.
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>>121462725
If they were, it would be easy to exploit with hacks.
>Rapid fire ninjitsus
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>>121462648
They probably just adjusted the animation times so both laggers and non laggers can output the exact same rotation with minimal time differences
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>[3.0] Les conditions nécessaires pour commencer la quête "La colère du Maître des lames" ont été modifiées.

Please, NA Team.
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>>121462570
If we're being smart about it, none of this gear in the Explorations matters at all. I just wanna see how low my GCDs can get. S'not like I do any content that you need accuracy for these days.

>>121462596
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWZcF58EgA

兄貴!
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>>121462826
Mudra would still have a cooldown.
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Who's ready for a Red Scrip market crash?
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Highlanders!
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baka desu senpai
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>>121462680
Kururu is actually Krile's japanese name, so Krile being a Lalafell makes sense, and more of a joke.
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>>121462910
Can we get married yet?

Its been a while, how are you doing?
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>Tataru is no longer available as an opponent for Triple Triad.

WAT
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>>121462870
Still, instant cast ninjitsus would be a thing. Just press one button to execute suiton, it would be a overall DPS increase if you don't have to waste your time pressing each mudra individually.
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>>121462974
Doing fine, got a lot of work to do. How are you though?
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>>121463019
they're probably adding lightning and ffirion to mythrite decks

Need to camp her till patch so i can get ffirion or im doomed to spend like 1mil mgp for that shit.
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>>121463019
Remove Lalafell
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what itemlvl do you need for void ark? i only have 175
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>>121462648
mfw it's going to be worse than before.
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>>121463019
Guess who is going to die?
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>>121462870
I think you mean Ninjutsu and yes. Either way, right now it takes me so long to cast that I usually make Shuriken instead of Raiton and Suiton just fucks up everything.
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>[2.0] A new idling camera feature has been added for players to take pictures of their characters and scenery from various angles.

A NEW AGE OF SELFIE POSTING IS UPON US
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>>121463019
Story will reveal she was a villain the entire time.
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>mfw one ffxiv patch has almost the content of one WoW expansion
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>>121463286
Assuming that by "one FFXIV patch" you mean "Just 2.1, that was the only one".
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>Krile's hoodie is going to be a cash shop exclusive in 3.2
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>Goobbue Earring

Where do you get this, because I remember them announcing this.
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>>121463286
The new minigame is definitely something that blizzard would save for an expansion, but that's it. Literally 2 new dungeons and a short raid tier.
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>woke up realizing I put the event off over and over
>never did get around to doing it
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>WP high roulette
>play as BRD
>have a MNK in group
>someone is new
>it's the healer
>Lala DRK tank pulls all mobs before last boss
>doesn't wait for healer
>dies after a while
>we finish the rest
>tank says he expected a LB
Yeah, not my problem if you're a rushfag.
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>>121463405
And I will buy it immediately and not give a single fuck
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>>121463058
I'm doing pretty good! Thanks for asking, true waifu material.
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>>121463019
German patch notes say that she simply lost interest in Triple Triad.
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I'm really looking forwards to trying the new hairs out and no one else liking any of them on me.

In all seriousness though the Airship hunts stuff sounds like it'll be super fun to do with buddies to just relax and have fun. I'm hoping it's as chill as it sounds.
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>>121463384
>>121463481
Patch 3.1 is pretty big. There's more things added than "literally" 2 new dungeons and a raid.
>>121463407
You can buy it for 1 gil from a Moogle vendor in the three city-states, but I'm not sure if they're around any more.
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>>121462668
better boys
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>void ark
>Parties matched automatically via the Duty Finder will comprise 1 tank, 2 healers, and 5 DPS
>1 tank
TANK QUEUES WILL SKYROCKET
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>those PLD changes
m-m-muh shield swipe
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>>121463749
Tanks also get guaranteed gear drops.
Shit is unfair.
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>>121463749
Where have you been for the last year and a half of these casual raids
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>>121463651
They're still up and I was able to buy one. Thanks anon. /thumbsup
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>>121463742
Those mittens are adorable.
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>>121463761
Ironically enough I'm pretty sure that they actually made Paladin's TP issues WORSE, but Shield Swipe is actually a really substantial buff to the class's DPS and enmity.
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>Players may ride mounts in Idyllshire.
Because this place needed to be even more annoying.
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>>121463834
Good, tanks deserve it for playing a role nobody wants to play.
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>>121463860
thank you.
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So do these changes to pld fix their dps finally to be used in savage?
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Oh boy can't wait for cliquey and shitty fc to get even more cliquey and shitty by only taking their favorite inner circle Bros on hard mode airship voyages :^)

Thanks SE
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>>121463553
Glad to hear. I will get some time to play around the holidays, hopefully
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>[3.0] Players can now exchange Allagan tomestones of law for the following items:
>A Knight to Remembe/Wall-mounted/800
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>>121464065
>Not sucking the FC leader's cock to get a guaranteed spot in airship voyages
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>>121464065
Time to make friends.
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>>121464065
It is for up to 24 people though so anyone choosing to only let a small number get in on it are probably going to see some rioting and dramasplosions.
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>PLD didn't get fixed at all.
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>>121464253
there was nothing to fix senpai :)
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>>121464065
Stage a mutiny. This is the most political patch SE has given us yet.

Overthrow the unjust. Give your fellow FC members a better future.

>>121463964
>shout chat in the "parsing is illegal" shitfest for the thousandth time
>reddit-tier discussions
>now i gotta watch assholes in magitek armor blow things up like it's osama bin laden's birthday bash
>lalafells dressed up as mario blocking vendors with their fat chocobos

PUT ME IN COACH I'M READY
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>>121464065
The airships can depart every 20 minutes, while there's a 120 minute cooldown on entering a voyage. You only need one FC member present in the party to launch an exploratory mission, and you can bring up to 24 people in an alliance.

If you're still getting excluded when they're that freely available, that's not your FC forming a clique, that's your FC trying to drop the hint that they don't like YOU, specifically, and are waiting for you to leave the FC on your own so they don't have to forcibly kick you themselves.
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>>121464038
No, but they'll avoid making DPS checks from now on, and more tank/healer checks and a DPS check by coordination.
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So a 24 hour maintenance for basically nothing.

Everything they're adding would at least take 8 hours.
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>>121463742
wow that au ra is cute as fuck
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>Clan mark logs obtained from hunts can be exchanged with Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5 Y:5) for the following items:
>Illuminati Gobtwine / Carboncoat / Wyvern Horn
>Illuminati Gobtwine
AHAHAHAHA. THEY JUST DON'T CARE ANYMORE DO THEY?

ALEXANDER IS LITERALLY USELESS LES THAN ONE PATCH AWAY FROM IT'S RELEASE.

FUCK THIS GAME.
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>>121464253
>remove a skill from global cooldown.
Here your dps increase.
>B-but I want to do 1100 dps like warrior, pls nerf war
Shut up.
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>>121463286
Does it?
24 man LFR tier Void Ark
FC hunts
A minigame no one will play after 5 days

I think even WoW had more when WoD was released with
PvP season
1 raid with 12 bosses
PvP island
Battlegrounds
Faction Daily Quests
Proving Grounds
8 heroic dungeons

I dunno man, i don't know where you get these facts from, i'm by no means defending WoW because it's shit, but this game's content really doesn't live up to what you just implied.
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>>121464464
The extra hours come from making backups of all the datacenters, making sure the log in server and game world servers aren't horribly broken after patching them, and then sitting on their asses until it's time to deploy the patch to the launchers.
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>>121464565
alex is A SHIT
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>>121464065
You know what's worse? Buying the Workshop, spending money and projects then ending up leaving/getting kicked out of the FC because how obnoxious the other members have become.
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>>121464424
Plus Paladin got about a 5% DPS increase anyway (on any single-target fight that has physical auto-attacks).
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>>121464535
th-thanks
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>>121464689
Which member of Pure were you?
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I'm actually kind of excited to farm Thordan, hopefully it isn't too much of a chore to learn
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>>121464735
Oh god you have little teddy-bears on your armour too.

It just keep piling up.
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Did they just invalidate the airship exploration on arrival? I mean since you can get the shit from alex savage to upgrade your gear now from hunts there is no reason to do alex savage or airship exploration.

gg making me want to go back to FFXI or find a new mmo at this point.
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>>121464840
>doing hunts and not GLORIOUS EXPLORATION
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>>121464735
>>121463742
looking good
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>>121464840
Exploration is the new Bisex, dead on arrival.
Still, I never hunted before.
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>>121464840
Looks like they invalidated Hunts by making airship exploration a faster way to get i210 gear that can have drastically superior stats, isn't attached to a weekly Esoteric cap, and isn't limited to a single job unless you're a melee DPS.
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>feel like I'm doing solid DPS
>350
>feel like I'm doing shit DPS
>700
How does this even work. I'm a warrior.
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>you can now buy in-game the dye available on Mogstation
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I did it xivg, i've healed, tanked and outdpsed everyone on expert.

please kill me
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>>121464769
Non. I left a different FC.
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>>121464823
>>121464937
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>>121465086
>My full edge glamour is no longer dependent on rng.
Going to fucking cost a lot though.
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>>121465103
Only shitters play on the Aether datacenter, what's new?
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>mute sounds keybinding added
THANK YOU BASED GOD
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>>121463742
best boys
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>level as a Conjurer
>join dungeon
>heal
>heal
>heal
>oh wait healheal
>heal
>heal?
>heal
>2.5s gcd
>no recount
How can you guys play this shit?
Wow is so much better
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>>121465040
>>121464887

Casuals aren't going to care about the rng on secondary stats and the hardcore won't care in end because of Alex Savage and hunts.

The only thing I can see exploration appeal to are the FFXIfags who loved their rngness.

>>121464974

Alex Savage is also dead too since casuals don't give a fuck about savage.
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>>121465292
try dpsing
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>>121464840
That's why the 2 hour lockout is there. You run your exploratory, hunt while it cools down, then go back in.
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>>121464464
It is a lot of things, but still
>24 hours
Guess I'll just watch Symphogear, been on backlog for months.
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>>121465292
>Wow is so much better
Thanks for the laugh pal, I really needed that
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Returning from ARR and I'm a bit lost. Just wanted to know if Machinist is any good nowadays?
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>>121465186
Oh god I'm sorry but if it helps I'm sure you're an extremely dangerous adorable teddy-bear-garbed and mittened sweety pie.
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>>121465292
That's what you get for leveling a boring healbot class. That's like complaining that you have nothing to do but heal as a holy priest in WoW.
>level as scholar
>my fairy pretty much keeps the tank alive on her own
>throw an aoe heal when the boss does raid damage or something
>dps 90% of the time
>beat all the shitter dps on damage
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>>121465103
You must feel great by outdpsing a nin in a 22 minutes long parse
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>>121465292
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>>121465292
dps you idiot
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>all this QoL
>all this fresh air
mm, so good!
>>121464735
you look.. oddly familiar, dear..
>>121464840
>there is no reason to do alex savage
kind of, but there is tomes to receive and loot as well. once people are better geared and less scared to step foot into it, a lot more people might be doing it.
>there is no reason to do... airship exploration.
people can do hunts if they dont have an fc/airships
it wouldnt be fair, and i think fcs would explode with new people flooding in
personally im glad, hunts are FUN as FUCK and i love doing them. im glad it gets a breath of life, and im not sure what to do first after MSQ!
>>121465413
its good, dont worry.
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>>121465390
I've been meaning to check Symphogear, but the entire singing and gggrrrrllll powa turns me on.

I imagine it would be what would happen if you mixed High School Musical with feminism.

Then again I've been known to enjoy weirder animes such as Death Parade and Owari no Seraph.
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>>121465541
>its good, dont worry.
Alright, I think the more fitting question is if any class is "shit" atm and should be avoided.
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>>121465610
bard and mch are basically on the most level playing field out of every other class type at the moment.
you can really bring either one, and its not a bad idea to have both because itd make you a really nice commodity. bards have pros cons as well as mch, but they can both do some pretty solid dps
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>/statusoff
>→Removes designated beneficial status.
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>>121465471
Not sure about FF's endgame encounters but wow raids are pretty intense
>also 1s gcd
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Midlanders tbqh.
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>>121465326
>>121465438
>>121465520
>>121465490
So is the scholar a good class?
Can I just switch?
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>>121465610
Paladin is not good and won't be good until 3.2 at the minimum, and Astrologian isn't exactly weak but struggles to really synergize with the other two healing classes.

Neither are so bad that they'll hold you back in a meaningful way from anything other than early progression.
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>>121465850
it is a good class
yes you can switch
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>>121465778
WoW raids are a joke these days.

Mythic world first raiders fucking use DBM to explain every boss mechanic to them as they go through the fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6ipbVOWvY
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>>121465929
The interplay of those mechanics is what's challenging.

At least in that game multiple shit goes off at once. In XIV you have the boss casting 1 thing and 1 thing only lel.
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>>121465850
If you like playing as a hybrid style and want to be able to do good dps while you have nothing to heal, you should like it.
You can switch to scholar on the same character, but you will have to level it from level 1. Also the base class is called "arcanist". It shares levels with summoner, which means that you also get a dps class for free. Scholar and summoner are two different specializations of the arcanist class.

Comparing to WoW, scholar has the dots of a warlock (like 4 of them), can spread it to all enemies with a single button press, has the shields of a discipline priest while having a smart healing fairy like a shaman totem that can keep a tank alive in easier content while you dps.
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>>121465850
You can, but you can also dps just fine on conjurer.
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>>121465850
To become a Scholar you need to get Conjurer to 15 anyway.
Since you already meet that prerequisite swap over to Arcanist, level that to 30 (it's a DPS class unfortunately) and then you can become a Scholar.
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>>121465850
you can also dps as a whm or even an ast
but yes scholar is good try it
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>>121465929
Yeah DBM and weak auras and other raid tools help a lot.
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>>121465929
Every serious XIV raider uses advanced combat tracker's warning feature that does literally the same as DBM. Gives you a sound warning when the boss starts casting an important ability.
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>>121466239
1. Lots don't use ACT triggers for boss scripts at all

2. There's a pretty big fucking difference between a timer going "Ding" when a specific line of text happens in the combat log, and an onscreen meter that's counting down eight different things at any given time in addition to specifically adding text in the middle of the screen that tells you exactly what to do
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>>121466015
Have you never done A3S
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>>121465802
au ra boys instead
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>>121466415
You knew the answer to that question before you asked it.
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>>121465929
Still pretty intense.
>>121466140
>>121466112
>>121466086
>>121466062
>>121465892
ok thanks going to try the scholar, sounds like fun
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>leveling WAR
>Dusk Vigil on roulette
>get leveling BLM and NIN
>and a WHM in full eso with a mix of gordian, eso and law(upgraded) accessories(but a law staff for some reason)
>both BLM and NIN perform about typical for their jobs, nothing remarkable
>but the WHM
>nothing but heal spam
>not even an Aero
>in the entire instance
>he does a total of... 0 damage
My ears were bloody ringing from that cure noise at the end.
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>tfw cant wait to close the bench due to aids
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>>121466372
Exists for act too. Check out the timeline plugin
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>>121466372
The world progression raiders, much like the video the anon linked, use ACT triggers for basically everything, from boss cds to when it's about to happen, etc.

With that said, both WoW and XIV are shit as fuck at this point and the MMO genre (apart for BnS's PvP) is literally dying in front of our eyes.

It's sad to witness.
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>>121466415
Yes, and nothing happens in tandem. In Warcraft adds are spawning with their own ability sets while the boss is crushing your tank or dispensing raid damage. The two aren't comparable
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>>121465748
That's good on ast when you get those gay cards and don't want to have to deal hitting select several times to highlight the card to remove it.
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Do not forget to max your eso before monday anon.
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>>121466482
???

>>121466630
Again have you never seen the last phase of A3s, the last phase even says it there. Protean + Drainage + Throttle's going out, etc. The last phase is a clusterfuck of mechanics, same with twister with magnets + tethers going out at the same time as silence/stuns need to happen.
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>Waah waah WHM is easy mode
If you think other healers are somehow difficult then get out of my face.
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>Shield Swipe changes

if it still cost tp it's going to end up burning tp faster.
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>>121466630
King Thordan satisfies those conditions. There's plenty of fights that feel WoW-like, even if they aren't in the endgame of endgames.
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>>121466908
It's now an ability, abilities don't cost mp/tp
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Is this game playable solo on ps4?
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>>121466970
as much as it's playable solo on other platforms
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>>121466565
>Afro cost MGP
Thank, FUCK. The damage will be lessened at least.
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>>121466940
That's not strictly true. Dark Passenger on DRK is a damage-dealing Ability that costs MP.

But Shield Swipe is pretty obviously not going to have a cost.
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>>121467103
Oh, prior to HW that was something specific to abilities..
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>>121467017
No disadvantages against PC user in pvp?
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>>121466970
It's on console, it is more playable than ps3, but enjoy your 20 fps.
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>>121465439
Not really, just amused to how i still managed to top dps while healing myself, the tank and the monk cause i kept getting aggro and monk kept getting on aoes.
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>>121467228
PC users have better framerates and addons like range meters but nothing exactly game breaking or very unfair unless they use hacks or something.
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>>121467296
Ps4 is a healthy30 fps senpai
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>>121467228
>FFXIV
>pvp

Pick one.
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>>121467651
this
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>Biggest PLD fix is making their shield block proc off-gcd.
>Most relevant fight in the game is A4S, PLD is absolutely terrible at it.
>PLD also can't even block anything in it.
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needs more lolicatgirl
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>>121466415
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2If0sgTJzFQ
Is this the boss?
It's pretty nice but nothing really intense.
Anyway is he a bot? I mean he's pushing those buttons damn fast
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>>121467713
>muh a4s wahhh
>PLD still best tank outside savage
Buff WAR and DRK.
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>>121467781
>the best tank is the one that barely contributes anything beyond simply taking hits like a bitch
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>>121467752
You can honestly say the same thing for that archimode clear though.

Watching games and playing games are 100% different, I can watch a WoW raid and tell whats going on the entire time, but its completely different from actually play it.

Also no there are no bots that will play your class for you, this isn't wow :^)
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PLD buffs aside
>asts expecting another huge buff
>they only let you spam cards outside of instance and then carry them inside

10/10 SE, that only saves 5 mins of the 1st pull of the day.
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>>121467838
Well, you're just the jam boy anyway.
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>>121467781
here's your reply
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So is there a limit on how many people you can share your house with in 3.1?
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Relavent from last thread, Don't bother with Blade and Soul go for Lost Ark instead

https://youtu.be/LL5zGvsmSM0?t=1m42s
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>>121467781
>best tank
>lowest damage output
>lowest threat output
>only unique feature - shield - completely useless against magic damage
>no better mitigation than the other tanks despite being touted as the "tankiest" tank
>best tank
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>>121468314
You forgot
>no meaningful utility whatsoever
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>>121467889
>Also no there are no bots that will play your class for you, this isn't wow :^)
So is using some kind of script?
Anyway I don't really know A3S so I can really tell if they're doing it right or not, but I can tell you that Method do make what would be extremely difficult for the average person, look extremely easy.
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>>121467174
Yeah, prior to HW there were no Abilities that had any resource cost other than their own cooldown, and I'm pretty sure that even in HW DRK is the only job with skills like that, but it's still not a strict rule.


Napkin math on how the new Shield Swipe will work out in regards to PLD DPS:
- The range of GCD-based damage on Paladin will typically range from a low of GB-RoH-RoH (combos) to a high of GB-RA-RA. That averages out to a range between 238 and 255 potency-per GCD.
- Spirits Within is 300 potency on a 30s cooldown, Circle of Scorn is 250 potency on a 25s cooldown. So they're both 10 potency-per-second, which (at a standard 2.4s GCD) totals out to 48 potency-per-GCD.
- Sword Oath, if it's active, delivers a 50 potency attack (the actual auto-attacks use a different damage formula, but the Sword Oath bonus uses the standard one), roughly every 2 seconds, depending on your weapon. So that's around 25 potency-per-second, if you're in Sword Oath, and around 60 potency-per-GCD.
- The new Shield Swipe, assuming you can use it on cooldown (which is a fairly safe assumption) is going to be 150 potency, on a 15s cooldown, totaling out to the same 10 potency-per-second as Spirits Within and Circle of Scorn - an additional 24 potency-per-GCD.

So theoretically, your Shield Oath damage range in 3.0 is 286-303 potency-per-GCD (not counting auto-attacks, or the 20% damage penalty), and in 3.1 will be raised to 310-327. That's roughly an 8% increase to your non-autoattack Shield Oath damage (which I'd ballpark at about a 6% overall Shield Oath DPS boost).

Your Sword Oath potency-per-GCD range in 3.0 is 346-363, and in 3.1 that'll go up to 370-387. Sword Oath's damage dampens the relative boost you get, but it's still a 6.5-7% boost to non-autoattack (remembering that Sword Oath is not an auto-attack despite triggering ON auto-attacks) damage. That's probably going to amount to about a 5% increase in Sword Oath DPS.

*PLD must be MT, AAs must be physical
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>>121468314
>>no better mitigation than the other tanks
Only against magic. Hallowed is better than lasso meme and zombie most of the time.
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>no pvp adjustments aside from LBs and exp increases

"Aspected Benefic is totally fine, guys!"
"One button macro SMNs are a-okay!"

"Fell Cleave is a modern achievement of our time" - Yoshi P
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>>121468440
>So is using some kind of script?
Nah I'm just messing with you, I really dont think he's using a script or anything, autofire at most but that would do nothing for you.

>look extremely easy.
Yeah that is pretty much any clear video for a lot of raid content.

On a clear video everything has been smoothed out for the most part, and you're only looking at the success aspects. People are doing mechanics right and already know how to perform said mechanics, you don't see the weeks on weeks of progression they do to get to that point.

A3S is fairly difficult, in terms of the DPS check that goes into how tight mechanics must be performed to keep perfect uptime in early progression. I would honestly say it is not harder than some WoW mythic raids but it will give anyone that wants it a challenge
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>tfw you'll never have a qt midlander gf
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ur ok guys

ur ok
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>trial roulette
>the chrysalis
FUCK OFF!!!!!!
>>121468726
how about a qt midlander bf
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>>121468726
Fuck off Ma Chao, shouldn't you be worrying about MUH JUSTICE instead?
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>>121468768
they really aren't
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>>121468912
I dont swing that way

Post midlanders pls
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>>121468726
FF musou when
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>>121469051
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>>121468645
I guess ff is not that bad after all.
Might give it a second chance.
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>>121469171
Slut
I bet you sleep with only 3 blankets
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>>121469171
>That thigh
More
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>>121469312
there's no reason to push yourself to enjoy a game you don't like. But I do think that the game does have a fairly boring start. The only reason I stuck around was the music/art direction/friends at first, but sticking it out for the free 30 days isn't a bad idea imo.
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>friend of mine just paid 30mil for a kingly whisker

how am I gonna convince him not to kill himself when he sees this
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>>121469171
Is it true that you and elk are dating?
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>>121469428
Give him 30mil
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>>121469428
>friend and I bought Barbs of the Whorl a month ago just to see what would happen

Welp, time to SELLSELLSELL
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So now that you have seen the patch notes, will 3.1 save this game?
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>>121465258
men*
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>>121469689
Heart of Thorns killed this game.
3.1 won't save it.
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>>121469428
Because you can totally solo Mog EX, right?
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>>121469752
>Heart of Thorns
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>>121469689
Still depends on how fun airships are, and we didn't really get any new information there.
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>>121469689
its keeping my sub, so for me sure.
not sure about pessimists who lurk around here, but ive always loved this game and im very pleased with the notes even more than i was with the little info we had before.
>>121469758
but now people will do parties for it and other things too, so older content is getting a surge of players in it even if its just a little burst
>>121469818
id like to know more than what we do know now, but for some reason they like over explaining LoV
we got a fucking essay in this patch note
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>>121469752
Wrong. 3.0 killed this game.
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>>121469938
>3.0
Wrong, 2.0 killed the game and what potential it had.
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>tfw extremely anxious and afraid of being overwhelmed by the new content
>tfw this happens with every update
>tfw would prefer to mantain things like they are instead of adding new things
Am i autistic guys?
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>>121469689
It will, for one month. Enjoy grinding void ark or hunt for those sick eso upgrades and do Thordan 2-3 times until the weapon you wanted drop.
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>>121470010
well a strong desire for routine and extreme aversion to change are clinical symptoms of autism so, maybe

like for real
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>>121463053
They are just going to remove ten chi and jin and now give us 20 sec GCD skills for all the ninjutsu instead.
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Fuck, I can't resub until I can pick up my paycheck at 3. I woke up at 7. Please, somebody kill me, time is passing so slowly. I shouldn't have gotten high. Please, post your chocobos and relieve my pain.
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>>121469815
It objectively killed this game, shill.
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>PLD changes
I give up.
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>>121470153
>objectively
You're using that word again, anon!
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>>121470107
The patch is not out yet. There is literally nothing meaningful to do in the game besides leveling up alts and doing pve for items that will be irrelevant in 3 days.
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REMINDER THAT EXPLORATIONS ARE STILL ONLY FULLPARTY (8 PEOPLE) CONTENT
FC content my fucking ass
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>>121470287
Nigger I don't even have Heavensward. My highest level character was 21.
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>>121470175
>But I want to do 1200 dps too.
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>>121470010
>>tfw extremely anxious and afraid of being overwhelmed by the new content
>overwhelmed by the new content
>overwhelmed
>new content

What game patch are you waiting for? Can't be this one.
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>>121470010
yes
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>>121464605
>dps increase
>now is a 15sec cooldown and lower potency

GG.
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>>121470315
They're Alliance content in every way that matters.
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>>121470315
>>121470315
It's 8 people per airship, you can send out 3 airships at once to make a 24 man alliance.
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>>121470460
It was a DPS loss to use it in your rotation before, whats your point that they gained 15 pps?
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>>121470460
I don't think you understand what you're talking about.
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>>121470010
All those new quests seem overwhelming, but they all seem to be in fondation or sea of clouds. They will be easy to find and finish.
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>>121469758

people are gonna cheese through it in undersize groups now

nobody had time for that shit before
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>>121470049
Pretty much.
I'll do the new dungeons, Thordan and Airship exploration a few times but after that I'm dropping this game until 2.2.

Fuck capping esoterics/hunt farming.
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>>121470404
Is it true that vjera made tuls dump you?
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Anyone on balmung for some Sohm Al runs?
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>>121468217
With Estate Sharing, the owner of a house may designate up to three of their friends as "tenants" who have access to the house and its associated features. A player may only be a tenant of at most two houses.
* A player may remove themselves from a house's tenant list.
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>>121470632
I hope so, that'd be funnier than him throwing a bitch fit over eso capping.
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>>121470725
I dunno, you don't get much funnier than throwing a bitchfit over something that's as much of a nonissue as Esoteric capping.
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>>121468478
all PvP changes are happening in 3.2. It's the PvP patch with a new version of Wolves Den 2!
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>>121470638
/tell Muscle Wizard
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>>121470798
>>121470725
Who was the one that complained about eso capping?
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Finally
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>>121470865
I don't know, I don't even know any of the people involved or what supposedly happened. It's just a really funny idea.
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>>121465520
She can heal deez nuts
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>>121470865
Tuls.
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>>121470969
Why? Did he really not want to cap?
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guess 3.1 is still catchup for people from ARR
3.2 will be lots of new content right?
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>>121470532
>>121470474
* Please note that while players may enter the Diadem as an alliance, upon entering, the group will not be treated as an alliance, but as three separate parties.
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>>121470578
>>121470583
It has 15sec GCD but you still need it to be triggered to use it.

Also why the fuck isn't shield bash off the GCD but with a lower cooldown?
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>>121471046
Yes that's how it works. Anyone expecting something different is a delusional faggot.
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>>121470869
Read the next line below the image :^)
It seems that if you glamour a multi slot item to a single slot item, only that single slot will change appearance.
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>>121471046
Are you retarded?

>>121471095
We will get the same amount of content in 3.2.
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>>121471046
lol.
>>121471063
gg se
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>>121470869
HAHA, TIME FOR SNOWMEN
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>still npo word on relics
god damnit. i want to know which one of my capped classes to go for first
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>>121471046
There is new content though
Just not an ilvl raise/next Alexander if that is the only thing you consider content.
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>>121471161
>Are you retarded?
>We will get the same amount of content in 3.2.
You should ask yourself that question before replying to people.
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>>121471063
Yes, it's an Alliance "in every way that matters". You lose a chat channel and the UI isn't as convenient for healing people outside of your party. In what way is it somehow inadequate for alliance-sized FC groups to play together?
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>>121471036
At some point there was a pact between them for Tuls not to log on without Naaki, after some issues.

Tuls didn't stick to that too long after asking if he could begin playing alone again, Naaki stopped caring, but despite already playing without him again, Tuls got really mad weeks later because he wasn't capping esos, thinking he still couldn't, and blew up when Naaki said he didn't care what he did.

Grown men.
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>>121471046
Hopefully 3.2 will be like Through the Maelstrom.
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Only 8 new MSQ's.
Wat..
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>tfw you can now do hunts to dye the eso gear
>tfw thordan weapon are 210
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>>121471070
>It has 15sec GCD but you still need it to be triggered to use it.
Its not on the GCD though, its a straight up DPS increase in every scenario

>Also why the fuck isn't shield bash off the GCD but with a lower cooldown?
Do you really no nothing about game design? Stun locking is one of the PLD specific things that are good about the class.
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>>121471248
If 3.1 wont deviate from SE's formula, what the fuck makes you think 3.2 will? We are getting four new bosses and two dungeons and that's it. Again.
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>>121471046
The way they're talking about 3.2, it's going to at least have more sensibly-designed content than 3.0, if not an increase in actual content volume.
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>>121471275
shit?
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>>121471046
they literally said 3.2 will mainly just be adjustments to existing content
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>>121471376
>What is airship exploration
But I will agree it's not enough.
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>>121471446
>>121471275
>>121471046
I meant A Realm Awoken, not sure why I said Through the Maelstrom.
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>Content I don't like isn't content!

"Content" is such an arbitrary word, anyway. Be specific and say exactly what you want.
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>>121471260
>At some point there was a pact between them for Tuls not to log on without Naaki, after some issues.
But
What? Why would you make an agreement like this? How would you even
What??
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Why did they separate the new dungeons with the existing 60 dungeons?
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>Tataru is no longer available as an opponent for Triple Triad.

Time to rape the potato for 4 days straight.
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>that absolute dearth of class balance changes

Don't get me wrong, the QoL changes in this patch are super welcome. I'm pumped for LoV and the gold saucer stuff. Guess I hoped for too much
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Post tigers.
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>>121469319
>>121469404

>>121469432
No.
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>>121471540
Grown man erp.
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>>121471364
>Do you really no nothing about game design? Stun locking is one of the PLD specific things that are good about the class.
Really? 3 stuns and the enemy is immune, providing that holy spamming WHM hasn't already done so.
It's a stupid gimmick, and the stun should be off gcd and be used when you need it, instead of "Oh shit, I just attacked and I need to stun, but my stun is FUCKING ON GCD!"
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>>121471489
Airship exploration isn't getting new additions in 3.2. It will only get "adjustments"
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>>121471570
It also said that existing cards can be gotten through other means. I'm going to wait and see if those other means are less bullshit than that cheating cunt.
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>he still runs savage
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>>121471070
Using Shield Swipe now amounts to about a 10-15% DPS loss per GCD.

Using Shield Swipe in 3.1 will be up to 600 extra potency a minute, without reducing your damage in any way.

It's a pretty big DPS boost, see: >>121468443
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>>121471649
They'll most likely add ffirion and lightning to the new mythrite packs. Rather deal with this cheating cunt than blow up 1mil mgp and don't get ffirion.
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>>121471257
Well maybe I misunderstood how the loot distribution works for them regarding claiming and damage instead of enmity. Sounded like only one group can actually get any loot from the monsters.
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>>121471661
>tfw Savage has almost been completely invalidated by Thordan and airships/hunts

It's like they just want to see how many more people can clear A3S and A4S by just throwing i210 gear at everyone.
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>>121471467
No they didn't, you're just bad at reading comprehension and missed the context of what they were actually talking about.
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>>121471613
No, its the fact that they have a reliable stun in any situation. A3S is a good example, along with T5, levi ex, pvp, etc.
>>
We will never get a patch with as much content as A Realm Awoken in this game ever again

>3 new extreme primals dropping raid level gear
>A raid
>New dungeons
>New weekly quest for primal weapons

So much fucking content in one patch

It will never happen again

Fuck
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>>121471675
That is of course, if you get parry/block to proc thge shield swipe every time right?
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>>121471528
People here are so pessimistic about the patch that it makes me sick. 3.1 has so much potential, especially with the Exploratory Missions, this is the new content people are bitching for, but cannot realize.
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>>121471768
proof?
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>>121471764
most will probably still not do it as alexander gear is ugly and they can get their dyed eso gear from hunts.
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>>121471764
That's exactly what they're trying to do, because they overtuned the content and nerfed the hell out of the gear progression in 3.0, and started hemorrhaging players because of it. 3.1 shoveling loot at people is the band-aid that they're hoping will stop people from quitting, and in 3.2 they've already implied pretty heavily that they're going back to Coil-level difficulty for raids instead of Savage.
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>>121471764
You know it might take like 5-6 of those hunt logs just to even get the upgrade item you need.
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>>121471781
They found that the 4 raid bosses + 2 dungeons and 1 trial every 4 months recipe works to keep the game going, so that's what you can expect from now on.
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>>121471781
>forgetting it had a two new jobs also
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>>121471795
Yes, but Paladins block pretty frequently, can force a block every 30s with Sheltron, obviously get a free one during Bulwark, etc.

In practice it might be closer to 400-500 extra DPS, but in my limited experience playing Paladin, that Shield Swipe button feels like it's almost always lit up.
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>>121471781
>it will never happen again
this game is like 6 years old and only have 1 (2?) expansions, tf you mean "never again"
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>>121470010
>tfw extremely anxious and afraid of being overwhelmed by the new content
I know that feel anon. You just gotta do it at some point.
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>>121471781
>3 Rehashed trials
>2 Rehashed dungeons
Lol, if you say so.
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>>121470367
that picture is cute
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>>121471764
Probably still a lot less than originally forcast.

Surprise surprise, people don't enjoy putting their face to the grindstone for upwards of 3 hours at a time with little-to-no progress. They also don't enjoy raiding simply for the sake of raiding (no new story, environment design, bosses, music, unique gear, etc.; any of the stuff that made Coil so interesting/satisfying).
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>>121471879
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>>121471781
90% of the realm awoken content was recycled stuff from 1.0 thats why ARR had so many content. 3.0 is mostly new content rather than recycled content so yea, we won't have such a big patch ever again because we ran out of 1.0 content to recycle.
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what's the point of alex savage even being on a weekly lockout still if we can get 210 gear elsewhere?
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>>121471953
2.1 is what made them realize the cycle could work. CT was never meant to be a patch update, it was supposed to be released at launch, as a stepping stone to coil.

Now we have this retarded formula where 24 man raids are invalidated on release because the gear is weaker than anything you actually have at that point.
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>>121471781
List of things we're never getting again:
>3 or more primals in a single patch
>3 dungeons in a single patch
>Non-faceroll raids with unique assets; story, music, bosses, CGI cutscenes, etc.
>A new class not tied to an expansion

etc. etc.
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>can ride mounts in idyllshire

MOUNT DICK WAVING IS BACK BABY
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>>121465292
>Wow is so much better
Don't forget to preorder Legion, that is coming out in only 10 months, to get early access to the new class. Until then, enjoy farming the same raid then that has been out since July.

WoW is epic.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3rpnma/lodestone_census_data_and_charts/

>tfw 6mil PCs without a lv 50 character
all hail our bot overlords
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>>121472182
There's plenty of 2.0 content to recycle, though, and they should be doing that pretty aggressively.

We got three versions of Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda, and that worked out fine. We've only had two versions of Leviathan, Moggle Mog, Ramuh, Ultima, Odin, and Shiva (Not to mention Bismarck, Ravana, and soon Thordan). There's also no "This is designed to be hard enough that we can give you decent loot for it" version of any of the other trials that are in the game, from Chrysalis to Steps to Ultros and Gilgamesh, or even Cape Westwind if they felt like they needed to scrape the barrel.

If they're understaffed they're understaffed, and fair enough if they can't pump out tons of completely content on a skeleton crew. But there are ways that you can generate a lot of content with a small core team, and not being afraid to do a reasonable amount of content re-use is one of the best ways to go about it.
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>>121472445
As if I didn't need any more reasons to stay away from Idyllshire
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>Content finder
>ilvl
>Instanced everything
>Solo based progression
>artificial lockouts that gate everyone into 8 man statics
>No open world content
>Mobs are vanilla exp bags
>Non existent class customization
>2.5s Global Cooldown
>Engine garbage skill pathing (can walk right into boss abilities when they're done channeling)
>Every boss encounter is a completely scripted simon says dance routine with insta-wipe mechanics
>Teleporting everywhere completely destroying any sense of scale of the world
>Time of day and weather patterns, worshiped deity, race selection, elements etc all have absolutely no impact leaving the game feeling shallow
>Worst itemization I've ever seen in an MMO, gear has no unqiue statsics and is pure vertical stat scaling
>Story quests are bogged down with endless fetch quests, completely destroying the pace of the plot
>Aesthetic is fucking trashed with tacky vanity mounts and pets and gear and glowing weapons and bikinis everywhere
>no world pvp option
>no voice acting
>everything is instanced; even zones
>repetitive busy-work simulator
>combat is sluggish and doesn't feel fun
>a vast majority of raid content is way too easy
>too many lockouts
>everyone looks the same
>way too easy to get big fuck-off mounts so every has big fuck off mounts
>can't tell who the good players are and the bad players are; they all look the same


exp;

>crafting irrelevant
>new classes inferior compared to old classes
>renamed and reskinned skills for new classes from old classes
>2 dungeons
>no outdoor content that isn't daily piss
>lag is still in the game
>gated zones even with flying enabled
>back and forward pie main and side quests still in the game
>copy pasted monsters
>main story and duties are still solo based progression in an MMO
>plot armor: the game
>still timed instances
>deity and weather are still pointless
>pvp designed by monkeys
>half-assed voice acting, half aren't even there

Game is a barren wasteland, why are you idiots still here
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Anyone else feel like this is actually a rather impressive patch given how bare their crew is? There's a lot of work on display here. Not excusing how long it took, but these are pretty beefy notes.
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>hit ilvl170
Is it safe to pug alex right away?
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>>121472694
WEW lad you expect me to read all that?
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>>121471591
Nice.
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>>121472715
Yes, you could have done it at i150 if they'd let you.
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>>121472694
i aint reading that shit
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>>121472694
What game do you propose we play?
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>>121472694
Did you just come from 1999 or something?
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>>121472547
>We've only had two versions of
Uhh yeah, because outside the 4 man story modes, there is literally zero reason to touch "normal mode" primals.

>>121472698
No. They are not "beefy" notes. Half of it is just explaining how minion battles work.
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>>121472698
I will admit, these notes were pretty long and packed, considering they didn't add their usual "new items" bloat at the end this time.

Then again, they essentially wrote an essay on Lord of Verminion in the middle there.
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>tfw you'll be sick of the new hairstyles within a week.
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>>121472805
real life :D
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>>121472698
Yeah kinda. But then again a lot of it is just tweaks and new options. In terms of substantial content with actual art assets and level/boss design it seems pretty standard. Like I don't give half a shit about lord of Verminion for example.
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>>121472892
i can't handle the graphics
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>>121472445
>people idle in idyllshire
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>>121472892
>playing a game at 40fps
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>>121472834
And there's literally zero reason to touch "hard mode" primals that were introduced in 2.2 and on.

If you want to put it another way, we've had two meaningful versions of Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan, and only one meaningful version of all the others listed.
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So is it safe to assume now that shield swipe is good again, PLD dps might improve?
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The female ones, especially the contest one will be trash and I bet you can't even dye the accessory. But the male ones may be pretty decent.
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Anyone has the post HW nin pic?

pic related
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>>121472975
>PLD dps might improve
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>Less than 400k players that have 1 class at 60, only 11k players with 1 class between 50 and 60

ded game

>>121472975
The DPS increase is pretty marginal, but its a start. Doesn't change the other problems though
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>>121473083
>that retarded looking lalafell

Every time.
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>not even 400k people have a level 60 character
>Yoshi was just saying half of active players have beat alex normal
>it was 200k clears in august
Something stinks.
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>>121473083
The female long one, the one with the bangs, might look good with a decent color and without highlights that look like they dipped their hair on shit.
The short hair looks good too, but yea the event will be shit if the accessory is undyeable.
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>>121472969
you still get hard mode primals in the trial roulette, and normal mode in the leveling roulette, this is more than enough for old and easy progression content
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>>121473083
Damn, that male Hyur is CUTE!
Also, I like the long hair for females, without the bangs. I'll use it on my Elezen.
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>>121473114
is this it?
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>>121472445

>they're removing the gate
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>>121472698
I think that this game is successful enough that nobody should be giving them participation medals or really looking at their content flow any different based on how small the development team is. It's their own fucking fault if they run into production limitations caused by not having enough people on the team.

That said, the patch looks "okay", and could actually turn out to be fun if the airships are good and if the casual dungeon/raid stuff is at least the entertaining kind of easy content instead of the torturous sort. It's not really blowing my socks off, but to be fair, it's the 'support' patch that's built around the 'progression' patch of 3.0, and 3.0 was such a shit foundation that there are some pretty hard limits on how shiny you can make the turd.
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>>121473209
They don't realize most of the clears for savage etc are done by people with alts.
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>>121472975
The potency decrease would've been fine if it wasn't on a FIFTEEN SECOND COOLDOWN. Like what the fuck, the pacification isn't even useful.
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>>121473263
thats just the level 50 one
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>>121472698

>Not excusing how long it took

they were on vacation for the first time in years

they could use a bigger team and just start rotating them out though
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>>121473353
We're talking normal right now, not savage.
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>>121473259
Even though you know it will clip with everything?
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3.15 when
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>>121473275
Like they ever will. After Revenant's Toll being in the same zone as Mor Dhona, they won't make the same mishap again. That's why they gated Idyllshire from the Hinterlands on the last minute.
Maybe when they remove PS3 or something.
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>>121473419
then no I don't have it.
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>>121473404
You know that it's off-GCD now, right?
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>>121472528
>Behemoth is larger than Gilgamesh

Well, that's interesting to know.
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>>121473503
Yes, I realize that. Putting it off GCD was one step forward, reducing potency and making it 15 second CD was two steps back.
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>>121473404
It isn't even usable as an OT unless you eat cleaves with sheltron for minimal damage increases.

If the window doesn't change on when to hit it either you only get like a 2 GCD window to proc a parry as well. It's pretty shoddy and actually increases PLD tp usage, when they said they were trying to fix it.
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>cinematography will still be shit compared to XI.

>>121473471
December.
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>>121473468
I don't really care about clipping.
>>121473471
December.
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>>121473576
So in your mind there would be nothing strange about having a 210 potency, off-GCD attack, with a 2.5 second cooldown.
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>380k LEVEL SIXTIES
DEAD
GAME
LOL
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>>121473083
Every fucking female slut is gonna be using the new long hair.
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>>121473525
Its 15th compared to Gilgs 2nd if you look at accounts with level 60s. Most of the general population statistics are from bots.
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>People roleplaying as the WoL
>People roleplaying as sellsword while hanging in the adventurer's guild
>People roleplaying as a whm
>People roleplaying as a sch
>People roleplaying as a militant man-hating lesbian (Bonus points if they were raped by a man)
>People roleplaying as 12-15 year olds
>People roleplaying lalafell as underaged pedobait
>People roleplaying as asexuals
>People roleplaying as most fuck tragic character ever
>People roleplaying as edgelord darklord
>People roleplaying as a Nuhn of their own made up tribe
>People roleplaying as a Nuhn of the U tribe
>People roleplaying as a Nuhn when they're a female
>People roleplaying as a dickgirl (that's their only 'personality' trait, job and occupation)
>People roleplaying as themselves
>People roleplaying as expert assassins talking about their latest kills while hanging in the adventurer's guild
>People roleplaying as 'always in character'
>People roleplaying despite no one else being in character
>People roleplaying as gil millionaires
>People roleplaying with a name like 'Kitty LeMewMew'
>People roleplaying their fantasia change (bonus points if it's from male to dickgirl)
>People roleplaying as being from a different FF world
>People roleplaying as a super special snowflake character
>People roleplaying as the exact opposite just so they're not accused of being a special snowflake
>People roleplaying as total outsiders from their race's culture because they never paid attention to any lore anyway
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>>121473114
I could make one later today if you really want one, I have nothing better else to do other than waiting for 3.1
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>>121473682
>long hair is only for sluts
fuck you
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>>121473669
pretty much tbqh
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>>121473083
i'm not even into erp or degenerate things but if that femroe had a dick i'd fucking suck it desu
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>>121473664
Doesn't have to be 2.5, could be 5-10. But 15? 15 seconds for a 150 potency attack, really? How is that going to fix anything? It could at least increase PLD's defense or attack power or something if they're going to make it 15 seconds for only 150 potency.
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>>121473525
It's not.
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>>121473725
>boring pieces of shit who may as well be bots
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>>121473804
But all femroe have a dick.
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>>121473748
New hairs are only for sluts.
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>>121473725
ikr why cant more people play as a catgirl who gains magical and physical powers by absorbing semen

fucking s.m.h.t.b.h.f.a.m
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>>121473669
It's also total level 60s, not subbed level 60s.

You can assume like a solid 80% without doubt (Its probably lower) of that are people who are still subbed.
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>>121473682
I don't like the new hair and I am a huge slut.
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>>121473810
I don't think you grasp how powerful a 150 potency attack on a 15s cooldown actually is. It's more or less the equivalent to Paladin getting a 10% damage boost on every single one of their GCD attacks.
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>>121473940
this desu


>TFW I always votekick femroes cause they are always played by creeps
suck my tank privilege, creepy fucks
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>Vanilla EQ managed to balance PLD as the most defensive tank under a more complex system of game mechanics
>XIV can't even balance PLD in a game where everything is the fucking same

I'm convinced Yoshi lied about his "past MMO experience" and just don't have a fucking clue what he's doing at this point.
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>>121473209
If what Yoshi said is true about only half of the playerbase clearing alex normal, then that means bots make up half of the total amount of players.

Holy shit. This game really is dead.
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lf Hyur Highlander bf to demonstrate his passions to me
>>121473606
>We will never get superior XIV cinematography again.
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>>121474105
Everyone knows Yoshi got his job as he was a nobody and was expendable so if the game did flop again they wouldn't risk losing someone worthy of the company. They literally just asked if anyone in the company played MMO and Yoshi said he did, he then mentioned his fave was DAoC.

Then he makes this fucking trash instead.
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>>121474142
I don't know, 5.5m still play wow but the actual population on 9 out of 10 servers is fucking dead literally.
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>>121474105
Nah, pre probably has some MMO experience which is evident by some of the decisions they make.

What is even more obvious, is the fact that the XIV team has 0 experience developing and designing MMO's which is a completely different beast alltogether.
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>>121473209
Well, active players aren't all just people that have gotten to level sixty. There are plenty of casuals who level multiple classes very slowly, but still log on frequently.

In fact, wasn't there at least one poster here who had been playing HW since it's launch and only very recently got to 60?
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>>121474142

I'd say at least 10% of the playerbase has never gotten a character past level 40 thanks to 'alt-itis', namely autism.
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>>121471257
>>121471742
Alright, looked it up in the actual live letter translation from them.
>the first to attack a monster will secure drops, and those who attack afterwards will be entitled to rewards after dealing a certain amount of damage to the monster’s HP.
Everything is DJB again. Now it just needs to be fun.
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>>121474142
No wonder there is no /sea all in this game compared to 1.0 or XI
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I just can't believe there isn't even 400k people at 60.

No wonder everyone is so fucking bad.
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>>121474289
>There are plenty of casuals who level multiple classes very slowly, but still log on frequently.
There actually isn't. Only 11k people have a character below 60 but higher than 50. Very few people are "still levelling"
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>>121474142
>>121473209
The fact that you can be every class on one character, numbers will be low.
Compared to MMOs where you can only be one class in a character.
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>>121474289
I know someone ingame who has all their crafts/gathering classes leveled to 60 but just got their first DoW class to 60 a few days ago.
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>>121474562
The thing is WoW lists subscribers, not classes at a certain level.
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>>121474539
There are also people who haven't purchased Heavensward as well, and are enjoying ARR's content fine enough.

However, I'm not going to say these numbers aren't low in general. Just that not everyone feels compelled to hit 50/60, or even complete the main scenario, but can still enjoy the game.
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>>121474629
>The thing is WoW lists subscribers
not anymore :^)
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>>121474609

Getting a gatherer to level 60 is kinda pointless if you can't reach most of the HW nodes.
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>Players may ride mounts in Idyllshire.

Jesus christ, why? The place is already an overcrowded clusterfuck. It's going to be fucking awful now.
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>>121474813
gotta show off my gobbie mount :^)
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>>121474673
>There are also people who haven't purchased Heavensward as well, and are enjoying ARR's content fine enough.
who
I have literally not seen anyone in game EVER who still plays without HW.

>Just that not everyone feels compelled to hit 50/60, or even complete the main scenario, but can still enjoy the game.
Again, WHO. I wont say either of these are impossible, but I really doubt they are so common that they'd justify such a small number of people actually playing.

>>121474694
Even if WoW lost half its subscribers it'd still have more than XIV's, what, 800k?
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>>121474813
Please look forward to those Twintania mounts blocking NPCs and spinning everywhere.
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Will this be the patch that breaks this game?
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I mean, I feel like nowadays everything is so expensive and there are so many people doing things that numbers feel kind of blown out of proportion.

Take the 15k people on Balmung or gilgamesh tha are at 60

Say about 40% of them are on at any given time, so 6k. thats still 750 8 man parties available at any given time. Of course the numbers for savage are lower than expected but I don't think this is anywhere close to alarming. There are only 600k people playing Dota/CS:GO, 400k isn't as bad as people are making it out to be.
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>nobody wants to fight anything on server 1
>nobody wants to fight anything on server 2

why do I even subscribe to this
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>>121474890
>Even if WoW lost half its subscribers it'd still have more than XIV's, what, 800k?

Doesn't matter. WoW was at 10m at the beginning of the year and is at 5.5 near the end. That's not healthy sustainability when their last patch will be lasting 15 months. Again.
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>>121474976
It will be a promising patch tbqh.
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I don't see how this patch is going to keep people's attention for very long. Will this game even survive to the next expansion?

If the second set of Alex raids is as shit-tier as the first I think the game will have no hope for survival.

They must only have 10 people max working on the game now.
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>>121474673
thats true
it took me 5 months to bother hitting lvl 60 with one job, I just lvld other shit and fished
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>>121474890
They count people who bought their sub with ingame gold and WoWs largest audience are chinks.

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number of paid subscribers are abysmal in NA/EU
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Who /only excited for the msq/?
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How do you guys find people to level with? I really don't want to move servers. I'm almost 54 after just doing roulettes basically, but have another job after this one that I want to hit 60 with.
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>>121475005

>Say about 40% of them are on at any given time

Of that 40%, 20% are bots, 40% are afk, 30% are erping, 8% are doing solo content, 1.9% are farming mounts and .1% want to do any progression.
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>>121475026
what, don't tell me you're sick of orcs and demons already
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>3 new dances
this is for what I pay my sub, I fucking love new dances
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>>121475197
>legion drops
>less orcs
>more demons
I'm hype famalam
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>>121475005
About 5% of the playerbase is even interested in raiding, so no, that isn't 750 8 man parties available.

And keep in mind, that 5% is across all servers, and all regions.
>>
MMOs are a dying genre to begin with. Smartphone games are the latest trends, that's why there are MMOs on smartphones nowadays.
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>>121475187
Again, the progression numbers themselves on Balmung are going to be low, its a RP server. The PFs are still full as fuck on Gilgamesh for Alex content, there really hasn't been a lull in being able to run stuff if you're looking for it. Clearing said content is a different story though
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>>121475259
>New sitting animations
>New camera feature for selfies

Totally worth the 4 month wait, God bless you Yoshi.
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>>121475197
>emerald dream never
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>>121475136
Join an FC. Make a PF. Try talking to people.
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>>121475350
dont forget
>new hair
not even joking tho I really like that they add this stuff
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>>121475323
Raiding isnt the only thing people want to do in this game, this has nothing to do with raiding.
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>Farm eso for MONTHS
>Shit is already useless
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>>121475269
>implying they won't find a way to shoehorn even more orcs in
>OY VEY WE FOUND ANOTHER WORLD OF DEMON ORCS
>BUT THIS TIME THEY ARE GREEN
>SEL'FIE OGAR
>>121475359
Woah woah get out with your interesting plots and story ideas that have much more potential to build upon than MUH LEJUN MUH SARGERAS you filthy extremist scum.
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Is everyone going to dust off their ninjas now? I wanted to be a snowflake...
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which one of you was this
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>PLD still the worst class in the game.
>They had 4 months to fix this.
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>>121475359
>literally the first babby raid of filler expansion
>same with azshara
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>>121475490
3.2 will invalidate it anyway.
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>>121475548
>le funny wrong chat post
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>>121475476
RAIDING IS THE ONLY THING AND IF YOU DIDNT CLEAR A4S TWO HOURS AFTER RELEASE IN SOLDIERY GEAR YOU ARE FUCKING GARBAGE AND SHOULD COMMIT SUICIDE
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>>121475548
That spelling is giving me cancer
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>>121475664
>not clearing it in full i55
Found the bad.
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>>121475348
PFs on Balmung are basically the same as every other NA non-Gilgamesh server.

Gilgamesh is only active because almost the ENTIRE raiding playerbase consolidated there after Savage Alexander decimated the raiding communities on more or less every other server. When you look at the endgame community on Gilgamesh, you're looking at the bulk of the endgame community for the entire NA playerbase.
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>>121475518
People have been dusting off their ninjas since the new EU servers went online

I've always been a NIN main since 2.4 though
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>>121473669
Good. This game is great at being generic, but it's still generic. The Final Fantasy skin doesn't save that.
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>>121475548

>vorasioucsly

Why even try to use a big word if you can't fucking spell?
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>>121475673
he probably only had one hand to type with
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>>121475548
>tfw drool fetish
shit writing though
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I hope we'll get more hildy soon.
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This patch is fucking nothing.
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I've made it to 60 without making any friends and I want to start raiding (just need a few more pieces of gear).
I've never done raiding before (I don't play MMOs) what are some things I should know? Do people raid with randoms? Do they use voip or something? Will they bully me for being new?
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>>121475781
There will be no Hildy. The comedy sidequest chain for 3.X is all Moogles.
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>>121475732
Go fuck yourself I bet you didn't even duo it with two archers
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>>121475737
Is that a bad thing though? You go to Balmung to RP, you go to Gilgamesh to raid.

Again >>121475476, Raiding is not the only thing people want to do in this game. If that's what you want to do, go over to gilgamesh and let the casuals do glamour content/crafting/gathering/pvp/rp/etc
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>>121475086
The second set of Alexander raids is definitely going to be better than the current one, as long as there are people still left by the time it comes out to be interested in it. They're already talking (obviously without explicitly admitting faults) about how they fucked up with it and aren't likely to design them the same way again.
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>>121475781
The comedy storyline will be different.
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>need to get to 500 hunt marks before tuesday
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>>121475829
>I've made it to 60 without making any friends
How?
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KEK
but srs guys help his friends dog
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>>121475821
It's the death of a respectable player count. This is literally where XIV fades out of relevance.

Blame Square for making a killing off the game and putting nothing back into it, and shoving out a fucking abysmal expansion. Worst expansion I've bought for any game.
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>>121475868
Oh please no. I don't want any more fucking Mogleo/Pomsguard antics.
It wasn't funny while I was leveling and it wont be funny now.
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>>121475943
REV UP THOSE HUNT GROUPS BECAUSE I AM SURE HUNGRY FOR SO-
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>>121475943
If you do your daily level 3 hunts today, tomorrow, and Sunday, that's 225 marks right there.
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>>121475986
He can get banned for this.
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>>121475886
Yes, it's a bad thing to have a single server where progression happens and a dead endgame community on every other server, especially when that's an extremely recent development that's only come to be over the last two and a half months or so, while the previous raid tier resulted in a vibrant endgame scene on basically every populated server and even a serviceable scene on the low-population servers. How the fuck is that even a question?
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>>121475943
>he thinks he only needs 1

You will need atleast 3 for a single upgrade.
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>>121475829
>Do people raid with randoms?
Sometimes.
>Do they use voip or something?
Most of the time. Download teamspeak/mumble.
>Will they bully me for being new?
Of course. It's okay though, some groups bully you out of love you just have to know when they're cancerous so you can get out.

Just find a good comfy group of people to play with and have fun and learn. Learning is the most important part, even if you don't stick with your first group that long.

>>121475885
>two archers
>not using 4 PGL
I'm sorry, I assumed you weren't bad for a second.
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>>121475829
Are you a healer?
You sound like a healer.
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>>121475986

Just get a new dog, dumb fucks.
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>>121475829
If you play on a populated server perhaps you can find an experienced player to mentor you a bit... oh wait, all the raiders in this game aren't interested in bolstering their community with new blood
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>>121475986
>not even his dog
>his internet friend's pet
I fucking hate beggars. I may tolerate them if it involves their own lives and health, but this is over the line.
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>>121475986
unknown adamantoise person pls go
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>>121475943
Why?
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>>121476051
>1500 hunt marks for one left side piece

Thanks Yoshi...
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>>121475986
What server? I wanna make an alt there and go report them.
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>>121476002
Too bad because that's what you're getting. Yoshi wants to "redeem" the Moogles because of how fucking awful they were so please look forward to it.
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>>121476124
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>>121476073
I don't even understand how someone jokes like that what are u
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>>121476048
Because you're completely stuck in this mindset that raiding is the only possible thing one can think of to do when they hit end game. A lot of casuals dont even view it as "end game," they just want to do content they see fit.

You can say the same thing about RP completely dying out on other servers because Balmung is now the central RP hub. IF you want to raid you go to Gilgamesh, blame EM for glorifying raid content and transferring to a big server. Even if this game was popular people would mass transfer to Gilg because DnT/CL/SyN/MoD were all there. It's not that the end game population is dead, its like you said. It's all centralized on one server because all the big names are on the same server now, and people flock to it.
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Crafting is dead.
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His comment lmfao
pls dont ruin this kids life guys
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>>121476317
What else is new?
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>>121476190
Still gonna find you
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>>121476213

What? It's an animal. You can pick up another dog exactly like it in some back alley somewhere, I assure you.
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>>121476347
>People that respond to or acknowledge RMT tells like they're people.
Baka as fuck.
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>>121476347
to be fair his begging doesn't constitute a transaction since he is offering literally nothing
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>>121476389
youll never find me
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>>121476317
>Crafting is dead, savage is dead, hunt is dead, expert is dead.
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>>121475965
it's hard and I'm bad

>>121476058
Well as long as they don't shut me out completely I'll be okay I guess. Not like I'm not used to some bullying anyways. It seems like one of those things that becomes much easier once you get your foot in the door.

>>121476068
No I'm a dirty DPS although I have started leveling my WHM since I don't have much to do on my other class.
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>>121476437
I know you're memeing but I still want to beat you
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Only good thing out of this is that I can actually gear ALL my jobs and play whatever I want with no lockout.
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>Tataru is no longer available as an opponent for Triple Triad.

she dead
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>>121476503
If there is mutual bullying between friends in the group, just don't get all serious and butthurt it and act like you're being singled out. We have one of those guys in our group and when he shows up to VOIP or a content party you can actually feel the fun draining from everything around you like fuel for some kind of vampiric spirit bomb.
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>>121476504

Are you honestly one of those people who cares more about dumb animals than human beings or some shit? You'll beat someone over finding it idiotic to pay for some ghetto family's sick mutt? It's not like I ran the dog over and spit on its ugly face.
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>>121476602
she is dying or dissapearing this update

calling it
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>>121475992
How much do you think I could sell an account with 5x Lv 60s for? BLM, AST, NIN, i195 SCH/SMN, BTN; about 15 million Gil in the bank, shitloads of Allagan/High Allagan glamour gear. etc.
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>>121476602
She's busy making new clothes.

Child labour can't rest.
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>>121476717
tataru is the lalafel in the ARR opening
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>>121476602
>implying they would ever kill a female lalafell
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>>121476736
I sold an account with all level 60 DoH and DoL and one level 60 DoW for $540
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>>121476736
About enough money to afford two Big Mac meals at McDonalds
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>>121476717

<mfw it turns out she's been whoring herself out for gil all this time
>mfw she got hooked on drugs
>mfw she is found dead, ODed on moonsugar or some shit

I can only dream.
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>>121476767
>tataru is the lalafel in the ARR opening

please eleborate
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>>121475992
All MMO's are dying, not entirely Square's fault. They still somehow put out more actual content than any other game despite it being boring.

>>121476736
Ask Ippickles.
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For the day crowd.
http://strawpoll.me/5932874
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Sometimes, I want Fray to fucking eviscerate me, and make sweet, sweet love to my open, festering wounds as I lay bleeding out, screaming in agony, waiting for death's merciful embrace.
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>>121476767
That one was a Lalafell and competent. Unless Yoshi is pulling the she was just pretending to be retarded card there's no way the two are the same.
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>>121476827
WoD shows up, she will remember who she was
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>>121476854
8/10 would macro with darkside
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>>121476852
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>>121476643
I usually try not to stand out and I understand that people like to tease one another.
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>>121476854
Isn't Fray a girl?
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>>121476932
...
Fuck's sake man
the fucking idiots in this thread i swear to god
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>>121476937
Probably going to macro it too, would be worth.
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>>121476504
dont take this guys b8 man
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>>121477042
he never said she wasnt
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>>121476932
She is plainsfolk, Tataru Taru is dunesfolk.

Myth busted.
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>>121476932
Except tataru and WoD lala are from different clans
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>Anyone want to run denzel darkhold with me
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>>121477042
She is if you play a female character.
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>>121477108
implying npc's also cannot partake in fantasia
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>Found out last week I have to go through a bunch more story quests to even get to HW stuff
>Level 54 already
>Just finished killing leviathan

How much fucking longer do I have to go my fucking god.
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>>121476852
>7 boipussy
Why hello there, where you qts at?
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>>121476310
No, retard, that's not what happened.

The "big names" were on Gilgamesh by 2.4. A tiny minority of people moved their to bask in their glory; most did not. People stayed on every semi-populated server to raid, and had no problems doing so.

3.0 launched, and people on every semi-populated server were STILL interested in raiding, despite the "big names" having been on Gilgamesh for nearly a year by that point. There was a vibrant raiding scene, again, on every semi-populated server.

Except then it turned out that the raid was really horrible, and most people who had been interested in raiding up until that point quit. Most people on Balmung quit; most people on Cactuar quit; most people on Excalibur quit; most people on GILGAMESH quit. People only mass-transferred to where the "big names" were, AFTER the raiding population on their original server became too small to support its own endgame scene.


Everyone who wants to raid consolidating on a single "raiding server" is not a natural consequence of there being "big name" raiders; it is a sign that the raiding component of the game is extremely unhealthy and can no longer support more than one or two servers worth of functional endgame community.
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>>121477168
>>121476932
It's obviously that it is revealed that Nanamo and Tataru did in fact swap places.
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>>121477042
The real Fray was a guy.
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>>121477183
I only play male characters and Fray was still giving off girlish vibes from under all that armor.
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>>121477218
>only at leviathan
oh sweet little anon you got a road ahead of you
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>>121477221
are you a highlander?
midlanders and au ra are fine, too
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>>121477178
I ask sometime, better than fucking fates.
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>>121477327
If you play a male then he's male.
That girlish vibe is from him being such a sassy, salty bitch.
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>>121477225
Speaking from experience from my server, about 2-3 top groups from my server transferred to Gilgamesh during early progression when they hit A3S, had drama, and then split off to transfer.
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>>121477367

Fuuuuck that's what they said last week.

Why, why is this soooo fucking long :( It's not even remotely fun.
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>>121477480
>lalafell face and hands
>body of a tera/bns character
>ears so small not even fluffy
idk what to feel about this
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>>121477225
>the raid was really horrible

>>121477327
Maybe Fray is you, not your character.
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>>121477168
eyes? a potion can fix that
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>>121477590
Yeah, it's always weird seeing a cutesy face on a really sexy body. You kind of expect a mature and confident look.
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>>121477319
>>121477515
Perhaps I should eventually actually do the DRK questline.
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>>121477590
Yeah, that artist is pretty bad.
All they have going for is drawing chunky bodies.
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Are Fantasias canon in the FFXIV universe?
So if Tataru were to drink a Fantasia, she can turn into a Plainsfolk Lala or even a Roe.
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>>121477590
Lots of people like Houtengeki's stuff, but they're just kind of okay at best, for those reasons you've mentioned.
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>>121477781
>chunky bodies
>a good thing

>>121477858
>Are Fantasias canon in the FFXIV universe?
yes
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>>121476852
>midlanders are coalburners
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>>121477389
Au ra
Where you at qt?
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>>121477781
>Yeah, that artist is pretty bad.
no shit
most artists are bad
It just artists who draw cute girls and porn can easily get away with being mediocre
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>>121476389
claire no
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>>121477781
lol chubby chaser

dont lower yourself to liking hamplanets, man
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>>121477902
Some people like it, but personally I really don't.
>>121477936
gilg
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So is this game dying?
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>>121477863
I despise Houtengeki stuff ever since Vjera went on a rampage of shitposting with nothing but images from them for a few weeks.
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>>121478090
only you can prevent forest fires
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Any word on relics yet?
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>>121478095
Not going to lie, that's a big reason why I stopped liking Houtengeki as well.
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>>121478057
What about skinny with assets/ meat in the right places? It's sometimes considered "chubby."
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>>121478095
I'm glad that I've missed a lot of Vjera posting.

>>121478090
Yes, all video games are dying.
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>>121478186
Yes, they're in 3.15 which will be some time in December.
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>>121478005
Yeah, sadly.
>>121478057
I'm not saying I like it.
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>>121478205
There is only one "chubby" girl in that picture and she's canonically a fatty with an eating disorder. The other is just a giant.
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I heard lightning returns steam is coming out in december, wonder if they'll run lightning strikes again, Caius DRK sword, sazh mch gun etc
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So should I level BRD or MCH?

Need an alt.
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>>121478057
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>>121478205
why do they all have sameface?
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>>121478205
Why are their tits so big
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>>121478424
Both at the same time. You'll be sharing gear anyway, and they're just different enough that you can still enjoy them both.
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>>121478441
pls

being "chubby" aka fat is a sign of low willpower, let alone an ugly sight for everyone's eyes. In fact, there should be a BMI limit on who can go to the beach. Or EVEN BETTER, all fat women have to wear a niqab or a burqa
I don't want my children to inherit your shitty, weak genes.
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>>121478231
I thought they said on the stream that it was 3.1. Did they change it
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>all this effort put into a minion minigame
>it could have been an elaborate PVP mode instead instead of something forgotten in two weeks
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>>121478639
calm down ippiki
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>>121478030
I'll find you too, eventually. Then we'll pvp or something, I don't know
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>>121478548
This is great, but I can't stop thinking about the Thordan gauntlets, the first gauntlets that actually look decent, no one will use them.
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>>121478728
If they're an elezen, will you give them your staff?
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>>121478686
>Implying LoV won't be the new PvP
s h m t b h f a m
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>>121478548
Just the blueprint, you still gotta craft it.
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God damn it took them this fucking long just to release this weak ass patch?

Heavensward is well on its way to being the worst MMO expansion I've every played.
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>>121478857
>people want Warcraft 3 for years
>we actually get it in XIV
>blizztards will never know
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>>121478090
It's already dead.

I cannot believe SE's stupidity on this matter: Why even bother resurrecting the game if they had no plans to actually support it if/when it were to become successful? They HAD the fucking WoW-killer. It was proverbial lightning in a bottle and the losses from 1.0 were utterly eclipsed by the obscene profits ARR raked in.
But management doubled-down on the current development budget/cycle without realising 2.2-2.55 coasted on player goodwill and the promise 3.0 would be the best fucking expansion in the history of anything. Which, to put it mildly, HW wasn't; everyone felt betrayed, people unsubscribed en masse, many of those who actually reached endgame with the intent to raid were burned by Alexander and they left too.

Heavensward was a more subtle fuck-up than 1.0 was but it still boggles my mind how they thought it was acceptable to release such a shitty product.
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xth for forcibly making Neverreap take 30 minutes
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>>121478884
>worst expansion
Now you're just overreacting
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>>121478879
source?
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リア充は死ね
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>>121478787
what do the thordans look like?
>>
How does bard and machinist DPS stack up when compared to melee or the magical DPS classes?
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>>121478548
fuck yeah
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>>121478548
but will it be a open fist/claw where you used to hold something or a closed fist?
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>>121479047
please post more tankc@…
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>>121479042
You want overreacting? Check >>121478962
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>>121479047
>foreign language
blacklisted
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>>121479042
I don't think I am. Heavensward is flat out bad compared to other full price expansions. Especially for a sub fee game.
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>>121479095
Lower than both since their support abilities force them to decrease their DPS on top of having fairly low potency on their attacks compared to the other classes.
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>>121479042
ignore that idiot like the rest of the thread does
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>>121478090
I don't know, but I have reached the point I don't want to play it anymore.
I'll do void ark shit and Thordan ex, but after that.. I think I will take a 2 months break. I just realized I grinded eso for months for nothing, I'm so dumb.
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>>121478962
Please look forward to Final Fantasy XV and that long-awaited Final Fantasy VII remake.
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>>121479036
Was it a femlala?
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>>121479045
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>>121479258
Taking breaks is a good thing. Way too many people spend way too much time getting everything done as fast as possible and burning themselves out and then they blame the game.

If you want to do that, go to fucking reddit or something.
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>>121479051
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>>121479158
hello
>>121479224
nämen ojdå
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>>121479362
these have nothing to do with one another
retard
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>>121479258
>for nothing

They are still relevant for the next 3 months. It happens every 2 updates, why are you surprised?
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>>121479407
Got any more pics of those weapons?
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>>121479362
it LITERALLY says its for purchase.
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>>121479362
That's not how it works.
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>>121479036

>Spazzing out on stoneskin

lul
>>
>>121479362
It literally says right there you can purchase it from the NPC, just like all the other emperor gear.
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>>121479446
hello, thank you…
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>>121479142
gap just like your thighs
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>>121479258
take a break
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>>121479502
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/001237.html
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>>121479142
It'll be an open fist/claw with a flesh-coloured plug filling the gap where the handle would normally be.
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>Mudra 'fix' is just capping skill times at 0.5s minimum
Oh boy, thanks SE. Totally worth the year wait.
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Trying to make a giraffe how is it so far?
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>>121479403
know what else is a good thing? making games with enough compelling content to keep people engaged. too bad yoshi and co. come up short.
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>>121479036
>Stoneskin
Why does it still exist? I only use it when swiftcast is up to stoneskin 2, shit drop instantly anyway.
You should be happy that Persona 4 shitters couple kicked you anyway. That run would have been 60 minutes long.
>>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62CHHyVhr6o

It's finally ending ;_;

also what is the song name?
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>>121479558
oh thats gonna look fucking dumb
>>121479739
>flesh plugs
dont say that ever again
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>>121479745
>Hurrr durr I'm fucking retarded
>>121479767
Cute, but get new hair.
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>Things that used to drop off King Mog/Ifrit/Garuda/Titan EX are going to be in the chest now

So those crafted weapons are gonna become dirt cheap now, yeah?
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>>121479781
But there is more content on a regular basis in XIV than any other modern MMO at the moment.

Sorry that you're upset that you don't get a major patch every week but that's not how it works, friend.
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>>121479831
Don't know hair selection in this game is ass
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>>121479837
maybe.

And expect people to be doing the extreme primals again because they will add the primal minions to them.
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>>121479958
Elezen get shit hair, the longer ones look better on them though.
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>>121479459
I started playing this game like 3 weeks before Heavenward, I didn't rush anything, but still did my best to gear up, apparently it is nothing new, same shit happened with ironwork, but whatever, when I will come back everyone will be full 210 and it will only take 1 week to do the same.
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>>121479993
People will be doing extreme primals because item drops will be in chests now (kingly whiskers unsynced).
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>>121479958
Try the one to the right and the one below what you have picked.
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>>121480202
>you can't have a kingly whisker for your whm weapon because it's a single handed weapon
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>go to limsa lominsa
>/yes sounds fucking everywhere
why
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>>121479821
>dont say that ever again
Please, you know it's true.
Just be happy if the plugs match your character's skin tone instead of being some half-assed grey like the smaller horns included with some Auri hairstyles.
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>>121479036
I am sorry you landed with shitters
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>>121480196
Yep, that´s what is going to happen. But you should stay for the new relics, that shit really takes time.
>>
>>121480086
>>121479958
>>121480219
should just wait for the new hairs to get added on
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>>121480329
Unsynced MogEx sounds scary as fuck. It's already hard enough not to kill those damn moogles at i130.
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is it worth it to get penta crafted accessories? i play DRK
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>>121479036
>let him play how he likes, k?

though doom spike spam is not worth it if the other dps doesn't have decent aoe desu
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>>121479142
if its the wirst it sucks
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>>121480402
fuck off yoshi
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>>121480514
get the str ones and ad vit

PLZ DO IT
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>>121480449
It's fine, you end up being able to do that much more damage at the end instead.
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>>121480449
This is what my FC mates were talking about.

But since it's unsynced couldn't you just like
not go in with 8 people?
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>>121480514
Nope
You will get 210 gear in 3.1 like crazy so they won't be really needed anymore
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>>121479958
Both haircuts were fine. Only haircuts you should avoid are jamaican nigger, skrillex and cancer patient.
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c@s
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>>121480389
i mean the phrase "flesh plugs," but that wouldnt be good either
>>121480335
>two auri or lala girls /laughing over and over
fuck you, fuck everything about you two.
>>121480423
yeah try it then, youve got a couple goodies now but the new ones might look good on you. your elezen is very pretty as is, though!
>>121480532
>barbie claw hands
ps3 limitations wew
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High Allagan healing pants + Lady's Clogs are objectively the best pairing.
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Rev up that sightseeing log.
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>>121480913
au'ra
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>>121479142
Praying mantis kong fu.
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>>121480423
Will the new hairs be available from the start?
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>>121480514
They're dirt cheap and still offer far and away the most efficient mix between VIT and STR, so unless doing so would bankrupt you, they're not a bad idea. But at this stage they're really not necessary, and you can easily get away with a combination of Fending and Slaying if you're playing in a setting where you don't really want to be full-Slaying.
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>>121480913
>>121481156
Highlanders.
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>>121481181
Yes, but you'll either have to make your character over or get to level 15 to unlock the stylist quest.
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>>121480913
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>>121481221
Femroes
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>tfw want to cry
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>>121481349
that's fine then. sure i'll be 15 by tuesday
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>>121481440
let it all out
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>>121481181
I think only the shitty afro require work, buy with mgp.
Can't wait to switch to the short hair, getting sick of my current cut.
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>>121481440
me too…
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>>121481026
feet enabler fuck off
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>>121481440
its okay anon, you will feel better after it
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>>121481562
*wiggles my toes at you*
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>>121463925

Abilities don't have tp/mp costs.
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>>121481440
24 hours isn't long enough, I need a long break.
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>>121481221
who is this alluring angel
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>>121481687
Dark Passenger and Dark Arts say otherwise.

But no, Shield Swipe won't have a TP cost. That's not why Paladin's TP issues are getting worse. Shield Swipe used to be usable up to twice between each other combo GCD, and every time you used it would be a net gain of 10 TP. Now Paladin never gains any TP, but instead gets an at-cost GCD once every 9 GCDs when they used Goring Blade.
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>>121481859
>People that don't us DA Dark Passenger on large mobs
I don't get it, why wouldn't you?
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>>121481440
Men don't cry.
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>>121481949
Can you please explain to me which part of the post you quoted made you think that that's what I was saying?
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>>121481026
Yup.
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Who is hype for Skynamis?
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How much gil would I be expected to pay for a 60 day time card on Balmung?
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>>121482132
You mean Hunts?
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thanks obama
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post lewd lalas
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>>121482297
Yes.
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>>121482347
lewd lalas
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>>121482286
85 million
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>[2.0][3.0] Certain enfeebling effects can now be applied to objects in certain duties.
I'm trying to think of wtf this would be useful for, unless it's just for the new dungeons.
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>>121482347
lewd lala
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>>121481859

They should just make sheltron regen a small amount of tp as well as mp.
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can someone post the sharpcast F1 opener from BLM? I think I'm missing something.
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>>121482347
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>>121482548
It'd fix shit like certain dots not worrking on Ifrit's nails that happens all over the game.
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>Regarding the “Malevolent Mogwand”, which is one of the popular weapons that players would like to glamour but are unable to because the weapon is one-handed, a two-handed version with the same design has been created and we plan to introduce this in 3.2. Please provide us with opinions and feedback on any current one-handed weapon which you would like to see as two-handed.
fuck yes the cutest staff skin
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>>121482548
Putting foes on those stalks that spawn poison seed in solm al?
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FFXIV newfag here. I'm currently leveling up WHM to 50 and want to switch to Astrologian as fast as possible, because I really like the design. After reaching level 50 is there a long way towards unlocking those new classes? Because I've read somewhere, that there are hundreds quest after level 50 and I trully hope that I don't need to do them all in order of obtaining beloved Astrologian.
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>>121482132
Me!

I have legitimately high hopes for it.

Doing A3S progression but our group only goes in 1-2 days a week so it's pretty slow.

Honestly I think the biggest problem right now is a complete lack of fun, relevant group stuff to do. Now instead of just running around outside the FC house bored as hell, we can hop into airships and actually EXPLORE shit.
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>>121481424
*doki doki*
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>>121482834
gotta get through all the ARR MSQ and hit HW before you can play AST.
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>Hunt grinding is back
That's it, I fucking quit.
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>your tail doesn't sway in high winds like the rest of your clothes
Heh.
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>>121482910
How many quests from level 50 is that? Don't tell m a that more than 20, please.
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w-what is that white circle in the middle of my screen?...it disappears when i click the chat or when i click options...
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>>121482834
Too bad, gotta do 2.1 to 2.5 before Heavenward.
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>>121482878
>actually EXPLORE shit.

you act like the zone is going to be big and actually have worthwhile shit to explore.
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>>121483027
>more than 20
oh anon there are more than 50
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>>121483047
a tumor
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>>121483193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTO8_KNcuo
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>>121483135
Ugh. But thanks for the info.
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>>121483079
It's basically an instanced Sea of Clouds.

That's plenty big.
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>>121482673
>Please provide us with opinions and feedback on any current one-handed weapon which you would like to see as two-handed.
Allagan Scepter please!
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>>121483271
You can do all of them in like 3 days anyway.
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>>121483271
They are around 150 or so
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>>121481156
lizards
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>>121483482
Quite a lot of work on my shoulders so I play like 1 hour a day monday-friday and 3-5 hours per day saturday and sunday. Hoped I could achieve the Astrologian until the next week.
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First tier was Regular Allagan
Then came High Allagan
Now there will be Grand Allagan
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>>121483681
Once you do you'll start at level 30 anyway.
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Can someone explain to me why is the team working on this game actually shrinkening when the game seems to get better and more popular? I've gotten fairly recently into FF14 and it seems weird when I read that the team behind the game is just a bunch of guys.
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>>121483680
demon
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>>121483746
>Grand
I'd prefer "Royal Allagan".
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>>121483774
Well, grinding level as healer is easy with all the dungeons. So it's the quests that seem longer to me. Especially that I like to read all the dialogues.
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>In the 3.X series, rather than having a single main storyline which also unlocks the content, we've decided to have multiple parallel paths so that players can start wherever they like. For example, you start the primal quest and unlock it right away without being forced to skip through the main scenario.

PARALLEL STORYLINES. Why are we not talking about the best news? The biggest complaint I hear is that you need to do story to unlock shit. Now it's not linear so if your friends are doing a certain thing, there's a smaller time committment to unlocking it.
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>>121484038

I mean, it's a step in the right direction but I'm still gonna have to go through literally 100+ quests to get to HW still.
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>>121484038
How about not locking non-story/msq content behind fetch-quests? what a revolutionary idea
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>More Hunts
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>>121483983
its okay anon just enjoy the ride
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>more hunt grinding
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>>121483832
They've decided what the bare minimum they need to keep subs up and they're not going to spend a penny more than they have to. As long as they can get a few new people like you in while the older players quit out of boredom, they're satisfied.
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>>121483832
Because less staff means higher profits.
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>>121483832
Square Enix refuses to give them more manpower because that would cost them money and all they care about is short term profits, they don't care if this affects the quality of the game negativily as long profits are still high.
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>>121483079
>>121482878
>Guild Wars 2 gliding
>get to certain areas
>find hidden content
>reward exploration
>XIV flying
>get from point A to B faster
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>>121482968
>>121484207
>>121484359
>M O R E H U N T S
>O
>R
>E
>
>H
>U
>N
>T
>S
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>>121484207
I know that butt.
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>>121484359
>>121484207
>>121484547
WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED
WHY
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME
WE FOLLOW A FIXED CYCLE
RAID
CATCH UP
RAID SHIT IN PATCHES
WOOOOW MORE HUNTS WHAT THE FUCK YOSHI WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT
FUCK YOU FUCK OFF OFUFKC FUCK
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>>121484640
I LIKE IT
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>>121484207
I'm kinda curious.

As someone that dabbled in FFXI and plays a ton of XIV, what exactly happened in terms of video game development to make things like hunts shit?

NMs and HNMs were a huge deal in XI and accounted for a huge portion of the game's endgame content.

Are XIV hunts shit because of modern communication tools? Are the people involved just shittier human beings?

I'm genuinely curious.
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>>121484640
BUT THIS ISN'T EVEN CATCH UP. IT REPLACES

what is the point of even doing savage now, why does it even have a weekly lockout still.
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>>121484640
I guess some people would like new content and not recycled shit no one likes in the first place.
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>>121484361
>>121484379
>>121484390
Hmm, but wait. Isn't it like they just released a huge content with the Heavensward? And they do quite decent adding all that new content? Although I haven't played WoW, it seems to me like the game is updated very regularly. And I'm pretty sure that after a year there will be another huge update like Heavensward.
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>>121484697
Have you not done hunts? This game does not support something like hunts. The design is awful.
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>can't multi-glamor
>can't wear a hat and a bandana and an eyepatch at the same time
yosher...
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>tfw I like hunts

>>121484732
same reason to do savage originally. dick waving and "bragging rights" :^)
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>>121484946
console limitations
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>>121484881
No, I absolutely have. I don't find them fun at all.

From a design perspective it's pretty similar to XI if not more forgiving.

XI was even more potentially drama inducing due to how claiming worked. If you weren't in the party that claimed the mob, you didn't get any rewards at all.

So what made XI NMs cool compared to XIVs A and S ranks?
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I thought tank ques were instant.
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>>121484818
The game gets regular updates, but they're incredibly formulaic and people are tired of it. It's the same exact formula since ARR was released.

>couple new dungeons that will need to be grinded until people absolutely dread and hate them
>one new primal
>raid finder tier casual shitshow raid
>some garbage facebook-game tier crap people will forget about in a week
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>>121484697
Little bit of column a and a bit from column b. Also there's a certain group of people who will chain report you if they aren't ready when your alliances are and they miss out on rewards because you " pulled too early".
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>>121485175
I'm a healer, what are you queueing for… I just want to play with someone…
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>>121484640
>tfw spugi bonger lost his mind
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>>121484946
My dream is a caster/healer glamour with a breastplate worn over a robe.
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>>121484038
How about they just go the XI route and make MSQ actually about the stories and not bloated fetch quest filler?
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Finally leveled AST to 60, got a few questions.

Is the stun from Celestial Opposition worth anything, or do I use it just for the extended duration thing?
Is Collective Unconscious worth using for a second to get the regen buff on the party if they're grouped up, or should I only use it when the entire party is about to take a good hit?
Even after putting a few dozen hours into the job I still don't know what to do when I have Shuffle on CD, the extended Royal Road buff, nothing on Spread and draw Spire or Ewer. Do I just burn it?
Is it practical to save Disable exclusively for tank busters or do I just pop it on CD unless I know for sure one is coming?
Does Nocturnal have any use besides single healing encounters where shields are more useful than regen or full parties with another AST?
I hear the job is broken in PvP, what's the strat?
Any closing thoughts or advice, besides "play WHM instead"?

Thank you.
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>guaranteed upgrade item from doing void ark once a week

210 left side within 5 weeks for the visual pieces.
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>>121484640
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>>121485287
play SCH instead
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>>121485118
>So what made XI NMs cool compared to XIVs A and S ranks?
Rewards that lasted years vs. three months? That and the HNMs were a force to be reckoned with?
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>>121485287
I'll type something up when I get back from lunch in about 5 minutes.
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>>121485252
>implying there wasn't bloated fetch quest filler in XI

MAN FAME SURE IS A COOL SYSTEM

Also I tried out the new Rhapsodies of Vanadiel quests and one of the VERY first quests you get is a FUCKING FETCH QUEST WITH ITEMS FROM MOBS IN THE ORIGINAL RELEASE AREAS.

I fucking love XI, but don't act like they didn't gate you behind the same kind of bullshit quest padding.
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So anyone want to place bets how long the 3.1 series of updates will hold peoples interest until the population dies again?
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>>121485118
FFXI's NMs were a wild west scenario where you spent a ton of time trying to compete with a ton of people for a very-much-not-guaranteed chance to obtain a HUGE reward.

FFXIV's hunts are a very ordered thing that implicitly encourages an entire server to cooperate to have a guaranteed shot at a very small, incremental bit of progress toward a fairly small reward.
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>>121484818
I think I get the gist of what you are saying, English isn't your first language is it?

They probably had extra staff to develop the HW content, then they drop back down to skeleton crew until the next expansion. The issue is that what appears to be a ton of content on the surface is in fact rather thin. After getting through the story and the two initial ex primal fights, most people here have been running the same six faceroll dungeons (fractal and neverreap every day, alex normal 1-4 every week, all of which can be done by a drunken chimpanzee with one hand), and alex savage, the "true" end-game raid, was a disgusting flop that decimated the raiding community and caused a lot of people to quit. So we are left with fluff content that might be interesting when you are new, but it gets old very quick. Every patch is the same formula of stuff that gets added, this one is no different. Instead of going back in and cleaning up stuff, they just keep shoveling more shit onto the pile.
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>>121484505
>reward
>a blue and a green you sell for a few copper
yea fucking rewarding
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>>121484640
wow someone didn't get his daily dose of bf cuddles
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>>121485519
Fame was for optional shit unrelated to the main story.

And yes, Rhapsodies starting is fucking stupid. Missions designed from Matsui's crew instead of Tanaka's. Same goes for the mission add-ons which were fucking terrible.
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>>121485301
Can you get that item as well as a piece of gear?
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>>121485397
OMG haha le epic Osama beard meme guy too funny too FUNNEE take my le updoots :^)
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>>121485608
>>121485450
Huh, I actually never stopped and thought about the actual rewards.

Getting seals is kind of lame, actually.

It would be a lot cooler if hunts had a small chance to drop relevant gear whole cloth.
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>>121485287
I've mentioned before in the thread that I'm currently leveling WHM but want to switch to AST as soon as I can. Could you please share your overall opinion the job? Is it basically fun to play?
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>>121485287
>Any closing thoughts or advice, besides "play WHM instead"?
Play Scholar instead.

Okay but seriously, just use CO to extend.
Collective unconscious is pretty much only good for the regen so yes, use it that way.
Yep. If you have a good Royal Road set up and Shuffle comes up with nothing, just right-click the draw card off your buff bar to discard it and reset your Draw cooldown.
Use it on cooldown but make sure it's up for tankbusters.
Not really, besides stance-dancing in dungeons so the tank can start every pull with Stoneskin + Nocturnal Benefic; swap to Diurnal before he pulls any enemies though so you can use Dirunal regens.
In PvP you spam Noctunal Benefic while running because it's instant. Between that and Essential Dignity + PvP cooldowns you're nigh unkillable unless there's 3+ people on you.
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>>121484750
what game do you think we are playing here
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>>121485714
Friendship with Yoshi P ended
Now Nobuaki is my best friend
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>>121485786
yes, they are literally trying to drown us with gear.

>UNSYNCHED WHISKER FARM ILVL 208
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>>121485852
:^)>
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>>121485960
Not this one for much longer.
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>>121485852
getting mad at him is the reaction he was trying to get, you enabling faggot
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liora element has been eliminated
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>>121485545
A month.
I fully expect people to renew, blow through all the content in ~2 weeks, then unsub.

Pushing a third of the content into 3.15 and releasing it a month later is pretty cheeky. Good thing I don't give a shit about the relic or the new Moogle "comedy" quests.
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>>121486195
Thank god.
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>>121485636
Yeah, english ain't my first language, it's lame it can be easily seen. And thanks for the detailed answer. For the moment I'm trying to be optimistic, because my FC is quite casual and they're running everything there is, including older content, but I guess it might get annoying after completing all of that and looking for something challenging. Because from what I see Savage Alexander is not challenging, it's broken.
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>>121485545
I can't see it lasting very long. I guess they realized that they're pushing out a patch after this long of a wait that had a low amount of content. Probably why they delayed relics so they at least have some sort of a bridge in between this patch and the next major one.
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>>121486032
>>121485786
>>121485301
>guaranteed

It's not guaranteed you fuckwads. You get ONE coin per week. Most likely a coat will be like, 2 coins and a twine will be 3.

Sure you can grind out hunts and get your left side, but it'll be the same. 1000 tokens for a coat, 1500 or even 2k for a twine. It's gona be a fucking grind.

Thordran weapons will probably be 210, but they'll still be worse than gordian or upgraded Eso. Armor from Void Ark will be something like 200 or 205
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>>121485894
Well, Hunts do/will drop the Mark Logs directly, very rarely, which is about as close as you can get to dropping the gear.

Part of the problem runs deeper than Hunts versus FFXI's NMs, though, and that's that gear in FFXIV is very strictly controlled in terms of power and effects. Item level is 90% of the quality of any given piece of gear, and the only variation between two equippable items at the same iLevel is their spread of secondary stats - all of which are designed so that the maximum you can stack across your entire gear set, and the minimum you can have if you try to avoid a particular stat, are not more than a couple percent apart in overall effectiveness (and typically the stats you get instead of the one you're avoiding just end up doing the same thing in different ways).

FFXI basically had stuff you could get at level 10 that would be a valuable piece of some gearset you'd be using two expansions down the road, because the gear had some unique effect that raw stats couldn't replicate. FFXIV has gear that's designed to be replaced every six months, with no exceptions, and (almost) absolutely nothing that can preserve a piece's usefulness past that 6-month expiration date.

They said at one point that they wanted to use Heavensward to make more interesting gear than the boring shit that was in ARR, but I guess that's another casualty of "Sorry, our team is really small!"
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>there are people ITT who dont think DRK is an expert-level job
>those same people haven't first mastered PLD, then WAR before moving on to DRK
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>>121486195
What...
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>>121486195
>she hasn't posted in twenty hours
>"success"
>>
http://strawpoll.me/5936526
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>>121486725
>she
you forgot your trip, guffy keks
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>>121486725
GDI
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>>121485930
Despite being a minmaxer at heart I'm switching my main from WAR to AST despite being a relatively poor job just because I have never had this much fun playing an MMO.
Compared to WHM you're keeping track of the group's rotations, making fast decisions and moving your hands a fair bit to make the most out of your cards, plus the fucking fantastic addition of Lightspeed, which has become my favorite action in the game, that lets you continue healing while running around doing boss mechanics.

It's just a lot more involved and dense than anything else I've done in this kind of MMO, and I absolutely love it.
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>>121486951
If you read my posts I always call Liora a he
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>>121486632
>and (almost) absolutely nothing that can preserve a piece's usefulness past that 6-month expiration date
Wait, are there any exceptions to this rule?
As far as I was aware everything becomes obsolete after 6 months.
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>>121486721
/upset
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>>121487043

>>121487043

>>121487043
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>VIPER BEAM
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Woah, so now we can upgrade gear with clan shit?
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>>121485930
>>121487059
Not to mention the job's aesthetic and the spectacular animations, which to be honest were what made me want to at least level it as an alt a while ago. Glad I did.
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>>121487064
Well now that I think about it a lot of the relevant gear didn't last a full 6 months since it was only introduced in off-patches, but I was mainly thinking of the crafted accessories people would use during, say, early FCoB progression, to have enough HP to pass those HP checks, or healers would use to get accuracy.

But even then they're doing away with all that starting in 3.2 so it's sort of a moot point.
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>come back to ff14 after a few weeks
>fc drama
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>>121487059
>>121487341
Oh my, that's what I wanted to hear. Thanks a lot, anon!
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>>121486392
Your english is quite good, don't worry. I don't think your post was too bad grammatically, but non-native speakers have a way of structuring their sentences that makes it easy to tell. English is so counter-intuitive and has so many stupid rules that it is very difficult to sound like a native. I sound like an actual retard when I try to speak and write in Spanish, the only other language I know, so you're doing better than me.

As long as you are playing with your friends the game should give you at least a few months of entertainment. Savage will likely get a little easier with all this new gear. I wouldn't call it broken, but A3S and A4S were designed for top-tier players, the absolute best, and frankly the majorty of people who raid in this game do not fall into that category (including me). Plus the loot tables suck, the fights themselves aren't very fun (I haven't done A4S and 3 is okay, 1 and 2 are trash), there's no additional story and the environments aren't cool. If you are just starting out with a group of friends I would highly recommend fighting your way through all of the coil raids (do them with the minimum ilvl option if you are feeling brave). Then when you get to savage, try that and compare the two. Coil is a fucking masterpiece compared to alex savage.
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>>121486694
I think I cleared Ravana Ex in PF with that guy, he's not terrible. Autistic AF though, iirc he was a lala DRK with edgelord RP macros for his skills.
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>>121485894
Hunts really should have a low% chance of dropping relevant rare mats.
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>>121487904
Not playing with friends, just found some FC full of chill people, who like to run previous content. So I'll run with your advice and try to do them all before Savage Alexander.
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>[2.0] The following items will now appear in the treasure chest of each party in an alliance when undertaking Syrcus Tower or the World of Darkness:
>Wind-up Onion Knight / Puff of Darkness

FINALLY I CAN GET THEM
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>>121484640
stop posting my images!!!!

>>121485227
>>121485705
wasn't meeeee i was asleep
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