/v/ - HAPPY E3 EVERYONE

>f2p p2w grindfest

>still asks for sub

nope

>>14831795

Well good thing we have rando assholes valued opinion, we can all go home now.

>>14831807

I would actually appreciate if all shills would just left /v/ at once and never returned.

Never ever.

>>14831876

someone on shiva said in /shout that its to spawn an SSS rank hunt. its fucking bedlam.

The MSQ for those too poorfag to sub right now:

Asahi brings Yotsuyus parents back and mindbreaks her, she kills them both and using crystals asahi brought she turns into the primal Tsukuyomi, after beating her the echo shows you this was a plan by "zenos" to stop the rise of the popularis in garlemald but after your beat her Yostuyu kills her brother and Maxima takes charge and goes ahead with the peace talks anyway. Hien confirms Zenos is dead and this Zenos is an imposter. Alphinaux says the ascians are making their move and goes with Maxima to the Garlean capital as the Doman Ambassador.

Then Gosetsu goes gray from the stress, shaves his head and announces he is leaving on a pilgrimage to pray for the dead. This concludes the Doma story and othard is now just the four lords and crafting dailies from now on. Then lise, alisae and thancred join you and head to zeno's grave in ala mhigo. The grave is empty and zenos watches in the distance in the outfit of a resistance fighter. You return to the rising stones as everyone is calling ascian and call up yshtola and uriange.

Cut to the imperial palace and emperor galvus talks with another zenos saying 'i work to ensure the survival of this star', meanwhile the zenos in resistance uniform is putting together a machine in an allagan scrapyard saying 'i thought my time on this stage was over but clearly i have a new part to play' and he rides the machine off into the distance. So there is the dead one who woke up and what looks like an ascian in a clone body. Then you sit down for some tea with the girls and the several cutscene warning plays

They talk about how all the kami related primals are summoned by a relic and not prayer and allude to odins sword that works the same way, maybe he is not an elder primal but a kami hence the katana, thancred shows up and they still think theres one zenos possessed by an ascian. Cut to Maima and alphinaux riding an airship over 'the burn' that part of othard thats a lifeless desert. Maxima says a constant chain of summonings bled it of all aether. Then magitek armor attacks them but its a type the garleans dont recognise. The ship crashes and they need to evacuate. suddenly a duty popup appears 'emissary of dawn' mid cutscene. YOU ARE NOW PLAYING AS ALPHINAUX. Using a custom moveset and moonstone carbuncle you fight the garleans attacking the ones you partnered with in a moon white desert. But the numbers keep on coming. Then a gunslinger knocks the leader down. A man with a FF8 gunblade and two lancers appear. You fight waves of adds as this gunblade user throws out multiple limit breaks at once.

after the fight they talk, he calls alphinaux a scion and says he has history with the order. He says his name is not yours for the asking and he throws a burned ascian mask on the ground. "The face of our prey" he says. He says come with him or die on the sand and if they need a name call him 'shadowhunter'. The camera pans around to show from his belt hangs a dozen ascian masks including a new one shaped like a wolf. Cut back to the rising stones and thancred is setting forth for the empire to look for signs of ascian infiltration.

Theres more in the side story stuff like in the ivalice raid it reveals in this timeline Ashe was the one who died in the opening events of XII's war not her fiance but thats all a bit more usual stuff.

Jesus. Fuck. The 3rd alliance raid boss requires you to adjust your hp to match basic math.

It took us 16 minutes. For one fight.

I cast Verraise 43 times.

FUCK.

>>14831807

>rando

>>>/twitter/

>>14832884

click on montblang and just kill the two it spawns for the quest with the meteor mark above them. its literally a two mob quest that bottlenecks.

fun raid though. but i yelled 'oh fuck off' at my screen when famfrit cast the spell "Tide Pod".

No i am not joking.

Is it worth it resubbing yet? I let mine ran out the month Omega 1-4 came out

>>14832958

finally

>>14833825

Yeah the 'go around wineport and costa del sol' thing was like a mini flashback to the pre titan ARR shit. Raids kind of worth it as long as you dont get giga shitters.

dubs for shitty generic mmo with gay auto attack +macro combat

>>14832828

Enjoy playing with shitters faggot. Anyone with half a brain cell has long since left that shitty stale game.

>>14833923

>>14834213

Not the same ape jumping IPs at all

Did they ever add any details to the character screen tooltips, ie. crit %, skill/spell speed %?

for real though i would come back if thy added viera as playable characters.

>>14834569

>coming back for lazy fanservice that immediately shuts off all other potential fanservice

>not coming back in the event they make some decent changes to the gameplay

Top pleb.

>>14834995

>he thinks they aren't just teasing this for the next expac

BAELSAR LIVES

>>14831876

>Raise some slut 8 times

>Followed me around for 20 minutes and kept trying to give me free shit

>Gives me 4 million gil

>Give her a byakko minion to fuck off

god bless noname twitch sluts

Any of you faggots set up a cross world linkshell yet?

Be nice to have people to sit in Eureka with than the usual autists yelling daily.

>>14835464

You online and on primal? I can put up a PF to get you in.

>>14835491

I'm on Balmung.

>>14835635

RIP. I know there's some fags on gilgamesh and adamantoise, they might come around eventually.

>>14835642

PF is crossworld, so can still enter Eureka and shit no matter. Right?

>>14835653

That's correct, anything thru duty finder.

>>14835659

Least got that right.

Want to do Eureka anon?

>>14835727

Cross-server doesn't mean cross-datacentre, and I'm on a different datacentre

Sorry, anon

>>14834651

how does adding bunny girls shut off any other fanservice?

>>14835312

wot

>>14835508

Unless they have shapely bottoms and heels theres no point in adding them when you can just wear a bunny headband

>>14835508

i think they already said if viera are added the males will be super feminine shotas.

so it will be potatos 2.0.

>>14839659

Now that's some valid criticism I can work with. seriously this is good discussion fodder, so good on you anon

So ARR is shit because 1.0 was shit, and they somehow had to make a new game while also running the old game but not throwing away all of the old shit because players were invested in it even though it was total shit. Literally the first 40 levels in ARR is wrapping up crap from 1.0, and some of the 1.0 stuff doesn't even get wrapped up until Stormblood looking at you ALC questline, but to be fair they did a good job of it there. As someone who played 1.0 and got tired of that bullshit about 2 months into release, ARR was a breath of fresh air, and relatively speaking, things progressed at a much more lively pace. That should give you an idea of how bad 1.0 was, but it doesn't excuse the pacing in ARR. Just provides context for it. ARR was leaps better than 1.0, but compared to 3.0 and 4.0, playing ARR is like watching a video of an accomplished actor as a teenager in drama club. Said actor was probably head and shoulders above his peers, but looking back, you realize just how much he has grown since then.

As for Heavensward, yeah, the "she got assassinated but not really" kinda peeved a lot of people off, but they sorta made it work if you ignore the fact that all of this big change all of a sudden actually wasn't. Which was jarring. Raubahn slicing potato was top tier, as was imo the betrayal of the Crystal Braves, even if you could see it coming a mile away. You still didn't know exactly what Ilberd was planning until shortly before everything went to shit, but as far as his motivations go, it was never about being for hire by Lolorito; Ilberd saw a chance to take back Ala Mhigo, and he took it. Working for Lolorito just got him some dosh and access to connections he wouldn't have otherwise had. Maintaining access to those supplies for as long as possible are what enabled him to set things up at Baelsar's Wall and ultimately summon Shinryu.

>Knights of the Round

I think they don't mention it as a form of non-spoiler. I'm not 100% sure that "Knights of the Round" means the same thing in nip that it does to the English speaking audience. It may be more of a reference to the Knights of the Roundtable than anything, but I can't say for sure.

>localization memes

Yeah, we get a lot of those. I admit I chuckled at Tide Pod since it's an attack designed to hurt what is likely to be the most responsible, mature member of the group, so I found the irony entertaining. While sometimes the "le ebin" memeing gets annoying, they also have a knack for referencing some truly obscure shit from the various FF series.

>Raid storylines

I don't think they were that bad. I rather enjoyed the Void Ark series, and I'm liking the new Ivalice stuff. CT was meh for me, but Void Ark etc. did a good job of wrapping up some loose ends regarding the War of the Magi that happened during the 6th age. The guy who wrote the original Tactics story is the one in charge of writing the current Ivalice storyline as well, and while it doesn't have quite the same grandiosity to it, I won't make my final judgment until I have seen the whole thing play out. It's looking to shape up into something pretty great if you can ignore Ramza being a cunty fucker but even then I think he's not himself and is being influenced by the Duma or Otius somehow.

>>14841182

designed to hurt what is likely to be the most responsible, mature member of the group

No. If the healer's taking it, something has gone horribly wrong.

>>14839659

>This makes me believe that all the memes like this and the names for quests are the result of (((localisation)))

One of the localization members went on about how Kojifox is an unfunny fuck nobody likes, but has to tolerate. Worth noting is that Banri Oda, the dude in charge of lore, pushed for Koji to get a demotion because of all the headcanon bullshit and misinformation he spreads, on top of his incessant use of stale memes.

>>14832234

Damn, that faggot Asahi is brutal.

>>14841182

>So ARR is shit because 1.0 was shit, and they somehow had to make a new game while also running the old game but not throwing away all of the old shit because players were invested in it even though it was total shit. Literally the first 40 levels in ARR is wrapping up crap from 1.0

Oh no I know that. It's very obvious they were scrambling to generate a playable storyline after the 1.0 fiasco. That's understandable. Unlike their story which is hot garbage. All the Scions making pointless noble sacrifices, but not really, being one of the biggest offenders. I was so glad Alisaie said to Lyse "I wasn't making a last stand. Who does that?"

> You still didn't know exactly what Ilberd was planning until shortly before everything went to shit, but as far as his motivations go, it was never about being for hire by Lolorito; Ilberd saw a chance to take back Ala Mhigo, and he took it. Working for Lolorito just got him some dosh and access to connections he wouldn't have otherwise had. Maintaining access to those supplies for as long as possible are what enabled him to set things up at Baelsar's Wall and ultimately summon Shinryu.

I meant specifically the early HW quests where you rescue Raubahn from him. His ties to Lolorito were officially cut by then IIRC. Him working for Lolorito to begin with is perfectly understandable.

>I think they don't mention it as a form of non-spoiler. I'm not 100% sure that "Knights of the Round" means the same thing in nip that it does to the English speaking audience. It may be more of a reference to the Knights of the Roundtable than anything, but I can't say for sure.

Anon, they're saying the name in engrish, not nip. Was the summon ever known as anything else other than Knights of the Round? According to the wiki the names are

<Knights of the Round, also known as Knights of Round (ナイツオブラウンド, Naitsu obu Raundo

As a non-spoiler I might give you, but that's not the translator's job. If the original script called them Knights of the Round by name then it should remain that way for better or worse.

>they also have a knack for referencing some truly obscure shit from the various FF series.

That stuff is alright.

Void Ark was pretty meh for me. CT the only person I liked was Nero. I haven't given Ivalice a fair shake to be fair.

What pissed me off about CT was everyone's immediate reaction of "This thing powered an entire technologically advanced situation during its golden age, but it might be misused eventually? Lets seal it forever." Nevermind that its normal state wasn't misused, but creating an entire fucking moon, that is now gone, and channeling even more power with that is what caused the Umbral Era. Then we get a flavor of the week character who learns how to use the tower lock himself inside and go to sleep until we know how to use the tower. WAHT. Then low and behold we need a fuckton of power for something in the MSQ, can't remember what and I think "Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we had a place that had a fuckton of power we could get that from. To be fair the MSQ actually handled that well, but it still bugged me.

>>14841329

It's so satisfying when you do pull off that last move and get out of the aoe though. It's like beating god, which is what these games are all about.

>>14841235

Thank you for confirming my hunch anon. I take it he didn't actually get demoted?

>>14838544

Shadowhunter is Baelsar.

>>14831628

>Levelling made better

They remade the entire game?

>>14842200

nani?

>>14842229

He's wielding Heirsbane, uses the same phrases, despises Ascians, and has the mask.

friendly reminder FFXIV is as bad as WoW, if not worse, with clunky and slow combat of 2.5 GCD and people who play it are anime avatar faggots on steam who want to RP as cats

>>14843272

You can unlock every class on a single character after getting to level 15. You get an XP buff for leveling a class that's a lower level than your highest level class. Your starting class determines which city you end up in, but other than that, it wont effect much. Rogue can't be picked initially, but you can unlock it in Limsa.

>>14843272

Classes are the usual fair of tank dps healer with a single sort of hybrid dps healer with red mage. Past that they each have their own unique elements, like black mage running off a system of bouncing between spending all their mp and restoring it. One thing unique to melee dps is positioning in relation to the direction the target is facing, for example ninja's main combo finisher deals more damage from the back, yet it's upkeep combo finisher deals it's damage from the side of the enemy. The amount of positionals varies by class, with monk having the most and samurai having the least. Ranged classes largely use cast bars in some fashion with non magical ranged dps being able to toggle abilities requiring a cast time on and off when mobility or dps is more important.

>>14843382

>ranged dps being able to toggle abilities requiring a cast time on and off when mobility or dps is more important.

>he didnt play brd/mch since SB came out

>>14843340

>>14843272

Also the free trial has no duration but the max level is capped at 35.

Most of the classes start off really basic without many skills and it takes awhile for them to really get going. The combat does feel very slow to start, but later on the gcd becomes a lot lower for some classes, and you have to weave off gcd abilities between your skills. Also the class quests give skills and are required for unlocking the jobs later on.

>>14843412

No I haven't, sue me if I'm wrong.

>>14843426

ranged phys has no cast times anymore, bard songs are their own unique mechanics proccing ala bloodletter procs and give 2% crit rate with 100% uptime to party

Mch has an heat management system that changes basic combos depending on heat level and has to be regulated for when they overheat they benefit from the damage buff for wildfire.

You will hear from my lawyers.

>Tsukuyomi ex farming

>NIN opens up with trick or something

>SAM without diversion

what the fuck

>>14843382

>hybrid dps healer with red mage

Having a heal and raise make it as much of a healer as a Paladin. RDM spamming raise is good for learning but after you're past that then why would you bother, just ask "Did I join a learning party?"

>2.5 GCD

No thanks.

>>14844524

It's aggravatingly slow for far too long, but by the end you're generally weaving things not on the GCD in between actions.

>>14843382

>>14844499

I main RDM right now, because SMN was too slow when I hit 50. I will heal and raise spam as needed, which has saved some runs, but if everyone is doing their job then I shouldn't have to. I agree, in short.

>>14843272

You can actually change classes as soon as you hit level 10, but you won't have access to the other cities, and therefore the other classes until 15.

Once unlocked, actually changing classes is as simple as equipping a different weapon. Which can be done anytime outside of combat and dungeons.

>>14842902

It's a bit hazy, but I think the CB had gone rogue from Lolorito at that point, or were about too. Raubahn needed rescuing because he's fucking Raubahn, and his voice carried weight once the lies of TA and Lolorito had been exposed.

That's what I'm saying though. How did keeping Raubahn prisoner after being cut off from Lolorito's coin give any sort of advantage? He wasn't ransoming him, but set on executing him and us all the same.

>Of course Lolorito gained clemency by virtue of his decision to abandon his plan

What was his plan though? To keep the Crystal Braves in his pocket? What I gathered from his explanation is that he caught wind of TA's plan, and his only hope of stopping him was to go along with it. Which doesn't explain why he didn't drop all pretense of it once TA was dead and decided to witch hunt the scions anyways.

>Your greentext headcanon

That is a cogent sequence of events, but Lolorito said upheavals like that are bad for business and he likes the status quo. It could very well be lipservice, but I'm inclined to believe it.

No, given how they painted him at the end of 2.0, particularly with his ominous appearance in the HW trailer, I think it's very clear they had big plans to make him a bad guy in HW, but had a change of heart in the interim.

holy shit what the fuck are these red chocobos

>>14844524

>>14845437

at endgame and playing competently, you'll end up around 40-50 actions per minute for dps jobs and 30-40 as healers and tanks (with tanks on the upper end and healers lower)

>>14835754

The minute Square adds Viera, no one will ever think to pressure them for more races like Bangaa. Right now, the combined numbers of the people who want new races and the 'people' who only care about Viera are making the same demands. Once Vieras are in, Vierafags will never ask for anything else and the remainder won't make enough noise to get Square to pretend to give a fuck about their game.

>>14847858

They have already made their stance on fanservice clear, when they introduced an entire raid set made of nothing but nostalgia-pandering

>>14848404

To he fair, the omegascape fights are pretty cool and impressive, even removing their ties to the older games.

>>14848878

having read and learned smn from that guide (or a variant maybe) I can say that it makes the looping phase rotation look more complicated than it is. smn only gets complex when you start really pushing the movement optimizations and multiple targets since otherwise, you do the exact same rotation without variation for every fight.

i only played smn in deltascape so i can't speak for current ones

>>14851709

The catfish fear the doman.

I have an urge to come back to this game, what's the easiest to decently execute job right now? Currently a ninja.

>>14852619

Warrior, Dark Knight, and Paladin all have the lowest skill floors and ceilings in terms of mechanical complexity, but if tanking turns you off I'd say Red Mage is the easiest to play well out of the damage dealer jobs.

>>14852890

>being a tank is easier than DPS

Kay friend

>>14854572

>sit in place all raid looking at the aggro bar and doing half the mechanics everyone else does

>not the easiest role

>>14852619

SAM is very easy to pick up, starts at lvl 50 and the main rotation is quite easy to get a grip of however the skill ceiling remains quite high when you enter the realm of kenki and uptime optimisaiton, giving you top dps even in endgame raids.

>>14854572

Tanks barely have to worry about enmity. Cooldowns are plentiful enough that Tanks will always have one available for tankbusters. And Tank DPS is the simplest shit in the game.

Being a tank is the easiest thing to be in this game. Even crafting is more complicated than being a tank.

>>14855541

tanks and healers have a higher burden and larger responsibility though since a failure of either of their main tasks can have a large impact on the pull, where a dps or two dying does nothing aside from making the fight longer and messing with mechanics that assume all players are alive.

also, difficulty can mean different things when comparing jobs because, like you said, performing the main tank duties is laughably easy, but optimizing on tanks is harder than on dps since you need a level of coordination with the co-tank and healers that far exceeds what dps have to do. same for healers.

>>14852890

>>14854667

>tanks are easiest

Maybe in terms of doing combos, but in terms of actually playing the game/doing a fight, if you fuck up as a tank, you wipe. This means you need to A.) spend a lot of time learning the fight by actually doing it, so you know the timings of things and when to use cooldowns, and B.) you need to perform this all flawlessly each time because if you fuck just one thing up, the chances of the entire raid wiping go up drastically. If a DPS fucks something up in most cases it's just them that suffer. SE has been good about adding meaningful mechanics that force DPS to actually pay attention to something else other than "muh deeps" and requires them to have situational awareness beyond what side of the boss's ass they are looking at. So I can understand why a DPS might, on the surface, consider tanking to be easy due to the relatively simplistic GCD usage involved in tanking, but that's only because DPS have traditionally been able to get away with a great deal of tunnel visioning when it comes to performing their role. Outside of the unavoidable mechanics everyone has to deal with, it was really only in the toppest-tier content that a DPS had to really participate in the fight besides being a numbers monkey.

Here's hoping SE continues this trend of making DPS actually think about what's going on in the fight.

>>14855865

>performing the main tank duties is laughably easy

I'll add "with practice" to that. Running blind in a fight for the first time which is how everyone should do it for the first week or two a fight is out you don't know what is what. Is that casted skill a tank buster or a raid wide aoe? Is it a boss buff? Maybe an add summon? Sometimes this is obvious based on the name, and sometimes it's not. Sometimes you get shit like in O6s where the tank buster and the raid aoe have the same first word in the name so it's easy to confuse the two during the more hectic moments of the fight until you have had ample practice to know which is which. But you won't know until you experience it. Thus, the initial learning of the fight is hardest on the tanks and the healers because they are the ones who incrementally push the fight forward into unknown territory. A boss fight in this game is won first on the backs of the tanks and healers optimizing cooldown and skill usage in order to deal with incoming damage and mechanics. Once that is mastered, the "treadmill" of DPS optimization occurs, as the DPS learn exactly how far they can push their abilities during various phases and other little tricks to optimize their damage uptime on the boss.

But the heaviest lifting is done by the tanks and healers early on. They are the ones that grind themselves against the unknown in an effort to find a pattern of skill usage that works for the fight.

>>14854667

>sit in place

You just got kicked from every dungeon in every MMO past half max level.

>>14856670

you can camp tank stance the entire fight until you know it, similarly with healers you can go light on the dps until you know how much you'll need to be healing.

>>14858842

https://bestinslot.co/ffxiv-how-to-unlock-namazu-beast-tribe-quest/

What should I do with this constantly overflowing pile of poetic tomes?

>>14858805

>>14856670

>>14854667

>>14854667

>>14854572

>>14852890

>Job I don't play is easy

>Job I play is hard

Holy fucking shit we're witnessing GAMEPLAY MASTERS having a HIGH LEVEL DISCUSSION. Please explain to us how doing the bare minimum (sitting in tank stance for tanks and dodging circles as a dps) to see the entire fight during a blind run takes both lots of skill and none at all at the same time.

Just because both jobs are designed to be played by daca anchor babies, which make up most of all mmos' playerbase, doesn't mean the jobs are easy to master. Sure, a malnourished chinese prisoner can get through a MSQ dungeon after playing it for 30 minutes; good luck having a group of up to 8 almost literal subhumans go through the Auschwitz field trip without being carried.

4 DPS have to know how to press their buttons and what they can get away with without dying. Some classes have skills they have to use in order to make the party deal more damage

2 Tanks have to mitigate damage, do their high impact combos and do gay shit with the boss such as making it face a certain direction

2 healers have to watch their fellow high school dropouts' hp bars while they use stone IV

It all sounds easy until you realize everyone involved has an IQ of 90 and a higher estrogen density than a bottle of soylent. If you happen to get actual people playing the game the results can be great such as finishing the fight without wiping because there wasn't some mouthbreathing tank that can't fuction without cactbot wanted to parse better but instead died to an auto and caused the other tank with tunnel vision to eat a tank buster without mitigation.

>>14858842

We have one on primal. I can put up a PF if you're interested.

>>14859619

nigger did you even read my other posts about tank and healer difficulty in comparison to dps

>>14859560

Either buy topsoil and learn to farm if you've got a house, or just start buying 50/60 gear for any other classes you are thinking of levelling.

Poetics are not very useful outside of those two.

Unbending steel sounds fucking awful in the primals album

Goddamn Tsukuyomi is a really fun fight

>>14859638

Shiet, I'm on Chaos. Time to make one then. Hmu if anyone wants in.

How should I spend mendacity tomes? I have 900, and thought about saving for the weapon.

>>14865532

forget the i360 weapon, go grind some of the new primal, she drops i365 ones. Instead save your mendacity to buy gear closer to the stats you want for your class. Look up what are the BiS or desired stats and work toward that.

>>14865532

>weapon

The tome weapon is meh now. As that other anon said, the new primal weapon is better. If you have something like a Susano weapon right now, go for Byakko first ten kills at most to get a weapon and then move up to Tsukuyomi. Neither fight is particularly difficult once you understand the patterns and tells.

>>14865532

Remember, you need 7 crystaloids from Sigma 4.0 which you're time-gated to one per week. Over 7 weeks you can acquire 3150 tomes of Mendacity so don't be afraid to buy other upgrades. Not to mention, as the other anons pointed out, Tsukuyomi's weapons are slightly better and not time-gated.

>>14869060

You need to be 350 to do Tsukuyomi EX anyways. Which you will reach by spending the tomes, getting gear from Ridorana, and maybe some Sigmascape/ Swallow's Compass grind. That's all I've done and I'm 349 right now. Just need the weekly reset to get an upgrade from Ridorana and I'm set.

>>14869206

Dragons are basically just overgrown cats anyway.

>>14869399

Just hop in, ask for a carry and ride the train until lvl 10 when your contribution start to matter. They also added challenges to do solo that are a shitton of elemental xp if you're hurried. Else just sit back, watch some anime and attack the Notorious Monster when it spawns.

god, i hope they add the mysterious blitzball shit that they've been mentioning for years now. i hope it's the sports management/pokemon-style shit that they've mentioned. i didn't realize how badly i needed a team management simulator for an imaginary sport until they mentioned it as a possibility, and now honestly every time i boot up ffxiv it's all i think about. please let it be that and not some real-time shitty blitzball pvp thing like TOR's huttball or something

Hit 70 and did the DRK quest and man thats easily my favourite job quest in the game

>Track down missing kid with a strange power to summon souls out of darkness

>Seems he's gone mad and summons gaius' generals, the griffon, the temple knights and warriors of darkness to fight you all at once

>But you are backed up by Fray, both the dead DRK whos body you found in 3.0 when you picked up the job and your own darkside who is held back by your conscience to team up

>After a really fun movement heavy fight it turns out as fray is your darkside brought out by the soulstone this child is your empathy, sorrow and fear. Calming him the both return to the soulstone and the conflict inside you ends, your character looking peaceful and calm

>You return to Ishgard where the whole DRK story began, Sigurdu drops the edgelord act and calls you a true friend and you go for a walk

>At the Last Vigil you run into Count Fortempts who asks how you are doing and talks about your adventures but chokes up a little saying you are like a child to him even if he knows you cannot stay but are welcome to.

>Then your character visibly chokes up a little too, obviously thinking of you know who

>"As long as we keep him in our thoughts, Hauchefant will never be forgotten"

>"Our Promise: Quest complete"

What a good goddamn job quest. Also a love letter to Heavensward as a whole, both its themes and DRK as the flagship job for it. Ending where it began in Ishgard as the slow version of dragonsong players and you get a heart to heart with Fortempts was a really nice, memorable moment and its fucking rare when mmo quests do this nowadays. Shame all the other job quests bar maybe going to weeping city as RDM were so lackluster this expansion out of the ones i've done. This one i totally recommend checking out.

How the fuck do I do this Eureka bullshit solo? No one gives a shit about partying with a fag fresh off the boat, and getting a 30 chain alone with these autismal mobs with huge hp is a nightmare

>>14876610

do primal extremes for a better weapon.

then do ridorana raid and have some other cunt take the gear you need despite him not even being the right class for it.

Speaking of which.

>>14874152

IT HAPPENED A SECOND FUCKING TIME

I am very booty bothered.

>>14876610

At 320 you can run Rabanastre and Deltascape for easy upgrades and use creation tomes for your 330 weapon that upgrades to 340 with a coin from Rab. Of course you can also get upgrades while farming tomes from places like Hell's Lid and Fractal (Hard) and maybe some of the other dungeons. Once you do get up a little bit at 325 you can run Sigmascape and get 350 gear. At 330 you can run Swallow's compass for 345 gear to help out. If you're really desperate you can buy crafted 350s on the MB, but I wouldn't suggest it.

I'm ilvl 353 right now just from doing these very basic things.

>>14876641

As this anon says, you can run Primal EX for gud gear as well. Which at 320 you can do up to Shinryu EX. I have yet to run any of these though. Probably should soon.

>>14876610

Raids:

Deltascape (Normal)

Minimum item level: 295

Drops item level 320 left/right side (tokens)

The Royal City of Rabanastre

Minimum item level: 305

Drops item level 330 left side and upgrade piece for creation/mendacity gear

Sigmascape (Normal)

Minimum item level: 325

Drops item level 350 left/right side (tokens)

The Ridorana Lighthouse

Minimum item level: 335

Drops item level 360 left side and upgrade piece for mendacity gear (both currently limited to one drop per week)

Trials:

The Minstrel's Ballad: [SB Spoilers]Shinryu's Domain

Minimum item level: 320 (Bypassed via preform/pf!)

Drops item level 335 weapons and tokens which can be exchanged for weapons

The Jade Stoa (Extreme)

Minimum item level: 340 (Bypassed via preform/pf!)

Drops item level 355 weapons and tokens which can be exchanged for weapons

The Minstrel's Ballad: [4.3 Spoilers]Tsukuyomi's pain

Minimum item level: 350

Drops item level 365 weapons and tokens which can be exchanged for weapons

If you attempt any of the trials at below the minimum item level, pick up some Vitality Materia VI and throw them in your accessories

Recommended order would be to grind out some Sigmascape gear, then grab your one piece of lighthouse gear and jump into the 4.3 trial in party finder. If you know what you're doing, being a few item levels too low won't be a significant problem.

>>14876704

forgot to put in that the item level for the 4.3 trial is bypassed via preform/pf, same as any other content.

>>14876610

>Guys how do I gear up right now?

erp as a woman

>>14861228

Yes. All jobs have a low skill floor because they feature rotations that a retard can just macro cast in order to get through a boss fight and nobody would be the wiser without using a parser or looking at their casts.

Then you've got the autistic fine tuning where absolutely everyone focuses on getting the most of their party in order to clear a really hard fight in half the time after using 5 LB3s within 6 minutes due to shields or they perform well enough to have both healers output 8k total dps due to the fact that the DPS aren't complete fucking idiots dying to dumb shit.

>>14876103

>level solo until Lv 6

>join fate trains

Bonus points if you're a healer since your healing doesn't get scaled down.

>>14877203

>playing pld on Rido

>not just spam The Blackest Night on your healer/you all the time for free bloodspillers and comms

DPS can only die if they're bad, let them

Any creation tome item that's worth selling without needing to craft?

>>14881626

Nothing beats the snore-fest that is the WHM questline altogether. Nothing but tree-hugging and gay ass shit wholesale non-stop

Ded game

Rehashed music

I actually like the game but the lackluster omega 1-4 fights and cash shop was too much for me. Is the Tsuyomi fight music okay? The second lord fight with the tiger man had real lame music compared to HW's ost was a real disappointment as a music fag and fuck playing with NA/EU mouthbreathers.

>>14886046

>didn't enjoy tigerman's deep bass

Opinion discarded

>>14886184

It was okay, not terrible but at least it was orginal. Sephrot was almost as bad due to FF music rehashing but his second phase knocked it out of the park. Tiger man's second phase music should have been the first phase and the second part should have had an high energy remix of the first phase at the very least. SB feels phoned in as fuck for many reasons. I heard omega 7 and 8 are alright but all I hear is reused dissidia themes.

>>14886207

Try this one then, I personally found this perfect because it fit the vibe of the entire fight majestically

>>14886215

Shit, soken found his talent! I wonder if this is going to be a mirror of HW and we get the good music at the tail end of the expansion rather than at the beginning. I would resub if it wasn't for the population of the na/eu servers. If I decide to come back I'll be moving to the jp servers. Not like it will be hard to progress thanks to easy fights and the duty finder.

>>14886281

I've actually found every DPS class to be more engaging to play than any of the classes in Legion. This is mostly due to better design, but also since oGCD weaving is such a fundamental skill in increasing DPS, the button mashing is not too much slower than WoW. Besides, mashing buttons in and of itself isn't necessarily engaging.

That this game is a wow clone and that combat as a whole isn't very hard I won't challenge, I don't think anyone would challenge.

>>14886367

dps optimization, especially on a fight to fight basis is leagues ahead of the current state of wow classes

>>14886373

>that face

How did you get a screenshot of injustice 3's final boss, emperor joker? :^)

>>14886046

>He didn't like the "NO MORE GAYS" tiger

TIME TO END THE WAR

>>14886373

>>14886417

My god, it's a fusion of Asura's Wrath, FF Angelic form shit, and Joker.

>>14845437

Never trust the CGI trailers in this game.

You recall the old 1.0 trailer? With them in the tavern? That was set in Limsa Lominsa despite Limsa not looking anything like that.

Because work on that trailer began long before the rest of the game, so no story details were finalised and neither was the art direction for various city states. To make the Limsa tavern in that trailer they used some of the original concept art for Limsa Lominsa.

I suspect the Heavensward trailer is much the same as we see it putting forward a series of events that don't match up.

It doesn't really show the banquet in Ul'Dah and how you enter Ishgard doesn't match up either (though woulda made a good boss fight)

Taledji despite being a key player in the plot doesn't show up at all.

So I suspect that much like the 1.0 trailer it was made when there was minimal information available. Or at least it was started then. Perhaps even an old script for the beginning of HW.

With Stormblood they moved away from a story trailer to a showcase/spectacle trailer. Which makes sense as these kind of high grade CGI cinematics take a lot of time to make and you have to start long before the work they're representing is properly entering development.

Can anyone explain why Impact is its own button and not A) a buff that increases the damage of your next Jolt II or B) a button that replaces Jolt II like SMN's Ruin proc?

>>14889670

You can also ask this of the other red mage proc spells

>>14888794

You should have also mentioned the class differences between the WoL (which I find ill-fitting), the primals bursting out the Imperial warship Midgardsormr died cracking like some Shikon Jewel shard level anime shit, or even the Echo showing future events (which they've been smart enough to avoid).

However I think the fact that early concepts made it into these trailers reinforces my point that Lolorito was meant to play a larger role, then changes were made to the writing staff (or maybe they had a change of heart I dunno) so that aspect of the story got back-peddled and retconned. Something I am thankful for in the end.

>how you enter Ishgard doesn't match up either

I was originally going to respond that you just walk in with Alphinaud and Tataru, then my autism fixed itself to remember you were talking about the dragon attack on the bridge. Which would have been great since The Steps of Faith was just before this and seeing yet another dragon attack would have really sold the conflict of the expac well.

>>14889670

Jolt 2 and Impact really should have been just like Scatter/ Enhanced Scatter since I cannot conceive of ever wanting to cast Jolt 2 over Impact. The elemental spells at least has some use being separate. I've read you never want to lose an Impact proc, and while you should be managing your procs well, chances are you may still end up with all 3 at once, in that case I suppose it would be favorable to dualcast Impact and Thunder/ Aero for slightly more mana and potency.

However you can accomplish B with macros that work about 9/10 times.

/micon verfire

/macroerror off

/ac verfire <t>

/ac verthunder <t>

Is a basic macro that will display the button as Verfire so you know when it procs and will cast it rather than Verthunder when it does. On paper. In practice it gets mixed up every once in a while, or maybe I'm pressing the button too soon, and you will cast Verthunder instead of Verfire even when it's proc'd. I'm a lazy shit though and find them usable enough. The same macro can be applied to Jolt and Impact; Jolt specifically rather than 2 so the button still works when level synced.

having my EB tomorrow, i cannot even remember how i got this far lads

>>14890192

That's probably true 99.9% of the time. I can't imagine a situation when it wouldn't be, but I'm sure it exists. It'd make more sense if the RDM melee combo worked that way but then you get into weird territory where you'd have to ask why other melee combos don't do that.

>>14890515

>Jolt 2 and Impact really should have been just like Scatter/ Enhanced Scatter

Exactly. I'd keep them as two separate things because two different animations, but there's no reason they can't share a slot. I'm not even sure they have different animations, I play on a toaster with the effects turned almost all the way off. It just boggles my mind that Square adds QoL tech changes in one place and one place exactly and doesn't extrapolate them into other logical places. This combined with their reluctance to add anything meaningful to status tooltips just reinforces the fact that they don't want their game to be too game-y and they'd rather preserve it as a vehicle for cutscenes and cash shops.

>>14890515

>>14891627

>>14890989

for the love of god, don't ever macro weaponskills/spells. there's no input queuing for macros so you can't quite ride your gcd using them.

>>14891663

Correct. Macroing combos is absolute bottom feeder shitter-tier for that reason and then some. I use the "standard" RDM spell macros and then some for 0GCDs that are usually used concurrently, but even then I acknowledge I'm a shitter for doing so since it's convenient, but somewhat restrictive, and the DPS loss on the rare occasion when they screw up could be avoided entirely. However I'm not really inclined to change it since the vast majority of the game is easy enough that it doesn't matter.

>>14891627

>direct hit

It used to be called "accuracy" and it was a stat without use once you had enough of it, but if you didn't have enough of it then it was a top priority stat, above everything else, even your primary stat to the point where using a lower ilvl item that allowed you to reach the accuracy threshold needed was preferable to using a higher ilvl item if it meant going under accuracy threshold for your class and it couldn't be made up via melds.

It was a horrible stat, as it didn't provide you any "benefit." Instead, it just brought you up to "normal" since it guaranteed a 100% hit rate instead having a 5-20% chance to miss based on your position relative to the facing of the boss. Also, you can just mouse over the stats on your character attribute screen for an explanation of what they do. It clearly states what each stat does, such as crit increasing both your rate of critical hits and the damage they deal, or spell speed lowering both the cast time of skills and your global recast timer aka GCD.

>>14892484

>It used to be called "accuracy"

You needn't have said anymore. That's the single worst stat in any RPG. I used to play Maple Story when I was a kid and it was especially egregious there.

>It clearly states what each stat does

Except it doesn't. Sure there's a clear difference between the definitions of Crit and Dhit, but that difference is never expounded upon. It does not state that Dhit is a static 25% damage increase.

To be fair I could have ruminated on it a bit longer and reasoned it out, but the main point I was getting at was what >>14890989 said about the tool tips not being very meaningful. I just mentioned my problem with Dhit's tooltip as another symptom of the problem.

>>14892484

>Also, you can just mouse over the stats on your character attribute screen for an explanation of what they do.

Why can't I mouse over the stats and see actual percentages like every other game?

>>14893191

Ah, I see what you mean, my bad. I think the general fog surrounding tooltips that this anon >>14893215 mentions is a symptom of Square being Square. Back in FF11 they had the same issue, and it seems as if Square, even back when they were Squaresoft, has always been allergic to providing concrete details like Blizzard typically does with it's games. I don't know exactly why this is, but I think it's to avoid or at least make it more difficult to do the min/maxing that often comes from knowing exact values. Even getting the aforementioned accuracy values was something that took a lot of time and data points from the player community to figure out what the new accuracy cap for each new raid tier was. Then I think SE finally came out and said "these are the accuracy modifiers for each class and position on a boss" sometime in late ARR or early HW.

But anyway, it's kind of annoying to Western audiences because - for the most part - we like to know that X is better or worse than Y and then understand why exactly this is happening via knowing what's going on under the hood. This of course leads naturally to min/maxed builds where you get a huge amount of build homogeneity, which is something SE works hard to try and avoid. For the most part, I think they're relatively successful in the sense that most classes tend to have a "best" secondary stat, but beyond that you flavor your builds to personal taste. There aren't many builds that are outright better than their counterparts. You can make a strong argument for Bard or Monk wanting to stack as much crit as possible, but after that you can build a few different ways. I've seen some BRD's go for DH over SkS or Det while others swear by Crit+SkS due to an increased number of regular attacks and lowered GCD. Tanks are another good example, as you can still find a lot of discussion over secondary stats and whether you should go all-in like with stacking Tenacity, or if a mix of crit/SkS or crit/DH or Crit/Det/SkS is better, with most of the answers coming down to "it depends on your raid comp and how the class feels."

Still, it's annoying for someone who doesn't keep up with all that stuff. On the one hand I'm glad they keep things kind of vague, cause I hated the "do this or you suck" all-or-nothing style from back in the WoW days, but on the other it also makes understanding of how these stats work a lot harder to infer. This of course has it's own benefit, since a good player will usually take the time to ask questions while a shitter will just copy the "best" build and never take the time to learn any nuance.

>>14893231

Tell us your story anon.

>>14893672

>For FF14 in particular I see it as focusing the player's attention on being able to do the mechanics well first before agonizing over stats.

Zero people working at Square have put that much thought into anything in this game. Doing gay shit to stats is a combination of incompetence, negligence, and actual malice since they don't want their game to get too game-y.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/dfb93023a188a0604ad684f20bb19765a606162b

Last chance to score an E3 ticket so you can personally call Yoshi a faggot

bump

Any of you apes tried Ultimate Ultima Ultimatum yet?

>>14845681

yeah i cant get past them

>Chaos Datacenter going to absolute shit network wise

That Ultima Weapon Ultimate bait and switch though, absolutely amazing.

>>14910405

>potato

instant garbage

>>14910439

>no glamour

damn, tasteless faggots are quick to post

>>14910458

just buy some vendor gear to supplement your ilvl unless you're 70, in which case do dungeons or get some crafted armour idiot brain.

>>14916660

It's probably Estinien. When he destroyed Nidhogg's eyes, Zenos's soul passed from them into him. He then sat dormant inside him until he realized his own body was being used by an Ascian.

>>14916701

I hadn't considered that. it's very possible.

Though, it would be really dumb, since estinien had already been possessed once by a final boss. Would make it sorta redundant

>>14865778

>Neither fight is particularly difficult once you understand the patterns and tells.

It is when you keep getting off tanks that don't know what the fuck shirk does for the tank swaps in Tsukuyomi.

>>14887255

Dude it's relic shit. You know the part of the game engineered to take as long as physically possible to keep you subbed? They are all like this.

>Titan extreme

>duty finder

>wipe

>wipe

>wipe

>wipe

>wipe

ill never finish this quest huh

>>14917915

You can solo it at level 70 with decent gear if you're a Paladin or Warrior.

>>14916716

I wouldn't put it past them. If there's anything SE loves to do more than anything else, it's rehash old plot developments. Estinien being controlled not once, but twice, by Nidhogg is itself a reference to Kain Highwind being controlled by Golbez in a similar manner. In the first instance, both were done through mental manipulation plying their flawed personalities (Estinien's survivor guilt and disdain for his mentor, and Kain's broken heart over Rosa choosing his best friend over him and his disdain for Cecil, that same friend). In the second instance, both were done against the wills of the controlled characters, with Nidhogg overwhelming Estinien's body and taking it for himself, whereas Kain struggled to resist Golbez's will before breaking and falling in line. Both also suggest that their friends kill them once they've regained control of themselves.

As for why I'm convinced that it really is Estinien, it's because SE repeated this plot development in FF4's sequel, The After Years. Kain Highwind inexplicably betrays the town of Mysidia and sides with the new antagonist in that game. It's suggested that he's once again being controlled, but in his own story he asserts that he's fully in control of himself. It's eventually revealed that Kain attempted Klu Ya's trial and failed it so miserably that his Darkside (ex: Fray in FF14) broke free and is pretending to be him and trying to fulfill his darkest desires (namely murdering his best friend to have Rosa for himself). This comes to a head in Baron Castle where Kain openly accepts that his Darkside is part of him, recombining with it and becoming a Holy Dragoon. So I fully suspect we'll be seeing something like that with Estinien and Zenos. But it's a pretty big stretch, I'll admit. But it's about as much a stretch as Zenos's soul binding with the body of a dead Elezen thousands of malms away when there's plenty of dead and live bodies to be had near Ala Mhigo.

>>14917915

Which ARR private server was this on?

>extreme primals

>duty finder

>not 4 lockouts in they already reverted the alliance greed only loot system

Turns out having dps need all the tank and healer gear and having to disband after the tanks and healers leave was a monumentally stupid idea.

Question is to be hotfixed this fast just how low did the participation numbers for alliance raids get?

>>14916701

>When he destroyed Nidhogg's eyes, Zenos's soul passed from them into him. He then sat dormant inside him until he realized his own body was being used by an Ascian.

Dude what.

>>14935409

It's what I'm expecting the twist to be.

>>14935812

>Lahabrea absorbed into the eyes of Nidhogg

>Eyes of Nidhogg used to summon Shinryu

>Zenos merges with Shinryu

>Zenos sudokus

>Elidibus jacks Zenos's body

>Zenos's soul, now merged with the aether of an ascian goes to the space between worlds

>Comes back and jacks an elezen's body

That's my theory.

Either him or Huarchefant or potentially a lookalike.

Either is possible. Estenien I feel would be the more hack-writing gambit, while Haurchefant would work a bit more from a dramatic standpoint, since it's implied Haurchie had the hots for the WoL, and so does Zenos I get the feeling its estinien though, since the game has had him trailing the WoL throughout the xpack.

Then again, an Ascian possessed zenos' corpse after he chopped his own bloody head off, so logic has been thoroughly discarded.

>raid roulette doesn't include anything from Coil

WHY THE FUCK?

>>14936271

Hauchie has been dead a long time though.

And the Ascian clearly had to put some effort and time into fixing Zenos's body.

I doubt they could do anythig with a frozen mouldy corpse that's been buried in Ishgard for years

>>14936271

>Haurche

One of the only good rewrites in history. No one likes fags in fiction.

>>14937998

That was Iegyorhim who died. Lahabrea was about to get it when Thordan showed up

The other eye was burried with Thordan I

The Eye Nidhogg had throughout Heavensward was Hraesvelgr's

>>14936423

coil wasn't separated into a story mode and actual raid mode like heavensward and onward

>>14941118

By default it's at a roughly "Savage" level too.

>>14931566

All communists should fucking hang, even the ironic ones.

Recently got ARC to 30 for the sole reason of being able to pluck away at the lute.

Comfyasfuck/10

Sucks that you technically cant play 3rd party songs, though that rule seems to be disregarded and poorly enforced these days.

BRD seems fun. Might level it to 70 after SCH