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Can't believe you'd quit the greatest MMO of all time =( - @Sylas - Warrior is one of the easiest classes in ff, but combat rotations for most classes are generally not challenging to do on a dummy at max level (they do get more interesting than at level 60 though, obviously). This places a...

I can’t believe you guys are trying to put him off reaching shadowbringers / savage raids. Don’t let them win, @Sylas !

I assume patches will be more like 19~ weeks now? 6.1 Apr 26th, ult May 10th? edit: just realised this has no context - it was re: yoshi in the live letter saying patches would move from 3.5 to 4 months.

Submarines are slow starters (literally 3 months+ and a LOT of crafting) but great gil - I have an fc set up on NA and another on EU, each has 4 submarines, each submarine is approx 100k gil per day returns. I will gil cap later this expansion and I haven't done for-profit crafting since stormblood.

I use legacy (and have beaten everything / got good parses etc) but I have some similarly experienced buddies who prefer standard, the game is slow enough that I think in general it does not matter - if dodges or mechanics feel tight it’s either because you’re early in prog or doing something...

Endwalker was just really garbage (spoiler'd just in case but the story is bad so you're fine to read this now with no real loss) - Also, have you done moogle beast tribe @Chris? It's not bad.

Shadowbringers (70-80) is genuinely well written / would play as a singleplayer story, heavensward (50-60) has the odd good bit (e.g., moogle beast tribe). The rest no, and endwalker was back to bad again after shadowbringers being pretty good.

I’m still on this shit, 2.5 coming this wed - I don’t know why I enjoy it so much - patches are like a week~ casual play and the next 5 weeks are 15m/day maintenance login. I haven’t pulled a character since the keqing banner last year but I think I’m finally gonna go in and c3r1 Raiden this...

I think one of the biggest flaws that is not apparent to new players is how damn repetitive the raid tiers are -- deltascape to current day and it's the same shit every fight / extremely predictable. Generally I think people enjoy FFXIV and not WoW because XIV has SOVL - you can go read blogs...

Stray thought - even though I thought Endwalker story was pretty dog, the hear… feel… think… resolution was really very good / cool. I still think about it from time to time 2 months (almost) later.

Have you done savage/ult/solo deep dungeons etc? There's definitely some satisfying gameplay at the end - I know a fair few people who skip all cutscenes and just raid.

50-60 is extremely optimistic for most classes imo - some are more like 80+ and the tutorial msq story ends at 90 extreme trials - everything before this will be trivial unless you go out of your way to try to do sync’d content or high floor deep dungeons. There’s a good game at the end though...

I’ll take the bait on this one - convince me to play WoW rather than FF14 with a talk about WoW’s strengths and FF14’s weaknesses.

Just finished up the tier - had a pretty fun one this time. Started with wife & a pld associate and a plan to hit pf, but the pld associate recruited some extra guys from his FC and we cleared 1/2s in the first few days. At this point the pld decided 3s was impossible to do wk1 with the people...

(Still enjoying the rest of the game though, wife and I bashed out p3s in pf wk1 and managed to reclear yesterday, gonna finish up the tier then go back and do the third nier raid we missed and maybe try some savage with me on healer).

EW msq was a big surprise for me - didn’t expect it to be dogshit.

We cleared in pf wk1 using the normal pf strat and it is fine - just make sure everyone hits fire to left as soon as second fireball has hit it (should be clockwise / obvious which is attackable?) In general if you’re in PF changing from known strats will give you 100% more grief than just...

Anyone wanna play Puzzle Strike in this blizzardless era?

Unlikely, when we start seeing hyper optimised runs the 2m buff window sch contributes to is likely to outweigh sage damage at high end (Not sure about .0 balance but this is how things have historically usually worked and SE doesn’t tend to change the formula).

The problem with finding a class that clicks is that most are really dog to play until like level 70-80~ (80+ in some cases -- the tank selfhealing at 80+ is a world of diff in dungeons for example), and it's hard to get to that point without boosting or playing the story for a long time. The...

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I have been playing FF since TERA went full p2w (4.5y~ ago) and I think the main reason it's so popular is because there's actually a pretty big demand for MMORPG games and everything else has just fucked it all up. WoW is trash compared to the old times, new world was a dumpster fire, gw2...

I think that this is pretty normal in all d&d 3e based stuff - things just don’t scale with power builds because the game has to be doable for normal builds. Unfair feels like a place they really could have tried to put in some more difficult stuff, but alas.

Ex trials are pretty chill after the initial “wtf” first hour or so - started zodiark on gnb Friday night and I’m bis now except for one last tome piece. Gonna see if I can push ast to 90 and clear on that in the next week~ or so. I play on primal at mostly European evening times if anyone else...

I really loved the original warhammer books - there was a Space Ork one called ‘ere we go, featuring a bunch of short stories about dok hacksaw and his gretchin, fuggit.

A bunch of people I know are just using some xivlauncher auto jump plugin bullshit, prob doesn’t help the queues a lot but convenient for yourself.

I think D3 had a really good release but after that I just... don't know what happened. I paid £30 (?) for it, beat it on inferno, then they released the RMAH and I sold all my gear for £200~. Then just... never really heard about the game again, no one even tried to convince me to go play...

Also with savage (4 weeks from now -- Jan 4th 2022).

Don't think there's much consensus yet (I heard a decent chunk of "not great so far"), but I'm also at 86 and it seems to be picking up a lot of steam now and I'm pretty interested in what happens next - thought a decent amount of the early bits weren't very good. Not if it's like sb/shb (and...

Oh, unrelated but I can’t get over how fucking fun this version of astrologian is, I thought SE was going too hard on simplifying generally but damn ast is fun / escaped the culling.

I’m only halfway through (third dungeon) but the writing is pretty far away from 5.0 levels of good - if it was a single player game I had just picked up I’d probably ditch. First trial was very weird to have as a first trial but I am enjoying the moon / sharlayan thread. Garlemald was alright...

On SHB release it got steadily better after the first day / this basically was the release. I understand the game is more popular now so not totally sure, but I hope / think it will be similar.

This could really turn it around for WoW.

This is some funny shit. The SoS clip at 16:20 makes it INSANELY OBVIOUS he faked blind prog on at least that boss, and from there the circumstantial stuff on other bosses looks pretty damming to me. e: If you haven't done SoS -- if you use dps LB while the boss is NOT casting he will HG and...

Haven’t touched the game much since last tier (I pretty much just login to collect Gil from submarines) but getting more excited for endwalker - figured I’d plug here if anyone knows of euros playing on Primal - lfg for endwalker: [Primal][LFG] Hello. We're looking for a euro timezone group (or...

I was really excited about this, tried it on release, and noped out pretty early - not sure how with 8 (?) years more tech they managed to make it clunkier than pso2.

Patches are 6 week cycles with 1-2 weeks decent casual content then a month of dailies. At high levels the dailies take 10m~ a day. I’m still really enjoying it (Inazuma is great) but anniversary rewards sucked.

This is not actually a coordination problem though, because (almost) all your bursts are 60s/120s cds, so if everyone is good you will naturally press them at the same time and gain more than if some people are bad and don't do that. (There's some small exceptions wrt holding 2 minutes for a...