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  1. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    First trial is awesome. Pretty challenging for a first trial, too. The dungeons have had a lot going on in them as well. So far it's all been fun, engaging content. (edit: except as pyros said, the "follow without being seen" crap) Looking forward to doing the dungeons with my buddies, they're...
  2. Valorath

    Wheel of Time

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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I’m on the fence about BLM or RDM. Played BLM since ARR so it’s my most comfortable job. But I’m trying to get my buddies to do extremes and savage when they come out. Leaning toward RDM so I can res on our progress stuff. Only played RDM in Palace, HOH, and Zadnor though. Not sure I’m as good...
  4. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I’m hopeful they’ve used the extra two weeks to ensure it will be playable. When SB launched there were a couple of solo duties early on that caused people to stall out. You had to talk to Raubahn to start the first, and Pippin to start the second. The instance servers got overloaded and people...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    When you buy endwalker you’ll get two codes. One for early access, one for endwalker cd key. You can go ahead and plug in the early access code at the mog station. Have to wait until later this weekend (I think) to apply the cd key. Edit: if you have your level 80 exp earring, then you already...
  6. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Early access starts on the third.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Shiiiiiiiit I’m 6/6/0 and I’ve spent a ton of time in there for my relics and my brother’s grind as well. I think I’ve only ever had the duel buff twice though, and once I wasted it in a Dalriada. Stupid Crystal data center.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I didn’t mind that step so much. I leveled one job to 80 and another about half way from 71-80 doing that step of the quest. I really like how you can use Zadnor to level other jobs while working on the resistance weapon(s). Think I only had to run a handful of raids to finish up the memories...
  9. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    DR has a mechanic where getting hit by any two mechanics within a minute will result in death. First time you get hit you get a debuff called twice comes ruin, second time you get hit you get doom and die. Lot less forgiving than CLL.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well, I hope it's not too late to change my PTO for expansion launch.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Level two or three jobs up as you do MSQ. Otherwise you’re “wasting” exp.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Create your own learning party and dust the haters off. Titania and Innocence are super easy now.
  13. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Honestly I’m just glad to see them enjoying the content. And also glad it’s been more of a challenge than they anticipated. I don’t think they had any clue how challenging ffxiv content could be. I will say, watching them struggle makes me a bit nervous for my static going into EW. We’ve never...
  14. Valorath

    The Video Thread

    The last rapid of the Upper Gauley is known as Fluffy Box of Kittens. It used to be named Guide's Revenge, because it's easy to dump the whole boat while staying in for the guide. Our guide took it easy on us, because of the dude with emphysema. Still almost got two of us, but Kevin (our guide)...
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    The Video Thread

    These are the videos from my white-water rafting trip this weekend. Some friends and I went to the Gauley River in West Virginia. We stayed at Ace Adventure Resort and did a reverse Gauley trip. You do the lower Gauley the first day and the upper the second day. Upper is quite a bit more intense...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Here's the video for the white-water rafting pictures I posted yesterday. Again, this is our run through Pillow Rock. The goal for us was to touch the rock with our paddle or hand. The guide had other plans, he was seeing how much of the front of the boat he could get up on the rock. I half-way...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Went to the Gauley river again this year. Our guide took a different strategy for Pillow Rock. Instead of skirting it and smacking it with paddles, he played “pillow game” and tried to get as much of the boat on the rock as he could, while we tried to smack it with our paddles. I’m back left...
  18. Valorath

    Wheel of Time series

    The one reread I did of this series I skipped anything that wasn’t dialogue or action.
  19. Valorath

    Survivor

    Wow that yellow team is an absolute disaster. Also LOL at Jeff referring to the survivors as “guys” on two separate occasions this episode, despite last episode’s faggotry on removing “Come on in, guys!”
  20. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Been leveling up SAM recently. I really like the job. It just feels good to play; the animations and sound effects are great, and the whole job just seems really well put together. It seems to be more “busy” than I’m accustomed to with other jobs (I haven’t played NIN or MNK). The Kenki gauge...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    There’s a setting in there somewhere to automatically skip cutscenes you’ve already seen.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Man I loved that game on my Xbox 360. Was my first exposure to the game, but clearly there are earlier iterations. I’d be interested in playing a new one, if anyone knows where I I find that. Also really enjoyed Trials HD on my360. If there’s a modern version of that I’ll ask for recommendations...
  23. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yea it’s a cool class. Saw your earlier post about doing it wrong. I also played it wrong for a week or so. I was using the procs in place of verthunder and veraero, instead of in place of Jolt. Once I realized that, the Acceleration move made a lot more sense, and everything just flows together...
  24. Valorath

    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    Ah yea forgot you guys were EOD at that point and not SS. I was in Cohort and we weren’t a part of waking the sleeper. Think we only had 8-10 keys. We farmed trash to get the few primals, mine included, that we got.
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    Man for some reason I thought it was Coterie Nocturne that woke the sleeper on Cazic-Thule. Guess it was SS/TR after BFA broke up? I remember being salty, until I got my primal war lance, and then I didn’t care anymore.
  26. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    So this is for sure happening? I guess I don’t follow as closely as some of you guys, I hadn’t seen or heard this talked about anywhere except here, and only in passing just today and maybe a month ago, forgot who mentioned it back then. I’m kinda salty about this tbh, I really love how AST can...
  27. Valorath

    Everquest Mysteries

    I don’t remember how I found FOH originally. I just remember coming to the website to see the phat lewtz.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    If you guys have an FC house, people can go to the house and apply on the placard in front of the house. Allows people to join up without the inviter and invitee both being online at the same time
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I don’t mind PotD or HoH, but I’ve always got a tv show, podcast or a stream going on the second screen.
  30. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Surely that pic above isn’t their raid comp. Two white mages, two red mages,, bard and machinist?
  31. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Absolutely. It is annoying. I’ve played BLM since ARR as my main job. It is easier now than it’s ever been, in my opinion. The transpose cooldown and the umbral heart move just make it so much more forgiving. The better you know the fight, the better you’re going to perform on BLM. That’s why...
  32. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Black Mage really isn’t complicated. Maintaining Enochian once you get it is really the only “tricky” part, and now that transpose is on a 3 second cooldown it’s almost fool proof. That said, I did embarrass myself pretty thoroughly on the last boss of Dalriada a couple days ago, felt like I...
  33. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    That boi ain’t rad, he’s mad. Haven’t you read his posts?
  34. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I leveled GNB from 71-80 in Bozja. Am just getting started on the “second one time grind” for resistance weapon, and am kicking myself for not having another job up to 71 for this Zandor grind. Probably going to put the resistance weapon on hold for a day or two so I can take RDM from 60-71...
  35. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I think the super long cast on Slaughter and Prelude to Slaughter fuck people up.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The Vulnerability debuff that normally lasts for a minute on anyone it is applied to, seems to be only lasting for 3 seconds on these guys in Amson's group? I dunno, been a while since I did sync'd ARR primals, but I thought any time you got hit by Vulnerability debuff it lasted for a minute and...
  37. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Ok, so I wanted to watch Asmon kill Ifrit extreme... I'm watching these attempts. WTF is up with Vulnerability only lasting like 5 seconds?
  38. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    They do change that at expansion launch.
  39. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Wonder if the queues on Gilg are a result of being on the same date center as Cactaur with Asmongold? I know gilg is pretty populated anyhow though so maybe not.
  40. Valorath

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Hmm, looks more like a Fire V than a new Flare to me. No need for more flares or fouls. I think maybe it'll be a new Fire that you cast right before or after Despair, before going back into Umbral Ice.