Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Chris
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As a DPS focused Tank I haven't noticed anything too annoying. Yeah I'm not DPS but many bosses only require 1 Tank and all raids have 2-3 Tanks, so I end up DPSing half the time.
Bosses tend to drop lots of different void zone patterns including ones hitting ranged in massive arcs. One very common pattern is melee range being safe and ranged have to move in or die.
Also there's no DPS meter so people just enjoy playing.
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Malkav
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Just be aware that machinists are REALLY ping dependent to perform well.
As far as raid mechanic for melee, the game does a pretty good job at spreading mechanics between ranged and melees. A lot of mechanics actually make some ranged pair up with melees. You'll always be facing a challenge with uptime though, can't DPS when you have to move out. You also have to keep in mind your positionals and use your tools (all melees have True North, a skill with 2 charges on a 45sec CD that allows you to ignore positionals for 10sec, monks also have another tool for that since ALL their GCDs are positionals) to keep up with them. It's all about knowing the fights, which are NEVER random and happen in the same order. Sometime you have a mechanic with 2 variations that can either be either, but you learn to recognize them quickly enough to adjust. And usually, when you get one variation, you're guaranteed the next appearance of the mechanic will be the other.
As far as raid mechanic for melee, the game does a pretty good job at spreading mechanics between ranged and melees. A lot of mechanics actually make some ranged pair up with melees. You'll always be facing a challenge with uptime though, can't DPS when you have to move out. You also have to keep in mind your positionals and use your tools (all melees have True North, a skill with 2 charges on a 45sec CD that allows you to ignore positionals for 10sec, monks also have another tool for that since ALL their GCDs are positionals) to keep up with them. It's all about knowing the fights, which are NEVER random and happen in the same order. Sometime you have a mechanic with 2 variations that can either be either, but you learn to recognize them quickly enough to adjust. And usually, when you get one variation, you're guaranteed the next appearance of the mechanic will be the other.
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Chris
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I'm looking for a DPS class and started levelling a Bard, got it to lv35 and found it pretty boring.
Tried Red Mage today and it seems really fun. Balance your White/Black magic levels and procs, then when White/Black meters are full, jump into melee range to do a melee combo before somersaulting back out.
Haven't even unlocked the finishing moves yet as I'm still lv50 on it.
I'm looking for something that can heal so I can solo (Bozja seemed much easier as healer), raise is always helpful in raids and I want to be ranged and mobile. Seems like this could be it!
Tried Red Mage today and it seems really fun. Balance your White/Black magic levels and procs, then when White/Black meters are full, jump into melee range to do a melee combo before somersaulting back out.
Haven't even unlocked the finishing moves yet as I'm still lv50 on it.
I'm looking for something that can heal so I can solo (Bozja seemed much easier as healer), raise is always helpful in raids and I want to be ranged and mobile. Seems like this could be it!
sukik
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I've only had a chance to play the red mage a couple times 60+, but I like it's mobility. My go to lately for new dungeons has been the dancer. Pretty easy to play, which let's me pay more attention dungeon/boss mechanics.
Going to keep the rdm, BLM, DNC and samurai around the same level while I work my way through the rest of the story.
Going to keep the rdm, BLM, DNC and samurai around the same level while I work my way through the rest of the story.
Aazrael
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I loved playing the BLM but I can't see me doing it any kind of justice in raids. One movement and the whole rotation gets fucked. Not sure if it's me doing it wrong but it kinda felt too stressful at 80.
Maybe there's a trick to it that I don't know about but I could hardly get the max fire nukes in standing still. Whish it was a bit more forgiving because it really did a lot of damage.
Maybe there's a trick to it that I don't know about but I could hardly get the max fire nukes in standing still.
Whish it was a bit more forgiving because it really did a lot of damage.
Morrow
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I did. I was playing at 60+ yesterday. Logged in today and it was 30. Updated driver and that brought it down to 15. No idea wtf to do. GPU was running at like 47% when it was at 30fps, now after the driver it's running at 99% for 15fps. But nothing changed as far as I can tell from yesterday to today when the issue first started with the 30fps. All my temps are fine and the other stuff like cpu is only using like 15%.
nu_11
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That’s weird. Never heard of that happening
It’s weird that you’re getting 1/2 1/4 and 1/8 of 60hz. It does sound like a combo of VSYNC and frame limiter problem.
There’s 3 ways to limit frames that I know of: FFXIV in game client, Nvidia inspector, RTSS
You should try to unlock your frame rate on all 3 but check after unlocking each one
Also another tip. I’m pretty sure that (borderless) windowed mode forces (triple buffer, I think) VSYNC even if it’s off as a game setting. Maybe because VSYNC is how windows 10 handles its Desktop?
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Also in case of make sure it's not running off your CPU instead of your GPU(assuming you have an intel cpu since amd don't do that shit). But yeah since it's exactly 15 and 30 FPS it is weird. There is also a potential bug where you're running at background speed cap? The game has an option to cap FPS when it's not the active window(when you alt tab and shit) and I think I remember once it fucked up and was doing that even when active, relaunching fixed it though so might be a different issue.
Rezz
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Load up another game and see if it's gfx card related? Just to determine if it's isolated or system wide.
If this is a laptop, it could be something similar to what Pyros said in that the automatic switching may have either defaulted to the embedded/onboard vs. the discrete, or the auto-switching stuff for some reason isn't triggering (or -is- but in the wrong way).
Also, when you updated the drivers, did you set it to be managed by the gfx card or something? I seem to remember nvidia wanting to use profiles or some shit the last time I loaded it up, vs. me setting it manually. It may have done something dumb after updating.
Part of this sounds like a failing GFX card, but without knowing if it's system wide or not, hard to tell.
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That's why I quit originally. That and the lag. Wouldn't accept any CC I gave them.
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I use paypal to buy sub. I actually buy Crysta, their own currency shit, but unlike most mmos they don't force you to buy like 5 or 10bucks and it doesn't round properly and you have left overs, you can specify the exact amount if it's above 5, so I buy exactly what I need for a sub and 0-2 retainers depending on what I'm doing, and then I pay with that, so they never try to pull more money either which is nice. But yeah I remember their credit card systems are pretty shit.
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