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Pyros

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Cejian_sl said:
Can anyone summarize the current status of BRD? Planning to play again after a long break.
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DPS tends to be slightly inferior, especially due to songs, but very useful and very good overall for any activity. Lots of bards around though, so not necessarily a sought after class, I mean, kinda is, but so many bards it's not hard to find one, while finding good healers or tanks or even DPS might be more problematic. Other than that, not too many changes to BRD compared to launch, nerfs to Rain of Death in 2.1 or so to make it not necessary to keep the debuff up permanently(by making the debuff shit) but otherwise still the same, keep 2 dots on target, spam filler, if proc use the other attack, if the dots crit you get a reset on one of your off GCD attacks, weave in everything else, play songs at appropriate times.
 
Crone

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Flight_sl said:
Only skim read so not sure if it was mentioned but you may not be aware Scholars base class is Arcanist and is the only class that levels up two jobs concurrently - Scholar and Summoner. Summoner is pet DPS. You can switch between Scholar and Summoner and they both get the XP. You'll need to do lots of things solo like questing so being able to switch into a DPS class is massive. Scholar >>>>> WHM for first class to level.
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Did not know this and seems like for a first time play through the way to go. Just hit level 21 on my Conjurer, and will need that eventually, so it's not a total loss. I'll find the Arcanist guild hall and switch today, because I agree, being able to do some of this stuff as a DPS instead of shitty Conjurer DPS would make a huge difference.

On a side note... holy F the experience for doing a random duty is HUGE! Used to getting 2-3k per quest turn in, and then I do a random duty dungeon and get 37k? Shit gave me over half a level at level 21.
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Chris

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Rezz_sl said:
Trust me on this, you aren't really enjoying WHM until regen is unlocked. Then you are basically tossing a regen on the tank and then cure1-ing until it procs, then you drop the cure 2 whenever necessary during it's freecast duration and looking for regen to drop. Regen > * for any sort of group action, and even most raid action. And it makes healing those ae absorbing ranged types so much easier.

Forgot to mention the obvious, but the key part of regen being awesome is that it allows you to drop aeros/stone2s like a champ and you can basically stay in Cleric Stance the majority of the time depending on tank durability. Which, even though apparently there's some disparity between paladins and warriors at the absolute high end, I would be hard pressed to say that they were really that drastically different in healing while leveling. This of course depends on if the warrior is using his defensive cooldowns when possible, which they should theoretically be built into macros and shit if he/she isn't saving them for specific damage spikes. Outside of bosses, they should be popping that shit like candy thanks to the low reset period.
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You are over complicating this.

You spam AoE Regen as much as your mana regen will allow.
 
Crone

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So is there a way to power level or twink in this game? Don't have any high level friends or nothing, but was curious. Started Arcanist today, my job, and can easily see how leveling is faster on the 2nd one with Leve's opening up right away and stuff.
 
McQueen

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I bought this the other day, and Gilgamesh still hasn't opened up. How is leveling as a Gladiator/Paladin for a first character?
 
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if anyone new is rolling on Gilgamesh, look me up (Rexie Soulstar) and i can craft shit for you or whatnot to help you get started.
 
Flipmode

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I'm on Gilgamesh now. Server transferred my character. 50 WHM/30 BLM/19 ACN/15 ARC. Name is Mythri Jenkins.
 
Rezz

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Yeah, I'm on Gilg. 50 WHM with Relic and most other classes in the 20s. My inventory hates me something fierce. Elrezz Darkraven
 
Crone

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Adding people now, my name is Natalia Tear.

Edit: Does someone have to be online to add them to friends because not a single of the above 3 could be added. Said could not find player by that name.
 
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I'm also lurking around on Gilgamesh as Jaen Mandar. Been on a kind of hiatus, but I really need to get at least Zodiac done before 3.0 heh.

I'm still half-assing towards trying to finish Turn 9, because I suck and haven't gotten around to doing it religiously in hopes of a clear. Mostly because going into Final Coil without a static seems... unwise, even though Gilgamesh has a few PFs on it daily. The irony of this is people advertising the "kill" groups couldn't be bothered to advertise for "progression" when it first came out.

EDIT - Starting to wonder if we should try to reboot the Rerolled Linkshell on Gilg, but I left it ages ago after activity imploded haha
 
Armadon

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It would be cool to get ISIS up and running again. I'm in some random guild right now for the exp bonus.
 
Crone

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Armadon_sl said:
It would be cool to get ISIS up and running again. I'm in some random guild right now for the exp bonus.
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Lol. Is there a way to change a linkshell name? Would love to get it going again to just have a spot for everyone to be at.
 
McQueen

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I still haven't found Gilgamesh open. They update the list every 3 hours, and I'm hoping to catch it open late at night or really early in the morning in the next few days.
 
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