I mained melee DPS for 4 years and no way was it relaxing and easy.
There was a guide released a bunch earlier than her that has this positions I think, and every main streamer cleared after that was released, so they most likely used that. It was like a day 2 guide or whatever with a guy with an accent.
I'm going to have to try this, also been MTing the fight and Shiva is the only mechanic I still struggle with. Sometimes it just feels like I get screwed on it's positions if I'm too far.
Yeah we even had some deaths because of bad ice placements and people couldn't adjust, which lead to wipes. It's probably not worth risking a run just to avoid the stacks. Plus the extra DPS really helps
When the PLD with 2k DPS tells me "I thought this was a farm party?" and "the dps is mediocre" when I'm putting everything into maintaining 11k
DPS counters are for minmaxers, just learn what the rotation is and smile and nod
I know it's not the same, but I only recently started using a shader and now I'm kicking myself for not getting one immediately. It looks soooo much better.
first things i got was that cute panda style hair, high res hair and face textures in general and the materia UI mod. looks so much slicker now
Rotation is simple since its 100% priority based but optimization is quite complex and fun to do.
NA PF is required by law to pick the shittiest strats possible as the norm, sorry.
I mean you lose 5 seconds of dps for dps south? those 5 seconds isnt going to mean the difference between wipe or clear.
It's more than 5 seconds and it fucks me up for my rotations as MNK because I already used anatman :/
It's not much more than 5secs, and it's certainly less than the 15 you have before GL drops. Just SSS before you go to your spot if you feel you need to, and keep one stack of Tackle to get back then, while you form switch while doing nothing else, but honestly it's nowhere that bad.
I agree, I think it comes from the dps spending most of their time on south anyways, but yes dps north would be more optimal, but pf has never been about optimal strats.
Well the strategy was definitely made without thinking about the add phase, tanks and healers go together, MT is north, so might as well put all of them north. Then they didn't adjust for add phase, maybe because the origin had no melee DPS or melee DPS who can keep semi decent uptime(ninja casting a raiton then kassatsu while sliding and readying hyoton). That or maybe they thought the tanks needed to stay close to the big adds? I gotta admit I wasn't sure if I could run around myself and just attack whatever, but it seemed fine when I tried, the add didn't decide to slap someone close or whatever.
Just buy shadowbringers if you already own ARR and that will bring you up to date (ShB includes HW and SB)
I dont think the exs are too bad, though I find titania easier, if only b/c I am better at pattern memorization, than inprov, but nether is awful.
