I'm only up to a 60 DRG, but I don't think there's any positionals other than rear in the rotation right now. So there's no bouncing around so long as you make sure you're positioned opposite the tank and get your OGCD jumps in to maximize DPS.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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I'm only up to a 60 DRG, but I don't think there's any positionals other than rear in the rotation right now. So there's no bouncing around so long as you make sure you're positioned opposite the tank and get your OGCD jumps in to maximize DPS.
Damn, I'm getting FOMO reading this ☹
I want to play old Summoner now. I dont care about the Phoenix thing
DRG has two rear and one flank positional. It's important to hit your combo finishers to proc your Raiden Thrust for extra dps.
Btw, thanks to the guy who posted the tanking infographic. Right now I'm definitely still at the 'mosh pit' stage. Turns out coralling a bunch of mobs in a Conga line and turning them around isnt as easy as it looks 😬
Also it's really tough learning how to pace a party at first. Sometimes you get a great healer which means you can take on a bit more, but knowing if someone is a bit weaker and adjusting my pace isnt something I've had to do with the other roles (just follow the leader basically)
Also it's really tough learning how to pace a party at first. Sometimes you get a great healer which means you can take on a bit more, but knowing if someone is a bit weaker and adjusting my pace isnt something I've had to do with the other roles (just follow the leader basically)
You'll get a feel for it eventually, but you can kinda just let your cooldown availability guide you. Pull two packs to start, use a cooldown, see if you need to use another one before things are dead (or close enough). If not, pull big again. If so, start pulling smaller.
Rule of thumb is two groups. If the healer starts to run ahead and pull more, then you can increase that. If they struggle, then keep it at one. So far I haven't seen any complaints for pulling two groups at a time. Maybe if the enemies are really spread out and not numerous then I'll try to pull a little more.
None of your stats matter in PvP, right? So you can pretty much wear what you want since your HP and stuff is standardized?
Correct. Break out your best glams so you look stylish on the frontlines
Wall-to-wall pulls seem to become the standard around Bardam's Mettle and go from there.
Just need the Weapon for Garo DRG set, so I'm actually thinking I may try for the silver mount at the very least. The gold might be nice but the Feast is not eligible for moogle charms so I dunno if that'll happen. I'm also seriously considering changing my GC to Maelstrom and then turning Frontier Freelancer off, since it seems like they win way more often than other GC's.
After around 290 hours I've finally caught up and finished Shadowbringers, that was quite the ride.
Starting and finishing ARR was definitely rough, playing with the road to 70 buff helped a lot though, I'm not sure how far I would have gotten without it. Like everyone says, Heavensward was a large improvement and I can safely say by then I was hooked.
I was worried about Stormblood being a big drop off in quality going off what people said, but I actually really enjoyed the story and the ending got me pretty hyped to see what happened next.
At the beginning of Shadowbringers, I was already like "this gonna b gud" and for the most part it definitely was. I guess after all the hype, I was just a little disappointed that there was a chuck of stories that just felt like filler and I didn't really find interesting, but when the story was good, it was really good.
I pretty much just stuck to the MSQ, until shadowbringers where I actually had to do side quests for leveling. The only raid I did was the Crystal Tower since it was highly recommended to experience that story before Shadowbringers, and now I can see why.
Now that I'm caught up, I'm wondering if there were any good stories I might have missed along the way. Is there a Heavensward or Stormblood raid that is worth going back and doing the quests for? or perhaps a special chain of side quests?
Starting and finishing ARR was definitely rough, playing with the road to 70 buff helped a lot though, I'm not sure how far I would have gotten without it. Like everyone says, Heavensward was a large improvement and I can safely say by then I was hooked.
I was worried about Stormblood being a big drop off in quality going off what people said, but I actually really enjoyed the story and the ending got me pretty hyped to see what happened next.
At the beginning of Shadowbringers, I was already like "this gonna b gud" and for the most part it definitely was. I guess after all the hype, I was just a little disappointed that there was a chuck of stories that just felt like filler and I didn't really find interesting, but when the story was good, it was really good.
I pretty much just stuck to the MSQ, until shadowbringers where I actually had to do side quests for leveling. The only raid I did was the Crystal Tower since it was highly recommended to experience that story before Shadowbringers, and now I can see why.
Now that I'm caught up, I'm wondering if there were any good stories I might have missed along the way. Is there a Heavensward or Stormblood raid that is worth going back and doing the quests for? or perhaps a special chain of side quests?
DRK job quests are very good
Omega raid is great and has fantastic fights
Technically all raiding content is great but out all the ones I've played that one is best.
Eden raid if you haven't looked at it yet too.
If we have the full toolkit, sure. The one thing that always annoys me in Aurum Vale is that it syncs to lvl 49 and not 50. And now, i want to keep my Umbral Soul (absolute god tier ability, comparable to The Blackest Night) and Xenoglossy.
The gap between people leveling at 49 and those at 50 in full poetics would be too big
this is why our lord in heaven yoshi-p invented ilvl sync
also, cape westwind already has exactly this problem lol
More housing coming at the end of the month with 5.1
- extra wards (19 through 21), for a total of 180 new plots (and of course more apartments too).
- Open to FCs only at first for new puchases, but can relocate private house as well as FC ones
- extra wards (19 through 21), for a total of 180 new plots (and of course more apartments too).
- Open to FCs only at first for new puchases, but can relocate private house as well as FC ones
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Medium plots will be gone within seconds as usual no doubt
Time to grind out enough gil to get a Medium house and then wake up at 3 am on patch day
(I would try if I had the time to get that much gil, not gonna lie, but I have too much going on in my life right now)
Is smurf FCs buying new land still a big thing? How fucked is the housing market on those two new EU servers, I don't think they've opened up for individual sale yet
(I would try if I had the time to get that much gil, not gonna lie, but I have too much going on in my life right now)
Is smurf FCs buying new land still a big thing? How fucked is the housing market on those two new EU servers, I don't think they've opened up for individual sale yet
nooo you caught my it's-too-late-in-the-day-to-be-this-warm melted-brain math failure :(
Anyway, there was also a post about UI changes in 5.1
- Glamour dresser can be set to only show items usable by your current class/race/gender
- can also be set to hide gear set items
- Duty Finder can be collapsed by expansion, and shows your current iLevel
- DF settings page rejigged, and Echo Bonus can be turned off
- Emote list can be sorted alphabetical
- You can now set it so that danger bongos <SE.6> (or whatever tell beep sound you like) plays when you are targeted by another player's emote
Left: regular winter bonus.
Right: (expected) winter bonus following Shadowbringers.
I guess that means S-E is quite happy with how it performed.
I'm of the opinion the earlier content needs to be rebalanced to match current expansion difficulty, and make dungeon enemy stats scale with player stats and ilvls. Also add in at least one unknown element to dungeons so your party can't just run through and pull wantonly.
Just started Stormblood. Got to say Heavensward was kind of a let down. I think I hype myself up too much from the word of mouth. But, I thought the patches after Heavensward were really good and I like where the story is going, so I got big hopes for Stormblood.
they are parodying an old meme
...yes I know. My "what the hell is this" was "why are they parodying an old meme" lol
It never gets old, it was even in the background of a Chaos Code stage.
I also just noticed this and I can't remember how many times I've seen that meme over the years. The pictures aren't even in the same location.
I've got surgery on my hand and elbow the 29th. I won't be able to play for a while. I was really hoping for the 22nd. I wanted to get a day one run in.
Step 1) buy a small house now
Step 2) wake up at 4 am on Oct 29th
Step 3) pray to a deity/deities that you get to a medium/large plot first
It's as easy as 1,2,3
Got my Falcon mount, earlier than expected, now I gotta figure out what else I want from the Moogle event
I kinda want a house but I have no idea how to go about getting one. Plus I think I'm poor, although TBH since gil is so meaningless during leveling I don't really know.
I'm still a cheap-ass though and won't teleport from the Far East to the West or vice versa because it costs 999 gil. I'll be taking the boat or using my free teleport, thank you very much. =)
I'm still a cheap-ass though and won't teleport from the Far East to the West or vice versa because it costs 999 gil. I'll be taking the boat or using my free teleport, thank you very much. =)
You just look through the housing directory at each main aetheryte in the 4 city-states where housing is and then if a house shows a price in gil instead of a name, you can go and camp it in an attempt to get it
How much money do you have? I'll say that generally money is not the hard part of getting a house, actually getting your hands on a house is far more difficult than getting enough gil
- Save up 4M gil
- Find open plot
- Spam placard until it gets taken (either because you or someone else bought it when the timer ended or someone relocated to it)
The housing on Twintania is limited to grand companies only at the moment. There's lots of plots open, the majority of them haven't been taken. Will they all sell pretty much instantly once players can buy them too?
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