Yeah I just double checked the video, def looks like they did a sleeve draw
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| A Realm Reset
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The battle effects and numbers are called flying text. There's also pop-up text, but I don't know if that covers the other stuff you want to change because I don't know what it does.
Enemy names and HP bars can be changed under display name settings. You can change the names to only display when targeted. The HP bars are either on, only on at <100% health, or off completely (there's no "when targeted").
Ignore the rest of my HUD, it's firmly in "It works for me and I can't be bothered changing it" territory.
Unfortunately the option for Flying Text is already at its lowest setting (Standard), so I guess I'm out of luck on that one.
It's not the biggest deal, as I'm sure battles will be a chaotic mess no matter how many variables you change.
As someone else with at this point 20 years--goddamn send help--of time spent playing MMOs, a lot of this rings true. They have themselves in a design corner and the nature of the game has pushed things to go a certain way. It'll take a radical redesign to really alter things in this situation but it's doubtful they'll ever reach a point to do so. As a lot of things stand, many of their changes and general design philosophy is fine at the low end but the high end of play is where the sameness will hit worse as the unique strengths are whittled away. Which fits their general philosophy but also the jobs existed well at the range of play where tanks are okay doing 3kish, healers were okay doing 2kish, even if we're looking at 2-3k higher is available as you exploit what the jobs can do. It'll be a case if time will tell, really, on how changes shake things up right now but I'm just waiting for real info before being too excited.
Ego aside, I'd like to consider myself on the high-end side of tanks and I'm torn on it, as evidenced by my other posts on this. I think there's a lot of good that can come their changes but I think we need to actually move towards the kind of active gameplay. From what we've seen of Gunbreaker tooltips, it's not quite sounding like it's there though. And, realistically, I doubt they ever will considering the above points on the combat overall of the game.
So... what are the chances I can do 4.1-4.5 before June 7th? Should I get cracking or pray for a skip potion being added?
There are only five or six quests per patch. The biggest hold up will be queues for dungeons and trials, if you're a DPS.
Yeah I'd probably be dps. Not confident in healing after such a long break. Gearing up would be the main issue I guess
You can do it easily, crafted gear is cheap now so you won't even be gear-locked. The MSQ isn't very long each patch.
There's like 40 quests in the 4.x MSQ, and most of the individual patches were like an hour and a half long.
You might have trouble with ilvl requirements towards the end, but yeah, crafted gear is pretty affordable now.
You might have trouble with ilvl requirements towards the end, but yeah, crafted gear is pretty affordable now.
Ok sounds good. I think I have like 4-5m so if that's enough to get me crafted gear to run the required dungeons/trials it shouldn't be an issue
Armor pieces are around 200k each, accessories around 150k, so 4m is plenty
Check mogboard for other servers on your datacenter in case you can find better prices if you're gonna buy gear. I probably wouldn't buy everything though, you can easily buy a bunch of gear with tomes too, weapon tends to be the most annoying(and also the most expensive), so I'd look into that at least, also counts for 2 slots for ilvl and then jewelry since it's the cheapest and the ring actually stays relevant in full gear. Also if you're in a FC with a nice crafter you could ask them for a better price. Raw mats are generally about half the price of the crafted gear, sometimes even less. I looked it up a little while ago to gear my ninja in full crafted it would have cost less than a million in mats(for every slot) but the AH prices would have been 3 times that(prices went down since though, and I also just geared it with tomes instead because eh).
Thanks! Yeah I'm in the FC on Ultros, so crafters shouldn't be a problem. I bought a few pieces so I can do the first 2 24 man raids and hopefully get some gear there, then I'll ask in the FC to get what I need to finish up the 24 man and the story.
At least that's my current plan :p
I think it's too late now, since the event ends tomorrow. It's in theory possible if you haven't done fashion report and challenge log yet this week, but fashion report this week isn't as easy as usual and if you've done either, you'd be too far off. If you have both, you could get about 110-120k from them, and doing the rest is certainly doable, GATEs are every 20mins and give 4-5k and you can mix in some axe cutting minigame inbetween(near the chocobo/vermillion area). But that's probably still takes a few hours.
I guess if you have a lot of time, you can probably make 20k an hour doing GATEs+minigames, so you also could get there grinding for 6hours. You might lose a bit of your soul in the process though.
Thanks, dunno if I'm into that sort of grind for a complete dice roll lol.
I'm trying to claim Heavensward on the psn store but I'm running into some issues. When I go to the Heavensward psn store page, it says i first need to purchase the starter edition. I upgraded from ps3 to ps4 version ages ago, but i guess that isn't the starter version? That's fine I guess, however it won't allow me to purchase the starter edition on the store, citing that I've already purchased FFXIV: ARR!
as far as i can tell, I have no upgrade path to heavensward using the psn store. bummer
as far as i can tell, I have no upgrade path to heavensward using the psn store. bummer
New leak on Dark Knight sounds neat.
Edge of Darkness/Shadow (Cecil style line AOE looking move) gives you Darkside for a time which increases damage dealt.
Popping The Blackest Night gives you Dark Arts which eliminates the mana cost of your next Edge of Darkness/Shadow.
Not sure if it works on anything else.
But that so far sounds more interesting than +140 (+350 on CaS) potency on most moves which is the current Dark Arts.
Edge of Darkness/Shadow (Cecil style line AOE looking move) gives you Darkside for a time which increases damage dealt.
Popping The Blackest Night gives you Dark Arts which eliminates the mana cost of your next Edge of Darkness/Shadow.
Not sure if it works on anything else.
But that so far sounds more interesting than +140 (+350 on CaS) potency on most moves which is the current Dark Arts.
Have you tried going through the PS Store tab on your ARR page on your ps4 menu?
Been playing the game mostly alone.
Didn't find it boring.
Maybe cause you still didn't finish ARR I guess?
ARR was great when it launched, but it has not aged well, hopefully they make it easier to get through when ShB launches
I enjoyed Leveling DRK but when i reach 70 i went back to PLD, Dark Arts is just too much for me.
So I came back to the game last week, stopped playing during 4.2. Managed to grab the FFXV Mount before the event ended. I want to get every class to 60 (have PLD, WAR and BRD left) and grab the Goro stuff before that leaves in 5.1. I think it's possible if I do the Roulette once a day. Really looking forward to Stormbringer and all the tank changes. Happy what their doing with RDM also.
BLU is also incredibly fun to do on the side.
BLU is also incredibly fun to do on the side.
Same, DRK was the first class that got me into tanking but that skill kills any fun.
Hey guys,
So I want to play AST, but it seems so daunting TBH with all the skills and card system, it just looks really confusing. I'm only level 38 (been playing on and off since 2.0) now as a BLM and I find it so boring, but I don't want to grind another class tbh. I was thinking of buying a jump potion and learning from there.
So I want to play AST, but it seems so daunting TBH with all the skills and card system, it just looks really confusing. I'm only level 38 (been playing on and off since 2.0) now as a BLM and I find it so boring, but I don't want to grind another class tbh. I was thinking of buying a jump potion and learning from there.
Woah you take that back. I love pressing 1 and 2 in dungeons as a dragoon. /s
Hope you like WAR style burst windows if the new leak is real, says Delirium is basically Edgy Inner Release.
Says SAM also has what sounds like ghetto Forbidden Chakra, where their Meditation stacks and leads to more damage on a new skill (the multi-slash from the job video that they do after Meditation).
So:
There's also the claim that three cards are melee buffers, three cards are range buffers, so effectively you have two cards, and that there is a low-level AOE buff you can execute every few minutes... which gets halved if you don't have 3 distinct solar seals. It all sounds a lot like lobotomizing the job.
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AST Balance discord is a good place to check in terms of stuff getting brought in and people trying to put context around it.
There's also the claim that three cards are melee buffers, three cards are range buffers, so effectively you have two cards, and that there is a low-level AOE buff you can execute every few minutes... which gets halved if you don't have 3 distinct solar seals. It all sounds a lot like lobotomizing the job.
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AST Balance discord is a good place to check in terms of stuff getting brought in and people trying to put context around it.
So:
There's also the claim that three cards are melee buffers, three cards are range buffers, so effectively you have two cards, and that there is a low-level AOE buff you can execute every few minutes... which gets halved if you don't have 3 distinct solar seals. It all sounds a lot like lobotomizing the job.
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Yeah I saw that, big oof if true. Like, I might stop leveling Astro on my alt and switch to White Mage.
I don't buy that recent batch of screenshots that showed up on the reddit that included that Balance change.
For one, they had a skill that was already debunked from the dancer gameplay in the live letter so a portion of it was faked or at least muddy the waters enough about which version the pictures were taken from to put things into question.
For one, they had a skill that was already debunked from the dancer gameplay in the live letter so a portion of it was faked or at least muddy the waters enough about which version the pictures were taken from to put things into question.
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This wasn't the case until SB when all of the lower level abilities got gutted from all jobs...
I hate to break this to you but that's never been the case. A lot of jobs weren't feature complete until level50 like DRG and WAR.
BLM at least gets Fire 3 and Bliz 3 by level38 but until then its garbage.
Edit: It like took me forever to get swiftcast during ARR because THM was so fucking garbage to play and they hadn't dumped bonus EXP on us yet.
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Fuuuuck off SE. let's just make AST as brain dead as WHM instead of making WHM viable by making it interesting, we make it viable but making the other 2 healers are dumb as it, "balanced"So:
There's also the claim that three cards are melee buffers, three cards are range buffers, so effectively you have two cards, and that there is a low-level AOE buff you can execute every few minutes... which gets halved if you don't have 3 distinct solar seals. It all sounds a lot like lobotomizing the job.
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AST Balance discord is a good place to check in terms of stuff getting brought in and people trying to put context around it.
This expack is proving to be a giant fuck you to healers
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It's okay! We still have Minor Arcana! Maybe that will be interes--
...oh.
It looks like the primary loop is fishing for the right seals to enable the 6% party-wide buff on whatever CD that skill has, while distributing the cards on party members. If you can't get the right final seal, maybe like Minor Arcana lets you dump the card for a sealless but slightly stronger version of the Exact Same Thing?
I get that this makes cards less scary for people intimidated by AST, but they're running out of places to stick something interesting to make up for it. Making things accessible is awesome, but less so when it's at the expense of nuance.
...oh.
It looks like the primary loop is fishing for the right seals to enable the 6% party-wide buff on whatever CD that skill has, while distributing the cards on party members. If you can't get the right final seal, maybe like Minor Arcana lets you dump the card for a sealless but slightly stronger version of the Exact Same Thing?
I get that this makes cards less scary for people intimidated by AST, but they're running out of places to stick something interesting to make up for it. Making things accessible is awesome, but less so when it's at the expense of nuance.
Ewww why would they ruin AST cards like that, not like one would be an idiot of not giving a dps card to a dps first, no point on that penalty, and that's just going to make things more annoying melee / range: "sorry can't give you this card, it isn't meant for you", "wait who was this card for again?"
Huh, so would it be safe to assume they are not only separating those all their skills but maybe levels too? I better get Arcanist to 70.
no more miasma
Huh, so would it be safe to assume they are not only separating those all their skills but maybe levels too? I better get Arcanist to 70.
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If there are choices a job has to make that confuse or intimidate even a single person, they seem to have their eye on eliminating it. I wouldn't be surprised in the least. It's a bummer - healing is the only role I truly enjoy playing in this game because it's the most dynamic with the highest skill ceiling, and no healer seems safe from "it's a lot more boring now, and you have no new job - enjoy!"
I guess I didn't notice it too much because of the ability to cross class other jobs gave a semblence of more abilities than what you had.
Leaks appear to show AST getting a major rework on how it's cards work simplifying the whole thing and introducing a new mechanic to replace what it's losing so I wouldn't worry too much about learning how it plays now when it's getting changed in a month.
If the sheer amount of skills you start with is overwhelming you, I'd recommend going to palace of the dead floor 1 so you only start with 1 skill and seeing how the other skills roll in.
Man leveling SCH looks dreadful with the changes. No aetherflow until 45, no bane, no miasma II, literally just Ruin 1 and Bio I/II and eventually Art of War for aoeing.
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