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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Call me YHWH
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I am infinitely ready to join the wave of the weeb as a samurai.
And I hate to say it, but already I can feel a bias against RDM forming in my head. Most of the people with the flair on reddit that I've met have been either r_TheDonald regulars or mi'ladys. Or both.
Looking forward to Stormblood shaking things up a bit.
And I hate to say it, but already I can feel a bias against RDM forming in my head. Most of the people with the flair on reddit that I've met have been either r_TheDonald regulars or mi'ladys. Or both.
Looking forward to Stormblood shaking things up a bit.
Zomba13
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At least your Power Supply didn't break and the spare one you found doesn't have the right pins for your graphics card so you're using an old as card that runs FFXIV at 20FPS and you PSU is very very very very slowly making it's way from Germany and will arrive just in time to miss all of the early access.
HelloNewman
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You'd be okay I think with the story skip you still have to level to 50 you just don't have to do any main story quests. There's a lot of stuff to help new players and as long as you did dungeons and read the hints that pop up you'd be okay. There's less questing in Heavensward too I only did enough quests to unlock flying in a zone then I did dungeons until I leveled enough for the next main story quest.
I think you're okay to clip the last tick if the alternative is to delay GCD or let it fall off for multiple?
Not really but the game will display your own dots and statuses on the leftmost side of all debuffs. And yes, there's a limit on displayed debuffs. Not much you can do there.
I think Stormblood is standardizing several debuff icons so that might help a bit with recognition.
Maybe they only know of Minfilia.
1. You want to apply it as close as possible before it falls off. Keep in mind your dots do get buffed so you can over write a strong dot with a weaker version if you reapply with out buffs.
2. Not really it's kind of a pain sometimes, with enough practice you'll kind of figure out when the best time to reapply would be in your rotation with out looking to much. When it doesn't show up it's a limitation of the 24 man raids, sometimes it will apply but not show and sometimes it won't apply at all. For 24 man content I wouldn't stress about it to much.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Minfilia was strong enough to know she needed to write herself out of the story for the greater good. Courage.
Metal Khaos
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Resubbed for the first time since finishing 3.0 MSQ last week, been working through the patch content. Few more quests to go and ill be ready for the new stuff.
Been away for a while, but it's good to be back. Typically I moved from Ultros to Gilgamesh when I last played to play with friends, but now they've quit playing and I'm stuck with no friends and no FCI might transfer back to join the GAF FC, but we'll see.
If you'd like, you can shoot me a friend request as I'm over on Gilgamesh though most people I know have left/stopped. Character name U'ala Taieu.
xiaxdragon
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hikarutilmitt
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Hnnnnng can't wait for the Bard changes. Hopefully the PS4 patches quickly enough the wife and I don't have to wait too long Friday morning.
Stone Ocean
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Ideally you want to reapply DoTs right before they fall off but just in time for their last tick to hit - refreshing them at 3 seconds. There's some situations where you want to clip DoTs because the game snapshots any buffs you have up into the full duration.
As for the tracking, that's only really a problem in large scale content like 24 man raids and hunts but at that point you might as well guess lol
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Yeah, let's not say that I don't think any FFXIV females are strong when I've said that a few are already. I'm more talking about the disappointing subplots with the smaller females like say Hilda or Lucia. We know little about them which makes them a little forgettable to me.
Ysayle dying at the end of Heavensward was done well but at the same time I feel there isn't really another female like her in this game. She for the most part had her own cause and she delivered very well.
You're probably not here in the story yet but spoilers for the end of HW
Yda was mysterious to the very end but I never felt much about her until her relevant points near the end of 3.4/3.5 and it made me like her a lot more when it was revealed Yda was in fact dead because it leads to a new character arc that will be more interesting.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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That's actually true, lol.
Cross-class skills are gone, replaced by a "role" skill system, meaning you do not have to level alt classes to get jobs or to learn skills any more.
Thanks for the help!
Though that reminds me of a secondary question. From your wording it sounds like if you apply a DoT with buffs up it snapshots those buffs for the whole duration of the DoT, is that correct? So is it worth it to overwrite a DoT with some duration left in order to refresh it right before buffs fall off or something like that?
Sorry for the dumb questions, just hate not understanding game mechanics and feeling like I'm doing things sub-optimally! Tried to google it but getting conflicting and old info.
Though that reminds me of a secondary question. From your wording it sounds like if you apply a DoT with buffs up it snapshots those buffs for the whole duration of the DoT, is that correct? So is it worth it to overwrite a DoT with some duration left in order to refresh it right before buffs fall off or something like that?
Sorry for the dumb questions, just hate not understanding game mechanics and feeling like I'm doing things sub-optimally! Tried to google it but getting conflicting and old info.
Bingo. If you refresh a DOT while your buffs are active, they retain that buff for the full duration (even if the buff itself ends sooner), so it's often worth it to refresh your dots both right when you start a buff and right before it ends.
Thank you! Throwing my gloves into the trash.
Balance still laughably OP as of E3 build, Ewer/Spire no longer pretending to innately be AOE, Spear is still the thing you shield your eyes from having to look at.
Watch LB not be useful and the rise of the AST/AST meta.
Watch LB not be useful and the rise of the AST/AST meta.
hosannainexcelsis
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Y'all forgetting about the strongest woman of them all: Baroness Laurisse.
Kent
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The reason you want to overwrite damage-over-time debuffs only shortly before they wear off is twofold: One is that you minimize the time the enemy has without debuffs. The other is that the server globally calculates damage-over-time ticks (approximately every three seconds), and by making sure to overwrite only the tail end of it, you keep the damage-over-time effect on the enemy consistently.
Basically, if you actually let the effect drop off entirely, or if you refresh it before the 3 seconds remaining mark, you may actually lose a tick of its damage. It's a server quirk, and damage-over-time effect heavy jobs, such as Summoner and Scholar have to be very aware of how this works to maximize their damage outputs.
Snapshot when possible, and time your reapplications so they land when there's three-ish seconds remaining on the current one, where possible.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Wow, how do they nerf Earthly Star and still leave balance at 20%? It makes no sense to me but i'll take it.
Stone Ocean
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Hey now, Spear will be perfect as fuel for Crown!
Alex
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Goodbye to Heavensward, you were both a top tier expansion and Final Fantasy game.
I haven't played a DPS in any real capacity since uh... Shadow Priest in Burning Crusade, back in the eons past when WoW actually had good class design. That aside my nostalgia and the preview videos are gonna put me on Red Mage, at least for a bit while the healing classes are pulling hair and kicking shins amongst themselves.
I haven't played a DPS in any real capacity since uh... Shadow Priest in Burning Crusade, back in the eons past when WoW actually had good class design. That aside my nostalgia and the preview videos are gonna put me on Red Mage, at least for a bit while the healing classes are pulling hair and kicking shins amongst themselves.
Lavalamp1138
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My friend just told me Lore is getting replaced. What should I do with my Lore? I was trying to accrue some so I could buy gear for my Samurai when the time comes.
Probably next month.
You'll be able to convert your Tomestones of Lore to Poetics (which will be used to buy old 50 and 60 gear sets), better not worry about it.
Just bumping this post, for all JGAF folks looking for people to play with in their time zone.
The preload will start during the maintenance.
GuitarGuruu
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Really can't wait! When are patch notes supposed to go up?
LowParry
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Probably when servers go down. Same with patch notes some time tomorrow I assume.
not really. you will need to PUG some of it to get thru the main story. though your mileage will vary I have not found this to be a good way to go. but its an mmo not a single player rpg so for them to design content that made you play with others seems reasonable
Is that new? You can just go around and level and don't have to go thru the story? Doesn't that limit some of the items you need for you character to progress, which I thought you had to do the story to unlock...least thats how it worked for me.
I'm yeah potentially, I main a monk so my dots are pretty much built into my rotations for the most part and don't come across this situation often enough. But yes it does snap shot the buffs, so it could be a dps gain to over write them. As to when/how much and if you should do it really depends on the class and skill I would think. This is really for optimal dps if you intend to do savage, if not I wouldn't stress about it so much.
IonicSnake
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June 16, couple hours before servers open.
HelloNewman
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Yeah, they come out on Friday you'd get gear from dungeons and there's still quests to do just no main story quests. Plus when you hit 50 you can have someone buy you a set of 50 gear. I wouldn't skip Heavensward though that actually has a really good story and the dungeons are super fun.
My graphics card died this morning but thank god I had an extra being paranoid pays off for once.
Pyros_Eien
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The story skip is a potion you have to buy from the shop, but assuming you do buy it, it clears every story quest and unlocks everything related. It's still unclear what happens to quest rewards(like mounts and what not) although it's assumed you'll either get them, or tokens to buy them or whatever.
If you don't buy the story skip potion, then you still need to do all the story.