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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Logitech makes a couple. One expensive(K810), one not(K400).
I've been meaning to grab one of those myself(but yet to test either). The one I use is an old Microsoft Arc which I do like, but the bluetooth interference is terrible and it regularly cuts off typing on me.
Geomancer and/or Dancer was all I wanted in 4.0.... ; . ;
Thanks for the breakdown. Sucks I'm only level 31...
All of the classes I want to try are too low level to continue the story in HW, namely AST and BRD.
Plus, I already have a NIN so leveling another DPS, especially in this DPS-heavy meta right now, is really discouraging.
Yeah, this was the biggest turn off for me about AST. It reminded me of leveling Arcanist, but almost worse: Combust → Malefic, Malefic, Malefic (AST) / Dot → Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, Ruin (ACN). Same thing turned me off WHM Aero → Stone, Stone, Stone, Stone. There just isn't enough to do outside of healing. At least with SCH, you could micro your fairy and manage your dots...
I really, really want to like AST. I've been waiting months to play it. The cards are awesome. The setting is awesome. Leveva is awesome. But the moment-to-moment gameplay during combat (when you're not balls-to-the-wall healing) is pretty zzz. Maybe I'm just used to Ninja where stuff is fast and hectic all the time. Maybe that's why I want to try Bard next. Guess I just like (needlessly?) complicated classes.
xiaxdragon
Banned
man, was smooth sailing all day.......and now i get DC errors
I guess I should caveat with "at some point you will have to actually direct heal." Massive pulls never really get unmanageable, but at some point it did start becoming "Tank pulled everything, HP dropping fast, what can I abuse to not have to spend a GCD healing" vs just Gravity Gravity Gravity ED Gravity Gravity Gravity.
A lot of jobs moved to the progress bar resource system in SB vs just having stacks before, and this kind of made the meters necessary, but for the most part I don't think there's any situation where moving the preexisting buff pieces out of the status effects bar was an upgrade, I guess? MCH basically has to use the Heat Gauge now, since it's the primary mechanic, but the presence or absence of the Heat Gague is the only way to tell if GB is currently on or off. I'd think a lot of stuff could/should live in both places--RDM mana couldn't live in the buff bar, but hitting a Mana imbalance to the point of penalizing the lower triggering a debuff would be nice. Heat gauge for MCH is mandatory, but a buff representing GB On that swapped to represent being in Overheat would be nice. The Ammo Gauge is also more annoying than buffs--there's no point I'm going to be able to shrink these things to be able to locate them centrally while still being able to make out the information they're supposed to convey. I also just thought to check and none of this stuff seems to show up in my own combat log, either? Like, if they've managed to hide all this stuff from being logged, you can't even go back and look at what you did for personal improvement.
I get the job gauges as a nice thing for new players, but ripping everything out and locating information ONLY in them is kind of a massive downgrade.
Leveling MCH, get into Sirensong with a Bard. Think "OH MAN! INFINITE TP! JOY!"
Bard proceeds to never use Quick Nock or Tactician.
Need an AOE job gauge of some kind stat.
Dude DRG is soooooo easy to play now. At lvl64 you get Lance Mastery that allows Fang and Claw to combo into Wheeling Thrust or vice versa. It means with any single Blood of the Dragon combo rotation, at the end you recover 20 seconds worth. It takes less than 10 seconds to do a full rotation even if you're being slow. This also means if you activate Blood of the Dragon right before your first Chaos Thrust, and go straight into Wheeling Thrust + Fang and Claw, you max out the 30 second bar immediately. Lol.
If you're at the point of that quest where it is loading into the instance, and you got disconnected with a 90006 error at that point, it means your session got messed up going into the Solo Duty instance. When this happens, you have to wait 15-30 minutes (usually 30 minutes exactly) for that old session to time out completely before you can try again. If you try before it times out, you'll get 90006 every single time.
I've been using this combo, it's fine.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Don't have HW.
No. I miss Yda. I'd trade Lyse for her in a second.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Dude what even. She's probably the best character in the expansion atm.
#1 with a bullet.
UtterlyPerplexed
Member
That's not how you spell Alisaie.
Pyros_Eien
Member
From what I've read, AST damage stuff becomes a lot less painful once you have minor arcanas. It is super boring and not very good before that, but it seemed to be about the same for SCH too when I leveled mine for a bit. The removal of additional dots makes it boring and the damage is just outright lower because of no more shadowflare every mob and missing 2dots.
On the other hand, it's a lot easier to throw random stuff at mobs while healing. Still doesn't prevent a bunch of healers I've been grouped with to just sit there doing nothing rather than pressing one of their two damage buttons though. WHMs especially are frustrating when they're like spamming cures and vomitting aoe heals everywhere while the tank is oscillates between 99% and 100%hp furiously.
Having a damage chocobo is more or less a must have for questing on a healer in SB.
On the other hand, it's a lot easier to throw random stuff at mobs while healing. Still doesn't prevent a bunch of healers I've been grouped with to just sit there doing nothing rather than pressing one of their two damage buttons though. WHMs especially are frustrating when they're like spamming cures and vomitting aoe heals everywhere while the tank is oscillates between 99% and 100%hp furiously.
Having a damage chocobo is more or less a must have for questing on a healer in SB.
Idk, girl from the RDM class quests is pretty cool.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
How do you guys deal with dps queues.
I realize there are some people who only play DPS and yet I played tank purely for the insta queues and hated waiting for 30 minutes at a time.
I realize there are some people who only play DPS and yet I played tank purely for the insta queues and hated waiting for 30 minutes at a time.
Find friends who are tanks or healers who are on, get help in queuing for dungeons and story trials. Or for roulettes since it's once a day I let it run in the background while I just play normally.
I generally get help from FC plus my friend is a healer so ques aren't terrible. Plus if it comes to levelling I'll fate grind while waiting.
This.
I'm playing a Nin and Scholar. Stopped playing SCH to get my NIN up to 60 before stormblood. 30 minute + queues w/o my FC friends.
Playing SCH now. Literally no wait.
Fates, DoL/DoH, reading.
unless threat becomes really tightly threaded, its been powercreeped out.
It no longer has the debuff to upkeep, and the other combo both does more damage and fuels MP for PLD's spells.
HelloNewman
Member
I remember the early days of Dungeons when finding a group could be an all day thing and God help you if you wanted to run a dungeon with bad tank loot. I don't even mind the queues really I just fish while I wait or make a glamor.
I have a second monitor that I use to watch things on Netflix, or I work on crafting.
And the 4th night in a row I am forced to stop playing because of 90K. You would think I would learn to stop using duty finder at night.
fluffydelusions
Member
Weird the codes are separate. What happens if say a friend gave you an EA code and you hit 70 and do all of MSQ but never actually purchased stormblood
I do have to say, the class changes for SB shows that they really didnt know what they wanted to do with various jobs in HW (and still look like they have issues in SB) and now are again resetting how things work again with SB.
Lets hope we dont get another reset and they build off of things.
Lets hope we dont get another reset and they build off of things.
Vital Tundra
Member
Can't wait to play. Gotta wait till Friday, though. At least I'll have all weekend.
Regarding Stormblood story stuff...
(Spoilers up to Ruby Sea area, before you get diving)
(Spoilers up to Ruby Sea area, before you get diving)
When Alphinaud decided to stay behind in Kugane with Tataru I was literally jumping for joy. So sick of him being the default "tag along" character since the 2.x story. Alisaie is a HUGE improvement. She's headstrong, can actually do shit herself, and doesn't whine even when things go bad. Lyse is kinda stupid in how she approaches stuff, but energetic and has a great design.
I'm not really sold on the whole Ninja Turtle thing they have going with the beast tribes this time round though. It's so weird. I do like how it feels really alien so far compared to ARR and HW though. Instead of traditional high fantasy stuff we're getting into weird races like snake people, rat people, fish people, and turtle people. I still don't understand why the Ananta Battlemaiden characters don't have names so far! It's unfair!
A running theme throughout Stormblood so far is that all the major moving pieces seem to be... women. That's a pretty interesting decision in the narrative. You have the daughter of an Ala Mhigan revolutionary in your party, another key character is a ninja princess (?) of Doma, and their direct rivals in the respective regions are violent women of the nationality who betrayed them and joined the empire. It's an interesting dynamic.
I really like Zenos as a villain. So far I think they delivered on the promise YoshiP made that Zenos would be a villain unlike any before in XIV, and that he's someone you can really "hate" as a straight bad guy without sympathizing with him. Badass to the core. His armor design is sick. The Garlean anthem scene was SO GOOD.
<3 Stormblood.
I'm not really sold on the whole Ninja Turtle thing they have going with the beast tribes this time round though. It's so weird. I do like how it feels really alien so far compared to ARR and HW though. Instead of traditional high fantasy stuff we're getting into weird races like snake people, rat people, fish people, and turtle people. I still don't understand why the Ananta Battlemaiden characters don't have names so far! It's unfair!
A running theme throughout Stormblood so far is that all the major moving pieces seem to be... women. That's a pretty interesting decision in the narrative. You have the daughter of an Ala Mhigan revolutionary in your party, another key character is a ninja princess (?) of Doma, and their direct rivals in the respective regions are violent women of the nationality who betrayed them and joined the empire. It's an interesting dynamic.
I really like Zenos as a villain. So far I think they delivered on the promise YoshiP made that Zenos would be a villain unlike any before in XIV, and that he's someone you can really "hate" as a straight bad guy without sympathizing with him. Badass to the core. His armor design is sick. The Garlean anthem scene was SO GOOD.
<3 Stormblood.
Where you learn to dive.
Just popped, about a quest or two after it should have.
Glamour is still often job-locked. People defend this as basically "a tank wearing Weaver AF would break my immersion!"
but then bikini catgirls so it's just restrictions to be restrictions. There's a version of the game in, I think, Korea that lets you buy glamour copies of crafter AF to use on other jobs in the cash shop, but no sign of that for NA that I know of.
Ah, I see... I guess I'm having a bad day, since PODT also kicked me out with the 90006 and 90002 error. ;_;
This worked for me before stormblood so feel free to try. Whenever my game got 9000x error due to bad internet I simply changed the data centre followed by changing back to my own data centre. That always got me in.
I hate the class restriction on glamour in the game. I really prefer the light armor designs to the heavy armor. I want a tank with mage or bard armor.
It's not the first time -
one of the Alexander floors had you press a button at the right time and it was also called an ACTIVE TIME MANEUVER. No mashing though.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Still working on HW, and unlocked library but got DCed.
It's growing on me again. Having BAMF
show up got me hyped.
It's growing on me again. Having BAMF
Matoya
I was one of the many who fell to A3S
