FFXIV: A Realm Reborn

[JDodge]

i have purchased this and due to character creation restrictions am now inflicting the fun of Benjamin Dover, Smug Lancer on the japanese

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this launch has really delivered on the problems front, 10/10 would error 1707 again

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the level of stupid in pug tanks in this game surpasses anything ive ever seen in an mmo

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i think its because people are used to WoW wherein tanks are given 50 million ways of free threat generation and you have to

actually physically be unable to press buttons

to lose aggro in most pug dungeons

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im just sitting on my hands waiting for the economy to

completely crash

like its inevitable it will as people level crafting/gathering professions

[JDodge]

The economy doesn't make much sense to me. Everything important can be NPC'd, and the main uses for gil are gilsinks like transportation and equipment repair.

I know people on the official forums have made cases that deflation will occur as the influx of players wanes, because each new main questline runthrough brings in a lot of gil. I guess this means I should keep everything liquidated.

The main issue with the economy is the lack of introduction of cash into the system (this is similar to but not the same sort of theory of higher wages for low-level workers increasing economic growth in the real world by preventing cash from stagnating in bank accounts of the rich), which combined with the number of things that take cash

out

of the system (vendor costs are complete removal) will eventually cause prices in the player-run economy to crash due to people being unable to afford premiums for luxury items (to the point where, combined with the ease of leveling crafting/gathering, might even cause people to just say "i'll craft it myself"), which in turn means that the people doing the crafting/gathering in the marketplace's margins go through the floor, which means that there will likely be a large portion who say fuck it due to lack of return on investment and start crafting solely for themselves. This creates its own loop - eventually, prices will either be so bargain-basement that the only people left doing crafting/gathering are essentially charities, or nobody will be able to afford goods due to the basic inability to even afford crafter/gatherer labor costs (the amount of money the crafters/gatherers need to make it worth their time).

There's a theory that this has been done intentionally in order to drain cash out of legacy servers prior to opening those up to new character creation. That would make sense for those servers, but it's probably going to cause irreparable harm to the fledgling economies of non-legacy servers (or at least a massive crash that will likely take either a long period of time to recover from or some sort of absurd money generation tactic to be found).

Keep your money in gold, folks.

[JDodge]

ive played 10 hours a day for the past two days trying to grind from 39 to level cap

hit 47, going to go for 50 tonight

please send help

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im a raid leader now \o/

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sometimes gear in this game gets to be extraordinarily excellent-looking

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I'm on Coeurl. So no. :<

How do I go about telling my FC that I would like to use my BC locks on actual kills instead of trying to help them do it and never actually getting it
and finding a BC static

suck it up or grow a pair and tell 'em

[JDodge]

but but they're all nice people...

i had the same thing but worse; i volunteered to be our raid leader and was tasked with eventually getting a consistent Coil group up and running

unfortunately, it was pretty goddamn obvious that we were either never going to get to coil or were going to get to coil

months

down the line; i had also made friends with someone back on my original home server (ultros) who had offered me a spot with their FC

$18 later for a server transfer and i definitely made the right decision (last night was supposed to be my first night with my static group at my new FC but some administrative dumbassery happened) - if they are your friends, they will understand that you are doing what is best for yourself; if not, i would reconsider whether or not they are really such nice people if they aren't wishing their comrades the best, even if that means they are no longer their comrades

tl;dr this is a game, do what you think will give you the most enjoyment - if you think you'll miss these guys too much and won't make new friends wherever you go, then stay, if not, then leave

[JDodge]

this is how i spent a silly amount of time this evening

[JDodge]

trying to solo heal turn 4 as a scholar while your white mage keeps getting 90k'd is pretty interesting

[JDodge]

The MT, hopefully a PLD, should use Hallowed Ground when the second DN appears, then have Sentinel for immediately after, then rotate CDs. By the time he's out of cooldowns, the old dreadnought should be dead. After that, all the panic-times are over.

Your healers and any caster DPS (in case it's on CD for healers) can try to get Virus on the two dreadnoughts starting as Sentinel is about to go off if they want to make it easier; just make sure they communicate so that they know which to target. From the Scholar, Rouse -> Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn will make phase 6 a lot easier. Be sure he has Eos on manual. Eye for an Eye/Sacred Soil help, too. The OT can make it easier on the healers by circle-tanking everything else to minimize damage to let the healers stay focused.

One additional note on this --

Be sure the Scholar doesn't put up Rouse/FI/WD until several seconds after MT has hate on the 2nd dreadnought, or Eos will totally pull all of the hate.

You can also save this cooldown set for the enrage portion of the fight if you want to avoid these hate issues.

why are you running eos in the dps race ;_;

I was kicked from my team. sad days

how? thats like fire at a sea parks level of what

[JDodge]

help i have been tasked with learning how to bard

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we had our housewarming party tonight

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the hot tub moments were too beautifully complex to ever capture in a screenshot

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I'm sad I logged off before the last picture before shutdown.

its ok, i won 50k back of the 80k i lost betting by being the last to get booted from the server during shutdown

[JDodge]

anyone with a somewhat geared/ready for action tank/dps (prefer a caster, will take something else if we have to) who is available tues/weds/thurs 9 PM EST and who is willing to eat a server change for a spot in a coil static, send me a pm

[JDodge]

tonight i turned myself into a cat to get better stats, had to stand in a plume with surecast on to get a res off in ifrit hm, solo-healed garuda hm, and then proceeded to do a ct run where we wiped 3x on king behemoth

i have had a stressful evening

[JDodge]

i turned myself into a cat to get better stats

solo-healed garuda hm

you say this is

stressful?!

i was quite attached to not being a catman

and yes, it is stressful when you are solo-healing garuda hm and people keep stacking

[JDodge]

Garuda HM is pretty much all on the tank to position Garuda's slipstream safely and the DPS to not stand in front of the sisters' slipstreams. If that happens, solo healing it is easy.

If not, well...

yep, and i was running with some friends of mine who are mostly casual

the condescension might want to go down a notch ^_^

[JDodge]

T2 enrage parses are the most hilarious things to look at



we were overhealing by 2,669.7 per second huehue

[JDodge]

Wait.

Did hyunkle out heal your white Mage? Assuming he was on sch...

yeeeep, by ~450 combined with eos

[JDodge]

I'll just be here waiting as a backup for the team. Someone as geared as neith shouldn't be having that low of a throughput on a poop ape heals fight.

even more dramatically, he shouldnt be almost doubled by a whm who's like 5ilvl below him

[JDodge]

I'll just be here waiting as a backup for the team. Someone as geared as neith shouldn't be having that low of a throughput on a poop ape heals fight.

even more dramatically, he shouldnt be almost doubled by a whm who's like 5ilvl below him

Is that graph taking into account overheals?

Maybe he just had his go off slightly after everyone else's?

it does, because of the way the parser works, which is reading from game memory (which does not store the values of player health in a way that is easily readable, due to the way the game calculates stuff and sends it back to client)

[JDodge]

Well, maybe he healed less just because it was better to conserve MP, then?

i had very little problem keeping tempo with worse gear

[JDodge]

game is on steam now 50% off, brace for impact from the wave o' stupid

[JDodge]

game is on steam now 50% off, brace for impact from the wave o' stupid

psh I've seen CT on saturday nights

I SEE CTS OF GREEN

RED ROSES TOO

MORONS ON MY SCREEN

NEAR ME AND YOU

AND I THINK TO MYSELF

WHAT THE SHIT DID I DOOOOOOO

[JDodge]

we have successfully petitioned to get our group renamed from Group Valefor to Group Not the beeesss ahhhhhhhhhhh my eeeyesss blarlgghglghghg gahhhhhhhhh

[JDodge]

why was it group valefor in the first place

apparently there were ninja-nerfs to T5 (conflags/snakes have less HP, enrage timer either lengthened or removed, divebomb indicator made larger) and ninja-buffs to T2 enrage (3k damage every 4s instead of 2k damage every 5s)

[JDodge]

we have successfully petitioned to get our group renamed from Group Valefor to Group Not the beeesss ahhhhhhhhhhh my eeeyesss blarlgghglghghg gahhhhhhhhh

HOWD IT GET BURNED?

HOWD IT GET BURNED

HOWD IT GET BURNED

HOWD IT GET BURNED

http://www.twitch.tv/auralhallucination/c/3760598

[JDodge]

our group has collectively left our FC and formed a new one, Internal Release «se.6»

i feel we have made the best naming decisions

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our static is named QueefBiscuit at the moment

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o.o

and @ exp bar on the top of the screen

BLASPHEMYYYYYYYYYY



also, three free linkshell slots?!

how

i dont talk to people that i dont need to talk to

[JDodge]

BACK FROM FANFEST

2.4 HYPE

WHO'S READY FOR A SEX PARTY (EXPERIENCE REQUIRED)

[JDodge]

It's story time! Today's story: JD and the Whack-a-Mole Raid!

I transferred to Gilgamesh in April to join a bunch of old friends from my CL days after my stint in the top FC on Hyperion ended. I decided once I got over here and saw there weren't any raid slots in my new FC I was interested in to make my own group. I grabbed a friend of mine and a SCH in the FC in need of a group who said they had a PLD friend who needed one as well, and we started up.

Soon after I grabbed a couple of other people from the FC who I knew of but had never had any contact with - everyone who'd ever talked about them said they were great people (and they are) so I was super excited. I went on to tell our SCH only to find out that he'd decided he was just going to start his own group (gave a bunch of bullshit answers to my questioning), so back down to 4 we went. That's ok, I thought, we had me on DRG, the two I'd picked up were SMN/BRD, and my friend was WAR - it'd be rough recruiting, but I could easily pick up PLD/SCH/WHM/MNK, right? Soon after I started my delightful ad campaign. I managed to snag a PLD who came with his own set of healers. Bonus! I grabbed a MNK soon after and we went off on our first raid night.

We're missing our PLD when we start, so we decide to do T10 farm instead of the T12 prog. Things are pretty shaky due to some tanking issues caused by rust. Our healers refuse to join us on TS, and then when the PLD finally shows up tell him we have "communication issues". Already I want to kick them, but I want to keep them going for now and see if they shape up. The tank seems like a cool guy. Afterwards, he says he needs to talk to his healers then basically tells us that they've decided to stay but are putting conditions on it. I decide to give them one more night to see what happens. Next day, they've left the raid linkshell and the group and took the monk with them.

So back down to 4/8 again, I decide I'm going to swing over to WHM instead of playing DRG. Grab a SCH who seems pretty cool, grab a PLD with no experience who seems to have a good attitude, grab a couple of melees who seem chill and things go from there. We go to go in last night, the PLD is missing, and our WAR is out of game time. So we grab a couple of PUG tanks and 2-shot T12 (we had 3 people without clears) with almost no difficulty.

Spending today recruiting new tanks. Grabbed a PLD that looks promising but we'll see what happens when we get in there.

Remember kids, it's not about finding the best players, it's about finding good, reliable people.

[JDodge]

things i should be doing when 3.0 hits:

leveling astrologian/whm
crunching numbers on healing potencies/cds/whatnot to determine astro potential
prepping for alexander

what i will be doing:

GET OUTTA MY WAY IMMA AKH MORN BITCHES

[JDodge]

RIP holy

https://twitter.com/charmwitch/status/6 ... 2704375808

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please be aware that on early release i'll be turning this into my theory-dump thread

[JDodge]

current thoughts based off of what little we know about healers specifically:

I've heard that Astrologians are unable to change stances mid-battle - this is a very, very silly design decision and I hope it gets reversed. This basically pigeon-holes them as "replacement healer" since their jack of all trades nature seems to indicate that their abilities are actually categorically

worse

than most of the other healers' abilities (it's likely their regen effects, for example, will be too weak to make them a full WHM replacement with spspd affecting HoT effects, and their shields will likely be weaker than a SCH's). That being said, their adaptability will make them the "if you for some reason can only play one healer class and you want to solo heal things once you out-gear/skill them" go-to.

From a WHM's perspective, the only things we can really conjecture off of are the spellspeed changes (will likely make spellspeed #1 optimal stat for all builds instead of being for solo heal builds, especially with the refresh effect on Assize), and the changes to Holy and Assize (which we have numbers on). Holy is getting absolutely and 100% eviscerated, and is Squeenix saying "fuck you WHMs in speedruns/DD first room/etc". Assize is a 90s cd with a 300 heal potency, making it not really that great except in emergency situations (not what we were hoping for - the ideal would be an instant-cast at a large mana cost, which is what i was expecting) and massive AoE spikes (a swifted Cure3 + Assize will equal 850 potency in heals out in a split-second) a la Gigaflare/Rage of Bahamut/Megaflare/etc.

[JDodge]

I dunno, the card system, depending on how powerful the buffs are, seem to have the potential to make them more than just wannabe-WHM/SCH.
Disable also seems like it could save some tank LB use?

The only attack that's required tank LB in the entirety of coil progression was Teraflare in T13, and Bahamut Prime is untargetable while he's casting it.

The card system's buff power is known. It's a nice touch but it's not a replacement for the raw healing output of a WHM and will likely not outstrip the DPS potential of a SCH in usefulness.

[JDodge]

currently progressing on the first major boss of the expansion, server crashes and instability

i am glad we managed to down the hardest boss of pre-expac (raid attendance) before this

[JDodge]

My current thoughts on viable pairs in terms of healing synergy:

WHM/SCH, AST/SCH -

Play similarly to WHM/SCH before. SCH will mostly DPS and play support to WHM/AST output. May be room for flex with WHM/SCH where WHM would want to be dpsing instead of SCH - WHM dps received a fairly large buff with stone3, and potentially with aero3. SCH in cleric received a nerf since Lustrate is now affected by cleric stance, meaning that they can't support heal from cleric. Need to see Tetragrammaton CD to see if WHMs actually

can

. AST/SCH will likely play exactly the same as old WHM/SCH - AST DPS seems weak probably due to their very large utility pool.

WHM/AST

This would be similar to the old WHM/SCH setup, but reversed - the WHM would rely on the AST's heals while they DPS, popping out of cleric for support. Extremely powerful for AoE-heavy fights, weak on fights with high single-target damage.

AST/AST

Weak on DPS, very strong on raw power and flexibility - dual cards MAY make up for the lack of healer DPS with raid DPS buffs, but likely won't. Probably viable only with high gear levels.

[JDodge]

Also, I'm starting my own FC tomorrow/today with some friends :3

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parsing 572 and tanks can't hold threat against my initial burst dps

assize is ridiculous

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i'd say jump over to gilg and play either drg/mnk for us but we're kind of hoping to go into stuff on tuesday - will you be 60 by alex release?

i've cleared t13 before echo, was with a pug. i got tired of our whm obviously not being up for the challenge and stopped showing up to raid.

was this you stopped showing up to raid or they stopped showing up?

[JDodge]

They stopped showing up, according to Saki's earlier posts about this

just double-checking cause i don't put up with that kind of shit in my group~

[JDodge]

regular alex is a week from tomorrow and is supposedly going to be CT difficulty (with CT-style loot system), so that's not an issue (the issue will be getting you ready to farm ex primals)

savage alex is 3 weeks from tomorrow, which is the big deal

[JDodge]

if you transfer on over we'll pick you up as soon as you're ready; our current raid times are 10PM-1AM eastern Tues-Thurs (may be more with alex release, we'll see what happens), and even if it doesn't work out you'll be on one of the most populated servers which is generally well-known for player skill, so it's a good environment outside of a static for progression-minded people as well

[JDodge]

change of plans saki, if you transfer over up for monking or ninjing?

[JDodge]

nvm

[JDodge]

spots filled while i was waiting to hear back :<

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too many recruitment channels for my own good

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So what fo you think of alex?

You get there yet?

4/4 and we were considering selling tonight but we played league all night instead.

Easy, fun, and greatly looking forward to savage. Especially like the aesthetic elements of it. I play with BGM on unlike most people I play with because my computer is the brave little toaster - because of this, the fact that the music is both A) enjoyable and B) not distracting is extremely useful to me.

Curious to how loot is going to work in savage; they seem to be making a big deal out of the live letter clarifying it, so I'm assuming it'll be different than coil.

[JDodge]

Alex 4 savage.

The ultimate healer check

the healing load in A4 normal is greatly exaggerated

we've run it with WHM/diurnal AST and WHM/SCH; the first was just stack med2/aspected helios and the second was just med2/eos for dealing with all the random damage; the only slightly scary part is when you have nisi on you and both you/tank are relatively low, but on WHM that's not really scary as long as you're holding your tetra

[JDodge]

us cool people have statics for that :3

[JDodge]

<<Ayyyy>> over on Gilgamesh always be recruitin' but we aren't a raiding FC if that's what you're looking for (still in the leveling process, as we get more to offer we'll open more and more with the hopes of being a medium-sized social FC)

Come be a part of the revelAyyyytion!

[JDodge]

Another day, another fail party of not killing the dragons fast enough.

~COME~

~TO~

~GILGAMESH~

[JDodge]

just remember that gilg party finder groups were clearing bismarck ex

in early access

[JDodge]

Isn't Gilgamesh a loaded server?

I may take you up on that offer because I have nothing better to do.

Gilgamesh is one of the highest-population servers in the game, yes, but the important thing to understand is that Gilgamesh is to FFXIV what Illidan and Sargeras are to WoW - the endgame raiding server.

A lot of Gilgamesh's growth has to do with an influx of talent from Ultros, which was for a while an endgame place-to-be; this occured due to the move of Collision, which was riding the high from world first T6/7 and world second T8/9. They decided to move to Gilgamesh to take advantage of a larger talent pool (Ultros had gained a reputation as a "dying server"; in reality, the Ultros community's clique tendencies and insularity did itself in). This put both Collision and Death and Taxes on the same server, meaning that by the time FCoB rolled around, Gilgamesh had the world #2 and #3 FCs on it. This lead to a further influx of players looking to progress who were frustrated with their progress elsewhere - this did mean an influx of bads, but for the most part it was an influx of players who were legitimately good at what they did, but unable to get by elsewhere.

Transfer cost is $18. You're welcome to join my FC (Casual Encounters <<Ayyyy>>) either temporarily or permanently. If your endgame goal is raiding, I have contacts within (and prior to us founding Ayyyy was a member of) Ascended, which is an FC that sprung up as sort of a revolt of several members of CL over CL leadership's treatment of their member base outside of their main raid(s).

[JDodge]

I've been across four servers in my time playing. The first, Zalera, was pretty much completely dead and not really worth staying on. I made friends with one of the leaders of the top raiding FCs on Ultros (in fact, the top at the time) and transferred over to join them. I stayed on Ultros for over a year due to having friends there, but eventually the static I'd made and kept running for around 7 months with very few changes decided to split up and go our separate ways due to a T13 wall. I left the server after being recruited by the then-top FC on Hyperion; I got my T13 cleared in my first night of running with them (still have the VoD), but the group I was in split up due to drama. Both halves dropped out of raiding with the FC, but all 3 parties (the two halves of the group I was in and the FC itself) wanted to keep me. I declined and moved to Gilgamesh to join Ascended, since my friend who brought me to Ultros in the first place was the founder of it, in addition to knowing a large portion of people in it from my own stint in Collision.

I'd say that out of the four I've been on, Gilgamesh is by far the best server of the four - Ultros has a lot of great people who I miss dearly, but no opportunities. Hyperion is extremely cold in terms of atmosphere - you are your skill, and nothing else. Zalera is dead. Gilg is vibrant, active, and mostly friendly - there are massive cockbags here and there, but for the most part people are willing to help each other out a bit as long as you're capable of doing the stuff on your own as well (you won't get carried unless you're paying, but people are plenty willing to help out if you've proven you can carry your own weight).

[JDodge]

Gilgamesh was fun when I was there because everyone was gay.

Yeeeah, my group kind of accidentally ended up being something like 5/8 or something similarly absurd (although to be fair it started out as something with me and my friend who I met through the /r/gaymers LS over on Ultros). It's a refreshing change of pace since I was the sort of "token gay" in every group I've been in up to this point. Gilg's community is all really nice and inclusive people though, was a nice change of pace from Ultros' LGBT community which mostly seemed more interested in creating an in-game version of the high school microcosm from Mean Girls than actually being a community.

Does Gilgamesh have wait times to log in?

Nope!

Gilgamesh was fun when I was there because everyone was gay.

There was this guy in our FC who was gay and would never shut the fuck up about it.

Plenty of people who are straight and never shut the fuck up about it as well. In my case I could probably be viewed that way due to my sense of humor - I have a natural tendency to push limits with my humor (I'm going to get beaten up or worse one of these days, I can about guarantee it), but nothing is meant by it.

I can agree that someone who allows their only personality characteristic to be "I'm gay" is probably exceedingly annoying though unless it's for humorist purposes, much in the same way that someone turning into any stereotype and proclaiming that they are that every 20 seconds is as annoying.

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Actually an amendment to that nope - there were during HW release, and usually there'll be a queue that can 90% of the time be skipped (Cancel and re-log, and you should log in instantly - Ultros is a mid-pop server and has the same issue). Basically any time there's going to be massive traffic there'll be a bit of a queue, but it never lasts more than 10-15 minutes in the extreme cases (which happened I think once during expac release - the norm was 3-4).

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Gonna put together a new list of character names/servers/etc. for MS since the first post is pretty outdated. Post here with lodestone link to be added, going to comb through tomorrow to add everyone who's already posted and all the people in the first post (would tonight but have raid in 45 min).

[JDodge]

Casual Encounters <<Ayyyy>>

I'll be on for raid from at least 10 PM eastern through until at least 1 AM eastern - likely longer. If I'm not on (Entheo Gennic), see if any of Perdy Tang, Tristan Nex, or Erethar Laegosin are on and tell them I sent you, they should all have invite powers.

[JDodge]

Sigh.

Time for goodbyes, time for a new adventure.

There's an emergency maintenance happening in half an hour, apparently, so I won't be raiding tonight - will catch up with you sometime after maintenance if you're on.

[JDodge]

Character List

Only added people I know who are active - if I left people off, please let me know.

Considering adding a progression tracker sheet to allow us to help each other out if we ever end up on the same server

[JDodge]

World is currently full

Currently #29.

Bleh

hit cancel and re-enter, it should skip you through automatically (this is what i was talking about with queue skipping)

[JDodge]

World is currently full

Currently #29.

Bleh

hit cancel and re-enter, it should skip you through automatically (this is what i was talking about with queue skipping)

Wow, this is an awesome tip.

Ive landed in Gilgamesh and its wonderful. Got ambushed 3 times over the night by people asking me if I was new. Not to mention all the PF's for farm parties <3

Yep, and if you're around tonight/Friday I'll be talking my group into getting you through whatever you need to to get you into those farm parties if you can't already. :3

[JDodge]

i'll be on in about half an hour to an hour (making dinner at the moment), so i'll probably be the most likely person you'll see on

if you could give me your character name, i'll keep an eye out for you between raid instances and try to get you in then

[JDodge]

:3

I AM THE WHM GOD

I'm glad you are enjoying the gays.

when you comin back to us

[JDodge]

How time consuming is this game?

i think my total play time is over 225

days

now

[JDodge]

that's a pretty horribly bad exaggeration, people leveled alts into old endgame content in 2-3 days (30-40 hours) and they've increased exp since then

that'll put you into pre-expansion content; from there it's a similar 30-40 for heavensward, but whether or not you'd be having fun by that point depends on perspective (a lot of the old content IS fun first-time; it only became unfun to us burnouts because some of it we had to grind for

literally a year and a half

because they kept finding ways to recycle old content to force us to run it again

[JDodge]

if people don't know what they're doing (first time playing)
I really do think it will take someone 150-300ish hours to hit a state where you no longer feel like you are 'behind' your friends
DPS dungeon queues are ewwwww
before the days of low level roulette you had to wait 58 minutes for fucking totorak

that's why you make friends that help you out instead of making you feel behind constantly

remember that it's a $18 server transfer premium to play with cool people like me due to gilgamesh's overpopulation issue

[JDodge]

the short version of it is the number of hours it takes for it to be worth it depends on how much effort you're willing to put into making your time worth it, how much you enjoy the journey to 1-50/60 (contrary to popular belief and something that we all forget once we hit level cap, is that leveling the first time isn't just a horrible grindfest unless you're exclusively focused on endgame and can't see the forest through the trees, so to speak), and your ability to network and make friends that make your time that valuable

[JDodge]

I wish the best of luck to whoever is raiding Alex savage tomorrow.

we be in there, yo

team My Dad Works At Square-Enix aka Ayyyyscended is ready to go

[JDodge]

btw sala, how confident do you feel in trying it out for yourself/how geared are you now

we might need a backup healer (our SCH is leaving for cali on wednesday) for like a week

[JDodge]

WELCOME TO 3.05 WHERE EVERYTHING'S MADE UP AND THE TOMESTONES DON'T MATTER

regarding weapons: esoterics weapons are 210, as are gordian (alex savage) weapons, meaning that there are 10 BiS weapons from A4 and 3 BiS from tomestones+gobdip drop from A4 (BLM for higher spspd value, SMN for crit/spspd over det/crit which is now worse due to dot scaling and a lack of mana issues, and DRK because parry is godawful UNLESS they want to avoid skspd)

it seems as if tomestone weapons do not require a token like the SCoB/FCoB weapons did - this throws almost everything we know about gearing out the window immediately, and requires further alex farming as a gap while dps farms up weapons (WHMs seem to be the only class that can get away with hive being better than eso)

[JDodge]

WELCOME TO 3.05 WHERE EVERYTHING'S MADE UP AND THE TOMESTONES DON'T MATTER

regarding weapons: esoterics weapons are 210, as are gordian (alex savage) weapons, meaning that there are 10 BiS weapons from A4 and 3 BiS from tomestones+gobdip drop from A4 (BLM for higher spspd value, SMN for crit/spspd over det/crit which is now worse due to dot scaling and a lack of mana issues, and DRK because parry is godawful UNLESS they want to avoid skspd)

it seems as if tomestone weapons do not require a token like the SCoB/FCoB weapons did - this throws almost everything we know about gearing out the window immediately, and requires further alex farming as a gap while dps farms up weapons (WHMs seem to be the only class that can get away with hive being better than eso)

Well from what I read in the notes, raiding is ineffective.

After everyone in the group clears something, youre done with that turn til tuesday

that's how raid tiers work

btw sala, how confident do you feel in trying it out for yourself/how geared are you now

we might need a backup healer (our SCH is leaving for cali on wednesday) for like a week

Im 182 WHM. Take that as you will.

i didn't ask your item level, i asked your confidence - item level doesn't tell me shit on a healer (skill>gear every time in healing)

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http://www.hitbox.tv/PerdyTang

^ our alex savage stream, setting up now

[JDodge]

WORLD FAUST

we would've been past faust about 2 to 2.5 hours ahead of time had servers not been meeeelting

[JDodge]

need our sch back

cant deal with people who dont understand gcds/aetherflow stacks are a goddamn resource

;_;

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oh ummmmm grimm & i started playing this again, does anyone else play?

weren't you guys on gilgamesh? if so hit me up (Entheo Inaveh in-game)