Board 8 > FFXIV Topic 11 - Fly Me to the Moon

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I'm glad I accidentally turned on my PS5 out of habit, because the update takes 1 minute to download but 10 minutes to copy to the damn harddrive. Would have been grumpy at 6AM lol.

https://youtu.be/Y602wPXrFtI

banananor posted...

as someone used to other MMOs, i wouldn't want to waltz into a raid without half-decent gear, even if i was allowed to, but i know ffxiv is usually different

yeah these normal raids are basically casual content. definitely not something anyone is concerned with ilvl in. you're thinking of the right attitude for savage.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

...I may set an alarm for Savage patch day if it's that lucrative.

I've been gathering the Ephemeral Sands and rare gathering nodes consistentally under the assumption they will be involved.

it's very lucrative, but your success will depend on whether or not your crafting gear is pentamelded. i'm not sure how feasible it is if it's not.

and yeah, you need to get in in the morning. by later in the day, the prices will have already dropped.

Ohhh it was just clarified to me that the current tomestones don't have a weekly cap. Much less annoying, then.

servers are up.

The normal raids are definitely a couple steps down from the difficulty of the first tier of the Eden raids.

They certainly feel like unless last expac where savage took normal and kind of reimagined them that this is taking more of the WoW normal to heroic approach of the normal mode essentially missing the heroic mechanics, but we'll see. There are a few elements that appear in these fights that end up not doing anything, which is very strange.

Their approach to designing raids always used to be the same - the savage would be made first, then it would be nerfed to create the normal difficulty. Eden's Promise was the first time they began with normal difficulty then made savage on top of that. I suppose it remains to be seen whether they continued with that approach!

i hope they add the temperature math from DR savage to P1S

mechanics that rely on color recognition

Finished the Castlevania Raid Tier

P3 > P4 > P1 > P2.

Though I beat P4 without figuring it out, so maybe once I know what I'm doing it will go up.

Also I'm not sure if everyone would agree about the difficulty comment since I used 13 Verraises between P3 and P4.

On P3 I brought us back from only me, 1 tank, and 1 healer left, all by my lonesome. 5 in a row!

4 > 3 > 1 > 2

I think 4 was really cool.

The third fight is going to be a goddamn nightmare in DF in a few weeks' time when all the more serious players stop doing normal modes.

The gear is so ugly lol

Got the MDPS Body and have never glam'd off so fast.

Had an expert roulette where I got the last MSQ dungeon. On the last boss, the healer and BLM ate complete shit and died at about 50%. That boss puts out a crazy amount of aoe damage for a dungeon boss so we're just screwed, right?

Well. The tank was a warrior. And apparently WAR can heal other players now? And they can do it REALLY WELL? So with some clutch second winds and Troubador use, I did not die.

WAR has always had the best self-healing but this was insane. Straight up blue healer shit.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Had an expert roulette where I got the last MSQ dungeon. On the last boss, the healer and BLM ate complete shit and died at about 50%. That boss puts out a crazy amount of aoe damage for a dungeon boss so we're just screwed, right?

Well. The tank was a warrior. And apparently WAR can heal other players now? And they can do it REALLY WELL? So with some clutch second winds and Troubador use, I did not die.

WAR has always had the best self-healing but this was insane. Straight up blue healer shit.

WAR's been able to heal another player since Shadowbringers. And yes, WAR healing is insanely good. It's one of the strongest arguments in favor of bringing the job.

Oh really? I've never seen a WAR use it to this extent before. Whatever they did to it, it seemed to be able to heal me while retaining the ability to solo heal itself at the same time which is what is truly impressive. I suppose PLD could do that with Clemency but that's always a bit clunky.

The P4 music slaps.

Warrior healing is why I'm levelling the class lol. Unlike all other heal-on-hit stuff in the game it scales with the number of targets hit with a flat heal for each one, so 8~s every 25s in mass trash pulls they're effectively invulnerable (I usually outheal the healer by a lot). In dungeon boss fights they can extremely easily handle all tank damage with their other self heals too. I did a 3 dps 1 war run of doma castle the other day and it was nowhere near challenging, though the rdm did have to spot heal the other dps every now and then because I didn't have nascent flash at that level.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Whatever they did to it, it seemed to be able to heal me while retaining the ability to solo heal itself at the same time which is what is truly impressive.

Nascent Flash is a shared cooldown with Bloodwhetting, so they're giving up a tiny bit of personal mitigation and a small shield, but if theres actually someone to heal it's almost a good idea to Nascent Flash someone else if it saves the healer a gcd or two. Nascent Flash duplicates the healing they would have gotten off of Bloodwhetting to another target.

Finished the Stormblood bard quests.

It was pretty meh. The level 70 mission/final fight seemed relatively generic. A new version of straight arrow is pretty sweet though!

With regards to MSQ, just arrived in the Azim Steppe.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/1/AADcu0AACuev.jpg
Grinded this one out today

with raids that only allow 1 piece of loot per week....

if you don't get the item you want, and pass on everything else, can you run the fight again to get another roll?

Yep!

banananor posted...

with raids that only allow 1 piece of loot per week....

if you don't get the item you want, and pass on everything else, can you run the fight again to get another roll?

Yes, you can run the fight as many times per week as you want, and as long as you have not received a token from that fight you can still roll on everything.

Wait, what's the weekly turnover? I beat those first 3 fights before 10AM, so....

Tuesday in the very early morning, like 2 AM PST or something like that.

Yeah they don't reset the raid tokens at the same time as other weeklies roll over, presumably specifically to prevent doing them multiple times on day 1.

A lot of the resets are staggered in general.

Got in on a hunt train last night so I'm up to 563... hopefully I can get the ilvl for Pandaemonium today. I didn't realize the tome sets were based on FF4 characters...!

I've begun the arduous task of leveling all my other crafters. Glad Skybuilder mats are dirt cheap on the market board these days.

i realized the other day i can repair 90 equipment with my level 80 crafters, so my desire to max out all the crafters quickly plummeted. It'll suck to need a vendor to meld materia until i get around to it but so long as i can repair my own gear i'm ok

oh wait you don't need the exact class to meld anymore, just any 90 thats right

sweet i have just about 2 years to get around to it

mccheyne posted...

Finished the Stormblood bard quests.

It was pretty meh. The level 70 mission/final fight seemed relatively generic. A new version of straight arrow is pretty sweet though!

With regards to MSQ, just arrived in the Azim Steppe.

Yeah, the SB bard quests are weird in that the interesting parts happen in the middle of the questline, and the end is just mopping up.

Man, they REALLY boosted the EXP from regular hunts.

X_Dante_X posted...

oh wait you don't need the exact class to meld anymore, just any 90 thats right

meld or overmeld? regular melding could always be done with an npc, overmeld always needed the class that repaired the item. did that get changed

Got to 565

My audio's stuttering though, so I probably need to restart my client (and sit through the queue...) before I can do the raids :\

yeah patch 5.2 looks like, you just need any crafter (even culinarian) to be the requisite level

it blew right past my memory banks since i already had all 80's at that point, i just realized on the armor under class it says 'disciple of the hand lvl 90'

I have no idea what to meld on the 560 crafter set. I guess wait until the new mastet recipes are out and see what's needed?

For the new raid series, 3>4>1>2

Not sure if we know how much craftsmanship will be needed for the next set of recipes, but if you had that number you'd basically want to get that much craftsmanship, as much CP as possible, and then after that the rest in control.

BK_Sheikah00 posted...

I have no idea what to meld on the 560 crafter set. I guess wait until the new mastet recipes are out and see what's needed?

your best bet is to go join The Balance discord and stalk their DoH/DoL channels for tips about what to do now and what to expect later

https://guides.ffxivteamcraft.com/guide/crafting-melding-guide

this is something basic about melding they have so far, it's gonna be updated when savage comes out

After doing it a couple times, I think the issue with P4 is that it's almost too easy and people assume the mechanics must be more complicated than they are, lol.

I really enjoyed P4 when I did it but I think in retrospect P3 is the better fight because it requires the most execution on top of observation.

P4 I feel like will be super, super easy in a few weeks once the bad pubbies finish figuring out the mechanics. It's actually really hard to get hit by anything in that fight once you know what does what because you have like a full 10 seconds of telegraph before each move.

However it's easiness almost betrays how fucked it's likely to be in Savage.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Man, they REALLY boosted the EXP from regular hunts.

oh damn, i didn't even think to check this since the exp was so low anyway

dungeons got boosted by about 1.5x

but these seem like... 2.5x as much based on what i recall?

it's basically the equivalent to a fate now

Yeah in case anyone is wondering, 4 tome accessories and tome weapon with the rest 560 works for getting to 565.

Seeing how dyeing works on the Paladin Artifact Gear up there with the most dissapointing XIV moments.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Yeah in case anyone is wondering, 4 tome accessories and tome weapon with the rest 560 works for getting to 565.

Oh no. Don't buy the tome weapon.

red13n posted...

Oh no. Don't buy the tome weapon.

But the harpbow is amazing for my glamour!

red13n posted...

Oh no. Don't buy the tome weapon.

...Why not?

It's only 500 tomes of the uncapped tomestone. You can literally get that in a day or two solely doing roulettes.

I've geared 2 jobs in almost entirely tomestone gear already just doing Hunt Trains alone in the last week.

buying the tome weapon should be something you do pretty early because of how hugely impactful weapon damage as a stat is, far more so than any substats. the only reason you might not want to is if you're confident you can and want to farm the ex trail without it but i think assuming everyone even wants to do ex trials is lol