Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Smug Chuckler]

Rising event came. just a parasol, no mini-game for my toy chest , and Yoshi P by himself this time in a paladin attire thank me for playing again.

Also finished ShB with my alt and I appreciate the expansion's story more despite having more reason to hate Stormblood.

 

[Haramburger]

So basically most the standard FFXIV overworld quests. Do they have things like FFXIV's solo duty instances where you fight a scripted encounter with basic raid-like mechanics while NPCs do stuff around you for narrative effect?

Yes, they've had more personal instanced/phased content starting around Mists of Pandaria, but it's scattered in weird places. The intro story quest that you must do to unlock access to the Isle of Thunder stands out(it's easy, especially at high levels because WoW doesn't do level-sync on that stuff, UNLESS you do it as a group and you're higher than the leader, in which case it's a new feature to sync down to them). But they have multiple phases/different objectives, and the major enemies in them have complex, boss-like mechanics to dodge usually.

There's almost never a reason to heal or tank for NPCs, largely everything is done from a DPS' point of view. But WoW also makes (sometimes clever) use of vehicles to give you all new abilities or perspectives to do things. So it's give-and-take between the two games.

 

[Gravemind]

Rising event came. just a parasol, no mini-game for my toy chest , and Yoshi P by himself this time in a paladin attire thank me for playing again.

Also finished ShB with my alt and I appreciate the expansion's story more despite having more reason to hate Stormblood.

Don't forget all that thick, throbbing foreshadowing they decided to include in the dialog with regards to Endwalker.

 

[Fcret]

Isn't the traditional suncat way of life essentially on life support at this point? Very few of the younger suncat women in the Ala Mhigan resistance want to return to their tribes. M'naago is probably the most sympathetic to suncat 'culture' but even she constantly comes up with excuses for why she can't come home. Hell, the M tribe is basically propped up by remittances at this point according to the custom delivery storyline.

And then you have Y'shtola and Y'mhitra who are very obviously not going to join some cat sheik's harem after becoming world class scholars.

It is also interesting how G'raha Tia, one of the major male suncat characters. is a direct descendant of the Allagan imperial household... Maybe they're all descendants of Allagan nobility and that's why they're so down with polygamy and inbreeding.

Anyway, mooncats are better and more fuckable because they're brown and have cute teeth thank you for coming to my TED Talk

 

[Gravemind]

Anyway, mooncats are better and more fuckable because they're brown and have cute teeth thank you for coming to my TED Talk

Nigga, mooncats go with fucking vampire-looking ass or ashy-looking motherfucker skintones for one, and how are you bring up M'naago's suncat ass like she isn't delicious brown skinned herself? Not to mention Y'shtola and Y'mihtra as well.

 

[Dave.]

Nigga, mooncats go with fucking vampire-looking ass or ashy-looking motherfucker skintones for one, and how are you bring up M'naago's suncat ass like she isn't delicious brown skinned herself? Not to mention Y'shtola and Y'mihtra as well.

I mean vampires can be hot

 

[Gravemind]

I mean vampires can be hot
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Maybe to some, but most vampires damn sure aren't brown-skinned.

 

[JektheDumbass]

Titania wasn't as bad as I had feared, only wiped 3 times. Other tank definitely boosted (kept hitting limit break as soon as stage 1 was full, would not pick up any adds, etc). I am getting better at timing TBN with tankbusters but I keep forgetting entirely about Living Death so clearly I need more practice.

 

[Gravemind]

Titania wasn't as bad as I had feared, only wiped 3 times. Other tank definitely boosted (kept hitting limit break as soon as stage 1 was full, would not pick up any adds, etc). I am getting better at timing TBN with tankbusters but I keep forgetting entirely about Living Death so clearly I need more practice.

And nobody yelled at the retard for repeatedly popping a puny 1 bar defense LB? Or, better yet, kicked him after 15 minutes?

Also, please tell me you weren't popping Living Dead for tankbusters. Living Dead should really only be your "OH SHIT", last resort button to keep your ass alive in an emergency situation, since it then becomes the healers' problem to restore 100% of your HP in order to save your ass from immediately dying to Living Dead's side effect.

 

[Rungle]

Today finally level 80'd my dark knight and I think it is one of my favorite classes so far, so I went to Limsa straight afterward so I could shop for some glamours when I saw a dude running gambling set up with music and dancers.
Rollover 500? It's a win and you get double back.
Lower than 500? Shit outta luck.
Managed to get 500k out of it, they supposedly also have a location in a house somewhere.
Quite interesting to see something else besides erp clubs and gay houses for once.

PSA: FFXV event is in two weeks, better grind that mgp in advance.

 

[Gravemind]

Today finally level 80'd my dark knight and I think it is one of my favorite classes so far, so I went to Limsa straight afterward so I could shop for some glamours when I saw a dude running gambling set up with music and dancers.
Rollover 500? It's a win and you get double back.
Lower than 500? Shit outta luck.
Managed to get 500k out of it, they supposedly also have a location in a house somewhere.
Quite interesting to see something else besides erp clubs and gay houses for once.

Friends and I used to do that among ourselves back in the day. We all agree on a "buy in" price, wager that amount (anywhere from 20k-500k) in a conceptual "pool", and then we take turns rolling to see who ends up with the highest roll, winner takes the whole pot. And if someone wants that salty runback, we had something of a gentlemen's agreement to "double" or nothing the stakes (not technically doubling unless everyone involved in the original roll plays again, but still it's more money if the original winner wins twice).

It was the first time I ever broke 1 million in game. I was so proud.

 

[JektheDumbass]

And nobody yelled at the retard for repeatedly popping a puny 1 bar defense LB? Or, better yet, kicked him after 15 minutes?

Also, please tell me you weren't popping Living Dead for tankbusters. Living Dead should really only be your "OH SHIT", last resort button to keep your ass alive in an emergency situation, since it then becomes the healers' problem to restore 100% of your HP in order to save your ass from immediately dying to Living Dead's side effect.

No, I'm not popping living death against tankbusters, I'm literally forgetting it exists. Opposite problem really.

Someone did jump his shit for not doing his job but we hadn't hit 15 minutes when we cleared it.

Edit: weird, my previous post repeated itself. Odd.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

but I keep forgetting entirely about Living Death so clearly I need more practice.

Cant blame ya, Living dead is pretty meh as an invuln since its not just 0 damage like PLD, being unable to die at cost of a tether, or spending all your health for 0 damage, arguably the worst of the 4

 

[Kane Lives]

Cant blame ya, Living dead is pretty meh as an invuln since its not just 0 damage like PLD, being unable to die at cost of a tether, or spending all your health for 0 damage, arguably the worst of the 4

It'd be on par with the WAR's oh shit button if they lowered the HP requirements.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Living Dead's problem is that the general best way to use invuls is to use them to effectively skip mechanics and/or skip heal bombing the tank after a mechanic. T13 Akh Morn is a good example of this as it forces both tanks to use CDs to survive normally, but with LD/Holmgang/etc you can just take it, heal one tank, and use only one tank CD. Living Dead requiring 100% hp healed, even though you still take damage during the walking dead buff, is stupid because it costs too many resources or gcds to fulfill this condition. So it doesn't really skip anything it just redirects what you are doing to answer the mechanic, Holmgang at least has the decency to be on the shortest CD so you can use it more and thus use it to attempt more mechanic skips which actually does make it arguably the best invul despite it doing arguably the least on paper.

If LD was 3-4 minutes instead of 5, so it better aligns with Benediction as the sole button that makes LD actually useful at all, it probably wouldn't be so bad but that extra minute limits what you can do with it and thus begs the question "Why does this garbage even exist?".

 

[Rungle]

Finally received my ultima statue.
Its suprisingly high quality which i did not expect due to the whole fiasco with the omega statue.
I might get odin should I find a brand new with unused code version

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Living Dead is what it is because TBN is what it is.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Living Dead is what it is because TBN is what it is.

TBN is also the only tank CD that can screw you over due to its short duration and the cost to use it vs Heart of Stone or Raw Intuition/Nascent Flash. TBN is really good vs singular tank busters that always break the shield, but it is inflexible vs everything else that it can be kind of annoying to use because of that while the other short duration CDs don't have this problem. You can run into issues where as you gear up during a tier the way you used TBN last week, doesn't work the same and it is kind of annoying. I don't mind TBN being this way persay (I wouldn't mind a duration increase though) as it is like Drk's defining ability but it is not some infallible CD that I notice a lot of people say it is.

Even then Warrior is about as good at tanking the boss as a well executed TBN Drk due to Warrior getting an extra defensive CD due to Equilibrium existing and for TBs ToB is about as good because it inflates your hp by 20% and if you're playing especially safe it boosts your GCD healing received by 20% (this can also matter for deployment tactics on Scholar). Holmgang for mechanic skipping is arguably the best invuln. TBN may arguably be the best singular tank CD in a vacuum (though if this is vs any dangerous multi-hit then HoS or Nascent/RI is probably better), but it doesn't mean LD gets to suck without a WHM.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

TBN may arguably be the best singular tank CD in a vacuum (though if this is vs any dangerous multi-hit then HoS or Nascent/RI is probably better), but it doesn't mean LD gets to suck without a WHM.

It's the fact that you can slap it on anyone, it has such a low cooldown, and it functionally provides you with such an absurd amount of survivability if you tone down your damage in exchange that they're concerned about giving the class a more proper invulnerability, probably. Naturally, this leaves the job feeling gimped before 70.

And while living dead is really a cool and thematic idea, in practice it doesn't work out terribly great indeed without a WHM, as ast and scholar both have to begin spamming like loons while you're still, presumably, taking damage. But it's also hard to guess how they could retain the idea and turn it into something like a proper invulnerability, rather than just scrapping it and further homogenizing the tanks.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

It's the fact that you can slap it on anyone, it has such a low cooldown, and it functionally provides you with such an absurd amount of survivability if you tone down your damage in exchange that they're concerned about giving the class a more proper invulnerability, probably. Naturally, this leaves the job feeling gimped before 70.

And while living dead is really a cool and thematic idea, in practice it doesn't work out terribly great indeed without a WHM, as ast and scholar both have to begin spamming like loons while you're still, presumably, taking damage. But it's also hard to guess how they could retain the idea and turn it into something like a proper invulnerability, rather than just scrapping it and further homogenizing the tanks.

I disagree on a few points. TBN's low CD is contrast to the fact it actively hampers your damage if it doesn't break and using it on CD is not consistently effective vs most things, outside of wall to wall pulls where Warrior is better because Nascent Flash is busted with good use of Chaotic Cyclone and far out performs TBN. So its low CD is misleading, outside of wall to walls, because you can't consistently break TBN with boss autos and thus it isn't really free like just about every other tank CD in this game.

Second shields vs DR mitigation depend on how much damage you take within that short duration of time. If RI reduces more than around 42,500~ damage as a 16%ish DR(due to multiplicative stacking with tank trait), as TBN is roughly that strong with current tank hp, then RI is as good as TBN and doesn't potentially cost anything to use. If the boss has something like buster into big cleave (Alexander Prime is an example of this), 42.5k~ isn't that hard to reach or at least get very close that they're at least comparable CDs. Nascent on your co tank/party member is similar as you can restore a decent chunk of hp and reduce damage by 10% for the duration and with an Inner Chaos use it isn't hard to heal a good portion of that 42.5k~ alongside the DR. Unlike TBN you can just press these CDs whenever because they actually do cost nothing to use outside of their cooldown duration. Now finally Equilibirum by itself heals for around 40kish~ I believe with current max ilvl gear and that is a 60 second CD.

Boss tank busters aren't that hard to not die to (unless you just forget to use defensives entirely) due to how much mitigation and healing exists in this game without touching anything that notably lowers damage (like spamming gcd heals), very few of them hard one shot you and those that could you can invuln on other tanks fairly easily, so self sustain is comparable most the time because you can just heal up your damage instead of blocking it with a bubble. So if Equilbirum can more or less keep at pace with TBN every 60 seconds without any questions of "will my shield actually block this much damage anyway?" and Warrrior's other CDs are close or comparable, then Drk with TBN isn't really all that special. TBN is at its best in early prog because everyone's hp is relatively low and thus using it often is generally not that much of an issue as it'll break easily, but as your hp gets higher TBN becomes harder and harder to just use without gimping your damage.

Also LD has been the same ability since Drk's release in 2015 and has had the same problems for 6 years (though they arguably got worse due to how huge tank hp numbers are), Living Dead sucked before TBN even existed. If LD was just a lower CD it'd probably have some usefu niche value due to its duration being longer than Holmgang, especially if WHM became more popular again as with Bene LD isn't really that bad at all.

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