Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

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turn on the option to join in-progress parties in order to drown in easy commends

there are so many terrible tanks and healers at the moment with the most frail of egos, there's no shortage of groups to join either just before the last boss or a single pull into the instance from which you can get the sweet, sweet burger king crown
 
Gravemind dijo:
I'm just saying that it doesn't seem very viable for the raiders to rush to buy the gear instead of either already being crafters themselves/having pocket crafters to make the gear for them since you ought to know as well as I do that pentameld gear's going to be at an outrageous premium on Day 1 and possibly up until it becomes outdated.

Hell, pentameld Exarchic stayed pretty fucking expensive up until Endwalker released when I poked around the different market boards on Aether.


Tanks rarely get commends, at least in my experience. It either goes to the healers or you get people drinking whatever FOTM virtue signal Kool-Aid on social media bidding them to give DPS all the commends because "tanks and healers get them all the time and DPS always goes unappreciated". But usually, it goes to the healers.
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The thing is I got commendations fairly frequently as a tank up to this point, got my gold magitech armor and everything. I wonder if it's because the influx of new players not knowing the etiquette (tank and heals comm each other, dps comm each other)
 
JektheDumbass dijo:
The thing is I got commendations fairly frequently as a tank up to this point, got my gold magitech armor and everything. I wonder if it's because the influx of new players not knowing the etiquette (tank and heals comm each other, dps comm each other)
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There is no etiquette with commending though. You just commend whoever the fuck you want, and it's not like it really means much in the long run other than getting the mount and your burger king crown (which, are you sure you really want the dedicated "retard" tag attached to your name?).

You either have somehow been an exceptional (as in the actual definition of the word, not the usual KF euphemism for mental retardation), wall-to-wall, big dick slinging tank that people have actually noticed and were impressed instead of having their heads stuck up their own asses (which is doubtful since most players hardly have a single braincell about them), or you've just been incredibly fortunate with people. The Tank commends have been a slow trickle for me since Heavensward with maybe the rare, occasional instance where a full party of randoms MAYBE gives me all the commends for not playing like I'm chugging glue.

And also like I've mentioned previously, I've seen a couple of "COMMEND DPS" tirades making the rounds in a few circles recently on social media because dumb, bad shitters are entitled crybabies that really want their arbitrary GBPs for doing next to fuckall as validation, so that too is probably a factor.
 
JektheDumbass dijo:
The thing is I got commendations fairly frequently as a tank up to this point, got my gold magitech armor and everything. I wonder if it's because the influx of new players not knowing the etiquette (tank and heals comm each other, dps comm each other)
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I've been dipping between tank and healer and noticed that comms as tank has been dipping a bit, but it's been pretty consistent for me when I bang out a dungeon with zero problems.

Don't know if it's because I have the Sprout tag or what, but I've gotten like 700 or so thus far.
 
Well Intentioned dijo:
I've been dipping between tank and healer and noticed that comms as tank has been dipping a bit, but it's been pretty consistent for me when I bang out a dungeon with zero problems.

Don't know if it's because I have the Sprout tag or what, but I've gotten like 700 or so thus far.
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People might be impressed that you're a sprout who isn't an incompetent tank.

It's more surprising than you might think.
 
The PS5 client has "enhanced rumble" or whatever the fuck the gimmick is called. The controller vibrates with your footsteps and kills the controller battery in like an hour and a half from full.

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Good news is I've been getting off work at noon the past couple days so I'm only spending like 10 minutes in the queue. Made it to level 20 PUG for like the sixteenth time. I'm hellbent on actually committing this time.
 
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Zeke Von Genbu dijo:
The fairy typically has an issue where it lags behind the Scholar, because it is a pet and not your position, and iirc the fairy tries to follow you if it is too far behind so it wastes time moving instead of healing. So if the Scholar isn't on top of the tank as the tank is pulling (and many tanks pull with gap closer so GL with that), eos/selene naturally fall behind and thus don't heal the tank every gcd like Sage's Kardia can. Sage's Kardia is basically better then the fairy solely because it is infinitely more responsive and way more consistent.

I have no idea why drooling mongrel week 1 Sages and fart huffing Scholar mains think Eos/Selene is better then Kardia's effect, but they're actually stupid because the fairy is dumber then DF and will proceed to do nothing productive many times.

Scholar rework 2023 can't come soon enough.
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Do you even SCH, my nigga?

You can avoid the "Eos has 1 braincell" issue by placing the pet ahead of time, so she doesn't move and only casts Embrace until you give the Heel command when it's time to move again. Throw Recitation -> Excog on the tank in between pulls, place Eos and Sacred Soil at the stopping point and then go to town with dps, using OGCDs and fairy skills to keep healing up as you need it. I have never had an issue with healing during pulls, even with tanks that don't know what cooldowns are, because SCH has so many buttons and so many ways to manage its Aetherflow to rescue situations in a way Sage just can't, what with the timegated Addersgall system.

Kardia is good though, and Sage is fun as hell, although having no OGCD dps button kind of sucks. Even WHM has Assize.
 
Herr Flick dijo:
because SCH has so many buttons and so many ways to manage its Aetherflow to rescue situations in a way Sage just can't, what with the timegated Addersgall system.

Kardia is good though, and Sage is fun as hell, although having no OGCD dps button kind of sucks. Even WHM has Assize.
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Pretending Addersgall's timegating is an issue feels a bit silly. I can't think of a single situation/mechanic that scholar could handle that sage would be incapable of (unless it involves moving your party out of AoEs using expedient).

Sch gets all their aetherflow charges at once sure, but if you poorly manage your aetherflow you'll be stuck with nothing for the next 45~ seconds unless you wanna use dissipate. That gives good sch players more control, but also gives weaker players more opportunity to fuck themselves over if they aren't careful. It's a blessing and a curse both.

Sage is more limited, but it just shifts charge usage windows and requires the player to manage them in a different way. Rhizo and dissipation complicate things, but sage players don't have to balance using their addergall for damage too. Overall sages will have fewer charge-OGCD uses, but generally the addersgall OGCDs are strictly better than their aetherflow counterparts (for instance, compare sacred soil and kerachole). Plus, even ignoring addersgall entirely, the other sage tools are pretty great.

As for a lack of OGCD dps tools, I don't think a 45s cd (in the case of assize) adds all that much to the playstyle.

TLDR; Hell nah.
 
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Zilortha dijo:
Pretending Addersgall's timegating is an issue feels a bit silly. I can't think of a single situation/mechanic that scholar could handle that sage would be incapable of (unless it involves moving your party out of AoEs using expedient).

Sch gets all their aetherflow charges at once sure, but if you poorly manage your aetherflow you'll be stuck with nothing for the next 45~ seconds unless you wanna use dissipate. That gives good sch players more control, but also gives weaker players more opportunity to fuck themselves over if they aren't careful. It's a blessing and a curse both.

Sage is more limited, but it just shifts charge usage windows and requires the player to manage them in a different way. Rhizo and dissipation complicate things, but sage players don't have to balance using their addergall for damage too. Overall sages will have fewer charge-OGCD uses, but generally the addersgall OGCDs are strictly better than their aetherflow counterparts (for instance, compare sacred soil and kerachole). Plus, even ignoring addersgall entirely, the other sage tools are pretty great.

As for a lack of OGCD dps tools, I don't think a 45s cd (in the case of assize) adds all that much to the playstyle.

TLDR; Hell nah.
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I didn't say Addersgall is an issue, or suggest that there is any content Sage can't do. I implied Sage doesn't have as easy a time dealing with the situation of having to forcepull a party of shitters through a dungeon, which is an unintended (but sadly not uncommon) situation SCH happens to have an edge in. My point in making the comparison was to illustrate that SCH doesn't need Eos casting Embrace every GCD (though you can force her to) to heal a dungeon competently, but I'll elaborate.

SCH can access more OGCD heals at once if they need to, that is a fact. If you start with 3 AF, with Aetherflow coming off cooldown, and Dissipation, plus Recitation, you can blow through 10 Aetherflow skills in a row if you need to and never have to stop casting Art of War. If you want to be realistic and assume you're out of AF at the start, that's still 7 such skills.

Sage can only hold 4 Addersgall at a time max if you count Rhizomata, and can only recover one at a time. Scholar, on the other hand, has the luxury of being able to choose if it wants to blow its Aetherflow all at once or keep some/all of it, and has more available charges to do so with. To be clear, this is not optimal Scholar play, however it is key when you have a tank with whose HP you have to play ping pong.

If you aren't in a party of exceptional individuals, Sage has more than enough tools to handle its role, do strong DPS and excel. If you have a party with a tank that doesn't know what Rampart is and two dps that don't have aoe on their bars, Sage can handle it, sure, but it sucks even more than it does for SCH. That's all I'm saying.

Incidentally, you ought to be using Dissipate. It's free Aetherflow and easy access to a thick Adlo shield for your tank. Pop it when you've used all your fairy cooldowns and the pull is winding down. Eos will be back up by the time you need her again.
 
Gravemind dijo:
They're also really good in FATE farms but I still hate seeing them anyway because Titan's almost as bad as a Red Mage LB3 when it comes to visual noise.
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The level 90 abilities are so fucking bright and over the top. They need the ability to scale down or permanently keep the carbuncle version of their attacks because they're so much noise and light that its frustrating.
 
Agarathium1066 dijo:
The level 90 abilities are so fucking bright and over the top. They need the ability to scale down or permanently keep the carbuncle version of their attacks because they're so much noise and light that its frustrating.
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Yeah, I already struggle with how flashy the EX fights are.....when Titans ginormous cheeks come into the fold it only makes it harder for me to process things.
 
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