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Bald one will be attempting Necromancer, then finishing up post-Heavensward MSQ and the Warring Triad, and then some kind of housing contest.

So, either he really is burned out on Savage progression for the time being or he'll just be doing it off-stream like he allegedly did POTD progression.
I could have sworn he was getting burnt out on Necromancer progression because he wasn't very good at using RDM and he died on floor 160ish, now he wants to try MCH which from what I understand is stronger if you can kite well but if you can't the survival checks are rough because you can't spam vercure. Considering Asmon from what I heard thought RDM's melee combo sucked and did no damage, him playing Mch will be funny if he can't figure out how to use Overcharge or Wildfire correctly.
 
Bald one will be attempting Necromancer, then finishing up post-Heavensward MSQ and the Warring Triad, and then some kind of housing contest.

So, either he really is burned out on Savage progression for the time being or he'll just be doing it off-stream like he allegedly did POTD progression.
Not sure what his stated plans are, but Asmon attempted A4S again on his second, casual channel last night and still couldn't beat it after a couple of hours.

Considering how he's gone straight back to 3.X MSQ this weekend, what now concerns me greatly is that he's leaving the Alexander questline unfinished and may not do the Sky Pirates Alliance Raid and Warring Triad Trial questlines either for some time as his mind gets set on Stormblood, even though they're nice stories with fun duties to show off at normal difficulty. He also still hasn't done any Hildibrand questlines.

Comparatively, I don't think Rich has done Sky Pirates and Hildibrand at all while one Warring Triad Trial and the final Alexander quest are also still incomplete. The Alexander bit bugs me greatly because he considers his task complete after the Alexander fight even though the quest he left unfinished in his Journal is the actual conclusion of the story.
 
Not sure what his stated plans are, but Asmon attempted A4S again on his second, casual channel last night and still couldn't beat it after a couple of hours.

Considering how he's gone straight back to 3.X MSQ this weekend, what now concerns me greatly is that he's leaving the Alexander questline unfinished and may not do the Sky Pirates Alliance Raid and Warring Triad Trial questlines either for some time as his mind gets set on Stormblood, even though they're nice stories with fun duties to show off at normal difficulty. He also still hasn't done any Hildibrand questlines.

Comparatively, I don't think Rich has done Sky Pirates and Hildibrand at all while one Warring Triad Trial and the final Alexander quest are also still incomplete. The Alexander bit bugs me greatly because he considers his task complete after the Alexander fight even though the quest he left unfinished in his Journal is the actual conclusion of the story.
Have you seen his quest list? He's done that every Extreme mode trial so far. Man just does not turn in quests for whatever retarded reason, even when he's not streaming to his main channel.

That said, I don't know how the hell he's struggling so much on A4S outside of getting bad groups. There's a point where all anybody needs to do is let him be Main Tank, and then stay in his little cuck corner doing BIG DICK, LONG DICK DAMAGE, HE DON'T GET GOT DOOOOOD, while the rest of the party deals with the mechanics, which seems to be more or less how A4S is supposed to be done in the first place, but that clearly isn't happening, mostly because his party of supposed veterans who've been carrying him up until now doesn't seem to know the mechanics for a lot of these fights themselves either. I don't know why we keep placing the blame solely on the one idiot for not doing raidtranny optimal rotations when he has the least responsibility in that particular fight.

I could have sworn he was getting burnt out on Necromancer progression because he wasn't very good at using RDM and he died on floor 160ish, now he wants to try MCH which from what I understand is stronger if you can kite well but if you can't the survival checks are rough because you can't spam vercure. Considering Asmon from what I heard thought RDM's melee combo sucked and did no damage, him playing Mch will be funny if he can't figure out how to use Overcharge or Wildfire correctly.
Fucking what?

I just started leveling a Red Mage in POTD and the melee combo does fucking ridiculous damage. Did he just not learn how to balance his black and white mana gauges? Or any of RDM's mechanics? Does he even cycle Fleche and Contre Sixte? Or use Embolden ever?

Granted, I was also lost on how I should be doing things as well for the first set of Job quests, until I realized I was being dumb and looked up a guide just for my retarded ass to be explicitly told how Doublecast procs and what the rotation SHOULD be at 50 for the most part. 3 hours in POTD feels like it's gotten me decently comfortable in playing the class now, though the only frustration comes in the fact that other people damage very hard as well and it fucks up my Doublecast/Verfire/Verstone procs when I lose things to hit and have to sprint through more than 1 room. Even more so when the fuckers casually trigger blatantly revealed bomb or silence/pacify traps.

Holy shit, is this bald bitch ever going to get to playing the game already or is he being a pussy about showing people his big Necromancer attempt? I'm getting tired of tabbing in to see he's STILL talking over other people's videos instead of playing the fucking game already almost 2 hours into his stream.
 
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Fucking what?

I just started leveling a Red Mage in POTD and the melee combo does fucking ridiculous damage. Did he just not learn how to balance his black and white mana gauges? Or any of RDM's mechanics? Does he even cycle Fleche and Contre Sixte? Or use Embolden ever?

Granted, I was also lost on how I should be doing things as well for the first set of Job quests, until I realized I was being dumb and looked up a guide just for my retarded ass to be explicitly told how Doublecast procs and what the rotation SHOULD be at 50 for the most part. 3 hours in POTD feels like it's gotten me decently comfortable in playing the class now, though the only frustration comes in the fact that other people damage very hard as well and it fucks up my Doublecast/Verfire/Verstone procs when I lose things to hit and have to sprint through more than 1 room. Even more so when the fuckers casually trigger blatantly revealed bomb or silence/pacify traps.

Holy shit, is this bald bitch ever going to get to playing the game already or is he being a pussy about showing people his big Necromancer attempt? I'm getting tired of tabbing in to see he's STILL talking over other people's videos instead of playing the fucking game already almost 2 hours into his stream.
From what bits and pieces I saw, he'd just kite with spells and use off gcds. He almost never used his melee combo and when prompted he said supposedly said that the melee combo does no damage. He'd be at full mana a lot of the time with RDM, but considering this is a PotD solo i can't imagine being in melee is a good idea very often unless you are short on time and need to burst mobs down.

Asmongold spending the first 2-3 hours talking about random bullshit is very normal for his streams, the first 4 hours of his stream on his average FF14 stream is him talking about internet drama (especially during the height of all the Blizzard drama), random shit he finds on his subreddit, or fucking around with chocobo racing.
 
From what bits and pieces I saw, he'd just kite with spells and use off gcds. He almost never used his melee combo and when prompted he said supposedly said that the melee combo does no damage. He'd be at full mana a lot of the time with RDM, but considering this is a PotD solo i can't imagine being in melee is a good idea very often unless you are short on time and need to burst mobs down.

Asmongold spending the first 2-3 hours talking about random bullshit is very normal for his streams, the first 4 hours of his stream on his average FF14 stream is him talking about internet drama (especially during the height of all the Blizzard drama), random shit he finds on his subreddit, or fucking around with chocobo racing.
I see. Like I said, I usually just watch the condensed uploads to his main YouTube channel and only rarely do I actually watch his streams while they're live.

Also, when you say "full", do you mean full White/Black or just full MP? Full MP's been negligible in my experience so far, but if you're full White/Black gauge, then you're fucking up. The full melee rotation, when enhanced with a balanced White/Black gauge, goes potency (130) > 220 > 290 > 470 > (200) with Enchanted Redoublement being possibly the hardest hitting thing in your arsenal at that point, so I can imagine you want to go for it when it's available (the numbers in parenthesis factoring in a Corps-a-corps to start and a Displacement to finish). Most things completely fucking melt to the whole rotation from my experience thus far.
 
I see. Like I said, I usually just watch the condensed uploads to his main YouTube channel and only rarely do I actually watch his streams while they're live.

Also, when you say "full", do you mean full White/Black or just full MP? Full MP's been negligible in my experience so far, but if you're full White/Black gauge, then you're fucking up. The full melee rotation, when enhanced with a balanced White/Black gauge, goes potency (130) > 220 > 290 > 470 > (200) with Enchanted Redoublement being possibly the hardest hitting thing in your arsenal at that point, so I can imagine you want to go for it when it's available (the numbers in parenthesis factoring in a Corps-a-corps to start and a Displacement to finish). Most things completely fucking melt to the whole rotation from my experience thus far.
I meant full white/black mana. Asmon/Zack basically just runs around pulling with veraero/thunder then kiting around with jolt and veraero/thunder. I think I've even seen him do stupid shit like cast Veraero/thunder mid combat or go aero/thunder > jolt (or even fire/stone) because he legit doesn't know how his black/white mana work so he just presses random shit. He sometimes uses the first melee hit to last hit a mob to avoid going for another cast, but otherwise I never saw him use his melee combo when I was tuning into one of his Palace runs (I think he was on the 100 floorish area).

I can see the melee combo being worth it if you kite well between your gcd, but a lot of the floor 170+ mobs hurt like a bitch so going melee form is kind of only done when you can do it safely somehow or if you are running out of time and need the damage. I can't imagine him getting past the infamous 180 boss dps check without melee combo though as that is a burst race effectively.
 
I meant full white/black mana. Asmon/Zack basically just runs around pulling with veraero/thunder then kiting around with jolt and veraero/thunder. I think I've even seen him do stupid shit like cast Veraero/thunder mid combat or go aero/thunder > jolt (or even fire/stone) because he legit doesn't know how his black/white mana work so he just presses random shit. He sometimes uses the first melee hit to last hit a mob to avoid going for another cast, but otherwise I never saw him use his melee combo when I was tuning into one of his Palace runs (I think he was on the 100 floorish area).

I can see the melee combo being worth it if you kite well between your gcd, but a lot of the floor 170+ mobs hurt like a bitch so going melee form is kind of only done when you can do it safely somehow or if you are running out of time and need the damage. I can't imagine him getting past the infamous 180 boss dps check without melee combo though as that is a burst race effectively.
Oh dear god. I'd love to see him play bard then. I bet he'd sit on those songs instead of cycling through them because he's gotta save those cooldowns for his "big dick damage."
 
Oh dear god. I'd love to see him play bard then. I bet he'd sit on those songs instead of cycling through them because he's gotta save those cooldowns for his "big dick damage."
Well this just popped up on the Youtube, I'm giving it a look to see my first bits of bald man Machinist gameplay. I'm only a few minutes in, and he isn't summoning rook to kite, no hot shot for gauge, and he is very sparingly using his off gcds so they just sit off cooldown at 2 charges as he kites in a circle spamming 1 > 2 > 3. At least he can reassemble Drill. I only just started getting into Mch and this is just awful.

 
I dont think being at melee range at all during POTD is a good idea unless you had a def potion

The strat seems to be solely kite and kite with anything you have
That's why you only go in for the one rotation when you have meter to burn, and why you make use of Displacement to get back out of melee range once you complete the rotation. Or you cast one spell, maybe doublecast a second, once you finish the rotation and the trash dies, because you tend to hit that fucking hard on Red Mage, especially when you're cycling Fleche and Contre Sixte whenever they're off CD.

You also can't avoid being out of melee range at all times on a caster during certain situations. That's what Pomanders of Steel, potions, and Vercures are for. Added benefit being that Vercure procs a doublecast, so you can build gauge off of healing autoattack damage by following it up with one of your damage spells.
 
The problem is that Asmon's community is both retarded and malicious so it's literally impossible to give him any advice at all without him immediately assuming the worst intentions. It's amazing that he's been able to progress as far as he has when there's literally so many people trying to actively sabotage him.
 
I'm about a third of the way through SB and my dragoon is lvl 73. Once I hit 80 with it, would it be worth it to powerlevel an alt to my current progression level in order to make use of MSQ exp, or would that be really stupid?
 
I'm about a third of the way through SB and my dragoon is lvl 73. Once I hit 80 with it, would it be worth it to powerlevel an alt to my current progression level in order to make use of MSQ exp, or would that be really stupid?
Pick up dancer or gunbreaker and start running daily roulettes on them. They'll probably be caught up by the time you need to swap over for the MSQ. Alternatively you can pick up samurai or red mage although you might need to grind a little to catch them up.
 
Asmongold spending the first 2-3 hours talking about random bullshit is very normal for his streams, the first 4 hours of his stream on his average FF14 stream is him talking about internet drama (especially during the height of all the Blizzard drama), random shit he finds on his subreddit, or fucking around with chocobo racing.
Yeah I heard about this before and that's why I just stick to the youtube highlights. Props to his editors for their hard work on such a small timeframe.
 
To anyone who's actually played WoW. Does WoW's narrative quests (whatever is closest to FFXIV's MSQ) just require you to do absolutely nothing in terms of combat mechanics or something?

I ask because I got a WoW veteran who recently came over to FF14 at the very start of the exodus a couple months ago, but he hates a few specific solo duties to death and thinks they're bullshit game design because they make you do a few mechanics. He's so ass mad he's considered going back to WoW a few different times even though he hates Blizzard for all the sexual allegations.

The one he's at now is the one in ShB for the level 78 tank role quest, I'm keeping this vague for all the new people who browse this thread but you probably know the one if you have a level 80 tank. Anyway he doesn't like that the enemy does something like "okay tank take this tether or your healer dies" and when he just tries to bull rush through it he auto fails the duty because his allied NPCs die. He doesn't heal himself when he's at 20% hp and dies? Game's dumb, this is bullshit, why does this game make me do mechanics, this is supposed to be the STORY. He's even failed when he puts it on Very Easy because he just wants to unga through the mechanics. This is like DSP levels of bad at this point and its embarrassing to watch.

In my eyes this is easy as hell, you heal yourself when you're low, you do mechanics the NPCs tell you to do or you just fail. Like he knows how to do most of these mechanics, he just chooses not to because he wants to get through it as fast as possible. Even if it wasn't braindead easy, every story mode of any RPG worth a damn always has a few somewhat hard moments that may game over you once or twice, but apparently that is just bad game design because the story is supposed to be braindead.
 
WoW quests are generally: go talk to a guy/bring me 10 of this item/escort this guy/kill 12 of that enemy.
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?
 
Well this just popped up on the Youtube, I'm giving it a look to see my first bits of bald man Machinist gameplay. I'm only a few minutes in, and he isn't summoning rook to kite, no hot shot for gauge, and he is very sparingly using his off gcds so they just sit off cooldown at 2 charges as he kites in a circle spamming 1 > 2 > 3. At least he can reassemble Drill. I only just started getting into Mch and this is just awful.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GtPp0ThrbWU
I haven't had a problem with Asmon, I think he's pretty funny at times and since I haven't played DRK I couldn't tell if he sucked or not. But I've been playing Machinist for a bit now, it's one of my favourite classes and that hurt to watch. He had four buttons set to wildfire, four big, beautiful buttons that were practically screaming 'Press me and I'll make your fucking night baby!'
And he only used it once.
And he didnt do jack with it.

That shit is so important if you want to be able to solo a boss from a quarter health after the rest of your party wipes (which you will do at least once. Gunboi is clutch). MCH can output gorgeous damage without having to stand still for a second if you play it right and he's just...not.

WILDFIRE> HYPERCHARGE> HEAT BLAST x5 WHILE WEAVING YOUR GAUSS

You take that combo and you burn it into your fucking brain because it is how you're going to jizz out numbers so big all the catgirl hoes will drop their bikini glamour panties and rub themselves on you.
But instead the Bald fool left them drier than a nun on the wagon.

He also still had the playerguide set to a key for some damn reason.
 
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WILDFIRE> HYPERCHARGE> HEAT BLAST x5 WHILE WEAVING YOUR GAUSS
Protip: Weave ricochet alternating w/ gauss.

But yeah, watching Asmon play is a strangely bipolar experience and it's probably why he's had such a bad time in high-end content. When he's doing goofy fun shit like chocobo racing, or just doing the msq? It's somewhat enjoyable. But when he's trying to do high end content I just cringe.
 
Protip: Weave ricochet alternating w/ gauss.

But yeah, watching Asmon play is a strangely bipolar experience and it's probably why he's had such a bad time in high-end content. When he's doing goofy fun shit like chocobo racing, or just doing the msq? It's somewhat enjoyable. But when he's trying to do high end content I just cringe.
Was baldman a prolific WoW raider prior to him jumping ship? I cannot understand the mistakes he's making.
 
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