FFXIV is actually assuming healer DPS contributions in it's top level of raiding moving forward--one of the healers could deal a decent amount of damage without OOMing or letting people die, so instead of nerfing that they gave the other healer the abilities it needed to do the same in the xpac.
I know some people prefer to be a full time healer, but I've always had more fun trying to do both at the same time. I really hope WoW revisits Atonement, Fistweaving, etc. next xpac.
Yes, if I start standing still and hold right mouse button I start moving forward and can steer with it. Left Mouse just moves my camera around (but not character, so no steering).
You have mouse run bound to right mouse then, and not just mouse steer. Two completely different things. If you want right mouse to behave as it does in FFxwhateverthefuck, change it to mouse steer and it will.
@Aegis I don't know how you raid with that keybinding setup. Then again, I use a Nostromo, so....
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The DRs that have to be queued for solo exist primarily to make sure there's a solid base of players in low level dungeons and trials, in large part because many of them are story linked. The ones meant more for high level players can be queued for as a party. As for why you can't queue with a chocobo, it's because they're not pets but party member stand ins.
But to get to the main point, considering how many of our new FC members are former WoW players, I think you're the one who is avoiding looking at what is happening. Furthermore, the reason that comparisons are being made is because Blizzard decided to make that absolutely asinine decision to counterprogram instead of waiting a week or two to launch the new patch. I get why they did, but it doesn't make it any less stupid, especially in light of all their recent self inflicted wounds.
And the chocobos shouldn't be party members. Let me queue and then despawn it when I zone it. That is pathetically basic and exactly the type of small annoyance I'm talking about.
The WoW devs screwed up going into WoD. The people jumping ship largely (no, not everyone) did so because they were fed up with WoW and wanted a new home. If they are happy where they are, great. I guarantee I'm not alone though. I am right there with you on the stupid dev decisions in WoW and am one of the people in the camp that says the dudes from Titan came over and started stomping on things for no reason.
Counterprogramming or not, neither game is going to do anything to the other this coming Tuesday. At all.
If anything the game is constantly lauded for it's control schemes being so balanced, so I'm really not sure why you personally had such difficulty with it.
I haven't gone out of my way to find feedback, but I have never heard anyone praising (or venting about) the controls. It's restricting because I feel restricted. If most players don't that's fine, but every time I logged in I got annoyed with parts of the game. I didn't "fight" with it. I didn't "have trouble." I got annoyed because I was trying to do an action that would work every other time, but I was randomly doing something that shouldn't matter to the game AT ALL. Can't teleport if mounted and it won't even tell you that. "You can't do that." That is seriously unprofessional and empty. It is nothing but "Error: An error has occurred."
Again without seeing why you were struggling with it I can't even begin to guess as to why you specifically were having issues. Nothing really to say there sorry.
Every "example" you've given thus far has had nothing to do with KBAM controls though. I get that the other stuff frustrated you, and that's totally understandable, but as I mentioned before they only part I even disagreed with you on was regarding the KBAM control scheme being "garbage".
To be fair, his avatar is an Angry Beaver sooooo ... ya know?
More serious note, going to spend the weekend getting the Draenor world completion thing done this weekend so when the patch hits, I can just do the rep grinding and be ready for when they DO include flying ... maybe ... one day ... possibly ...
Playing too much Heroes of the Storm though since so much time as Malfurion made me want to switch my Guardian druid for questing to Balance
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Yes, if I start standing still and hold right mouse button I start moving forward and can steer with it. Left Mouse just moves my camera around (but not character, so no steering).
You have mouse run bound to right mouse then, and not just mouse steer. Two completely different things. If you want right mouse to behave as it does in FFxwhateverthefuck, change it to mouse steer and it will.
@Aegis I don't know how you raid with that keybinding setup. Then again, I use a Nostromo, so....
It's always worked! But I try moving as little as possible cause Ranged DPS, so yea.
Oh my god, I forgot how bad pugs were at heroic Shadowmoon Burial Ground.
Specifically the last boss.
I don't find the last boss too bad, it's the spider trash pulls that I often find give people trouble. You need either an overgeared tank, an overgeared healer, or the healer or tank need to know to cleanse the diseases and poisons that the bats and spiders put on the tank, or you're going to have a splatted tank.
Oh my god, I forgot how bad pugs were at heroic Shadowmoon Burial Ground.
Specifically the last boss.
I don't find the last boss too bad, it's the spider trash pulls that I often find give people trouble. You need either an overgeared tank, an overgeared healer, or the healer or tank need to know to cleanse the diseases and poisons that the bats and spiders put on the tank, or you're going to have a splatted tank.
Well, when you have a tank that keeps on trying to melee the skeletons and isn't backing up to keep out of it... and is wondering why he and the healer just *explodes* when the wall hits them...
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Oh my god, I forgot how bad pugs were at heroic Shadowmoon Burial Ground.
Specifically the last boss.
I don't find the last boss too bad, it's the spider trash pulls that I often find give people trouble. You need either an overgeared tank, an overgeared healer, or the healer or tank need to know to cleanse the diseases and poisons that the bats and spiders put on the tank, or you're going to have a splatted tank.
Well, when you have a tank that keeps on trying to melee the skeletons and isn't backing up to keep out of it... and is wondering why he and the healer just *explodes* when the wall hits them...
The ritual only does 30k per second or so, it's really not that much damage unless the healer is struggling to keep everyone topped already. At low gear levels you kinda need the tank to be DPSing the skeletons or they sometimes won't die fast enough.
That said, yeah, if he's literally standing in the wall, then it's going to wipe you pretty fast if the whole group is sub620
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I'm leaving on a week-long trip tomorrow, so I get to miss out on the first week's fun of the new patch. On the other hand, when I get back I'll be able to do the quest for the shipyard with less difficulty since that area won't be as mobbed. And all the addons I use will probably be updated by then too.
I spent yesterday and today doing the missive quests that are the equivalent to the apexis dailies, so I can just turn them all in at once after the new patch and get some extra apexis crystals right at the beginning since I am currently at my max.
I cannot express how thrilled I am that it's looking like the BiS list for Arcane is pretty much the same list as the BiS list for Frost except for like 4 pieces.
I thought dumping Fire and picking up Frost was going to mean scrambling for a nearly different set of gear for each spec. Boy wouldn't that be tiresome! (Blackrock Foundry Arcane/Fire has spoiled me.)
Raiding is excellent, the rest of the game is less so. Basically unless you raid or are really into PvP, the game just doesn't have much to offer. We've yet to see how Tanaan stacks up, and it's looking better than 6.0 was but hopes are still grim.
Blackrock Foundry was a superb raid though. Bit heavy on the cleave/aoe side of things, but some great fights in there.
I cannot express how thrilled I am that it's looking like the BiS list for Arcane is pretty much the same list as the BiS list for Frost except for like 4 pieces.
I thought dumping Fire and picking up Frost was going to mean scrambling for a nearly different set of gear for each spec. Boy wouldn't that be tiresome! (Blackrock Foundry Arcane/Fire has spoiled me.)
I'm basically over mage this expansion. Frost is probably the most fun of the 3 specs, but I'm sick of dealing with fiddly mechanics. Prismatic Crystal can go suck a fat one, Rune of Power should have died an horrific death a long time ago, and FUCK Combustion. If I ever have to deal with that spell again, it's too soon.
When he hops back on I'm asking my RL if I can swap to mistweaving full time. Otherwise I fear I may burn out entirely, just from how frustratingly unfun I am finding mages this time around.
Raiding is excellent, the rest of the game is less so. Basically unless you raid or are really into PvP, the game just doesn't have much to offer. We've yet to see how Tanaan stacks up, and it's looking better than 6.0 was but hopes are still grim.
Blackrock Foundry was a superb raid though. Bit heavy on the cleave/aoe side of things, but some great fights in there.
The leveling/questing in Alt Draenor is the best content Blizzard has ever done. The end game is stagnant. Ashran is awful. The World Raid Bosses are useless. Your Garrison is a neat concept, except you'll find yourself standing there all the time wondering what to do next.
I'm pretty harsh of Blackrock Foundry. I think there's only two fun fights in there, Hanz and Franz and Operator Thogar. The end being Iron Maidens/Blast Furnace/Blackhand is just brutal. Those are all difficult fights that really do not get easier. Blackhand especially is an issue. Normal Blackhand is more difficult that the first 6 Heroic bosses.
oh h*ck
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So I had to work this evening, during our normal raid time. It was still going on when I got home. Start logging in, get told they're in the middle of a heroic Blackhand attempt and that when they wipe, they'd get me in for the next one.
They actually kill him.
*sigh*
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Totally forgot it's Midsummer this week and they actually added some new rewards this time around. You need 1.2k blossoms for all of the new stuff so splitting the gathering between two max level characters is easiest since all the rewards are account bound (toys and a pet). Also the Ahune items are supposedly switching to 670 with the patch so if you're behind the curve that'll be an excellent way to catch up.
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I'd like Ahune's Scythe as a transmog, if it didn't clip through the ground when you hold it.
Totally forgot it's Midsummer this week and they actually added some new rewards this time around. You need 1.2k blossoms for all of the new stuff so splitting the gathering between two max level characters is easiest since all the rewards are account bound (toys and a pet). Also the Ahune items are supposedly switching to 670 with the patch so if you're behind the curve that'll be an excellent way to catch up.
What other items are there?
I knew about the toy and pet but there are other toys?
Ahune's not only the same old fight, it seems to be scaled for ilvl 600 or something extremely low like that since the ice elemental had as much health as I do which means it melted in less than 5 seconds with 4 dps and a tank beating on it. That might change tomorrow though, we'll see.
There's two toys: a bonfire and a disguise to turn into one of those cool flame elementals with a sword and shield. The one and only pet's a fire spider. You can also buy heirloom stuff with the blossoms but the price for those don't really make sense since it's likely that with the time it'd take to farm up the blossoms you could farm up the gold to buy them normally.
You can still flip blue BOE non-crafted gear for good profit. Of note; the trinkets are still worthwhile. And there are enough people leveling alts that a) they toss them on the AH on a fraction of their market price; and b) they are looking for the gear and pay for it at market price.
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I know some people prefer to be a full time healer, but I've always had more fun trying to do both at the same time. I really hope WoW revisits Atonement, Fistweaving, etc. next xpac.
@Aegis I don't know how you raid with that keybinding setup. Then again, I use a Nostromo, so....
If your raiding has dried up but you want to see the new raid, we will be working our way through Heroic BRC HFC on Tuesday and Wednesday nights 9pm EDT until Midnight. @Aegis @crimsoncoyote and myself all raid together, so you can send us messages if you're interested.
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But I thought you could get raid with people from other places?
Also I cannot express in words how fucking happy I am that I'll never have to do Hanz & Franz ever a-goddamn-gain.
I am also thrilled that HFC doesn't have any fights that stupid or filled with "fuck up one little thing and it's over" mechanics.
All in all HFC seems really really easy. I wonder if the toned down difficulty is a response to the sub loss.
@Brainleech you can cross realm non-mythic difficulty for any current content.
To be fair, his avatar is an Angry Beaver sooooo ... ya know?
#NotHelping
Playing too much Heroes of the Storm though since so much time as Malfurion made me want to switch my Guardian druid for questing to Balance
It's always worked! But I try moving as little as possible cause Ranged DPS, so yea.
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Specifically the last boss.
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I don't find the last boss too bad, it's the spider trash pulls that I often find give people trouble. You need either an overgeared tank, an overgeared healer, or the healer or tank need to know to cleanse the diseases and poisons that the bats and spiders put on the tank, or you're going to have a splatted tank.
Well, when you have a tank that keeps on trying to melee the skeletons and isn't backing up to keep out of it... and is wondering why he and the healer just *explodes* when the wall hits them...
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The ritual only does 30k per second or so, it's really not that much damage unless the healer is struggling to keep everyone topped already. At low gear levels you kinda need the tank to be DPSing the skeletons or they sometimes won't die fast enough.
That said, yeah, if he's literally standing in the wall, then it's going to wipe you pretty fast if the whole group is sub620
I'm looking forward to not having the Leather Trader up so I can't craft 715 gear.
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I spent yesterday and today doing the missive quests that are the equivalent to the apexis dailies, so I can just turn them all in at once after the new patch and get some extra apexis crystals right at the beginning since I am currently at my max.
I thought dumping Fire and picking up Frost was going to mean scrambling for a nearly different set of gear for each spec. Boy wouldn't that be tiresome! (Blackrock Foundry Arcane/Fire has spoiled me.)
I used to be a tank/DPS Drood and really enjoyed myself, just burned out after raiding for several years.
Blackrock Foundry was a superb raid though. Bit heavy on the cleave/aoe side of things, but some great fights in there.
I'm basically over mage this expansion. Frost is probably the most fun of the 3 specs, but I'm sick of dealing with fiddly mechanics. Prismatic Crystal can go suck a fat one, Rune of Power should have died an horrific death a long time ago, and FUCK Combustion. If I ever have to deal with that spell again, it's too soon.
When he hops back on I'm asking my RL if I can swap to mistweaving full time. Otherwise I fear I may burn out entirely, just from how frustratingly unfun I am finding mages this time around.
The leveling/questing in Alt Draenor is the best content Blizzard has ever done. The end game is stagnant. Ashran is awful. The World Raid Bosses are useless. Your Garrison is a neat concept, except you'll find yourself standing there all the time wondering what to do next.
I'm pretty harsh of Blackrock Foundry. I think there's only two fun fights in there, Hanz and Franz and Operator Thogar. The end being Iron Maidens/Blast Furnace/Blackhand is just brutal. Those are all difficult fights that really do not get easier. Blackhand especially is an issue. Normal Blackhand is more difficult that the first 6 Heroic bosses.
So I had to work this evening, during our normal raid time. It was still going on when I got home. Start logging in, get told they're in the middle of a heroic Blackhand attempt and that when they wipe, they'd get me in for the next one.
They actually kill him.
*sigh*
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the new raid looks pretty great too
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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there's actually going to be way too much to do it all in a hurry, especially with multiple characters
What other items are there?
I knew about the toy and pet but there are other toys?
Is Ahune the same old fight?
There's two toys: a bonfire and a disguise to turn into one of those cool flame elementals with a sword and shield. The one and only pet's a fire spider. You can also buy heirloom stuff with the blossoms but the price for those don't really make sense since it's likely that with the time it'd take to farm up the blossoms you could farm up the gold to buy them normally.
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I just do the Faire what else are those tickets for?
I fly around my alts for FREE EXP while I watch movies or tv
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