Final Fantasy 14 thread: Dawntrail

admanb

My static cleared M3S last week and started 4 after reclears last night. Feelin’ good.

We haven’t had to replace anyone for weeks! And all of those were just because of Old Man Capitalism.

Skeith

Ours has been having schedule woes (one of our tanks is on vacation in the Bahamas and I'm getting ready to move), but it did lead to us finding the Worst Viper Ever which is not nearly as entertaining a story as it sounds. Dude was getting spanked by our summoner and just constantly droned about nothing.

SCREECH OF THE FARG

Donnicton wrote: »

Meanwhile we've had to boot our newest(and third overall) tank this tier because he decided to go lock himself to m4s midweek because a buddy promised to give him the weapon coffer if he went and cleared with them instead. And in the same night the other healer decides to quit wholesale because it's his first raid tier and he wanted to try savage but kept dying Midnight Sabbath and he ended up too tilted to want to continue raiding. Fuck's sake.

Lmao damn. Midnight? If you have a shotcaller that ones basically free for the other 7.

whyd he want the weapon so bad anyways, what was he gonna do with it, clear m4s?

SCREECH OF THE FARG

world first racers gettin cancelled on the timeline rn btw

Sir Fabulous

Not me.

SCREECH OF THE FARG

not yet

I needed anime to post.

yeah sfia tweeted some stuff about "gosh there's not enough women in world first raiding how come more women don't apply" and every woman who he's ever given the run around on and cheated on and so on is like "what the FUCK"

Sir Fabulous

SCREECH OF THE FARG wrote: »

not yet

Listen, I paid you well to keep quiet and I expect you to keep your end of the bargain.

Skeith

I needed anime to post. wrote: »

yeah sfia tweeted some stuff about "gosh there's not enough women in world first raiding how come more women don't apply" and every woman who he's ever given the run around on and cheated on and so on is like "what the FUCK"

There's something funny about watching someone dive on to a landmine that they placed.

BahamutZERO

I don't know who this person is but hearing about them getting blown up has been rather entertaining

ph blake

I wish someone would cancel these DDOS attacks

BahamutZERO

I'd cancel them but I don't have a twitter account anymore

Kevin Crist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NaBWdHL8A

Long house.

BahamutZERO

my house, in the middle of my house

Donnicton

SCREECH OF THE FARG wrote: »

Donnicton wrote: »

Meanwhile we've had to boot our newest(and third overall) tank this tier because he decided to go lock himself to m4s midweek because a buddy promised to give him the weapon coffer if he went and cleared with them instead. And in the same night the other healer decides to quit wholesale because it's his first raid tier and he wanted to try savage but kept dying Midnight Sabbath and he ended up too tilted to want to continue raiding. Fuck's sake.

Lmao damn. Midnight? If you have a shotcaller that ones basically free for the other 7.

whyd he want the weapon so bad anyways, what was he gonna do with it, clear m4s?

And then we got a sub tank and healer for the night and cleared in half an hour. aaaaaaaaaaaa fine whatever it's done with

Kevin Crist

I'm getting disconnects on Sarg. might be another DDOS

BahamutZERO

Sounds like it yeah

Lucid_Seraph

BahamutZERO wrote: »

Sounds like it yeah

would these m'fers get a goddamn life

AngelHedgie

Lucid_Seraph wrote: »

BahamutZERO wrote: »

Sounds like it yeah

would these m'fers get a goddamn life

There are some geese who have a pathological need to piss in everyone's Wheaties.

Kevin Crist

I think i missed a meme on 14 Twitter. somthing about the second city of Dawntrail.

Picture of a table and couch in Solution 9 without context. I guess because it resembles a porn casting couch?

ThePunchlineIsPorn.jpg

ph blake

People noticed some ERPers using that couch for exactly what you would expect and it became a meme for a while, yeah

Muzzmuzz

I didn’t know JD Vance played FFXIV!?

SCREECH OF THE FARG

he does! he's in my static

Knob

Started a new free trial account for shits and giggles. Tore through most of ARR + patches over a couple days.

Man, they really dumbed down a lot of stuff.

I do appreciate the new totorak. Cape Westwind being an instance instead of a 3 second nothingburger is cool, but I'll miss scaring newbies about it.

New yeti in snowcloak is fuckin' insulting, tho. I used to love that fight.

Didgeridoo

Knob wrote: »

Started a new free trial account for shits and giggles. Tore through most of ARR + patches over a couple days.

Man, they really dumbed down a lot of stuff.

I do appreciate the new totorak. Cape Westwind being an instance instead of a 3 second nothingburger is cool, but I'll miss scaring newbies about it.

New yeti in snowcloak is fuckin' insulting, tho. I used to love that fight.

Oh man, I remember Cape Westwind as a sprout. Someone dropped a savage raid macro in chat and I was TERRIFIED

Skeith

Westwind was always funny as a long time player.

Jars

westwind was crazy when everyone was lv49 in AF1 gear

Madican

What in tarnation just assaulted my ears. Listening to FF14 music on Spotify and suddenly the most god awful "Christmas" sort of song starts playing, but the phrase Hydaelyn wept springs to mind. It was like a choir of seagulls with every instrument out of tune.

This performance alone is what convinced Emet Selch that mortals held no worth.

The Endsinger was trying to drown them out by turning their music louder.

The Watcher moved to the moon so he wouldn't have to hear it and t didn't work.

The Ascians thought they were the sign of a new Umbral Era.

SCREECH OF THE FARG

that was the O2S theme

destroyah87

Madican wrote: »

What in tarnation just assaulted my ears. Listening to FF14 music on Spotify and suddenly the most god awful "Christmas" sort of song starts playing, but the phrase Hydaelyn wept springs to mind. It was like a choir of seagulls with every instrument out of tune.

This performance alone is what convinced Emet Selch that mortals held no worth.

The Endsinger was trying to drown them out by turning their music louder.

The Watcher moved to the moon so he wouldn't have to hear it and t didn't work.

The Ascians thought they were the sign of a new Umbral Era.

Was probably the version of the Starlight Celebration event where you fail each quick-time event.

It’s an ear bleeder for sure. "Starlight, Not Right" is the track name.

Madican

destroyah87 wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

What in tarnation just assaulted my ears. Listening to FF14 music on Spotify and suddenly the most god awful "Christmas" sort of song starts playing, but the phrase Hydaelyn wept springs to mind. It was like a choir of seagulls with every instrument out of tune.

This performance alone is what convinced Emet Selch that mortals held no worth.

The Endsinger was trying to drown them out by turning their music louder.

The Watcher moved to the moon so he wouldn't have to hear it and t didn't work.

The Ascians thought they were the sign of a new Umbral Era.

Was probably the version of the Starlight Celebration event where you fail each quick-time event.

I looked it up and it was called "Starlight, Not Right."

Setting aside my extreme bewilderment when that started playing, and I realized nothing was wrong with my phone audio settings or earbuds that's just how the song is, I can only imagine what the singers must have thought when the director told them "Okay, now sing as badly as you possibly can."

Can't deny they nailed the assignment though.

Zython

Madican wrote: »

destroyah87 wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

What in tarnation just assaulted my ears. Listening to FF14 music on Spotify and suddenly the most god awful "Christmas" sort of song starts playing, but the phrase Hydaelyn wept springs to mind. It was like a choir of seagulls with every instrument out of tune.

This performance alone is what convinced Emet Selch that mortals held no worth.

The Endsinger was trying to drown them out by turning their music louder.

The Watcher moved to the moon so he wouldn't have to hear it and t didn't work.

The Ascians thought they were the sign of a new Umbral Era.

Was probably the version of the Starlight Celebration event where you fail each quick-time event.

I looked it up and it was called "Starlight, Not Right."

Setting aside my extreme bewilderment when that started playing, and I realized nothing was wrong with my phone audio settings or earbuds that's just how the song is, I can only imagine what the singers must have thought when the director told them "Okay, now sing as badly as you possibly can."

Can't deny they nailed the assignment though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhxZ53P1_Yc

Jars

I had to do m4s in pf this week and I gotta say it really sucks how pf has adopted hector midnight. it turns an easy mechanic into a total clusterfuck

oh well I got the sam sword, time to torture people with my sam play

ph blake

I have no idea how else you would even do midnight?

Like you go to your quadrant, stack/spread and rotate if needed, what is there to change?

Jars

game8 does it location based rather than partner based. you have 2 set positions and you just go to the safe spot. no adjusting to your partner or anything needed, the 2 spots are always the same.

AshtonDragon

Jars wrote: »

game8 does it location based rather than partner based. you have 2 set positions and you just go to the safe spot. no adjusting to your partner or anything needed, the 2 spots are always the same.

I'm only just getting to that mechanic, myself, but isn't that the same as in Hector's video? If I'm R1, I should always be southwest or south for that mechanic. I guess the only adjusting is that I need to go to the right a bit when spreading out, but that's it.

Jars

no, hector's is static partners while game8 is static positions so your partner can change. it makes where you go independant of someone else and gets rid of the extra movement dps have to do

ph blake

You shouldn't have to adjust to your partner either for Hector strat, tanks are always left looking towards the center/most clockwise position (however you want to think about it), melee are always right looking towards the center/counter clockwise of tanks. Each pair defaults to their intercard and rotates CCW to the cardinal if needed. If I'm M1 I'm always in the same 2 spots if it's spread, same for M2 on the other side. Like if I picked the positions I'd just go "tanks inside and front, Melee outside and back" cause that's simple enough, but the "Supports go clockwise of the DPS" thing that NA PF/Hector does works too and isn't really a big deal

Honestly just sounds like you ran into a group that wasn't all on the same page

Edit: are we even talking about the same mechanic here? Midnight Sabath, the 8 clones that have canon or wing alongside stack + spread or spread + stack? Cause I have no idea what you would even mean by static positions but different partners for that mech, or how it would introduce extra movement. Like it entirely depends on what the game gives you, if its double canon or double wing you need to move from cardinal to intercard (or intercard to cardinal), and even where you start can be different depending on what drops first.

Edit again: ok I just looked it up, it is literally just the same shit, DPS go to their quadrant and have set stack/spread positions, the only difference is that where the 2 spots the DPS stands for the spread are. Like I guess you can argue that it is slightly less movement, but you have approximately 1 billion years to resolve it and oh my god who cares just move over 3 more yalms. Either way you don't give a shit what your partner is doing, it's just a different server stands in a slightly different spot

AshtonDragon

After looking at a video, I think that other strat is probably a little better? My understanding is that you basically pre-position between two clones, and then just shuffle toward the one that's safe (and shuffle slightly more if you need to pair up). So it could be a little bit less movement, and it's also a little more obvious where you go to spread. But it's a very minor difference; you certainly don't have to adjust to your partner the other way.

Jars

I brought it up because it was a problem across more than one group and my clear was the first time the group got past midnight cleanly. so, maybe people just weren't as practiced as I am at it but I never found the jp strat difficult outside getting the aoe size of the wings down, which isn't related to strat.