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Yeah I am aware it has been like that for a while but eh, the fight was missing something like a stage transition, maybe the previous fight set the bar too high.
Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company
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RIPRhongoBongo
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I watched that. It was funny. Wished that Dancer crashed out longer, though
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I felt like nobody was right but nobody was wrong either. This is one of those cases where everyone is a retard.
On the dancer's part, he's way too sensitive to be in a hardcore raiding environment and like Xeems pointed out, has no idea of what actual hardcore raiding is. It's obvious that he bit off more than he could chew. Even if he managed to find a raid leader who is extremely patient and helpful, the fact of the matter is that you need to learn how to take criticism. Especially if you're the weak link holding the entire group back. Instead of crashing out every time he's criticized, he should take accountability for messing up and do his best to improve or ask his group to help him understand. If he still can't seem to get it, then the next logical step would be to remove him and replace him with a sub, something that is a real possibility that all prog groups might deal with and have to prepare for. Crashing out like that makes him look bad and just decreases his chances of finding another group. No one wants to put up with a whining crybaby who just drags both the group and overall morale down with their temper tantrums.
The raid leader was also retarded in that he did a bad job at recruiting people and then heaping his high expectations onto them. He can say all he wants how he believed they could do it, but you're a fucking retard if you advertise for a week 1 clear group and then take in people whom you know have no week 1 clear experience and then expect them to flawlessly perform. It doesn't work like that. On top of that he's just a bad leader altogether. As a leader, it's essential that you manage the morale of your group as morale can be an actual tipping point. Happy group members tend to perform better. Belittling them and constantly reminding them that they SHOULD be better whilst not actually doing anything to help them improve does nothing but make people feel stressed and having a group that's stressed out won't do anything to move things along. You're just causing more mistakes to be made. A good leader helps out their static, they show patience and understanding, they take time to figure out what's wrong and help the person in question improve. He wanted his week 1 clear, tried to cut corners, and then just tells everyone that he's basically giving up on them because they aren't going at the breakneck pace he thinks they should go even though AGAIN, he knowingly recruited people who had 0 experience. It's like those people who make PFs expecting everyone to have enough dps to skip mechanics because instead of actually learning the fight, they just want to cheese through everything with gear and then disbanding the party after a single wipe. It's annoying and insufferable and people like that shouldn't be in positions of leadership. If he wanted his week 1 clear, he should have vetted his recruits better instead of just taking in any yuppy with a decent parse in FFLogs.
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Shit like this is why i glad im a filthy casual. That said i do think that people who approach hardcore content should be expected to have an intimate understanding of their class, being proficient in it and be able to grasp the mechanics and work as a team. Also i think about the time investment aspect of it. Every failure to complete means time wasted for everyone and ive been told there are people that take days off or plan around their days off from work to play content. Being the weak link means that youre wasting everyone's time and that for me is annoying as shit.
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The Formerly Chuck's Fellowship and Linkshell still exist, you can join even if you're not an Aether native although you need to be on Aether to chat. Main issue is I'm an EU player so I only log in from time to time and @Rich Evans Ayypologist pulled a Chloe Sagal to protest the BLM changes, so it didn't really get anywhere.
I had been planning to just be a PF gamer this tier, but I saw a static that had a pretty relaxed schedule I fit with and explicitly said previous savage exp was unnecessary (I did clear M1-M4S but I wanted to try melee dps instead of tank this tier) so I figured why not.
They got me to join a Recollection clear the next day which I told em I'd only seen the first couple mechanics blind for, then after I was predictably carried the leader gave me a speech about not maintaining uptime. Like on the one hand I know I'm not an experienced player. Probably not the kind of skill they were looking for. On the other hand I don't think anyone without savage experience is gonna be able to keep uptime for mechs they're seeing for the first time. I would've been happy to learn the fight if the leader hadn't explicitly said he wanted to see my learning curve, and if they had given me at least 24 hours notice (I didn't even get a time until 6 in the goddamn morning that day). I tried to engage but the rest of the static was mostly joking amongst themselves while dragging me through the fight with a couple barebones callouts from the leader. All in all pretty miserable experience. I wouldn't have joined even if they were cool with it.
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PF tends to be easier for me in terms of EX clears. Pretty efficient even if clears themselves aren't consistent.
What I mean is that when performance is generally bad, the group just disbands. There's few instances of wasting time arguing. Someone leaves and then the rest follow. Then it's back into another group. There are some days where I can knock out several clears in a night when I get into a really good group I vibe with. Other days I'd be lucky to even hit enrage. But I like the ease of jumping around until I find something that sticks.
What I mean is that when performance is generally bad, the group just disbands. There's few instances of wasting time arguing. Someone leaves and then the rest follow. Then it's back into another group. There are some days where I can knock out several clears in a night when I get into a really good group I vibe with. Other days I'd be lucky to even hit enrage. But I like the ease of jumping around until I find something that sticks.
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Protip: Don't make your Submersibles FC the one that you're opening up to the public to run content with.
I will find you. And I will liquidate your assets because you forgot to restrict the permissions for newbies.
I will find you. And I will liquidate your assets because you forgot to restrict the permissions for newbies.
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Finally beat this Savage tier in PF. Managed to form a sort of pseudo-static though, and got through M6S and M7S much faster than the other PF dreck. A good thing, too, considering how hard M6 walled people because of the adds phase. Would've been perfect, but clearing faster than everyone else is a double-edged sword, since we lost a "member" and thus had no one to prog M8S with for a day and a half. Even if we did, M8S is a whole other ball park, requiring a degree of perfection nigh impossible to reach in PF week 1, and that's just to clear P1 and even begin to progress P2. It's an extremely punishing fight DPS-wise, with deaths or the brutal 50% damage downs occurring in 20 minute bursts almost always resulting in a wipe to enrage. I didn't even see P2 in week 1, it was just miserable. The past couple of days were very productive though, I guess people finally learned the fight and made way less mistakes, the consistency was great. It being week 2 helped a lot too, with better gear, but none of our group had augmented tome weapon so there still wasn't much room for error.
After attempting week 1 clears for the last 3 tiers and failing all of them, it's probably about time I got together my own static. After hearing a lot of horror stories, I'll have to be careful of the people in said static, whether I make one myself or join one.
The tier itself is mostly nothing special, the obvious standout being M6S. It's a great fight with a lot of things people asked for, like adds and environmental changes, although the environment side of things is pretty watered down. Adds were great though, engaging, tough, and fun to execute correctly. Desert phase is pretty boring though.
M5S is a bog standard first floor, a little on the harder side, but only a little. I liked Arcady Night Fever though, a nice, fast, compact mechanic that rewards you if you execute it correctly. The music is cool too, and the moonwalking frogs.
M7S was a real disappointment though, with the only difficulty being where to place the AoEs that explode in a 8-star pattern after a few seconds in P2. Everything else is pretty boring, with the normal mode actually being harder in some ways since the DF tanks don't duo/invuln the tower stacks. I guess using the live adds as a shield against Quarry Swamp-the LoS petrification-was pretty cool. I think this would've been a good time to shake up the formula and give a third floor a Savage-exclusive phase to give Brute Bomber a proper send-off.
M8S is the real monster though, with a tight DPS check, 7 minute P1 with an adds phase, and yet another 7 minute P2, it was brutal to prog in PF. Huge weight off my shoulders to have gotten it done week 2, took so much grinding though. Overall, P1 is fun, minus the adds which are mind-numbingly boring, and P2 is a little easy, but deserved after the slog of getting P1 down. P2 DPS check is pretty damn tight too, we needed 2 LB3s plus a potted 2 minute window, but maybe some people messed up rotation because of the pressure, I certainly did. This fight eats though pots too, making you use 2 just in P1 to have some nice wiggle room with deaths/damage downs. The adrenaline rush of clearing P1 and hearing the much better P2 music start up is so worth the gil spent on pots though. Good luck anyone still progging it, (and on reclears.... ugh...) It's a very tough fight. First time a Savage has had a P1 with such a tight DPS check and it not be a door boss.
Overall it was pretty fun, definitely going to try giving up PF next tier, the lack of consistency was torturous in M8S... although a static won't entirely solve that, at least you'll hopefully be able to remedy mistakes better. If I can't find one or make one, it's fine I guess. There's a certain joy to be found in grinding out a week 1/2 clear, seeing the same people and sharing in the glorious moment when you finally clear. It does make me wonder what sort of behemoth SE will cook up for M12... though I won't get my hopes up, it is Square Enix after all.
After attempting week 1 clears for the last 3 tiers and failing all of them, it's probably about time I got together my own static. After hearing a lot of horror stories, I'll have to be careful of the people in said static, whether I make one myself or join one.
The tier itself is mostly nothing special, the obvious standout being M6S. It's a great fight with a lot of things people asked for, like adds and environmental changes, although the environment side of things is pretty watered down. Adds were great though, engaging, tough, and fun to execute correctly. Desert phase is pretty boring though.
M5S is a bog standard first floor, a little on the harder side, but only a little. I liked Arcady Night Fever though, a nice, fast, compact mechanic that rewards you if you execute it correctly. The music is cool too, and the moonwalking frogs.
M7S was a real disappointment though, with the only difficulty being where to place the AoEs that explode in a 8-star pattern after a few seconds in P2. Everything else is pretty boring, with the normal mode actually being harder in some ways since the DF tanks don't duo/invuln the tower stacks. I guess using the live adds as a shield against Quarry Swamp-the LoS petrification-was pretty cool. I think this would've been a good time to shake up the formula and give a third floor a Savage-exclusive phase to give Brute Bomber a proper send-off.
M8S is the real monster though, with a tight DPS check, 7 minute P1 with an adds phase, and yet another 7 minute P2, it was brutal to prog in PF. Huge weight off my shoulders to have gotten it done week 2, took so much grinding though. Overall, P1 is fun, minus the adds which are mind-numbingly boring, and P2 is a little easy, but deserved after the slog of getting P1 down. P2 DPS check is pretty damn tight too, we needed 2 LB3s plus a potted 2 minute window, but maybe some people messed up rotation because of the pressure, I certainly did. This fight eats though pots too, making you use 2 just in P1 to have some nice wiggle room with deaths/damage downs. The adrenaline rush of clearing P1 and hearing the much better P2 music start up is so worth the gil spent on pots though. Good luck anyone still progging it, (and on reclears.... ugh...) It's a very tough fight. First time a Savage has had a P1 with such a tight DPS check and it not be a door boss.
Overall it was pretty fun, definitely going to try giving up PF next tier, the lack of consistency was torturous in M8S... although a static won't entirely solve that, at least you'll hopefully be able to remedy mistakes better. If I can't find one or make one, it's fine I guess. There's a certain joy to be found in grinding out a week 1/2 clear, seeing the same people and sharing in the glorious moment when you finally clear. It does make me wonder what sort of behemoth SE will cook up for M12... though I won't get my hopes up, it is Square Enix after all.
Art of Quar
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How do you get to the point that you need to steal ceruleum tanks
I run my subs on 36h fight club and i make more company credits than i spend just by virtue of weekly capping
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Enigmatic Gale
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Artisan is the one I use, and I think its the "main" one.
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"dude it's not cheating this should just be a thing in the game by default": Macro Chain (base dalamud)
"fuck ping and animation lock i want to craft properly": Artisan (Punish Repo)
Artisan has an inbuilt solver but it's not that efficient for Normal Crafts and to best use it, you should get macros for your current stats from Raphael and put those in the Macros section of Artisan.
If you're insane enough to do Expert Crafts (e.g. for the Firmament, Skybuilders' Tools, or Lodestar Tools), you should just use Raphael macros. For the Artisanal Firmament and Skybuilders' step at least. Artisan's inbuilt solver takes a lot longer but can consistently do the Lodestar crafts with my current gear (Pentamelded Everseeker armor, pentamelded Black Star accessories, offhand tools with one XII and a CP meld) without any food, while the macro for the final step requires Rroneek Steak to have a 93.5% chance to get a Tier 3 instead of Tier 2 collectable due to Good condition RNG.
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- Apr 16, 2019
I've started crafting the new recipes.
I failed crafting some stuff like 3 times because I was literally 1 point off from completion but I've figured out a way to make sure I can complete it properly.
Frustrating as hell though when I spend forever gathering those fucking materials and have to waste more time to regather them.
I failed crafting some stuff like 3 times because I was literally 1 point off from completion but I've figured out a way to make sure I can complete it properly.
Frustrating as hell though when I spend forever gathering those fucking materials and have to waste more time to regather them.
RIPRhongoBongo
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Art of Quar
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RIPRhongoBongo
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After much procrastinating, I have now achieved WAR level 90. I have also eaten 9 boxes of crayons up to now, which has nothing to do with the previous sentence