Gavinmad
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Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Malkav
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These people have been in the same FC as me for years too. They seemed pretty chill and helpful from afar (never played much with them outside of the occasional roulette), so going into a static with them instead of complete strangers seemed an okay idea enough. I had no fucking idea of the underlying shitshow.
Chysamere
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I've done my share of e-whoring but I always had a rule: Do not shit where I play seriously.
I went from vanilla wow to wotlk without a single problem or instance of drama, because WoW was for gaming, not for women. Same deal with Vanilla wow. Never even tried to catch a sniff. Never got involved in any drama.
FF14 is the same for me. I like what I do there. I play it for the game not for socializing or trying to get my dick e-wet. There's plenty other places for that if I ever get the urge.
Malkav
French Madman
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Oh yeah i'm 100% with you on that, just wanted a casual fun static to prog with, not this hot mess. Shit I'm not even socializing in the game 99% of the time.
Chysamere
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Weren't you flirting with/tapping the girl and considering dating her? How is that being hands off?
Malkav
French Madman
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Weren't you flirting with/tapping the girl and considering dating her? How is that being hands off?
I'll admit I'm at fault for letting myself tempted when she started hitting on me lol. I sure didn't look for it though.
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So cleared P4S P1, started prog on P2. Took a little while but not so bad, it's a fun first phase at least, changes a bunch between each pull, and the first mechanics are the mechanics that matter the most so once you get the mechanics, it's just a matter of not fucking up, instead of having to learn like the first few mechs, then wipe later in the fight and have to constantly repeat pointless mechs. Instead once you get virus/tethers and pinax, you basically know all the fight, towers is something you do in one or two pulls since it's so obvious, and then it's just virus/tether and pinax again anyway(with more aoeing).
Switched from DRK to PLD, still getting less damage though, DRK was easier to keep track of the rotation when focusing on mechanics. While it had a lot of buttons, it was pretty simple, basically once I used Delirium, just dump all cooldowns besides Shadowbringer if Shadow isn't up. Makes it pretty easy to keep track of, while PLD has a bunch more things, and you have to remember to cut one attonement to stay aligned and shit, but if you lose uptime then it messes up everything. And sometimes I just get lost on which combo I'm on as I'm doing mechanics, so I'll do the wrong one or restart a combo when I should be doing spells, then it's all misaligned. Easier once comfortable with the fights so stuff always comes up at the same time, but yeah. It's nice to have Hallowed Ground instead of Living Dead though, and Intervention instead of Oblation for main tank stuff(and I can still sheltron myself anyway). Main downside is how clunky wings is compared to dark missionary, I have to turn around and try to grab everyone and shit, but it is 15% so it's also better, plus I also have Divine Veil which is really neat too.
That said DRK had tome weap and DRK is naturally higher, so that might be partly why. Next week I get the 7th blade so I can just switch to PLD tome weap(sadly 1000 tomes "wasted" on non bis weapons, but eh).
Switched from DRK to PLD, still getting less damage though, DRK was easier to keep track of the rotation when focusing on mechanics. While it had a lot of buttons, it was pretty simple, basically once I used Delirium, just dump all cooldowns besides Shadowbringer if Shadow isn't up. Makes it pretty easy to keep track of, while PLD has a bunch more things, and you have to remember to cut one attonement to stay aligned and shit, but if you lose uptime then it messes up everything. And sometimes I just get lost on which combo I'm on as I'm doing mechanics, so I'll do the wrong one or restart a combo when I should be doing spells, then it's all misaligned. Easier once comfortable with the fights so stuff always comes up at the same time, but yeah. It's nice to have Hallowed Ground instead of Living Dead though, and Intervention instead of Oblation for main tank stuff(and I can still sheltron myself anyway). Main downside is how clunky wings is compared to dark missionary, I have to turn around and try to grab everyone and shit, but it is 15% so it's also better, plus I also have Divine Veil which is really neat too.
That said DRK had tome weap and DRK is naturally higher, so that might be partly why. Next week I get the 7th blade so I can just switch to PLD tome weap(sadly 1000 tomes "wasted" on non bis weapons, but eh).
Chris
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Just got a bunch of DRK DPS abilities in the 60-70 range and I'm doing dungeons in 15 mins max. Feels like shit is melting, it's really fun.
I levelled PAL this way a few months ago and don't remember it being so quick, though it was much safer. So I'm guessing DRK is one of the higher DPS tanks?
I have Gunbreaker and Paladin at 90 280 iLevel, Dark Knight at 69 and Warrior at 50.
I'm hearing Warrior is the best right now though? I'm only levelling DRK because I have the Hydaelin weapon for it, though I have a badass glam planned for DRK.
I levelled PAL this way a few months ago and don't remember it being so quick, though it was much safer. So I'm guessing DRK is one of the higher DPS tanks?
I have Gunbreaker and Paladin at 90 280 iLevel, Dark Knight at 69 and Warrior at 50.
I'm hearing Warrior is the best right now though? I'm only levelling DRK because I have the Hydaelin weapon for it, though I have a badass glam planned for DRK.
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DRK is the highest DPS tank, but the difference is negligible and not something you'd notice. It's like 150-200DPS at lvl 90. That said while leveling, classes get their skills at different times, and so some classes are stronger than others in the process.
Unless you're soloing dungeons though, clearing faster can generally be attributed to the DPS being less shit than usual, and the healer not being retarded and also DPSing. You can literally clear in half the time with good DPS and healer than you would with shitty ones, while your own DPS will only have a slight impact on that.
Warrior isn't really the "best", but it's the comfiest for dungeons and main tanking. The rotation is simple and clean, and you have a ton of self healing so in dungeons you can ignore whether the healer sucks or not and still be fine with large pulls, while in raids you can usually sustain yourself through the boss attacks on your own so you never have to fear the healers are greeding their oGCDs and won't heal you or whatever. I believe it is the worst DPS out of the tanks after the recent PLD buffs, although very slightly, but it is the most survivable tank, especially for casual content.
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Tarisk
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Malkav
French Madman
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So my static adventure came to an hilarious end.
After the last episode, I decided to start talking with the tank that left and the previous co-healer that had gotten honey trapped. Poor dude was down bad, he had it way worse than me as she kept him on the side for months apparently and it was still more or less going on at the same time as me.
After digging through all the bullshit she fed us, dude ended up sending her a message he was disappointed after learning some things. Apparently girl started to sweat profusely as she tried to call me on Discord after that, realizing that we were talking.
After getting spammed for a bit, I made her understand that she fucked up and got caught and it's all there is to it. Not sure what happened on her end after that.
Queue the douchebag boyfriend trying to contact both the other guy and me, "wanting to talk", we ignored him, and he ended up sending a final message asking not to go spreading rumor and saying it'd be for the best if we never talked again. Then, he proceeded to disband the whole static. At this point, discounting him and the girlfriend, I was the only one still involved in the shitshow in the static and I would have just left, but dude went nuclear apparently. Sucks for the other people in the static that were not involved.
Well, at least we can poach people for the new static we're coming up with the old tank and healer.
After the last episode, I decided to start talking with the tank that left and the previous co-healer that had gotten honey trapped. Poor dude was down bad, he had it way worse than me as she kept him on the side for months apparently and it was still more or less going on at the same time as me.
After digging through all the bullshit she fed us, dude ended up sending her a message he was disappointed after learning some things. Apparently girl started to sweat profusely as she tried to call me on Discord after that, realizing that we were talking.
After getting spammed for a bit, I made her understand that she fucked up and got caught and it's all there is to it. Not sure what happened on her end after that.
Queue the douchebag boyfriend trying to contact both the other guy and me, "wanting to talk", we ignored him, and he ended up sending a final message asking not to go spreading rumor and saying it'd be for the best if we never talked again. Then, he proceeded to disband the whole static. At this point, discounting him and the girlfriend, I was the only one still involved in the shitshow in the static and I would have just left, but dude went nuclear apparently. Sucks for the other people in the static that were not involved.
Well, at least we can poach people for the new static we're coming up with the old tank and healer.
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Like in a "shut your mouth", or more like in a "do not talk to me or my wife's son ever again" kind of way?
Weren't you in an FC? Shouldn't FC leadership be made aware of "mademoiselle polyamoureuse" and her escapades, or else they might want to recruit other FC members for their new static?
Malkav
French Madman
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They left the FC a few weeks ago, dude wanted to create his own FC. He even had poached 2 or 3 members and it had created some drama with my FC leadership. So much so we had to move the static channel out of the FC Discord lol.
As for his message after I didn't answer his "we should talk" he sent me "I guess things are how they are now, I'll just ask to not spread rumors that would come from anger or assumption and I guess it's better we never talk again."
As for his public disband message on the static channel :
I have no idea what went on between his girlfriend and him leading up to that, but I'd suspect she fed him some bullshit partial lie about the other guy and myself in an attempt to deflect rather than risk having us tell something to him. As far as she's concerned, she may consider the other guy and myself have the nuclear codes in the form of our DM history with her.