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Alright, here's my take: Standardising all jobs to 2 minutes is the reason we have broken combat balance right now. It's not the only reason, but it's the straw that has broken the camel's back. A thread:
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A lot of people complain about the clunky tab targetting FFXIV has, especially in PvP. Did you know you can change it? This setting only targets enemies in the direction you are looking, prioritising those closest and then those closest to the middle of the screen.
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I've been thinking about the ludicrously large burger from that cutscene, so I decided to make it.
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I'm worried the devs plan to change the playstyle of PLD away from something I enjoy, but the truth is it is incompatible with current job and fight design. In the hopes of saving my job, I wrote a doc explaining why the game needs to change, not the job.
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I've seen people saying Paladin sucks because its damage is unreasonably low compared to the other tanks. I'm loving how it plays. Low DPS is easier to fix than bad design, and the design is good. I say relax and wait for the balancing patch.
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A lot of people don't seem to understand that people asking for PLD buffs aren't saying to make it do as much as DRK. Here's an image to explain.
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There's a certain type of person that is obsessed with pushing personal limits and becoming as good as they can be. You may not understand it, this may not be you, but it is me. Try to understand there are motivations to play games beyond just "getting the content done".
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If you want an ultimate clear, literally just ask. There are so many of us constantly running prog groups. I've been helping people clear content literally since 2014, before I was even streaming. We just love raiding. As a bare minimum, just get to know us first.
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Let me put into perspective how bad a 10% difference in DPS is. Over the course of a 10 minute fight, a DRK could AFK for an entire minute while doing mechanics and still pull comparable DPS to a full uptime PLD. There's a certain disparity which comfort on a job cannot overcome.
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Here's a spectrogram showing that there was a high frequency sound being played at 14kHz up to around 18kHz during Centerstage and Outerstage Combo in Honey B's fight. The latest patch removed it, so if you had people telling you there was no sound, you weren't crazy.
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School curriculum the world over needs a class added for "how to disagree with someone without getting mad".
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WHAT
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NO. EXCUSES. GET HAT.
New
#FFXIV
Developers' Blog:
📜 Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle! The Dragon Quest X Collab Returns!
🌐
Get the scoop on the returning quest and rewards appearing on October 19 when the collaboration event returns!
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Why is it okay to press buttons in FPS/MOBAs/fighting games and call it eSports but you try to do well in FFXIV and people ask why you even care?
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I don't know about you but I feel like organizing a hateful report brigade is more reportable than what they're reporting.
Guys.... come on...
Its 1 thing for someone to "break the TOS" and the other to specifically brigading to get someone ban....
Both NAs and JPs r actually doing it... what a sad... dark period.....
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There appear to be far too many people around that take joy in seeing other people being upset. Disappointing.
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We raised $5308 for Beyond Blue! WHAT?! I recorded the finish, with a face reveal as promised. Thanks so much for everyone that donated!
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I had a realisation: I'd rather PLD stay dumpster tier and un-viable in early weeks if that means it keeps the same gameplay and I can come back to it later once people have gear to make up for its lack. Fun gameplay is more important than meta.
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Since some people supported us as a team, I thought I'd make an announcement.
@ferro_maljin
and I decided to leave Oversleepers to go back to our home on Elemental. Some of the others in the team may stick together, or find new teams for themselves. (1/2)
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When asked why Ley Lines was still going to be on 90s going into EW, Yoshi P responded with the reasoning of why both 60s and 120s were bad for the balance of the job, and it made a lot of sense. Then they turned around and made it 120s anyway. Food for thought.
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PLD still having a natural 63 second loop if you spend all its resources makes me really wonder what's going on in the job design team. A thread with my thoughts:
(1/9)
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I want to give my two cents and reminisce about Stormblood because so often I see comments like these echoing the sentiment that SB is considered a bad expansion. Launch story =/= "the expansion". (1/14 - yes, I know)
the way ppl are so endlessly negative about endwalker you’d think yoshi p come into theirhomes and said to your face that their wol is lame and ugly. like it’s bad in the streets now, i can’t imagine what shit was like when the oh-so-despised stormblood dropped 😭
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After posting my write-up on Endwalker balance, a number of people suggested I have it translated to Japanese. Well, it's been done, and now posted to the official forums. Now we wait and see if that actually does anything.
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OK, here we go. Time for scariest and most ambitious thing I've ever done. In just under 2 weeks, on the 15th of October (AU time), I will attempt to not only run, but livestream, the Melbourne Marathon, whilst raising funds for the Australian charity Beyond Blue.
Thread below🧵
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Oversleepers P4S down 3:23pm EST. Killed right on enrage. Legitimately, if I was on PLD we wipe to the DPS check.
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Honestly, safe gaming is massively underrated. When you lose the GCD but complete the mechanic smoothly and nothing goes wrong, ahhh yes, it feels so good.
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There was no bad blood or drama. I love the team. Unfortunately the time has come for change and to move on. The long and short of it is getting a team together with 5 different time zones is... difficult.
Big thanks to everyone in Oversleepers for the past few years of raiding♥️
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I present to you: Finale, Mario Kart Double Dash strat
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There are only two patterns, by the way. Green circles are safe spots, circled crystals tell you where. Can be mirrored. Bubbled crystals and which way they're facing are irrelevant. (Criterion first boss mechanic)
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Preliminary PvP job tier list after playing every job at least 5 times (*in casual).
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I shouldn't be able to eat dinner mid-pull during a savage tier final boss' signature mechanic.
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FYI, both my first UCoB and UWU groups failed. I got UWU done first with the help of
@ArtharsFF14
, and then UCoB with 2-3 helpers. There is absolutely no shame in your clears getting some help, be it a lot or a little. The all 8 fresh groups are extremely rare.
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P8 doorboss is a fun fight but the overall design of combat this expansion is a complete disaster and needs a major rework.
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Only 5 days until PLD potency buffs and NIN becomes playable! So excited!
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I am impressed by what
@RichWCampbell
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The number of people you have helped clear a fight is much more meaningful to me than whether you got a 9 or a 99.
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They have fixed the jumping into wall before cutscene bug in P8S. Dead game.
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When I started this journey a year and a half ago, a big part of me didn't honestly believe this was an achievable milestone. I didn't do it. We did it.
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A recently developed opinion of mine (last few years) is that chasing perfect game balance is folly. It erodes the creativity of design. You have to accept there will always be a meta - a best. And for everything that is not, at least it can be made fun in spite of that.
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A single job can have a DPS swing of close to +-5% from one pull to the next. If the entire party has a bad crit RNG run, you hit enrage. After doing all the mechanics perfectly and executing your rotation perfectly, beating enrage is down to a dice roll.
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Mechanics like this sure would be easy to dodge if you could just see the AoEs on the ground, huh? (Image from The Balance)
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Showed up for raid today, for some reason my mouse wheel wouldn't scroll up. "That's OK, I've never needed to zoom in in this game anyway" I said. And then I got to P12S P2. Man.
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P8S part 2 is especially egregious due to there being a single 2 minute buff window with DOUBLE DAMAGE. If you don't get lucky crits during this window, it can completely negate all optimisation effort you did in the first 60% of the fight.
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In previous expansions, we had job burst on 60s, 90s, 120s and 180s. When used on cooldown, these naturally aligned on opener, and again at 6 minutes.
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That means if an enrage is tough, there is room for a group to improve in order to meet the DPS check. When everyone's burst is aligned to 2 minutes, and fights are purposefully designed around 2 minute burst, the skill ceiling is lowered and players have nothing to improve.
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When melees are doing more damage than ranged, and they're not punished for being a melee (because they get full uptime for absolute free), there's no point to bringing triple ranged, and no room to optimise uptime.
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So far, Endwalker is delivering on two of my big hopes for non-raid content.
Hope 1: Solo duties more reminiscent of Bozja 1v1s.
Hope 2: Big zones reminiscent of Heavensward. We got bigger.
Thanks, Square Enix.
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This problem is compounded by said burst also being extremely high potency relative to past expansions. Every expansion we get higher and higher potency single-use abilities where if you don't crit, you lose a huge chunk of DPS.
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Speaking of which, GIANT HITBOXES are another part of the same problem. During prog, melees have to play safe. You can balance around expected lost GCDs. As they optimise, they can find extra damage to make the DPS check easier.
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I don't know if people are already doing this or not since today was my first time going back into P10S since prog, but there's a really easy dodge you can do for both the front and middle tower AoEs. See chains: stay on edge. See lasers: Step under them. Clips in replies.
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If you've ever wanted to know what Australian culture is like, the Materia zoo just opened and entry is free.
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@ArtharsFF14
has been banned from FFXIV for 7 days due to comments he made towards someone ON STREAM. This sets a dangerous precedent where anyone could play like trash with a streamer and bait them into flaming them, then report them.
#FREEARTHARS
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This creates a situation where the devs can balance for the expected gameplay of the average player (everyone uses everything on cooldown), but leaves the ceiling high enough for coordinated groups to squeeze in a little extra damage.
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You either set the DPS check to the low end of expected crit RNG (of a party consisting of the weakest jobs), making the DPS check a joke for any competent group, or reintroduce a skill ceiling in which the players have the ability to find extra damage where it's not expected.
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If I can just be real for a moment, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't questioning continuing to make content for FFXIV today. It's not about whether people value me or my work, it's whether there is a future in doing this for a company that doesn't value who I am or what I do.
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I was out testing improvements to my IRL stream rig when I had an encounter with a lil guy.
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The irony is that in an attempt to make balancing easier by standardising all jobs (if that was the intent) they have made it impossible to reasonably balance.
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However, depending on an expected killtime, you could hold the 2 minute buffs at 8 minutes into the pull and get a full buff alignment again at 9 minutes. This wasn't something pugs were expected to do, and casual statics typically didn't, either.
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At the end of the day, the debate around Endwalker = good/bad boils down to everyone's subjective opinion. It's all well and good if you're still having fun with it, but don't be so fast to discount people that aren't, because their sub money is just as important as yours.
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Today I registered for the Melbourne Marathon and will be raising funds for the Australian mental health charity Beyond Blue. It's a journey I embarked on months ago, but today I made the commitment. This year will be different for me. Here's to good health, mental and physical.
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Here's the best I could come up with, with the help of
@RinKarigani
. Clips and macro in replies.
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After conducting a year-long experiment I have concluded that touching grass does not suddenly change your opinion on video games.
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People that believe someone would break NDA, leak stuff and sign off with their name probably stole from the cookie jar as a kid and then wrote a note saying "I did it" with their brother's name.
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Bought a hot pot and grill combo and put myself into a coma. See you all in 3 days.
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Movable bosses also allows for strat creation to cater to melees enabling a party to get even more damage by being creative with how they solve a mechanic.
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So
@ValorRedFF
decided to play an epic prank on me and left a PS5 box outside my front door. The funniest part is that there was actually a PS5 inside. HAHAHAHA good one, Valor!
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When I'm driving and I want to turn left, I turn the steering wheel to the left. I don't look at the sun, figure out which way is north, straddle the steering wheel and pull down.
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Finally cleared HoH solo today! Here is the moment I made it to the top:
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About a year ago I decided I would attempt to livestream running a marathon, both things I'd never done before. I was jumping into the unknown and constantly plagued by the thought of "what if it doesn't work?". Well, it didn't work. Some reflections on how the day went... (1/10)
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FFXIV at its worst is still better than any related alternatives (WARNING: SUBJECTIVE OPINION!), and that therein is the issue when you say "just go play something else" to someone that is not currently enjoying it. Go where?
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Oversleepers P3S down 5:57pm EST (I just realised I've been saying E1S and E2S out of habit)
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Most raiders learn plenty of complex mechanics without the help of third party tools, but stop short of learning Just One More Mechanic just because a tool exists that trivialises it. People can learn to do without just fine, they just don't try.
been talking abt this last 3 days cos people couldnt stfu abt it
Auto Marker IS cheating.
If yoship were to BAN and TAKE AWAY everything from a team cos of a zoom hack, theres no way u dont think AM is not worse
u mofos just wave your dick in PF with that shit is disgusting
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I'm late to post this b/c I passed out once I got home and then took a day of rest, but I wanted to announce that we raised $1087 for Beyond Blue, once again exceeding expectations! A huge thank you to everyone that donated and supported! Chat told me to recreate MAN, so I did.
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This is false. You're lucky to find even a single phys ranged in one place.
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I was so excited to be playing PLD again but fate said otherwise.
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