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[Forte]

God I hate how SE runs their own fucking company. Xenophobic fucks.

[Karbuncle]

It infuriates me as well But i try to hide it.

Its so disgustingly obvious how biased they are sometimes it gets to me too...

[ronin sparthos]

New Stuff:

Flux 12: Ironclad Observers and two Ironclad. The observers are wandering red/blue heads and the bosses are one Voidwrought model and one standard issue Ironclad. Blue observers seem to stick to Augur Smash, red use Area Bombardment.

Flux 13: Pink and Brown birds with 3 Harpeia as bosses. One Celaeno, Aello and a new blue Harpy. Bosses roam amongst the birds, have some intense regain and stuff casts all the usual wind-based junk.

Flux 14: 3 sets of Coeurl - normals, lynx-types and the new models used for Cath Palug in Voidwatch. 2 Hadhayosh Behemoth as the boss at the uppermost and lowermost floors of the chamber.

Normal Coeurl use earth based spells like Slowga, Stone IV, Stonega III.
Lynx use wind based spells like Silencega, Aero IV, Aeroga III
Cath Palug models use the new TP set.

Flux 15: 3 of each hybrid elemental, 1 of each Abyssean caturae. Unlike standard elementals that only cast, these use TP moves based on their elements with added effects. Think along the lines of Weepers in Promyvion.

The 4 t1 Caturae (Sippoy, Kutharei, Yaanei, Iratham) are gathered around a fountain once going up the initial stairs and Rani guards a staircase in the back which leads to Raja.

Overall, DD are going to get walloped in all sorts of creative ways. The Harpy chamber would be my bet on the chamber that gets farmed when stuff goes live.

[Forte]

The problem is less SE and more the 'old boys club' in Japan, the older generation in control of video game making who are still the same Xenophobic jackasses they always were. I can't speak for the new generation, but they are pretty fucking loony as well. Just look at the whole '2D' movement. Somehow the theory that a large group of people living in a small space mostly cut off from the outside world tends to result in insanity seems to make sense here.

It's no wonder Japanese game studios are dieing off. They can only make games for their own country, and the second they try to sell overseas they find just how badly designed they are.

[catfat]

New Stuff:

Flux 12: Ironclad Observers and two Ironclad. The observers are wandering red/blue heads and the bosses are one Voidwrought model and one standard issue Ironclad. Blue observers seem to stick to Augur Smash, red use Area Bombardment.

Flux 13: Pink and Brown birds with 3 Harpeia as bosses. One Celaeno, Aello and a new blue Harpy. Bosses roam amongst the birds, have some intense regain and stuff casts all the usual wind-based junk.

Flux 14: 3 sets of Coeurl - normals, lynx-types and the new models used for Cath Palug in Voidwatch. 2 Hadhayosh Behemoth as the boss at the uppermost and lowermost floors of the chamber.

Normal Coeurl use earth based spells like Slowga, Stone IV, Stonega III.
Lynx use wind based spells like Silencega, Aero IV, Aeroga III
Cath Palug models use the new TP set.

Flux 15: 3 of each hybrid elemental, 1 of each Abyssean caturae. Unlike standard elementals that only cast, these use TP moves based on their elements with added effects. Think along the lines of Weepers in Promyvion.

The 4 t1 Caturae (Sippoy, Kutharei, Yaanei, Iratham) are gathered around a fountain once going up the initial stairs and Rani guards a staircase in the back which leads to Raja.

Overall, DD are going to get walloped in all sorts of creative ways. The Harpy chamber would be my bet on the chamber that gets farmed when stuff goes live.

Man they're really milking Iron Giants and Caturaes to death. Add a giant orcish warmachines or giant opo opos. Just use different damn mobs

[Rocl]

this always happens when they add big new HNMs

how many times have we fought wyrms, behemoths, adamantoises, cerberuses, hydras and khimairas?

[Miroku_Asura]

those just feel more epic though :/

[Kaisha]

Man they're really milking Iron Giants and Caturaes to death. Add a giant orcish warmachines or giant opo opos. Just use different damn mobs

All three of the beastmen turrets from WoTG at once woulda been something.

[Enedin]

Jumbo Cactuars that do 100K needles.

[Hyan]

I was tempted to put that ordeal over in the Official Forum thread in Media but decided against it.

Spoiler: show

Basically, Scorp/Ruszor/Slime all beat Hippo in votes overall, but Hippo was the most popular in the JP boards and people are pissed off the whole thing was positioned as a vote. The only way they could have figured Hippo was the most popular is that it was the highest-voted on JP and Germany's boards and Scorp only got the most votes on the NA board. Of course, that means more regions want the Hippo, right? Well, the vote was still a landslide, with the tallied-across-all-servers ending up being (I think) 47-27 for Scorp/Hippo.

SE has declined to comment. More at 11.

lol. Voting really makes little sense considering JP's are far less active on the forums although they are the largest population.

[ronin sparthos]

Jumbo Cactuars that do 100K needles.

Giant Colibri that turns players into Colibri.

[Byrthnoth]

It's kinda sad that 100k needles is survivable now.

18 people with Scherzo/Earthen Armor and no PDT in gear would only take 555 damage per person. If everyone was willing to wear some PDT, you could definitely survive it with only 10.

[NynJa]

Kinda dumb that SE's solution to make fights harder isnt actually increasing difficulty...just making it so that you have to have scherzo/earthen armor on at all times, instead of March + not using a summoner, therefor drawing out fights longer than necessary.

Audumbla has something like 60k hp...yet it still takes me like 5 minutes to 3box it just because of all the HP it has for no fucking reason. I dont even bother with utsu or protect, just blindly fight in haste gear, but my whm still finishes the fight with a 90-100% full MP pool every time. Scars NM's seem to have a fraction of that. Its pointless.

I'd rather instead of making mobs with large fucking hp pools (though this wont apply to VW since you kinda need that large hp pool cuz of procs n shit), they just put the mob straight into rage TP spam / new TP moves mode with 1/3 the HP.

[ronin sparthos]

Stop giving mobs Death, jeez.

There is nothing difficult about being oneshotted instantly because a mob decided to cast a spell you can rarely block. The T2 Diabolos' in Tavnazia are already lazily slopped together before Death and it seems to be a habit going on with the newer mobs.

[NynJa]

Another boner they're currently on is hate reset that you have absolutely no way to avoid.

[Septimus]

Another boner they're currently on is hate reset that you have absolutely no way to avoid.

What amuses me is that they give every mob and its mother hate reset then wonder why people think that PLD can't tank anything now. (No it isn't the only problem with PLD tanking, but it certainly doesn't help issues.)

[ronin sparthos]

What amuses me is that they give every mob and its mother hate reset then wonder why people think that PLD can't tank anything now. (No it isn't the only problem with PLD tanking, but it certainly doesn't help issues.)

I know they wanted to create mobs that are more exciting as some of the older HNMs were boring when a PLD could hold them indefinitely while DD jump on/off them but seriously.... more scripted attacks like Dark Ixion trump constant hate resets.

[Foldypaws]

It's kinda sad that 100k needles is survivable now.

18 people with Scherzo/Earthen Armor and no PDT in gear would only take 555 damage per person. If everyone was willing to wear some PDT, you could definitely survive it with only 10.

You could survive it *once*. Then it does it again 3 seconds later and all the taru are dead >_>

[Yugl]

You could survive it *once*. Then it does it again 3 seconds later and all the taru are dead >_>

Solution: Giraffes and Gorillas onry LS.

[Spira]

It's kinda sad that 100k needles is survivable now.

18 people with Scherzo/Earthen Armor and no PDT in gear would only take 555 damage per person. If everyone was willing to wear some PDT, you could definitely survive it with only 10.

Pet jobs say hi.