FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

[Ratatapa]

You gain nothing by waiting, and instead you have to actually keep an eye on your durability. You gain 100% durability (breaching 100%) regardless of when you repair. Maybe you missed that memo, or you're just weirdddddddddddddddd.

I dont need to keep an eye, there is a big pop up that says 10%, and no i didn't miss that memo. Just don't need to repair to 199% don't gain anything

[OWS_Tonx]

dat logic doe

[Kaisha]

Based on gear used across jobs, repairing shit gets out of sync anyways, so you either wait for 10% which means majority of gear will need repairs and you do it in one go, or you do it 10+ times throughout the week on the 1-2 parts that happen to slip under 100% first.

[Ratatapa]

Based on gear used across jobs, repairing shit gets out of sync anyways, so you either wait for 10% which means majority of gear will need repairs and you do it in one go, or you do it 10+ times throughout the week on the 1-2 parts that happen to slip under 100% first.

Nah only play sch for coil then I'm offline most of the time so np

[Taruina]

Another praise for this week: got the clear on my main (after having it on 2 alts) and my SCH book dropped. Thank you based-Yoshi P.

[The Stig]

Not new thread worthy I suppose but someone shared with me a little trick in Hullbreaker Isle:


tl;dw (didn't watch): walk (Not run) past the ninkis to not aggro them. Can skip the fight.

[Raldo]

Here's a trick for hullbreaker isle, just kill them, walking wastes the same amount of time.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Walking works on so many mobs.

[The Stig]

Here's a trick for hullbreaker isle, just kill them, walking wastes the same amount of time.

Yeh true but if your group isn't up to scratch sometimes; just seems like a nice thing to do

Walking works on so many mobs.

Is there a list of what works? (along with sight aggro). I was always under the impression dungeon mobs aggros no matter what. It'd be nice to compile a list!

[Seravi Edalborez]

From fuzzy memory

Sound:
Funguars
Flytraps
Ochus
Slimes
Yarzons
Eft/Salamander/Nanka
Ghosts
Elementals
Crabs
Dullahans
Firefly/Wisp

Sight:
Humanoids/Beastmen
Coblyns
Skeletons

There are exceptions in dungeons, a lot of 50 dungeons do have true-sound mobs. But stuff you can skip is like...

Sastasha: Virtually everything in the big open room before first boss.
Qarn: Entire room before+after 2nd boss
Cutter's Cry: Last map with Slimes+Coblyns
WP: Skeletons sight, Tonberries true, most other mobs sound

Also half of the annoying shit in Sylphlands is sound aggro.

Aggro is also level-based; a 50 char has a much shorter aggro range on a 41 mob than say a lv30 character. For sound mobs there is a "true" range usually if you touch its target circle.

[The47thSen]

What's sound aggro?

[Cutriss]

Can't tell if serious, but given your postcount:

Sound detection is omnidirectional, versus sight which is directional. It's a mechanic from XI that persists somewhat in XIV. You'd typically (in XI) have mobs whose base "creature" is known to have poor sight or preference to hearing. For example, pugils, being fish and having their eyes in weird places, detect by sound. Bats using echolocation, detect by sound.

Luckily (sort of) XIV doesn't have the other aggro types which were always hilarious. "Blood aggro", where undead would be able to detect you regardless of sightlines if your HP was low enough. "Magic aggro" where arcana mob types would attack you if you cast magic close enough to them.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Aggro

Monster linking behavior was also unique in XI. There were only a handful of monster "parties" as they are in XIV. In XIV there aren't parties in the strictest sense, just add-on aggro based on your level when you attack or are engaged by a target. In XI, level only played a factor in determining aggro range on monsters that would be aggressive anyway, until that range drops to 0 in which case the aggressive monster will not attack unless attacked. Linking behavior consisted of other monsters joining in an attack if they witness an attacking monster in the same family engaged in an attack using their normal detection methods. In other words, if you attack a sight-based creature and it runs toward you passing another creature of the same family, it may or may not join in the attack depending on what direction it was facing. Another passive monster of a different family in the area will not join in any attack unless directly provoked.

This leads to an interesting and complex set of monster behaviors, where some monsters aggro but do not link, some link but do not aggro, etc. It was the source of a number of hilarious events in XI where certain zones, notably Crawler's Nest, would have an entire phalanx of angry mobs right at the entrance, ready to attack unwitting players who had just zoned in, when in reality there might only be one or two aggressive mobs in the "group" but the other ten will all engage as soon as one of the aggressive ones finds a target (these mobs were sound-based, so the short version is that you'd zone in and find yourself dead before you loaded).

[Buffy]

Fucking need more dangerous open world areas. I remember being terrified walking through the tomb in ffxi trying to get to camp or jugner or w/e.....caught without sneak? fucked.

[Ratatapa]

Fucking need more dangerous open world areas. I remember being terrified walking through the tomb in ffxi trying to get to camp or jugner or w/e.....caught without sneak? fucked.

Can't or of will scream, and you know how square loves the of

[Eldelphia]

I miss mobs not being leashed and actually having to be careful. Being terrified the first time I climbed the mountain in Ulguerand range because Taurs were true sight

[Ratatapa]

I remember some anole lv70 in 1.0 when I explored AHHHHHHHHH the good old 1.0 days

[Kaisha]

Fucking need more dangerous open world areas. I remember being terrified walking through the tomb in ffxi trying to get to camp or jugner or w/e.....caught without sneak? fucked.

I miss mobs not being leashed and actually having to be careful. Being terrified the first time I climbed the mountain in Ulguerand range because Taurs were true sight

So I resubbed this week to XI, and I have died more times in the overworld with i115-119 gear and three AI helpers these past couple days than I recall dying in XIV in the past two months.

I miss actually worrying about dying to aggro when playing ARR. So uh....random praise for XI still being XI even with some of the modern casualizations applied. That said, dat Ra'Kaznar zone music.

[Ratatapa]

Please stop that kaishen

[Kaisha]

Please stop that kaishen

You can even select which theme plays on the main menu!



On that note, I'm curious if the first ARR expansion will decorate/change the main menu at all.

[kisada]

So I resubbed this week to XI, and I have died more times in the overworld with i115-119 gear and three AI helpers these past couple days than I recall dying in XIV in the past two months.

I miss actually worrying about dying to aggro when playing ARR. So uh....random praise for XI still being XI even with some of the modern casualizations applied. That said, dat Ra'Kaznar zone music.

yeah super agree. i really wish the game had threatening environments. unfortunately yoshida's version of that is having a mob cast heavy on you and pissing you off like nothing ever seen before.