FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

[Lujei]

I'm really happy with SE getting away from obnoxious Random rules in the new TT NPCs and instead working with things that require actual thought. For example, that one NPC in the Pillars that plays 4 different 5-Star cards. She's going to win if you just try to beat her normally simply because of the strength of her deck, so you really have to abuse her Plus rule, which is pretty easy given most of her sides are 9s and As.

I hope they continue down this path in the future, because it feels more like how it should be, rather than banging your head against a RNG wall.

[Fiye]

This scrublord had to get raised.

[Resin]

Finished the FFXI event and have to say it was brilliant. So much nostalgia!! Really miss my Red Mage ; ;

So good! All the feels!

[The Stig]

Getting Arboretum in expert roulette is quite a treat I feel. Can skip a large majority of trash in the honeycomb area leading up to the second boss.

Can skip the whole section after the initial 6 mobs after the first boss too if you have a competent team with some good control/healing.

[Hiryo]

I gotta say, duo Diadem hard for esoterics is probably the most fun my gf and I have had in this game in a while. I really hope they consider increasing the eso rewards in Hard mode for completing other activities as well. Even 5 eso for finding buried coffers would be okay as I do like the zone aesthetically.

Anything to avoid having to do expert mode....ever.

[AlastorTGN]

I'm praising the only other PLD besides me I've ever seen use Tempered Will last week against a knockback, amazingly this was in DF Ravana which is scarily more succesful now.

[Lujei]

I've had such mixed luck with Ravana in DF. I've actually passed it a decent number of times, but other groups are just beyond abysmal. It's usually the new tanks that get people killed, more than anything, by, for example, not picking up double Prey or not knowing how to deal with the first Prey section rotation, but one group I had actually couldn't pass the first damage check without the 15% Echo.

Random praise would be I've definitely cleared Ravana in DF the first attempt at least 3 times this week, which is better than my server's shitty PF.

[Vigilia]

I finished the Vanu Vanu beast tribe rank ups last night and I have to say they are my favourite beast tribe quest bunch so far. Ok Ixal were pretty nice too for crafting jobs but the whole scaling of XP and being able to do the quests on any job 50-60 is just too good. Also while the quests were typically menial (go there, fetch that, kill this etc.) at least there weren't any dumb FATE camping ones or crap like having to carry podlings across all of the damn Sylphlands. The final cutscene promised an XP bonus for any further vanu vanu quests so curious to see what that'll be. Considering they already give in the region of 20-40k XP per quest (depending on level) and with how quick they are to do I can keep doing them while sitting in a dps roulette queue. :D

[Fievel]

Final Vanu quest is fucking amazing

pic from final quest cs in spoiler

Spoiler: show

[Lujei]

While I'm still most fond of the Sahagin quests. . .

Spoiler: show

I like how they made your character the silent onlooker, watching their battle from a rock above them, like powerful, mysterious characters are prone to doing, before jumping in and protecting them once they've already failed. Complete with directed eye-closing to further the sense that you're a badass.

It was a neat little role reversal from the "gets saved by the mentor" that younger shounen characters in Japanese games are prone to, with you being the mentor.

[Vigilia]

At sworn rank 60,480XP per vanu quest as a lvl 53 black mage, not complaining about that.

[Raldo]

Wow, it must not scale very well. At lv59 you get mid-70k-ish xp. Certainly faster than daily hunts, so I guess I can't complain either.

[Vigilia]

Wow, it must not scale very well. At lv59 you get mid-70k-ish xp. Certainly faster than daily hunts, so I guess I can't complain either.

That's not sworn rank though, I checked with my 59BRD today and they are offering me 90,720XP per quest. So that would make it a roughly 25% bonus at high rank? I can't remember what I used to get at lvl 53 before ranking up. But yeah considering how much the XP required per level goes up too it does not scale in relation to that. I'm only annoyed now that I can't use up all my daily 12 beastman tribe quest credits on vanus.

[Raldo]

Oh, wasn't aware the rank made a difference.

[Vigilia]

Oh, wasn't aware the rank made a difference.

When you do the final quest and rank up to sworn you get a message that further completions of the daily vanu quests give an increased XP reward. Thus my 53BLM was getting 60k while it was previously around 40k, I can't remember exact number though so dunno how much the bonus% precisely is. If you want to take note exactly how much you are getting at lvl 59 and math that with the 90,720XP I was offered at 59 then that would be helpful.

[Raldo]

Sadly, I no longer have a lv59 available, just a 50 and 51.

I think I'll hit sworn after doing tomorrow's quests.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Thordan EX is a lot of fun when you go in mostly blind with people whose company you enjoy. We've gotten to Adelphel and the other dingus (the ones that use Bladedance) just by throwing ourselves into it and figuring out mechanics on our own. Also, this is the first fight with real tankbusters I've tanked (Ravana EX doesn't count cos you can just split it) and it's a LOT of fun seeing that massive attack go out and shrugging it off

[AlastorTGN]

It's technically a fail but Hallowed Grounding the syncronised Bladedance from both Knights when your WAR gets killed and they both come after you is awesome. Second in feeling to using HG on Akh Morn 4/5 and ahead of Nael using 'Bahamur's Claw' and going full ham on you to no effect.

Just a generally good fight to play PLD for once, makesy ou really appreciate Sheltron.

[Taint]

It's technically a fail but Hallowed Grounding the syncronised Bladedance from both Knights when your WAR gets killed and they both come after you is awesome. Second in feeling to using HG on Akh Morn 4/5 and ahead of Nael using 'Bahamur's Claw' and going full ham on you to no effect.

Just a generally good fight to play PLD for once, makesy ou really appreciate Sheltron.

Yep I really like it on PLD even if WARx2 is the best setup. Only reason to use shield oath is for enmity. Sheltron is boss esp with a tower.

[Ragns]

So we met this way totally wasted DRG in DF today. Instead of complaining we decided to join him: