FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

**Dathus** · 2013-12-25 08:52

SE gave me an early Christmas present(would've posted this last night but I went and got hammered at a party after).

**Stanislaw** · 2013-12-25 15:12

Originally Posted by Dathus

SE gave me an early Christmas present(would've posted this last night but I went and got hammered at a party after).

I'll raise you with this:

Spoiler: show

**dejet** · 2013-12-25 15:55

Firstly allagan item. Sad to say it's for my blm(First none darklight item outside normal relic) Got body!

At least I can say it's not a total waste and looks God Damn great vs do.

**Kaisha** · 2013-12-26 01:54

Maybe it hasn't been long enough for me to hate it, but I'm finding myself not actually dreading to doing the beastmen quests daily. Decent little pocket change, crystals, and tomes for my alt classes. Painless quests that my SMN burns through with no issue while waiting on my bros to get on and do shit with.

**3.141592** · 2013-12-26 08:16

After over a week of wiping and frustration on Ruda ex finally got my aiming ring. Can't believe it how ppl screw up such an easy fight.

**Kiarax** · 2013-12-26 11:16

Of course it's easy to you, you sit at range and essentially ignore every mechanic in the fight. It's one of the hardest fights in the game to tank (MT at least).

**kisada** · 2013-12-26 11:28

yeah, the fight is almost literally about how good your tanks are and nothing else, assuming the rest of the party has a clue

**Izzy** · 2013-12-26 13:04

Also, you called her "Ruda", which automatically made me ignore the words that followed in your post.

Like kisada said, if you're a healer/ranged class, you literally stand in one spot and do nothing at all the whole fight.

**3.141592** · 2013-12-26 14:12

Originally Posted by Kiarax

Of course it's easy to you, you sit at range and essentially ignore every mechanic in the fight. It's one of the hardest fights in the game to tank (MT at least).

Apparently it's still easy enough to fuck it up as a ranged. No.1 wipe reason wasn't even the plume going off, cause it's possible to recover from that. Most of the time my pts wiped because either one of the ranged killed the plume way too early or pulled hate on one of the sisters, who slipstreamed everyone. It's not about tanks having hard time because of the mechanics, it's about ppl not paying attention.

**Obsidian** · 2013-12-26 14:35

Ranged DPS that fuck up positioning in that fight are brutal, but that doesn't make the fight easy, it just makes them bad. Success or failure almost entirely hinges on your main tank, and your healers not being asleep during add phases. Dodging two Slipstreams, defending against Wicked Wheels, keeping Garuda and the adds in the right places at all times (otherwise no one else knows where to stand), communicating with whoever has the attention of the Spiny Plume, and maintaining threat on everything at the same time is certainly more taxing than standing in the corner lobbing arrows/fireballs with impunity.

You now have a taste of what it's like to be the tank in a Titan HM group.

**Jem** · 2013-12-26 14:41

Originally Posted by Obsidian

You now have a taste of what it's like to be the tank in a Titan HM group.

Can't be understated. I have literally gone afk to go to the toilet mid-Titan as a tank before with zero consequences.

**Petitssk** · 2013-12-26 15:26

Originally Posted by Obsidian

Ranged DPS that fuck up positioning in that fight are brutal, but that doesn't make the fight easy, it just makes them bad. Success or failure almost entirely hinges on your main tank, and your healers not being asleep during add phases. Dodging two Slipstreams, defending against Wicked Wheels, keeping Garuda and the adds in the right places at all times (otherwise no one else knows where to stand), communicating with whoever has the attention of the Spiny Plume, and maintaining threat on everything at the same time is certainly more taxing than standing in the corner lobbing arrows/fireballs with impunity.

You now have a taste of what it's like to be the tank in a Titan HM group.

It only gets better if you're playing on a laptop that can just barely handle the fight. Can't wait to get home, but from an MT's point of view, this might just be my favourite fight in the game so far.

**Izzy** · 2013-12-26 15:28

Originally Posted by Jem

Can't be understated. I have literally gone afk to go to the toilet mid-Titan as a tank before with zero consequences.

Our main tank literally tanks Titan with his monitor off.

This is not a euphemism. He actually does this.

**Raldo** · 2013-12-26 15:30

Originally Posted by Lepetit89

It only gets better if you're playing on a laptop that can just barely handle the fight.

Ugh, when those tornadoes go off, it's like watching a fucking slideshow.

**Jem** · 2013-12-26 15:43

Originally Posted by Izzy

Our main tank literally tanks Titan with his monitor off.

This is not a euphemism. He actually does this.

I can imagine after the initial pull this being very possible. You could judge phase shifts by the music change. And knowing when timers are back up is pretty reactionary anyway.

**Ksandra** · 2013-12-27 02:54

My first garuda EX kill tonight. GOt brd ring. (b'')b.

Also, I know others hate it, but I am actually not minding farming CT too much for the rest of my myth for the week.

I am sure I'll get sick of it eventually, but eh for now it's all good.

**blowfin** · 2013-12-27 03:12

Also, I know others hate it, but I am actually not minding farming CT too much for the rest of my myth for the week.

I am sure I'll get sick of it eventually, but eh for now it's all good.

Nah I'm with you. Took me 3 runs to get my loot for the week and that's 150 tomes I would have wanted to have farmed elsewhere, so seems like a good way to go for me. It'll become even more relevant next week when I get my WAR to 50, pretty keen to tank CT with it as I'm done with CT drops for BRD.

Productive week for me though. Allagan head finally, BRD Myth Legs, BRD CT Boots (way fucking sexier than DL).

After Coil, Spamming Ultima and CT i'm just about done with tomes and it didn't feel like grinding at all, can't say as much about pre 2.1 speed runs.

**Manako** · 2013-12-27 10:56

Managed to find 1-2 good garuda parties and got a drop! I really like garuda and find it pretty easy as long as the tanks know what they are doing, 1 weak tank can destroy the run. Been trying to train up on titan ex using DF and have had some decent parties that are mostly non-jerks hoping to get that cleared over the weekend

**Scythiroth** · 2013-12-27 11:16

Good King Moggle Mog fight was hilariously awesome. Duty Finder'd it with a friend of mine when we got there in the story, majority of the group had never done it before but we knew the kill order for the most part....one shot it (also won the DRG weapon >.>).

Hildibrand quest line was quite amusing (really glad I watched all the 1.0 stuff with him beforehand on Youtube), and dat ending. Really looking forward to more of that in the future.

**Akiyama** · 2013-12-27 12:46

Ugh. I hate how easy ranged classes have it in this game + seemingly every other game out there whee they can basically avoid most mechanics in challenging fights. They have it so much easier (in most fights) than a tank or a melee DPS, and considering a melee doesn't have the HP/defense as a tank.. they get fucked the hardest. :<

DRG: "OH GOD DODGE OH GOD HIT IT OH GOD DONT GET HIT"
BRD: "did the fight start? o it did? o it's over? o,ok"

Oh well, though. What can ya do. I guess just avoid playing melee DPS in most hard fights, RIP

Capped myth and got warrior to 31 from duty roulette, so that's neat. at this rate i'll be 50 in like a month. woo.

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