FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

[Shaano]

DRG body, PLD shield, MNK neck. I'm ok with this week's reset :3

[Alistaire]

If it's true it's worthless since who cares about 15k~ worth of teleports.

Since you can choose each time to use it or not it's more like 25k+...still meh but easily the most gil value of any of the loyalty rewards :D

[TheDirtyHobo]

Archon

Fuck you.

[Dammerung]

So I made this party finder:



It not only filled up in under 10 minutes, but everyone was actually competent and one guy remarked that it was the fastest kill he'd ever seen (ignored 2nd jailer set and just LB to finish).

And yes, I did pop a hq earth ward mega potion and survived 5 plumes with 0 mitigation cooldowns, stoneskin, or adlo (as tank) with ~1k hp left. I do remember getting one-shotted before if I ate 5 without using anything so yay it did something! The BRD who popped a potion still died, though.

[Skai]

Fuck you.

Or was it Archivan?

[TheDirtyHobo]

I feel like your sig makes a better argument for the kind of people who can't be bothered to remember how to spell a name than I ever could.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Am I stupid or did /facetarget always glue your facing to the target without having to spam it? Just noticed it tonight.

[Yugl]

Am I stupid or did /facetarget always glue your facing to the target without having to spam it? Just noticed it tonight.

Always been like that.

[Kirbyprime]

Always been like that.

Oh shit... so I can put it in my Thunder 1-3 macro to avoid getting interrupted now?

[Kipling]

What do you mean? It only faces target for me when I begin casting. Due to this I spam F repeatedly as I hit skills with my naga buttons for insurance.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I have facetarget bound to ` and hit that after beginning a cast. Used to spam it, but I noticed as long as I didn't move (or change targets?) I just kept autofacing. Not the best example (since it doesn't require proper facing) but I had a friend run in circles around me as I casted heals on him, and it's not just a "my screen" thing.

[OWS_Tonx]

heals can be casted from any direction I believe without being interrupted. I don't mind the auto face, I leave it on. It's hasn't bothered me yet. I love it on brd, for blm it lets me nuke a little faster as when I run away I can just cast and not have to position myself again. Not that that's a game breaker for BLM, but it helps

[Kipling]

I have facetarget bound to ` and hit that after beginning a cast. Used to spam it, but I noticed as long as I didn't move (or change targets?) I just kept autofacing. Not the best example (since it doesn't require proper facing) but I had a friend run in circles around me as I casted heals on him, and it's not just a "my screen" thing.

Heals won't ever be interrupted, it's for attack magic. For instance people employ this strategy often in PvP: They will sit on top of you and try to run through you repeatedly to catch those people who don't mash F to interrupt their casts.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Facing did stay glued for mobs too. I wasn't able to check if it was responsive enough to not interrupt when kited but I could see small facing changes. I don't remember it not needing to be spammed before though.

[Raldo]

I have facetarget bound to ` and hit that after beginning a cast. Used to spam it, but I noticed as long as I didn't move (or change targets?) I just kept autofacing. Not the best example (since it doesn't require proper facing) but I had a friend run in circles around me as I casted heals on him, and it's not just a "my screen" thing.

Seravi is aware of that, and that was not the focus of the post. Sadly, you can't tell monsters to run circles around you so you can test stuff, though I guess you could get a 2nd person and have them kite something if you wanted.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Got Allagan Scepter finally, 1/15

[Qeomash]

Facing did stay glued for mobs too. I wasn't able to check if it was responsive enough to not interrupt when kited but I could see small facing changes. I don't remember it not needing to be spammed before though.

I've had casting interrupted if the target passes very near to me, IE when skeletons walking back towards Bone Dragon walk past/through me on the same platform.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Yeah it's not enough to prevent misfires, found out today. Nothing really new overall, just nice to know I don't need to spam facetarget button it as a caster.

[Qeomash]

I wish they would just eliminate the "must be facing target" requirement for casting. It's not balance, it's a nuisance.
Also, I miss casting with my back to the mob like I did in FFXI for reducing enmity produced. (Yes I know it didn't really matter.)

[Shenrien]

would it be a viable thing to make macros on blackmage to do /facetarget or whatever the command would be to face something after a casting line? so /ac "fire" /facetarget ? or would there be some magical dps loss doing this, I'm already hammering the fuck out of the button I figure something like that couldn't hurt.