FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

[Alistaire]

So they've really beefed up potions this patch. Started levelling a new alt to mess around and for alc desynth and they're pretty crazy, not just for low level, but now even a max-potion hq is 30% hp max 2400 hp on a 1m7s cooldown. That makes it better than a non-crit second wind. Definitely something for jobs light on self-healing **coughcoughMCH** to consider keeping around, as well as tanks since their potency gained from stat pots got halfed as well.

And saw the Dusken Draught, the limsa GC item for 2850 seals, 50% hp max 1000, and only a 30 second cooldown. Considering delaying your next stat pot by 30 seconds would in a lot of cases not change how many you could use in a fight or make a detriment to when you'd want to use em, might be something to consider as well.

[Seravi Edalborez]

And saw the Dusken Draught, the limsa GC item for 2850 seals, 50% hp max 1000, and only a 30 second cooldown. Considering delaying your next stat pot by 30 seconds would in a lot of cases not change how many you could use in a fight or make a detriment to when you'd want to use em, might be something to consider as well.

I'll admit I never played DPS hardcore (only tank/heal) but are your stat pots not basically-always on CD? Because you wouldn't be able to use these if that timer is still ticking.

[Kiarax]

Well, if a fight is something like 8 minute long you're only ever gonna get to use 2 stat pots. If you pop one in your opener you have multiple minutes in the middle where you don't have to quickly pop a pot and can use a healing potion instead. Would delay your second one but assuming you'll still be able to pop it and have it line up with CDs you're not losing anything.

[Alistaire]

It wouldn't even be a thing you'd use all that regularly but in an ohshit moment delaying your next stat pot by 1 minute is better than being dead for a minute. Even better than having your healer pop a cd on you if you still end up the same # of stat pots for the fight. And they've never addressed the complaints that MCH has no ability to self-heal, native or crossclass. Only job that doesn't.

Really it's the same logic as vit melds; there comes a point where surviving is more important. And it's just that this update, combined with past ones, really improved the use of hp pots of all kinds.

And the lowest level "potions" and "hi-potions" you get for like 10g off the market board are now on a 25 second delay; they've really made a difference for me in fates and random shit.

[Joe Schmoe]

Good job on the crafting system in this game. You actually craft! In WoW you just select "Make All" and go off and do something else. Not much interaction involved.

[Yelta]

Yeah crafting is an actual thing you do, not just click "craft it". They also have a quick synth option that does let you just auto craft a bunch of items which is nice for those lower level mats you need a lot of to craft other things.

[Corrderio]

As nice as auto craft is, it still feels painfully slow.

[Joe Schmoe]

As nice as auto craft is, it still feels painfully slow.

^^

Slower than WoW now that I think about it. Not to mention, I think the QuickSynth seems to use Basic Synthesis by default. If it normally takes only one Synth to make an item you're fine. More than one you start botching them. I've had as many as half my attempts fail because of this.

At least with WoW it's always a 100% success rate. Sometimes I find it better just to do it manually.

[Fondue]

Sometimes lol the only way youre going to reasonably level is crafting hq yourself and collectibles when you get there

[Alistaire]

Sometimes lol the only way youre going to reasonably level is crafting hq yourself and collectibles when you get there

Not if you're aware of what nq items sell for a profit.

[darkepyon]

Came back for free login and I must say the "deep dungeon" holds promise. Did 41-50 with 4 DPS and we got dicked over with a "no item" rule on floor 43. Good times!

[Alistaire]

Came back for free login and I must say the "deep dungeon" holds promise. Did 41-50 with 4 DPS and we got dicked over with a "no item" rule on floor 43. Good times!

4 dps are some of the better runs tbh. As long as you don't facepull into the middle of rooms and get blown up/spawn lure traps you fight 1 mob at a time and they melt pretty fast. The no item floors suck a bit since they include potions but at least on the no item floors if you have the temp item to remove floor enchantments it lets you use that.

[Fiye]

This post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...saltiest_post/

[Silenka]

Needs more screencaps. But pretty good regardless.

[Hitoshura]

I really, really, really, really, really, really hope they continue to make armor with capes, it looks fucking amazing.

Spoiler: show

Now to get the tank body...

[Alistaire]

Holy fuck @ the 210 relic stage nerf. Actually kinda glad nobody's gonna be asking me to make the crafted items for relic anymore.

tl;dr:

only need 10x unidentified item + 4x NQ crafted item for each of the 4 items now
massive cuts in cost no matter which way you get them
all unidentified can be bought either poetics or eso now
crafted item nq's available for 5k grand company seals LOLOLOLOL... feel bad for anyone that was in the middle of trying to sell sets of those

full link: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...275bb2bbd2382d

[Hitoshura]

Wow did they literally just release this info out? I thought this shit has been known but I guess not. Random great patch is random and great.

[Alistaire]

Wow did they literally just release this info out? I thought this shit has been known but I guess not. Random great patch is random and great.

We've known for maybe a week about this patch, not a big patch of course but some good changes.

[Kaisha]

Recast Time Reset Upon Wipe
When challenging raids and trials, timers will now be reset upon the party being wiped out. However, if we find instances of this being abused in any way to take advantage of a battle, then we may disable this feature.

Good fucking riddance. Only took them three years.

[Taint]

Good fucking riddance. Only took them three years.

Groups with PLDs rejoice everywhere!