Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

[Alkar]

whether any of them are a gain or a loss depends entirely on the number of targets

all in all everyone's AoE damage is increasingly dramatically, to say nothing of the smoothness of the rotations themselves

No, it does not. Let's take Deathflare as an example:

Before> Deals unaspected damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 400 for the first enemy, 10% less for the second, 20% less for the third, 30% less for the fourth, 40% less for the fifth and 50% less for all remaining enemies.

Now> Deals unaspected damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 400 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies.

It's a loss no matter how many enemies you're dealing with.

[Dotsudoku]

ah, my mistake

the second remark stands, though. everyone's damage has increased on the whole, and will feel markedly better to execute

[Alkar]

Yeah, at least RDM has a proper AoE rotation now although quite basic still.

[Raldo]

Speaking of RDM, I'm trying to wrap my head around Enchanted Reprise. Maybe I'm missing something, but when would you use that? Is it literally just a gauge spender when you can't be in melee range but need to dump some of your gauge?

[Gokulo]

This is basically Scathe for RDM. It's range gets increased when Enchanted so you can use it while moving

[Alkar]

Speaking of RDM, I'm trying to wrap my head around Enchanted Reprise. Maybe I'm missing something, but when would you use that? Is it literally just a gauge spender when you can't be in melee range but need to dump some of your gauge?

Pretty much. It's a way to spend extra gauge if you have to stand out of melee for whatever reason.

[Madeline]

Why is there a freaking 90fps cap on the game now that I can run it higher? I hope we can get around it somehow but idk why they would even do it (no, botting is not a good answer, you don't fuck over all your legitimate players just to stop bots who will get around it anyway).

Wait, what? *cries in 144hz*

That can't be fucking real. I did not log out from a 144 fps game to return to it as a 90 fps game.

[Dotsudoku]

you sure did

[Fiye]

Yeah really confused why the fuck they did that.

[Dotsudoku]

I know absolutely nothing about fps or technology or virtually anything, but I swear I've seen a video of someone being able to reach certain platform heights specifically because of their frame rate?

[Madeline]

I was hype as shit and now I'm just disappointed I've bothered playing again at all.

Dear fucking god they can't really be using bots as an excuse.. I didn't actually wake up. I'm fucking dreaming!

[Silenka]

I know absolutely nothing about fps or technology or virtually anything, but I swear I've seen a video of someone being able to reach certain platform heights specifically because of their frame rate?

If you limit your framerate to 30fps you can do some of the ARR sightseeing log jumps (the ixal logging grounds one specifically) much easier. The theory going around on reddit is that bots use a high fps to hack through walls and that's why the devs decided to cap the framerate. But who the fuck actually knows why they do what they do since they haven't given a good reason yet.

[Dotsudoku]

I mean if that's true, it sounds like a reasonable solution in the interim. quick googling suggests that 90 fps is still plenty smooth, no?

[arus2001]

It's probably just safe to say you're never going to satisfy people obsessed with FPS to begin with.

[Madeline]

Just going to log in and hope there's been some grave misunderstanding.

You don't fight bots/speedhackers/whatever like this. All they're going to do is walk around it and keep doing what they do. As for the out of bounds stuff, maybe I'm not seeing it but I just don't get why that matters. Not enough for this anyway.

I'd rather hear the reason from them directly as most of the things I've found are second hand or translated by a third party.

[Dotsudoku]

if mean if this is enough to make you log off for good lol

[Eurell]

Is 90fps low? Don't think I've ever even been close to that high lol

[Scythiroth]

I used to play this game at like 15-30 FPS up until a few months ago. >.>

[Madeline]

New processors, boards, GPU, monitor, etc. to even reach 144 aren't cheap. I've been back ~2 weeks. It's a middle finger because I was thoroughly enjoying how smooth and pretty the game is now after previously playing it at 60 with stuff turned off.

But that's not what I was saying. Just that I want to see it for myself, as it makes so little sense I'm in disbelief.

90 isn't low per se, but when you have a stable 144 you'll start to notice how much worse it gets as you approach 60.

[Dotsudoku]

then praise be it's not capped at 60?