Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

[silverdragontyr]

While playing Mnk and trying to keep GL up now is quite frustrating, the amount of punishment they can put out now with bootshine/lead first is crazy. 300 potency attack every 10 seconds or so that's almost always guaranteed crit is quite fun. However also ended up just removing TK from my bar as it's basically useless now. Really surprised they didn't buff it's potency like everything else.

[Silenka]

dunno where to even start. it's incredibly playable; dungeons are not hard because combat requirements; MP management was tightened for everyone who isn't WHM; their healing kit was expanded markedly; they've never had more time to freely DPS

I went on a dungeon as sch for that sweet adventurer in need bonus. Never really played it much before, spent most of the time spamming art of war and pulling aggro off the tank lol good times.

[Prothescar]

Made some alarm macros for gatherers. This is the first four items, prolly doesn't cover all the possible daily rotations but the last zone is a spoiler so I didn't include it.

Spoiler: show

/alarm "Min Mheg 1" et rp 0600 2
/alarm "Bot Khol 1" et rp 1000 2
/alarm "Bot Mheg 2" et rp 1200 2
/alarm "Min Khol 2" et rp 1400 2
/alarm "Min Mheg 2" et rp 1800 2
/alarm "Bot Khol 2" et rp 2200 2
/alarm "Bot Mheg 1" et rp 0000 2
/alarm "Min Khol 1" et rp 0200 2
/alarm "Bot Lake 1" et rp 1000 2
/alarm "Min Amh 2" et rp 1200 2
/alarm "Bot Rak 2" et rp 1200 2
/alarm "Min Rak 2" et rp 1600 2
/alarm "Bot Lake 2" et rp 2200 2
/alarm "Min Amh 1" et rp 0000 2
/alarm "Bot Rak 1" et rp 0000 2
/alarm "Min Rak 1" et rp 0400 2

[Alkar]

For those who enjoyed SCH as it was before and has been playing the job since ARR "boring and unintuitive" is unplayable lol. I'll give it another chance at 80 but so far it's a failure of a rework in my eyes. And by unplayable I mean in a personal sense, I can't stand seeing the job in this sorry state. Both SCH and AST are in dire need of more MP regeneration or some reduction in costs, it's absurd how WHM can never run out and these two are so restricted by MP.

[AlastorTGN]

At least there's always Refre-oh.

[Nyanoko]

So as a tank, I can just breathe on a mob and it's glued to me for the entire fight. No threat dynamics, no balancing dps and threat anymore. Just run in and start spamming. Not liking this change at all.

[Eleven19]

Duty Finder borked? First trial 42 min queue so far.

[Abandon]

ive heard the same. people are here telling stories while waiting. one guy said he has a full group ready to go and theyve been waiting for 25 minutes

[Fiye]

DFer instances aren't resetting after they've been cleared per lodestone.

[Alkar]

DFer instances aren't resetting after they've been cleared per lodestone.

Lol what? How the hell is this happening? Man this'll be a long weekend for them if it isn't fixed quickly, having to manually reset instances and all.

[Dotsudoku]

So as a tank, I can just breathe on a mob and it's glued to me for the entire fight. No threat dynamics, no balancing dps and threat anymore. Just run in and start spamming. Not liking this change at all.

imagine wanting intermittent damage loss

[Dotsudoku]

man SCH is so insanely powerful in trials. literally a solution for everything at any given time

[Eurell]

So as a tank, I can just breathe on a mob and it's glued to me for the entire fight. No threat dynamics, no balancing dps and threat anymore. Just run in and start spamming. Not liking this change at all.

This game hardly had threat dynamics in the first place. Group of mobs? 2 AOEs and you're good till they die after 15 seconds anyway. Boss fight? 2 hate combos and you'll never have to worry about it again. It's not like XI where other jobs had to worry about hate and you had to balance out DPS with VE/CE while taking less dmg so you shed less hate. It's just super simple here, and now they dropped the pretenses and let us just enjoy the other abilities from the start lol.

[Fiye]

Plus now PLD isn't absolute garbage when it comes to pulling initial aggro.

[Eurell]

The AOE dmg increase for PLD from like, 2 years ago to today is absolutely insane lol. Nothing but flash and Circle of Scorn for so long and now we have some actual shit to do lol

[Shenrien]

So as a tank, I can just breathe on a mob and it's glued to me for the entire fight. No threat dynamics, no balancing dps and threat anymore. Just run in and start spamming. Not liking this change at all.

This and tank stance having zero penalty other than something is going to hit you in the face is boring. Thanks Casualbringers.

On a better note after finishing the main story, YOOOOO THAT FINAL STORY DUNGEON WAS FUCKING AWESOME.

[Dotsudoku]

there was nothing engaging about having tank stance up for your first boring combo and then taking it off

unless your group was bad, and you kept it on the whole time, which was similarly uninspired

[Fiye]

unless your group was bad, and you kept it on the whole time, which was similarly uninspired

And bad

[Hellfury]

Going to repeat myself, just wrapped up the 73 set of quests, DAMN SE, where have you been hiding this stuff the last few years, you still have it.
(disclaimer about the next 7 levels of quests)

[Nyanoko]

there was nothing engaging about having tank stance up for your first boring combo and then taking it off

unless your group was bad, and you kept it on the whole time, which was similarly uninspired

I can't speak for 3.0 or 4.0, but that's now how 2.0 worked, at all. Further proof they've been stripping out mechanics and in doing so, lowering the skill cap.