FFXIV 6.0: Endwalker (December 7, 2021)

[Corrderio]

Ah the DPS check dummy. Completely forgot about those.

Also glad they made the MSQ roulette more bearable. I swear the stat crunch made that longer.

[Lyltia]

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[Anoat]

That sadness when you can’t join the new raid immediately because you don’t meet item level requirements lol

It’s my fault, been switching to different jobs as soon as I hit 90 instead of farming tomes

[Corrderio]

Can't blame you. The expert roulette can kinda burn you out and Trials is a coin toss between a quick win or living hell.

[Gokulo]

Can't blame you. The expert roulette can kinda burn you out and Trials is a coin toss between a quick win or living hell.

Train hunts are currently the best way to farm tomes I'd say - instances allow for triple the amount of mobs to hunt.

[Shenrien]

Training hunts has always been the best way to cap tomes, never has it ever not been. If you don't have a hunt linkshell Sonar is a great alternative.

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the only issue is the congestion lol after every 2 hunts you gotta wait like 5 minutes for everyone to get to the next instance

[Corrderio]

Never really tried a train before. Might do that for my Reaper/Dragoon gear.

But hey if it stops me getting the Endwalker trials I'm all for it

[Dotsudoku]

So Ninja is shit in this expansion?

everything is perfectly viable in every situation. Balance has always been one of their highest priorities

we can also expect number tuning in the very near future to help close some of the more egregious gaps

[Vaspinne]

Usually number tuning and job adjustments come with the Savage raid release IIRC

[Corrderio]

everything is perfectly viable in every situation. Balance has always been one of their highest priorities

we can also expect number tuning in the very near future to help close some of the more egregious gaps

I suppose that's true. Though it would be interesting to see a tier list of sorts just for the sake of curiosity. I'm not a huge meta nut but IIRC they were in 3rd place for EW for highest DPS potential only behind SAM and DRG and well... fuck SAM and all the micro managing.

[Anoat]

Well I got the first two raids done and disconnected while in que for the third, 3k login que so I don’t think I’ll get to finish these tonight

[Vaspinne]

Raid story talk

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Erichthonios and Themis are gonna go on to become the Lahabrea and Elidibus we deal with, aren't they?

[Corrderio]

Raid story talk

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Erichthonios and Themis are gonna go on to become the Lahabrea and Elidibus we deal with, aren't they?

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I didn't even think of the possibility of Lahabrea being replaced. But yeah my suspicions are Themis's involvement in Pandemonium will earn him a seat on The Fourteen when this is all over.

Also just tried out Red Mage and these new changes are pure sex. So nice being able to pull off 2 Scorch combos in quick succession with Manafacation

[Gokulo]

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This is tricky. I also thought this might be an event that led to Themis being invited to become Elidibus but reddit reminded me about one thing - when in Elpis, Emet and Hythlo mention the vulcano incident with Azem. And from the short stories SE released we know that during that incident the seat of Elidibus was already taken by the one we know. So people are speculating that he's 'undercover' for this investigation. However he's also wearing white robes, which isn't very undercover, lol.

From these stories we also learn that 'our' Lahabrea had affinity for fire and fiery creatures, which would in turn make it logical that he's the one that created Phoinix.

Also, I guess this raid is how we learn about the origins of tempering

[Koul]

I suppose that's true. Though it would be interesting to see a tier list of sorts just for the sake of curiosity. I'm not a huge meta nut but IIRC they were in 3rd place for EW for highest DPS potential only behind SAM and DRG and well... fuck SAM and all the micro managing.

Have you played SAM during this expansion? I feel like it was pretty simple before but now it's much easier since everything gives you your buffs.

[Gokulo]

I suppose that's true. Though it would be interesting to see a tier list of sorts just for the sake of curiosity. I'm not a huge meta nut but IIRC they were in 3rd place for EW for highest DPS potential only behind SAM and DRG and well... fuck SAM and all the micro managing.

RPR/SAM/BLM are at the top of the logs, as expected. As others mentioned however, the Savage patch will add balance changes so things might switch round a little bit, most likely for other jobs though, with RPR maybe getting some nerf.

[Uzor]

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I didn't even think of the possibility of Lahabrea being replaced. But yeah my suspicions are Themis's involvement in Pandemonium will earn him a seat on The Fourteen when this is all over.

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I was thinking that to, rhat he becomes Elidibus or is undercover. We know from the MSQ that Elidibus saw the Warrior of Light in Elpis, and we didn’t encounter him during the MSQ, which hints at him beint involved post-MSQ somehow. And the raid would make sense, which is why I though Themis might be our Elidibus, his age and skill certainly matches at least.

[Uzor]

RPR/SAM/BLM are at the top of the logs, as expected. As others mentioned however, the Savage patch will add balance changes so things might switch round a little bit, most likely for other jobs though, with RPR maybe getting some nerf.

Yeah, and I’m thinking Sage might get some changes too. Having done some current end-game content with it, I feel like it has too much healing and too little damage. Maybe I’m just not used to Sage yet or don’t use the correct Materia, but despite me spamming my damaging skills and having near 100% uptime on DoT, other healers consistently outdamage me even with worse gear. Healing is always at the top though with little overhealing even though the only heals that ever need to be thrown out are the OGD ones (except the damage+heal one) and the occasional shield AoE heal.


One change that could help is if they change it so that breaking AoE shield also gives Addersgall stacks for the DPS abilities as you essentially never get those outside of dungeons, or make it so that you also get Addersgall from the ability that restores the normal energy (the name escapes me atm).

[Kaslo]

So some spoilery stuff for future raid teirs (speculation based on Greek Mythology):

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The current Lahabrea (since we don't know if he is ours) is more than likely Hephaestus, who is mythology is the father of Erichthonius after raping Athena.