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UshiromiyaEva posted...

...The very next line of the article says that they will be going in a different direction than those types of games. So yes, exactly what the blurb said.

no, that's not exactly what the blurb said. there's a difference between a "one-off well-designed titled" and a "game that takes you through one-off, well-designed stages"

A lot of people say Fusion isn't a metroidvania.

I think it's pretty dumb to gatekeep the term based on a vague amount of non-linearity that no one can agree how much of it a game needs before it's "officially" a metroidvania.

A better example is Iconoclasts, which has a metroid-style grid map, upgrades, and 2d platformer gameplay + combat, but is almost entirely linear with a set order you traverse all areas in. Moreso than Fusion which breaks down at the halfway point and has you backtracking through the areas that were previously linear.

Tom Bombadil posted...

I missed a day somewhere and I'm annoyed that it throws off my badges

you can have mine, trust me i don't need them

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/6/AAdoZGAAC5Pu.png

does this answer the question?

oh, i hadn't looked at the flowchart.

ah yes, crypt of the necrodancer, a game beloved by all for being a close-quarters brawler with hack and slash gameplay that doesn't take place on a grid

imagine being a language prescriptivist

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/5/AAdoZGAAC3bT.png

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/6/AAdoZGAAC3bU.png

man this one really picks hard words on purpose lol

MZero posted...

Tonga is a country, idk if proper nouns are included though

(dordle) I wouldn't have thought so, but they do. you can try paris or japan. official wordle also accepts those and tonga (but not tonfa) so i guess they use the same dictionary

Oddity posted...

The dordle was pretty hard.

I found this puzzle to be really unsatisfying. WTF is a Tonga. According to the dictionary it's an Indian horse drawn two wheeled vehicle. I think dordle needs to work on its word selection because I was only able to get this through process of elimination (putting in words with the right letters that weren't red)

Mine:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/4/AAdoZGAAC3Ns.png

RATED
COINS
ABODE
TONAL
TONGA

I actually tried to enter TONFA as my 5th guess, I thought surely that would be it, but it didn't register it as a valid word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonfa

LordoftheMorons posted...

Doesnt seem like these poll options cover all of the bases!

it's interesting how the poll options seem to presume you can only cheat if you're "in love" - that if it's a casual relationship, it's not real infidelity

mnkboy907 posted...

Stupid emoji limits.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/2/AAI16ZAAC2Ue.png
PIOUS
NIGHT
DIVER
BIKER
FILER
FIXER
TIDAL

Well that was close.

Oh that's cool

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/2/AAdoZGAAC2Yi.png
ROUSE
PLAIN
FINAL
FIBER
FIVER
TIDAL
FIXER

basically had this after 3rd guess but took all the wrong choices and got nervous near the end. all worked out though.

Kenri posted...

Wordle 220 5/6







Wherein I had an incredible first guess and then nearly blew it...!

Sonar
Shear
Sitar
Lucky
Sugar

wow, this is a pretty unlucky streak!

CaptainOfCrush posted...

Couple things

Has anyone here guessed a word in two tries? My best is three and I've been playing tons of games on another website with no daily limit.

And can anyone think of an "objectively" better starting word than ARISE? It hits the three most common vowels and two of the four most common consonants. Theoretically, any word that substitutes the S with T or N would be more beneficial, but I can't think of one.

I got ROBOT in two because I often use ROUSE as my starting word. Just luck really.

It's probably not the most optimal first word but I like to be a hipster and ARISE/ADIEU are too popular. I'm still getting 3 vowels!

redrocket posted...

Ill be honest, the art style makes me want to vomit.

yeah, which is sort of strange since their previous games had beautiful stylized art...

but it's worth a try based on how good those games were, at least.

changmas posted...

having any loyalty whatsoever to an online marketplace run by a billion dollar corporation that doesn't care about you is completely asinine

Eh. They offer free refunds on any game with no questions asked, constantly put things on sale for >50% of their price, and let me use family sharing to access hundreds of games I'd otherwise have to buy.

My loyalty is just practical - I'm showing support for their business practices which benefit me.

Isquen posted...

So I'm leveling MNK at 78 right now, and... what the hell is my rotation optimization? Immediate Perfect Balance/Brotherhood/Fire/Wind -> Twin Snakes -> Dragon Kick -> Bootshine -> whatever the 2+1 Blitz is, Dragon Kick, Perfect Balance, Demolish, Twin Snakes, Bootshine, followup?

I cant juggle my buffs and debuffs and my smoothbrain.

i'm pretty sure you wanna start with a basic combo to get your buff/dot up, then go into PB, and the first PB will be matching-3 one, so just three opo-opo (boots/kicks) like old monk

the second PB window is where you do different-3

i could be wrong, i'm sure this covers it:
https://www.thebalanceffxiv.com/jobs/melee/monk/

UshiromiyaEva posted...

So just to confirm, will they release another tier of crafted crafter sets later? Trying to determine if I should bother pentamelding if a I'm going to gave to risk retrieving the Materia later anyways and I'm not crafting the current sets.

they will release new left-side gear in 6.1

you can penta-meld the right-side gear freely, a full new left/right set will come out in 6.3

it's doable

Isquen posted...

The bard/machinist/dancer disparity will *probably* even itself out as more attempted clears go through/people figure out more useful melds for themselves/start bringing actually useful consumables.

yeah uh that's not really it. anyone doing savage right now (at least, fights 3 and 4) definitely has optimal gear and melds, and you cannot clear the final fight without using top grade potions. there isn't anything to figure out, best gear/melds were solved before the servers even went up.

Shadow Dino posted...

2nd group was a Fourfold Shackles prog, proceeded to kill it on the third pull. Entire party went "Wait, we killed it?"

yeah, this was my static's experience as well. we were struggling with adapting to fourfold shackles (this is before anyone realized you can assign spots based on timer, which i assume has become PF standard?) since we were just running around fighting over spots

the first time we had a pull where we survived fourfold shackles, we cleared.

agesboy posted...

at least xiv dps classes are always at least somewhat similar in damage so you're never truly griefing with your class choice, unlike wow where the bottom fifth of classes simply do not exist for months at a time

yeah, this stuff only stands out because the game's balance is otherwise so tight, that even a minor thing like that that puts you like 2% behind another job, stands out as a big deal here.

it's definitely not going to be an issue week 2-3+, but for trying to clear week 1... it's a bit dicey! but it's okay, as long as you have a perfect run with zero deaths you'll still clear even with non-meta comps...

and yes, you read that right... 230 bards have cleared the fight, and about 30 dancers and 30 machinists. lol.

man these balance issues

cleared the first phase of p4s today as dancer, did about 7300 rdps which got me a 91st percentile parse, 3rd out of 32 dancers who have cleared the fight

i was curious so i checked, a bard that did 7300 rdps would be about 150 out of 230 cleared bards, and only have a 35th percentile

i'm feeling sort of self-conscious 'cause i feel i'm griefing, the DPS check is so tight we had to do a flawless run and even then just barely beat it with 6 seconds to spare. idk how much difference it makes but bards are doing about 300 more rdps than dancer on average, so...

i'm trash at bard though so i really couldn't have switched over anyway

hopefully phase 2 goes alright

our tank d/ced last night during raid and it was 3k on sarg (aether) at about 9:30pm, took an hour and a half to get in

agesboy posted...

(people make crafter V materia go for like 5x its price for a while because of The Balance/Teamcraft's guide on minimum stat melding. 5's were cheaper than 7's by like 5x for a while today(for the melding/crafting uninitiated: you can use 5/7/9's on any overmelds. so if a higher tier is cheaper... that almost goes against common sense, but people were melding to the specific list and didn't know common sense))

lol, i noticed the same thing when i was melding my set. Vs going for like 20k each, and then VIIs, or even IXs sometimes, going for half that! crazy how people just follow the list blindly without knowing how it actually works.

and yeah, materia flipping was... something. those direct hit IXs i sold for 25k? they were all bought for 5k or less two weeks ago

the annoying thing though is that on my server, crit IX dropped down to like 4k halfway through the day -_- it eventually went back up a bit to like 7k but man, what a waste, i had like 400 of those to sell

LordoftheMorons posted...

Phew, the aphorism mats I bought rebounded a little and I was able to sell them all for over 10k each. Probably made about 3M today. Not amazing and I'm sure I could've made at least five times that if I had prepped and played all day specifically trying to make money, but 3M for minimal effort in one day is still pretty solid.

i really don't know. i mean, the gear i sold (about 10 pieces) totaled up to around 3.5MIL.

that's with spending only a couple hours making it, between having to also craft my own personal set, get 450 tomestones, and go raid in the afternoon, but even if i had more time, i'd have been limited by tomestone mats and had to buy them off the marketboard to craft more

honestly i think selling the tomestone mats was more efficient than selling gear, they were going for a lot

you could've made a bit more if you spent all 2000 tomes on this and sold twice what i did, but 15mil, from crafted gear? i'm not sure.

yeah, det's been buffed, lots of jobs want it now as their 2nd behind crit.

last i checked balance, they were tealing healers crit > dh=det

maybe it's changed with this patch and the new gearing options, idk

honestly most things didn't sell for a lot.

this is what i sold today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/7/8/AAdoZGAACxgm.jpg

as you can see... leftover materia sold for more LOL

so i don't think it was really worth it. and the prices will only go down :x

yeah i uh

had trouble selling the pair of healing legs that i only made by accident

oh, my bad then, i guess it really is just as bad on MCH then.

i think crafted gear is even less likely to sell than usual at the start of an expansion - because it's the only time an ex trial gives 580 accesories, so non-hardcores only need to buy left-side... and in 3 weeks you can already have gotten 4 left-side pieces from normal raids!

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

MCH also has a similar issue with skill speed and crit. Hypercharge and its OGCds are unaffected by skill speed, I think Queen as well, and crit is high value. So I'm not sure it'll be entirely solved by gear, although it's possible DNC scales even better than MCH. I know the least about it of the three ranged.

I think the best hope for Dancer is that it remains the best ranged for boosting people at very high level play

yeah, MCH doesn't like skill speed either, but it's not completely worthless like it is on dancer.

and yeah, that's the other thing, dancer gets better as everyone else gets better. i mean, bard does too now more than before though, right? so, we'll see. but i heard that's the reason dancer always starts a bit weaker and gets stronger every week.

oh yeah, so the answer to "do you lose out by not crafting combat sets at 5am" is very much no, not at all

i checked the market boards at like 9am after spending 2 hours doing a hunt train and wondering if that'd put me behind - but no. the history showed only a dozen pieces of the chestpiece i looked up had even sold since the time the servers went up - with dozens more still listed on the board.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

It's also weird that Dancer didn't get any potency buffs considering it's behind the other two ranged in a similar way to how SMN/DRG/NIN were buffed, but it could be the number squish flattening the need to do that or they're banking on it getting better with time or something.

i'm pretty disappointed as well since i'm, uh, raiding as dancer.

the only thing to say though is that dancer does suffer the most from bad gear - Skill speed is actually worthless for us, it makes standard step come off cooldown too late, so you just have to wait half a second to use it, which negates the advantage of the speed in the first place.

So now that we can construct a gearset without skillspeed, our damage may go up slightly. Not sure that's anywhere near enough to close the gap, but I think Dancer also gets high benefit from crit numbers being higher, which gear also helps with. i don't quite know why, i've just heard dancer always increases as an expansion goes on since more crit breakpoints are hit.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Well you'll get another chance in 6.1 when the next Hand/Land gear drops because getting a head start on crafting that is much more value and less hassle than battle gear.

ohhhh really? like waking up that morning and making that stuff? i hadn't thought of that. never really done any crafting before lol

as long as i stay a raider i'm just always going to have a conflict on day 1 of raid patches so trying to make the combat gear will likely never be the best idea.

but i'll try it tomorrow anyway since i'm prepared

retainer gotta look like this!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/2/9/AAdoZGAACxTV.png

you basically need around 60 of a white scrip collectable to ensure you can buy all the recipe books. (that's the rarefied popoto pancakes there - the others are sykon for purple, which i apparently overdid because purple isn't used for anything other than food mats)

yeah, i'm really regretting investing in my crafters so much. i can wake up at 5 to craft stuff but i don't know if i can babysit... i'll have to nap at some point and then my raid starts at 3pm.

hopefully i can sell enough pieces to just make back the money i spent pentamelding.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Real talk, is it going to be notably different if I wake up at 5 AM versus 8AM to sell this raid gear? I won't be selling it melded.

from what i've been told, no. mostly because the people waking up at 5am are hardcore enough that they've usually made arrangements to buy their gear from someone, not be checking marketboard for it.

LordoftheMorons posted...

Should have vote-kicked them!

i was too slow on my trigger finger. people opened the chest after the first boss, right as i had the kick menu open, which was the first opportunity after 5 minutes had passed. even though the other 2 were also complaining about it, they still opened a chest. -_-

from there, there was no other opportunity as loot was never rolled on.

oh, today i had a level 50 marauder in hullbreaker that never turned on tank stance for the entire dungeon. they never responded to anything we told them in chat.

so that was a thing

i'd be very surprised if it's not that, even with them changing the normal requirement.

you don't need to overmeld though unless you're aiming to clear the 3rd and 4th fight week 1. fights 1 and 2 should be clearable no problem without overmelds, though obviously any amount of damage you can get will help.

i assumed 4 was a trick answer because it seemed too obvious

and i guess i was right that was the intent

TomNook posted...

I mean, if you have to live life by tiptoeing around the idea that you might upset anyone that had a bad experience at any point, you can't actually do anything meaningful or exciting in life, if you really think about it (really think about it).

I agree with this view when it comes to things that you'd do in, like, private, or 1-on-1 contexts. i.e. things with a limited scope, like "don't say this word because it could offend someone in the room with you" "don't bring donuts to your workplace in case someone has an eating disorder" etc

in fact both of those examples (there's any number i could think of) can both have the person say "hey please don't do this actually, it's no big deal that you didn't know, but i'd prefer you don't" because you are in direct contact with the people affected

But when the scope of the action is "any pets living in a nearby radius could feel terrified", and you have no way of knowing who is or isn't okay with it or for them to ask you not to, then I think that crosses a line that those other scenarios don't

I think LTM makes a good case

sounds like it. though i'm not sure how much you'll want to dedicate to it right away, it's a pretty big piece of side-content that won't give you any particularly relevant rewards other than relic weapon and other armor for glam

GANON1025 posted...

Wait, I thought you could spend these weird snowflake things on high grade materia?

you can

this site has avatars???

if it's anything like the combat gear itself, it'll blow up tuesday morning, go down by tuesday night, and have plummeted by thursday or friday

it's already gone up a ton. i stocked up when it was going for about 4k... i sold a bunch of the same ones today for 14k+ each.

i think you meant to reverse those > signs