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Entity13 posted...

I like it more than going to too many places.

you are going to escha zi'tah right after crawlers, it's not changing the total number of zones you go to though

you can even extend your time in zi'tah beyond how long you're staying! gobbues require some way to cleanse silence (sub dancer works, as does yoran-oran and monbereaux) but other than that they're super harmless. snapweed have to be single pulled but they're still worth killing (healer staying out of melee range helps a lot because iirc aoe paralysis). corses are annoying with HP aggro but aren't actually that threatening if you aren't dogpiled. vultures are amazing (semih snipe time), and wasps are alright (iirc they can nuke for a lot of damage which is only a problem when tanking multiple)

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Entity13 posted...

Make sure to resummon with each zone at first.

honestly you should resummon as soon as the cooldown is down, because you've probably levelled up 2-3 more times in that timespan early on
Entity13 posted...

At 39, teleport to Crawlers' Nest. Activate the Echad Ring, and grab the first training thing off the Ground Tome without repeat. Kill stuff and keep moving forward from mob type to mob type until the room with Knight Crawlers. Be careful not to go into the room with the 90-somethings. Re-summon Trusts with each change in monster-level-range (every couple rooms). I should be 55 or 56 by the time I am done.

i go to escha zitah at 45, it's a bit tough but if your vorseals are good you can single-target kill enemies faster than stronger enemies outside of escha. having partywide mp/hp regen is a gigantic buff to have for sustainability, and i think those are relatively easy to get (participate in domain invasions)

Entity13 posted...

If I see myself playing that job for actual content, I'll use the Vultures (I think it was) in Marjami Ravine for Merit Points and Job Points for a few days before doing whatever with said job

if you want to quickly get merit points you definitely want a job that's actually good in aoe, something like beastmaster or blue mage. you can get them and spend them on any job, and it's better than trying to farm them and CP at the same time if you could actively make use of some more merit points to great effect

CP comes super duper slow from most enemies btw so you want to fight the hardest enemies you can manage, preferably in escha ru'aun. that one has a very wide range of enemy levels so you can push further until you find your limit of efficient farming. the difference between escha/apex enemies and overworld rando adoulin enemies CP-wise is extremely massive to the point where it's pointless to try to get CP from them. merit points are about the same tho so weaker level 99 enemies are still ideal for that

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i tried multiple monhuns and it was just unfun to try to play through all the vestigal systems and slow paced gameplay

eventually World clicked for me but i still despise stuff like having to eat meals, sharpening in general, the poor layout of most of the hubs, how slow tracking can be, and most of all, the fucking inventory management

got eater burst was fun from the first hour cuz it was just kill shit with big sword or big gun

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yeah she's chinese

a lot of the chinese/indonesian vtubers speak 2-4 languages

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afflatus solace's stoneskin too, it's great

(use cure 4 btw, 5 and 6 are too expensive)

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ni no kuni was alright, if you really like miyazaki you'll probably love it. it's overall extremely simplistic and kinda slow but that's not a bad thing for everyone. i got it for like $10, played about ten hours, and got my fun's worth out of it

i've only played one god eater game but it's basically just anime monster hunter, and a lot more accessible if you find regular monster hunter too slow-paced

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most of the time i only really rewatch when i'm gonna multitask it, like i have a lot of grinding to do in another game that's mostly brainless

when watching something for the first time it deserves 100% of my attention, but for the second or third time, 60% of my attention is fine

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Entity13 posted...

My Whm in XI is 85 at the moment. I loathe the 56-92 range for leveling things. lol

at that level i usually go beat up fei yin bats with semih lefihna, she absolutely muderers them (she's also why lesser colibri are a popular levelling spot from like 60-70)

they're found either north or south of the qu'bia arena home point, so it's pretty fast to get to em, and enough spawn to where you shouldnt need to venture far to be fighting at all times

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i dunno why but the first pso2 anime is one of my favorite rewatches

it's not good at all but its mediocrity is almost soothingly predictable

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apparently there were direct references to coco and pekora before the latest chapters, the mangaka loves vtubers

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I_Abibde posted...

And the theme song is like the Golion theme, but backwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvDStaih1Co

it's stuck with me for an entire decade

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that is a whole lotta mecha i only know from super robot wars (dancouga, go-shogun, godmars, baldios)

anyways watch cromartie it's god tier

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the anime aired when the light novel was like 90% done anyways so you got basically everything in the anime, the ending's fine. you literally just miss out on one last volume set after the climax of the plot had been resolved

if you want more, the visual novel on psp was fan translated at some point and is alright

it's set after christmas eve with the change that ryuuji collapses in the cold and develops temporary amnesia, which makes for some interesting interactions with people like ami

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i'm reading the synopsis of that story you mentioned and wow that looks like a retcon for retcon's sake

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semih lefihna spams single target nukes weaponskills and autos for absolutely massive damage and perfect accuracy, only being outdamaged by shantotto 2 most of the time

she's absolutely 100x better than lion for damage purposes and i just kinda assumed you already had her because she was so easy to get

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dragon504 posted...

Forgot to ask, how'd you end up doing from the free draws + treasure rush?

https://i.gyazo.com/1d68bd51c6ce144b1c5ca15cb0215a63.png been pretty good recently even though i haven't played much at all outside gw

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earth is by far my shittiest element

the others have aged better due to a combination of good characters and m1 weapons being alright, but earth? i'm... ygg swording...... at least i have some good newer characters (cain, alexiel) but not the super meta one (summer alexiel)

(i literally only play gbf for login rewards and gw since around the time m2 dropped)

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dragon504 posted...

Is Grand Blue worth the watch?

cant escape from gw no matter where i look

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i either used bst and just aoe'd everything in her general vicinity or i went a class that could heal her, don't remember which

might have done both with bst/dnc!

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yeah apex enemies are super duper extra fuckin meaty if you're trying to solo with trusts

you NEED skillchains and magic bursts to kill them in a reasonable amount of time

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aeonic was all the reisenjima NM kills right

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papercup posted...

The change to coincounter is baffling. This is an enemy type that is repeated over and over, so introducing you to the mechanics early on is a good thing. Was this change seriously made to appease the wowfugees? >_>

what do you mean? the indicator still comes out too late to really dodge it, so now instead of noobies dying and having zero reason why, they get hit and know how they fucked up. it's being standardized with newer cyclops like the one in aynder

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Entity13 posted...

possibly especially with the Sublime Solutions unless I scrip grind those.

keep an eye out and you can usually find a really cheap white scrip turn in to spam an ungodly amount of

i haven't gotten back into crafting this patch but it's probably some alc stuff, made some sick money selling white scrip mats that way

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Teodor (most of attacks are magical, so he can end up very high dps vs certain targets. heals himself, silences, and has a bunch of unique animations n stuff too so he's cool), Ullegore (status effects, nukes, and stuns TP moves), Robel-Akbel (he spams aoe even vs singletarget, so he's great for farming weak stuff), Kuyin and Star Sibyl and Brygid (passive party buffs), Mayakov (haste samba and step spam) are the best. Particularly Teodor and any of the buffs you yourself can use. If you haven't capped haste via gear yet, Mayakov is always a good choice.

Teodor, Balamor (you get him via Rhapsodies), Shantotto 2, Yoran-Oran/Apururu, and Amchuchu/Gessho was the squad I used vs physical resistant enemies to melt them. Tons of magic bursting going on and all DPS autos are magical.

Edit: Oh yeah, Karaha-Baruha too. He's super aggressive with weaponskills and casts haste 1. Sometimes you don't need the raw healing power of Yoran-Oran/Apururu and just need some healing.

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Entity13 posted...

I'm dreading the Cap/Job grind, which is why I'm holding off until I find the job I like most.

Speaking as someone who way prefers soloing over party content... it's pretty damn slow. You can probably knock out an important threshold in a weekend with escha ru'aun trust mobbing (it's very easy to kill enemies in there solo, though it might take a while) if it's only 50-100JP, but man... if you want to go further and keep your sanity you definitely need a group.

Entity13 posted...

but I suspect i117 is already OP as all get-out compared to stories pre-Adoulin.

Absolutely, though your job may still require farming specific stuff to be effective regardless (bsts without a good ready recast timer hurt for damage, smns require a lot of miscellanous questing to even unlock all your important avatars). At the very least, anything that lets you use a trust and is below ilvl content will be absolutely murdered instantly.

Entity13 posted...

It amuses me that it basically is just a barely coherent story that pokes and prods you to work on the other stories while mostly just putting emphasis on the many waifus of the game.

It was pretty much a gigantic encore to get everyone to reappear. Though I didn't know everyone when the first rhapsodies came out (just up to escha zi'tah basically), by the time Reisenjima rolled around I was able to get some chills out of the final trailer that had like 30 important characters assembled back to back. Ended up having a pretty good impression of it by the end. A lot of the midparts were fluff to get everyone to reappear, but there's tangible things happening by the end.

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i should start watching conan again at some point, i think i was roughly where you are now

conan was great to watch while doing other activities

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Entity13 posted...

if I wear a gearset that is 117 or higher, will level 102 monsters or the like show up as Weak compared to my gear, or will the game still read them as like an Even Match as compared to my actual level? I

It will show them as weak, but merit points gained aren't reduced iirc. I think JP is reduced but your combat ability outpaces the reduction, and zones like Escha Ru'aun and Reisenjima have a wide variety of very slightly different ilvl enemies.

Entity13 posted...

If I decide to unlock Capacity Points at 99 and progress on that, will it require its own mode, meaning I can no longer earn Limit/Merit Points, or might I be able to do both at once?

You gain both at the same time, but only from "hard" enemies, and in very small quantities. You absolutely wanna unlock it as fast as possible. Some classes REALLY want like 50-100JP. Like, beastmaster gets -5 ready recast timer on one of their early-ish nodes, and the difference between a pet nuke every 15s and 10s is crazy.

Merit points are gained VERY easily as you farm for JP, to the point where you can cap out in like 15-30m iirc. Won't be too hard to get everything you want pretty quickly.

Entity13 posted...

The thing, though, is I still don't know if I prefer XI's War over the others yet. It's just my first to get this far

Speed levelling is pretty fun on its own, so absolutely try every job out. Especially during the current event with 2-3x exp, it's so blazingly fast that the only reason you don't level multiple times per enemies is because the game is hard capped to only level you up once at a time.

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gotta either thf or just huge mass pull and aoe things to retain sanity

i think a few trusts have some treasure hunter like lion too

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Entity13 posted...

I should do more of WotG so I can progress in RoV, but all in due time. Maybe I'll do that sooner than later for the sake of another little boost to experience? I'll think about it.

it was also my personal favorite storyline/expansion! i love timey wimey stuff, it was really cool to see all of the legendary war figures in their prime, and Campaign (the activity) is my favorite minigame to powercreep with absurd gear levels. a level 99 player towers above enemy commanders, who are themselves unnecessarily beefy due to the entire thing being primary an AI vs AI war with player help

plus my favorite piece of non-battle FFXI music, which will forever be my title screen music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oQ9J-HJm5w

my main complaint with it is that navigating through all the new zones can be a gigantic headache if you get lost. jugner forest (s) is... ugh. i still don't know how a new player is supposed to get through jugner and vunkerl. i wandered around for a few days until i miraculously made it through

might be better with the higher number of teleports we have these days, though we might have had those teleports back when I played and I just didn't know

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you can now park down and easily grind your way to 99 if you feel like it

mandragoras right outside of adoulin are the most common 92-99 spot, they're fairly unchallenging (though their aoe sleep is obnoxious) and you can chain kills pretty fast. you dont even really have to fight yourself, your trusts will easily take care of them

most enemies in ceizak are fine to spam, mandragoras are just super duper easy to find and kill. also there's a repeatable RoE objective for killing them

the other enemy on the beach there is also commonly used to afk level up weapon skills cuz it heals itself and does low damage. summon one healer trust and bap it for a few hours

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wish it was more possible to play with friends on different servers

i get why they wanna keep it separate but it just kinda sucks to find out someone else plays ffxi when there's a 90% chance they won't be on your world

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.hack//sign was horribly paced and usually mainly looked upon fondly due to nostalgia. i rewatched it about twice in the past few years, and while it is still entertaining in a mystery sort of way, it's just boring as hell the vast majority of the time. its concept carries it most of the way, but when you try to compare it to more recent VRMMO/MMO isekai type stuff, it's just so much less entertaining

sao panders to generic interests because reki was just writing a story he wanted to read. he never really intended to be super popular from the beginning, things just kind of exploded after accel world got big and people were suddenly introduced to sao. so it feels very disorganized and amateur all around because that's what it ultimately is. compared to .hack, which was a massive franchise from development

at least .hack isn't as offensively terrible as sao drips to occasionally these days; reki can't stop writing sexual abuse into his stories, and the one time he didn't (alicization), they sprinkled some in for the anime anyways. it's actually utterly ridiculous how horrible sao villains are outside of the very first one. I do like a few arcs from sao way more than anything in .hack (mother's rosario is 10/10 fight me), but .hack in general is a lot more consistent (if predictable and boring because of it)

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https://i.gyazo.com/ba278c7102a5a03751cb4ccdc22ee797.png

wait a damn minute

is this shadowlord

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sao was uploaded as a web novel within like a month of .hack//SIGN releasing

it's almost exactly the same as the light novel version, but with actual editing and reordering of bits (he just fuckin wrote whatever substories he wanted at the time)

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didnt see context from last page and thought we were discussing SAO all of a sudden

1) original came out in 2002, so about 20 years ago
2) there's a new version called sao: progressive

sao confirmed same as flcl

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translation notes at ends of chapters or volumes to explain different concepts that couldn't be accurately and succinctly conveyed mid-chapter are great, but it should aim to never break the flow of the script mid-chapter

translation notes should always feel like you're getting something extra, not used as a crutch to reach basic comprehension

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https://i.gyazo.com/24ec2c4fc2db57212a9dd58df62c2aa7.png

you legitimately think this is the proper route

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you're still arguing specifics and not spirit or experience

i never said osaka-ben was itself comparable to french

i am saying deep osaka-ben heard by an average japanese listener is a similar experience to an exaggerated fake french accent heard by an average english listener

is it a perfect translation choice? no. do perfect translation choices even exist? also no. if you have a problem with translations in general, your only recourse is learn japanese and cut out the middleman

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Revelation34 posted...

They could have used a southern accent then instead of something literally not there.

do you know what osaka-ben and kansai-ben are

they literally just pronounce words differently and with some grammar changes, it's the same exact idea as what they did with the character here

demanding osaka-ben always be translated as a southern accent is demanding another 1-to-1 substitution that is arbitrary and does not always (or even usually) fit

Revelation34 posted...

Also what I bolded is an oxymoron since you supported what I mentioned.

what

i'm saying that since the two languages are so disparate, you have to break down the entire sentence and reconvey the meaning from the author's intent, not from mechanical word-for-word substitution

is that what you were supporting all along?

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https://twitter.com/sachimcbelle/status/1110437140553334784

being accustomed to bad translations doesnt make bad translations not bad translations

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ya i've pulled 100 times so far (10k crystals from treasure leading to one gold moon ) and my only new ssr has been from the treasure thing

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Revelation34 posted...

Citation needed.

https://twitter.com/henyome/status/1258160341663379456
https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1258029564095279106
https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1236151097493843968
https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1232320081113124864
https://twitter.com/blockwonkel/status/1013898306269794304
https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/1283736349619757058

source: actual jp->en translators

you literally can't just substitute words when jp and en are so structurally different

Revelation34 posted...

Also there's no exercise for what I mentioned.

you haven't elaborated beyond "word sound different therefore bad" so there's no way to hold any kind of conversation about it

were they using english words before because they sounded foreign yet familiar and when translated to english they had to use another language?

edit: looked it up and it's becauses she uses osaka-ben, so they had to transliterate a speech quirk somehow, because it sounds funky to the average japanese speaker too

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sometimes phrases that work in one language do not work in another and have to be changed

translation is not a word-by-word exchange as that's fundamentally impossible when two languages don't share the same structure; it's about conveying the same experience to the viewer

stilted overly literal translations are not good translations

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@Entity13 looks like the campaigns are all coming back, including the alter ego one

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/57094

wildskeeper rieve one is an easy brainless way to make money, too, once you hit level cap. people will be rotating between 3-4 of them (fuck yumcax lol) and just participating gets you guaranteed loot, including HP Bayld, which is needed in abhorrently mass quantities to get the geomancer and rune fencer ergon weapons (which is basically their equivalent of mythic weapons, mythic being ToAU-expansion relics), so it's very easy to sell them

other loot that drops may be situationally useful too as gear swaps. it's all i115 so they're usually less good than the freebie sparks you can get upon hitting 99, but stuff like store TP rings and fast cast capes and whatnot are always good to have

WKR fights can have a bunch of people inside, and everyone can summon their own trusts. one competently geared person can solo with their trusts, so it's very low-stress. fun fact: qultada, ulmia, and joachim will aoe buff everyone in content like this and the normal song limit does not apply to trusts, so they're nice if you want to just speed things up as a low-geared player. summoner blood pact buffs work too but that requires being summoner (but aoe haste 2 hitting 50+ targets is hilarious)

you may need to start Seekers of Adoulin to access them but it's definitely worth starting that expansion early because you have to spend a currency that slowly replenishes in order to advance in it (...although i think one of the rhapsody items reduces the number you need to spend?)

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dxd is the perfect anime

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went with some friends (we were two tanks and two healers, so we pugged dps) into memoria miseria ex and we cleared on first night

cool fight

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/kzVgrm1QqGh6cjtw spoilers if you havent done the fight

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follow vtubers as they slip into insanity

https://twitter.com/akaihaato/media

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Her money is fleeting and insubstantial compared to that loss of dignity.

the amount of money she's made already outpaces what many people make in their entire lifetimes

i'm pretty sure she'll do ok

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yeah but i only simp vtubers

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Yellow posted...

I like how you can't just say "he doesn't like white people" and have to throw "anti-semite" in there. That's such an older generation sentiment.

do you believe the Rothschild conspiracies are a solely white thing or a Jewish thing

because they are definitely a Jewish thing

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