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LordoftheMorons posted...

I've cleared HoH a few times, but I've never been past floor 100 of PotD.

I got to Floor 114 (I think? It was definitely in 111-119) as RDM before I Ver-yeeted myself into a land mine at the wrong time. That one hurt.

I have a GNB solo run at Floor 101 now but I just don't feel ready to take that plunge again.

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GANON1025 posted...

The only good lala is Pippin. Period.

That's absolutely false, but you can certainly make a case for him being the best.

I'd disagree, but there's a case.

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LtMplusCATS posted...

Minfilia I almost forgot to mention which says a lot, I know she's like a driving force in the entire game but I don't...care about her a ton. Partially because for the entire time she was actually actively around her VA sucked.

Minfilia is a driving force who does nothing useful until after she dies

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Nero is a drama queen, and he only gets better as time goes on.

As for the giant samurai guy, he's one of my favorite secondary characters in all of 14.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Okay now that you've fought Nidhogg, I have to say that the moment in that fight where he repeatedly fires Ahk Morn blasts at you as the music swells to a climax is incredibly hype and one of the best single gameplay moments in FF14.

Man I got so many chills. Best dragon fight I have ever played.

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LtMplusCATS posted...

...I fear any controversy related to RPing, so do I even wanna know?

According to the player side of things, one GM decided to go on a personal crusade a couple days ago and started mass-warning / banning people for having their RP venues advertised, even ones that weren't illicit, since he claimed that "party finder is meant to do content," which has no basis in any rules available to the public. As a result, Party Finder just went more wild, calling this GM out in numerous funny ways while claiming to be party-findering for Sastasha.

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You guys hear about this massive RP-related fallout? Party Finder has been insane.

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The Mana Sword posted...

so bozjan front is just a bad eureka, huh

A lot of the systems are improved drastically. Lost Fragments are way more consistent and easier to get than logos actions (with no chance of failure). The actions holster provides more utility than rigid logos plates in Eureka, and the actions you don't use are still available the next time you enter the front. Essences no longer take an action slot. A lot of the least useful actions in Eureka are gone, and their replacements are much better.

Critical engagements happen regularly instead of a random chance to spawn as you kill specific monsters, and the fights themselves are way more complex and fun for the most part -- looking at you, mathbot. The FATEs are much easier to understand, and the NPCs in them are actually useful. Duels are awesome and a ton of fun even to spectate, even if the method to enter them is not great. The map is much easier to traverse with no stupid drop-downs nor choke points. Perhaps most of all, it's the best way to level alternative jobs from 71 to 80, given we have no Deep Dungeon this xpac. Delubrum Reginae is probably the best 24-man content they've made, not to mention how kick-ass the Savage mode of it is.

That being said... there's just no soul to it. It feels extremely design-by-committee. There's no feeling of community and striving together across an instance; it's much more transactional. You never get stronger, so there's no sense of progression; all mettle and rank do is allow you to access more content and appraise more fragments. Once you've seen it all, it wears out its welcome quickly, and there's no fun in helping your friends move forward either. Strangely, the weird jank and hidden systems in Eureka made it more frustrating at first and then way more fun later on as you learn the wacky-ass stuff, collaborate with other people, exploit it, and then teach other people how it works.

The reward structure is awful, too. It took them months to make Castrum Lacus Litore worth doing beyond your first couple of clears. The mettle system is a terrible design because losing it on every KO (not just failing to get raised) discourages people from experimenting and taking on risk. Delubrum rewards are pretty cool, but on the front, the fact that you get so few lockboxes from CEs and the vast majority of them contain 1-gil garbage items is outright insulting. The gear enhancements require so much unique currency that most people's eyes glaze over and they give up. There are no hyper-rare and valuable items that require specific strategies to farm aside from using Death on star mobs and reflect-farming sprites, unlike the Eurekan weather-and-time-dependent adaptation and mutation systems and the warped lockboxes from them. There is little reason to kill random overworld mobs unless you're cluster or fragment farming, which isn't as exciting as Eureka's stuff.

The lore is something I find a net negative, too. Eureka felt like a cool exploration of a hazardous land and had a genuine sense of discovery to unravel the mystery of a disaster that happened way back in ARR, building to some awesome world-building and a satisfying conclusion. Bozja, on the other hand, just feels like heavy-handed misery porn, especially after this latest patch. The best of the plot threads are left dangling. They try to portray the legion's commander as a morally grey person who might be a true visionary and who has loyal rank-and-file members who think they're the heroes of the story, but all his lieutenants save one are cartoonishly evil.

Finally, the relic system -- I think it was smart to allow people to do the relic grind outside of Bozja and only gate it in terms of advancing the story. I think it was a terrible idea to make the relic grind objectively worse to do in the content it was made for. The drop rates for relic items in Bozja are atrocious, whereas they're guaranteed in outside content. Eureka definitely had its own grind and no alternative method, but if you killed a NM in Eureka, you always made progress, whereas it's a crapshoot for a Bozjan CE or skirmish. Perhaps the overall expected time to get your relic stuff in Bozja equals that of Eureka back when Eureka was current content, but the lack of consistency in Bozja makes it more frustrating than the steady trickle of progress Eureka provides.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Moving forward I'm just gonna assume anyone who's forehead is covered is secretly a Garlean.

At least the two you've met so far are cool!

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

My roomate just started but couldn't get into Jenova (didn't want to wait), is the only way they'll be able to change worlds gonna be that $18 fee?

Unless Jenova at some point has low relative population to the server they do join, then they can transfer for free.

That said, it shouldn't matter so long as they're on the same data center unless you want to be in a FC together or something.

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SSG should've been murdered years ago, and I say this as a guy who played a ton of it.

Modern's "iconic identity" was that it was garbage for years and years, which is why Pioneer ate its lunch. Modern felt like yu-gi-oh. Good riddance.

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Thank god our true lord and savior Pauper remains unscathed

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Jokes aside, one of the very few big topics I finished involved a predix contest. It was a Top 25 and I gave some hints about what would be in the list, then other people made lists they would try to match. Come up with a points system, and boom, now you have a fun ranking topic AND a game to give money with.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Are the games actually good? The music sure is, but I'm debating whether or not I want to buy the collection and go lore diving.

1 through 3 are better than decent, although the story quality gradually declines as you go forward. Gameplay kicks ass though. There's a reason it was the title that sold Xboxes.

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Yeah, but look at those reactions...

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The only new voice I thought was a major whiff was Lolorito. They made him sound like this Snidely Whiplash guy when he was so much cooler in ARR. I do miss Sam Riegel as Alphinaud a ton, but the new VA is great too.

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Spades

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Earthshaker posted...

- I've heard hearsay that the Eureka mechanics were great.

They really weren't at launch. It only got fun for most people when they nerfed the hell out of it. Pagos is STILL a travesty.

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Right now, it doesn't. It will later.

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Yeah that one's mine, I added the first few people on there and realized I hadn't put myself. Should be public to edit now, so go for it.

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We had a topic series a while back around 5.2 so it's good to see this going again.

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To add a #6: Don't pop more than one cooldown at once, especially on a big pull. Better to have a somewhat lower mitigation last the entire pull than a larger mitigation for a short time immediately followed by getting clobbered.

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GANON1025 posted...

Ive been thinking of picking up Warrior myself. Im a little nervous about being a tank though, I feel like its assumed you know all the dungeons and bosses like the back of your hand when youre the tank and uh, I dont know them that well even though I have a couple level 80 jobs

Just tell everyone "new to tanking" and people will get it. That's how I was leveling Paladin and it went smoothly.

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Hades

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red sox 777 posted...

I actually did a major in math (and economics).

Then you would damn well know the hardest part of Calc 1 is the algebra. The actual calculus is pretty easy, but it doesn't mean crap if you don't have solid algebra behind it.

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red sox 777 posted...

There are definitely kids who would thrive in a calculus class who haven't finished algebra.

This sounds like somebody who's never done Calculus.

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Game Boy

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Yeah, this isn't like WoW or many other MMOs where some jobs are just not viable for any given patch. Some might be a bit more powerful than others, but they spend a ton of time balancing things such that any given standard comp can clear even the most brutal content.

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Yosuke > Kanji > Naoto > Rise > Yu > Teddie > Chie > Yukiko

But they're all a minimum of "good." Best playable cast in RPG history.

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Can't believe I have to explain why "right to work" is bullshit, but I'll give the extremely simple version.

The power of a union comes from collective bargaining. Said collective bargaining improves conditions for the entire workforce at a given job. Unions also have legitimate costs to engage in such things, such as lawyers, etc. Therefore, if you want to reap the benefits of what the union has won for you at such a job, then paying said dues is what allows the union to keep the benefits that you have because of them. Otherwise, their power wanes, and as a result, employers start getting to fuck over their workers' pay, benefits, and working conditions again.

Unions certainly have their fair share of faults and corruption -- look at the UAW. But "Right to Work" is absolute bullshit with a clever marketing name to make it look like it's pro-labor. It is not pro-labor. It only exists to fuck over unions and reduce the power of workers vs. employers, and employers already had more power there inherently.

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My Eureka Speed Belt tho

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SantaRPidgey posted...

Fates is a terrible story, with some of the worst characters in fiction. There's a lot of ideas that get crashed into the walls, and there's a lot of problematic elements scattered through the game that make it downright embarrassing to play (like when you child bride asks you to blow her dry when she gets out of the bath using the DS microphone)

It is also my favorite video game ever made. To the point where I can play the game exclusively for two years straight and not get bored of it. When the game is difficult, it's GOOD, and the game throws you so many bones to help deal with the difficulty that every playthrough feels unique and interesting.

Also Zola is the best fire emblem character.

I recommend them, but with a stern warning that if you aren't willing to go all in you probably will hate it.

This is legit the best recommendation of a video game I've ever read. I'm not being sarcastic - this is gold.

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I've always thought Awakening is overrated by quite a bit, though a large part of that is my distaste for pokemon breeding in general.

Fates is, indeed, trash. I'm usually not someone who cares about story too much in TRPGs, but Fates is just a train wreck with so many unlikable characters, and it's overloaded with paper-thin waifu bait. At least the Conquest maps are cool. Only pick up Conquest if you do Fates at all. It has the worst plot of any FE I've ever known, but just skip every single dialogue and focus on the scenarios.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Is it just me or the non-mini-boss final encounters in Styx tunnels are more annoying than the bosses? The area is so spread out, the traps are more annoying, and the enemies appear every which way.

Depends. The mega-vermin in the room with all the axe traps is pretty easy (for most weapons), but I can't stand the mega-snakestone. The Tiny Vermin, though...

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Magic

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I would say P5R has so much substantive new and altered content that I'd be more okay with it than, say, P4G.

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Leonhart4 posted...

What is it good for?

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I'm hoping against hope we end up in Meracydia.

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Slay the Spire


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I'll pass for now, but it'll be fun to watch!

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How does this work? I've never participated or watched before.

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I'm not a big fan of most the Never to Return variants unless I'm hearing them in context, but the driving beat and guitar of the Dissidents' theme adds a new flavor that mixes well with the more legato base song.

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Disturbed - Sound of Silence

That cover tho

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No

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Adrammelech is a super fun boss and shouldn't be touched.

The intermission phase of the last boss should be nerfed a bit to account for disparity in both coordination and skill for what's intended to be a "pickup group raid."

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My understanding is that Delubrum Savage is something you queue for, so theres no worries about instances being an issue nor portal snipers.

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Huh, that's bizarre.

I'm pumped for Bozja update and, presumably, Delubrum next week!

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Guile's Theme

Not Guile. Just his theme.

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Zag

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Hades

God this is hard

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