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You start with number 1 and every boss is rainbow colored Larry jr

lmao

even delirium

Bigger Larry jr

molgera

my mom is doing laundry so I'll be a second

Ok

I'm finishing my food still anyway

Pika is his own mom confirmed

for Pika

@JaydnMadsen(She)AI Beep Boop When are you gonna talk in vc again

with how much suffering i have from covid maybe never

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mint was in my ff14 raid

apparently

@Dialga What server are you on?

And anyone else playing in this Discord, if anyone else sees this

I play, Commune Tea on jenova/goblin

My character is Chocolate Drop on Exodus(Primal)

Man everyone here plays on primal huh

Think bopit did too

I just picked a server the game recommended to me when I made the character however many years ago.

Yeah fair

I think they just added the third NA data cluster a couple years ago, cuz when I made this account in 2015 I believe there was only Aether and Primal

Yuh

Changed sometime in 2019

Very cool timing SE

What's the savage/ultimate raiding scene like? I wanted to get into savage back HW, started as gladiator, got to 60 as PLD, got geared through tomestones, normal raids, ex trials, only to be told "nobody takes PLD to savage, doesn't do enough damage, roll WAR or DRK," so I grind WAR to 60, then get told "lulz n00b gtfo go get str accs & pentameldz" and I never really cared to bother

HW was weird

But I spent probably ~40 weeks a year for about 4.5 years straight mythic raiding in WoW after that, doing way more and way worse to be able to raid, so I think I can handle something nowhere near as much of a time investment for preparing, and from what I've seen on logs, most jobs within their role seem to be pretty well balanced, unlike WoW where you can be OP one patch, dogshit the next

Everything is mostly balanced yeah

They’re good at that

Quite literally any combination of jobs can go into any content and clear

And people are usually chill, the people who aren’t are in a minority for sure

When you have so little variation in secondary stats because of so few pieces of gear around the same ilvl per slot, no choices to make for jobs like you do for talents, covenants, soulbinds, etc in WoW, and don't try to reinvent the wheel entirely every single expansion, with tacking more shit onto the wheel every major patch, it's a lot fucking easier to balance, I'd imagine.

Yuh

How much of an investment is there to get into it & prepare? Like, on a weekly basis.

Don’t even get me started on itemization, I’ve malded enough about that already lmao

I wish we had more shit to choose from man

Not much, cap tomes and have food/pots ready is about it honestly

In the immortal words of J. Allen Brack, "You think you do, but you don't." Nah, not gonna be snobby and say you definitely don't, but I don't

Everything else is up to player skill

If you’re willing to put in time/effort you’ll get shit done, can be either by grinding in pf or finding a group

We’ll get a new tier in a couple weeks so this is a good time too right

What with the leveled playing field from a new expansion drop and all

It's fucking awful trying to run the same dungeon or two, over and over, wasting time, consumables, and gold because you need to get a weapon from a 10+, or killing a boss 12 weeks in a row and never seeing a piece of gear you need of it drop, because you need haste the most, mastery second, and crit and versatility are dogshit for you, and that's the only haste/mastery helm at that ilvl in the game currently

Yeah fair

I highly doubt I'll make it to savage this tier; I just started Stormblood tonight.

Ah I see

But the main thing I’m trying to say though is that it’s more approachable than ever

How expensive are food & pots for a week of raiding? Or at least how expensive were they in ShB? And is it super expensive to buy them from other players, compared to leveling crafting jobs and making them, or just a cost?

If you wanna mess with it just go for it once you hit max

Nah its not very expensive to buy

More-so at the start of the expansion/tier for sure, but it usually levels out after a couple weeks

I’m way too lazy to make actual money and I’m definitely not gonna craft my own shit, but I’ve gotten by without issues

Yeah, even in HW it was a lot more approachable than the 4.5 years I spent mythic raiding in WoW, I was just discouraged because everyone I asked said PLD was the best tank to play at endgame, then upon reaching the point I could do savage, everyone is like "no, it doesn't do enough damage," then after grinding 45 levels of WAR, I was told I needed to get a new necklace, bracelet, and rings, so I just was discouraged.

I’m just here to hit buttons and see the big number go boom

What do you main?

I play whatever the group I’m in needs tbh, but I’d like to think i main melee

Monk and dragoon are fun

Also yeah PLD was in an unfortunate situation in HW, long cds, low damage, bad utility, couldn’t even block magic damage

Weirdly designed job at the time

I was thinking of leveling monk or samurai when I check out melee. I'm currently playing warrior, about 800k xp from 71(hit 70 right before starting Stormblood ._. ), have PLD, WHM, and AST at 60, thinking of leveling BLM for caster & BRD for ranged

Like half their kit was based on the blocking mechanic, but that was useless against tons of shit just because it was considered magic damage

Real quick, I have to mention that it was so fucking stupid that WAR and DRK got tank stances at 30, but PLD got Sword Oath(a horrible offensive stance, imo) at 30, and Shield Oath at 40.

Monk and samurai are both great tbh, I’m biased to monk because it’s my favorite job