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Did you have to DoT each target individually? I stayed away from shadow priest in WoW because it was an absolute beast for all of Legion, but I HATED using a GCD and 1.5s(before haste) applying Vampiric Touch, another GCD for Shadow Word: Pain, swapping target, repeating for every single target in a fight

You did that up to about 3 targets yeah

After that it wasn’t worth it iirc

Pain in the ass honestly

I wanted to try BRD when I started playing in 2015, until I found out that you had to hardcast everything starting at 52, so I stayed away from ranged until returning and saw that they decided to get rid of that.

I loved HW BRD, that shit was my jam, the 1.5s casts let you weave an off-global every gcd and move around mostly freely

Was fun

"Mostly" freely is the problem.

Xiv also has a kinda weird mechanic where your casts technically go through to the server about 2 3rds into the cast time

Which means you can move freely after a certain point without interrupting your cast

It's because with the best possible connection you can have, you're running at a minimum of 250-300ms

Nah that’s not the case anymore

The game had a built in 100ms for some reason back in ARR but that was fixed in HW

I dunno, everyone I've seen has said they definitely experience some latency

I mean not outside of just normal latency though

I meant between the time you press a button on your client and the time the server registers it, sorry

Everything is server-side so you’ll get latency based on your proximity to them

Yeah

But the built in weird shit is gone

Cuz right now, I can pop a defensive, and the delay between the time I press the button and the time the animation starts for activating it is SIGNIFICANTLY longer than when I activated an ability in WoW with 30-40ms

Oh yeah and I get wanting free movement, I started on BRD in ARR because of that, but xiv kinda just doesn’t have much that requires that free movement

It feels longer than when I played with 120-150ms

I don't have a problem with hardcasting, I'm just like

"...Why would I bother playing this for 51 levels, moving freely, then have to hardcast or do absolute shit for damage? Why not just play BLM in that case?"

Understandable, though ironically brd and mch did absolutely cracked damage in hw

People used to straight up skip the 1% extra damage from having a caster in your party to bring both

Yep, I heard people were mad that BRD got to do good damage in ARR while moving freely, so they made them hardcast in HW, and then they did MASSIVE damage.

Also on the latency thing, I wouldn’t know for sure since I don’t really know anything about wow, but isn’t most stuff client-side there?

Some stuff is client-side, some stuff is server-side.

Like cooldowns, mitigation etc

The client and server have to communicate regardless, but the server for WoW reads data what feels like 50 times more often than FFXIV

Yeah the server ticks are a lot faster, I know that

It's not really a problem, just something to adjust to

If you want there’s a kinda grey area tool that fixes a lot of those issues called xivalexander

Most of the latency is because xiv waits for a response from the server before it lets anything go through, Alexander just kinda skips waiting for that response and let’s your abilities go through when you hit them

I've mostly adjusted at this point, the thing I still have a little bit of adjusting to get used to use popping multiple oGCDs, because some oGCDs have animations or some type of delay before letting you pop another

Yeah it’s jank

But it's really not a big issue for me; I stopped playing WoW... right around 9.0.5's release, so I think end of March, beginning of April, picked this back up in August I think? So I had a good amount of time to disconnect, didn't hop right from one to the other.

Fair enough

The latency wasn't as much of an issue to get used to as the snapshotting was.

I think in retail, the only snapshotting that exists still is for one ability for feral druids, which I don't know why it still has it.

Also I’m sure you’ve been told/know, but addons and similar things aren’t really supported

Though at the same time SE has no way of seeing what you’re doing with your game files, so there’s tons of stuff out there

It’s just not official

Yeah, I've pretty much gleamed "Don't talk about it in-game, don't put it out there publicly, you're fine otherwise"

Yuh

I have ACT, mainly to track my own performance, but that's it

Japan has stricter laws about collecting data from users iirc, even if the game could do it I don’t think they’d be allowed to

I'll just make sure not to take screenshots of my bunny girl with a monster cock flailing about

lol yeah

Well even if you did as long as you didn’t post it publicly they couldn’t do anything about it

Yeah, post screenshots*, not take

I actually got temp banned from WoW back in like 2006 because it detected Cheat Engine and ASpeeder on my computer, because DS emulators in 2006 ran like shit so I used programs like that to get them to run faster.

Damn relatable

I'm like, "...That's so fucking stupid. Even if I was trying to use these programs in WoW, I can't speed up the server. If anything, this would make me DDoS the server."

Then again, now knowing the exact hardware the servers were hosted on in 2006, it actually may have been possible for just a couple computers with Cheat Engine to DDoS a server...

To summarize though since I need to go exercise for the day, if you’re interested in raiding whatsoever I’d just jump into it once you’re max, every job is viable and if you put in effort even the statistically worst ones will outperform someone who doesn’t. Food, pots and whatever the minimum ilvl is for a certain fight is usually all you NEED to get going and the later into a tier you start the cheaper that will be

Alright, have a good one.

And yeah, I'm not flavor of the month, I play what I like to play, but I like to at least feel viable

Ultimates are big marathon fights that take a lot more effort to clear, but honestly anyone can do it if they’re committed to actually doing it

It feels fucking awful when you're playing a melee DPS, parsing in the 80-85th percentile for your class/spec, and you're below another melee DPS parsing 36th percentile for their class/spec.

And you're bringing less utility.

But savage and extremes are usually completely fine to prog in party finder if you’d want to

Yeah I gotchu

Finding a group with the same goals is usually always more efficient, but a fair amount of people run party finder for fun even after they’re done with their raids so getting through it that way is also completely fine

And some people just like the chaos of progging in pf haha

Does basically nobody do savages that aren't the current tier? Or is that stuff tossed into a roulette when it's not current anymore?

Not a lot of people do, but there’s usually always people interested in it if you look around

And the game has filters to bring you down to minimum ilvl for fights and all that

Mmk, thanks for the info. I won't take up more of your time, see you around. ^_^

There’s actually probably more interest in it now than usual because of the stat squish

Alrighty

Honestly feel free to dm me if there’s anything more you need, was nice chatting :)

Sure thing, you too. :3

phijkchu ffxiv fc when

n e v e r :)

fir don't say that

come join the fc instead

if we could convince regi to play we could have a decent core of 4

then we just fill the rest of the slots with randos