Yep, i play AST on ps4 with controller and do just fine.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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Pretty much this. Both control schemes work perfectly fine for all job roles. There are plenty of people (although obviuosly not as many as use K+M) who world first prog who are controller users and that includes healers.
Note, the servers are going town tonight at 2am Pacific and not coming back up until Friday at 2am Pacific.
Pretty sure that was a translation issue.
I don't see that being a thing for something meant for casuals.
DRK is being reworked a LOT, yeah. Not as much as Machinist is, but a lot. I would probably wait so you can learn it as you go rather than having to throw all your rotations and muscle memory away midway through leveling up.
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Destiny is going down all day tomorrow too. Terrible timing :P
Well I did get both to 50 on ARR lol, looking back not sure how I had the patience to do so, now leveling the jobs I have on 50 is a daunting task lol.
Even so leveling now with the armory system and the earrings is quite easy. 1 leveling duty is like 1 level and half with DRK and as a tank you can avoid palace of the dead.
That said I'm thinking of buying a potion for AST/SCH lol
Yeah that's what I was thinking. It's been a while since I played it anyway and it's the only Tank i've ever tried in an MMO so starting it just have to have it change in a day would be silly.
Got to say though from my limited experience Tanking it was really fun. I was super nervous about picking it up as it seems like way more responsibility than what I'm used to as a BLM but people were patient with me and gave out loads of tips when I ran through dungeons with them.
Hmm... I still have residual bitterness about the combat leves getting axed so cutting more stuff like this rubs me the wrong way. I'm just not seeing what new stuff they add to these expansions that makes up for it. I guess the FATE thing could be cool but it's only the new zones.
Honestly, tanking is a job that's pretty natural overall. The only time it's really frustrating is in trials and raids with lots of forced tank swaps. If you don't know when and how to do that, it can end very poorly for your entire team.
Otherwise, DRK is just about keeping your MP topped off as much as possible and ensuring your enmity never gets outpaced by your party's SAM or BLM.
Only for Shadowwbringer story dungeon for now. They already have plan to incorporate it to the rest of the game.
Nooooooo! I need that extra day for 4.0+ MSQ so I can start proper Shadowbringers on Friday.
Yeah DRK has been my main tank, with PLD barely behind. That being said PLD is getting some nice buffs this go around too. I'd say PLD has seen some nice changes since HW and beyond to its rotations and skillsets. Getting rid of Flash for a better skill for AOE enmity is a godsend.
That being said I'm all about Magitek and stuff so MCH and Gunblader are in my sights to max before going through story.
I dunno, the job quests from Stormblood didn't seem all that great, I like the idea of them spending a lot more time and effort making a few interesting role quests rather than making 18 half-hearted job-specific ones every expansion. And they aren't removing all the old ones, so job-specific stories and quests will still be playable up through Shadowbringers.
13 quests to go before being caught up with the main scenario. Didn't think I would be able to make it before launch but its looking like I have a shot.
Okay, I just got the e-mail from Square support. This clears it up. I'll pre-order on 30th, then.
PLD looks cool but I love the theme around DRK. I can see myself trying to get all the Tank mounts at some point though so PLD will get it's day.
MCH is something I only delved into a little but I didn't really like how it played. Seems like it's getting a big rework though so maybe I'll give it another look especially now it gets it's own mech to summon.
I think I'll have to do a deep dive into tanking. Like being a main or off tank has never even entered into my brain before and I'd hate to be a burden. I'm so used to being basically a turret with my rather mediocre BLM.
This helped me:
It's basically telling you how to aggro, what the indicators mean on the screen, etc.
You'd be surprised how many tanks don't even know the enemy list tells you about aggro.
Not only does it keep having HW music deep into Stormblood, but the plotline at the end of SB along with the fight on level 70 was some of the most epic stuff in the game to me. It all built back on your journey in the game across the MSQ and it was fantastic. Wish more jobs would do that.
There's still single job quests and that they are suposed to be quite large, so is not that bad.
What? I was actually going to play that tomorrow since servers are down :/
I'm looking forward to enjoying them now that MCH looks more in line with the class I had hoped it would be.
I have a question about tanking I normally try to rotate all my mitigation cds so I always have one up while tanking a boss is that a good way to do it on FFXIV I have a tank at 70 but I've never really tanked anything harder than an expert roulette because I quit right after I got my drk to 70. Is there a better way to use them I know to have one for Tank Busters but I was just curious and figured now was a better time to ask than my group at 80 because I didn't ask.
I'm no tank expert but I use them in trash mobs at the beginning because when you first pull you'll take more damage than later due to having more enemies on you. The dps will be picking off the adds so by the time you get down to the last guy you shouldn't need to pop them as much.
For bosses though it's good to save your "oh shit" button for when the tank buster hits but I normally try to keep one up if I see a cast timer on the boss or something.
It's all about knowing the fights and what attacks hit you the hardest in my experience. Tanking is fun to me because it benefits you to "study" enemies and dungeons and patterns and stuff, and I'm a huge nerd for spreadsheets and strategy.
I'm finishing up the Elswyr main quest in ESO in the meantime. (It's pretty good, not Summerset good, but good all the same.)
Then Imma work on trying to complete a 1cc Easy run in Devil Engine (Easy mode is still hard af)
I think I've got enough stuff going on to run out the clock.
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They're adding a queue system for instanced events. This should prevent people from getting Raubahn'd
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Yeah, there's a large section on the notes about how it's set up. 4 role quests, split by job type (tank, healer, melee dps, magic dps). Those all sound like quests from 70-80. If you finish all 4 of those (4 different jobs to 80), then a 5th opens up. There are also individual job quests for each job (opens up post story completion and job quest completion). Those seem to take you back to the various Job NPC's we've all dealt with.
that soft-target is a full game changer. I play on PC and alternative keyboard/mouse and controller and I 100% do healing on a controller at this point. It's a little more fiddly to set up with all the extra options and everything but that soft target is so COMFY.
Is there some kind of pay to skip straight to the new content option?
I tried to grind trough Heavensward to get to Stormblood, but I ran out of steam. I'd love to jump back in, but the idea of having to finish BOTH storylines to catch up is too much. I don't enjoy the story in these games at all, I'm purely in it for the end game.
I tried to grind trough Heavensward to get to Stormblood, but I ran out of steam. I'd love to jump back in, but the idea of having to finish BOTH storylines to catch up is too much. I don't enjoy the story in these games at all, I'm purely in it for the end game.
For bosses, I tend to be a bit more judicious than group pulls.
Regular mobs, i just rotate all my CDs to free some healer mana for dps or just less stress.
For higher end bosses, you may need that 30% reduction for a tank buster, or crisis management. Maybe i'll use rampart whenever it is up, but a crisis situation in a high end boss could cost you lots of time.
Thank you both so much I tanked alot on WoW but that was way back in the day almost ten years ago. I'm looking forward to tanking full time in Shadowbringers so I wanna give it my best effort.
It's also important to remember that cooldowns are reset on wipe now.
So if your team MAY wipe, then hitting that hallowed ground/walking dead/uhhhh warriorstandstill button MIGHT save you, press it.
I've been tank main since 2.0 because i hate bad tanks more than anything. It's very rewarding when done well
Job quests had a lot of meaningless filler so having them condensed into one cool 80 quest sounds good to me.
No problem. Like Cerulean said it's good to use them on bosses because you stand to lose nothing from using them and only to gain by relieving the healer and allowing them to multitask easier, as well as not needing to worry about HP constantly in the fight.
If you are fine ignoring the story (not understanding what is happening in Shadowbringers), you can indeed pay to skip content (the object is called "Tales of Adventure" in Mog Station). It's pricey though - $25. And they haven't released the Stormblood Tales of Adventure yet (maybe on Friday?).
One thing to note is doing the main story quests is still the best, fastest way to level, so skipping it means more grinding.
Will the SB tales be out any time soon, do we know?
I could stand to finish Heavensward... how many hours ot focused MSQ would it take to get through SB?
God speed. I spent literal days refreshing every little while to see if Ultros was open before giving up. I still check Lodestone once in a while out of curiosity, it hasn't happened haha.
Yeah; I've been going back over a lot of my clear videos from SB reflecting on just how much I'm going to miss AST's buff extensions and current card systems, and it made me appreciate just how frequently I ended up using soft-target for cards/heals/whatever. My understanding is that the mouse+keyboard equivalent is <mo> macros, but then you have to have macros and deal with the loss of queueing.
It's a slight mental adjustment, but soft target really does make things feel and flow great.
High-population servers are brutal to get into. It took me several weeks for an opening on Gilgamesh to open up when I was available to get my character on there.
Now I have no one to play with on that server, and it sucks. Sigh.
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