That's not Heavensward. That's the 2.x patch questline which is part of ARR and, yes, it's the worst questing stretch in the game.
It picks up shortly before you get to the new areas, so keep at it.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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It picks up shortly before you get to the new areas, so keep at it.
Lmao holy shit
No wonder my buddy paid for the skip
Glad to hear that! Ill just plow through then
I believe that was me. Do note that I forgot to add reapplying the lost Sen from Higanbana (Shifu combo > Higanbana > Jinpu combo > Shifu combo > Yukikaze combo > Midare Setsugekka)
Also I'm no expert at all so take with a grain of salt!
I haven't played since the beginning of Heavensward tbh, so I just paid for the skip.
Start Shadowbringers made me glad I did as well, because I'm reminded a lot of it is teleport here, talk to x, investigate Y, finish at Z. Repeat maybe 2 times until something pivotal happens.
That said, the pivotal moments really make me forget everything prior and I'm happy to do it again. Just not through what could have been 3 expansions worth.
Start Shadowbringers made me glad I did as well, because I'm reminded a lot of it is teleport here, talk to x, investigate Y, finish at Z. Repeat maybe 2 times until something pivotal happens.
That said, the pivotal moments really make me forget everything prior and I'm happy to do it again. Just not through what could have been 3 expansions worth.
Man...getting some serious Trump vibes from Vauthry. His tantrums, surrounding himself with rich people and gaudy, ugly, tacky shit, his complete and utter inability to conceive of his own failings...I don't know if it's deliberate, but the parallels are VERY obvious.
I finished leveling WHM first and I'm completely happy with the class. Afflatus Misery is an awkward skill but I love seeing the damage results. I feel like I can just stick to healing and toss that out ever so often without it ruining my flow.
The changes to the pets makes SCH feel different in a way I'm not sure I like and I certainly hate not being able to get my aether stacks out of battle. But I've grown to like the changes on scholar. The new auto critical heal skill is a godsend along with Catalyze. The DPS take aways means nothing to be because of am an ungodly Healer who doesn't like to dps unless I feel the desire to do so.
AST lolno. They used to be my favorite class but the changes were too drastic and they stripped the class of all identity and now I refuse to use it.
Personally I like the age of "Healers should healer more and dps less." because I have always been a worshipper at that alter.
My patron Saint.
Honestly skipping Heavensward to get to Shadowbringers is pretty nuts if you actually care about pivotal moments and story.
Daily reminder that no decent healer will ever DPS less only because they made DPSing as both AST and SCH incredibly boring. It just means DPSing on those two jobs is incredibly boring. If you're ever just intentionally overhealing or standing still, well, I guess nothing will convince you otherwise. IMO there's almost no such thing as a good healer that doesn't DPS - the act of healing in this game is incredibly simple in itself, the challenge, and what makes you good at the role of healer in FFXIV, has always been managing both.
Portrayals of the rich as being incredibly petty, obese, practically monstrous creatures goes way way back, but it's certainly easy to see a lot of parallels in what is effectively a floating city of the rich above a slum they basically harvest for themselves, in a dying world ravaged by "the flood." Enjoy our future, everyone!
Oh, absolutely.
It's more the content of his rants that makes me think of Trump. This gigantic monstrous baby who views any dissent or disagreement as a direct attack on himself is a very distinct parallel even if it wasn't directly intentional.
As a person who has only been levelling Scholar, this is why I've pretty much stopped playing.
I actually bothered to get my summoner half up to speed though, so that's something.
I actually have spent most of my time in the last few days as Summoner and it's so hyper-active that I'm reminded of everything I enjoyed about Scholar an expansion and ahalf ago and everything the job has lost. It's actually surprising how the class itself (Arcanist) has such a complete gameplay loop even at a low level - your DoTs always, from the beginning, enhance ruin potency, and even by just Sastasha you are maintaining DoTs while ruin-spamming, energy draining for aetherflow, then spending it on Fester for larger bursts. Not to mention obviously how much more complicated it is by the end. It baffles me why they didn't just allow SCH to keep the low-level Arcanist loop - it would be far better than what the job has now, not to mention it just makes more sense that it keeps its "class" aspects.
I understand why people do say SMN requires a lot of work for the DPS it has (which is true) but it's just refreshing to actually be able to, like, press more than two buttons to do damage.
Yeah, and if I ever get the motivation to like actually keep playing then I'll probably enjoy it.
I just loved how it never felt like there was "one" optimal rotation for Scholar, since both dps side and heal side used aetherflow stacks. I'm sure there are more optimal ways of playing scholar for sure, but it never felt like I needed to know an order of attacks, but rather "here are my tools, now I must decide when to use them".
Do I use an aetherflow to spread DoTs with Bane? Or do I save it for a Lustrate? Should I use energy drain to deal some single target damage and refill some MP, or is someone dying? I loved that.
Going to Summoner will get rid of a lot of that, but at least I'll be spreading dot like a mofo
I'm gonna stop popping defensive CDs so Healers can answer their true calling of just healing.
You're welcome.
/joke
You're welcome.
/joke
It's not that I care, all I meant was that sometimes the slog is worth the pay off, when it's short.
I.e one expansion at a time. Going from Heavensward to Stormbinger to get to Shadowbringers in one go would have made me quit again due to the boring filler.
I need some help.
How am I supposed to use Synastry? After all these years I have no idea how am I supposed to make full or even basic use of it, I don't do savage content so I had neglected that skill, but now normal dungeons can be challenging and I need to make sure I am using all of my tools.
How am I supposed to use Synastry? After all these years I have no idea how am I supposed to make full or even basic use of it, I don't do savage content so I had neglected that skill, but now normal dungeons can be challenging and I need to make sure I am using all of my tools.
It's double weird to me considering Shadowbringers is effectively a direct sequel to the post-3.0 story patches.
The answer is that ACN was never intended to split into two jobs, it was a time save measure, which obviously created a lot of problems. That's why they changed scholar to be it's own thing and that's why they are eliminating ACN from SCH.
The basic idea of Synastry is that it partially heals the person you cast it on every time you do any healing. So there's a few different useful ways to use it. If a DPS takes a big hit you can throw Synastry on your tank and heal the DPS so you can heal them both at the same time. Or, vice versa, you can throw Synastry on the DPS and keep healing the tank so that the DPS will get healed as well. You can also basically use Synastry as a single-target heal buff - if you heal the same person you cast Synastry on, they get both the original heal and the extra 40%.
ROFL I just finished HW and thought "wtf is he talking about? Heavensward is perfect quest pacing after what he just went through!"
Good luck with the post-ARR bullshit, it's boring but Heavensward is absolutely worth it.
WAT, I had no idea that would work, I assumed it was just to another person so I only used it rarely on trials, it was a largesse all along, I'm such a fool, my tanks have been dying lately at the end of massive pulls but maybe that was the small push I needed for them to survive T - T
Haha, well I have managed so far, got the final patch to go through now and then I will be doing the Heavensward content. I guess we will see how it goes.
If there's a way to skip to the beginning of Heavensward, do that and don't look back. Don't miss the HW story quests since they're kind of integral to everything that happens in ShB. Far moreso than anything that happens in Stormblood.
Living dead is such a pain in the arse to heal now if you don't have bene available. Health pools have ballooned so much in comparison to healing potencies.
I remember the good old days when a single benefic II + synastry would top a DRK off completely. Maybe an ED for good measure. Brings a tear to my eye
I remember the good old days when a single benefic II + synastry would top a DRK off completely. Maybe an ED for good measure. Brings a tear to my eye
Have spent the last week grinding out the bits inbetween, really looking forward to the Heavensward stuff I have to say. Though some of the stuff in between has been ok.
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What do you think the best fix for that would be? Making heals more potent on a DRK who is currently under LD?
The whole leadup to THAT quest is both worth it and incredibly frustrating because it literally becomes hours at a time of "go here and talk to this person for three seconds to move the plot along".
I'd recommend sticking with it for what it's worth, the final lead up to Heavensward is still some of the best story content in this game.
I haven't minded the actual story, and I like how each patch has been a self contained chapter but some of the to and froing has been a lot. Though I guess if I was playing at the time i wouldn't notice at all as it would all have been spread out.
You're kidding but the sad thing is I've had an (idiot) DRK who did wall to wall pulls without using CDs in Dohn Mheg and I still could squeeze out some damage between spikes as SCH, you're just substituting tank CDs for healer CDs and hoping DPS isn't complete garbage. :<
I still let him die when he finally tried to LD at the very end of the pull because I haven't yet found out a way to heal through that health pool while being out of juice as SCH.
Yeah, if this is the way healing is gonna be from now on then a minnie or conval effect with LD isn't a bad idea, IMO.
At i444 level 80 I'm healing for like ~22k each Cure 2. At i400 level 70 I was healing for ~20k. It's a bit much when tanks have like 120k health now
I've had way too many tanks not popping cds when I was leveling, it was annoying to say the least. Especially when they're doing big pulls, it's like, you shouldn't be doing one without the other, but even small pulls are annoying without cds, have to heal a bunch because trash actually hurts a decent bunch.
Endgame wise though, I didn't see any difference in current content compared to before in terms of healing required, it's just the same. I did SCH in the 2 current EX trials and the only difference is I have less DPS buttons to press. I also dislike that they made Ruin II still kinda meh, so you only use it if you have to double weave, and it's less of a DPS loss to clip the GCD if you only have one. Wish it was worth using for single weaves. But otherwise, the additional healing tools I got compensate for any additional required healing there might have been. The only hardcast heals I've had to do are Recitation Adlo on the tank every now and then, and Succor during downtime(or Adlo deploy if that's up and I don't need it). Rest is just DPS.
Endgame wise though, I didn't see any difference in current content compared to before in terms of healing required, it's just the same. I did SCH in the 2 current EX trials and the only difference is I have less DPS buttons to press. I also dislike that they made Ruin II still kinda meh, so you only use it if you have to double weave, and it's less of a DPS loss to clip the GCD if you only have one. Wish it was worth using for single weaves. But otherwise, the additional healing tools I got compensate for any additional required healing there might have been. The only hardcast heals I've had to do are Recitation Adlo on the tank every now and then, and Succor during downtime(or Adlo deploy if that's up and I don't need it). Rest is just DPS.
Maybe just inc damage reduction while "dead" (or does it have that tied-in already)?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure LD is just a matter of healing for the tanks entire HP amount. Hard to notice in the past because of how easy it was to deal with, haha. But they don't necessarily need to be topped at the end of it for it to count
Oh, I'm honestly not sure. I haven't looked at it in a while.
Happened to me during a trial duty run:That's small time. Behold true evil
when played right theyre good too but when plsyed wrong, they can end up like this smn
its not really the job fault but the players. there will always have players that dont read tooltip and try to learn or improve regardless what job they play.
Dancer is fun. Curing Waltz sure does exist.
Don't forget its twin:
That's small time. Behold true evil
Don't forget its twin:
That's small time. Behold true evil
That's too evil for me. I already feel bad when panicking when I have very low HP and using it but it turns the WHM throw a bene and then he has to max me up again...
Sorry if this question has been asked a million and one times but I was wondering if this was a good time for me to get started playing. I was going to download the PS4 version.
Talk of SMN low output confuses me as it's still the dominant caster for comps.
Sonic break exists in this weird spot in my head of they planned for it when the tanks all had a DoT and then forgot that wasn't the case anymore so having the obligatory DoT was unnecessary. Honestly, I think it exists just to pad the rotation to help offset No Mercy desync and having two Burst Strike skills wasn't going to cut it.
And I don't know yet where tanks line up for like 99-100th level optimization. Paladin used to be the worst with MP tick and swing timer things, for instance, but then we're getting into such details that are hyper extremes. I wouldn't be surprised for GNB to be it but it'll depend on a lot of factors.
Sonic break exists in this weird spot in my head of they planned for it when the tanks all had a DoT and then forgot that wasn't the case anymore so having the obligatory DoT was unnecessary. Honestly, I think it exists just to pad the rotation to help offset No Mercy desync and having two Burst Strike skills wasn't going to cut it.
And I don't know yet where tanks line up for like 99-100th level optimization. Paladin used to be the worst with MP tick and swing timer things, for instance, but then we're getting into such details that are hyper extremes. I wouldn't be surprised for GNB to be it but it'll depend on a lot of factors.
when played right theyre good too but when plsyed wrong, they can end up like this smn
Goddamn, maybe he was just summoning his pet the whole time ?
It's the beginning of a new expansion, now's the perfect time to start playing !
What's the most ideal materia for White Mages to meld onto their gear? I haven't been keeping up.
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