Kellach Woods

Welp seems I don't learn my lesson that screenshots of Kellach at night = BAD IDEA. So here. If you can make him out have fun.

I'm not rerolling/Fantasing Kellach for that.

What in Thal's Balls are you wearing? Inquiring minds want to know. And obtain that.

Could be a replica, tho. The Curtana might be super special, but any time you get a super special weapon, someone is gonna make replicas to get in on the money. That's pretty much my explanation for the people I've met in-character who carry around Thyrus. >.> It's even mentioned in the Gilgamesh line of Hildibrand quest. It's effectively canon that these things get replica'd like MAD. In so far as the summoners are concerned, if you are legit ignorant of their lore and have no idea what an egi is supposed to be in character...

It's even more bizarre that they go into painstakingly obtuse ways to justify multiple people having access to jobs except for White Mage. As though you were special-er for going that route.

It's worth asking the lore forums for sure.

Considering the amount of references that pop up in FFXIV are we even surprised they'd namedrop the Chocobo Forest? No, no I'm not. Still, maybe magical content to further chocobo raising?

Keep in mind that the questlines are written from the perspective of "YOU ARE THE BEST ADVENTURER EVARRRRRR" - On that I'd say we can play fast and loose with the lore by the same virtue that we can't all play the adventurer that single-handedly put boots to the Garleans. 'cause otherwise nobody could ever have a job since most of them are written as though you are the last person on the planet who is that job. First MMO World Problems I suppose though. We might get something different with Rogue/Ninja and I for one definitely hope so.

Warrior would also be kind of hard to justify. The lore for those is essentially they've gone extinct with the exception of Curious Gorge, his brother (lost to the Inner Beast) and the PC, with Gorge and the PC trying to revive the arts of the Warrior. Although the Marauders do recognize the ancient arts of the Warrior (if you visit the guildmaster once you start learning IIRC he'll mention it in passing - at least someone associated with the guild will mention it) so a bit of lorefudging can make this plausible, I assume.

Interesting. The actual Parry stat is also percentage based and is also divided into tiers right?

Thursdays are no longer good for me ;.; Was kind of my weekly does of RP so I'm sad I'm missing it.

Hst2Mbl4QvM because yeah.

Ughhhhh I really do not like it when the numbers aren't shown properly. I imagine the formula to calculate parry tiers hasn't been discovered/shown either. 'cause I remember reading that the existence of tiers for parry was also disputed somewhat.

Also STR grants you some mitigation (italicized because it's minor) in augmenting parry in addition to your damage.

I'll take that in consideration. Honestly it really felt like the 30 VIT wasn't doing much for me. It may have kept me alive in a singular situation but any situation where 30 VIT would have kept me alive is generally a minor factor. Healer falling asleep (as in, the player) or my own shortcomings in cooldown management (or misuse of Holmgang) would be better fixes in the long term.

Goes with everything apparently. Even before playing the game I kept hearing complaints of "BUT I DODGED THAT HIT" because the orange zone doesn't disappear as the ability completes casting but only starts doing so when the cast time's done, leading to a false positive. I've also noticed it's pretty generous with the latency (can press at 1/5th left of cooldown and it won't eat the input or say cannot cast that yet) and that some abilities having a long start-up (Butcher's one of them, IB isn't that bad but it's at least one full second before the hit registers which is when the defense buff comes in). Panic Button might end up being Infuriate + IB. Infuriate's on a 60 sec cooldown so if it's up and I don't have 5 Wrath yet might be a good idea provided the ability is pretty slow.

Most of this stuff I'd figured out by my lonesome already. The cooldown combinations will be worked on as I get more experience tanking because those look baller as hell. Although I gotta admit that Berserk's usage kind of eluded me before I read the paragraph about Vengeance. Now I can see popping Berserk, then tailgating it with Vengeance at the end so that you're doing some extra damage during Pacification for more sustained. At the same time, your utility is still there so even against bosses you need to use your only interrupt, you're not missing anything (Pacification doesn't block Brutal Swing after all!) I guess I was still stuck in the typical tank mentality of "Rotate cooldowns because using more than one at the same time is a waste." Warriors aren't typical tanks. That's why I actually like playing the class. Derp. I'll give this a more detailed read when I'm not swamped with overtime at work. Also, any image that references the cat dps flowchart (or hell, any of the well-known flowcharts) should never be taken seriously. Even I know that much.

I don't know, with the gear I have (the job gear), maybe they're thinking "This person must CLEARLY love the job gear to glamour it over their i70 stuff!" I dunno I just find it unlikely with the particular gear I'm rocking. That being said, yeah. I will keep that in mind.

...I think this is the part where I go "I'm not in any FC or LS" <.<

Honestly I'm thinking the excuse is partially bull (mostly for them to not have to work on it) as a way to spread out players to other servers.

I guess that I queued for stuff geared for my level and they roulette'd then. Time to get some Battledances 3.

Yeah, I only have an i55 in hand. There's other stuff I need to find out about the class. Answer : I need to make 7 levels of GLA fast. I do run Flash. It's MP instead of TP, maintains a group fairly well (it won't pull them) and doesn't drop Combo. I also might need to redo my UI. A lot of it isn't intuitive and I'm getting at that point where there's clutter that I really don't need.

So yeah first endgame dungeon = first time I don't get commendations. Which led me to the realization that I am bad at my job and that the dungeon runs prior to this were essentially tuned to be mad easy that everyone could do them and feel validated (at least after salty evaluation of my performance this is my conclusion. Likely still feel bitter about that run bleh.) Not the case for the 50 dungeons apparently. Obviously I'm not at the level where optimizing the rotation will yield a significant result over what I'm currently doing. However, WAR's supposed to be the easiest job to AoE tank with and yet I'm having a ton of problems doing that. Once I lose threat, I have a hell of a time regaining it. Worse still, I died to trash. Equipment wasn't broken or anything. Just straight up died to trash. I might also need to customize my UI so I have an easier time of it. Anyway, tips for WAR tanking would be very appreciated here. I'm not at the end of my rope, I still enjoy the class very much but I want to Not Suck.

Either that or wait until a weekday, wake up early and create the character then. Even the weekends are starting to be bad for Balmung character creation.

If they were extremely consistent with lore there wouldn't be speculation. That being said, Hildibrand's existence is an affront to logic. That's why we all love him. Same with Godbert really (okay, I like Godbert because I am a sucker for anyone who does a textbook german suplex in a game where it makes no sense to do).