endgame-lounge

[robust shoal]

arcadion overall 100%

[low hearth]

Pandae got a couple bangers too though 🤔

[rain geode]

Arcadion over all defo clears

[pale blade]

Why yes I love hearing the same track for three floors straight

[robust shoal]

for HW specifically they're all pretty good but I don't think any of them are individually as good as Give it All or Unleashed

[jagged aspen]

hmm i saw like 2 groups forming with bonus in title, were they just baiting

[undone tide]

oh i thought you meant call of duty bonus xp

mb

[robust shoal]

also people are sleeping on m9 theme a bit I think

[timber stratus]

no trust me it woke up every part of me

[robust shoal]

it's especially funny when you look at it through the lens of this girl really hates Honey B

[undone tide]

i’m a b with an itch to scratch

[pale blade]

I’m sure it did

[timber stratus]

[quick verge]

this is true

however

feeling rage towards your cotank for being a creature

is better than apathy

[undone tide]

biscuit are you raiding this tier

[quick verge]

why

[undone tide]

idk man

[round burrow]

Forgot, which raid it was the tyrant is a part of

[dapper zealot]

m11

[boreal pumice]

it was literally just last week

[worn bluff]

m4 is still my favorite of arcadion. aesthetically and music wise

[robust shoal]

[lean ginkgo]

anyone got the macros for Rose Garnet?

[dapper zealot]

use raphael site

[lean ginkgo]

i got the stats needed for the craft but the site isnt letting me

[dapper zealot]

What do you mean it isn't letting you?

[dapper zealot]

I put in your stats and it worked

[lean ginkgo]

wtf

[dapper zealot]

try reloading the site

[sleek moon]

did you tick "solution must reach target quality"

because its just not possible to 100% that without food with your stats

[lean ginkgo]

bruh i did it on a new private tab and it worked

the cache was screwing me

[sleek moon]

i get that error if i tick that box

[proper cave]

Normal browser didn’t have the stats

Needed private browser buff

[low hearth]

Give It All goes so hard bruh

[lean ginkgo]

i started using it recently so i havent fully tweaked with all the settings to know what works

anyway thanks for the help guys

[robust shoal]

[low hearth]

Doing m4s unsynced for fru was fun asf

[dapper zealot]

wha you can unsync it?

[random needle]

Well, you can use better gear than you could at release

[low hearth]

Yea

[robust shoal]

plus echo

[random needle]

Yeah

[robust shoal]

at this point you could probably kill just after midnight?

[low hearth]

During twilight

[robust shoal]

er twilight yea

[boreal pumice]

get catz to boost they love m4s

[low hearth]

Whatever is the mech with the clones

[pale blade]

do you have any idea how little that narrows it down

[boreal pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[jagged aspen]

in 7.2/3 it died during first sabbath, whatever the name. with the giant puddles

with clean/good dmg can be at any point at start of p2 ig

[remote gate]

wonder how p12s is these days

or p8s

[pale blade]

bad

but I still do P8S for weapons

[worn bluff]

the one with the lightning

[pale blade]

sure okay yeah

[clear plume]

Bless up

[rapid whale]

monies

[visual geyser]

square enix forgot to disable sharing strategy boards in ranked pvp

l o l

[pale blade]

whoopsie

[visual geyser]

tab targetting is just so awful

[undone tide]

can you imagine how controller players feel

[pale blade]

damn lmao

[low hearth]

Never let the opps win bro

[rain geode]

All I want if I hit tab is for it to target the singular boss I am fighting

[visual geyser]

Doing it in PvP is just comedy

You can look directly at a group of 4 people and it’ll target the one guy no where near the mfs

[low hearth]

Is that strategy board shit actually useful?

I guess during blind prog or something

Oh

PvP tab target

[versed kayak]

are you using cone targeting?

[rain geode]

Lemme check I was having problems so I changed it and had still problems but slightly less

no im using type 1 ignore depth

[versed kayak]

hum

[jolly flume]

kinda idk

I think the plugin version is a lot better tbh

it's called aetherdraw, basically just google docs had a baby with raidplan

having multiple people be able to draw in real time is pretty awesome

[rain geode]

The issue is you need like the top 10% of the model in the camera to target them

doesnt matter if you have like 90% of the guy if its not the very top tab target wont work

[jade nimbus]

Strategy board is alright

[round burrow]

Yeah I'm like, you can see his feet but... I ain't gonna target

[jade nimbus]

Good for blind prog, so kinda of a corner case

It prob will be used more in JP than in the west overall

[round burrow]

People memeing on strategy board makes me laugh

Cause what do you mean you created among us on a single board

[dapper zealot]

Yeah that's annoying when you get a big/wall boss, run under them to dodge and then can't tab target them

[visual geyser]

Yes

Actually pretty good

Like when pf swapped from doing hector’s og intermission to static people just shared a strategy board

[low hearth]

Might be cool this upcoming tier

We’ll see

[visual geyser]

It makes adopting new strats alot easier

Because people don’t have to open up a raid plan and find the slide

[torn kindle]

It’d be better if you could share an entire folder at once rather than individual slides

[low hearth]

Hour 1 strats

[torn kindle]

But the system right now has good promise

[rain geode]

If nothing else its more convenient then saying "please go double check the hector vid"

[visual geyser]

Exactly

You can guarantee people are looking at the right thing

Nd it’ll get better over time

[amber fable]

Rn people are all shit posting

But its a nifty feature

[visual geyser]

I found it useful in ex

Real test is gonna be savage

[versed kayak]

Would be nice if the page count wasnt so limited

[amber fable]

Se being se in that regard

[rain geode]

There are more playable job then there are glam plates

[dull drum]

imo not really

[sinful brook]

i think the intent was for it to be useful

[dull drum]

the thing about raidplans is its much easier to share than strategy boards because of the way strategy board links work

[sinful brook]

but the way they did it

as with all first iterations of their stuff

is that its bad

lol

[dull drum]

strategy plan links scaling with how much in it is

[amber fable]

Wait

What

[sinful brook]

like did they just not think about that

[amber fable]

The fuck

[sinful brook]

yeah the links get more massive the more thats in it

[amber fable]

Se being se

As usual

[dull drum]

it gets to like bannable lengths if you share in discords

well not bannable

[sinful brook]

because the link itself literally has allthe info about it

[dull drum]

but you’d be filtered

[sinful brook]

it looks like spam

[dull drum]

ye

[amber fable]

Brb gonna email the link

[sinful brook]

also you're liable to get some sort of like slur filter because it rngs a slur or something

[amber fable]

Alright so plugin alternative

Well raidplan is there too

[sinful brook]

i think the raidplan people have figured out how to plogon a raidplan into it

so they're working on that

[amber fable]

I think toolbox was like that

The link got bigger the more shit it had

Seems like se took inspiration from that

[dense oxide]

Didn't they advertise sending the links via SMS

Like bro it would take 15 mins to type that shit into my phone then someone read it and input the entire thing into their game

[pale blade]

lmao

[amber fable]

Sms in 2026

[versed kayak]

They didn't wanna deal with cleanup and storage lel so they went the easy route

Just encoding the entire thing into text is an easy way to solve that, but it also makes them unshareable

its like https://xivplan.netlify.app/
super nice compared to raidplan.io, but the links are massive

[pale blade]

yeah lol

[versed kayak]

discord will put it into a textfile if you try to share them, so you need to feed them through a link shortener, its annoying

[pale blade]

my biggest complaint about the strat board is still the inelegant share codes

[versed kayak]

I was gonna make it my christmas holiday project to add a Database to it, but I've been lazy so far

[pale blade]

but at least it’s a free art tool

[dapper zealot]

jesus fucking christ

that was way too big

[jade nimbus]

As far as functionality goes for the strategy board, the only thing I'd adjust is the text element max length

[quick verge]

good shit square

[pale blade]

lmao

more people should use pastebin though

[dapper zealot]

fun scaith

[craggy marsh]

It's very like SE to add a feature without thinking about it too hard

Look at how they handled FT expecting everyone to be okay with it despite almost everyone saying DR was the best way to handle stuff like that

[whole estuary]

They either should have made it better to please the bozja crowd or even worse to please the eureka crowd

[craggy marsh]

Sometimes I question their design choices with the game

Is it a JP thing to try and fix things that aren't broken

[whole estuary]

Maybe? I can see internally being hesitant to voice problems so people just guess at what they should fix

[craggy marsh]

Like the strategy board just being a massive wall of text with a link is super funny but also what the fuck square

[trim frost]

the strategy boards are probably just those long strings under the hood

so you need those strings to receive the 1:1 board on your end

[craggy marsh]

Looks like raidplan is still on the menu

[trim frost]

yup

although i wonder

maybe they could add a feature that can attach a strategy board to a pf

[torn kindle]

They’d have to add linking to folders or the ability to link multiple slides at once

[amber fable]

The person who has board can share it directly to you

But yeah its not let say a repository kind of thing

[rapid whale]

The wtfdig guy made a tool that converte raid plans into strategy boards

[shy obsidian]

oh my

[shadow pilot]

oh my

dear

god

im fucked

[round hazel]

Well

I gave fuckin

cheese strat a try

what a waste of brain cells

[shadow pilot]

did it make your brain cheesy

[round hazel]

it made my brain cheesy and my bl 8 slots longer

[trim frost]

have u seen adds cheese

[trim frost]

did you bl yourself .. ?

[round hazel]

No

some idiot joined

said he could only do m1

they pulled anyways

he killed the entire party

left

I bl him

[trim frost]

oh

gg

[round hazel]

clownery

[round hazel]

i dont want to know

bruh

[trim frost]

or rather

[round hazel]

the reaper did less then the whm

[trim frost]

not cheese

it's "tank uptime"

[round hazel]

I think I want to go die now

Yeah

I saw that and

ignored it

that cant be real

[trim frost]

dude and the strat maker was like "i literally just made this for fun" no actually you've introduced a plague into party finder and they will never recover and it's all your fault

[round hazel]

I want to know who made arcane rev cheese

and speak to them kindly

[trim frost]

mfs will do the most batshit insane things for a single extra gcd of uptime

[shadow pilot]

but my parse...

my pink...

[trim frost]

ur already pink bro

[shadow pilot]

okay but more pink tho...

[round hazel]

I can make them not pink

[shadow pilot]

[round hazel]

Kisei, get into the pit

[trim frost]

i will ruin your parse by standing still and not casting enjoy your extra 20 seconds of fight

[round hazel]

My parse is ruined because I cant find a dance partner who isnt lobobo

[trim frost]

labubu

[round hazel]

the sam I dance parternered fucking had a 10% uptime

was so joever

[worn bluff]

no way

[round hazel]

this bl will grow as my patience wears thin

he was

dead

so

[worn bluff]

i've never seen 10% like

ever

[round hazel]

dead for every cart

[worn bluff]

in any content

[dapper zealot]

Lol apparently jp pf is filled with memorials for lv1

[round hazel]

thats

more fun

valcors do you dps

[trim frost]

無ちゃん :(

[round hazel]

help me out

[trim frost]

i do not

i tank

[round hazel]

ok into the bin you go too

[trim frost]

the pastebin... my home

[torn kindle]

Why didn’t you swap partner after like the second train or intermission

[round hazel]

I rather a dead partner then a maiming partner

[worn bluff]

[pale blade]

I think my favorite thing to ask these people is if they would like to lose 200 DPS from moving out of melee range or 20,000 from eating dirt

[rapid whale]

new mogstore?

[verbal frost]

Arcane rev cheese is good

[trim frost]

🧍‍♂️

[pale blade]

“Arcane rev cheese is good” and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

[trim frost]

i'm opting to no longer engage in bait discussions i will simply mpreg react

[rain geode]

based

[wicked delta]

🫃

[dapper zealot]

how many months?

[wicked delta]

5 months along

[dapper zealot]

congrats

[wicked delta]

Thanks

[dapper zealot]

Also the new scrip gear is the last set right? No new one for 7.5?

[amber fable]

Nothing new till 8.0

[dapper zealot]

ok good, might as well spend my scrips to slowly gear my retainer

got nothing else to spend them on

[rain geode]

6 or 7

[pale blade]

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/G75b1AqbkAAe2T5.gif

[remote gate]

6️⃣ 7️⃣

[alpine plover]

ngl

whm doesnt really feel shit anymore

[thin fox]

[tired egret]

Raw Heal fun

[pale blade]

damn I think you guys have to apologize to Chiyo

[boreal pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/neva-never-marc-homealone-youcantstopme-gif-9816521

[remote gate]

you catch me learning astro before I play whm

[worn bluff]

mpreg is when i kill a mimic and its chest spawns another mimic

[fierce matrix]

Is this the new clown emoji?

[jade nimbus]

For batters, ye

[boreal pumice]

record is 6 so far

[pale blade]

lmao

six mimic spawns in a row?

poor bastard

[boreal pumice]

yh like a russian nesting doll

not me personally just what i know from others who do DD

[radiant kraken]

i feel certain a plot point was that he was adopted

[shy furnace]

I finally got them all!

[radiant kraken]

dont they look tasty

[shy furnace]

tastes like hard candy

[thin fox]

😋

[remote gate]

now you get to grind roulettes for your next step

[shy furnace]

yeah but that part I'm ready for

I could use the gill anyway

plus I'm doing roulette atm for the tomestones lol

[sick reef]

collection grows

[shy furnace]

lol

[sick reef]

wiped at 4% 🔥

[pale blade]

what it's just a parse- OH MY GOODNESS

I think that Red Mage needs to be thrown overboard

[sick reef]

its just getting better

[loud nymph]

is this for ex

[sick reef]

yeps

[loud nymph]

why is the WHM healing that much

[sick reef]

ive no fkn idea anymore

[mossy eagle]

Push the DRK out the airlock as well

[sinful brook]

Mb

[mossy eagle]

"ITS JUST AN EXTREME SWEATY. GO SWEAT IN ULTIMATE." - People that manage to make the nonexistent DPS check somehow exist

[sick reef]

i was genuinely surprised that drk was so low too

bro was 770 n all that jazz

[shy furnace]

I messed up

I thought it was the final boss

[wicked delta]

Wdym 😭

[loud nymph]

oops

[sick reef]

IM FREE

all it tookw as 4 ppl who had cleared and a rdm with hands

[boreal pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-ralph-wiggum-happy-valentines-day-valentines-day-lisa-simpson-gif-20372925

[loud nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-heart-broken-break-nooo-no-gif-20373594

[sick reef]

this is how i fkn felt

3 days of rdms with no hands

[pale blade]

lobobo, all of them

[visual geyser]

Goddamn that mogststion set is hideous

[versed kayak]

already got plenty sets like it too

[whole estuary]

I feel like it confirms my theory that a lot of the store sets are unused B option designs taken from the artists' sketch books

[timber stratus]

i swear 90% of dawntrail armors have been the same set

random cyberslop

[whole estuary]

cyberslop, casualslop, Turalislop, Girlyslop

FF9slop

[remote gate]

you will buy the cyberslop and be happy with it

[whole estuary]

I'm waiting to see if the collabslop will go on sale before they remove it in June

[pale blade]

Call Riki daddypon

[timber stratus]

no i think it looks stupid >:C

i didnt care about any of the raid glams since first tier

stupid me for thinking we would have more wrestling in this wrestling themed raid

[grim parcel]

Wtf

[sly basin]

[stgy:aDqTjHoP0ItoYRquaeWlskqisfACoTc1YwBEN1kNmpV86TrsRh123qhJ3PKWT+2z3DARuM2w3a7NHuv6fBVEoXj30vIt+YtJ5hpH7ZSMp5xdyk8Uu+pXOpTf2WUoJ8mArTDRssxtiSxdHuGB1b0WUk7ssMnOTiC4RqIO4MthNge+DxqOpzLfLFiMwKj44P8YJGGwG4wyT4k43E-b5bE8mr+iPfXupzBIk42ZYBSpunIaLPBTO765vBNdPJ+nrJHN6HJCfhgofhGZLjFWjWJPfp3NysAZzphmoG41z71YsN1ed5W1LF+hJSNz0lH2mT6nCA2AnHh5i4I47so6+Ggq6u1kyoSFF-vynfL4VsPbI7vLbAQ0o7OGHGqSozTN-VRJnhK129GwyKbGmvwJwadMRMIEvlQ8c7vY0pw8SXfF938UoR2pBbZLn+LS6lvy0t]

[zealous meteor]

oh my gods i thought this said "fresh to clear" for a second

and was like. buddy...

[remote gate]

dsr speed prog

[zealous meteor]

i don't even know which one it is, but it's a locked high end duty so it's gotta be an ultimate

[remote gate]

its dsr its the only ult that has 7 phases

at least so far

[zealous meteor]

ah

[pale blade]

lol yeah

[zealous meteor]

i wasn't sure if TOP had 7 phases

[pale blade]

six

DSR is also unique in that there’s a door boss

[remote gate]

beetle > m and f > hello world > dps check > super saiyn time escape > alpha omega

[thin fox]

[sly basin]

lol me and my fam were watching Uncle Buck yesterday

(also john candy)

[kind elm]

i mean p7 fresh to clear is very doable p7 is just a choke check

[zealous meteor]

yeah i missed the p7

so i thought they wanted to go fresh (p1) to clear

[kind elm]

yeah well I miss YOU

wait

[zealous meteor]

you miss me?

get better aim

[thin fox]

son.

[kind elm]

what fuckin fight is this even

[thin fox]

m12n

[kind elm]

😭

[pale blade]

you know if you said P6S I would have also believed you

[amber fable]

You dont see anything like that in p6s

You skip the only mech it has or cheese it

[pale blade]

ok

not the point I was trying to make but

ok

just don’t cross the streams 5head

[amber fable]

I was thinking cach2

[pale blade]

actually

it was an earlier mechanic which was also part of Chex Mix 2 later in the fight

fuck that name escapes me

[inland ore]

What are the main strats/raidplan/whatever that people use for Q40 on NA?

[jolly flume]

it's pinned in the encounters channel in balance

or at least it was

idk if it still is glhf

[loud nymph]

cachexia

[pale blade]

oh

yeah maybe I need the lobobo

[worn bluff]

load into M12N roulette “anyone have uptime markers?”

[pale blade]

https://tenor.com/view/die-meme-spongebob-patrick-plankton-gif-18525739

[worn bluff]

[low hearth]

LONG LIVE THE KING 🗣️

[sly basin]

[pale blade]

https://youtu.be/W9Uq6DEsDwM?si=f4bEhFtIixs6xjnT

[wicked delta]

Sending you my blessings.

[sly basin]

finally got his ass

ty for ur blessings

https://youtu.be/iGCJRpa8mu4

[wicked delta]

[pale blade]

not even an official statement from SE would pacify all these weird DDOS conspiracy theorists

[sinful brook]

To be fair I think the general userbase doesn't care for why they're denied service

They only care that it's solved

No matter how reasonable it is

[pale blade]

yeah I get that

everyone wants results and they want it now

nobody cares about the in-between

[sly basin]

i would love to have less ddos

[pale blade]

what in the sweet hell did I find

are people just bored out of their minds over the DDOSes

[sly basin]

i also had kinda thot they fixed it w the maint, but then there was one immediatly so idk

ppl are buying materia like 2min after i list it on mb

[zealous meteor]

gods i wish that were me

mine take forever to sell

[sly basin]

come 2 crystal

[sick reef]

dht +18?

[worn bluff]

wtf did i log in to

[pale blade]

Hell

[sick reef]

how do u think lalas are born

[pale blade]

mitosis

[zealous meteor]

i CAN'T

[loud nymph]

I need to know how they are so bright

for

reasons

[sly basin]

i think the moon/sun minion

[low hearth]

Yes

[pale blade]

I fed them way too many plutonium rods, sorry

[sly basin]

dht and det yar

when the healer returns instead of letting me use phoenix down rez

[pale blade]

my wife

[sly basin]

lol i love that it tracks the citizen too

[shy obsidian]

doing more than a healer smh my head

[uncut vapor]

Yall think p12s is easier with the new ilvl cap?

[thin fox]

wdym conspiracy theories

people are more or less confident on it being an issue of a specific node being attacked rather than the ff14 servers themselves, which explains why they've all been focused on NA

also explains why rerouting traffic through a VPN mitigates the issue

the fucking mch queens all following him

go my little chudlings

[undone tide]

holy fuck quad prange

what are you doing

[thin fox]

buddy its arkveld

we're having FUN

[undone tide]

never done the fight

[low hearth]

Was it hard before or what

[jolly flume]

wrong game

[pale blade]

how dare you have fun and whimsy

[jolly flume]

you could already skip caloric with gear from this tier but you had to kinda sorta have fingers

now you probably dont really need fingers

[pale blade]

P12S was really fucking stupid

[low hearth]

wtf is caloric

[pale blade]

I hated it

[low hearth]

Is that like a crazy mech

[uncut vapor]

I was not familiar with caloric being skipped

It’s like the high concept mech

[low hearth]

[jolly flume]

funny mechanic where as you move you gain stacks of a debuff and if that debuff touches 5 you fucking explode everyone

[uncut vapor]

Wait does caloric combine I forget

[low hearth]

Wow

[undone tide]

p12sp1 is one of the greatest savage floors of all time

p12sp2?

[pale blade]

there are so many fucking points of failure with Caloric too

[undone tide]

[uncut vapor]

Yeah I was hoping most would be skippable with new ilvl cap

[trim frost]

caloric 1 is an anxiety machine

caloric 2 is nothing

[uncut vapor]

Cuz I thought caloric was umm not skipped without pots and stuff

[thin fox]

"hello mein fuhrer. Whatz ischt it youz arr doingh ?"

"ah, hello mein soldier. I am chreating ze mechkanik. I think i zhall call it…Caloric Theory."

[pale blade]

“oops my toe stepped over the line”

perfect use of this Forretress TCG attack from years ago too

[low hearth]

So how do you resolve caloric

Like walk forward but don’t walk forward too much? 😭

[thin fox]

basically the concept of caloric is that you have a mechanic to resolve with very extreme movement restrictions

[sly basin]

playing w no music???

[thin fox]

the music is playing

its just quiet

[pale blade]

one of the reasons why I hated P12S P2 was because you needed stupid amounts of precision for Caloric 1

[trim frost]

you start with x stacks of close caloric
if you move 9 yalms or get hit with a fire-based attack you gain one stack
if you get 5 stacks you blow everyone up
everyone must end the mechanic with 4 stacks 👍

[jolly flume]

you gotta spread into partner stacks, then another set of partner stacks with 4 people that need to fuck off further with wind aoes

and do all that while moving as little as posisble more or less

[undone tide]

honestly i think it’s a fair mechanic for a fourth floor it just needed more indication

[shy obsidian]

how much is nine yalms anyways

[trim frost]

approximately one diagonal of the rectangle tiles

but not all movement can be resolved that way

so. good luck

[worn bluff]

caloric 2: WAR/PLD resist pressing gap closer during 2 min challenge

[jolly flume]

primal rend :3

[undone tide]

primal rend…

how i miss double ruination tech

[trim frost]

🚬

[undone tide]

literally the only reason i’d want to play warrior

[amber fable]

I dont like rend being a gap closer

[sly basin]

chat what does "brain alive ar" mean for ex6

[loud nymph]

it just means normal arcane

[worn bluff]

it means doing the mechanic

[sly basin]

oh lol

[loud nymph]

e.g. not "braindead"

[sly basin]

ok i was worried it was cheese

the ar cheese sux

[loud nymph]

no cheese, do it normally

[worn bluff]

what tank mits do i do for cheese? i don't think i can avoid it in PF completely

is it just like.. MT rep+party then OT rep+party?

[zealous meteor]

lactose intolerant

[sly basin]

i just avoid it, i dont wanna cheese.... its not super challenging to do proper

[craggy marsh]

"But my parse"

Bro nobody gives a shit about an ex parse

Do the mechanic normally you big baby

[worn bluff]

i don't want to do it but i also don't want to wait longer for a party

[sly basin]

come 2 crystal, theres a c41 alt pf rn

no cheese

[amber fable]

Unless you're in aoe you dont need to mit at all

If you're then short cd and party wide mit + rep

I got my first clear on brain dead party and party was surprisingly not bad

[worn bluff]

[worn bluff]

o i'm tank

looks like filled those slots

[amber fable]

People saying tank lb is needed or something

We didnt used it

And we had front aoe too

[sly basin]

nyoooooo 😭

yea theres jsut dps slots

[hot rose]

I got rejected from getting trialled

This is a new low for me

[sly basin]

poo my pants

great name

[vapid path]

Literally all I did in the party I did that strat for it was just rep+ party mit

[hot rose]

The concept of this being “midcore”

https://tenor.com/view/yeyeskies-cynthia-erivo-thinking-the-concept-of-stan-twt-gif-5814397318881247966

[shy furnace]

For making a PF does this make sense for Hell on Rails:
Hector: static int, going for kill, H2 taken, use WTFDIG

[craggy marsh]

Ah yes my favorite midcore group

Week 1 blind

[hot rose]

Remove “WTFDIG”

Replace it with “normal/cheese arcane”

Wtvr you’re using

[clear plume]

welcome to the midcore discourse thats existed for forever

midcore is like 90% of the raiding curve so

[craggy marsh]

Reminds me of my cruiserweight static lead saying 50 hours a week is "Midcore hours"

[dull drum]

lol thats insanity

[low hearth]

Lactose intolerant 🤔

[dull drum]

if they want to commit to clearing the tier

dont go blind??

[clear plume]

midcore is about goals and expectations, not hours spent, you can have casual groups who raid 30 hours a week with low expectations and hc groups that raid 12 hours a week but expect prep and good play.

[dull drum]

how far can they really get lets be real

[amber fable]

Depends on group

Hard to say just by numbers

[jolly flume]

what if we just stopped using shitty generalist descriptors

[robust shoal]

I'm aiming for wk1 blind clear but we have no illusions about the hours for that

wk1 m8s felt rly good though

300 pulls exactly

[craggy marsh]

What if raiders stopped trying to compare themselves to other raiders

[clear plume]

this entire expack blind has been fine, absolutely zero puzzle mechs in savage

[jolly flume]

im softcore raider

:3

[zealous meteor]

[dull drum]

couldnt you argue that number of hours spent is also a part of goals and expectations though rather than a seperate category

[zealous meteor]

sure buddy

whatever lets you sleep at night

[amber fable]

Casual

[craggy marsh]

What's pissed me off about my DT statics is a lot of the people in the group kept saying "This person did this so we should be able to do that too"

[rapid whale]

wdym

[craggy marsh]

Without acknowledging that people learn mechanics differently than other people

[amber fable]

For me atleast..earlier the prog the more time it will be needed but that just means less time spent fo reclears

[dull drum]

“xenos group did this therefore we should do that”

is what mango means

as an example

[craggy marsh]

^

[rapid whale]

ah

i mean

[rapid whale]

this just sounds like a pr way of saying, "you aren't as good as those people" tho frfr

[clear plume]

absolutely, but the post im talking about is saying a group cant be midcore bc they raid all day on the weekends so explaining the separation of hours from mentality is more important than an extended write up on my thesis on the matter

[craggy marsh]

"Xeno group figured this out so we can too" without understanding that not everyone has a world raider mindset

[amber fable]

Why not compare to world proggers then

[craggy marsh]

And not understanding that people learn mechanics a different pace

[amber fable]

It would be better benchmark

[rapid whale]

i just scrolled up

did they rly call th emselve mid core with 12 hrs days

[clear plume]

its less that it doesnt matter, obviously trying harder comes with spending more hours, and hc players are expected to spend those hours practicing the game even if less hours are scheduled, but having extra time and wanting to spend it in the shiny new raid tier isnt a concrete sign youre approaching it from a hardcore attitude

[rapid whale]

@dull drum we r casual af bro

[dull drum]

3 hours a night 💀💀💀

[craggy marsh]

It's really bizarre being in a casual group but there's that one douchebag who keeps trying to make the group be world raiders

[dull drum]

tbf we arent blind though

we’ll grab any resource we find

[amber fable]

Casual raiding and still clear tier by week 2

[low hearth]

mb

[amber fable]

I will take that instead

[jolly flume]

but my ego

[craggy marsh]

Ego death from P8s??????

[rapid whale]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-me-adrian-boseman-the-good-fight-look-its-me-i-cant-relate-gif-21896793

[craggy marsh]

[loud nymph]

schrödinger's midcore

[craggy marsh]

Bapple joining casual statics and forcing them to do caloric blind

[dull drum]

[craggy marsh]

If they wipe they will post it on reddit

[amber fable]

The crashout

[dull drum]

cole evyx always has funny reddit crashouts

[clear plume]

my group did caloric blind it wasnt bad, you just end up with one of the strats that use floor markers and corners of waymarks tbqh

like it took a while

[dull drum]

have you seen his codcar week 1 rants

[rain geode]

All cores are false return to pf

[clear plume]

but i think pangen took longer

[amber fable]

I am glad I am ignorant of 99% of fftubers

[rapid whale]

dont forget to also call them slurs

[amber fable]

Hear no shit, see no shit, think no shit

[craggy marsh]

I think i just need a group that actually stays together for more than 1 tier. Im really tired of finding gamers and then they just go "Adios"

[clear plume]

me telling my 5/8 chinese static to open their eyes frfr

[rapid whale]

i think this is the exception not the rule tho

[dull drum]

@jolly flume damn the smoke is crazy against chinese people

[jolly flume]

I get that a lot

🥀

[dull drum]

🥀

[craggy marsh]

Chinese people on their way to open a restaurant and charge $40 for a meal

Seriously what the fuck is up with that

[jolly flume]

hey bro dont talk shit abt the $18 all you can eat buffet

[rapid whale]

wat where do you live

[clear plume]

where tf are you going where chinese restaurants r that expensive

[craggy marsh]

All the chinese places near me are super expensive for some reason

[rapid whale]

chinese food has almost universally been the "huge portions cheap prices" trope

[craggy marsh]

South Jersey

We have a Chinese buffet near me thats $25 per adult

What the fuck

[zealous meteor]

new or old jersey

[clear plume]

i get an entire ass wok of chow mein or fried rice for $12 here from my local place

[craggy marsh]

New

[zealous meteor]

i see

[rapid whale]

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-19492620

[craggy marsh]

About 20 minutes from Philly

[dull drum]

idk where the chinese are in cali besides like

san fran

[craggy marsh]

I hate it here but my husband's parents are sweethearts

[jolly flume]

the chinese are everywhere

except like

ohio

[rapid whale]

wdym sgv has a huge population of all types of cn

[dull drum]

wtf is sgv

OH

san gabriel

[rapid whale]

san gabriel valley

ya

[zealous meteor]

ok FINE i'll do another roulette

[dull drum]

i have a friend who caps tomes for me

[rapid whale]

often described as having some of the best cn food in the world

[craggy marsh]

My cousin helps me craft

Nice guy

He's an amazing artist

[zealous meteor]

cousin raphael, surely

[jolly flume]

the best chinese food is whatever happens to be near me, edible, and cheap ngl

[craggy marsh]

He's nice too

[jolly flume]

I could fuck up any carton of fried rice

[clear plume]

listen there r two typed of chinese food ur gona get, mom and dad moved here and they can cook and theyre gonna give you some classic dishes at unreasonably cheap prices

[craggy marsh]

I know this guy who's an amazing artisan

[dull drum]

guess the name of my cheap and massive portion chinese takeout place

[clear plume]

and the ones that arent worth going to

[whole estuary]

I find the price tends to be higher depending on the rent

[jolly flume]

some golden panda type shit

[dull drum]

uhh thats one of them

[jolly flume]

its always something like that

[whole estuary]

the really good locations in main street plazas have really high prices

[dull drum]

i think its called hong kong express

[craggy marsh]

Can someone explain to me the lore of why there's so many fucking Wawa's

There's a Wawa on every street corner

[whole estuary]

the side street ones with awful parking are usually cheaper

[jolly flume]

we've been over this a million times

but like

health department grade is inversely proportional to food quality

[dull drum]

^

[whole estuary]

also the Japanese restaurants are actually Chinese restaurants

they are just piggybacking off someone else's national reputation

[jolly flume]

half the ppl cant tell the difference

[craggy marsh]

I wanna prank a restaurant by dressing up as a health inspector and seeing how they react

If they freak out then something is sus

[zealous meteor]

chinese restaurant
look inside
indonesian
every fucking time

[rapid whale]

Reminds me of this sushi buffet I used to go to, they couldn't say welcome in Japanese and they kinda just yelled random stuff

[whole estuary]

irahsrdhshrse

[rapid whale]

Yeah

[dull drum]

me going to the random ass taco stand on the street corner thats illegal and probably not sanitary but who cares the food is bomb

[craggy marsh]

Bonus point if the stand is rusty

Bc then you know its gonna be good food

[amber fable]

Believe in your immunity

[rapid whale]

I've always said a good taco place deserves the same respect as s sushi

[jolly flume]

dude them fish tacos

go HARD

[craggy marsh]

That being said you're high if you expect me to pay more than $10 at a food truck or food stand

[jolly flume]

before I tried it I was like why would you put fish in a taco

im a believer now

[dull drum]

i remember getting heckled by some dude for buying food at the taco stand “you’re ruining local businesses”

[whole estuary]

but do they serve rarefied tacos

[jolly flume]

hey man free market capitalism

[dull drum]

😏

[jolly flume]

if the illegal joint got better tacos

what do you want me to do

[torn mesa]

the COGS for a bowl of ramen is lower than some tacos

yet we're all okay paying 15-20$ for ramen

[jolly flume]

dude ramen is like a $35 affair where I live

[torn mesa]

actual highway robbery

[jolly flume]

I just never eat it anymore because it sickens me

[whole estuary]

does it also taste too salty

[dull drum]

a bowl of pho is 18 dollars

[jolly flume]

literally most gentrified food

on the planet

[dull drum]

BACK IN MY DAY

it was 10

[torn mesa]

Japanese/Korean food in general

is very gentrified

but Ramen is just the most egregious 1

[dull drum]

real talk after my 2 weeks in japan

i gotta say

[whole estuary]

irasdfhaarse?

[dull drum]

my family members hyping up the sushi there

gonna have to disagree

[jolly flume]

the sushi's cheaper

I don't think it's necessarily better than what you can get over here tho

[dull drum]

yeah i dont think so either

[jolly flume]

cali and nyc spots fly in fish overnight here anyway

[torn mesa]

the best food my friends had when they were in Japan

was the beef lol

[whole estuary]

there is a very good sushi place near me but they sell all the unused parts of the fish for cheap

sushi grade fatty salmon it's great

[dull drum]

prob the best food experience i had was kushiyaki

dude i will never look at grilled intestines the same again

[jolly flume]

lowkey

unagi for me

[dull drum]

shit was better than wagyu

on my mother

[whole estuary]

eel good

[torn mesa]

highkey unagi for me

[jolly flume]

its so good man

[torn mesa]

like I enjoy red meat more than seafood and all

[dull drum]

i had the most culinary fun in osaka tbh

great area

[torn mesa]

but among seafood, eel, crab, scallop are the 3 things I like

[sly basin]

so many ex6 clears and only 1 coffer

[dull drum]

AT LEAST YOU GOT ONE

25 CLEARS

NO COFFER

[sly basin]

gyatt damn

[amber fable]

Just get crafted weapons bro

[clear plume]

Girl I used to sees dad is a retired sushi chef woulda gone crazy if I liked seafood but they had homemade kimchi that went wild

[dull drum]

thank god for pity

or id smash my fucking monitor

[torn mesa]

store bought kimchi is vile

both in taste and in terms of how overpriced it is

[sly basin]

why is my message scary and red

[sly basin]

im just doing it for my other classes, jsut for fun

oh my internt is dying maybe

[worn bluff]

i just need 1 weapon so i can rest until savage drops

[dull drum]

i think the store bought kimchi in my area is alright, prob because garden grove is a korean sector

alongside LA

[amber fable]

I am still rocking 745 wep

[torn mesa]

are you paying 20$ for a large jar?

I can see that area's stuff tasting okay, but the overpriced part still stands out

[clear plume]

It’s LA, they won’t recognize what’s overpriced anymore

U pay $8 for a bottle of water what’s $9 for a jar of kimchi

[torn mesa]

the thing with kimchi is, the ingredients are dirt cheap, but it's also so easy to make

[rapid whale]

but u see

rich white people think if you aren't overpaying for it, it must be low quality

[torn mesa]

Bapple, you know how Dank says he cooks by just mashing stuff together

[dull drum]

oh fuck no its def not 20 (in garden grove)

[torn mesa]

if you gave him a list, he could make damn good kimchi, that's how easy it is to make

[torn mesa]

for reference, 20$ I would say is overpriced...

so yeah

[jolly flume]

kimchi's pretty easy, just get a few heads of cabbage and put on some netflix show for like an hour lol

[torn mesa]

you can't fuck it up man, you're literally just adding stuff to a jar

[jolly flume]

stella has lots of experience with jars

[clear plume]

A fellow canner glad to see it I had way too many raspberries this year

[rapid whale]

huh

[jolly flume]

it took me three rereads of that message to understand it wasn't mashing the middle option on iphone autocomplete ngl

[dull drum]

just saw a post about “ogi namifreaky”

dont ask what was in it

[clear plume]

[low hearth]

Yo

[quick verge]

I’ll give you $3 to chug all of that

[dull drum]

i have that same wall tiling in my kitchen

[craggy marsh]

omg you guys live together?

that's awesome

[dull drum]

iirc they sell that stuff at costco

[clear plume]

raspberry jam? yeah probably

[dull drum]

oh no the wall tiling

i remember because years ago my dad bought a metric fuck ton to decorate the bathroom and kitchen with

[shy furnace]

am I cool now

[low hearth]

Bro it’s week 2

[timber stratus]

no the more ff14 u play the less cool u become

[zealous meteor]

i thought this was the guy who would sell me the jeuno orchestrion roll /s

[shy furnace]

so?

[jolly flume]

[dense oxide]

Thats bot prevention

[worn bluff]

that's just the GCD roll

[dense oxide]

Since theyre a new character

Those goblins have a mystery box you can do that can have almost any item in the game and you cant use it for 45 days when you make a character

[zealous meteor]

yeah

[dense oxide]

Christmas last year I got a pulse weapon from the gobbie mystery box, very pog

[zealous meteor]

i am baby

and not because im playing a tarutaru

[whole estuary]

Mythril Sword PULSE Remix

[jagged aspen]

Erm can i remove glams from a bunch of gear at once

[loud nymph]

nope haha

enjoy casting a glamour dispeller on each piece

one at a time

[jagged aspen]

fml

i gave my alt gear then realized alt cant pentameld itself

[jolly flume]

time to find someone to request

[jagged aspen]

eh already removed glams

[boreal pumice]

You were right Chiyo ptod gives so many regen pots

[jagged aspen]

wait no

you can do in bulk

[brisk scarab]

Im not a healer player by any means, but levelling 3 of them to 100 has made me appreciatiom how fun some of the rotations are

Also, Pure healing classes are very much reactive and barrier healers proactive, right

[true beacon]

Depends

[jagged aspen]

how fun some of the rotations are
Not sure if you're being serious o_o

[brisk scarab]

I like astrologian

[jagged aspen]

Or you mean dps rotations compared to healers

[brisk scarab]

Tis fun

Nope

Dealing cards go brrr

[jagged aspen]

It's literally one button?

Okay fair, but that's hardly a rotation

[jolly flume]

I miss ew cards

[brisk scarab]

I consider healing a rotation in some way, as its mostly the same basic pattern in most cases

Of course putting dot and spamming singular spells isnt a great rotation, but the healing aspect is a lot of fun

[jagged aspen]

Astro is probably the only one where you actually have to think how to dump all your OGCDs in burst tbf

Since you actually have more than two

[jolly flume]

do you

it's kinda just

[brisk scarab]

Learning when to properly use cards is very fun

[jolly flume]

the same thing every time unless you have to delay something for a heal which you usually don't, if you starred properly

[jagged aspen]

Well yea but you still need to learn it. Compared to other healers where you literally cant go wrong because you dont have more than two ogcds (not counting mits)

[jolly flume]

the reason I miss endwalker cards is that the way you did that actually changed pull to pull

between what you drew, if you wanted to redraw, all that

🥀

[brisk scarab]

Astrologians star aoe is my favorite attack in the game

Just place it down then 10s later BOOM

I just started Sage, so it feels wonky rn for me

But switching between the two phases is cool

[jagged aspen]

Sage is very straightforward, almost like whm

What phases o_o

You mean eukrasia?

[brisk scarab]

Eukrasiaand Normal

Place shield then use regular heals

[jagged aspen]

Oh, you just use it to put up a dot and sometimes to shield

[true beacon]

Yeah sge can be weird at first

[brisk scarab]

Well yeah

[true beacon]

But it is actually quite similar to whm

[jagged aspen]

you pretty much never cast normal prognosis

[brisk scarab]

Is prognosis singular or aoe heal

[jagged aspen]

aoe

[brisk scarab]

The names on Sage are confusing LOL

[jagged aspen]

Yea that kinda applies to every class tbf

But sage definitely stands out

[true beacon]

It’s all Greek to me

[jagged aspen]

phlegma pneuma psyche

[rain geode]

Phlegma balls

[jolly flume]

I mean the names are kinda irrelevant

just associate the keybind with a function

[brisk scarab]

Isnt that how most people play the game

[jolly flume]

iunno

[true beacon]

I can name sge skills now

[jolly flume]

I just dont get why people find the naming a difficult part of playing the job lol

[jagged aspen]

Yes but when you have to explain something, or if someone is telling you something

[true beacon]

Since I’ve been playing it for like 2-3 years

[brisk scarab]

Like, for BLM I can name most spells since its my main, but typically for other classes I just press the buttons how I need too LOL

[jagged aspen]

You kinda need to refer to skills by their names

[jolly flume]

like I'm sure 99% of people have no fucking idea what meikyo shisui is and yet you dont get complaints about that

[visual geyser]

I forget Krasis exist 90% of the time I play Sage

[jolly flume]

yeah because its a dead button unless you're double shielding lol

last thing sage needs is more tank heals

[brisk scarab]

If there was a healer I wanna play on a consistent basis, its gotta be Astro

[jagged aspen]

well at least it didnt happen to good materia

krasis is the 70% more tank healing button?

its good in dungeons if youre too lazy to target them for ogcds 😄

[jolly flume]

that's soteria

krasis is just the heal up

[jagged aspen]

oh

oh yea i dont even know if its incoming or outgoing 😂

[jolly flume]

incoming on target

if it was outgoing it'd be a lot better

and kinda busted honestly

[jagged aspen]

like, they could at least specify that

[brisk scarab]

The only time I pop single dot heals is inbetween pulls lol

[jagged aspen]

since the description is ambiguous af

[jolly flume]

can't spell "FFXIV" without "absolute dogshit tooltips"

[brisk scarab]

Is there like a WOAT in terms of worst healer action

[jolly flume]

that still exists right now?

idk I think synastry could probably give most of em a run for their money

excepting the obvious cure 1s and whatnot

[jagged aspen]

https://startusingcure1.info/

yea synastry doesnt deserve a hotkey

which is quite rare

[jolly flume]

I think I've only ever pressed synastry like twice

and one of those times was to heal a drk out of living dead

[dapper zealot]

I've onky ever used it once

by accident

[zealous meteor]

so YOU killed me in my last dungeon run

[clear plume]

Do we count shit like “dissolve union”

[jolly flume]

as in the drk had walking dead without a targetable boss

not the I wont let your ld proc

[zealous meteor]

most useless button is ruin II
simply position better 4head

[clear plume]

Synastry saved my life in r6s adds

[trim frost]

synastry is really nice when it's meaningful

[jolly flume]

you can also use it for astrologian yuri

[trim frost]

doomed yuri

[zealous meteor]

one of them is yuri, the other is divorce

[clear plume]

This is literally what the damage cards are for though

[jolly flume]

the damage cards don't look at each other on the status bar longingly though

🥺

[zealous meteor]

i can't think of a single useless button on SCH actually

[jolly flume]

energy drain

(real)

[true beacon]

Physick

[zealous meteor]

physick isn't useless when you're level synced

[clear plume]

Ruin 2 is kind of up there since the cast time changes

[proper cave]

Shout outs to the doomers who thought expedient was the worst level 90 skill

[zealous meteor]

its a 10% mit for 20s

that's already decent

[true beacon]

Sprint used to be 20s too

[zealous meteor]

and the increased movement speed, while niche, is useful too

anyway... physick is useful below 30 and has a niche use below 58

it's not lke scathe which is useless from the moment you learn it

[rapid whale]

Tfw expedience makes me run off a ledge

[jolly flume]

I'll admit that like

80% of the time I'd rather have holos than expedience

but that 20% of the time it's pretty cool

[rapid whale]

P4 top it's goated

[jolly flume]

having to play around wanting or not wanting the sprint is kinda neat

[true beacon]

Holos is goated

[jolly flume]

I turbo early pop expedience on wroth so the sprint falls off by the time you have to actually do the dodge

bc for some people it just makes them leeroy it into the first aoe

[low hearth]

Expedience in Strength of the Ward

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-dunk-explosive-lakers-lakerswin-gif-16401450

[jolly flume]

now with 30% more double adjusts because people cant decide whos going where

ok is tonight an FF night or a something else night

maybe I open p3r again

[trim frost]

whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy

[shy obsidian]

afraid so

[trim frost]

fucking

[jagged aspen]

expedience in meteors

[trim frost]

covered this warrior twice so they wouldn't die to petrify damage

and then they go and stack the tankbuster on everyone else

🧍‍♂️

[jolly flume]

expedience in meteors is lowkey goated

learn to place your meteors properly instead of holding W

🔥

technique proven to improve cursed pattern success rate by 80%

raiders HATE him

[jagged aspen]

they kinda snapshot at a very weird time

youd think stopping for abit just outside of previous meteor aoe would work, but nope

or rather it does, but you cant stop for too long

[thin fox]

If you wanted to be a terrorist you would do expedience during NA1 in P8S phase 2

[jagged aspen]

why though?

[jolly flume]

whats even terrorist about that

press expedience during fuckin caloric

[true beacon]

That’s

Yeah

[timber stratus]

W

[thin fox]

because you make people overadjust

and run directly into the wall

literally watched this happen btw

[jagged aspen]

but you only have to move for like 1 tile >.>

[true beacon]

In what

Caloric?

[jagged aspen]

in na

[somber forge]

Any idea what gear set the 7.5 ultimate is likely to use? Trying to decide what gear to hang on to. (like Dark Horse pieces are used in some FRU sets)

[versed kayak]

Presumably M9-M12 stuff since thats the savage tier its unlocked with

[torn mesa]

not presumably

100% the case

[somber forge]

ok so keep grand champ gear then

[torn mesa]

no

[low hearth]

Yea