#endgame-lounge

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proven pivot
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Yeah

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I’ve also been playing astro a lot, hope I can go into savages as astro one day

dapper zealot
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automod got me when I tried to call chiyo out

zealous meteor
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did you call him a slur

echo ibex
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||Pranged main||

fierce matrix
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GNB is my goat

zealous meteor
fierce matrix
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Dont talk shit about him

zealous meteor
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like one that would get you muted

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(and i know he wouldn't)

fierce matrix
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My name is Furen

echo ibex
fierce matrix
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But sometimes im called Sluren

fierce matrix
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(This is a meme please understand)

zealous meteor
jolly flume
dapper zealot
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I forgot what I said but it was in context of this

sinful brook
dapper zealot
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Oh I remmeber now

zealous meteor
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what was it

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i wanna know

dapper zealot
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can't trick me into getting muted again 😌

rapid whale
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sluren von

fierce matrix
wicked delta
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So ive been forced into healer jail a while ago and ngl im still struggling to keep uptime during weapons in M11

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Is there anything I could do better? Im on the cane job for context (white mage)

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Its mostly the cursed patterns where my uptime just drops to 0 because im more busy with running

rapid whale
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put the redot in the bag

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iirc some people use swift cast during it too

wicked delta
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Redotting constantly during sword - scythe - sword sounds kinda cursed ngl

true beacon
thin tartan
thin tartan
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this

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warrior

thin tartan
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from eu

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managing to

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do

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easthogg

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twice

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sob

vast jacinth
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Mbbv

thin tartan
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say mb atleast mann 😭

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i trolled the first pull out of shakies and the p6 pull the war stepped outside of the hitbox on wings 1

jolly flume
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on a lucky pattern you won't even need rapture to move

thin tartan
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im never winning this chud minion

jolly flume
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as a rule of thumb you should not have to use an instant before an axe

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and you should always reserve the dash for sword into scythe

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so what I usually end up doing is 3 raptures and plenary during weapons 1 which is essentially free uptime, 2 raptures and temperance during weapons 2 (don't fall for the trap of using raptures for the puddles before this, just go to the edge of the arena and slidecast by yourself), 1 rapture for the puddles after weapons 2, then you have four raptures and a misery for ultimate, and where you use those raptures is essentially entirely up to you for movement because bell and temp nearly solo heal the mechanic

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you can also opt to drop a misery out of buffs during weapons 2 if you need an extra movement gcd there but that's avoidable 99% of the time

valid solar
thin tartan
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no

fierce matrix
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D is not content

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D is life

thin tartan
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Faerie) so just like FRU I am giving away a mogstation outfit of choice to 1x /random at the end, so we will dice roll then (there are alternatives if you don't want the outfit dw)

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?

fierce matrix
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Tf lol

jolly flume
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for a c41?

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that's cool

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someone did a comm for me for c41ing them in fru once

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nothing super complex but it was cute

bright dome
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lets say you were starting ff14
and could open only 1 slot and master it
end game focused totally (all endgame content)
what class/build would u choose and why

wicked delta
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If I was forced into a single job I would not play this game

random needle
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Honestly same tbh

timber stratus
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monk but endwalker monk

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then i would be good

finite plank
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i'd play eso

jolly flume
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i'd uh

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🫃

wicked delta
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Why are you pregnant

jolly flume
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idk

wicked delta
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Abort it

inner shadow
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How one would achieve these stats to craft crested gear without buying crested gear?
If I get orange scripts lvl 100 gear, their stats are better than crested, no?

terse zodiac
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No they are equal(?) without the ability to overmeld but probably get you to be able to craft crested

inner shadow
thin tartan
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People just buy crafted

inner shadow
thin tartan
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pretty sure rhey were craftable with previous tiers pentameld

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I think????

terse zodiac
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Previous pentameld would be better than scrip gear so yes

inner shadow
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You would think but please look at craftmanship required

thin tartan
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Yes im p sure the prev tier hit it

inner shadow
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AFAIK -
Tools - hyper tools are best gear as I know (Or gold thumbs?)
Crested is best (Overmelding)
One tier below crested is orange scrip gear

Correct?

thin tartan
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5408 crsftmanship

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xd

thin tartan
terse zodiac
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The cheap set with full scrip gear gives 5635 craftsmanship / 4969 control / 583 cp

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So you have the stats to make crested from there

terse zodiac
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No gil needed just base melds and lot of scrips

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Pentamelding is whats gonna cost the most

inner shadow
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Ok so I'm going for:
Main tool - cosmic tool
Subtool- Star tech (750 IL Orange scrips)
Gear - Star tech (750 IL)
Meld to max (2 per slot)
Then craft crested
Then pentameld

Should be ok right?

tepid briar
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but you're still gonna need HQ mats

tepid briar
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have you done pentamelding for crafters before? cause fyi that stuff gets really really expensive

worn bluff
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me blowing up 2 mil worth of materia in 30 seconds

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just to meld two slots

sleek moon
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i want a mod that shows black mage lb3 when you blow up 100+ materia in one go

stark cypress
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So I’m farming GC seals for my anima relics, trading moonstones for crystal sand, and I’m curious about GC Seal farming methods. I understand the expert delivery is probably the most efficient way, but what dungeons are the “go-to” for this?

I’ve been unsyncing Holminster Switch with great success, and it’s a good payout, but is there perhaps another dungeon that offers more loot per run?

inner shadow
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I'm a new endgamer

sinful brook
rapid whale
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low key im not 100% sure its worth penta melding crafters unless you intend to spend a lot of time crafting

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at least this late into the expansion

fierce matrix
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You can flip some LQ mats to HQ crafts

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Thats about it

tepid briar
open coral
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You can offset the cost by stockpiling scripts and materia, then just make sure to buy on the cheapest server.

worn bluff
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made back the gil through merc c41s

uncut pebble
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is there anyone who happens to have drk bis in shadowbringers

kind elm
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parsing probably

jolly flume
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old drk bis isn't gonna be current drk bis anyways, pieces will have been replaced

uncut pebble
jolly flume
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if you need the old sets though

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idk maybe cats has the sauce

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lol

true beacon
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BiS’d be mix of Eden and Crypt with Bozja weapon

uncut pebble
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intersting

verbal whale
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I wish they had an IQ test for PF

rapid whale
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skill b ased match making

wicked delta
sinful brook
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i mean some people who wish for it wouldn't pass the test so

clear plume
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Just check people’s past performance it works better than an iq test would so

worn bluff
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parties also just wouldn’t fill

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filling ulti PF normally: 2 hours
filling ulti PF with an IQ test: N/A

vestal hollow
verbal whale
loud swift
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some people refuse to learn

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doesnt matter how quick u can adapt

worn bluff
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there are also plenty of smart people who don’t bother to study fights or rotations

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like they might put in effort when they’re in the instance but they don’t know any of the fundamentals

vestal hollow
uncut pebble
trim frost
proven pivot
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Do you guys know any hand glam items similar to these

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They leave a rusty brown color even when dyed jet black and it pisses me off

jolly flume
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doorboss is such slop to parse lmao

worn bluff
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i’m on fire bagging harder than anyone alive

flat vault
proven pivot
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I’m using the pvp version :(

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Let me check the artifact ones

flat vault
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ah

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yeah the artifact ones are fully dyeable

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or well

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they dont look like ass when dyed rather

jolly flume
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when do I get to crit

worn bluff
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sometimes i think about going for an ok killtime on 12-2

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but then i remember that there are more fun things to do

jolly flume
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at least the other fights are like fun

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but door is just pure slop

robust shoal
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first pull blind lol

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funni boss

jolly flume
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counting hard

rapid whale
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Wuzzat

robust shoal
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alo alo

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fairy with a gun

valid solar
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oh I love that mount

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wish we got a feo ul mount like that

jolly flume
worn bluff
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better hope someone comes and beats you

jolly flume
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it's over I beat it

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r38 now

clear plume
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the jp double drk comps make me cri

valid solar
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I will never win a roll

tulip wraith
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why are they gween

valid solar
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the bisbuddy plogon highlights what you need for bis

tulip wraith
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ooo

valid solar
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never let me play bard

jolly flume
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fire

tulip wraith
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i keep seeing the ~ as a negative

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the concept of negative parses

valid solar
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1 singular death and I get a 1 ?

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thats literally the only 2 suggestions wahhgone

jolly flume
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in what

valid solar
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oh yeah I was checking from the archon apps built in thing, let me see if this is set to rdps

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ok yeah I presume it is

clear plume
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give me the log

clear plume
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gear?

valid solar
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there is definitely a gear thing here because I am still 782

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wasnt mentioned in xivanal but I think right at the end where we killed I did my burst in the wrong order

clear plume
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1030 buffs?

valid solar
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yeah

clear plume
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okay so, write up otw

thin tartan
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You fucking suck

valid solar
clear plume
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your refulgent procs are about 30% lower than average, which is not great, to start off, but

your death made you lose a AABA, you basically lost a 2m due to holding at the end and then not seeing most of it

you fucked up songs at the end, dont hold wanderers for the 10:30, just do a long song rotation after the 8m so its a 2:15 long cycle, wanderers at 10:12, then it will still be up for the entire 2m window without being songless like you did.

radiant was further drifted even beyond a 10:30 buff timing and was 10:40 instead. you also had slight drift by about 4 seconds before that from the opener to 8m window, which you should try to avoid.

your last apex was at 9:12 so idk how you didnt have one for final burst, you instead iron jawed 6 seconds before the boss died, never do that, it takes 12s of dots for them to replace a filler, even under buffs, if boss is dying after buffs (or during them) you skip the IJ and never skip a larger hit like AABA for it.

you potted 8m when the entire point of 1030 buffs is to pot opener, 6m, and then the 10:30 window. use pot at opener and right before knockup for arena split, then its up for the 1030 window, you also only used a single pot the entire fight

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your 8m iron jaws missed radiant and BV as well, needed to use it a gcd earlier

sleek moon
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cooked bungo

valid solar
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yeah I realized 30 seconds in I didnt pot the opener so I figured id just do the other two and then I messed up the timing again lmaowtf I should start a stopwatch on my other screen to keep track of the pull time

clear plume
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if you didnt die, your plan for AABA should be to use during the start of the 8m window, use the next 3 on cd, and it will give you 240 for the delayed buffs bc of the extra time spent holding (especially if paired up with the extra time songed up by doing the full 45 of mages and armys both)

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but yeah, even without the death it probably would have been a low green or high grey bc of the errors

tepid briar
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first time I've ever had to babysit healing the tanks in m10

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idk what was up that time

valid solar
clear plume
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wym? you add one extra tick per song for each 3s longer you want to delay wanderers

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bc its a normally 2m cycle, but can be extended to up to 2:15 (2:12ish realistically bc you dont get a tick at zero)

valid solar
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I see thinkernotes

clear plume
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so if youd end a song at 11s left, if you hold it for 2s left, its 3 extra ticks of song and wanderers/2m pushed back 9s

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then its a case of knowing wanderers is 42s long, so if its less than 22s before buffs go out, you can press wanderers and carry it into the buff window

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(it can actually be better to do this with any slight delay even, because starting buffs with a 3 stack PP is better than armys muse damage is)

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always send PP the gcd before you use buffs, and it will get 2 ticks and your start of buffs EA to force a 3 stack

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this is why if you look at my logs and most high level bards, they actually use gauge at the start of buffs and dont barrage and sidewinder until about half way through it, so that they have extra weave windows earlier into it, a lot of the time its just to get a 4th heartbreak shot, but can also be good to get carryover/early use PPs

jolly flume
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my brain is legit oozing out of my ears bro

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this is the most boring shit I've ever done

clear plume
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gz on pb

jolly flume
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thanks

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never want to do this again 105_ICANT

clear plume
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classic door parsing

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you picked the dogshit lottery fight to start with

jolly flume
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thats exactly why we did it first

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because everyone needed a number on this garbage

torn mesa
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peak fight right

jolly flume
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yeah man

clear plume
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brother my parse static isnt even DOING door bc of how much door parsing sucks

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we have a "if you want a good run ask your buddy named party finder"

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rule set for it

jolly flume
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honestly respectable

clear plume
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no sandbag lottery fight thats short?

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gl

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if we had double sam double drk maybe it would be worth it, but normal comps nah

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Compared to a fight like 9 where you can rotate who kills adds, or 10 where buff timings can be fuckered with, or 11 where you can kill it instead of dying to ecliptic stampede for the 4th pull in a row

torn mesa
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  • striking dummy fight
  • short and volatile
  • actually filtered out the bad players who didn't clear 11

the clusterfuck shitstorm of a bad fight

clear plume
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It is just a lottery fight, you kill it 100 times waiting for the 99th percentile crit run

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Bc everybody killing 12 will have their own spins

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Bc of it being a normal kt fight

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Compared to 10 where good players not parsing instead don’t get that spin bc normal buff timings and the normal kt both screw them

proven pivot
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What would make a player say m10s was easier than m9s for them

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Cuz i’m doing m10s this weekend and i lowkey hope i find it the same

jolly flume
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idk

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I think that's a pretty big stretch

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for any job/role

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but that's just me

proven pivot
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They’re a gnb one trick

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Being a one trick in xiv is lowkey insane

jolly flume
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I get it if they're like

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exceptional

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but most people aren't and playing one job only is just boring as shit to me

proven pivot
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We started out around the same time (early mid 2025) and they cleared the tier

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Lil ol’ me just cleared m9s

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They’re doing TEA next… my god

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But yeah i’m excited to do m10s but also dont want to get carried cuz i’m doing it with friends and they all cleared

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Last time i played with this group they killed doomtrain as soon as the final phase started, my m9s reclear w them was also really quick

tulip wraith
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damn is dt that fast now, might finally try farming for wings again NOTED

quick verge
jolly flume
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ain't you a wow main

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wtf I lowkey wasn't sure if I was reading a linkedin post for the first half of this tweet

sleek moon
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and eating every saw blade

clear plume
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Vamp stomp is the hardest mech in this game so makes sense

proven pivot
proven pivot
clear plume
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Eating saw blades is a healer mech tho

jolly flume
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yea

wind cypress
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joined a m9s the other day to get some practice on my healer, we cleared it - cool, then get a "ready?" pop, uh okay - they go in again, I check and yep bunch of 99 parsers rerunning it over and over, not advertised as a funny numbers group

jolly flume
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yeah it's because they need a bot or two in the group to natty sandbag for the 8:30 lol

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full group of good players is killing too fast to get a good parse

rapid whale
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a tale as old as time

craggy marsh
tame shuttle
rapid whale
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aloo

stiff sage
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every time i go to pf to prog i remember why i hate pf

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rep 2 50% of the time means there's someone in there prog lying as fresh phase 2

dapper zealot
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He has children???????

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?????????

worn bluff
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@jolly flume wait they're making digital copies of people's souls in wuwa

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we gotta stop them

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i've seen how this story goes

raw sand
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why is chiyo egyptian now

dapper zealot
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I was tempted to post the other one

craggy marsh
raw sand
dapper zealot
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fuck I forgot I was capped on maths

valid solar
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everyone in this party is a cat except for me

alpine plover
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miqo males no less

grand mesa
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miau

valid solar
dapper zealot
valid solar
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I was helping with a fresh for 1 and the guy died to mortal slayer every time cooked

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Im not sure if any of their friends told them they were getting clipped because they were too close to the person in front of them

alpine plover
worn bluff
alpine plover
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dramatic kisses

tepid briar
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what in the fuck was going on here

tired egret
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the Healer designed to do DPS for Healing can't do DPS

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lmfao

tepid briar
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no wonder the shielding was really good that party

tired egret
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ah

tepid briar
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cause that's all they were doing lmao

tired egret
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on one hand... nice

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did a good job as a healer

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AT the cost of bad dps

tepid briar
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more than bad...

tired egret
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yeah

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absolute trash tier

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but I give credit for the healing work

tepid briar
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this was m10

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I'm not sure how they got past m9

trim frost
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...

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say it wasn't savage

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pls

tepid briar
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it was savage

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:)

trim frost
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oh my fucking god

tired egret
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ok that is ass

trim frost
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i mean technically you don't have to clear 9 to get to 10

tired egret
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but minor credit for the healin

trim frost
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only the party leader has to have access to 10

tired egret
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keeping the homies alive is important

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but you gotta press that fuckin' Dosis more often.

tepid briar
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oh my god

trim frost
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but like eukrasia spam isn't even good in fucking dungeons how did they even get into savage without knowing this

tepid briar
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they only did 7k in m9

trim frost
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blink

wicked delta
tepid briar
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but their top two dps did >40k

trim frost
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was this pf

tepid briar
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so that's probably how they got past m9

tepid briar
trim frost
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ok well

tepid briar
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this was a prog group but still

trim frost
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at some point hopefully someone will call it out

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bc thats like

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one of the most blatant ways i could notice griefing lmao

tepid briar
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tomestone says they did m9 in 30 pulls

trim frost
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thats 30 pulls that were logged

tepid briar
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yeah

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anyway holy sheet

valid solar
trim frost
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lobotomized individuals start cropping up in pf like a disease after like week 3

valid solar
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mb

tired egret
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thank god I don't interact with current endgame content yet...

tepid briar
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I wonder if they came from wow

tepid briar
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need to find a c41 party tomorrow

trim frost
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same as it ever was

tired egret
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I instead..... god I hate the last phase of T9 & T9S....

wicked delta
tepid briar
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somehow someone on the fire side ended up in the water corner by sheer miracle

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I think that pf we never got past bubble

wicked delta
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I saw a whm dash into the death wall like 4 times for firesnaking

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Wondered what was going on in their mind

tepid briar
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I've only dashed into the death wall once for firesnaking

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and that's cause I accidentally pressed dash before orienting myself

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I was trying to dash through the puddles

alpine plover
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Tobi Gates

tepid briar
kind elm
wicked delta
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Adrian Garu

kind elm
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sorry i just remembered i had these gifs so i had to post them again

alpine plover
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dasurved

rapid whale
rain geode
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Im basically new again at this point

dapper zealot
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n'ew liter

finite plank
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just press buttons

dapper zealot
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press scathe? nw

shadow pilot
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🔘

rain geode
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Scathe? more like Sucksathe

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gotem

remote gate
spice path
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In truth. How much harder is ultimate? Ive tried dsr and I was kinda struggling. But I do savage okay.

wicked delta
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Well DSR is one of the hardest ults so yeah you’ll struggle

cerulean crown
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depends on the fight and depends on your skill. uwu is generally considered the easiest because it was the first, so it's had a ton of time for gear creep. but my first was FRU and working with guides it's simple, just learning the patterns and getting the execution right

wicked delta
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It depends on the player cus ik some new people who took on DSR as their first ult (fresh out of msq) and did better than some long term savage raiders ive known

wicked delta
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A lot of ultimate mechanics can be simmed outside instance so if you’re willing to basically study the shit out of it then you’ll be aight

versed kayak
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uwu is the easiest because it realistically has one real mechanic before P5 (which PF just cheats for), and P5 is the only phase that I'd consider to have ultimate mechanics

It's still an ultimate tho so it's still faster than savage

spice path
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Everything was just so much faster it felt like. Like snapshots were insane.

wicked delta
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Thats kinda the point lol

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A lot of ultimate mechanics are like

versed kayak
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Yeah that's the main thing for a lot of mechanics

wicked delta
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You have to resolve it way ahead of time

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Before the attack goes off

versed kayak
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You could put some of them in savage if you slowed them down a bit

wicked delta
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Bc the attack goes off near instantly once the time comes

spice path
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Bleh. On 100 ping it really sucked. But I know people do it on higher. So its my brain lol

cerulean crown
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ngl i forgot ucob was first lol

versed kayak
dapper zealot
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If you only 'kinda struggled' that's pretty decent tbh. Just gotta keep going at it

spice path
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But like. My savage static this tier was full of people who did ulti. And there was mechs they struggled with that i got... so idk. Maybe I'd be willing to try the easier ones? Maybe.
My reaction time on hunt trains for teleports is amazing lol if only that transferred.

rapid whale
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like most t hings in life its just a matter of repetition and time commitment

dapper zealot
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How long have you been progging it?

jolly flume
rapid whale
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played these games before

jolly flume
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hi bappo

verbal whale
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name something more sus than a monday m11 reclear

grand mesa
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Monday night m9 reclear

jolly flume
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white mage player with matching surname

grand mesa
wicked delta
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Nightstar?

grand mesa
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oh...

finite plank
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generic sofia and generic star

rapid whale
finite plank
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there's going to be someone named dawnstar

clear plume
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That’s not a name that’s a Skyrim

finite plank
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so is hrothgar

clear plume
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Okay but that’s just both named after an old danish king so that’s explainable

jolly flume
rapid whale
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when i saw i had 7 percentile crit luck i knew it was jover

finite plank
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least you got into single digit percentile

rapid whale
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no that's the opposite of what you want

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unless you mean it in a "statistically unlikely so technically lucky" kinda way

valid solar
finite plank
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hey, you can only go up from there

valid solar
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I guess

rapid whale
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i mean ive 99'd the fight before

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but that was in a random pf setting with unoptimized buff feed

finite plank
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be the 0 and the 99 or higher

rapid whale
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that's not how math works

finite plank
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...i still remember being 0 for m3s

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up or down, plenty of funny to happen

rapid whale
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ya

versed kayak
rapid whale
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also "someone who cleared an ultimate struggled with a mech i got easily" is kind of a bad metric

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everyone has strengths and weaknesses

versed kayak
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I still can't read the first mech of the last sildihn criterion boss for the life of me

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that and the last half of statice are the few boss mechs I still struggle with (although I haven't done statice much)

lyric summit
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there's no skill diff between clearing a savage tier and clearing an ult, only a time/group commitment diff

wicked delta
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Im pretty okay with mechanics that just go fast (think shit like m8s ig) but memory mechanics absolutely fail me

jolly flume
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the difference between those who clear savage and those who clear ultimate is mental

rapid whale
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most people tilt themselves out of ulti ye

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you either accept the result isnt up to you and develop patience or smadge

wicked delta
#

I don’t have the patience to sit in pf for like 3-5 hr, get a party that kinda sucks at getting to prog point and disbanding

#

But I am gonna try DSR again with some buddies so maybe that’ll motivate me more to clear it

lyric summit
#

oh yeah

#

the difference between those who clear ultimate in static and those who clear ultimate in pf is also mental ||illness||

rapid whale
#

theres also the whole like

#

in general way more time invested in pf

#

but a bad static it might legit be impossible due to schedule or attitude etc

#

like in pf you will clear, eventually

#

but a bad static can legit just never clear

#

example

jolly flume
#

pf ulti for prog isnt that bad ngl

grand mesa
#

Attitude and ability to learn from mistakes are the two biggest barriers

jolly flume
#

good luck reclearing though

grand mesa
#

I spent 12 hours total in top p2 prog with my partner a few weeks ago and we only got to the prog point several times

#

It's cooked, I fear

finite plank
#

dc diff'd

jolly flume
#

early top is prog hell

#

rest of the time I've had decent success helping people by just prog lying a reasonable amount and leaving parties that are done for early though

wicked delta
rapid whale
#

yea like

#

bad static worse than bad pf

fierce matrix
#

Bad static gives sunk cost fallacy

rapid whale
#

ye

fierce matrix
#

Bad pf I just kick the mfs or leave myself

rapid whale
#

exactly

fierce matrix
#

You just gotta know when to cut your losses with people. And thats not "OH WE WIPED 3 TIMES TO HELLO WORLD IN A ROW AFTER WIPING TO THE PROG POINT"

#

But if its the same person fucking it up

#

That's when you might need to kick em

jolly flume
#

ngl

#

my bar is 3-4 pulls to prog point or I'm gone

#

I do not have the time of day

fierce matrix
#

Matters the instance of whats going on

jolly flume
#

but even after like the first two pulls

#

you can already spidey sense if the party is gonna be shit or not

fierce matrix
#

If some chuckle fuck is causing car crashes in hello world almost every pull

#

I kick em

rapid whale
#

accountability is a big one for me

#

if the person who fucked up doesnt immediately mb i get very ??

#

like, "does this person even know the mech?"

jolly flume
#

it doesn't even matter if it's the same person over and over, one majorly inconsistent bum has the same effects on your prog as 7 minorly inconsistent bums

rapid whale
#

"do they realize it's their faut we just wiped?"

#

type shit

fierce matrix
#

But if its just genuinely like we are at delta prog but someone fucked up monitors cause they got John final fantasied and then someone else fucks up hello world cause of just not knowing peoples movement and then its a looper wipe cause classic

#

Im not really stressed out about it

#

Because p4 isnt an actual prog point

jolly flume
#

that's what I meant when I said

#

you can tell if the party is gonna be shit

#

just from the stupidity level of the wipes

#

no matter how many

fierce matrix
#

Yeah if its 5 looper wipes

#

Time to reform

#

Or atleast kick the dumbass whos causing it

#

Another big thing in pf is knowing when to kick the problem person

#

Its what allows me to see final phases in pf savage during week 1

fierce matrix
#

Ik

#

Its okay

rapid whale
#

dam

#

but yea lots of ppl think they like raiding but they like the fights

#

that isnt to say i love the pf culture per se but like they fucking hate hate hate it

jolly flume
#

I know tomestoning is a controversial topic but I will absolutely die on the hill that people aren't aggressive enough with it

#

the combination of pfradar and tomestone probably saved me like 50 hours all told when I was doing fru fun runs

#

both in terms of dodging bad parties and in terms of kicking people who are clearly unreliable

rapid whale
#

im guilty of not being aggressive enough with it once in the party

finite plank
#

it's controversial to people that usually suck at the game

jolly flume
#

exactly

fierce matrix
#

Cause people like me can prog skip lol

amber fable
#

One trick to raid is to skip floors if you're hard stuck on one ngl...it sounds dumb as you wont get ilvl but loot in pug is rng anyway, might as well prog new floor and then clear old floor in reclears eventually

fierce matrix
#

Other people cannot

#

Like my m4s clear

jolly flume
fierce matrix
#

My gf and I prog skipped from EE1 to a sunrise party never even seeing EE2 CAUGHT

#

Or p2 for that matter

#

And we one shot to that

#

W1 btw

jolly flume
#

I'd rather take the L on prog lying for myself for the general quality of my parties to go up

#

which it notably does

fierce matrix
#

Idk

#

The issue ive seen is that people just look at %

#

And not if they actually did the mechanic properly

jolly flume
#

that's why I said people aren't aggressive enough with it

fierce matrix
#

My parties have gotten significantly worse

#

Because of that

wind cypress
#

most people prog lie in my opinion, that's why every PF is weapons prog

#

because they don't want to play with scrubs? I don't know

amber fable
#

Just dont suck yourself

fierce matrix
#

Id say the last two years have had some of the worst parties ive ever been in, in regards to PF

amber fable
#

Cant control others

jolly flume
#

if you really take your time with tomestone you can determine almost anything about a player's consistency and play that you'd want to know

amber fable
#

Kick or reform

#

Thems the option

#

Most do latter

wind cypress
#

I speed through prog but lots of times you're just chillin until you make next prog point which can take forever because 7 other people have to be good enough

fierce matrix
#

The issue with tomestone is now they think they saw a % or saw a mech they feel they can join those parties

jolly flume
#

hence, again, people aren't aggressive enough with it

fierce matrix
#

And the people who are actually confident in it who haven't seen past it can skip it

jolly flume
#

it doesn't mean shit that you have a % on your page

fierce matrix
#

And I think more people who are confident but cant get a party to do it exist to be helpful more than what tomestone brings

#

Like I had a friend who setup a DSR clear party

#

Bro hadn't seen p6

#

He cleared in 3 pulls

#

Its more common than you think

jolly flume
#

why would I not think that it's all in a sim since 6.55 lol

fierce matrix
#

This guy's first savage clear was this tier

jolly flume
#

that doesn't mean I'd like to gamble my time on that

wind cypress
#

general rule of thumb, if you don't see prog point in say 3 - 5 pulls just dip, group clearly isn't ready

jolly flume
#

because for every person who does that another 10 people are paying for a c41 that they won't have to shell out for because it's basically just fake p7 prog for them

#

seen it so many times

fierce matrix
#

Id rather gamble my time on that than gamble my time on a guy with a p7 % once tbh

wind cypress
#

"mb that was my fault" x 5 from different people = who boy going to be awhile lol xD

fierce matrix
#

Feels like the same thing

jolly flume
#

you'd rather gamble your time on a doth pull than a p7 pull given only that information?

#

I sure wouldn't

#

even sausage roll the ceo of clearing terrorists, bless his soul, required cauterize

fierce matrix
#

I truly think there are a lot of people in this game that are held back by PF parties and that tomestone has made their experience worse and in turn the other consistent people's time worse because they are stuck in earlier parties

jolly flume
#

I don't

#

I think most of the people who blame pf for their failings are simply externalizing

fierce matrix
#

I 100% disagree. Ik many people who can do a mechanic first time no fuck ups

#

Like for instance

jolly flume
#

I have never once seen a good player stuck in pf for significantly longer than they should be

#

a truly good player

fierce matrix
#

If I wanna join an idyllic dream party but I died to the aoe after rep 2 and ive been consistently doing rep 2 right

jolly flume
#

because sooner or later they will find the other good players

fierce matrix
#

Should I have to join a bloody mana party

#

I sure as fuck think no one should ever need to join a bloody mana party if youve gotten that far in the tier

jolly flume
#

that's not a tomestone problem, that's a people think blood mana is a real mechanic problem

#

which maybe it is for some people idk lol

fierce matrix
#

But the issue stems from your tomestone % not being 50%

jolly flume
#

and again

#

that's a problem with people not looking far enough into tomestone

#

not a problem with tomestone

#

as I've said

fierce matrix
#

The issue is you aren't going to get even 10% of the people to look that deep into tomestone

amber fable
fierce matrix
#

You cant teach reading it

amber fable
#

Nobody has time to dig into every log

#

For every party

fierce matrix
#

Its not even a presentation issue. People just dont know what to look for. And you arent going to get people to look at it properly

jolly flume
#

what are you talking about

#

you're sitting in pf for 30 minutes you can read a log

#

it is not a time issue

#

people just don't know how to and don't bother to learn

#

in the same vein as how people only see the funny number on ffl

fierce matrix
#

I think just removing tomestone entirely is a much quicker and easier fix than expecting everyone to learn how to read logs properly

#

And realistic fix

jolly flume
#

idk man I remember endwalker ulti pf and I would like to never go back to that tyvm

fierce matrix
#

Thats also cause ultis weren't like FRU

#

I feel like if we had a TOP difficulty ulti instead of FRU youd have pretty much the same experience

#

To prog that is

amber fable
#

One thing I realise is best way to raid is not to do it in pf

fierce matrix
#

Idk pf raiding has always been my crutch

amber fable
#

I still pf but man I dont stay a lot now

fierce matrix
#

Done it for many tiers

amber fable
#

Week 1 final floor

fierce matrix
#

Thats how i get a lot of my w1 stuff done

amber fable
#

Yeah

#

Better quality

#

It dips out though

fierce matrix
#

Thats still PF

grand mesa
fierce matrix
#

You just have to do it right

jolly flume
#

out of the probably 50+ parties that I took a chance on in fru pf last patch

#

one of them cleared

#

the ones that I tomestone vetted with good players I knew

#

about 20

#

iunno, there was probably a good player or two that I dodged in there somewhere

#

but 99% of the time if they don't look like a good player it's because they aren't one

fierce matrix
#

I mean the other thing is if you are running your parties or not

#

Like if I'm running a party

#

Im looking at shit

#

If im not running a party, I dont get the choice to kick

jolly flume
#

I don't even host most of the time but I use cousin radar to pick and choose who I join in the first place

#

off patch fru PF had 90% parties with grey/green medians and bests

fierce matrix
#

Ive had people message me asking to get out of the progpoint hell, I view their logs and see that they arent the problem and let em in

jolly flume
#

it was horrendous

fierce matrix
#

But the fact that I can do it doesnt mean that others can

jolly flume
#

we did almost exclusively c41s

fierce matrix
#

My PCT was so ass that wed joke about her going up from a 1 to a 2 parse

#

And how each kill she'd go up 1 parse %

jolly flume
#

we had a whole thing going on about guessing how many exaflare deaths people were going to have with a p5 enrage party up

grand mesa
#

I never got a good fru parse because it never really mattered to me

#

I banked shit for the phases that mattered and cleared

fierce matrix
#

Just play pct

#

Free kill

jolly flume
#

I joined a party with one guy in my pf that had single digit greys in every clear and was always bitching in fc chat about how pf was griefing him once

#

you wouldn't believe

#

who caused most of the problems

fierce matrix
#

Not saying those people dont exist

#

But ive also met equally just as good raiders hindered by pf

#

Then there are shitters who are shit who know they are shit

#

Which is fine we gotta start somewhere

jolly flume
#

sure there's people who can prog lie successfully but they are so severely outnumbered by people who think they're better than pf when they are not that I am not willing to take that chance from a a purely statistical standpoint

#

look at this channel

#

if I speak big trouble

fierce matrix
#

Ik who

#

Its me

#

Im the problem

jolly flume
#

true...

fierce matrix
#

Hey

amber fable
fierce matrix
#

I got a 100 parse for speed on the new crit

grand mesa
fierce matrix
jolly flume
#

I haven't even done it yet

fierce matrix
#

There was also only 2 parses on GNB day 1

jolly flume
#

supposedly we start next week

jolly flume
#

motivation at an all time low though

wicked delta
#

😔

fierce matrix
fierce matrix
#

Im fucking booked out and ready to be busy

amber fable
#

Where new content

jolly flume
#

I was gonna ask how the fuck you got a 31:55 log

#

and then I remembered savage ain't like that anymore

#

gg

grand mesa
jolly flume
#

I miss her

amber fable
#

Savage dont exist either

jolly flume
#

I'm playing ace combat 7

amber fable
#

Its just plain old crit

wicked delta
#

Its snowing right now and we are in march

grand mesa
#

I love not having to sit in a pf for 6 hours just to disband in 30 minutes.

wicked delta
#

????

grand mesa
amber fable
#

Middle East causing weather changes from them smoke

grand mesa
#

truly the world we live in

fierce matrix
#

Shits stupid

jolly flume
#

it was like 70 degrees a week ago and then 20 before windchill the day I had to do grave visitation stuff because chinese people

#

weather be wildin

fierce matrix
#

Oh did i tell chat about the guy who was messaging me about getting better and then refused to get better cause his "aoe looked cool"

finite plank
#

least i get to travel to a mausoleum

jolly flume
#

yea we drive two hours out to a field on a hill

fierce matrix
jolly flume
#

at least there's roast pig to make up for it

fierce matrix
#

Bro asks me how to get better

#

And asks for tips all the time

#

Yet tells me this

grand mesa
jolly flume
#

tell him to get on the low blow off cd grind

#

if he's that bored

amber fable
#

Interject

#

And using rep at cd

wicked delta
#

I was filming outside and it was kinda shit weather

#

5 minutes later the sun is so bright its blinding

#

Now theres snow and hail

#

????

vestal hollow
#

you too?

wicked delta
#

Now its back to being bright and sunny

grand mesa
wicked delta
#

I do not Understand

zealous meteor
#

man i love climate change

#

(i don't

amber fable
#

I love it when its not fucking season up

jolly flume
#

we got like two feet of snow in march this year

#

when it hasn't snowed that much in probably a decade let alone in march

#

too much shoveling

amber fable
#

Winters in april

#

Summers in december

pearl folio
#

California baby, it’s been feeling like severe global warming since the tectonic plates broke apart😎😂 Beach living

grand mesa
#

The hotter months have been scorching for us

jolly flume
#

bapple told me it was like 70 degrees in cali in the dead of winter a few months ago and it broke my brain a little

grand mesa
wicked delta
#

Im super bad with hot weather so not looking forward to getting cooked this summer

#

(Again)

grand mesa
#

Agonizing, even

wicked delta
#

At least I have AC in the house this time

pearl folio
#

Oh my lord, it was like 95 degrees the other day… considering it’s (sorta) been winter.. thought I was gonna boil alive😭

rapid whale
#

i feel u

pearl folio
#

No AC?! Ohhhh no😂

rapid whale
#

socal on fire

wicked delta
#

Didn’t need AC for the longest time

grand mesa
wicked delta
#

Until last year

#

I open up my pc

grand mesa
wicked delta
#

Suddenly it gets super fucking hot outside

#

I literally fainted in my bedroom

#

💀

pearl folio
#

104!! Miserable! I like how you realized none of us knew Celsius, appreciate the conversion😂🤘🏻

jolly flume
#

I would not survive

#

without an AC

rapid whale
#

hopefully it's not so hot during fanfest

grand mesa
#

Sometimes I see baking instructions

rapid whale
#

"numbers too high, must be f"

grand mesa
#

Check the heat they tell me to set the oven and ask myself if the writer is fucking crazy

#

Then I realize they're probably american

pearl folio
#

104 C for like a child’s temperature would suck lol

jolly flume
#

not even because it's spectacularly hot where I live, I just can't stand being above like 85f

#

and when I turn on my pc it's like being baked alive

true beacon
wicked delta
#

I didn’t raid last summer because turning on my pc was like

#

Self harm

#

😭

grand mesa
grand mesa
#

Turns out 200 watts is a lot less heat than 400

#

Big surprise, I know

jolly flume
#

lowkey I'm thinking about moving my pc into the living room and just streaming it to my room

pearl folio
#

I have a motorcycle and every summer, whenever you’re parked.. it tries to commit suicide..

#

Parked and running motorcycle = Temperature multiplier

slender lichen
#

must be nice in the winter tho

grand mesa
pearl folio
#

I live by the mountains also.. yes this winter was sooo nice🥲

deep gale
wicked delta
#

My heating is still broken im gonna sue someone

deep gale
wicked delta
#

The weather is so crazy I have to actively care about how cold it gets in the house

#

Sadgi

jolly flume
#

yeah that's tech, there's only one wall separating me from the living room too so I'd only need to put one hole in the wall and run some cable tracks

deep gale
#

I think that theoretically you could do it with one thunderbolt fiber cable but if it's not a super long run you could also just run multiple cables.

wicked delta
#

My living room is too far away from my bedroom to be able do something like that sadly

vestal hollow
wicked delta
grand mesa
#

But you'll need both endpoints connected to ethernet if you want anything close to a decent experience

rapid whale
#

adding input delay on top of high ping sounds like a mistake for anything online

grand mesa
#

The ping isn't bad if you have it set up properly

jolly flume
#

it's not really that bad esp on a local network

grand mesa
#

Throughput and stability depends on your hardware

#

If you have a shitty router mediating between both devices, it's going to feel miserable

jolly flume
#

like even geforce now is sub 50 round trip for my friend

#

and that's halfway across the continental US for him

rapid whale
#

cloud gaming rly gonna be the future at this rate huh

jolly flume
#

they want it to be

deep gale
#

Yeah pinging my home server from work is like 8ms I could stream something in the house with no issue

jolly flume
#

because then they can charge us forever for things we can't own

rapid whale
#

fren's tinfoil hat theory is stuff like ram/gpu getting so expensive is to make the idea of streamed gaming more acceptable

#

yea

clear plume
#

I don’t think it’s happening to make that idea more acceptable, it’s kind of chicken before the egg there

grand mesa
rapid whale
#

i'll egg your chicken

grand mesa
#

It's a monopoly

rapid whale
#

and then coat it panko

deep gale
#

Datacenter components have always been higher return for hardware companies; servers and datacenters have priority and so there's just no supply and everything sucks.

pearl folio
#

Honestly this whole connection issue is why I switched from PC to PS5… I got tired of my PC running great for like 1-2 years and then needing upgrades.. but not knowing if it’s hardware or connection

jolly flume
#

everything sucks

#

light it up let's go...

clear plume
#

It’s just more profitable to make ai right now, so consumers get a back foot

#

We aren’t about to see stadia 2 launch

grand mesa
#

I'm glad I got my ram upgrade when 32 gigs cost 50 bucks

pearl folio
jolly flume
#

I remmeber when a 1080ti was like $600

grand mesa
#

A few years ago

jade nimbus
#

Tbf silver lining is that ram price is also about to drop

grand mesa
clear plume
#

My drg bought new ram last raid day and I told him I can mail him a stick of 48gb and he can save $500 meow

deep gale
#

The 32gb ddr4 ram I put in my server for $50 now costs $200 its so cooked

grand mesa
jade nimbus
#

Trueee

jolly flume
#

I'm probably not upgrading for another two years which happens to coincide with when I (might) be able to actually find a job in this market

jade nimbus
#

But we'll see

jolly flume
rapid whale
#

I'm still in 16gb like a peasant

grand mesa
#

16 gigs is fine, I'm just irresponsible with managing what I run on my pc

jade nimbus
#

It won't go back to original prices, but even it goes back to just twice as expansive I'll take the win I guess

grand mesa
#

And I also stream from time to time

#

... Well

#

Used to.

clear plume
#

Bapple do u want me to mail u 48 Gb of ram (you need to be able to use ddr5 ram on processor and motherboard side)

deep gale
rapid whale
jolly flume
#

I snagged my 4070ti at launch for a good price and everything else was basically a scam

#

ram wasn't that terrible ig it was "only" $120 for 32

clear plume
#

Is that a six core cpu in 2026 Despairge

grand mesa
#

The worst part about all of this is that server ram and the gpus used for AI are all useless for most people

rapid whale
#

Sorry for being broke

grand mesa
deep gale
#

dude my computer keeps going up in value it's not supposed to do that

jolly flume
#

almost as fucked as the housing market !

grand mesa
deep gale
#

hahaha (crying)

rapid whale
#

We're going to melt down servers for gold come the next stone age

grand mesa
#

Truly

rapid whale
#

IDK if it's real but I heard it we actually do get sent back to the stone age because of war or whatever there isn't enough iron on the surface for another iron age to happen

grand mesa
#

I'm not going to think about it

rapid whale
#

Mb

zealous meteor
#

we're not getting sent back to the stone age anyway

clear plume
#

We realistically won’t just get sent back to a Stone Age lmao

grand mesa
#

My body hurts and I can't afford to buy myself comfort chicken tenders

clear plume
#

That’s not how technology works

glossy marsh
#

We'll go back to the first industrial revolution

rapid whale
#

I heard chimps are officially in the stone age now

jolly flume
#

chimps are kinda op

rapid whale
#

Seen using stone spears or something

jolly flume
#

if the chimp test is anything to go by

rapid whale
#

Those tests bodied me

grand mesa
#

We're just hairless chimps that learned how to talk

jolly flume
#

they'd make great osu +hd players

glossy marsh
rapid whale
#

All words are made up

glossy marsh
#

amen

grand mesa
#

am I a real person?

rapid whale
#

Is a taco a sandwich

jolly flume
#

funny little people in my computer

glossy marsh
grand mesa
#

what if I've been a hallucinating rogue llm instance hosted on some datacenter somewhere

wicked delta
clear plume
#

You’re all just numbers on a screen to me prayge

grand mesa
#

ty tobi

rapid whale
#

Nuh uh I'm the warrior of light

jolly flume
#

what's my number

#

it's 67 isn't it

clear plume
#

I get to go to a pub with parse friend soon tho I learnt he’s in the same city meow

grand mesa
jolly flume
#

..

glossy marsh
#

we are like, binary numbers?

rapid whale
#

01010111100101011010110101010101100111010101100101

wicked delta
#

Six SEVENTEEN thats your number

zealous meteor
#

oh are we exchanging serial numbers /s

daring pine
#

tobi

#

behave

jolly flume
#

I found a bar called roku nana in my city

glossy marsh
#

nu uh

jolly flume
#

that I'm going to with my staticmate

clear plume
#

I was going to make a joke of going “SCH-your fflogs number here” and looked it up but

grand mesa
#

The only binary thing about me is the number i have of ur mother

clear plume
#

He is 67….

jolly flume
#

no fucking way

#

hahahah

dapper zealot
#

Lmao

jolly flume
#

I am the 6 7

dapper zealot
#

67iyo

glossy marsh
#

six seven

rapid whale
#

Do you think given enough time, 67 is going to change meaning into like, "that's ducking stupid" so instead of saying that sentence you just say 67 and it's implied

wicked delta
#

Six sevennnn

wicked delta
#

I think we should all get lobotomized

grand mesa
grand mesa
#

My whimsy is all I have left

visual geyser
#

Damn

clear plume
#

No, 67 is going to stay where it’s at as a joke that’s so unfunny that it horseshoes back around to being ironically enjoyed

visual geyser
#

21 > 67

glossy marsh
#

The best number is 3

rapid whale
#

67 is a government psy op change my mind

clear plume
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The government is too incompetent for that

dapper zealot
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We need the return of 69

visual geyser
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Real

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Let’s bring it back

rapid whale
jolly flume
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idk

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the kirk psyop sure worked

visual geyser
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619 > 69

rapid whale
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HONOUUUU KAKAEE

glossy marsh
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13.1415 >>>>>

rapid whale
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666

jolly flume
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fukuin mamori...

glossy marsh
rapid whale
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We miss the old Diablo

glossy marsh
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way too red for me

zealous meteor
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oh boy purpleslop

glossy marsh
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and the other 8 solution?

wicked delta
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Looks more blueish to me honestly

jolly flume
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nothing purple is slop

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purple is gem

glossy marsh
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or gem is purple

visual geyser
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Damn this game sucks

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Let’s play pso2 new genesis?

glossy marsh
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pso2?

jolly flume
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hello kitty island adventure

wicked delta
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This would be a great game if I could make out with my wol sloppy style

zealous meteor
wicked delta
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But I am an artist so I could draw it

glossy marsh
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club penguin

visual geyser
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Drawing ff14

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How tf do you do that shit

wicked delta
grand mesa
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But i think it'd be cool if my characters kissed

visual geyser
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Every piece of gear has 500 layers of detail

visual geyser
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Ff artist are insane

jolly flume
zealous meteor
wicked delta
grand mesa
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Waiting for the google doccy

glossy marsh
visual geyser
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Both

wicked delta
grand mesa
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I do have three or so ocs I pose being intimate when I'm really bored and want to play doll

jolly flume
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my wol should kiss halmarut

grand mesa
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I just think it's cute

visual geyser
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Like bro I ain’t drawing this shit

wicked delta
visual geyser
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Fk outta here man

glossy marsh
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i'm scared 🗿

visual geyser
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I wanna draw Sphene

wicked delta
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I have like 4 ocs I really like drawing

visual geyser
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Her design looks so annoying

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💔 💔 💔

wicked delta
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One some of my friends have seen

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The others not really

grand mesa
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Do you draw for gil perchance..

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mb

wicked delta
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Depends on the gil being offered 😔

glossy marsh
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or a power ranger

grand mesa
round burrow
grand mesa
jolly flume
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I kinda wanna get a chibi done of my main to throw on tomestone

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my alt already has one

glossy marsh
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i want a teio

zealous meteor
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chibi of your main? so a lalafell? /s

wicked delta
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High as fuck bc I have so many projects to get done despair