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alex savage was brutal
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minus creator but creator alone still harder than any of current raids
when did you clear those?
oh, the difficulty is different when you have echo and overgeared
alex savage is still far from easy even unsync, tbh
you skipped everything
no, you just brute force everything
it's just click the button and pass
just o8s gravel
i cleared all those alex savages prob a few months back
a6s will kill you dead with height error too
yeah no
that's an insta wipe on savage basically
clearing it recently doesn't count
height error is brain dead mechanic lol
idk whether i should try and clr all of O1s-O4s or just skip O5s
cus im ilvl 343 rn
find a group first
yeah, but it's impossible to clear this shit with pugs
gear up first
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you need meals and also POT
self-sufficient
then gearing up
raiding is not about killing the boss only
of course if you're good enough and recruited by raid FC
they will sponsor you meals and pot
which is very unlikely for fresh raiders
it's still helpful
It's a hard knock life
on 1~3% wipe
Start on O5S tbh
or catch up from mistakes after died
go to the dummy, the Stone Sea Sky one
fight it without food or potions until you can beat it.
ilvl 343 is far from raid ready
yeah
you're in 4.1 gear
as long as you are with a good weapon you can raid at 343
I just wouldn't count on clearing after O6S
I need new deep dungeon
wait hold on, wtf is POT?
potions
I still recommend Stone Sea Sky for the budding raider. Find out where you are at.
Dunno why Tsun wrote it in capital letters
oh
!item grade 2 infusion of strength
lool
pot has different meaning
if you don't even come close to beating the o5s dummy in SSS you need a lot of work etc
let me show you a pot
yea not used to alot of ff terminology i just know the basic mmo terms lool
is ok
but do you know where the stone sea sky dummies are?
i think it will be hard to bear SSS dummy on 343
im bein totally serious
unless you summoned chocobo :P
ye he should gear up
Train is also a really fun fight
no ive never tried SSS
is my point
rhalgars bich is SSS for 4.0 content
im actually about to attempt to fight the train rn LOOL
maybe like one dungeon away from being able to buy some more 360 gear
yes that shale?
here's some good read
its still SSS in the unlock message lol
from bokchok big fan
starting fresh into raiding isn't always easy
have to dedicate time into it
i see
it's from NA PUG perspective
so i won't comment much
and i know he PUG a lot on most jobs
expect more suffering than success if you're pugging right off the bat
it gets better in time but yeah
One PF from another could be like night and day in performance and understanding
starts terrible
in raiding?
What's more is a lot of times even learning parties have zero patience if one or more rage quit
yup
The rest tend to leave if there's no communication going on
Best to break the ice as much as you can before you go in the instance
i have tried to in the past
yea maybe
Tough to find one depending on your play time
well i normally get on around 8 or 9 pm est
If you're not within the prime time of your data center
It becomes a task to find a static
most of the statics in my DC raid at times I can play on off days from work
yea i never really looked for a static, i was always looking for clr parties or lp's
well youre lucky lol
very hard to do
I don't want to be stuck playing without the textures
installation is now bald so hair doesn't exist if I don't fix this

lol
Well we almost beat it lool
Damn a couple of runs on that train and we could've cleared
But I'm so fucking tired so had to get off
All gamed out loo
Why? ๐ค
because Ultima Ultimate has some crazy mechanics in it
a summary of Ultima Ultimate
world first progged through the first three phases of the fight within twelve hours or so, because they were actually quite easy
but then ran into a wall with the fourth phase
and then they realized they'd been doing the first three phases wrong
so there are basically two ways to do the first half of the fight, but if you do it the easy way, you cannot progress into the second half
the first three phases are crazy difficult if you do them the hard way, and I guess world first is going insane because of that
And it's the same mechanics just turned up to 11
having to do them over and over
Ruda isn't that hard awoken ๐
Ifrit is pretty spicy
and that's what they're going crazy over
It's gunna be all the mechanics from previous ones with extra 
Yeah WF has probably made it to phase 4 and that's driving them insane
Nice <3
yeah, it's pretty dang enjoyable
will be interesting to start to work through ifrit haha
i dont think we'll do woke just yet
just wanna see the fight and pretend we're achieving something
hey non-woke lets you learn the base mechs
mm I suppose
I feel like woken garuda is pretty decent idea to hop right into though, since it doesn't change much or make it all that much harder

OOF
Just got home what's the furthest someone been ?
woke titan
yeah 2nd set of landslides after woketh arent telegraphed explicitly
but they spawn in between the previous set
so its a 2->1 dodge basically
Inb4 u just need to be out of the front
na
lemme grab a diagram someone made
red is first set,
white is second set
white has no telegraphs
The coins from lighthouse and rabanstre how are they capped?
like 1 coin per week or somethinf?
one per week for lighthouse
coins from rabanastre aren't capped
unlimited for rabanastre
ah i see and when does lighthouse cap reset?
ahh thanks!
What was it that awakened Titan?
having him be in the sludge puddle left behind by exploding a gaol
in order to have him in one long enough, since he's normally in tumult spam and can't be moved, is you chain gaol explosions from south to him at north (gaol exploding blows up adjacent gaol)
looool that's dope
I was actually thinking of something along those lines yesterday when folks were going about trying to get all the primals woken haha
waow
Rika prophet
if this was the balance id change my name to rika cultist
but you cant be a cultist here
Rika haxxor 
well I do need someone new to worship
Watching these guys wipe because they can't eye ball the gaol explosion distance right 
What if
To unwoke the primals
You need to do the woke mechanics in reverse
So garuda is 4 people gain 2 thermal low
Ifrit is 2 people stand in puddles to heal nails

Or just heal nails
(shin ex anyone?)
And for titan 3 people need to stand equidistantly in puddles for gaols to form around them
Galaxy brain
IIRC they "prime" themselves for the charge in the order they charge in
your kill order of buffed nails dictates the charge order
about the garuda tethers, does distance matter or is it aoe damage regardless?
good afteroon everyone ๐
garuda if u fail to "awake" her at first
u can awake her late right ?
or u have to awake her early
usual strat is to do 3 of the cleanses on the spiny plume AoE, and then one on the mesohigh tether
you can probably do 4 on the spiny plume AoE but you'd have to be fast and stack a lot of quick heals, and then you don't have a tank taking the tether with two stacks to limit his incoming damage
didn't knew ultimate had ost ?
that someone reached ?
if this is illegal topost delete it plz
since its primal song
Woah that's an impressive thinking emote
Nah, they're hired by Arab oil sheiks ๐
What step is the i335 eureka weapon? I hear it's as easy as hitting level 5 with the challenge log but isnt there also currency farming
getting the i335 eureka weapon is just having the antiquated version + 100 protean crystals
Ah ok thats easy enough. When do you start getting these crystals? I'm at the beach killing squib after squib for 50 exp to get my first 1000
you're assured one at a 30 kill chain iirc, but they're also random possible from killing mobs
easiest way to get them is doing the NMs
and converting anemos into protean
Cool. Whats an NM?
notorious monster, they're basically the boss monsters in eureka
Oh ok cool, hopefully wont have to kill hundreds of these things before getting to participate in those
who where
Yeah there was also a pic of it much lower. But both could very easily be praetoreum haha
and it doesn't have any buff icons under his health bar
they are rika
unless theres another layer of bullshit
Yeah, I'm sure. I'd be surprised if otherwise
that we havent seen
theres probably more BS
during Ultima Weapon
guy who tweeted out that pic also tweeted that jp got world first before servers were live
apart from 'woke'?
Until y'all give me video, I'm not rollin
I need a screenshot
not just some cutout of a healthbar lmao
they were posting pics of prog on twitter
Okay is there a reason that the stupid minstrel isn't giving me access to moon lady Ex?
Oh it's under the fucking high end duh Misaki you fool
lol
all current savage and extreme trials are under the high end duty, for future reference ๐
No I know, I just saw doggo in normal and figured it should have been in there
Haven't played since Deltascape Savage dropped
Not the first person to have made that mistake haha, at least you sorted it out. Have had folks argue with me that it wasn't there, even after I asked them to double check a few times, only for them to look and find it on the list
Ugh now I just need a group to run it with
good luck in party finder 
See
you just assumed the problem wrong
You assumed that the problem would be finding a group
the real problem
is memeors
I'm not worried about the quality of the group
you should be
Same as usual
I do hope UwU won't end until From Software show off their new not soul game
then it's just pain on pain
so i went to ultimate
i still dont understand how the 1st soak work
is 1st guy taking tank buster
or is it T10 charge
it's wild charge yeah
he sure does
I think we do like apoc rampart or something
I forget exactly other than I apoc haha
yeh just pop come mitigation stuff and ez pz
rampart/apoc and reprisal works fine for us
i pop rampart before pull so its up for the two tank soak later tho
i can't go back to whm
i tried to prog uwu as whm yesterday for a few pulls
and I just can't
now I'm back to ast
but literally every cohealer I get in uwu pfs are whm
so I switch to sch feelsbadman
WHM/SCH Poggers
everything about ast feels so nice rn
lightspeed+gravity spam
fast ass malefic casts
when I go back to whm I'm a slow boye again
earthly star is also goddamn awesome
Mini rant but fuck this I still can't reach 6k on O6S
I really need to concentrate a lot more than usual one day
NIN
Our group is progress focused rather than speedrun
No AST and MCH
Also SCH is kinda uh
Use chain strat at will
But yeah it's actually just me trying to concentrate
Is there a table with expected dps values per fight, sorted by gear lvl?
it can't? oh
Depends on your gear
there's like.. minimal raid dps you need to clear a fight, and also 3min dummies that can kinda tell you if you're doing enough dps to kill
Imo a good starting value would be 50% at blue
different pieces of gear make a HUGE difference
And as your gear gets higher work your way up to purple
uh how do I check the color of a parse?
mind you the "required dps" on that calculator doesn't account for party buffs and mechanics
upload
open a parse, go into damage dealt
I have. Is it the color of the graph?
Grey is 0-25, green is 25-50, blue is 50-75, purple is 75-95, orange is 95-99, grey is 100
Yes
100 is yellow lul
ok, for some reason I lack the Perf% stat in the logs
miss one trick attack
because thats part of ff logs
it's grey now
not part of ACT
Every time
@trim cloak is it a dummy fight
link the log @trim cloak
If it is fflogs doesn't have ranking for that
WHY DO YOU HAVE A 290 WEAPON
Wtf
Cause I hit 70 last week on BRD?
What
And started Eureka last week too
Its like
No excuses
just buy creation weapon and get 340
Yeah
At least you could just buy creation tome weapon
That's 330 without upgrading
train
Not an excuse
choo choo motherfucker
Oh wait
emp/numbears
I forgot
They still haven't unlock cryatalloid
just do level 70 content -> get 1000 creation -> do o4 four times -> do rabanastre -> get 340 weapon
Yeah tough spot, sorry
alternatively do byakko for i355, cause it's easy af
Oh wait only for uh i360 weap
I do not meet the minimum ilvl for byakko or tsuko
And I can't afford a crafted weapon as those are 1.5-2mil
Spam O4 normal 4 times
train? o6n?
no
Buy weapon
yeah just get the creation weapon then, reaching lvl 20 on eureka can take ages, if you're serious about savage just get a 340 asap
yeah I'm going to do that tonight
How do you evaluate a log to check where you can improve?
for brd
All I know for now is that my parse is shit.
it would just be easier if you linked the log
thats the absolute basics
Stormbite: 98.53%
Caustic Bite: 98.15%
sure I'll link it
is there a way to link a specific fight?
Cause currently it has like all my fights in it
ok my song uptime is ass. 62.44%
you're not really using an opener, so that's p bad
no foe casts
6/6/4 for songs
I know kefka doesnt have THAT much invuln
iron jaws looks a little high
but i might be wrong there
What's the count?
35
WEW LADY
9:39 fight
I dont think so
normal
You can't kill savage with that kind of overall dps
only 1 battle voice
21-23?
A lot to fix for fundamental issues

Learning
With level 5 in Eureka should I start going to NM farm parties? I still havent gotten my first crystal for krile's quest but I'm already like 80 kills in and I don't expect to get one any time soon now
3.2k how ๐
Aight, NM rewards guarenteed crystals that turn into the krile quest one right
Or do I have to get one krile crystal before I can break down the bigger ones
i've heard people say you need to get one krile crystal before gerolt can break down stuff for you
Nah Gerolt has no menu
ok r i p then
Just says something about the land of eureka and shoos me away
you have to get your first crystal as a drop
In that case, you're out of luck
Will NM monsters drop the protean/primordial/whatever they're called crystals
Or just anemos ones
Anemos only
Only anemos
NMs don't drop regular crystals
But anemos is better anyway
I havent been able to hit chain 30, the timer runs out faster than I can kill
@kind schooner chain LV 5 mobs
yeah, but Frost here needs a normal one right now lol
Another dude for dps
Try getting a few people together
Every group I've joined too the chain counter runs out around the 20s
Early 20s
Just not enough damage, these monsters are so tanky
yeah that first crystal is really annoying if you don't have a group
Is there a way to cheese it then because I've been with two two-man groups (for 3 people total) and both times couldnt get a 30 chain
do they even have one before you hand in the first crystal?
Yeah, we'd pull every imp in the area then once they were all dead we'd kill af ew skeletons and bombs
The timer ran out at 18 during the bomb/skeletons phase that one
When I was doing my water log at ele level 2/3 the chain ran out at about 24 or so because the other dps was level 3 and the monster we were fighting was level 4
Yeah I was 5, these are all 5/6
Should I just do it solo maybe, and kill one by one
Hmm. Maybe I'll just try spamming shout until theres a 4 man group
3 doesnt seem to work haha
Eureka potion?
Both groups so far were 2 dps (me as rdm) and a healer
did your chain break as in, the mobs don't spawn fast enough, or you guys weren't burning the monsters down fast enough?
the chain timer got low enough where a monster wouldnt die in our giant aoe pack before the chain went away
we were only aoe pulling
Oh, so never aoe spam in eureka? Unless in a NM farm
No aoe spam is fine
Constant 3+ pulls in both groups I was in
if you have a big enough party AOE spam is better
But again just me as rdm, someone else as dps, and a healer
but with 3 it's better to do 1-2 at a time and keep the chain going
so just 2 aoe dps
But if the timer is running out wouldn't single target burn be preferable
you should just all do ST, and pull the next mob when the current one is almost dead
Hmm. I dunno if I can convince farm parties to do that but I'll tell them
AOE burn is great if you have multiple people going ham, but not so much for small sized party
Every group I've seen have been meat grinders just pulling everything and spamming aoes, like a dungeon
it makes sense at a certain party size, but you mentioned that you usually only have 3 people
@sour solstice @wet stag oh yeah, I tend to refresh dots at about 10s left due to ping issues. I often experience packet loss so I grew kind of paranoid about that.
What can I do to improve opener and foe usage?
tbf I have no idea how to do the latter
!faq brdguide
Foes should just be whenever your mp is full
you can make a conscious decision to check it every time you're in army's paeon, because that song is ass and you don't have any procs to react to
My opener is Raging Strikes -> Straight shot -> Stormbite -> Minuet -> Caustic bite -> empyreal -> Sidewinders -> heavy shot -> bloodletter
time to check that
Mr happy got past doom
What was the lb order?
healer, dps, tank
so as theorized, nice
It wasn't dps healer tank?
Caster healer melee tank
i read something completley different for some reason
oh, what's the melee for? is there an aetherial tear or something
Titan needed to be woke
yeah if it's 4 lbs titan needs to be woke
previously we were just thinking it was caster healer tank
It is caster I think
Caster to kill the bits
Melee LB3 just nukes Lahabrea instantly
Caster -> Healer -> Melee -> Tank
For the woke titan
You have to make a daisy chain of gaols from th eback one
So you can get a sludge puddle on him while he tumults and a little after
What's the rough fight order? 3 primals in order, trigger woke 8 times so the group survives doom, fight ultima and then lahabrea?
well lahabrea just got one shot in that clip before ultima appears. we don't know if he will appear again later in the fight.
He is shit talking as ultima does his ultimate
i hope he comes back and gets melee lb3d again.
oh wow, both the opener and foe requiem usage are a lot more complex than I thought.
the basics of foe
is just max mp
thats all id worry about
opener on the other hand is some galaxy brain shit
the 4s before pull cast requires the tanks to use the countdown
which is somewhat inconsistent in DF
you can still precast it if you see a tank sprinting towards the boss
and in savage/ex people do countdowns more often. not a big deal though.
I've yet to see a tank sprint during the pull. Most just do this https://youtu.be/ouObpi5_DFU?t=5s
they...RP walk towards the boss?
Yeah they walk up there. Sometimes they throw out a shield lob/tomahawk/unmend
i've luckily never seen that
Is that often the case on Chaos?
Nope
had tanks do no countdown byakko ex though
I'll be back home next week so I won't have to play on 500ms anymore.
looking forward to that.
Oh, yeah. No countdowns put me on full tilt
Just walk off the platform/stage
*In 8 man content
lack of ready check is the worst for SMN
o/
it's "OK" if i lose my precast windblade/R3/R4 fish, but if you do it before my AF is 15s from being off cooldown i'm jumping lol
jesus chirst that ultima transition
when should you expect the ninja to trick attack? Are they running up to the boss with huton and suiton precast?
So delaying your dmg CDs until then is a good idea?
WOOOOO
Ultima phase look ultimately epic
that's why your sidewinder in the opener is 'delayed'
remember the 'ultima' randomly appearing in dun scaith
Shit we need ultima plating to drop
holy ultima
A+ explanations once again
the ultima appearance was pretty cool tbh
Also jesus all that shit everywhere
i prefered the ucob "special transiction" tho, but the uwu one is pretty cool nevertheless
What is this a kmmo?
Has the knockback to a safe spot been done before
the titan bomb one?
Yeah
mmm I guess marginally related was thordan ex where half the party had ice puddles, the other half had tether charges, and then you went to mid for a knockback, standing to not get knocked into one of the ice puddles
quite different scale but similar-ish and the only thing that specifically comes to mind
ohshi happy made it to ultima finally eh
second time
That transition was sick as fuck
those attacks are brutal lmao
oh kurogane already posted my clip xD
that fiery cross + invisible landslide is brutal
Its confirmed to have another already tsun
@hybrid rapids
What it is, is a spoilers
:)
if only u knew
tell tell
So why are people heal lbing for UwU
But the heal LB3 doesn't esuna???
That seems incredibly stupid especially since the timing on it for the video is so far off
its part of the "show"
Why?
it's the way the mechanic works. you do 4 lb3s in a row
It's a mechanic
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I personally think that the 4LB transition is cool
uhh question
Also if you didn't need to heal LB you could skip a woke Primal
should i spam sigma for gear or continue getting ilvl360 gear with mendacity?
@heady widget mendacity is weekly, so cap that
^
for 5 ilvls lower
so spam swallow for the most mendacity?
!itemglam bonewicca casting coat
then spam Swallow's
What's the name of the mage one?
!itemglam Bonewicca Whisperer's Jacket
How do you upgrade cracted gear
where the scrip vendors are
is Eureka still useful?
Yes
yes
It's always a good idea to invest in a relic weapon anyway
max relic ilvl rn?
355
maybe even 70?
no
I mean it's probably pretty clear that 4.45 relic will be 385 if 4.25 was 3.55
relic almost never on par with current savage until the end
yeah, that's going to be an interestingly stuttery progression then.

yeah having done hw relic, if you're expecting to have something to beat the current final tier of raiding
it's just like previous relics
you're wasting your time with relic
it's always been this way
if you want the BEST weapon, you have to savage raid to the end of the tier
HW's progression is: 210 > 230 > 240 > 260 > 270 >275
it does sort of compete before that
when you choose your own stats
Anemos competes with Tomestone no aug
this only changes when the expac is about to end, if the patterns hold, and thus far, it's been close. it's still worth doing for a weapon before you clear the final fight of the tier, and if the stats beat tome? 100%
I do it no matter what cuz #MyFuckingAesthetic
if anything just get i365 weapon and use that until u farm for diamond
a whole new zone
pagos will likely feature new looks for weapons
for 5 ilvls
Stats beat unupgraded tome weapon to be clear
waow
I'm inclined to lean towards 65 personally
363 
holy shit
no reason to hope for 370
If it's 370 it'll beat Diamond Weapons though
lol no
unless we can't set the stats yet
depends on class
only on Monk
etc etc
most classes it shouldnt
Weapons have 5 materia slots though
the next stage won't necessarily
secondary stats are overvalued way too much sometimes
it's an entire extra weapon damage
I don't recall seeing them say that the next step will have 5 but eh
Ew fuck that
we just hope Kael
Why wouldn't it
ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ no point in getting your hopes up
cause SQEX be like suck it
If it doesn't have materia slots it'll need to be at least 365 or else that's a downgrade probably
Unless the substats on the weapon changes with the upgrade again
deneb was pie/crit for both two steps
hm that i doubt
I think the 5 materia slots is a compromise for custom stats
hmm possibly
choose your stats is usually like 3-4th step
They may decide to skip a step, sure
they may not
we'll just have to wait and see
I hate speculating
But it's hard not to
The last time I speculated something I was super disappointed.
!action Tackle Mastery

relatable
Earth Tackle: when you don't want to hit the thing you're punching for some reason. โข
Did you know
That if you get shielded and take no damage
That Riddle of Earth doesn't proc
Yes and it's infuriating.
oh
Monk is just...
Why do you hate Monks Yoshi P
Like pug monks use RoE. :D
wot
I wish this was the Balance so I could react with the REEEE emoji
I'm guessing Thordan/T13 style wall of doom?
have to figure out the pattern
(since there doesn't seem to be a place to fall off of for Titan's knockbacks to matter otherwise)
wait actually T9 had the wall o'doom too IIRC
might have been the first?
ah ... yeah I must not really remember 5's well because unsync it just zips by
9999 I think for Thordan's, and same for Zurvan IIRC
so does uwu have bits where your MP gets refilled spontaneously like during the original ultima fight?
... yup I actually didn't even realize till tonight that when you fight Ultima in Praetorium when Hydaelyn tells you to look to the Light your MP gets refilled
doesnt look like it
whats the problem
we always get killed by 2 super cyclones
cause u have 2 stacks on both people
who are tethered
make the OT proc his 2 stacks
make him stack for one
and move him out
MT stays on 2 stacks?
yeh
kk
gotcha, thanks a lot!
np, should resolve the problem
1 stack u take no dmg
regardless of who it is
well not no dmg, but its pretty minimal
ahhh gotcha
LAUGHS IN GARUDA
Heehee HAHA hahaha HEEHEE haha HEEEEEE!!
That picture is quite artistic considering everything trying to kill you while taking it
Safe spot is the landslide inside wheel btw
Yeah, toward either top or the bottom of that landslide, then walk into the wheel after the first set of mechanics set off
Haru has done it successfully befor
its just on the opposite side of the arean away from ultima
how woken Ifrit charge works?
As in during ifrit or quartet
It's just a super wide dash with the X after
So you gotta look at where he is to avoid the X
both
its on the order u killed nails
1st nail killed is where 1st dash coming
keep 1st and last nail killed on 1 side
wait no
Sadly i dont have enough experience with ifrit
no, i meant how it goes: like woken wheel is point blanc + donut after
then go back to 3rd
so i read woken charge is dash + explosion
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