6.5 AR (the jank sign-up)

[elfin crest]

Going to make post in events and ff chat to link to this. The bot doesn't seem to work for me and I can't seem to find out why so we're gonna do this in the worst way possible.

Because discord doesn't provide chronological order of reacts, I'm gonna need you fiends to just post a message, I don't care what's in the message, just make one message in here (FF name might help if your discord name is a riddle of some sort).

The raid will happen on Tuesday at 6PM Server Time (7PM for us normal folk).

**First 24 to sign up goes on the first run (including me ), if there's more than 24, we'll organise a second run after (around 1-2 hours after start time), as I'm sure plenty of people like Rudi need to run this like 28 times to get a chestpiece, so we'll have the numbers to fill. **

Second run will give priority to those who have signed up, then those who have yet to run, and the rest can fill (inv others as well).

IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure you finish the rest of the 6.3 AR quests, as some show up after and can take a good hour or so to finish (unless you're a cutscene skipping troglodyte jk but not rly).

Do try to show on time, we'll probably wait 15-20 mins tops before maybe pushing someone up into the first run.

If you would prefer to be in the second run, just say in your message.

[ornate elk]

Skill issue (any role, pref healer)

[steep heron]

DRG memes (Gladio ;p) can go any role necessary

[odd sorrel]

any healers for uwu?

[grave brook]

yes i am awake yes. (lucia)

[pseudo canyon]

I can can either tank or DPS, can heal if needed but it'd be cursed

[lilac pendant]

Smn

[acoustic vortex]

ohai

[vale thunder]

Can any role , but i prefer Dps

[candid pulsar]

Pfffffffffffft

[acoustic vortex]

i prefer 'eeling

less buttons lol

[steep stratus]

Fuck you digby

[burnt shore]

Only have DRG Level 90. Preferably 2nd run.

[magic cloud]

i'll work from home and get there

i can do all 3 main roles, would be DNC, AST, or PLD

[lilac pendant]

SMN AND I GET DIBS IF CASTER ROBES DROP

[limpid girder]

It's not like I even want to run this, baka

[sacred portal]

down to play as whatever

except scholar

[leaden wigeon]

I can join on whatever!

[steady mulch]

https://tenor.com/bxrV7.gif

[jolly fossil]

I can do Reaper (sage too if needed but prefer reaper first)

[crude canopy]

Can dps don't think I can get my tank up in gear in time

[gray storm]

Pref eeler or dps

[open leaf]

Prefer Healer or DPS 🙏

[teal skiff]

DPS

[foggy coyote]

Get me in coach

[open leaf]

so <t:1696356000:F> ?

[pseudo canyon]

Ok that makes it 2 more slots left for the first run I think
I'm sure digby will confirm later bc both him and myself have a list to double check haha

[lilac pendant]

First Run

1. **Digby **- DRK/PLD (presumably)
2. **Mamani **- Healer (can adjust)
3. **Gladio **- DRG (can adjust)
4. **Milos ** - (assuming any role)
5. **Lux **- RDM (presumably)
6. **Sylpha **- Tank/DPS (Healer if desperate)
7. **ZOeff **- Healer
8. **Nora **- DPS
9. **Aleth **- DPS (presumably)
10. **Fralcon **- Any
11. **Liri Ahzora **- DNC/AST/PLD
12. **Garg **- SMN (WAR as a backup)
13. **Rudi **- MNK (presumably)
14. **Yarz **- Any (not SCH)
15. **Erhi Kha **- Any
16. **Xevolo **- Any (Casters/Ranged preferred)
17. **Stel **- RPR (SGE as a backup)
18. **Shep **- DPS
19. **Bryn **- Healer (DPS as a backup)
20. **Reid **- Healer (DPS as a backup)
21. **Nina **- DPS
22. **Caersen **- Unknown (presumably SMN?)
23. **Marcus **- Any (Healer preferred)
24. **Bish **- Any

Second Run

1. **Paninho **- DRG (would prefer to be in second run)

This is what we have currently. Let me know if anything is wrong or needs fixing

[pseudo canyon]

Ok yeah that matches with mine

[lilac pendant]

Sweet okay. If I have any role or participations incorrectly assumed let me know

[steep stratus]

im fine with any

[karmic raft]

i can come in as any (prefer healer)

[pseudo canyon]

That makes it 23

[elfin crest]

also don't worry too much about roles anyways, a lot of us can adjust and worst case scenario, we can take any role with a full group regardless of requirement

[waxen dirge]

aloo can i come i do any role oki uwu

[lilac pendant]

Bam

[elfin crest]

just fyi, for anyone else wanting to join, we will do a second run so still feel free to sign up

[steady mulch]

note: I prefer casters/phys ranged, healers worst case

[magic cloud]

i like that me and Erhi are the only one that need to be named with last names included

it's like im in high school all over again

everyone calls me by my ful name

[leaden wigeon]

in fairness, it's because my online prescense is know as "Erhikha"

[lilac pendant]

Yeah it’s missing something without

[acoustic vortex]

If someone bows out or doesn't show up, would it be possible for Eltariel to join us? She's interested but decided not to sign up because we don't know what time it starts

She wants to join as Bard 🙂

[pseudo canyon]

it'll be at 7pm UK time
if no one dips we'll be doing a second run anyway so everyone is included

[acoustic vortex]

7pm

I missed that

8pm dutch time

[pseudo canyon]

yeah

[ornate elk]

Yea, even if noone bows out, the both of you can still join the second run, which I'd assume start around 9/10pm CEST?

[acoustic vortex]

I'll probably join the second run either way, I'll need it to actually see what the mechanics are

10pm CEST might be too late for us

[pseudo canyon]

it'll probably start at 9 for you for a second run, i don't see us being inside the alliance for more than an hour

[acoustic vortex]

in b4 wipe after wipe

I know for sure I'll die at least once. I'm terrible at recognizing mechanics on my first go lol

[pseudo canyon]

i mean we're all gonna be new to it so we don't expect perfection haha

[acoustic vortex]

And sadly I won't have the benefit of just following the herd 😛

[white flicker]

hey that's my strategy

[acoustic vortex]

Honestly, mine too half the time Panics

[white flicker]

It works most of the time

[leaden wigeon]

I just learned through a meme that there is a knockback effect that causes pets to dissappear, specifically in the new AR, so SMN and SCH beware... (it's in the patch notes, known issues)

[lilac pendant]

[steep stratus]

Carby better learn to dodge

[ornate elk]

Can't eat the Selene if you yeet the Selene

[lilac pendant]

Get your daily recommended intake of carbs

[candid pulsar]

How the fuck do they manage to let that go live

[steep heron]

got the AR unlocked takes about 20-30 mins

[leaden wigeon]

Ikr???

[leaden wigeon]

Good to know, I will have to blast it when I get home

[steady mulch]

I'm going to work on unlocking it now then

because i'll be back a bit before 7pm bst

I didn't do the stuff from 6.3

doing it now and trying to push the new stuff

[leaden wigeon]

I knew someone would not have done it until today

I fucking called it

at least you are doing it before raid time

[lilac pendant]

Always one

[steady mulch]

I unlocked it, all before work too!

[odd sorrel]

Once you unlock Thaleia, you can get it in AR roulette right?

aka if you don't want to do it, you shouldn't queue for it

[limpid girder]

I think so

[elfin crest]

will an @ everyone ping just the people in here or the whole server?

should just be here right?

[gray storm]

I think you want @ here for just the channel

[elfin crest]

ahhh okay

[leaden wigeon]

@ here pings everyne that is online, not everyone that is in here

[elfin crest]

just gonna do a ping to re-iterate everything

oh

[leaden wigeon]

It's basically @ everyone light

not sure how that works with threads though

[elfin crest]

heck

worried i'm gonna drag the whole fucking server into the thread lmfao

[leaden wigeon]

yea

Imma go test this elsewhere

[elfin crest]

yeah i got my own test server but i can't really do it solo xD

[leaden wigeon]

seems like it is a nope, it just pings everyne in the thread and doesn't drag anyone in

[elfin crest]

okay

[leaden wigeon]

and if I am wrong

[elfin crest]

so if anything goes wrong, we blame ehri

[leaden wigeon]

Godspeed

[elfin crest]

xD

[leaden wigeon]

No, I am innocent

[odd sorrel]

You're a mod Digby, you can't do wrong

[elfin crest]

exactly

and i'm allowed to enforce mod things upon those who have been blamed for doing wrong

[leaden wigeon]

Oh wait, I did test this in a thread just now and this is a forum I assume it works the same, but ya know

[elfin crest]

oh fml

[leaden wigeon]

Apparently it does drag everyone into forum posts

[elfin crest]

[leaden wigeon]

I don't have forums in my server apparently

[elfin crest]

yeah i think it's community only

[leaden wigeon]

ah okay

annoying

[foggy coyote]

You want to use at here I think

Not at everyone

[elfin crest]

but i thought that was only for people who are currently online

[ornate elk]

It is

[foggy coyote]

Nvm then

[elfin crest]

so if i @ here then everyone online will be dragged in

[foggy coyote]

At channel?

[leaden wigeon]

[elfin crest]

i have no idea

[foggy coyote]

[leaden wigeon]

or you'd only ping the people that are in here, but only the people currently online, so you'd miss like 10 people with that ping as well

[elfin crest]

so

basically

i need to do this like an old fashioned marketing email that breaches data protection

just put everyone in individually

[foggy coyote]

According to Reddit everyone is only those in the thread

[elfin crest]

but this is a forum right?

[foggy coyote]

Dare you trust it tho

Oh shit ye

[pseudo canyon]

I wouldn't trust it

ping everyone individually for the love of god

[elfin crest]

alright, time to put everyone's name inside one message. i wonder if there's a ping limit lmao

[leaden wigeon]

apparently there is a ping limit

[elfin crest]

fuck me

[leaden wigeon]

But it is 100

[foggy coyote]

Mentions in forums work the say way as threads according to faq

[elfin crest]

oh thank god xD

hmmmm

[leaden wigeon]

(but also role related? So maybe there is a different limit for individuals)

[pseudo canyon]

i'd still do it individually just bc sometimes discord likes to change stuff without telling people

[elfin crest]

okay well, this whole sign up process is already incredibly jank so there's no harm in making this even more jank by doing it individually right?

[foggy coyote]

True

[elfin crest]

it's just par for the course at this rate

[leaden wigeon]

[pseudo canyon]

embrace the jank

[magic cloud]

@ here in a normal channel should ping everyone online who can see the channel, but in a thread @ here should ping everyone in the thread even when offline i believe

[elfin crest]

exceeds mention limit lmfao

[lilac pendant]

Why are you like this

[pseudo canyon]

split the mentions into 2 posts is the best idea i guess

[elfin crest]

this is what happens when i get no help with the event bot

[leaden wigeon]

what if you make a new role

[leaden wigeon]

you didn't ask?!

[elfin crest]

i did xD

[lilac pendant]

To be fair he did

[elfin crest]

not you maybe but i asked mousie lmao

[lilac pendant]

But yeah a temp role would work best

[pseudo canyon]

only issue is people might have role pings off

[elfin crest]

i'm just gonna make the post and reply to it with mentions xD

[lilac pendant]

Then tough lmao

[leaden wigeon]

Oh fair

[elfin crest]

REMINDER

Do your 6.3 post alliance raid quests, they can take a while if you don't skip cutscenes, probably around an hour .

For reference, the quests are below, in order:
||
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/In_Heavenly_Company

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Divine_Nonintervention
||
Event will be at 6pm Server Time (4 hours and 20 mins from this post), meet outside Omphalos (Mor Dhona) preferably but not required. Second run will follow after the first run. (<t:1696356000:t> <t:1696356000:R>)

I will try to arrange the party earlier than the start time, don't feel pressured to rush anything. We'll give about 15-20 mins leeway after start time, in case anyone's running late, and potentially fill with one of the second runners instead or anyone else available.

Don't fret too much about roles, we can always re-arrange things when the party is set up, but I think enough of us are able to adjust, and the glory of having a full pre-made is that we don't have role requirements, so we can just meme with roles if we want violence.

Also for anyone who has run it already, please no spoilies or hints, probably doesn't need to be said but just in case

here come the pings

[elfin crest]

@candid pulsar @waxen dirge @acoustic vortex @teal skiff @crude canopy @leaden wigeon @foggy coyote @steep heron @grave brook @ornate elk @vale thunder @open leaf

[open leaf]

Still working bitch

[elfin crest]

@limpid girder @magic cloud @jolly fossil @gray storm @white flicker @steep stratus @lilac pendant @odd sorrel @burnt shore @pseudo canyon @sacred portal @steady mulch and @elfin crest

[leaden wigeon]

He's just pinging everyone about the info 😂

[elfin crest]

imagine reading first

[lilac pendant]

Lmao

[leaden wigeon]

Also as much as I enjoy the prospect of running whatever we want without role requirements, I do suggest we take 3 tanks

[odd sorrel]

Digby pinged himself

[elfin crest]

3 tanks 3 healers minimum

[open leaf]

I read the first line and thought it was just a reminder to do quests

[elfin crest]

it is but just to do them before start time xD

the 6.3 ones at least

[open leaf]

Yeah

[elfin crest]

the raid unlock usually doesn't take long

[leaden wigeon]

20 minutes someone said

[pseudo canyon]

to make sure it's clear
<t:1696356000:f>
is the start time
you should see that timestamp with your own time

[gray storm]

Looking at the sign ups we have 5 set healers I say we put Marcus in the group as a solo healer to live out his dreams

[odd sorrel]

It depends how quickly you read basically

[acoustic vortex]

Lmfao, skimming through it all was one heck of an experience. Digby being worried to reassured to worried xE

[elfin crest]

oh one sec typo on the time lmao

[acoustic vortex]

Sadly AoE heals don't work on other parties. He'd have to manually heal everyone individually haha

[elfin crest]

he's okay with that dw

[lilac pendant]

They mean just in the party to allow for an additional deeps

Not the only healer ever

[leaden wigeon]

we still have 4 other healers to divide over the other 2 groups Bryn means solo healer for that party

[acoustic vortex]

Nahhh let's do 23 DPS, 1 Marcus

Tanks unnecessary

[lilac pendant]

24 summoners

[elfin crest]

natural tank swaps incoming

[leaden wigeon]

nooooo

0 SMNs and 0 SCHs

[magic cloud]

DRG is a tank anyway right?

[leaden wigeon]

Pets are broken in the new AR

[lilac pendant]

Good, just like me

[ornate elk]

Wow, SCH and SMN OP in the new AR, got it

[pseudo canyon]

add this to your post digby <t:1696356000:t> ( <t:1696356000:R> )
it'll show the time relative to the viewers timezone

[leaden wigeon]

Watch as your fairy gets knocked back

I do wonder what that will be like

[elfin crest]

all go blm, you are allocated one metre of running per 5 casts, every other movement must be done via aetherial manipulation or between the lines

[pseudo canyon]

for those that haven't seen the patch notes, yes there's a bug where the pets can be affected by a knockback in the AR

[leaden wigeon]

But only in the new AR... for some reason

[acoustic vortex]

That reminds me. Since I only just now lvled BLM I suddenly had a moment when I saw the aetherial manipulation spell. I first saw/used it as BLU lol

[leaden wigeon]

Also I guess spoiler alert, one of the bosses has a knockback

[lilac pendant]

Blind run ruined

[elfin crest]

oh right blm is aetherial manipulate, not manipulation. god forbid they commit to manipulating the aether

[leaden wigeon]

I just call it aether zoomies

[elfin crest]

that works too i guess

[acoustic vortex]

doesnt the BLU version also have an L after it

or is that eureka

[leaden wigeon]

That'd be Eureka

[leaden wigeon]

No, BLM has Aetherial Manipulation

[grave brook]

blue has a teleport called Loom

[leaden wigeon]

BLU has Aetherial Mimicry and Aetherial Spark, are you thnking of those? Or Loom, which is the teleport ability for BLU

[lilac pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/tis-confusion-impractical-jokers-brian-quinn-q-gif-7435310029511948110

[grave brook]

either from flame seargant delvag (cant remember the name) or "those floaty ghost fuckers" in tam-tara hard who are a pain

[acoustic vortex]

one of those lol

[leaden wigeon]

😂

BLU is fairly straight forward, wdym

sometimes you throw up a fish

[acoustic vortex]

though I'm pretty sure the Loom one was what I had in mind in terms of function

[leaden wigeon]

other times you screech like Garuda and give uwu raiders PTSD

[grave brook]

today i learned i was a blue mage after visiting a chip shop

[leaden wigeon]

and other times you knock your rabid fanbase away

[leaden wigeon]

you good?

[grave brook]

(i have never got food poisoning from a chippy for clarification)

[leaden wigeon]

[acoustic vortex]

I have no clue how BLU works anymore, I had to manually mouse over all of my abilities before finally finding Final Sting so I could show @white flicker how to res someone (and cheekily give her a chieve in the process hehe)

[grave brook]

there is a food van near my house that im pretty sure doesnt have a licence to operate here. it smells good but the van looks like the only place it would send me is the hospital i have not yet and will not be eating there

[leaden wigeon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQ7yUvbYxA Here is a tutorial

[acoustic vortex]

[leaden wigeon]

(but in all seriousness, there are just set builds you can follow: https://i.imgur.com/DZ2LnsM.png. Just taking these buttons and ignoring everything else makes this class a lot more straight forward than most other jobs.)

[acoustic vortex]

Yes erika I'm aware such guides exists 😛

It's that it's been literally over a year since I touched BLU so I had to manually dig in my brain what even the murder myself ability was called haha

[leaden wigeon]

I just wanted to link it so I wouldn't be accused of scaring people away from BLU okay

[acoustic vortex]

😛

fair

[leaden wigeon]

Can't scare people away from uwu anymore since they finally filled

[acoustic vortex]

oh yea speaking of I actually don't have much ti-

I kid I kid 😛

[ornate elk]

Wait, uwu is scary? Nobody told me! I'm ou-

[candid pulsar]

I appreciate that Digby pinged himself so as to keep things fair

[elfin crest]

we're all equals here

[acoustic vortex]

communist detected

[elfin crest]

[open leaf]

Surprised you didn't say "I'll soloheal" to roast me

[elfin crest]

oh you're one of the 5?

[open leaf]

Yeah

[elfin crest]

(that was sarcasm)

[open leaf]

Red mage per party pls 🤣

[gray storm]

Well we have 4 healers and a green corpse already accepted that

[open leaf]

Accurate ngl

I spent like 25% of the last blind ally raid dead the other 50% healing and 25% running around like a headless chicken

[grave brook]

oh so just normal then

[elfin crest]

just heal less and you can put 50% into 2 things instead

[grave brook]

wait why are we roasting Reid today. wednesday and thursday are roasting reid day

[elfin crest]

because we missed last week

[open leaf]

Every day is roast reid day for bryn

Me does something stupid in [plateup/bg3/apex/FF]
Bryn: sigh
Me: I'm an idiot
Bryn: yes you are

Minecraft as well tbh

[leaden wigeon]

I'm surprised Bryn still puts in the effort to sigh

[elfin crest]

he probably doesn't need to anymore, reid just hears a sigh when he fucks up, like a backwards pavlov's dog

[open leaf]

Yeah maybe that bits in my head

[grave brook]

i'm surprised you don't also get "REEIIIIIIDDDD" in mousie's voice just ringing

[steady mulch]

Everyone has a reid

I'm currently the Reid of my static

[grave brook]

I am the Reid of my friend group and Anna is probably the Bryn

[steady mulch]

Just ask fral how much I got him depressed from my fuckups

[grave brook]

so the blind static has two Reids

[steady mulch]

You also have rudi, elen and bish

[leaden wigeon]

Why do you say this with so much pride?

[candid pulsar]

Probably worth reminding people that missed it earlier or didn't read the notes but there's a known issue:

An issue during the alliance raid Thaleia wherein the knockback effect of certain boss mechanics cause pets and the effects of turret actions to disappear

[open leaf]

Don't play summoner or scholar

[ornate elk]

Or MCH apparently

[open leaf]

Ah yes I suppose the turret counts

And the robot queen thing

[leaden wigeon]

or DRK then

[open leaf]

Does that count as a pet?

It doesn't have a health bar

[leaden wigeon]

Does the Robot queen?

[open leaf]

Ah yeah true

[lilac pendant]

I’ll fucken play as SMN if I wanna, bugs be damned

[ornate elk]

They found a way to raise the SMN skill ceiling; have to resummon your pet mid-rotation

[lilac pendant]

Imagine you had to recast after each bigboy

[steady mulch]

Pride? Maam I'm not proud, I absolute abhor it, I literally almost cried during one of the reclears we did because of it and what stupid shit my ADHD does to me.

[limpid girder]

I assume we gather in Mor Dhona like last time?

[lilac pendant]

Yeah

[open leaf]

For those people who don't know how timezones work

THIS COUNTDOWN WILL AUTOMATICALLY SHOW HOW LONG UNTIL RAID

🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽
👉 <t:1696356000:R> 👈
🔼 🔼 🔼 🔼 🔼 🔼

[steep stratus]

might want to change meeting location

[open leaf]

lot of people at the pickup spot?

[steep stratus]

no a bitch is there

[open leaf]

ah

Digby's delegated party forming to me

Bryn and I will be dming peeps in list the PF code once we get it up

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE CODE

Digby will kick people who are not in the list

just give me 2 mins 🙂

[ornate elk]

Ah, I was about to suggest meeting up at the shrine of your patron deity, and making a tour of gathering all the players

[magic cloud]

where's the quest start?

[steady mulch]

I'm doing MSQ for now

[ornate elk]

AR3 unlocks in Mor Dhona, next to the gates

[open leaf]

Mor Dhona

[magic cloud]

perfect thank you

[leaden wigeon]

can't join the PF until you have it unlocked btw

[sacred portal]

😓 how longs the unlock quest

[grave brook]

20-30 minutes depending on how fast you go

[ornate elk]

Always two, there are. Sith or people that didn't unlock? You decide

[sacred portal]

i just got home ;-;

[leaden wigeon]

same

literally started as soon as i could

[open leaf]

no worries, won't be starting until like 10-15 past 🙂

[magic cloud]

@open leaf @gray storm i need pf code

oh wait my bad message requests are dumb

[open leaf]

👍

[lilac pendant]

Woss happnin'

[leaden wigeon]

minion spoilers. Sorry guys

[acoustic vortex]

REEEEEE

[burnt shore]

Can't see the spoiler ||there is a 99 in the way||

[leaden wigeon]

Final boss related spoilers: ||Figuring out what pronouns to use for the boss reminded me of this:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nims2Hwl-5E||

[open leaf]

Code for run 2 is 2905
Search for P'tajha Rihll in PF - Private, Tab 2 (apparently Party Finder has tabs)

We are presently 11/24

[magic cloud]

now those are the rolls you like to see

[sacred portal]

2 90s on the cards still missed out

thanks for the event btw

[grave brook]

good event. should have stayed for the second run but my friends were doing the EX so i thought i'd give that a try

[burnt shore]

Frankly I'm amazed that I only died 3 times in the whole run.

Normally I'm so much worse

[ornate elk]

It's pretty doable if the tanks aren't hunting you down

[burnt shore]

died 5 and 6 times in Aglaia and Euphro by comparison (in PF mind)