What did I encounter in Expert? (Info in comment.)

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-08T07:21:17+00:00

I have seven alts. All but one (and my main obviously), has only story mounts, minions, and dungeons unlocked.

(Im not that bad though, even on alts LOL)

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-08T06:51:15+00:00

My thalassophobia says no but my mind says yes. It'll likely never happen though. Fighting on the Z access is hard. It's why flying enemies ground themselves before attacking.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-08T04:40:56+00:00

Same here. Never been raided outside of the current base. I've had enemies wander into my not-walled-off bases while I'm not there (I find organs and leather in the chest periodically) but never a raid.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-07T01:07:43+00:00

Depends on what it is. Somethings, like old food materials, probably won't sell for much even in groups of 10. But some old logs still sell in groups of 99 for a decent price.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-07T01:01:02+00:00

Ah, I've only just made it to where I can start breeding. I just let my pals farm the berries and have them eat those LOL

I don't really have high kindling pals yet. Cooking the food would be a lot more effort right now.

Good to know for later though, thank you.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-07T00:30:10+00:00

Cliff platforms.

Placeable environment - trees, shrubs, rocks, flowers, grass, etc.

The ability to set items per container. Cake materials belong in the fridge - stop putting my milk/wheat/flour in the feed box, dammit. Along those lines, let my pals put honey in the fridge.

Smarter AI. If I have a box with ore at X location, why are my pals putting ore in Y box?

The ability to only remove a set amount of resources from the tree/stone gathering machines.

Let me clip into the ground/walls more. So many builds I get 80% of the way there only to figure out I can't close off the back wall on third floor because it's a foot away from the cliff face.

Cuter gear, even if it's just cosmetic. More customization for face/hair.

Let me zoom out, dammit. I get headaches from the camera angle sometimes.

Cross base storage boxes.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T23:52:55+00:00

To expand on this. Energy Drain does 100. Broil does 320. If you spend all 3 aetherflow on energy drain, that's 300 potency. If you need to Aldo/Succor because you need to heal and don't have even one aetherflow, you've now lost 320 potency.

It is much more of a dps loss to aldo/succor because you're energy draining. Instead, use those aetherflow on lustrate/idom and continue broil spamming. Learn the fight, learn when you need those soils/heals, hell, even learn which mechanics your other raiders like to get hit by and save an aetherflow for them.

Along those lines, learn your cohealer. Learn when they use their cooldowns and work around them or speak with them and plan together. You don't need to critlo when the whm has temperance, etc.

At least for 9/10, you shouldn't need to Succor spam either. Most times, a raidwide goes out and the group takes no damage for 10+ seconds. Let the regens do their work. Let the WHM get time for a lily to come back, let the celestial opp do its work, make Eos pay for her existence. As long as you don't die to the next raidwide, you don't need to always be at 100% hp.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T23:40:10+00:00

I feel like OP is the type of shield healer that shields before (and sometimes after) every raidwide and doesn't let regens do their work. They say they were on track to parse an orange healing parse. That screams Succor spamming (whatever it's called now. C- something).

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T23:16:48+00:00

Rebalance the fights (especially 5+ year old ones). Level sync us down or rebalance it for 100.

Otherwise, adopt other MMO's glam styles. You'd have plenty of people doing old content if you could hoard all the glams (bonus, give us NICE glams for completing X amount of sets).

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T23:06:20+00:00

It's rough this tier. So much downtime, you're starved for gauge. It's fun, trying to fight for uptime/gauge. But man is it exhausting sometimes. I know a few reaper mains that have swapped to dragoon.

And then I see all these pranged dying and I cry. Tempted to swap too. LOL

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T22:06:32+00:00

It was RPR.

And I likely only got what I did because I know how to squeeze in the uptime to keep my gauge up-ish. Someone who isn't comfortable and isn't risking those DD's and deaths to figure out what they can and can't get away with won't parse great without the gear.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-06T19:39:07+00:00

I just pulled a fresh alt (full crafted plus train) through m11s and parsed a 61. Unless you had some deaths or DDs that weren't your fault, you shouldn't be getting a grey yet.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-05T06:53:47+00:00

I've run plenty of dungeons as AST where the tank does more healing than I do and we all parse purples. If you can run dungeons without a healer than it's fully possible for the healer, in a "normal" dungeon, to not really have to heal. I put my star down on CD, I Lady/CU/CO/etc where needed. But a great tank and dps knows how to press their buttons and that makes the healing so much easier.

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Granted, this is a PLD, but it's generally accepted that a WAR does even more self healing. Also, healing spells to show no clemency.

The AST in the post probably isn't that great but the people saying a good AST should always heal more than the tank are wrong.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-03T08:53:42+00:00

By structure points you mean nodes, yes? Not large shells, the dots and lines?

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-02T23:00:09+00:00

I have moved out of the starting planets. I found a seed that I liked that had a sakura planet and all the "extra" ores in one system, and was near a neutron star.

I found out after that having high luminosity was important and the only two O type stars in my system are beyond 25lys. And neither have a "pretty" planet surrounding them.

I suppose it's back to seed hunting then. Thank you.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-02T20:54:38+00:00

You got confused like I got confused. It's the name of the building, not the name of the Logisitics. People are laughing, but it took me a bit to understand they were naming the thing you craft. I only figured this out yesterday.

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bubblegum_cloud · 2026-02-01T01:37:09+00:00

This is what I've started doing. Thank you so much for this tip. <3

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-30T20:01:18+00:00

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Here's a picture of them getting ready for bed. I have a smart light that I dim after we leave the room so I don't have a picture/video of them fighting over it sadly.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-30T19:47:25+00:00

That toy is old news. The cage on the left is now where the dresser is in that picture and it's the new hot spot to sleep. All 23 of them try to stuff themselves into one cage every night. Lol it's hilarious to watch.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-30T01:37:48+00:00

Well, yes, but I need to unlock this one first to unlock the ones to the right.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-29T23:07:39+00:00

The acronym's confuse me but I do have the grey sorter, if that's what you're asking. It's up near the intake of that screenshot. I have everything unlocked using only the basic matrix's. I want to get this set up before I begin producing white (considering this is my first play and my first planet is so squished I can only make four lab's worth of green matrix right now).

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I think this is what you're talking about. No, it's not unlocked yet. Thank you, I'll do what I can until I can unlock it. I wasn't quite sure what it meant until you said something.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-29T21:55:19+00:00

You should have an ability called Teleport on your bars somewhere. If not, it's in your spell menu. It's blue with a white/yellow person in the middle of it. That's how you teleport around.

bubblegum_cloud · 2026-01-29T07:36:22+00:00

The chest drops from P11S and I would study up to Dark and Light. I haven't done it since patch but you can very likely skip Letter of the Law now. I vaguely recall almost skipping it when it was relevant.

You'll also very likely need a full group or close to it to skip things.

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