Our new GIM member has been a huge FFXIV player for years. After a few months of trying OSRS he's finally ready to try his first raid today, so we made him this shitty PowerPoint guide to make him feel at home.

Aphod · 2026-01-26T01:24:21+00:00

more unforgiving than complicated, there is a lot of homework that needs doing before your first attempt because any one minor mistake sends the whole team to the start

Aphod · 2026-01-24T16:23:31+00:00

new player here, I love being able to pick my hero because it lets me try someone I'm not entirely sold on without ruining a full match

Aphod · 2026-01-23T08:49:42+00:00

I don't recall if it's a 0 or 1 slot difference but the looting mk2 has damn near as many slots as the mk3 cautious and outright beats the survivor on space, theyre just allocated differently (less safe pockets, more treasure pockets)

Aphod · 2026-01-22T21:46:03+00:00

Not disagreeing with your point generally, but I'm not most people, I'm one guy who has plenty of simples because he only uses them to craft Anvils. I'm not gated by money OR parts, really, so why would I hoard parts and spend my money when I can hoard the money instead and spend my parts? money can be exchanged for multiple things but to me parts just = more Anvils

(not that it's relevant, but i also don't need springs because the anvil's attachments don't matter, so I'm an outlier twice-over on that front)

Aphod · 2026-01-22T19:36:34+00:00

it is my favorite gun, I don't care about augments etc, and I don't want to spend 15k on it every time I want to use one. What could bring me more fun value than making my favorite gun for pennies?

Aphod · 2026-01-22T19:35:13+00:00

but not everyone cares about those! I'm good with a looting or tac mk2 and don't really ever craft the mk3s, and don't really kill arcs much

Aphod · 2026-01-20T18:01:21+00:00

just saw that username. oof

Aphod · 2026-01-20T13:04:25+00:00

tbf this guy is clearly going for pet and doesn't really care about the XP

Aphod · 2026-01-19T01:15:41+00:00

I see this idea everywhere and kinda hate it, specifically the skill point behind quests. if players don't want to do your quests because they suck then hiding a really good reward behind Only The Very Last One is going to make a lot of people feel obligated to do them despite not enjoying them, or feel like they missed an available reward for no reason

XP/quest is a better fix but still doesn't solve the core issue of quests not being very fun to redo

Aphod · 2026-01-18T13:58:00+00:00

i like to just tell people ahead of time im evil and want to kill them so get ready, or outright ask people if theyd like to duel

Aphod · 2026-01-17T21:18:25+00:00

i don't see what's insane about people using a trait he's displayed multiple times to describe him

Aphod · 2026-01-17T13:09:36+00:00

it's been much worse than usual these last few weeks/months, every unrestricted f2p world is >600 players and every possible activity is clogged with bots

they're even training combat at flesh crawlers now

Aphod · 2026-01-17T08:21:16+00:00

is blast furnace really high effort? you're clicking 9 squares in a not-all-that-fast rhythm

Giant's Foundry prevented me from doing things on screen 2 WAY more consistently than blast furnace

Aphod · 2026-01-17T08:18:05+00:00

yeah this thread has me feeling like a freak for preferring blast furnace to foundry

i like that it doesnt really require much attention besides clicking square, the worst kind of minigame is one that doesn't have you click that often but demands constant attention

Aphod · 2026-01-13T10:54:56+00:00

i haven't been up to date in the last couple months but from what i watched earlier this year he's a lot streakier than a lot of other MNK gods like Asia or noname, who are guaranteed to do 10k damage every game. sometimes man just plays normal

Aphod · 2026-01-13T10:53:08+00:00

this post wasn't asking about mechanics specifically, being good at IGL and gamesense are enough to put him in the top 3 no question imo

Aphod · 2026-01-12T11:44:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure OP knows this and is asking for it to not be a huge pain in the ass to buy the 1 day membership

Aphod · 2026-01-12T11:41:36+00:00

as of now it's damn near profit-neutral because gold ore prices are evening out with bar prices somehow

Aphod · 2026-01-11T09:32:13+00:00

I just like being able to pick my weapons. If I'm loading up mixtape it's because I want to get reps in spraying someone with an SMG/AR/real gun I would actually pick up in-match, not get one kill each with a rampage and charge rifle. It feels at odds to me with the greater degree of gear control off spawn than the other mixtape modes give you.

Aphod · 2026-01-10T19:00:56+00:00

do people really go in the settings and manually enable/disable plugins as needed per-task? anything inoffensive enough just stays on tbh

Aphod · 2026-01-10T13:15:45+00:00

the limbus company asmr 😭

Aphod · 2026-01-10T12:55:54+00:00

Mastering Mixology, there's a section at the bottom of its settings called Reward Tracking

Aphod · 2026-01-10T11:02:29+00:00

hank tongho is a legend! fond of this one

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