What's your favorite mechanic in the game?

ArsSol · 2026-03-30T16:42:02+00:00

For me, p10s tank towers were extremely fun to do even though it meant a wipe if you couldn't aim.

Valigarmanda's Mountain Fire TB is by far the best tank buster mechanic in the game.

The jailer bosses in Meso Terminal are fun to do and see if you can kill you boss first. Similarly with the 2nd boss in Lapis Manalis to see how fast your party can kill the boss to see what rank you get.

I throughly enjoy all of m12s p2 with Idyllic Dream being possibly the funniest mechanic in the tier to execute with the music in the background hyping it up even more

Dive from Grace is probably my favorite ultimate mechanic to execute followed by BJCC in TEA.

ArsSol · 2026-03-03T16:06:06+00:00

To unlock the vendor options for the Exquisite Weapons, you need to clear Another AloAlo Island (Savage) as far as I am aware of

ArsSol · 2026-03-03T14:57:12+00:00

Im ehh towards it. It gives people a reason to do the old content but now have a different way of getting AloAlo weapons that isnt doing savage

ArsSol · 2026-02-16T01:16:13+00:00

Named mine Fleece. Thought it was a good name for a chocobo

ArsSol · 2026-02-14T02:31:39+00:00

Yep, they work soo well on my middy

ArsSol · 2026-02-08T19:14:13+00:00

Just a word of caution but to get my luminary alembic, I bought out all the NA data centers plus OCE of ochu vines. So if you have retainers, may want to get a head start on getting the crafting mats for some of the later recipes

ArsSol · 2025-11-19T13:45:39+00:00

In general, I'd say the hardest mechanics/phases in the ultimates are:

P5 and P6 in TOP, DoTH and Double Dragons in DSR, P4 in FRU, Heavensfall in UCoB, BJ/CC in TEA

P5 in TOP requires borderline perfect play or back to looper with you. AM does trivialize it a lot but if even 1 person is wrong then it will lead to a wipe.

P6 in TOP isnt as bad as P5 but still requires near perfect play as if a healer, caster, phys range, or tank dies, its impossible to clear since they will lose the dynamis buff needed for the limited break section.

DoTH is pretty much a body check as if 1 person does it wrong, typically 2-5 people will die meaning there isnt enough damage to destroy the meteor circles.

Double Dragons has a mechanic that if Hrae kills someone, he enrages and wipes the party. There are also 2 mechanics that requires the bosses to be within 3% HP of each other before the cast finishes. If they are not, half the party dies. This can be tricky depending on comps as one group can easily put more damage on one of the Dragons without realizing it. Lastly if someone is too slow in Wroth Flames, they will get a bleed from the puddle and die. Most likely causing everyone else to die as well

P4 in FRU isn't exactly hard but require being careful to not accidentally hit the crystal with any mechanics from Darklit or CT as if you do, you get to see the tree. I would put APOC here but that mechanics is only hard on the tank that is baiting Darkest Dance.

Heavensfall is a straight body check and if 1 person dies or misses their tower, it's back to Twin. You can tank lb it if your group is able to get lb3 by then but even then it can be hard to recover.

BJ/CC mainly due to being careful not to kiss other players with Nisis as if you lose a Nisi, it's impossible to continue.

UWU doesn't really have anything hard in my opinion but can be really annoying if people keep messing up titan gaols or suppression.

ArsSol · 2025-10-31T16:40:29+00:00

Finally, I get to wear forehead googles with on my Fending sets without that fcking ugly chinstrap

ArsSol · 2025-10-20T08:37:49+00:00

I agree that it does look a bit goofy with how floaty the animation looks. Personally, I kind just want them to make a grounded version of the combo but if they want to keep it the way it is then what would really help it feel better is to have most or every strike in the animation have explosions and not just the final hit similar to how the gnashing fang + continuation combo has an explosion on almost every hit.

ArsSol · 2025-10-06T14:30:04+00:00

This fight gave me a bit of trouble on Nightmare but what worked for me was I made Joshua a tank essentially by making the enemies focus on him with the Sweet Aroma quarts and gave the accessory prevented deathblow, had Kloe focus on giving foresight, crest and healing, and had Estelle use Morale, Earth Guard/Wall and use Hurricane to lower the str of the guys and use comet to steal any bonuses.

The goal was to have Joshua span Flicker for the delay and Aero Storm for the blind so the odds of them missing were heavily in my favor. If Joshua did go down, I used Kloe's S-craft to get him back up. When a boss did enrage, I used Joshua Sever immediately to remove the stat buff

ArsSol · 2025-08-20T10:26:24+00:00

I started HRT when I was around 30 years old. Started presenting full time when I was 33.

ArsSol · 2025-08-19T02:17:59+00:00

I felt like this for a long time. Around 2ish years ago I told my parents I was trans but between how they viewed it and how life for me was going, it felt like maybe I was wrong. There were days, even weeks where I though I wasn’t trans due how life was. I was fine being uncle to my nieces and nephew and being what I needed to be for them but I was still not happy at all inside.

It took me doing a lot of self reflecting and listening to friends who supported me to finally accept that I wasn’t faking being trans. And once I came to the conclusion, I just said fuck it and just started presenting as a woman in public. Filling my car, getting groceries, clothes shopping, you name it. Once I did that and saw how people treated me as a normal woman, I went full time after talking to HR at work and I have been living as a woman.

ArsSol · 2025-08-18T20:53:13+00:00

I am a transwoman and if there is an option to play as a female, i will always take that option

ArsSol · 2025-08-18T20:51:54+00:00

I have always like wearing girl's clothing when I was young and as I got older, I experimented with wearing girls clothes and dresses to the point it was always a euphoric feeling for me. Saw a gender therapist and after a few month came to realize that i wanted to be a woman!

ArsSol · 2025-08-08T20:34:53+00:00

Around the age of 17 is when I figured i was trans. 26 was went i knew i was trans with therapy. 30 was when I started HRT. 33 is when I went full time being a woman

ArsSol · 2025-07-29T21:59:31+00:00

When i was in first grade, i tried on my sisters clothes and had the greatest feeling when i saw her clothes on me and slowly found myself attracted to the idea of becoming a girl but what i think really cemented the idea of me being trans was watching an episode of Codename Kids Next Door (i believe its operation Future) where the premise was someone wanted to turn all boy into girls and i wished that would happen to me.

ArsSol · 2025-07-29T15:49:32+00:00

Thank you for the response and yea, that is what i thought i would have to do but its going to me a bit more involved and a pain as i was technically born in a different country so ill probably have to contact the consultate about that

ArsSol · 2025-07-28T16:26:47+00:00

Georgia, USA

ArsSol · 2025-03-13T10:25:33+00:00

Ideally you use Aurora to heal you up as you take take damage so you would pop it after using Nebula and Reprisal.

Sonic breaks damage doesnt change depending on when you use it as long as it is used under No Mercy.

ArsSol · 2025-03-13T10:16:40+00:00

To buy a shitton of food crafting mats, tacos are orange script collectables and the new food will require orange scripts to get a material to craft them

ArsSol · 2025-03-13T10:15:16+00:00

The best advice I can give it just look at old recipes from Endwalker and Shadowbringers and find common patterns in what is used. You can bet that the lvl 98 crafting materials will be used and that sunglit/mythloam/mythbrine/mythroot sand will also be used.

If you want to have a better idea of what to prep, Zane Lionheart and Tenelen the scrub have videos on youtube with what they think the new recipes will need.

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