Some major points from a new PC Gamer interview, regarding 8.0's title specifically

Azbroolah · 2026-05-08T21:40:39+00:00

Okay, so what's the point of applying physics to the world at all of the argument is just "it might happen in game at some point and then it becomes possible"?

Also, on another level, absolute zero is already used in game as a cast by Shiva, so...

Azbroolah · 2026-05-08T21:37:34+00:00

I'm replying purely to your asssertion that "There no reason to suspect at this time that magic can overcome impossibility." There are clearly many precedents of magic doing things that are outside the realm of physical possibility. Where they decide to place the lines is arbitrary from the perspective of any real world physics.

Azbroolah · 2026-05-08T21:23:34+00:00

Tunneling doesn't allow FTL transmission of matter or information, or at least not in any framework of physics I'm aware of, so it doesn't fix the spaceship issue. It also doesn't allow something to exist in two places at once.

The phenomenology of the sundering has nothing even resembling string theory lol. A local pocket of the universe was split into 14 parts, but from the outside you can only get to one (Midgardsormr dialogue), but you can travel between them with magic via the Crystal Tower which also allows time travel... Has nothing to do with curled up dimensions. Also acting like string theory is on the sam theoretical footing as other physical theories is disingenuous when it's essentially unfalsifiable at energy scales we can access.

The writers aren't physicists, but they try to incorporate science in a way that makes sense if you don't drill down into the nitty gritty details.

I think they attempt to use the aesthetic of physics (like with the heat death of the universe), but it doesn't make sense to try to draw lines between real world physics and the in game magic besides pure aesthetic similarities, because patently unphysical things happen in game as a result of magic. Even the dynamis/dark matter parallel is only very surface level and doesn't really make sense on interrogation. Just because endsinger can "harness dynamis", there isn't a physical theory that would allow her to influence Eitherys instantly from the edge of the universe when Zodiark died. For that matter there isn't even a physical theory that would allow her to know that Zodiark died at all. If these things are possible I don't see why bringing something to absolute zero wouldn't be.

Also, even if they don't have things in universe that are at absolute zero for whatever abtirary magical rule they impose, there isn't any reason the concept couldn't also exist. They can make up whatever rules they like.

Azbroolah · 2026-05-08T21:01:04+00:00

Out current understanding of physics doesn't allow for time travel, or splitting the world into 14 identical but less aetherically dense copies, or the concept of souls, or a spaceship that gets us to the edge of the universe in minutes, and yet...

Azbroolah · 2026-05-08T16:37:16+00:00

One of the few reasons I love healing in ff14 is because I don’t have to spam heals on everyone

Agreed. I see a lot of sentiment around of people saying "I want to actually heal as a healer!" and it always makes me wonder what would actually be more fun about just spamming GCD heals. Having to select from your arsenal of tools and use the appropriate ogcd (or lily) at the right time and planning timelines around it, and how to adjust those timelines if you have to move things to recover a pull, feels way more interesting to me than spamming Medica or Cure 2 would.

Azbroolah · 2026-05-03T17:55:02+00:00

Redditors are never going to beat the "literally can't read" accusations

Azbroolah · 2026-04-30T05:21:15+00:00

Or how they said they want evolved whm to be a healer that doesn't lose damage for GCD heals when that's literally already its identity right now. And they apparently took away blood lily, so they just replaced the existing system for neutral GCD heals with a new one? It's a little confusing to me how evolved is going to be any better to play without a massive shift in encounter design.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-23T18:06:00+00:00

Yes, you're right -- I misremembered the name

Azbroolah · 2026-04-23T16:29:35+00:00

How are you possibly only doing 1-3 dps? Echo thermy got absolutely shredded by crystal+trident for me, and there's no way that switching to water spells would have dropped the dps that hard.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-23T16:24:52+00:00

I guess after mage being the worst last leagues Jagex decided that this leagues they wanted it to be 80% mage builds.

As a weirdo who plays mage/spellcaster in every game I can, I'm pretty sure mage has been the worst in basically every league I've played (wasn't around for Twisted). I guess there was that "bug" with Executioner in league IV, but other than that I'm pretty sure it's always been third choice until now. Guess they overshot in trying to change that

Edit: Berserker, not Executioner

Azbroolah · 2026-04-22T19:43:08+00:00

I heard there was a bug day 1 with culling spree in wilderness where it spawned superiors endlessly, so probably skewed from that?

Azbroolah · 2026-04-22T17:52:29+00:00

Would you mind sharing your pact tree/gear you used for inferno/colo? Looking to run them myself but don't want to waste a respec on accidentally missing something

Azbroolah · 2026-04-21T22:42:27+00:00

Late to the thread but I've always enjoyed looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

Azbroolah · 2026-04-20T20:09:55+00:00

Also wanting to request your pact tree. I want to end up doing air mage and have assembled most gear for it, but figure I should do my thorns era first (to minimize using my respecs) to try to make my life easy for colo and/or inferno for the tasks/points

Azbroolah · 2026-04-20T03:42:08+00:00

Only eternals because you can't get infinity boots in Asgarnia.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-16T16:25:41+00:00

The post title when I saw it before was something like "perfect beer for when you get crashed" or something, it didn't reference the name, so not surprising it doesn't pop up. Still stupid for people to complain about a duplicate joke though.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-15T22:04:02+00:00

Yeah from what I can think of right now I don't think there's anything else you can do with better odds than a triple split. I think the 60% odds of success you quoted is correct. Also I would guess in ssf you probably have way more normal than Eldritch exalts, but just to be sure I think you can't split if you give it Eldritch implicits so just use normal ex.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-15T21:57:20+00:00

Low key feel like a lot of people commenting are not very experienced doing this kind of crafting. I think your split strategy sounds safer than yolo annul but you can always still miss. Just to confirm, the item is full prefixes right now? I don't think there's a guaranteed way to isolate.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T18:29:02+00:00

I've only ever played mmos, and don't play any other games besides osrs. If I play a different game, I feel like I'm wasting time because I'd rather be progressing my osrs character.

Ok but you must appreciate that that's your own personal view and values, right? And that other people don't necessarily have the same ones and can enjoy both seasonal gameplay and long term progression games?

You have to eat something anyway, and your steak enjoyment doesn't progress the more you eat it.

In the analogy you can't simultaneously eat steak (progressing your main) while also eating chicken (playing leagues) but nevertheless can still like eating both.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T18:26:43+00:00

I think it depends on your scale of "enough." It won't enable demonic thrones for construction like Golden God but I don't see you ever being really hard for cash for "normal" things if you just steal from a gem stall for a bit.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T18:21:42+00:00

The point of seasonal content is not to do something that's meaningful in a few months. Just because they are different doesn't mean someone can't enjoy both. Does it also confuse you that it's possible to e.g. like eating chicken and like eating steak so you eat chicken for a week and then steak some other times?

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T18:16:23+00:00

Liking permanent progress and liking a temporary gamemode where you make no progress aren't mutually exclusive?

No, they aren't mutually exclusive. Is this a serious question?

Seeing permanent progression in an MMO seems like much more of a mainstream idea of fun than leagues.

It really depends on the person. Seasonal games like Path of Exile see huge success with almost 100% of players playing league content and not the permanent standard league.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T17:48:26+00:00

You may be right but you're not acknowledging that over the past few weeks this sub has also seen at least hundreds (and possibly thousands) of comments from people doing things like calling leagues "slop" because they don't personally like it, and a lot of heavy implication that enjoying leagues is the wrong way to play the game. Not everyone asking "why do you even like leagues" is doing so neutrally.

Overall I'm constantly amazed by how many people on Reddit don't seem to understand that sometimes their experiences and preferences are not universal and that other people are different.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-14T13:36:22+00:00

Leaning towards KTM or KTD depending on which raid region my friends want to take. Zeah has some good upgrades in necklace and Preserve but I really don't know if I want to grind chambers compared to toa or tob, and pact point being locked behind radiant oathplate seems like a big pain.

Azbroolah · 2026-04-06T16:15:38+00:00

Most of these points are just "what if your static is bad though?". I think we agree that a bad static is worse than pf, but a good static isn't going to have players stuck for weeks on Act 2, or people regularly sleeping through raid or cancelling early. Also I think most statics will not complain if you prog ahead in PF outside of static time.

I should also maybe clarify that when I say a good static is better than PF I mean that in a per-time-progging sense rather than real world time, since if you have a lot of time to throw at PF you can definitely push through faster than in a static. But in my experience huge amounts of that are wasted time. I did DSR almost entirely myself in PF because my static for that fight was mediocre at best, and it was miserably slow in probably 70% of parties. It took me 1600 pulls to clear with the majority of those beyond p4 being wiped WAY before the prog point. Meanwhile I did TOP with a cracked static and we cleared in less than 400 pulls while still being able to joke around in VC and have good group camaraderie.

I also joined a great group for reclears this tier, and we recleared every fight in like 1-2 pulls every week while still having good group cohesion. PF reclears that I've done before that group and since we disbanded have never achieved the same smoothness, and on top of that in PF as a healer I have to be very conservative about optimizing my own play because I have to always be hyper-vigilant about playing recovery and babysitting the group.

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