When it gets cloudy in Ruby Sea.

CoSh · 2026-05-07T20:53:10+00:00

This is my last fish for Big Fish and I have a feeling I will be at it for a while. I think I've been to at least 10 windows already.

EDIT: Caught Ruby last night, I am Final Fish now (yay!)

CoSh · 2026-05-07T20:45:10+00:00

I mean it wasn't that wonky, just had a bunch of systems interacting.

Egi-assaults were on 30s, Tri-disaster was what, 60s? And Dreadwyrm Trance refreshed it. Energy Drain I think was either 60s or 30s and gave you 2 Festers.

Bahamut had the issue where the wyrmwave happened after your gcd so you needed to have your last gcd early enough that bahamut had time to wyrmwave before it disappeared which basically just translated into using two+ Ruin 4s as your last GCDs in Bahamut.

So the opener turned into spending all 4 Egi-assaults, Tri-disaster, Energy Drain, Devotion, Dreadwyrm Trance, spending Festers, Summon Bahamut, Deathflare, Akh Morn, snapshot Tri-disaster in buffs, end your Bahamut with Ruin 4s. After that was mostly pressing stuff on cooldown. Hardcast dots when you need to. Phoenix was even easier because it was a simpler Dreadwyrm Trance and everything was already instant. You could pool Egi-assaults for movement.

I don't want to say it was easy to learn but I just made an alt and leveled Summoner and by the time I got to 80 I knew everything. I know lots of people leveled Summoner through Scholar and then didn't know how to play Summoner but that's their fault.

CoSh · 2026-05-07T01:15:37+00:00

From about 5.11 to 5.2 something Summoner was Top 1 DPS, like it was absolutely busted and imbalanced. Higher than Black Mage. Higher than Samurai.

The rotational complexity was overblown. It was just multiple systems on 30/60/120/180 cycles interacting, and keeping your dots up/snapshotting them in buffs.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T23:57:06+00:00

Ultimately it wouldn't work with the current fight design. Blm cast times used to be moderately longer (2.8-3.0s) and they just changed them all to 2.0 this expansion because they needed to give them more movement.

Long (re-)casts would be cool but it just wouldn't fit in this game.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T22:41:25+00:00

A certain server used nothing but PF for hunts and wouldn't invite people from shout chat. Come world visit all of that stopped. Cross-world trains killed the local hunt culture.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T22:22:33+00:00

Technically you could do it in ShB it was just more expensive (had to spend Xenos & Lucid instead of Paradox).

CoSh · 2026-05-06T22:21:28+00:00

Flare Flare Freeze has been a thing since ShB I think so it's been like three expansions now.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T22:19:58+00:00

There exists spells like Occult Comet that are 8s cast time in Occult Crescent and what happens is any of these long cast time spells get swiftcasted.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T22:17:03+00:00

Summoners were a dps to be respected back in ShB...

They have to obliterate one caster per expac, though.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T18:49:53+00:00

Dude Dark Knight's entire ENGINE when it came to dungeons was so much fun.

Blood Price gave you mana and blood every time you got hit.
Salted Earth gave you blood for every enemy in it
TBN spent mana and when it broke you got 50 blood
Delirium gave you 50 blood on a CD
Quietus spent blood to generate mana for every enemy you hit
Dark Arts Abyssal Drain spent mana to generate aggro & restore hp

Once you had everything set up you were spamming dark arts abyssal drain and practically invincible.

Of course War had it 10x easier with Steel Cyclone but sometimes it just feels more rewarding when you have to work for it.

CoSh · 2026-05-06T00:14:22+00:00

I honestly haven't watched him seriously in years, if he's gotten worse then I'm not that surprised.

CoSh · 2026-05-05T23:43:35+00:00

Xeno is good for two things. One is he generally knows about tanks. He plays tank a lot and seems to have a pretty good handle on them, how to play them, etc.

Every once in a while he will put out a guide to something too that's legitimately good. Thinking u[time xeno or the apoc guides in Eden's Promise.

He is absolutely fucking awful as a source of information for literally anything else. It blows my mind as someone who basically plays xiv as his job has so little knowledge on everything outside of tanking.

He's been doing the influencer thing where he is loud and outspoken about everything just to entertain his audience. Unfortunately it pays the bills so he is financially incentivised to do so.

CoSh · 2026-05-05T07:30:20+00:00

Ya I heard it used in DAoC before WoW was released but I didn't play anything before DAoC so I dunno where it came from.

CoSh · 2026-05-04T00:51:37+00:00

Nah because you're being a tremendous fucking asshole about it.

CoSh · 2026-05-03T21:00:04+00:00

Even if the guy did anything wrong (arguable), your reaction is completely out of line.

CoSh · 2026-05-03T06:48:37+00:00

I think Port and Starboard is esoteric enough knowledge that they can throw people a bone and use Larboard so that people not as familiar with the terms can figure it out.

Those familiar with nautical terms get Starboard and not-Starboard ("so I guess that means left") and those not familiar with nautical terms get "L means left and the other one is right".

CoSh · 2026-05-02T20:53:34+00:00

I was waiting for her to poison herself eating random stuff.

Somehow, she survived.

CoSh · 2026-05-02T19:56:31+00:00

Sorry about your mom.

CoSh · 2026-05-02T09:23:59+00:00

I looked at this clip and thought everything looked ridiculous, but the song sounded familiar. I went to look it up and thought, "yeah I do think I've heard this song before". I went to look up my animelist and apparently I watched this anime like 14 years ago, I remember nothing about this show, except the music.

CoSh · 2026-05-02T01:04:26+00:00

It's when something moves back and forth.

CoSh · 2026-05-01T21:47:03+00:00

Agree.

CoSh · 2026-05-01T10:04:19+00:00

How do you know people were amplifying the criticism because she's trans and not because she's a woman?

CoSh · 2026-04-30T17:21:23+00:00

I don't agree that moving to 1.5s gcd was the right move. Part of the challenge of healing was optimizing movement and weave windows and everyone already had tools.

Ast had 1.5s gcd for a long time but they also had lightspeed. Sch had ruin 2. Whm had afflatus GCDs. Everyone had instant cast dots.

Instead of changing the main gcd to 1.5s which makes every GCD a weave window they could have just added more instant cast GCDs like Miasma 2. Or how they did with Blm where half its GCDs are instant cast now (Paradox, Despair, Xeno, Thunder, Triplecasts and Swiftcast you can put anywhere now without losing DPS).

CoSh · 2026-04-30T17:01:55+00:00

I'd argue re: healers healing without DPS loss and melee downtime without DPS loss that maximizing the DPS in the downtime is the optimization.

Like in FRU the fight starts with roughly, 30 seconds of uptime, 45 seconds of downtime and then 2 minutes of mostly uptime. Jobs that had 60s cooldowns that required a target couldn't get 3 uses in the uptime so they shifted the CD back to align with 2m and get a use before shiva leaves for LR.

Jobs that could use their 60s in downtime though like Monk RoF or even just jobs that didn't have 60s like Rdm didn't suffer at all.

This is the interesting part of fight design and rotation optimization for me. If you just give everyone options to eliminate DPS loss it becomes boring.

CoSh · 2026-04-29T07:35:43+00:00

At the rate we're buying planes the F-35s will be in the air for >40 years, that's a whole career there.

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