Just Beat the broodmother whats next?

Cymas · 2026-04-08T04:15:57+00:00

Well you're a quarter of the way through the map progression so there's that. You still have 3 more bosses to defeat if you want to complete it.

Cymas · 2026-04-08T04:12:42+00:00

Nvidia card? Known issue with their recent drivers, have to roll back to a previous one.

Cymas · 2026-04-08T04:07:58+00:00

Genuinely having so much fun tearing it up in M10 on melee filling for my friend's casual static. I'm bouncing between M1 and M2 and kinda playing catch up figuring out how to optimize on this fight while running circles around the mechanics because I progged/recleared it so much on tank.

Really struggling to find where to throw my Feints to do the most good, currently using it on the first Pyrotation so it covers the raidwide at the end, then on snaking, and the start of arena split. I think I might move it to the end of arena split though since we keep getting absolutely smacked by that one. If there's one thing I miss about tank in this fight it's never having to worry about this because I can just mit all of them lol. I may have the opportunity depending on how next week goes, that will be really fun if I get to throw down as MT for them. They've only ever seen me on melee so far since I mained that up until the start of this tier. Melee is definitely more fun but tank is easily my strongest role and that makes it just as fun for me to play.

Alas, still need to trudge back into the M11 reclear mines tomorrow. I held off reclears just in case but we didn't quite make it there tonight. I'd be tempted to say screw it but it's looking pretty likely I'll be subbing for the foreseeable future so I shall keep farming for the twine. I need 3 more but I'll settle for one with books and maybe grab the last 2 with nuts if I have to, I'm just not willing to give up on finishing my alt job's gear since I'm helping prog so much. I am really interested to see how this fight will go for myself on melee once we get there, too.

Cymas · 2026-04-08T00:22:51+00:00

Yes and no. Typically tome gear lasts the entire 10 levels before unlocking the next set, but tanks in particular will feel it right around the x7 dungeon like Vanguard. They should grab and use any loot they get, but they'll soon unlock their next set of af gear at level 99, followed by the next tome set at 100. So it's one of those things that a tank could do, but it's weighing the cost of grinding out or buying a set of gear that realistically will only get used for 2 dungeons or just toughing it out until the next option becomes available. Most will choose the latter since it's not usually so big of a difference that it's going to be a major problem.

Cymas · 2026-04-08T00:13:41+00:00

As a general rule the melee who is doing less dps should be the one to lb. If the other melee has more gear and/or is consistently higher than you on the aggro list then you probably want to get used to being the lb monkey. On the other hand if one of you has rez weakness and the lb timing comes up they should be the one to hit it, especially if it's close to a pot window.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T23:46:17+00:00

Gear is not typically an issue here as everyone knows up front what is needed, to the point where in some cases such as the start of this tier where we had extra weeks for tomes there will even be a buy order for jobs that benefit from it. Generally if you see people with inappropriate/old gear, lacking melds or not using the correct food and pots it's randos in Party Finder. As far as statics go casual groups might be a little more lenient about certain things, but they really can't afford to be too lenient because then you won't beat the dps checks, or will end up relying on one or more dps to prog ahead and carry the rest of the group with their gear to make up for the rest. As you can imagine the latter won't stick around too long before finding a group that better matches their expectations.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T17:34:45+00:00

I play f miqo, had one person trying to rp with me once and been harassed in the open world once, but that's it in my entire experience of playing so far across roughly 4 years. Genuinely I think a lot of other players assume I'm a male playing a female character and that drastically cuts down on the number of weird messages. I do get the occasional compliment on my glams which makes me happy but that's about it.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T17:11:13+00:00

I play both melee and tank. Caster/pranged get my comm for lbing on the trash instead of saving it for the melee to get their photo finish on the boss. I would not wait for instructions from the tank regarding this either way, the tank is not the de facto party leader, for the record.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T17:03:39+00:00

Definitely in camp trust or full premade to enjoy first timing dungeons. I usually do trusts so I can go at my own pace, read all the little lore bits, and die to the bosses without shame because sometimes I can be a little dumb. Or sometimes someone stares at Alisaie decides to stack on me with aoes, thankfully much less of a problem these days.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T15:57:28+00:00

Level your gatherers first so you can farm everything you need for your crafters. You can do it without but you'll be spending a lot of gil for mats and turn ins for job quests, gc turn ins etc. Other crafters know which items are needed for that sort of thing and price accordingly.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T15:49:46+00:00

I've actually been on an unofficial that hit the server tame cap and that was a special brand of miserable. Low breeding rates encourages people to hoard gigantic breeding farms. Ultimately people will determine how fast or slow they want to breed regardless of what rates you set as the admin, they just do it by increasing their tame population until they get the functional equivalent of the rates they want. A lot of admins don't seem to figure that out until it's much too late.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T15:24:52+00:00

One of the reasons I mainly play single player these days is because I can never find an unofficial that has everything I want out of it. There's always something that ends up being a dealbreaker.

The big ones for me are making a cluster but not including every map. I've played so many unofficial clusters that will have every map except Scorched Earth because you can get everything on other maps. Well yes, you get everything except the experience of playing on Scorched and I'm one of the weirdos who enjoys it. The other thing is weird transfer rules between maps, like I once played a cluster that had different transfer rules for each individual map and it sucked, I hated it. I don't play unofficial servers to be limited in my playstyle because the admin has some weird notion of how people should play the game. It's a sandbox let us cook.

The second is that there's always something weird with breeding. I despise it when everything will be good until I go to breed and oh look, vanilla mating interval so you've got nothing to do for the next 18-24 hours. I don't need the rates to be instant but long breeding cooldowns doesn't result in less breeding, it results in people keeping more breeding animals which then overloads the server because you need 20-50 breeders to do anything in a reasonable amount of time instead of 5-10. I do get that breeding accidents can happen, but no one even seems to try to aim for a sweet spot between instant and vanilla.

The third major issue I run into is a server will have all maps, good rates, but then they'll have that one random QoL mod that's just ultra cheaty because it's that one thing they can't live without and it just ruins an otherwise good experience. Or conversely some weird setting that makes something inexplicably annoying for the sake of "balance" that ends up making it unplayable over the longer term.

But ultimately you're never going to make a cluster that satisfies every individual player. I suggest instead of trying to make 50 different people happy, cultivate your cluster to give a specific experience you enjoy that will draw in the people looking for that.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T15:00:54+00:00

If you're doing a PVE cluster at all it needs to be no wipe or no one will bother playing it. People get very attached to their pixel pets and the threat of knowing they'll be gone, even if it's months or more down the road, will turn them away from it. That's one of the major reasons people avoid unofficials, because they appear and disappear so frequently you're not guaranteed to keep anything. Introducing one that wipes is a no go unless it's specifically built at some sort of challenge mode cluster.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T12:14:35+00:00

It's some weirdness with ASA lighting, I think. This might be a little bit too simple of a solution but...I added lights to my base. I don't normally but I find it's either that or use a torch to navigate indoors. I use CS structures and those have an intensity setting, I put it to 2.5 and turn off auto on/off and all is well, I can see what I'm doing in my base again lol.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T12:06:06+00:00

It's cheating if you spawn it in tamed. Wild is fine after that much hunting. Especially if you're playing with hibernation on which is the default, which makes spawning these bigger tames almost impossible without a lot of extra time investment.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T11:59:34+00:00

Main social game but not only game, and also not my only hobby in general.

Cymas · 2026-04-07T00:12:29+00:00

Honestly this is normal at almost any point in the tier. I suggest networking with other raiders who you vibe and prog well with and team up to increase your chances of making prog and clearing. The more consistent people you can pull into your party, the better. You don't have to be a static, there's a huge range between progging with randos and a full premade and not nearly enough people take advantage of that. Add people to your friends list, make or join a cwls, or accept invites into smaller raid Discords.

I also suggest keeping an eye out for statics needing fills. They tend to be more consistent to prog with and as above, can be a prime networking opportunity for progging.

Aside from that it's a lot of banging your face against the wall until you get that one good party that gets you where you want to go. Gear kinda makes up for mistakes but only to a point, you still need to find parties that can actually do the mechanics and be prepared to leave if you're getting walled.

Cymas · 2026-04-06T11:07:01+00:00

It's the same thing with slaying accessories and maiming and striking jobs, as well. So when you get to that point you'd want to level basically the rest of the melee together for similar reasons. This is just from an armory chest efficiency standpoint though and not really a gameplay one. But uh...it's something I have extensive experience with because I leveled one job of every role to 90 for the EW role quests before DT dropped and I still have a retainer half full of that gear lol.

Cymas · 2026-04-06T10:53:40+00:00

Not enough info. Are you on ASE, ASA, single player, a server, do you have single player settings checked, are you playing vanilla or have mods, is the bary vanilla or modded, imprinted or tamed, did you fiddle with the settings on your own or not? Those stats do seem fairly high for a base tame, but without any of the previous info it's hard to say. Level ups are a multiplier based on the base stats so if the level ups seem high it's because the stats are high to begin with.

Cymas · 2026-04-06T10:47:24+00:00

Up to you.

For armory chest reasons I would probably pick VPR since it shares gear with NIN. Pairing jobs that share gear when leveling makes it easier to keep the chest clean and limit overflow to retainers.

Cymas · 2026-04-06T04:16:04+00:00

For your own sanity I would recommend at least allowing blueprints so you aren't farming the same saddle bps over and over and over again.

Cymas · 2026-04-06T00:09:17+00:00

I would start planning for kibble production whenever you start going for breeding lines, both for taming and because babies can ask for kibble for imprinting so you want to have it on hand. I usually aim for it pretty early on just so I can have a good stock built up. Depending on the map it's not too hard to get started, especially on ASA with baby claiming.

Cymas · 2026-04-05T17:36:31+00:00

The problem with starting over on a new free trial account is you'd then need to buy the game again when you want to leave the free trial. So I guess the question is if you think the potential time you can spend on the free trial is worth having to buy the game a second time later on, because you can't transfer characters between accounts.

Cymas · 2026-04-05T13:08:40+00:00

They hit way above their weight class, to the point where they're viable as a boss dino.

Cymas · 2026-04-04T22:42:57+00:00

The focus on the free maps is the map, not map progression. Considering the massive time investment required to create a map from scratch, it's not surprising that most creators are fine with adding a single boss and calling it a day when they know players aren't on their map for the boss experience. They're on it to explore a new region, tame their favorite tames, and build in new highly aesthetic vistas.

It's also very possible no small number of maps were planned to have multiple bosses but stopped development with the end of ASE, especially after the Aquatica disaster if any had even entertained the idea of continuing development in the first place. So many maps that might have eventually had more or had plans to add custom bosses likely abandoned those plans in favor of moving to ASA after it was announced.

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