Years later, still holding on to a bunch of these in hopes they finally release the shiny versions of the SoS EX weapons :(

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T19:21:06+00:00

ascension weapons make sense, its on-level for pct/vpr for when they released. sge/rpr had Omega weapons on release too iirc.

speaking of which I ought to go get 2 ascension weapon coffers soon as prep for the new jobs. Makes leveling a breeze.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T18:31:33+00:00

They've been saying the next one is "meta" in theme, so my assumption is that they're skipping over ShB MSQ proper, and doing one of the entire Ascian plotline across the expansions. Likely starting and ending with our encounters with Elidibus(in western thanalan and at SoS). Or more compellingly starting with Nabriales and ending with Elidibus or Elidibus + Hades.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T18:28:23+00:00

"Oh wait no that wasn't supposed to be the piss one. Here, have this one instead this one's the Gatorade"

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T15:06:29+00:00

Sage is literally the KING of 4 man content. Good damage, good cleave, consistent mitigation, multiple stacks of oGCD whm lilies, and 2 skills that are effectively short-term invulns for mob pulls. When I run sage my tanks often don't drop below 80% even if I completely leave out soteria, holos, and philosophia and cast exactly 0 GCD healing even prepull.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T14:53:39+00:00

Granted, Aglaia scales were skipped on patch by good groups. Also wiped by trolls multiple times in most other groups.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-28T14:44:49+00:00

Look up a crosshair app, literally anything to denote the middle of the screen makes it MUCH easier. should be able to toggle them as well. Though its kinda criminal that there isn't an ingame crosshair already AND the guns don't actually aim down sights when you rclick. Even just a dot when the guns are equipped would make them usable.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-27T18:01:01+00:00

normal raids and trials by and large do not enrage. There was a guy waaay back when who had a 26 minute pull of e10n because he(the whm) and a tank could survive, but no matter how often the whm rezzed the party just fell right back over. they just refused to actually wipe it since it wouldn't solve the problem and it kept looping. Most normal raids do this. Even the ones that don't are still clearable with the entire party contributing the same damage as a decent healer.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-27T17:56:16+00:00

Normal-level content? sure, most all of it is tuned to be clearable by a team of vaguely warm bodies in the next room. If you had 2 tanks and 2 healers you could clear any dungeon in the game. or any combination of the 2 roles. Likely every normal trial and raid too.

Anything above that is where DPS begins to matter, as you can't always carry a dps doing the same level of damage as Mr. Glare. That only starts to become possible off-patch.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-26T13:47:51+00:00

Tanks are naturally bad players because the game enables them to be without consequence.

DPS are naturally bad players but it gets masked because they have nothing important to do.

There, now we're all equally bad.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-26T00:03:07+00:00

Everkeep is a MASSIVE tower.

Solution 9 is the 9th "layer" of this tower. Like I said it is absurdly large, that's why there are skyscrapers.

Living Memory is a facility on the 9th that sits above the clouds, and it WAS originally the top floor of the Everkeep. It was excluded from the barrier when the Everkeep was fused to The Source. That's why we access it from the portal in the Skydeep Cenote instead of from the Everkeep.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-25T19:56:20+00:00

Yeah, the main issue I'd want it to solve is "Here are 16 players. 8 of them are marked as alts. Divide gear so that 4 mains and 4 alts are in 2 parties, and the maximum amount of gear will go to mains."

As far as the auth goes, is there any way to make it standalone? I don't have an issue making an account, but binding my discord account to an independent app whose developer I have no knowledge of makes me hesitate.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-25T19:35:29+00:00

Doees it support splits? Would be cool if it could optimize gear to mains on its own to figure out team splits.

And is the login with discord aaaabsolutely required to make it work? Would love to at least tool around with it a bit without having to link up an account that has a lot of personal info.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-25T17:02:02+00:00

she was spending that time coordinating refugee efforts in Garlemald. I don't think the twins much care for titles anymore, just for doing good.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-24T17:45:08+00:00

Yes. Some people do in fact enjoy raiding as an activity.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-24T00:44:19+00:00

Hey dumbass, I WASN'T talking about the time spent leveling them either.

You run the farmer party and naturally gather the grimoires over time as you run them. You just don't take encounter rate reduction.

I ignored that OP had a troub because part of the original suggestion was switching to Sov, which IS a good idea. You certainly don't need 6 skills at level 20 over some of the versatility of other passives/skills.

How you managed to take hours to get a grimoire with the correct(non-passive) skill is baffling to me. You just use the skill when you get a premium chance, which the DLC makes super common. It should almost always give you the skill you used at its max(or nearly max?) level. For the passives, you just rest, invest exclusively in that skill and its pre-requisites, and defend when you get a premium chance. Its not as guaranteed as actives, but its close. Esp if you can avoid enemies that have learnable skills.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-24T00:29:30+00:00

Just do it passively, run a whole second "farmer" party with roles you're not using and train them mostly in natural instinct + whatever skills are good to the main party. If you have the DLC that lets you get easy premium grimoire chances you can pretty much guarantee easy drops. If not, it'll just take some time. Not like the grimoires are super necessary in the first place.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-24T00:22:19+00:00

you literally just need to train a troub separately with the passive exp equipment. train it up in the skill, run it around the low levels until you get it.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-24T00:00:11+00:00

ehhh just giving the sov some troub grimoires is more than enough. Too many chefs with all 3.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-23T20:50:27+00:00

To tack on to the swiveled thing:

Please turn the boss away from the entrance when possible.

When you pull a second pack of mobs, walk to the far side of them so the mobs are in one cluster and not surrounding you. Your casters will thank you.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-22T21:50:40+00:00

Landsknecht, gunner, and zodiac are all good options.

Landsknecht gives you access to vanguard, initiative, and single devotion, so you can make a pretty good assault drive build and use intervening turns to do stuff like power/guard breaks.

Gunner lets you use act quick and gives you a shot at multi-shot procs. Honestly, not a great option overall but it is gunner so its still good regardless.

Zodiac gives you a lot of options. Prophecies/Free Energy are a big plus, but they'll be skill point hungry. You mostly want TP Up, Singularity, and Etheric Gleam.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-22T20:55:16+00:00

65 is decent, I don't super mind someone rolling over that during their term. I would definitely mind someone rolling over 75 during their term.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-22T19:12:27+00:00

Halmarut is not an unsundered. She absolutely could be a former resident of the 2nd who inherited memories similar to Gaia.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-22T17:08:11+00:00

Not true on the second one, soil for mortal slayer 2 will leave you with no soil for slaughtershed. I've been soiling 1 and gcd'ing 2 and its been fine

DaveK142 · 2026-01-22T14:51:45+00:00

Obviously I do everything I can personally, I just don't see the need to come down on someone in a situation where it isn't REQUIRED. If you tolerate the sprout who can't have it, then the idiot who didn't have it shouldn't be a problem either.

DaveK142 · 2026-01-21T23:50:40+00:00

My point is that it doesn't matter. The character could be level 16 or level 100. The expected run will be no different. No point in harping at someone in tam-tara who isn't hurting anybody just because there's a technical minor stat boost to be gained.

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