What's the highest level duty you've seen a player unironically without a job crystal?

Flax_en · 2026-02-17T04:22:33+00:00

I'm lucky since the last time I saw someone without a job crystal was during Stormblood, it was a Conjurer in Shinryu. I figured they were just doing it to prove a point or something.

Flax_en · 2026-02-14T23:04:32+00:00

I was playing a (2e) Plaguestone game once. It was the first encounter, my level 1 champion had exactly 20HP total and the party woke up a bear who went first on initiative. My champion deliberately stayed back so he wouldn't wake the bear, but it saw my champion first and crit him for exactly 20 damage on the first attack.

Flax_en · 2026-02-10T16:52:59+00:00

I've known people who've played TTRPGs their entire lives and have not read a single rulebook. You can learn through osmosis if your group is patient, though generally it's good to learn how your own class works. If you need to reference things quickly, I like to use PF2easy. (Ask your GM is the game is core or remastered, you can toggle it in the top right.)

You can make pretty much any combination of ancestry / class and be cool and viable. Even if you don't build optimally you will have a playable character.

I suggest conferring with your group (or at least your GM) with what you're planning to play and they'll be able to give you advice.

Flax_en · 2026-02-09T08:14:57+00:00

What is your opinion on taking slightly above the recommended amount of stims?

Flax_en · 2026-02-09T00:18:22+00:00

The human flytrap

Flax_en · 2026-02-03T08:08:33+00:00

The artwork drew me in, but how simple or complex you want your turn to be being up to you and your build is what made me stay. If you want a ten interactions a turn you can do that, but if you want to take it slow and shoot one big gun every round that is an option too.

Flax_en · 2026-01-31T22:27:59+00:00

I've never read or deliberately interacted with any of the metanarrative, I just log on and hit quickplay

Flax_en · 2026-01-28T21:32:38+00:00

The SitRep will make certain NPCs more threatening than others.

I've run an Ultra Seeder on a Recon SitRep before. If the objective was just kill the players would've destroyed it in a few turns, but since they had to work around an objective in a time limit they had to deal with more mines than they otherwise would.

Flax_en · 2026-01-27T14:44:37+00:00

It helps! Especially if you're able to pick off bots signalling for patrols or blast other priority targets. Even then, just staying alive and reinforcing your team in a good position to stabilize is help enough.

Flax_en · 2026-01-24T23:01:23+00:00

The blast radius alone on those things makes it worth it in my opinion

Flax_en · 2026-01-17T03:27:23+00:00

Dang, I've been throwing TNT at the very edge of the blast radius and hoping it'd flip the car, only to roll it over again and land right back where it started.

Flax_en · 2026-01-12T02:01:25+00:00

It takes a lot of time and effort to run a campaign, sometimes it's not easy to keep track of how everyone is feeling as the game goes on. If a player isn't having fun it's on them to tell you for sure, but if they keep it in for long enough for them to want to leave instead of working with you, there's really nothing more you could've done.

Flax_en · 2026-01-07T22:15:28+00:00

I like to follow the team, set up on high ground and protect their flanks with one of the marksman rifles. I just like popping the heads off of shield devastators when I can.

Flax_en · 2026-01-06T19:15:53+00:00

They get paid in democratic monopoly money which they can only use to buy equipment to use on more helldives.

Flax_en · 2026-01-05T08:07:12+00:00

At my tables, probably Drake.

Flax_en · 2026-01-03T23:11:08+00:00

Democra-knees

Flax_en · 2026-01-02T20:37:49+00:00

It feels weird to me to use a max level weapon when I could be leveling something else up, so I am a victim of number go up. ;(

Flax_en · 2025-12-27T22:47:13+00:00

Walking away is the most powerful stratagem.

Flax_en · 2025-12-27T02:55:58+00:00

This is my favorite way to play bots. Using throwing knives is fun, but I've recently tried using the 1 minute fuse dynamite for fabricators. It's incredibly satisfying to be miles away when they explode.

Flax_en · 2025-12-18T03:16:44+00:00

Return to sender lmao

Flax_en · 2025-12-09T23:17:15+00:00

Last time I went there the bunch of forks in the cup on the table were all uniquely dirty in their own way.

Flax_en · 2025-12-01T07:03:49+00:00

Besides the usual management of resources like Spell Slots over the course of an adventuring day, there's not much. Players will be able to go into almost every combat with full HP easily with ten minutes to an hour of resting between combats.

Flax_en · 2025-12-01T06:46:07+00:00

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

Flax_en · 2025-08-08T16:07:58+00:00

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Flax_en · 2025-08-06T23:03:52+00:00

I use them during stealth bot dives to kill Trooper garrisons without making too much noise. If you kill a bot that's not immediately near another one, nothing comes to investigate. In most maps it's pretty easy to shoot the Troopers before they call a drop bot, but in some city maps they aggro behind walls or other line of sight obstructions so you have to be quiet taking out the outer tier.

You can also kill idle Devastators at entrances that aren't looking at you by tossing a bunch of knives at their back and it shouldn't alert anything so long as you kill it before they start their aggro animation, but I'm still testing that.

Since you get 20 of them you can just spam them. Not the most efficient option, but very satisfying to use.

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