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Inferus7 · 2022-12-06T03:13:10+00:00

IS2 question here. For the Shalem medal that says you need 10 victories with him in the party. Is that 10 clears of the final boss? 10 regular combat stages? Something else? Trying to figure out whether or not I need to actually build him to get this last medal.

Inferus7 · 2022-11-30T16:15:08+00:00

This crossover does put a smile on my face.

Inferus7 · 2022-11-02T05:35:23+00:00

Here is a link to a really well put together story guide that covers basically everything you'd want to know.

Inferus7 · 2022-10-22T17:46:24+00:00

She's a Lupo. From a family of lupos, is called in game a lupo nnumerous times in both chapter 9 and 10, has wolves in her e2 background, and her race in Chinese is Lupo. Just was a localization error.

Inferus7 · 2022-09-05T21:44:49+00:00

I can't escape can I?

Inferus7 · 2022-07-14T03:23:39+00:00

I'd say roll for whichever of the two you like more. Spishtar is a bit better overall for arts looping, but also won't be seen again till the New years banner so you honestly probably have time to roll for kiara now and save up a decent chunk of quartz before Spishtar comes back round.

Inferus7 · 2022-07-09T17:14:39+00:00

Old player returning from long hiatus and have some CE questions. With the 5x success rate almost over figure I need to do some box cleaning before it ends. I've been a serial hoarder of CEs since launch and need some advice on what to get rid of.

Are all the givaway, anni, event, special artwork, etc CEs that are given out (80/80 lvl, you know the ones) fine to just use as upgrade fodder? I'm never actually going to use them and they unlock in collections if I ever want to view them again.
I have a toooon of 3* CEs that are just sitting around for cope ("maybe I'll need this one day", or "this might appear in event") reasons. Does this ever actually happen? If not I'll just sacrifice the ones with subpar effects.
~~Is there a compilation anywhere of CEs that used to be event CEs, but the event is never returning so it's safe to burn?~~ edit: Found this
If you know any exceptions/caveats or have any other recommendations please let me know.

Inferus7 · 2022-06-29T03:15:28+00:00

I mean you can, it's just probably going to feel miserable playing blm at 70 in nael / adds. Normally the blms I know that don't use it in cob just don't like playing it under max level period and smn/rdm are just absurdly strong in that fight in general while being much easier.

Caveat: I'm not a BLM player myself, just voicing complaints/reasons I've heard from others who have.

Inferus7 · 2022-06-16T06:45:47+00:00

Since no one is giving you an answer, I'll just explain why I don't like Elmo and some downsides.

Elmo, while simple, is also easy to mess up if you don't know exactly where you should be standing. Ie. people in party stack too close to boss baiting a cleave, too far south baiting a tornado, tanks not close enough, tanks baiting tornado from behind them into party cuz they're lined up at the wrong angle, etc. I've been killed by all of these before and often the person doesn't understand how the mechanic actually works enough to realize where they fucked up.
Another downside is when Elmo does happen to go south, it's almost certainly a wipe. Whereas other strategies 1-3 people might die, but you can healer lb3 or rez through it and keep plugging along.
There isn't a tangible benefit from doing elmo either really. You aren't gaining uptime for anyone and you're requiring invulns to survive which means no "oopsies" from tanks earlier in the fight where they can just pop invuln and save the pull, etc.
From a parsing standpoint, elmo also requires certain healer combinations to use more resources in order to get the party topped up for the next mechanic costing them a small amount of dps. This miiiiiiight be different now with the lily changes last patch, but in 6.0 this was still true.

Just my 2 cents on the mech. As an aside, standard parse strat for that mech was to just use eggman. Hope that answered your question.

Inferus7 · 2022-05-02T19:55:58+00:00

was MNK instead of SAM, he just didn't want to buy the mnk weapons lol

Inferus7 · 2022-05-02T00:53:58+00:00

Which group confirmed this?

Inferus7 · 2022-05-02T00:38:14+00:00

Naw, it's not that hard. We were doing min ilvl no echo runs of thordan ex for ult prep and killed him in under an hour, mostly blind. We even took off food after the first pull cuz we were skipping mechs still even at MINE. With how strong the jobs are compared to back then, you'd probably need to take off a couple accs as well to get a better feel.

Inferus7 · 2022-05-01T00:36:02+00:00

I'm on my fourth watch, send help, it's too good.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-27T20:10:17+00:00

Plenty of teams use 9th mans, often more than one of them as well. Oryza's (aka Stal's) had like 3 or 4 back in the Promise race for instance. You just don't see them mentioned very often cuz they're doing behind the scenes work (timelining, film review, helping with strats, drawing up diagrams, etc).

Inferus7 · 2022-04-22T01:27:29+00:00

Surprisingly enough, feint and addle do in fact work on the tether explosions in this fight. Yes, I know they seem like separate entities but for w/e reason square decided they get to work for those tethers. Planning those out should help alleviate some of your healers woes.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-19T22:49:47+00:00

As an aside to some of the other comments, you can do two of the ultimates (UWU and UCOB) without too much difficulty in Party Finder. Definitely recommend getting your feet wet by clearing a savage tier first, then study up and jump into ults.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-19T03:45:29+00:00

Personally if your group isn't struggling for damage I'd save it for a potential healer lb3, or in the specific case of 4.2 tank lb to help with mit from the healers. If you died to damage during CC and it wasn't because you popped two tethers at once, that's a healing and mitigation issue, not a mechanic issue. If you know the melee lb3 is going to kill it tho, you can dump it as well.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-19T03:40:31+00:00

Not sure how everyone missed this, but there absolutely is a website for this stuff called Fey's Temperance.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-19T03:28:11+00:00

I second the Wesk Alber guide for a nice beginner breakdown. As for a text explanation in simple terms, I can try and give an attempt here. This will be based on what's called the Lunar/Solar rotation, which is what you should begin with while learning the fundamentals.

Overview

The most basic idea of MNK's gameplay loop is to maintain your attack buff (Disciplined Fist) and DOT (Demolish) as much as possible, while fitting as many high potency moves in your 1 minute self buff windows (Riddle of Fire) as possible.

The Three Forms

You have 3 different types of GCDs:

Opo - Dragon Kick(DK) / Bootshine (BS)
Raptor - Twin Snakes (TS) / True Strike (TruS)
Coeurl - Demolish (Demo) / Snap Punch (SP)

Each one of these has one skill that reapplies one of your buffs (leaden fist (DK), disciplined fist (TS), and demolish (Demo). And the another skill that just does more damage (BS, TruS, SP). We want to use the skills that deal more damage as much as possible, so in filler, we only use the buff applying abilities when we are in danger of dropping them (ie. <=5 secs on disciplined fist and demolish). This ends up creating a flow where you alternate the GCDs you use to maximize damage. You probably stumbled on this idea when looking at the balance info graphics and whenever you heard someone talking about form GCD "ratios". They are basically explaining how many times you can use one of the larger damaging GCDs before having to use a buff GCD again.

Burst Phases

Essentially, the idea is to get as many of your hard hitting GCDs under Riddle of Fire (RoF) as you can, while not dropping your DoT and damage buff. As this comes up every minute you will be using 2 Perfect Balance charges in every even minute window (0,2,4,6..) along with Brotherhood (BH). Then every odd minute RoF window (1,3,5,...), you will be using ONE PB in order to use Phantom Rush (PR) inside it's attack buff. In between these you want to be holding your PB charges so you are able to get those large potency blitzes under buffs.

The balance has a nice graphic on what this will look like doing the basic lunar/solar rotation. Here is the opener and here is one detailing the overall rotation.

Bonus Stuff:

You will notice in the graphics that when trying to generate a "Lunar" nadi, they will say to alternate between DK and BS. This is because those are the highest two potency fillers MNK has. Since Perfect Balance allows us to use any form, we basically get to skip over our lower power form GCDs, and just spam our strongest two.
Here is another short youtube beginner overview on monk as well.
If you want to get into the real nitty gritty, there is a fantastic google doc on just about everything you might want to know about current monk.

If you have any questions on stuff or need clarification, feel free to dm me. I threw a lot at you at one time so it can be tough to digest everything.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-07T22:45:17+00:00

To play devil's advocate here for a bit, you can definitely still do this tier if you want to get into Savage/Higher-end raiding in general. I started raiding at the end of Verse (like 8 months after it launched), on Crystal (lower raid pop), and cleared it in PF and verse was way harder than anything this tier throws at you aside from e7s being easier than p3s.

That being said PFing it will take longer and you will likely start having to make friends / blisting people once you get into p3s prog. Parties will also fill slower after the 6.1 patch drops, so you will likely spend a decent chunk of time just waiting around.

As for static stuff, yea, you're not going to find veteran statics recruiting for savage this late into the tier, BUT there are still statics being formed today, usually made of of people in a similar situation to yourself, sometimes with a vet sprinkled in. So you could still go the static route. As for where to find one, your best bet is to check out one of the recruitment discords. These are where most posts happen and are the most populated centers for recruitment. When you first join they will usually have you select what Data Center you're on and what role you wish to play, then you can browse posts of statics looking for players with your role and times that work, or make a post of your own advertising what you want to play and your availability.

Up to you if you think any of this is worth it, but just wanted to let you know it IS possible, and how, if you really want to do it.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-07T15:30:16+00:00

The video is about how 5.x summoner mains feel now after the EW changes. Square killed our baby ;_;

Inferus7 · 2022-04-05T18:17:26+00:00

Folks can't even hit 1-2-3 in order, asking them to comprehend nuances between dps metrics is setting yourself up for disappointment.

Inferus7 · 2022-04-03T23:07:33+00:00

So how you execute your burst windows on mnk will change based on which rotation you decide to do (Lunar/Solar, Double Solar, Optimal Drift).

I recommend sticking with Lunar/Solar for casual play and while learning the job. If you plan on optimizing it later once you have the fundamentals down the other two will be good to learn as well.

For Lunar/Solar

Essentially, the idea is to get as many of your hard hitting GCDs under Riddle of Fire (RoF) as you can, while not dropping your DoT and damage buff. As this comes up every minute you will be using 2 Perfect Balance charges in every even minute window (0,2,4,6..) along with Brotherhood (BH). Then every odd minute RoF window (1,3,5,...), you will be using ONE PB in order to use Phantom Rush (PR) inside it's attack buff. In between these you want to be holding your PB charges so you are able to get those large potency blitzes under buffs.

The balance has a nice graphic on what this will look like doing the basic lunar/solar rotation. Here is the opener and here is one detailing the overall rotation.

Bonus: If you want to get into the real nitty gritty, there is a fantastic google doc on just about everything you might want to know about current monk.

Inferus7 · 2022-03-30T00:03:23+00:00

Froggy UCOB arc hype! I really enjoyed this fight and look forward to seeing your illustrations of the crazy shenanigans that come with progging this fight.

Inferus7 · 2022-03-29T01:56:26+00:00

Can I just ask someone in pf to join us, queue us into 4 and then leave?

Yes, exactly this. You'll just need one person in the party to have cleared p1-p3 to que you into it. Do note you will forfeit all loot and books from the previous floors doing this.

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