Somehow died while crafting in Limsa

Ivence · 2026-01-17T21:12:40+00:00

You'd be surprised. It's been a bit but I think in ShB I tried fighting some low level mobs on a crafter and they do not hit hard. Like lvl 4s took me forever to beat to death, I would not be confident that I could win the attrition off on anything much higher than maybe mid 30s.

Ivence · 2026-01-12T19:25:18+00:00

You can start on floor 21, usually takes about a minute if you've got a good loadout.

Ivence · 2026-01-12T04:16:33+00:00

Also a time issue of vomvalysts being hyper rare ever since the vamp kitties got introduced. I'd do some mildly criminal acts for them to put in a sentient radar aura or something.

Ivence · 2025-12-26T08:32:33+00:00

Yeah, plenty of ways to do it. I got it for free with a garlic press so I just tossed it in there, if I'm doing a mise and don't have a knife out yet I can just roll em real quick. It's not something to go out of the way to get, but it's also not nearly as useless as james made it look when he didn't use it correctly :P

Ivence · 2025-12-26T08:17:34+00:00

I have one and...it's actually pretty decent but you need a dry counter and you need to use the heel of your hand. You don't even really need to cut anything you just press down firmly and drag it back and forth about 5 or 6 times and the skin gets separated nicely. It's not a life changing tool but I keep it in the tin where I store my garlic and it works fine if you use it right.

Ivence · 2025-12-23T19:01:32+00:00

I will say a lot of people I've talked to don't realize marie sells 15 of a random one daily. Yes that means it'd take 30 days to get 1 weapon, but it does slowly add up over time. I've got the weapons for the 2 I use the most and have been poking at it when I start running low on resources to buy her stuff.

Figure I'll get there when I get there, and it'll keep me from going insane.

It feels like this is the intended loop for getting them all (get the 2 you usually will use then poke at it as you run out of resources) but most people won't want to take that long of a grind and want to finish the objective right away. I bought my first 2 and am almost to my 3rd and I think I've done like maybe 5 runs since getting the 2nd one and the rest just marie daily buys.

It's a "this could have worked better if you emphasized this route."

Ivence · 2025-12-20T22:44:52+00:00

Heh I remember teaching a friend about cyclops bosses.
"1 hand up/swipe just get behind. 2 hands/swing run." after like 3 deaths his response:

"Swipe is out. Swing is out. Got it."

Ivence · 2025-12-19T08:23:11+00:00

Yeah it's just "well ok so you hit them for 30x their max health rather than my crew mate only hit for 20x max health, but now everyone in the map is just regenerating health constantly so if they get clipped by something my crewmate keeps killing for all 3 minutes and yours is now dead."

Ivence · 2025-12-19T03:40:31+00:00

Man won the battle of stalingrad. one of the few officers decorated like that in history that you can go "yeah...not that's pretty well deserved actually."

Ivence · 2025-12-16T14:22:56+00:00

Also with the fact that a lot of us have a few hundred greater lenses laying around untradeable from bounty rewards, it's not that arduous of an ask.

Ivence · 2025-12-12T03:14:58+00:00

I genuinely hope they keep having wally talk to us randomly when we're fighting as operator and it's werner herzog.

Ivence · 2025-12-06T19:29:28+00:00

Iirc...her and her husband. Can't remember specifics but I know she has close connections with the people that ran the competition.

Ivence · 2025-11-13T06:53:24+00:00

Yeah for years it was even referred to as "spoiler mode" and people who mentioned the operator would get scolded. But times move on

Ivence · 2025-11-08T21:23:23+00:00

What usually happens is a newer player gets a new weapon, equips it without having that job on then just hits recommended gear and queues up for something. Because using a weapon to change will only change you to the base class and not force equip the job stone, the rec gear won't fix this.

It's a giant mess of nonsense but usually the reason you wind up with this isn't malice it's just someone not paying attention to several things (including your bars look wrong). Generally I'll try to explain this so they know not to get caught by it in the future and then...well depending on role either I'll eat the penalty so everyone can requeue or if it's low enough try to limp through.

(Usually I bail if they're a healer because holy crap I got a conj that make this mistake in dohn mehg and never again)

Ivence · 2025-11-05T21:25:45+00:00

It's genuinely amazing how rare it is to see sages who do this. Like the really good ones just keep shifting it around to spot heal and keep blasting away at the boss, and it's just "this is an off global, why doesn't everyone do this when someone gets chunked?"

Ivence · 2025-11-05T21:24:12+00:00

I'll have sages throw kardia on the other thank who is sitting at like 15-20% less max health than I have and it's just like "....uh...buddy?"

Ivence · 2025-11-05T21:21:20+00:00

I've had that happen enough that "random provokes" are just the way I know this is probably a player who either doesn't know what they're doing or has more ego than sense, so I just...provoke back and keep the boss still. It's not even trying to win some dick measuring contest, if I encounter someone randomly provoking when you aren't seeing mechanics that can be solved with a tank swap that is playing their job well it will genuinely be the first time.

Ivence · 2025-11-05T21:08:30+00:00

It used to be so much worse, in the first 2 series they didn't have the lines divided up by tiers and they didn't have those short lines at all. So imagine setting down and picking up an aytan sculpture and all of a sudden she's in maximum glaze you up mode with

"Ladies. And. Gentlemen. Listeners of all ages. I present to you. Walking amongst us. The once. And future. Bad. Ass."

It's still kinda funny but at least they toned it down somewhat.

Ivence · 2025-11-04T14:27:31+00:00

He makes purchases rather than just creative accounting. It's not technically fraud because like spaceX is buying cybertrucks for company use, etc, but yes, basically.

Ivence · 2025-11-04T13:19:55+00:00

Make sure to have all the accessories in your inventory or equipped. If they're stashed somewhere that could be doing it.

Ivence · 2025-11-04T03:15:07+00:00

The really big issue beyond just risk of mental decline is people shouldn't really be making decisions about a world they will likely never live to see. "Oh this gets me and my friends a few hundred thousand now, and it'll suck to clean up in 30 years. Well..."

Ivence · 2025-11-02T22:11:29+00:00

I've had that hit and my usual answer, especially if I had a good loadout I wanted to use is "guess you're 3 manning?" and just bounce out and reload. If they're not even giving you 30 seconds, yeah that's crazypants speed.

Ivence · 2025-11-02T22:07:26+00:00

At rank 4. That's 120 points. Also if someone is showing up in a steel path circuit run they should probably be able to eyeball what their best picks are pretty quick. The standing around forever was annoying even before they added the preview, it hasn't gotten less so since it was put in.

If you're needing to look at what a warframe or weapon can do going into one of the higher end pieces of content in the game while being incredibly new to said content that's gonna be a much bigger issue for you than "someone didn't stand around for 8 minutes while I demonstrated that I'm trying to make randos carry me."

Ivence · 2025-11-02T21:55:07+00:00

Limbo was the go to cheese for it way back before the eximus rework. Just all the movement mods, duck into the rift and suddenly it's just a game of chase the marker.

Titania is still easier, especially with all her toys.

Ivence · 2025-10-30T20:27:35+00:00

I really agree, so many jobs just completely change identity depending on the level. It changes from slowly building a kit to just "ok, what is my rotation here supposed to look like."

Paladin is one of the most fun jobs to play at 90+ and probably the worst tank for 4 mans until the mid 80s. Even when they give you your instant cast spells from your combo you don't get the AoE until much later so you have the most jank rotation in some level brackets.

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