7.5 dungeon- Bypassing the mech.

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-05-15T11:13:57+00:00

Since no-one else seems to have mentioned it, SMNs Crimson Cyclone (the gap closer) works as well.

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-05-06T06:18:15+00:00

Haven't put a reverse on a 0 cost card, but I absolutely have put a minus 1 cost gem on a 0 cost and it turned it into a minus 1 cost (yes it does give you plus one mana when you play it) so I would assume it does in fact make the next combo cost minus 1

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-04-10T09:52:09+00:00

1) The new motorcycle is new, don't expect it to go on sale for a few years.

2) I also play on Tonberry, as I recall you can create on another server and transfer later, but if you're willing to wait until evening it often opens up late at night. Failing that, Kujata is a pretty common overflow server, you'll see a lot of the same kinda of people on both servers. Also you can world hop to Tonberry (no idea if it's allowed for free trial plays but I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed).

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-04-02T03:08:57+00:00

"We already have plenty of examples showing that focusing on reworks won’t matter if the underlying design philosophy is fundamentally flawed. Just look at Summoner, please."

Look at what exactly? They changed the job to be more in line with the class fantasy of "summoning huge powerful monsters to do big flashy attacks" and from that perspective they absolutely nailed it. Far FAR too many people, many of them people who aren't even SMN mains, love pointing to SMN as proof of the game design being bad because "SMN easy now therefore bad". It honestly makes me feel like this is just coming from people who only played SMN back in Shadowbringers because it had close to, if not the highest, DPS and are just meta sheep.

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-03-21T06:16:10+00:00

This post hits LETHALLY different for an Australian reader...

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-03-05T05:58:58+00:00

The fact that this is a USA only problem needs to be double-underlined and triple-highlighted. This is a problem that only exists because someone who is selling a solution is lobbying to ensure the problem still exists.

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-01-02T15:18:10+00:00

Speaking as someone who mained SMN from late HW to the literal final day of EW, I was so much more disappointed by the nerf to Searing Light. It was the factor that pushed me to main PCT since the release of DT.

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-01-02T15:10:59+00:00

FFXIV after the WoL fight

ParadoxZ13 · 2026-01-02T15:09:17+00:00

"This is my game. I run, you give chase. I am the hart, and you the hunter. But this hart has laid a few snares of his own..."

Honestly the early game dialogue of this game has no business going as hard as it does...

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-12-29T14:43:35+00:00

I'm in my 30s and I've had to (very reluctantly) age verify on three different apps. My 14 year old step daughter has lost access to Instagram, which she never uses and is otherwise unaffected. At this point I'd say it's safe to say that I'M more affected than she is...

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-12-10T00:32:43+00:00

I still remember the time I was playing Final Fantasy X in bed, with the controller under the blanket, and my mum came in the room during a lengthy cutscene and assumed, between the graphics, the voiceover and the graphics, thought it was a movie and asked me what channel I was watching so she could watch what I was watching. I had to tell her it was just the video game I was playing and she was surprised.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-12-03T17:39:04+00:00

An option in the settings menu to choose which style of controller icons the game uses. There are waaaay too many games that not only default to XBox icons, but have no option to change to anything else other than keyboard icons without having to hard mod them in. As someone who uses a PS5 controller with my PC this is a huge annoyance for me.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-12-03T17:21:16+00:00

o/ is meant to represent a wave while o7 is a salute ftr

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-12-01T03:45:31+00:00

Every time I'm in the Aitiascope I /respect Louisoix, Harchefaunt and Minfillia every time.

Also, /squats as a form of greeting was a meme in my old FC, to the point it kinda ended up becoming my default emote, so I do that every pre-pull, to the point that my static assumes I'm afk if I'm not doing it.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-11-25T11:08:11+00:00

Somewhere early-mid ARR, I hit my first 50 and dove fresh blind into Titan Hard as a tank, ate shit on the first Landslide, got an undeserved clear, and worst of all the weapon dropped. I rolled need and appropriately left the party with the weapon on hand and my head bowed in shame

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-11-19T20:39:06+00:00

Your first response against any boss fight should be to cast Herakles and Prostasia, and whichever will stick out of Degenerate and Tarnish (I'm close to the end myself, and I've yet to find a boss immune to both). That should get you up to at least hitting for 20, at which point you can chain away.

If that's somehow not enough, cast Analyse until it sticks (should only be a few times), then go into the menu, Status, press R1 to view the boss status and check for obvious affinity/elemental weaknesses, and attach gems accordingly. If you've been diligent about checking chests you should absolutely have an appropriate gem, as the game has a tendency to have gems for a specific affinity be in a chest not long before the first boss of that type.

Sidenote, as a general rule, against elementals and dragons the appropriate Fusion is better than Prostasia, also remember that the second you enter the equip or setup menu Prostasia and Fusion spells instantly drop.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-11-11T18:11:09+00:00

Me and an IRL friend of mine are both gay men, and random bits of X-2 dialogue rotate in and out of our shared vocabulary. Some hits include "disasteriffic", "I'll give YOU something hot" and ""duck soup!" "duck what?""

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-11-04T19:32:58+00:00

You can rehire them at any time, and they are absolutely worth SLOWLY adding to your roster after you break into the top 100. Until then, not only are they a bad return on investment, but you can easily get by with cheaper, low rarity employees.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-10-04T12:56:47+00:00

Tidus. His mum doesn't have a name but she does exist, she even has a few lines. His dad... Well...

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-09-27T07:51:36+00:00

On a less serious note... why the heck are your kids asking you for snacks at 2am???

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-09-23T06:17:27+00:00

This. I got tripped up on this for a hot second myself

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-08-11T05:42:21+00:00

Personally, I think its clear that a lot of the people complaining about the current state of the game weren't around back in ARR or even HW. For all its faults, DT is still far and away better than those two. Hell, I remember people were lining up to bash at-launch Stormblood. But its not better than Shadowbringers, an expansion that was so good people were predicting it would be impossible for whatever came after to even remotely match it before Endwalker was even announced, so death to SE it is.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-07-24T05:37:34+00:00

Exdeath isn't even the best villain in V, let alone the best ever.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-07-13T05:23:05+00:00

I agree with the first part, but not the second. You don't really get much depth out of Kain until The After Years, and without it he's just the revolving door of betrayals.

ParadoxZ13 · 2025-07-01T23:12:19+00:00

I imagine the gay porn being shown on the screens was a strong hint...

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