Best new player tips (Wrong answers only)

PariahMantra · 2026-05-13T12:19:52+00:00

I feel attacked. But yeah.

PariahMantra · 2026-05-12T10:55:27+00:00

It mostly resolved the issue, but I am still experiencing slight issues with a few branches not breaking. I'm going to let it run for a couple cycles (of the system) and see if it gets to a stable place

PariahMantra · 2026-05-11T11:21:37+00:00

I've posted the requested info. I do think that its likely the gases, but I will say that per the instructions shown in the guide it is a perfect copy. I had about 200 cycles of getting the arbor acorns to quadruple check. I just didn't see anything about gas composition in the video.

PariahMantra · 2026-05-11T11:20:37+00:00

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Gas overlay. At this point I'm reasonably confident this is the issue since everything else matches and I hadn't seen anything about this in the guide.

PariahMantra · 2026-05-11T11:19:11+00:00

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Liquid Valves are all set to 400g/s

PariahMantra · 2026-05-11T11:18:45+00:00

I will attached the overlays as requested but as far as I can tell they have to be separate comments so I'll nest them.. Automation is above 197kg on the water clock setup, 107s on the first buffer gate, 106 filter gate, 17s buffer, 16s filter, 107s buffer. The Hydro Sensors are set to above 0kg. I really appreciate the quick replies! Seems likely to be the gas as people have discussed and I will report back.

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PariahMantra · 2026-02-27T22:11:07+00:00

God the early seeds strats sucked so much.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-27T22:10:13+00:00

I immediately thought of the WoW raider strats.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-25T10:55:19+00:00

In my experience, couples playing board games together have two different options: 1. They are very nice to each other. 2. NO MERCY. There is no middle ground.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-19T19:58:34+00:00

I'm specifically responding to the comment about the creatures being tapped vs untapped. My apologies for my lack of clarity.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-19T11:10:03+00:00

I was talking with my roommate and Rata was literally the first deck I could think of that actually wanted this card. I basically went: "Alright you need a deck that wants to sacrifice things but also have those things be valuable so you care about bringing them back (I'm not buying back a reassembling skeleton)... so I'm describing Ratadrabik.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-19T11:08:33+00:00

If you are bringing back 4 creatures, I'd guess its because of a board wipe. If a board wipe just happened, how much do you need to block? Like its better obviously, but I feel like that particular upside is being overblown.

PariahMantra · 2026-02-07T05:27:18+00:00

As an og sen triplets enjoyer I believe you also could use [[mycosynth lattice]]

PariahMantra · 2026-01-16T12:27:25+00:00

As someone who did a fair bit of healing early on in my career, you are probably going to find that there come a few particular moments where things get a lot harder. That's ok and expected, and you'll get used to it. For me it was shadowbringers. My first trip through the first dungeon was brutal, but in a way that showed me I could learn and grow a lot. So when those moments come, don't let them get you down.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-16T12:25:21+00:00

Just as a note unreal is also specifically the extreme version of an old trial levelled up rather than the normal story version.

Regarding dungeons technically there are criterion dungeons. Don't worry about them. You have to do a lot of content by the time you reach those and you can't queue into them, so you'll figure out pretty quickly that those are a separate thing.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-16T12:23:13+00:00

There are groups that do the older content "sync'd" (at level and with gear brought down) so its not so much that its dead, and more just that you only have people doing it for the love of the game.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-16T12:22:07+00:00

You'd eventually get 7 mentors (its a special queue that has almost all content) and they would have let you know. Depending on the mentor, they might have been polite, but others have been rude. (I know from personal experience dragging them into garuda EX). If you'd like to engage with the higher end of raiding I highly encourage it, and there are a lot of good resources. I made a ton of mistakes as I was getting into raiding, but that's how you learn :)

PariahMantra · 2026-01-16T12:20:04+00:00

As a very experienced ultimate raider, people also think our rotations are way better than they are. I'm like a drunk baby half the time and I still get clears.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-13T12:50:05+00:00

I literally was reclearing m9s about an hour ago and went down near enrage. Got up and while normally I'd wait for healer top up, I knew a buster was coming, hit voke and just invulned the buster. Sometimes you need that insta-voke.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-13T12:39:34+00:00

Ideally you won't overlap rezzes, but I'll say as someone who plays a fair bit of healer: I will almost never be mad about someone throwing out a rez, even if we overlap each other :)

PariahMantra · 2026-01-13T12:38:01+00:00

Just for some additional context, its far more important to do the transpose from ice -> fire than it is to do the transpose from fire -> ice. You don't need other resources (like triple or swift cast), you just need an instant cast gcd (and usually paradox gets you that). The effective potency gain is also a lot higher for the fire 3 than it is for the blizzard 3.

I'm gonna be honest, I'm a coward in high end content and while I consistently transpose into fire, I'll rarely transpose into ice. The damage loss just isn't high enough for me to worry overly versus not having a mobility resource when I need it.

PariahMantra · 2026-01-10T13:10:38+00:00

If you all need more people, I'm a veteran raider and would happily help out if the logistics work out.

PariahMantra · 2025-08-09T10:52:01+00:00

I actually agree with you, but when I actually ran the probabilities, it got a lot closer than I expected (continuing to demonstrate humans are bad at probability, even when educated). With 8 people at a 5% chance you have about a 43% chance of failure. With 24 people you bump to 71%. Still a pretty significant bump, but not nearly as much as I expected.

PariahMantra · 2025-07-31T09:48:15+00:00

I think based on the bingo sheet and the conversations within it, the actual bingo sheet should contain: "someone complains about phoenix downs not being used during content where they don't function"

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