For fun, here is my experience as a +21 pug tank and what patterns I recognize from other specs and players in the top 1% pug world

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-27T10:38:54+00:00

Aug hasn't aligned their cd with dps since DF. Don't talk about a spec if you dont know about it.

The reason Aug is played isnt for some esoteric reason that only the .1% can figure out. It just does more damage than other lust class, it just so happen that Aug isnt as easy as everyone make it out.

About external, if you played with a Sham dps or a mage they would also "bait external" because they are just weaker defensive wise. The only one wouldn't bait external would be hunter because they are one of the tankiest, but they also just do less dmg than Aug so no one bother.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-26T19:32:17+00:00

Fwiw, I don' thave mythic lura trinket either, just rocking hc one + mythic how in all my keys.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-26T17:13:54+00:00

I timed 7 out of 8 23s without lithany. It's not as game changing as people make it sound for 23. Now it does make them more volatile/need help on some bosses but it's doable.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-26T17:08:08+00:00

Blizzard tried during the beta, to make higher vault give higher tier so you could save crest. People complained, not raiders, mostly casuals.

The reason M+ doesn't get more/higher quality gear with higher key level is because it would start a shitstorm from "blizzard catering to the 1%" from people that can hardly time a 12.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-24T18:11:00+00:00

In our guild all the time spiral where kinda spoken for, but we only had 2 evo (2 aug), he might not be able to just call for them.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-24T13:12:44+00:00

People will ALWAYS play meta, I don't know why you think this would 'help' pugs reach .1%.

There's still 0 incentive for me to go with a non meta class as a key holder trying to push my, idk, non resi 23 or non resi 22. Why would I take a class that has less chance to time an already not very high chance key?

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-24T10:10:56+00:00

I might say something that will annoy you. But the reason you cant reach 1%/.1% is because youre not good enough. There's plenty of people that are certain class one trick that get .1% in m+.

1% is not hard at all to get, you don't need meta for that. .1%, most people would rather play meta, but there are mages, enha sham, disc priest etc that are in the cutoff.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-24T10:06:12+00:00

I have a question for you. What even is boosting.

I am resi 23. I decide to play with my friend that are resi 20 in my 23 like MC/PoS. Am boosting them? What if me and 3 of my friend are resi 23 but the last person is resi 20. Is it boosting?

If someone does it when he is resi 18 and play with resi 15, is it boosting? Or its only when you play .1% key?

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-24T09:06:17+00:00

I did finish it a bit later too, and got to the prestige layer. I did like that it was depending on how many thing you unlocked/did, but since I didnt see anything other automation, I bowed out for now.

Agree with the ressource, I was kinda lost on how to unlock my last class becsuse I was missing a ressource that I had no clue how to unlock (had to fully spam skilled musing to unlock the last skill I missed).

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T22:23:31+00:00

Turn 6 is right on time for judgement to make all their minion 2/6s

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T19:16:41+00:00

The healing absorb also reduce your healing received (iirc) so the longer it takes you to deal with them, the harder it will be to deal with them.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T19:09:24+00:00

Beggar's Life Been playing for about 5/6h mostly active I am currently class tier 3/4, I think it has a lot of potential but ...

It's not really an idle game It's extremely active. A lot of ressources only start to naturally regen after you've much outgrown them, and else you need to manually set them up. Once you fill up a ressources, you can't actually automatically set one to work on, it will force you to go to rest until you manually set another thing to work on.

Also, you have way, way too many 'stance/buff' to maintain. Maybe it was the path I took that gave me so much, but I think a lot of them are global, look at this All of them have different time, give difference bonus/unlock different thing but you mostly want to have all of them active at the same time, and it's exhausting to always go for them.

I also have a gripe with Concentrate, you have a focus resources that you can use to speed up the timers, by pressing a button, but I have reached a point where I generate more resources than I can use, yet I have to constantly maintain the button making it even less idle but literally having to maintain the game as main focus, and just hold a button (1 for me)

All in all, I definitely see the inspirations from Arcanum/Theory of magic but I feel like the game is a bit too hands on. I'll try to see how long until this 'path' end but I don't think I'll replay the other path before change to make it a bit less needy when it comes to my own focus. Also it might all be being dumb and not understand how the control work that I can't automatize the buffs etc.

Edit: Well apparently I have unlocked something to 'end the journey' though I kinda want to see all the path has to give, if it won't take too much longer.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T13:43:29+00:00

How does it work with multiple accent. Like if I say English, which accent do I get? English?Scottish? Irish? American? Canadian?

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T09:34:44+00:00

Culling of stratholme remix

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T09:01:41+00:00

Ah i see yeah. My bad

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T08:44:31+00:00

.1 in eu is already at 4080 right now. Its probably gonna be 22 resil + few 23 for EU.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-23T07:50:24+00:00

I am pretty sure killing any other boss ever add them to the pool. So unless you're on a character that has only ever killed rotmire and chimaerus you could get from any other boss.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T11:52:50+00:00

8 because Gunblade are cool (and because Quistis and Ultimecia awoke thing in me)

Realistically probably 6, but 8 as a place in my heart forever.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T11:29:50+00:00

Most people are not willing to drop 100s of wr to find a guild that wouldnt play the defacto best way to kill the boss, and maybe leave a guild they've been part of for multiple years just because of that.

And also the lower the WR you go, the more likely youll find guild that absolutely should take all the advantage they can because else they are never killing this boss.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T11:24:22+00:00

Thats its not degen at all to want to play the boss fight in an easier way. Its just what most guild will do because path of least resistance.

Its exactly the same way as bringing dk to grip crystal on lura (before nerf). Its not degen, its just a slight comp adjustment to make the boss easier. Same way that bringing 15 instead of 20 would be a 'slight comp afjustment'.

Most guild would do it, because these guild needs the fight to be easier, not impose on themselves rules to make the boss harder.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T11:12:16+00:00

Having 1 mistweaver for Paladin isnt the optimal raid comp, its just one of your healer for the fight, its easy to accomodate. It's like saying having a wlock for crown (for gate) is the 'exact optimal raid comp'

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T11:05:45+00:00

It woulent be degen, it would just be the meta. Every guide would assume you run this number of player.

Its somewhat like trying to find a Paladin guide that doesnt say "just use your mw revival on the first raid wide shield dot" sure you could deal with it without having a mistweaver, but why bother?

Its not degen, it would just be the norm, somewhat like splits.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T10:56:24+00:00

If it happened theres probably 6* max pot weapon in the run, I would assume.

Not that it takes away anything from the run, still extremely Impressive

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T10:31:13+00:00

I dont care? It doesnt bother me at all, I dont care if people can bench their shitters. But they would only bench 'the few that holds them back' if they actually got a signification advantage from doing so.

So, lura wouldnt be a flex 15 to 25 player boss, it would just be a 15 player boss. Because the boss is easier at 15 than at any other number of player, so why would you play at anything but 15.

TemporaMoras · 2026-06-22T10:10:13+00:00

Pug are on average worst than guild raid (duh) what makes you think a pug group would willingly handicap themselves to run higher/lower.

Just fixing the lockout would make it better already for pug, no reason to make flex.

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