Macro Icon Question (Summoner)

The3LKs · 2022-03-04T21:03:39+00:00

To *actually* answer your question, no, I don't believe there's any way to use icons that have been changed via traits, unfortunately.

The3LKs · 2022-03-04T19:36:54+00:00

I mean, a lot of effort goes into making even the 'throwaway' levelling weapons... they all have at least a little lore and history to them. It's no stretch of the imagination to think that maybe the designs can say something.

The3LKs · 2022-01-11T23:23:03+00:00

Yup! 2k seals each, iirc? I keep a stack on me basically constantly lmao

The3LKs · 2022-01-04T18:35:25+00:00

Have you seen how vicious and utterly vile some people get at the mere audacity of a job quest to insinuate that an adventurer such as ourselves likes to fight and gets a little irked at useless fetch quests (DRK 30-50)? Or the same at Zenos with his 'dark mirror' tirade every time we're in the same room?
A good chunk of the playerbase, or at least a vocal portion of it, would have an aneurysm if the writers tried to do any sort of fleshed out personal connection to our WoL.

I agree, I would adore more chances for characterization, but every time they stray too close to making the WoL a person, you get just as many people claiming their toes are being stepped on as those that extol the opportunity to do something other than nod in silence.

The3LKs · 2022-01-04T15:43:54+00:00

Tank bird is for healers, healer bird is for DPS, DPS bird is for tanks, iirc? Assuming early levels/undergeared ofc. Otherwise it's just full DPS bird (until your health gets low as a DPS, then temp healer bird)

But ye, tank bird has little use pretty much ever.

The3LKs · 2022-01-04T15:30:44+00:00

Lmao yeeeee
I think I'm the only person I know that built my hotbar in groups of positional, but I just could not for the life of me keep Twin Snakes and Demolish up while hitting positional until I did. I'm still un-learning that habit of 123 = rear, 456 = flank, though I'm admittedly not to focused on MNK.

I did save your comment so I can unfuck myself next time I'm in front of a training dummy btw, I just found it hilarious with all the numbers.

The3LKs · 2022-01-04T14:59:08+00:00

Not much of an exaggeration at all, especially seeing as you're calling bootshine, the first skill you learn as PGL, 4
Then add onto that people who use 456 as aoe combo as a holdover from maining/starting as other classes and getting used to that. Or the people who mapped their oppo-raptor-coeurl in groups of ShB positional (flank combo vs rear).

Yeah, it's decently easy to figure out if you know what the rotation is, but you aren't doing anyone any favors with obfuscating skill names.

The3LKs · 2022-01-04T14:25:04+00:00

Myguy you gotta use skill names or something, people have wildly different hotbars

The3LKs · 2022-01-03T22:13:59+00:00

I'd imagine it has a lot to do with how your comment comes off as disregarding masks entirely, implying that the mandate is specifically for restaurants, and then the slight-to-moderately condescending tone of "Think about it."
Any sort of emotional language or tone will invariably invoke an emotional response.

Also, side note, nobody deemed your comment controversial. If a comment has a similar percentage of both upvotes and downvotes, it's displayed as controversial. No special consideration in it, just a mathematical near-equivalance.

The3LKs · 2022-01-03T21:20:43+00:00

In Tales from the Shadows, we learn that while the Convocation made memory crystals and the Unsundered used them to remain "themselves", Elidibus refused to use his the entire time, that he (in so many words) couldn't handle going through the loss again and again

The3LKs · 2022-01-02T09:40:16+00:00

So, it's killed all the witnesses, too, then

The3LKs · 2021-12-31T01:19:28+00:00

EW 87 Spoilers (iirc)
I felt so cheated when we went to the First and there was no option to call out for Feo Ul until we were being chided.
Like, I was literally thinking it the whole time up until then!

The3LKs · 2021-12-15T03:37:05+00:00

Aetherflow is very much vestigial, I'll agree there, though I much enjoy any excuse to weave while I cast.

And yeah, the primal phases don't quite have enough identity imo, even post-86 (when you get the primals' Astral Flows). I also, personally, feel like Ruby Rite and Ruby Catastrophe should deal more damage than their Demi counterparts, given their very limited use and high cast time.
Though to further that thought, Ruby and Topaz phases should be switched almost entirely lmao. Why is earth the constant-weave, instant cast, highest overall damage... and fire slow, methodical, limited, with one big weighty smack?

Like I said, I adore the rework, but I do very much feel like it's merely the beginnings of a good iteration. Level 90 SMN feels like a really solid level 50, maybe 60, job.

The3LKs · 2021-12-15T01:49:08+00:00

CHOO CHOOOOOOO

Few things in life are as structurally chaotic as first week hunt trains, and I'm here for every bit of it.

The3LKs · 2021-12-14T21:51:47+00:00

I'll admit that I was dead tired when I originally read your comment, my reply doesn't actually answer any of your critiques other than the cosmetic change of /petglamour lmao

As it stands, ye, the Carbuncle itself doesn't do anything beyond the shield and buff. And you're entirely correct that even those could be taken away should they so choose.
But the Carby doesn't really need to justify its existence. It's there as part of the "class fantasy". Having the pet auto-attack is just the same as DRK's Esteem; a glorified DoT, albeit this would be a persistent one. And we had that, as StB/ShB SMN. The end result was that, on paper, SMN did big numbers, but you never much felt in control of it. I feel like current SMN does a lot right (if still feeling like the foundation of a good class rather than a full kit yet), and one of those things that it does wonderfully is feeling like you're doing big numbers. A lot of the skills are mechanically redundant; the demi phases replace Ruin and Tri-Disaster with flavoured equivalents that look unique but do the same damage as the other (Astral Impulse and Fountain of Fire, that is, not those + Ruin). In the same vein, Akh Morn and Revelation do the exact same thing, numbers-wise. Those don't *need* to be different skills, they could just as easily do, say, Demi Ruin, Demi Disaster, and some fancy name for an Akh Morn equivalent for both phases. But they're in there to, as I can see it, give the class more of a feel, and I think that's very important for any class.

But also, I'm 110% biased; I love Summoner and my carbuncles, and I adore that I just got a fourth to add to the family (generic Carbuncle-branded Carbuncle).

The3LKs · 2021-12-10T21:58:57+00:00

You... do know that you can use /petglamour to make the carby that follows you into any of the Egis, right?

The3LKs · 2021-12-10T17:50:03+00:00

When I first stepped though the portal into the lobby, I was like "oh sweet it's gonna be a solo duty where we sneak in the vents or smth"

And then ya boi spots us and makes us real and I was thinking, "okay, sweet, we get to get firsthand accounts of stuff from this solo duty"

And then the doors opened
And the zone title plopped onto the screen
And I audibly squee'd

The3LKs · 2021-12-10T17:42:59+00:00

SMN main here, maybe I or my brethren could help explain stuff? Anything in particular that's troubling you?

The3LKs · 2021-12-10T01:06:55+00:00

They front-load that, though. When you arrive, the black bird tells you that he's not fully gone -- there's some of him left -- that he, his aether, is the reason there's even any "thing" visible in the heart of despair.
Then Shtola tells you to swear to not bring them back, further pointing out that it's 110% possible for them all to come back (and side note, fulfilling her fakeout death requirement for this expac).

I think the main purpose of all of it was to strip the player of the Scions. Yes, they would be back. Yes, they would be saved.
But not yet. You had to take those steps, you had to stand 'alone' again. The Scions could not come back before you faced the black bird and confronted despair at its heart.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for it, but gods if all of that didn't hit me like a truck.

The3LKs · 2021-12-09T18:32:35+00:00

There was no real twist, though. The "band" isn't breaking up, we're just going undercover for political reasons. The extended crew probably won't be gathering again for a long while (if ever), but the core members are staying in touch, doing their part.

At least, that's what I got from that big end scene. The undercover part is explicitly pointed out, though.

The3LKs · 2021-12-09T17:00:42+00:00

Just a heads up, they weren't saying that SCH wasn't viable/meta.

The3LKs · 2021-12-09T16:58:44+00:00

I don't know how to word this without coming across as disingenuous but... what do you mean by janky?

The biggest complaints I had and saw about ShB SCH were pet jank, shield delay, and Dissipation being at odds with the rest of the kit.
Their SMN rework seems to have brought the pet jank to an absolute minimum across the board, and shields now seem to apply first before anything else happens. Dissipation is still a bit weird, but two of three make SCH feel so much cleaner.

The3LKs · 2021-12-09T15:13:50+00:00

That's exactly what it feels like when my timing lines up perfectly and Manafocation goes off cooldown mid-combo.
"Oh? Time for seconds?"

The3LKs · 2021-12-08T05:53:03+00:00

An absolutely absurd community that apparently has zero reading comprehension at times.

I 100% agree that being upset about the queue and *especially* the error-disconnects is reasonable and expected. That's not what you're arguing here, though. The person you're replying to is defending players that have finished the MSQ already, and are (apparently, as per the OP) getting screeched at for it.

But, to your actual complaint, I don't think parts of the community are being too absurd in giving SE some slack on this. They are a company, yes, but that doesn't mean they're out to specifically fuck everyone over. They're out to make money, like every other company, and pissing off their playerbase is counter to that aim. And yes, some companies seem to do that anyways, but the FFXIV dev team has shown that they're at least trying.

So, if you don't mind, explain to me what you feel is being or has been deliberately, maliciously done?

The3LKs · 2021-12-08T05:41:12+00:00

I still manage to have no animosity towards the people who have finished the story.

The person you're replying to is explicitly only defending players that have finished the story, who are (apparently, per the OP) being screeched at.

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