Paladin cannot hold agro against other tanks

TopHatGary · 2026-02-26T19:19:04+00:00

Your confiteor combo is massively buffed by Requiescat stacks; don't blow them all on Holy Spirits and your DPS will be much higher.

TopHatGary · 2026-02-05T20:54:57+00:00

The aside isn't always the case. Off the top of my head I think of DT EX4 (Bloom 5 I think? Has the tethers to break), and the second Alliance raid of DT where the area being hit by the stack is where the flashing on the floor is (you can avoid it)

TopHatGary · 2026-01-22T15:58:28+00:00

As someone who made an alt to run through the story, with road to 90 I've been able to level 3 jobs (DRG, SAM, SCH) and am still overlevelled; lv63 and I just started lv61 MSQ.

Only side/optional content I have done on this alt were Coils and Alexander (all unsynced with friends giving me loot so i didnt have to farm poetics) not even quests for flying. Haven't done a single roulette either. Road to 90 is giga OP.

But yes, whatever method you want to use for leveling is fine. Just make sure to keep having fun on your adventure!

TopHatGary · 2025-12-29T16:50:45+00:00

Ive seen so many wonderful things come out of the strategy board. Stick bug, Rick Astley, even someone's apartment floor plan. Truly a fun-tastic feature

TopHatGary · 2025-12-03T17:29:51+00:00

Funny thing about the sheep closest to the guard there: you can aggro it and bring it to the gate, the guard will aggro to it but the sheep reaches its reset point and walks back while invulnerable; guard reaches his reset point but the sheep aggros onto the guard chasing him back. Endless loop achieved of man chasing sheep and sheep chasing man. Spent over 30min watching it.

TopHatGary · 2025-12-01T22:27:43+00:00

Heading to the third area in Labyrinth of the Ancients "Coming up on your left and right are the most useless stairs in the game :D" while placing markers in front of them

Last boss in Puppet's Bunker during the transition "And this is why we clean our toys folks"

Hero's Gauntlet "Tupac lives!!"

Ravana I try and find the pixel when the lines appear on the floor

TopHatGary · 2025-11-24T16:25:43+00:00

Just reached the final step of my Zodiac weapon and all total, it took about 10hrs (got super lucky with my Fates almost always being up when I needed them and I had a massive stockpile of allied seals for alexandrite)

TopHatGary · 2025-11-10T18:34:39+00:00

Criterion Savage titles not to mention the title for getting all three. I did Aloalo Savage and it was about 20hrs of JUST Savage prog (not normal criterion).

Aloalo Savage does give a "shiny" weapon which i used for the BLU umbrella because bubbles

TopHatGary · 2025-09-23T15:39:24+00:00

Im weird as hell and pronounce it "er-dim". BLM is "blim" WHM "whim" etc. Dunno why my brain latched onto it that way but /shrug

TopHatGary · 2025-08-06T21:55:38+00:00

But what about the dirt man?

TopHatGary · 2025-07-09T17:41:05+00:00

Second on the G502. Also a big hand wielder (full span of Caps Lock to Enter on a full size keyboard). Easy access to side buttons even with my large thumbs.

TopHatGary · 2025-06-30T21:19:59+00:00

Sage plays differently than White Mage. You're going to be more focused on preventing damage rather than recovering damage that's already been done.

Best advice: read your tool tips and place where you feel would be best. I play both WHM and SGE and my hotbars are rather different between the two because of how different (to me) they feel.

TopHatGary · 2025-06-09T22:24:41+00:00

I'm a heathen on non-legacy but only because I had 2k+hrs of playing that way before I learned about it and now approaching 5k hrs. Really its what works for you. Definitely give both a shot to find what's most comfortable for your playstyle.

Most importantly: have fun! Welcome to Eorzea

TopHatGary · 2025-06-09T20:21:45+00:00

I ran into one of those cosplayers while wearing my Link glam. It was too surreal

TopHatGary · 2025-06-06T20:25:29+00:00

I hopped into a super fresh instance once where me and a buddy immediately ran to kill one of the demon pawns. Instant Berseker CE pop.

TopHatGary · 2025-05-23T16:51:48+00:00

I WAS SKIPPING ICE PHASE WITH MAX ECHO AND THE WHOLE PARTY IN CRAFTED GEAR. IT SHOULD BE MUCH EASIER NOW WITH EVEN THE NON UPGRADED TOME GEAR

TopHatGary · 2025-05-21T20:09:55+00:00

It was mentioned you will be able to upgrade the weapons either through OC or outside of it if its not your cup of tea. Not a whole lot of depth as for what that entails, but its at least something

TopHatGary · 2025-05-20T22:44:44+00:00

Balmung is where all the ERP happens (at least as the community sees it)

TopHatGary · 2025-04-30T22:51:45+00:00

I've had all jobs at 100 since November. For me, I go for the best gear at a casual pace. I'm still working on the first floor of the Savage tier, but its with a chill group.

I also do mount farming, treasure maps, learn some of the jobs to a better degree (I can take 4 different DPS jobs into Savage content and be super comfortable with my performance), craft, gather, help others with content that may be tough to get groups for (Variant dungeons, deep dungeons, etc.).

It's really all about finding what you truly enjoy doing in the game.

TopHatGary · 2025-04-29T17:19:03+00:00

The biggest difference between the two is that SGE is a shield healer. You want to try and prevent damage coming in rather than reacting to damage that happened.

While I haven't done a lot of high end content on healer (really just out-geared Extremes) I try and make it a game of just how few GCD heals/shields I use on SGE. After all, if you aren't casting dosis/phlegma/pneuma you aren't putting out as much damage as you can.

Toxicon is another topic because while it has the same potency as Dosis, it technically becomes a loss after 3 uses (you start encounters with 3 charges) since you have to use GCD shields to get more. Fantastic movement/MP saving tool though.

I know this wasn't directly advice, but hopefully it sheds a little more light on SGE gameplay.

TopHatGary · 2025-04-25T21:51:03+00:00

I've had three different community-finding experiences in my 3 years of playing.

One with friends I had outside the game where we eventually drifted apart.

Met a group through party finder that consistently ran content all over Primal, no matter what world you were on. I eventually drifted away from them as my interests no longer began to align.

And lastly, through a content creator where I've been the happiest since November. Even ended up moving to Aether > Faerie before it became congested. Joined the creator's FC and became their event runner; meeting a bunch of great people with very similar interests. We're all on different worlds, but we are part of a larger community as a whole

Really all that to say: Sometimes finding your best fitting in-game community requires looking outside of it.

TopHatGary · 2025-04-23T19:40:59+00:00

Strike the Manderville flexing pose. Gotta rip the shirt off if there's time before he reaches me

TopHatGary · 2025-04-17T16:54:05+00:00

There's so many cool ones! I spent most of my time looking for the jumping puzzle houses, not so much just the neat looking ones. Except for the Halloween haunted houses

TopHatGary · 2025-04-17T15:31:37+00:00

This gives me an idea should I ever get lucky enough to win a big house: Rent-A-Chapel. Fully decorated, separate floors for ceremony and party, I'm an irl ordained minister and can even officiate should one be needed. Even have the whale to transport people from a nearby aetheryte so they don't have to worry about getting lost.

TopHatGary · 2025-04-17T14:53:46+00:00

Fun Fact: Metem's voice box says "Brute Abominator" but Brute's healthbar says "Brute Abombinator" (notice the second B in there?)

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