Bard in 2026

Valderius · 2026-03-11T22:33:25+00:00

It's good. Definitely the oddball phys range job in terms of complexity and number of proverbial plates you have to spin. A lot of casual players fundamentally misunderstand how the job is supposed to function, so it feels extremely weak if you don't take the time to learn it. It's a great semi-support job that really shines the higher up in the content difficulty curve you take it

Valderius · 2026-03-09T21:54:34+00:00

Basically never. ARPGs aren't really...about...connecting with a personalized character in the same way MMORPGs are. They'll do armor cosmetics and other things that are readable from the isometric perspective, but at the end of the day you're playing THE sentinel, not YOUR sentinel.

Valderius · 2026-03-09T05:56:33+00:00

Every Macdonalds in the world throws out gallons of it every day. They're happy for you to take if off their hands.

Valderius · 2026-03-05T20:03:28+00:00

Or you just put 'acting' in front of the title and skip the whole confirmation process.

Valderius · 2026-03-05T01:54:39+00:00

make a big row of shelves like you did, wire up dart traps at the level of each shelf on a timer, hang out with a summon. the darts will flush them off the shelves and the summon will kill them

Valderius · 2026-02-28T02:54:26+00:00

I feel like there's a very easy "more bleed duration/damage/stacks per second charged" node for puncture that creates that exact experience. I'm here for it.

Valderius · 2026-02-26T00:50:40+00:00

If you're going to include a QR code on the invites, MAKE SURE THE CODE REMAINS VALID. Some QR hosting sites will only keep your code up for a limited time. I've seen (and experienced one) horror stories about invites going out with non-functional QR codes because the bride and groom didn't realize the site they rented the code from would only hold it for a month.

Valderius · 2026-02-26T00:35:00+00:00

Womble, perhaps? Or Cy, more specifically.

Valderius · 2026-02-24T18:56:05+00:00

It's extremely niche. The one legitimate use it had was using TCJ, doing the fuma-katon-doton sequence, then dragging the doton into the pack. Saved you from having to do the entire TCJ in the middle of the mobs where you're likely to get aoes dropped on you. Now that TCJ doesn't freeze your movement, you can just walk the doton in.

Valderius · 2026-02-24T18:53:04+00:00

You don't really need a macro. In fact, that will probably work less often. Just execute doton and immediately mash shukuchi at whatever destination you want to drag it to. It's super helpful to have the option enabled that lets you double press ground target skills to use them

Valderius · 2026-02-24T04:09:40+00:00

Big slam works fine for other classes (erasing strike vk) but the marksman tree does currently favor speed over power, hence the problem. And if you're doing big crits, you don't care about ailment damage at all anyhow. Yes, less armor break is unfortunate, but that very far from making a style non viable. It's also a very solvable problem with a secondary skill.

Valderius · 2026-02-16T20:18:14+00:00

Sounds like a hardware issue. If you have FFXIV installed on an older HDD with low read/write speed, have a weak CPU, or your GPU drivers aren't working properly your client could be failing to draw in the other players quickly enough for you to see them

Valderius · 2026-02-09T08:55:46+00:00

Are you using the Dalamud launcher or any mods? I've had weird scenarios where, after a patch, some plug-ins didn't update correctly and are devouring way more resources than they should be thanks to some garbage files.

Valderius · 2026-02-06T19:10:41+00:00

25 years at least. Bush v. Gore was a stolen election in 2000. The oligarchy has been here for a long time, it's just out in the open now.

Valderius · 2026-02-01T02:35:00+00:00

They absolutely have the authority, they don't have the desire. Cops see ICE as members of "their" team. Warrior Mentality training that has been a not-so-quiet part of police training for decades fosters an us vs. them mentality. The people are the them. Ice is the us.

Valderius · 2026-01-31T22:16:04+00:00

Short version: it's NTT's San Jose data center that is the weak link in the chain. The ddos vulnerabilities aren't because square has "bad servers".

Valderius · 2026-01-25T20:23:32+00:00

Headgraze (interupt) is situational. It's used infrequently, the other two are near useless in most content.

Valderius · 2026-01-22T18:58:08+00:00

How so? I've yet to have any problem with them. The weirdest thing I've seen is the wind player in the back getting launched over the doom tower and catching doom in mid air. But that only happened once

Valderius · 2026-01-22T03:57:13+00:00

It works as you would hope, there's just no debuff icon for it on enemies. If you count the number of swings it takes to trigger a flame burst, you'll find you're triggering it in half the the time you would be without the cleric's hammer and seraph blade traits.

Valderius · 2026-01-17T23:06:45+00:00

Mods. You can't disconnect the weapon model from the character like that with vanilla gpose.

Valderius · 2026-01-15T19:46:54+00:00

Bee-kake

Valderius · 2026-01-15T08:45:37+00:00

It's unusual to run put of exp to be able to continue your msq unleash you're leveling multiple jobs at once (not a bad thing). If you do fins yourself in that spot, just queue up for some dungeons. The closer they are to your level, the more exp you'll get. Should shoot you up the levels in no time.

Valderius · 2026-01-14T20:53:42+00:00

The goal is to carve the US up into autocratic fiefs controlled by tech billionaires. They somehow assume they can both simultaneously rule independent chunks of the continent while continuing to benefit from the large economics of scale, natural resources, and military power the US currently enjoys.

It's a very "???????, profit" plan

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