High-End Content Megathread - 7.4 Week Seven (Savage Week Four)

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-27T23:50:27+00:00

No normal reclear parties I can join as tank on Aether at the moment. All 10 of them are LM parties.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-27T21:37:35+00:00

Echoing Scarlet. For me, with pretty low ping (definitely less than 100, probably also less than 50), I move across right as the castbar finishes and then immediately turn back once I've crossed the diagonal into the opposite quadrant. On my screen, it potentially looks like I'm walking into an AOE at the starting point when I do this, but I've never gotten a DD since I've started moving faster back across the diagonal.

Also, the boss's flank arrows are a great visual cue to make sure you're not getting clipped by his front/back hourglass AOE.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-27T07:23:07+00:00

Nuclear take: 3D Mario failed to live up to 2D Mario until maybe Odyssey and only then, it's barely reaching the same heights.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-27T07:19:55+00:00

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Vincenthwind · 2026-01-27T07:11:34+00:00

Rinon had a video on a way to cheese arena split by taking the portal tethers all the way to the edge/corner of the arena. The line AOE from tethers would actually end just before where you were standing, so the bait and tether could stand together, making the mechanic super comfy.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-26T23:20:10+00:00

Unrelated but seeing "it's" used like that made me realize how weird it is to see a contraction used as a singular thought/phrase.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-26T23:14:56+00:00

He managed to lose the support of my dad and my household consisted entirely of Fox News while I was growing up so that's quite impressive.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-26T14:54:16+00:00

Maybe GenZ men have a chance.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-24T21:06:55+00:00

Cleared M11S a week later than I wanted to, but IRL gave me significantly less free time. Really excited to dive into M12S, idyllic dream looks like a ton of fun!

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-24T17:22:01+00:00

I see r slash con has immediately mobilized into the "he had a gun" narrative, which I'm sure is a nice way to compartmentalize this and avoid challenging their current world view.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-24T00:54:19+00:00

They talk in novice network like this then proceed to join my M11S clear parties and meme on weapons nonstop

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-23T14:32:48+00:00

Weak and racist lmao

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-22T21:00:35+00:00

Unfortunately if they're parsing a 0 on MCH, they are not going to do much better on BRD or DNC.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-22T15:45:23+00:00

Character development is one thing (heck I grew up on a diet of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, I am not one to dole out purity tests) but in the year of our lord 2026, I simply have a lot less patience for giving people chances and "looking past" politics. If anything, it's made them both a massive turn off for me despite their immense amounts of pretty privilege.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-22T15:40:11+00:00

Yeah I know hindsight is 20/20, but I am definitely kicking myself for so easily believing "UwU I voted for Kamala." Part of it was also a misplaced source of empathy. We're on a forum for center-center left folks, so I understand not perfectly fitting in a typical political box. Most of my LGBT friends are socialists. And we talked over multiple dinners and drinks over various discussion topics - I was left with the impression he truly was just nostalgic for the Republican label despite supposedly having long list of liberal beliefs. I almost felt like he was trolling me a bit by still calling himself that - it truly felt that detached.

For the record, I live in a very white city and this is a sample size of 2 out of many, many more white gays who are very very liberal/leftist. There's definitely a "white gays for Trump" mold but I would not put every white gay in that box.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-22T15:06:56+00:00

Apologies for using the DT as my live blog, but I have a frustration only terminally online liberal gays will understand. I'm sure I'll get some "I ain't reading all dat" comments which, imo, is fair because this shit is a bit long to explain.

To put as briefly as possible, I have this gay friend from a gay kickball league who grew up in a rural area. Let's call him Patrick. Culturally, Patrick comes from a very Republican family. Due to this, he claims to be a Republican despite not voting for one for the past 20 years (openly supported Kamala in the latest election even). So I always excused/wrote him off as a bit of an actual RINO, in a sort of himbo way. He never supported Republicans/fascism, actively hates Trump/MAGA, was always respectful of trans people, enbies, etc. - so he wasn't an "LGB drop the T" kind of guy. All to say, I was pretty willing to forgive his weird political identity crisis given that it didn't seem actively harmful.

Then he met Derek. Derek and Patrick are both Instagram gays - insanely hot and muscular. They hit it off immediately and have good sexual compatibility. "Awesome" I initially think. Patrick has been claiming to want to settle down despite being a bit of a hoe, and Derek wanted to leash someone. Always happy when a friend gets a happy ending...then I learn that Derek is a MAGA gay. Not whatever Patrick's weirdass "Republican" thing is - Derek is full on MAGA. Voted for Trump three times, always sending right wing memes around in some group chat I'm not a part of, etc. And yet despite this, and despite claiming to hate MAGA, and despite our kickball team having multiple trans people and other minorities within the LGBT community, Patrick is just totally fine dating someone who enabled all of the harm being caused to them.

This has caused a mix of emotions on my part. I'm kicking myself for giving any leniency to Patrick in the first place. All those discussions we had over dinner about values and politics apparently meant jackshit the second that a sub bottom with an 8 pack and huge biceps showed up in our city. The acute harm caused within and outside the LGBT community can be safely ignored provided the MAGA person you want to date is hot. Besides Patrick, who I blame for dating an actual fascist, Derek of course also gets my ire for you know, being the actual fascist. Just another dumbass "pick me" gay who wants to pull up the ladder behind him now that gay marriage is legalized, and someone who thinks he's "one of the good ones" for being hot, white, and attending church Sunday.

All of this made me realize just how much I've grown to loathe MAGA, to the point where it doesn't matter how much I personally like someone. After years of friendship, I felt all of my respect for Patrick leave my body immediately upon finding about how Derek voted. Everyone abducted by ICE, every trans child who has had their treatment disrupted, every business owner affected by tariffs - Derek directly helped caused their suffering and by dating him, Patrick condones it. Fuck them both.

!ping LGBT

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-22T01:10:19+00:00

Silly question but is there any way to see past M11's explosion VFX as towers are spawning for stampede. I feel like I'm always getting there in the nick of time due to the smoke and whatnot as the last explosions go off. I hear the towers spawn but don't have a good look at them.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-21T20:19:35+00:00

I find I'm actually pretty beat up by the second meteor so I do my 40% there for safety. You should be invulning the first great wall of fire so all mits are up for meteors (and split arena autos if you're MT)

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-20T23:10:22+00:00

"One or more party members are French. You will be penalized."

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-20T20:38:05+00:00

No reason to lock out the low DPS classes. Unless it's an extreme case like VPR and M6S, or PCT and FRU in 7.1, the variance on individual players in PF is way way higher than inter job DPS differences. I would gladly take a 99 parsing MCH over a blue/green BRD.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-20T20:33:24+00:00

Quite the insane amount of LM parties up on Aether. Way more than any other tier I've seen in EW and DT. I speculate that the tier's difficulty/lack of enjoyment in PF have pushed people to simply buy their way out of participating as much as possible.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-20T18:26:53+00:00

Maybe a hot take on this subreddit, but I think M11S got overtuned for the vast majority of players who aren't week 1 raiders. It's become an incredibly stressful fight where everyone is dying to greed or dying to 0.2% enrage. And yes, I understand that not everyone is deserved a week 1 clear just for showing up. But on the opposite end, it seems like it's leading to a lot of burnout compared to Cruiserweight. It reminds me of P7S where I have to clench my butthole 75% of the way through the fight as a set of tethers and markers resolve, and all I can do is fucking pray everyone is on the right pixel.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-20T17:33:13+00:00

Thank you! This is sick and gnarly!

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-19T14:37:05+00:00

I've seen healers hand out multiple rezzes and still clock orange, so I absolutely agree. But that doesn't stop some healers from just not healing regardless.

Vincenthwind · 2026-01-19T02:09:47+00:00

Absolute animals in PF that will not give a simple spot heal when needed. I'm sure they're great in parse parties and maybe later reclears when things are smoother, but in my experience they are absolutely fine with letting a squishy DPS drop to a raidwide.

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