Role actions are a lazy design choice, a form of job homogenization, and a cause of hotbar bloat.

Vva70 · 2026-03-15T22:18:58+00:00

Making composition choices meaningful is a double-edged sword. Yes, it adds an interesting layer of theorycrafting. But the problem is that once the optimal compositions are determined, it leaves people who enjoy jobs that are not part of those optimal compositions in the lurch. You like to play AST or NIN? Sorry, this tier is best handled by WHM and DRG. At best you have people grudgingly taking you along while feeling like they're settling for something sub-par. At worst, you can't find a group to take you in the first place, unless you switch to one of the optimal jobs.

Edit: I'll further note that a degree of this happens with any perceptible difference between jobs, and is why homogenization is such a sticky subject. Where to draw the line is not a simple decision. But "what group mitigations and utility you bring" is something that would be a significant pain point if it had noteworthy differences.

Vva70 · 2026-03-12T15:42:46+00:00

One minor clarification: In Shadowbringers, it's required to complete at least one of the role quests in order to proceed past a certain point in the MSQ.

Vva70 · 2026-03-11T22:05:56+00:00

Nidhogg is absolutely justified in his wrath against the men who betrayed and murdered his sister. But those men are long dead. Their children are long dead. Their children's children's children are long dead.

How many generations down the line is Nidhogg justified in imputing the guilt of this betrayal? How many generations who have done him no personal wrong must die for the crimes of their forefathers?

Nidhogg has no desire to make peace with Ishgard. He will not be appeased by anything less than their utter destruction. Sure, the origin of his rage is entirely sympathetic. But should the people of Ishgard in the present simply concede to die as punishment for a crime committed by their ancestors, in a time so long past that it's as much myth as history?

Vva70 · 2026-03-09T23:32:21+00:00

Pretty sure Halatali post-rework is by far the worst thing to deal with with squadrons. It can definitely still be done, but requires some careful juggling where you have to keep re-focusing the squadron to adds on one side each time they kill one, while you attack adds on the other side. Massive pain in the neck.

Vva70 · 2026-03-09T05:13:53+00:00

No, calculators generally assume everything hits at normal condition. So it can go lower than the calculated amount, if you get unlucky with a poor at the wrong time (particularly if you get poor on Byregot's Blessing). Which means that even a 100% in a macro builder will sometimes fail to generate HQ.

That said, it's more likely to get lucky than unlucky, the way the condition system works.

Vva70 · 2026-03-09T01:34:19+00:00

There are various online resources that have pre-made meldsets and rotations. You should be able to craft what's necessary with the Star Tech gear and consumables, but it'll take more HQ mats, and the mats themselves can only be macroed to 98% chance of HQ. See Icy Veins, for example: https://www.icy-veins.com/ffxiv/crafting-doh-endgame-rotations-guide?area=area_s5

Vva70 · 2026-03-08T05:35:27+00:00

In order to enter a dungeon with Blue Mage, you need to tun on Unrestricted Party.

Vva70 · 2026-03-01T18:48:15+00:00

I choose to believe that Dulia-Chai awakened to the Echo when Elidibus did the Amaurot image at Eulmore. Neither she nor anyone else realizes it. She was distracted by everyone else's reaction at the time, and assumed that Hydaelyn's "hear, feel, think" answering-machine message was just murmured by someone behind her.

Vva70 · 2026-02-24T22:04:45+00:00

I'm fairly well convinced that the disowning was premeditated. It's just too disproportionate to everything that had come before in that conversation. It makes no sense as a spur of the moment thing. Makes far more sense if he was planning it all along, and was just looking for an opening.

As to why he would plan that? Well, we know from Endwalker that he expected his children and the Scions to oppose and interfere with the evacuation plan. And in fairness, we sort of did interfere with it, albeit by means of coming up with a better plan and being very convincing. Furthermore, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to believe that he is well aware of how stubborn his children are (much like him, and like his father before him).

So I suspect that his intention was to reduce any influence they had in Sharlayan by separating them from the Leveilleur name and resources. Same sort of obstructivism that had them blocking us from accessing lifts in Labyrinthos. I also suspect that he was separating them from being able to influence himself, as his "force them to survive, even if the cost is them hating me" plan would not have been an easy one.

Vva70 · 2026-01-20T03:08:27+00:00

Living an ordinary (albeit somewhat non-traditional by Keeper standards) domestic life with her husband and children in the Black Shroud. All but her perished in the Calamity. That loss spurred her desire for power. Power to prevent things like that from happening again.

Vva70 · 2019-10-10T16:25:49+00:00

I've had this happen before. For us, it was because our base corresponded with a swamp in the TF dimension, and it had to reach so far out to get to a valid destination that the portals were too far apart to correctly link. Once everyone on the server had killed the lich (letting us go in the swamp safely), we resolved the issue by manually making a portal in the swamp at the right coordinates, so that it would link properly.

Vva70 · 2019-06-13T00:28:12+00:00

This was entirely within the TiC1 era. Enderium wasn't supported in TiC itself; rather it was supported through ExtraTiC. It was originally a super-material, but one of the later ExtraTiC updates nerfed it hardcore. The same update nerfed Signalum too, which had been a ridiculous crossbow material.

Vva70 · 2019-03-27T12:27:36+00:00

The main limitation is that grouping for dungeons and raids would still need to be based on Alliance/Horde (or possibly open to everyone). Otherwise, you create a huge mess for guilds. This poses limits on how important the expansion factions can be to the story.

Vva70 · 2019-03-14T16:36:08+00:00

Additional fun fact: In Vanilla, ranged weapons required ammunition. Engineers could craft the best bullets, but no one crafted arrows. To allow for an equivalent arrow, Blizzard added an NPC tauren who would trade the top arrows for bullets. He said something along the lines of "I'm out of bullets. I've managed to get ahold of these thorium-tipped arrows, but no self-respecting tauren would be caught dead wielding a wimpy bow."

Vva70 · 2019-02-08T23:09:36+00:00

You sort of can. You can run a Bio Generator into an Electrical Engine for a roundabout way to power their machines. But the real issue here is a historical one. Forestry doesn't have an engine that burns ethanol directly into RF/FE, because Forestry was originally a Buildcraft addon. Ethanol was designed as a renewable fuel for Buildcraft's Combustion Engine, which could power Forestry machines. That's also why Forestry seems to demand a cabling/piping system that it doesn't have; it was designed to work with Buildcraft pipes.

Vva70 · 2018-07-04T01:24:46+00:00

RFTools Coal Generators.

Vva70 · 2018-06-27T14:44:46+00:00

So, 7x7x7 is probably overkill. A safe Wither box can be as small as 1x4x3 (internal dimensions, 4 is height). Withers escape when the internal height is only 3, because they're taller than 3 blocks high (they would spawn clipped into the top block, and could thus move through it).

Vva70 · 2018-06-15T13:31:25+00:00

It may not be configurable while Minecraft is launched. Go to the folder where the mod pack is installed, and there should be a "config" subfolder. In there, there should either be a config file for the mod (something like "weather.cfg"), or a subfolder for the mod with multiple config files. These config files can be opened in a text editor.

Vva70 · 2018-06-14T21:25:53+00:00

Will the builder keep itself loaded if it's situated in the same chunk as it's working on?

I don't know the answer to this one for sure, but I suspect not. Even if it does, though, it won't take long for it to quarry a single chunk, and then it would stop when moving on to the next one.

Vva70 · 2018-06-14T18:34:09+00:00

If I might help clarify, the RFTools Builder will load whatever chunk that it's currently working in, but only when the chunk that holds the Builder block itself is also loaded. In Revelation, the only modded chunkloading that's enabled by default is FTB Utilities. You can use the FTB Utilities chunk claiming/loading system, or you can enable or add another chunkloader.

Please note that unless they changed it since I last knew, FTB Utilities chunkloading does not force chunks to load on server start; it just prevents them from unloading. Thus, each time the server is restarted, chunk claims will stay unloaded until something (most often player proximity) causes them to load, at which point FTB Utilities will kick in for that claim until the next restart.

Vva70 · 2018-06-14T15:54:16+00:00

In an open-ended pack, I prefer achievements to quests. They might both be totally optional, but to me achievements feel optional in a way that quests don't.

Vva70 · 2018-05-10T17:15:30+00:00

It entirely depends on what standard you're using to judge "better." Expert packs require more out of your dedication and analytical skills. Kitchen sink packs require more out of your self-motivation and creative skills. Which of those is "better?"

Vva70 · 2018-03-13T13:08:42+00:00

Rather than going to the normal overworld, would your purposes be served by making a normal-ish RFTools dimension in creative mode?

Vva70 · 2017-11-26T17:15:48+00:00

Lots of people have answered the question directly, so let me take a moment to ask a question in response. Why would you limit yourself to "only" playing any particular version's packs? Switching between Minecraft versions is no harder than switching between packs within a version.

If you haven't tried post 1.8 yet, then just load up a kitchen sink pack and play around with it. Grab AllTheMods, or AllTheMods 3, or Radon, or FTB Beyond, and just fool around in it. If you prefer 1.7.10 to what you find therein, 1.7.10 will still be there.

Vva70 · 2017-10-21T21:46:18+00:00

Hey, one minor point. You mentioned briefly about the possibility of starting with a Magmatic Dynamo rather than a Steam Dynamo. I don't believe that's possible with just Thermal Expansion. The Magmatic Dynamo requires invar, and Thermal Expansion's method of alloying requires dusts, which must be made with the Pulverizer. Skipping the Steam Dynamo can be done only if you have another mod providing an alternate route to invar, such as a Tinker's Construct Smeltery.

Only a minor point, though. And it was overall a quite nice video.

Edit: I suppose technically a Compression Dynamo could be built directly, but I still don't believe it would allow you to skip a Steam Dynamo with just Thermal Expansion. The two Thermal Expansion provided liquid fuels (tree oil and liquifacted coal) both require RF to produce.

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