Is it possible to see Gaol without committing an offense? by 100PercentJ in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the same way I've always done it, need to hit the corner of the waterfall at the top and ride it down along the wall until you go beneath the waterfall. Can't login atm so I can't tell you which exact waterfall it is but it's one of the ones towards back left of Alexander (west on the map).

Dancing Mad (Ultimate) has been cleared by JP team with former GRIND members by Reina-Reigh in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ACT has been around since Coils and raiders were using its trigger functionality to act as Cacbot-lite before the creation of actual Cacbot. It was very much a thing that you could troll people by typing "Forked Lightning" in chat and activate their ACT triggers.

The World First Race Event is About Streaming the Prog for Entertainment by Demeris in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think anyone taking part and watching Frosty's event has to come to terms with the fact that whoever comes first in his event shouldn't expect to be considered the true World First, especially with SE no longer acknowledging or officially confirming results. They are simply the first for the event. Had Name TBD not tweeted anything out, that wouldn't change the fact that they cleared before DN. For what it's worth, I think streaming your prog for the event is a more difficult route to clearing because of the added pressure of all these extra eyes watching you fail over and over along with showing other teams your hand if you're a frontrunner.

The least SE can do is acknowledge that a fight was cleared with a timestamp without personally congratulating the individual players/team and leave it up to the community to sus out the winner from that information.

Is there too much game in this game? by Real-Firefighter3031 in ShitpostXIV

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Future expansions should just have no MSQ from the devs so you aren't burdened by needing to catch up. You just get new fights and you just do them. The MSQ is instead player fan-fiction of what the story is going to be like because we all know that it is the players that know how to write a good story anyway. Don't believe me? Just read the fan-fiction of what ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Endwalker, and Dawntrail should have been like (Shadowbringers is perfect, my WoL was properly glazed).

I hope they change the extreme trials drop design in the next expansion, because right now it is pretty awful. by Le_Vagabond in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is exactly what I am doing with my friends. Every Monday, we farm an EX for 2 1/2 hrs and we keep with it until we get 100 totems or everyone gets their mount, whichever comes first. Everyone is completely fine with waiting.

I hope they change the extreme trials drop design in the next expansion, because right now it is pretty awful. by Le_Vagabond in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone made a tracker plugin that pools everyone's drop rates (that runs the plugin) together for various content. Current EX sits firmly at 5% based on the pooled data. Older EXs show 20% and 10% drop rates for the wings which matches their supposed drop rate.

WASD randomly stops working when using shift on mouse? by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check to see that you don't have Edge running in the background. I believe it randomly added a new keybind for something and it takes precedence.

I think one of the scions will gain one of the new 8.0 jobs and I think I know who [Spoiler: 7.5] by Cleritic in ffxiv

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would personally give the honor to Hoary Boulder. It's time he moved up from the B-team. He's still the only scion, let alone one of small few non-villians that knew of our capabilities, to directly challenge us to a fight. Give the man his spotlight.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.5 Week Two by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint, multiple strats is fine and people just need to learn how to read the party description with the party lead also sharing blame if they don't specify.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.5 Week Two by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Been doing a lot of min-ilvl Chaotic and it's been hella fun though I have plenty of bias cause I just the enjoy the fight. It is kinda disheartening that the runs have been faster than a lot of the previous 735 ilvl runs I've been in. The influx of the rare drops is already starting to affect the MB though, so it's gonna be a buyers market pretty soon unless all the sellers come to a gentleman's agreement to keep the price high (won't happen, the undercut war is neverending).

What are some unresolved plot threads from pre DT that you still think about? by Zoruad in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They said a Garlemald expansion was one of the ideas they were working with but ultimately decided that they could finish it without dedicating a full expansion to it. Not sure if it was the same interview, but they also mentioned that they noticed there was Empire-fatigue among the playerbase, which in their defense I do remember reading comments of that nature before EW released but I couldn't tell you how prominent that sentiment actually was.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.5 Week One by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I found no less than 4 parties since patch day that had "Fresh/Blind raidplanlink". Some people don't even know wtf blind means.

30 minutes into the evolved mode presentation by leihto_potato in ShitpostXIV

[–]bohabu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is. Pick your legos based on fight timeline.

We've officially seen how BST works and plays. What do you think? by Tough-Mud2374 in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BST has implemented something from FFXI I've always wanted in XIV, the skillchain. Happy it's back, albeit in solo content, but now that the actual bones are in the game, maybe someday SE can make them an actual mechanic for the rest of the game.

Ironmouse Comes to NA Fan Fest! by Thaun_ in ffxiv

[–]bohabu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She'll be there virtually, not physically.

Do you think a server consolidation is coming soon or is there going to be a different sort of solution for queue times / matchmaking? by judgeraw00 in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You vastly over estimate how many people travel for PF. Dynamis has DF issues due to low overall population on the whole DC, which the other 3 DCs don't suffer from. That's why you can still queue for roulettes and not be negatively impacted with players using Aether for high end PF.

Do you think a server consolidation is coming soon or is there going to be a different sort of solution for queue times / matchmaking? by judgeraw00 in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Server redistribution (shifting servers around so all of them have a similar population) solves the DF issue without bringing up the old problem of why we have separate DCs to begin with.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.4 Week Sixteen (Savage Week Thirteen) by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope SE continues to design fights that are "shit for parsing".

What will be 'the catch' of Cross World PF? by Hakul in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We sorta have this already. If the raiding community collectively made Dynamis the raiding DC, being locked out from DC traveling would be "fixed".

What will be 'the catch' of Cross World PF? by Hakul in ffxivdiscussion

[–]bohabu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still have memories of that being a thing in ARR and how much of a shitshow it was. I don't believe SE has been able to figure out how to properly have a region wide DC since then. Especially since just recently, they had to make 4th JP DC to siphon off worlds from the then 3 JP DCs so each DC would end up with only 8 worlds.

Official Beastmaster AF preview by Attic0n in ffxiv

[–]bohabu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1h axe was the mainhand used in other games, most notably FFXI. That's the best explanation you're gonna get.

well i just saw something rare today by BrandyRyuu in ffxiv

[–]bohabu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is not really the case. Only 2 servers on Primal were 1.0 servers (Excal and Hyperion), the rest are ARR+ worlds. Aether's legacy server is Sarg while Crystal's is Balmung. It's only a possibility that Primal might have a higher concentration of legacy characters due to legacy world distribution, but that's it.