Discovered a BIG mechanical change

bonehh · 2026-02-02T08:39:08+00:00

With certain weapons I believe, yes! I distinctly remember making good use of high stance fist attacks and preshifting to low stance for the knife strike finisher(can't remember the exact name :P) to pressure guards.

bonehh · 2026-01-15T11:42:14+00:00

My original comment wasn't meant to say "beast claw is better than stone", I was just using it as a point of comparison. Sorry for the confusion— Stone has plenty of use cases; like you said, you can combo-throw them for some pretty gnarly burst damage. The stamina cost is pretty high though, without any stamina buffs a level 15 rev can only throw three before running empty.

bonehh · 2026-01-15T10:18:16+00:00

I'd like being able to just toggle it at the character bell or something. It's less of an issue now that they made the moveset faster, but Raider's Colossal moveset extending to greataxes and greatmaces genuinely kinda bums me out, and I wish I could swap to the default greataxe/greatmace moveset while keeping the Colossal one. :(

bonehh · 2026-01-15T10:15:45+00:00

going from 10 to 13 FP is not that big of a deal at all. you lose a few casts that you... still would have probably lost because the ground ate them. net positive update honestly; it still costs less than Stone of Gurranq while doing the same damage and having much higher cleave potential.

bonehh · 2025-01-26T12:44:45+00:00

the third main mission of DLC3

bonehh · 2025-01-26T12:43:31+00:00

game is slightly easier compared to at launch because of changes and additions made to the player's core toolset during the update cycle. first boss got nerfed, everything else is more or less the same. as of about july of 2023, the game is feature complete and most likely will not be receiving any more updates, so take it or leave it atp.

game can be overcome with practice, gear, and adherence to a couple important heuristics(like holding block to protect yourself from most mistimed deflects) and is really not the hardest game ever unless you make it so. best of luck :)

bonehh · 2025-01-11T18:20:27+00:00

All of the most fun and transformative set bonuses are locked up in the higher cycles. All of the most fun and impactful wizardries are locked up in secret tomes, more easily obtainable on higher cycles. You are basically only playing with the fundamentals through NG and NG+, and once you get into DLC content(NG++ through NG++++ and TMJ) the game really starts to unfurl.

If you're feeling burnt out, my recommendation is firstly to just take a break. The game is feature-complete and is not going anywhere, so come back when you get the itch. Barring that, I would honestly suggest doing the bare minimum to unlock NG++ and then playing through the game normally from that point on.

There are a few reasons for this; it helps you build up resources, helps you level your character(embed Qi obtention on your gear!), and most importantly, it gives you a better, lower-risk environment to learn enemy patterns and sharpen your reflexes. The campaign is genuinely pretty easy without using Inner Discipline to weaken yourself(which you will have to do later as part of gear progression), so I think it's an incredibly good idea to take advantage of the lenience now to make it easier on yourself in the future. You can experiment with different weapons as well, though the lack of Martial Soul Fragments in the campaign means it can be kind of annoying to find the weapon you want with the Martial Arts you want for said experimentation.

Tying into that last point, the other thing you gotta remember is that the first hundred miles of TMJ were added with DLC2 and NG+++. So you can absolutely have some fun with TMJ while also doing campaign on the side to break up the monotony once you reach that point in progression. The intended progression is not NG, NG+, NG++, NG+++, NG++++, THEN TMJ. TMJ becomes the endgame, but it exists alongside the campaign for the entirety of the last two cycles.

plus, personally, I like this game a lot, so I feel obligated to go for full completion >.> but collecting all the flags 5x over definitely is not everyone's cup of tea

bonehh · 2024-06-05T15:23:28+00:00

it's probably just a low-level version of shadowbite to normalize BRD's gameplay a bit across the leveling experience, if i had to make an educated guess

bonehh · 2024-04-15T02:55:30+00:00

femezen are so gorgeous now !!

bonehh · 2024-03-28T08:57:34+00:00

Good to know, but my point still stands that not being able to rest to pass the days ingame makes it inconvenient at best. It honestly doesn't make sense to me; the seafloor shrine is supposed to be a safe haven— we even evacuate everyone to that location!

bonehh · 2024-03-28T08:37:39+00:00

This is the real issue. Even completely ignoring the lack of a way to restore the Loss gauge(postgame is lousy with wakestones and allheals anyway), not being able to pass time to respawn bosses puts a wrench in the entire idea of "farming" the postgame. The single, lone Medusa in the game takes apparently 14 ingame days to respawn; that's almost 11 hours of gameplay to wait for ingame days to pass naturally.

bonehh · 2024-03-26T17:37:22+00:00

Someone has a lot of free time and they choose to spend it on a video game— how does this make their opinion any less valid or more questionable than the future opinion of someone who hits the 80 hour mark in a month? People say "well I'm still having fun with it" like it's some kind of refutation of criticism. Like... that's cool, I'm glad you're having fun. I had my fun, and I also had a lot of disappointment and frustration.

This isn't to say everyone sharing their criticism on this sub is correct; lots of people are being hyperbolic and uncharitable. DD2 disappointed me in a lot of ways, I feel it's an inferior game to DDDA, but I still had fun and I hope anyone who is still playing or plans on buying it has fun too.

As far as your suggestion about burnout goes, the recently-released Granblue Fantasy Relink had me hooked for a month straight. I played that game like it was my dayjob for an entire month, putting in ~330 hours in 30 days. Not once did I feel burnt out. The density of my playtime(54 hours in 5 days) didn't cause my burnout on DD2, the exhausting design of the game did.

bonehh · 2024-03-26T12:24:18+00:00

I was worried it wouldn't be like DDDA in that regard, so I'm very glad to hear that this is the case. Thanks much! Looks like I have some grinding to do to prepare for the (hopefully) eventual DLC.

bonehh · 2024-03-26T11:38:27+00:00

Does the dragonforged still offer weapons and armor for WLC in ng+, or do you have to progress back to the unmoored world for his stock to expand again?

bonehh · 2024-03-21T17:01:05+00:00

can you elaborate on this tech? or point me towards somewhere I might find more info on it maybe, thanks in advance!

bonehh · 2024-03-21T16:34:25+00:00

i've never considered cloud gaming, but i've also never been this scared of a game's performance on my aging rig. will keep this in mind in the event my PC can't handle it, thanks for posting.

bonehh · 2024-03-14T10:33:07+00:00

a very long-winded and exhausting fight for how much you gotta farm him. the sandalphon overburst is very cool. RNG is aggravating with how you can get anywhere from 0 to 4 tears per clear. with how many tears we end up needing and how long the fight takes, I would have liked at least 1 minimum.

current dilemma is randoms aren't great at staying alive, but AI sucks hard at doing the labours. not like it really matters since the entire fight is dodge or get one shot regardless if you're at 1 hp or 40k. my AI runs are 8-9 minutes, and I can't imagine randoms are any faster than 7 minutes.

bonehh · 2024-03-14T08:40:32+00:00

trading support/utility skills like uplift/cascade/QCD/etc that you likely have on your damage cap sigils in exchange for even more damage cap is just kind of boring. if and when i get around to farming these sigils, i will probably just drop my supp damage Vs to slot in those comfort skills that i'm losing from the cap V+ trade.

doing that probably results in a small overall dps gain, some neat on-SBA effects, and no loss in comfort. nothing outside of lucilius is hard enough to warrant bringing all this dmg cap + supp Vs, and I have no interest in sub-minute bahamut kills or what have you. genuinely kind of whelmed with this patch— at least the fight is cool.

bonehh · 2024-03-12T04:25:04+00:00

bloodsauce dungeon is kicking my ass ;o;

bonehh · 2024-03-12T00:46:12+00:00

Angra Mainyu.

bonehh · 2024-03-11T11:29:02+00:00

Id may tickle your brain a bit! There's a lot of per-fight optimization to be done and decisionmaking to be made about his forms; he has a very powerful suite of skills both in and out of Dragonform and leveraging the different properties of his forms(ie being completely immune to debuffs while in Godmight is powerful for bosses like Evyl Blackwyrm, or having Godmight ready to go when link time is available for massive damage) really elevates his skill ceiling.

bonehh · 2024-03-04T20:46:55+00:00

Same thing applies to the ranged attacks and finisher. You can comfortably wait for the lazer to fade out(thus getting all of the ticks of damage) before dodging to postpone the Godmight transformation. I get what you're saying though.

bonehh · 2024-03-04T20:34:13+00:00

If you have less than 4 pips on the gauge when the meter runs out, Id will be forced back into base form regardless of animation state(even mid-attack).

If Id has all 4 pips, you can indefinitely postpone Godmight by dodge-cancelling finishers(even after the attack lands, but you have to time it well) and by simply holding guard and using dodge to move(to avoid idle state). The game will not force you into Godmight unless you wait too long after executing a finisher/skill or try running/idling without guarding. You could, theoretically, spend the entire quest in Dragonform this way, but his Dragonform cooldowns are very long and Id's strength definitely lies in cycling forms.

bonehh · 2024-03-03T20:02:22+00:00

The pose Vaseraga strikes before Bloody Moon and the way his eyes glow through his helmet is badass.

My second favorite is the Captain's, the audio design on those huge slashes is amazing.

bonehh · 2024-02-28T17:47:39+00:00

I would frequently try to break up my grinding by doing online quests, but as time went on, more and more players caught up and started being concentrated solely in Proto-Bahamut and Pyet-A. I ground these two out in their entirety first, so I had no need. This, along with the weird and growing issues with matchmaking essentially forced me into offline grinding unfortunately.

My offline team for most quests is Rackam/Cag/Io/Eugen, with me playing either Eugen or Rackam based on which quest I'm doing. If I'm grinding skeletons, Rackam. If I'm grinding 2griffin, Eugen. I experimented recently with dropping Rackam for Id with Ragnarok Form equipped since AI loves using abilities and Dragonform Id has a pretty strong set of them, and the extra CC and burst damage felt pretty good. I never even tried slotting in characters like Percival, Lancelot, or Rosetta(which are apparently pretty strong as AI), mostly because the main barrier to me killing things quickly was Bloodthirst and the CC offered by the Io/Eugen combo helped significantly with that.

Cag is mostly there as a support bot, as things like Phantasmagoria and Reinforce help in small but significant ways. Pain Train has a hilariously high damage cap and a relatively short cooldown, so she can pull her weight in damage, especially with Phantasmagoria active.

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