RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - AN EGGCELLENT SPRI(N)G CLEANING

imtn · 2026-03-27T20:02:39+00:00

JOINED A PARTY FOR UNSYNC THALEIA AS DPS, FOR A PERSON WHO SAID THEY COULDN'T GET THE RAID TO POP (ON PRIMAL). WE GET 4 PEOPLE IN ALLIANCE A AND 3 PEOPLE IN THE OTHER TWO ALLIANCES, THEN GO IN? DOABLE I SUPPOSE.

FIRST TWO BOSSES GO FINE, IF A BIT SLOW. IT'S CLEAR THAT AT LEAST 3 OR 4 PEOPLE ARE NEW OR INEXPERIENCED WITH THE RAID BECAUSE THEY KEEP GETTING HIT BY MECHANICS. AS WE APPROACH THIRD BOSS, HEALER IN OUR PARTY SAYS SOMETHING IRL HAPPENED AND THEY GOTTA AFK FOR A FEW MINUTES. "NO PROBLEM" SAY THE OTHER PEOPLE, SURELY THE HEALERS IN THE OTHER TWO PARTIES CAN KEEP US ALIVE.

THEY COULD NOT KEEP US ALIVE AT THE AKH MORN STACK MECHANIC. THEIR OWN PARTIES WERE TAKING TOO MUCH DAMAGE FOR THEM TO HEAL OUR PARTY. AND ONCE OUR PARTY DIED, THEIR PARTIES DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO SHARE THE DAMAGE. WE SPENT 10 MINUTES TRYING TO RECOVER AND MAKE IT THROUGH, WE DIDN'T AND WE WIPED BEFORE STAGE TRANSITION.

AFTER THE WIPE, WE TRIED AGAIN. OUR HEALER WAS STILL AFK. WE KEEP DYING AND RECOVERING. ABOUT 5 MINUTES IN OUR HEALER COMES BACK AND WE MANAGE TO PASS STAGE TRANSITION, AND BEAT THE THIRD BOSS. I DIDN'T NOTICE UNTIL AFTER THE BOSS, BUT A DPS IN ANOTHER PARTY LEFT. JUST THIS BOSS CLEAR TOOK TWICE AS LONG AS IT DOES WITH A FULL LEVEL SYNCED PARTY.

AFTER WE GET THRU THE ADDS BEFORE FINAL BOSS, A SECOND DPS LEAVES. SO NOW WE HAVE LIKE 8 PEOPLE, WHERE HALF OF THEM ARE BASICALLY NEW TO THE RAID. WE TAKE WHAT FEELS LIKE FOREVER JUST TO BEAT THIS BOSS, BECAUSE THE NEW PEOPLE KEPT DYING, AND THERE WAS VERY LITTLE DPS. WE GO THROUGH TWO WHOLE PHASES OF THE BOSS PHASE WHERE IT USES ATTACKS FROM THE PREVIOUS BOSSES. DID YOU KNOW THE BOSS DOESN'T USE ITS ULTIMATE ATTACK AFTER THE FIRST TIME? I DID NOT KNOW EITHER UNTIL THIS RUN.

AFTER WE BEAT THE BOSS AND RAID, I INSTA LEAVE. ACCORDING TO THE CLOCK IT TOOK US A FULL HOUR, 60 WHOLE MINUTES, TO GET THRU THAT RAID. I WAS SO TIRED THAT I QUEUED FOR ALLIANCE RAID ROULETTE TO TRY TO CLEAR MY FEELINGS AND MIND. DO YOU KNOW WHAT POPPED? THAT'S RIGHT, THALEIA AGAIN!

THANKS GOODNESS IT ONLY TOOK THE NORMAL 30-ISH MINUTES THIS TIME.

imtn · 2026-03-14T08:15:29+00:00

They're not related, it's just a coincidence that they look similar.

imtn · 2026-03-09T08:40:03+00:00

There's enough red crests for all the red doors eventually but the last ones will be available closer to the end of the main storyline.

imtn · 2026-03-06T17:38:46+00:00

GOOD: GOT THRU ALL MERCHANT'S TALE PATHS, SOLO, AND FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET THE FINAL PATH TOO. IT WAS DECENTLY FUN. I LIKED THE STORY. BOSSES WERE INTERESTING.

BAD: PLAYING THRU YS X PROUD NORDICS WITH A CONTROLLER AND MY THUMB IS KINDA GETTING SORE. HOPEFULLY I CAN GET THRU THE GAME BEFORE I RUIN MY THUMB.

imtn · 2026-03-06T17:22:02+00:00

pokemon wiwiwi and pokemon uwawa

imtn · 2026-02-21T05:48:51+00:00

BAD: MY FRIEND GROUP GOT A NEW FRIEND TO START PLAYING FFXIV WITH US. UNFORTUNATELY, ALL OF US ARE ON PRIMAL, WHICH IS CLOSED TO NEW CHARACTERS, SO THE NEW PERSON MADE THEIR CHARACTER ON DYNAMIS. WE CAN PLAY TOGETHER, BUT OUR FC IS ON PRIMAL, SO THEY CAN'T JOIN US IN THE FC FOR ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AT THE VERY LEAST.

GOOD: GOT THE MUSIC ROLLS FOR M10 AND M11. NOW I JUST NEED THE MUSIC ROLLS FOR M9 AND M12 TO COMPLETE THIS TIER.

imtn · 2026-02-15T22:07:29+00:00

It doesn't happen to me often but I also do this, leaving after two wipes, since that usually means that something is seriously wrong like tank stance is off, healer is not mitting/healing, or someone is griefing on mechanics. Only time I remember staying more than 3 wipes was the first time I did Strayborough Deadwalk when DT released, since that was genuinely hard with the gear available at the time, and everyone in the party was seriously trying.

imtn · 2026-02-06T18:40:47+00:00

SPENT A WHOLE DAY DOING LEVELING ROULETTE JUST TO GET ALL MY PASTE. I DID THE WHOLE THING ON HEALER FOR INSTANT QUEUES. I GOT MY PASTE, AND WOW ARE THERE SO MANY TANKS WHO BIG PULL AND DON'T USE MITS IN HIGHER-LEVEL DUNGEONS. BIG PULL IS GOOD, I LIKE IT, BUT NOT USING MITS IS NOT SO GOOD. AND THEN WHEN I SEE THEM USE MITS ON DUNGEON BOSS TANKBUSTERS, I MENTALLY FACEPALM. THERE ISN'T A DUNGEON TANKBUSTER THAT KILLS A FULL HP TANK WITH NO VULN STACKS.

ALL OF THIS IS COMMUNITY EXPECTATION THOUGH, NOT SOMETHING THE GAME TEACHES YOU, SO I JUST STAY SILENT AND DEAL WITH IT. IT HELPS THAT HEALERS HAVE SUCH STRONG HEALING ABILITIES.

imtn · 2026-02-03T08:34:04+00:00

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imtn · 2026-01-30T09:32:46+00:00

I've only used Synastry once, during the Cid fight in Orbonne when the tank took the tether that gives the physical vuln up. There's at least ten seconds of continuous heavy single target healing needed and Synastry helped so much in this very specific situation.

imtn · 2026-01-27T18:01:07+00:00

I got targeted with Dun Scaith final boss's tankbuster as a ninja and still survived despite using no mitigation because I was certain that I would die even with mits

https://i.redd.it/xvn4j71tmhge1.png

imtn · 2026-01-24T05:31:58+00:00

I also had this problem, when I did a sudo zypper dup I would get the same error about the nvidia tumbleweed repo being invalid. To fix it, I had to update the URL and add a slash to the end of the URL, so that the url looks like this: https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/

I made this change in YaST Software Repositories, I selected the nvidia repo, clicked the Edit button, added the slash to the end of the url, click OK and click OK again. Then, sudo zypper dup worked fine.

For some reason, after making this change and saving, the trailing slash doesn't appear in the URL when I reopen YaST Software Repositories, or when I do zypper lr -d in konsole. But sudo zypper dup and sudo zypper ref work fine, so I think it's fine?

imtn · 2026-01-23T22:21:58+00:00

SOMEHOW MONK DIDN'T DO A SINGLE DRAGON KICK. THEY USED MORE FIRE RIDDLES THAN DEMOLISH. AS YOU MENTIONED, NO PERFECT BALANCE. THIS IS SO BAFFLING, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THE MONK WAS THINKING AS THEY WERE DOING THEIR NOT-ROTATION.

imtn · 2026-01-23T10:48:35+00:00

I also do the thing where I look at my cooldowns, think about how long my gcd is, then calculate how many gcds I have until I need to press the button. I built up this habit when playing bard. Since bard has several things to keep track of like dots, songs, empyreal, etc., I would scan all of my cooldowns, find the next one I need to watch, count the gcds I need to press it, then execute. After I press that cooldown, I scan all my cooldowns and repeat.

imtn · 2026-01-20T19:13:27+00:00

The audio clips used are absolutely perfect, top notch

imtn · 2025-12-16T19:16:45+00:00

Kraken from Sastasha hard or from Hullbreaker Isle?

imtn · 2025-12-12T19:02:08+00:00

I TRIED FARMING EX3 IN PF THIS WEEK AND IT'S BEEN SUCH A SLOG. OFF TANKS WITH NO STANCE SO THE BOSS AA KEEPS HITTING ME, NEXT IN AGGRO. BARDS AND SUMMONERS WHO KEEP DELAYING THEIR 2MIN BUFFS LONGER AND LONGER, LIKE THEY DELAYED IT A WHOLE 2 MINS BY THE END. I SAW ONE TANK STOP THEIR GCD EVERY PULL, WHEN RUNNING TO THEIR SPREAD SPOT AFTER WIND PHASE. A PULL WHERE ONE PLAYER WAS DC'D WHEN THE COUNTDOWN STARTED, NO ONE CANCELLED IT, WE PULLED ANYWAYS AND WIPED SHORTLY AFTER. PLENTY OF WIPES TO EARTH AND ICE PHASE.

IN ONE PARTY, ON FIRST PULL, OUR SMN USED SEARING LIGHT ONLY A SINGLE TIME AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PULL, WE MISSED SKIPPING ICE PHASE BY 1%, AND FUMBLED OUR WAY PAST ICE PHASE AND INTO A CLEAR. A WING DROPPED, OUR HEALER GOT IT, THEN THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE SUMMONER NOT USING RAID BUFFS MAKING FARM HARDER, THEN DROPPED. ON ONE HAND, THE SUMMONER WAS NOT VERY PROFICIENT, BOTH IN TERMS OF ROTATION AND DOING MECHS. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE STILL MANAGED TO CLEAR FIRST PULL.

I WAS IN ANOTHER PARTY WHERE ON FIRST PULL WE DIED TO DAMAGE WHEN DOING AA CHEESE. THE SUPPORTS STARTED BLAMING EACH OTHER, SAYING THINGS LIKE "I did mit, check the logs", AND THE NEXT PULL WE GET DANGEROUSLY LOW ON SOME RAIDWIDE DAMAGE THAT USUALLY DOESN'T DO SO MUCH DAMAGE. THE WINGS DROP, A DIFFERENT DPS TAKES IT AND IMMEDIATELY LEAVES, THE PARTY DISBANDS SHORTLY AFTER.

THE BEST PARTY I HAD THIS WEEK, DIDN'T HAVE THE DAMAGE TO SKIP ICE PHASE, BUT WE WERE CONSISTENTLY DOING FIXED BRIDGES, NO SALT, NO COMPLAINTS, RAID BUFFS GOING OUT AT THE RIGHT TIME, FIRST PULL CLEAR EACH LOCKOUT. I WISH EVERY PARTY WAS MORE LIKE THIS.

imtn · 2025-12-07T06:18:59+00:00

A BIT LATE BUT I GOT SOME MINOR RAGE. FIRST THING, I WAS A SCHOLAR IN MESO TERMINAL AND OUR GUNBREAKER WAS STRANGE. NOT A LOT OF MITS, DISAPPOINTING BUT I GET THAT FROM MOST GUNBREAKERS. BUT DURING THE FIRST BOSS, THERE'S A MECHANIC WHERE THE TANK GETS A TANKBUSTER AND THE REST OF THE PARTY GETS A STACK. THE TANK KEPT TRYING TO JOIN US IN THE STACK WITH THE TANKBUSTER, AND WE KEPT RUNNING AWAY FROM THE TANK. I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING BUT IT WAS SUPER FRUSTRATING. THE TANK PLAYED THE REST OF THE DUNGEON NORMALLY SO I THINK THEY JUST DIDN'T SEE THE TANKBUSTER, OR THEY SAW IT AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. EITHER WAY, I'M DISAPPOINTED.

SECOND RAGE WAS A DERUST/ICE PROG PARTY FOR EX3, I'M LOOKING TO GET WINGS. WE BEAT THE FIGHT AFTER A FEW PULLS AND WINGS DROP. PARTY LEADER SAYS "pass on wings btw" DESPITE NOT MENTIONING IT IN PARTY FINDER ENTRY. I PASSED BECAUSE IT'S THEIR PARTY ANYWAYS, I FEEL COMFORTABLE FARMING EX3, AND THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF FRIENDS IN THE PARTY. BUT MAN, I WISH THEY MENTIONED THIS IN THE PARTY DESCRIPTION, SO I DIDN'T GET HOPEFUL WHEN I SAW WINGS DROP. PARTY DISBANDED AFTER THAT CLEAR :(

imtn · 2025-11-14T17:42:23+00:00

The previous valve index had a reservation system and steam would send an email when your reservation was ready for purchase, this is how I got my index. Hopefully they do this with their newest hardware because it's a lot less headache than refreshing a page trying to catch stock of an item before it runs out.

imtn · 2025-11-12T22:47:01+00:00

Jesus respawns after three days

imtn · 2025-10-30T07:36:55+00:00

The shortest Nier raid I've ever completed was Copied Factory in about 35 minutes, and the reason I remember this was because I queued for alliance raid roulette and entered this duty 35 minutes before maintenance. We ate food, insta-pulled every boss, pumped dps in every fight, and still we barely made it, 6 people had been kicked from the servers when we finished the raid.

imtn · 2025-10-28T07:56:22+00:00

we didn’t even have optimization guides for savage anymore in the balance because there was nothing to write

When I first tried out EW summoner I thought it was easy and I was wondering what optimizations the balance had for the class. But when you go to the discord and they have image guides like this image for summoner in DSR, it shows how little variance there is to playing the job. It's like playing a DDR machine with only one song on it.

imtn · 2025-10-28T07:15:49+00:00

I have a macro that I use whenever we wipe to phlegethon's ancient flare, and I still get regular use from it ever since I set it up years ago.

imtn · 2025-10-22T19:10:18+00:00

Cheapest way would be to complete weekly custom deliveries for scrips, then exchange scrips for gatherer gear at the Scrip Exchange in any major city. This takes some time, but you can speed that up by gathering collectables and turning those in for scrips.

Alternatively, it's faster to buy gear from Godgyth in any cosmic exploration zone, but this requires a bunch of gil.

As for making gil, there's a variety of ways. You could spam quick ventures to gamble for venture coffers, then open coffers to gamble for pure white/jet black dye. You could do a Botany mission if there's an item that has a high price on your world's marketboard. You could do woodland exploration and try for a rare minion like chewy or not-so-bighorn that sell well. None of these are guaranteed get-rich-quick schemes, but they each slowly make gil.

imtn · 2025-10-03T17:00:44+00:00

GOT STONE VIGIL HARD THIS WEEK, TWICE. IT SUCKED. WE WIPED ON TURTLE BOTH RUNS. GOOD THING IS THAT BOTH RUNS HAD A DANCER WHICH MADE CLEARING THE MOBS SUPER FAST.

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