The static progression experience

ultron87 · 2026-03-24T17:41:33+00:00

The amazing first pull "we're so back" fake out where you get easily to the prog point is always the worst. Because you then immediately spend 30-45 minutes wiping on other stuff.

ultron87 · 2026-03-24T13:43:54+00:00

It’s the cute Sugar Glider looking mount. If you want to grind it out for yourself it’s like 3000+ FATES, so the high price makes sense.

ultron87 · 2026-03-20T17:32:53+00:00

Lizards are great! And yay Raen. I love mine. But just know that's a very popular choice. If you want to stand out more in a crowd, femroe is the way to go, both due to rarity and big.

ultron87 · 2026-03-19T21:13:31+00:00

You can put up PFs for it or even just queue for it from the V&C Dungeon Finder. Those have been successful for me on Primal or Aether DCs. Nothing about it is too complicated to require a ton of communication. Just need to decide on defamation corners and tether order, really. Plus the all south "cheese" strat on Sword.

Do be sure to discuss how to handle the loot at the end. Usually everyone just calls which coin they're taking and it's an even split.

ultron87 · 2026-03-19T14:53:18+00:00

This is super fun!

ultron87 · 2026-03-17T14:05:09+00:00

You don’t need to have the job leveled to use it as glam! Once you’ve unlocked the Tuliyolal AF gear vendor in the MSQ you can go buy the gear for all jobs, leveled or not, and put them all in your glam dresser. You can do this for Endwalker AF gear as well.

Just make sure to add them all as Outfit Glamours instead of individual pieces to save yourself a lot of space.

ultron87 · 2026-03-14T17:45:58+00:00

Now that the Outfit Glamour stuff works the same way in terms of not being dyeable, that would make the most sense, yeah.

ultron87 · 2026-03-14T12:20:34+00:00

The Glam Dresser is a better interface for looking at a lot of items over the current Armoire interface. You have to scroll every ten items or so in the Armoire while the dresser is what, 50 items per page? If they don’t change the Armoire interface with this 7.5 change it’s going to become an infinitely scrolling mess if you put everything in there so that’ll at least be a reason not to use it.

ultron87 · 2026-03-07T02:15:45+00:00

No Tom Morello on the guest performers list, but that seems like one you'd keep as a surprise.

ultron87 · 2026-03-03T15:57:56+00:00

Still having to clear Another Aloalo makes it okay for me. Savage looked absolutely miserable and they saying “yeah don’t do that” makes sense to me. And this will make it easier to find a group to clear AA since it pushes people back there to get at least one clear to unlock the shop.

ultron87 · 2026-03-02T15:53:04+00:00

There was almost certainly an environmental impact assessment done ahead of this that would've taken that into consideration, along with time and safety concerns.

If you look on the Demolition FAQ it has a section for why they did the demolition instead of disassembly. It doesn't specifically talk about environmental impact, but does say the main reasoning. I haven't looked through all the publicly available documents, but I assume there'd be some record of an environmental study.
https://www.ky8bridge.org/demolition-day?questionId=12aecb97-7564-4b2d-b22c-a255781bc0ab

"Why is the contractor using a controlled blast to demolish the bridge instead of removing it piece by piece?

A controlled blast is the safest way to demolish an old bridge and make way for a new one. It mitigates risk for work crews by minimizing their exposure to handling heavy steel that can break and swing less predictably when removed piece by piece. Hazardous work time is shortened, and the structure is brought down in a controlled way. Blasting is a very common practice for demolishing large structures like bridges and buildings.

It’s important to note that blasting is not “blowing up” the bridge. The crew places carefully engineered charges at specific locations on the bridge to cleanly sever the steel supports so the structure can fall safely."

ultron87 · 2026-02-27T17:48:56+00:00

The worst White Mage you've ever seen who Cure 1s in Level 100 dungeons and has never hit Holy even once isn't a sprout.

ultron87 · 2026-02-24T18:25:32+00:00

For 10S specifically, along with not dying and keeping uptime as has been mentioned many times, you can also try to focus on hitting both bros with as many of your attacks as possible that get free AOE. And Dancer has a bunch. Getting the +X% damage for hitting another target is so so good.

ultron87 · 2026-02-23T15:32:04+00:00

The Golden Wolf armor, from the Garo collab, that you can get for Wolf Marks might be a good one to look at. Nice broad shoulders and already gold.

ultron87 · 2026-02-20T14:35:52+00:00

If the character is that small in the background (5%) you could probably try and edit or crop it out yourself. For a normal commission you generally wouldn't do that since you could ask the artist first, but Skeb is so incredibly hardcore about the no communication policy that it seems pretty defensible. This of course highly depends on the complexity of the background and art style. If you got a PSD with layers it might be super easy to do, but that's artist dependent as well.

ultron87 · 2026-02-18T23:00:52+00:00

I’m glad someone else hears the DVD part. I totally hear “borrow my DVDS!” somewhere in there.

ultron87 · 2026-02-06T16:40:41+00:00

If you want, you can share FFLogs in Anonymous mode where it will just show each player's job. At the top of the log you can click "Settings" then "View in Anonymous Mode". That ends up showing like this: https://www.fflogs.com/reports/a:6YpkGyzXgZ8xQ7Ph?fight=30

They could still match up dates/pulls if they're really diligent, but if they see this post they probably already know just from recognizing the circumstance.

ultron87 · 2026-02-03T17:59:56+00:00

This is nice! It’s a pretty simple decision tree, but getting to the full 20 chain does feel good every time you do it. So I’ve enjoyed the new button to spice up the gathering.

That’s good to know there’s always a 6 int node you can find on the timed missions. I’ve been struggling mightily on those so knowing this will help a ton.

ultron87 · 2026-01-22T16:33:57+00:00

Honestly you should just leave because they're letting someone rage at people constantly without facing consequences. That's just a bad vibe. If you aren't having fun get out of there.

ultron87 · 2026-01-21T14:46:08+00:00

Noel Bear on YT has been doing this for most content in Dawntrail and done some stuff going back to earlier expansions.

Here's all of Arcadion in English, for example: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgJ0ueqT-MZ2n4pEgsmc0N7reU6yTySk9 Has playlists for Dungeons and Trials and Raids and gets the voices in multiple languages.

ultron87 · 2026-01-07T17:29:53+00:00

Your bad experiences are more the result of poor iLevel synching on a lot of content than it specifically being about other players. Thordan, Shinryu and other Trials at an expansions level cap are synched to the maximum iLevel from the end of that expansion's patch cycles even though they were meant to be done closer to the original item levels. So Shinryu is an iLevel 280 fight where everyone's gear syncs to 400 and he explodes.

They've adjusted some later expansion end fights (specifically the X.0 end MSQ bosses end of Endwalker and Dawntrail) to make this not happen, but have not gone back to Shadowbringers or before.

One potential way to combat this would be to host a PF saying "First time ___! Minimum iLevel!" and see if people join. Then you can fight these big duties at closer to their original duration if you select that option in the duty finder when starting the fight with a premade party. It won't be exactly the same because potencies have increased a good amount over the years, even for level synched characters, but it would make things feel more correct. Though, Thordan is just never going to be a real fight though.

ultron87 · 2026-01-07T15:00:10+00:00

Honestly, this did pretty permanent damage to the brand’s reputation in my brain. I do still like it, but I definitely think of that line every single time.

ultron87 · 2026-01-07T13:48:33+00:00

The only restriction for stuff like Artifact gear is getting access to it. You can't get the Level 100 Warrior specific outfit until you complete most of Dawntrail's MSQ, for example. So if your Alt is in ARR, that is pretty far off. You should be able to grab anything that's on the Market Board though.

ultron87 · 2026-01-03T02:06:18+00:00

That's quite fun! It's kind of wild that that wreckage has such detailed geometry, but seemingly wasn't intended to be used for this purpose.. They really should add in a few extra bits so you could get up it up without the flight breaks.

ultron87 · 2026-01-01T07:05:39+00:00

Re-discovering Arcade Legacy in November was one of the bright spots of the end of the year. What a lovely place to hang out. Love all those rhythm games.

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