Final Fantasy XVFollow

Well, Ultros is the ZAM non-Legacy server. I forget which server the Legacy people are playing on.

Ultros was full so I joined Exodus.

THe server is really busy best to make a character Late at night or early morning to get in. I havent had any queues or anything but had an issue making a character the first time.

Dang, if only I knew about this last night. I guess I'll just have to wait for server transfers. From what I understand they should be right around the corner.

I think I'm at level 7 now. Not that much progress, but I'm not a fan of paying for the same real estate twice.

Seriously. Especially now that you know where to go Level 7 can be done in an hour tops (probably more like 30 minutes?).

Alright I rolled on Ultros. Character is Danger Loggins.

Nice.

You can pst anyone in the linkshell for one. I had made everyone a leader...

Which reminds me that I should transfer Master to someone else in the shell, since I don't intend to be on all that much for the forseeable future.

Who wants it? As in, who intends to play the longest?

Ive been Player Searching for you every once in a while I havent seen you on. Im on Atm and will be for a bit 'Xain Rose'

Oh, hey, that reminds me of another thing I actually really like about FFXIV. Guilds and Linkshells are different things. I put together a TINFS linkshell, which is essentially an organized chat channel and no more. Essentially, it's what WoW guilds were before Guild banks (and traits/whatever) were introduced.

Guilds are more similar to modern WoW guilds, and they can get player housing, etc.

It's really nice, because it means you can play/chat with all your friends on the server without ever having to sacrifice the level of content you want to do. Want to do hardcore endgame stuff? No problem. Most of your friends are raiders, and you just like leveling new classes? No problem.

There IS a Zam guild, but it's the people from the General FFXIV board so... you might not want to head there.



To be fair, it's definitely a more complicated fight. It's probably the hardest in the game right now, no? Excepting if you don't have the gear to do the hard dps race that is Titan. The group I cleared it on was definitely grasping the concepts, but it took a fair number of wipes to get us to a point where we were executing the strategy well enough to get through it.

That fight was ROUGH on me as a healer, because there's so much damage, and a lot of it isn't necessarily avoidable depending on your party setup. Trying to heal a Warrior tank was just way too hard on it; I finally cleared it with a Pld.

And because she has a melee AoE attack, a party with no melee DPS is way easier in that regard. Losing out on the melee LB is tough, but it's good enough if it means staying alive. To be fair, I didn't try it with a Drg, so I don't know if their range is far enough to avoid that AoE. But most Drgs I meet are awful, so...

Now, if you have people standing next to pillars, then yeah. Shame on them.

Garuda is what, 44? You get like 4 pieces of AF at 45, so there's really no gear excuse.

It's a tough fight to heal. That random AoE Garuda uses will interrupt casting, and your cast time on Cure is about 2 seconds. And I don't know if it's truly random or if she has a priority selection, but I was ALWAYS getting interrupted when there was heavy damage to heal on the tank.

If you're with a Whm, going OOM is another risk. Our mana efficiency heavily requires we get Freecure procs so we can cast Cure II for free. Extensive time without it is really going to show in our MP pool.

And because it's potentially so MP intensive with only one healer, Warriors can be a serious problem. Garuda has a LOT of burst damage. If you can't live through that, and have enough effective health to live through one failed cure and one completed cast, then you're going to go down. Regen helps with that some, by guaranteeing more health in the meantime, but still.

Because there's so much unavoidable damage in the fight, it's imperative that people avoid the dodgeable stuff.