Mrs Sheepie
[FFXIV] i discovered last night that i severely dislike magic-based classes
Mrs Sheepie
i started in ul'dah so i grabbed thaumaturge just for the sake of it and
Mrs Sheepie
i despise not being able to run around while shit's charging
Mrs Sheepie
i feel so vulnerable
Lampy
Thaaaaat is definitely the disadvantage of Thaumaturge/Black Mage.
Lampy
You make things explode wonderfully, but movement is limited.
Mrs Sheepie
i played with friends doing leves and shit to level up
Lampy
(if you stick with the game long enough to get to 50 and pick up the expansions, do try Red Mage. Very, very mobile in comparison.)
Mrs Sheepie
we filled in two pages of my hunting journal for it
Mrs Sheepie
my primary is gladiator but i also love pugilist bc i mostly just like hitting shit
Mrs Sheepie
my roommate slam-dunked a nickname on me in our group chat
Mrs Sheepie
"Warrior of Punch Shit"
Lampy
Yes good
Lampy
I can highly recommend Archer if you'd care to do damage at range but also run around like nuts.
Mrs Sheepie
that's what my friends were saiyng too
Mrs Sheepie
also reccing ninja but they acknowledged it was a bit shit
Holly Deer
Can confirm: Archer is a runny thing.
Lampy
I really enjoy Black Mage, but in a... masochistic, challenging myself kind of way.
Lampy
This game is nice, at least, in that you can totally try everything and all you've lost is a little time.
Mrs Sheepie
yeah, it's cool
Mrs Sheepie
and levelling is an excuse to hang out with my friends
Lampy
The classes play fairly differently from each other so there's always something neat and different to experience.
Mrs Sheepie
arca has the XV car and he is so excited to chauffer us around
Lampy
And yes! It's well-suited to friends hopping on and helping!
Lampy
Bless the Regalia. I went to the bother of getting an alt on each data center to at least 50 so I could get it on 'em.
Lampy
so useful.
Mrs Sheepie
elle has had ALL THE WORST LUCK trying to get set-up
Mrs Sheepie
it took like 3 hours to install on her pc when she decided she did want to play, and bc her trial was on steam she couldn't transfer all the data she already had
Mrs Sheepie
which was a lvl15 marauder/lvl16 culinarian
Lampy
Ooof.
Mrs Sheepie
so i took the day to level those back up for her
Lampy
Yeah, Steam/Not Steam aren't technically the same version and it's stupid.
Lampy
But at least that's not a lot to catch back up on.
Mrs Sheepie
and then when she went to try and play last night it needed to update again and she got frustrated
Mrs Sheepie
it still took me like 6-8 hours bc i kept getting distracted by sidequests
Mrs Sheepie
last night as we were levelling arca decided to take me on a world tour to get extra xp and aetherytes
Mrs Sheepie
i died 3 times
Mrs Sheepie
(arca and shannon are mostly level 80 so it's fine but it was so fucking funny)
PG
/gladiator main fistbump
Mrs Sheepie
PG
Second the rec of Red Mage, though, it's definitely more mobile.
Mrs Sheepie
i gotta learn how to draw aggro properly still, but i'm only level 16 it
Mrs Sheepie
it's fine
Mrs Sheepie
also
Mrs Sheepie
i desperately want a Myotragus as a mount
Mrs Sheepie
lemme ride the billygoat
Lampy
How To Tank:
1 - Turn on your tanking skill
2 - Pull one enemy with your ranged thingie
3 - Hit the rest of the enemies with your area attack
4 - Do 3 again just to be really sure
5 - Start hammering on one mob and let your team do their thing
Lampy
The rest is just refinement past that point
Holly Deer
/quietly takes notes
Mrs Sheepie
6 - where possible, avoid AoE's
Lampy
A fun trick, when you get your stun-an-enemy skill, is that a lot of monster AoEs can be stopped by stunning them before it goes off.
Lampy
No need to dodge what's not happening anymore!
Lampy
Another good tanking tip is to try not to move the monsters around too much, especially if you have classes in the party that have positional skills. Your Pugilists/Monks will thank you.
Lampy
As will your Rogues/Ninjas, your Samurai, and I think Lancer/Dragoon has some stuff...
Lampy
but yes
Mrs Sheepie
these are excellent to know
Lampy
A good trick for keeping enemies relatively still when dodging AoEs is that you can step away, then just step right back to where you were.
Mrs Sheepie
I also wanna git gud at pugmonks bc I love the concept of just smashing a dragons face in with my face
Lampy
You can sometimes even step in to the enemy to get away from a frontal AoE, then step right back when it's done.
Lampy
Advanced Tanking is, as best I understand it, doing steps 1 to 4 and then going WOOOOOOO and running to the next group of enemies and doing the same and then the next one and then you pray your DPS can burn them all down in time before you get flattened
Lampy
It's very exciting
Mrs Sheepie
ahahahhaha
CaptainAkaRed
Also, as someone who main switches between tank and DPS?
CaptainAkaRed
Be mindful if you do Big Pulls
CaptainAkaRed
as in, try not to get your party killed <.<;
Lampy
My take on the Big Pulls thing is that it's not bad if your first pull gets everyone killed because you misjudged.
Mrs Sheepie
legit
Lampy
Most parties I get will go "lol whoops" and then everyone gets back up and tries again.
Lampy
Going smaller or whatever.
Lampy
It's when you get people that just keep doing the exact same thing that got everyone flattened in the first place that there's trouble... but for the most part, that doesn't happen that much.
Lampy
I will say that I mained healer through most of the game, and I found that to be very fun and rewarding.
Lampy
Less pressure to lead and know your way around like a tank often does, more ability to help the rest of the team.
Lampy
I did DPS through 70 to 80 and it was nice to just sort of be... selfish and just worry about what I was doing, and not the rest of the team.
Lampy
But there's fun to be had in playing babysitter with a cane.
Mrs Sheepie
my roommate mains healer and she is the queen of salt
PG
The real fun is when a DPS or Healer decides they're going to run ahead and pull everything for you.
Lampy
A certain amount of salt does build up over time, yes....
PG
By "real fun" I mean "time to sit back with the rest of the group and munch popcorn while the idiot gets flattened".
Lampy
I dunno, as a healer I kind of love the moments when everything is going right to hell because sometimes I can prevent it from going to hell.
Lampy
That has taken practice, though.
Mrs Sheepie
i would like to be a At Least Moderately Good tank
Lampy
That is certainly an achievable goal!
Lampy
A pleasant attitude and a willingness to learn will get you far.
Lottie
Yay! I'm glad you're enjoying it! Hopefully once work is no longer imploding in on itself I'll be able to play with you!
Mrs Sheepie
\o/
Mrs Sheepie
man i love Momodi
Mrs Sheepie
she would END you if she wanted to
Lottie
She absolutely would
Mrs Sheepie
i love the Murderous Potatoes
Mrs Sheepie
i wish i could quick synthesize hempen yarn
Mrs Sheepie
GOT IT
Mrs Sheepie
did not realise that was a lvl10 thing
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