Limit break useful?Follow

We are a little to low level to get the full benefit of limit breaks but they do come in handy. On Ifrit for instance having the healer use the limit break to top everyone up is handy, and on many dungeon fights using the damage limit break can finish a boss before adds get to out of control for instance.

As Yoshi-P has mentioned they aren't necessary but they are useful.


Edited, Aug 19th 2013 10:54pm by PyrielDD

It's a panic button/finishing move. The BLM one (and SMN probably) is useful for clearing out adds at bosses that sometimes can be too much to handle (e.g Copperbell Mine boss room if you don't try to prevent the them from breaking rocks and they keep spawning more and more and more). Melee DPS is useful finishing move (worth 10 times of the strongest WS crit). Healer and Tank are obviously panic button to prevent wipe.

I was tanking a group, and the server was about to go down...

So I shouted "Tellah do the Meteo!""

They responded "I don't know how." :(

A group of mine had trouble with Ifrit due to our low DPS. So we utilized our PUG's limit break to destroy the thorn just in time to avoid the massive inferno attack. It truly made the difference in the fight.

Interesting, looks like Limit Break is also affected by gears. My lowest Limit Break in Satashawhateverpiratecove (Level Sync to 18) was 625. 1,200+ with 2 bars.

Honestly just a well planned out PT with everyone agreeing could easily solve that,
For ex CJN limit break right after Ifrit big attack would be a lifesaver...wish I though of it when I did it that fight

Generally I believe it has been said to be "skillful actions." So landing combos from melee, healing low-health targets etc. Not sure how rdps contributes, but I'm sure they do. Play well, the bar fills faster

It's fully orange if am not mistaken, and yea once one person uses it it's not available for nobody until its refilled

There are 3 limit break tiers. With a light party you get 1 bar and depending on how many more ppl you have in your party and which dungeon you are in you get 2 or 3 bars. Also monk gets final heaven. I think thats monks tier 3 limit break. I wish they used cids limit break for dragoon. Idc if I jump down from highwind (even indoors) but it makes more sense than omni slash

The limit break bar shows up in your UI customisation option thru the menu - top-left of your screen iirc (on the PC, at any rate). The hotbar ability is found in with the rest of your general actions in the ability pane (P by default on PC). In a "normal" party (light party in game), you can fill up 1 bar (grey = empty, blue = filling, orange = full) throughout the instance, with the final boss (at least, for the first 3 dungeons) allowing you to fill a 2nd bar. When someone in the group pops it, it empties for all, but only uses the full bars for calculations. So 1 bar = level 1 LB, 1.8 bars = level 1 LB, 2 bars = level 2 LB. So essentially, use it as soon as it fills (if that's the plan, prob not a good idea if you're in a DF pug), or wait, save for last boss, build up 2 bars and then a) get THM/ARC to use it if you need AoE spike to clear adds, or b) get LNC/PGL to use it on boss for a big chunk 'o damage.

Oh damn. Well thanks for the clarity :)

I never had to use mine as a healer. On boss fights sometimes we would kill the boss before both bars filled. Even if they did the fight was pretty much over so we used it just to knock off that last bit of health.

Depending. I think the limit breaks are perfect for post-signature move recovery if you know you can survive the attack fine.