So this Echo Buff...Follow

And you would know how? You havent even beaten titan hm...

I'll repost it: "You "just checked"? Lucas hasn't been my main since like the first week. I had to change it for privacy reasons after Hitome told his/her FC to all block me, but I'm friends with most of them now." I haven't given anyone on ZAM my IGN after that debacle. Don't get so overexcited.

As my ability to like myself doesn't originate anywhere near whether or not I "pwned it" in a videogame, I don't really care if they "care-bear" turns 1-5 or the EX primals. I feel I've sucked all the marrow out of the challenge that there is to be had in the current end-game there is here. The fact you can just shut off the 'easy mode' should be shutting off this argument, but there you go.

If people want to multi-wipe and stack that buff up, good for them. People aren't wiping any less now, and they've got jack squat to show for it after all this time. A little relief from being on your back all the time would be nice. Did they say you have to wait 3 minutes before you can get the buff or something?

I have 'X' hours to play per week. Currently, I'm languishing in DF/PF trying to get a vortex ring/allagan ring of healing. If the new buffs will put an end to my 30-50 wipes a week, so be it.

My skill-set and play time allows to me get just about everything done that I need with just about anyone else in the game. The fact that I'm an iLvl 88 WHM shows that someone with my time commitment can make this game work for them, and make it work at the highest levels. I'm just one tiny step behind 'capped' in fact.

Could I join a static party and grind it out 3 hours a night, 4 nights a week? Sure I could. I'm good enough to hold a spot in any group. My problem is: I have LOTS of other stuff I'd rather be doing. I'm just hoping this will make that last 1% do-able.....that or I'm just going to farm the new tomes for a higher level ring. :D

You have to be alive for 3 minutes before you die to get the buff/another stack.

Edited, Mar 21st 2014 5:43pm by LucasNox

I consider one's credentials to be undisbuted proof of their credibility when posting about technical content. I do onto others as I would have them do onto me. My lodestone account is posted and free for all to see. If I go posting about level 50 botanist information, and talk about how there is no good stuff to gather at level 50, I fully expect you to check in my signature, go to my lodestone, see I am a level 18 botanist, and exclaim "This guy doesn't know what the hell he is talking about". Personal attacks aside, if you can not prove to me that you know from extensive experience that a 25% buff is "too much" and will turn the game into "carebear mode" then it is obvious you and I aren't playing the same game. 25% will barely scratch the surface, because without good mechanics it doesnt matter if your hp and damage is 25% higher. I call you out. I don't believe that you have beat titan extreme. If you did, and you actually accomplished that challenge, you would never call this game "carebear" in any form. So my accusation is not a personal attack, it is research into your credibility to help me understand whether or not I should take your opinion into consideration.

I do not sneak into a meeting on nuclear physics and stand up and try to talk about something I have no idea about. But from your consistent posts with opinions that from experience I know to be utter bull crap, it makes me seriously wonder if we are playing the same game.

And so you post evidence of a character that has limited experience. What is that? Bait? A cover? Or worse a double cover and you have had to do this before when making posts about things you have no idea about and getting called out on it? Doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to check Lodestone for a character you clearly posted in your signature. If you didn't want someone searching, then why on earth is it there? Probably so you could use that same line over and over about personal attack... This isn't the first time someone has called you out, is it? That response was too well scripted.



Edited, Mar 21st 2014 4:53pm by Valkayree

Maybe if you weren't such a douche all the time people would respond to you in a more positive way. Just a thought.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 4:31pm by Turin

The following applies to more than just raiding, but it's pretty much the common place where it must be brought up: Content people can't experience is content that may as well not exist to the individual who can't complete it.

I've already seen the rhetoric flung about like carebears, welfare, scrubs, blah blah here and elsewhere. And I'll be blunt: Get the **** over it.

Not everyone has the perfect FC. Not everyone lucks into competent PUGs. ****, the acquisition of some digital gear really isn't something someone should be losing sleep over if someone did it a different, but still legitimate way. The content will no longer be top tier. BC is over 6 months old by now where progression was gated for more by time and RNG than skill. Yes, it's ********************** easy to say there's no challenge in this game or MMOs in general as a veteran to a genre that seriously hasn't evolved much in interaction since their inception. Or are we going to fall back into wanting harsh death penalties, stupid rare spawns, more one-shot mechanics, more rage modes, and other typical BS that actually doesn't teach anything with its twisted sense of motivation, but simply punishes.

To those legitimately late to the party, well, them's the breaks. The easing of difficulty is absolutely required as the overall interest in an event diminishes. Otherwise, when get turns 11-15, you'll have the few at 11+, some still having difficulty with 6-10, and those who could probably just never find a full and competent group for 1-5. It's a problem that's manifested countless times in other MMOs, which is exactly why the ******** against is silly and old hat.

All this time I just thought you were just a troll I completely misses the fact you were also one of the cool kids. My bad yo. Mad props to your skills and what-not.


Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 12:42pm by LebargeX

Sidenote, sounds like LucasNox is afraid of his bad-behavior and general negativity following him into game. That, or the call out is successful and he really does not have the achievements to back his claims. Either way it speaks poorly to both his reputation and his credentials.

This is just my opinion, but if you are at the point in your gaming habits, where you can't be open with your character identity for fear of some sort of retribution, and you're actively engaging in arguments which leave you vulnerable to being called out - you've got a serious problem that needs Real-Life attention paid to it. The last thing you need to be doing is armchair critiquing a video game that does not meet your preferences in a negative light.

At that point there should be some serious life-assessment going on, before hitting the Post/Reply button again.

As far as people championing Dark Souls as a waymarker of difficulty, most don't even understand the structural concept behind the Souls series. I happen to have both games, but I'm not ashamed to say I haven't finished either Demons or Dark Souls. Mainly due to the time requirement involved. Sadly, those are games that beg to be explored and learned the hard way - something that I in no way have time for these days.



Mn. I could see that. Though I'd have to question their Coil 2 Clear method if they're doing it in an hour an a half. I don't think you can over-gear against a mix of High Voltage and Allegan Rot. That's currenty a source of continual frustration.

However my Free Company takes a slower approach. We're not trying to 'clear' content so much as... master sounds too conceded... we're trying to learn from each challenge by working at it until we have it down, THEN move to the next one. Picking up loot as we go and gearing our people. It's why we're not yet onto Titan Extreme, and why we likely still wont progress past Coil 2 until we can get it down without the Enrage Tactic.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 4:33pm by Hyrist

I'm sorry if I implied that it has anything to do with overgearing. In fact I tried to stress the fact our Free Company more or less wants to wait until we've got the normal version of Coil 2 down (Aka, not using the enrage method) before we challenge beyond it.

My personal complaint is how class-narrow dealing with High Voltage is. I agree with the planned adjustments to High Voltage because I feel it allows the players to make more comprehensive choices on how to deal with the mechanic than having your 2 best latency players in the run go on Bard and rotate Blunt Arrow. I feel the mechanic is too narrow breath of solutions, reliant on the 3 classes who can silence, rather than giving multiple solutions to a static problem ,like how Allegan Rot requires you to rotate the debuff, but lets you decide among st your team how you choose to do that, or if you'd rather deal with the double-speed haste.

While your point does make plenty of sense it doesn't mesh with what I'm seeing in game. All the 'ads' for statics are asking for a 3hr plus commitment for 3 nights plus a week.

From doing Coil through PF, I've discovered a couple of advantages to playing in a static, aside from the time efficiencies already mentioned:
1. It weeds out the people who don't have the patience to improve or the persistence to work through challenges. I've been in quite a few PF groups where one or more people bail at the first sign of adversity.

2. You limit the number of times you can potentially lose the lot on a specific piece of gear. If you're a tank in a static, and you lose the lot on tanking body to the other tank, you know the next one is going to be yours. If you're a tank that only does Coil through pick up groups, there's no limit to the number of times you could get out lotted by the other tank, since there's no guarantee you'll ever run the same turn with the same people again.

The cost to these benefits is of course the time commitment you have to make. Turns 1-5 could probably be done in just 2 nights a week. Groups that are looking for more nights a week than that are probably also planning to static other weekly content like EX Primals and capping their weekly myth (now soldiery).

Primals are echo buff upon death and will begin in 2.2 (HM get 10% increments up to 50% where EX get 5% increments up to 25%)

BC buff will occur in 2.3 and will be applied in increments over time. (i.e. 10% buff the first week, 10% extra the second, 10% extra the third week up to a set total).

From my understanding then echo buff can be turned off... But why would you want to? Reminds me of the Obama vs Romney election where Romney used funds from super PACs and Obama was against it, then eventually decided that if he wanted to compete he had to use the funds against his wishes. He would have lost if he would not have accepted the funds from the super PACs because they were that powerful of an influence. Bottom line, why shoot yourself in the foot if you don't have to?