Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Reading over some of these supposed abilities from the "leaks" for FFXIV.

Seems like with everything combined, we can kiss the difficulty of healing checks good-bye, unless they're really going to ramp them up. Which I don't see happening.

Which is fine tbh. Some of the healing heavy fights this expansion were murder. E2S and E4S were outrageous on AoE healing requirements for example.

This can also allow them to design more fights around healing mechanics like the dragons from Shinryu, and mechanics that require tank support.

I am still extremely disappointed in DRK though. Basically losing 2 Bloodspillers during Delirium which are being replaced by 2 Dark Passengers with a salted earth combo added as the only real NEW potency. The 10% mitigation buff is an unbuffed Intervention which is going to be practically not even worth having on the hot bar. Overall pretty sad and DRK isn't going to feel any new or different, and comparing the PLD vs DRK changes between EW vs ShB is a bit depressing.

This expac I was a DRK that sometimes played GNB. For endwalker I may end up as a GNB who sometimes plays DRK. Heart of Corundum is bonkers and will be equal to or greater than the potency of TBN which is DRK's only real defining factor, while having excellent self sustain and a functional invuln skill which DRK doesn't have either of. Seriously, why does every single tank have so many self heals but DRK has just piddly *** Souleater and Abyssal Drain? Why doesn't Blood Weapon have life leech on it like it used to?

Sadge.

Neither of those fights seemed any crazier than anything in the past to me.

I think they're going in the direction of, "So we're scared that Shield Healers might not cut it if you get doubled up on them... so here, tanks except DRK can heal a pretty good amount on other people."

Also not pleased with the potencies being lowered, but I guess they figure it's a good time to do it, because this is on top of the stat squish? Seems like every tank will gear nearly identical now, with WAR probably still prioritizing DET over Direct, but nobody needs Skill Speed requirements for their windows or whatever.

I also don't think, at least if this leak is true, that they realize how badly they're crippling WAR. Like, sure, it's getting oGCD AOE Upheaval, but with Inner Release only working for 3 skills... that means it no longer works with Vengeance. No longer works on auto attacks. No longer works on oGCDs? That's kinda crappy bad, because that was part of what was letting it keep up at all. If this is all that we're getting, I don't see why people won't just go PLD GNB still or even PLD PLD. I mean, I guess WAR gets all those new regens, and the upgraded form of Raw Intuition/Nascent is kinda sexy... but oh well.

I'm really hoping the leaks are incomplete/translated poorly. I also hope the potencies are wrong.

This is the first expansion where I felt completely shitty playing tank, regardless of which tank I played. PLD felt better than all of them, and I did all of Eden 1~4S on DRK. But in the final tier I was SMN, and honestly didn't miss tanking at all. It just didn't feel good anymore.

If I basically have to be a co-healer... or worse, my heals don't matter much so they're just kind of there... Idk. I feel like they're taking tanks in the wrong direction. Which, sadly, is par for the course.

Those two fights, as examples, took an outstanding amount of AoE heals that made them very taxing, especially during the first 3 weeks of prog. They were and AFAIK still remain the hardest healing fights of Eden with the exception of maybe Light Rampant. Lilybell would have been amazing for them.

Potencies being lower will mean relatively little because, as they said in the live letter, everyone's potencies are going down including DPS because of the math being used to perform the stat squish.

WAR is gonna be nuts. Nascent Flash was already a phenomenal cool down and now Raw Intuition gets to do the same thing with added mitigation on top. Regen on Equilibrium, which was already the best tank sustain skill, makes it even sweeter.

With that new big boy spender that WAR has the potency is gonna balance out. GNB will still be best, then PLD, then WAR with DRK in last place.

Idk, the best thing about Endwalkers WAR looks like Bloodwhetting, which is what Raw turns into, but that's not really exciting. I don't think Primal Rend... heh, the BST Mythic WS... is gonna balance anything out cause it's only 700 pot Dcrit every minute(I mean it looks cool). Whereas, idk, look at GNB. Look at Double Down. 1200 potency on the first target, 960 on everything else... unless this tooltip is wrong. Compared to 700 pot Dcrit with 210 pot on everything else. WAR was given garbage by comparison.

Look at Blade of Valor on PLD. 420 with 210 to everything else but an 80/40 pot dot with 7 tics in it... so actually 980/490 damage to everything. And that's at the end of a very flashy combo that also restores one of the things it consumes.

It's like the battle director doesn't want people to play WAR or DRK at all.

The DoT replaces goring blade so it's more or less irrelevant and IR+Infuriate still produces more overall potency than Continuation+The new thing. What you need to realize is IR is going from 90s to 60s,going from 5gcd to 3gcd is fine in this regard. The addition of Primal Rend is icing. Overall it's a net positive.

WAR is gonna be fine, and Bloodwhetting/Nascent Flash/Equilibrium will be some of the strongest tank cool downs in the game with only Holy Sheltron and Heart of Corundum as real competition

That's mathematically wrong with what's shown. Inner Release w/ Primal Rend is only 2080 potency. It's all D-Crit, but...

Continuation combo is 1900 pot + Double down it's 3100 pot. That's 1020 pot advantage.

Inner Chaos is down to 650 pot, but it does D-crit still, but GNB gets 10% more damage during its burst window, so I'm pretty sure Inner Chaos isn't closing the gap between the two job's, especially considering Blasting Zone will now be worth slightly more than two Upheavals. Burst Strike gets Velocity Break to be only 50 pot behind, though neither D-crits.

Keep in mind it has no answer to Sonic Break, Bowshock, and as these are written, Inner Release won't affect autos or oGCDs anymore, whereas No Mercy still will. GNB crushes it by a good margin. The only thing WAR has on it is consistency in the spikes.

You need to multiply the potencies by a minimum of 50% (goes higher with crit stat) to account for the guaranteed crits and direct hits. Unlike other jobs where you only get an average increase in potency from crit and direct hit, War's is constant. That can't be ignored when you math out the rotation.

That what if...? finale is so disappointing. The problem with magical mcguffins like infinity stones is you can't really use them properly or the story can't exist.

But beside that, assuming you suspend all logic and just enjoy the content for the content

It would be foolish for them to try and steal my password. Even I don't know my password!

Thanks! Just tried to reset password, and all my ideas were too weak so f it, they can have all my 3 followers.

Dont sell me that cheap!

It was definitely dumb. I guess I will spoiler my thoughts.

There was 10 episodes but the one was cut, it was the origin of that character (covid being the reason but doesn't really make sense if they could do the other 9 but whatever)

Yeah I wasn't too impressed with that last one.

The annoying thing,

The Infinity Saga is over, just move on. No more infinity stones. There are other things out there that can wipe out the universe. Also, this is not a call to use the Phoenix. Never use Phoenix in any capacity ever again.

“I can’t control it!”
Dodge this!”

my life is a disaster lol... but im taking it back!

Think that your life is not disastrous enough that it wont get worse

God Damn. Time Magazine always firing shots.

I just received word that my favourite restaurant is re-opening! They were planning on closing in the near future, and when the government locked everything down, they decided that was a good enough reason to close.

Not sure why they're opening again, but the tiny hole in the wall announced their return!

Yikes, I'll watch it but it isn't giving much hope.

Money