@Drusenija Savage reclears progressing as normal, even managed to help a friend's static by covering a spot with my alt a few times (I love having an alt to avoid impacting loot, despite effort).
Got only 3 more jobs left to level: war at 90, gnb and drg both at 95, shouldn't be too long now. Leveling MNK on my alt in parallel, was about L50 a week or so ago, now nearing L80.
Also just picked up a 3rd HW relic to progress - BLM, this time together with my BF and another friend.
@the_gmg If you play on the European servers, we have the European Raiding Central Discord server, it's quite active and useful: https://discord.gg/F7tgC4S
Other DCs might have similar?
@Drusenija Been trying to take it more easy this week, but with the static we managed to get our first M4S clear on our 2nd out of 3 raid nights, so we had the 3rd night off, which was a welcome bonus time to recuperate :)
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Hah, I saw a meme shared in a similar spirit:
https://mastodon.social/users/mdrabbles/statuses/113025614061467743
@Drusenija Woah, I'm completely blown away by this. It inspires me to see if I can recreate some of the techniques myself and adapt them to my style. Thanks for sharing <3
@Drusenija Panic-crafted a caster and a healing set on Saturday to help my BF's static with gear for flexing a role (SCH to SMN) and getting a substitute up and running (a friend who plays WHM), felt drained but accomplished afterwards.
Nearly got my alt through Dawntrail and managed to cap the weekly tomes after I hit 100 just a few hours before my bedtime, before weekly reset.
@pontiffkitchen0 I'd recommend you to do the first few fights guided - that will help you understand some more mechanics when you eventually try a fight without a guide.
Hector provides decent guides, but usually super early before better strategies have been concieved - so watch out if a party in PF calls for something else; though if you read the descriptions, it's fairly obvious. And if anything is unclear, we're happy to help or figure it out together.
@Drusenija In Eden 9 (The Cloud of Darkness) there is a phase where the arena turns into 5x5 tiles, in Savage 3 tiles in each corner and the middle tile are death zones, leaving 12 tiles to move on - if 2 players occupy the same tile, it breaks; if a player stays on a tile for too long (~15s?), it breaks. There's a half-room cleave which requires everyone to scootch over to the safe 8 tiles, which can easily make players step into another's tile or be locked out of refreshing theirs.
@Drusenija Love the fights, the boss designs are excellent, mechanics innovative and fun (except for the random floating hearts in 2nd, same dislike as the running puppets in the spooky expert 1st boss), will need to listen to the music proper when I'm back at my home PC but it did seem good as well.
Really enjoying the transformative arenas in 1 and 4, but hoping we don't end up with PvP tiles in M1S like it was in E9S - it put me off from that raid tier, which I still regret.
@Drusenija Market Board as an extended inventory is what I highly recommend to others as well, as long as one is responsible with their Gil :)
A lot of the materials are super easy to obtain, especially in smaller quantities - a 40 min venture for a decent stack if you have a matching retainer leveled.
@garretble Performance difference is imo negligible, Steam's Proton does a great job keeping the performance roughly equal. Plus you don't have rogue Windows processes stealing resources in the background.
For FFXIV specifically I had some tiny mouse input issues under Wayland (or maybe specific to Pop!_OS's Cosmic alpha version), whereas X11 seems more reliable - though I started running the game with mouse locked to window because it'd not register keys when mouse-rotating the camera.