u/DJShazbot

Basically the title, despite being a limited job, BLU still very much revolved around 2 minute esque buffs for dps burst and party synergy (ex moonflute) and it kinda had to because you could do 8 BLU raids so it needed to fit into current combat design.

That being said beastmaster is very much being released on the cusp of a new combat system, the fact it has tailored content and is generally a solo job means it can be designed without being subjected to new paradigms in combat.

However, I do see that it has a very situational toolkit, you can't just cycle beasts on cooldown in case you require their specific utilities, similarly the ability to spend your beast's or your tp scales until capped, I cannot tell you if it is more valuable to spend to immediately or horde it to max. There is really only one real burst phase and that is when rally is off cooldown but even then, you cannot ever get the 3 stacks for either you or your beast before the 90 second cooldown ends so if you want to "max value" the skill you'll be leaving it unpressed.

So maybe I am overthinking things, but do you think the concepts here may be indicative of Evolved job philosophy? I was tbinking about this because the most recent patch involves a solo trial and realistically, a good chunk of the player base will be experiencing that specific solo trial on evolved mode and the fight doesn't feel all that different.

Granted they can't just tell Reborn mode to kick rocks but I would think they would blend in some mechanics or concepts (like not respecting 2 minute timers or possible inconvenient downtime instances) or maybe Evolved won't change much at all for the encounter design.

Merchandising is inevitable when something is successful but there is a difference between capitlizing on success and creating what is effectively a giant toy commercial. Even one of the biggest giants, Gundam was made to sell plastic kits and was lucky to have a mad lad like Tomino and crew inject some artistic vision.

You guys panel line them at all to make it pop a little more? Should I? The plastic looks softer than model kits so I am worried that doing fine tip (not pour type) panel lining could harm a very expensive toy.

I do not envy having to follow up the arcadion. It is clear that having strong characters and theming and voice lines lend itself very well to marketability and memorability. No one remembers or thinks fondly about the phoinix or hippocampus and there definitely not merch of them.

So, while fully prepared to duck any thrown tomatoes, I think a Garlean themed raid revolving around a coalition of the remaining unmentioned legions would fit well. You have 3 legions with their legatus as the final fight with their own brand of whacky legion gimmick with their 3 subordinates. So that means 4 unique personalities a tier, with voice lines and magitek bullshit supplementing mechanics (and the armor rewards would look amazing). Just play them up as effectively kamen rider / sentai villains (extra points if they make my monster grow) the stakes are still real because any group of leftover garleans run the risk of causing a lot of pain and suffering in Eorzea if left alone.

Alternatively I would like it to be closely tied to the mythology of the Evercold world. Given the 4th's aethetic, taking from the Prose Edda or hell warring viking clans + chieftains.

Also tinfoil hat time and something I kinda don't hope for: Thanks to the red xiii and yuffie minions and the hardy daytona, maybe the raid will be vaguely (packaged differently) ff7 themed fighting loosely based on Shinra baddies like scarlet, heidegger, palmer, reno, rude, etc. I think that'd be a misstep

So my party did the classic "get attached to a minor intelligent creature that is usually bad," this being an imp in service to a devil.

This paid off with the imp betraying the devil at a critical point of combat but due to very poor roles after that betrayal meant that imp got immediatel unmade by a successful attack roll from a very understandably angry , petty and vengeful devil boss.

In my campaign, I operate that on the idea that denizens of the infernal plane, when defeated on the material, are merely just shunted back to the hells. That being said, I am sure that imp is not going to be living a pleasant life when that also sent back devil catches up with him for the temerity of betrayal.

Of course one player feels real guilty about damning the imp and wants to find a way to get it back despite not knowing a true name or the sort. What sort of avenues are reasonable for finding this thing? Especially if it leads to a whacky adventure?

It seems curious but any game where any fleshba- I mean organics are present, they quit at the drop of a hat, only those who know the sanctity of steel endure the indignity of being downed or captured.

Is this a silent protest against the inevitable march of steel?

Budget: 6000 CAD

Country: Canada

Use Case: Gaming, FFXIV, Warframe, occasional triple A titles like Death Stranding, not looking to ultra everything. Preferred Specs: current gen (as of this posting) CPU and GPU and 32gb+ ram

Notes: Reposted with fixed formatting.

Hello, I am currently using a Legion Pro 7 16IRX8H(2023 model) and have had to send it in 3 times for warranty, issues with keyboard, full screen freeze with no BSOD or even an eventviewer log (Which suggests ANOTHER hardware issue) even while I was just on a discord video call while using youtube. Even the Motherboard got replaced last time from warranty and I am STILL sending it back in.

So I am pissed at Lenovo and I had heard that while they were held up as reliable, their computer quality has actually gotten worse, with 2023 (the year I made my purchase) just being unlucky as the most noticeable dip due to soldering issues.

I have gotten ASUS and MSI in the past, MSI I also had to send in repeatedly when my graphics card would just crap out. (Dipped from 90 FPS elden ring to 23, the disk speed refused to go above 300)

I honestly just play warframe and XIV most of the the time these days with the occasional new release and it is supremely frustrating when my laptop decides to choke and die on these low graphical load games (Or even just browsing!)

TL;DR my luck has been very bad when it comes to laptops and I am not certain what the landscape is like for laptop brands these days (Other than fucking expensive thanks to AI) but I have a mobile lifestyle and so I can't commit to a desktop.

Many thanks.

So over the last week I have gotten a few one time request codes sent to my alternate email despite never requesting. Similarly if I log out of my account (say outlook or whichever) and try to log back in, I will get "This account has failed log in too many times" and be forced to attempt a log in via a onetime code to my alternates.

Also weirdly, I cannot access microsoft websites. all other websites work fine but trying to do anything to access anything that has microsoft.com in it, including account management results in a time out or extremely slow/sluggish loading as if it is being actively blocked by someone or something. Googling hasn't shown this to be any sort of behaviour that is commonly noted. Is this a virus?

Edit for additional info: On computer startup I see several black boxes open up and quickly shut, task manager has 20+ Console window host processes. It doesn't matter which browser I choose, I've tried resetting hosts file, flushing the DNS.

There should be no way for them to request a one time code to my alternate emails unless they knew them.

Hello, so I am experiencing instances of fuel screen freezes on games like warframe and ffxiv. The sound will go for a bit, then the sound will stop too. Game will then either white screen or crash. This seems to happen after about 3-4 hours of gameplay. I terminate the program either via Warframe's crash handler or the "End program" of windows

What is weird is that the process refuses to clear from the task manager, either XIV or Warframe and attempts to clear it from the task manager actually causes TASK MANAGER to freeze and become unresponsive.

My computer then continues in a very unstable state, discord or browsers will eventually freeze. Attempts to restart after this happens causes the computer to stay stuck at the "Shutting down" screen, clearly unable to end the warframe/ffxiv process and forces me to do the hold button to force shut down of death.

Anyone know what can cause this and how to fix? thank you