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I can understand that; I used to very much be in that situation myself. The fear definitely goes, given time!

Just remember that each group has expectations from you, if you screw up a clear party several times in the first mechanic is natural that everyone gets mad at you.

@@7RicolmE7I'm usually not the one screwing up a mechanic. But I do at least make a good try at communicating.

The expectation of so many mods being advertised in pf is also very intimidating imo

​@Seeker265729 what other mods aside from AM do you see people require?

This helps so much! It's how I learned to keep decent glare uptime in TOP p6 before even seeing it for myself

that's such a great idea!!! i'll definitely have to try that next time i'm on a new job for a fight or just want to learn how better players use their skills!! thank u!

This, so much this

Light is EU's Aether, all the raiding's basically on Light.

I'm genuinely hoping they "fix" this issue of "you must go to Aether (or Light) to raid." Having everyone pile onto one data center for raiding is destroying the purpose of having separate data centers in the first place, which is to spread the number of instances in use out and not overload the instance server. With everyone piling onto Aether, we're just making it laggier for EVERYONE including people who aren't even raiding. Remember Raubhan Ex when StB first came out? That was the case of the instance server literally running out of instances available. Everyone piling onto Aether for the purpose of PF raiding is doing the exact same thing - and at some point during DT we're going to hit the instance cap if everyone is trying to prog the first Savage tier at the same time. I realized how ridiculous it had gotten when, after my semi-static hopped over to Aether to fill out our PF with 3 more people once, we realized that we'd picked up 3 more people FROM PRIMAL who had also all hopped to Aether. We could have just stayed on Lamia! One simple tweak to fix this would be forcing the person who initiates the instance to be a "native" to the DC. So you have a valid reason to hop DCs (joining a static based in that DC) and you're not simply hopping DCs because that's what everyone collectively decided that we have to do.

Alphinaud the kinda guy you gotta remind to put kardia on

I think that a lot of people forget that having good soft skills (building good relationships, general positive attitude) can be a massive boost to your ability to clear content. I love seeing familiar faces in pf and made some really good friends that way!

@@hurri-db Yep, absolutely! As much as negativity can quickly ruin the vibe of a group, being friendly and helpful definitely pays off in equal amounts. Nothing more satisfying than helping a mechanic finally "click" for someone and seeing how they never mess up on it again after struggling for many pulls.

Whenever I start to psych myself out for being the slowest one to pick up on a mechanic I tell myself over and over “the most important thing is being a pleasant person who shows up on time every week” and that helps me get through until I stop messing it up, because impostor syndrome is a bitch :|

UWU to DSR is a fairly big leap, but current tier to DSR isn't unreasonable. You should be able to acclimate to it either way if your party is patient and communicative. The biggest way DSR and TOP differ from other raids is that they have a higher order of randomization for mechanics with few role-based ones, so everyone needs to memorize multiple permutations and be able to play their job at the same time. But since you mentioned TEA: if you can get past BJCC with any consistency, you can absolutely do anything in DSR. Just expect it to be harder on your endurance.

@@sird31mos thank you for this! This helps me put things in perspective a lot better, I really appreciate it 😤

omg is that citrona ceres from the tea multipov

I am an emotionally minded player and I love this comment and person.

LEGEND THE BECOME

Spite is how I cleared P9S on week 1 too lol (also I'm working on TOP too! Just gonna need to build a static in JP DCs lol)

@@crowdemon_archives Best of luck my guy! Know some random on the internet that also plays ff is rooting for you x’D I should also probably look for a static but hey pf never fails to surprise! I’ll either get a clear or laugh/cry trying.

You got this!

This is way more rampant in WoW. Feels like getting a job in that game (and has for years). Maybe I've been lucky but I've gotten into a few groups pretty easily. Also partly having a decent reputation. I get asked sometimes to do things by others, which introduces me to new people. It's a who you know kind of deal sometimes as well.

@@QuintemTA frankly, from what I hear about WoW, I think FFXIV is way more easy to get into lol

@crowdemon_archives It is, as a veteran of WoW and now semi veteran of FF. My time with FF14 has been generally smoother, with more pleasant people.

That "must have experience to join" mostly just applies to statics, and you can definitely get raiding experience before joining a static. You can join any PF as long as you've unlocked the duty, meet the minimum gear level requirement (if they have one), and will fit into one of the job/role slots. Sure, if you don't know the basics of your job or haven't read/watched any guides up to your prog point, the party will be annoyed with you, but you don't need to have raided before to get a decent raid experience. The key is just doing your homework before going into the fight. People are generally polite about giving feedback as long as you're asking good questions and genuinely trying to learn. You do get the occasional asshole in PF, but FFXIV's raiding scene is fairly good-natured overall, and it's miles less toxic than WoW from what I've heard. In all of my UWU prog and clear parties, I've only met one actual flaming asshole who overreacted to people's mistakes. Everyone else was pretty reasonable, neutral, or straight up friendly and encouraging, even to people who needed more help on mechanics than others. So it's not really that exclusive in the PF scene.

Thank you for watching!

Damn you guys are zooming

Are you sure that was an Ultimate? I'm pretty sure nobody queues for these via DF (idk if you actually can), and after 3 weeks you would have to be very fast (or buy skip) + having cleared the respective savage - I assume you queued for an extreme, and for that - don't be too afraid, the people you were probably queued up with were also people who don't know that it's content you usually do via Party Finder and Mentors, who should be exactly there to help and teach (some are meh, but ignore those) =)

@@katrinkpunkt you know, it maybe was an Extreme I’m probably mistaken. And yeah I’ve been pretty intense with it since it released on Xbox beta at the end of February (I didn’t get it the middle of March). I’ve put in about 240 odd hours and I’m at level 80 on my main job now and almost finished Stormblood.

You're a cool cat!

Moko the restless? More like Moko the Bestless

@@RinBanana More like BestEST not BestLESS WAH

MOKOKO?

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We all have strengths and weaknesses! For me, I suck when it comes to long term memory mechanics because my brain just throws them out if I don't put in a real high level of effort

That's okay it ain't that deep just pull and have some fun and do your best!

UwU is quite steady prog. Definitely recommend just jumping into fresh blind prog in PF. If you have fun, keep going or find a static

Yeah this'll happen occasionally - people love to advertise their prog point as the furthest they've seen, even via zombie runs, rather than the point they can consistently do

"no one is stopping you"

Will fix, thank you!

thats bs, just get comfy and go into fight, u will wipe 100 times and eventually u just autopilot it. I know people who literally clicks their skills (and clicking requires u to look at skillbar) and they cleared TOP high actually good rank. Just do the fight. I did my 1st savage without knowing there is some kind of rotation, wtf is opener to begin with etc. The fight i start to really care about it was p8s. Yet its nice to know general rotation and opener, but unless u doing minilevel no echo run, its all irrelevant, bosses designed with idea that somewhere u will do mistake, and now we outgear any fight in game and also have echo 15% dps for all of them. makes it literally doable with any dps.

what its more like is that u can quick peek at skillbar to have a glimpse of upcoming cds and u back on focusing boss mechanics again. But thats imo more like ultimate content, not the savage/extreme which fights are extremely slow and have almost no random at all. Skill comes with experience, bullying dummy is just boring, bully some boss with echo instead (echo designed to cover your mistakes)

As someone whose mains are PLD and DNC and who's cleared the last four savage tiers on patch no echo, all criterions and 2 criterion savages, and am currently progging through an ultimate: not that literal. There are definitely some jobs that are a great deal more static in rotation like PLD, these I check my bars much less, but still a little bit, because while I have a rough internal sense for when oGCDs come off cooldown, I do need to look at the bars so I'm ready to hammer them the _moment_ they come off cooldown. But that's the thing, I have my rotation familiar enough that I HAVE that internal sense of "ok, feels like circle of scorn and expiation are about to come off cooldown right about now" so I know WHEN to look at my crossbars. For the bigger CDs, as you learn and memorize the fight, you also memorise the timing of mechanics in relation to when your CDs come off cooldown. For instance, I can tell you off the top of my head that in P12S phase 1, assuming I have executed my opener correctly, technical step will come off cooldown the exact GCD where I'm lining up for the very first orb in superchain 1, again post-paradeigma 3 almost exactly as the tanks are getting bustered, and then I hold the next one for post Superchain IIA. For all jobs but _especially_ very proc-based jobs like DNC, a good HUD/UI layout is imperative. Mechanics in high-end are communicated through three main ways: boss castbar, physical tells both placed on the arena and in terms of boss physical gestures, and debuffs. Sometimes it's the whole lot at once: for superchain 1, I need to look at the arena to see where the first orb spawns and at the shapes tethered to it to see whether it's going to be a point-blank aoe or a donut, and a pair stack or an individual spread, and position myself around the orb accordingly. While there, I need to look about to see whether the next orb is clockwise or counter-clockwise, and check my debuffs to see whether I'm stacking with the light element stack or dark element stack. and then after that we need to rotate for a third orb which I then have to check for in or out, resolve more debuffs, and then look at the _boss_ because she's about to tell us which side of the arena she's going to cleave by lighting up her wings, and _then_ check the boss castbar to see whether the party should stack inside the boss' hitbox or outside of it. And all of this is happening during/shortly after a techstep burst window. Whatever you use to see when you have procs, it needs to be somewhere where you can see all of these elements easily at the same time. Some people simply put their entire hot/crossbar nearer to the center of the screen so they can easily see the boss while looking at bars, and then position their debuffs and boss castbar right above/next to their hot/crossbars. Some people have a separate hotbar just for display purposes, on which they have only their procced buttons plus some cooldowns and put THAT center/top of screen so they can see easily when they have a proc without having to look _down_ to the bottom of their screen where their actual hot/crossbar is. A third way--and this is what I use--is to position your buffs closer to center/top of the screen. If you go into HUD layout-->status info-->click the little gear button for more settings-->under "layout" select "Split Element into 4 Groups, you can separate out "conditional enhancements" and "enfeeblements" (debuffs), make those extra big, and stick them somewhere super visible. "Conditional Enhancements" are the buffs that you get _specifically_ from rotation that allows you access to procs, like DNC's Silken Symmetry and Silken Flow, and splitting the elements out like that will cause them to be listed separately from all the other buffs you have like tech/standard step and shield samba and regens and what have you, allowing you to see when you have gained a proc more easily without looking down.

Yeah I've totally had those experiences too, I'm really sorry that happened to you. Unfortunately with random players there will always be a mixed bag; even if 90% of interactions are positive you'll occasionally run into someone that's miserable to be around. If you enjoyed the raiding aside from the people, it might be worth trying to make or join a group to experience it in a comfy environment

Depending on how much time you have, just make a raid alt and do both. My raid lead is a great deal more skilled and hardcore than most of the rest of us are, but they're with us anyway just cos they like us and cos they're a bit of a raid junkie. They clear the tier in less than a month with their other group, and then cheerfully teach the rest of us over the next 2-3 months. Myself, my work schedule doesn't have the consistency to allow me to commit to more than one static, but I have a raid alt so I can practice more regularly in PF just whenever I have time, and cleared the tier a month ahead of my static. Like my raid lead, I'm in the static just cos I like playing with them a lot.

I find blind prog fun if you have the time to commit and find 7 other people willing to do it, but yeah damn near impossible to do in any old content. The best time I've found to do this and have had so much was when a new alliance raid drops. Super easy to find people willing to go in blind because there's not as much pressure compared to something like savage.

It's not unrealistic! There are people out there that want to do the exact same thing as you. Just advertise in recruitment Discords and you'll find like minded people

@@RinBanana Thanks a lot for the answer, I'll be looking forward to doing that then :)