Binding Coil of Bahamut Discussion

[carraway]

In Coild of Bahamut, a comparison between BRD, BLM, and SMN. Do you think which one is the best?
I think that BRD probably be most useful there? SMN gonna have a hard time to keep pet alive if the timing is tight, and BLM probably couldn't cast so much spell too if they need to evade often.

No one can tell you that without knowing all of the context and variables going into your group composition.

[danteafk]

Just a heads-up: we've had two occasions now where our groups have gotten stuck in Turn 2 after wiping. Basically, the game tries to return everyone to the entrance, but it infinitely hangs, and when you recover by restarting the client, everyone is stuck, dead, unable to return, move, etc.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1200623

So you were stuck and could not play for 9 days? rofl SE.

[Sorbet]

So you were stuck and could not play for 9 days? rofl SE.

No, they were stuck and could not play until their characters were removed from the instance 8 hours later. They continued as normal.
Since then, a second group has encountered the same bug and has been unable to play for 29 hours and counting.

[ejiboo]

Turn 1: caster ring, caster head
Turn 2: caster bracelet, tank ring

Although warloc...ahem summoner isn't the job i wanted it to be, they are monsters: they can pump out DoT while being more mobile than any class other than bard; they can off-off-heal. they have a swiftcast, in combat raise which no other non-healer class can do; their pets take 90% reduced damage from most magical AoE and some physical AoE; they can pump out a respectable amount of burst damage in a 30 second time frame; they bring the caster limit break to the table; they have soft CC; they have an off-off-tank; they have a pet that looks like chicken nuggets. what more verification of summoners usefulness do you need?

square did a surprisingly good job balancing each and every JOB. when played to perfection i feel that each JOB stacks up quite evenly.

[Alise]

So basically, you are saying that despite in the very end-game content where movement is the most important. Having to control pet while dodging is not issue then? A first, I thought SE would do something like "use "place" command to place the pet correctly or it die" as their end-game. (I thought of this as soon as I see the command to move pet)

But they give them 90% resistant and ability to re-summon them with no penalty instead..

[Oogre]

Im just going to throw this out there.....how the #*@& are you suppose to finish turn 4? Like seriously how does anyone have enough dps for this?

[Endall]

9/6 1:13AM Eastern

[Akujin]

Grats guys, keep it up!

[Xilrasis]

Im just going to throw this out there.....how the #*@& are you suppose to finish turn 4? Like seriously how does anyone have enough dps for this?

Heh. No. Turn 4 is insane. What is the furthest anyone has even gotten?

[h0tNstilettos]

It will be ages before I am able to attempt this as I actually take my time and read everything. I'm also going for achievements. Pretty much taking my sweet time and have started over 3 times now with a new character with level 25 as my peak. This seems so far away to me, lol.

So based on things I've read in various places this dungeon, or dungeons depending on how you look at it, come before The Crystal Tower, or The Crystal Tower comes before it once implemented?

So it would go . . .
-Binding Coil of Bahamut
-The Crystal Tower (or this before Coil)
-The Great Labyrinth of Bahamut

That or maybe this is The Great Labyrinth of Bahamut with a name change. Does anyone know the answer to this or is it still a mystery? It can't be The Great Labyrinth of Bahamut if it's possible to beat it without needing Crystal Tower gear as I thought there was a gear check in place that would require Crystal Tower gear to complete The Labyrinth.

Sorry if this is a n00b question, but it's all really confusing.

9/6 1:13AM Eastern

Sorry for the brief off-topicness but, I spy a Magic the Gathering player and a Skyrim player, lol.