What the heck is "greased lightning"?

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

Thanks.

See Lightning gauge

Greased Lightning is accumulated by executing certain weapon skills and improves attack speed and damage dealt.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/monk/

https://i.imgur.com/MwMCEor.png

This guy has been trolling the forums all week pretending not to know even basic job functions. Last one he made was about how to Gladiator and didn't even have a tank unlocked.

It's a monk expletive, most often heard between pulls or in certain stages of boss fights.

(Seriously, though, what he said ^. It acts a lot like Ninja's huten, only it doesn't last as long. You gain it as you progress through your forms.)

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

Thanks.

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“Greased Lightning” is a song from the musical, Grease. 8D

I’m joking~. In all seriousness, Greased Lightning are the stacks you get when you successfully perform combos on MNK. At level 60, you can earn up to 3 Greased Lightning stacks. The stacks used to show up on your Enhancements/Buffs bar, but now they have been incorporated into the Job Gauge UI.

https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/...IlCAW3l3FY.png

When the lightning bolts light up, that means you have a stack of Greased Lightning. Your character also has a green effect that surrounds them, and it grows brighter as you get more stacks.

Your combos grant you Greased Lightning. Successfully finishing a combo with your third combo skill, be it with Demolish, Snap Punch, or Rockbreaker will give you a stack. You can also use Perfect Balance to use your third combo skill outside of a combo.

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Originally Posted by GunksFoy

https://i.imgur.com/MwMCEor.png

This guy has been trolling the forums all week pretending not to know even basic job functions. Last one he made was about how to Gladiator and didn't even have a tank unlocked.

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Wtf. My tank is my alt.

Bro, please, I'm not in the mood to be antagonized.

I have to give the OP kudos for getting so many people to fail for so much obvious trolling.

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Originally Posted by Talraen

I have to give the OP kudos for getting so many people to fail for so much obvious trolling.

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I'm not trolling. I swear.

Good Lord this is De Ja Vu.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm not trolling. I swear.

Good Lord this is De Ja Vu.

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https://memegenerator.net/img/instan...elieve-you.jpg

If you're legitimately not trolling, I have some quick advice for you.

Take about 25-30 minutes, and read all your tooltips for any jobs you wish to play. Read them, and understand them. Then, if that isn't sufficient, Google "XXX job guide FF14" and you'll get something for every job that at least teaches the basics.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm not trolling. I swear.

Good Lord this is De Ja Vu.

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Well based on your other post you give that impression, at the very least say what you have done, looked at guides, link to jobs on Loadstone ect. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-efficiently

When a thing is:

Systematic

Hydromatic

Uuuuuultramatic

Why, it could be Greased Lightning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK63eUyk-iM

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

Wtf. My tank is my alt.

Bro, please, I'm not in the mood to be antagonized.

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No one is antagonizing just these question are pretty fishy, you would think people would do some type of research, ask FC's ect. In forums it's just kind of odd.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

Thanks.

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You could have google'd this if you really wheren't paying attention the game.

I call troll as well.

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Originally Posted by Rofel

When a thing is:

Systematic

Hydromatic

Uuuuuultramatic

Why, it could be Greased Lightning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK63eUyk-iM

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LOL - LOL of the day. :)

Back in my day we had no drg for party. You kids aren't even trying.

How do you get to be a level 62 Pugilist and have no idea what Greased Lightning is

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm not trolling. I swear.

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HyoMinPark explained what it is.

In future though, seriously, do read the information given to you by the game instead of clicking any X that pops up as it pops up. There's a tutorial in this game. Not knowing the most basic things that this tutorial throws at your face and then asking people on the forum seems like trolling to people. Especially when it's a major part all the way from beginning of the game (for your class), when you are nearing the end game (for your class).

Also...this is where discussions (including gameplay questions) related to classes in game should be made.

I don't see the problem with him reaching out and asking us.
You may be surprised at the amount of people that don't and continue to play blissfully unaware of their shortcomings.

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Originally Posted by GunksFoy

(...) Google "XXX job guide FF14" and you'll get something for every job that at least teaches the basics.

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You'll get something alright...probably in the NSFW area.

...the pugilist job quests literally tell you what greased lightning is.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I don't see the problem with him reaching out and asking us.
You may be surprised at the amount of people that don't and continue to play blissfully unaware of their shortcomings.

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Check some of his other threads then get back to us.

Well its too bad the NA community is stuck with Koji Fox and his failure to appropriately translate abilities to English from the original native source. That dude ruined my black mage experience. But good thing you can switch to the native version of the game and enjoy the experience how its meant to be.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

Thanks.

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I went to look over some of your older forum posts because I admit your questions made me think you're trolling. Though I noticed there are a lot of things you've asked for help on. Things that all get explained in game one way or another.

*So first of, I apologize for thinking you were trolling.
*Secondly, bruh what are you doing while you play, are you skipping things or what? This game throws active help windows, in game skill descriptions, verbal descriptions during class cut scenes and additional skill descriptions tied to Greased Lightning.

BTW Greased Lightning is "Shippujinrai" in the native original version which means something like Hurricane Swift Thunder/Lightning.


Thank you Koji Fox.

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Originally Posted by CainCrimson

How do you get to be a level 62 Pugilist and have no idea what Greased Lightning is

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-> Jump potion.

Is this his troll thread for today?

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I don't see the problem with him reaching out and asking us.
You may be surprised at the amount of people that don't and continue to play blissfully unaware of their shortcomings.

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Tbf, you'd kinda have to intentionally avoid combos entirely to make it up to Tornado Kick without ever experiencing or understanding GL stacks.

I'm curious about OPs rotation. OP. If you see this, what is usually your rotation on single targets?

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Originally Posted by AshlikeSnow

BTW Greased Lightning is "Shippujinrai" in the native original version which means something like Hurricane Swift Thunder/Lightning.


Thank you Koji Fox.

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I’d prefer Hurricane Swift though.
Well just my taste.

Sounds cool!

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I don't see the problem with him reaching out and asking us.
You may be surprised at the amount of people that don't and continue to play blissfully unaware of their shortcomings.

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But getting MNK to 62 and not knowing what Greased Lightning is? Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. This is like getting SMN to the 60s and asking what Aetherflow is.

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Originally Posted by AshlikeSnow

Well its too bad the NA community is stuck with Koji Fox and his failure to appropriately translate abilities to English from the original native source. That dude ruined my black mage experience. But good thing you can switch to the native version of the game and enjoy the experience how its meant to be.

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It's called localisation. Deal with it.

LOL This thread is the best. lol

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Originally Posted by AshlikeSnow

BTW Greased Lightning is "Shippujinrai" in the native original version which means something like Hurricane Swift Thunder/Lightning.


Thank you Koji Fox.

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Greased Lightning is what is used in FFVII by Yuffie for her LB. But again, localization can be a silly thing.

In this case a lot of Asian terms for martial arts translate to jibberish, and leaving them unlocalized makes players unable to say/type them. Those of us who watch a fair bit of anime or k-drama/j-drama's will usually recognize words that poorly translated but still get the context from the original audio track. FFXIV doesn't have any voiced combat moves, just a lot of "ha/ya's" and language-neutral screams.

So as far as we're concerned, the original translates no closer to "Greased Lightning" and is equally meaningless. If you translate the words separately Shippu jinrai, you get "compressed thunderclap" https://eudict.com/?lang=japeng&word=shippu+jinrai . Look up Shippu Jinrai and you'll mostly see references to Street Fighter 2's moveset for Ken.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

In this case a lot of Asian terms for martial arts translate to jibberish, and leaving them unlocalized makes players unable to say/type them.

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ikr!!

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Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

But getting MNK to 62 and not knowing what Greased Lightning is? Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. This is like getting SMN to the 60s and asking what Aetherflow is.

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Getting MNK to 62 means that he's been playing MNK for two levels. The rest are covered by a jump potion. By choosing the right content, it's entirely possible that he may have made those two levels simply by mashing buttons. He may, in fact, have actually generated stacks of Greased Lightning from time to time while having no idea what those were. Mentioning that the Class/Job Quests say what GL stacks are is also no use; those are also skipped by the jump potion.

To the OP, whenever you start a new job, be sure to look at your skills under the Actions menu. A number of MNK skills (in particular, Snap Punch, Demolish, and Rockbreaker, in particular) describe how to obtain Greased Lightning and what it does. Suffice it to say, playing MNK is primarily about getting three stacks of Greased Lightning, and keeping those three stacks going as much as possible while you're in combat. I would also recommend that if you're not willing to research the jobs you play, don't use a jump potion. Level them up, instead - the game does a great job of teaching you how to play the job through job quests.

Personally, I have more of a beef with BLM/THM's skillset. The tooltips don't really describe exactly WHAT Astral Fire and Umbral Ice DO, or why you'd want one or the other - just that certain skills grant them. I've run into a couple of low-level THMs that had no idea that Astral Fire increases fire spell damage, and spent most of their time in Umbral Ice because they could cast spells, essentially, for free. Sure, the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice icons say what they do, but accessing those icons is awkward if you play with a controller instead of KB and mouse.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

It's called localisation. Deal with it.

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no its called failure localization.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Getting MNK to 62 means that he's been playing MNK for two levels. The rest are covered by a jump potion.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

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OP indicated they had obtained Tornado Kick, ergo, they didn't use a Jump Potion (because they'd have already had it).

OP is very, very clearly trolling, between this and the gladiator stuff (which also would contradict the idea of using a jump potion, because that would unlock Paladin automatically). He is very well aware of exactly the kinds of things people will react to, and is perfectly crafting posts to get people talking about them. It's brilliant trolling, but I have no doubt whatsoever that it is trolling.

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Originally Posted by AshlikeSnow

no its called failure localization.

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Well that's your (terrible) opinion. If I had to call Forbidden Chakra 'Yin and Yang Fighting Sword,' or 'inyou touki zan,' I'd question SE on why they went with that decision (especially if they named every skill in Romaji for ever Job. To me, it'd look like they don't care about anyone playing outside of Japan and it's bad enough some players already feel this is already happening).

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Personally, I have more of a beef with BLM/THM's skillset. The tooltips don't really describe exactly WHAT Astral Fire and Umbral Ice DO, or why you'd want one or the other - just that certain skills grant them. I've run into a couple of low-level THMs that had no idea that Astral Fire increases fire spell damage, and spent most of their time in Umbral Ice because they could cast spells, essentially, for free. Sure, the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice icons say what they do, but accessing those icons is awkward if you play with a controller instead of KB and mouse.

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What's worse is how nothing really describes how three stacks of either reduces cast times for the opposing level 3 spell. Real easy to pass on those spells as long as you think casting 3 level 1s would probably be about the same.