Solo Dungeons

[Spoekes]

*snip* [...] and if your MT or OT, that MP is more helpfully reserved for Provoke.

Dunno 'bout you, but my Provoke is free, no MP or TP needed

[damofitz]

When you hit a mob, your first point of call is to build aggro as quickly as possible. Get Flash....

I picked flash up and have it set to my second hot bar. I didn't realise it uses mp through so thanks for the tip, will mean I can lay off spamming overpower use to build aggro. I have 2 sets of hot keys and have been just using those, one for main for battle, second for over world, companion, teleport, key items and emergency healing. As I hit 40 its becoming more and more obvious that 2 sets of bars won't cut it, plus I have to switch around battle abilities if i'm level synced as I sometimes forget something is locked out mid battle and end up breaking a combo. Can you set up hotbars but not have them to cycle for when you don't need?.
Also, is there a way to tell how much aggro you have built up?
And lastly, is cure worth having and using as an additional or is it gonna be underpowered regardless of my level

[Cap75]

Dunno 'bout you, but my Provoke is free, no MP or TP needed

Lol. Quite true. I always think it uses MP for some reason as a GLD cross skill.

[Cap75]

I personally use 2 hotbars that I switch between constantly. One has my BB rotation and the other my SE rotation. The first has my aggro abilities and damage mitigation, the other has damage dealing abilities and a bit of everything else. I find it works well for me.

You also shouldn't need to spam overpower. Pull with tomahawk, group them up, one overpower and then start rotating through them. You can also toss an op in there between rotations and still be fine on TP.

Lastly, cure really won't do much for you as you don't have attributes to utilize it.

[Cap75]

I also skipped over the most important if your questions: aggro bars. In the party list, under the icon that denotes the members class, is the emnity bar. This shows whose pulling aggro on the mob you currently have targeted. Obviously yours should always be full. Just note it only shows the aggro on what you have targeted. You need to scroll through the mobs to see if a particular enemy needs attention before he gets pulled by someone else.

[OppaHan]

We don't need to give more reasons for people not to play with eachother. This is an MMO not a singleplayer game.

Agree so hard

[damofitz]

Agree so hard

The game is an mmo, we have established that. However the main quest line is almost all single player bar the trials/ dungeons. This was always gonna be a purchase for some ps4 players looking for an rpg to play. Mmo does not mean your have to exclusively play with others. Perhaps I enjoy the chat, or in game economy but like to quest alone, or as I'm playing at the moment, parties every couple of hours in a dungeon followed by an hour or so of questing, leves, crafting and generally potting about.

I've seen the "you should play a single player" game argument a few times thrown about, however I don't see the problem with playing the game whichever way people chose unless it broke the mechanics of the game. I also dont see ths issue with requesting things i may enjoy. Judging by some of the posts I've seen, there are players on both sides of the fence so those who want to play exclusively with others will find plenty of like minded players to play with.

[Sapphic]

Also not everyone is an ass. Most people will help you if you mention that you are new. For queue times, it helps a little if you click all the languages.

Doesn't really help him if he gets put in an all French party for example and unable to communicate or understand XD Can't really ask for help then.

[vanityobscene]

Doesn't really help him if he gets put in an all French party for example and unable to communicate or understand XD Can't really ask for help then.

Yes you can. Many non-English speakers will use the auto-translate chat options in macros. And if you use them, others are likely to respond in turn. Outside of that, it's a matter of following cues. Another party member might take up the role of marking targets if you're a beginner tank, and say with auto-translate "This one first."

Bottom line is that people should really learn the auto-translate text options and how to use them in macros if they run the chance of playing with non-english speakers and vice versa. I play on Tonberry which is about 60/40 non-english (non-english are not all Japanese players either) to english, and it's impossible to function in a team without them. Almost everyone uses them.

[damofitz]

I was doing the ward up guildhest, the one where you have to put them down all together. I clearly stated it was my first time, as did others. It was explained what to do so off we go. The whole fight I'm getting yelled at to not use overpower, use it from different people at the same time. Then I'm told to use flash, good job I have it as a cross skill. I'm trying to bring them down to low HP, not really being healed much so dying a lot and using flash when I can, which is only a few times as I have low MP, even lower when I keep dying. I keep getting comments like do this, do that, are you listening, is it so hard, the answer being yes, it is kinda hard when you have no mp, tp or your dead. We managed it with a few minutes to go but it just annoyed me, I couldnt comment as everyone left, I'm on ps4, it wouldn't let me use tell either.
So, wondering if I'm a bad tank or he was just being a dick. I mean, would you use duty finder if you didn't have the patience for new players