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    Packetdancer's Avatar
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    Khit Amariyo
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    Leviathan
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    Sage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by sagacious View Post
    I've heard about mods that can pan you out farther so you can see is that what square wants us to do to pass it?
    This may be easier to show rather than tell, but I'm on my phone here so forgive me for using screenshots of someone's YouTube video of their MSQ run, which I've marked up.

    When folks say "look for the raised hand", it's worth noting that many of us play with the camera zoomed out as far as possible; it makes seeing the arena (and things that help make mechanics more readable) much easier. No mod involved.

    So, as an example, here's a shot from that YouTube video. You can see the person is playing with their camera fairly far back, and I've marked up what folks mean by the raised hand:





    The fist in the air is going to come down and splat that poison bubble, covering that side of the room. One thing you'll notice is that the puddles are scattered a bit randomly, but they stop roughly around where the elbow of the arm that isn't raised is resting on the ground:





    So when he drops the poison blobs, imagine a sort of line down the center of the room; stand on that line. As soon as one hand goes up, move to the opposite side; as long as you get out far enough to be past that elbow line you should generally be safe.

    Hopefully that helps a bit?
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    Lala Felon
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    Zurvan
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    Gunbreaker Lv 80
    Sage isn't titanmen. Titanmen wouldn't have made a rather nice house on Materia in Foundation after it opened up. The cafe style one.

    Titanmen had the alt that was called "Astrologan" from memory, the rainbow sparkles were so hard to forget.

    Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
    So when he drops the poison blobs, imagine a sort of line down the center of the room; stand on that line. As soon as one hand goes up, move to the opposite side; as long as you get out far enough to be past that elbow line you should generally be safe.
    And if one has trouble seeing the raised arm think "Green Jelly is now out, look for and hide behind the arm that's down to shield us all." But as the awesome Packetdancer says, you need to be centerline to move fast, especially if you are playing away from Sophia on the US servers where reaction time is so short.



    With weird pings, you need to be learning the mechanics before they fire, so you can be in the correct spot before the orange markers go down. Trying to stay centre line when you see the jelly, but don't know the shielding arm helps in this bit.
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    Last edited by Shibi; 08-10-2024 at 06:34 PM.

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    sagacious's Avatar
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    Sage Cologne
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    Ravana
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    Culinarian Lv 100
    Hi Shibi, I haven't seen you around much .. have you seen the 18th ward recently? 4 country exteriors have been added the ward is growing if you like the county and would like one message me or mail me a notice and ill make you one ..
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    sagacious

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    Culinarian Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
    This may be easier to show rather than tell, but I'm on my phone here so forgive me for using screenshots of someone's YouTube video of their MSQ run, which I've marked up.

    When folks say "look for the raised hand", it's worth noting that many of us play with the camera zoomed out as far as possible; it makes seeing the arena (and things that help make mechanics more readable) much easier. No mod involved.

    So, as an example, here's a shot from that YouTube video. You can see the person is playing with their camera fairly far back, and I've marked up what folks mean by the raised hand:





    The fist in the air is going to come down and splat that poison bubble, covering that side of the room. One thing you'll notice is that the puddles are scattered a bit randomly, but they stop roughly around where the elbow of the arm that isn't raised is resting on the ground:





    So when he drops the poison blobs, imagine a sort of line down the center of the room; stand on that line. As soon as one hand goes up, move to the opposite side; as long as you get out far enough to be past that elbow line you should generally be safe.

    Hopefully that helps a bit?
    You are a wonderful player and you completely understand me. Showing pics is genius because you understand most learn in snap shots not lectures. Once again I appreciate all your posts they are the best ever
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    sagacious