Forked Tower: Blood Needs A Normal Mode

[Chasingstars]

Currently haven't set foot once inside forked tower blood since its release and I don't plan to enter it until later when north horn is released so I get more job mastery.

Instead I have been farming underkeep dungeon for glamour and the royal hound minion. And I would say after 45 runs I been improving my gameplay steadily. Which this anecdote might seem like a non sequitur, but there is a point to it, because I can do it repeatedly and its not overly punishing, it allows for my skills to gradually grow with the viper job, even sometimes clearing bosses as the last person standing or the second to last person with a tank, unlike blood tower. As blood tower with all its restrictions just makes it a pain to actually go out and do that and therefore I can't develop my skills unless I choose to go out of my way and get with a discord group and their sign ups.

Like I already finished leveling my phantoms, got the glamour pieces I want, got a couple of full gear sets to +1, got the mount, got the riding map. The only thing I have realistically left to do is just be capped on gold and silver. After that, I am mostly just waiting until they implement the next step of the relic weapons and maybe some phantom jobs to level.

Like you see what I am saying SE? Those 45 runs of underkeep could've been 45 for forked tower blood if it was more user friendly.

[Supersnow845]

Currently haven't set foot once inside forked tower blood since its release and I don't plan to enter it until later when north horn is released so I get more job mastery.

Instead I have been farming underkeep dungeon for glamour and the royal hound minion. And I would say after 45 runs I been improving my gameplay steadily. Which this anecdote might seem like a non sequitur, but there is a point to it, because I can do it repeatedly and its not overly punishing, it allows for my skills to gradually grow with the viper job, even sometimes clearing bosses as the last person standing or the second to last person with a tank, unlike blood tower. As blood tower with all its restrictions just makes it a pain to actually go out and do that and therefore I can't develop my skills unless I choose to go out of my way and get with a discord group and their sign ups.

Like I already finished leveling my phantoms, got the glamour pieces I want, got a couple of full gear sets to +1, got the mount, got the riding map. The only thing I have realistically left to do is just be capped on gold and silver. After that, I am mostly just waiting until they implement the next step of the relic weapons and maybe some phantom jobs to level.

Like you see what I am saying SE? Those 45 runs of underkeep could've been 45 for forked tower blood if it was more user friendly.

Mastery stacks aren’t going to help forked because in forked you basically never wipe to enrage (hell the biggest prog point in forked actually locks itself on 0.1% health till you see all its mechanics and 24% extra damage is barely going to help that)

Even if you do get stronger in north horn it’ll just be like BA, still organised in discord but almost guaranteed a clear rather than forked which you have to prog

[Chasingstars]

(and 24% extra damage is barely going to help that)

And as I stated, I am going to wait for more phantoms. As if they implement all the FF5 jobs as shards, that is 26 stacks of phantom mastery or 52%. If we exclude Blue Mage and Beastmaster for whatever reason, that is 48%. And since damage buffs are multiplicative, that is going to add up very fast.

[Supersnow845]

And as I stated, I am going to wait for more phantoms. As if they implement all the FF5 jobs as shards, that is 26 stacks of phantom mastery or 52%. If we exclude Blue Mage and Beastmaster for whatever reason, that is 48%. And since damage buffs are multiplicative, that is going to add up very fast.

And that’s what’s I’m saying

Extra damage from phantom mastery won’t help forked because you don’t wipe in forked to enrage and bosses don’t die till they have done all their mechanics

[Chasingstars]

And that’s what’s I’m saying

Extra damage from phantom mastery won’t help forked because you don’t wipe in forked to enrage and bosses don’t die till they have done all their mechanics

Okay, so why are you arguing with me? My point is more phantom mastery means bosses die quicker. Its the same rhetoric is as if I told you I will do content later when I am overgeared.

As if they implement the remaining 13 phantoms, that is 52%. A dragoon will have 111% damage buff from mastery and their own self-buffs. Meanwhile their current total is 39% with phantom mastery. Or black mage for example, with 26 mastery, that equates to them having a 93% damage buff, where as their current amount is 57%.

That math does not factor in buffs from other party members or debuffs applied onto the boss such as silver cannon or ninja's trick attack.

Which if the bosses die quicker, they will do less of their mechanics.

[Supersnow845]

Which if the bosses die quicker, they will do less of their mechanics.

Because if you read the last sentence of my post you’ll see “the bosses don’t die till they have done their mechanics”

As in they lock on 0.1% hp till their mechanics are done, well at least dead stars and magitaur do

[Emitans]

And as I stated, I am going to wait for more phantoms. As if they implement all the FF5 jobs as shards, that is 26 stacks of phantom mastery or 52%. If we exclude Blue Mage and Beastmaster for whatever reason, that is 48%. And since damage buffs are multiplicative, that is going to add up very fast.

Do you think they're going to give us a raidewide Reraise action or something? I don't understand what could possibly make instadeath mechanics easier.