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Today we take a look at JoCat’s FFXIV Melee DPS crap guide and I actually learned a couple of things I’d been doing wrong so far in my FFXIV gameplay!
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I’ve waited so long for these JoCat react vids! Been watching your VODs and welcome to the FFXIV community!! From a fellow Dragoon from New Zealand
Congrats on finishing 2.0! Im makinh my way through 2.55 right now!
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you can bind things to scroll wheel, it should be within keybinds
As someone who plays dps on occasion, man does hitting the fun dps buttons feel so good. But I will say that dps rotations are super overwhelming at high level, especially for optimizing dps. I love hitting big damage as a ninja but man does messing up feel so nasty. The bunny of shame will never not be funny to me though.
Your opening comment about arms length. To note there is a large number of fights that actively punish or completely ignore knockback immunity. Have fun keeping trqck of those until you reach content where they make it obvious when knockback immunity will not work
A good monk is fun to watch fight. They're constantly moving for their positionals.
If you're looking for more buttons to macro you can use the F1-12 keys and modifiers for them too
These vids are a great intro to FFXIV job mechanics. Engaging but informative.
Also, for key binds, I also use an MMO mouse. I have everything bound to either 1-12, Shift + 1-12, or Ctrl + 1-12. Then I have the hotbars setup to mimic the buttons in a 3×4 pattern. Left bar is Shift buttons, middle bar is normal, right bar is Ctrl. The normal ones I use for regular abilities you spam, Shift is more like resource consuming abilities, and Ctrl is utility/big CD ones you click every now and then. Also, a useful tip for swapping between jobs is having similar buttons in similar places. For instance, all my single target buttons are in my first row buttons, AOE are my second row buttons, my job specific mechanic buttons are bottom row buttons, I also tend to put OGCD single/AOE buttons in the same places too. Helps a LOT with learning other jobs and helps you recognize the similarities for building that muscle memory. Would highly advise sitting down at some point and working out a method that works for you at some point once you have a few of each type unlocked!
Also, as a side note, for clickables like food and such, I throw those on another 3×4 hotbar to to the side of my 3 main bars. And for job gauges I place those in the same locations generally. The first one you get on the top right of my bars, and the second one you get later on the top left of my bars. If you have any ones in particular that you really want to keep track of, like DOTs or random proc abilities for example, you can place a second button for them on a fully transparent bar near the middle of your screen as almost a timer bar.
Very flexible though so can easily figure out what works for you, just wanted to share what's worked well for me!
Shame on you,,,,,,
Your edit skipped the entire Midare (Ghost of Tsushima duel) animation that JoCat spent time animating.
It really sums up how It feels to cash in 3 stickers.
JoCat crappy guides are unironically the best guides out there for getting an overview over the jobs and classes.
You ought to do the unlock quests for all the jobs you can. At this point you can also grab Blue Mage in Limsa. That whole quest line is funny because your job trainer is a huge loser.
Old dragoon jump was paaaaaaaaaaainful. it was like almost a 2 sec freeze
I played ARC/BRD for all of ARR. Until the point where I fell asleep in Stone Vigil, and neither I nor my party noticed until the final boss. So then I switched to SAM and have mained it ever since.
It is "easy", but also not actually the most intuitive, apparently. As a good SAM who knows my rotation and abilities, it feels wonderful to play, but watching random Samurais in dungeons pains me sometimes. It's not talked about, but Samurai has slightly different openers and rotations for different expacs, similar to Black Mage.
The most tragic moment I have ever experienced in XIV was the day I somehow managed to accidentally unlock my hotbar and right click and delete Kaiten after it was removed from the game. SAM is just that tad easier to play now, but it wasn't worth it. Rest in peace, fancy dancy blade. You will be missed.
Red Mage is awesome once you start leveling it up. If you like casting, you will not regret it.
I generally use Feint for Tank-Busters and Room-Wides in Casual endgame content. Less healing to do for the healer so they can dps more and worry less… I suppose, x3. Plus is just one OCD button
You should watch the jocat dnd vids and monster hunter vids too, especially like the 20 minite how to be a dungeon master production its so good with dozens of cameos like matt mercer
He made a full spooky aslice music video
0:39 arms length doesn’t always work
I know people already commented on how DRG jumps used to be longer animation lock, but I just want to emphasis it was nearly to the point they would have to preplan the fight as much as a black mage. Knowing exactly when they could safely use the jump and not be at risk for getting an aoe dropped on them. As a former Bard main though, my love for dragoons back in those days stemmed from them applying the piercing damage debuff to make my arrows hit harder.
13:16 the floor tank joke originally came from final fantasy eleven
what is the 1-4 0-9 Meme about?
Now I remember JoCat, hes some weird leftist who thinks everyone should be in a gay or lesbian relationship and tries to shove that down peoples throats. Guys a creep
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When you complete a fight on monk you feel like you did a lot more work than all the other melees for fuck all if any more dmg.
16:10 They need to somehow bring kaiten back, just the animation
Can't believe you snipped out the lengthy Midare animation Jocat worked so hard on. </3
Spooky Slice has a full version worth checking out
Just got to love JoCat's videos & loved your reactions and commentary on it too!
Don't cry for the Monks, they have their options, they're just different from everyone else's. The first and most basic is meditate, which lets them stock Ki anytime they're unable to hit the boss. After that is Six Sided Star, a big slap that slows your own GCD, basically giving you time to move around without technically wasting a GCD cast. Then lastly there's Anatman, a channeled ability that resets all of Monk's self buffs to full duration and prevents them from ticking down for as long as Anatman is held. Allowing Monk to resume their combo once the boss is available again where other jobs would drop their combo.
Reaper is probably the closest to Havoc Demon Hunter from WoW so Russ will feel right at home with it. Got your Metamorphosis, got your Fel Rush (just one charge though), your Blur as Arcane crest and lots of AoEs, it's good fun!
Yo I'm the same with my Logitech G600! I use qer for my standard damage combo and i bind the back 9 mouse buttons.
There's a full vid for the Spooky Slice song. It's pretty good.
Monk is super fun, I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I do. It's GCD has the fastest cooldown, so you're always pressing buttons and that makes the monkee brain go brrr with the happy chemicals. However, it does have a mandatory (not really) lv15 crafter requirement, because you need a lv15 crafter in order to buy the emperor's new fists so you can glamour all their ugly fist weapons invisible lol
The thing about that MNK rotation you learned is that it only starts at 60, when you finish the level 60 MNK quest and unlock Masterful Blitz. And even then, that's only the Perfect Balance part of it. Your normal rotation is just moving through the stances like normal. Perfect Balance has 2 charges, so basically you just drop those combos in when you can while Perfect Balance is up, but most of the time you're just doing your normal 1-2-3 combos. Though even MNK's 1-2-3 combos are a bit more complicated than other melees, since you've technically got 3 of them that you can mix together. It's pretty complicated, but easy to learn as you level the class, since you obviously unlock them gradually, rather than being thrown in with all of them at once like later jobs.
Fun and potentially useful fact:
If a telegraph animation is yellow – you can usually immune it by Arm's lenght/Surecast.
If it is purple – it is usually unavoidable.
keep in mind, if you press 1 then the buttons that light up, until you're actually doing raiding, that's good enough. Once you start to raid you need to know all your buttons or it will be tough if not impossible
animation locks.. Drg is know for them
Melee DPS really is the epitome of seeing how much you can just maximize your damage and it’s very satisfying to get down. Not to say you don’t have any utility in certain circumstances, but at times it’s usually simple what you have to do, and how you have to do it. It’s no wonder people prefer being DPS as their first jobs.
I have sprint bound to the scroll wheel click. Also, I use Scroll Wheel UP to target near to far, and Scroll Down to target farthest to nearest. Makes finding targets MUCH easier. Also, Scimitar is great isn't it?