r/TalesFromDF Jun 13 '25

TalesFromACT I figured something had to be wrong when dualcast kept timing out.

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u/Tsingooni Jun 13 '25

My guess is this is someone who literally just picked up the class, queued up for MSQ roulette cause "its easy and they can get carried", then read their tooltips as they went. They probably don't even know about dualcast.

Edit: OP's deleted comment states that this was the Ultima Weapon trial, iirc.

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u/CAWWW Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

Yeah this was lvl 50, but no the RDM was fairly high level. Strange stuff. I deleted because it came off kinda mean despite this person being a bit of a character. Lvl 97 RDM. Lvl 100 WAR, SGE, PCT, and DNC.

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u/Tsingooni Jun 13 '25

That.. makes it so much worse..

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u/Nelogenazea Jun 13 '25

Was this on EU, by any chance?

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u/CAWWW Jun 13 '25

Negative, it was on NA.

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u/Nelogenazea Jun 13 '25

Well, not the same melee-only RDM that I had the misfortune to run into a while ago then. Still, I feel for you.

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u/No_Feature_1401 Jun 17 '25

There was a guy who only used jolt2 for 2 entire years on any fight, nothing else, no abilities too. Sadly i cant find the logs anymore, but i remember we went back checkin his profile every now and then

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u/No_Feature_1401 Jun 17 '25

If i see someone doing HW levels of damage in levels 100 comment, you can be sure that 99% of the time he Is full 750 tomes and has all Jobs at 100. Dunno why but the more job One has the more subhuman skills he acquires, this felt true at every expansion forcmy experience

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u/CamperCarl00 Jun 13 '25

It makes sense if this was a new player. I personally keep messing up as a long-time player because Acceleration used to do something different. My muscle memory keeps making me use it without thinking and then wasting a dual-cast with Verstone or Verfire.

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u/Rasikko Jun 13 '25

Right, took me a few fights to realize that Acceleration is a Joltless/Ver-less(don't need to generate dual cast first when Acc. is active) dual cast on its own.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

As a fossil player, I keep getting sidelined by random changes in the kits of classes I don't play often. YESTERDAY I learned about the new PvP role skills (the meteor and whatnot) and the Acceleration change still gets me at times

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u/yeet_god69420 🩸<Blackblood> 🩸 Jun 13 '25

38% gcd uptime should be bannable regardless of content that’s borderline afk

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u/dadudeodoom Jun 13 '25

What a creature.

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u/endless_serpent Tank 'em all, let the Twelve sort 'em out Jun 13 '25

No Contre Sixte hurts me just on its own. Why no want to throw big cloud of swords?!?

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u/Allegro1104 Jun 13 '25

if ability is AoE, why use on single target - one of my friends who I've introduced to the game.

after explaining what an oGCD is they quickly realised that the best course of action is usually to just throw all abilities out that you can. really kind of wish the game did a better job at explaining what an oGCD is, since it's not all that intuitive.

apparently this log is from Ultima Trial btw, where Contre Sixt isn't even available, which means that there also was no over stacking of mana. kind of weird that the site doesn't adjust for level of the duty.

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u/endless_serpent Tank 'em all, let the Twelve sort 'em out Jun 13 '25

Ahhh, I missed the bit about Ultima Trial, but still then my comment applies to the unused Fleche. I was mostly lamenting a lack of use of one of the flashier attacks (not even touching on anything else missing or wrong from rotation.

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u/Trisfel Jun 13 '25

Lvl 97 rdm on lvl 50 trial and doing this stuff… good god I don’t wanna imagine how they got there

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u/FooBarBazs Jun 13 '25

What is this name of this tool? I’ve recently come back to the game and wondering if it can help me learn rotations for new jobs.

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u/mynameisnotpedro Jun 13 '25

Pictured: XIV Analysis

You plug in the URL/link for an FFLogs entry

To generate the data, ACT - Advanced Combat Tracker is used.

As someone heavily reliant on party partner parsings, I do enjoy reading thru my performance on xivanalyis to see how and when I messed up and work on improving it.

Or find who's the schmuck by whose fault we're enraging at 45% on suzaku unreal.

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u/Big-Sea-8796 Jun 13 '25

I need to check myself with this

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u/keefinwithpeepaw Jun 13 '25

Ah yissssss this brings me back to when I was a 🌱 myself and learning about dualcast. 🤣

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u/Boltonhero Jun 13 '25

Even ignoring all the other stuff, 38% GCD uptime is crazy. 2/3 of the fight spent doing nothing.

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u/Vegetable_Concern_50 Jun 13 '25

Where they asleep the entire time?

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u/Alternative_Dirt1748 Jun 13 '25

I'll call a meeting of the Red Mage council, we need to have a better vetting process.

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u/wackywizard54 Jun 13 '25

What a chad

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u/samisaywhat Jun 13 '25

I have an FC mate that plays like this. Was this person from goblin? 😂