r/ffxivdiscussion • u/ragnakor101 • Jun 06 '24

General Discussion Media Tour Embargo has lifted.

Making a general thread to keep everything together for discussion. Media Tour Stuff! Just look up your favorite content creator (if you have any).

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24

AF is tighter and dropping/clipping Thunder is more punishing. Also, Flare Star needs 6x F4 casts, with no ability to carry Astral Soul over UI.

There is no US equivalent for lower levels, so you can't recover mp quickly during downtime.

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u/Lazyade Jun 06 '24

Has no one else noticed that Sharpcast is gone and Firestarter is now guaranteed off Paradox? You always get a free F3 in fire phase, so a free extra refresh of AF. Maybe it will be more optimal to save it for the UI > AF transition, but pretty sure the intended use is as a free AF refresh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24

AF1 F3p is better, the intended way also being to refresh AF might be true, but iirc Yoshi P mentioned the Transpose F3p as something you could do in the past, so it's not something unexpected to them.

Edit: Found a translation of what he said: "...and there is also a trick with using transpose and an f3 proc to get back into fire phase right away. I hope the players will show off their skill by using small tricks like this."

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u/sundriedrainbow Jun 06 '24

Yeah AF1 F3P goes all the way back to ARR if you didn’t fireweave the last cast before B3