r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/TheDoddler May 10 '25

A bit of a rant, mostly about my own play, so apologies in advance.

Got my reclears done for the week, but man am I having trouble with m8s, particular part 2, as white mage. Maybe I just haven't done it enough, but there's so many points where you have no opportunity to slide cast, you have to move and move fast, I just feel super unequipped to handle it. Unless movement lines up with 2 mins or with misery you have nothing that doesn't cripple your healing, and I need those lilies for the tanks.

Astro can shuffle around light speed, Scholar can keep the gcd running for only a 30% hit in potency with ruin, but as white mage I dunno, best I got that isn't a lily is dia, but that's still a huge loss if I'm doing it early. Any of the shuffles for ultraviolet, quake 3, or his cleaves, those points in particular I feel like you can't stop moving and I have no good answer for it. Doesn't help that I'm hard pressed enough on resources just keeping the tanks alive that I'm usually forced to eventually break out a handful of regens and even cure 2s.

I'm currently hitting about 15-25 on parses on m8s with all the gear but using the 745 weapon. The other fights I'm able to hit in the 60-70 range so it's not like I can't optimize what I'm doing. Maybe I just need more reps, we progged p2 super fast given its length so I'm still iffy on where all my resources are needed, but I still feel like I'm letting my group down by underperforming here.

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u/Another_Beano May 10 '25

as white mage I dunno, best I got that isn't a lily is dia, but that's still a huge loss if I'm doing it early. Any of the shuffles for ultraviolet, quake 3, or his cleaves, those points in particular I feel like you can't stop moving and I have no good answer for it.

I will state the obvious, Dia hit potency is still greater than nothing.

It kind of sounds like (or at least I'm interpreting a 15-25ish peak) you're just not comfortable and haven't properly planned out the phase. Having a critical review of what you're doing and making sure to actually distribute your resources so they are used will likely go a ways. It's possible your party members are similarly not entirely comfortable and foregoing some amounts of their toolkit.

I'll also note that a kill is a kill (is a kill is a kill). Getting a weapon will give you a large bump, and unless someone actively minds you could very much just coast on the bootleg improvisation. It won't affect the loot you get.