Jocat actually did an entire song version of spooky slice. I highly recommend giving it a view/listen.

@Gwydion_Wolf

9 ай бұрын

ONLY listen/watch to the full song when you get to Endwalker, the video/lyrics for the full one are kinda spoilery.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

will do!

So for this video. As ithers have mentioned, Ninjas 'spells' are either 1, 2 or 3 buttons long, and only the last button you hit determine what they do. Jocat made them longer for comedic effect :) Reaper is a blast, its my main, though you do not unlock it till endwalker. That said, if you plan to play reaper as soon as you can, then level up Dragoon first, as dragoon and reaper share armor/jewlry.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

thats great thank you!!!!

@Mir_Teiwaz

8 ай бұрын

You need to have paid for Endwalker, but you unlock it at level 70, so you could start playing as reaper around the time you're finishing up Stormblood's 4.0 MSQ.

yayy my new favorite vtuber at it again with the jocat reactions :D edit: just so you know, he was joking about the ninja symbol combos, none of them are that complex. They're at most 3 symbols per combo and you can't repeat the same one twice in any one combo, so there's really not all that many to memorize. I say this because I saw your face in the ninja part and wanted to make you less scared of it LOL

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

o_O favourite vtuber?? ok so ninja isnt so hard???

YOU DO DA SLICE. You do the spoooopy slice YOU DO DA SLICE Now your swings have some spice!~ Next episode'll be fun for you as well :3

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

this is stuck in my head...on repeat O_O

Hey Laccre, did you end up doing any dungeons since Sastasha ? would love to see your first-run reactions to those !

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

i have, got a little distracted by jocat videos, they will be up in next few days :-)

I'm a Black Mage main... who should really be considered a melee main considering how much I play them. Melee is a lot of fun. I recommend Dragoon to start, as it has a slower GCD than the others and does teach the fundamentals reasonably well. Also ESTINIEN!!! (He is the Azure Dragoon.) Samurai and Reaper are my favorites. Both are unlocked at higher levels, and are more selfish than the others, but I found were very easy to learn. Monk and Ninja have the best glam of the melees IMO. And we're getting a new melee in Dawntrail.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

i love the look of reaper and samurai scares me lol but i am planning to at least give both a go :-)

@ChrisPrice12

9 ай бұрын

@Laccreplays There is nothing to fear with Samurai. Rotation is very forgiving outside of high end and is probably tied with DRG for slowest GCD. Monk is the one that scares/confuses me. Feels like I need to swap to controller to play it sometimes.

For single-target monk you've got two buttons for each stance. Dragon Kick does more damage with no buff, but gives Bootshine a buff. Result: Swap back and forth between the two. Twin Snakes does less damage than True Strike but grants you a damage buff on all your attacks. Result: Swap back and forth between the two. Demolish does less initial damage than Snap Punch but applies a DoT worth more damage if the fight continues another 9 seconds or more. Result: Do Demolish every THIRD time. So it's Dragon, Twin, Demo Boot, True, Snap Dragon, Twin, Snap Boot, True, Demo Dragon, Twin, Snap Boot, True, Snap Writing out the "full rotation" of 18 attacks really confuses people and makes them think it's more complicated than it is. It's really just, "For the DoT reapply it if it's under 5 seconds, otherwise do Snap Punch. For the other two do whatever you didn't do last time."

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

this actually sounds ok and not too complicated, i will for sure try it out :-)

@Unholydragoon

8 ай бұрын

Yea it only looks complicated from the outside. Outside of top end content, it is really only important to keep the stance rotating, so hitting the 'wrong' button of the 2 really doesn't matter too much outside of Savage/Ultimate content IMO. The 'punch card' Jocat mentions doesn't apply until after level 50 iirc, so you have 50 levels to get used to your Stance Rotation (what @TheKarishi explained). @@LaccreVT

I remember when monk first was out, it was a ton of fun. I really loved it when you were a healer and when you punched your target heals came off you and actually were good. I hate how they took that away 😢

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

i actually like the look of monk, just not sure if it will be a little complicated for me

It's probably best to take on Ninja later but it is one of my favorite melee. Dragoon is another decent starter, I figure it's probably 'easier' to pick up than Monk early on. But once you know what you're doing, monks are definitely fun and have an advantage in being able to swap between their different combo chains unlike anyone else, who get locked into which one they're doing. I don't think Samurai is necessarily complicated but it can be a little tricky to deal with their cast-time actions. No joke, Samurai probably spend more time casting their abilities than Summoner does. Oh and yeah, even though it starts at 70 it wouldn't be the worst choice to start with Reaper as first melee. One other thing - I think they uploaded a full song for the 'Spooky Slice' and even got a certain voice actor to lend a line or two (though you may not recognize them).

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

i really want to try reaper, it looks fun. Monk im interested just not too sure about it. Im more of a ranged person lol

Lmfao she got the LA FF14 ad

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

i love it!

Don't forget to check out the full-length version of the reaper song, it's an absolute jam.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

i will! xD

new episode :3

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

yay!!!

Before even watching the video I can say as someone that plays in melee range a lot (tank main) I lost count years ago of times I’ve seen melee die to easily avoidable boss aoe where you take less damage further away you are cause they wanted to get that one last gcd in

@Asako_Gaming

9 ай бұрын

Yeah...but it's always worth the risk. I'd sell my first born for an extra GCD.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

i feel alot of melee do this xD

@Asako_Gaming

9 ай бұрын

Ivan Drago said it best in Rocky 4. "If he dies....he dies" @@LaccreVT

So fun fact, lalafell ninjas instead to the airplane run with their arms outstretched while moving. Samurai, if anything these days, is probably the easiest melee to play because the only real thing to manage is that single one-minute dot on boss fights, so there's not really anything that scary about them when it comes to learning them. As for the other melee, Reaper is definitely fun, and while Ninja can definitely be complicated at times (least played job for a reason), it's still nowhere near as complicated as Dragoon, which is getting an overhaul for the next expansion because it currently sits on the highest APM of any job in the game. Monk can be a bit tricky closer to max level in FFXIV because of what all needs to be juggled (dot, buff/attack alteration, cooldown giving you the black and white dots on the punchcard), but it's definitely fun. Also, I'm pretty sure JoCat has a recording for that entire Reaper song somewhere.

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!! this helps so much and im going to find that song!! lol

Hello Laccre! I'm back again to give WoW comparisons to each class! :D .....There isn't one... There really isn't a proper comparison. So instead i'll just describe how they play, which is complex no matter which one but i'ma try my best. XD Monk: My main, gotta go fast. You have a permanent 20% haste buff. You hit stupid fast... but at the moment you're kinda ninja-light with how your perfect balance gauge works. Ninja: Do you like burst windows?! Well have a class that dumps EVERYTHING into a 15 second burst window, then has a 45 second cooldown phase. Samurai: Do you like stickers, pretty flowers, and pure weebery? Samurai is for you! Dragoon: You are the queen of hippy hops... also dragons. :) They are also the slowest of the melee with time between their attacks, but they do a ton of weaving with their OGCD's. Reaper: EEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGGEEEE.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

i love these so much! make me laugh everytime!! xD

@Blarg892

9 ай бұрын

@@LaccreVT I'm happy I can provide a small bit of entertainment. :) But no seriously, No wow melee DPS can compare to how Final Fantasy melee DPS work. WoW, last I played, was all "builder/spender," with a lot of proc based gameplay, and that's not how FF works. FF Melee DPS is instead more based on complex, but static rotations.

Monk for life baby. For some reason people find it hard but it's practically only 6 buttons on repeat just rotated. Unfortunately Monk got most of their positionals removed and it makes me very sad as it was the fun part of the job. Now I just have to pretend they still exist. Ninja is pretty fun to level once you get the Mudras at level 30-45. It's nothing like the video example, it's just 3 buttons and a max of 3 inputs followed by the activation. There's no crazy 12 input presses xD although it would be funny if their was. Also they walk and run faster than any other job by default so just having one is nice when you have to quest on foot.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

im very interested in mok, ninja just scares me lol but im excited to try them all out

live over on www.twitch.tv/Laccre RIGHT NOW!!!

I love this guy. Hes hilarious

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

hea really is and ive actually learnt a thing or 2

The good thing about ff14 is there is no reason not to give all the classes a try once you are high enough level and starting to get bored with your current class. You don't loose anything aside from some time. But just be carefull as the non start classes can be a bit overwhelming with the amount of stuff they get in a short amount of time.

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

i plan to try everything soon enough, but for now im going to pick one of each melee, ranged, Tank, healer

@LukasJampen

8 ай бұрын

@@LaccreVT yeah don't overdo it but also switch it up before you burn out from playing the same class.

Yes, yes we are 😅

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

doesnt surprise me lol

SPOOKI SLICE

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

best song!

Rogue, which becomes Ninja, has my favorite story line. Also, the job isn't difficult.

@LaccreVT

9 ай бұрын

Im here for the good stories!! but hoestly it scares me a little lol

@jpotrido

8 ай бұрын

​@@LaccreVT Hi! Ninja sprout here. I think it's easier if you're using a controller. You can arrange the mudras in a way so you could memorize patterns instead of the actual names. After some time, it will be muscle memory. Also, the job quests were done in a way that they won't dump a whole lot of skills on you one time. It gives you the mudras one quest line at a time so you can learn and practice them first before getting a new one. I hope this helps.

Meele DPS greed because they are forced to. If you don't do perfect dodge DPS you fail the enrage and you wipe. People expect to see big numbers. Melee DPS don't do anything but DPS anymore. This is what is expected so if I do anything else they are considered 'slacking'.

@LaccreVT

8 ай бұрын

that makes sense, this video made me laugh with the way it was explained