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[zahnffxiv]

that means!! i've managed to become a—wait, they're calling it a... sexlegend?? oh, i see...

[lifewithcake]

Quick Overview of the Dawntrail Healers

The Dawn will be upon us soon, so I wanted to give a quick overview of the new healer tools! The official Job Guide has been updated (including Viper and Pictomancer) so go take a look if you're interested :)

(I say quick overview and then there's AST)

At Level 94, all healers and casters will see Swiftcast's CD reduced to 40s (down from 60s).

Now for the individual stuff:

*For clarity: nuke-AoE = "deals X damage to main target and reduced damage to all nearby enemies" ; regular AoE = equal damage

Unless otherwise stated, the following abilities are unlocked from 92->100 in the usual 2-level increments.

White Mage

Retroactively at L40, Whm gets a gap closer

Presence of Mind followup attack: a new nuke-AoE (3 uses)

Glare 3, Dia, and Blood Lily damage potency upgrade

Medica 2 upgrade

Second charge of Tetragrammaton

Under Temperance, Whm has access to a party-wide barrier. Party members receive a HoT when the barrier expires**

Scholar

Effective from L66, Chain Stratagem's duration has been increased from 15s -> 20s

Chain Stratagem followup attack: a new AoE DoT

Potency upgrade to Broil 4 and Biolysis

Succor upgrade

Recitation CD reduced to 60s

Scholar's L100 ability Seraphism is a 20s active mode (like Temperance/Neutral Sect) that does the following:

AoE HoT for the full duration

Resets the Emergency Tactics CD and sets the CD to 1s

Upgrades Adloquium and Succor's heal value

Essentially, this provides Scholar with a lot of GCD healing power on top of a team-wide HoT. Dissipation is locked for the duration, but all other Fairy abilities are available.

Finally there's a button-mapping change: Summon Seraph no longer changes to Consolation when using Seraph, meaning you MUST map Consolation to your hotbar.

Sage

Retroactively at L82, Sage gets an AoE DoT

New nuke-AoE

Soteria CD reduced from 90s -> 60s

Dosis 3, Toxikon 2, and Pneuma damage potency upgrade

Eukrasian Prognosis upgrade

Physis 2's healing action buff is extended from 10s -> 15s

Sage's L100 ability Philosophia buffs healing magic (GCDs) for 20s and adds a buff to nearby party members that restores party HP upon using spells (again, GCDs). This is almost like giving the entire party Kardia, but the key difference here is this applies to both offensive and healing spells. Meaning, using GCD heals such as Prognosis and Diagnosis will trigger the additional healing just as Dosis will.

Astrologian

Effective at lower levels, Combust and Combust 2 have been buffed slightly

For all levels, Divination's duration has been increased from 15s -> 20s

Divination followup attack: a new AoE

Combust 3 and Fell Malefic potency upgrade

Aspected Helios upgrade

Third charge of Essential Dignity

Under Neutral Sect, Ast has access to a party-wide 10% mitigation**

As for the card changes, the cards you draw are no longer random. Ast will draw three major arcana and one minor arcana at once. Each card now has a unique effect and are grouped under Astral and Umbral sets:

Astral Set

Balance: 6% damage buff for melee/tank, 3% if other

Arrow: Increases recovery via healing actions

Spire: Barrier

Lord of Crowns: AoE damage

Umbral Set

Spear: 6% damage buff for ranged/healer, 3% if other

Bole: 10% damage reduction

Ewer: HoT

Lady of Crowns: AoE heal

Redraw and Undraw are gone. The old Draw button will be replaced by Astral Draw and Umbral Draw, which share a button that switches from one set to the other. This means you are forced to rotate through both sets. From what I've seen, Ast loads into the instance with the Astral cards drawn, meaning that Umbral Draw will be your first button. The CD of the new Draw is 60s.

You will now have three separate Play buttons, in addition to the minor arcana button. The cards are paired as follows: Balance/Spear, Arrow/Bole, Spire/Ewer, Lord/Lady. (The table above is arranged by the same pairs)

The Seal system is also gone, which includes Astrodyne.

A button mapping change: Macrocosmos no longer changes to Microcosmos automatically. You must map Microcosmos to your hotbar separately.

Lastly, Aspected Helios now unlocks at L40 (previously L42), which basically ensures Asts will have it for Cutter's Cry and Stone Vigil.

**In case this wasn't clear, Whm and Ast's L100 abilities are NEW buttons. You control the timing of their activation but can only do so under Temperance/Neutral Sect.

That's the four healers! I kept numbers to a minimum since this is really meant to be a cursory glance. Take a look at the job guide if you'd like to see more specifics details. I wish you all luck with your queues, may the Dawn welcome you gently and with no crashes~

[deidremercer]

Oh yeah I might as well post this here for the 2 people who follow me and aren't already in discords with me,

I'm doing this:

In an attempt to improve my art, I started out just doing it for the sake of drawing something almost every day but now I think I'm gonna save these for whenever I feel I've made an improvement. Each day I am doing a different OC and I'm trying to lean towards having each character in an outfit I wouldn't normally draw them in

#1 was done with Orpheus Valor from Paragons

He was pretty fun to draw because I don't do masc characters very often. Also doing him for the underwear post was good because my GM, Gracie, and I had previously joked about him having scars where top surgery scars would be and just fully not being trans (there are other trans characters in Paragons I feel like we get to do a little bit of queerbaiting) so he was mauled by a bear.

#2 was done with Rabbit Leporidae from Thyrasylo.

Rabbit is normally dressed in either a suit or a frilly dress despite the fact that her name stems from the fact that her original design was wearing a bunny suit. Her shirt is a gag stolen from Thrilling Intent, I think it's funny for the most powerful spellcaster in my world to be wearing a spelling bee shirt. This was also cool because I got to draw her tattoos. Neither of her previous tokens really showed them off much so I thought I could use this opportunity to draw them. They don't have any real significance as of right now but I might ascribe some to them later.

#3 is with Ivy Blackleaf from Thyrasylo

Ivy is very fun to draw, this prompt made me finally design a logo for her Mom's cafe. I think I made it a little too close to the Olive Garden logo. Otherwise this was a fairly straightforward one, I did get to practice expression a little bit.

#4 with Roxanne De'Rulo from Crescent King

Messy hair Roxie is really fun to draw. I forced myself to make this a full body to try and practice feet, I don't think they look all that great. Her hand is a little bit fucked up but I am glad that I drew it at all, practice is important. Otherwise the only thing of note with this one is that I lost the original TRIPWIRE band logo and Redbubble doesnt let you redownload your uploaded designs which kinda blows.

#5 with Jayden Valekrave from Paranoia and Evi Halloran from Macrocosmos

The first one with a backdrop. This one was also voted on by a whole 37 people who took time out of their day to vote on my silly little Google form. Evi is in the background because she was the runner up and I probably wouldn't draw her anywhere else. I also think I didn't do justice to all the people who voted for Jayden. I super didn't have a reference pulled up and I am not skilled enough to draw from my imagination yet. Jayden's halberd, Dawnbreaker, having sunglasses on is the best part of this image. She is so silly. I also started drawing the eyes without having lineart on them here. Idk how I like it, we'll have to see.

#6 with Vernidaius Yxerei from Decent Into Avernus

Compression kinda fucked this one up a bit, but the name of the game with this one was experimenting with brushes. I kinda tried to get some of the texture that I really love out of Jackson FrameDodge of The3rdWheel's work. Unfortunately I dont really know how to shade properly so it's kinda all over the place, and harder to see on the skin, oops. This one had a pose reference initially but the legs ended up being too difficult for me to do so I just sorta covered one of them. I also super forgot to draw Vermi's scales here. The line-less eyes are still something I'm on the fence about. I think this background is a good bit better than the previous one, the only part of the previous one that I really ended up liking is the clouds.

And that's everything I've done so far, tune in soon for the next one if you care.

[ufocaller]

Preparation for Egypt 22022022

Day 6 Water The Merkaba

Today our task was to connect with our sacral chakra and speak the Mantra “I am the Creator of my Node (Norfolk Island.)” I meditated about what that meant but then it made sense really quickly. We are god expressing ourselves as a human being. God is also expressing itself in all of the other things that exist. And the macrocosmos is a mirror of the microcosmos. So why am I the creator of Norfolk Island? Because Norfolk Island a part of me that’s why I have created it. I am the volcano which is it’s land. I am it’s waters. I am it’s nature and I am it’s history. That’s how I created it.

In the evening as always we had our meeting with Matías. Today he explained the Merkaba and how to use it because we will need it in the Pyramids. The Merkaba is the door for anything Devine. It has been used for the entire history of earth. How can we activate our inner Merkaba? By it’s 3 wheels. Love, wisdom and will. If you active love, wisdom and will in yourself you will activate your Merkaba. On the top and on the bottom of the Merkaba there are 2 flames (because this part of the Merkaba is the tetrahedron which is the shape of the element of fire). The bottom flame represents our Ego which is I. The top flame represents our Higher self which is AM. These 2 are the twin flames. A twin flame is not a person similar to you out there, it is you recognizing yourself. The Ego + the higher self = I AM. = The Twin flames.

The Merkaba has got 7 vertices. (Merkaba explained from a crossed legged sitting position)

The top vertex represents the flame of your higher self which we already said. It is located at your crown chakra.

The upper right vertex represents your will and it’s located at your left shoulder.

The upper left vertex represents your wisdom and is located at your right shoulder.

These 3 points form the shape of an eye so your head will be the iris of that eye. So this upper part represents the all seeing eye.

4. The vertex in the middle represents love and is located in your heart.

The part from the upper 2 vertices to the bottom 2 vertices goes from our shoulders to our knees and represents our wings.

5. The bottom right vertex represents matter and is located at your left knee.

6. The bottom left vertex represents vibration and is located at your right knee.

7. The vertex on the very bottom represents energy and is located at your sacral chakra.

Now to make it easier for us Matías gave us an exercise where we can easily activate all of the vertices. Try to do it yourself:

To activate your will ask yourself: What is my biggest will in life? (This doesn’t have to be spiritual, it can be related to a job or a hobby or something else.) Then feel into it. How does your biggest will make you feel?

To activate your wisdom ask yourself: What is the wisdom I’ve shared or I share with others? (This could also be anything. Maybe you have a lot of experience in relationships so you help others with your knowledge etc.) Then feel into it. How does it feel to share your wisdom with others?

To activate your love/heart ask yourself: What is my biggest unconditional love? (This can also be anything. Maybe a person, nature, an animal, whatever it is) Then feel into it. How does this unconditional love feel?

To activate matter ask yourself: What makes me want to live? (This can also be anything. Maybe a song, a place, your family, your job, something that gives you pleasure.) Then feel into it. How does being alive feel?

To activate vibration ask yourself: What makes you vibrate? (In order to answer this question you needs to find something which vibrates on your level. What has got the same vibe as you? (Something positive). Maybe a movie, an animal, music, a person, etc.) Then feel into it. How does it feel to vibe with something or someone on the same level?

To activate energy ask yourself: Where do I put most of my energy into? (This for example could also be fear but try to find something positive. For example becoming mentally healthy, cooking, preparing projects, literally anything positive you put most of your energy into.) Then feel into it. How do you feel when you do this certain thing?

Then when you became aware of all of these points speak to yourself and the universe:

I AM THIS WILL

I AM THIS WISDOM

I AM THIS LOVE

I AM THIS MATTER

I AM THIS VIBRATION

I AM THIS ENERGY

This is how to activate your Merkaba.

[faelune-home]

Gave my lv90 astro gear a dye job :D i love the default black look, don’t get me wrong, the black is simple yet elegant and it lets the little details shine through nicely, but i wanted a little change up, a little splash of colour

Went with a lavender purple for the top for a lighter shade, it lets the dark purple sash on the top that doesnt dye still pop and stand out nicely, and midnight blue for the hat, gloves and bottoms. The light and dark contrast between it all is very nice I think :D

Pic itself is just taken in Old Sharlayan using the new macrocosmos skill, its so dang pretty!!!

[livetsbog]

The Cosmic Spiral Cycle 2. The Imperfect Human Being This symbol is a continuation of the symbol with the seven spirals (symbol no. 14 - The Cosmic Spiral Cycle 1). Here in symbol no. 76 we see 18 spirals. According to Martinus, 18 spirals are needed in order to explain the whole world system. He observed all the 18 spirals and the principles they represent, but did not get around to analysing them in detail. The main principle is that the seven types of spirals (from symbol no. 14) are repeated over and over again, resulting in an eternal chain of spiral cycles. After every seventh cycle, spirals of the same type start all over again, but with other forms of life. Above us in the macrocosmos and below us in the microcosmos we meet infinity. Each of the seven types of spirals has its own symbol, which is shown on both sides of the spirals/sections. Human beings belong to the seventh spiral from the top, which is indicated by a ring with a cross-shaped figure. The organ spiral is shown below that, indicated by four heart-shaped figures; and above that the planetary spiral is shown, indicated by a star-shaped figure. (For the other types of spirals, see symbol no. 14.) Next to every spiral is also shown an area with dark patches and a bright area. These dark and light areas symbolise what Martinus calls “the strokes of eternity”, darkness and light. In the oval figure in the middle, we see the imperfect human being and the basic energies of which it consists. The energy of instinct permeates the musculature, the energy of gravity the stomach, the energy of feeling the lung and heart system, the energy of intelligence the brain area and the energy of memory the skeleton. The energy of intuition is connected to only the sexual organs in the human being, where it is experienced unconsciously. https://www.martinus.dk/en/martinus-symbols/overview-of-the-symbols-2/symbol-76 https://www.martinus.dk/en/martinus-symbols/overview-of-the-symbols-2/symbol-77 #martinussymbols https://www.instagram.com/p/B0iZKCKnkzR/?igshid=ezyw3apmo9aj