hyperion is the best choce bc cool ppl party on it and it is very active. add me for the recruit a friend campaign so we get bonus items plz.
also prepare for awesomeness. it's a huge game with a ton of content, so it will take time to learn it all. fortunately the playerbase is generally friendly and helpful so if you got a question all you have to do is ask.
this is your first mmo, right?
I remember XI's manual to be thick
I had made a terrible mistake of putting in the wrong DoB when making my account as I didn't have any good expectations when playing this game in open beta(boy was I wrong). Anyway, there was a mandatory password swap awhile back and I couldn't change my PW because I didn't know my fake DoB.
I called up customer service with my ID and credit card info ready to verify who I was only to learn they didn't accept either, instead me and the guy had a guessing game on my fake birthday. So we sat there and with me counting down the years, months and days him practically going "warmer.... warmer.... you're red hot! " He couldn't legally tell me what it was even though it was in front of his face. It was probably the silliest customer service call I've ever had.
I give up. Fuck this game. :lol
are 33 year olds allowed in to mogstation?
asking for a friend
Is FFXIV better to play on PC or PS4? I'd assume PC with a PS4 controller + kb for typing chat?It probably doesn't matter, but boils down to personal preferences. If you have a very good computer, why not just play on PC for the best graphics? Or just stick with console, either is fine.
Also, I own FFXIV on PC, but not Heavensword. Just Realm Reborn. Can I play through the main story with this or does Heavensword add really useful game things that would make the main story more enjoyable?
Edit: I'll watch the vid you posted later Rufus, on mobile.You'll want to skip straight to 7:30 anyway. :doge
A look at 1.0s problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ9CmxaQ3q8
Also I wouldn't mind making a Hyperion alt if other Borians are going to be on.
I need help. I got to lvl.15 and doing this lvl.14 MSQ where I fight a bunch of badguy dudes including a lvl.20 boss who summons a voidmonster guy. I beat these guys and then my allies leave and I have a 1 on 1 fight with a lvl.16 masked dude who summons a lvl.15 gargoyle and they're both wailing on me and as a gladiator I can only buff a little and they're doing decent damage on me per hit and I can't do anything besides use a potion once every minute or two when the cooldown runs out but they do too much damage and kill me between potions. I'm wearing full lvl.15 equipment so my defense stats basically doubled when I hit lvl.15, but I dunno, it feels like I need a healer or something backing me up in this fight?Do some leves and stuff to level up to 16 or 17, it should make a difference with that quest. And as far as I remember, the NPCs will come and help you after a while (I think when the Gargoyle is at 20% HP), so you'll just have to stay alive with the Antidote and Hi-Potions. You could also just level a Conjurer to 2 (all classes go on the same char) to get the healing skill Cure (or 8 for Protect too).
Also I dunno how to do jobs/classes yet. At lvl.15 it said I can move to my 2nd class or something, but I don't know how. Also there's all these guilds, should I join one?
My name is in the LS. Will message you when I see you online. Level 7 (or 8?) now. Is Bebpo just doing MSQ?
enmity is aggro, yes. the whole point of being a tank in a party is to piss of all the enemies so they don't go after your allies, so your whole strategy should revolve around generating as much enmity as possible.
i don't know. I tanked a dungeon one single time and sucked at it. my team was dicks and it was traumatizing and I never did it again. fuck tanking
was gonna play this all night, but I went to plug in some Christmas lights and shorted out my whole damn living room. life is a bitch
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Had some fun tonight with my rogue. The online queue times for the starting guildheists can get insane as a DPS. Had to wait 25 mins+ to get into the second lvl.10 one. Also I can see the problem when the community isn't that active. Some of the FATEs that focus on a single big boss guy, if you're going in at or underleveled can be tough/unwinnable when no one else joins your FATE. Tonight outside of running into one guy on a FATE, I went around to the various fields around Limsa Loma and all the fates were at 0%. Didn't see like anyone outside of town. Is the game usually this dead? I figured the christmas event stuff + free 96 hours would make it more active than usual right now. A little worried that the game is gonna be a little more rough with a small community.
Couple more questions:
1. Everyone says don't waste Leeves on battle leeve quests. But in the sub-lvl.15 2nd job range (aka no MSQs) I'm finding their the quickest way to level between class quests if you do them at +4 and quick. Like I just did the lvl.10 class quest, did the two lvl.10 guildheists, and did the quests up through around lvl.10 in the around. So right now between lvl.12-15 there's nothing really besides a couple of quests, hitting up Fates and leeves. I can see later on after lvl.15 when there's more options, there's probably other ways to level, but they seem very useful for leveling in the sub 15 stage (maybe even sub 20 stage). Lemme know if I'm missing something here.
2. I checked the auction prices and WHAT THE FUCK. Low level equipment, like lvl.5 hats or something are going for $10,000gil when I can buy this stuff for like 300 gil from a merchant. Everything seems insanely expensive. I only have like $8,000gil right now and I need it for teleporting around while I'm questing! I guess this is how MMO economies work? Everything is inflated? Makes it seem like I won't be using the auctions to buy anything any time soon.
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Had some fun tonight with my rogue. The online queue times for the starting guildheists can get insane as a DPS. Had to wait 25 mins+ to get into the second lvl.10 one. Also I can see the problem when the community isn't that active. Some of the FATEs that focus on a single big boss guy, if you're going in at or underleveled can be tough/unwinnable when no one else joins your FATE. Tonight outside of running into one guy on a FATE, I went around to the various fields around Limsa Loma and all the fates were at 0%. Didn't see like anyone outside of town. Is the game usually this dead? I figured the christmas event stuff + free 96 hours would make it more active than usual right now. A little worried that the game is gonna be a little more rough with a small community.
Couple more questions:
1. Everyone says don't waste Leeves on battle leeve quests. But in the sub-lvl.15 2nd job range (aka no MSQs) I'm finding their the quickest way to level between class quests if you do them at +4 and quick. Like I just did the lvl.10 class quest, did the two lvl.10 guildheists, and did the quests up through around lvl.10 in the around. So right now between lvl.12-15 there's nothing really besides a couple of quests, hitting up Fates and leeves. I can see later on after lvl.15 when there's more options, there's probably other ways to level, but they seem very useful for leveling in the sub 15 stage (maybe even sub 20 stage). Lemme know if I'm missing something here.
2. I checked the auction prices and WHAT THE FUCK. Low level equipment, like lvl.5 hats or something are going for $10,000gil when I can buy this stuff for like 300 gil from a merchant. Everything seems insanely expensive. I only have like $8,000gil right now and I need it for teleporting around while I'm questing! I guess this is how MMO economies work? Everything is inflated? Makes it seem like I won't be using the auctions to buy anything any time soon.
Pro tip: Go into your emotes menu. You should see a checkbox labeled "Show emotes in chat log" or something like that. UNCHECK THAT! Everyone on your server will thank you. I love spamming emotes (Male Roegadyn has some fun ones), but if you don't uncheck that, everyone within /say range of you will have your emotes clutter up their chat logs.
Love this game.
Drop the sub requirement and I would
I like how I play this so casually. I'm almost level 10 and I feel like I don't have to put all encompassing effort into playing this like I did with other mmo's.
I remember when I played WoW, it took me something like 50 or 100 hours to get to level 20? I don't remember but it was a lot of hours and I fondly remember getting my first mount after x hours play, but I'll probably be level 20 in this pretty quick with zero commitment.
Really like the story too.
When you realize that you should be doing the MSQ instead of the small time ! quests, things are a lot more fun. I did the magicked blade quest yesterday which I already did during my first trial. Voice acting in an MMO still blows my mind.
you can configure what shows up in your chat log. i assume you can also turn off novice chat there too.
i play as a blm which is fun but not for everyone. you can't move much and the level 60 combo is ridiculously complex, but once you get good you can burn the shit out of ANYTHING.
butt, nachobro, mamacint, what are your in-game names?
I like how I play this so casually. I'm almost level 10 and I feel like I don't have to put all encompassing effort into playing this like I did with other mmo's.It's definitely more fun and enjoyable to level in FFXIV, but the level-time issue in WoW has gotten waaaay better than it used to be. I returned after years, and even the last levels 100-110 are not bad at all. Blizzard in general has gotten a lot more casual time friendly with many main features and such. Not too easy, but not too hard. (If you ignore the whole boost situation in D3, although everything is end-game focused there anyway.)
I remember when I played WoW, it took me something like 50 or 100 hours to get to level 20? I don't remember but it was a lot of hours and I fondly remember getting my first mount after x hours play, but I'll probably be level 20 in this pretty quick with zero commitment.
Really like the story too.
When you realize that you should be doing the MSQ instead of the small time ! quests, things are a lot more fun. I did the magicked blade quest yesterday which I already did during my first trial. Voice acting in an MMO still blows my mind.
you can configure what shows up in your chat log. i assume you can also turn off novice chat there too.I'm on a Japanese server (Atomos) because of ~timezones~, so unless you're awake evenings JST, there would be no point in the going to Hyperion. :( It's 2pm here and I can't play now, got stuff to do. I'm on my phone actually.
i play as a blm which is fun but not for everyone. you can't move much and the level 60 combo is ridiculously complex, but once you get good you can burn the shit out of ANYTHING.
butt, nachobro, mamacint, what are your in-game names?
you can configure what shows up in your chat log. i assume you can also turn off novice chat there too.I'm Tacoface Delicioso but still on Excalibur for now. Once I finish FFXV this week I'll probably move over and relevel Bard to max. :)
i play as a blm which is fun but not for everyone. you can't move much and the level 60 combo is ridiculously complex, but once you get good you can burn the shit out of ANYTHING.
butt, nachobro, mamacint, what are your in-game names?
If you do go NIN Bebpo, make sure you level Lancer / DRG to 34 for Invigorate and Blood for Blood.
Plus, DRG's abilities just look really cool. You'll get DRG envy when you hit Heavensward anyway.
How do I get my second job? I'm lv 10.
BITCHES THEY JUST ANNOUNCED YASUMI FUCKING MATSUNO IS DESIGNING THE 4.0 RAID AND ITS CALLED "RETURN TO IVALICE" FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
oops i meant to answer that stuff earlier sorry hold on
BITCHES THEY JUST ANNOUNCED YASUMI FUCKING MATSUNO IS DESIGNING THE 4.0 RAID AND ITS CALLED "RETURN TO IVALICE" FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
the story gets cooler as you go, but some of the quests in the 20s suck compete ass. like, everything with titan. literally NO ONE likes that part.
uhhh let's see...
houses cost millions of dollars and there's limited plus available. it's strictly a "for fun" thing. you have to craft /buy furniture yourself. you can also build an airship and sent that out to get items. if you're in an fc, they can buy a house that you all share.
single target vs group depends on what dps class you're playing as. i think monk and dragoon focus on single targets.
if you think the dungeons are cool now, whoahmg wait till you see what's later. there is some wild boss fights in this game, and tons of variety. the extreme versions of bosses can take you days to learn and then complete bc they're so damn tough. at the last fan fest they interviewed some of the boss designers, and it turns out that most of the best ones were designed by this one young guy. i forget his name rn, but he is absolutely someone to watch whenever he moves on from ff14. a master of Japanese-style (as in, build a scenario around the pc's abilities) game design.
4.0 is the upcoming Stormblood expansion. 3.0 is Heavensward, 2.0 is a Realm Reborn, and 1.0 was the canceled pos.
BITCHES THEY JUST ANNOUNCED YASUMI FUCKING MATSUNO IS DESIGNING THE 4.0 RAID AND ITS CALLED "RETURN TO IVALICE" FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
FF12-2 continues!
This game is MADE for working adults. :bowYou know, I felt the same kinda thing when I first started playing? I used to tell Sunblade, "oh no I can't play this I have no time i have school and hospital work and all that shit". I have a ton of time and it's really easy to level up quickly (especially now that they buffed XP for each quest in the MSQ I think). Go at your own pace, etc. I eventually got everything to 60 even when I was busy or not playing every day.
that big ass monster we were fighting was a hunt. they rarely pop up on each map and are extremely powerful and most require a team to kill. killing one gets you various types of special currency. the one we were fighting is notorious bc he can turn everyone in the area to stone for 30+ seconds. he sucks.
Yeah, at this point I'm just focusing on running through the MSQ and doing my class quests. I'm not even bothering with the duty roulettes because I have too much xp already and the MSQ is too easy. Would you say I'm about 1/3rd through the Realm Reborn MSQ?There's 184 MSQ in 2.0 and 100 in 2.X
That's kinda why I was urging you to go do MSQ, you would complete them by doing things you normally do at that same player level and you could finish class quests or your hunt/challenge log why you wait for dungeons to pop.
I don't find MSQ boring at all. There's a lot of mystery going on with my story and especially the archer story. Maybe mage MSQ just sux
2.4 :rejoice
iceheart :rejoice
The reason the roulettes exist is that things that are a requirement for you most of the player base finished eons ago. So if you didn't have max levels queuing, you'd sit in queue potentially forever blocked from continuing your storyline.
It's not really that they're max level that makes things a cakewalk though, it's more that they've done the dungeons 50 odd times now. A "new only" option would be interesting, but most MMOs are interesting in getting players in and out of queued content ending in success as quickly as possible to avoid any frustration with waiting or grouping.
beps is this your first mmo?
that first mmo hit :lawd
That sounds a little higher than I remember. I did ROG / NIN from 1 - 60 without ever having done 2.1 - 2.5 or 3.0 in probably 2 months or so of a few hours a night. Maybe there's some 8 hour weekend days that I'm leaving out though.
This is very much an "enjoy the journey" game. Unless you want to join a static and raid, the end game gear grind isn't very interesting.
having cutscenes in dungeons was a shit idea and thankfully they mostly drop it after 2.0. the last two dungeons in 2.0 have like 45 minutes of cutscenes and so yeah you're gonna want to skip those and watch them in the Inn.
to use gathering classes, just use their ability that locates gathering nodes in the area. each map will only have a few sections to gather in, and those boxes will require a certain level needle you can see/use them. check your gatherers log to see what maps have low level nodes.
gotta be in Ishgard to unlock the three newer classes sorry bro
you get gc seals from fates, hunts, pvp, and you can trade in unique gear for seals. fuck leves. you can get ventures all over; i never went out of my way to get them but I have a million somehow.
New questions:
1. A lot of times when I move out of the AoE attack that's incoming I still get hit even if I moved well before the attack started. What's up with that?
2. I know you said you can't make your chocobo move faster, but are there faster mounts I can get later? Like the flying ones? Also I'm guessing Chocobo Companion is a later story quest unlock because I can't use him as a companion right now.
3. What's the best ways to get Ventures for your venture expeditions? Buy them from the GC for 200 each?
4. What's the best way to make GC money? Doing GC leves? I take out the hunting log enemies wherever I find them.
5. What should I be doing with my ventures? It seems like they can only level as far as you've taken a job, so I have 1 venture as a rogue like me and doing field explorations and leveling. The other venture I dunno what to do with yet.
Oh, I like how the challenge log resets every 10 days. That's going to be really helpful for getting MGP in the Golden Saucer. I'm up to 23 cards now in Triple Triad. Trying to get to 30 so I get the next rank and can make better decks. Might try playing humans at that point.
Got Miner up to level 8. Grinding gathering classes to higher levels is really boring. At least with fishing it's kind of relaxing if you like fishing in rpgs and just like the sim aspect of throwing down a line when you see a river, pulling up a chair and seeing what you can catch. Miner is literally, hit button 200 times to level up since you get like 100xp per hit and even the leves don't give that much and are really boring to do. I'm assuming Botanist is exactly the same. Yawn.The whole (kinda hidden) point of gathering classes is just leveling up and sometimes collecting materials that are your level for quick cash.
Will hit lvl.30 tomorrow with my Rogue and maybe Gladiator. They're 29/27 right now (I make sure to keep the Rogue at least 1 level higher so the Gladiator gets the +100% xp bonus). Now getting to the lvl.30 story MSQ where I get to unlock my jobs might take 2 days, since I just arrived at Northern Shroud and MSQ is about lvl.28 now.
The whole magic is getting a miner/botanist retainer and they'll fetch those materials for you for a cheap price and in huge sums. Depending on your level you can get materials faster (30 mins AKA ~a dungeon instead of an hour) or more plentiful. If you want to craft or make lots of $ you just level up and snag all the things you want /once/ and your retainer will end up giving you crystals/items that you need like crazy. Depending on the server, the market usually doesn't account for a few materials... so items can sell for a decent price and you do almost nothing but spend a very small amount of seals.
You can make BANK doing that, and many people don't take advantage of that and rather do the more expensive, and a lot more risky and time consuming, explorations.
It's a little known secret, at least on my server.
There's money to be had in getting mats for early level and then you can work your way up to getting materials for end-game millionaires for dirt cheap.
Another secret way to make money, that nobody takes advantage of and is usually kept hush-hush, is that you can buy expensive mat materials in your FC for 8-20 gil a pop and sell them for a couple hundred. Just make sure not to flood the market and ruin it for yourself/others, just do a single listing of x99 mats that you see are really profitable. It'll help you out early in the game.
Not sure how it is on your server, but the market price of Bride/Groom gear is relatively cheap in a small shop in Uldah but it sells on the market for a lot. Throwing up a listing for a few items isn't a bad idea. Just make sure to click the "sales" button to see how often people buy materials for/for how much etc. to see when you'll make back your money and for how much it goes for... sometimes even the lowest price can be ridiculous and you can take advantage of it.
They had to focus in 2.0 on making a modern, accessible and fun MMO first. I'm not sure many expected them to be able to do so with how poorly 1.0 was received. The turn around of an MMO is almost unheard of. Most just slowly die.
The story beats improve a lot as the patches move on.
Doesn't matter. You just get a code from your account services on mognet and then I enter it and we both get some items.I tried finding it, but it's not there. Maybe I can't do it since my own account is a part of an invite thing already? (I used my friend's code.)
I'll do it with you chubs
To edit the order of party members on PS4:
Push the Options Button --> Party --> Select the party member you want to move and press X --> move the player up or down and press X again to finalize.
btw, if an enemy gets away from you in a dungeon, don't chase after it. Good DPS should know to run TO YOU to bring the enemy back to the group.
Sounds like you're doing pretty good. Here's a skill that will definitely become essential for any tank as you keep playing: Snap Aggro. Often times, in later dungeons and in Raids, an enemy will spawn mid fight (an "add"). They like to aggro the healers or ranged DPS and can wreck a party quickly if you don't take control quickly. So... if you know an add is coming up (or if you're in an 8-man raid and need to tankswap), use Provoke in conjunction with a charged Rage of Halone (the third move in your aggro combo). If I know an add is coming, I'll do a Fast Blade --> Savage Blade (the 1 and 2 of your three-move aggro combo) on the main monster and save the Rage of Halone for the new spawn which will try and aggro the healer. Provoke and immediately hit the new enemy with Rage of Halone to establish snap aggro. A more advanced way is to actually hit the Rage of Halone before the Provoke. This works because in FFXIV, the aggro does not establish until the animation for the move is finished. Rage of Halone has a relatively long animation. So if you initiate Rage of Halone and immediately hit Provoke, the Provoke will take effect before the Halone animation is done. Provoke takes you to one aggro point above the current highest party member's aggro. And then when the Halone animation finishes, the Halone will give you a shit ton of enmity lead over the second place member on the aggro table.
You don't need to grind for endgame tomes (currency) if you're not going to raid. Once you hit level 51, you'll be able to get decent gear for free from chests in dungeons commensurate with your level. And at 52, you can start buying gear from merchants with regular old Gil.
That being said, the best level 50 gear (either farmed from the Final Coil of Bahamut or bought with Tomes of Poetics in Mor Dhona) is so good that it will be better than anything you can buy or get in dungeons until around level 55 or so. A lot of people will never upgrade their gear until level 60 if they've already got the best-in-slot level 50 gear.
Oh fuck, I forgot about Stormblood. I'm still on the 7th Era MSQs so I'm feeling pretty demotivated right now, even HS seems too far away. It's really boring to play alone now, which is why I haven't re-subbed for a while. :( Also started playing a little WoW again.
You seem to be playing when it's daytime for me. :( Usually I play stuff from 7 PM JST which is 5 AM to you. lol That's why I didn't go to Hyperion, because most of you seem to live in the same timezone.Oh fuck, I forgot about Stormblood. I'm still on the 7th Era MSQs so I'm feeling pretty demotivated right now, even HS seems too far away. It's really boring to play alone now, which is why I haven't re-subbed for a while. :( Also started playing a little WoW again.
Play with me? I'll get to 7th Era in the next two weeks. PT also has a character around my level right now at 41 and then some 60s.
Also did my first 8 man party with the lvl.40 Guildheist (final one). Was total chaos. I said hi but no one else said a word, no coordination, everywhere just running wherever. Is that how 8 man party stuff is gonna be with randoms? Because 4 man parties have been pretty tightly knit with random people so far since everyone depends on each other.
bruh wtf :lol why are you even looking into crafting, zodiacs, second jobs, palace of the dead? all that stuff is INTENTIONALLY grindy. this isn't the kind of game where you can do and see everything unless you wanna put in a huge time commitment. gotta pick and choose. no reason to jump into a bunch of grinds especially if yr not planning on paying long - term
One thing that's kinda dumb is how some of the major locations don't have warp points. The Walking Sands absolutely needs a warp point. Riding a chocobo from Horizon to Walking Sands everytime gets really old.
One thing that's kinda dumb is how some of the major locations don't have warp points. The Walking Sands absolutely needs a warp point. Riding a chocobo from Horizon to Walking Sands everytime gets really old.
I'm about to change your world.
-Port to Lisma Lominsa.
-Use any of the Aethernet Shards to port to the Arcanists Guild.
-Turn left and take the ferry to Vesper Bay.
AV never got a hard mode because AV itself is a remake of 1.0's AV, which was totally different. The dev team figured that remaking the dungeon a third time wouldn't be wholly interesting.
The Rise and Fall of Final Fantasy XIV (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL5QTV3Hk60ag1MsSoox4HT5oBemN23vr) is detailing the more general gameplay centric aspects of 1.0.
Ethys Asher did a thorough retrospective on 1.0's story, (https://youtu.be/DjZgp8mUrog) as well as a complete detailing of The Binding Coil of Bahamut's story (https://youtu.be/fKYiat0glCQ), including the 1.0 part of it.
Also, the music's gotten a lot better. I really like the Garuda battle track and the overworld empire base music is good too. Definitely feeling the improvement.
After I finish the 2.0 MSQ, if I want to avoid spoilers, can I watch those except for the Binding Coil one? Very curious to learn more about 1.0 at this point. I've been watching some FFXI videos to compare and yeah, uh, coming from the interface and player accessibility of FFXIV, I could never play FFXI after this. Instead I'm gonna watch the 80 hour long "FFXI - The Movie" that's on youtube. I've actually already started it and am a bit in.
Definitely brush up on the 1.XX story (and rewatch the 2.XX opening cinematic) before you start the Binding Coil. Binding Coil has the best storyline in 2.XX. It explains what that giant red moon is that fell down at the end of 1.XX.
Sunblade, are you on hyperion?
but wait aren't all dungeons like that?
you can also use gc seals to get some furniture too
what are you spending them on? just new gear?
the fold is just a simple deathmatch mode. most rounds are over in under 3 min and then it's back to the queue
i can try and introduce you to this hunt linkshell im a part of, although it might be full. tbh it prolly wouldn't be very useful to you now since most ppl hunt 3.0 monsters. in general you can solo a b rank monster, prolly will need help with an a rank, and you'll need a huge party for s ranks but you'll see half of eorzea flood the map when one of those pops.
Both A and S ranks give tomestone rewards and allied seals for killing them. Joining a hunt party at level 50 isn't recommended because they'll often be zipping around to Heavensward areas, which feature tougher level 60 Hunts to kill.
Also, I keep telling you, but go check a marketboard out to get a new weapon. You don't have to rely on GC gear at all and can easily outfit yourself in i115 gear that'll last you up until you start getting poetics gear to replace it.
Ok, now I'm reading conflicting stuff that says the A rank mob is a daily? So what's the weekly then? For instance what I'm seeing in Loma as an Elite Mark is Melt the flying bee. I looked him up and he's listed as an A rank. The normal bills are like normal B rank standard enemy mobs.
Doesn't help that most of the google results I'm seeing about hunts are from soon after patch 2.35, so I'm guessing things have changed a bit since.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/1bbb52f23cb2a462dec0230aa523d0406f57ed97
Patch notes for patch 3.5. Some stuff here that's relevant for ya, like exp gain for crafting-gathering from level 1-45 going way the fuck up
Anything that has 2.x is possibly relevant to where you're at. Some good QoL changes in there.
I keep seeing A rank hunts everywhere I go in the game. Like probably one every hour I play. Usually in dead areas with no one around. I wonder if I should be yelling the location in case anyone cares? I don't touch it since I'm not even sure I can take B rank hunts right now until my chocobo learns cure.
Unlocked Labrynth of the Ancients. Thought it was a 24 person thing since it's a Raid. I'm not really sure what the difference is between an 8 person dungeon & 8 person raid but I guess I'm about to find out!
a12 is easy; do it!
I'm still working on my crystal sands. I fucking hate it so much. been working on it for like two months now and I'm not even halfway done.
There are sections of the 24 man raids where you're expected to separate into your three separate alliances, yeah. Labyrinth of the Ancients has the Atomos part in the second hallway and the Bomb section in the third.
An Alchemist can craft Usable Orchestrion rolls from faded ones, yeah. There's a few low level ones, but most of the notable tracks can only be crafted from 50+. Either ask someone with the job if they can make it for you, put it up for sale on your retainer or dump it if the price on the roll is trash (and most of them are).
Also gj, you beatTitan. I mean,Acheron. I mean Phlegeton.
(http://cdn.wikimg.net/strategywiki/images/6/62/FinalFantasy3_Boss16.png)
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/d/d0/FFXIV_Acheron.png/revision/latest?cb=20140130005020)spoiler (click to show/hide)When making the Labyrinth of the Ancients raid, the dev team obviously couldn't call him Titan cause there's already another Titan in the game, so they called him after his later common enemy variant, Acheron.
...But then, when making the Syrcus Tower raid, they realized that if they wanted to use the grey skinned common enemy that appears in FF3's Syrcus Tower, they wouldn't be able to use the name Acheron cause they already used that for the first boss. So to avoid another renaming, they went back and renamed the Labyrinth boss while keeping the grey Acherons with their real name.[close]
the [Odin] trial itself is also super fucking hard and arguably the hardest fight in 2.0.
Fates that are required for single player quests kinda suck. The first Hildebrand quest has me waiting for a zombie fate in south thanalan and I've been sitting at the spot for 15 mins now waiting for it to spawn :/
that materia melder guy was only added over the summer iirc. before that you had to do it yourself or find someone who would. also if you ever do need carbonized master for whatever reason just let me know. I have tons and can easily get more.
Did Chimera earlier this morning and the party just melted him in <60 seconds lol. Seemed easier than when you fight him as the boss in Cutter's Cry because he doesn't have those blue eyes/violet eyes symbols where you gotta move around. Next up for my relic is Amadoor Keep. Glad I hadn't done that dungeon yet!
Ok, so got into Sycrus Tower (Crystal Tower pt.2) and it was AWESOME. Really good music, cool stage, throwback Skeletor boss dude and final boss. Some good loot too. Only downside was it was really easy? It actually seemed easier than Labyrinth of the Ancients because there weren't any tricky mechanics like that boss's ancient flare wipe stuff. I don't think anyone died the entire raid compared to part 1 where we had a bunch of deaths along the way.
Still was a blast. These raids are fun! Fighting in big arenas with tons of big enemies one after another, everyone doing their stuff. Pretty great. Makes me look forward to Matsuno's Return to Ivalice raid.
Although I think the 2nd boss glitched with the jump pads because we never had to do the jump pad thing. He just did some weird unleash thing and then came back down and we finished him off.
- All the tomestome mats you need to buy for the base relic / zenith were indirectly nerfed by tomestone replacements. The game launched with Tomestones of Philosophy, and every special currency they released afterwards replaced the previous one until you got Poetics. With every upgrade, the number of tomes you needed to get the mats went down.
- Atma: The 12 Atma you needed to gather by doing FATEs had a ludicrously low drop rate of 5-10% per fate. Now its around 25%, which is still low, (48 fates on average to get all 12), but still better than it was before.
- Animus: Each of the nine book you need to complete required tomestomes to buy, so they got nerfed with the tomestone changes over time. This is the step that is arguably the most time consuming, but still got the lightest nerf: For every single book, you need to kill 10 different monsters, 3 dungeons, 3 levequests and 3 specific fates. The nerf made it so instead of killing 10 of each monster, you only need to kill 3 of each monster. As if that's the time consuming part of it. ::)
- Novus: You need 75 Alexandrite/materia to finish this part. Alexandrite is obtained via special treasure maps that only dropped one at a time, but now drop 5 at a time. You can also buy the maps for tomestones which, again, got nerfed by having more valuable tomestones be added later. The materia side used to make it really expensive (you used to need to get up to rank 3/4 materia for a specific stat back when it relevant content), but because the weapon is obsolete, you can just fill it up with cheap tier 1 and tier 2 materia of any stat.
- Nexus: With the Relic equipped, you need to beat any instanced content (dungeons/trials/etc) to fill up your weapon with 2000 "lights", with the specific content you do giving differing amounts. The value of lights used to be really low (with 1 for the weakest tier for stuff like Cape Westwind), but now the values are much higher at 8/16/32/48/96/128. Plus, there's 2 hour periods were certain instances have double light values, making it go by even faster.
- Zodiac: Instead of Fate anima, this step had "dungeon anima" which made you run dungeons with a 25% chance of getting the drop at the end. The nerf made it so those items dropped 100% of the time instead. You need to finish four different quests to finish the step, and to finish them, you need over 400k gil, 80k Company Seals, 1600 Allagan Tomestone of Poetics, drops from 16 dungeons, 8 3-star HQ crafted items, many desynthesis items and some miscellaneous items. Overall the most time consuming step alongside Novus.
- Zodiac Zeta: a joke final step to get your weapon to i125. It "combines" some of the previous steps with 12 Atma that you need buy for 50 poetics each, then fill up with lights the same way as before, but you only need to get 40 lights per atma for a total of 480 versus the 2000 from before. Didn't get a nerf because it didn't need one.
So you do all of that and then 3 months later the next patch introduces a better weapon that you can get just from a drop or tome trade-in? Don't they need to like make these ultimate weapons worth it more?
Also, so this whole Crystal Tower raid is basically an FF3 tribute? I hope they do stuff like that with other classic FF titles. Was kinda bummed when the Phantom Train was just a train in the MSQ story mentioned off-screen and you don't actually get to fight an evil ghost train :(
heard people saying turn off character titles before you finish 3.5. pretty shitty for anyone who's not caught up, but I wonder how bad a spoiler it could be.
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OMG THAT WAS CLOSE
SO INTENSE
ADRENALINE SHOT
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I don't like the fight, he has so much armor it just feels like you're chipping at it and the battle takes forever. It's a pain in the butt, feels like a grind.
Also I don't get it. Sure level is synced to 50, but item level is unsynced, shouldn't my party members who are all like lvl 60 and ilvl 200+ just be melting this guy? This fight cause me to go spend my poetics and work on getting my full i120 set. I was at i97 and now I'm at i109 I think. I had real trouble surviving the red gungnir drops with my <5k HP. I'd have like 800hp after they dropped and unless a healer was on me right away, sometimes I'd die fighting the gungnirs. Now I've got 5300hp, but if I get a few more i90->i120 pieces hopefully I can at least get to 6k.
I saw an unsynced party on party finder. I know I don't get xp, but for quest purposes can I beat things unsynced?
nope just a thirty minute ban from df i think. and iirc you can drop after a certain number of minutes have passed and you won't be punished.
Odin is not a difficult fight mechanically. It is just a tight DPS check, even at i130. People still have incentive to run Odin as it's often included in the weekly Wondrous Tails. You'll see it in Party Finder unsynced.
Garuda is probably the easiest of all the Hard mode primals. She used to be harder but well.... gear just destroys everything you used to have to worry about. Doesn't even have a "stop what you're doing and do this" mechanic like Ifrit.
The current TT ranks have existed since ARR and didn't get boosted for Heavensward, so SB prob won't change that.
4 star cards stay losing. :maf
lol try thornmarch extreme now for extreme controller-throwing action
... level 30? you mean i coulda been making them myself instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars? wtf :-\ :-\ :-\:shh
.... time to make all that money back
It is, because I just bought one last night and it needed goldsmith! I didn't even know that when I leveled goldsmith above other crafters to have a materia melder, so luckily it works out.
Also, I realized why I'm slowly gaining xp. None of the dungeons/trials at lvl.50 have XP completion bonuses lol; it's all just Poetics. Still about halfway through lvl.52 right now.
Btw, if all you get from a lot of this stuff is Poetic tomes, why are people who are in HW/lvl.60 doing it? I assume you stop needing Poetic Tomes once you've moved to the next currency.
3.5 looks really damn cool.
It sucks that I get slammed with fatigue when I've tried playing this game recently. Which really sucks because I'd love to finish up some good content or get in with y'all.
Ironically it started kicking in when I made the other thread urging others to play.
I'm sure I'll get hyped again really soon, depending on the stream tonight it could be sooner rather than later.
hs was fantastic but I'm not sad to see it go because I feel like the game as a whole is still on the rise. I'll be real surprised is Stormblood doesn't top it. just a ton of really creative people working on the game right now.
1) I can make items to sell - Well, if all I cared about was money, there is probably 1 efficient way to make the most money and I'd just do that (like mining or soemthing) instead of the time/effort/money for crating & selling.
2) I can make equipment for myself - Say I start a new Lancer, at lvl.10 or lvl.15 I can either jump to Brentbarch Meadows / Hawthorn Hut, go up to the NPC and buy a lvl.10/lvl.15 full armor set for like 1,000 gil in 3 minutes, or I can look through my recipes, find out who makes each piece, get the materials, and craft each piece of armor. This probably would take like 15-25 mins of work and cost like 200-500 gil. Aka, there's no point. And even at high level, assuming the costs/time involved in making i120/i130 type stuff, it's probably faster to just run a trial roullete a few times to get the poetics and trade them. Again, I don't think this is actually useful. While I've had some fun continually outfitting all my crafters/mining/botany with the top equipment for their levels since they're all in the same level range, the fact I can just jump to Quarrymill at lvl.25 or something like that and in 3 mins buy a full top level set just makes me think I'm wasting my time and I should just buy all the crafting/gathering equipment. Since I only keep 1 combat job in my armory, the entire rest is just a 10-20 level range of crafting/gathering equipment.
3) I can make furniture - well I can just buy it from NPCs
5) I can make cool pieces of equipment that I can then use for glamor - If I can't just buy these items from NPCs, this is the first actual worthwhile thing I can do with my crafters.
6) I can make glamor prisms for way cheaper than the 5k a piece they sell on the AH - this is useful because glamor/fashion is fun.
7) I get to experience the job quest storylines - ok, hopefully these are good and add something worthwhile.
8 ) I get the satisfaction of crafting items from scratch and seeing if I can do something and doing it - This is enjoyable although can get expensive to craft everything[/b]
i can't find glamour prisims in my log ; is there a quest I need to do first?
also omg i love how short the frontline queue is now
Ok yeah, I looked it up. Once you get a single crafter to 50, you unlock a quest in Mor Dhona that lets you talk to Tataroga, who sells you the books to make glsmour prisms. Unsure if you need to be 50 to use said scrolls, but I doubt that part cause otherwise they wouldn't be a level 30 synthesis.
Two things to bebps. Scratch Coil Savage off your list because it's literally dead content no one does (because there was zero reward to doing it even when it came out, and its only a thing for one of the three coil tiers).
Two is that ya prioritize the MSQ (and Hildibrand), since it'll allow you to unlock the later trials sooner (so we can then help you beat them up if needed).
i totally get what you're saying. the social experience in the game almost feels as important as the dungeon design. a good team will give you some of the most memorable experiences in the game; likewise a team of jerks will have you considering unsubbing. probably my best memory of ff14 was playing thru the crystal tower quest with a Japanese-American dude who's first and favorite ff game was ff3. he was losing his shit the whole time and it was just wonderful to see. the latest alliance raid map (which is probably my favorite map in the game) played out like you're experience in WoD, with us wiping over and over but getting back up, telling some jokes, and starting again. it was extremely fun and made an amazing level a thousand times better.Yeah the social aspects makes or breaks these games for me. FF XI I played for a few years and I had a great Linkshell that was very fun and supportive. I had to quite for a year or so and when I got back I was put on a different server. I couldn't find a good LS and it was an absolute slog.
But since HW is out, and so is level.50-60. If I just walk into the first city in HW, go up to an NPC merchant, will I be able to simply buy fishing/gathering gear at say lvl.52 that's better than the above that takes 20-30 hours of grinding to get? Basically, once I hit lvl.50 with my gather/crafting classes should I just bail out and wait until I start HW and figure on buying from HW NPCs as the way to upgrade my crafting/gathering gear further until I hit 60?
playing the dungeons when they're new is fun although you will always end up with someone who's somehow played it like 50 times already. going around the map is kind of annoying tho because there's a ton of people standing around the quest givers
Is it normal that after a major new patch like 3.5 they keep having maintenance and minor patch fixes? Kinda annoying.
Anyhow, my Marlin sold! 200k omggg. Now I have 350k gil and I'm RICH fuck yeah. PT I mailed you a Marlin, but don't sell it cause I ain't sending you another :P I put my third one on the market for 200k. If that sells...I may spend my queue time fishing for Marlins and selling them for 200k. Sure beats the 30k profit I'm getting on Iron Ingots x 99 once or twice a day.
only the two or three lowest tiers aren't worth it. everything else gets you some great stuff, and you can even go to a secret dungeon. just make sure you have team with you if you're gonna open a dragon skin map.
Ok I'm buying this now but do I get a realm reborn? Is that the full game or an expansion? Is steam the cheapest place?
If you mean play online, even XI barely uses it now. XIV has zero traces of it, even during 1.0. :lolOh thank god. That thing was a nightmare. Even more excited now! Has anyone tried playing with an Xbox controller? XI was doable but definitely not ideal. I'm interested in it for just regular grinding and being lazy on the couch
If you mean play online, even XI barely uses it now. XIV has zero traces of it, even during 1.0. :lolOh thank god. That thing was a nightmare. Even more excited now! Has anyone tried playing with an Xbox controller? XI was doable but definitely not ideal. I'm interested in it for just regular grinding and being lazy on the couch
Awesome!If you mean play online, even XI barely uses it now. XIV has zero traces of it, even during 1.0. :lolOh thank god. That thing was a nightmare. Even more excited now! Has anyone tried playing with an Xbox controller? XI was doable but definitely not ideal. I'm interested in it for just regular grinding and being lazy on the couch
FFXIV is fully designed around controller use. Ive done every bit of the game with a pad and never felt like im not in control. :punch
Awesome!If you mean play online, even XI barely uses it now. XIV has zero traces of it, even during 1.0. :lolOh thank god. That thing was a nightmare. Even more excited now! Has anyone tried playing with an Xbox controller? XI was doable but definitely not ideal. I'm interested in it for just regular grinding and being lazy on the couch
FFXIV is fully designed around controller use. Ive done every bit of the game with a pad and never felt like im not in control. :punch
the way to win is to try again and again and again and again
and someday you will win
this is why the super fights are so super hard. although tbh i didn't think the Alex fights were all that hard. you talking about the Savage ones? i remember beating the final set of levels like two weeks after they came out and only wiping a couple times. was disappointing. the 3.x ex fights on the other hand... :/
lolz. downloading that update counts as the start of your trial btw.:( yeah that's what I figured. One day gone! Seriously. What the hell still downloads at 300 kb/s?
So like you guys mentioned Hyperion isn't taking any new characters. How much of a PITA would it be trying to wait for them to allow more? Do they change that often?
The person saying you have to "grind" lore is literally talking out of their ass and probably going about it in the most inefficient manner. Specially with how much you're playing Bebpo, Lore tomes literally rain like candy these days with all the content/roulettes that drop it, and all your roulettes change from giving exp to giving Lore once you hit 60. Dungeon gear at 60 /starts/ at i160 with the two easiest ones, and you can buy i180 and i200 gear cheaply using Centurio seals, a currency you can start building up the very moment you get to level 53. The most recent dungeons drop gear that's better than what you can get using Lore.
Crafted gear at that level is either for endgame raiding or glamours, hence the high price tags. The people that will use them can pay the cash, and crafting them isn't easy cause they require lots of really rare mats.
I find the world lore of 14 kinda boring
But... outside of the scene in turn 1 and turn 7, all of the cutscenes happen before anything happens, as you queue in. The party can't move or do anything until everyone is ready. /You/ made the decision to skip the scenes, but you could have just watched them and no one would have been bothered. It's really not a big deal, and anyone that IS bothered by it shouldn't have joined a clear party in the first place .
Really, after Praetorium and Castrum, you never ever ever have a reason to skip a single cutscene. Specially in later 4 person content where the party either waits for you to finish or wiped.
I'm taking a bit of a break due to studies, but when I get back on, we'll take you through those fights unsynced but with four or less people. That's how I cleared Final Coil during 3.X, and it gives you plenty of time to actually learn and practice the fights
So after 2 days of checking Hyperion to get in (at 1am and 4am - still no dice) I gave up and created on Marlboro. I got to level 6 and I'm enjoying it so far. If I end up sticking with it long term I'll bite the bullet and pay 18 bucks to get transferred to Hyperion.
I did waste gil on a leather grimoire and a bandana at the market before the quest line gave it to me for completing the next quest. Oh well. Live and learn.
There's still really long cutscenes all the time, especially if you're doing multiple turns in a row. Like at Turn 9 after the stage introduction, you take two steps forward and there's a long cutscene. And no, nobody waits in FFXIV for 2.0 content anymore. Doesn't matter if your PF says "story cutscenes", if it's unsynced, your party does not need you and 95% of the people who join your pf after 30 mins+ of waiting are only their for their WT clear so they rush in and out and if you want to be part of the fight and not miss the fight entirely, you have to skip all of the cutscenes and watch them in the Inn. Even the cutscenes at the end of the fight, if you want to keep your WT party happy so they'll do the next turn with you the last thing you want to do is sit and watch a 3 min cutscene while everyone is waiting for you to make your roll on the loot drops.
It's basically the exact same situation the final 2.0 dungeons are in.
It's less that Hyperion is full most of the time and more an effort to get people to join lol pop servers in general. Wish they had a more reliable method of checking though. :-\There's still really long cutscenes all the time, especially if you're doing multiple turns in a row. Like at Turn 9 after the stage introduction, you take two steps forward and there's a long cutscene. And no, nobody waits in FFXIV for 2.0 content anymore. Doesn't matter if your PF says "story cutscenes", if it's unsynced, your party does not need you and 95% of the people who join your pf after 30 mins+ of waiting are only their for their WT clear so they rush in and out and if you want to be part of the fight and not miss the fight entirely, you have to skip all of the cutscenes and watch them in the Inn. Even the cutscenes at the end of the fight, if you want to keep your WT party happy so they'll do the next turn with you the last thing you want to do is sit and watch a 3 min cutscene while everyone is waiting for you to make your roll on the loot drops.
It's basically the exact same situation the final 2.0 dungeons are in.
Again, none of that is accurate. Yes, during the 2.0 dungeons, you risked getting left behind if you watched the cutscenes. That was a mistake. Yes, people DO wait for cutscenes for 2.0 content, because I see it all the time and I do it for other people, because I had the opportunity for it, so why shouldn't they? During the entirety of coil, outside of the two cutscenes I already mentioned, there are zero lengthy cutscenes inside the battle content proper that people can ditch you over. They all happen either before the fight starts (and no one can engage until you're finished watching) or after the fight is over. In the latter case, who cares? Don't let other people make your experience worse for you. You don't even need eight people to beat this stuff anymore, let the grumpy impatient people leave and go with the people who are willing to let you get the full experience. If people can't wait with a simple "hang on, im unlocking the next turn", they aren't worth pleasing.
Finding people willing to do this stuff synced is near impossible, yes, because most players aren't interested in the fight itself but the reward for doing so. But asking people to wait the few minutes it takes for all the newbies in the party to watch the intended story cutscenes isnt even remotely an unreasonable request, and if you run into people who can't even do that much, you're better off letting them leave. More so if its the party /you/ assembled.
Like really, SpeedStats and I have completed most of the Coil fights/ARR Extreme Trials as a War/Sch duo. The ones we haven't cleared, it was only due to it being mechanically impossible (T9 golems, T10 adds). You won't lose anything out of having those dumb people leave.
Eh, I've had very different experience with other people in my encounters over the last 2 months. In my experience no one waits for cutscene watchers anywhere. Even in 4 man dungeons, I wrote earlier about the experience where 2 of us players watched the 10 second boss intro cutscene and when we got out we were locked out of the boss fight because the DPS and Healer ran straight in and didn't give a shit...and they still won.
This is kinda what i meant about the standalone PC version of the game (https://store.na.square-enix.com/final-fantasy-30th-anniversary-sale/all), haha. These kinds of sales happen all the time, meanwhile the Steam version mostly ever is just part of the seasonal sales, maybe.Eh, I've had very different experience with other people in my encounters over the last 2 months. In my experience no one waits for cutscene watchers anywhere. Even in 4 man dungeons, I wrote earlier about the experience where 2 of us players watched the 10 second boss intro cutscene and when we got out we were locked out of the boss fight because the DPS and Healer ran straight in and didn't give a shit...and they still won.
2.0 leveling dungeons and everything after that are very different experiences. I've done up to like, Qarn hard with all types of party members missing without a problem, but I'd be hard pressed to do any of the 2.X or 3.x dungeons without the full party.
Haha luckily I hadn't purchased! I'm still going on the 14 day demo from steam. There won't be an issue with buying this and just using my SE login for the pc download version from the SE store, right?
Haha luckily I hadn't purchased! I'm still going on the 14 day demo from steam. There won't be an issue with buying this and just using my SE login for the pc download version from the SE store, right?Bebps should look into giving Mupepe a recruit a friend code before he spends any money on game time (which is the time limit for it). Gives you both some extra goodies for doing so. (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/friend_recruit/)
I don't know what that means haha. I guess I'm only level 6 so even if they make me start a new character because I bought the other version I'm ok.Haha luckily I hadn't purchased! I'm still going on the 14 day demo from steam. There won't be an issue with buying this and just using my SE login for the pc download version from the SE store, right?
There shouldn't be, I don't think. You only get "locked" in once you add the license for game to your mogstation account.
Bebps should look into giving Mupepe a recruit a friend code before he spends any money on game time (which is the time limit for it). Gives you both some extra goodies for doing so. (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/friend_recruit/)
I don't know what that means haha. I guess I'm only level 6 so even if they make me start a new character because I bought the other version I'm ok.
Bought the SE online store! w00t!
how do you have four retainers
dammit that's too much work. will continue my usual pattern of hoarding everything until I get mad at the lack of space and sell it all to start over.
what are retainers?
Are there any common loot items that I should be selling on the marketplace early in the game? In XI silk threads were the go to for low level players to sell at the auction house for good money. I haven't sold anything yet since I can't even see the market in the trial version.
I don't want to go through this entire thread, but...
If I don't really like mmo's but I like the gameplay more or less of XII and XV, would I be into this? Is there a good starter-guide out there to read?
Fight and struggle, if be thy will.
Man hath ever coveted that which lieth beyond his grasp.
Make your destiny, special one. Break free from my claw by your own strength.
If you are truly special, perhaps you can lead humanity and bring an end to this war. This is your trial.
You're further in that squad stuff than 99% of level 60 players.
Myself included. :goty2
That book ain't even a year old yet, it came out in October. Demand for it is craaaaaaaaaay.
I'm basically just treading water keeping up with Scripture Tomestones until the next patch comes out, so....
I reinstalled FFXI. Gonna power level to 99 and solo all the story content. I beta tested it back when it first came out but never finished any of the main story lines.
You lucked out, chrysalis is the WORST.
I'd say when that comes up in the roulette, the party still wipes more often than not. I think it's the first non-optional trial that has complex mechanics so a lot of sprouts try to coast on it and end up wiping the team.
XI is the perfect second monitor with Netflix game. :lawd
wait max is only 270 now? what's up with all the trolls that use party finder set to min ilvl 300?
Current max item level is 270.
Current max item level is 270. You can purchase crafted i250 gear from the marketboard if you have tons of gil
I'll try not to gain too much more xp before starting HW so I'm not overleveled too much. Then again I've never found any of the single player combat scenarios good, they always seem junk and sometimes you lose because your npcs are fucking dumb. Combat should be saved for mp.
lol, just got an email with early access code for Stormblood, code doesn't work on registration site >:(
What's the point of early access anyhow? Does it let you play through the entire game's MSQ before the game even comes out? Or is it just like access to roaming around the map?
they'll ship it when they make more. same thing happened to me; i emailed a week after they took my money and they said to hold tight till they send me a tracking number. took... three weeks to get it after I paid, I think?
Buying expensive top level gear now is kind of silly. SB will be a soft reset gear wise. I was gathering a bit and saw the hassle of getting the turn in gear and NOPE. looked at MB gear and it's like 1mil/piece. You'll likely get better just leveling on to 70.
I would not recommend getting pvp gear for pve use. It's PVP gear for a reason: it doesnt have any accuracy because PVP doesn't use that stat. You'll be missing 90% of your attacks otherwise.
You know, I was thinking, at some point will the battle system get elemental affinities/weaknesses? Because like I can up my elemental resistance, but otherwise there doesn't really seem to be any elemental focus in the game yet pre-HW. Like it'd be neat if a boss was weak to fire so a mage could make all the DPS weapons on fire or something like you would do in a single player rpg with elements.
Blue Mage would be a tank. They need to get hit to use their opponent's abilities, tanks are getting hit anyway. :lol
wouldn't that just create situations where ppl would get pissed at the Blue Mage for not having a certain ability?
Note the debuffs with the red icon facing (with the arrow-shaped corner facing down) versus the multi-colored buffs with the arrow tips facing upward.
You know, I was thinking, at some point will the battle system get elemental affinities/weaknesses? Because like I can up my elemental resistance, but otherwise there doesn't really seem to be any elemental focus in the game yet pre-HW. Like it'd be neat if a boss was weak to fire so a mage could make all the DPS weapons on fire or something like you would do in a single player rpg with elements.
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Oh and I did a dungeon today as healer and was with 3 first timers and the arcanist DPS decided they wanted to be THE HEALER and would keep healing the tank instead of dps-ing. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to be an ass but I was think STOP HEALING, DO DPS THAT IS YOUR JOB. So instead I went cleric mode and did nothing but DPS as Conjurer lol
Like, the arcanist seemed worried everytime the tank HP would drop down like 100HP and he'd instantly go into a heal. For me I don't worry about healing the tank until their down to about 30-40% HP unless they are constantly getting hit hard where I'll heal them non-stop. But if it's just some trash mobs, I don't see any problem in DPS-ing until the tank is down to 1/3rd HP and then healing the tank back up and going back to DPS-ing and repeat. But I can see how that might scare some people seeing the tank HP dropping down to 1/3rd.
I kinda thought healer was easy mode in MP since you just sit back and heal the tank or medica and get some dps in no worries. Then I did the Ifrit battle! Managing healing the tank, healing other members getting hit by AoE who might not be close enough for Medica to get everyone while dodging the AoE's directed at you..caught me by surprise and was a bit chaotic. Definitely broke a sweat.
What are some good tips for Conjurer/White Mage?
You need to have collectable synthesis turned on when crafting to create a collectable to turn in. Items created with the skill on are unique/untradeable and don't stack with each other due to having a unique value assigned to them.
It's cause the difficulty rating of the 51 crafts is that much higher due to the huge gulf between starting level 50 and endgame 50 crafts. Just gotta level up your crafters there to overcome that hump.
Did the Ninja lvl.52 job quest. I'm assuming the only usefulness of smoke bomb (reduce enmity for 20 seconds) is to throw on a healer sometimes? Like Goad on the tank? Took a look at the next lvl.54 action and it seems pretty boring/useless too (Armor Break) as it's just a just a slightly weaker combo finisher that extends Huton for 30 seconds so you make up the DPS a little with the extra skill speed for those 30 seconds (can't imagine it's much).You don't always need to use Goad on the tank, because a lot of DRKs don't care for it, and some paladins don't need it, but absolutely goad at the start of a boss on a Warrior. They love that shit. I just do it habitually because I used to do it on Sunblade back when Paladin was more TP intensive. I do it even now because he plays Warrior. It's good if you do because a lot of people plain don't see Goad, but its CD is long and sometimes you'll need it for your partner in a trash pull or a WAR who needs to overpower a lot.
Hoping at some point in the lvl.50->60 job path, I'll actually get a useful new move for NIN that will change up my rotation.
*edit* actually if Armor Crush works so that you can constantly push up the timer on huton 30 seconds to the point where you only have to cast huton once at the start and then AC keeps it alive the whole fight so you save having to use a mudra on it every ~3rd or 4th mudra and can use that mudra on an attack instead, then that should be a pretty decent move.Armour Crush is a GAME CHANGER. You never should have to huton again unless your pulls are slow and your tank runs slow and your huton falls down to 20s. It changes the Ninja 60 rotation completely and allows your opener to have more burst to it. I use Armor Crush usually when there's 20-25 left on my huton.
lookout usually works but a couple require various other emotes
So I know I've said this before, but I'm finally quitting FFXIV for real this time (sorta). Had some light insomnia last night so was doing some crafting leves trade-ins, getting my crafters to lvl.45 and at the end I was like wtf am I doing. Yeah, doing the daily GC crafting turn-ins is only like 45 mins a day of work, but when I only have 3-4 free hours each night, that's like a 1/4th of my free time spent every night just crafting and turning in. At around 360 hours now and at least 1/3rd of that time has just been crafting. That's like 120 hours that I could spent on more fun things to do. And what have I gotten out of my 120 hours+ of crafting/gathering? Nothing really. I haven't made any money (in fact considering I spend 100k-300k a day on mats, I've probably spent 10-20 million gil; I'd probably be much in-game richer if I never get into crafting at all), haven't made any cool items outside a couple of minions, etc... the only drive has been that one day when I hit the level cap at 60 the crafting jobs will be useful.
...but by the time I get there SB will be out and then it'll be lvl.70 and being lvl.60 will be sorta useless. If SB wasn't coming out so soon I'd be more motivated.
Anyhow, I deleted FFXIV last night. I'm gonna take that daily hour back for my life. After I finished Zelda/Nier and some other small stuff I'll re-install it and play through HW->3.5 and all the combat content with my NIN. But I'm over the crafting/gathering/2nd jobs/etc.... I'll just stick with my ninja and enjoy going through the content for the rest of FFXIV's life. This was my first MMO and being a completionist I got way too into doing everything, but that's just a bad bad idea for time efficiency in MMOs.
they mentioned more changes in 4.0, including:This honestly makes me consider playing again. :lol
-A FUCKING AETHERITE CRYSTAL IN THE ULDAH MARKETS YESSSS
-SERIOUSLY WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE FINALLY A FUCKING AETHERITE
So, the PvP will change thusly: any job over Level 30 can participate. Your PvP attributes will be determined by your battle role. Gear has been changed to glamour only. There will also be a new PvP Hotbar for each Job, so that you don’t have to mess with your hotbars when doing PvP content. When you zone into the Wolves’ Den Pier — your hotbars will automatically change to PvP Mode.
PvP actions are now PvP specific. Each job will get nine actions, and two selectable actions from a pool of other actions, three Traits, as well as Adrenaline Rush. This will allow them to adjust PvP without affecting PvE balance. Direction requirements for melee DPS have been removed. Consolidated combos will also free up hotbar space for more maneuverability and less complexity.
— Parry has changed to “Tenacity” which will increase damage dealt and mitigate damage received.
— Accuracy has been removed as we know it and has been changed to Direct Hit. Hitting an enemy from the front will be 100%, but at the flank this will be higher — say 110%, 120%. Having the Blind or Accuracy Down status will reduce this rate, so be sure to cleanse it. Direct Hit will trigger more often than a Critical Hit; if they land at the same time it’ll look exciting. Heaven’s Eye materia will be changed from Accuracy to Direct Hit.
— Piety has been demoted to a sub-attribute; it’ll still have the same effect of increasing MP. It’ll be re-attributed on gear with Piety, which will only be available for healers.
— Tank damage calculation will be returned to Strength instead of Vitality, but accessories have been changed to be role-specific so tanks cannot equip DPS accessories.
— Healers have a new role action called “Rescue” which will allow you to yank another player out of danger.
Looking to buy a Medium house by the time housing becomes available because people are literally throwing hundreds of thousands of gil on cheap-to-make minions. 8)
why you missing early access?
dun scaith is SUUUPER long, but it's still my favorite level in the game just because it doesn't really have trash mobs. fuck trash mobs all the way to hell. visuals for Mhach and Scaith were also insane. i wish to god they'd add a photography sidequest someday that'd let you wander around the dungeons snapping pics. about the story... i liked it but it definitely wasn't my favorite. Alex is noticeably worse story-wise, and a lot of players complained about it on release.
if you have a team that doesn't know what they're doing, it can take a long long time. it has like a two hour time limit and I've been on teams that got close a few times. also did you fight an upgraded version of Ultima weapon there? I'm not sure if it was added later or if there's an extended version of the level.
you unlock the warring triad questline? that's where all the trials are
Small update: Even though I consider myself an experienced MMORPG player, I must say I love the Novice Network. It wasn't around the first time I tried FFXIV, , and even though the training combats are dumb/common sense, the gear they reward is decent temp gear (and looks way fucking better than low level quest/market gear). My favorite is the Novice chat. Even when I don't have questions, I see others asking/answering things I didn't realize were useful to know. Really wish this was around the first time I started this game. But my favorite part of it is the chat because of how much easier it is to run into people and situations where you can make friends.
Playing with others online has kinda been a long problem for me for years, because I've been avoiding people and situations where I'd have to group up. Very few of my online friends are awake during the hours I'm available to play, and I found it too difficult to take initiative to befriend strangers in-game for various reasons. Fear of being yelled at, judged or even creeped on. Anyway I now took initiative and found a really nice group of people! We've got a Discord and a Linkshell, and they seem like really lovely people. There also seems to be some fellow females, which puts me at ease. I'm usually vary of asking for help ingame but the MSQ dungeon queue was too slow (DPSlyfe) so I asked in Novice, and several people offered to help out! I wish I hadn't been such an introverted idiot even online so I could've enjoyed this so much (and other MMOs) a lot sooner.
tl;dr I'm scared of people, but decided to step put of my comfort zone, because FFXIV is quite enjoyable.
Sorry for the weird and long post. Good night, champs.
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Oh fuuuck I just realized something. I won't be able to buy subscriptions once I move back to Europe, since my account is Japanese. :(
The MogStation only allows Japanese credit cards and won't even take my current one so I've always bought them from the konbini.
Or hm, I could ask some friends to give me codes and pay them back somehow, that is probably my only way. I own up until HS and I refuse to buy the game again. lol
My MogStation is in Japanese because I bought the game from the Japanese SE eShop. I can't switch MogStation language, although I can play in any language like anyone else. The game is region free but my account isn't. Like when I went to optional items in the MogStation it specifically said in Japanese that cards issued outside of Japan won't work.Oh fuuuck I just realized something. I won't be able to buy subscriptions once I move back to Europe, since my account is Japanese. :(
The MogStation only allows Japanese credit cards and won't even take my current one so I've always bought them from the konbini.
Or hm, I could ask some friends to give me codes and pay them back somehow, that is probably my only way. I own up until HS and I refuse to buy the game again. lol
I think there is a way to make this work, the game is surprisingly region free. I'm on a Japanese SE account English Mogststion paying in steam credits playing in Japanese on a US server. I'd mess around with it and see if you can find something that works.
I did buy through steam. Does JP mogstation not take crysta in alternative to credit cards? You can usually buy crysta different ways.If it was through Steam I could've just bought Steam gaming cards.
How do you pay for the sub for the Steam version? Just buy Steam game cards and use the Steam currency? I take it Steam still doesn't sell game cards officially online? I read somewhere you can pay directly from bank cards on the Steam version in MogStation, so I hope/assume the Steam wallet isn't the only option. Or can you directly add funds to your wallet?
Also, good news: I just realized there ARE European servers listed on my current account/version. So I could keep playing my current character and then do a World Transfer later after I move.
My only worry is the payment stuff, I wanna be sure I can use Norwegian payment methods. Which is the only reason I'll switch accounts in the first place. Actually I do have a Norwegian bank card here, I'll try to buy a sub with it later today.
If that doesn't work, I'll have to wait until I move to buy it on Steam (since my Steam is set to Japan it says on the store page that it's the Japanese version, and requires a Japanese SE account to play. That could be trouble if they redirect me to the MogStation when trying to pay with my card.
anyways, work ended up being cancelled today and i reallllly wish it coulda been tomorrow because i am fully ready to be a shut-in again
Probably because we're the only ones who play this game. I took a break because I'm not quite sure what to do with my region situation. Not sure if it's worth continuing on this account, plus I've been busy with other things.
Wish I had kept playing my first character so I could've played SB when it's out. :(
woke up early and still only had time to watch the cg video :/
-i was in the first new map for seriously under a minute before hearing some dink shouting about how heavensward is so much better and he can't believe square would do this to us. chat window is hidden until further notice.
Yeah, finally past Rauban!
Back to fishing/mining collectibles.
Is it the Ultros FC? Does Haman still play?
My friend told me to tell you guys no one was in fates because everyone is chain running front line pvp with the +4% exp food to get 700k XP every 10-15 minutes.
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i cant think of anything offhand that'd be a quick way to get gil. by the time you complete the 2.0 story you should have like 500k+ gil, but other that that you'll have to level crafters or sell orchestrion scrolls or something.Okay, thanks! Hopefully I'll get that stuff down and going in an efficient way.
Did the first warring triad trial Sephirot (hard). Was pretty cool and fun battle. Kinda ;_; that I'll never get to experience the real extreme version cause I've got to imagine it's pretty challenging. Now everyone will be unsync 70. At least I got to do Thordan extreme before SB came out.
Is there any gil campaign or anything for new players to help with currency? I recall reading something someone said, but I don't remember where so I can't search/ask them. I've got a lot of bonux XP gain and it's going very fast, but I'm so broke. lol
today i learned, thanks to a reddit thread, that you have to retrieve the gil your retainers make after selling something. ive been playing for over a year and a half. i had over eight million gil stored. this is the most shameful moment in my gaming career, hands down :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
today i learned, thanks to a reddit thread, that you have to retrieve the gil your retainers make after selling something. ive been playing for over a year and a half. i had over eight million gil stored. this is the most shameful moment in my gaming career, hands down :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
i thought I was just really bad at keeping track of how much I earned and spent :/ when I'd look at my gil after making a sale I'd ask if there was a delay before you got your money, and when people would say no i just assumed i was wrong about how much I had before the sale.Sending you my thoughts and prayers.
So beb, what is your /timeplayed?
Years of platforming in Guild Wars 2 have prepared me for this day. EZiest tower climb of my life.
edit: you're not in GAF too are you? a bunch of us were attempting to climb it tonight as well.
Ultros (or just the influx from SB in general) has the worst players. Did the 2nd trial in SB and 1 second in the tank runs and starts the fight and everyone is moving before anyone has time to even put protect or explain any mechanics. Like 3-4 people said they were new, but the tank and some of the others just didn't give a shit and started fighting.
This is like every dungeon/trial I've done in SB. No one stops at bosses or talks at all to explain shit. Prior to SB, the player quality was pretty good and people were nice and friendly and talked a bit and would stop at each boss/trial and explain some stuff if people said they were new. But these new players are awful. Glad most of the game is single player and will stick to FC for extreme fights.
:maf
Don't do Diadem solo unless you're going as a DoL, preferably at max.
You won't be able to clear even some of the weaker mobs by yourself, and 100% of the time you'll only be partied with other bot/min/fsh.
also also people get really mad when you walk around and keep fake calling out sightings lol. unfortunately this is apparently against tos so I had to stop
damn. tried the full 90 minutes but couldn't get the last boss down past 20%. will have to try again tomorrow after work. epic fight tho and i'm looking forward to the sadistically hard extreme mode version.
Enter the world of the rough part of end-game grinding and what it really means to be a "badass" and do relic/top-tier gathering etc. Not exactly how many bring it out to be. :lol
It's all totally intentional and they'll make it easier later on. Though I think they always play it off like "oh we didn't realize how hard it was for players to do X content so we made it slightly easier" for each patch. :lol
yeah i think the other half was rock songs which is womp womp. that upcoming album sounds fantastic tho, like distant worlds.
i haven't been playing much this week, because queues got super shitty. like I'm used to long waits, but 40+ minutes for a roulette is wtffff. all i wanna do is finish off the red mage story jeez.
I got 100 today lol, inconsistent!
Gatherer scrips get regional folklore...
I got 100 today lol, inconsistent!
Gatherer scrips get regional folklore...
Only with yellow scrips for SB. Once new expansion comes out, old expansion regional areas open up for everyone without the books. At least that's my experience as I'm suddenly catching regional folklore fish in HW areas without the books. Also the books aren't on sale anywhere anymore.
Really? Which NPC do I get it from?
Yesterday my squad returned with a new chemistry for even more gathering scrips :lol, so now I've got two people bringing scrips + 1 person bringing MGP + 1 person bringing materia.
well bebs, at least you can get a decent price if you decide to sell it. and if you keep it, you can check out https://housingsnap.com to see some of the amazing stops that the incredibly creative Japanese community comes up with. maybe something will inspire you!
I need help... I am addicted to this shit and I don't know why.
It hates me, and beats me repeatedly, but I keep coming back for more.
Stop fucking playing then.Never...
Did like 40 maps so far, not a single one led to the new canals.
Tanaka would have never allowed for this.
haven't looked at any of the new coil stuff bc i will never even consider doing it, but did they add in anything new besides mechanics?
wait that was in the original version too. this must be dp or something.It's actually Twin, Nael & Bahamut running a train on you.
That's sad to hear about Sunblade. Hope he comes out of it well.
Glad you're alright.
Now back to threads for games I actually play.
you can fish your way to a level 70 fisher, yes. all classes level separately though so it's not gonna do you much good in dungeons. and everyone hates praetorium their first time bc is filled with cutscenes that you'll have to skip to keep up.
So everyone hates Praetorium, eh?I actually had to go with part of my FC for Prae/Castrum at the time where Sunblade and another member were tanks so they held up the raid so I could watch the cutscenes. We were lucky we had a few other folks in the party who were new. It was the night before maint for HW so it worked out pretty well. I was so touched I ended up deciding to buy HW (this was before Sunblade and I were together and I didn't realize he had ulterior motives by being excessively nice to me 🤔). They said they might eventually change up how prae / castrum are done because it is a bit of a mess. Maybe make it a single player instance.
Can I fish my way to level 70? Cuz fishing's legit.
i'd try and sell your house at least, before you go. the extra gil could help you gear up when you come back after a long break.
few things:
-you can watch old cutscenes in the inn; it's pretty much the only way you'll see the ending to arr since those last few dungeons suck
-dont bother with the relic quest; that's filler content from back in the day and it wont get you anything worthwhile
also lol bebs nice to see you're still here ;) the way i look at it is not how much i spend in a year but in a month. one month of the game costs me the same as one good takeout meal, so it's not enough for me to stress over. and even on months like this where i dont play as much i still find myself logging in for a few hours a week just to poke around and say hi to people. i swear for the few months i unsubbed i had withdrawls lol. but if you do unsub it's no big deal (aside from losing your retainer items but eh). you can always jump back in whenever so there's no real downside to walking away for awhile.
"To ensure new players are able to enjoy the cutscenes in Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium, all cutscenes in these dungeons can no longer be skipped.
Because this will increase the time required to complete these dungeons, completion rewards and Duty Roulette bonuses for these duties have been increased"
The Triple Triad icon displayed above NPCs will change depending on the player's standing with them.
The player has yet to challenge the NPC or has yet to win against them.
The player has won against the NPC but has yet to acquire a card from them.
* An icon will no longer display above an NPC when a player has both won a match against them and acquired all available card rewards.
I keep hearing good things about the story and how this game is the best FF in years but I don't really like MMOs, I don't like partying up with people, and I'm not a fan of lots of super grindy fetch quests or long grinds where it takes forever to level up (my main experience with MMOs is watching dorm-mates flunk out of school for playing too much Everquest in the early 2000's, or watch my brother just walking around in FFXI).
Could you play the story without needing to do all that typical MMO shit like join a clan or go on guild raids?
If so, how long is the story? And is it very grindy?
raids are no different than anything else imo unless you're doing savage shit
ive only done the story on the new patch because i needed to level all my super-old gear. hopefully should be able to start the rest this weekend.
oh also i gotta say having a roulette that does the 8-man raids is fucking awesome. ive only been able to do some of those fights once or twice so it'll be great getting to play them again with inexperienced people. its a long overdue addition imo.
The final stage of an mmo player, when reading/watching about the game is more fun then playing
FFXI players are insane.
seems like a lot of grind to get from where I left off to current. I remember a good bit of grind from HW>SB...wondering if coming back lol.
Beb, what is /timeplayed after all this? :lol
The world visit is awesome, I was able to buy Fashion Report gear on Balmung (the high pop. creepy server) for 80k and sell it within minutes for 250k on my own 2nd biggest server (Brynd).
Friends talked me into resubbing because I was interested in DNC coming to the new expansion and wow I am lost. Logged in to some random camp of bug dudes with a bunch of quests I don't remember taking and a lot of X'd out skills in my action bars. :lol
BRD has really changed a lot and it's kinda weird now. I do like the new song gauge but it's kinda hard to tell what the songs do at this point but I'm getting the hang of it...just not doing much in the way of damage but that's mostly a gear thing I think. My two highest jobs are MCH and BRD (at 54 and 51) but I remember really not liking MCH so I'll stick with BRD.
Anyway I've been wanting some sort of MMO/long term progression game for a while and (WoW is just the worst trash right) and I fell right back into the game. Mostly doing side quests til I feel a bit more comfortable but I'm going to continue the MSQ tomorrow and I'm pretty ready to get into some FF story. I'll probably need a peek at a wiki to remind myself of what is going on. :lol
Beb you seem to be treating it like a job . :doge
Coming from someone with a slightly addictive personality, back off on the daily shit, it isn't worth it. That said I have made like 2M in the last 2 weeks on 10 minute MB stuff so what do I know lol. I got a bit deep into crafting in HW but realized the hustle I was applying to the game could have been applied to RL and refocused. Gaming in general is a waste of time, MMO timesinks tend to be even more poisonous in general but they are fun. Just have to watch it.
The expansion will either be good or bad, I wouldn't judge much right now. At the end of the day it's a content dump, I was not hype at all a few weeks ago, but it looks better than I expected tbh. The class changes are pretty wild, I don't really care about either new class, but I still haven't even fucked with BLU/RDM/MCH (which is all new apparently) so there is tons to do once I finish the content with my WHM. They seem to be buffing SMN, BRD, and DRK somewhat as well and those are the ones I am dabbling in. Eh, I think it will be crack for a month or two.
The genius move of FFXI and XIV is adapting the job system to where your one character has access to all the carrots. The thing I like about XIV past 2.0 is it has at least the notion of respecting your time. They are just cognizant of the fact that their bread is buttered by crazy people.
I go on and make 300-500k gil a morning
welp SE claimed my card info was incorrect and cancelled my Shadowbringers CE. fucking end me rn plz
i gotta be at work at 630a so that ain't happening for me :'(
Ya I did this dance for every wow xpac (and ffxiv 1.0 and arr) so I know by now that the best time to take off to play a new mmo is about a week after it comes out :lol:isthis email yoshiP.
that being said, it's my birthday tomorrow so square needs to let me on and no one else. 8)
Stormblood was my first but I remember the Rauban thing not getting fixed for what felt like days and pretty much just fucked around killing A rank hunts with 100 people and fates for the first day then it was just depressing and everyone standing around doing nothing until it got fixed. I don't think there was any real progress until like after the first weekend.
Stormblood was my first but I remember the Rauban thing not getting fixed for what felt like days and pretty much just fucked around killing A rank hunts with 100 people and fates for the first day then it was just depressing and everyone standing around doing nothing until it got fixed. I don't think there was any real progress until like after the first weekend.
Main thing I care about is getting on/servers being up. If for some reason MSQ is borked I have plenty of other DoH/lowbie jobs to level. Sorry rested XP I tried. :trumps
i'd imagine the instances are just as much about framerate as they are about server load. a crowded crystarium - like kugane two years ago - fucking chugs on a base ps4. least they don't have weather effects this time around.
i have to say again that i'm continually impressed by how the game keeps plotlines and characters going for years at a time. i haven't left the first town yet but there's already references to characters that haven't been around for years. i really hope the writers stick around til the end (which shouldn't be too many more years...) because the care and attention they give to the world is something i haven't seen since the mass effect trilogy. i love it.
haven't done combat in the new zones yet but i finished up the ivalice quest today. a lot of people seemed to be stumbling with their character classes, but i play yoshi-p's chosen class, the BLM, i didn't see hardly any differences in how it plays before. i'm not mad, bc i liked it in SB, but i hope the lvl 80 additions are cool at least.
Should be open, As crafter talk to the girl in the crystalline mean. Pretty sure was a blue + icon.
will be interesting to see, this is more popular than XI was at this point in its life I think (ToAUish?), but expansions just got more and more low rent. wonder if they would actually cut ties and put it in zombie mode like what happened to late-game FFXI. there are still crazies playing that though. :lol
a few more expansions and it'll be huge/sprawling...not really ideal for new players. with how much they seem to prize accessibility will be neat to see how they manage.
What's left to even cut?
What's zombie mode?
the one that sounds like she's just had a sip of ice cold coke after every swing is fucking litI like the look of viera but no hats is a bummer, though it makes sense. Also at this point I've had this character as a miqo for 6 years so I'm used to her that way, but I do have two fantasias so I could swap back I suppose. Tough choice.I think they said that they’re adding them in later, I’d recommend it.
Just check out the battle voices on YouTube before committing because there are some absolutely terrible ones
and there's a maintenance at midnight tonight :-\
The GREATWOOD MUSIC :o
Soundtrack's been great so far, but the start of that area's arc when you first walk in...wow
That’s...not possible if all you were doing was msq & blu + quests and a few fates, hunts each day. I mean the # of msq quests is fixed.I did hunts and whatever sightseeing spots I saw casually, along with the leveling queue on the mornings I played. Oh, and FATEs dish out half a million exp with the boost... certain really fast, easy FATEs chain like the Godzilla looking monster in Rak'Tika
Were you running daily roulettes each day?
I only got level gated on ->80, (just called it a night and did the queue the next morning, and ->78 (Just finished a few FATEs and cleared my hunts)
Yeah, looking forward to talking about the plot when I finish. I like some of the Ascian stuff going on.Someone did the math, apparently dungeons give less exp than running older dungeons? Either that, or that they give less exp in comparison with older expansions.That’s...not possible if all you were doing was msq & blu + quests and a few fates, hunts each day. I mean the # of msq quests is fixed.I did hunts and whatever sightseeing spots I saw casually, along with the leveling queue on the mornings I played. Oh, and FATEs dish out half a million exp with the boost... certain really fast, easy FATEs chain like the Godzilla looking monster in Rak'Tika
Were you running daily roulettes each day?
I only got level gated on ->80, (just called it a night and did the queue the next morning, and ->78 (Just finished a few FATEs and cleared my hunts)
Yeah, on weeknights I've only been getting 1-2 hours in so haven't been doing roulette queues so I can just focus on the story & a little gathering/GC turn-ins/retainer restock. Probably only doing like 1-2 fates a session too, only found one fate chains so far this expansion that was active with players.
If I can will start trying to fit in some more leveling queues. I wish the MSQ dungeons paid out better xp. I'm still on rested xp (never caught up) and +15% battle xp scroll + 3% food so I'm getting +68% on dungeon enemies and bosses but I feel like a run in a dungeon only gives a couple million xp? (like 10-20% of a level). I'd like to re-run the dungeons a few times for their cool looking gear sets (and yeah, dungeon gear sets are for glamor only since the MSQ gives you better gear anyone with the quests), but the xp payout is so little and they take a good 30-40 mins so it's hard to do it more than like 2-3 times max before it just feels like a boring grind.
That said, hunts/FATEs/roulettes are extremely boosted. Way more than they've ever been.
They also did this thing where yellow scrips get maxed out immediately & they lowered the amount for equipment... and that equipment carries your botanist/miner all the way to level 80, whereas the need to constantly gear up was part of the progression. My botanist is already level ~79.8 just by doing all the turn-ins and quests, I think I maybe grinded out a stack or two of weaver mats?
Still, they're playing around with casual progression + diversification.
The last dungeon & trial is definitely built to keep any weak players out of endgame though, even the endgame dungeons (save one final boss) are pretty easy damage sponges.
That’s...not possible if all you were doing was msq & blu + quests and a few fates, hunts each day. I mean the # of msq quests is fixed.
Were you running daily roulettes each day?
haha back to Copperbell Mines with you.
Wait, what??? Was the 78 trial optional or something?
I just hit the lvl.79 dungeon (barely squeezed into 79) and I still haven't had any trials since lvl.73. Will do the dungeon tomorrow before servers go down.
Also, when people talk about that "part where the expansion drags for a while before getting good again" the upper rung stuff? Because man that was boring. Especially when I had to redo the instance 10 mins in and sit through all the scripted stuff again because the dumbass Exarch guy sat in too many AoEs and died :|
Also created and saved a viera appearance. Maybe one day I'll pull the trigger.:rejoice
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this random annoying kid in this nothing village in doma is gonna be a real issue. i can already tell >:(well that turned out better than expected. i figured he was gonna rat me out to zenos/anime hair lady but he was a bro instead. :D
spoiler (click to show/hide)I'm thinking that they're setting up a new threat.
The people who wrote this expansion knew what they were doing yet, they left Zenos as someone who is only going after WoL (and wants to see the power of Hydaelyn and Zodiark clash), and the last Ascian is an empty canvas for the most part.
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So I did a dungeon with Astro and well....it kind of sucks. In general I feel the class changes I've experienced(MNK,PAL, and now AST) are made with the idea of "why aren't you doing this, here we'll make you". The tank changes seemed to be to making tanking idiot proof. "
'So you aren't using flash to get aggro? Well we've made aggro super easy and you might as well use this AOE combo now because it's cool and damage".
"Oh you aren't doing the rotation for MNK, well might as well because it makes your main starter more powerful"
The AST changes are basically all the cards kind of do the same thing and you might as well do it because thats how you get the effect all party members move. Which really sucks because yes I realize sometimes you'd get cards that you did'nt need, but you'd also get cards that really could help beyond a simple "does damage". And really they did'nt have to make the cards so mindless. Having redraw as a charge and the use 3 cards to get the effect all move would have helped that problem. What made the AST fun to me was how random and context sensitive the cards could be. I'll probably still use the AST because its still a pretty busy class and I like classes that keep me busy, but these changes kind of make it less interesting.
I really like Gunbreaker though. I guess I'm not sure what the nuance differences are between WAR and Pally. Pally seems to have more Pally party utility which I like. Gun seems to have plenty of damage mitigation while having a lot of dps stuff with it's cool lots of button combos. So maybe a mix between War and Pally? I don't know, but I really enjoy the class. I've kind of started a WAR strongly because I feel a bit nostalgic for ARR areas. I really like the La Noscea areas.
I have never touched the crafter or gathering stuff in this game.
Yeah, if I wasn't leveling my FSH retainer to 80 I could be making so much bank just having them bring back leve fish over and over and selling. I did that early on with like the very first item Sand Egg and was selling them like 15k a pop and getting 5 an hour haha. Pretty soon that'll die because yeah, only use is other FSH trading in for leves.
I have never touched the crafter or gathering stuff in this game.I genuinely enjoy it, I try not forcing it too much.
There's something cool about making exclusive stuff to wear/put in your home + selling your way to becoming a millionaire.
Lately just been crafting and gathering. Been going through the crafting role quests and the starred 2x xp GC turns. Basically if the mats are cheap I'll grab them on the MB, but if they're not I'll just go and gather a bunch and make the mats to use and sell the extra mats since they're expensive.
Lately just been crafting and gathering. Been going through the crafting role quests and the starred 2x xp GC turns. Basically if the mats are cheap I'll grab them on the MB, but if they're not I'll just go and gather a bunch and make the mats to use and sell the extra mats since they're expensive.
yep, literally what I've been doing. getting paid to level, and with macros I really don't mind crafting (especially if working from home).
EX seems to be the same fight but with 4 players instead of 8. I understand that's a bit harder because the adds don't give a fuck about tank aggro in EX.
So I may join in since I love FF and this has been getting tons of love. Is it worth playing on a base PS4? Not a PC guy.
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Damn, leeves these days are pretty affordable way to level crafting. Here I am spending 110k for a HQ GC turn in item to get maybe 6 million xp of a 20 million xp level, but can buy HQ leeve item for 50-60k that gets me 5 million xp each, buy 4 for 200k and that's a level.
Might speed level my crafters this week to 80 with leeves and finishing the role quests. Would be nice to be done with gatherers/crafters and can just focus on battle stuff.
I definitely like SB more than HW. SB had more interesting zones to me, I really liked Doma and the other eastern areas a lot. I also liked the characters more. Gosetsu, Hien, the return of Nero in side stuff, all the Au Ra tribe leaders all were great. Lyse is kinda wack but I get that her story was more about her personal growth into a leader blah blah. Also Gaius Baelsar being back and on our side is cool but weird. I feel like no one ever stays gone in the story: Nero, Gaius, Zenos, Gosetsu, Yotsuyu, probably more. :lol
Also liked a bit more diving into the Empire's issues and motivations of the characters there. The whole thing about the Ascians actually making the Empire in the first place is some :mindblown shit.
Not saying HW was bad but I didn't connect with the characters as much and I found the zones to be sorta samey. Also it sounds dumb but HW post-game actually took away from the story to me. Oh the dragon is dead, actually not really. Okay Estinan is cool, oh nvm, oh he is cool and he's retired now, oh actually not.
E:I liked the SB dungeons and trials more too, especially that last dungeon where you are fighting on an actual battlefield. Susano is probably my favorite trial so far but I did like the Four Lords trials too.
Still bummed I missed resubbing for the XV event by one day. ah well
For real this plot twist had me shook. My synapses were firing all sorts of conspiracies after itspoiler (click to show/hide)mfw hydaelyn is a primal wtf
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Just a quick note that this whole guide [on desynth] is going to be irrelevant soon. Apparently desynth is changing to something that won't be leveled and the success rate will always be 100%.
So if you were planning on pushing some desynth levels, I'd highly suggest waiting to see if we get further confirmation about the changes.
well now i look like the genius for waiting to level mining for *checks notes* nine years
I listened to the Raid boss music. It is so good.
why do old white scrip stuff?
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Crafting - Crafting things 10 levels under is amazing. You hit AUTO HQ BUTTON and instantly get 100% HQ and then hit one progress to finish.!!!
That's insane, haven't kept up much but that'd normally tank the economy. I made millions on millions for putting in the small effort for making early stuff HQ, and there isn't much from this expansion (like the last) to make an economy from.
Merry Christmas! Game is free for 5 days for lapsed accounts so I came back to do the holiday stuff and fiddle around with Summoner a bit. Will probably then just wait for the next raid update :D
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Haven't even looked into the rebuilding Ishgard quest. Any idea where to find it?It's in Foundation, there's some coords and info on what to do here
Also don't forget you can just craft/buy 450 gear and upgrade it to 460 with goetias if anyone needs a quick boost
What's the ilvl for Eden 2? I'm at like 455 on my dancer right now, does it need 460?Hopefully I can run it. I think I'm gonna resub for it and do Nier while I'm at it. I got all the eden regular stuff, and the stuff from the Ex trials for my gunbreaker so I think I'm good.
Also don't forget you can just craft/buy 450 gear and upgrade it to 460 with goetias if anyone needs a quick boost
I guess the new crafted gear is 480 so maybe just make that instead if you can :lol
I logged on and am in the novice net again. I am a total asshole that left myself a full inventory and my crafting hotbars scare me. :lol
oh
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got miner to 80, been playing a bit while i work as well because its the easiest class to jump in and out of while answering emails or calls without worrying about dying
TERRIFYING
what kind of group stuff :doge(https://i.imgur.com/d4AeyW9.gif)
when/if i eventually level a tank i think it'll be DRK, it's probably the coolest looking one and seems pretty good judging by the ones i see in DF
Also yeah, Yoshi said 5.3 will be delayed up to a month due to issues with not being able to record VA and get art assets. Was a nice little message you don't often see from a developer.
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i already play and love the most braindead dps job (dnc) so lets keep the train rolling :lolWell hell fucking yeah dude get into it
Well you’re not going to listen to me because you think I’m dumb, but yes Ninja is a bit harder then other jobs, but nothing impossible. It’s just active and you have more to remember and to keep up.
You have several button combinations that you have to memorize or you waste them if you fail.
You have a normal combo with two different endings. One has a boost if attack from the right position. The other helps your gauge that effects your cool down.
You have a gauge to keep up.
In small groups I think Ninja has better and more aoe attacks then say Monk.
And you have Trick Attack that is very useful on bosses. Plus a regular dot on cool down. Also trick attack leads to some other useful attacks.
Ninja is very fun if you enjoy active jobs. It’s not brain dead.
you gonna be pricing out a pc in a couple months :lol
Should get to level 20 tonight
What is the FFXIV RPG communities' fascination with strip clubs?
Yeah monk is my favorite job and the one I've played the most of. The rotation is pretty simple and fun. Later though they add plenty of stuff to keep grease lightening up.
I do feel like our aoe stuff is lame.
oh god lets not talk about how much i've spent on fashion :lol i think only housing is more expensivespoiler (click to show/hide)current mch look
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gryphonskin eyepatch with the brass dye from the ishgard restoration, i love it.
speaking of which, if you are into crafting you need to get in the heavensward to unlock ishgard stuff. good way to power level gathering/crafting jobs and get good rewards.
Good fucking god what a slog that was. Really? I have to go and get.....cheese? I think I'm beyond it finally, I'm getting ready for Garuda. But god that was an all out angering level of bullshit.
Get the wine
Got the wine
Talk to the person who asked for it
They say "ask the wine dude"
Ask the wine dude
He's like "Oh this is nice but I need you to do 4 separate things before I tell you what I think. They have to be done serially. They're all over the place. Oh and you have to talk to me after each one."
<2 hours later>
"The wine's shit, go ask for better from x"
Go to x
"Oh you want wine? Well lucky for you I need 6 things done..."
I've fallen in love with this game in a way I never thought I could with an MMO. After level 15 the game just gets amazing. What an adventure. I love the story, I love the MSQ and my class quests. When people in my party are on the ball, I love raiding as a white mage. I love healing randoms and just helping people. I'm in love with the community that's utterly nice. I just love the game.
This game gets better and better and this is the "bad" content. I've fallen in love with this game in ways I can't express.
Last night I saw some level 1's and 2's playing at the intro area. I stayed and watched over them, waved and said hi, welcoming them to FFXIV.
I also love to watch randoms fight with monsters and heal anyone that needs healing.
Never before has a game made me so altruistic.
Currently lv 22
I've fallen in love with this game in a way I never thought I could with an MMO. After level 15 the game just gets amazing. What an adventure. I love the story, I love the MSQ and my class quests. When people in my party are on the ball, I love raiding as a white mage. I love healing randoms and just helping people. I'm in love with the community that's utterly nice. I just love the game.
This game gets better and better and this is the "bad" content. I've fallen in love with this game in ways I can't express.
Last night I saw some level 1's and 2's playing at the intro area. I stayed and watched over them, waved and said hi, welcoming them to FFXIV.
I also love to watch randoms fight with monsters and heal anyone that needs healing.
Never before has a game made me so altruistic.
Currently lv 22
It keeps getting better and better. There's lulls that come from the quest structure at times but the plot itself is enthralling. It feels massive in a way non MMO FF cannot achieve with room to breath. The expansions being far better in this regard has me excited.
i can't wait til they add ARR to new game+ so i can do it all over again
Are they adding flying to the 1.0 maps? I hadn't heard that, that's dope for vets but starter zones will lose the vibe of everyone running around which I think really draws people in to MMO's. As happened in WoW, once flying is opened up the world gets a lot emptier.
Good stuff overall, but my I level is like 447 so I couldn't enter the NieR raid like a casual. Didn't think they would put up such a barrier without an affordable/easy alternative like in past casual raids where you just passively enter them.
so how is the story past 5.0? I haven't done any of it, seems this patch ends it.
Finally finished 4.0 after getting most of the way through 68 on NIN and dropping it for no good reason at launch. Leveled up DNC instead and love it so far. Kind of reminds me of when Blizzard would add new classes to WoW that really seemed like retooled existing class revamps. Steps really feel like friendlier Mudras.
The 4.0 MSQ was kinda whatever? At least compared to what I remember of Heavensward. Zenos just isn’t that interesting tbh. Hopefully 4.1+ is better.
I really have found the post patch ShadowBringers story and quest line to be very boring.
vana
vana
I can totally see them cashing in and having 7.0 be Vana Diel. I would be 1000% fine with that. :ohyeah
lol why would they make Crystal Tower required now rather than before ShB or at all even, silly
lol why would they make Crystal Tower required now rather than before ShB or at all even, silly
I think it was required to start Shadowbringers!
Joining FATE parties in HW makes the relic real quick.Do you get the weapon for the job you're playing, or could I like, level RDM in there to get my funbreaker weppy?
You need 60 items, three item types x 20 each. Doing a FATE party in Falcon's Nest area in 30 mins I got all 20 items for that type. So I'd say about 90 mins for the relic and then six lvl.60 dungeon runs for the glowy part.
But you can do all these as any job, so I'm doing them as my lvl.63 RDM and gained almost one level just doing 20 FATEs at lower HW xp + weekly challenges for FATEs. Dungeon run part makes most sense if you have a lvl.60 character.
Basically can get a glowy i500 relic in like 5 hours while leveling a lvl.50/60 character at the same time. Not terrible.
I see that this is on sale on PSN. Is it something that you can play through on your own or do you need other people?
This sounds perfect for me. Thanks Bebpo.I see that this is on sale on PSN. Is it something that you can play through on your own or do you need other people?
You need to play with other people but it has extremely good match-making and you don't have to talk with anyone. Also for the story, you'll spend 95% of the storyline doing single player quests. There is an MP dungeon or MP boss fight every level or two. The endgame stuff and optional content is more MP stuff, less single player questing.
I used to be social for a couple years on it, but the last few years I didn't do much besides saying "Hello \o/" at the start of MP stuff. They really made FF14 the MMO for people who don't want to socialize with other people or arrange time to work with other people. I could never play FF11 because you had to actually look for parties and talk to people and actually coordinate times. FF14 you just go on and play when you like for as long as you like.
It's also some of the best Final Fantasy games in the last decade. Each expansion is basically a full sized FF entry. The base game A Realm Reborn is...ok, the first expansion Heavensward is a great FF, the second expansion Stormblood is a very good FF, and the third expansion Shadowbringers is a great FF.
This sounds perfect for me. Thanks Bebpo.I see that this is on sale on PSN. Is it something that you can play through on your own or do you need other people?
You need to play with other people but it has extremely good match-making and you don't have to talk with anyone. Also for the story, you'll spend 95% of the storyline doing single player quests. There is an MP dungeon or MP boss fight every level or two. The endgame stuff and optional content is more MP stuff, less single player questing.
I used to be social for a couple years on it, but the last few years I didn't do much besides saying "Hello \o/" at the start of MP stuff. They really made FF14 the MMO for people who don't want to socialize with other people or arrange time to work with other people. I could never play FF11 because you had to actually look for parties and talk to people and actually coordinate times. FF14 you just go on and play when you like for as long as you like.
It's also some of the best Final Fantasy games in the last decade. Each expansion is basically a full sized FF entry. The base game A Realm Reborn is...ok, the first expansion Heavensward is a great FF, the second expansion Stormblood is a very good FF, and the third expansion Shadowbringers is a great FF.
I'm working my way through the Shadowbringers Post Patch content before Endwalker releases. Any of you play on Primal?
Is ff lightning any good?
...and I don't actually like coming back every two years and just being super confused on how to play and the story. Endwalker may be a jumping-off point for me.