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This is a long shot, but is there a way to see what enemies on the enemy list are currently NOT being tanked by a tank? During trash pulls in 24-mans, it's easy to lose track of an enemy and find out much later that it's been running loose, whacking healers and whatnot.
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Jay Rust posted:This is a long shot, but is there a way to see what enemies on the enemy list are currently NOT being tanked by a tank? During trash pulls in 24-mans, it's easy to lose track of an enemy and find out much later that it's been running loose, whacking healers and whatnot. Not easily. You select a target and look up at the raid window. If a raid tank has it you'll see a red outline on their icon.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 00:54 |
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I haven't really been paying attention to Hunts but my armor is pretty lovely so I figure I need to start so I can get armor. What do I need to do? I know you track down beasts that spawn randomly and kill them but how do I join up with people because the things die really fast I hear so any help would be great thanks!
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I haven't really been paying attention to Hunts but my armor is pretty lovely so I figure I need to start so I can get armor. What do I need to do? I know you track down beasts that spawn randomly and kill them but how do I join up with people because the things die really fast I hear so any help would be great thanks! Get Teamspeak and connect to the server ts.ffxiv.in If you can't Teamspeak, then find the hunt train of 100 people and shout "Looking for a hunt party!" and someone will invite you. Politely request that they share coordinates in party chat because you can't get in the TS, and they probably will. edit: assuming you're on Excalibur. The TS is an Excalibur thing, but shouting for hunt parties will probably work on other servers too.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 01:55 |
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I haven't really been paying attention to Hunts but my armor is pretty lovely so I figure I need to start so I can get armor. What do I need to do? I know you track down beasts that spawn randomly and kill them but how do I join up with people because the things die really fast I hear so any help would be great thanks! Hunts are a source of myth (level 90 gear, uncapped so grind your heart out) and soldiery (level 100 gear, weekly cap), but you can also get those from other sources besides hunts. What hunts get you that you *can't* get elsewhere are an *uncapped* source of sands and oils of time, which let you upgrade that level 100 soldiery gear to level 110. Every other source of those items has limited availability per week. But sands and oils don't do you all that much good if you don't have the soldiery gear to begin with. So the real question here is, how hyperbolic is your definition of "pretty lovely"? If by "pretty lovely" you mean "really quite decent, lots of soldiery stuff, just want to push to 110" then yes, absolutely: your only real options for gear progress at this point are hunts or second coil. You can also get one oil a week from CT2 as well. If by "pretty lovely", however, you mean "genuinely lovely for endgame" like leveling gear, or even "all right-ish but not too great" like gear in the 55-70/80 range, then hunts are still a completely viable option (for the myth and soldiery, and down the road the oils/sands too). But if they're not really your thing then you can also run dungeons and CT and first coil and stuff for upgrades (some from direct drops, and pretty much everything gives you some amount of myth and soldiery).
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 02:41 |
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T7 question, how the hell do I pick up adds as OT when I have voice on me?
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 03:16 |
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Rei_ posted:T7 question, how the hell do I pick up adds as OT when I have voice on me? Tomahawk, run to the wall, untargeted flashes, and a prayer that your DPS realize you can't do a drat thing for another 5+ seconds. EDIT: Oh and hope you grabbed it before it automatically targeted your healers, cause you'll lose it to them too. SpazmasterX fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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You should be able to get off a GCD or two before you have to turn around. If you don't have legacy controls on, enable them and spinning around is so much faster.
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Rei_ posted:T7 question, how the hell do I pick up adds as OT when I have voice on me? Edit: Tomahawk/Shield Throw if you're out of range, but 1 or 2 of those aren't going to be enough threat to keep adds off healers/DPS. You need to get off BB/Halone as soon as possible to give yourself a little breathing room. Varance fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Rei_ posted:T7 question, how the hell do I pick up adds as OT when I have voice on me? For us, first add tends to pop just as a voice goes out. If I get the voice I just start my combo while facing outward and give it a stack, then move to the arena edge to face it away for Tail Slap. It doesn't live long enough for 1 stack to become an issue. Prep your second hate combo skill by doing heavy swing/fast blade on Melusine when she ticks down to 80% so you're ready for add pop. Second add comes out with Shriek so you should have hate locked down before you possibly get voiced. Third add I just pull with Tomahawk and land another as I'm pulling it into position (I take it to the north side where #1 spawns to avoid Shriek) and then use a Flash while facing away, at which point my voice usually goes off. Then I go into normal hate combo. This is always the trickiest one so if I get voice I make sure the healers know they might be pulling hate if they're overhealing until I have it locked down.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 04:46 |
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I'm still kinda learning everything, despite having a couple of classes in the 30s, but the Hand professions particularly confuse me. How should I be leveling these primarily, just grinding from my Crafting Log, or doing Leves? The Leves seem a lot quicker, but I used like 20 of my allowance yesterday just to get to level 17 on Leatherworking, and I fear I may run out after only getting up to 30 or something.
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Does anyone have any experience with leveling with someone who is way behind you? My girlfriend is thinking about playing, but since I'm level 50, even switching to a class at level 1 won't really do much since I'll have had done all the story quests up to that point. I guess I could start a whole new character, bleh...
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Does anyone have any experience with leveling with someone who is way behind you? My girlfriend is thinking about playing, but since I'm level 50, even switching to a class at level 1 won't really do much since I'll have had done all the story quests up to that point. I guess I could start a whole new character, bleh... You can join her in every part of the story quest-line that requires or allows group-play, and you can queue with her for every dungeon on your lv.50 job through the level sync system. There really isn't a reason to start a brand-new character unless you absolutely need to gain the same amount of Quest Experience at the same time as her or level up at the exact same time or something. This MMO is probably the best game when it comes to playing with someone who is way behind you in experience/levels simply because of the level sync mechanic alongside the armoury system.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 06:11 |
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So, FSHerman, what are the valuable fish to go for at 50? Don't worry about me cutting into your profits or anything, I'm stuck over on Balmung.
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Droid Washington posted:I'm still kinda learning everything, despite having a couple of classes in the 30s, but the Hand professions particularly confuse me. How should I be leveling these primarily, just grinding from my Crafting Log, or doing Leves? The Leves seem a lot quicker, but I used like 20 of my allowance yesterday just to get to level 17 on Leatherworking, and I fear I may run out after only getting up to 30 or something. Guildleves are by far the quickest way to level the DoHs, the crafting log is OK for the first 10-15 levels since the reagents for everything are right there on the guild supplier but once you get beyond that it's tedious managing all the different reagents. Don't feel bad about using your leve allowances on DoH classes since they get the best benefit from them. Another alternative is the daily Grand Company turn-ins, they give about a leve each worth of XP and a good bit of GC seals as well, although that won't be as focused as burning through leves it's a good way to ration leves or wait for them to replenish. You can see what they are from anywhere from the "Timers" menu, be sure to use this to grab everything you need from the market board/supplier NPCs before going back to the turnin. Oh! While the general tradecraft suppliers in the big cities have a bit of everything, there's an NPC FCs can put in their houses that sells nearly everything from all the guild suppliers, so they're super useful and I wish I had access to one when I was going through the lower crafting levels. Generally speaking you'll want every DoH to 15 > Cul to 37 (the cross-classed Steady Hand 2 here brings basic touch up to 100% success rate) > CRP/WVR to 50 > everything to 50 in whatever order, but this is a long term plan of course just so you know which goals to shoot for. Unrelated to the rest of the post but Hildebrand so far does justice to the hype it gets in this thread
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Verranicus posted:So, FSHerman, what are the valuable fish to go for at 50? Don't worry about me cutting into your profits or anything, I'm stuck over on Balmung. Im pretty sure you're basically just supposed to walk into the ocean, drift away and breathe the water deep into your lungs. Embrace the eternal sleep so that you never have to realize there is no valuable fish.
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Manyorcas posted:Guildleves are by far the quickest way to level the DoHs, the crafting log is OK for the first 10-15 levels since the reagents for everything are right there on the guild supplier but once you get beyond that it's tedious managing all the different reagents. Don't feel bad about using your leve allowances on DoH classes since they get the best benefit from them. This was really super helpful, thank you!
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:23 |
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Are any of the crafting/gathering professions actually worthwhile without a ton of market babysitting, or are they something to do when you're tired of murdering things?
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 09:01 |
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They are a change of pace when you don't want to run SC2 for the nth time... or toto rak when you do roulette to level your tank class (Just rename low level roulette to toto roulette already). If you do want to do crafting gathering is very useful cause sometimes you only need 5 or so of a material, too bad the market board only has stacks of 99 to sell you! I've been working on goldsmith lately and its mostly me running out and gathering stuff myself cause pubs demand 500 gil for a single ore, and will only part with 99 ores at a time. Now is crafting worth it? Eh..... You can repair your own poo poo in dungeons instead of having to run to a mender I guess? You wont be able to craft anything better then you get for "free" using myth and soldiery. You can make a few glamour items, you can make dyes as well as glamour prisms. And supposedly crafting gear being crap compared to sold/myth as well as the dungeon drops is by design, Yoshi has said gear that is made by crafting will never be as good as stuff done by dungeoning. Its nice if you want to make your own HQ gear for leveling your other DoW/M classes I guess? You can use them to make money if you're good at HQing stuff, particularly leve items.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 09:09 |
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Huh, it's odd that crafting gear can't be as good as dungeon gear. I get that most MMOs do that, but that's usually when crafting is something you do in a tiny window instead of a full fledged group of classes with their own abilities and gear.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 09:19 |
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jwang posted:With how the current leveling system works, I seriously doubt that Blue Mage will ever become a thing. And no, Hunts still won't be more tolerable with it, it just becomes more annoying since people would constantly try to reset so that the mob might use the skill again so someone can learn it. gently caress BLU spell learning. If they were smart they'd make the blue Mage skill gets part of the class/jpb quests and the quest would explicitly take you to something that hit you with whatever, then you could use the new spell on the thing. This way lore is satisfied and you don't have nerd brains melting from lovely RNG. Ohtsam posted:If they did do blue mage I'd expect that the actual learning of moves would involve instanced class quests . .... So this. Rei_ posted:500 weekly seal cap. Every problem is now solved. Get hosed. This just screws anyone who hasn't already been doing hunts like crazy.
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Manyorcas posted:Generally speaking you'll want every DoH to 15 > Cul to 37 (the cross-classed Steady Hand 2 here brings basic touch up to 100% success rate) > CRP/WVR to 50 > everything to 50 in whatever order, but this is a long term plan of course just so you know which goals to shoot for. I presume I'm not super screwed if I just casually level WVR/GSM/CRP while I reach 50 with Black Mage? I have Weaver at 20 or 21, just casually doing the GC turnins, with the plan being to level DoH classes when I hit 50.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 10:10 |
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My girlfriend made me start over as a Lalafell because they're cute. I agree with her. Which brings me yet another noob question: Does the stature of the character affect their damage at all? Because like, visually I may as well be shooting my enemies with toothpicks. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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CJacobs posted:
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CJacobs posted:
Haha, of course not, size of character is just appearance, your stat differences are so minor as to not matter. Also, I hope you used the RNG for your name because the Lalafell ones are hilariously cute.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:04 |
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CJacobs posted:
From the post beneath the OP: The Chairman posted:Does it matter what race I pick? Mechanically, the difference in stats at Lv.50 for any given pair of races is less than 1%. The difference between races is almost completely cosmetic. So damage should be equal between the different races, otherwise there'd be no point in choosing a Lalafell for a Disciple of War class. Hope that helps
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:07 |
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I don't know, losing 6 strength and 5 vitality going from Highlander to Lalafell kind of sucked. That's a bigger difference in main stat than going i100 to i110 weapon/body/legs, I really wish they would just remove the attribute bonuses between races.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:17 |
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Although fun fact, Lalafell monks have to jump to hit Titan sometimes during the heart phase.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:25 |
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Leal posted:Now is crafting worth it? Eh..... You can repair your own poo poo in dungeons instead of having to run to a mender I guess? You wont be able to craft anything better then you get for "free" using myth and soldiery. You can make a few glamour items, you can make dyes as well as glamour prisms. And supposedly crafting gear being crap compared to sold/myth as well as the dungeon drops is by design, Yoshi has said gear that is made by crafting will never be as good as stuff done by dungeoning.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:27 |
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Am I the only one who finds random (not even a "hello please join our fc pls") FC invites annoying? I'm not in one now, and in the past two or three days I've had like five random invites, without a single word.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:28 |
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Also, I mentioned earlier that this is my first real MMO. I don't really like huge wide-open co-op games but I have gotten sucked into the co-operative spirit a little bit with this one. There was a point where some random other player and I were on the same quest chain and playing at about the same speed, so there became like some kind of silent co-op between us as we ran back and forth doing stuff for a while. Then he left to do other quests without a word between us. It was really cool actually, I can definitely see the merits of it now.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:45 |
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Robo Reagan posted:Are any of the crafting/gathering professions actually worthwhile without a ton of market babysitting, or are they something to do when you're tired of murdering things? Yes and no, but mostly no at this point. There are a few things which consistently sell well; glamour pieces are one of them, and you can usually grind out profit from food. You can grind out smaller profits (but still profits) by finding intermediate pieces like lumber, ingots, which can benefit from the market of "people too lazy to craft their own intermediates" and make a few hundred gil per piece which adds up since making a hundred pieces wouldn't even take very long. You often don't even need max crafting levels for some of that. Other benefits come from paying attention to what's going on in the market right now. Hunts making Mythology more prevalent and GC seals less so have made i70 crafting mats far more costly than i90 stuff and prices have changed to reflect that. Housing was/is a big seller at the start of 2.3 as a bunch of players got their personal rooms and suddenly realized they desperately needed some tables. If you're paying attention and can get on top of the trends you can make pretty serious money. So what's the problem? Well, a few. There are a lot of crafters at 2-star level now, because levelling crafting was never particularly difficult or costly. So markets beyond the brand-new tend to show up and vanish rapidly as the horde of player crafters focus their attention on each in turn and flood supply. That means making money either requires attention, good timing, and good fortune, or takes awhile by sticking to slower safer options. In addition, almost all the big-ticket items have massive, constant undercutting going on. Some pieces I basically have to check every hour on my retainer to drop another 10k or so because there's always at least one jerk doing exactly the same thing with the same item. Also, there's some stratification going on now that they're adding new recipes. In 2.1, a crafter could get his way to crafting 2-stars quite reliably on all classes just by getting some base HQ crafting sets and a few materia; in fact, crafting AF gear wasn't even necessary for it. In 2.2 they added 3-stars and to even start them you needed almost maxed melds on your gear and the new crafting tool they added which was quite a grind to obtain. Now in 2.3 they've added another set of tools which are even more of a grind and cost conservatively 8 million gil worth of needed materials just for one of them. I guarantee those new tools will be needed for any 4-stars added in 2.4, and the first people to get them will be the people who already have money from being the first people to get 2.2 tools. With 2.3 tools they will then have an edge in 2.4 making themselves yet more money, and on and on forever. The further ahead you are, the easier it gets to stay that way. Starting now, it's the reverse. So basically if you do crafting casually it's good for repairs for your gear, and making your own food and potions, and maybe a little bit of pocket money probably not worth the effort when the Challenge Log and Roulettes are things that exist. If you want the real levels of gently caress-you money that finance multiple Relic Novus or whatever the glamour/minion flavour of the month is, you need to put in a lot of time and money and effort up front. Frankly if you're going for the whole deal then I would start right now when we have 3 months ahead of us before another update which is only going to move the goalposts further. Meiteron fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Yeah, one i75 mainhand costs as much as some of the more expensive novus infusions. Even if I try to grind for it myself instead of just buying it, it'll be pretty expensive. I'm not sure how hard it is to level desynth past 60 but the lack of GC seals right now seems like it would be a huge bottleneck that would just destroy my wallet.
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I also like that players, for the most part, will try not to walk through each other. Most of the people I've met have tried to walk around me instead of through me even though just walking straight would be faster/easier.
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Algid posted:Yeah, one i75 mainhand costs as much as some of the more expensive novus infusions. Even if I try to grind for it myself instead of just buying it, it'll be pretty expensive. I'm not sure how hard it is to level desynth past 60 but the lack of GC seals right now seems like it would be a huge bottleneck that would just destroy my wallet. I'm 85 desynth on goldsmith, and I've been breaking down Artisan Spectacles which are i70 for the chance at mastercraft and fieldcraft III demimateria in order to get an i75 tool. After 400 crafts, 8400 shards, and a lot of time I've blown up 40 of them and gone 0/40 on master craft and 1/40 on fieldcraft III. A single i75 tool requires 3 mastercraft and 10 fieldcraft III. So grinding i70s for them is pretty unfeasible unless you're getting massively lucky. Of course I've made the cash back and then some from the rose gold ingots that occasionally desynth from the spectacles, so it's not as bad as all that. Especially right now, when i70 items are soaring in value. Of course what I should be doing is desynthing i90 items which have a higher rate on both and can drop multiples; of course I need to blow up this many i70s to even get halfway good chances at i90 success rates and will cost through the nose anyway. So either buying or grinding out the new tools is going to cost really depressing amounts of money. Apropos of nothing, hot tip for up and coming desynthers of any craft: go do some frontlines, buy i70 pvp gear, and desynth it. Faster, cheaper skillups than crafted options and the chance at battlecraft III materia!
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 16:18 |
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If I want to powerlevel fishing via leves which ones do I take? I notice some of them reappear and disappear from the questgiver and this is annoying. edit; Or is it like Mining/Botany and there's no guarentee I'll get the same leves? Because I'm just gonna buy my way to 50. Pierson fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Been playing around with the SMAA injector a bit to get some better anti-aliasing and a bit more saturated colours and a bit more pronounced HDR + Bloom. Here's a set of screen shots to show the difference. Here's the link with instructions I used. Followed the Windows 8 instructions since they are the only ones that worked for me. http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1sbbin/ffxiv_sweetfx_how_to/ Before: After: edit: Posting a second before/after shot since someone asked for more Before: After: Copy/paste the following code into your sweetFX_settings.txt file (delete everything inside and then paste all of this back in, then save the file). Modified version of Myrkens. You can find more presets at the following site: http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/31/ code:
Stanley Pain fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Well that's terrifying.
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CJacobs posted:Also, I mentioned earlier that this is my first real MMO. I don't really like huge wide-open co-op games but I have gotten sucked into the co-operative spirit a little bit with this one. Sometimes non-communication is essential. Once when playing WoW, I was blazed out of my mind, and accepted a random party invite from a guy who could tell we were on the same quest. I joined, he asked me if I was on the same questline, and I said yes. After what seemed like several hours, he asked me another question. I spent several minutes re-reading his question, trying to understand it, but eventually gave up and just responded with, "i am high". He must have understood me, because he didn't say anything for the remainder of the party, and left soon after. On that note, I very much like how you can aid each other in FF14 and share kills without being in a party.
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Any idea what the maintenance claiming to adjust Elite Marks is going to alter?
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