BetterToRuleInHell posted:

Why do people care about chocobos. Regular chocobo is boring.

Behemoth is how pimps get around

Bomb chair is how ballers get around

Coeurl is how shot-callers who want to ride on low-riders get around

And then there's fat choco. It's fat choco!

Azubah posted:

How are the extreme primal fights? I really want their mounts.

pksage posted:

Apparently /handover and /pet have special animations for minions:

pksage posted:

Azubah posted:

How are the extreme primal fights? I really want their mounts.

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An issue in the Second Coil of Bahamut – Turn 4 wherein under certain conditions the boss did not use certain actions properly.

pksage posted:

Step 1) Spend a pittance of allied seals on color seeds
Step 2) Plant the seeds and completely ignore all of the various topsoil/etc. options if you want
Step 3) Wait
Step 4) You get chocobo color fruits anyway

Thundarr posted:

If there is any justice in the world then you will get multiple snacks per seed, so go nuts with all that grade 3 Shroud topsoil you've been collecting while when you're done gathering umbral rocks.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I really wish they'd give private rooms a planter box furniture piece. Limit it to one per room if you want.

But I guess that would still destroy whatever market there is for gardening grown items.

MadFriarAvelyn posted:

So for anyone worried about the spirit bonding changes, spiritbonding i55 gear in the 2.3 dungeons/CT2 has indeed been nerfed to hell (I think I got about 1% spiritbond in a leg that gave about 11-13% spiritbonding before the patch last night).

Instead, if you want to spiritbond those pieces of gear, go run WP/AK. Just got out of a WP and I got about twice as much spiritbond as I would have gotten in a 2.3 dungeon/CT2 pre-patch.

Thundarr posted:

Apparently the chocobo dye seeds are no trade? loving hell SE. I mean I understand they don't want an easy seals to cash path to open up, but...

laststandb posted:

So essentially after the market settles we are going to be swimming in Tier III Materia. Just run over to Urth's Gift with multiple sets of ilvl 46 gear and blow through them like mad.

pksage posted:

I wonder if they'll ever decide to make the relic weapon BiS or tied for BiS. As someone who probably intends to get their weapons via raiding and not relic, I would be fine with a tie. Hell, I'd be fine with the full Zodiac weapon being 5 ilvls higher than the best raid weapon. And that makes me wonder how many upgrade steps there'll be after Novus before we're at "Zodiac ______".

Thranguy posted:

Didn't they just open up allied seals->myth gear->company seals->phil mats>gil at the same time, though?

Ouhei posted:

Yoshida has said that the next step after Novus will change the appearance dramatically, I would imagine we'll have at least 2-3 stages after that? Though with the point of them being to contantly upgrade I wonder how they can keep it going. The upgrades as of now are pretty ridiculous in terms of time commitment. They're going to need to nerf the lower stages pretty hard at some point if they want new players to bother.

bonewitch posted:

Zenith and Animus, and somewhat Novus have all received nerfs through the proliferation of myth and hunts.

Aurora posted:

The problem of course being Atma.

bonewitch posted:

Atma is literally the only reason I haven't done the relic chain.

Aurora posted:

There isn't any special trick other than having Zenith that people have figured out, is there? I've been on the Scorpion atma for a while.

bonewitch posted:

Atma is literally the only reason I haven't done the relic chain.

bonewitch posted:

Zenith and Animus, and somewhat Novus have all received nerfs through the proliferation of myth and hunts.

Ibram Gaunt posted:

I recently hit 50 on BLM and was wondering if there's any ~protips~ someone could pass onto me, really having fun with it.

Fister Roboto posted:

There's no reason to not get up to Zenith. That part is easy and relatively quick.

Ouhei posted:

They're definitely easier, but let's say we eventually get to the point where we're 3 upgrades from where we're at. No one is going to go through Atma RNG, then 9 animus books, then 75 materia melds just to have to do whatever long winded stuff they come up with for the future upgrades. It would be infinitely easier/less time consuming at that point to grab whatever other weapons are ilvl 130 or whatever at that point.

Not that I have any fantastic ideas about how to do it, but they've been pretty clear that they want to keep the game easy for new people to pick up and become relevant without too much time and the Relic weapon quest line is a pretty integral part of the game. Not that you need a ilvl110 weapon to be relevant NOW, but it's a whole different ballgame once ilvl starts getting up past 120 and the potential of a level cap increase with 3.0.

As far as alma goes, they've gone on record to say it's just flat chance, there's nothing special. My own theory is that carrying more Atma helps the drop rate as 1-5 took much longer on average than 5-12 did, but that's completely anecdotal and has a 99% chance of being false.

Samba De Amigo posted:

Throw fire. Lots of it. Quickly.

That being said, I think about 20 pages back KaneTW pretty much posted all you could want to know (and more!). I can't count worth poo poo and it was not within the last 20 pages.

I'm sure someone would be glad to post the BLM discussion again.

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While on the subject of Soldiery Tomes, Dengeki asked if we’ll be seeing a new form of Allagan Tomestones come the 2.4 update, to which Yoshida said that they don’t have any plans for that at the moment, so you won’t have to worry about cashing in on all the Soldiery items anytime soon.

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As the aforementioned weapon caps at ilvl 110, the Relic weapons will go beyond Novus, but they can take quite a while to get. Yoshi-P mentioned that after some time passes, they’ll make adjustments on the stages after the Atma parts to make things a little easier, after further observation.

bonewitch posted:

Speaking of BLM, whats the best way to handle Firestarter procs? I've found that if I chain-cast Fire I, the proc won't appear until I'm halfway through casting Fire and sometimes I'll get unlucky and get another proc on top of the first one.

pksage posted:

I wonder if they'll ever decide to make the relic weapon BiS or tied for BiS.

bonewitch posted:

Oh sure, they haven't been directly or heavily nerfed, but compare Animus now to Animus back when Hardflox was the main way of getting myth. Hell, even Novus pre-hunts and Novus post-hunts. We'll probably see bigger Animus nerfs/actual Atma nerfs in 2.4 when myth goes away, they'll probably drop the price of Animus books by quite a bit and make them purchasable with Soldiery. Atma will probably be a flat increase to drop rate (as much as I'd like it to be changed to "do x fates in each zone").

DarkHamsterlord posted:

Just keep casting and don't worry about it. Don't interrupt a cast in order to cast Fire 3, and don't delay casting your next spell to see if you get a proc. If Firestarter procs and you're in Umbral Ice, cast Transpose before you cast Fire 3, it's free damage.

Eej posted:

You just suck it up and deal with it because an interruption or delay in your casting is a bigger loss of DPS than missing a proc.

ActionZero posted:

Pretty sure Yoshida said that the weapons from current coil will always be slightly better than all other options. For a while in 2.0 Allagan weapons were just i90 tied with Zenith but they then patched them up to 95.

MadFriarAvelyn posted:

So for anyone worried about the spirit bonding changes, spiritbonding i55 gear in the 2.3 dungeons/CT2 has indeed been nerfed to hell (I think I got about 1% spiritbond in a leg that gave about 11-13% spiritbonding before the patch last night).

Instead, if you want to spiritbond those pieces of gear, go run WP/AK. Just got out of a WP and I got about twice as much spiritbond as I would have gotten in a 2.3 dungeon/CT2 pre-patch.

SpazmasterX posted:

The friendship circlet works in low roulettes where you're capped under 25!

And The new Ixal crafting quests are great. I went from 1-5 on carpenter on just the three dailies and it looks like the xp scales to your job's level.