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Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Ciaphas posted:

Welp guess I better get RavEX done before everyone stops doing it completely if it's not too late already :(

Do it because it is a cool fight with amazing music that synchs up with his attacks. The weapon is a neat bonus to tide you over for the next few weeks until you can afford the esoterics wep.

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Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Thundarr posted:

Do it because it is a cool fight with amazing music that synchs up with his attacks. The weapon is a neat bonus to tide you over for the next few weeks until you can afford the esoterics wep.

Oh I want to don't get me wrong, I just don't have a static or time to do much more than pray for PF fortunes. :v:

Kuai
May 25, 2004
no 5ilvl increase for the A4 savage wep? Thats uhhh weird.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

Just like the old ex trials, people are going to be doing them forever for glamour. I still want to clear bisex for my whale gun and it hasn't been hard to find PFs every night.

seorin
May 23, 2005

2 Sun's Dusk (Day 78)
Of the Seven Visions of Seven Trials of the Incarnate, I have now fulfilled the Fifth Trial.

Captain Oblivious posted:

I don't really see the problem unless you have aspirations of doing literally everything. Specialize, and it's fine. :shrug:

It's just not practical to omnicraft this time around unless you have literally hundreds of millions of gil.

The problem is it goes against what we were expecting based on what YoshiP said their goal was:

YoshiP posted:

FFXIV has adopted the Armoury system which is quite different from other MMORPGs in that it allows one player to be anything. However, for crafters up until patch 2.5, rather than the system allowing you to be any of them, to a large extent for more hardcore crafters it required you to be all of them. If you worked on it steadily over time, it wasn't too challenging to grow each crafting class to level 50; however, since it's an MMORPG, we thought that we should slow some things down. However, as we started adding in higher difficulty recipes, such as the ones that require special books to learn, it got to an extreme situation where you had to have full equipment and everything leveled up. So while this was rewarding economically, we recognized that it was a tough situation for players who just wanted to have some fun while making products to sell. So we want to go back to the original plan that it's something to do at your own pace; that's the policy at the heart of our updates with specialists.

Except now it takes about as much time and gil to max out a single crafter as it did to max out all of them in 2.0, so anybody who couldn't omnicraft before can't even do one class now.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS

Kuai posted:

no 5ilvl increase for the A4 savage wep? Thats uhhh weird.

You need to clear A4 Savage to upgrade the Esoterics weapon anyway.

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
Somebody did a very nice video guide for Final Liberation using SNES-era sprites, for those of you who have yet to beat BugdadEX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeAXiC1IGE

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Somebody did a very nice video guide for Final Liberation using SNES-era sprites, for those of you who have yet to beat BugdadEX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeAXiC1IGE

Don't care too much about the guide, but I certainly love the 16-bit Ravana music :allears:

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo

seiferguy posted:

Don't care too much about the guide, but I certainly love the 16-bit Ravana music :allears:

Only 8-bit, and it's from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOkvK7kWtGg

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



I'm going to pentameld some accessories to grab Accuracy for my Scholar, and I had a quick question for people better at math than me: is the Chrysolite Ring or the Griffin Ring a better bet for Scholar? HQ Chrys has two Mind over Griffin, but it's got Piety (which I frankly already have enough of) as opposed to the Spell Speed and Crit of Griffin.

Niton
Oct 21, 2010

Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

Vermain posted:

I'm going to pentameld some accessories to grab Accuracy for my Scholar, and I had a quick question for people better at math than me: is the Chrysolite Ring or the Griffin Ring a better bet for Scholar? HQ Chrys has two Mind over Griffin, but it's got Piety (which I frankly already have enough of) as opposed to the Spell Speed and Crit of Griffin.

If you're DPSing, you don't have enough Piety. I also don't think you can get anywhere near enough accuracy to justify losing the MND, with how bad rating conversions are, but Chrysolite is definitely better if you want to try.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
drat, I guess I'm going to have to get GSM and LTW up to 2-star level to BiS my fisher if I was to only spend millions of gil instead of tens of millions of gil.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
So where can I get jewelery post-50? I still have ilvl 115 rings at level 58. Am I just going to have to pay the insanely inflated prices on the market boards?

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Since I'm assuming you've done all the sidequests on another job just wait till 60 and buy law ones.

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

So where can I get jewelery post-50? I still have ilvl 115 rings at level 58. Am I just going to have to pay the insanely inflated prices on the market boards?

Finish the story quests and you will be close to buying a law ring. That one piece of 170 will boost you up to do expert roulette with a ilvl of 160.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Giving us an NPC to teleport to Hinterlands is a strange solution compared to just tossing an Aetheryte in Hinterlands.

Scrublord Prime
Nov 27, 2007


I went all the way to 60 with a i115 and a weathered sol i110 ring without issue. Don't throw your money at market board prices and just hang on. Accessories are cheap law upgrades and doing the final dungeon + trial and a HLDR and LLDR should be enough to get you at least one. If you need the ilvl to enter the final dungeon throw on any right side gear you won on greed rolls in dungeons to get your ilvl up then change it out back to the gear you actually use once the instance starts.

Silvergun1000
Sep 17, 2007

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

nuru posted:

Giving us an NPC to teleport to Hinterlands is a strange solution compared to just tossing an Aetheryte in Hinterlands.

Maybe he's FF14's Captain Placeholder.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

nuru posted:

Giving us an NPC to teleport to Hinterlands is a strange solution compared to just tossing an Aetheryte in Hinterlands.

Yeah, they wouldn't even have to change the geometry, there are like 4 intact aetherytes in the arkitekhton.

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

Silvergun1000 posted:

Maybe he's FF14's Captain Placeholder.

This is probably the correct answer and 3.1 magically would get a real Aetheryte.

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



So I just reactivated my subscription, it was actually super easy and SE support recovered my info for me in less than ten minutes. Is there any room left in the alt guild since I'm sure I've been purged from PBC for inactivity

nuru
Oct 10, 2012

I imagine TFT will have space for a while.

Burger McAngus
May 24, 2010

Frog Act posted:

So I just reactivated my subscription, it was actually super easy and SE support recovered my info for me in less than ten minutes. Is there any room left in the alt guild since I'm sure I've been purged from PBC for inactivity

There's plenty of space in TPT, look for the <EULA> tag to apply.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

seorin posted:

The problem is it goes against what we were expecting based on what YoshiP said their goal was:


Except now it takes about as much time and gil to max out a single crafter as it did to max out all of them in 2.0, so anybody who couldn't omnicraft before can't even do one class now.

You don't need 100% top of the line gear to craft everything in the recipe list in a given craft :ms:

And even if you did spend tens of millions of gil to max out the gear on every single craft specific gearset, you still wouldn't be able to HQ everything consistently because starred crafts have a vastly reduced chance of Good and Excellent procs, which is meant to be overcome using the Specialist action Heart of the <Class>

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



Burger McAngus posted:

There's plenty of space in TPT, look for the <EULA> tag to apply.

Word, I'm still registered at FFgoons so I'll just follow the instructionss to get to the guild panel. That being said when you take a year long break from an MMO and come back everything is alien to you, I can't remember how to do poo poo

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Ugh I just lost a Bladed Steel Jig trying to finish my level 60 fishing quest. Those loving things are like 40k a pop too

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Arrgytehpirate posted:

Ugh I just lost a Bladed Steel Jig trying to finish my level 60 fishing quest. Those loving things are like 40k a pop too

I completed that quest just fine with Goblin Jigs.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



cheetah7071 posted:

I completed that quest just fine with Goblin Jigs.

Really? I've been using http://en.ff14angler.com/spot/60102 and it doesn't even show Goblin Jig as an option. What was your gathering?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Arrgytehpirate posted:

Really? I've been using http://en.ff14angler.com/spot/60102 and it doesn't even show Goblin Jig as an option. What was your gathering?

Maybe I actually use the spiders then, I can't remember. I just know that when I completed the quest I didn't have any bladed steel jigs because they cost 200k at the time.

Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Begemot posted:

Yeah, they wouldn't even have to change the geometry, there are like 4 intact aetherytes in the arkitekhton.

Generally you don't want to zone in / revive in a spot where a superFATE appears and there are always aggressive enemies.

siotle
Nov 2, 2012

Stop that.
An update that unsurprisingly got overshadowed by 3.05 lets people check their retainers from the Lodestone.
Details are at http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/update_log/ but in short the update lets people
- Check retainer venture status
- Check retainer inventory
- Check retainer sale inventory/history (although updating the sale inventory - and possibly history? - requires the retainer to be summoned in-game... )
I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's there!

siotle fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jul 22, 2015

seorin
May 23, 2005

2 Sun's Dusk (Day 78)
Of the Seven Visions of Seven Trials of the Incarnate, I have now fulfilled the Fifth Trial.

Captain Oblivious posted:

You don't need 100% top of the line gear to craft everything in the recipe list in a given craft :ms:

And even if you did spend tens of millions of gil to max out the gear on every single craft specific gearset, you still wouldn't be able to HQ everything consistently because starred crafts have a vastly reduced chance of Good and Excellent procs, which is meant to be overcome using the Specialist action Heart of the <Class>

If you really believe you're going to be able to craft everything (even within a single craft) without getting at least red scrip gear, then nothing I can say will help you understand why people are upset at the new craft grind.

Doublestep
Sep 8, 2013

Keep on keeping on!
bladed steel jigs are like 5k in mats contact your local goldsmith

and they're quick synthable and you cant HQ them

NicelyNice
Feb 13, 2004

citrus
Just picked up the trial of this game, enjoying it for what it is so far. One question - holding down the right mouse button to turn/strafe seems a bit buggy. It works fine out exploring, but in combat, sometimes I'll be holding down the right mouse button and a turn key to strafe and I'll just spin in place. It seems like the game doesn't recognize the button press all the time when the action gets heavy. Am I clicking on something invisible? Any ideas?

Ojjeorago
Sep 21, 2008

I had a dream, too. It wasn't pleasant, though ... I dreamt I was a moron...
Gary’s Answer

seorin posted:

If you really believe you're going to be able to craft everything (even within a single craft) without getting at least red scrip gear, then nothing I can say will help you understand why people are upset at the new craft grind.

They've been specifically saying for months they don't want you to be an omnicrafter. If you're upset you haven't been paying attention.

Niton
Oct 21, 2010

Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

NicelyNice posted:

Just picked up the trial of this game, enjoying it for what it is so far. One question - holding down the right mouse button to turn/strafe seems a bit buggy. It works fine out exploring, but in combat, sometimes I'll be holding down the right mouse button and a turn key to strafe and I'll just spin in place. It seems like the game doesn't recognize the button press all the time when the action gets heavy. Am I clicking on something invisible? Any ideas?

The "turn" (A/D, by default) keys spin you when used with RMB, which locks your camera angle. You want to be using "strafe" (the Q/E keys, by default)

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

So where can I get jewelery post-50? I still have ilvl 115 rings at level 58. Am I just going to have to pay the insanely inflated prices on the market boards?

I just learned of this yesterday, but if you've done a couple of leves you probably have a couple of these in your inventory and wondered what the hell they were for



well wonder no more



this lady trades you right side for levels 52-58 in exchange for 5 of them

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Minrad posted:

I just learned of this yesterday, but if you've done a couple of leves you probably have a couple of these in your inventory and wondered what the hell they were for



well wonder no more



this lady trades you right side for levels 52-58 in exchange for 5 of them

Oh word?

Kuvo
Oct 27, 2008

Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!
Fun Shoe
pvp is actually fun when i dont have to wait half an hour to get in

also when i figured out that i should turn on the "face target when using ability" option

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Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Kuvo posted:

pvp is actually fun when i dont have to wait half an hour to get in

also when i figured out that i should turn on the "face target when using ability" option

I actually didn't know you could disable that, though granted I never wanted to turn it off for most PvE stuff. I wish I had known about this as a healer in WoD. :psyduck:

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