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Boten Anna posted:Come join Third Party Tools! You get an xp boost just for being in the FC and we're always happy to help people and answer questions. There's no reason whatsoever to wait. I think I'll take you up on that! Next time I'm on, do I just contact somebody in-game? My character is Leodore Lothaire. I suppose I should register on FFgoons as well. Panic! at Nabisco posted:I'm going to save you so much frustration right here: crafting to make gear as you level is not really worth it, it's much easier to just buy HQ gear if you need it (or ask goons who will almost certainly shower you with gifts). Crafting is really a game for people who have every crafting class at 50 or higher. Think of it as a totally different game from the battle side. Vil posted:Gathering will remain boring, though fishing has a certain zen to it. However, gathering will change from "boring and basically pointless" to "boring but gets you poo poo you can't buy from NPCs, only from other players who themselves gathered it". Generally somewhere around level 15. Below that, it's already true for shards, but shards are crap for experience after you gain a few levels. So what I'm getting from this is that gathering is what it is, and crafting is as much of a sink as I expected. I was dabbling, but I blew through all of my early Gil trying to level Carpentry up to level 10 after leveling Leatherworking to 10. I wanted to sample a few other things before moving on with the story. I'm glad I tried Conjurer at least, because that class turned out to be surprisingly fun so far. So crafting is more of a gil-making game than a kill monsters game. I guess that ties into the style of what this game is trying to sell in terms of options. Cool. Thanks for the replies.
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Leofish posted:So crafting is more of a gil-making game than a kill monsters game. Change that to gil-spending game, and you've got it. Don't do crafting to make money, you won't.
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Klungar posted:Isn't Alex Normal obsolete currently? Couldn't we see something in 3.1? When they think it's obsolete, not when it's actually obsolete because they spent a month making Moghome sidequests and then programmed 2 endgame things to do in an overnight crunch session.
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Will a physical copy for the expansion work with the steam version? It's not a big deal just asking.
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RBX posted:Will a physical copy for the expansion work with the steam version? It's not a big deal just asking. No, if you got the Steam version you're locked into Steam.
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Leofish posted:I think I'll take you up on that! Next time I'm on, do I just contact somebody in-game? My character is Leodore Lothaire. I suppose I should register on FFgoons as well. Join ffgoons and it walks you through it, but basically either find someone with the <<EULA>> tag or come visit our house (Plot 19, 5th Ward, Mist in Limsa Lominsa) to get to the application and put in your ffgoons id. There's screenshots and a guide to make this super easy stickied to the top of the main ffgoons forum.
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megalodong posted:The rep scrip stuff looks liked they looked at older WOW's cooldown-limited crafts and thought they were a good idea, but then missed the fact that WOW's cooldown-limited stuff gave you raid equivalent gear that generally just had worse socket colours on it. They basically need to decide, once and for all, whether they're fine with crafters being able to make raid-quality gear or not, with all of the RMT encouraging that can bring. This half-assed stuff right now pleases no one. Otherwise, the only alternative is doubling down on glamour gear (e.g. the Thav stuff) for high-end crafting. Vermain fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Leofish posted:So what I'm getting from this is that gathering is what it is, and crafting is as much of a sink as I expected. I was dabbling, but I blew through all of my early Gil trying to level Carpentry up to level 10 after leveling Leatherworking to 10. I wanted to sample a few other things before moving on with the story. I'm glad I tried Conjurer at least, because that class turned out to be surprisingly fun so far. So crafting is more of a gil-making game than a kill monsters game. I guess that ties into the style of what this game is trying to sell in terms of options. Cool. Only do crafting if you really enjoy the premise. It's possible to make gil leveling up crafting, but it's way more likely that you'll be spending literally dozens of millions in the process instead.
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The gold seller spam in this game is about as bad as I expected; I'm level 16 now and I've gotten probably 40+ whispers from gold sellers. I'm kinda surprised there's no "report spam" function in the chat.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:19
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I haven't had a single spam whisper since Heavensward. Since before HW, even.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:23
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Mystery Prize posted:The gold seller spam in this game is about as bad as I expected; I'm level 16 now and I've gotten probably 40+ whispers from gold sellers. I'm surprised that the message spam is still prevalent given that trial characters can't send messages.
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TheHeadSage posted:I'm surprised that the message spam is still prevalent given that trial characters can't send messages. This is what happens when people don't use two-factor authentication. They get hacked and their accounts are used for this.
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Hivac posted:It's gotten a lot worse recently for some reason TheHeadSage posted:I'm surprised that the message spam is still prevalent given that trial characters can't send messages. EponymousMrYar fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Questions 1) Does this game have bards, and are they any good 2) Does this game have player housing 3) How easy/hard is it to solo in this game as a bard 4) How much is the game and how much is the monthly cost
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Mystery Prize posted:The gold seller spam in this game is about as bad as I expected; I'm level 16 now and I've gotten probably 40+ whispers from gold sellers. The best thing to do is to turn off the notification sound for whispers, and maybe move them to a different chat tab. The default whisper sound seems tailor made to startle me.
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khy posted:Questions Yes it has them, I haven't levelled one yet, but they seem decently good. quote:2) Does this game have player housing Yes, but it's stupidly expensive. You can, however, have a personal room in a free company for far less. quote:3) How easy/hard is it to solo in this game as a bard quote:4) How much is the game and how much is the monthly cost
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khy posted:Questions 1) Yes, they're support DPS classes. They use bows and arrows as weapons. They're not the strongest DPS, but are good to have in parties because of the benefits they give. 2) Yes, but depending on the server, housing is expensive. You can get a room for yourself in a free company house. 3) Not hard. Any class can solo the game (with the exception of dungeons). 4) The base game is on sale for $20. Heavensward will run between $30-40 for non-collector's edition. Standard cost a month is $12.99. You can add additional features to your account if you really want to. efb, but I should mention the game is on sale on Amazon right now: http://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy...nal+fantasy+xiv
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khy posted:Questions 1) yes/yes 2) yes but good luck ever affording it 3) all classes can solo soloable content
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I've been browsing the FF14 site and it's somewhat unclear as to the distinction between a class and a job. Can anyone clarify for me please?
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khy posted:I've been browsing the FF14 site and it's somewhat unclear as to the distinction between a class and a job. Can anyone clarify for me please? You start with a "class" then once you hit level 30, you can turn it into a "job" provided you have an appropriate cross-class leveled to 15. For example, bards require a level 30 archer and level 15 puglist. It's a weird system that they're going away from sort of with the expansion jobs. edit: this explains it well: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Jobs
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khy posted:I've been browsing the FF14 site and it's somewhat unclear as to the distinction between a class and a job. Can anyone clarify for me please? When you get a class to level 30 and have a certain secondary class to level 15, you can do a quest and get a job stone. Equipping the job stone gives you a sizable stat boost and gives you access to certain skills that are only accessible to the job, not the class, which you'll acquire at levels 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60. The downside is you get fewer cross-class slots but that doesn't actually make a significant difference, so you should always get your job stone as possible and equip it right away. The new jobs in Heavensward start at 30 and have no corresponding class; you're just always a DRK or AST or MCH.
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khy posted:I've been browsing the FF14 site and it's somewhat unclear as to the distinction between a class and a job. Can anyone clarify for me please? You start with a class. Jobs require level 30 in one class and 15 in another. In general, jobs are more specialized and more potent than classes. They also use the same level as the parent class. GLD at 30 and CNJ at 15 open the PLD job, which is a more effective tank than GLD.
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Boten Anna posted:Character creation is open on Excalibur now "My name is boten Anna and I am an alt characteraholic" "HI Boten Anna! Welcome!"
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Holyshoot posted:"My name is boten Anna and I am an alt characteraholic" Spoiler alert: everybody else there is just another Boten Anna alt.
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i took the opportunity to roll my 5th and 6th characters that i will never use
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Put of curiosity are you just rolling alts because you like the story and want to redo it or is there some scheme behind this Also ha sorry for spamming fc chat with questions tpt guys, thanks for all the really helpful answers. This chocobo is ducking cool
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I have no idea because i never use them anyways
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khy posted:I've been browsing the FF14 site and it's somewhat unclear as to the distinction between a class and a job. Can anyone clarify for me please? The thread OP answers your past five questions and will probably answer the next five too
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Eerkik posted:Put of curiosity are you just rolling alts because you like the story and want to redo it or is there some scheme behind this Free retainers!
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hobbesmaster posted:Free retainers! Unfortunately you can't take advantage of them because you can only send mail to people on your friends list, and you can only send a friend request to someone online simultaneously 
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There was a brief window of time where if you disconnected while in Amdapor Keep on one character, you could go online on your second character and send a friend request to your alt while they still appeared as being online in an instance. I believe the people who managed to pull this off still have their alts on their friends list to this day. I wish I had done this.
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seiferguy posted:You start with a "class" then once you hit level 30, you can turn it into a "job" provided you have an appropriate cross-class leveled to 15. For example, bards require a level 30 archer and level 15 puglist. It's a weird system that they're going away from sort of with the expansion jobs. I actually really like the way each job requires a secondary class. I think it's a neat way to remind people that you can get cool stuff from other classes to help augment your main job.
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IcePhoenix posted:I actually really like the way each job requires a secondary class. I think it's a neat way to remind people that you can get cool stuff from other classes to help augment your main job. Some of the cross-class stuff isn't very well thought out though. Why is Physick/Cure a cross-class for WHM/SCH? You never need it! If ACN wasn't required for WHM you could get away with never levelling it in your Conjuring career. Eye for an Eye isn't that good.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Some of the cross-class stuff isn't very well thought out though. Why is Physick/Cure a cross-class for WHM/SCH? You never need it! Because it can crit.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Some of the cross-class stuff isn't very well thought out though. Why is Physick/Cure a cross-class for WHM/SCH? You never need it! I love that PLD gets cross-class picks from MRD that require combos you don't have to be effective 
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ApplesandOranges posted:Eye for an Eye isn't that good. 
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