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I disagree with don't get into crafting, the method the game uses is far beyond what I've seen in any other game and is fun as hell to learn, and if you get all your craftings to 50 it isn't too painful, you get to make some real neat stuff, there are plenty of opportunities for high profit tucked away in lower level recipes, and you get to repair all of your own gear at any time and for cheaper than what the NPCs charge
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If nothing else get a crafter to 10ish so you can do Ixal dailies when they appear, because they are trivial and give Ventures.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:35
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Getting crafts to 50 is nice if only to be able to repair your own gear past 100% using dark matter. I still think HW crafting takes far more patience than it deserves, but getting stuff to 50 is simple enough.
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Sentient Data posted:I disagree with don't get into crafting, the method the game uses is far beyond what I've seen in any other game and is fun as hell to learn, and if you get all your craftings to 50 it isn't too painful, you get to make some real neat stuff, there are plenty of opportunities for high profit tucked away in lower level recipes, and you get to repair all of your own gear at any time and for cheaper than what the NPCs charge Compared to WoW there is almost nothing "neat" to make in this game outside of houseing and even that is pretty lame overall. I would be the crafter king if you could make stupid consumable items that change your race for a few minutes or let you put laser beams on people.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:35
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Actually that's kind of a good point. Why can't you make fireworks? Retainers can find them and they sell them during events, but they can't be crafted. Clearly temporary race changes are possible: they had that Halloween event a while back where you could "glamour" yourself into Minfilia (amongst others). Why not add these to the game?
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Jan 15, 2016 01:39
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I would spend real money to be able to glamour myself as a goblin at any time.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:49
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Try not to give them the idea right now, though. They're still figuring out their specialist system, and it'd suck for that fun stuff to get locked behind that.
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naM sdrawkcaB posted:Thanks, I'll deffo look into transferring my guy across. I cant possibly leave this beautiful bastard behind: And just think, when you hit 50 and unlock glamours, you can always wear nothing but a subligar, while getting the full stats from your armor! Or at the least, always be shirtless. That's standard
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Jan 15, 2016 02:24
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Do what you can to get on Excalibur. A group of goons ran me thru Coils 1-9 (The original raid from A Realm Reborn) and they did the same thing the day before. You'll get everything from gear thrown at you to goons begging you to let them take you thru a dungeon or three. FFXIV made it fairly lucrative to help out newbies and aside from the handful of times I've been on at odd hours I've always gotten help when I've asked for it.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:25
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dromal phrenia posted:That loving guy and his missile barrages, I'm still not sure what the deal is but running to the complete opposite end of the area stopped me from dying so I'm going to assume that's the strategy. Don't worry, Dragon's Dogma comes out tomorrow.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:50
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Belzac posted:I'm being hyperbolic, as I am want to do. It's not horrible and compared to other primals it's fitting and I wouldn't change it but it doesn't mean I would listen to it on it's own and enjoy it as I would with other themes. I completely agree. It reminds me of the Segata Sanshirou song for some odd reason, but for general listening it can't compare to the first three. Soken did great work with Garuda, Titan, and I even like Ifrit's boss music.
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Jan 15, 2016 03:20
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:I completely agree. It reminds me of the Segata Sanshirou song for some odd reason, but for general listening it can't compare to the first three. My favorites are probably Ravana 1, Leviathan 2, Titan final, and Shiva 1 (though Shiva 2 is starting to grow on me).
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Pumpkinreaper posted:Don't worry, Dragon's Dogma comes out tomorrow. How in the hell did I not know about this. I am now unreasonably excited.
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Vil posted:And just think, when you hit 50 and unlock glamours, you can always wear nothing but a subligar, while getting the full stats from your armor! There's actually a way to remove every piece of armor with glamour, although you should probably wear shoes because some of the races look odd without them.
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Jan 15, 2016 03:49
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I think Bishymarku doesn't get enough love. I think his phase 2 song is one of my favorites in the whole game, let alone primals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9F0tU7-wbA
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How is the leveling curve for classes after your first currently? I stopped playing the game a year ago but I'm thinking of coming back. The story quests were the best leveling fuel but after your first character uses most of them up the additional characters felt much more grindy. I found running fates to be mind-numbing and levelquests aren't much better. I did greatly enjoy the duty roulette and dungeons are why I played the game, but your new lower level classes only start with access access to one dungeon so it feels like I've run Sastasha like 100 times now and never want to see it again. I was wondering if the game has changed on that front or if there's a better leveling method I just wasn't utilizing.
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Jan 15, 2016 04:16
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Hunting log gives you at least 4 levels per step, running a daily 40 second long guildheist roulette gives you something around 1/6 level, sidequests will work well enough for probably up to your third class, access to the best gear will make leveling real fast compared to the first time around
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Belzac posted:I think Bishymarku doesn't get enough love. I think his phase 2 song is one of my favorites in the whole game, let alone primals. 
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Doctor Meat posted:How is the leveling curve for classes after your first currently? I stopped playing the game a year ago but I'm thinking of coming back. The story quests were the best leveling fuel but after your first character uses most of them up the additional characters felt much more grindy. I found running fates to be mind-numbing and levelquests aren't much better. I did greatly enjoy the duty roulette and dungeons are why I played the game, but your new lower level classes only start with access access to one dungeon so it feels like I've run Sastasha like 100 times now and never want to see it again. I was wondering if the game has changed on that front or if there's a better leveling method I just wasn't utilizing. It's much much better if you level the alt classes slowly, so you can take advantage of things that give big chunks of experience for low effort but only once per day/week (notably leveling roulette, challenge log, plus some more options from 50-60). If you try to grind out an alt class in a relatively small number of days, it'll be much more of a grind in terms of the time you're actually spending working on it because you're resorting to less efficient and more tedious options. So spending more active time in exchange for finishing by an earlier date, if that makes more sense.
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100% armory bonus is kind of absurd with alt classes pre-50 and HW dungeon XP is fantastic when you get there (plus lots of FATE parties, Vanu dailies, hunts, 50DR, etc). I still prefer the LDR a day method but if you want to poopsock then it is pretty drat fast now.
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Vil posted:It's much much better if you level the alt classes slowly, so you can take advantage of things that give big chunks of experience for low effort but only once per day/week (notably leveling roulette, challenge log, plus some more options from 50-60).
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Belzac posted:I think Bishymarku doesn't get enough love. I think his phase 2 song is one of my favorites in the whole game, let alone primals. I've told my group this like 15 times, and they are always completely wrong and disagree and say some garbage like leviathan.
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Just started the free trial of this game and I had a question about stats. I've placed my first 4 bonus attribute points in intelligence as a thaumaturge. Do those points stay there if I switch classes or are they class-specfic (so 30 points for each class rather than 30 x number of classes). Also, is mind useful at all for me as a thaumaturge? I've gotten a few quest rewards with mind and vitality but the character screen implies that mind is only a healing stat so it seems like a waste of quest reward.
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Volume posted:where can I get some decent level 20 gear for a conjurer? Say anything in pretty much any of the goon FCs and they'll poo poo it out for you.
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KicksYouInHalf posted:Just started the free trial of this game and I had a question about stats. I've placed my first 4 bonus attribute points in intelligence as a thaumaturge. Do those points stay there if I switch classes or are they class-specfic (so 30 points for each class rather than 30 x number of classes).
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DACK FAYDEN posted:It's 30 points per class and they switch per class. And no, you only care about INT. Piety controls max MP but it's irrelevant, mind does literally nothing. Vitality gives HP but it's on the gear anyway, not something you buy the gear for. INT only, and a 2-handed weapon, not 1h+shield, that's a relic of old design choices that vanishes at 50 and sucks all the time. Thanks! I figured about the points being per class but ya never know with time-sink games.
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Volume posted:where can I get some decent level 20 gear for a conjurer? Best option is to hit up a crafter. Goon FCs reputedly have people rabidly awaiting newbies in need of gear and will probably fight each other for the right to make you poo poo. Most non-goon FCs tend to have at least one person in them who likes crafting too. And to any vaguely leveled/geared crafter, making GBS threads out high-quality level 20 gear is both trivial and cheap and many will make it for free to help a newbie. If you're feeling exceptionally antisocial and would rather spend gil to get normal-quality gear, I'd check with NPC vendors in East Shroud (Hawthorne Hut), Eastern Thanalan (Camp Drybone), and possibly Western La Noscea (Aleport). They should have gear in the 15-20 range.
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Speaking of crafters, I could use some quality time with an omnicrafter - have mats and materia, want HQ 60 mining gear and overmelds. I can tip if you aren't already swimming in gil! ign is See Ker, send me a message or whatever.
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Belzac posted:I'm being hyperbolic, as I am want to do. It's not horrible and compared to other primals it's fitting and I wouldn't change it but it doesn't mean I would listen to it on it's own and enjoy it as I would with other themes. im not letting you mealy mouth your way out of this one belzac you hosed up and now you need to face the music
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Belzac posted:Compared to WoW there is almost nothing "neat" to make in this game outside of houseing and even that is pretty lame overall. I would be the crafter king if you could make stupid consumable items that change your race for a few minutes or let you put laser beams on people. If there was a crafter that made an item that let you disguise yourself as a mandragora I would jump through whatever lovely grindy hoops I had to in order to be able to make it on demand. Literally the only thing I legitimately miss from my time in FFXI is the mandragora belt.
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I am not a fan of Ravana's theme because I am not a fan of waltz in general. Bismarck's second song is freaking awesome though.
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logged in tonight, took the advice in the thread to ask the FC and sure enough D'rizt was kind enough to craft me a full set of good gear. Equipped the poo poo out of that gear and I headed towards the second dungeon of the MSQ and saw another dude sporting the same EULA tag there. We partied up invited C'olnel Sanders and a very fierce cat lady with a fantasy name I can't remember how to spell and we tore that dungeon up. It was awesome
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Volume posted:logged in tonight, took the advice in the thread to ask the FC and sure enough D'rizt was kind enough to craft me a full set of good gear. Equipped the poo poo out of that gear and I headed towards the second dungeon of the MSQ and saw another dude sporting the same EULA tag there. We partied up invited C'olnel Sanders and a very fierce cat lady with a fantasy name I can't remember how to spell and we tore that dungeon up. It was awesome Ahem 
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I'm sorry. There's just too many fantasy names to know how to properly spell and pronounce.
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Once in awhile, you get into a duty roulette where something amazing occurs. In this case, I had 50DR and got into a Haukke hard, right before the final boss, this happens:  
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I want cool looking tank gear but nearly ten runs of Sohm Al and the tank piece still won't drop. It'd be nice to have stuff that doesn't look like plate for once.
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Good news, the Void Ark fending set looks completely like a robe.
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ApplesandOranges posted:I want cool looking tank gear but nearly ten runs of Sohm Al and the tank piece still won't drop. Void Ark tank gear basically looks like this: http://www.devilnight.co.uk/victorian/1365-black-gothic-victorian-bustle-dress-with-long-sleeves-short-jacket.html
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Tortolia posted:It is well worth rerolling on or transferring to Excalibur if you just started. FF goons are awesome goons and super helpful. Will confirm all of this. Whenever I've come across a MSQ to go to a dungeon, all I do is ask in /fc and most of the time a group pops up to carry my dumb rear end through. Had some really helpful folks up to now 
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