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Moldy Taxes posted:This makes me ask, what should my left side melds shoot for? I melded two Crit IVs on my Midas feet, but if I'm prepping for Savage once me and the rest of my crew gear up some should I throw in some accuracy somewhere? ilifinicus posted:meld crit when you can, otherwise get your skill speed thresholds next, then determination This. Crit>det>SS for tanks. Warriors need a certain skillspeed threshold to get in triple fell cleave, but after that crit all day.
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Melding guide for pretty much all classes: healers -> accuracy and then piety/crit depending on your needs. tanks -> strength in your first slot rightside, SS for warriors up to threshold, otherwise crit to cap, then det, then ss. melee dps -> crit, det, ss casters -> I dunno, but I'm going to guess BLM can use more SS than summoner, but crit is probably still top choice. EDIT: remember that you can get materia pretty easy these days. All of the ARR rank 3 beast quests will give a choice between 5 different grade IVs and you can get a grade V weekly from void ark. If you need gil, just sell some eso mats on the marketboard. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Lorev's on Excal with the rest of us. They just share a data center, which is what the instance servers pull from And now I have learned a thing. So what, you can DF with people who are on other servers, but not form your own parties and what not?
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SonicRulez posted:And now I have learned a thing. So what, you can DF with people who are on other servers, but not form your own parties and what not? Within the same data center, yes. It's both a cost cutting measure (only need one set of hardware for transferring players between areas) and a way to keep queue times down by pulling from the entire data center for players looking to run specific instances. It's also why Primal and the two other data centers imploded on Tuesday.
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SonicRulez posted:And now I have learned a thing. So what, you can DF with people who are on other servers, but not form your own parties and what not? Yes, the duty finder pulls from the whole data center to have a larger pool of players and ostensibly reduce wait times. I want to echo the use of Centurio Seals to help gear to i170. You get 110 from daily hunts, 100 for the weekly elite, and more for A and S ranks. The cost for the former i170 Law pieces is super reasonable (140 seals for weapon, 120 for chest/legs, 75 for other armor and 55 for accessories) and the upgrade tokens to 180 are only 65/60/25 seals each. Use this in tandem with Esos from the 60 dungeons and roulettes you CAN do and you can jumpstart your item level quickly.
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Also void ark's weekly farthing drop can be used on gobdip now so you can upgrade your eso weapons to 210. One thing I find funny is how little they expect out of paladin dps. I can go into a stone, sky, sea for paladin and crush it while my equally geared warrior will struggle or fail.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Also void ark's weekly farthing drop can be used on gobdip now so you can upgrade your eso weapons to 210. Ahem. Void Ark's whenever you want farthing. Weekly limits were removed on armor and farthings, matter was added and is the only item on a weekly limit there now.
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Skaw posted:Ahem. Ah, gotcha. So yeah, run a bunch of void arks to upgrade all your eso poo poo. It's super easy.
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BLM: pick crit or spellspeed as primary and maximize that, then fill the rest with whatever you didn't choose. If you still have slots left over do whatever with them. You should always stack a stat as high as possible. When you're standing still, pure spellspeed is better than pure crit. Once you start moving around, crit pulls ahead the less uptime you have.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Melding guide for pretty much all classes: I'm sure that there are many clear-cut charts that explain why PIE is better. but I like Crit because it makes me feel more powerful of a healer. My heals my heals heal more.
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Volume posted:I'm sure that there are many clear-cut charts that explain why PIE is better. but I like Crit because it makes me feel more powerful of a healer. My heals my heals heal more. If you don't need piety then don't meld it. It's definitely an as needed thing.
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PIE is totally dependent on whether you're running OOM in a fight. If your passive and cooldown based MP refresh is enough to keep up then whatever, if it's not, add more PIE. Crit remains too swingy to stack as a replacement for more MP/refresh. If healers didn't have to stack Acc now just to land hits on bosses this wouldn't even be a discussion, but as it stands healers are probably almost 300 short to always hit in EXDR, let alone Midas Savage. Essentially what it boils down to is group composition and your own job on whether you should stack PIE or Crit, and that's probably not something anyone can state reliably yet. Hit your accuracy caps, then go with what feels right for the content you're aiming to do, I guess.
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Ignimbrite posted:Ah That.... does not sound fun  It's really frustrating they put this obstacle in continuing the story.
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Kwyndig posted:Within the same data center, yes. It's both a cost cutting measure (only need one set of hardware for transferring players between areas) and a way to keep queue times down by pulling from the entire data center for players looking to run specific instances. That makes me kinda sad when a queue takes eons then. Any advice for me just jumping into HW? I'm still not through 2.5 MSQ, but I'm on the way. My plan was to finish that, the last 2 turns of Coil (I kinda really wanna farm it for the glamour), and try and get through CT before diving in. EDIT: I also wanted to ask, what's the ETA on the primal gear? SonicRulez fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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theblackw0lf posted:That.... does not sound fun As an alternative, you can find a buddy'/group and do hunts. You can get 170 gear quickly and 200/210 gear more gradually.
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theblackw0lf posted:That.... does not sound fun It was... more intuitive for first timers last patch, but really Clan Hunts have filled the niche that Law filled. If you're struggling, try to find some A and S class hunts, and do the daily and weekly hunts.
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theblackw0lf posted:That.... does not sound fun Check out some of the other comments on the subject too, not just the ones which were quoting you. You've got a variety of options. For weapons, with boldface as my suggestions (skip 170/180 and go to 200 if you have the tomes for it):
e: Also I guess PvP has a few options but I'm too lazy to update the list. Vil fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 18:41
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Leveling my professions with levequests makes me want to die. Just got Alchemist done, now i need armorer, blacksmith, and goldsmith to round them out to 50.
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Ravana EX is pretty easy these days if you have an i210 group and semi-competence. The only thing that can really screw you up is the 1-4 sword part.
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Finally did the Antitower and right now I wish that Matoya was conscripted to take Minfilia's place. He could be like the chief in a hard boiled noir detective story. Giving you orders. Yelling at you for being stupid. A guy can dream.
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theblackw0lf posted:That.... does not sound fun
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As a Dragoon which secondary stats should I be prioritizing on my equipment (aside from Strength of course)? Accuracy, Determination, Criticals, Skill speed...any of these in particular that should be given more attention?
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 Requesting that the next thread title be "FINAL FANTASY XIV: Go and pick up the drat rocks."
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I'm trying this out on my PS3. It's kind of weird to play an MMO with a controller, but Carbuncle covers me if I fudge it up. May be easier on the PC...
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Tortolia posted:Yes, the duty finder pulls from the whole data center to have a larger pool of players and ostensibly reduce wait times. I went from 143 to 183 in 2 days just doing hunts and the levelling and trial roulettes, no extra dungeons. It's really easy. I did get to do 2 elites in one week though so that extra 100 seals helped. But I had been slacking and had no stockpile before that, so others might have some banked.
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Augus posted:As a Dragoon which secondary stats should I be prioritizing on my equipment (aside from Strength of course)? Accuracy, Determination, Criticals, Skill speed...any of these in particular that should be given more attention? Crit first then det then skillspeed. You should have more than enough accuracy from your other gear.
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seiferguy posted:Do Heavensward hunts to get Centurio Seals and buy the law gear to get you started. Then run alex 1 when you hit 170 to get 190 gear. Isn't there a limit for how many Centurios you can get each day though? theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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50DR is also both a good source of esos and fun for its own sake, though you might not have all the dungeons unlocked. It'll also get you poetics which you can dump into ironworks gear and relic items.
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theblackw0lf posted:Isn't there a limit for how many Centurios you can get each day though?
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Doing your Levelling, Trial and 50 Roulette every day can quickly give you a stock of Esos, so you can run them whilst waiting for the Hunt Train Express. Also, if you have money to burn, the level 180 craftable gear is pretty cheap now on most servers, especially the NQ, so you can toss cash down on them if you want a quick and easy way to gear up. It's even quicker if you've got goon buddies to craft the gear for you. Brony Hunter fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:None whatsoever. If the hunt train is a-rollin' you can probably get over 1k in a day. Yeah, there's a limit on marks but you can kill A and S ranks.
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When I first saw the cutscene after beating A8, my first thought was that the book Quickthinx carries around is the hardcover edition of Boingo's manga that told him to stand in that exact spot and the fragment would fall into his paw. The reality was a lot more disappointing. You thought it was a mere walking fortress, but it was me, Dio! Bertram Weatherby fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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I think with the materia and tank changes, they're going to have to elucidate the stats in this game. Now that you can tweak your equipment to a much finer degree, people are going to need to have better feedback on what they're getting out of it. Most players aren't going to know that determination gives you a much lower damage increase than strength, so you get idiots in DF yelling at tanks for melding strength on their jewelry. Few people will know that crit is the best substat unless someone tells them. The fact that there are accuracy requirements in the game but completely invisible to most players is just stupid.
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What's really bad is that stone, sea, sky has no defense or whatever accuracy is measured against so you can't even tell with that.
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Just realized I have 180 esoterics. Maybe I should just do ARF 6 times to get another 300 esos and upgrade to a lvl 200 weapon?
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theblackw0lf posted:Just realized I have 180 esoterics. Maybe I should just do ARF 6 times to get another 300 esos and upgrade to a lvl 200 weapon? Do a void ark and make it a 210 weapon.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:None whatsoever. If the hunt train is a-rollin' you can probably get over 1k in a day. Really? The hunt board says they're updated daily, and I've already finished the lvl 3 hunts for the day, and am about to finish lvl 2 and 1. How else can you get more? (besides the weekly elite ones).
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vOv posted:50DR is also both a good source of esos and fun for its own sake, though you might not have all the dungeons unlocked. It'll also get you poetics which you can dump into ironworks gear and relic items. I don't think I have any of the dungeons unlocked for 50DR. Just a bunch of question marks
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theblackw0lf posted:Really? The hunt board says they're updated daily, and I've already finished the lvl 3 hunts for the day, and am about to finish lvl 2 and 1. e: to the post directly above: then go unlock 50DR! You get a first-timer bonus of poetics for each dungeon, after all.
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Brony Hunter posted:Doing your Levelling, Trial and 50 Roulette every day can quickly give you a stock of Esos, so you can run them whilst waiting for the Hunt Train Express. Wait where do you buy craftable gear? I could never find a market.
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