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Sorry for the ridiculous question but the official play guide S-E has been shoving down my throat every time I log in doesn't seem to help - did they completely redo gathering? I was raking in MGP at the gathering minigames in the golden saucer to get back into the groove of things, and then I went out as a miner and everything is just a list you click on.
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Yes, gathering was completely redone from 1.0, since having to play a minigame every single time you wanted to gather something is kind of an insane, arduous idea. Instead you have a whole bunch of abilities.
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It was dumb and slow but an awesome way to chill and listen to music or whatever. drat, I'm going to miss it. Although being able to shoot for specific items is goddamn fantastic.... E: new question - I have nowhere near enough Gil right now to even consider it, but....housing is so limited it's basically impossible to get a personal house right now, huh? I didn't see a single available plot in Gridania on my server and I'm guessing Limsa and Ul'Dah are the same. 
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Apr 12, 2016 03:17
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Those horrible GS minigames were the actual gathering mechanics?
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Apr 12, 2016 03:30
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nuru posted:Those horrible GS minigames were the actual gathering mechanics? Oh you sweet summer child.... Not only were those the mechanics but like I said, you also had no idea what you'd get if you successfully completed the minigames. If you were BOT and you notched the tree at the exact same spot every round I think you ended up with the same items from it, but past that it was a roulette. I do seem to recall getting multiple rewards at once though, like crystals on top of whatever item you pulled, but...yeah. Seriously an easy way to rack up MGP though now.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:35
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Ryoshi posted:Oh you sweet summer child.... I do enjoy those minigames at the GS as a bit of a diversion. I like the tree chopping one better than the mining one though.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:43
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I prefer the new system for actual gathering; it's the perfect way to catch up on podcasts, just load up an episode and keep running in circles and clicking while listening.seiferguy posted:LotA is my favorite content now. Pull off a successful bone zone or get the iron golems to walk across the fire and chat is guaranteed to be screen shot worthy. Tanking Lab has always been my favorite part of the game. I love chiding the other alliances for ignoring bone zone mechanics or bragging about how our healers and I are able to lavatank Vassago.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:50
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Ryoshi posted:It was dumb and slow but an awesome way to chill and listen to music or whatever. drat, I'm going to miss it. They're opening a new set of plots soonish, so save that gil and never give up hope! That said you'll need a couple million.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:58
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Kwyndig posted:They're opening a new set of plots soonish, so save that gil and never give up hope! Starts at 5 million doesn't it?
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Apr 12, 2016 04:06
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Are you going to need Heavensward for them? Because I have class ADHD and haven't yet hit 50 on ANYTHING. ...not that I have the 5 mil yet, but, you know.
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Apr 12, 2016 04:24
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Depends on what server you're on. On Excalibur it starts at 5 million, it can go down to two and a half on really small servers.
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Apr 12, 2016 04:25
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So for race chocobo breeding, it looks like the process goes something like this: 1) Get your chocobo to rank 40 and retire it. 2) Buy a pedigree 9 covering permission for the opposite gender (may as well fish for 4 star stats and good skills). 3) Hope it offers more stars in at least one stat than your bo could inherit from its own parents. If not, throw it away and buy another. 4) Breed them together, wait 6 hours. 5) If the new chocobo inherits lovely stars, throw it away and buy a new covering permission to try again. 6) Pray you get a decent result within 10 attempts. Does that sound about right or am I missing something important?
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Apr 12, 2016 04:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjEI2SzEYh4
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Apr 12, 2016 05:12
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It's beautiful. And that bass player is the baseplayerest i've seen in a long time.
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Thundarr posted:So for race chocobo breeding, it looks like the process goes something like this: Stats are totally random in the covering you buy. You can get a bunch of 4s on a pedigree 1 covering while getting a bunch of 1s on a pedigree 9. P9 covering does give better skills though. With coverings being so drat cheap now, it's up to you whether buying P9 covering is worth a chance at inheriting a higher level skill. I personally spend a lot of effort on step 3 so that step 5-6 doesn't happen (never use any coverings with 1 stars, only have a few 2 stars). I have a P9 bird and I only ever had to re-bred a bird once because it inherited all the lovely stats. As long as you can get a good number of 3-4 stars, you'll be fine. Birds are so quick to rank up now I actually wouldn't spend too much effort perfecting a lower pedigree bird. Just get to 9 and worry about inbreeding then. bleuraindrops fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Apr 12, 2016 06:17
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I miss FFXI fishing. There, I said it.
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Apr 12, 2016 06:19
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I've hit 60. Boy. There's... a lot of things I need to be doing.
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Apr 12, 2016 07:58
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We can't have a Dancer class yet, but damned if I ain't tryin'. 
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Apr 12, 2016 08:10
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I keep getting world data cannot be obtained errors. Excal hosed?
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Apr 12, 2016 09:37
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Seems that way.
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Apr 12, 2016 09:40
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They converted it into nodules for the anima. Deep Blue Awakened
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Apr 12, 2016 09:45
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Thundarr posted:So for race chocobo breeding, it looks like the process goes something like this: Don't buy a pedigree 9. There's never been any data pointing or suggesting that higher pedigrees have higher stars on average, only anecdotes and really wishful thinking. I mean, if you're gonna listen to anecdotes, might as well listen to someone who's spent more MGP on pedigrees than it costs to have a Fenrir and an Adamantoise. Also since your chocobos' actual stars never, ever, ever influence on any of their offspring stars and they will never influence any generation whatsoever since your chocobo stars are discarded for breeding, if you're gonna play the "try 10 attempts" game you might as well try them all before you register any chocobo. Don't throw them all away because you never know how bad the next ones are gonna be. Then register the offspring with the most 4 stars spread across its parents. A 41411 is more valuable than a 43333 in the long run because those 3s are never gonna become 4s. Elentor fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Apr 12, 2016 09:54
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I just hit 50 on my paladin. As someone who started the game in HW, it seems that the right thing for me to do right now is go into this bone zone and tank some boss in such a way that I get lots of people angry. I really hope the game gets dancer and that it's a healing class. I want to punch people, not cleric stance to do damage as a healer.
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Apr 12, 2016 10:29
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Elentor posted:Don't buy a pedigree 9. There's never been any data pointing or suggesting that higher pedigrees have higher stars on average, only anecdotes and really wishful thinking. I mean, if you're gonna listen to anecdotes, might as well listen to someone who's spent more MGP on pedigrees than it costs to have a Fenrir and an Adamantoise. The reason to buy pedigree 9's is, as far as I could tell, they are the only ones that give top rank skills.
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If you're grinding a low rank chocobo it's really not worth it. The odds that you'll keep those skills is very tiny. You can skill reset and fish for skills infinitely before your final chocobo once you have two good parents, but it's a complete and total nightmare to get good stars before that and if you're unlucky like me it'll take literally hundreds of thousands of MGP. Don't make it harder on yourself by wasting it on skills you have a very tiny chance of keeping until the end.
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Once you've completed all the challenge races you can also buy all the different skills as skill books, and once you start aiming for the perfect chocobo you're going to be breeding two of your own together anyway.
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Mazed posted:We can't have a Dancer class yet, but damned if I ain't tryin'. What top is that, with the full cloak?
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Is it normal for an MMO to have such frequent patches? I feel like they have to patch the game every week.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:23
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SonicRulez posted:Is it normal for an MMO to have such frequent patches? I feel like they have to patch the game every week. It's part of why the game has retained any of it's popularity. They put out more content than any other MMO.
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Hotfixes and balance patches are more frequent than a lot of other MMOs, yeah. Free content patches are insanely more frequent.
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Is there actually a patch today or is it just the normal weekly maintenance? Because that is basically industry standard.
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Tortolia posted:Is there actually a patch today or is it just the normal weekly maintenance? Because that is basically industry standard. Well, the notice starts with "In order to implement Patch 3.26" whereas the one on the 3rd was "In order to accompany Patch 3.25 Hotfixes".
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3.26 is the final patch they're doing before releasing pvp seasons it contains a buff to dark knights
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Tortolia posted:Is there actually a patch today or is it just the normal weekly maintenance? Because that is basically industry standard. There is actually a patch tomorrow (3.26, as mentioned). Today was just weekly maintenance.
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Prism posted:What top is that, with the full cloak? Coat of the Red Thief, monk gear, set drops from the 3.1 dungeons (Arboretum, Pharos HM). There's a version for ninjas and bard/mechanist as well.
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Are there any buffs players can get besides... the Spear, is it?... that reduce all of your cooldowns?
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Apr 12, 2016 22:50
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Ciaphas posted:Are there any buffs players can get besides... the Spear, is it?... that reduce all of your cooldowns? I think the Spear is unique in that it's the only recast time-reducing buff in the game. Remember, however, that it only reduces the cooldown of abilities used while it's in effect. It won't retroactively reduce the CD of an ability you used before it was applied. Logicspren fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 00:22
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Righto, thanks. I mostly only ask 'cos I saw a reddit post about ACT timers and thought about trying them later, for DWaD and Duality mostly. Keep forgetting those fuckers for some reason.
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Logicspren posted:I think the Spear is unique in that it's the only recast time-reducing buff in the game. Remember, however, that it only reduces the cooldown of abilities used while it's in effect. It won't retroactively the CD of an ability you used before it was applied. We need a crying selene emote.
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ruta posted:I just hit 50 on my paladin. As someone who started the game in HW, it seems that the right thing for me to do right now is go into this bone zone and tank some boss in such a way that I get lots of people angry. People really like to melee or otherwise be right up with the monster for action, which is part of why DPS is always the most popular trait. That said, I think Dancer would be a great idea for XIV... but I think Red Mage and Samurai are already the top picks for the next expansion, and they're not too keen on doing 3 jobs at once again.
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