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Can you guys stop ruining my chance to actually get a goddamned book? 
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Oct 18, 2016 11:18
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Can we just cycle around the book when were done reading?
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Oct 18, 2016 11:48
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Can someone buy the book and book tickets for a round trip flight so I can come and pick it up? I'm not paying for that delivery charge because it's so expensive.
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Oct 18, 2016 12:05
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SpaceDrake posted:The BIG one, though, that I'm not sure is mentioned in game, and is big enough for me to tag: "Widargelt" is a pseudonym of sorts. His true name is Theodred - nephew to Theodoric, the King of Ruin. He's the closest thing to an heir to the Ala Mhigan throne. He may not be aware of this fact, however, because he was raised as a monk since he was, like, a toddler. He was sent to live with the surviving monks when Theodoric was otherwise purging his own family. I just find this particularly interesting because, despite the undoubted story influence this is going to have, Widargelt has simple sentence structure that drives me mad and would prevent me from ever expecting him to be royalty by any means. He is so stoic and lacking in emotion, stating only the absolutely most obvious in monotone fashion, that Erik would always chastise him and the player character as a result, proclaiming them to be simpletons. I don't think anyone else ever took it so seriously and we all understood that Erik was being a stereotypical arrogant scholar, but still, Widargelt never set off the aura of a patriarch. I think that it will be good to see him react to the news of his lineage, and I have always wondered if he was capable of more emotion Maybe now is our chance.
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Oct 18, 2016 12:20
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The Grimace posted:I just find this particularly interesting because, despite the undoubted story influence this is going to have, Widargelt has simple sentence structure that drives me mad and would prevent me from ever expecting him to be royalty by any means. He is so stoic and lacking in emotion, stating only the absolutely most obvious in monotone fashion, that Erik would always chastise him and the player character as a result, proclaiming them to be simpletons. I don't think anyone else ever took it so seriously and we all understood that Erik was being a stereotypical arrogant scholar, but still, Widargelt never set off the aura of a patriarch. I think that it will be good to see him react to the news of his lineage, and I have always wondered if he was capable of more emotion Maybe now is our chance. Do you think Erik knows and was trying to get Widargelt to break out of his shell? I mean, he seems too self-absorbed in his research to even notice or care about something like that, but maybe the whole time he was just trying to get a rise out of the monk and make him angry enough to actually do something about Ala Mhigo.
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Oct 18, 2016 13:52
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Kwyndig posted:Do you think Erik knows and was trying to get Widargelt to break out of his shell? I mean, he seems too self-absorbed in his research to even notice or care about something like that, but maybe the whole time he was just trying to get a rise out of the monk and make him angry enough to actually do something about Ala Mhigo. I doubt it, the level 50 MNK quest is Widergelt trying to kill you and absorb your power so that he can do something about Ala Mhigo, it's Erik that talks him down after the fight. IIRC Erik actually hits him.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:05
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Someone explain Free Companies to me. What are the advantages to joining or creating one? What purpose do they serve? I can't tell if they're worthwhile or not. Also, has anyone here gone through the process to be a mentor? Do you like it?
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Oct 18, 2016 15:09
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SpaceDrake posted:I'm more surprised people aren't talking about Zenos' other weapon. Should look familiar to people who have followed Final Fantasy side projects for long enough. All I've really seen of him is him and his Gunkatana so far, I don't see any more specific info. Interesting bit about the XIIth Legion, though: This is not only a reference to FF12's Occupation theme, it's also a reference to Rome. The XIIth Legion (specifically Legio duodecima Fulminata) was the Roman Legion founded/commanded by Julius Caeser. Gearhead fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 15:09
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FactsAreUseless posted:Someone explain Free Companies to me. What are the advantages to joining or creating one? What purpose do they serve? I can't tell if they're worthwhile or not. They're guilds, you get access to FC workshops where you can build workshops & expensive housing exterior appearance skins, and a garden outside where you can grow regular crops & crossbreed expensive things in some arcane ritual. You can also stable your chocobo at a stable at an FC house, though this is less important as you can do that at an apartment now. They're a nice big space that you can decorate with your FC, which is nice. Mentorship isn't anywhere near as involved as you might think. You have the chance to get dumped into a newbie chat channel, but there's probably enough mentors on your server that you'll never get put in there. You get a variety (three - general mentor, PVP, and Gathering/Crafting) of status icons that you can set your ingame status to (which is nothing but an epeen thing, as far as I can tell), and access to a 'mentor roulette' which is basically every dungeon, hard and extreme mode primal, coil, normal alexander, with matchmaking focused on putting you with new players who otherwise might find it hard to get people. The roulette doesn't give much of a reward but I think there's a title or item reward for doing whatever the achievement level of mentor roulettes is (1k, I think).
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Oct 18, 2016 15:18
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FactsAreUseless posted:Someone explain Free Companies to me. What are the advantages to joining or creating one? What purpose do they serve? I can't tell if they're worthwhile or not. FC are your guilds in this game. Their main advantage is to have a pool of players to run content with reliably, if DF isn't your thing. Also crafters to make you kick rear end gear. You also get perks like steep teleport discounts or increased XP gain. If housing is your thing they are just about the only way to get a room to customize, assuming the FC has a house. Also they get to send airships out for goods and can do the higher tiers of Diadem but no one really does that anymore.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:20
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FactsAreUseless posted:Someone explain Free Companies to me. What are the advantages to joining or creating one? What purpose do they serve? I can't tell if they're worthwhile or not. 1) Social aspects. Each FC has its own chat channel, and it's a good way to get into linkshells (smaller private chat channels). 2) FC buffs. Can have two active at any given time. Everyone in the FC gets them automatically. XP bonus, lower gil cost of teleporting, etc. 3) Crafting! Some FCs are generous with crafting, like they'll just make gear if you ask for it. It's best to expect you'll need to get the mats yourself, but I know most crafters in the 3 goon guilds on Excalibur are cool with crafting lower level gear (up to 50) for free. 4) Assistance with groups or other content. Not as important while leveling, but it's nice to get a solid group once content starts getting more difficult. 5) Guild house. Also a social aspect, but often times you can get assistance with crafting there (or help the FC craft a larger project). 6) FC bank. Depends on the FC. Generally you can expect crafting crystals and glamour prisms. quote:Also, has anyone here gone through the process to be a mentor? Do you like it? I have. It's a shitshow in US - the requirements are more about time gating than expertise. Supposedly it works better in JP.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:22
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Please join a FC as soon as possible. If you're playing on Excalibur, then join one of the goon guilds for around 1500 new cool friends to play with. Your new friends will craft you leveling gear and take you through newbie runs of dungeons, trials and other content. tl;dr friends = good
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Oct 18, 2016 15:26
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I'm on Jenova. It's impossible to get on any of the big servers anymore. I've never seen them open.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:27
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chinese barbecue porp posted:I'm 6/9 seals into my last week's book. If I turn it in today do I get a new book for this week? That should be how it works, yes. You have two weeks to complete each journal, and you can get a new one every week, but you can only hold one at a time, so it's basically a weekly thing with some leeway.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:28
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm on Jenova. It's impossible to get on any of the big servers anymore. I've never seen them open. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/80cd4583bf743600105b947d6906d0909189e479 It's possible to make a character on Excalibur as I'm posting this. You can also (and should if you're very invested in your current character) spend $18 to server transfer to excal.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:35
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also hey 3.5 is adding cross-server partying!
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Oct 18, 2016 15:37
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Mr. Nice! posted:http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/80cd4583bf743600105b947d6906d0909189e479
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Oct 18, 2016 15:38
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Blockhouse posted:also hey 3.5 is adding cross-server partying!
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Oct 18, 2016 15:38
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you are so going to regret not spending the time to join up with goons in a month or two
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Oct 18, 2016 15:40
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well regarding Widargelt and Eric: This was planted pretty obviously even in the Monk Quest. Eric seems to be absurdly well informed, even if you know he was an Ala Mhigan, he was pretty clearly aware of everything that was happening and was fairly okay with it, even when he was playing a character; like he spent a lot of time trying to be a 'snobbish academic' but when you get to level 50 he's clearly far more emotionally invested in you and Widargelt. I'm expecting Eric to have been some kind of royal advisor or something, if that isn't obvious or hasn't been mentioned already. The fact he's completely missing from the 50+ quests is also interesting and makes me think he may have left for Ala Mhigo or something way before.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:42
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friends are fleeting but goons are eternal My condolences
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Oct 18, 2016 15:42
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I can't speak for the Goon FC on Excal (or elsewhere) so don't take this as a knock on it but I've had tenures in many highly populated FCs and not a single one of them have actually run content for people when people ask. They were, however, extremely into the points that were being farmed up by everyone. I'm sure some FC's are awesome, but I've yet to meet them and not really interested in trying anymore. Linkshells with cool people are ideal, in my opinion.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:44
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm on Jenova. It's impossible to get on any of the big servers anymore. I've never seen them open. That is unfortunate. It's usually best to put in the extra effort to create on Excalibur when starting this game. Excalibur is only open for character creation at odd hours of the night, or morning, but once the character is created there's no limitations on getting on the server. Being in the goon FCs is very helpful for being able to run post-50 content with mostly competent people.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:47
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My friend and I would've gone to Excal (and I'd have asked to bring him as my plus one to a goon FC) if we weren't impatient, we didn't really, really, really like our house, and if we gave a poo poo to play at all seriously. But if you do want to play at all seriously, even a bit, your best bet really is to try making a character on Excal. It saves real money on a server transfer. We've been on Brynhildr for literally years and doing fine farting about, though.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:52
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I really wish they would put in an alliance system facilitating communication between FCs. Right now, we have 3 FCs with around 1300 or more total members. After Heavensward came out, PBC would often have 150 people online at once. Now during prime time, however, there are probably about 50-60 online at best. I'm sure DGKK and TPT are about the same. So that's over 150 online during prime time across the FCs with no way to facilitate proper communication.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:53
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Doesn't all the dutied content connect you across servers anyway?
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Oct 18, 2016 15:59
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FactsAreUseless posted:Doesn't all the dutied content connect you across servers anyway? Yeah, but sometimes it helps to actually be able to coordinate and communicate with people in real time. Especially if you're playing content that's at all challenging.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:00
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it's across Server Clusters but not all Servers.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:01
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm not changing servers, my GF and I play together on this one. Pay to move her as well. She can join a goon FC also. Here is why you want to switch. A few days ago we had a newer goon trying to find help with extreme primals for wondrous tails. He had been in queue for a while and was too shy to ask. The moment he mentioned in FC chat what he was doing, I got a group together of 8 people in a matter of minutes and we just clowned a ton of content for him. At any given time there are between 100-200 goons online and actively playing the game. We have three goon FCs that are at near capacity and are all extremely active. Prior to my server transfer I was in a small FC on giglamesh. They were good people, but it was maybe a dozen or two people in total. As such it was hard for me to just get some basic content done. It took me a week to get past story mode garuda because of long rear end DPS queues and just in general bad pubbies. On excalibur I can get a full group together (even sometimes a full 24 people for silly things like book club LotA) in minutes. It is 100% worth it to transfer.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:16
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Anyone willing to sell/trade a code for the summoner outfit? I was away and wasn't able to purchase the livestream.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:16
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Also all three goon FCs have specialist crafters of pretty much every type. It's possible to get absolutely anything crafted. I can make anyone anything sub 60 and I probably have most the mats on hand to make it. You can just ask in FC chat if someone can make you a set of level 40 dragoon gear and someone will poo poo it out with a few button presses in minutes. I mean, it might be pink, but it'll be HQ and free. Also I can't speak for DGKK and PBC, but the TPT chest always has level 50 crafted weapons ready for all new level 50s along with glamor prisms and other such stuff.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:21
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more like dICK posted:Anyone willing to sell/trade a code for the summoner outfit? I was away and wasn't able to purchase the livestream. I thought it was still purchasable? If it's not you can just buy the ticket for the JP fanfest, you won't get the summoner outfit until after that anyways I think.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:24
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I'd join yall in Excal in a heartbeat but my connection to the Aether data center is way better 
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Oct 18, 2016 16:25
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I can't speak for the Goon FC on Excal (or elsewhere) so don't take this as a knock on it but I've had tenures in many highly populated FCs and not a single one of them have actually run content for people when people ask. They were, however, extremely into the points that were being farmed up by everyone. TPT at least is filled with people who will run whatever you ask them to help you with if they're available. I did nearly every dungeon and raid in the game up to 3.3 that way.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:27
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I'd go to Excal but I don't want to play through the whole game again, paying 18 bucks to transfer is annoying, and I already spent Gil on an apartment
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Oct 18, 2016 16:28
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BrightWing posted:I'd join yall in Excal in a heartbeat but my connection to the Aether data center is way better They're both in Montreal, Canada. Your connection to Aether is identical to Primal because they're in the same place. So for activity, individually the goon FCs rank 33, 37, and 103 in the world. Combine the three and we're the second most active group in the entire world. If you look on excalibur alone, we're 1, 2, and 5.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:29
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Is the split simply because of an arbitrary FC member limit in FFXIV? That tends to be a pain in the rear end for Goons in every MMO except EVE Online. Don't play EVE Online.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:34
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Oct 18, 2016 16:34
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Do you like to pose outside your mansion(s) with your Kettle Knuckles Nexuses? The answer to that is the true answer to whether an FC is truly great or not.
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ilifinicus posted:you are so going to regret not spending the time to join up with goons in a month or two Cannot be stressed enough. I dropped a level 45 character on Cerberus in order to start fresh on Excalibur with goons and it was THE BEST decision I ever made.
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