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I'd much much much rather have a dungeon every two levels than dungeons randomly skewed about levels just to be surprising. It's weird to me anyone would want differently? Like is being surprised really better than knowing there's always an on-level dungeon for you?
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Are there some specfic items i could buy with GC Seals that generally sell well? Or some other general money making tactics that dont really focus on gathering?
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Jul 11, 2017 23:09
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Saint Freak posted:I mean, the completely safe but unsatisfying answer is that you're such a small percent of your team's damage, and then grit is a small percent of that, and then the amount of time you would be able to drop it is a small percent of the total time, so all compounded the answer is 'no one would ever notice the benefits of you dropping it, but if you do it wrong and lose aggro/die/wipe then holy poo poo are they going to notice that and also you lost more time than you would've ever saved' The best healer's dps is enough lower than even a tank that this trade-off isn't really a thing
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Jul 11, 2017 23:13
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Does the "play for free up to level 35" thing not work for accounts that have previously been subscribed? It's not letting me log in because I don't have a "valid service account".
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Jul 11, 2017 23:16
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ImpAtom posted:I'd much much much rather have a dungeon every two levels than dungeons randomly skewed about levels just to be surprising. It's weird to me anyone would want differently? Like is being surprised really better than knowing there's always an on-level dungeon for you? This whole line of discussion is really strange. Do people complain about metrical rhythm making songs predictable?
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The Shortest Path posted:Does the "play for free up to level 35" thing not work for accounts that have previously been subscribed? It's not letting me log in because I don't have a "valid service account". yes it only works for fresh trials. trying to login where? the game client won't let you in without an active sub (and won't let you download the game either), you can resub in mog station.
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Jul 11, 2017 23:22
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Also as someone who mains dungeons for leveling having one every 2 levels is good. Keeps things moving even when the last dungeon gets a bit of the short stick (which is a further motivator to actually getting there for another class.)Harrow posted:I'm not sure why "random drops with bad luck protection" is something nobody ever seems to do. Something like: The two glaring flaws (aside from it already being implemented) that you're not seeing is the 'reasonable amount of runs' thing. Invariably that number is going to be larger than a player wants and yet smaller than the design team intends for content longevity, having the bad luck protection being currency in a dungeon's case also future-proofs that dungeon for inclusion into content designed to get people to run old stuff. Prime example: 99 tokens to get a primal mount guaranteed is ideal for content longevity but horrid in a 'reasonable amount of runs' perspective. The other glaring flaw is that such a system depends on the content it's designed around, both in a player fun factor and in a 'time spent doing this content' factor. Invariably people will get bored of running stuff no matter how much they love it which leads to the Brayflox Hard problem of people blitzing the content and burning out on it (and the whole game in general.) Both of these aren't problems that any system can 100% solve. It's up to the designers to pick their philosophy, stick to it and adjust it with feedback from the playerbase.
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There is at least one thing that is important for gear that you can't buy with tomestones and that's grade VI materia. The current system of only really being able to get it via hunts isn't great but it's not from tomestones.
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Jul 11, 2017 23:32
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Shy posted:yes it only works for fresh trials. Hm okay. What's the best way to buy the expansion, just their store page?
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Jul 11, 2017 23:34
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The Shortest Path posted:Hm okay. What's the best way to buy the expansion, just their store page? Greenmangaming usually has it cheaper.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:The best healer's dps is enough lower than even a tank that this trade-off isn't really a thing what? this is factually wrong
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Magil Zeal posted:There is at least one thing that is important for gear that you can't buy with tomestones and that's grade VI materia. The current system of only really being able to get it via hunts isn't great but it's not from tomestones. I think you can also get them from level 70 dungeons but the easiest way is hunts. You have a 50% chance to get a cracked cluster which you can turn in for any grade VI materia, and 40 seals which gets you a 1/10th of the way there to another grade VI
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Magil Zeal posted:There is at least one thing that is important for gear that you can't buy with tomestones and that's grade VI materia. The current system of only really being able to get it via hunts isn't great but it's not from tomestones. That or being a tank  Reiterpallasch posted:what? this is factually wrong Ok, I should perhaps have qualified "in the groups I've run in the healer is never anywhere near tank dps" Perhaps peak healer dps is higher than this, but I haven't seen it and can't access flogs from my phone easily to confirm this one way or the other.
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I haven't really played much FFXIV endgame stuff before now, so I'm not sure how tomestones will work once Creation is added. I know Creation will be used to buy higher-level gear than Verity but also have a weekly cap on how much you can get. What roulettes/instances will give Creation, and what will give Verity?
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Harrow posted:I haven't really played much FFXIV endgame stuff before now, so I'm not sure how tomestones will work once Creation is added. I know Creation will be used to buy higher-level gear than Verity but also have a weekly cap on how much you can get. What roulettes/instances will give Creation, and what will give Verity? Basically everything you do at level 70 will give verity. Most things you do at level 70 will give Creation as well. The biggest source is the daily bonus for doing Expert Roulette. Other good sources will be hunts and maps.
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Can square please hurry up and copy WoW's wardrobe system so my inventory/retainers arent full of cool clothing at all times. Thanks.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:Ok, I should perhaps have qualified "in the groups I've run in the healer is never anywhere near tank dps" well, logs wouldn't help you much since nobody uploads dungeon runs to exdr; and dps stance tanks do signficantly more damage than healers single-target for sure. but in dungeon runs, i'm generally beating the tank in even modest pulls (2 packs at a time) by a fair margin, and i'm nowhere close to the peak output for AST
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so I just fought susano normal for the first time. that sword blocking mechanic is the loving best.
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Just popping in to say that tomestones rule and are a big reason I am playing this and not WoW. Please do not do anything that WoW is doing in terms of acquiring equipment.
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hahahaa, I've discovered the coolest way to handle Holy on exdeath: if you get zombied, and it picks a target to attack, and that person gets knocked off, you'll zombie right off the cliff after him. I happened to get targeted by holy during this nonsense 
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EponymousMrYar posted:Two more notches against that theory are that both died where it could be reasonable to assume that their blades couldn't be recovered and Zenos specifically said 'give your blade to the Butcher,' meaning said Garlean mauve shirt was being demoted in addition to giving her a Gunblade. I mean, SAM gets a junior version of X-attack with Enpi. Maybe Enhanced Enpi should give it the same visual effect as theirs, but.
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Magil Zeal posted:There is at least one thing that is important for gear that you can't buy with tomestones and that's grade VI materia. The current system of only really being able to get it via hunts isn't great but it's not from tomestones. The expert roulette dungeons seem to be dropping grade V and VI materia like candy though. Isn't that how most people do the weekly tomestone grind? So it's not like you're really doing anything different to get materia than you are to get tomestones. (That said, randomly doing hunts to break up my crafting/gathering leveling grind has been a lot of fun over the last week or so. Glad I joined that hunt linkshell.) jalapeno_dude fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Can square please hurry up and copy WoW's wardrobe system so my inventory/retainers arent full of cool clothing at all times. Thanks. They're never going to do this. They would be killing the golden goose that is extra retainers.
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Yoshi's also said to some effect that the 1.0 code actively prevents them from doing so (because apparently all of our inventories travel with us on every zone in.)
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Fister Roboto posted:They would be killing the golden goose that is extra retainers. Do that many people pay for it?
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EponymousMrYar posted:Yoshi's also said to some effect that the 1.0 code actively prevents them from doing so (because apparently all of our inventories travel with us on every zone in.) After the talk that explained why it took so long for WoW's default starting bag to be increased from 16 slots I'm afraid to learn much about how Square handles inventories.
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nuru posted:After the talk that explained why it took so long for WoW's default starting bag to be increased from 16 slots I'm afraid to learn much about how Square handles inventories. It's still 16.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Realtalk: A Rowena boss fight is the perfect candidate for a Hildibrand side story trial.
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As someone who hasn't played since before the release of heavensward but looking to get back, would it be worth it to play through the heavensward story? It looks kind of neat but part of me really wants see all the eastern asian stuff that stormblood has.
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You guys having issues with the ps4 client having to be redownloaded after a power outage, it ended up being an issue with a faulty system update from sony or something, a new update is available that fixes the issue. e-Eh, it was mentioned a few pages ago but its good repeating Cao Ni Ma fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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polish sausage posted:As someone who hasn't played since before the release of heavensward but looking to get back, would it be worth it to play through the heavensward story? It looks kind of neat but part of me really wants see all the eastern asian stuff that stormblood has. Heavensward content is quite good. In my opinion better than Stormblood and it pains me to say that since I am a giant weeb. SB has better dungeons though.
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polish sausage posted:As someone who hasn't played since before the release of heavensward but looking to get back, would it be worth it to play through the heavensward story? It looks kind of neat but part of me really wants see all the eastern asian stuff that stormblood has. Totally play through it, it's cool and not too long. I mean if the alternative is boosting through it you'll regret it later. Shy fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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polish sausage posted:As someone who hasn't played since before the release of heavensward but looking to get back, would it be worth it to play through the heavensward story? It looks kind of neat but part of me really wants see all the eastern asian stuff that stormblood has. Yes, Heavensward is great. I was in the same boat and I'm glad I played through Heavensward. I just finished Stormblood's MSQ yesterday and I think I liked it about as much. Heavensward is drat good, really. Plus, if you want to level, doing the MSQ is a decent way to do that.
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What's the general consensus on the melee DPS classes? I made an alt on Excalibur recently and I'm looking to buy a level 60 jump potion, and since as I've only really played SMN, PLD, and AST on my main, I thought I'd try something different this time. Obviously raw damage output is going to change from patch to patch, but I'd rather not spend $25 on a jump and then find out that the class is going to feel like it's missing a button or three until I hit level 70 on it. I'm kind of thinking NIN at the moment, but I'm indecisive about these things.
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awesome. heavensward it is then! I just remembered the original campaign was kind of a slog but then again all the qol stuff that seemed to happen to this game wasn't there.
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nuru posted:After the talk that explained why it took so long for WoW's default starting bag to be increased from 16 slots I'm afraid to learn much about how Square handles inventories. Can you link that? It sounds fascinating.
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Shy posted:It's still 16. It was a bleak talk.
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jalapeno_dude posted:The expert roulette dungeons seem to be dropping grade V and VI materia like candy though. Isn't that how most people do the weekly tomestone grind? So it's not like you're really doing anything different to get materia than you are to get tomestones. You're unlikely to be able to gear up a full set of gear on the back of very random VI drops from dungeons though.
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Solo Wing Pixy posted:What's the general consensus on the melee DPS classes? I made an alt on Excalibur recently and I'm looking to buy a level 60 jump potion, and since as I've only really played SMN, PLD, and AST on my main, I thought I'd try something different this time. Obviously raw damage output is going to change from patch to patch, but I'd rather not spend $25 on a jump and then find out that the class is going to feel like it's missing a button or three until I hit level 70 on it. I'm kind of thinking NIN at the moment, but I'm indecisive about these things. NIN is very complete and the post-60 stuff is just overall nice additions, but you won't feel bad without it. Source: I boosted a NIN.
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