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Is it possible to take multiple collecting and crafting disciplines? Is it like other games where you can dig a big money hole if you don't find a synergy between collecting and crafting? I'm taking fishing no matter what so don't try to talk me out of it. 
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You can and should do everything on the same char but you don't need to do anything else to fish but fish.
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Sep 9, 2017 00:16
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Dick Trauma posted:Is it possible to take multiple collecting and crafting disciplines? Is it like other games where you can dig a big money hole if you don't find a synergy between collecting and crafting? Crafting is absolutely a money hole no matter what you do. Leveling gathering at the same time will mitigate it a bit, and I suppose you technically could be fully self-sufficient and gather/hunt everything you need and then craft your own gathering/crafting gear when it's time to upgrade, but it will take loving forever and after a certain point you're going to question whether fake money is worth more than real hours of your one life on earth and just hit up the market board for your mats And like Mr. Nice said, you can and should learn every discipline on the same character, especially if you plan to craft. Crafters can use cross-class skills, and some of them are (or were? I don't have any 70s yet) pretty essential so you're going to want to grind them all up to a certain point. Someone who knows more about crafting than me can be more specific about this. Ainsley McTree fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 9, 2017 00:32
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Apparently I need to go back to Waking Sands to unlock Garuda and Titan hard mode, despite there being literally no hint in game to do this?
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Sep 9, 2017 00:41
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Bolow posted:Apparently I need to go back to Waking Sands to unlock Garuda and Titan hard mode, despite there being literally no hint in game to do this? Hard mode garuda, titan and ifrit completion is required for one of the msq quests given by the same quest giver so normally you would take the unlock quests after turning in the previous main scenario quest to her. Later in the game trials only have two difficulties and you only need to take extreme unlock quests separately.
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Sep 9, 2017 00:53
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But generally yes, the only certain way to not miss a feature or instance unlock is to take every blue plus quest you see on the map.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:02
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My confusion came from the fact that the main scion base relocates halfway through the level 50 stuff, yet all the hard mode stuff is back at the waking sands with no reason to ever check there again.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:11
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Shy posted:But generally yes, the only certain way to not miss a feature or instance unlock is to take every blue plus quest you see on the map. I'm glad that after a certain point, they made it so that just unlocking the feature completes the quest. I still have quests for garuda ex and odin clogging up my log that I'm never planning to do, but leaving blue questgivers unspoken to is unacceptable to me now
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Sep 9, 2017 01:20
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Ainsley McTree posted:I'm glad that after a certain point, they made it so that just unlocking the feature completes the quest. I still have quests for garuda ex and odin clogging up my log that I'm never planning to do, but leaving blue questgivers unspoken to is unacceptable to me now Any random person can just like, solo those down for you if you want.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:21
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Ainsley McTree posted:I'm glad that after a certain point, they made it so that just unlocking the feature completes the quest. I still have quests for garuda ex and odin clogging up my log that I'm never planning to do, but leaving blue questgivers unspoken to is unacceptable to me now Every week on Tuesday people put up PFs to do those fights unsynced for wondrous tails
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Sep 9, 2017 01:21
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Saint Freak posted:Any random person can just like, solo those down for you if you want. cheetah7071 posted:Every week on Tuesday people put up PFs to do those fights unsynced for wondrous tails Hm, I forgot that unsynced was a thing. I could probably even solo them now, huh
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Sep 9, 2017 01:24
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cheetah7071 posted:Every week on Tuesday people put up PFs to do those fights unsynced for wondrous tails Ironically Titan EX is soloable but Titan hard isn't. Hard's gaol causes a wipe/reset if there's only one player alive and trapped, but extreme's just locks you down for ten seconds and hits you for ~14k afterwards. Go figure. 
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Sep 9, 2017 01:35
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Soloing arr extremes is still very annoying, it's much easier to start a party finder group and get people who'll be very happy to help for the first time bonuses.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:39
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Shy posted:Soloing arr extremes is still very annoying, it's much easier to start a party finder group and get people who'll be very happy to help for the first time bonuses. Just say "WT/Unsync with bonus" in the notes or whatever and people will come.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:40
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Shy posted:Soloing arr extremes is still very annoying, it's much easier to start a party finder group and get people who'll be very happy to help for the first time bonuses. Until you enrage ifrit like 6 times in a row because you can't explain to people to not loving hit buttons.
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Sep 9, 2017 01:44
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Dick Trauma posted:Is it possible to take multiple collecting and crafting disciplines? Is it like other games where you can dig a big money hole if you don't find a synergy between collecting and crafting? When you get to a point in the MSQ, you have to decide on a Grand Company. Every day, you have the opportunity to earn xp and GC seals (it's just a currency) for each of the crafting and gathering classes you have unlocked. For most of the crafting turn ins, you can just buy them from the vendor. #lifehax
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Saint Freak posted:Until you enrage ifrit like 6 times in a row because you can't explain to people to not loving hit buttons. I wasn't going to learn tactics for an irrelevant trial you don't pay my sub!!! I stopped after I saw "red mage calm your tits" in chat Shy fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 9, 2017 01:48
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I've actually had good luck with synced ex trials lately. I get them a fair amount when doing mentor roulette. I think my favourite part about getting an ex trial in mentor roulette is when someone quits or gets booted, and I get to see the reaction of the mentor that inevitably stumbles into the trial thereafter.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:11
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Bolow posted:My confusion came from the fact that the main scion base relocates halfway through the level 50 stuff, yet all the hard mode stuff is back at the waking sands with no reason to ever check there again. Spergy McElf is reluctant to move along with the rest of the scions because it would be unreasonable to move his entire library. This is the canonical excuse for what was a software limitation of sorts with having a quest giver in two different places for the same quest.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:27
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Well that's a terrifying as poo poo wedding.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:52
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Bolow posted:Well that's a terrifying as poo poo wedding. The magic circle text is AVERE over and over
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Sep 9, 2017 03:09
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Bolow posted:Well that's a terrifying as poo poo wedding. Hah, glad you did it! It's one of the best quests.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:38
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Bolow posted:Well that's a terrifying as poo poo wedding.
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Sep 9, 2017 03:41
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Bolow posted:Well that's a terrifying as poo poo wedding. I hope you had the opportunity to read all the notes. 
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Sep 9, 2017 03:58
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Asimo posted:gently caress, depending on your class you can probably solo some of the ARR EX trials unsynced. It's easier than it sounds, although you probably need to know the fight already first. IIRC you can solo Titan Hard, you just have to burst him really hard so he doesn't have time to gaol you.
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Sep 9, 2017 04:53
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vOv posted:IIRC you can solo Titan Hard, you just have to burst him really hard so he doesn't have time to gaol you. Actually at 70 the gaols don't do enough damage to kill you.
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Sep 9, 2017 04:58
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That's in extreme. Titan HM gaols do not explode on the person in them. If you solo it and get gaoled it instantly resets.
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Sep 9, 2017 05:03
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Yeah titan ex has been soloable for a while now. Earlier I remember having to adlo to survive gaol but late into HW just all that vit inflation meant I could just face tank everything. Titan HM, not so much, at least as a sch.
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Sep 9, 2017 05:17
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I would routinely solo titan EX as a moderately geared warrior at the end of heavensward
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Sep 9, 2017 05:18
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Really glad I picked Lancer/Dragoon, because the Midgarsomr stuff and Estinien
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Mr. Nice! posted:Spergy McElf is reluctant to move along with the rest of the scions because it would be unreasonable to move his entire library. This is the canonical excuse for what was a software limitation of sorts with having a quest giver in two different places for the same quest. Is it some kind of software limitation that made them decide to put the Aetherite so far away from the place you need to keep going back to over and over again? They even make fun of it one of the post ARR patch quests as the merchant guilds trying to annoy you.
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Sep 9, 2017 05:55
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Is it some kind of software limitation that made them decide to put the Aetherite so far away from the place you need to keep going back to over and over again? They even make fun of it one of the post ARR patch quests as the merchant guilds trying to annoy you. They make you run from Horizon to build character. Alternately, just take the ferry from Limsa to Vesper Bay, it's faster.
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cheetah7071 posted:I would routinely solo titan EX as a moderately geared warrior at the end of heavensward  I love soloing old group crap for fun anyway, been doing it ever since I realized I could manhandle Onyxia and Molten Core alone during... uh, WotLK? Maybe late TBC? I dunno it's over a decade ago.Also after 15-odd Odin kills trying to get glamour, 13 of the drops have been his goddamn boots. This loot table is very clearly skewed it seems and if I didn't see the DoW helm already I'd have assumed it was broken entirely or something.
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Sep 9, 2017 06:39
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Is it some kind of software limitation that made them decide to put the Aetherite so far away from the place you need to keep going back to over and over again? They even make fun of it one of the post ARR patch quests as the merchant guilds trying to annoy you. No that's a story plot beat. The syndicate in Uldah will not put an aetheryte there unless the scions will work for them. They won't which is why they move to mor dhona.
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Sep 9, 2017 07:33
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my group finally got to neo tonight, so I did what any sensible xiv player would do  we then died immediately forever
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Sep 9, 2017 07:36
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Yeah NED wrecks poo poo.
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Sep 9, 2017 07:37
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Sep 9, 2017 08:21
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Thinking of leveling a tank--can anyone give a rundown of how each plays? Not so much interested in meta-ness as playstyle and "fun." I hear warrior is fiddly and complicated, DK has been dumbed down and is boring until 70, paladin is good and smooth now?
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Sep 9, 2017 10:05
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I'm levelling a DARK right now and liking it, it gets good around 45 or so.
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porfiria posted:Thinking of leveling a tank--can anyone give a rundown of how each plays? Not so much interested in meta-ness as playstyle and "fun." I hear warrior is fiddly and complicated, DK has been dumbed down and is boring until 70, paladin is good and smooth now? WAR: * If you liked to Fell Cleave before... GET READY TO FELL CLEAVE MORE. * No way of generating job-specific resource when AoEing. This can lead to situations where you need to do area threat, but also need to use your single-target combos in order to generate Beast Gauge. * Shake It Off is a dog of a skill. * Onslaught really should *generate* Beast Gauge, rather than consume it. You can't ever use it to pull unless you had some trash to build gauge off of. * Infuriate can't be used to generate Gauge unless you're "in combat". SE doesn't want you to sit there for two minutes building up a full bar before pulling. * Allegedly has a huge sack of HP to mitigate things, but the healing isn't keeping up with the ballooning HP. * Could use a second pass to rejigger what level you get your skills to make them make more sense. PLD: * Play this tank if you would rather die by a thousand cuts. * Brings a lot of utility. Damage reduction for the other tank and the entire party. Shields for the entire party. Self-healing. Blocks magic now. * Does not lag behind in damage compared to the others. * King Big Dick Tank now. * Could use a second pass to rejigger what level you get your skills to make them make more sense. DRK * Play this tank to embrace your inner edgelord. Put Linkin Park on repeat and get ready to wear those CDs out. * Brings less utility than PLD, but more than WAR. * Could use a second pass to rejigger what level you get your skills to make them make more sense.
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