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Seymour Butts posted:Hi! I got this game a couple weeks ago and I'm a level 32 archer, a couple quests away from becoming a bard. Game is really fun even if I have no idea what I'm doing. Just doing the main story quest and beating the obligatory dungeons with randoms. Um yea, that's it, I guess.
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Apr 15, 2018 21:39
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Help I can't stop leveling all the classes. I tried out rogue this morning and I'm having a good time except in sastasha the one time I went into a dungeon for a daily roulette.
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Apr 15, 2018 23:34
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The actual pro strat is to level all the jobs of a single type so you can throw away all the old gear as you outlevel it instead of hemming and hawing about "maybe you'll level that other class some day"
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Apr 15, 2018 23:50
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I had a lvl 70 RDM long casting Veraero & Verthunder. Told them hey use jolt first and I don't think it really sunk in 
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Apr 15, 2018 23:59
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I honestly hope some time along the road they add something like heirloom armor just to make my armory chest stop crying from being full.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:20
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LethalGeek posted:I had a lvl 70 RDM long casting Veraero & Verthunder. Told them hey use jolt first and I don't think it really sunk in Had this happen during a synced Whorleater extreme last night, it made me very sad and I was trying to tell him to open with Jolt but I was too busy dying.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:36
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So if I were to level a healing class, what would the materia priority be for each of them?
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Apr 16, 2018 00:55
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I don't have definite answers, but I'd think you want Mind, Piety, Spell Speed, and ??? If there is anything else I am still figuring out materia myself.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:58
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ChaseSP posted:I honestly hope some time along the road they add something like heirloom armor just to make my armory chest stop crying from being full. This is what retainers are for. Already filled one up to the brim and have started on my second. >_> Hit 70 with my second and third jobs today - cheating because it was summoner and scholar. That main scenario roulette is a huge chunk of XP if you have the time to spare.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:58
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How many retainers can you have without having to pay for them? As I'm learning real quick that I don't have the space for my blue equips that I don't use at the moment.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:00
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Nomadic Scholar posted:How many retainers can you have without having to pay for them? As I'm learning real quick that I don't have the space for my blue equips that I don't use at the moment.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:01
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Well, guess I'll just have one be a miner and the other be a botanist. May as well stockpile stuff to sell, since the demand outstrips the listings half the time on this server.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:03
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Nomadic Scholar posted:I don't have definite answers, but I'd think you want Mind, Piety, Spell Speed, and ??? If there is anything else I am still figuring out materia myself. You wouldn't be able to meld Mind because it'd be capped on anything you'd actually equip. Det/crit increase your healing and DPS so they're both good, I don't even know what people do with piety on healers anymore, Spell Speed might be to taste. DHit doesn't increase your healing at all and should probably be avoided.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:10
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Why do they even slap Dhit on so much healer gear. They don't really need help hitting stuff for the most part.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:14
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Nomadic Scholar posted:Why do they even slap Dhit on so much healer gear. They don't really need help hitting stuff for the most part. They’re just mini-crits that can stack with regular crits, aren’t they? Upping your chances of those on your offensive spells hardly seems like a bad thing, even if other stats are better.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:19
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Last time I checked in with healers it was recommended to have one DH materia so that you could actually get direct hits, because without it your chance to do so was zero. But I don't really play healer unless there is no other option so I am not the best at this advice.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:22
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To piggyback off of Darth Walrus's question, what are the materia priorities for Samurai? Just capped mine, and when I went to google it gave me every possible answer for what to slot. Also I heard Samurai and Dark Knight are getting buffs soon?
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Apr 16, 2018 01:26
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"Soon" as in like 6 weeks yeah.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:31
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I'm curious what the changes to Astrologian will be, since I've been racing to heavensward to grab the class.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:34
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Nomadic Scholar posted:Why do they even slap Dhit on so much healer gear. They don't really need help hitting stuff for the most part. On Lv50 gear? It used to be accuracy. Any healer gear in HW/SB shouldn't have any.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:37
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Okay that makes sense. Either way I've been gearing up on whatever stuff I can for AST/healers for when I can play them.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:38
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Nomadic Scholar posted:Well, guess I'll just have one be a miner and the other be a botanist. May as well stockpile stuff to sell, since the demand outstrips the listings half the time on this server. I recommend one as a combat class. Typically it's easier to acquire tradeskill materials as a MIN/BOT/FSH than to kill mobs (due to time & drop rates). It's fine to have the other as MIN/BOT for elemental shards if nothing else.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:44
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I'm pretty much a scrub but I'd often drop some Piety on my AST set, not least because I'd gas out. What are the changes they're putting on DRK and AST anyway?
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Apr 16, 2018 01:48
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I'd also recommend at least one combat based retainer, preferably set it as same class as your main so you can keep it geared with hand-me-downs. Also if I'm not mistaken retainers cannot get higher level in a class then what you are? Despite how good it may sound on paper, gathering retainers aren't as useful as one may think, I have 6 retainers myself (yes I'm a gear hoarder ), two of which are set as gatherers and I barely ever send them out on anything specific, while my combat retainers are kept busy running ventures 24/7.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:54
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Choyi posted:I'd also recommend at least one combat based retainer, preferably set it as same class as your main so you can keep it geared with hand-me-downs. Also if I'm not mistaken retainers cannot get higher level in a class then what you are? Correct, retainers cannot be a higher level than you are. Gathering retainers also cannot be sent to gather something you haven't gathered yourself. I will say one of the advantages gathering retainers bring is getting unspoiled node items for you. Once you've gathered it once you never have to wait for the node to appear again because you can send your retainer to go get the thing in 50-60 minutes. You won't get as much as you might be able to if you gather yourself, mind, but it's a passive way to keep getting something you may want/need without having to idle around.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:16
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Nessus posted:I'm pretty much a scrub but I'd often drop some Piety on my AST set, not least because I'd gas out. What are the changes they're putting on DRK and AST anyway? No one knows. We might get something whenever the next live letter is but they generally don't talk specifics on job adjustments.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:24
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Automated Posting posted:To piggyback off of Darth Walrus's question, what are the materia priorities for Samurai? Just capped mine, and when I went to google it gave me every possible answer for what to slot. Right now, full skill speed is the highest potential DPS build for sam. It isn't enormously different from a full crit build though, and if you want to share gear between sam and monk I'd recommend going full crit (because sam is still fine with full crit, but monk is garbage with full skill speed). Either way, go all in with crit or skill speed, rather than a mix of both.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:39
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Nessus posted:I'm pretty much a scrub but I'd often drop some Piety on my AST set, not least because I'd gas out. What are the changes they're putting on DRK and AST anyway? Won't know until the patch notes land.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:43
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How does Warrior compare to Dark Knight in terms of play style? I have Drk at 70 but it seems all I am able to accomplish when playing it is wiping Byakko EX groups.
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Apr 16, 2018 04:01
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Cythereal posted:This is what retainers are for. Already filled one up to the brim and have started on my second. >_> Judging by the pile of gear on my retainers that I think has been there for more then a year, I think i'd end up forgetting what I put on my retainers by the time it's useful. Alt gear is actually pretty easy if you're lazy - keep stuff for 50/60/70 - you can pretty much manage 50-60 on ironworks (120/130) and 60-70 on shire (260/270) as long as you aren't planning to chain running dungeons in the latter part of the range. Remainder of space can go to pre 50 gear but you can always just grab some vendor gear. I've been going for the "level up the same role" strategy lately as well. It was so nice getting my casters and healers maxed and ditching all that old gear.
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Apr 16, 2018 04:53
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ChaseSP posted:I honestly hope some time along the road they add something like heirloom armor just to make my armory chest stop crying from being full. I mean, I guess you could argue that the point of WoW's heirloom armor was to make it so that you didn't have to get gear, but really, imo, the point of heirloom gear was just to accelerate your XP gain so you'd get to endgame faster. Which the game already does in various and divers ways. You've got: SwissArmyDruid posted:Armory Bonus (+100% 1-59, +50% from 60+) Of note: Ala Mhigan Earrings were a Stormblood preorder bonus. Friendship circlet is a referral bonus, which you can get by being either the referrer, or referree.
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Apr 16, 2018 06:16
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the biggest impendiment in FFXIV has always been the veritable mountain of poo poo you need to get through, not the time it takes to level. also, armory bonus doesn't apply to your first class, which is the biggest source of bonus xp you get.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:15
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On your first class, you don't really care much about that though, you'll outlevel the story just by doing some roulettes and sidequests anyway.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:22
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You don't always get enough XP when you follow just the MSQ and that's a bit of a problem.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:28
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That's what quests are for.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:49
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Story progression should be a cohesive experience, having to stop and do some bullshit fetch quests because you're a level away from the closure is bad.
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Apr 16, 2018 08:54
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Shy posted:Story progression should be a cohesive experience, having to stop and do some bullshit fetch quests because you're a level away from the closure is bad. However there is that complete lull between 47 and 50 and there I agree with you completely.
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Apr 16, 2018 09:26
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Based on how much FF14 holds your hand and doesn't unlock stuff until you reach the correct point in the MSQ, I think you can argue that the story progression should be more fluid and depend less on the player breathing in a new zone and loving off to do enough of some random NPC's fetch quests or optional roulettes/dungeons (that makes them slightly less optional). I don't think anything of value would be lost if they increased MSQ and job quest XP as well as dungeon XP enough so the first job could get through the MSQ with less to no "optional" content and no XP bonuses (or reduce the required XP per level accordingly, but then you're accelerating alt jobs' leveling and we can't have that). However, as long as the game is not structured like that, you can easily outlevel the MSQ even without random FedEx quests by just doing low level roulette a couple of times. Once you unlock dailies and other roulette it's not really an issue anymore.
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Apr 16, 2018 09:34
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Choyi posted:My sets are color coded too, blue for tank, red for dps and green for healer, since that's the colors the roles have in the party icons I based it off the gem colors used for stats in 2.0, kind of. Crafting = Slate Grey Gathering = Russet Brown Fending = Honey Yellow Maiming = Pumpkin Orange Striking = Dalamud Red Scouting = Rolanberry Red (kind of halfway between red and purple) Aiming = Regal Purple Casting = Royal Blue Healing = Hunter Green
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Nessus posted:I disagree with you in general because the story, even in ARR, has numerous rest breaks and points where you're in a new area, and I don't think it's unreasonable for the game to assume you are at least looking around a little rather than grimly chugging literally every aspect of the experience so you can hit 70 and do Eureka. It's just a poor excuse for bad pacing. You can have rest breaks without the game enforcing them through leveling gaps, which generally have to be compensated for with side quests or roulettes, not exactly resting. A rest break is when an NPC tells you the job is done and you can rest now, so you can shut down the game and resume the next day without busywork if you don't want to.
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