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any tips for the HQ helm component Ixal quest for someone with lvl 30 CUL and 15 everything else? This quest is kicking my rear end.
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Been finishing up my crafters, and I think it might have been said in the thread before but I appreciate that in the LTW 68 quest, the questgiver acknowledges I have a particular set of skills (when saying I should not use them). Because murdering that idiot who calls himself a hearer probably wouldn't go over well, no matter how much booze I bribe Kan-E with.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:00
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pupuru posted:any tips for the HQ helm component Ixal quest for someone with lvl 30 CUL and 15 everything else? This quest is kicking my rear end. i have no idea what your gear looks like, but assuming its basically the highest NQ crafter gear you can have + ixal gloves try something like this /ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2> /ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2> /ac "Waste Not" <wait.2> /ac "Standard Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2> /ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Great Strides" <wait.2> /ac "Standard Touch" <wait.3> /ac "Careful Synthesis" <wait.3> /ac "Careful Synthesis" <wait.3> /ac "Careful Synthesis" <wait.3> /echo Macro #1 complete <se.14> if youre not in updated NQ gear, notably on the right side, you might have to chug a Stone Soup for some extra CP Either way, this is only gonna be a 22% HQ chance on average, and without knowing your exact stats it's hard to perfectly optimize as I tried to leave in some leeway for it
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Jun 22, 2018 14:57
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pupuru posted:any tips for the HQ helm component Ixal quest for someone with lvl 30 CUL and 15 everything else? This quest is kicking my rear end. Pre-Byregot's, hard crafts like that are purely based on luck. First, get to CUL 37 for SHII and slightly better gear. Buy some Stone Soup from the Gold Saucer vendor for extra CP. What I'd personally recommend: start off every attempt by trying to hit enough Rapid Synths (with SHII and Waste Not) so that you're just within range of a single Basic Synthesis or two to complete it. If any of your Rapid Synths fail, just exit out of the craft, get new components, and try again. Then, use Hasty Touch along with SHII/Waste Not to build up Inner Quiet stacks. Try to use Tricks at least once during a SHII/Waste Not rotation so that you end the rotation on an uneven number of Durability (e.g. 35), since this'll give you some more wiggle room to finish off the craft. When your CP gets low enough that you can't do another SHII/Waste Not combo, use Rumination and use any additional CP to try and raise Quality as high as you can before you finish off with a Basic Synth. If you ever get Excellent quality, hit Standard Touch, because there's a good chance it'll propel you straight to 100% HQ if your Inner Quiet stacks are high enough. Vermain fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 15:06
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Jun 22, 2018 16:59
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What's the fastest way to grind out a ton of poetics? I have a sudden, terrible need for the BLM anima weapon to go with a glamour.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:06
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Cabbit posted:What's the fastest way to grind out a ton of poetics? I have a sudden, terrible need for the BLM anima weapon to go with a glamour. If you find PFs of people advertising first time unsynched clears of pre-SB trials or raids, join them. 100 poetics for a minute if work. An active hunt group will also get you tomestones quickly if a bunch of A ranks are up and you make it in time to get a few hits in before they explode. After that your looking at roulettes. Run them as a tank to get into the instance faster (though that means you have to have faith that you get paired with dps that aren't awful).
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Jun 22, 2018 17:15
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Thundarr posted:If you find PFs of people advertising first time unsynched clears of pre-SB trials or raids, join them. 100 poetics for a minute if work. I've been looking for a hunt group on Siren and been having real poor luck. Any good alternatives to those two options?
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Jun 22, 2018 17:18
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Roulettes and story primals like shiva and thordan.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:21
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Main Scenario roulette is a decent chunk of poetics/effort since you get extras if there are actual newbies tagging along, plus maybe a third of a level. It's garbage for poetics/time since they take 30 or 50 min depending on which one you get, but you don't have to be tabbed in while the cutscenes play and you barely have to be tabbed in to beat stuff up. You can probably set up a macro with a proc-ignoring BLM rotation and an autohotkey script intermittently pressing it for the Praetorium boss rush and no one will notice.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:30
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Cabbit posted:What's the fastest way to grind out a ton of poetics? I have a sudden, terrible need for the BLM anima weapon to go with a glamour. Solo HW and ARR A ranks. Very few people seem to care about them and they only get called out when someone comes across them hours after they've spawned, especially so during off-peak hours.
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Jun 22, 2018 22:43
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It seems like Yiazmat's butter attack aims at the farthest person? The last two times I did Ridorana, he aimed at me every time. Not that I'm complaining. It makes him incredibly easy to bait!
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Jun 23, 2018 01:58
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:It seems like Yiazmat's butter attack aims at the farthest person? The last two times I did Ridorana, he aimed at me every time. This almost feels like confirmation bias, but he did it to me too! 
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Jun 23, 2018 02:04
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Gah. Apparently Squeenix pushed an update to the android token app that seems to have been targeted to specifically disable the revoke-phone-permissions workaround that made it work on Project Fi (and other virtual networks). Heaven knows why anyone felt this was necessary, far as I know the app still works on tablets and other offline devices. It's not like it has an actual reason to care about having the phone permission or needs to use it in any way. I guess it's back to just a password...
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Jun 23, 2018 02:07
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I've done like 10 of the level 70 solo maps, generally costing around ~15k each, and each one has produced at least 30k gil in crystals alone-- the last few also with tradeskill mats or housing items worth ~40k. Why don't these cost more? 
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Jun 23, 2018 02:20
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Cabbit posted:I've done like 10 of the level 70 solo maps, generally costing around ~15k each, and each one has produced at least 30k gil in crystals alone-- the last few also with tradeskill mats or housing items worth ~40k. The prices for them tend to drop around the weekend
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Jun 23, 2018 02:31
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Cabbit posted:I've done like 10 of the level 70 solo maps, generally costing around ~15k each, and each one has produced at least 30k gil in crystals alone-- the last few also with tradeskill mats or housing items worth ~40k. I GATHERED THE MATERIALS SO THE ITEM WAS FREE
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Jun 23, 2018 02:34
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Leal posted:I GATHERED THE MATERIALS SO THE ITEM WAS FREE Getting EVE flashbacks from this.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:40
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Xerophyte posted:Gah. Apparently Squeenix pushed an update to the android token app that seems to have been targeted to specifically disable the revoke-phone-permissions workaround that made it work on Project Fi (and other virtual networks). Heaven knows why anyone felt this was necessary, far as I know the app still works on tablets and other offline devices. It's not like it has an actual reason to care about having the phone permission or needs to use it in any way. I guess it's back to just a password... Oh, is that why the app kept resetting on my phone? I didn't realize it was tied to the provider. Why they don't just let you generate a QR code and add a token to your preferred authenticator, I'll never know.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:44
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Leal posted:I GATHERED THE MATERIALS SO THE ITEM WAS FREE No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. Do maps just flow like water from gathering?
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Jun 23, 2018 02:53
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Cabbit posted:Do maps just flow like water from gathering? Pretty much, it's just limited to 1 every 18 hours. Normally doesn't take more than tapping nodes for 10 minutes to get one.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:56
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Cabbit posted:No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. Frankly 45k is just not worth the bother. My retainers bring me items worth 500k on a bad week and a few million if I get a minion or furniture. I'm sitting on a few hundred cracked clusters and grade V/VI materia which I'll turn into probably 20-50 million gil when the next raid tier comes out. If I felt like it I could run Canals groups for drops that sell for hundreds of thousands of gil at a minimum. Or I could gear up my crafter and make much more money than that. But frankly the only thing left that I want to spend money on is a Large house and I'm nowhere near done with decorating my Medium. jalapeno_dude fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 03:05
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DizzyBum posted:Oh, is that why the app kept resetting on my phone? I didn't realize it was tied to the provider. Yeah, whenever Fi (or whatever MVNO you use) switched to some other underlying carrier the token app will think you are on a new phone, forget all its settings and make you reregister. Before today you could trick it to not do that by going in to the Android app permissions and forbidding the token app from making calls or otherwise using phone functionality, so it just wouldn't know when that happened and happily carried on thinking it was on an offline device. Now the token app just refuses to start until you enable that, for some unfathomable reason. It's a real poo poo system. It's unfortunately not the only Android 2FA I've come across with that problem -- the other one is honestly worse as it is the main identity provider for the Swedish government and banking system, which I really need as a Swedish citizen even though I live in California. Without it I'd need to file my Swedish taxes on paper, like some sort of backwards colonial plebe, eww, that might taken up to an hour. Fortunately I can at least work around that on Project Fi by dialing the "force switch carrier" code (*#*#FINEXT#*#* if that ever becomes relevant to you) to go back to whatever carrier the app first registered with and to make that particular 2FA app happy. That approach doesn't work for the sqex token app which just totally resets whenever your phone carrier hops.
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Jun 23, 2018 03:18
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All my retainers ever bring me is NQ holy rainbow gloves and fish.
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Jun 23, 2018 03:18
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Xerophyte posted:Yeah, whenever Fi (or whatever MVNO you use) switched to some other underlying carrier the token app will think you are on a new phone, forget all its settings and make you reregister. Before today you could trick it to not do that by going in to the Android app permissions and forbidding the token app from making calls or otherwise using phone functionality, so it just wouldn't know when that happened and happily carried on thinking it was on an offline device. Now the token app just refuses to start until you enable that, for some unfathomable reason. Well goddamn, I learned a lot about my provider today, thanks for the infodump!
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Jun 23, 2018 03:28
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FiSwitch will just copy the code to your clipboard and open up the dialer so you can paste it, so you don't even have to manually dial it.
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Jun 23, 2018 03:37
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Cabbit posted:No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. If I wanted to make 30k gil, I'd sit down and craft for half an hour and accidentally make 1 million gil.
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Jun 23, 2018 09:46
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Aether goons: I asked a while ago, but Gelmorra Public Radio is still looking for a couple of subs to help fill out its roster, and might consider making room for a good BRD. We're marginally more reliable at clearing O5S-O7S than random Party Finder guys! Hell, we even managed to make it to this ugly dude for the first time earlier tonight. the real dark souls starts here Anyways, I have 10 levels to go on WAR and 15 levels to go on MNK and I'll finally have every combat job capped out. WAR is fairly self-explanatory, but Monk seems like it has a lot of tricks it can pull off with its ignore/skip form buttons. I did figure out that I can very quickly get three stacks of Greased Lightning by popping Perfect Balance and spamming Snap Punch/Demolish/Rockbreaker, but are there other things to know at this level? I managed to outdamage an RDM in Dusk Vigil, so that's good at least.   I saved the best /vposes for last.
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Jun 23, 2018 10:10
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Cabbit posted:No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. Dwesa fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 10:13
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Cabbit posted:No, I mean, why aren't people buying these things and getting free money? I've been playing this game for a month, there's absolutely no way I'm first person who did the math and realized you pay 15k to make 45k. It's just a huge waste of time to run them for a 30k profit because of the reasons aforementioned by Mymla. The joke you missed about the "I gathered the items therefore it was free" is because your math is not accounting for time spent much like the people who think gathering mats themselves for a crafting made the item free. It's a good way to make money if you're super low and I got to the 10ks like twice in the history of this game. Opportunities like this are plenty on the AH and I'm glad you found one, they're good to get out of the red, so whenever you find one exploit it as far as you can. But after you cross a certain threshold 30k is just not worth the time.
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Jun 23, 2018 10:22
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RME posted:i have no idea what your gear looks like, but assuming its basically the highest NQ crafter gear you can have + ixal gloves try something like this thanks a bunch! I'm finding it tough to work out what the "optimal" rotation for a crafter is just because there seem to be a bunch of different paths and every single post has a different one. Unrelated, how many bad guys have to be in a cuddle puddle for Total Eclipse to be a DPS gain?
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Jun 23, 2018 13:04
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pupuru posted:thanks a bunch! I'm finding it tough to work out what the "optimal" rotation for a crafter is just because there seem to be a bunch of different paths and every single post has a different one. Fast blade = 160 Savage Blade = 210 Halone = 270 Riot Blade = 240 RA = 360 Total Eclipse = 110 per target Pre-60: (160 + 210 + 270)/3 = about 213.333 potency per GCD TE with 2 targets: 2*110 = 220 potency per GCD 60+: (160 + 240 + 360)/3 = 253.333 potency per GCD TE with 3 targets: 3*110 = 330 potency per GCD. Conclusion: Total Eclipse outDPSes single target at 2 targets before Royal Authority. Total Eclipse outDPSes single target at 3 or more targets. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 13:30
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pupuru posted:thanks a bunch! I'm finding it tough to work out what the "optimal" rotation for a crafter is just because there seem to be a bunch of different paths and every single post has a different one. Pre-70, pre-Byregot's, your rotation is mostly spamming Hasty Touch with Waste Not + SHII, trying to get around 2 Tricks off per craft, and using Rumination once you can't Waste Not + SHII again to finish off the craft. Once you get Byregot's, you replace Rumination with Byregot's + Great Strides to finish off a craft. For 40 Durability crafts pre-Byregot's, you can use Basic Touch instead and pray for a lot of Good procs to try and propel your Quality up; realistically, you need HQ components to HQ 40 Durability consistently before Byregot's. As you may have noticed, Byregot's is really, really important. Byregot's Brow can sort of replace it, but Blessing is straight better past around 6 or 7 Inner Quiet stacks. Once you get it, HQing crafts becomes ridiculously trivial.
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Jun 23, 2018 13:55
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I don't know how my race chocobo keeps getting worse as it ranks up, but at least Zero Fuchs is a good name.
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Jun 23, 2018 14:04
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Fast blade = 160 You forgot Goring Blade exists.
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Jun 23, 2018 14:42
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Leofish posted:I don't know how my race chocobo keeps getting worse as it ranks up, but at least Zero Fuchs is a good name. That's a good name. Do you want tips on leveling Chocobos if you're planning to race or are you kosher
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Jun 23, 2018 14:49
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Solo Wing Pixy posted:Aether goons Are there many aether goons? Most people are on primal or chaos.
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Jun 23, 2018 14:50
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The real reason not to spam Total Eclipse, ignoring total potencies, is because not a single loving melee DPS in either 4-mans or 8-mans knows what Goad is.
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Jun 23, 2018 14:58
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Vermain posted:The real reason not to spam Total Eclipse, ignoring total potencies, is because not a single loving melee DPS in either 4-mans or 8-mans knows what Goad is. And this may or may not have something to do with the fact that not a single loving tank knows what Total Eclipse or Overpower are.
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Vermain posted:The real reason not to spam Total Eclipse, ignoring total potencies, is because not a single loving melee DPS in either 4-mans or 8-mans knows what Goad is. Most melee DPS don't even know how to push their own aoe buttons, using Goad so you can spam yours is way too hard.
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