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Control Volume posted:Aurum vale is easy and Ive never wiped on it This is right, I've never had a problem with pug parties once, even ones that I've joined in progress.
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put the bi in bicycle posted:
Well at least you know what the dye is going to be used on.
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Leal posted:loving coin counter, the ONE party who managed to not wipe and drop in the first room I had a tank who kept spinning the drat guy, right into me as a melee dps. Even better, at least a quarter of that was probably not his fault because every time Coincounter does Eye of the Beholder, he resets enmity 
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EponymousMrYar posted:Even better, at least a quarter of that was probably not his fault because every time Coincounter does Eye of the Beholder, he resets enmity loving what i have played 8 out of 10 of my 80+ aurum vale runs as a tank and never noticed any enmity weirdness like that, so i'm inclined to think you're lying
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Jul 17, 2018 21:18
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That is in fact a mechanic on coincounter, worth noting is that it resets everyone's aggro back to 0. If you're even vaguely competent at tanking you will likely never notice.
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Jul 17, 2018 21:21
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Does that also apply to the mobs that fight just like him?
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Jul 17, 2018 21:33
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EponymousMrYar posted:Even better, at least a quarter of that was probably not his fault because every time Coincounter does Eye of the Beholder, he resets enmity whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat Also whats this, players who finish the prae quest get a fantasia? This is bullshit yoshi p where is my retroactive fantasia 
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Vadoc posted:Does that also apply to the mobs that fight just like him? No, it's specifically a Coincounter mechanic.
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Jul 17, 2018 21:35
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Leal posted:whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat It's the 30 day subscription Fantasia, but they moved it to Praetorium. You already got it. Also wow I never knew about the coincounter thing, fascinating. I've never seen a tank lose aggro on the guy outside of dying like an (amusing) idiot.
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Leal posted:Also whats this, players who finish the prae quest get a fantasia? This is bullshit yoshi p where is my retroactive fantasia I don't think Fantasias are subscription rewards anymore, so all they did was change how you got your one (1) free fantasia. You're not technically missing out
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Jul 17, 2018 21:36
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Although technically I think the people who got the 30-day Fantasia but hadn't yet cleared Prae when they changed it were eligible for both. Those bastards! 
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Jul 17, 2018 22:22
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If you played 1.0 you also got a fantasia, I still have both in a retainer somewhere.
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Can healers/tanks get into parties almost instantly? I'm wanting to play as an Astrologian once I reach Ishgard, and I imagine leveling will be much easier if I can do instances back to back without 10-15 minutes between them.NeurosisHead posted:I'm looking for an MMO that I can pretty comfortably solo in, but where it's easy to dip in and out of group content. I also really like to play barbie dress up. It looks like it's between this and GW2, and I like the aesthetic of this more than GW2. Is FFXIV fairly friendly to casual soloers? This is the thing I like most about FF14, and there's a metric fuckton of story content for people like us who are just getting into it after the first couple expansions have already been released. Leal posted:Hit the 46-49 quest slump on my alt character and man I forgot how much that part suuuuucked. Main story quests gave you some decentish xp, around 25k a pop. Then you get to 47 and the game tells you to gently caress off until 49. Oh but you get a few quests to keep you going! You get 1 quest chain at 46, 47 and 48. And they pay out like 10k a pop, and last like 5 quests. Out of the 400k+ per level at that point. Having dealt with this recently, I only think it took me about 2 or 3 dungeons while doing levequests during the queues.
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Jul 17, 2018 22:38
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Alright so I'm considering getting Stormblood-- I never played since Heavensward. I have the Steam edition, so I was thinking of doing this: The Complete Edition is $30 for PC download. I was gonna get that and activate the PC license, instead of the Steam edition. This is the same price as getting Stormblood alone on Steam. However, the Complete Edition gives me a 30-day time pass and the restriction says it's only valid on a new platform. Does that mean that if I buy the PC complete version, I'll get 30 days of gametime that apply to my account?
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Jul 17, 2018 22:39
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Ytlaya posted:Can healers/tanks get into parties almost instantly? I'm wanting to play as an Astrologian once I reach Ishgard, and I imagine leveling will be much easier if I can do instances back to back without 10-15 minutes between them. Healers and tanks can get into most duty queues very quickly if not instantly thanks to having relatively few people running as those roles. It's a reason people suggest having a dps be your first job, because all that msq xp makes up for the time lost waiting in dps queues.
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Jul 17, 2018 22:45
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jokes posted:Alright so I'm considering getting Stormblood-- I never played since Heavensward. I have the Steam edition, so I was thinking of doing this: I think it means on ps4 than pc again. I got 30 days after I bought it for both. Steam just locks you to it and you can use the wallet for subs.
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Jul 17, 2018 22:52
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Played up through level 9, it's pretty fun! I have a couple of questions now that I'm settling into the game:
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NeurosisHead posted:Is it worth picking up blacksmithing to make myself gear? No
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Jul 17, 2018 23:06
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It is definitely worth picking up carpentry (and the rest because why not) if you ever want a house though.
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Jul 17, 2018 23:08
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NeurosisHead posted:Played up through level 9, it's pretty fun! I have a couple of questions now that I'm settling into the game: Crafting in ffxiv is more involved than in most MMOs, and is an undertaking in and of itself separate from the Main Story Quest. Its interesting, but is a time and money sink, especially if you're trying to make your own gear. The MSQ is pretty good about keeping you in gear (it gets better in the expansions) You can turn nameplates off somewhere in Character Settings.
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Jul 17, 2018 23:35
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Rainuwastaken posted:"Look, I don't care how much money it takes, you get your best weavers on the job and you have them make a ton of great looking gear. The Warrior of Light just bought the last piece of Immortal Flames pants and those goofy pirates just put out a new line of fancy hats to lure him back in!" Don't forget the fancy Maelstrom coat.
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Highly recommended to get a combat class to 70 before really engaging with the crafting game.
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NeurosisHead posted:Played up through level 9, it's pretty fun! I have a couple of questions now that I'm settling into the game: 1. Not really. It's a big money/time sink and the gear you make will be outclassed pretty quickly by stuff you get from quests and dungeons. You also don't want to just level one crafter class, you want to level them all to take advantage of cross-class skills. Level them if you want, just don't expect the gear you make to be useful for more than a brief moment. The good news is that the pretty princess dressup game is real and you don't need any sort of crafting to get into it. 2. Character configuration - Display Name Settings - Others  
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Thanks for all the help guys, I appreciate it!
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While picking up crafting to keep your main class supplied is generally not worth it, it's really nice to be able to make poo poo for your secondary classes. If you go through the main story as a dragoon, then the game will give you level appropriate dragoon gear, but this leaves you high and dry stuff-wise if you later decide you want to try out black mage. I also don't think you need to wait until 70 before getting into crafting, but I would advise at least 50 so you can unlock the Ixali beast tribe stuff and use that to level. The short version for gearing up, by the way, is that the story will give you good enough stuff up to 50, then you can easily get a pile of tomestones (a currency; don't worry about specifics) and buy Ironworks gear which will carry you to Heavensward and a good bit in. That'll give you high quality level appropriate gear. Once you get to 60, get Shire gear with the tomestones and you're fine until Stormblood, at which point it does the "hand you level appropriate stuff" thing again, and at 70 you get on the traditional gear treadmill. You can go for high quality stuff below 50, and it's nice but not really required. Post 50, it has to be HQ, but the game gives you what you need so you'll be fine. I ground out crafting and made sure to make my own stuff, and while it was nice rolling around in high quality gear that I'd made myself, it was absolutely not worth it.
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Eh low level gear is given hand over fist for everyone since it's available at the NPCs. Also, you're moving very quickly through the game and no real need unless tanking to craft upgrades. Crafting is a hobby and sometimes ppl make money? Also, you would need to buy mats for your crafts so would a player actually save much at all?
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Crafters charge a pretty hefty markup to represent the time it takes us to be able to do this stuff. So it depends on a lot of factors. How much money could you make if you did something else, how much do the materials cost, and so on. "Is anybody even selling it" is also a big question (the answer may be no!). So if you really want that high quality steel armor for your brand new Dark Knight, and nobody is selling it, and you don't have any crafter bros to bang out a set real quick, you've got to do it yourself. Or you could be the crafter bro who can bang out stuff for friends real quick.
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Speaking of crafting, what do I do with these endless piles of crafting materials? Vendor them?
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See what sells on the MB and vendor the rest. E: Woops forgot "get undercut to hell and vendor all of it"
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I'm just doing the trial for now so I think that means I'll be vendoring it all. Thanks for the info, if (when probably, this game is pretty fun) I decide to sub maybe I'll a few more pennies on the market board. Thanks!
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Jul 18, 2018 04:54
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If it's just lowbie stuff you can safely sell. No one's going to buy that.
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I make all my money selling level ~20 botanist stuff for 200-1000 gil each on the MB, and price gouging some NPC bought items. The MB on Excal is full of holes you can try filling, your results will vary with the item.
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NeurosisHead posted:Played up through level 9, it's pretty fun! I have a couple of questions now that I'm settling into the game: Seconding that crafting isn't really worth messing with until you're at least to level 50. Leveling crafters tends to cost you money unless you're an appropriately leveled botanist and miner as well. Plus, you really want to level them all up at roughly the same time for cross-class skills and to save on gear. Speaking of BTN/MIN, leveling those jobs up can be a (modestly) profitable and relaxing diversion, and I'd honestly say to go for one of those before you start working on crafting. Also, this game is totally the best dress up simulator on the market. I have, at last count, twenty-four different outfits that I wear somewhat regularly. i may have a bit of a problem
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I will agree that you should probably keep your gatherers a bit ahead of your crafters, so you can relatively easily get whatever you need. If you really want to go bananas with it, then wait until your Miner and Botanist are level 70 before you start, because that way you can trivially gather enormous quantities of stuff. That isn't necessary, of course, and it's certainly time consuming, but it'll make grinding poo poo out for your crafters much easier. Assuming levekits aren't in the budget, anyway.
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What's a levekit? I've put off leveling my gatherer classes and just chuck stuff at GC seal turn-ins whenever I feel like it since I've been on an MSQ roll.
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Schneider Heim posted:What's a levekit? I've put off leveling my gatherer classes and just chuck stuff at GC seal turn-ins whenever I feel like it since I've been on an MSQ roll. Crafter leve's don't care if you're the one who actually crafted the item (they only care about HQ or not) and crafter/gatherer leves are very static. Naturally this means that a market has sprung up for ready-made bulk leve turn-ins so you can trade gil for someone else's time. That's a levekit.
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playing a femroe on jp servers is a hell of a thing. Almost every dungeon start looks like this.
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