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It's been a long time since I've done it but I believe doing that fight at high item levels (even synced) causes some really awkward phase skipping too?
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DizzyBum posted:I recently upgraded from 1080p to 1440p and it's been great. I don't think I could ever go back. Sadly I took a significant FPS hit, but I was able to get it back by turning off the Screen Space Ambient Occlusion effect. Mine is a 1070ti, though I get the impression the GPU isn't the main thing limiting framerate for me (due to the aforementioned thing with Witcher 3 on Ultra having a higher framerate).
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Trying to work my way up to finishing the level 60 goldsmith quest and how the hell do I get Fieldcraft Demimateria III? It seems like the only source is desynthing things that need it to begin with.
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Oct 3, 2018 20:42
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The sane answer is to buy them off the marketboard. I think the old way people did it was to make a shitload of HQ Darksteel Hooks, trade them for Artisan Spectacles at Talan in Mor Dhona, and desynth those until you get what you need. If you have an FC airship and one other person willing to get you past the 2-person-minimum for the queue, the Diadem has endless amounts of Darksteel Ore for you to tap into.
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Kaubocks posted:
The best (worst) things are the character personal search comments and people just erping in /say.
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Oct 3, 2018 20:51
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If that's the music box you might wanna double check if that's III or II...
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Oct 3, 2018 20:54
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Lizard Wizard posted:Trying to work my way up to finishing the level 60 goldsmith quest and how the hell do I get Fieldcraft Demimateria III? It seems like the only source is desynthing things that need it to begin with. Desynthing IS the only source for it. Are you on Excalibur? I can provide you some.
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Oct 3, 2018 21:09
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Saint Freak posted:If that's the music box you might wanna double check if that's III or II... Good call there. The GSM 60 quest items do in fact require FC2's. So I would just buy them off the MB or ask the FC, unless you've got high enough desynth to acquire your own. ...Come to think of it, I should probably work on my WVR desynth some more. I could be blowing up Adept's gear and each piece only costs a handful of red scrips.
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I'm playing on PS4, and just started the game. Will I need a Sony specific PS4 headset to chat? Or will my normal Corsair gaming headset work?
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Oct 4, 2018 00:03
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Dennis McClaren posted:I'm playing on PS4, and just started the game. Will I need a Sony specific PS4 headset to chat? Or will my normal Corsair gaming headset work? game doesn't have built-in voice and I don't think anyone actually uses the PS4 party chat or whatever it's called.
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Late to job talk but I think the ARR job quests (aside from Ninja) suffer greatly from so many of them having the completely identical structure of "talk to job NPC, go to area and fight waves of enemies, get a tease of an overarching plot, go back to job NPC" until a boss fight at the end. Open your chakra by fighting waves of enemies until Widargelt pops up to be cryptic! Prove yourself as a paladin by fighting waves of enemies until Solkzagyl shows up to be cryptic! Attain the power of black mage by fighting waves of enemies until the beast tribe black mages decide you have enough! It's a bad structure and it's baffling when class quests tended to be actual stories. Thankfully they got away from that with ninja and never looked back.
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Oct 4, 2018 01:15
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I feel like Summoner handled it decently, given that you're fighting the Egis you are trying to acquire.
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Oct 4, 2018 01:35
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warrior 60-70 is high art, and the bard quests from heavensward on are also real good. can't speak for a whole lot else, since those along with summoner and dragoon are about the only ones i've touched.
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Griz posted:game doesn't have built-in voice and I don't think anyone actually uses the PS4 party chat or whatever it's called. I'm sure there's at least one PS4 only guild out there that does, but..yeah. If there's gonna be voice chat (which you don't need for 90% of the game anyway) it's gonna be through Discord/Mumble. Do consider plugging in a USB keyboard though, makes a big difference.
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I was just going to ask that actually. I think it might make things easier with a keyboard/mouse. The controller setup isn't really bad, and I'm sure I would get used to it. There's a lot to take in playing this game for the first time; but after a couple hours online it became more intuitive. Still... Edit, nm. Figure I'll try both keyboard and controller see if I like one best. Dennis McClaren fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Inflammatory posted:warrior 60-70 is high art, and the bard quests from heavensward on are also real good. can't speak for a whole lot else, since those along with summoner and dragoon are about the only ones i've touched. Dragoon 50-60 was really good but Dragoon 60-70 I abandoned halfway because it felt aggressively Nothing. I also just wasn't having fun with Stormblood Dragoon and switched to Samurai which might be related. 
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Dennis McClaren posted:I was just going to ask that actually. I think it might make things easier with a keyboard/mouse. The controller setup isn't really bad, and I'm sure I would get used to it. There's a lot to take in playing this game for the first time; but after a couple hours online it became more intuitive. Still... Controller has the major major advantage of being easier to set up good easy action bars at high levels
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Dennis McClaren posted:I was just going to ask that actually. I think it might make things easier with a keyboard/mouse. The controller setup isn't really bad, and I'm sure I would get used to it. There's a lot to take in playing this game for the first time; but after a couple hours online it became more intuitive. Still... Oh, I just meant for chat. Honestly I can't go back to KB/M for this game. Controller is just too good, to me.
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Monathin posted:Dragoon 50-60 was really good but Dragoon 60-70 I abandoned halfway because it felt aggressively Nothing. It gets significantly better towards the end, but I don't fault you.
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I'm sorry I let Soroban beat up on you Tataru but this is what happens when we let you fight 
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Oct 4, 2018 04:32
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Learn how to cast DOTs, Tataru. 
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I saved a O11N run and nobody believed me. I used the LB3 to save myself, a tank, and a co-healer while most of the party was alive. Right after the cast, the rest of the party died because I used it during triple atomic rays (roomwide AOE) and was animation locked. We slowly rezzed one by one but people were not happy. Being healer is suffering. Hommando fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Speaking of job quests, I finished the HW RDM line and I didn't get the AF gear. I feel robbed.  Hommando posted:Being healer is suffering. I've been levelling up healers (mostly AST), and holy moly does >50 healing start getting stressing. This may not be the role for me :<
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of job quests, I finished the HW RDM line and I didn't get the AF gear. I feel robbed. The two big things to understand about healing are 1) if your weapon is up to date and people are dropping like flies, it’s probably their fault, and 2) once you learn specific fights you can plan around burst unavoidable phases and negate them with precasts and shields, depending on your healer. Also trash packs will be the most stressful part of healing, blow your mana and cooldowns there. Bosses in 5 mans are a joke for healing.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of job quests, I finished the HW RDM line and I didn't get the AF gear. I feel robbed. RDM and SAM do not give AF Gear at 60. Same with MCH, AST, and DRK at 50.
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Edmond Dantes posted:I've been levelling up healers (mostly AST), and holy moly does >50 healing start getting stressing. This may not be the role for me :< Keep in mind that healing while leveling is actually significantly harder than healing at max level, despite how counterintuitive this may seem. A lot of the tanks you're going to be running into are likely undergeared or underleveled for that specific dungeon, and you, yourself, are likely undergeared or underleveled. This combination makes it so that everything hits like a truck and your heals can have trouble keeping up pace. Once you get to 70, most dungeon healing as an AST is slapping a Largessed Diurnal Aspected Benefic on the tank, using Time Dilation to extend it, and then spamming Gravity with the occasional Essential Dignity if it's needed.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:The two big things to understand about healing are 1) if your weapon is up to date and people are dropping like flies, it’s probably their fault, and 2) once you learn specific fights you can plan around burst unavoidable phases and negate them with precasts and shields, depending on your healer. I'll get used to it, I just like being dramatic. Vermain posted:Keep in mind that healing while leveling is actually significantly harder than healing at max level, despite how counterintuitive this may seem. A lot of the tanks you're going to be running into are likely undergeared or underleveled for that specific dungeon, and you, yourself, are likely undergeared or underleveled. This combination makes it so that everything hits like a truck and your heals can have trouble keeping up pace. Once you get to 70, most dungeon healing as an AST is slapping a Largessed Diurnal Aspected Benefic on the tank, using Time Dilation to extend it, and then spamming Gravity with the occasional Essential Dignity if it's needed. And don't get me started on Aurum Vale, holy poo poo what a nightmare to heal. Hobgoblin2099 posted:RDM and SAM do not give AF Gear at 60. Same with MCH, AST, and DRK at 50. At least SAM's starting gear looks sick. RDM starter is a clow suit.
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WHM is probably my second most relaxing way to play - though O12 made me go back to RDM because healing it does feel pretty stressful. A lot of the time it's not your fault and people take damage they can easily avoid. Only on some fights (Burn final boss for instance) does it really fall to you to really carry the fight as a healer. Tanking stressed me out the most, to the point I took until last week to start playing DRK out of POTD and queue as a tank for stuff. RDM/BLM are pretty chill to play. Edmond Dantes posted:At least SAM's starting gear looks sick. RDM starter is a clow suit. Do you mean the musketeer gear? It doesn't look like a clown suit :|
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kirbysuperstar posted:Oh, I just meant for chat. Honestly I can't go back to KB/M for this game. Controller is just too good, to me. Since I also like the use of the PS4 controller, I just bought one of these guys to accomplish what little chatting needs to be done. 
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My husband and I started playing this game last weekish. We started on a road to 60 server and brought some friends along that we severely outpaced (although we do queue with them for any dungeon they need). Currently sitting at halfway through 2.3 quest line, I believe. I'm having an absolute blast and really enjoying the not-hand holding of the story's insistence that you DO DUNGEONS and they have mechanics early on so the ramp up is easier. The castrum and praetorium 8-man dungeons were enjoyable and god awful(cut scenes too long) in that order. Moogle boss has been my favorite so far. This game is fun even if I hate vesper bay with all my tiny lalafellian heart. I started on m/kb and I think that was a mistake, so I'm going to try to figure out controller setup today. Also: botanist feels so rewarding to play alongside culinarian, just roving the countryside finding the perfect HQ ingredients for my dishes. 
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Edmond Dantes posted:Yeah, I recently ran Dakhold with a tank that pulled the entire frog room and I just couldn't heal through the sheer amount of damage he was taking, even with Lightspeed and Largesse on. He used Rampart all of 2 times in the entire dungeon so I don't feel too bad about it, but it was the first time where I felt I was 100% on the ball and still wasn't quite enough. If by frog room you mean the giant cliff area after the ogre boss, that tank probably hosed up, not you, though Dzemel is a massive pain in the arse to tank because sometimes poo poo just aggros you from the other side of the map. And honestly if you're actually hitting Largesse you're already in the top 10% of healers. Primpin and Pimpin posted:This game is fun even if I hate vesper bay with all my tiny lalafellian heart. There's a ferry from Limsa 
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Edmond Dantes posted:Yeah, I recently ran Dakhold with a tank that pulled the entire frog room and I just couldn't heal through the sheer amount of damage he was taking, even with Lightspeed and Largesse on. I can understand bigpulling every other room in Darkhold, but you do not gently caress with the frogs. Way too high of a chance that someone gets blown off the edge of the cliff and dies to fall damage, likely pissing off another frog in the process. That tank was dumb and you can't always fix stupid. Primpin and Pimpin posted:My husband and I started playing this game last weekish. Couple things worth mentioning. The devs know how horrible Castrum ad Praetorium are, so they stop doing big long cutscenes mid-dungeon from then on out. The most you'll get in dungeons now is a ten to fifteen second long cutscene introducing the final boss or something, with all of the story stuff being pushed to after you properly leave. Also I hope you know about the Limsa -> Arcanist Aetheryte -> Ferry to Vesper Bay shortcut, but the plot stops forcing you to pray return to the waking sands so much after 50.
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Actually, you drag the toads into the corridor with the pulsing AoE crystals
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A ROULETTE INTO THE QUEUE. ITS PRAETORIUM AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, GAIUS SHADOWELSAR. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME HYDAELYN BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY PILOTED THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS ROBOT. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. LITERALLY 2 HOURS INCLUDING QUEUE TIME EVERY MORNIng
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Last night was the first time I did MSQ roulette for the tomestones and XP (I'm trying to get Shire gear and hit 60) and got Castrum. I almost found it relaxing, but the starting and stopping of unskippable cutscenes in the middle of stuff was really annoying. Do we really need to see a pan out of a searchlight going out and stuff like that? I'm sort of wary of doing the 50-60 roulette because I've barely unlocked any of those dungeons. I did hit 60, but for some reason I didn't learn Manafication. I'm assuming I have to complete the RDM quests for that?
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56DR has bad XP rewards iirc; you’re better off just running L/T/24DR versus throwing 56 into the mix because the xp/time is real bad. Also all of HW’s job buttons are locked behind class quests. Do your class quests.
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We most often just walked from Horizon, me on autofollow (or inside the 2 seater moogle once we got our licenses) tabbed out looking at stuff I had questions about. Near the end we opted to do the ferry route since we were just steamrolling quests and more confident with where we were and what we were going to be seeing next. Also, this game is ridiculously pretty and has some amazing set pieces! 
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Saint Freak posted:EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A ROULETTE INTO THE QUEUE. ITS PRAETORIUM AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, GAIUS SHADOWELSAR. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME HYDAELYN BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY PILOTED THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS ROBOT. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. LITERALLY 2 HOURS INCLUDING QUEUE TIME EVERY MORNIng No joke, I would love a solo instance in the vein of Alphinaud and Y'shtola where we play as not-Gaius to show us how he survived the Praetorium. Maybe a preview of the rumored gunblade job? 
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