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Failboattootoot posted:Naw, scrip gear is pretty bad. Some of it looks cool though. You mainly use red scrip for materia/crafter souls and yellow scrip for mats for high end crafting. High end gathering mostly revolves around hitting timed nodes that show up at specific times during the Eorzean day, usually about once an hour, maybe twice depending on where you are at. Are those nodes shared with other players? My guess would be no, since other gathering nodes don't appear to be (and I really hope that's correct). How does this crafter soul stuff work? I googled it and it's not entirely clear; it mentions up to three specializations, but then says you can keep getting them.
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Ytlaya posted:So I'm reading that these scrips from Custom Deliveries can be used to purchase crafter/gatherer gear. Is this the main one gear is acquired at max level? I had previously assumed that you just had to manually create progressive levels of gear (enabling you to craft even higher levels, etc). That is more or less how it tends to go, but yellow scrip can get you level 70 gear that's Good Enough for most stuff; HQ crafted, fully overmelded gear is the best, but if you don't plan on doing lots of endgame crafting, or don't want to deal with overmelding, or want some better gear to help you manage to craft the best HQ crafted gear by yourself (though if you're in a goon FC or otherwise have crafter friends, don't do this, get help obtaining the crafted stuff), then the yellow scrip gear is fine. The actually decent yellow scrip gear takes a ton of yellow scrip, though. e: Ytlaya posted:How does this crafter soul stuff work? I googled it and it's not entirely clear; it mentions up to three specializations, but then says you can keep getting them. You can have three at once, but you can switch them out a certain number of times (3?) a week by buying another with red scrip. Some recipes are specialist-only, and being a specialist gives you some powerful actions to use while on that class. Telum fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Zack Ater posted:That is more or less how it tends to go, but yellow scrip can get you level 70 gear that's Good Enough for most stuff; HQ crafted, fully overmelded gear is the best, but if you don't plan on doing lots of endgame crafting, or don't want to deal with overmelding, or want some better gear to help you manage to craft the best HQ crafted gear by yourself (though if you're in a goon FC or otherwise have crafter friends, don't do this, get help obtaining the crafted stuff), then the yellow scrip gear is fine. The actually decent yellow scrip gear takes a ton of yellow scrip, though. If you're a casual crafter the only reason not to get yellow scrip gear is because it splits up into all the individual crafting classes. That's a heck of a lot of gear to keep in your armory chest. The mainhands, offhands and accessories are pretty boss though. My old upgraded gobbo stuff kept me going until level 68 (and the accessories lasted longer because delicious cp/gp.)
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Zack Ater posted:That is more or less how it tends to go, but yellow scrip can get you level 70 gear that's Good Enough for most stuff; HQ crafted, fully overmelded gear is the best, but if you don't plan on doing lots of endgame crafting, or don't want to deal with overmelding, or want some better gear to help you manage to craft the best HQ crafted gear by yourself (though if you're in a goon FC or otherwise have crafter friends, don't do this, get help obtaining the crafted stuff), then the yellow scrip gear is fine. The actually decent yellow scrip gear takes a ton of yellow scrip, though. Most endgame recipes are no longer specialist only (there's a few housing or glam items as exceptions) and I'd argue that the 20cp you get at the start of a craft as a specialist is worth way more then the finicky actions it gives you.
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Drizvolta posted:Most endgame recipes are no longer specialist only (there's a few housing or glam items as exceptions) and I'd argue that the 20cp you get at the start of a craft as a specialist is worth way more then the finicky actions it gives you. Reflection giving you a free +3 stacks of Inner Quiet is super good as well.
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The Stormblood Speciality Actions are pretty good. They're not must-have's or anything but they can help you when you get RNG screwed.
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Ytlaya posted:Are those nodes shared with other players? My guess would be no, since other gathering nodes don't appear to be (and I really hope that's correct). They are not. Special Nodes are your own even if another player is striking at the same spot. Just remember some of them are an in-game hour long and to book it there to get the materials. I've been using https://www.ffxivguild.com as help for the best ways to level up crafting and gathering through which leves give the best exp for time/gil, but I wanted to ask other goons first if it's a good site to recommend?
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EponymousMrYar posted:If you're a casual crafter the only reason not to get yellow scrip gear is because it splits up into all the individual crafting classes. Ariyala's says that the current highest tier is shared. I don't personally know, though. Drizvolta posted:Most endgame recipes are no longer specialist only (there's a few housing or glam items as exceptions) and I'd argue that the 20cp you get at the start of a craft as a specialist is worth way more then the finicky actions it gives you. I was mostly thinking of Reflection, starting with an extra three stacks is great. WWYW is supposedly pretty great, too, though that's obviously only for manual stuff. Though I do agree, the extra cp is fantastic and definitely worth more than most of the specialist actions!
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Did they indicate if mahjong will have the kind of automation most electronic mahjong has? I actually understand the rules and such but having that automation to tell you that you can tsumo or ron or riichi is extremely helpful because I'm still bad at that stuff.
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Jimbot posted:Did they indicate if mahjong will have the kind of automation most electronic mahjong has? I actually understand the rules and such but having that automation to tell you that you can tsumo or ron or riichi is extremely helpful because I'm still bad at that stuff. They mention in options at least there are some things, though I don't know how much.
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Rastan Beeza posted:I've been using https://www.ffxivguild.com as help for the best ways to level up crafting and gathering through which leves give the best exp for time/gil, but I wanted to ask other goons first if it's a good site to recommend? I use the same site, though mostly just for looking up where gathering levequests are and what the turn-ins are for the next job quest. I've just been doing the beast tribe and GC turn-ins (no crafting leves), since the whole process of doing all of that takes over an hour (I craft all prereqs and always in HQ, which may take more time but gives good xp), which is usually all I want to spend on crafting for the day. This gets me an average of about 1/2 a level on every crafting class a day (not counting the 1/2 level boost from the job quest every 5 levels). Gathering has been so easy to level through a combination of GC turn-ins and leves that it hasn't been an issue yet (even at my currently gathering level of ~45, I can get like 2+ levels in less than an hour if I use the GC XP buffs items while doing leves). I seriously can't imagine just leveling a single crafting class unless you did nothing but beast tribe quests. Not only would you not have access to various important abilties that are core parts of my rotations, but I would be incapable of crafting HQ intermediate materials (which are often only on the MB for really high prices, if they're on the MB at all). It also kinda defeats the whole purpose; you wouldn't be able to craft anything terribly useful by yourself. Culinarian is the only one that stands alone fairly well.
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Zack Ater posted:Ariyala's says that the current highest tier is shared. I don't personally know, though.
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I noticed this time there are only patch notes, not preliminary patch notes. Have they ever had a big change between the two in the past? Like something wasn't in the preliminary and showed up in the actual patch notes? Or they took out a change everyone hated?
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Badger of Basra posted:I noticed this time there are only patch notes, not preliminary patch notes. Have they ever had a big change between the two in the past? Like something wasn't in the preliminary and showed up in the actual patch notes? Or they took out a change everyone hated? pretty much usually just typos and minor errors being fixed up, and new crafting recipes are usually withheld too until the servers go down. There were no prelim ones this time because people were out of office.
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Zack Ater posted:Ariyala's says that the current highest tier is shared. I don't personally know, though. This is the first time they've put a non class-specific armor set on the scrips. Which is great. I own all of it! 
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Not for another 7 hours or so.
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:Not for another 7 hours or so. Thanks, I got that from the fact I couldn't log in but had to be a jerk and ask why.
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Lum_ posted:Thanks, I got that from the fact I couldn't log in but had to be a jerk and ask why. Earlier today when I checked the maintenance announcement I thought it'd be back up by 8 Pacific but when my wife checked she let me know that was when Lodestone came back up, not the game servers.
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jokes posted:Wait, you can mod FFXIV? I wanted to download ACT to see how good I am but I got confused/bored. I'd sure like to have a damage meter but I think I'm sort of stupid. There are some unofficial reporting and cosmetic mods, but realtalk: don't mention them in-game, not even in jest or implication.
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Yeah I did some googling and checked Nexusmods. Seems like it's not really something worth checking out. Truthfully I don't know what I was expecting, but I was still disappointed.
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ACT is basically mandatory if you want to do high-end content like Savage raids and Ultimate fights, and Square will turn a blind eye to it unless you use it to harass other people. Basically, don't ever bring up, say, how bad someone's DPS is in-game and you'll be fine. Here's a good guide for getting the basics you'd need from ACT set up, if you didn't already see it. Rea fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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ACT is very useful if you want to improve your play. As long as you don't harass other players in game you won't ever get banned for it.
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Elf Mom is 300% done with everyone's poo poo. I hope the glaring quota is maintained during the MSQ. 4.3 was a treat in that regard. Also this is the best change: 
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jokes posted:Yeah I did some googling and checked Nexusmods. Seems like it's not really something worth checking out. Truthfully I don't know what I was expecting, but I was still disappointed. The 14 modding community mostly don't upload to the nexus. They have an archive site of their own where everything ends up. It's fun but the main points of notice are that everything is just cosmetic and that mods, like act, are against the rules. Just don't talk about them in game and SE usually won't care. 
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Brainamp posted:The 14 modding community mostly don't upload to the nexus. They have an archive site of their own where everything ends up. It's fun but the main points of notice are that everything is just cosmetic and that mods, like act, are against the rules. Just don't talk about them in game and SE usually won't care. Wasn't there a thing where someone was posting FFXIV screenshots with mods on Twitter and got yelled at?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Wasn't there a thing where someone was posting FFXIV screenshots with mods on Twitter and got yelled at? They weren't using mods.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Wasn't there a thing where someone was posting FFXIV screenshots with mods on Twitter and got yelled at? Yeah, a JP player posted some screenshots of their character that was modded to be naked and a JP GM sent them a message telling them to knock it off. After a bit of back and forth the GM said SE will turn a blind eye to most mods, so long as the people posting them remove the SE copyright notice, as leaving it there implies that someone can do that in game, which they can't.
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Yeah that was a japanese GM going around and poorly trying to remind people that edited screenshots were a bad look [because they didn't have the copyright tag] and the first people they chased down were the ones posting mormon porn style images. e:some background Emalde fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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