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The Berzerker posted:They could at least make you pick a server before you go through the whole character design process, since you lose it all when you back out and choose another data center that (hopefully) has space on it When it asks you to save your appearance data you can just do that and reload it when you go to make a character somewhere else, but it doesn't share that that's what you're doing very well.
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You can see this a different way in Ronka, which is kind of the Allagan equivalent of the First.
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Jul 7, 2019 02:57
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Solovey posted:can we go back to arguing about the final zone please, here I'll even start: Solovey posted:you say "needlessly reductive", I say "purposefully shitposting to change the subject and hopefully jumpstart a more nuanced conversation" Agreed, (endgame) especially with the jazz music. Like obviously there's a communist/socialist structure but there's also the somewhat Randian reverence of the folks we know as Ascians (which may have led to their downfall). I think that getting Zanarkand vibes from Amaurot is a valid take, but when going thru the story bits Amaurot, I thought of Bioshock and Rapture more than any other comparison.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:00
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I paid to skip that 100 quest wall and have never regretted it. Just watched the cutscenes on youtube.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:01
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Draxion posted:When it asks you to save your appearance data you can just do that and reload it when you go to make a character somewhere else, but it doesn't share that that's what you're doing very well. Yeah there are still a few other steps you have to redo though. Just sucks to go through this whole process and get psyched to play the game and then it's like "oh, X minutes ago when you chose a data center, you chose one where all the servers are full lol sorry go start again", took the wind out of my sails when I started for sure.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:14
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I'm trying to buy this game. Let me get this straight. Since I played the demo on steam, the SE account I made the character on cannot also be used to activate a squre-enix.com license of the game? If I buy the game on Square's website, will I not be able to play it on my Members account that is linked to my Square store account? I haven't paid a time towards the steam version, I only played the demo.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:15
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Fun Times! posted:I'm trying to buy this game. Let me get this straight. It's very weird and very dumb. Despite what I said earlier, just get the Steam version if you want to keep the character.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:17
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Arist posted:It's very weird and very dumb. Despite what I said earlier, just get the Steam version if you want to keep the character. I don't care about the character, but I want to use my account with my primary email address. But that email is linked to the account that I activated the game on Steam for the demo.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:19
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Seems like the overall sentiment of Shadowbringers has been pretty positive; thinking about jumping back in. I remember leaving right before Stormblood (had a lvl 60 AST). Now a good time to rejoin?
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Jul 7, 2019 03:21
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Took all day, but I finally managed to get into a Titania Ex clear party that could finish the fight. People really struggle with the add phase.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:24
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skystream92 posted:Seems like the overall sentiment of Shadowbringers has been pretty positive; thinking about jumping back in. I remember leaving right before Stormblood (had a lvl 60 AST). Now a good time to rejoin? Probably, there is a lot of good stuff and a lot of classes were made easier to enjoy and the story is amazing. On the other hand, ast is probably in the worst spot out of all classes right now, having nothing to really make them worth using over other healers, and having a class that can buff as well, if not better than it being put into the game. If you really want to play, go for it, there's a job in every other role you can try that starts at 50 or 60 if you end up unhappy with the ast changes, and the current story is really good although you will need to go through stormblood.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:36
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Nodosaur posted:Is this board so humorless and joyless than one can't make light in the face of a tragedy or think that two characters seem cute together? Geezus. Excuse me if I don't take the criticisms of a person who thinks tesleen is the dead girlfriend trope very seriously. It reads like a crit 101 student reaching for last minute paper material. Like, I get it: I love Waypoint. But not everyone actually makes interesting or worthwhile points when trying to perform this kind of critique. Case in point!
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Jul 7, 2019 03:38
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Most of ShB is really good, and most of ASTs biggest issues can be patched with potency buffs to be more competitive. Overall most classes have been improved from the surveys ive seen or about the same so good chance to try another.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:38
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The bad: Yeah, most of the classes don't really get going until level 60 or so, which makes syncing down to a level 30 dungeon feel awful. Of course, getting to level 60 requires a significant time investment too, which is one of the reasons FFXIV is "one of the best games out there that's hard to recommend."
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Jul 7, 2019 03:41
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ChaseSP posted:Most of ShB is really good, and most of ASTs biggest issues can be patched with potency buffs to be more competitive. Overall most classes have been improved from the surveys ive seen or about the same so good chance to try another. The biggest change I want from ast, outside of some numbers tweaks, is for sleeve draw to automatically redraw cards while its active. There's so much weaving you need to do while it's on and would be a huge qol addition.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:44
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I cleared MSQ  Shb= Love story b/t WoL and Crystal Exarch. Change my mind. I feel like there's a huge plot hole for players who didn't clear Crystal Tower like who is this catboy and why do we care? Great VA and music. I have to admit some of the fetch quests got super long and tiring like at the forest. - Aldbert's VA was super familiar and yeah I recognized the name at the end. - Role quest was OK. Not that interesting but I guess avg for job quests all and all. - I feel like the final dungeon was confusing due to the lazors and AoE spam. I had no idea wtf was going on and that more or less ruined part of the conclusion. - Queue time was surprisingly not bad and will be sad once I realize it'll be 15+ min for DPS after the few weeks. - Leveling was fine as I just hit DR everyday but I feel like there's so much exp for 70-80. Final thoughts: ShB>HW>SB
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Jul 7, 2019 03:48
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:The biggest change I want from ast, outside of some numbers tweaks, is for sleeve draw to automatically redraw cards while its active. There's so much weaving you need to do while it's on and would be a huge qol addition. Yes that would be an extremely cool change that wouldn't require you to have lightspeed up to dps while effectively managing cards.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:53
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I was level 77 on day one of early access and hit level 80 while the quests were still on level 78 I believe. It's pretty quick to level if you don't watch cutscenes, although I did end up watching a fair few cutscenes this expansion.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:54
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Post MSQ Spoilers The only thing I didn’t like was the stinger after the MSQ with Zenos. He is probably my main issue with SB and now he is going to make ShB patch content less interesting. He sucks. He looks like a creep and is a bad boring villain. His motivations are really loving stupid. Everything about him is bad.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:57
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ChaseSP posted:Most of ShB is really good, and most of ASTs biggest issues can be patched with potency buffs to be more competitive. Overall most classes have been improved from the surveys ive seen or about the same so good chance to try another. Agreed. Pretty much the only thing I'd really need from AST is some number adjustments. I think Celestial Opposition should be way stronger for its CD or have its CD brought down to 45-60s, and Collective Unconscious could use a small potency buff on its regen. Right now, it seems like they need to hardcast to deal with AoE healing a lot more than any other healer, and their single target isn't impressive enough to warrant the AoE healing side feeling so clunky.
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Jul 7, 2019 04:00
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isk posted:Agreed, (endgame) especially with the jazz music. Like obviously there's a communist/socialist structure but there's also the somewhat Randian reverence of the folks we know as Ascians (which may have led to their downfall). I think that getting Zanarkand vibes from Amaurot is a valid take, but when going thru the story bits Amaurot, I thought of Bioshock and Rapture more than any other comparison. I'm surprised nobody's made the connection between Amaurot and Atlantis, and even further than that to Blavatsky's theosophical idea of root races considering it posits the original inhabitants of the world were 12-foot-tall supermagic giants. Especially given how much the racist, fascist emperor was using that as his reasoning for all the horrible things he was doing.
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Jul 7, 2019 04:12
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Gumball Gumption posted:I think a big part of the art deco look is because its futuristic and decadent in a way that's different from the Allagans but is also nostalgic. It's a really smart way to signify that the Ascians lived in a world far more advanced than the current FFXIV world, it's literally NYC. But it is also a NYC that's 100 years old in the real world.[ I think a large part of it is that it's just so different from everything else in the game, they've taken influence from a lot of real life cultures but nothing so modern. Even simpler than that is that all the buildings have such stark straight lines which is very imposing.
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Jul 7, 2019 04:13
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Archyduchess posted:This feels really pointlessly vitriolic and cruel for no reason-- I don't know what anybody in this thread said that could really warrant this, or what you get out of it, so I'm just going to drop it. 
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Jul 7, 2019 04:13
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Collective getting nerfed from 150 to 50 is one of those "we have no idea what we are doing kind of moments." Unless they remove the regen, its going to be used pretty much as often as a astro thinks it can/has planned for. Also yeah, the cards need to autodraw during sleeve, they just feel way more finiky right now honestly. Because of the shorter duration and a need for every card drawn to be played on a person you are pushing card buttons a whole lot whenever you use sleeve draw.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I think a big part of the art deco look is because its futuristic and decadent in a way that's different from the Allagans but is also nostalgic. It's a really smart way to signify that the Ascians lived in a world far more advanced than the current FFXIV world, it's literally NYC. But it is also a NYC that's 100 years old in the real world.[ I got the impression that it was explicitly meant to evoke something we, the player, would identify with our own world specifically, and so make it easier to empathize with Emet's horror at everything regressing to this relatively barbaric fantasy setting.
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So Final Trial spoilers: Does anyone else feel like the way we got rid of the light was kind of an rear end pull? You can argue Arbert had to sacrifice himself for it to work completely, but the man who was scheming the entire time for us to turn into a Lightwarden then deciding to unleash enough darkness on us that we were able to safely vent all that light in order to defeat him feels just a little cheap, or at least not well thought out by Emet-Selch.
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Jul 7, 2019 04:28
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somepartsareme posted:So Final Trial spoilers: Does anyone else feel like the way we got rid of the light was kind of an rear end pull? You can argue Arbert had to sacrifice himself for it to work completely, but the man who was scheming the entire time for us to turn into a Lightwarden then deciding to unleash enough darkness on us that we were able to safely vent all that light in order to defeat him feels just a little cheap, or at least not well thought out by Emet-Selch. It's explicitly stated by Emet that the Light that wins out over his quicktime event is not from the Lightwardens; it's just your blessing. You were able to contain and subsume the Lightwarden's power because Ardbert - a fragment of your soul that was torn away during the Sundering - rejoined with you, thus strengthening your soul enough for you to not be overwhelmed by the Light anymore.
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Jul 7, 2019 04:32
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If anyone remembers my ingame shenanigans from 2 years ago with the Character Creator. There still are some relics around.
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Vermain posted:It's explicitly stated by Emet that the Light that wins out over his quicktime event is not from the Lightwardens; it's just your blessing. You were able to contain and subsume the Lightwarden's power because Ardbert - a fragment of your soul that was torn away during the Sundering - rejoined with you, thus strengthening your soul enough for you to not be overwhelmed by the Light anymore. In addition, Emet-Selch specifically hinted at this by expressing disappointment earlier that your soul wasn't strong enough to contain the light you absorbed. Suggesting that if you were closer to his ideal of a person, you should be able to handle it. Ardbert rejoining with us brings us closer to being an "ascian".
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Jul 7, 2019 04:51
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Alder posted:I feel like there's a huge plot hole for players who didn't clear Crystal Tower this is what I want to know. as I understand it that quest series is not required for the MSQ, so what, if anything, changes for those who haven't done it? for example, (level 79) after finishing off Innocence, when g'raha is trying to take your light juice and dump it/himself in the rift, you have an option to call out his true name. but presumably the WoL would have zero clue if they hadn't finished the three crystal tower raids. does that option not appear? besides, (post-msq dungeon) there's also the issue that g'raha has to actually be sleeping in the crystal tower for the ironworks guys to wake him up and start on their project. (I think that's how it went but I may be misremembering the exact order of events.) of course, g'raha explicitly acknowledges that if you did indeed stop the eighth umbral calamity, by back to the future rules he shouldn't be around anymore. and it's probably valid to handwave much of this as "you would've done it eventually." presumably these plot threads will be pulled on in 5.x.
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TooManyUzukis posted:Excuse me if I don't take the criticisms of a person who thinks tesleen is the dead girlfriend trope very seriously. It reads like a crit 101 student reaching for last minute paper material. Like, I get it: I love Waypoint. But not everyone actually makes interesting or worthwhile points when trying to perform this kind of critique. Case in point! You seem to be taking a statement that I described as “making light of” in the post you yourself quoted more seriously than I am, for one, so I’m not really sure what, if anything, I should take from your post. (What the gently caress is Waypoint???)
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Jul 7, 2019 04:56
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Ironslave posted:I'm surprised nobody's made the connection between Amaurot and Atlantis, and even further than that to Blavatsky's theosophical idea of root races considering it posits the original inhabitants of the world were 12-foot-tall supermagic giants. Especially given how much the racist, fascist emperor was using that as his reasoning for all the horrible things he was doing. Fun fact: Amaurot, its surroundings (Macarenses, Anchora) and Emet-Selch's best friend, Hythlodaeus are all from Thomas More's Utopia. I had the biggest, dumbest "I understood that reference" grin on my face during that entire portion. 
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I like how all the Armorer job quests (well, up until 70 at least, haven't done ShB ones) are like a neverending Goofus and Gallant sketch where Blanstyr is just constantly being a dumbass and loving things up. Also, the end of the SB Blacksmithing job quests was hilarious. Regarding the general topic of FFXIV's gameplay as an MMO, my feeling is that WoW is actually a bit better with class/skill design (it manages to make the classes distinct despite having a core rotation that consists of dramatically fewer skills than FFXIV), but that FFXIV is better with encounter design (and the well-choreographed encounters are probably at least partially dependent on the skills being a bit less "dynamic" than many of their WoW equivalents). Though none of this really factors into why I prefer FFXIV (that FFXIV has dramatically better setting/writing). I enjoy the way FFXIV encounters work, though I'll probably never be able to handle really high level stuff.
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Jul 7, 2019 05:05
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Is it just me or is the level 76 Scholar spell, Fey Blessing, really weak and a frankly pointless spell? I mean, yeah, technically it's better than not having it, but not by much.
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Clarste posted:Is it just me or is the level 76 Scholar spell, Fey Blessing, really weak and a frankly pointless spell? I mean, yeah, technically it's better than not having it, but not by much. SCH's Achilles' heel is that their AoE healing has never been great. 350 potency's still pretty good for an oGCD heal.
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Jul 7, 2019 05:11
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I was really enjoying the Ninja changes during the leveling experience but now that I'm level 80 I feel like I have to press twice as many buttons to do less damage than everyone else. Someone please tell me I'm doing something wrong.
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Kongming posted:I was really enjoying the Ninja changes during the leveling experience but now that I'm level 80 I feel like I have to press twice as many buttons to do less damage than everyone else. Someone please tell me I'm doing something wrong. Ninjas do less damage because they make everyone else hit harder. It's their thing. They do have plenty of buttons to hit though.
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I'm nee to the game and just got a warrior to 50 but cant decide what to main. I enjoy warrior but both dark knight and gun breaker seem fun. I've enjoyed tanking alot as well. I've gotten dk to 33 atm but feel like I should get warrior to 60 buy shadowbringers and then go gunsword poo poo up. Any suggestions to help me not be so indecisive?
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What I don't get about this "elemental imbalance in shard causes calamity in the Source" thing is... what does this mean about Bahamut? That was because of actual choices and actions undertaken by Garleans and Ascians, not something that happened in another dimension. Was that NOT an Umbral Calamity?
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Elblanco posted:I'm nee to the game and just got a warrior to 50 but cant decide what to main. I enjoy warrior but both dark knight and gun breaker seem fun. I've enjoyed tanking alot as well. I've gotten dk to 33 atm but feel like I should get warrior to 60 buy shadowbringers and then go gunsword poo poo up. Any suggestions to help me not be so indecisive?
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