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Tortolia posted:I think it's because Hildibrand is cited as an important content unlock in the thread OPs. OP here, I cited it as important because I think it's some of the funniest content in the game and I wanted to make sure new players knew about it. 
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hildebrand is extremely important
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Aug 22, 2021 05:27
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I'm on the trial edition rolling a CNJ, now WHM and having a blast. Does the complete edition go on sale often? I know it was on sale back in July. I'm definitely looking to get the full game at some point in the near future, but if it's likely to go on sale again soon I may wait and level some other jobs to slow down a bit. e: Also I desperately regret not making a Lalafel, but I don't want to start entirely over at this point and still only have one character slot available on my realm. Pobrecito fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Aug 22, 2021 |
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Aug 22, 2021 05:30
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Pobrecito posted:I'm on the trial edition rolling a CNJ, now WHM and having a blast. Does the complete edition go on sale often? I know it was on sale back in July. I'm definitely looking to get the full game at some point in the near future, but if it's likely to go on sale again soon I may wait and level some other jobs to slow down a bit. I think it's been on sale a few times this year already, wouldn't be surprised if it went on sale again before Endwalker drops in November. And you get a free fantasia (item that lets you change race, etc) before Heavensward.
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Aug 22, 2021 05:43
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Wicked Them Beats posted:I think it's been on sale a few times this year already, wouldn't be surprised if it went on sale again before Endwalker drops in November. And you get a free fantasia (item that lets you change race, etc) before Heavensward. Ah nice, good to know. Hopefully it will go on sale before I finish the trial MSQ. Also how long are queue times for DPS classes generally? I think I'm getting extremely spoiled queueing as a healer. I don't think I've ever not had a instant group when I needed one. e: Also just a random thought, but I really like that people stick to one character for the most part. I've already run into the same people several times running around. It makes the world feel much more lived in. Pobrecito fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 22, 2021 |
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Aug 22, 2021 06:27
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Pobrecito posted:Ah nice, good to know. Hopefully it will go on sale before I finish the trial MSQ. During busy hours I can typically get a msq dungeon to pop as a dps in 10min or so. Popular roulettes like leveling roulette a bit faster.
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Aug 22, 2021 06:58
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Typically you can expect 10-15 minute solo queues as a dps but queue times for all roles can fluctuate based on factors like new job releases (expect healer queues to slow up in Endwalker as people try and level Sages) or what content you're trying to run (Alliance DR tends to be faster queues for dps since each run needs proportionately more of the role to get moving). So not horrible, but you'll have time to do other things while waiting and might consider looking at side options for leveling dps jobs since they're less able to queue and go. And obviously if/when you join a FC feel free to try to pre-form groups.
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Aug 22, 2021 07:06
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Is there anything uber-important in the Coils of Bahamut story-wise?
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Aug 22, 2021 07:49
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Regalingualius posted:Is there anything uber-important in the Coils of Bahamut story-wise? mmmmmm... kinda? It's big stuff and touching, but more "fill in at some point if interested in lore" than "definitely do this before continuing the game". I'd say it's worth doing unsynced once 80 or if guildies are pursuing it, but if you're not into it for the actual challenge there's no reason to do it immediately.
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Aug 22, 2021 07:53
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Regalingualius posted:Is there anything uber-important in the Coils of Bahamut story-wise? it's important if you watched the ARR End of an Era trailer (which everyone should imo) and want to know "so what actually happened with Bahamut at the end there? did he die? where did he go?" which, in-lore, is a HUGE deal because Bahamut destroyed the world almost, and folks don't really remember what happened. there's a lot of incidental lore in the raid too that serves to fill out more backstory of stuff like the Allagans, the dragons, and primals. it's very cool and if you can find someone (like a friendly goon or two) they can carry you through them unsynced, so you don't have to worry about all the weird-rear end old raid mechanics, and just enjoy the story.
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Aug 22, 2021 08:02
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yeah its important and you should do it unsync'd
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Aug 22, 2021 08:17
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The writers have mentioned it'll be tied into Endwalker, and a lot of it comes up through the game so its worth running through unsynced for story stuff.
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Aug 22, 2021 09:44
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Oh wow, bought two jumbo cactpot tickets for the first time ever and got 2nd and 4th prizes, both tickets won!
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Aug 22, 2021 12:58
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But by not buying 3 tickets you have ~1000 less mgp than you could have
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Aug 22, 2021 13:02
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This time I have three tickets - only just noticed that it is capped to three each week and last week I decided to stop at 2 since the cost kept going up 
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Aug 22, 2021 13:07
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You're always going to make a profit on jumbo cactpot tickets (and on basically everything in the gold saucer; you have to be trying HARD to lose mgp).
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I'm pretty sure the only way to lose money is just completely suck it up at Triple Triad. Even when you lose though they give you like a tiny rebate.
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sweet geek swag posted:You can assign dpad up and down to keyboard binds in keybinds:gamepad, thus allowing a keyboard and mouse user to use soft targeting. You can also soft target via the mousewheel by activating mouse targeting settings in Character config:Control settings:mouse. From yesterday, but gently caress, you're right. I remember experimenting with that a bit but couldn't find a binding that worked for me. I just switched to keeping the F1-8 keys as party targeting.
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Aug 22, 2021 15:15
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Coils also give you some more quality time with Alisaie, which is a nice counterpart to all the time you've had with Alphinaud at that point in the game. Plus some amazing showpiece fights. (Absolutely feel free to unsynch the fights, though consider doing T13, the very final fight, synched; but that's not mandatory by any means).
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Aug 22, 2021 15:47
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Leraika posted:You're always going to make a profit on jumbo cactpot tickets (and on basically everything in the gold saucer; you have to be trying HARD to lose mgp). Yes, even not getting any numbers correct will still give you more MGP than you paid in, so you should always buy all three tickets per week.
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Man, FFXIV community is such a breath of fresh air compared to WoW. I've been mostly in groups with veterans and nobody has complained about me watching cinematics for the first time or not knowing mechanics. I did just have an all-sprout first timer group for Titan and it was fun as hell. None of us had any clue of the fight going in so we had to learn the mechanics on the fly. We wiped one time when me (WHM) and a BRD thought standing in the red was a good idea lmao. But we cleared it on our second attempt.
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Pobrecito posted:Man, FFXIV community is such a breath of fresh air compared to WoW. I've been mostly in groups with veterans and nobody has complained about me watching cinematics for the first time or not knowing mechanics. Oh no, the floor is gone.
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Pobrecito posted:Man, FFXIV community is such a breath of fresh air compared to WoW. I've been mostly in groups with veterans and nobody has complained about me watching cinematics for the first time or not knowing mechanics. Its a right of passage, everyone needs to do it at least once.
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Tried doing the first Minstrel Ballad trial last night in a PUG and uh lot going on there 1stGear fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Aug 22, 2021 |
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Aug 22, 2021 23:33
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Yeah, that was an end game fight back when it was current, where everyone was expected to know the strats going in. Basically everyone going in there in a pug is basically guaranteed to be a new person, trying to do an end game fight without knowing what to do. That's going to be difficult. I'm not saying you can't do it, but it'll be a mess.
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It felt doable as we got pretty close on one attempt. But popping the orbs was consistently murdering us.
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When I did Titan the first time, I assumed invisible walls surrounded the platform, like they do everywhere else where I actually do want to jump down. The party did fine without me.
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Duodecimal posted:When I did Titan the first time, I assumed invisible walls surrounded the platform, like they do everywhere else where I actually do want to jump down. We've all been there friend
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What’s the name of that track that plays during tense mystery scenes that’s just a few piano notes?
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1stGear posted:It felt doable as we got pretty close on one attempt. But popping the orbs was consistently murdering us. If I remember correctly it's either you need to share the damage by stacking up or only tanks can pop orbs, it's one or the other.
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Regalingualius posted:What’s the name of that track that plays during tense mystery scenes that’s just a few piano notes? This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taF4CVgx_rE Or maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJj2Q3h4u-4 Less likely... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmheJO3xOiE Or perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p0nAjyPIhU And these are just from 1.0/ARR! This game has a lot of music... 
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I had a couple of questions regarding mostly items and storage:
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Celebrity Ghost posted:I had a couple of questions regarding mostly items and storage: some of those sets are a little weird cause they were essentially the old tomestone gear of ARR but they got turned into 2.X quest rewards because, well, those quests just didnt offer gear lol you can buy them with allied seals which are obtained via arr hunts But more important I would segue into https://www.garlandtools.org/db/ being an excellent resource for this kind of thing, by searching items and switching to this tab  you can find sources for really anything it's not the only resource like this but it's still my preferred one e; might as well add  use this tab in glamour plates to dispel, by default it will dispel everything but you can actually check and uncheck which slots you want it to RME fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Celebrity Ghost posted:they were a series with names like "Daystar" and "Noctis" Those can be bought from Rowena's Splendor's vendors in the big 3 city-states (near the main aetheryte crystals, blue bag icon on the map) under the category "Gerolt's Masterworks". They're not the best items for level 50 though (that'd be the Augmented Ironworks sets, available from the same vendors) so it'd be just for looks/glamour. [edit] Oh wait those are only the weapons, I guess the hunt seals as mentioned above are how you get the armor now.
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Celebrity Ghost posted:I had a couple of questions regarding mostly items and storage: - I don't think there's anything from quests you can't recover. It's either on the Calamity Salvager for 1000 gil or there's some other process to recover it. The Daystar robe can be bought with Allied Seals from hunts, for instance. That said: look at the icons at the top right of the tooltip. If the rightmost one is lit you can store it in the Armoire, which has infinite space but only allows a few items (L50 gear sets, various cosmetic rewards). If the middle is lit you can store it in the Glamour Dresser, which has space for 400 items. It's meant for glamour but you can just store your stuff there if you want, there's nothing stopping you. - You'll run out of armory space pretty quick if you keep everything on you. I keep stuff for the next 10 levels of jobs I am leveling on me. Most people just liquidate their assets ASAP which is probably the best option, but I'm a terrible hoarder so I have a retainer with a couple of tabs worth of stuff I intend to use sometime later maybe. - There's an option in the glamour plate interface as mentioned, but it's pretty rare you want to dispel glams. Set up glamour plates, and change which plate is linked to the relevant job gearset when you want to change appearance. - Some low level materia are used in specific crafting quests, and as such are valued more highly. Those quests also make materia leave the market, unlike the stuff people wear which they can just reuse infinitely. Low level crafting and gathering materia is still heavily used at max level, so they're worth more.
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Thanks for the quick answers!
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You can also shove stuff you want to keep in the glamour dresser and it'll be there waiting for you to take it out. I'd still recommend leveling all your classes that use one type of gear sequentially (white mage/scholar/astrologian all use the same gear, so if you put together a set for one, you can use it leveling all three, etc) just to cut down on accumulation.
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Duodecimal posted:When I did Titan the first time, I assumed invisible walls surrounded the platform, like they do everywhere else where I actually do want to jump down. My guild now has a routine on every new trial. Before the pull, somebody tests the wall. Is it death or just a lot of damage? Can you fall?
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Falling off in Titan is a right of passage, both as a sprout and also while learning certain jobs. On the first day of Stormblood early access I queued for Trial DR and got Titan HM. There were two brand new red mages in the party, and both of them Displaced off the platform in the first 90 seconds.
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Tortolia posted:Falling off in Titan is a right of passage, both as a sprout and also while learning certain jobs. I have done this. More than once.
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