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It's not possible for us to delete our memories and re-experience the highest highs of the game fresh, so we watch new people do it to try and chase that high! I make it sound kind of awful, but like, I also do it too. It's just such a good story! It's got such great moments! You just wanna share this stuff!
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Oct 8, 2021 19:37
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FeatherFloat posted:It's not possible for us to delete our memories and re-experience the highest highs of the game fresh, so we watch new people do it to try and chase that high! It's not just you. I'm certainly getting the New Game Plus experience through streamers, and the sheer number of folks flocking to videos and streams of folks doing MSQ indicates that it's fairly common.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:43
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PotD is also useful for leveling alt classes because you don't have to bother gearing them
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Oct 8, 2021 21:17
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I'd rather watch paint dry than level again in potd. Give me command missions any day.
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Oct 8, 2021 21:21
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I’m not looking forward to leveling RDM when I’m done with AST. I don’t even have the ability to run dungeons with my squadron unlocked. At least I’m starting from 50 instead of 1 but still… (I also need to get SMN to 80 but at least I have Bojza and SCH to help with that.)
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Oct 8, 2021 21:35
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I’m about to cap out WAR, and need to work to get AST or DNC up a level or three so that they can claim the rest of the ShB MSQ. The instances are getting trickier and I’m not a very good player so I’m getting nervous about the prospect.
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Oct 8, 2021 21:40
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hopeandjoy posted:I’m not looking forward to leveling RDM when I’m done with AST. I don’t even have the ability to run dungeons with my squadron unlocked. Starting at 50 isn't bad because you basically have the full suite of roulettes at your disposal excluding Expert DR and normal raid roulette, as well as being able to supplement with HW beast tribe dailies.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:06
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Are the beast tribe dailies good exp? I did some but don’t recall how worthwhile they were beyond unlocks and story.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:19
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Onean posted:Using the matched party option will get you a group pretty quickly and the run will be real quick too. That has never been my experience for anything other than 1-10.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:21
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Subjunctive posted:Are the beast tribe dailies good exp? I did some but don’t recall how worthwhile they were beyond unlocks and story. Heavensward and above Beast tribes are. Only the Ixal are for ARR Beast Tribes.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:23
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Stormblood and Shadowbringers are worth it for combat. The crafter/gatherer dailies are worth it at every level (though Firmament is faster, the tribe dailies still give decent EXP). Edit: For Heavensward the Vath are okay, while the Vanu take place all around in a very vertical zone so they're pretty slow.Kyrosiris posted:That has never been my experience for anything other than 1-10. As a DPS I just did a bunch of 51-60 and had to wait about 2-3 minutes each time (except once or twice where I got an instant queue). Compared to the couple of dungeon runs before where I had to wait about 7-10 minutes. Onean fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 8, 2021 22:24
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Basically as you progress the exp gets better from beast tribes. The best exp is Pixies but if you do both of the combat beast tribes in Stormblood they come close, which is better than the exp from the two beast tribes in Heavensward, which is way better than the exp from four beast tribes in ARR.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:27
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Subjunctive posted:Are the beast tribe dailies good exp? I did some but don’t recall how worthwhile they were beyond unlocks and story. Not the ARR ones, but the ones in any of the expansions are great, yes. They scale to your level, and give a good amount of XP. A nice daily bonus, you can do it while queueing. The only problem is if you're doing one of those ones where you ride a temporary mount, if you get pulled into a duty it takes you off the mount and sends you back to the aetheryte. Kind of annoying.
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Oct 8, 2021 22:43
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In terms of post-game SHB progress, if everyone just made it back to the Source,, how much more game is there? Also as a WHM I think my biggest guilty pleasure is popping enormous full-party Cure IIIs. It's useless 99% of the time but occasionally after a stack marker or if the whole group is melee you can get everyone in its radius and heal tens of thousands of HP in one go 
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Oct 8, 2021 22:58
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:In terms of post-game SHB progress, if everyone just made it back to the Source,, how much more game is there? You've got two more patches worth of stuff, so not a lot but it's very action-packed!
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Oct 8, 2021 23:00
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:In terms of post-game SHB progress, if everyone just made it back to the Source,, how much more game is there? a similar feeling for AST is when you have a bomb about to bust and you get a stack marker that you can lure everyone into it with 
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Oct 8, 2021 23:08
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Onean posted:51-60 Yeah, that's the problem, I can never progress enough to get to 51-60. Queue times for anything but 1-10 are miserable and every time I've tried to solo it, I end up wiping on the floor 20 boss because I have god-awful aetherpool/silver chest RNG.
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Oct 8, 2021 23:39
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What times are you queueing? I had okay-ish 1-50 queues during prime weekend-evening time on Crystal. (Not sure if that'll hold for 51-100, though. I just want to finish the story and maybe get some interesting loot, that's all.)
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Oct 8, 2021 23:54
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Solo POTD is extremely frontloaded in difficulty because of how the enemy level ranges work out. It would not be something I recommend trying without broader experience with deep dungeons. Alternately snag three folks and just fixed party 1-50, would take less than 90 mins.
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Oct 9, 2021 00:24
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Leraika posted:hearing about newbies going through the game and enjoying themselves owns actually It will please you to know I'm having a blast with the story then. It's a refreshing change from the competition 
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Oct 9, 2021 01:03
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McCloud posted:It will please you to know I'm having a blast with the story then. It's a refreshing change from the competition 
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Oct 9, 2021 01:06
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Wait wait hold on, Raubahns son is one of those tiny gnome people!? Whaaa
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Oct 9, 2021 01:45
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McCloud posted:Wait wait hold on, Raubahns son is one of those tiny gnome people!? Whaaa He's adopted.
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Oct 9, 2021 01:49
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Oh, that makes way more sense than what I pictured
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Oct 9, 2021 01:53
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well Raub and the falafel queen have a very, very close relationship sooo edit: Highlander mounts for lalas when
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Oct 9, 2021 02:05
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That has me thinking actually, is Hilda the only example of a cross-race person in the entire game? She's living proof that there's no problem with genetic compatibility amongst the races, but maybe they (rightly) assume the world isn't ready for the implications of, say, Roegadyn-Lalafell breeding 
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Oct 9, 2021 02:46
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there's a catboy dating a potatoess in the culinarian quests, give it time (?)
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Oct 9, 2021 03:04
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There's a quest in the Ruby Sea that describes a hyur/au ra hybrid as having an au ra's horns and tail but no scales. Chronicles further confirms that yes, all the playable races can interbreed. All of them.
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Oct 9, 2021 03:07
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:That has me thinking actually, is Hilda the only example of a cross-race person in the entire game? She's living proof that there's no problem with genetic compatibility amongst the races, but maybe they (rightly) assume the world isn't ready for the implications of, say, Roegadyn-Lalafell breeding I hope we meet a lala/roe and they just look like a completely normal hyur. All the differences cancel out!
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Oct 9, 2021 03:45
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Oh, if anybody's going for the Fashion Report 100 rating, this looks like a great week to get it. Most of the pieces are incredibly cheap and available at low level. https://twitter.com/KaiyokoStar/status/1446422996575342593
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Oct 9, 2021 04:35
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That is the easiest 100 point challenge I have ever seen. Definitely the week to go for the title.
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Oct 9, 2021 04:48
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Onean posted:Stormblood and Shadowbringers are worth it for combat. The crafter/gatherer dailies are worth it at every level (though Firmament is faster, the tribe dailies still give decent EXP). Edit: For Heavensward the Vath are okay, while the Vanu take place all around in a very vertical zone so they're pretty slow. The Vath inexplicably give more XP per quest than the Vanu Vanu so they're faster just because of that. I actually found the Vanu Vanu quests easier to speed through, though; their home base is adjacent to an aetheryte so if they send you to the far reaches you can teleport back, and a third of their quests send you to Camp Cloudtop which also has an aetheryte. So if you eat a few hundred gil a day in fees, you can fast travel a lot for the chonkbirbs.
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Oct 9, 2021 04:58
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FuturePastNow posted:The Vath inexplicably give more XP per quest than the Vanu Vanu so they're faster just because of that. Yeah, both of the HW ones are worth doing, the Vanu Vanu only rarely send you to the other side of the map, and it's worth doing for the story too. I think those two are still my absolute favorites, though the dwarves in ShB come close.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:02
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Cythereal posted:There's a quest in the Ruby Sea that describes a hyur/au ra hybrid as having an au ra's horns and tail but no scales. Although it, or other sources, indicate half-breeds are extremely rare. While all the playable races can interbreed they don't seem to be particularly fertile when they cross.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:05
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Newbie question, but: I was in Southern Thanalan doing beast tribe quests when suddenly chat lit up with people going 'inv pls' and, a few minutes later, 'thx for spawn/relay' or something similar. I googled around and that has led me to assume this was some big boss monster randomly spawning and people asking to be brought to join in? Do I have that right? How did they learn the monster was there?
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Oct 9, 2021 05:21
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Picayune posted:Newbie question, but: I was in Southern Thanalan doing beast tribe quests when suddenly chat lit up with people going 'inv pls' and, a few minutes later, 'thx for spawn/relay' or something similar. Usually, in my experience, this is a "hunt mark," which is a special monster connected with the Hunt mechanic you get access to in the ARR postgame. Hunt marks spawn semi-randomly around zones, and generally someone will just stumble upon it and then alert people in /shout, since they're usually not soloable.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:25
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You have to unlock s rank hunts, which needs level and gc progress. There’s a zone wide message when they spawn, but people track and post in a Discord to announce them.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:26
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Sounds like you were in the same zone as a Hunt Train! Basically at around certain times of day big monsters will spawn, somebody spots them and tells the rest of the server, and the Hunt is on! There are several discords devoted to the Hunt and that's where most people get their info. There's more complicated stuff like there's different ranks of monsters and some of them have specific behaviors you have to do to get them to spawn but that's kinda past my scope.
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Begemot posted:Yeah, both of the HW ones are worth doing, the Vanu Vanu only rarely send you to the other side of the map, and it's worth doing for the story too. I think those two are still my absolute favorites, though the dwarves in ShB come close. I perform the sundrop dance every time I see a certain wicked white. He hasn't been scared off by it yet, though.
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