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Theris posted:I'd count Alphinaud here too - his ARR voice fits his ARR character very well, the change came at the perfect time for him. I consider this to be true for Minfilia and Urianger, but for ironic reasons. 'Balthier as a Shakespearean nerd' and 'the hell is that accent' were entertaining to me for exactly long enough that by the time they weren't there anymore, I was genuinely interested in the story.
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Dareon posted:More to the point, it's easy to dismiss because it's not helpful criticism. My leather choker having loose stitching that needs to be redone before it's delivered to the client? That's something I could improve upon were my stitching not a canned animation and a particle effect. My silver bar making Gigi want to commit suicide? Overdramatic and provides me no approach to improve.  That's also a good point that I didn't consider.
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Hogama posted:At the very least Beatin Mainrocquet has the courtesy to be deeply strange about wood. ... I was until now blissfully unaware that Master Beatin's last name is literally "hand-rocket".
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Jul 17, 2022 14:33
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Looking forward to the Dragoon rework. No idea what it feels like at cap but the levelling experience is bad, feels way worse than when I last played it however many years ago. Jump is especially comical having been sped up so much.
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Jul 17, 2022 16:07
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I actually read ahead on a relic for once, and am about to do the Reconditioned step of the anima weapon. Any particular recommendations on affordable stuff to trade for Crystal Sand?
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Jul 17, 2022 16:13
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the two main methods are using scrips for the blue scrip tokens or using poetics for thavnairian mist and enchanted ink. i always went with poetics since animas are just something to do when poetics are capped and scrips are actually useful for other things.
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Jul 17, 2022 16:17
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Gatherer and Crafter scrips can become Blue Scrip Tokens. Very easy to get them. If you don't have any leveled, then... I have no clue.
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Jul 17, 2022 16:17
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Regalingualius posted:I actually read ahead on a relic for once, and am about to do the Reconditioned step of the anima weapon. If you're not doing anything with your crafter's/gatherer's scrip, you can exchange it for tokens, which are traded in for crystal sand. Do your weekly deliveries, get awash in white scrip and spend it on blue tokens. There was also the old trick of doing combat leves in the Hinterlands to spawn amber-encased vilekin chests. I did that back in HW, but I don't know if they ever nerfed it. As I recall, you'd start the leve, grab the chest and abandon it. It's a bit tedious, but that's the crystal sand step regardless.
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Jul 17, 2022 16:24
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if i'm feeling particularly lazy and spicy, i buy the demimateria or primal drops from the mb, but the scrip tokens are by far the cheapest, quickest, and easiest way. if i'm doing a lot of eureka or cc and capping poes constantly, I'll dump them into bone/shell/ore for crystal sands too (30x each for 60 sands, so 40x each for complete anima weap).
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Jul 17, 2022 16:34
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Gnossiennes posted:if i'm doing a lot of eureka or cc and capping poes constantly, I'll dump them into bone/shell/ore for crystal sands too (30x each for 60 sands, so 40x each for complete anima weap). If you're turning poetics into crystal sand then you want to use the Superior Enchanted Ink + Thavnairian Mist exchange, not the unidentified stuff. Ink & Mist is 225 poes/turn-in, unidentified wotsits are 450. Scrip is the more efficient trade, but I have several hundred of all the other anime weapon mats from spare poetics at this point so I'm fine with dumping some into sand. It's that or level desynth just to see the bar go up, and I'm not that degenerate.
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Jul 17, 2022 17:05
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lmao poo poo all those wasted poes jk, i have mats for like two anima weaps right now, but i'm lazy about doing the fates n dungeons. the real bottleneck was me all along
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My general rule of thumb when it comes to anima weapon mats is if it can be bought for something other than poetics, buy it with the alternative currency unless you'd need to grind for it. Save the poetics for the mats that can only be bought for poetics.
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HackensackBackpack posted:There was also the old trick of doing combat leves in the Hinterlands to spawn amber-encased vilekin chests. I did that back in HW, but I don't know if they ever nerfed it. As I recall, you'd start the leve, grab the chest and abandon it. It's a bit tedious, but that's the crystal sand step regardless.
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Hogama posted:They've never nerfed it. You'll probably burn a ton of leve allowances restarting it because the chests aren't guaranteed to spawn, but that was always true. That's good to know. It's a bit boring to do it that way, but you can load up on ambers pretty easily if you're not using the allowances to level your DoH jobs. There isn't a new coffee cookie level is there? I haven't touched the ones in Sharlayan since I hit 90 on everything.
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I turn excess poetics into Demimateria to sell since they have really quick turnaround. Other items may be more efficient but I'll take Fast Cash Now.
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Zomborgon posted:I turn excess poetics into Demimateria to sell since they have really quick turnaround. Other items may be more efficient but I'll take Fast Cash Now. If you want the fastest poetics-to-cash route, go to Eulmore and buy Multifaceted Alchemics. They're 5 poetics for 50g, which is a lot more efficient than Demicrystals.
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Jul 17, 2022 19:48
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HackensackBackpack posted:There isn't a new coffee cookie level is there? I haven't touched the ones in Sharlayan since I hit 90 on everything. tea-making at 88 CUL is somewhat profitable in large quantities (I think when I dumped 100 leves down it last week it was something like 950k gross minus 225k mats for 725k net), but nothing like the cookies, no.
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Jul 17, 2022 20:30
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As far as the tea, goes, all the tea ingredients are trivially farmable as long as you have a botanist retainer to get the lemonettes, so it’s easy to gather everything for free and get pure profit out of it if you’re willing to throw a bit of time at it.
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Is The Striking Tree (EX) especially unpopular or am I just having bad luck, I was in queues for over thirty minutes last night and it’s not much better today
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Jul 17, 2022 22:09
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Maxwell Lord posted:Is The Striking Tree (EX) especially unpopular or am I just having bad luck, I was in queues for over thirty minutes last night and it’s not much better today No one does old EX trials synced via DF.
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ramuh ex in particular has a reputation as being the first extreme that is truly impossible with a group of 8 randos who don't know what they're getting into
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Yeah, I'd do a Party Finder if you can't just find some friends. Nobody queues for it in DF, and the one time I tried it (when I was very new and didn't know any better), it was a massacre that disbanded after six or seven wipes and no progress. If you just need a first-time clear, say so in the PF description and it should work out.
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I’m mostly just clearing out my quest log so yeah may just move on.
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You can easily solo it at like level 70 anyways. Just wait till then.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I’m mostly just clearing out my quest log so yeah may just move on. If you're okay with doing it unsynched and you're in a goon FC, or any for that matter, someone will likely be willing to carry you through it. Even at 80 it was trivial to do.
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For anybody past shadowbringers it, and all the other ARR Extremes, are basically a free space on the catbook
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Anything with Extreme or Savage in the name, along with Binding Coils of Bahamut, you won't realistically be able to queue with Duty Finder
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A friend on Aether who is way more gung-ho about getting their mount than I am says they get duty finder EXs about 30% of the time in Mentor Roulette and of those probably 80% are Ramuh and Thordan EX.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:No one does old EX trials synced via DF besides sprouts who didn't get the memo and the hapless mentors they drag into it via Mentor Roulette. Fixed.  I completed Ramuh EX and Titan EX via Duty Finder. The queues were long, for sure, but I think I got lucky since both times I got groups that were willing to prog through the fight together.
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Khizan posted:As far as the tea, goes, all the tea ingredients are trivially farmable as long as you have a botanist retainer to get the lemonettes, so it’s easy to gather everything for free and get pure profit out of it if you’re willing to throw a bit of time at it. Commanding Craftsman's Draught is pretty good too and takes fewer ingredients, but you'll want a combat retainer to collect the petalouda scales.
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i did not get the memo (people did not suitably explain what unsynchronized meant and I was under the impression that the ex fights were different content (like current ultimates)) so I spent like a week queuing at level for hours on end to get ifrit ex everyone who got into the eventual trial was extremely upset with me, especially when I ended up being a major cause of at least one of the wipes because I ran off towards the edge of the arena with a marker over my head...to where the healers were hanging out, unbeknownst to me I'm not great at dealing with unknowns, and all I knew at that point in time was "this is how you queue for things," so I did I also tend to play late at night because I work nights, so it's not as if anyone was awake to help on discord etc etc etc once someone showed me how to do unsynchronized stuff and what it meant, it was fine, but there is just a lot of stuff in this game that goes underexplained.
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Yeah ffxiv explains DF options exactly nowhere including the fact that options even exist. I just have a tip macro that explains it now whenever I see an obvious sprout trying to do an EX or w/e
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Is there a source of sheet music for the various XIV songs? We’re thinking of having the quartet play something at our wedding because we’re big dumb nerds.
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Vermain posted:If you want the fastest poetics-to-cash route, go to Eulmore and buy Multifaceted Alchemics. They're 5 poetics for 50g, which is a lot more efficient than Demicrystals. 32gil now, btw
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Good thing to do if you're using PF to do EXs: Do it as BLU. The ARR EXs have a 100% learn rate of really powerful spells if you do them as Blue Mage, and it's super easy to find other BLUs who want to do it for that reason. Plus any excuse to do any content as BLU rules.
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Bloodsworn Kojin. Just got Namazu to finish off every single tribal quest, I hit rank 6 with them tomorrow. For the Kojin quests I went into it thinking that the puppet was some sort of scam, that was quickly countered, and I appreciated the Bloodsworn capstone calling it back into question only for the Elder to say "same thing happened to me once, I believe you." Bruceski fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Jul 18, 2022 |
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If I want to convert Poetics to gil I buy Unidentifiable Ore and use that to buy Grade 3 Thanalan topsoil to sell.
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FuturePastNow posted:If I want to convert Poetics to gil I buy Unidentifiable Ore and use that to buy Grade 3 Thanalan topsoil to sell. I think this is very much a server-dependent thing. On Gilgamesh, at least, soils get undercut to hell and back because of how comparatively cheap they are to get, which means either playing along and undercutting down repeatedly or waiting an indeterminate amount of time for prices to rebound to wherever you set your soils.
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FuturePastNow posted:If I want to convert Poetics to gil I buy Unidentifiable Ore and use that to buy Grade 3 Thanalan topsoil to sell. Last I checked there really is no good way, at least on Excalibur. Theres just way more people trying to unload poetics than there is demand for the stuff you can spend them on, if you have all the alt job gear you want you can just let them rot with zero guilt
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