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So having accomplished my goal of working on my backlog to a point that I'm happy with, I've decided to finally to return to FF14. Previously, I was playing the game via the free trial, but I had hit the point where I had hit the gil cap, so I went ahead and bought the full game pack that came with Shadowbringers. I played for the duration of the 30-day free trial, but I decided to take a break because I spending most of my free time with the game, and I wanted to play other stuff. This was right before Endwalker came out, I think. My plan was just to do the Entry pricing plan (at $12.99/month), because I only have the one character so far, and I don't see myself making another 7 characters at the moment. However, the issue I have about jumping back in is that I sort of lost track of where I was in the story. I had finished the MSQ for A Realm Reborn, and was working my way through the interim between ARR and Heavensward (from what I heard, I guess you could say I quit FF14 before it really starts to get good) before I stopped. From looking at the multitude of screenshots I took, this is what I remember of the story:
Unfortunately, I can't remember a lot of the minor characters or minute details involved with all the quests. The other thing that has me a bit apprehensive is regarding how much I missed in terms of time-exclusive content while I was gone. I can live without it, but I do remember checking in at one point and seeing that there were some new emotes you could get at Gold Saucer (the Show Left/Show Right emotes from June), and I'm a little sad about not being able to get those.  Is there anything I should know or look into before I jump back in?
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Max Wilco posted:Is there anything I should know or look into before I jump back in? Also, don't worry about missing timed exclusives. You have the FF15 car, which is a hella good event reward, and is still one of very few mounts with more than two seats. Most of the others cost $30 or more in real actual money. And most of the event exclusives are only timed exclusives and are released on the Mogstore later to be bought for IRL money.
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Oct 28, 2022 03:23
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Sanguina on the boards here did a full Heavensward LP, and is now doing one for Stormblood, but before that they did a "newbie journal" in the old masterthread. It's not quite a full LP, but they covered things in pretty good depth, so it could probably work as a refresher. Here's their post history: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3892748&userid=183048
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Oct 28, 2022 07:21
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Just do what I did when I came back to the game after burning out years ago: pretend your WoL has face-blindness and is just trying to play along when someone says "nice to see you again" or "it's so sad that Billy got sat on by a malboro, you had such a history together."
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Oct 28, 2022 07:26
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Remember when each expansion releases they have to consider people jumping back in who haven't played for a year or so anyway. So they do tend to reiterate important points as they go. If you really want there's a new game plus function that lets you replay sections of the msq, but you'll probably be fine to jump on in.
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Oct 28, 2022 09:16
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Bruceski posted:Just do what I did when I came back to the game after burning out years ago: pretend your WoL has face-blindness and is just trying to play along when someone says "nice to see you again" or "it's so sad that Billy got sat on by a malboro, you had such a history together." The warrior of light got hit on the head by a coconut and spent four amnesiac years living among the, let’s say, kobolds. E: naturally the twins didn’t grow up at all in this time.
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Oct 28, 2022 10:33
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Anyone have a ballpark idea of when I can craft the Answers orchestrion roll? I believe it's a 60** ALC craft, so it would be a challenge at 60 without min-maxing gear/food. Is it as simple a matter of just leveling to 70 or 80 to make it more achievable?
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Oct 28, 2022 16:37
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Master recipes will have stat requirements much higher than regular recipes, so you'll either need to be higher level or well-melded / fed. Being level 70 in 70 gear would be trivial. That said, orchestrion rolls don't require quality, and are thus much easier to make since you can just hammer the progress bar.
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Oct 28, 2022 16:39
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:That said, orchestrion rolls don't require quality, and are thus much easier to make since you can just hammer the progress bar. Ohhhhh.
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Oct 28, 2022 17:02
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I mean, you can max out quality, but it doesn't do anything. I've crafted some of the 90 rolls in the basic gear without overmeldong/min maxing, but that was basically using the high progress opener, intuition, then some more progress actions. No manip shenanigans needed.
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Oct 28, 2022 17:06
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You do it because Quality is the score bar for crafting and why would you bother just doing the minimum? 
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Oct 28, 2022 17:22
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if you don't max out quality byregot will punish you by giving you poor condition on all finishers
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Oct 28, 2022 17:54
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If you craft Answers at 0 quality you get the track where its played on a kazoo
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Oct 28, 2022 18:27
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If you craft La Hee at 100% quality you get the Otamatone version
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Oct 28, 2022 18:45
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Feldegast42 posted:If you craft Answers at 0 quality you get the track where its played on a kazoo So the HQ version
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Oct 28, 2022 19:14
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Qwertycoatl posted:If you craft La Hee at 100% quality you get the Otamatone version I have this mod permanently active https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/35096
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Oct 28, 2022 22:09
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real talk: you can crank up quality for stuff like music/furniture if you're not at level cap yet and want the exp, so there's a very marginal benefit there.
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Oct 29, 2022 07:01
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Alright how am I supposed to get a party together for the Singularity Reactor 
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Oct 30, 2022 18:21
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quiggy posted:Alright how am I supposed to get a party together for the Singularity Reactor queue up for it and let the servers do the work?
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Oct 30, 2022 18:23
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Bruceski posted:queue up for it and let the servers do the work? I eventually got a duty pop, after 45 minutes :/
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Oct 30, 2022 18:36
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Oof. What time was it when you did that?
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Oct 30, 2022 18:44
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It was just now, so I guess the pop was around 1:20 PM ET. I'm playing as WHM too which made it especially frustrating.
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Oct 30, 2022 18:45
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Wild. I've never had a queue take that long, especially not as a healer. Maybe the only mentor available was also a healer?
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So I got signed up and I'm back in the world of Eorzea! Upon opening up the game, I got a message to accept a Returner's Bounty. I decided to accept it, but I don't really know what I'm supposed to do in regards to it. I went to the Delivery Moogle, and I got a few items (10 silver chocobo feathers, friendship circlet, fistbump emote, and 99 aetheryte tickets). I forget what the feathers and circlet do, but it reminded me that I maybe should input a friend code if that's possible. I ran through the All Saints Wake event and got all the stuff from it. Then I did some Weaver crafting, and realized that I need to branch out to some of the other gathering/crafting professions to get materials to advance in weaving (particularly Botanist and Leatherworker). Have some more I wanted to ask about, but I need to play some more.
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Oct 30, 2022 19:43
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The beginner secret to crafting is that all the materials for items up to level 10-15 or so can be purchased from a vendor in the same building where your crafter quest contact is. Otherwise you can go to the Market board and see if the low level materials are available for sale.
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Oct 30, 2022 21:20
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girl dick energy posted:Wild. I've never had a queue take that long, especially not as a healer. Maybe the only mentor available was also a healer? The final trials seem to have that kind of problem, had a similar issue with Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Granted for SHB I was DPS, but I was a tank for EW.
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Oct 30, 2022 21:27
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You can spend the silver chocobo feathers at a Calamity Salvager to get random early- to mid-game armor and weapons. I don't think they have anything that's unique to the silver feathers - it's mostly early dungeon gear and then mid-level Tomestone stuff - but it's a way to get a thing without spending tomestones on it. I'd recommend skipping the green items, since they're just dungeon drops.
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Oct 30, 2022 21:28
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Trial roulette isn't great when it isn't mid prime time. It's a low experience roulette and some of the story trials are questionable experiences.
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Oct 30, 2022 21:37
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S.D. posted:The beginner secret to crafting is that all the materials for items up to level 10-15 or so can be purchased from a vendor in the same building where your crafter quest contact is. Otherwise you can go to the Market board and see if the low level materials are available for sale. You can get quite a few of the 15-30 ingredients from the housing district vendor.
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Oct 30, 2022 23:58
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quiggy posted:It was just now, so I guess the pop was around 1:20 PM ET. I'm playing as WHM too which made it especially frustrating. ARF is only in 5678 which is a pretty low reward roulette unfortunately. It'd be nice if they restructured the roulettes a bit so it was either more desirable to run 5678 with a bit more regularity (wouldn't be surprised if a relic step incentivizes it directly, but that's a bandaid) or if they did something like MSQ required 5678 dungeons also appeared in levelling.
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Oct 31, 2022 02:05
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Feldegast42 posted:If you craft Answers at 0 quality you get the track where its played on a kazoo
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Oct 31, 2022 02:46
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I started crafting and gathering for the first time ever so as to save some gil on glams. So, I'm getting skybuilder scrip for my intended gear, but I'm also getting skybuilder points. What do skybuilder points get me?
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Oct 31, 2022 04:15
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Achievements, if you get enough -- there are minions if you get to 50k on any one crafting and any one gathering class, and more stuff for 500k, with a mount if you get 500k on everything (hahahaha no)
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Oct 31, 2022 04:39
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That mount is one of the rarest in the game and one time I saw a dude with it and it was cool
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Oct 31, 2022 04:40
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Yeah, I kind of want it, but I'm not sure if I'm a true doom gatherhead enough to get 500k on, like, fishing
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Regy Rusty posted:That mount is one of the rarest in the game and one time I saw a dude with it and it was cool I saw it a couple of times, one time on a dude with necromancer and a ultimate sword/shield combo from 2 different trials. Just imagine what their /playtime is ...
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Algid posted:I saw it a couple of times, one time on a dude with necromancer and a ultimate sword/shield combo from 2 different trials. Just imagine what their /playtime is ... the canon WoL
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RME posted:ARF is only in 5678 which is a pretty low reward roulette unfortunately. It'd be nice if they restructured the roulettes a bit so it was either more desirable to run 5678 with a bit more regularity (wouldn't be surprised if a relic step incentivizes it directly, but that's a bandaid) or if they did something like MSQ required 5678 dungeons also appeared in levelling. I think I actually like Toto-Rak less than Satasha or Tam-Tara. Without any jank or the potential for ridiculous wall-to-wall hellpulls, there's nothing to distract you from the fact that you have like four buttons in your rotation, and two of them are role actions.
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Endorph posted:questions lol
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girl dick energy posted:Which is a drat shame. I really like Numbers Roulette, because unlike Leveling Roulette, or even Trials, you can pretty much guarantee that you'll have at least something like a functional kit. 1. A full 1-2-3 combo 2. An AoE attack 3. An oGCD attack or heal (AST should NOT be the only one with a good oGCD heal at 15) 4. Healer class's regen equivalent (SCH and SGE have their fairy and Kardion, after all)
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