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I recently bought a Job Skip for Black Mage, but I had two rules I had to follow first: 1) It needed to be an Alt, and not my Main. 2) I needed to hit 90 on Black Mage on my Main first. Of course, by the time I hit 90, my Server was changed to Congested, so I had to wait for it to open back up. The reason I bought the Skip was to unlock Reaper, and play through the MSQ as said Job. It was a fun experiment, but not one I ever plan to repeat.
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Thundarr posted:For this reason intermediate crafts will always be a money maker for newbies. Figure out what bits are used as part of current high end crafts, make a big pile of those bits (hq not even necessary), and sell em. There's probably steady money to be made marketing the crafts for the HW crafter quests.
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Aug 17, 2023 22:01
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Thundarr posted:For this reason intermediate crafts will always be a money maker for newbies. Figure out what bits are used as part of current high end crafts, make a big pile of those bits (hq not even necessary), and sell em. I shouldn't be too surprised based on the number of evergreen reagents needed for intermediate crafts, but I find it funny that the Shadowbringers flowers are still needed en masse to make the mainstat alkahests for all the Alchemy related crafts even now.
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Aug 17, 2023 22:11
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As someone who played XI I have undercutting ingrained into my soul, sorry folks, gonna be the next tier down that ends in "69"
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Aug 17, 2023 22:13
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I bought a level skip for Black Mage on my main character because I wanted something to level in Bozja while grinding to rank 15 in Southern Front. It was nice to skip having to learn all the different rotations for Black Mage while leveling and just get straight to playing it with level 80 skills. By the end of that rank grind I was comfortable enough on Black Mage to qualify for the duels which felt goodKazy posted:As someone who played XI I have undercutting ingrained into my soul, sorry folks, gonna be the next tier down that ends in "69"  Sometimes I'll also end with __,420 too because i'm such a funny guy
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Aug 17, 2023 22:22
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Kheldarn posted:I recently bought a Job Skip for Black Mage, but I had two rules I had to follow first:
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Aug 17, 2023 22:24
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Without flight just the getting around to do 2.0 would have taken you more than 2 hours, even skipping cutscenes.
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Aug 17, 2023 23:25
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I don't think players today realize how different 2.0 and the general genre were at the time. Right now 2.0 is basically like paying on a private pirate server or with cheat codes on, so it's going to seem to have odd pacing - xp is gained probably 5x or so as fast as it used to be, skills were much different (used to have almost as many buttons as a current 90 back at level 50), the world as a whole was more dangerous and tons of enemies that are now passive used to be agro, having an ongoing story centered around the player was in itself kind of a new thing at the time, agro enemies could force you to dismount and give you heavy if you tried to run away
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Aug 17, 2023 23:43
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The 2.0 Northern Thanalan FATE grinding we needed to do to level up at the end of launch ARR should have prepared us for all FATE grinding we'd need to do later in the game forever. It did not.
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Aug 17, 2023 23:47
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Vitamean posted:there's high value in paying $18 for a single piece of an entire outfit Was hosed up learning recently that dqx sells the individual pieces
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Aug 18, 2023 00:18
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yeah but imagine the value of buying a bundle in case you ever decide to use the others
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Aug 18, 2023 01:05
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Vitamean posted:yeah but imagine the value of buying a bundle in case you ever decide to use the others I do use the boots that came with my skirt sometimes!
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Aug 18, 2023 01:14
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I'm still mad there's no way to reclaim cash shop items. I lost the boots for the High Summoner's outfit at some point well before glamour dressers and there's absolutely no way for me to get it back. Not even talking to a GM helped because I had no idea when it happened, despite the fact that they could look at my inventory and see the other two pieces are there so I should have it.
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Aug 18, 2023 02:23
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Sentient Data posted:I don't think players today realize how different 2.0 and the general genre were at the time. Right now 2.0 is basically like paying on a private pirate server or with cheat codes on, so it's going to seem to have odd pacing - xp is gained probably 5x or so as fast as it used to be And this just continues to reinforce the fact that they need to make the ability to ride mounts be a Level 10 Blue Quest, instead of requiring you to join a Grand Company, since the modern XP Curve means that you're Level 30+ by the time you get to that Level 20 Quest.
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Aug 18, 2023 03:12
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Just make the WoL move at mount speed at all times
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Aug 18, 2023 03:18
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Countblanc posted:Just make the WoL move at mount speed at all times May I offer as a compromise, 
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Aug 18, 2023 03:24
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Occasionally when I'm traveling from one zone to another I'll dismount and see how far I can get with ninja just using shukuchi and forked raiju. often pretty far! sometimes clear across a map
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Aug 18, 2023 03:50
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TheWorldsaStage posted:Someone in the thread once said people who wore cash shop glams or used cash shop mounts were 'showing off'. I always get a chuckle whenever I remember that Hello. What I said was I feel it's not the flex they think it is, and I was referring (though not explicitly in that post) to the ones who just wear the entire outfit, undyed (or bonus with full coats of cash shop jet black/metallic gold), to idle in Limsa. Part of it is just jealousy that I don't have the free cash to drop on something like that, I see an outfit that does admittedly look good and go, "Oh, that's the Eastern Lord Errant's jacket. ...and the gloves. And the pants. And the shoes. So I can't use any of that." And I've done some dreamfitting to find things that look good on Oaken (Dirndl's top actually works okay on him, for instance), I'd be buying these things if I had cash to spare. The rest of it is grumping at the laziness on display. Wanting to look good but not wanting to go to the effort of hunting down two dungeon sets, a crafted piece, and a savage raid drop to mesh into a harmonizing whole.  Is it a stupid viewpoint? Yeah, probably. But I'm judging everyone's clothes already, making some value judgements on their character is hard to avoid.
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Aug 18, 2023 04:24
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Dareon posted:Is it a stupid viewpoint? Yeah, probably. But I'm judging everyone's clothes already, making some value judgements on their character is hard to avoid. I think it should be very easy to judge someone's clothing completely and utterly separately from their character, but what do I know.
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Aug 18, 2023 04:35
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I mean in theory but I haven't seen the level of vitriol for people wearing a single set of armor glams except, for, like, glamour/transmog contents that explicitly ban single sets of armor for obvious reasons.
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Aug 18, 2023 05:30
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Dareon posted:What I said was I feel it's not the flex they think it is, ...i don't think anyone thinks this is a flex.
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Aug 18, 2023 05:36
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When I put on the fat cat pyjamas it's not because I'm trying to "flaunt" or "flex" that time I had fifteen whole dollars it's because they look cozy and I want my WoL to be cozy too
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Aug 18, 2023 05:53
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The people standing afk with their ultimate raid weapons are the ones you should look down on.
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Aug 18, 2023 05:56
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FuturePastNow posted:The people standing afk with their ultimate raid weapons are the ones you should look down on. mad?
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Aug 18, 2023 06:02
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Please I do all my ultimate weapon afking at my houses lawn
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Aug 18, 2023 06:10
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Dawntrail better be good because YoshiP asked me to upgrade my CPU and I won't stand for wiping in Savage PF in anything less than 4K@60FPS
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I don't think any of my glams right now use anything from the cash shop... I just did a glow up on my MNK with the latest 8 man raid chest, thav bottoms, gulg boots, job gear tiara thingy, emperor's hands, antiquated Sudarshana Chakra weapon. I'd post my character picture from the lodestone but it's displaying my RDM despite listing the correct gear for my MNK.
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Aug 18, 2023 07:08
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Dareon posted:Hello. What I said was I feel it's not the flex they think it is, and I was referring (though not explicitly in that post) to the ones who just wear the entire outfit, undyed (or bonus with full coats of cash shop jet black/metallic gold), to idle in Limsa. Nobody is doing this to flex. They're doing it because they like how it looks on their character. It's not more noble to assemble your own outfits, it's a dang videogame with a huge range of activities and different people focus on different aspects. They're not hurting you, let people enjoy things.
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Aug 18, 2023 07:31
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Failboattootoot posted:Naw, it's that way because it looked stupid at base speed. They did a whole bit on it in some live letter ages ago. It's easier for me to spend that money than to grind poo poo out
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Aug 18, 2023 07:39
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you can come across more money but you only get sixty minutes in an hour
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Okay, I'm gonna need everyone who just called me angry to explain why I'm apparently coming off as angry. Because I'm honestly not getting it. Since multiple people seem to agree I'm willing to give the idea some merit, but I didn't think I was angry, and I'd think I was the one who would be in position to know that.
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Aug 18, 2023 08:52
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Dareon posted:Okay, I'm gonna need everyone who just called me angry to explain why I'm apparently coming off as angry. Because I'm honestly not getting it. Since multiple people seem to agree I'm willing to give the idea some merit, but I didn't think I was angry, and I'd think I was the one who would be in position to know that. I'm assuming because, when it comes to buying cash shop glams, most other people don't have the urge to impugn another person's character at all
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Aug 18, 2023 08:57
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Dareon posted:Hello. What I said was I feel it's not the flex they think it is, [nobody is flexing, you are projecting] you are angry at something, even though you aren't pounding fists and shaking tables
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Aug 18, 2023 08:58
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So it comes off as weirdly hostile, and when online that tends to come off as anger
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Eight-Six posted:you are angry at something, even though you aren't pounding fists and shaking tables Yeah, maybe a simmering anger borne from bitterness rather than outright rage but still, it's not a healthy place to be coming from. About glams
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YggiDee posted:When I put on the fat cat pyjamas it's not because I'm trying to "flaunt" or "flex" that time I had fifteen whole dollars it's because they look cozy and I want my WoL to be cozy too
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