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susan b buffering posted:you might want to data center travel to aether for rival wings. i've gotten matches within a couple minutes the few times i've tried since the event started. thanks for the tip, I think I would enjoy Rival Wings the most of the PVP stuff because when I see lanes and creeps I get a goofy rear end grin lmao
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Maxwell Lord posted:PVP is a thing you do for mogtomes and catbook (you haven't found catbook yet, but it's a thing) and you run it, accept that you have no real control over what is going on, get the tomes/stamp and move on. TLD hasn’t done HW yet so no catbook.
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Aug 31, 2023 13:16
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That Little Demon posted:honestly got wrapped up doing PVP for mogtomes for my stupid collector brain. The PVP is this game is... well, lol. Not very good? Honestly the most interesting thing is Rival Wings which I found 1 match in 3 hours (I am a DOTA fan). Frontline is a big mess but I like CC. It's a 5v5 tug of war mode. Also grats, you're pretty much at the point where the story stops focusing on worldbuilding and starts moving pieces around and making interesting stuff happen for the rest of the game.
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Aug 31, 2023 13:21
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namechat is yet another example of why Viera are the best because you can in canon name your character whatever bullshit
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Aug 31, 2023 13:34
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HerraS posted:namechat is yet another example of why Viera are the best because you can in canon name your character whatever bullshit Shame lady viera have the worst starting outfit by far.
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Rival Wings is also more of a holiday special than anything consistently run. During tome events you'll probably see it, and there are outside communities that schedule nights now and then, but if you just queue on a whim you'll be waiting a while.
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Aug 31, 2023 15:40
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What do I do with the uncapped tomestones? 620 gear is useless when Aetherfont drops 625 and the 630 upgrades require a run of both 24mans per piece. Relics I guess?
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susan b buffering posted:you might want to data center travel to aether for rival wings. i've gotten matches within a couple minutes the few times i've tried since the event started. This is the schedule posted on PvP Revival for getting games going on Aether & Crystal once the all day queues stop:  Mr. Neutron posted:What do I do with the uncapped tomestones? 620 gear is useless when Aetherfont drops 625 and the 630 upgrades require a run of both 24mans per piece. Relics I guess?
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Mr. Neutron posted:What do I do with the uncapped tomestones? 620 gear is useless when Aetherfont drops 625 and the 630 upgrades require a run of both 24mans per piece. Relics I guess? There are unique crafting ingredients only available through buying with uncapped tomestones and they sell for a lot. Maybe a bit less now we're late in the patch but a full 2000 tomes should still net you a couple hundred thousand gil on most servers.
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Mainwaring posted:There are unique crafting ingredients only available through buying with uncapped tomestones and they sell for a lot. Maybe a bit less now we're late in the patch but a full 2000 tomes should still net you a couple hundred thousand gil on most servers. The ingredient market is surprisingly strong as most people burn them on relics, so there's less supply than you'd think.
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Pvp becomes infinitely more bearable when you find a class you enjoy. I really like SMN/MCH in pvp and find I can usually do a decent job of building battle high. If you give up on the idea of having any kind of impact on winning and just enjoy killing peeps and building BH, frontlines becomes somewhat tolerable!
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Mr. Neutron posted:What do I do with the uncapped tomestones? 620 gear is useless when Aetherfont drops 625 and the 630 upgrades require a run of both 24mans per piece. Relics I guess? You can also buy gear to turn in for GC seals which can be used for a ton of stuff. They have essentially loot boxes for Stormblood mounts/minions for sale there even if you have everything else there you want.
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:You can also buy gear to turn in for GC seals which can be used for a ton of stuff. They have essentially loot boxes for Stormblood mounts/minions for sale there even if you have everything else there you want. Do this with Poetics if you want, but do NOT waste your Causalities on 620 gear. 1500 tomes gets you a relic stage, and crafting materials (usually Thavnairian Flux or Deinosuchus Skins sell the best) are an easy 1-2m+ gil for a stack. Kite Pride Worldwide fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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its cool when the developers of the game know their own premise of quests is bullshit
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genuinely looking forward to seeing whether TLD starts liking the story in HW/ShB/EW or if it ultimately fails to grab them
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SirSamVimes posted:genuinely looking forward to seeing whether TLD starts liking the story in HW/ShB/EW or if it ultimately fails to grab them honestly I'm already starting to like it when the game isn't stretching my imagination to think me talking to 4 people (2 who say no) to go fight for some dickheads that never helped us is going to fight off a dragon army lol. But yes, the story is getting good and I like a lot of the new characters, who are MUCH better than the grand company people, the scions, and 99% of the cast I've met so far.
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hell yeah you won't have to force yourself to do MSQ just to unlock new gambling dens, you can actually enjoy it
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Oh also, battle on the Ishgard bridge was very good.
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That Little Demon posted:Oh also, battle on the Ishgard bridge was very good. Yeah that used to be a really really lovely trial until they remade it into a really cool solo duty a few months ago.
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That Little Demon posted:its cool when the developers of the game know their own premise of quests is bullshit From what I recall this sort of lampshade hanging happens about four or five more times in the MSQ alone.
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That Little Demon posted:honestly I'm already starting to like it when the game isn't stretching my imagination to think me talking to 4 people (2 who say no) to go fight for some dickheads that never helped us is going to fight off a dragon army lol. But yes, the story is getting good and I like a lot of the new characters, who are MUCH better than the grand company people, the scions, and 99% of the cast I've met so far.
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Just a heads up that you're going to get a warning soon that says "Several cutscenes will play in sequence" and you should set aside enough time. The game loving means it, 45 minutes of cutscenes! That's pretty much the end of ARR and moves in HW soon after. You'll know you're there when the voice actors suddenly change
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For what it's worth, when I did that a year or so ago I popped some popcorn and put on auto-advance and had a great time. It's a pretty fun series of cutscenes! Plus, even though the Several Cutscenes warning will return many times, they'll never be that long again.
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Veotax posted:Just a heads up that you're going to get a warning soon that says "Several cutscenes will play in sequence" and you should set aside enough time. The game loving means it, 45 minutes of cutscenes! Jesus Christ lol
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Oh yeah, they're great. Best cutscene up to that point, tons of bespoke animation in them and fully voiced. It's just that the game loving means it when it gives that warning
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You know what is a perfect way to follow up that awesome Ishgard bridge fight....? Follow around some loving idiots level 1 questing adventure from the sidelines!  loving awesome! you really know how to pace this game
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Dont you loving dare complain about Tataru's quests you bastard
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HerraS posted:Dont you loving dare complain about Tataru's quests you bastatd She sucks and is a failure and I had no interest in monitoring some level 1 quests where she couldn’t fight a level 1 rabbite
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Tataru is like the most competent Scion at her job once she figures out what she should be doing you'll be seeing her a lot during the entire game so sucks to be you I guess
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That Little Demon posted:She sucks and is a failure and I had no interest in monitoring some level 1 quests where she couldn’t fight a level 1 rabbite Tataru is the best scion by a wide margin you buffoon
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HerraS posted:Tataru is like the most competent Scion at her job once she figures out what she should be doing Crazy that she is considered the most competent but I would agree, she files excellent paperwork which is more important than sitting around doing uh, nothing, like the others.
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Relyssa posted:Tataru is the best scion by a wide margin you buffoon I really didn’t say otherwise
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Relyssa posted:Tataru is the best scion by a wide margin you buffoon https://youtu.be/W2ub2zoBVR4?si=HdkQzSPHk0duzz-z
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That Little Demon posted:You know what is a perfect way to follow up that awesome Ishgard bridge fight....? Ah, Tataru.
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That Little Demon posted:She sucks and is a failure and I had no interest in monitoring some level 1 quests where she couldn’t fight a level 1 rabbite What's really funny is when a certain detail about that quest becomes relevant again (though granted in an ignorable sidequest) four expansions later, and changes everything about that part right there.
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BlazetheInferno posted:What's really funny is when a certain detail about that quest becomes relevant again (though granted in an ignorable sidequest) four expansions later, and changes everything about that part right there. lmao ok, you have my attention. I hope I remember
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That Little Demon posted:lmao ok, you have my attention. I hope I remember It's a sidequest in Endwalker... frankly, there are SEVERAL sidequest in Endwalker that are really good, so it'll be a while, but worth remembering.
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Honestly that whole Tataru section in 2.55 is a nice example of how patches have changed. Back then they had a weird obsession with wanting new msq entries in patches to feel big so they had loads of padding. Just comparing the number of msq quests in 2.55 to 3.55 is eye opening. If they did the same patch these days all that Tataru stuff would be there but in a sidequest which probably rewarded a cute glam at the end.
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The biggest change once you're out of ARR is that they start making characters who have personalities instead of just a list of tasks they want you to do for them
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Watching the long cutscene now and smiling
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