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They really should make cross-datacenter play possible.
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All the NA data centers are on the West coast and you can travel between all four. Ask me about my ping from the Mid-Atlantic to California. 
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Sep 13, 2023 19:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:Also changing jobs on the fly is ingrained even into the game storyline. The generic hyur insert in cutscenes/promos started as an archer in 1.0, switched to war by the end of 1.X, was WAR in ARR and DRG in HW. NPCs even change jobs in the story. I love that the HW intro cutscene (don't watch if still doing ARR and you care about story spoilers) is the guy saying "those look cool, I wanna do that."
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Different jobs have different explanations for why they’re common or rare. You’re one of the only White Mages in the world because a war between White Magic and Black Magic destabilized the world’s aether so badly that it caused the Fifth Umbral Calamity. So now they’re both forbidden arts, with Conjurer and Thaumaturge being deliberately watered-down versions. Thaumaturges only use the caster’s own aether, and Conjurers need to play mother-may-I with nature spirits. Also, TLD, from your descriptions and reactions to some stuff in the game, I think you’d really like Dark Knight. Part of the DRK questline addresses your character’s lingering resentment. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 21:24
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girl dick energy posted:with Conjurer and Thaumaturge being deliberately watered-down versions that only use the caster’s own aether. Not the lore thread, but this is explicitly not the case. They both use the environment's aether. That's the whole Selphie "you don't pay my sub" screenshot taken out of context, because she was using her own aether.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Not the lore thread, but this is explicitly not the case. They both use the environment's aether. That's the whole Selphie "you don't pay my sub" screenshot taken out of context, because she was using her own aether.
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Sep 13, 2023 21:29
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Yeah it's a deep irony that Dark Knight's story would probably resonate with TLD the hardest of any job class questline, especially when he's sticking with WHM
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Sep 13, 2023 21:50
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Fine! I’ll try Dark Knight sometime lol
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hopeandjoy posted:All the NA data centers are on the West coast and you can travel between all four. Yeah but when I hear “cross dc play” i think of “all regional dcs merged so that you can queue in aether and get matched with people in crystal” Which is basically what would fix the current issue with how dc travel works
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Sep 13, 2023 22:23
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Maybe I don't want to play with people from Crystal 
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That Little Demon posted:Fine! I’ll try Dark Knight sometime lol Based on your feelings about ARR, you will not regret it 
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Just remember to read the journal entries, they're the best part.
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Sep 13, 2023 22:54
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I do data center hop for RP stuff and let me tell you… Balmung is filled with degenerates
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YggiDee posted:Maybe I don't want to play with people from Crystal too bad because they've all moved to aether for pf purposes though in the days before they tagged your server in party chat, which was WELL before the NA sundering, we used to have a good time of "spot the balmung" in alliance raids. wasn't even anything related to character, just the way people behaved and talked
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Look, Balmung is a perfectly respectable server as long as you don't turn on a blacklight.
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1stGear posted:Look, Balmung is a perfectly respectable server as long as you don't turn on a blacklight. Red Mage LB3 ain't got nothing on this.
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it is extremely funny to me to see someone independently arrive at the general wisdom that everyone on balmung is horny for weird poo poo all the time
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1stGear posted:Look, Balmung is a perfectly respectable server as long as you don't turn on a blacklight. someone took me on a "tour" of Balmung and it was funny to see what amounted to an orgy in Ul'Dah at 10:30am
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I mostly just DC travel because Primal's economy is hosed eight ways to Sunday, so it's actually feasible to buy low from other DCs and sell high back home.
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Mister Olympus posted:Yeah but when I hear “cross dc play” i think of “all regional dcs merged so that you can queue in aether and get matched with people in crystal” It's pretty wild this is not a thing a decade in. I understand cross-region play is challenging to make work but this? (although, didn't they talk about how cross-region is totally possible at the fan fest? Odd they'd be working on that before even linking all the regional datacenters into a single pool...)
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DC travel has destroyed Chaos (EU) PF, everyone goes to Light now.
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World War Mammories posted:it is extremely funny to me to see someone independently arrive at the general wisdom that everyone on balmung is horny for weird poo poo all the time I believe the classic Balmung defense is "it's not us, it's people traveling to us as MMO sex tourists," which is extremely funny if true. I think Malboro came up as the big offenders?
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The FF14 RP community in general is extremely horny, no server is free of sin.
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Mr. Neutron posted:It's pretty wild this is not a thing a decade in. I understand cross-region play is challenging to make work but this? I imagine the work they did getting DC travel working got them most of the way to having functional cross-region travel. Linking DCs together for queues is gonna be a whole different set of problems to work through.
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Mr. Neutron posted:It's pretty wild this is not a thing a decade in. I understand cross-region play is challenging to make work but this? What yoshi mentioned at fanfest is that they could implement cross-region DC travel but would still need to work on a full cross-DC PF. He was hesitant to do the former because it's not really that much of a benefit for a lot of people, and would cause huge amounts of annoying issues in the first month of activity or so. Antivehicular posted:I believe the classic Balmung defense is "it's not us, it's people traveling to us as MMO sex tourists," which is extremely funny if true. I think Malboro came up as the big offenders? I believe this completely. also to clarify my earlier post, this was also when server cultures were MUCH more distinct, and you could usually spot a balmung player by this weird haughtiness they had about things entirely outside the mechanics of the game. but server cultures are gone now the real Horny Server is twitter Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Antivehicular posted:I believe the classic Balmung defense is "it's not us, it's people traveling to us as MMO sex tourists," which is extremely funny if true. I think Malboro came up as the big offenders? Balmung had a bad reputation that was made way worse after DC Visit because every moron who wants to be the center of attention comes here to shout dumb poo poo.
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Yeah, I feel like there's a slightly better chance that the "this is clearly an ERP alt" characters I see are from Balmung vs. other Crystal worlds, but only slightly. The Balmung ones also seem more likely to look like they were made to also do non-erotic roleplay alongside the ERP, whereas the non-Balmung ERP cryptids are much more blatant.
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Bloody Pom posted:I mostly just DC travel because Primal's economy is hosed eight ways to Sunday, so it's actually feasible to buy low from other DCs and sell high back home. Last week someone on Excalibur was selling multiple stacks of thousands of Ice Crystals for 6 gil per crystal. 
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That’s cause you get ice clusters from aetherial reduction of the fishes that gives you aethersand from spearfishing. I got over 1500 ice crystals and clusters today while getting a stack of aethersand. I don’t know exactly how many I got because halfway through I was capped at 9999 each.
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Mr. Nice! posted:That’s cause you get ice clusters from aetherial reduction of the fishes that gives you aethersand from spearfishing. I got over 1500 ice crystals and clusters today while getting a stack of aethersand. I don’t know exactly how many I got because halfway through I was capped at 9999 each.
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girl dick energy posted:Hell, Primal's economy is hosed enough that even just world-travel is often enough to get a massive discount on expensive crafting materials or what-have-you. For a few brief glorious hours last month, general-purpose metallic silver dye was 90k on Behemoth and 15-20k on all the other worlds in Primal. Made a cool two million off that.
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girl dick energy posted:Selling them at 6 gil per crystal is still like an 80% loss of your potential profit for literally no reason. I consider it a good deal when I get ice cystals at 26 gil per. I get what you’re saying, but the ffxiv marketboard is a pure supply/demand situation. There are a lot of people still crafting high end food for raiding and thus an overflow of ice clusters and crystals. The market price is the equilibrium price on that server. That arbitrage opportunities may exist is a separate matter. You can’t sell them on primal for 26 gil per because there’s far more supply than demand. Water crystals/clusters, otoh, are more expensive because they’re not generated as effortlessly as a side part to other production. E: looking right now only clusters are really priced low. Crystals are still selling for a good amount. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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gently caress yes
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That Little Demon posted:gently caress yes Nashu will never lead you astray. I'd trust her with my life.
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Shinjobi posted:Nashu will never lead you astray. I'd trust her with my life. While i'd trust her with my life I would not trust Nashu with explosives. Despite this fact she gets her hands on them quite often and easily.
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Kwyndig posted:While i'd trust her with my life I would not trust Nashu with explosives. Despite this fact she gets her hands on them quite often and easily. Shhh... let her cook
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That Little Demon posted:Shhh... let her cook
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Kwyndig posted:While i'd trust her with my life I would not trust Nashu with explosives. Despite this fact she gets her hands on them quite often and easily. Considering we have the power to resurrect ourselves at our preferred aetheryte to hug and kiss, I'd trust her with anything just to see what happens.
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Kwyndig posted:While i'd trust her with my life I would not trust Nashu with explosives. Despite this fact she gets her hands on them quite often and easily. I would not trust Nashu with anything more complicated than opening doors.
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That Little Demon posted:gently caress yes Oh yeah, that reminds me. Did you spot Nashu's stalker during the ARR quests?
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