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bad take but also you can just use /bgm without a modifier to toggle music on and off
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all bgm is good and deserves to be listened to and appreciated
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Chillgamesh posted:Thermonuclear take My specific take is that every expansion has good and bad zones, but as far as zones that I find interesting to travel across time and time again the earlier zones far outweigh the later. There's a few standouts like ShB's Rak'tika or EW's Ultima Thule but I really miss the complex geometry and density of places like the Shroud or Sea of Clouds.
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Mar 31, 2024 21:36
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The best zone for navigation is, obviously, Pagos.
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Mar 31, 2024 21:37
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The Sea of Clouds is one of the worst zones in the game
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When I think "interesting level geometry", Sea of Clouds does not come to mind ever.
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Eureka is cool and I get not liking zones that are just open plains with a steep elevation change to gate player progression, but Sea of Clouds is not a fun play area. Almost all of the HW zones are guilty of having poor aetheryte coverage but god drat does Sea of Clouds stand out as the one where it hurts the most, due to the daily quests there having you traverse vertical areas with multiple levels of interaction. The actual concept/art of the zone are cool though.
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Do I still need to buy Endwalker if I plan on getting Dawntrail? Been a while since I’ve played, but I’m thinking about getting back in soon.
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Mar 31, 2024 23:45
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Open Marriage Night posted:Do I still need to buy Endwalker if I plan on getting Dawntrail? Been a while since I’ve played, but I’m thinking about getting back in soon. No, but you won't get access to Endwalker until Dawntrail releases if all you do is pre-order DT.
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Mar 31, 2024 23:50
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Funky Valentine posted:When I think "interesting level geometry", Sea of Clouds does not come to mind ever. HW zones are great. I like how there's gathering nodes in Sea of Clouds that span multiple Z-levels, making them nigh impossible to use without flying. I also love how Dravanian Mistletoe, a critical ingredient in a lot of level 52 crafted gear, cannot be harvested at all without Churning Mists flying. You can make very nearly every piece of level 54 gear before then.
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Maximum Tomfoolery posted:I also love how Dravanian Mistletoe, a critical ingredient in a lot of level 52 crafted gear, cannot be harvested at all without Churning Mists flying. I believe the Ishgard sundries vendor sells that stuff, as well as several other timed node mats? It costs more than is strictly economical, like most mat vendors, but I'm pretty sure it's at least available.
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Maximum Tomfoolery posted:HW zones are great. I like how there's gathering nodes in Sea of Clouds that span multiple Z-levels, making them nigh impossible to use without flying. I also love how Dravanian Mistletoe, a critical ingredient in a lot of level 52 crafted gear, cannot be harvested at all without Churning Mists flying. HW crafting and gathering sucks, I'm certainly not defending that poo poo
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Funky Valentine posted:When I think "interesting level geometry", Sea of Clouds does not come to mind ever. I will straight up ignore a weekly hunt mark if it happens to be in Sea of Clouds. I don't need the 20 aetheryte tickets that badly.
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Navigating the Sea of Clouds is a pain in the rear end, made tolerable by flying, but it's a real cool aesthetic.
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running around doing the tribe quests in the last ew zone is what finally drove me to install the orchestreon mod and swap the track back to the muffled instrumental version it starts with
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Kazinsal posted:I will straight up ignore a weekly hunt mark if it happens to be in Sea of Clouds. I don't need the 20 aetheryte tickets that badly. I stopped taking the B-ranks in Sea of Clouds after I spent 20 minutes looking for Squonk only to find it right as another player killed it "you no longer sense your mark" are cursed words
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IthilionTheBrave posted:No, but you won't get access to Endwalker until Dawntrail releases if all you do is pre-order DT. Looks like when I last played almost exactly two years ago, I was level 70 and still in Stormblood. I guess when I'm ready to start playing I'll just pre order Dawntrail, and see if I either hit the level cap or run out of story progression.
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Sea of Clouds is awful navigating with flying but is also just awful because you unlock it right at the start of HW, but then won't come back until the end of it so you can't get any of the aether currents until then, when so many loving quests force you to traipse to the rear end end of the southern half of it on foot. I only finished HW a few days ago and I overall think the zones are way, way better than ARR's; Dravanian Forelands especially is probably my favourite zone overall, and Western Coerthas is fairly neat even if the Aetheryte location sucks, but Sea of Clouds is just kind of bizarrely bad.
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Tataru: "Oh no! Alphinaud has been gravely wounded in riots in Ul'dah!" Me, walking up to Alphinaud chillaxing at the Ul'dah inn after running past npcs doing idol concerts for LLD/Hatching Tide: "Uh huh"
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Dawntrail early access starts 88 days from today. By my count there are 853 (or 852 depending on starting city) Main Scenario Quests, so if a new player starting today would like to finish the Main Scenario story quests in time for Dawntrail release then 10 quests a day would get you there in 86 days, leaving two more days somewhere in there to do the 8 required crystal tower quests and about 27 class/job quests.
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inferis posted:Dawntrail early access starts 88 days from today. By my count there are 853 (or 852 depending on starting city) Main Scenario Quests, so if a new player starting today would like to finish the Main Scenario story quests in time for Dawntrail release then 10 quests a day would get you there in 86 days, leaving two more days somewhere in there to do the 8 required crystal tower quests and about 27 class/job quests. FFXIV is my favorite game of all time and this sounds like a great way to hate it
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Yeah. Maybe don't do that.
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As someone who has rushed through content to try to catch up to current content and story, don't do it it's absolutely not worth the grind and burnout that'll follow
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Simsmagic posted:As someone who has rushed through content to try to catch up to current content and story, don't do it it's absolutely not worth the grind and burnout that'll follow That's how I first quit the game, came back something like 5 years later.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Tataru: "Oh no! Alphinaud has been gravely wounded in riots in Ul'dah!" Look, the Songbirds autograph line was really bad this year
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Like I wouldn't recommend it otherwise under normal circumstances but I would say someone would be better off buying a story skip rather than trying to rush through it if that was their goal, at least then you'd enter dawntrail without all the weight of the sheer grind on your back
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inferis posted:Dawntrail early access starts 88 days from today. By my count there are 853 (or 852 depending on starting city) Main Scenario Quests, so if a new player starting today would like to finish the Main Scenario story quests in time for Dawntrail release then 10 quests a day would get you there in 86 days, leaving two more days somewhere in there to do the 8 required crystal tower quests and about 27 class/job quests. If you're gonna do this you should probably set up a professional-grade streaming setup and work on your React Faces before you get going, because doing 10 quests a day every day for three months straight is basically two full time jobs worth of game time
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I cannot think of any reason for a brand new player to try to catch up on the story before they add more story, unless they just dgaf about the story in which case they should simply buy a skip. Either way you'll be missing a lot of the good stuff in the game.
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in 80 days through final fantasy xiv is my favourite jules verne novel
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Just unlocked Sage. I have like 10 buttons with the same aoe heal. I'll look up a guide and figure it, but they really could intro these new classes better, or consolidate some buttons.
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If you played scholar you can map most sage buttons to the same keys/shortcuts. If you're new to both,  I do agree they shouldn't just vomit all spells over your bars, especially not for expansion jobs. orcane fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Yeah Sage is literally just Scholar but you gain Aetherflow one at a time as time passes instead of all at once with a cooldown.
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I went into FF14 thinking I'd like big rotations, but I've ended up playing White Mage exclusively. Something about it just felt really good to play. Sage looks so cool though! Gonna buckle down and learn it.
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Forgive me if I'm saying something you already know but you know the difference between spells and abilities right? A lot of the AoE heals you're looking at are either spells (on global cooldown with cast time), instant spells (on global cooldown with no cast time), or abilities (off global cooldown with no cast time). All the healers have abilities which seem redundant until you realize some have a cast time, some are instant, and some can be used instantly even while your global cooldown isn't ready.
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I main a 90 whm and got Sage and Sch to 80 so far and have the button assignments set up so that it's somewhat painless to switch between them. I've gotten Astrologian up to 76 and have no loving idea where to put these buttons. AST just does not map as easily.
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Chillgamesh posted:Forgive me if I'm saying something you already know but you know the difference between spells and abilities right? A lot of the AoE heals you're looking at are either spells (on global cooldown with cast time), instant spells (on global cooldown with no cast time), or abilities (off global cooldown with no cast time). All the healers have abilities which seem redundant until you realize some have a cast time, some are instant, and some can be used instantly even while your global cooldown isn't ready. Fair question. I'm aware, but I'm like 54 in the MSQ, so I only recently started getting story quests and Duty Dungeons where I actually have access to my heal abilities. I weave Lucid Dreaming and Presence of Mind, but it's a work in progress breaking the habit of muscle memory Cure 2 heals. Duodecimal posted:I main a 90 whm and got Sage and Sch to 80 so far and have the button assignments set up so that it's somewhat painless to switch between them. Oh yeah, I gave up on AST. I like using hotkeys instead of mouseclicking, and that wasn't happening. I haven't unlocked all the White Mage buttons yet, but this is the layout I've been using since I gave up on manually switching hotbar 1 for 2 on demand. Was pretty happy that I managed to fit it all without more bars. 
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you should probably activate more of your hotbars in the hud editor, regardless there are a lot of classes where you're going to need a lot more room, and while you're at it, you'll want to go into your keymap settings and put more of those buttons on your keyboard - get used to using modifier keys
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orcane posted:I do agree they shouldn't just vomit all spells over your bars, especially not for expansion jobs. Generally when you pick up a level say, 70, class, you have a lot of buttons, because you have 70 levels of buttons.
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NachtSieger posted:Generally when you pick up a level say, 70, class, you have a lot of buttons, because you have 70 levels of buttons.  You have to delete + reassign/move them all anyway, might as well ask people to open their spells panel, read the descriptions and place them in a way that makes sense for them (because the default order makes no sense at all, ever).
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A lot of classes have spells that, while not exactly the same, serve the same purpose. I've settled on a "language" for placement of my spells/abilities that keeps them (more or less) consistent across jobs. Like: Right trigger + ABXY are my damage doers. For instance, for healing jobs: RT + Y = a job's instant cast damage. RT + B = main damage, RT + A = AOE damage. While my LT has my healing stuff on it. LT + RT has the corresponding more powerful version of the base spell in the same position. So the single target heal for scholar (Physick) is LT + A, while the heal + shield (Adloquium) is LT + RT + A. White mage has the same sort of flow with Cure being LT + A while Cure II is LT + RT + A. Double RT has long cooldown abilites on it like swiftcast. Double LT has movement stuff on it common to all jobs (teleport, chocobo, sprint). Where positional are relevant for a job I try to organize them on the face buttons, so they correspond to the same position I need to be in for the enemy. Crafting jobs are literally identical, however. I think there is a way to copy your layout from job to job so you only need to set up that once and just copy it to all your other ones.
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