biopanda posted:

YES! Valicious Crisu IGN
There's one other goon that I know of, but it's pretty much devoid of goons. You in an FC? I started one if need one.

Thumbtacks posted:

what the gently caress crafting is complicated

i thought it was just like wow crafting, namely really stupid and boring and dumb

Thumbtacks posted:

I've yet to see an MMO make crafting not-retarded. Maybe I'll look into it here, too.

MG42 posted:

Realized you can wear Disciple of the Land/Hand on every class.


What Egi have you been using for the current endgame content?
Ever since Radiant Shield got buffed, I've been exclusively using Ifrit.
I like the higher damage and aoe abilities for add heavy fights.

Haven't really used Garuda since Heavensward, but I suppose Tri-Disaster and Contagion have nice synergy.

Belzac posted:

Good job not reading poo poo and being brain dead. Yeah they work so close with them that they had to rename a boss cause they forgot that the EN localization already used that name. Such close work they do.

Belzac posted:

What? Are you for real? Is it ancedotal if Koji himself wrote a post about it explaining the gently caress up in detail? That's like saying a confession is anecdotal.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/178311-The-Sad-Tale-of-Phlegethon-and-Acheron

Mikemo Tyson posted:

So this may come across as lazy but which jobs have the least amount of buttons to push? I had bad burns on my hands that resulted in skin grafts a few years back and have trouble moving them like the Pro-Gamer XXL that I used to be. I've been leveling a Lancer to become a Dragoon and having fun with a controller but targeting on the controller is starting to feel pretty lovely when I'm surrounded by mobs in dungeons. I don't want to switch back over to using a keyboard and being a "LOLDRG" who is garbage that can't pull off all the combos.

Chucat posted:

I'm going to make you feel better.

If you got at least 15 Esoterics last week you'll get the weapon and chestpiece in the same amount of time it'll take you get Alex chest, so just do that.

Boten Anna posted:

I'd be curious to know what exactly the class/job distinction is doing to the database that's causing so much extra data, as yes this is a potential solution but there's currently the problem that you can level something all the way to 60 if you really want to without ever unlocking your job, and all of the quests have a pretty important point where you move over to the jobmaster instead of the class guild (which also requires the corresponding level 15, though that's probably one of the easier problems to solve). As such, if you have to complete the quest to unlock Job and you're now permanently Job, there has to at least be an additional flag in the character data to say that you've done that, which doesn't sound like it will save any space from what they're currently doing. Also what the gently caress do you do with Arcanist/Summoner/Scholar.

There really is no simple, clean solution to the problem or they would have done it already. Anything that's "just" followed by a few words is going to have some major drawbacks that need to be worked around somehow.

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Sentient Data posted:

Once you reach the end, the stat difference between "best" and "worst" for your particular class amount to far less than a single percent (and are minimal even by level 30 which is where the training wheels start to come off), which means the difference is purely cosmetic. Choose based on looks, and run through the character creation options for each clan - some clans get options that others don't (some have muscle sliders, one variety of Lala doesn't have visible pupils, some only get certain hair/skin colors, etc)

When people say the true endgame is pretty princess dressup, they aren't really joking. I never cared at all about the paper doll and diva-management type of games, but FFXIV changed all that. The art direction is simply phenomenal. Take your time and ignore that the quests even exist, just wander around the towns once you get settled, and pay attention to the set backgrounds.

Look at the shelves in that corner over there, there's actually STUFF ON THE SHELVES. It's not just some 5-polygon rectangle with a bookshelf texture, there are boxes and jars and even modeled handles on the tiny little drawers. Check out the archery guild, and actually look at that giant ceremonial bow hanging on the wall - you can see how the individual pieces of wood were formed to put it all together. The tables on the goldsmith guild? Little piles of silver solder next to where the background craftsmen are working. The NPCs turn their head to you to see if you're doing anything interesting, pieces of clothing (even tights) have wrinkles and seams at the appropriate places, leather and burlap and velvet and every other kind of material have actual textures that each look different in the lighting, metal pants make a slight chainlinky jangly noise as you walk, over on the side table of a random room that you probably never look at has a loving dish with a candle in the center that is filled with a half inch of oil that ripples and refracts the room. If you're out in the rain, your clothing will actually get noticeably wet and have its color/texture/reflectiveness slightly altered. If you're in a windy area, your hair and loose parts of your clothes will blow. When you're out in the desert, shadows cast by mountains and clouds actually loving move with the sun.

The game is more beautiful that you will ever expect, take the time to look at it and appreciate it

ntan1 posted:

There is nothing it is possible to think of anywhere in the world, or indeed anything at all outside it, that can be held to be good without limitation, excepting only a good will. Understanding, wit, the power of judgment, and like talents of the mind, whatever they might be called, or courage, resoluteness, persistence in an intention, as qualities of temperament, are without doubt in some respects good and to be wished for.

Some qualities are even conducive to this good will itself and can make its work much easier, but still have despite this no inner unconditioned worth, yet always presuppose a good will, which limits the esteem that one otherwise rightly has for them, and does not permit them to be held absolutely good.

Belzac posted:

I love when people are talking about real things and then Anna chimes in about how much they love the game like a cult member or something.

Man it sure is unfun to level up 12 classes to max instead of 9.
I'M STILL HAVING FUN!

Raiding sure sucks this tier.
GUYS, THIS GAME IS GOOD