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Oh god still don't know if I will dragon waifu or stay FRoe. At least I have a few days before the CE fantasia is delivered to decide. To those of you crazy fuckers taking time off work on a MMO expansion launch day, I wish you a stable login server. Hopefully if there are any issues they will be fixed within 12 hours.
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Yeah, if your account has HW linked to it you get a special confirmation prompt in the launcher to download the expansion content, since you can't remove just the expansion later, you would have to do a full uninstall or something. Basically you will know if you are downloading it and if you are somehow not sure you should probably go check your account page.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:57
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Renegret posted:Currently on minute 5 of a dungeon queue Apparently they should have swapped the release dates of Machinist and Ninja.
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Jun 19, 2015 14:12
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So the takeaway I am getting from the thread right now is that I should consider taking DRG to 60 first instead of Scholar.
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Jun 19, 2015 17:05
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While Machinist is really not doing it for me at the start (though I don't really dig bard either), the NPCs are hilarious. DRK has potential and AST is just screaming "This is probably your new main" though. Really impressed with the "Hey, here is a duty that is a crash course of 30 levels of a thing you have never played before" training duties they give you right after you unlock the new jobs. Good design. Also, if you are still doing a 2.0 relic for glamour, drat did they ramp it up. I am on the Alex phase but the maps give you 5 per chest now, and you can buy one for all of 75 poetics.
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Jun 20, 2015 14:32
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Kalenn Istarion posted:No gently caress you If it makes you feel any better, maps give five Alex per now and they only cost 75 poetics! (I just did the last 40 Alex over the weekend). Reports seem to indicate they made everything about five times faster for the old relic progress including drop rates and light.
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Jun 23, 2015 18:21
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By virtue of this being a legitimately good MMO and the guilds fostering a generally helpful and positive atmosphere, this game has actually inverted the standard goon MMO population decline.
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Jun 23, 2015 19:13
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I hope there is a PSN flash sale or some sort of discount on additional platform keys in the near future. I can't even get xp towards 60 on the base ARR classes in the standard ARR zones when I load up PS4 now. I should be glad it doesn't level sync you back down to 50, but I don't think I had quite realized just how much I would be feeling held back by not being able to level on my additional jobs; I also am super wary of doing anything that counts in the challenge log so I don't inadvertently waste an xp bonus.
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Jun 24, 2015 03:15
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Yeah, triple spark is the worst attack in that encounter but there is plenty of warning for tank cooldowns, sacred soil, Adlo, Virus, etc to mitigate things. Something else weird is going on in those groups.
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Jun 24, 2015 04:09
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Hildibrand gets better as you go along both in terms of the humor and the encounters.
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Jun 25, 2015 18:55
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Buy it from a non-Steam retailer and add the launcher to Steam so you can clog your activity feed with screenshots of Roegadyn in subligars and the localization team being awesome.
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Jul 7, 2015 22:40
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I main a healer, and it has taught me enough that when I do runs on my Paladin I go full STR accessories unless the healer is obviously having problems. This is something I can observe and decide for myself based on watching my HP and their cast bar. It isn't hard to do so and I don't have people on runs bitching at me about my HP. My personal feeling is I would rather my tank focus on STR gearing if they are capable of cooldown management and Not Standing In poo poo, which is more important than what -ing suffix is on their right side gear. On a similar note I like to see my healers doing DPS as well when I tank for them and if they aren't doing so then I can adjust accordingly. If I am taking too much damage for them to DPS then I may need to adjust what I am doing. If it is one of those "Do DPS? Nah, I queued as healer" types then I am going to do bigger pulls. As long as both tank and healer are paying attention to what the other is doing then the stat spread doesn't matter to much.
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Jul 19, 2015 14:55
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I have been on more than one occasion tempted to get a fourth retainer and make them a miner, just because it is so drat nice to have everything else covered already. Even if you don't need any botany / mining products at the moment they can just go gather crystals for you.
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Jul 22, 2015 14:42
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POLICE CAR AUCTION posted:Ahaha I cross-classed Triangulate on my bard for nearly a week before anyone in DF noticed Thank you for confirming in our newbie Vault run there were no gathering nodes
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Jul 31, 2015 17:40
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With all these new flying mount options I hope they put in a proper flying mount roulette option (or just have it only get flying mounts if in a flight enabled zone). Stoked about flying bomb chairs and Magitek though.
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Oct 22, 2015 03:35
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MadFriarAvelyn posted:If bears do not fly with 3.1 there will be blood. I want flying adamantoises at some point. Have them spin really fast like the minions do.
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Oct 22, 2015 03:39
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Work on unlocking HLDR as you work on the story for Heavensward. It breaks up the flow of poopsocking quests and there is really only one outright bad l50 dungeon (Copperbell HM). You can probably get at least one goon to escort you through and explain fights if you ask in FC chat.
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Oct 24, 2015 04:38
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Guess I can finally finish my Excalibur Zeta with the new light changes (lol PLD). I wonder what the most efficient way to light grind will be if you can undersize it; maybe solo Sastasha speed runs? Stoked for Singularity Extreme though.
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Oct 25, 2015 17:28
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Kwyndig posted:That will depend on if/how much lower level duties give out in light on undersized. They already do if you get them in LDR (got Brilliant light from a Copperbell the other day), so I would assume they just remove the no-light flag from undersized and call it a day. They already give credit for some things while in undersized groups (my wife got about 30 DRK tank completions towards the panther mount during a multi-hour Cragdad pony farm yesterday) so I would assume it is just flipping the switch so to speak.
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Oct 25, 2015 17:41
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I seriously doubt their roulette system is set up to mix 4 and 8 man instances.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:45
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Axle_Stukov posted:It is actually, I've gotten the 8 man guildhest through that roulette a few times. I stand corrected. Never did unlock the final two guildhests. In that case ARF in the Main Story roulette seems the way to go.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:50
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So much good poo poo in those notes, I don't know where to start Puffs of Darkness/Onion Knights as guaranteed drops! Ex primal boss drops being moved to chests! Paissa minion! Turkey hats! Weird that they didn't list ARF as being in any of the roulettes, though.
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Nov 6, 2015 15:40
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This game is still fun and good and I look forward to both the new content as well as additional reasons to go back and do the old fun content some more as well. People always got a bit mopey in the span leading up to a new patch, this cycle just ran longer than we were used to since they took a break after the expansion crunch.
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Nov 7, 2015 06:55
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Dr Pepper posted:Sesame Cookie: Was going to post that. I love the localization team. I wonder how many MGP the afro is going to cost if they are putting the new hairstyle books on the aesthetic vendor.
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Nov 9, 2015 17:01
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Vil posted:Here's a little tip for pony farming Leviathan, which helps with both the weird-rear end phase pushing of too much DPS, and not having to deal with as much competition: Yeah, I was in the farming group yesterday with Scrublord and we had six people; two tanks, two dedicated DPS and I was Scholar DPSing too. Agreed that it went smoothly and since only four of us needed horses made the 2/15 drop rate less sad since half the pony rollers got one.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:11
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Sounds like I can basically do a Sastasha run between queues for other poo poo and get the rest of my Light pretty easily. Good deal.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:08
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Saigyouji posted:The main issue I have with the 40-50 stretch is that SV and DD are boring as hell, and I have had way too many hour long AV runs to willingly go in there. For what it is worth, AV these days is fantastic experience if the fruits hatch; with 100% armory bonus and rested bonus you are looking at around 400-425K exp for a clear. Even if the group is a bit dysfunctional you can get through the 47-50 stretch quickly. SV and DD are going to similarly get you levelled quickly. This is a great patch. New and good content everywhere, and the light farming speed is ludicrous now; took my novus from about 800 light to max in about 75 minutes of Sastasha NM speed runs in a bonus window.
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Nov 12, 2015 03:01
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Iron Tusk posted:Hysterics aside, I think they did do a bit of a dumb with this. In keeping with their totally incoherent gearing strategy, having an essentially on demand hose of the best gear in the game is going to have a detrimental effect on all their other content. As long as you have friends they've pretty much done away with the need to do almost anything else at all except Diadem. Throw in the upcoming relic and congrats you've essentially obsoleted 80% of what's supposed to be your current content. While I am sure there are a number of people who will do nothing but Diadem to the point of exhaustion, there are probably also a lot of people like myself who will be happy to do the odd run and then go back to running other content for variety and fun. Diadem is the megagrindy option for players who dig that but it doesn't represent a total shift into gear obsolescence for the rest of the game. Plus it is something they can design around moving forward. Sure, right now you can poopsock your way to optimally statted 210 gear, but they don't have to turn around and have it drop 230 pinks in 3.2 when the next set of tomestones are released. Lastly, as long as they keep coming up with multiple new sets of gear for glamour there will be people running content to give themselves options.
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Nov 12, 2015 06:14
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ilifinicus posted:Are the dungeons cool too? Didn't do them either They are very good dungeons. Arboretum is a bit better IMO mainly due to aesthetics but neither is bad. Also the second Pharos boss may actually help crappy DPS players learn the Alarum "kill the mob on X point" mechanic better so A1 becomes less of a shitshow.
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Nov 12, 2015 15:28
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Doublestep posted:i decided to not try anymore after getting a run where the white mage started spreading nisi to everyone to "get the stacks off of me" As someone who loves healing that fight this hurts me badly
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Nov 13, 2015 18:35
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nuru posted:Some people elsewhere were getting at the Brilliant going up, but the cap also decreasing again so that 4 runs would show a noticeable gain. Seems like that was just speculation though, I'll run a 5th to see what happens. I believe there are still bonus windows, because I was doing Sastasha runs with a fellow DGKK member and we were going up a light tier every other run.
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Nov 14, 2015 06:06
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Any ETA on 3.15? Need to figure out how much I need to prioritize my dungeon atma.
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Nov 17, 2015 14:40
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sword_man.gif posted:december Thanks for the info. I have everything I need but the crafted items. I just wasn't sure if I should continue seeing if L50 roulette RNG throws me into a dungeon I need or just take my l51 jobs and queue up for the specific dungeons. Finished up light last week and soloed DD/AV/Haukke HM on my Scholar to kick that process off but I might as well get some class leveling done with this process.
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When it comes to the Zeta light farm if nobody is there to duo I will probably do deepcroft instead of Sastasha. Paladin AOE 
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Void Ark is a blast to heal if nothing else. Cucu also has been easier for my groups to figure out than, say, Angra Mainyu was since the big pain points have a more district visual effect than the Doom debuff icon. Edit: I can try to pull up some Steam shots of my Roegadame as Ninja later this morning but I can say that the animation for her is really great and far more fluid than you might expect for the Big Bulky Race. I can't speak towards the males. Tortolia fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Nov 23, 2015 13:25
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Well, the animations are all identical between races, right? It's mostly a matter of 1: Ohjou Kai looking loving huge on everyone else but maybe looking okay in Roe hands? 2: Assassinate not being accompanied by the sound of Mario stomping a Goomba, as well as not resulting in instant death for anything potato or smaller. 3: huge body, naruto run. So if enough of those things don't make my sperg twitch I'll go Roe and not say, dragonwaif(u). Apparently my ninja screenshot collection is lacking. I could have sworn I had one with the Batsight Osode on as well, but I'll grab a few pics when I get home.  Weapons are scaled to be pretty drat large on Roe, so it'll probably look like you're dual wielding paladin swords. Assassinate and the ninja run are a bit silly for Roegadames but the rest of the animations are great and fluid.
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Nov 23, 2015 16:17
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I am generally sensitive to big races in MMOS seeming slower but Roegadames don't feel sluggish to me. It probably is a function of them not having the proportions of a brick.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:21
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More Roegadame ninja, now with goofy bat outfit Action shots, which, uh, yeah this all looks better in motion   Best race.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:46
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New/trial players, keep this unlock guide handy for reference. There is quite a lot of side features that require side quests to get. The challenge log is a huge boon to progression but kind of out of the way unless you are in Limsa often. http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Guide:Progression_and_Level_Locked_Content
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Controller rules once you set it up and it isn't a hindrance to running content. Give it a shot. Once you are comfortable with things and starting to get enough abilities that your base 16 slots are crowded or the layout is getting unwieldy, dig into the menus and enable the RT+LT and LT+RT hotbars to get you to 32 abilities without manually switching hotbars. That should get you into the 50s no problem.
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