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Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
So I played a little bit when SB first launched, tried out RDM and remember liking it, but my IRL friends stopped playing so I quit after a while.\

Rejoined just yesterday. followed the instructions in the OP, got into PBC. Any guides on figuring out this game's plot? I've always had kind of a difficult time figuring out what I should be doing in this game since literally everything is a Class and needs to be leveled.

AFAIK I was progressing through the Heavensword storyline? I'm in an icy waste and I think just unlocked flying?

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Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Hi!

Given WoW is currently pooping the proverbial bed, I figured I'd come back to FF14 for a bit.

I had purchased a boost potion thing so I was at the beginning of the... Heavensword? content? I was in the mountains :shrug:

Is there a quick and dirty primer on the story to refresh my memory, so I know who all these angsty children npcs are?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

KoB posted:

Alphinaud is a good boy

Estinien is cool

Haurchefant is also a good boy.

Ok, but what about the plot?

Is there a resource that gives a quick summary?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Fantastic!

Once the game installs, I'll figure out if I'm still in Please Be Careful and get back to, uh, whatever the verb for being a Red Mage is.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

M.c.P posted:

Me and my buddies got the Tam-Tara MogTome farm to under 4 minutes. Here's what we do:



I mean, yeah, this thing's obsolete in about 3 weeks, but hey, summer vacation. Besides, people out there are doing *ugh* MSQ Roulette for these tomestones, and I can't just let that happen.

That'd be awesome, except I am just coming back and have no levels in Blue Mage and am still re-learning the game :saddowns:

But if anyone wants to help me grind MacGuffins for the sweet, sweet Sleipnir Barding, I'd be grateful!

Tarisa Elantrys ingame, I'm in PBC.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
So the "Duty Roulette: Main Scenario"?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

Kurieg posted:

Yes. You get 3 mooglestones but you can't skip cutscenes. So do it while you have something else to do during the downtime.

The alliance raid roulette is basically guaranteed to give you one of the crystal tower raids right now(so long as you've unlocked them) which are potentially quicker and reward 2 mooglestones.

I highly doubt I've unlocked them, how do I do so?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
How much stuff in this game is soloable at level cap?

Coming from World of Warcraft, at level cap pretty much any class can solo old endgame content up to at least "Current expansion minus 2", most classes can solo "current expansion minus 1", and a handful of classes can solo current max level content, albeit usually individual bosses not entire raids.

I'd like to be able to go back to old content to get gear for Fashion Souls Fantasy, but I don't know how easy that is in this game.

It'd either be as a RDM, NIN, or AST.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Someone mentioned airships are coming in the next patch/expansion.

Are they going to be a Gil sink, or will they be obtained through the story?

If the former, do we have any idea how much they might cost?

I don't have any form of housing, and I'm told they will function in that capacity, so I'm curious.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

Overwatch Porn posted:

do you mean something other than the airships that have existed since heavensward?

I only just resumed playing last week, and someone in the discord mentioned $airships as housing" in a manner that made it sound like something that was upcoming, rather than already in place.

My apologies if I misunderstood something.

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Is it worth trying to grind out 120 of these event TomeStones to make the 3 Odin-inspired gear items and the Sleipneir Barding, or is there another, easier way to get them?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

Orthodox Rabbit posted:

The barding you can grab from just doing the random Odin fate once. The gear you can just get better glamour versions of it from doing the odin trial. Its really easy to do these days unsynced.

Oh, yeah, using it for a Glamour is what I wanted, so good to know.

Is there any reward from the event that is unique/otherwise unobtainable?

E: is there a way to track the Odin FATE other than sitting in game all day?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
Is there an ELI5 for Astrologian? It seems cool. It's listed as a Healing class, can it still DPS effectively enough for questing purposes?

Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

IcePhoenix posted:

On top of this, Cure 1 has a chance to proc a buff that makes your next cure 2 cost no MP. I think it's like 15% so it's not something you can really rely on, but it exists.

That's basically how a Shaman's Healing Wave and Healing surge work, respectively, in WoW.

In that, you only ever use Healing Surge if it's procced for free, or in an Oh poo poo emergency, because it's insanely inefficient otherwise.

:eng101:

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Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty

Allarion posted:

Don’t feel like you need to rush through 2.x so much, since that just leads to burnout. There’s a bunch of side things like Coil and Crystal Tower you should do why progressing through the 2.x msq, since both are cool, and Crystal Tower itself is now linked to Shadowbringers, so it helps to have neat context for things. Also so you’re not suddenly confused by certain people you thought were dead suddenly showing up in the msq, because their storylines were attached to the Crystal Tower raids.

Like personally, I’d say unlock the Coil and Crystal towers raids (and the lvl 50 side dungeons cause they’re neat), queue for them while doing MSQ, and then when you have to queue for a msq dungeon or trial, do hildebrand and post-moogle stuff. It makes 2.x go by a lot smoother.

Can these raid things be done solo/is it easy enough to find a group?

I'm working my way through Heavensward content, and have been pretty unsure about how the non-story stuff gets started/when to do what.

E: what is "Hildebrand and post-moogle stuff"?

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