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I'm probably going to be more chill this expansion and not rush every job to max level as quickly as I did in SB. You just end up spinning your wheels or raid logging that way.
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Crafting should be interesting with the new changes. Looks like they’re trying to put an emphasis on using HQ materials in crafting. We likely won’t see people getting 100% HQ on the highest tier recipes while only using NQ materials.
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Mordiceius posted:Crafting should be interesting with the new changes. Looks like they’re trying to put an emphasis on using HQ materials in crafting. We likely won’t see people getting 100% HQ on the highest tier recipes while only using NQ materials. Sounds like I need to level mining up after I've finished leveling my first combat class so I can get on the omnigatherer moneytrain. Fishing doesn't count.
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Mordiceius posted:Crafting should be interesting with the new changes. Looks like they’re trying to put an emphasis on using HQ materials in crafting. We likely won’t see people getting 100% HQ on the highest tier recipes while only using NQ materials. It really depends on what the new actions do.
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Jun 26, 2019 21:27
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What's the point of "preparing" for ShB by having all this stuff ready to get a boost of exp? In the end we're all gonna be in the same place waiting for new content when we finish 5.0, all you're doing is burning through it faster.
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Verranicus posted:What's the point of "preparing" for ShB by having all this stuff ready to get a boost of exp? In the end we're all gonna be in the same place waiting for new content when we finish 5.0, all you're doing is burning through it faster. Efficiency. Pure efficiency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOXitbf1t8 (I do agree that it is a little silly; I have to catch myself constantly when I'm doing unfun things in a game in the name of "efficiency". It's a curse.)
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Jun 26, 2019 22:07
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Jun 26, 2019 22:11
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Hunt mounts are hell. The Tiger is one of the coolest mounts in the game and it's just behind way too much of a grind. As for my last day, do my last series of turn ins on my crafters, try and scrounge up what inventory space I can from my retainers, and furiously debate on rdm and msq, or gnb and grinding to 70 first.
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For the things I've been doing at least, I tend to think of it as "well I'm going to fill out these challenge logs anyway I might as well get the exp for it". And I would like to accomplish some specific tasks before my group starts raiding but I'm not gonna stress over it.
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Jun 26, 2019 22:14
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 Last thing I did before logging out for tonight. See you in The First
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My photography is garbage (it was the first time I used gpose) but I made a little album of the PBC photo meetup on Tuesday. Feel free to play 'Where's Waldo' and find yourself in these if you can. https://imgur.com/a/RdeDouz    
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Magil Zeal posted:It really depends on what the new actions do. People love to poopsock content. I think anything beyond getting the job you’re going to use at a decent ilevel is a waste of time unless it’s stuff you’d be doing otherwise.
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Jun 27, 2019 00:39
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DEAD GAY FORUM posted:Is this the new general FF XIV thread? For some reason the old one got closed before the new ShB one was ready. So this ones just around til Friday.
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Is anybody else really struggling with which class to level first? RDM was my main all through SB and I’m the most familiar with it, and it isn’t really changing it looks like. Could definitely do that. Then I have WHM which would let me Holy spam my way to 80 plus have fast queues with real people. MCH looks insanely cool now. All three of my tanks are fun to play.... plus GNB looks cool. And then there is DNC. Which also looks really fun, plus I’d maybe avoid some congestion by having to do 60-70 first? Someone help I’m not good at decisions.
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I usually only play around expansion time but this expansion since I'm not really interested in the new jobs I was thinking of going full bore into gather/crafting which I never touched in ARR/HW/SB. I take it with the big changes coming I probably shouldn't try to get the head start these next to days and just wait on getting those started after I hit 80 on my main job and beat MSQ? The stuff with Ishgard sounds really cool and Gather/Crafting has always been the one thing stopping me from earnestly doing beast tribes. I'm excited to try something more chill that I can just throw on a podcast and grind with. It sounds fun!
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A Real Horse posted:Is anybody else really struggling with which class to level first? RDM was my main all through SB and I’m the most familiar with it, and it isn’t really changing it looks like. Could definitely do that. Then I have WHM which would let me Holy spam my way to 80 plus have fast queues with real people. MCH looks insanely cool now. All three of my tanks are fun to play.... plus GNB looks cool. And then there is DNC. Which also looks really fun, plus I’d maybe avoid some congestion by having to do 60-70 first? I'm in a very similar position and gonna stick with RDM because it's all I've played for a year and I'm too lazy to learn/relearn anything else right now. Queues are rarely an issue even for DPS at xpac launch, if thats your only reason for wanting to go WHM. After MSQ I'll probly level MCH and try out Dancer.
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A Real Horse posted:Is anybody else really struggling with which class to level first? RDM was my main all through SB and I’m the most familiar with it, and it isn’t really changing it looks like. Could definitely do that. Then I have WHM which would let me Holy spam my way to 80 plus have fast queues with real people. MCH looks insanely cool now. All three of my tanks are fun to play.... plus GNB looks cool. And then there is DNC. Which also looks really fun, plus I’d maybe avoid some congestion by having to do 60-70 first? I’ve been BRD main since 2.0 began, DNC looks cool and different enough that I’m going to switch and if I like it enough I’m gonna to continue as that.
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A Real Horse posted:Is anybody else really struggling with which class to level first? RDM was my main all through SB and I’m the most familiar with it, and it isn’t really changing it looks like. Could definitely do that. Then I have WHM which would let me Holy spam my way to 80 plus have fast queues with real people. MCH looks insanely cool now. All three of my tanks are fun to play.... plus GNB looks cool. And then there is DNC. Which also looks really fun, plus I’d maybe avoid some congestion by having to do 60-70 first? I'm stuck trying to decide between sticking with SAM or going with RDM or MCH. I also want to check out DNC, but I probably won't make it the first one I level.
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Cabbit posted:Sounds like I need to level mining up after I've finished leveling my first combat class so I can get on the omnigatherer moneytrain. fishing is beautiful and pure you philistine Ceramics posted:For some reason the old one got closed before the new ShB one was ready. chairman had the opportunity to make the last posts in the thread jokes about the number 69. all posters should aspire to such a goal
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i skipped stormblood so i'm in a good spot to indulge in ff8 nostalgia and pick up gunbreaker and level it entirely with the msq 
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World War Mammories posted:chairman had the opportunity to make the last posts in the thread jokes about the number 69. all posters should aspire to such a goal Nice.
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Looking forward to Shadowbringers and the new torments I'll inflict on myself.
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So, what time will servers be up for early access EST? I'm a dumb baby that gets confused by timezones.
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Verranicus posted:So, what time will servers be up for early access EST? I'm a dumb baby that gets confused by timezones. 5 AM.
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ImpAtom posted:5 AM. Excellent, thank you.
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My wife and I both wound up with Friday off, and I'm at my leisure tomorrow as well, so we're going to cook up a bunch of fun snacky food ahead of time like empanadas and little tarts, min-quiches, a big pitcher of cucumber lemonade, green gazpacho, etc., so that if the launch is smooth we have stuff on hand and if servers are wonky we can just head out and have a little picnic. This is the first expansion where we're both all the way caught up and we're looking forward to being able to be hooting and hollaring at Alphinaud and co. at the same time.
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I wrote a lot of words about Stormblood. https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1squ9d6 Game good. Very excite.
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Devdisigdu posted:The trust party window shown in the french patch note shows off a few things we didn't see in other language versions: https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/a....png?1561532419 I think Crystal Guy is a Black Mage, so is there no tank trust for the first dungeon??? That seems remarkably shortsighted.
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Ither posted:
Crystal Guy is almost certainly a tank. They wouldn't have left one out for the first dungeon. He doesn't have the red background of the other DPS, I'm pretty sure he's just unselectable because the person queuing is a tank.
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I'm so ready. Getting all my errands done today and tomorrow, got food prepped for easy cooking, and I'm all squared away in-game. Parked in Rhalgr's so I can burn Poetics on Scaevan upgrades, then I'll redo action bars and throw items into the Glamour Dresser while I queue for DRs. Probably gonna swing by Gridania to see the new achievement vendor items, maybe get a little head on daily hunts, then it's MSQ time.
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Ither posted:
Speculation I saw was that he's a special job type that automatically adjusts to whatever your party is lacking.
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Anyone else just gonna take their time and do all the sidequests along the way? I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't mainline the MSQ and save sidequests for alt classes because it makes the narratives of the sidequests feel disjointed if you don't do them around when the MSQ takes you to them.
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Verranicus posted:Anyone else just gonna take their time and do all the sidequests along the way? I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't mainline the MSQ and save sidequests for alt classes because it makes the narratives of the sidequests feel disjointed if you don't do them around when the MSQ takes you to them. I’ve been doing sidequests as they pop up since 2.0 
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Vermain posted:Speculation I saw was that he's a special job type that automatically adjusts to whatever your party is lacking. That's possible, given the odd color.
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Time to shitpost and show why Chairman locked the other thread. It's SB post mortem time. Story: Crap. I've posted about it before and I won't rehash that here for the sake of brevity since this is likely going to be long anyway. I have almost no faith that Shadowbringers is going to be good because basically nothing this whole expansion has really been good. The WoD storyline was a low point in hw and an entire expansion about fixing their poo poo planet is not interesting to me. If I had any faith that become the warrior of darkness meant something cooler than, "can get rid of light aether" then I might change my mind. World design: Reasonably good. I missed being able to go inside buildings, but I think they did a better job of creating zones that had me wondering what exactly went down in these places? Almost nothing as impressive as the big sites in HW or ARR, but HW zones have a lot of empty nothing to them and honestly, forelands and mists are uglier than ala mhigo. I also felt the gear design this expansion was fantastic. I expect Shadowbringers will probably be even better, but I have my reservations about il mheg and kholusia in particular. Gear seen so far looks great though. On the whole, feeling good about this. Music: Soken rules, the new tracks I've heard rule, no complaints. Content: Mechanically, these are the best the raids have been. I think the trials were generally pretty meh but still good enough. Dungeons I am less a fan of, but that's because I main samurai and they keep sticking fat monsters in the trash pulls and it makes aiming my cones and lines stupid when they won't stop jostling. Shout out to Skalla in particular for being hellish. HoH was a step up from potd, but I still didn't care about it. The roulette version of Maps made them actually fun to do instead of a tedious slog through trash piles. Eureka is a waste. Going forward, I think the next raids will only be better, especially since I expect they will do a much better job integrating Eden than they did Omega. And I'm a Nier fanboy so I'm all aboard the 24 man. Really super excited. PvP: Win some lose some. The pvp changes were almost across the board a big improvement, at least in frontlines. I didn't engage with the feast much, because it's not my thing. Astralagos sucks because mobas suck. For shadowbringers, a little worried. I felt TP worked pretty well there, and it looks like we're going back to cooldowns instead. But they upped melee dps range to 5 yalms instead of 3 so who knows, maybe better. Crafting and gathering: A big step up in Stormblood. I am very much looking forward to the endgame they have planned in Shadowbringers, but the initial patch notes changes are concerning out of context. Job design: A wash in SB. They didn't really manage to disrupt the meta at all. Some jobs went a fair bit without any real fixes. Definitely better overall than HW though. I think Shadowbringers is probably going to fail to disrupt the meta too much, other than evicting bards for dancers. But job design looks to have cut a lot of crap and fixed a lot of jank. I am nominally pleased with a majority of the changes. Samurai and Gunbreaker in particular look perfect for me and these more than anything are driving my hype levels for Shadowbringers.
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I... just don't want to take off Friday and end up spending all of Friday and Saturday grinding PotD and hoping that Raubahn accepts me, only to get accepted at like 8am Sunday morning. I plan to take off Friday again so I have learned nothing.
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MechaX posted:I... just don't want to take off Friday and end up spending all of Friday and Saturday grinding PotD and hoping that Raubahn accepts me, only to get accepted at like 8am Sunday morning. They've addressed the Raubahn thing: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/77f61b7f04a33a5a4cfdf23d8bddba14d1e835b5 Lodestone posted:■Queues for Instanced Content So even if it's congested as gently caress, you'll be able to see when you're going to get through, rather than just spamming Raubhan/Pipping and hoping.
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