bewilderment posted:

Alxprit posted:

On controller or keyboard?

Bruceski posted:

People get weird about lalas. If anyone goes further than /petting feel free to fight back.

Doomykins posted:

Many unlock through msq progression, many are optional blue checkmarks. Doing every blue you see will mostly serve you well to get at all the content. I think in Stormblood on they start tricking me with food rewards under blues...

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Nearly everything in the game is unlocked through quests, most of which will be tied to MSQ progression as well. Most dungeons, especially post-ARR, are directly in the main story. There are a handful of optional ones, especially once you hit level 50, so keep an eye open for blue + quests that aren't jobs, etc.

Mainwaring posted:

The game doesn't make this clear but unlocking your job upgrade (like warrior) is also locked behind msq progression. The msq quest that you need to complete to unlock jobs is a lvl 22 quest but because of newbie experience boosts a lot of people hit 30 before completing it.

The quest in question (very minor msq spoilers) is called Sylph management and occurs shortly after you join a grand company

DelphiAegis posted:

It gets better.

Mainwaring posted:

Buddy you have no idea

S.J. posted:

Oh I can't wait until you get higher up. Warrior is a loving blast.

iPodschun posted:

Something that isn't always obvious to newer players: Trash pulls are the hardest part of the dungeon, damage-wise. Using your defensive cooldowns proactively on them is the way to go as you found out. On bosses you'll want to use defensive cooldowns on tankbusters (red swirly circle around you, or the boss is casting something that sounds painful like Skull Crusher) but their auto attacks are not a major threat.

As far as Warrior's damage buff goes, on trash pulls you'll want to use Overpower -> Mythril Tempest still but on bosses you can use the single-target combo instead.

DelphiAegis posted:

Note that "arms length" is a defensive cool down for trash packs. It slows any enemy that hits you while it's up. For bosses it doesn't work (you use it for knock back immunity) but for trash, that plus a reprisal can do well when rampart or your 30% mit are on cool down.

Just remember to try not to stack mitigation. Rampart, wait for it to expire, then 30%, then arms lenth/reprisal. Hopefully before those 3 run out the pack is dead. You'll also as a war get options to survive packs better later as you progress through 50s.

DelphiAegis posted:

It stacks, but multiplicatively, not additively. So 20% from rampart + 30% from your class cool down != 50% mitigation. So yeah, it's better to have lesser mit for longer than somewhat better mit for a very short time.

SettingSun posted:

Literally just throw out or sell stuff you don't imminently need or use. This is true at cap but ESPECIALLY true when you are leveling. Hoarding is a path to madness.

CodfishCartographer posted:

A few caveats imo:

1. Rather than throwing them away or selling them, any green or blue equipment can be traded in to your grand company for company seals. You can trade these in for ventures to send out your retainers to bring you poo poo back for free gil. Once you reach max rank, you can also trade seals in for loot boxes containing random minions / mounts from early expansions, which can sell for decent gil
   
2. Once you complete ARR you'll be able to trade in a currency for role-specific armor that is quite good and can often last until completing the next expansion, when you can get another set with the same currency. This currency can be a little annoying to grind out, so it's worth holding o to these armorsets for future jobs of the same roll - I just store mine in a retainer.
   

Qwertycoatl posted:

Just be aware that blue mage isn't an "I win" button and early on before you get the good spells you're plinking away with a range of 200 potency spells which apply some crowd control effect.

But, it's really cool when it comes together and eg someone manages to pull together an alliance raid party finder and do all the crystal tower raids in half the normal time

SuperKlaus posted:

You should probably drink while fishing like you would do IRL

flatluigi posted:

it's genuinely great how much the midi bands add to the sense of community of the game

Relyssa posted:

Triple Triad?

Also they forgot to mention Mahjong! This game somehow has one of the best online clients for it and you can happily play it on the free trial!

Bruceski posted:

One of us, one of us...

What keeps me staying with FF14, ironically, is that I'm allowed to leave. There's no massive daily quests required to stay current with raids, nothing aside from my house will decay if I ever decide to take a few months off. I don't have a need to do things as soon as they come out or nobody will be around to do them at all (aside from Bozja, Criterion dungeons, and some Savages) and even if I do have issues those aren't locking me out of doing whatever's current.

I can play as much or as little as I want and the only compulsions to get into a grind are the ones I give myself.

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Assuming you've unlocked fishing already, there's a short intro quest in Limsa that unlocked it - All the Fish in the Sea. Once unlocked, just queue up with the NPC on the lower level docks, X3.0, Y12.7.

The expedition leaves every 2 hours, and you can queue up for 15 minutes before it starts.

Arzaac posted:

Do a round of ocean fishing so you can get this lil dude



best minion I've found so far and it's easy to get as long as you kinda understand ocean fishing