Final Fantasy XIV General

Anyone else gets autistically triggered when seeing no-effort glams? Why even fucking waste the prisms if all you do is slap the tafetta set and nothing else you uncreative fucking faggots asdafjklajkl

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As long as the attack has combo it's insta cast. Combine that with the two gauss abilities also being insta cast and minimal downtime for removing and reapplying gauss barrel they are significantly more mobile. You're basically going to be moving in short bursts.

The big thing for MCH is going to be your opener. Roughly once every two minutes all your good shit should be off cooldown. So you spend four or so seconds activating all eight of your buffs and then the next twelve throwing out all the damage you can before wildfire detonates. You then spend the next 90 seconds taking pot shots at the target occasionally using gauss shot, quick reload and reapplying hotshot and lead shot.

sloots gonna sloot user.

but you're right. remember when the "eastern" set came out a few months back? hundreds of them, everywhere, as far as the eye could see

Oh wow that's surprising I was under the impression gilgamesh was the most populated cause of all the end game stuff.

If you're logged in kind user can you post a picture of the PF?

Where are my [email protected]/* */ doing qt c@ things?

look at the active characters section, it is the most active right after balmung

Is being smug at you a cat thing?

It's not just slutglams, I've seen some really nice sluts with some sexy combinations instead of LOL BIKINI (miqote skirt and thightboots is just unf). It's the absolute lack of fucking effort that gets me boiling

Where the Brogadyns at?

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tbh, i think thats how you can tell the difference between female and male players. most men will go for the easy slut glam. most women, at least the ones i know who play this game, are fucking meticulous when it comes to glamming their characters. and not just in the "different glam for each job" way either. i mean, obsessing over shades of dye for a pair of earrings that literally no one fucking sees because she has the helm slot visible.

i mean, there's gotta be some guys who do that too, but in general what guys do is more "blunt." i.e. my BLM friend who made an afro-pimp out of his potato. a literal potato nigger if you will. not very subtle or detailed, just the blingiest, most over-the-top shit he could find with sunglasses and an afro.

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Not worth transferring to. It's a miracle when PF "farm" party doesn't have bonus tomes or is actually able to farm. Exodus is first and foremost a reddit oriented server and if you act like one does on an anonymous image board you're shouted down and reported and blacklisted. Unless you're in the top percent of job proficiency, you're not gonna get into a raid group that can clear savage weekly until MONTHS after its release. If you're joining with the intent on entering an Holla Forums FC, make an alt first to see if you like it just so you don't fall for the imageboard guild meme.

That would be damn great looking if it wasn't wasted on an oven dodger

Looks like it's wrapped in gold tinfoil, ready for the oven.

I know among active players Female miqote is still the most popular but im still surprised, must be all those fucking Chinese gold sellers.

RoeMales are functionally extinct though.

How'd I do?

No smug cats, only qt cats

oy vey someone get these lalaphobes to the sensitivity camps!

Compare that with the active counts and you can see it's indeed spammers, banned fags and otherwise inactives that didn't stick around long

Stop it.

cuhhrayee/10

I sure know how to pick 'em.

Ah okay I see. I actually unsubbed close to clearing A12S it's just hard to find a group that just wants to play videogames.
Oh well I'll just stay unsubbed for awhile still thanks for the info

RDM/10

I don't know what the fuck is talking about, but I've been running content with 8ch people constantly since I got the game. Many people are on new-ish characters so A12 is maybe 1-2 weeks out for consistent groups, but everything else is being run. With the cross-server PF being added in the patch on the 17th, there'll be no shortage of people to run whatever you want.
You may have just missed the free login campaign, might as well look and see if it's still there

go mnk if you want fun

go mch if you actually want a raid spot

Sup

I want to play with 8ch people, but A. I doubt anyone is on Midgarsomr so that is sort of out of the question until cross server partying and shit is added in 3.5 and B. I feel like a lot of 8ch people would shitpost too much ingame and nothing would get done or it would be cringy as fuck.

thanalan nights

I don't know about other groups or FCs, but Smug is actually really great and they've helped me get a lot of shit done since I started just a bit ago.

Is there any 8ch FC on Balmeme?

What the fuck are they building up there?!

airship dock i hope. i want idyllshire to be its own mini city-state for stormblood.

Looks like Myst Online.

yes, with its own grandcompany and everything. I dont care if it would fuck up PvP I still want it.

cant break whats broken

i'd be there in a heartbeat.

Potd fags I bet. They spam that shit and never learn how to play properly. Potd is fucking cancer.

Gripes that I have are dps players pulling mobs and attacking mobs out of the marked order making it impossible for me to keep aggro. Fucking faggots, I just let them die, I'm not popping Provoke to save their asses.

good on you user. if a dps can't count sequentially from 1 to 4, then they sure as hell don't deserve a free ride through a dungeon run.

I don't know what they expect me to do. Do they really expect me to pop Flash until I run out of MP on some random mob group? What the fuck is wrong with these people. Or when they write PULL MORE and proceed to aggro 6 enemies at once and I have to deal with that fucking shit.

It kills me every time I see it.

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And don't forget about the cunts showing up to high level content with their padjali trash thinking they are the hottest shit and then fucking up every mechanic. I wiped no less than 5 times on Odin today to worthless padjafag dps not being able to catch up with the enrage timer

pulling mobs with provoke is legit in potd and dungeons though, it has 10y longer range than their highest range damage skills and lets you deal damage to them sooner than if they walked another 10y

also less risky to provoke in potd, though in dungeons risk isnt a factor

This happened to me today. I spread my dots to the whole pack because why not it's only 1 eatherflow stack and I see this Paladin dumping his whole manapool into flash and still losing aggro. Nobody is allowed to use aoe ever or it will trigger the pld tank.

Now try doing this with a DPS in your group that actually isn't shit. Too many times I have had to facetank because of tanks thinking its a good idea to pull that way.

to be fair, a solid rule in dungeons is to flash/overpower/unleash the same number of times there are mobs. so a 3 pull is flashes, then into your normal melee combos.

anything more than that and you have to be pulling like, all of the first part of brayflox hard or some shit, at least.

To be honest, I avoid potd like the plague. I only got to floor 30 when leveling conjurer and marauder to get crosskills for my paladin and I have no intention to go there anymore.

Well, yes, I'm a pld tank and aoe triggers me when it's used needlessly. Like mages spamming fireball for no fucking reason, just because mobs will be killed like 10 seconds earlier. In the meantime, I have to look out for combos, use shield swipe, pop flashes. It just makes my job way harder just so the cunt can save a few seconds.

ive cleared 200 with 2 dps that are both not shit if that counts

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it will never count

why did you ask me to try it with dps that are not shit then?
I've also done ex trillions of times with them
literally just use a selfheal and flash or an aoe aggro skill to maintain aggro

Well, i'm just speaking from personal experience really. Every tank that used provoke as a pull in my experienced only just fucked me in the end. Aside from maybe a chain pull situation, I don't see why you wouldn't just open with your "aggro toss" skill instead even if it's less range in a dungeon or so. Besides, if the DPS somehow happened to rip aggro despite what you have done, provoke will be down for a long time.

so you're complaining that you have to actually tank as a tank?

story mode bismarck is not at 60 but I digress as old content is nerfed they get carried so you see more and more in later content.

I'm complaining when I have to do it on 3 mobs at the same time for no fucking reason. Use fast blade on one, shield swipe it, then the second skill on the other mob, then Halone on the third while keeping an eye on the aggro bars.

And the thing is, it's almost impossible to do it. You're simply not equipped to do that shit, are you people even aware of that? When you distribute the aggro which combos generate on 3 mobs, that aggro can't possibly keep up with dps aggro.

That would actually be interesting

Sounds like you should stop playing a shit class there fampai.

you would need the reaction time of a snail for that to happen, and even then, why are you thinking that wasting a GCD on a single target spell will be better than using it on aoe when it comes to not losing aggro?
time=dps=aggro

are you level 30-39 or something?
there's no reason to be losing aggro at 40+ even in huge pulls of like 10-14 mobs

Thanks for the (You), Satan.

i want my MMO fix and im fuckin sick of blizzard's pure unbridled kikery and what they've managed to turn wow into. its pure shit. is ffxiv decent enough? im a fan of the final fantasy series in general, so the theme is already appealing enough to me, but how does it play? im expecting ridiculous grind cause it's an asian mmo, but is it at least enjoyable?

I'm at 42. Started playing this game like 2 weeks ago. I don't know how a paladin can keep aggro on 10 mobs while a dps spams aoe attacks and the rogue is attacking some random mob. I haven't encountered a 10 mob group yet and I certainly don't pull and run around and merge mob groups.

I'm happy with it, it works if people cooperate. And let me be clear, most people cooperate and we get nice easy clears.

grind isn't bad. it's not a korean mmo. it can actually go pretty quickly if you focus on the story it drags on a bit from 30 to 40 or so, but the rest goes pretty quickly/interestingly

It's a themepark MMO like WoW but with the Final Fantasy brand on it and some tweaks, the biggest difference that comes to mind off the top of my head is that you can swap classes/jobs on the fly so you only ever need one character.

There isn't really much of a grind at all.

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IMO it's the least grindy in regards to levelling and gearing though I wish the amount of books required was halved at least, when it comes to some sidequests its grindy though

shield oath>flash>circle of scorn+flash>flash>flash>fast blade>riot blade combo if you need more mp for flash
you might be having problems with your gear if you are new, but that doesnt matter much when levelling since its hard to die to mobs
the most important stats are weapon damage, followed by vit and then str for tanks parry is super shit on pld because it doesnt stack with block iirc

Grind is very, very mild. You can go from 1-50 in a week and a half and then go through the expansion 50-60 in another week. Plot is OK as far as mmos are confirmed but it's standard FF shpiel till you beat ultima weapon in the main story. Big boss fights are extremely mechanic heavy with things like Ravana having 5 different rotating phases, GCD is 2.5 seconds with no CDR, if healing is your thing it's all about dealing with damage spikes rather than trying to out heal the boss's autos. Damage rotations are more complicated than wow, being 21 long if you play dragoon.
Video related is the fight against Ravana Extreme mode. You won't understand the mechanics without watching a guide, but it's a good baseline for what some of the crazier fights in the game look like.

books is a currency used to purchse gear to minimise the RNG grind in raids for drops

provoke pulls are used by two types of people, retards who don't know how provoke works and let mobs spread everywhere after use and people who know and use it specifically to pull mobs into position faster and will always follow up with threat gen

provoke pull is a good tactic misunderstood by shitters

42? go unlock shield oath already and keep your fucking weapon up to date. The bonus threat gen of shield oath will carry your dumb ass, unless you already have it and still can't maintain threat, in which case it might be best to just quit tanking

But that's wrong.

they still have to go thru the MSQ

oh my bad! There's a stat in this game that reduces GCD by 0.000952 seconds per point. This stat is also separated into magic and physical variants of itself. If you decide to stack enough of this stat and nothing else, you can bring the GCD to ~2 seconds! This is just fast enough to need the support job to drop their damage to support your ass two minutes before everyone else in the group needs.

check'd

and that's not what he is saying user. he's saying "without CDR, the GCD is 2.5s." not that "CDR doesn't exist in this game."

I have armorcrafting and goldsmithing and I craft highest HQ armor and accessories available for my level. Don't have circle of scorn yet.

I have shield oath and an HQ best weapon I can buy for my level. I can maintain threat, but that has its limits that nigger dps players ignore and make me break my fingers while they spam the same fucking key over and over.

Are you telling me that if I pull 4 mobs, go shield throw, pop flash 3 or 4 times, then I and one dps attack one target while the second dps spams his best aoe or highest single target dps skill, that I will not lose aggro on that target/s without draining my mp bar with flash?

that's not true though, casters wouldnt need the support and physical can regain tp using skills they have, and on the offchance that you really do need it, there's downtime in almost every fight where there's no reason not to use it since theres nothing to hit, assuming you have a support dps

no, you probably will, especially if the DPS doing the off-target damage is a 60 who is level sync'd, as the gear gap will still be present (albeit lessened).

one of the tricks to help with this is use tab target + the aggro meter to keep an eye on the mobs. don't blow your whole combo on one mob. in the case of pld on a 3 pull, you lob > flash three times > fast blade + savage blade on first target > tab to second target and rage of halone > fast blade that target > tab to third target and savage blade > tab back to first target and RoH again > add shield swipe as necessary > flash once more every time a mob dies.

that's how you keep aggro on a "normal" pull without blowing through all your mana when someone hits an off-target. assuming they're about your gear level, you'll be fine this way. if they drastically outgear you, even in sync'd content, you'll have problems, but then again they'll probably be able to handle it.

and if they bitch, just say "please attack in the order given" or whatever the equivalent in the auto-translate is.

Yeah, I do this. But I hate it when they make me do it on trash mobs. I have no problem doing that on boss adds and stuff.

tfw literally off by one from getting the Cactpot first prize

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Blackmage doesn't need the support, and BLM doesn't fucking matter. SMN Needs ballad at the 7-8 minute mark in most fights unless they wanna waste an aetherflow on energy drain.
mnk and nin need it in sustained fights unless SE lowered their TP costs while simultaneously raising the tp/tick gain.

That doesn't exist, does it?

that's life as a tank, at least until you get top-end gear anyway. pld also has a disadvantage when it comes to groups until 50. once you hit 50 and get circle of scorn, you pull > flash > CoS and then you're pretty much good to go unless you're doing focused aoe to take down big mob packs. CoS packs a LOT of threat into a single move.

war and drk totally outclass pld in aoe threat though. war can use overpower 2-3x and then a single steel cyclone and they'll hold your average mob pack without any problems. drk get's stupidly strong against higher numbers of mobs as long as they have blood price available, since they can spam aoe threat + self heal and get mp back when they're attacked. more mobs = more mp = more spammed threat and self-healing.

just keep on trucking. it'll get a lot easier once you hit 50.

ff14-cactpot.wotax.net/ Now you can cheat the casino mafia too! sometimes, this thing has like a 40% success rate

I was talking about the Mega Cactpot. I could've gotten 1,000,000 MGP

I wasn't talking about PoTD, I was talking about the tanks who level exclusively in PoTD and then pull with provoke in a dungeon or trial.

Trips?

at 3 mobs most classes should probably be doing aoe so you need to have aggro on everyone either way.

don't die and kill stuff. just relax and play the story when you first get into it

depends on your dps. if you've got drg + mnk, or mnk + blm, then probably better to do single target, since each target will die quicker with focus fire than they will with aoe.

now, if you've got something like blm + brd or smn + blm, then yeah, aoe is the way to go. but then you shouldn't be just pulling 3 at a time to begin with unless you're not doing endgame DF anyway

Yeah, when I was leveling MRD to get its crosskills, it was enough to to just use overpower, while keeping an eye on the TP bar, and it was quite easy keeping groups under control. Some people in my guild are saying that PLD is the easiest tank class, that DRKs have to manage MP and WARs have their own quirks too.

I don't know even know if that's faster than concentrating on single targets. For example, a mage will use fireball, or whatever it's called, and damage 2 or 3 mobs that aren't being attacked for about a a quarter of their health by the time me and the other dps finish the first target. In my opinion, that's not worth making me tab like a maniac and keep an eye on whether I've hit this or that mob with a combo skill enough times.

strictly speaking yeah, pld is the most straightforward. you have no extra mechanics to manage, you just push buttons and receive threat.

war has a pair of unique resources to manage, as well as two stances, a tank and a dps stance, similar to sword/shield oath, but off the GCD, thus encouraging stance dancing. drk uses MP a helluva lot more than pld does, to the point that they use their aggro combo maybe once in 10 combos, and they also have a pseudo-attack stance that they can utilize. but like pld it's on the GCD and costs MP, so it's not as fluid as it is with war, and drk is much more restricted if they're caught without cooldowns in the wrong stance.

overally, drk and war are "better" tanks in that they bring more to the table than pld, but pld is still solid, still capable of successfully completing everything, and is the secret MVP for the Sophia EX fight, since so many pld abilities allow you to completely cheese mechanics in that fight.

now you are talking about not using toolkits to replenish resources in favour of getting a support job, only ninja might need tp of them, but I haven't seen ninjas running out of tp so far

Hm, interesting. I don't know, I might switch things up later.

POTD WAS A MISTAKE

I actually have a question about POTD. I absolutely and totally hate it, as I said. Do I have to go there at all? Like, is there some super duper gear you get there? I'd just like to ignore it and avoid it.

You can ignore it. Current welfare gear outranks what it drops.

Anytime now

Literally the only reason to go there is if you are an absolutely mind-boggling shitter that cannot even be carried through any high level content and desperately needs a i235. Well and the title for doing the whole thing is rather nice too, if that's your sort of autism

what are you talking about? The Shire weapon requires Alex shit.
Kinna is the easiest and best welfare to get.

I fucking hate GC hunts but god damn that WHM staff is delicious

I think it is technically more efficient and do more damage at 3+ mobs though I suppose it is a grey area then. definitely should be doing aoe at 4 though

actually it is fairly easy to get lore weapon and a pretty easy to upgrade that to 240. kinna weapon is still outclassed by quite a few too

now you are talking about toolkits using resources in favor of replenishing tp instead of having the toolkit hammering the boss, only ninjas and monks might need tp of them, but you haven't seen any good ninjas so far

pig disgusting

the only thing POTD has for it is the piss easy to get ilvl 235/255 weps and cosmetics/pets otherwise its content you can just ignore, also if you want to grind out lore/scripture piss easy because it gives 30 poetics, 60 lore and 30 scriptures if you're doing it at level 60.
so you can run through it and grind out your shire gear as well if you really hate yourself and don't want to do actual content but you said you hate POTD so you're fine.

Is that for all sections or 50+/100+?

if you are going to go that far you may as well only play the absolute best lineups and ignore everything else, meaning having a support dps would be a non-issue, and so would having resources be.

when you're at level 60
(poetics - lore - scripture)
floor 10 = 10/ 20/ 10
floor 20 = 20 /40/ 20
floor 30 = 30 /60/ 30
floor 40 = 30 /60/ 30
floor 50 = 50 /100/ 100

then anything post 50 is

30 /60/ 30 up until floor 100 where its another 50 /100/ 50

i think post 100 floors with a fixed party are the same ? i haven't done them to know, but yea, you can grind out your weekly caps if you're autistic enough and lazy enough and hate actual proper content.

fuck, floor 50 isnt 50/100/100 i fucked up, its 50/100/50

JUST

I never knew that. Thanks user.

FUCKING CASUALS GET OUT OF MY PARTY! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Why can't you try on more than one thing at a time?

I can't stand this Aloise guy in my Novice Network. He's the epitome of "thinks he's trolling but is just awkward". Seems like a person raised on reddit, that's now trying and failing to fit in with the cool kids. Blacklist isn't enough for this level of faggotry. High Mentors like Aurion Pax are preferable.

that was me the first time i did him, after coming back early last year when Sephex was the new hotness. i made that mistake once.

=ONCE.==

yet somehow these people don't fucking get it. i mean ffs, the tell on 90% of Rav's abilities is so obvious you'd think it wouldn't be that tough, but shitters somehow find a way.

that hat says "Yeehaw Milady *tips*" but those thighboots say "I TAKE LONG DICK IN THE ASS"

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Sounds about right.

shoo shoo nigger

don't disrespect the chocolate
except maybe African Queen, she looks kind of bitchy

You are playing as a c@ nigger. Sorry you had to find out like this.

Into the trash you go.
Why do avatarfags always seem to have the worst taste? You think if you're gonna go around showing off your character like a huge attention whore, that you'd at least put some effort into it.

Man I thought about trying the free trial for this game but why is the launcher so bad? Is this normal?
My speed was 3 MB/s when downloading on Steam so it's not on my end

The launcher is notoriously shit and is considered the first real boss of the game. Some people have to VPN just to patch because of connection issues.

Well fug at least it's not just me.
Guess I'll sleep on it

At least it's better than the FFXI one, because goddamn that was pure memes

Is it so wrong to want some saturation in my life?

I remember doing that and it was a pain in the ass, especially the last time where I had to change the VPN several times before it finally downloaded.
Needless to say I have the files backed up on an external harddrive now. Also hud shit too.

After a long, bumpy ride, I have beaten Ravana EX, Bismarck EX, Sephirot, and Sophia. How much of a difficulty spike is it between Sophia and Sophia EX?

only good potato i've seen so far

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I mean look how pretty shit is with some color.

It's definitely an airship dock. If you look at the ones in the other cities the structure is similar.

It was the same shit long before potd. You negroes really need to stop being newfags and realizes most of the people that play this game are retarded to some degree. Then you have the players that don't give a shit and will get carried through dungeons.

Mch is a superior Brd in terms of gameplay. The class was built around its caster stance whereas Brd got its tacked on.

That's only useful if your regular ranged attack is too short.

It would be Age of Conan all over again. Assassins around every corner and Rangers sniping you from rooftops.

Go back to wow where your kind belongs.

They're mostly all going to be theme parks. FF14 takes a lot from wow and they're still a bit behind in terms of qol. However, it is a fun game.

Cats are sluts and the worst race.

Sophia is pretty forgiving.

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That really sizzled the synapses…

While it does get memey at points the animation and story telling is good, plus the potato was actually a good joke, made me chuckle

Fuck those toys.

What the fucking shit is this now

better rev up that VPN
welcome to the massive club that is the north american data center being a steaming pile of shit, the easiest way to get around that error is VPN in to anywhere else and then download the part that keeps causing it to happen then just disconnect the VPN and start on normal net, rinse repeat for further happenings of the same nature.
it took me 24 hours of constant VPN switching to fucking finish my download, it wasn't fun

Guess I'm never playing this game

Airship dock for Stormblood map, probably.

you can connect into a VPN in the same country, at least i had to do that to get past some parts with blazing fast speeds of 400kb/s but for some reason its the stupidest shit in the world that it only affects certain IP's and ISP's

You CAN try more than one thing at a time. It was added in a patch or two ago, you just need to check the box that says "save outfit."

I feel bad for you bros because I've never had any of those problems, but my two friends had to use VPNs to download the game.

What VPN did you use?
I use Cyberghost on a whim but I have a feeling it's pretty shit as far as they go
And I ain't paying for one either

I had the same problem with the download failing repeatedly, but from what I remember whatever was downloaded would stay downloaded. All it really meant was having to babysit the launcher the entire time.

thats the one i used.

THREE SECOND GLOBAL COOLDOWN

WORSE THAN WOW

CIRCLEJERKING GARBO MMO GENERAL

I want to play more but im bored. It's hard to explain.

I am not having a ton of fun with my jobs. (Dragoon, Palidan, Summoner, Scholar, Ninja in the 50s).

SE has done a lot of things right, but launchers ain't one of em

Coal is coal and you will pay the toll.

It took me until the last boss of PoTD to notice this whole dungeon is the same one as the endgame dungeon in Tactics Ogre where you also fight Nybeth on floor 100. If only it had the beautiful Cressida for floor 50.

90+ aetherite arms and still only level 52 though. I'll do this shit up to level 55 I think and then go back to the main quest, lvl 49 atm. With some luck I'll end up at level 58-59 when the heavensward main scenario end comes in sight.

oh for sure user. the MSQ in HW is designed to put you around 59-60 on it's own, assuming regular daily roulette use and the odd FATE here and there.

I sure hope Samurai has an intellectually stimulating play-style.

Hello DRG.

PLD is basic bitch tank, also brace for BLU.

I hope I get some better AoE, circle of scorn is almost useless.

check'd

pld needs inherent aoe added onto sword oath. something like 50 potency attack in a 6y radius around the target of any WS used by the pld. then they could actually contribute to clearing out aoe packs instead of spamming flash and pressing CoS a single time before everything dies.

Is this autist serious. They are all scaled down level 60s making every mechanic obsolete through burst anyway.

As opposed to tomahawk?

Recently returned because free time after exam. Feel like an absolute retard when I have to relearn how to play my main job (MCH) all over again to not suck, all I remember was the tunnel vision as fuck but rewarding experience and a dreadful time practising Wildfire opener. Here's to having fun.

Will the patch on the 17th introduce a new raid tier thus making the current raid/vendor gear obtainable with tomestones gainable from dungeons? If that is the case there might not be much reason to grind anything when I hit max level, Until the 17th at least.

there will be a new 24-man raid, and new 4-man dungeons, as well as a new Warring Triad primal, but afaik there will be no new "tier" of gear. i think scripture/lore is going to be the mainstay at 60 still, assuming Zurvan et al. follows a similar pattern to Sephirot and Sophia.

no reason not to lore farm anyway, since if there is a new type of tome that's coming out, you'll be able to exchange lore for that tome anyway.

Don't expect anymore tomes until 4.0

What's more fun to play at max level, DRG MNK or NIN? I have a static so I dont care about the raid slot meme

NIN has the most stuff, and apparently MNK doesn't have a lot of utility. Pretty sure MNK does more dps generally or something. DRG is not fun as far as I've heard.

As a level 51 Bard, would it be worth my time grinding the poetics for the Ironworks gear you trade in for in Revenant's Toll? I hear people shitting on Ironworks pretty often, but it LOOKS like a pretty decent set, at least compared to the shit i've got now, which is still just the stuff you get from finishing the ARR Bard job quests.

Also, should I be working on A Relic Reborn already? I've almost got my Lancer to 34 for BfB as well.

Ironworks it's very good… at level 50, and then it quickly becomes outclassed even after augmenting it so no not really worth the hassle unless you have nothing else to blow the tomes on

Oh I see. What would be a good set to last me for a while then? If that's the case with Ironworks I won't even waste my time or my tomes.

Is there anything else you can buy with those tomes? I just blew all of mine on the chestpiece because it looked pretty.

looking pretty is all they're good for

MNK in my opinion.

for armor, not really. All I have available to me right now are just weapons mostly, and most of them aren't as good as the Tremor Bow I snagged from the market. The Diamond Bow would be a good one for me seems like, but I haven't even done any hard primals, let alone even unlock Shiva's trial.

What should I be doing with all these company seals I keep capping every other day? I already got all the company gear I wanted

I think they can last you to around ~54 but there is not much worth buying so you might as well buy some gear to look good if anything.

You can buy Cordial potions with them if you ever level up a gatherer.

DRG you can lay your rotation out skill by skill across all your hotbars and click them in order every time, that's how set in stone the rotation is. You buff ranged physical jobs and have a 3 minute CD +crit bufff you give to the whole party. It's the middle of the three in terms of damage.
NIN offers the most party utility for two big reasons. It can manipulate aggro by simultaneously boosting the tank's gain and reducing the gain of anyone else, like a healer creeping up on hate because of overheal. It also has a +10% damage taken on enemy debuff it can inflict every 60 seconds and lasts for 10 seconds. It's a lot of free damage over the course of the fight. It's very slightly the least strong of the three in terms of personal damage. In terms of raid damage it's probably the highest because of the vuln up it gives.
The only support MNK offers is a +20% healing increased buff that is really only ever useful in progression or minimum ilvl fights. If your party doesn't have a DRK, it also brings a magic damage down debuff that helps the healers deal with raidwide damage. However, when played correctly, it does the most personal damage of the three.

They're all strong in their own ways. A group looking for world-record speed kills and the like will absolutely not take a MNK, but as long as you do good damage as one nobody's going to complain.

you got your anima relic yet? if not get some moonstones, you can trade 5 of them in for some crystal shit you need to upgrade that relic.

fair enough. I just unlocked a bunch of hard mode dungeon i'll need to run through anyway, so I'll be racking up some poetics.

mostly correct i'd say

good fun, very bursty, hard to get the rotation though due to how long it is (about 21 unique moves in each cycle) while also not being a loldrg floor tank. but very rewarding once you are able to do it right.

more utility than drg or mnk, as it brings a global dmg buff for all classes on a 60s cooldown (lasts for 10s, so it's up effectively ~17% of the time) as well as a slash debuff for pld and drk (and war, but if there's a war then the war will be debuffing ideally, not the nin). nin sits in the middle of drg and mnk, with less dps than both, but much greater utility.

highest single target dps in game when played correctly under ideal conditions (roughly tied with blm), with the tradeoff of very low utility, middling burst capability, and a mechanic that's designed around having constant contact with a target in order to maximize damage output. it's also arguably the most "flowy" of the three, as once you get into the zone as a mnk, it just feels good. the issue with mnk currently is that, if you want a melee, nin and/or drg brings more to the table. enough so that it outclasses the raw dps advantage mnk has, due to mnk's mechanical limitations as a result of the Greased Lightning buff.

all three are quite fun, and will easily carry you through any content the game currently has. but you'll have an easier time as a melee dps if you roll as drg or nin. it's worth it to try all three out however, since nin uses pgl/lnc skills, drg uses pgl skills, and mnk uses lnc skills.

ironworks is solid great that can feasibly carry you to 60, but you can get the same result with some HQ gear bought off the MB, or drops from the various dungeons. the stuff from the second dungeon (i forget it's name, where you fight your way up the dragon mountain) is about on par with the ilvl 130 ironworks stuff, and anything from a dungeon higher than that is outright better.

anima relic stuff, retainer ventures, special crafting ingredients to sell on the MB. or use them to fund your squadron, which can actually get expensive starting in the second tier.

I've been trying to do Thornmarch hard for 2 hours now to advance my main scenario. Even after telling them not to kill the king somebody keeps killing the king and the party disbands putting me in another 20min queue. EU Odin for raiding they said.

They're pretty much the best stuff you can get before getting into Heavensward, unless you want to spend a bunch of money on the marketboard. One you get into the HW content you'll get HQ gear that surpasses it from level 52 or 54 quests, depending on whether you've augmented your Ironworks gear. Also you'll get a bunch of Poetics just from doing new duties on the way into Heavensward, so you may as well buy some.

if you like it's A E S T H E T I C S you can go get the set for glamour, if you wanna go through the shit to upgrade it you can dye it any color.

tfw no smn mein kampf glam

tfw no smn quran glam

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i'm starting to miss it

YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER

Why is Ravana so perfect?

a shame

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lakshmi is gonna suffer the same fate in 4.0 faggot

se just doesn't like hindu gods

Sounds like you are just crying that the world is ending because of a fucking expansion. Come back 4-5 xpacs in and then I might agree with you.

what the hell user
i thought the second line of my previous post at least implied light heartedness but i guess not

Sorry, it's one of those things that actually chaffs my ass since I have more or less seen it all before and I see faggots cry about shit becoming irreverent, in other words, not being farmed 24/7. Those faggots don't know the meaning of suffering.

Provoke actually useful for pulling multiple large mob because of the range and no global cooldown so you can instantly use aggro skill like flash immediately. Also, I think you misunderstanding the function of tomahawk, its not really meant as an effective aggro generator that you spammed constantly, its for pulling mob from a distance. You could argue that its a waste of CD to use provoke in a boss fight but for pulling mob, provoke is actually better as long as you follow it up with overpower or flash, the main aggro generator.

And do you REALLY need that extra distance in the beginning of the pull when starting a fight? I can see the distance is nice in the middle of a fight for obvious reasons but anyone that starts the fight with provoke proves to me that they haven't read their skills at best and are a shitter at worst. This isn't FFXI, you don't need to pull a group of mobs without arrgoing another set of mobs for fuck's sake.

It's a matter of convenient, and using provoke is convenient.

Doing Aurum Vale with you must be fun

The differences between Provoke and Tomahawk is so minor, it doesn't really matter what you're using to pull a mob. Getting pissy about it is pure autism

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Provoke gives you Max Enmity + 1.
Tomahawk/Shield Lob gives you Base Enmity (no clue what that base amount is) + Damage + Enmity multiplier.

If you're pulling, Provoke gives you 1 enmity, whereas Tomahawk/Shield Lob/DRK move gives you Enmity + Damage Enmity + Multiplier worth of enmity, which is a couple hundred times more enmity than Provoke will provide.

Provoke is useful to pull in POTD, and in one or two specific targets in 1 or 2 instances in the entire god damn game. Using provoke to pull outside of very specific situational conditions is very stupid.

Introducing the new classes in a cutscene with Thancred not being useless for once and merlwyb popping bullets into all the Sahagins. I like this expansion more than ARR already.

Don't waste your enegry typing it out. Judging by how much he's defending that shit, the safe money is that he's just a potd babby who is upset that actual tanks laugh at retards opening with provoke.

tank main here, just popping in to laugh because
Can somebody help me search this thread? I seem to have misplaced my sides.

Truly those tanks are worse than a potato.

You forgot to add range in your calculation, which is the point of the skill is to pull mob toward you. You don't spam tomahawk to keep mob agrro, you use ovepowered.

7/10, you actually got me there m80!

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Must be fun being in a party with you. :^)

Sorry, not everybody a sheep

Are you a leftist by any chance? There are plenty of arguments in the thread but your own ego seems to blind you to the obvious truths.

Must be fun being in a party with a pretentious know nothing like you. :^)

I did add range into my calculation. It's the reason I said Provoke is useful to pull in very, very specific situations. 99% of the time, you won't need to pull from the extra range provoke provides, the other skills have enough range. The hundreds of extra enmity from the other skills is far more useful than a few extra units of distance.

You know you can still lose aggro if don't follow up your tomahawk with overpowered right? so that "hundred extra enmity" citation needed doesn't mean shit, its just a way to pull mob toward you. Same with provoke, as long as you use flash, you're not gonna lose aggro. Pros and cons here is one does damage and the other have long range. If you prefer one over the other, it doesn't matter. Only autistic fuck care about what opener you use

Yeah he's right, who cares if the MCH or someone rips aggro off you in the opener and eats a tank buster. It's not your fault for using a horrible opener, it's his for attacking before you flash 5 times, CoS, and do your combo twice.

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I'm leveling NIN for no reason other than to both not have to deal with this bullshit when I run DPS, and so that I can fuck with shitters that piss me off

AST is good for that. nothing quite fucks with a dps like giving them an enhanced Arrow.

surely you mean casters

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Thank you for reminding me why I was leveling NIN. I stopped after I was learning how to become an anime.

Guys, serious question.
Is armorcrafting and goldsmithing even worth it if you don't care about money? Is money necessary for top gear or what? I'm at level 47 and I have 800k gil from selling random goldsmithing crap and I have nothing to spend that money on.

Money is only for dressup.

Goldsmiting is worth just because most people are lazy when it comes to outfitting their right side so they tend to buy any pieces they can't get outright from tombs.

Also

But on the other hand, I hear people saying oh people grind potd because it's a good source of money, etc. Will I need to do that if I drop crafting?

They grind potd to play dressup faster

No, POTD is really brain numbingly boring, fantastic for leveling up as you don't get your full rotation until 60 anyways. Money wise it's okay, but money's not that important, if crafting is becoming a chore then just drop it, you don't lose anything.

It's a "couple hundred extra" enmity, not just a hundred. One lob skill can effectively generate enough aggro to eat one or two weaponskills from the DPS around you, and a heal from a healer.

Here's your citation, by the way. You can go look it up on google/reddit/whatever yourself if you want to compare the values to healing and damage skills, but a lob skill will allow you to open up with enough enmity to ensure you can actually dish out all your extra enmity generation through flash, CoS, whatever. The extra enmity DOES in fact mean shit, it means you get enough leeway for the rest of your party to hit the enemy once or twice.

It has nothing to do with being an "autistic fuck," it has to do with reading the god damn skill tooltips. I'm only providing you autist-tier information because it seems like the in-game tooltip hasn't helped much, and perhaps autist-tier information will convince you.

Money is near pointless in this game. I just spend my money on treasure maps for the sake of pointlessly spawning S ranks on my server.

Okay, I'm sold, I'm dropping crafting. And I hate potd with a passion and will not grind it for levels no matter what. To be honest, progression from 40-50 has been super fast with just MSQ and sidequests. I guess potd is viable if you wanna rush leveling, but I don't.

Don't forget to do your daily turn-ins for your GC if you want to level crafting but don't want to grind for it. That alone will raise your crafting classes, especially if you can turn in cheap HQ items.

You'll want to rush leveling when you decide you want to max another job, unless you are fine with taking a week at least per job relying on roulettes and regular dungeons alone

Oh god is it humanly possible to beat Ramuh EX with randoms and synced?

I hate potd so much that I would rather take a week.

Long answer: It's very rare because of ball management and tank swaps. It's better to just say fuck it and do it either unsynced or with a group that actually knows how to play.
Short Answer: Not Likely.

Jesus Christ you are just being retarded because you don't want to admit that MIGHT BE WRONG. Opening with Provoke is so retarded I can't even. Sure you might not get the mob pulled off you in random 4 man shit, but try that in a raid and see how it goes. Some other tank will rip agro like a berserking warrior or a Black Mage with a few big crits and you will have nothing to get it back with. Try this out and let me know how it goes:

If your whole argument is "lol 10 extra yards" then why not just have a ranged pull and you Provoke after?

I don't know why I responded.

I cleared it in DF after about 3 weeks of non stop queuing, its pure luck of the draw in on very stacked deck when you are dealing with DF and semi challenging mechanics or "a single fuck up = wipe" type fights because shitters can't hide how poorly they are doing. I really can't stand the people who are really fucking bad and when you bring it up (even when you aren't even directly insulting them) they go full feral about it and suddenly everything is your fault.

Just looking at the 2015 census data, is it really true that majority of tanks are PLDs and that only 22% are DRKs or has that changed during 2016?

ffxivcensus.com/

Among "active" players, it looks like a nearly even split. 35.52% Paladins, 31.14% Warriors, and 33.34% Dark Knights. Among all players, it's skewed heavily in favor of Gladiator/Paladin and Marauder/Warrior.

That's because 'All Players' include Pre-HW players, that never really played again. All 3 HW classes are low.

patch cant come quick enough.

I hate playing tank sometimes. Why do plds attract the worst type of player?

because they use PotD and think its a 3 button class.

The sword and shield make it look like a cool balanced support DPS class at the start of the game. I do hate the "this tank is OT, this tank is MT" meta that people subscribe to. I make it a point to ask the second tank "MT or OT?" every single time.

People in PF really don't know who to commend though. Sometimes you'll spend hours teaching everyone the most minute details about a fight, and get almost no commendations. Sometimes you'll do nothing at all, play below average, and get a lot of commendations. I always try to commend a good DPS over a healer or second tank, I actually pay attention to which DPS are doing their job well based on the enmity bar during a fight.

I'm a PLD main, started as a GLD honestly thinking it was a DPS. I really enjoy the aesthetic of a sword and shield, but I think I'm going to finally give in and level up that WAR.

I play like shit sometimes but still rack up 5+ commends because slutglams.
Which reminds me, can you get the southern seas swimsuit at all anymore or was that a one-time only event and never again?

So you're deliberately fucking over summoners and players that manage their aggro well

use act instead if you're on pc

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why did i save these guys till last someone kill me

fucks sake

they are*

I'm triggered

What recipe? That sounds like some bullshit.

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Battered Fish, you can't get the normal Haddock for it anywhere anymore

wait a fucking minute i know rolingus

He is still an idiot I see.
Can't say I'm too shocked.

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WHY IS THIS ALLOWED

I judge them relative to the class they're playing. Good players shine through more than just the enmity bar.

I think it's an event item, but IIRC it comes up every summer and there's a near-identical item that you can buy from the marketboard, which means you can probably craft or buy them somewhere. I think POTD drops some similar equipment as well.

Hi user

Sometimes I love this community

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If they leave, you can just report the pieces of shit and they'll get a nice fat ban because when you joined the party it was under the assumption/terms that everyone would get the pony.

Oh god how do I do anything

Do a lower level dungeon

I'll just gonna hold your hand so tight and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

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Remind me how to white mage properly then.

cure 3 spam then yell for ballad.

Okay, but you'll have to cure yourself out of this magical grip of mine.

I remember cure 3 being not very good without the proc. Was it somehow changed or are you just bullshitting?

So spam stone 2 then.

If you want to lazy mode it, Cure if anyone falls under 55% Health, Cure 2 when it's free or if you need big heals for some reason, Cure 3 if everyone is stacked up and is about to take damage.
If you want to try, slap Regen on the tank about a second after he takes damage, then turn on Cleric Stance and start hammering whatever he's attacking. Don't heal him unless you think he'll die within 3-4 global cooldowns. If anyone else gets hit, don't worry about switching out of Cleric Stance unless circumstances require you to do so, such as needing aoe healing or fixate/prey mechanics and shit.

I have not actually played White Mage in over two weeks, having switched over to leveling Warrior and then taking it into all the endgame content exclusively. But I remember it being easy.

i dont have problems, i just worry about screwing it up, so i get anxious through the whole fight.

Kinda makes me wish I was a female lala now. Thats a cute look.

Why is the dragoon set's helm so fucking hot?

There is a special place in hell for potato fetishists like you

You've gotta buy that shit on the mogstation now, same as every other old event item.

Might be cool.

The commendation priority is:

Lads you say money is for dress up but wouldn't you need money to buy materia for your endgame gear and food? Surely you're not going to level cooking to max level just to make it yourself.

totally worth it. In other news, I made the swap over to dark knight to level them up a bit after being a paladin for a while. I can safely say that holy shit, dark knight is pretty fucking fun. Running around screaming about the darkness and succumbing to your rage and anger while all the NPCS on your job quests look at you like you're a budding homicidal maniac as you develop more and more heretical black powers. It's pretty amazing and holy shit all this damage and emnity is absolutely the best.

the best materia and food isnt much of a difference from budget options and the materia can be gotten from running potd or the 24 mans

(((Aurion Pax)))

Oh dear Lord my sides. Please tell me that's real and post the full thing if it is.

Don't have to original facebook post on me, but I can confirm it's real and his name is actually (((Goldstein)))

Here's 2 more for fun

Just like you were supposed to with Retainers and Chocobo right?

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fukken nerd lmao

It's always the jews!

This is utterly unsurprising but wonderful nonetheless. The faggot acts like he's being helpful only for the sake of good boy points, and not because he actually gives a shit about helping people.

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NEVER FORGET THE LESSONS OF 2.5

Even well into HW, potatoes are still cunts
ALL POTATOES BELONG IN THE OVEN

yeah I like those quests, especially the one where you go around sneezing on people.

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ded gam

The evenstar set they are giving me at the level 50 quests looks pretty cute.

It seems like that. nWo is so inactive these days.

ded thred

Thank fuck im on a german/english heavy server group now the FR fucked off to the canadian heavy servers with their quebecios cousins.

Cancer that should go back. Jesus christ the PvP in that game got so bad before I finally quit it for good. Fucking laughed my ass off when Legion fucked PvP for good with no pvp gear.

Evenstar tighs with miqote skirt is UNF tier

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post examples

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So I'm a new player, I'm a tank, and before fighting Garuda for the first time I went on the wiki and read about the fight. The wiki said 'tanks should use limit break at this point in the fight'. And I use it. And then a party member says 'lel brah tank shouldn't use limit break in this fight'. I say well the wiki says otherwise. He says well the wiki is wrong.

So does the wiki really contain faulty info?

The wiki is assuming you and your entire party are undergeared pussies wearing white scraps while barely understanding their own rotations. There is not a single situation anywhere before Extreme trials where you will ever need a tank LB if your party is anywhere close to competent

To be fair, people don't really read up on those primal fights. When I was fighting Titan, my party members died 3 times to him breaking off part of the arena and they fell off. So I guess I stumbled on a good party, maybe it would've been necessary otherwise. People in general don't look into info before dungeons so they die 10 times until they get the idea how shit works.

Good on you for trying to do your homework though. That guy is more the fool than you for trying to say you "shouldn't" use limit break, when it doesn't really matter in easier fights. There are specifically labelled Hard and more so Extreme fights that you will seriously need to watch out for though.

it also is written generally around when it first came out so there is a decent chance that the "correct" strategy has changed a lot since then.

The wiki is hilariously awful and all of the info on it is copypasted from extremely old and outdated reddit threads. Don't use them as a resource for future fights if you the kind that reads up on things.

You will never, ever need a tank LB in normal mode content unless the party is doing something horribly wrong. I will unironically recommend reddit over the wiki for reading up on things because if you're going to do it you might as well get it from the source.

Or just ask people in the thread/ingame if you're on Exodus.

Yeah, thanks for the warning.
Your pic reminded me of a melee dps guy in a dungeon today. During every bossfight he would stand right next to me and he kept on dying to boss's cone attacks instead of just poking the bosses in the ass. And this was a lvl.47 dungeon, you'd expect people would know their shit by now. I bet he's a potd fag.

I main dps in mmos but still tank and heal on the side and the fact that people dont know shit like "the tank keeps the boss facing away from the party" this late in the genres mainstream popularity astounds me.

God i fear the rep these fucks will give RDM, as an XIfag who mained RDM/NIN i dont want to be seen as 'one of them' like the few good dragoons or none retarded french people.

Anyone know any good hunt/fate linkshells on Balmung? Preferably ones without MURR CUPCAKES.

Yeah, gimmie your ingame name so I can send you an invite to the "Buy a Sever Transfer" linkshell

Aurum Vale brings out the absolute worst shitters because unlike the earlier dungeons, it has not been nerfed post-release. It gets worse in Heavensward.

What's the optimal strategy for maxing out aetherpool on potd as quickly as possible? I want to be done with this horrible place as fast as I can so I can grab my shitty title and never look back

had a tank in cutters cry that was tanking everything with their butt in the exploding things and sand geysers. never tried to position the mobs in a good position I was a monk so either I just sit and ask him to move the mobs a little or get hit and he did this almost every time.

I'm telling you guys, it's because of potd. I see it my FC chat, new people coming and asking what's the fastest way to level, oh it's potd, let's go grind it. So they don't play dungeons at all during the, at least, first 30 levels, apart from the main story ones. And most of the time, they get someone from the FC to run unsynched and just run through the dungeon.

matched parties are rigged to have more silver chests than fixed parties, so spam 50-60 duty finder until you start getting failures then move to later floors

even when I fuck up bad as a tank, I always feel better knowing that at my worst I'm still far above the average trash people get stuck with
I actually became a tank main because I was sick of having to deal with bad tanks

I am very strongly of the opinion that you shouldn't be allowed to run something unsynced until you've cleared it normally at least once. I hate shitters so fucking much.

The funny thing is, FC people are quite happy to give them a free run. A person only needs to come to the chat, say 'I've been in the queue for 10 mins'' and someone will just say oh let's just do unsynched. So that results in, for example, incompetent melee dps running in front of me and pulling mobs and running back towards the group, making me spam flash and creating total confusion.

The writers have a questionable vocabulary. Anything even vaguely relevant to support or aid just has to be called "succor".

Cindy and Ardyn costumes are all i NEED.

You mean the translators? Because, I think, the writers are Japanese so the original writing is done in Japanese.

Didn't you know? The game is originally written in English.

Its written in piggu gweilo first and translated into nippon because its easier to go base english since it is more convenient for every other language.

That reminds me of this bizarre Garuda EX unsync run I had yesterday, where the bigdick tryhard party leader started it with 3 people and then we wiped to the same mechanic multiple times because no one but me (not even the party leader) knew the fucking fight and they refused to listen because "we are 60 we just burn the boss xD"

well you need tank lb3 for a12 normal

currently the only place where tank LB is "needed" is in A12 and A12S, and that's going to change soon, as people are almost all at a point where the gear is high enough to survive. but at release, A12 had a damage mechanic that only tanks would survive, and then only with about 10-15% of their life. meanwhile, everyone else would end up eating the floor. in that case, tank LB was necessary in order for the raid to survive.

90% of the time dps LB will be preferable, and 9% of the time healer LB will be clutch.

agreed with almost satan here; gj on doing homework. you're better off watching videos on youtube however or hell, just come here, if i see your question i'll do my best to walk you through it

Fuck you m80. I liked MMOs when they were esoteric and grindy as fuck.
>implying that game had voice chat

Fuck, why didn't I notice that before?

shit i never noticed that either.

fuck that commercial is so cringe though

You guys think there's a chance YoshiP will use Stormblood to bring changes to the game so it requires more cooperation?

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define "cooperation." are we talking ff11-tier shit where you literally cannot do a fucking thing without a composition consisting of certain must-have jobs regardless of anything else?

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It has a certain level of cooperation required, but it doesn't really feel like it's genuine cooperation. It just feels like "Okay we're working together enough until I get what I need and then fuck you all."

Yeah something like that.

That was fucking awful. The game was AFK in town 90% of the time and wait for some assholes to decide to group up.
FFXI had 60% horrible design choices, and 30% jank. The last 10% was fun. But it's by no means a good game.

you know, i hated the forced partying in ff11 because the console babbies came in a shit the bed for NA with JP on my server and my work schedule had me on JP peak hours at the time so i couldn't do shit. but with dedicated servers based on geographic location, maybe it could work if they dialed it up a bit. but not as much as it was in ff11. i like being able to get on and do stuff solo and feel like ive accomplished something without spending 2+ hours LFM in jeuno.

exactly.

Would be nice if they found a nice balance in between.

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The entire game is solo-able now, you get AI partners that completely ruin the game.

because it has a peak player number in double digits.

SO HOW ABOUT THE ANIMA STEP BEING FUCKING LIGHT AGAIN?

I'm not excited about light but the lack of a currency grind now makes me suspicious as fug for the final form.

nigga no one said that

it just looks like it

where can i find this info?

This I'd like a source.

I don't necessarily agree with every turd flung PotD's way in these threads, but this is definitely an issue with it because your positionals don't fucking matter at all. I honestly have no idea why they didn't make it unlock at level 50, especially since the story continues from a fucking level 50 questline.

The higher the difference between your Aetherpool level and the floor number, the more likely you are to get an upgrade, though you can still rarely get to fucking +60 opening a chest on floor 5 or some shit like that. Basically just get yourself carried to floor 51 and then do 51-100 over and over.

welp, done with horses.
you think itd be time to move onto birds
but goddamn do i want to fish the shit outta eorzea

primal horses are rather mediocre, at least they have the primal themes but incomparison to the burds which have great primal themes and don't look like shit

the pvp horses look great and will be super easy to get next patch, unless your not into eurasian style Cataphract barding

if i could have a numbered jersey shirt i would

i just not into PvP in general

unfortunately the garo event has pvp unlocks

i know. some stuff was gonna be sold at the gold saucer though, right? im prety sure the stuff given out in PVP is the dyable set though

most likely and the horse

if you really dont want to do pvp you can wait a few months and buy it from the cashshop since its a 3rd party collab event, i think the only outfit not on the cashshop is the ffxi samurai set

what's the fastest way to get gil

Do all your daily shit, and sell whatever the fuck on the market. People are retarded. Get all the way through the story too to actually even be able to get worthwhile stuff.

buy generic gear from vendors and sell it on mb for 1000% of what you bought it.

potd. Trade in shards for grade V materia and get a free 60. :^)

This is not bad advice. Especially if you can find a vendor who isn't in one of the main cities. People need gear, and you can buy it for quite a while, but people are also dumb and lazy. Basically, crafting isn't the way to go since I feel like you were asking about that. Maybe when you get to level 60, but otherwise it's whatever.

New thread

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I'm doing this. For now I'm waiting though because the patch will bring some new gear and the price/demand might go up a bit. Leveling a craft seems too much effort when people buy random junk you get from playing as well.

Aymeric seems like a real good commander. Got his position by skill, is smart, rugged good looks, loyal but not blinded by his religion and does not sacrifice his men for chance plays. I hope they won't ruin him as the story goes on.