FFXIV Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward General

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward General
Proto-Ultima Is Totally Hard You Guys Edition

Try the game for free for 14 days! (lvl [email protected]/* */) - ffxiv-freetrial.com/us/
Want to stick around? Ask for a referral code for an exp boosting hat and some tokens to give you a jump start on the endgame gear grind. You have to do it before you redeem a time card, but the free 30 days included with the game do not count towards this.

Current Patch notes: version 3.55a
na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/patchnote_log/

Useful resources:
List of Commands (used for macros) - na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/win/text_command/
Gamer Escape - ffxiv.gamerescape.com/
Garland Tools Database - garlandtools.org/db/
XIV Database (It's good now)- xivdb.com/
FF logs - fflogs.com/
DPS and such tracker (but don't tell anyone you're using it or you'll get banned) - advancedcombattracker.com/
Ariyala (gear build simulator/hunt-&lighttracker) - ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/Exodus
Mithrie's guides - youtube.com/watch?v=nFn3SxUnR_c&index=1&list=PLbE_CU9Jt_uc0MAfIOY8JqtN5PyPO83Q5

1. If you're brand new, do hall of the novice. It's stupid and only teaches you common sense stuff, but you get a 30% exp boosting ring and free level 15 gear.
2. Do all of your Main Story Quests - REQUIRED TO GET HEAVENSWARD AREAS/JOBS
3. Do all of your class quests and get yourself a job - ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Jobs
4. Attune to Chocobo Porters, Aetherytes & Aether currents ASAP - it will save you a lot of time & effort
5. Unlock your challenge log, gives great exp and some gil - ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rising_to_the_Challenge
6. Do your daily roulettes - they give out good EXP (and tomestones later on)
7. Cooking has an amazing crossclass skill at 37 you need to get for crafters.
8. Hit Tab to [I seem to have misplaced my keyboard]

Get a FC, they give bonuses as long as the people in charge aren't retards
You cannot join a FC if you are currently on a free trial account
Concentrated Smug ≪SMUG≫ (Primal/Exodus)
New and older players, running all content from newbie dungeons to current raid progression. There will be banter; you will be called names. PM Aurora Soulwood, Rab Bit, Claws Furalarm, or any other officer for an invite.

Neo Wheels Order ≪nWo≫ (Primal/Exodus)
Leader: Aloise Astravir
Post-ironic post-modern neo-sceptical Lorem Ipsum. Moving to New Wheels Order soon!

There is also a linkshell for all 8ch players on Exodus to congregate, so that people can communicate regardless of what FC they're in or if they're running the free trial. Contact Lyfon Yharnam, Aurora Soulwood, Quickscope Easybake, Balkius Hyorsyn, or any member of nWo or SMUG for an invite.

Other urls found in this thread:

gamerescape.com/2017/03/01/new-stormblood-information-famitsu-and-dengeki-interview-summary/
ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Crystal_Sand
archive.is/Iwi5m
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

FUCK THIS PATCH

Worth it.

new mnk atma

BLU WHEN YOSHI??? FUCK SAM!! RDM looks kinda cool though.

Thoughts on RDM?

What happened with nWo? Last time I logged in, discord said it moved to Gilgamesh as Rebirth, so I forked up the dosh and moved servers. Then last weekend while I way still away, I saw in the thread that Dave, whoever that is, stole money from the FC or something? I finally get back and the discord is gone and now this OP claims nWo is still alive on exodus? Can someone please explain without shitflinging? I just wanna know where my bros are. :/
sincerely, Mjrn

Dave was the leader of NWO, he got banned after convincing people like you to change servers to gilgamesh because he fell for a meme. He then had an autism fit, and tried to blame everything that ever went wrong on the interim leader and the SMUG FC who just lightly shitposted. He also had a secret shitposting Discord to try to disrupt the threads so that no one could have a FFXIV thread because he didn't like the fact that another FC was around No I'm not kidding.

I cannot fathom this, there is simply no reason to change servers unless your pals are all on a different DC altogether

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Damn. That blows. Guess I gotta pony up $18 more to get back to exodus. What was Dave's character name? Just so I know exactly who you're talking about. Thank you for the concise response, user.
polite sage for FC drama.

Hmm what's some good tank glam that gives a "holy" look but isn't generic armor painted white? I need it for DRK

Okay, so I've started working on MCH after going through ARR as a BRD. Any tips I should know and shit like that? Give it to me simple.

Pray to RNGesus that you proc often.

Just got to Heavensward, dat fucking Music though holy shit.
Anyway just unlocked DRK, I played PLD before and it already is so much better.

Quick question though this Grit skill is the DRKs Sword/Shield Oath ye?
As a PLD I never really had to do much stance dance because I did fuck all DPS in the first place.

I assume this is different with DRK?

Don't fucking use that push skill shit on the mob the tank is trying to hold fucksake

you need to get "blood for blood" LNC skill for more DPS
i dunno if needed else

Grit is their Shield Oath. Darkside is their equivalent to Sword Oath. You can have both on at the same time when you pull and turn off Grit once you've got a solid hold on emnity.

You're going to be really bad until 58.

Yes, DRK can actually pull some nice DEEPS (not as hardcore as WAR though) when out of tank stance and still keep aggro decently. Still you should be on grit pretty much always on bosses and only drop it when you aren't main tank or there's a mechanic that requires hard dps checks. Also never turn off darkside for any reason

Already got that covered. I heard that the LNC skills I'd grab for BRD is the same I'd grab for MCH so I got that covered.

Yeah, probably gonna let it rot or save it for fucking with some faggots in palace or something

So double down on that. Got it.

Good to know I wasn't just thinking I wasn't doing much, though mind elaborating a bit?

Grit is your tank stance and the only stance dancing DRK does it toggling that on and off. You need it on for the emnity bonus, but for any fight where you're comfortable and know there aren't any big busters coming, you should try to keep it off at all times so long as you've secured your emnity lead.

Darkside is your DPS stance, and can be on regardless of Grit. You're expected to have 100% Darkside uptime in combat to be a good DK. In fact, most of your skills after level 30 flat out require it to be active, especially with Dark Arts being a thing. The main difference between a shit DRK and a good DRK is how well you manage your MP.


If you're shit, maybe. Outside of your opener (or if you start falling behind on emnity later in the fight) Grit should be treated as a defensive CD that doesn't actually have a CD.
DRK and WAR are pretty damn close.

There's a webm that perfectly explains this and I don't have it.

You just lack a lot of your important moves until then. Basically lead shot is your best DPS move hands down. The combo with wildfire is good. And you need to get Blood 4 blood

Like I said, got the LNC skills I need already, so I'm covered there. But I'll likely level it up while going through HW as my BRD.

I have an important question.
Is there any porn of that thing?

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If your dps teammates are anything past dogshit, you aren't going to hold aggro for shit without grit unless you blow provokes at every turn and spam the boosted enmity combo

Is that a yes or a no?

Unless you're undergeared, two or three emnity combos at the start of the fight will give you enough of a lead to drop grit for a good long while. You'll have to dance back into grit during long fights if the DPS isn't shit, but any time you can spend out of Grit is time spent with a flat 20%(!) DPS boost on top of the gains you get from Blood Weapon. Even then, stance dancing only comes into play in harder fights or when you're playing with a premade. Only twice ever has someone in a pug forced me to dance back into Grit to hold emnity during a boss fight.

That said, dancing with Grit generally isn't worth the effort for trash pulls because they hit a lot harder and die a lot faster.

Pic unrelated

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Chances are he wasn't multi doting during add phase either.

Exclusive pic of Yoshi right before heading to design the contents of this patch

haha :D great post my friend, I too love reddit!

Sweet jesus.
I don't understand why people have such a knee-jerk reaction to criticism.
Morbid curiosity demands, what race are were they if you remember?
I reached peak autism a while back and started tracking race/gender/class combinations of exceptionally good and shitty players.

He had aetherflow at least

How the fuck? How could you possibly get carried though this fight without knowing it when you are the fucking healer?

this is quite the insulting patch

I recall the exact opposite and yoshi going "maxed relic will be BiS until SB"

relic takes more time than a12s anyway

Whatever rice eating harbor bomber figured out they could tie an already existing animation to an emote command and put it in the cash shop for the cost of half a month of game time is getting knee deep in geisha pussy and sake right about now. So many good goys paid for that shit.

The entirety of fucking idleshire was laying on the ground earlier, like if the black plague struck the place.

More like the yellow plague

Fuck man, I love the cross class idea. Let's you tinker with other classes, gives a feeling of progression.

Do you think yoshi would bother making a proper Proto Ultima EX if enough people shit on him?

No, he already has your subs.

Doubt it. He better have a new race or another job or two down the line with this triple budget bullshit they were bragging about.

Just hit paladin. 4 more levels till i get awareness for DRK

Who the fuck cares.

Not for much longer if he keeps this bullshit up

Agreed, but have you ever met a tojo with humility?

I wish he would just make it a proper trial and not just trash in dun scaith. Apparently there is RNG involved in finding the fucking thing.

Actually I call him trash but we wiped twice because of low DPS and people thinking you could survive the last part with tank LB3. Funniest part is that teh succubi and proto ultima are both the hardest part of dun scaith despite being mini bosses.

Triple budget is going to yoshi's middle aged mother style wardrobe and jewelry costs. No matter how much jpop shit he puts on he is still going to look like a patty farmer austin powers.

Fucking nice.

Now that's pretty bullshit.


I'd take any race or the slider, since more customization is 'taxing' or some shit.

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I'm still miffed we got the Au Ra over the Viera. Hell, I wish we got the original Au Ra designs. If it weren't for potatoes Au Ra would be the worst race, being a race of k-pop idols and edgelords. You could remove the Au Ra and nothing would change about the game. Guess that's why we're going to the east in the expansion so they can be somewhat relevant.

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That seems to be their excuse for everything and blaming the ps3.
>it's too taxingWe all know you just want that sweet retainer service money Yoshi
Seriously where is this triple the budget going to? By the looks of things it's still gonna be the same as hw, just set in not Japan and with less content at the start. We're probably only going to get one 24 man raid, one 8 man raid thing like coils and alex, 2 dungeons every patch because 3 was too taxing too, and a few primals.

Am I the only one who unironically agrees with "skip soar or disband" parties? All you need to do to skip it is to follow your rotation. That's it. You can even be in the high 250+ ilvls and still skip it. Why should anyone give up weapons/birds to someone who's clearly underperforming?

Because muh feelings and if you say my DPS is bad I'm gonna report you for using ACT!

If you can't do a mechanic as simple as soar, chances are you are a complete shitter

I can easily do it. There's just no good reason to be seeing the first one to begin with if you're playing properly.

If you can't do your opener properly, the thing you should be doing ALL THE TIME IN ALL CONTENT, then you are a shitter.

Doing a proper opener is pretty much the only requirement to skip soar.

are playable rabbit sluts in the game yet?

i prefer ultima because the succubus was a health sponge with targets to take dps focus off, where as proto ultima is mostly focus the thing itself with a few extremely low health adds
regardless its a huge fucking cop out

if people where preforming optimally then you should never see soar, of course thats no excuse for not practicing/trying soar when it appears instead of exploding the group for no reason

not yet

the trainer broke with the latest update btw

That's true too I'll admit, but the whole attitude of 'DO THIS FIGHT HOW I SAY TO OR ELSE KICK" is absolute cancer. If you can get clears smooth and cleanly then who gives a shit you saved 10 seconds skipping a mechanic?

Yes buy rabbit ears from gold saucer goy :^)))))

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Reddit memed it into being unacceptable, so the occasional skip soar or disband PFs never fill now.

Instead whenever I bother to make a group, even if we clear I just kick low dps/bad opener shitters.

Fucking wew led, I was expecting it to be pretty shit and somehow I was still disappointed. All that pointless hype for a 90ish second fight slapped in Dun Scaith for no real reason lore or gameplay wise.

No because they are completely inferior to catsluts.

I want a delicious brown wide hipped Viera waifu.

I agree but… That's kinda gay.

Catsluts are awesome but that isn't a female.

I'm pretty sure that's really gay actually.

soon user, Ivalice was announced

I don't even play the game, I just come in to say I want to fuck catgirls or viera's.

well if you did play the game, soon you could do both

The catgirls are too plain body-wise for me, like let me have more than that for breasts or wide hips or something, geez.

Nope, PS3 limitations that would be more shit to load in the servers or whatever bullshit excuse they gave this time.

I would ravage that slut of a character you have. She is just begging for a cock.


You just convinced me, it is really fucking gay.

wagecuck here, how can I justify playing a mmorpg with monthly subscription fee when I only get to be home 1 week each month?
how good is the erp by the way?

It's ok at best in balmeme

This should be Pc only, not my fault Japs can't build a PC for shit yet can afford it just fine. Still females are too plain body-wise and I can't widen her hips to be feminine, no increase in bust or butt and no increase to her thighs. Even if I go hyper sexualized I'm exercising my right as a man when I make a female character, and I will expose her as much as possible to appease my own lust.

thats what CE and the semen demon trainer are for

though unfortunately the addresses are busted for the time being


this isnt cuckchan /vg/ im not into that shit cunt

Wake me up when this game is worth the sub

Well that's one way to do it but it may as well be a workaround as you have to go out of your way using third-party software to get it working.

It's not a lot of money tbh. If you can justify playing it because you're having fun, then just buy it. I actually enjoy it a lot.


Me neither, I'm just saying.

World pvp in MMOs like this is never fun because it just devolves into who has the bigger gank squad or invisi gank squads that camp areas.

It'd be easy to counter that by having high ranking hostile hunts spawn near large and powerful parties after they rake up so many kills

Yeah that's a good idea. THIS WILL NEVER GO POORLY

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The only time world pvp was enjoyable was in Darkfall and Archeage at launch.

fair enough, have some more

You need a large open map for world pvp to be enjoyable and reasons to cross it IE trade. It also helps if the playing field is more than just being stuck running around in land and if there are things you can do to actively protect yourself against gank squads.

Reminds me of my friends's characters in MMOs, she always makes brown skinned, green eyed and white haired chicks.

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Sorry to hear that user.

shes on the chocolate spectrum

I called them on the 15th and they still didn't have any updates getting really annoyed with their lazyness

HHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Well if FFXIV had all those things itd be a good MMO

I am curious, could you share your findings with us?

The Jews really do fear the samurai.

I know she is my friend was the same color

FFXIV is a good mmo, it just could be you wish for something more Darkfall or Archeage type mmo ie sandbox.

i wouldn't worry about ffxiv's effect on wow, im more worried about wow's effect on ffxiv
the people playing wow can stay playing wow and not shit up ffxiv

I would be happy if the combat update removed all the knockback abilities from the game. I fucking hate MCH in dungeons and shit.

Masha > Narumi >>>>>>>> Ulala

New event costume is cute as fuck.

i bet you're also going to tell us the sky is blue right

Shit event but goddamn the dress is sugoi

CATFAGS GET OUT
ARYAN NARUMI MASTERRACE

good news everyone!
the songbird outfit makes your tits bigger!

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event lasts 2 weeks, if you miss it you don't deserve to be kawaii

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Is that a new emote? Is it Lalafel only? If not, how do you get it?

Post your kawaii [email protected]/* */

disgusting

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It's not a guilty pleasure if you feel no guilt.

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IT BEGINS.wav

How does desynth work? Do I need crossclass bullshit or can I just level any craft to 30 and get on the gravy train?

Yes

Are you Trucker-user?

Yo

Context: The tracking started after I noticed certain player archetypes being cycled through the guilds raid group more quickly than others.
The data tracked is race, gender, class and performance, I only ever do the tracking when i'm running with at least one other person so I can have confirmation or to counter any of my assumptions (I don't melee DPS, so my knowledge there is lacking.)
Performance is based on a 10 point system, starting at 5, adding points for "exceptional" actions (an excellent aether manipulation, or good use of pets) and subtracting them for stupid shit/flubbed mechanics (BLM not using transpose, not using positionals ect.) Anything 3 and below is shit, 7 and above is good. Of course the number can exceed 0 or 10, those are just soft caps, rounded up or down to at the end of the dungeon.
I also only track data on content from Dzmeal Darkhold and up, not because I don't see the fuck ups in lower levels, but I don't feel like there's enough mechanics in play over the course of the content to level out any spikes of genius or retardation.
Tracking occurs through both prebuilt parties, and dungeon finder on my home servers Sarganatas, Balmeme, and Tonberryl.

In the case where a player has greater percentage of completion towards crafting/gathering over combat classes, this can be a indicator of good performance if their combat classes are limited to 1-3 high leveled ones, or an indicator of poor performance in the case of all of them having a variety of levels (favoring the low end.) The thought being that some people who prefer/enjoy a particular combat class may pick up the other gathering ones as something to do during the "queue". Conversely people who focus on crafting/gathering will dabble in the combat classes without practicing/focusing on improving, in the second case.
This appears to also occur with people who have all combat classes maxed, it's a coin flip on their performance (without factoring race/gender). Likely the result of "trying to find something that fits" instead of dedicating themselves to a role until they fit it.

The race/gender data is pretty straight forward:
The genders seem to be even across all races, except for the ones that had the opposite gender added in ARR, namely fem roe and male c@, both of these race/gender combinations are the only ones with a 2 point gender difference, Female highlanders appear to be the same as Male highlanders.
(non-whole numbers we're rounded up to the nearest half-point)
LALA DUNE F 5
LALA DUNE M 5
LALA PLAIN F 6.5
LALA PLAIN M 6.5
HYUR MID F 5
HYUR MID M 6
HYUR HIGH F 6.5
HYUR HIGH M 7
ELEZ WILD F 6
ELEZ WILD M 5
ELEZ DUSK F 4
ELEZ DUSK M 4
MIQ SUN F 6
MIQ SUN M 4
MIQ MOON F 5
MIQ MOON M 4
ROE SEA F 7
ROE SEA M 5
ROE HELL F 6
ROE HELL M 6
AURA RAE F 5
AURA RAE M 3
AURA XAE F 5
AURA XAE M 3

The only other notes i'd like to make are reguarding Male AuRa of both clans and both genders of Duskwight elezen, I'm not sure if it's just because of the aesthetic of the races, but there's a tendency for a low average, with a few exceptional players.
In the case of Duskwight (this is conjecture) but it appears to be tied to the tattoos, the people without them are often fine players, but the people with them are topaz carbuncle cancer.
I have no idea what causes the sudden drop for male Aura, some have considered that they seem to be popular as alts, so maybe people don't take things seriously while goofing around on them?

God damn formatting, that was copied in from excel 2016, no idea why it decided to shit itself it isn't a csv.

A nigroe in a tidus outfit. Why is this allowed.

What the fuck are goddamn drop rates for the sophia bird? I have cleared the goddamn 17 times today and I only saw the bird drop ONCE.

Sephirots bird is better, it plays the phase music.
But yeah about 1 bird per 20~ runs.

JP interview confirms RDM shares BLM and SMN gear which means shits about to get super homogenized style wise, MNK/SAM was bad enough.

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Damn straight.

I was so excited to start HW content. Then I got to the floating islands area, then to the empty snow plain area, then 2 more floating shit area. Ishgard is empty. Who thought this was a good idea? And doing beast tribe quests in the Sea of clouds is an abstract kind of hell. I really dislike HW, can't bring myself to fuck around Azys la for tha past several days.

Did you really expect anything else?

Niiiiiice

Good, gearing multiple jobs is absolute bullshit already

Did I expect a swashbuckling dandy to wear Scylla's dress? Not really

What dress is that in the 2nd pic? It looks really nice.
Also can you recommend any good looking earrings for [email protected]/* */? Most of them are either too small to notice or just giant crosses.

That dress is the unobtainable in normal gameplay, you can only wear it with memory editing dress.

So my POTD aether gear is +99/+99

Should I bother trading it in for the kinna wep or am I just gonna get better welfare gear from doing HW content?

Guys, I`m doing Heavensward story (fucking hell leveling up takes forever in the late 50s)
I main Bard but I`ve grown more and more fond of healing. I have a White Mage at lvl 51 and love playing it. How do Scholar and Astrologian stack up agaisnt White Mage? Are they as fun to play?

Do a sidequest or two. I did all sidequests and I was 60 by the time I finished with the 3rd area in the expansion.

Kinna will carry you all the way to Sophia Ex, but then immediately becomes a shitter weapon when you are able to get Zurvanite, Alexandrian or Relic. Also glam the fucking thing into something decent-looking fucksake unless you main DRK

But am I gonna get something better/equal for free or less grind?
Honestly think the +99/+99 gear will serve me better in POTD for fast class level grind.

No, kinna is a shitter weapon because it's effortless to get compared to anything else near it's level

Alright then I'll level the classes I want first and then trade in for the kinna wep and use the kinna wep to farm something better.

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my ex-wife didn't do much good for me, but what she did do was give me an appreciation for a perky handful.

having said that, my femroe's titties have always been max size because roeazon

Frankly it feels more like a CoRPG like Guild Wars 1 and is great in the attention to single player experiences. Sadly it lacks in all other departments.
This game would be on a whole new level if the areas were just a little bit more open and the players had a bit more freedom

Holy shit was it always this bad? I never noticed this shit as dps

Podesta's last party

as a DPS, oh god have i had some fun ass runs with everyone pulling instantly

Yeah it's always been that bad.

WHM has high potency in both the healing and damage department, but lacks utility skills that SCH and AST have. SCH has shields + damage reduction skills and AST has cards that buff party members, damage reducing skills and their healing type depends on the stance they take, so they can apply regens or shields.
IMO SCH is the most fun the play as you need to be proactive with your shielding, debuffing and pet management.

Sounds nice. Do you think it would be too much of a chore handling all that on a __controller_?

nah, ive partied with several healers of all jobs who do well on controllers. it takes practice, since most of what youll be doing is going to become muscle memory

Whitemage also makes for the best healslut.

Nah there are plenty of good SCH's out there on controller, you just need to get familiar with the extra options that can make it easier for you like extended hotbars

It's not too bad.

Is there a class with an easy set of skills/ low skill ceiling? My friend bought me a copy to play with him but I have a damaged nerve on my left hand. I can play most games but I don't know if I can keep up with one that's too demanding
I'm also lazy and prefer just to spend hours gathering

Paladin would be perfect for you.

full pic pls

Black Mage is the most braindead all the way until you hit level 60, and even at 60 it has the fewest buttons to press of any DPS.

boku no google reverse image search

Yet some people still can't grasp that and run to other classes. Someone I know made Echonian out to be the worst thing ever introduced to the game and ditched the job.

I'm pretty sure that is the full image.

Is there any caster glam that looks like the tantra wrap or arachne scout top? Basically a loose cloth top with exposed belly that doesn't look like a retarded tit armor or bikini top


You aren't playing BLM right unless you can keep enochian up 100% of the time from start to finish in any instance

Enochian naturally falls for a few seconds after your third F4 rotation. Additionally, there are portions of a fight where you can put it back up but the boss will go invulnerable or something for long enough that it's better to just wait for it to come back. Also Enochian isn't worth keeping up during AoE-heavy fights. Nice try though.

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to be fair, instant cast abilities still delay your cast because of the animation lock

Much obliged, sir Scholar.

No, using Enochian on CD screws with future timing of Enochian, esp. wrt B4.

Does the 205 pvp top match that description?

SE sure know how to bait peoples into paying sub

Yes Goyu mito aswello buyr those emotus.

Custom deliveries are basically Ixal 2.0 Even a crafter shitter like me can do it with 0 issue.

i see the quads, and i understand the general gist of what youre saying, but my head is still full of fuck.

Why do I have to get this shit from Reddit?
gamerescape.com/2017/03/01/new-stormblood-information-famitsu-and-dengeki-interview-summary/

because you weren't here a few threads ago when we already talked about that shit.

you have to go back

dead game

thought the roe by the event was topless for a second :^)

You should go back to reddit.

Reddit may be cancer, but catposters and faggots are AIDS. They've got to go, but we're putting you in the oven head first.

What's that? post smug [email protected]/* */?

How does that saying go? When the cat's away, the potato posters play? Are you seriously defending potato posting?

All I'm saying is full pic pls

Just wait until the expansion hits and the "chinese restaurants cooking cats" posting takes off.
Baked potatoes and sweet and sour "chicken" for everyone.

Denouncing one form of faggotry does not mean I support another. There is enough room in the oven for all.

That's the spirit! Now crawl into it yourself too, bitch nigga.

I want off the ride now please…

Welcome to autism vale.

This shit right here is why I refuse to level in 1-50 dungeons and just do POTD 50-70 over and over again.

Aurum Vale and Stone Vigil are the cursed dungeons with an otherworldly shitter magnet quality to them.
It's truly amazing

Guys what should I spend my Lores on? I know it's related to Anima stuff, just don't know exactly what to do.

60 umbrites asap, when you get to that part on the anima quest you might need 20 more depending on your rng luck, but 60 is the minimal

I dot know how we cleared, but we did

And should I start gathering vilekin too? I'm at the leve allowance cap. I'm just supposed to start that leve Dance magic and just restart it constantly if chest don't spawn?

Oh yes definitely, you want the same number of vilekins as umbrites unless you can reliably produce any of these to trade for sands
ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Crystal_Sand

I read somewhere that farming vilekins is the best way. Oh, and is there another way to get lores except daily roulettes?

Most duties drop a small amount of them, and I think some hunts do too but it's not really worth farming those for lore unless you also want a lot of seals.
Aetherochemical dungeon has the best lore per clear ratio, giving you 150 per 20 minutes with a decent party

ARF

I ran through 10 leves and got only 1 chest with vilekin, is this shit luck or normal?

That's above average luck nigger. No one said this let's you finish it in a day

I've been working on the relic on and off since it came out. I'm halfway through the umberite step. Be fucking GLAD they dropped that price. 10:1 aint bad for vilekins.

Haha okay then, I thought I had shit luck

Are you guys on Primal? I never seem to have problems with shitters on Aether.

Aetherfag here, don't even try to pretend every single player from Gilgamesh and Cactuar isn't a walking tumor

I actually don't see too many Gilgamesh or Cactuar players. Then again I usually am playing with at least a few other people from my FC.

anyone else dumb enough to play on mateus?

oh good, someones complaining about catposting
time to post cats

I main as a white mage and if they run off without getting stone skin and protect then they are on there own

Shoo shoo niggercat

no

I never have problems with SV but the Vault seems like quite the salt mine for me.


I remember healing that once with a tank who got hit with every single swing. It was actually manageable but it sure pissed me off.

How the hell can anyone get salty at the Vault? That place is practically made for facerolling

I'm surprised you have ratings for Lalas so high. Which cluster are you on user?
On Primal everything seems to point towards Lalas being absolutely dog shit horrible and cat boy to be marginally better than dog shit. At least in my experience.

Potatos are shit no matter where you go

Pretty sure players in general are shit at the game and race has little to do with anything since one Fantasia potion lets you remake yourself into anything.

Holy shit I don't think I can take this Edge anymore.

Because the last boss requires the healer to play with at least 1/5th job proficiency for every SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED

What the fuck just played the level 50 class quest and now it turned into fight club for real.

Practice your burst rotation. It's your bread and butter and what you'll be focusing on. While your explosive and other cds are down, you just play the proc game while you wait. It's a very easy class to play optimally or very close to it.

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Stormblood better kick enough ass for me to be able to ignore all these shitters. It most likely won't.

Balmeme, Sarg, and Tonberryl, with most of the data coming from Tonberryl where I do most of my raiding.
The japs love their potatos and fem Aura, they tend to be what keep the numbers up.

Do we have official lyrics for A12 yet?

I've finished HW story, what now? Do I continue the main story or focus on something else? What do I do to get better armor gear, for example, I can't enter that Arboretum dungeon because my ilvl is too low.

A R F until you are alexander ready

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so where do you get these "near eastern antique component materials"?

Sounds like an airship thing.

Why, Squeenix, why?

Thank you for confirming all my prejudices. Now I'll be three times as cruel!

Lot of goyi- er gaijin out there that can easily be milked for $.

I bet he can't even triple flare.

Considering he dropped the job for bard to mindlessly stack crit, I'm willing to bet the same thing.

It's a EU server. Fucking cancer. And you though NA was bad.

Newfag to ffxiv here, starting ACN heading into SCH, anything i should know?

What's this, payfag emotes?

Yep

The other one is basically *flip but i don't think you can run around doing mad backflips, so not worth it at all.

Its a good feeling.


Pick up Conjurer when the story sends you to Gridania.
Focus on one class first, and then work on the others (+50% exp when leveling a class lower level than your highest.)
Attune to the Limsa Aetheryte so you can boat to boobfillia from the dock near the Arcanist guild instead of schlepping through Thanalan like a pleb.

Pick some nice glamor to become a good heaslut once you unlock that.

Get the warlock's hat. The warlock's hat is the best hat.

So what's in store for machinists in stormblood?

Can you not?

Wowfugees leave

I'm not sure how to triple flare actually since I only use double at most
I'm guessing flare -> convert -> flare -> transpose -> flare, with a switfcast popped somewhere? Or is there a better method?

Flare, transpose, flare, hi-elixir or whatever gives enough MP for a third flare, then swiftcast flare.
Since they nerfed flare/holy way back before 3.0 there's been no point in a triple flare, really.
Also obligatory showing off of glamor/dyejob

Fuck I meant convert. You get the idea.

Always looked goofy as fuck on my characters..

wait shit so could you get a quad flare with flare, convert, flare, pot, flare, tranpose, flare?

Ehh a flare in umbral ice is useless, so you'd have to break the combo with a sharpcast fire 1, then 3 and flare.

Yeah, but if you actually wear it as a wizard's hat and avoid being all weeby, it kinda works. Looks cute as fuck on a mooncat with dreads if you use shitty robes

I think the hip lean helps to, making the flop look like it's natural and not just "quirky gear #102938"
at least high collars look good.

Where all the scrip vendors are its the one that isn't the junkmonger

I've always known that. Lalas are a mixed bag. Roe are usually either super gay or super normal. Humans are either bots or normal. Elves don't exist.

it's just a floppy old wizard hat

fucksake

Blow your wad on getting vilekin. It's still the best way to get sands. The recent nerf was ok, but pretty useless other than the umbrite nerf. It's 80 max for umbrite which will mean that you're going to end up spening 12k lore at most. The bonus chance didn't get changed, so you may end up having to get 70 umbrite. Dance Magic Dance is one of the best leves for vilekin farming. Use your gc tokens on pnumbite or however you spell it. It's the 15 tokens you'll need for the i270 step.

Same with ALL of the god damn capes on the GARO sets

It's no SFV but shit's pretty bad.

What is the best fight in the game and why is it A12S?

after t13 when it was current content of course

I would love A12S if I had a static, because pugging this shit is just nightmare after nightmare

I'd say Zurvan just because it's so god damn fun to leave the instance the moment we see soar and get the 5 PMs calling me an elitist prick.

Catposter confirmed internet liar

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top kek catfags are really as bad as potatoes

keep the pics going fuckboi, that's all you are good for

At least spoiler that shit. Nobody wants to see bestiality.

You can both fuck off with your faggotry.

OK.

Please stay and post more.

CATPOSTERS ON SUICIDE WATCH

It's almost like this entire general is fueled by pure faggotry.

More like people are too busy playing the actual game to post shit on here.

i mean, i can easily do shit on ninja, but i'm not encouraging that bullshit in content where it doesn't matter

But that is how most MMOs work my dude.

If you unironically ask for 20 seconds countdown for NIN opener, you really need to get the fuck out

as a tank i set mine to 15s. if someone gives me shit for it i tell them to roll a tank. countdown starts once everyone is buffed with prot/ss.

That's fine, but I mean the shitter nins that can't fucking manage a simple cooldown sync and need to wait the whole thing out to get it right

I blame everyone trying to force meta down everyone else's throats.

Proto Ultima has a big ass

Monk is number 1. Never give up.

I can't, even if I wanted to. I never liked dragoons and I can't that horrible ninja run and I have half my lights on my anima. I just hope monk gets something nice soon.

But that isn't how you spell Dragoon.

lol
archive.is/Iwi5m

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Guys how do I get aether oils?

sacrifice a child to Baghul

Yeah
I'll go ask on cuckchan

Just go stay there and never return

Don't come back

Is it lucky to earn two Materia V in POTD in one day?

no

So seek the wise sage Google in the Great Google Library. He knows all.

Wow.


Not really. Luck would be getting a couple of potsherds each run.

Yo, anyone on Diabolos want to join a mini 8ch fc?
head to the aftcastle, Burei Umber, need 2 more signatures

I can't even remember what data center is that server on

Primal

i'm not near the aftcastle FYI
someone else needed to drag me away for a bit

Hi, I'm a faggot. What's the latest Holla Forums FC drama?

catposter got shoah'd moments after he revealed he can't do soar

Ah, excellent. The only three things more of a faggot than me are lalafells, catposters and dragonposters. Continue.

catfag is fried, potatofag got removed permanently weeks ago and dragonposters haven't been a thing here in a long time

fuckin PM me if you're on Diabolos and you want join
i got shit to do

I haven't seen a dragonposter in months.

k ill kill myself tomorrow then

whuch potatofag got removed?

I CAN DO IT.

Oh man I need to run the ARF around 20 ties just for aether oils. And then there are umbrites and crystal sand. Fucking hell. Basically, there's nothing for me to do now than run ARF and do dailies.

Level gathering

Get back to work, goyim. Know your proper place.

Who knew.

It's composed of the rejects from 4chan general and other lonely fags who couldn't fit in anywhere else. What did you expect?

Still, thank fuck mods are actually doing their jobs.

People are so weird, they are begging in the FC chat for unsynch runs of arr dungeons because they're too scared. Then there are the people that beg for HW ex primals all the time. Fucking hell, no one is even interested in playing the game somewhat normally..

And then there's the special kind of idiots who spam the PF with a minimum ilvl 250 for doing the 10 dungeons for anima steps. Also, I always heartily laugh at pic related and how tank spots are always empty.

If devs would reduce the retard amount of grind/rng then people would still play stuff normally.

The way it is right now you have tons of shitters wanting to get carried over and over again till they get the thing they want. Oh and don't forget they want to get carried as fast as possible too.

It's not just the grind, people are just, I don't know how to describe it.

For example, I'm not joining a pf farm group ever again. We wipe because healer fucked up, dps proceed to insult him, he leaves, they leave and this is the result. Wasted almost 20 fucking minutes on these fucking retards. Holy fucking shit I'm mad.

The whole point of the Anima weapon is to encourage people to do content so things never falls into irrelevancy. I can't really think of a solution that wouldn't defeat the whole purpose of why the weapon is such an extended piece of shit to get in the first place. It's really the players that fuck the whole system, IMO.

I can understand when you do stuff to get the anima faster, but begging around the fc to do a fucking leveling dungeon is just not understandable.

Precisely the reason I'm not in an FC, or bother associating myself with large groups. (Excluding the fact that I'm an Anti-social crab.) The only time I find begging for other players remotely accepted is when the queue times are unreasonable, which is usually the case for most DPS.

That's kinda my attitude too but I wonder is it possible to clear high level raids via raid finder or without a static?

A9S - A10S are very much feasible without a proper static, along with any extreme trial.

Are there scans of the lorebook yet?

WAR BTFO

People want 250 for fucking Bismarck and STILL can't manage to one shot the back.


I've done a few Sophs and Sephs with RF.


I can't wait to see the nothing that will happen for monk.

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