chickdigger802
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Sounds like hell to blast through story as dps... mainly for those story required dungeons. ifrit must have been torture because you are stuck in that room.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT2| Use a security token. Seriously.
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I hope they never tell us and secretly change the time on each update. Keep people on their toes and not thinking about AFKing for long periods.
Dog food is delicious
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You're not stuck in that staging area.
There is an NPC near some water that tells you how to get out.
Drats. Likely will come eventually, but I can see them waiting a while to get a good user base on their own payment system.
Was there any sort of trail? I also heard something about that if you found an unused copy of the first release of XIV, you could activate it and make use of its free time, or is that just misinformation?
Relaxed Muscle
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30 days of free play, 1.0 players has until 9th or so (but with the added 7 days it foes beyond that)
Right but the thing about FFXI that make it simpler to make gil was the fact that you can sell crystals and other high demand items (bee chips) for insanely high amounts of gil. In this game you have t be a botanist or a miner to farm these crystals.
I'm concerned that everyone will be force to take up a craft or a gathering class, which I fear will force that part of the economy to collapse on its own.
I'm kinda dreading hard mode Garuda after doing normal mode.
I haven't found it to be that bad. I guess if you want to rush through the story as quickly as possible it might suck, but there are plenty of things to do while waiting for the queue.
RPGCrazied
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Ok, did the first dungeon, the one you do by yourself. How in buddha do you keep on a target when multiple are around? It keeps unswitching to nothing being a target after I attack a target.
Shouta
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It and healer are the most thankless jobs in any MMO. It just depends on what game and what the character ratios are.
Tanking in this also requires you to think like a DPS because those enmity grabbing skills are limited. Gotta deal damage to hold it well.
dark_chris
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Screen shots time!
Oh and Shadow Blade of Ultros, I took a shot for you cause I think it was cool with the sun glaring like this.
Playing this game on my Macbook Pro running Windows 8. Its not all that good (get about 23-29 fps) but I may get a more powerful computer for gaming.
Running it on low settings too. =(
Oh and Shadow Blade of Ultros, I took a shot for you cause I think it was cool with the sun glaring like this.
Playing this game on my Macbook Pro running Windows 8. Its not all that good (get about 23-29 fps) but I may get a more powerful computer for gaming.
Running it on low settings too. =(
Wow, that looks really nice. You got SweetFX on or something?
Not only politics. Since steam games go into a different folder than normal, it gave them issues with expansion releases.
They couldn't release the Seekers of Adoulin expansion for FFXI as standalone for 'technical issues' and owners of the steam FFXI version had to rebuy the new edition (FFXI:Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition). They remedied the situation by putting up this edition for the same price as the expansion alone for anyone who previously bought the game on steam.
Then, you had to reinstall the whole game if you wanted the new expansion (unless you just torrented the files or you got the physical edition, etc)
This happened to me which is how I know. I assume they don't like dealing with this in the future now.
Augemitbutter
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if you do regular questing and grab a fate here and there when they're right next to you, you should be okay. that's what i did and i have quite a few quests left at level 50. dungeons help as well. i ran them a few times.
Torquill
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The hests are highly ineffective as a teaching tool because there is noy sufficient time to reqd the instructijns that pop up (and they differ from the dity finder instructions)
chickdigger802
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lack of mobbing as a gladiator until end game plays big too.
Gotta be tabbin' wackin' comboin' a lot.
Tera Online was such a good game, where the party isn't helpless when the tank or healer dies. Since in essence you could avoid all damage regardless of class. So the tank and healer don't hold all the responsibility when there is a wipe. Sadly the end game content was terrible.
MeBecomingI
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Anyone have any idea on how Bards are and if they are common? I quite liked playing (and being really good) a specialization that was a little more rare (and tough to play) to see in The Old Republic and as such I was thinking of trying something a little different in XIV. I was playing a Ranger in the beta and I enjoyed it, so if I pick this up I'm thinking of sticking with it and trying out the Bard but I wonder how that plays out.
chickdigger802
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pretty sure class quests are suppose to teach you about something... or that's what someone told me the gladiator ones would. I still think i ended up playing more of a dps role in those though.
Shouta
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It's easier with a macro to do your combo because you don't have to press as many buttons. Macro, Tab, Macro, Tab, Macro, Macro MACRO MARCO!
They seem to be lifting the character creation locks and putting them back up randomly. Main reason I know because I'm trying to make an alt on Ultros.
For instance. Sargatanas was locked early yesterday. unlocked late last night. and now its locked again. I wish they would tell us what was going on.
For instance. Sargatanas was locked early yesterday. unlocked late last night. and now its locked again. I wish they would tell us what was going on.
Boy do I love this game. Ever since the patch I've had zero issues. I get in instantly at any time of the day. Only a handful of crashes (these happen when I play like for 5 hours + at a time, and usually during cut scenes. Not sure if this is a memory leak or what.). However, I'm just having a blast. I haven't enjoyed an MMORPG in a long time. The music is great. The missions are fun. I love the world design.
Could go on and on. So happy.
Could go on and on. So happy.
There's some dbz shit going on in the background
nothing special, just max settings
This is close to what i ended up doing. Got my G600 in yesterday and theres an extra ring finger button on it that can be re-assigned. So I stuck that to the DEL button since DEL doesnt do anything in FFXIV so Im all good to go. Much easier than trying to PTT with the same hand that I press abilities with.
chickdigger802
Banned
is there a guide on how macros work in this? Never actually messed with macros in a mmo ever.
Or could you just copy yours here? I probably can figure it out in a glance.
Can't really macro with Dragoons. =/
yeah. wait time is poor, easier to click
Relaxed Muscle
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I think for now I'm not using a macro fo the GLD combo, but is something I might change not so far in the future. I already have a macro for the mitigation skills that works wonderfully
Makes you wonder where they were hiding Yoshi P leading up to this project...
I seriously want a documentary created about the history of Final Fantasy XIV... telling it all, from the beginning of 1.0 development, to now.
I think that would be a great project for Gametrailers.
GayForMaster
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Siren is unlocked... maybe Hyperion will as well. I'll continue to #believe
chickdigger802
Banned
wouldn't that be a bit inefficient though? It shouldn't be too hard to keep aggro on the mobs that dps aren't hitting.
so if 3 mobs where mob 1 is what everyone is wailing on.
mob 1 -> 3 hit enmity combo.
mob 2 -> fast blade, savage blade.
mob 3 -> Halone
repeat.
If you want MNK right away, get Lancer to 15. You should probably get MNK right away.
Relaxed Muscle
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I don't know if lancer 15 is required anymore to start the job quest, but I suggest doing that becuase you'll get a couple of useful skills and shouldn't take that long.
Then do the Monk quest and lvl to 50.
Anyone can farm the various crystals and shards, kill the elementals that are in every zone, the drop rate is high.
Well she said politics made even FFXI something they regret so that probably just buries it further, and honestly the only reason it even matters here is because you want to be able to spend Steam credit on the game. It needs to activate and be bound to an SE account so in that regard Steam would be no different from Amazon or GMG unless Valve wanted to intrude and demand more, and therein lies the (probable) problem.
By the way, any tank tips or good resources on how to be a good one? I'd like to think I'm doing an alright job (about as alright as one can when juggling targets with a controller anyway) but I'd still like to read/know more so I don't screw it up in some stupid, obvious-to-everyone-else way.
Shouta
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It works like FFXI so it's pretty simple.
/ac "Bio II" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Bio" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Miasma" <t>
is my basic debuff combo for starting with ACN/SCH/SMN
I do it for crafting too so I don't have to press as many.
/ac "Inner Quiet" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Great Strides" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Steady Hands" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Advanced Touch"
/wait 3
/ac "Great Strides" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Advanced Touch"
/wait 3
/ac "Great Strides" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Advanced Touch"
That's my quality macro replacing the touch with the one that's appropriate for the level you're at.
You can adjust the wait times as well. You'll want a fraction of a second after your recast to allow the macro to fire off successfully. My current recast is like 2.43 or something like that so I rounded up to 2.5 to do it properly. You can also hit an instant casting ability in the middle of the macro and it'll continue doing it as long as it falls in that wait time.
If you have a set combo attack with Dragoon, then you can macro it. Monk has a lot of stance changes and I just bundle them up into single combos, for example.
So you can reduce number of inputs from 6 to 3 by rolling up 3-move and fast/savage into one macro each though. Automating it also gives you time to keep an eye out on other things like HP and threat meters plus it gives you time to select a target next while the combo is proceeding.
I would love to have a Brady-bunch-esque picture of all the dudes playing those characters to go along with it.
Pretty much. I was on the phone with a friend and I mindlessly killed a few water spirits. After 7 minutes, I had 10 water crystals. Farming that stuff is super easy.
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