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[Reishiki]

same here

I was honestly expecting to run into issues. I have always had a slightly wonky SE account, due to my FFXI account being American and my SE account being European, and I'd heard that users with Verified by Visa were having payment issues.

I subbed for 180 days (dat legacy rate) and payment left my account flawlessly while I was asleep last night. Spent today floating around on my Ahriman mount.

Count me as pleasantly surprised.

 

[blackflag]

Wow man you are making it way too hard

Inner Quiet > Steady Hand > Waste Not > Standard touch 4X > Rumination > Steady Hand > Standard Touch > Careful Synthesis

Waste not is incredible and with this combo i can HQ 40 durability synths (that are lower level) guaranteed with little to no risk of failure and I dont even have to rely on the condition (though I always watch for it since i never use macros)

This way seems to work better for me as well at least on 40 dur items. waste not is great for them.

 

[Mandoric]

Why does Soda Water come from hitting rocks, and not from something convenient like cooking?

 

[Taruranto]

Unlocked Scholar.

It seems a very fun class, the pet, and the fact you maintain your Arcanist abilities make it more than just an healbot.

Any tips on how to play it? When should i use Psysick over the new ability?

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Yes.

Absolutely, no reason not to.

WAR/PLD - VIT or STR
DRG/MNK - STR
BRD - DEX
WHM/SCH - MND
BLM/SMN - INT

No need to make it complicated. The secondary stats aren't nearly as useful.

Thanks!

There's a large (and growing) thread on all of the billing failures hitting everyone on the official forums:

Error 401 and 601 CE Upgrade

Of course, it's on the NA forums and SE hasn't said squat and doesn't even seem to be acknowledging the situation. I was going to get home tonight and subscribe (since like all 1.0 people my free period ended), but after reading that thread I'm not going to put up with that crap all night when SE should at least be able to take payment like any civilized, modern corporation. Is there anything this company can do right the FIRST time? I mean, seriously? Absolutely ridiculous.

I already bought 4,500 crysta a week ago. I'm still on free game time tho.

I guess their servers can't even handle a flood of transactions, since people can't go the crysta route either. Jesus.

Watch me have an error even tho my crysta is already applied.

 

[studyguy]

Why does Soda Water come from hitting rocks, and not from something convenient like cooking?

What are you saying? That I can't go to my local boulder and get 7up on tap by hitting it with a hammer?

 

[Clever Pun]

Unlocked Scholar.

It seems a very fun class, the pet, and the fact you maintain your Arcanist abilities make it more than just an healbot.

Any tips on how to play it? When should i use Psysick over the new ability?

I've still only run 2 dungeons with SCH, but here's what I've been thinking:

Always cast Adloquium to heal the tank if the damage nullification buff is currently down. This effectively gives a 600 potency heal.
If the tank or whoever has taken a lot of damage, though, you will want to use Adloquium to get the heal + nullification, and then Physick immediately after to get a stronger heal (400 Potency) and not waste the Adloquium since the buff is still up.

The net difference may not be a ton, but it should help a little.

 

[Ferrio]

Why does Soda Water come from hitting rocks, and not from something convenient like cooking?

Because Eorzea doesn't have the technology to carbonate water and they have to do it the old fashioned way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrier

 

[Tarazet]

Literally just upped to a 90 day yesterday.
Had a legacy account though so the billing carried over, have had absolutely 0 problems, but obviously anecdotal evidence =/= everyone's experience.

Hell since launch I've had zero problems concerning accounts, or activations. Seems so odd to hear it all.

Put a recurring 90 day sub on my Amex after I read this. No problems.

 

[DrROBschiz]

This way seems to work better for me as well at least on 40 dur items. waste not is great for them.

This and Variations of it have been my go to synth combos all the way up to 25

It may change up as i unlock new abilities but I currrently find this to be the safest and most effective way to HQ my synths

 

[IonicSnake]

The game is back on PS Store, just bought it since you get the PS4 version for free when it releases.

 

[studyguy]

I've still only run 2 dungeons with SCH, but here's what I've been thinking:

Always cast Adloquium to heal the tank if the damage nullification buff is currently down. This effectively gives a 600 potency heal.
If the tank or whoever has taken a lot of damage, though, you will want to use Adloquium to get the heal + nullification, and then Physick immediately after to get a stronger heal (400 Potency) and not waste the Adloquium since the buff is still up.

The net difference may not be a ton, but it should help a little.

The longer you keep Adloq on a tank, happier it makes us.
Adloq topped off with a WHM stoneskin is a mighty defense.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Had some great low-level dungeon runs with gaffers last night. Very nice people, you guys rock, you know who you are.

 

[Spiritreaver]

There's a large (and growing) thread on all of the billing failures hitting everyone on the official forums:

Error 401 and 601 CE Upgrade

Of course, it's on the NA forums and SE hasn't said squat and doesn't even seem to be acknowledging the situation. I was going to get home tonight and subscribe (since like all 1.0 people my free period ended), but after reading that thread I'm not going to put up with that crap all night when SE should at least be able to take payment like any civilized, modern corporation. Is there anything this company can do right the FIRST time? I mean, seriously? Absolutely ridiculous.

Yep, this is what's happening to me. Nothing I do will take a payment and I tried to buy one of those shitty game cards and it won't work for a day or some bullshit.

I have spent 5 hours trying to solve this on my own. No game is worth this headache.

What's funny is my gut told to buy Crysta last night for the peace of mind, but I didn't listen. Shame on me I guess.

 

[Clever Pun]

The longer you keep Adloq on a tank, happier it makes us.
Adloq topped off with a WHM stoneskin is a mighty defense.

Yeah that's why I will always cast Adloq when it goes down, even if the tank doesn't need that much healing. However, I think there's some validity to Adloq -> Physick back to back when you need a bigger burst heal.

 

[chickdigger802]

paladins. Any use of the mp generating combo attack (savage blade?) late game?


Also, what scenario is Cover of any use? People that are dire need of shielding tend to be too far away for it to work....


kinda wish it moved you to them ala guardian leap in TOR.

 

[twelver]

Are we still unable to make characters on some servers?

 

[Tarazet]

paladins. Any use of the mp generating combo attack (savage blade?) late game?

If you don't continually use it, you will get overtaken in emnity every time. Even as a Warrior I have to do my emnity combo to hold aggro.

 

[chickdigger802]

If you don't continually use it, you will get overtaken in emnity every time. Even as a Warrior I have to do my emnity combo to hold aggro.

except it barely generates mp, and unless paladin's have to spam flash, mp shoooouldn't be that big of an issue.

enmity combo also doesn't use mp.

 

[Spiritreaver]

I was going to have my relic today too.

 

[Zalasta]

I was going to have my relic today too.

So does that mean I won't see Korbel for a while?!?

 

[DrDogg]

If you don't continually use it, you will get overtaken in emnity every time. Even as a Warrior I have to do my emnity combo to hold aggro.

That's not the enmity combo, that's the MP combo.

 

[BattleMonkey]

What is he obsession with everyone hanging out at Quarrymill? Similar leveled areas with fates all over the place that don't have such a clusterfuck of people.

 

[daveo42]

What is he obsession with everyone hanging out at Quarrymill? Similar leveled areas with fates all over the place that don't have such a clusterfuck of people.

AK is in that zone as well.

It's the best area for that level range for FATEs

You can almost entirely skip this area though and jump from Highbridge straight to Costa del Sol as early as 27/28.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

I don't get billed until the 28th of this month... hopefully no issues then :x

 

[Mairu]

What is he obsession with everyone hanging out at Quarrymill? Similar leveled areas with fates all over the place that don't have such a clusterfuck of people.

It's the best area for that level range for FATEs

 

[gillty]

There's a large (and growing) thread on all of the billing failures hitting everyone on the official forums:

Error 401 and 601 CE Upgrade

Of course, it's on the NA forums and SE hasn't said squat and doesn't even seem to be acknowledging the situation. I was going to get home tonight and subscribe (since like all 1.0 people my free period ended), but after reading that thread I'm not going to put up with that crap all night when SE should at least be able to take payment like any civilized, modern corporation. Is there anything this company can do right the FIRST time? I mean, seriously? Absolutely ridiculous.

SE don't want our dirty dollars, euros, and pounds in their coffers. :lol

 

[zaccheus]

Does anyone know how to target other player characters that aren't in your party during battle? It doesn't seem to want to select them. I understand that it wants to prioritize enemies, but I should be able to select other people. I just wanted to help with healing. lol

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Does anyone know how to target other player characters that aren't in your party during battle? It doesn't seem to want to select them. I understand that it wants to prioritize enemies, but I should be able to select other people. I just wanted to help with healing. lol

On PC, TAB targets the nearest enemy/player I believe. The targeting in this game isn't that great when there's a ton of things going on during FATEs.

 

[teiresias]

Oh, teiresias, I missed your xenophobic conspiracy theories. Welcome back~

I think it's unfair to call me xenophobic, as I was disgusted at the Xenophobic "America!! America!!" crap that accompanied the original Xbox release on the TeamXbox forums. I just think it's obvious that SE has yet to find a way to properly support a worldwide MMO in regions outside Japan with timely technical and customer support, as this kind of thing has been going on since FFXI. Given SE's myriad of management problems with its non-MMO developement it's hardly a surprise.

 

[Ferr986]

Just completed HM Ifrit. Damn, and people say this is super-easy , it was really hard.
Went with a PUG, everyone but one member was wearing full AF and regular weps.
Died a couple of times, I swear I got out of the AoE range but guess not...

 

[Effect]

Just completed HM Ifrit. Damn, and people say this is super-easy , it was really hard.
Went with a PUG, everyone but one member was wearing full AF and regular weps.
Died a couple of times, I swear I got out of the AoE range but guess not...

This is really annoying. Unless you clearly get out of range before the read marker disappears you still get hit. You can't be just barely away from it as well. There needs a significant amount of space in between. To many times I've can clearly see I'm not in the red and still get hit just because I'm to close to the border. Doesn't seem to matter where you are either between it disappearing and the attack landing. So if you are just barely in the red when it disappears and are beyond the attacks range when the attack finally goes off you'll still get hit. I'm behind the creature as its still firing in the other direction and I'm still taking damage. Thanks game.

 

[daveo42]

Just completed HM Ifrit. Damn, and people say this is super-easy , it was really hard.
Went with a PUG, everyone but one member was wearing full AF and regular weps.
Died a couple of times, I swear I got out of the AoE range but guess not...

It becomes really easy once you have the pattern down pre and post hellfire and the off tank hits all of the stuns. You can easily wipe when the party stacks and stun is resisted or not done. Only other areas where it can get a bit dicey is usually if people are positioned right when Ifrit does the fire dash thing across the area.

This is really annoying. Unless you clearly get out of range before the read marker disappears you still get hit. You can't be just barely away from. There needs a signficant amount of space in between. Doesn't seem to matter where you are either between it disappearing and the attack landing. So if you are just barely in the red when it disappears and are beyond the attacks range you'll still get hit.

Those times usually come down to lag I would assume. I have see it where people do leave the circle after it's disappeared and don't get hit while other time I will get and clearly be out. I have that same issue in CM with

Spoiler

magitek bombs.

 

[Tarazet]

That's not the enmity combo, that's the MP combo.

Oh, I misread. The MP combo is good for multiple mobs. Flash, MP combo, Flash, repeat until everything is dead.

 

[omlet]

It becomes really easy once you have the pattern down pre and post hellfire and the off tank hits all of the stuns. You can easily wipe when the party stacks and stun is resisted or not done. Only other areas where it can get a bit dicey is usually if people are positioned right when Ifrit does the fire dash thing across the area.

Dash is so easy to telegraph by looking at his facing, I really don't get why people get killed by it repeatedly. smh

 

[Ultrabum]

This is really annoying. Unless you clearly get out of range before the read marker disappears you still get hit. You can't be just barely away from. There needs a signficant amount of space in between. Doesn't seem to matter where you are either between it disappearing and the attack landing. So if you are just barely in the red when it disappears and are beyond the attacks range you'll still get hit.

Very annoying, BUT at least it's consistent.

I'd rather have it consistent than random but more timed on the actual attack.

 

[daveo42]

Dash is so easy to telegraph by looking at his facing, I really don't get why people get killed by it repeatedly. smh

You are more screwed if you are near the middle of the area...which is where most casters end up until the plumes start showing up. Even then, if you don't know where he pops, it can take a moment to see him and move accordingly.

 

[studyguy]

Oh, I misread. The MP combo is good for multiple mobs. Flash, MP combo, Flash, repeat until everything is dead.

You can usually drop an MP combo on longer fights without much issue as well. Single target, I've lost MP by a ton just kiting Garuda with groups who have less than stellar DPS. By then however, my enmity is so solid I could spam a couple not enmity attacks without much issue.

One non enmity combo hardly ever loses you hate if you've been doing things right.

 

[demosthenes]

Just completed HM Ifrit. Damn, and people say this is super-easy , it was really hard.
Went with a PUG, everyone but one member was wearing full AF and regular weps.
Died a couple of times, I swear I got out of the AoE range but guess not...

The problem is dying for the first time. If you die once you can't get touched while you're weak or you die again.

 

[Tarazet]

You can usually drop an MP combo on longer fights without much issue as well. Single target, I've lost MP by a ton just kiting Garuda with groups who have less than stellar DPS. By then however, my enmity is so solid I could spam a couple not enmity attacks without much issue.

One non enmity combo hardly ever loses you hate if you've been doing things right.

I agree, one combo is generally not a problem if you can focus on a single target. I pull with Tomahawk then do the Butcher's Block combo first for emnity, throw in Fracture and a Storm's Eye combo for DPS, then a Butcher's Block combo again, then a Storm's Path. Doing any less emnity building than that usually results in losing aggro.

 

[Khatoz]

except it barely generates mp, and unless paladin's have to spam flash, mp shoooouldn't be that big of an issue.

enmity combo also doesn't use mp.

In AK been using Flash spam to be lazy and keep aggro on groups of 6-7 mobs, a full mp bar will keep most of the mobs stuck on me while getting aoe down. On those that get focus fire I'll use my normal aggro rotation.

 

[demosthenes]

Dash is so easy to telegraph by looking at his facing, I really don't get why people get killed by it repeatedly. smh

I've died from it once and it was rage inducing.

I died form a lag spike while trying to dodge his AOE fire attack. Waited for what I thought was the best time and accepted. The second I hit yes he started to do his attack. I was kind of floating there being raised as his duplicates raced across screen. I had the ability to move and bam, right over my body lol. Was so mad. I agree the dash is easy to avoid, it's the only time I've died to it.

 

[omlet]

I've died from it once and it was rage inducing.

I died form a lag spike while trying to dodge his AOE fire attack. Waited for what I thought was the best time and accepted. The second I hit yes he started to do his attack. I was kind of floating there being raised as his duplicates raced across screen. I had the ability to move and bam, right over my body lol. Was so mad. I agree the dash is easy to avoid, it's the only time I've died to it.

Getting raised into AoEs is the best thing ever lol

 

[BananasWithGuns]

For the relic weapon quest, does anyone know if you can use the high quality version of the base weapon?

Considering picking up the HQ version to use until I can get Ifrit weapon but I don't want to drop the cash if I can't turn it in later for progress on the relic quest.

 

[daveo42]

Getting raised into AoEs is the best thing ever lol

Yeah, had a few of those happen to other people I raise and also to myself when I was starting out. A bit more fun when you don't know the pattern yet and insta pop in a plume.

Timing is a bit weird, but you can actually pop, take dmg and still raise without actually taking the damage. Just depends on how far into the animation you are when it hits.

 

[Victrix]

Titan HM DF sapping my will to live :[

I should probably take a break from it to relax and do other stuff, but I want my Relic damnit

 

[Alucrid]

Server seems to be acting up. Helped two gaffers with their relic quests, but i'm surprised I'm living into P3 when the circle rocks all spawn at once and all explode at once, Landslides appearing and disappearing. Shit's crazy.

 

[Zomba13]

Anyone else get their Wind-up Cursor today?

thatsapenis.gif

 

[Ferr986]

Thanks guys. Just did it again. Only died once. Im advancing lol.

 

[Baliis]

On PC, TAB targets the nearest enemy/player I believe. The targeting in this game isn't that great when there's a ton of things going on during FATEs.

In my experience, it targets something a mile away from what I'm actually trying to target.