Yeah, I never know where to get some gear my level besides from some quest.
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| World Full. Try again later. Please Understand
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Yeah, I never know where to get some gear my level besides from some quest.
Maybe it's because I am a healer, but I never bought armor once throughout my 1-50 leveling.
Spiritreaver
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So remember those level 47 quests I oculdn't find? They're all in Waking Sands, go figure.
Anyway. I guess all that's left is gear grinding and relic making. Benn spamming the Tonberry dungeon. I tried Ardapor, but I got hit pretty hard.
Anyway. I guess all that's left is gear grinding and relic making. Benn spamming the Tonberry dungeon. I tried Ardapor, but I got hit pretty hard.
I was doing Aurum Vale with a friend that needed it clear, I was on SMN and he was tank, so we got a party through the DF very quick, but the other dps was also a SMN.
Everything was fin the whole run until the final boss, Miser Mistress, which the main flaw of the SMN were made clear. SMN is not a spike dps (obviously) and we had to destroy the egg thingies before the tiny malboros hatched from them. Well, no, it wasn't going to happen.
Three tries at the final boss and we just weren't able to get rid of them eggs quick and everything just became a mess. I'm actually glad that SMN has a weak point, since I basically thought they were quite overpowered (which for solo/open world content, they might very well be, but in dungeons, they certainly aren't.
Everything was fin the whole run until the final boss, Miser Mistress, which the main flaw of the SMN were made clear. SMN is not a spike dps (obviously) and we had to destroy the egg thingies before the tiny malboros hatched from them. Well, no, it wasn't going to happen.
Three tries at the final boss and we just weren't able to get rid of them eggs quick and everything just became a mess. I'm actually glad that SMN has a weak point, since I basically thought they were quite overpowered (which for solo/open world content, they might very well be, but in dungeons, they certainly aren't.
I just finished the main scenario. Leveled Thaumaturge for the first time all the way to 50 through the story, and went into the final instance with it.
I have to say as a Legacy player this was probably one of the best experiences in gaming. Just such a huge turn around. I enjoyed 1.21 and beyond of XIV and happily payed for it, and to be treated to such a great rebirth of a game is something I feel truly happy to have experienced. Yoshi-P and his team have done an excellent job and I look forward to everything in the future. The light of Final Fantasy has been rekindled, this game is an excellent return to form for FF and the perfect game for new MMO players to experience what people love about Online games.
I really couldn't be happier.
I have to say as a Legacy player this was probably one of the best experiences in gaming. Just such a huge turn around. I enjoyed 1.21 and beyond of XIV and happily payed for it, and to be treated to such a great rebirth of a game is something I feel truly happy to have experienced. Yoshi-P and his team have done an excellent job and I look forward to everything in the future. The light of Final Fantasy has been rekindled, this game is an excellent return to form for FF and the perfect game for new MMO players to experience what people love about Online games.
I really couldn't be happier.
I did Amdapor today on the DF, one of the guys in the party only knew the strategy for the first sub-boss, and the other 2 we went in blind, and it wasn't bad.
First section, have the tank train all the mobs and die just before to the entrance of the subboss area, while the other three enter to safety and raise him from inside. That just saved about 10 minutes of unnecessary kills.
First subboss, attack the guy, he will summon golems, kill them asap, after a few of them, a demon thing shows up and takes over the guy, so now you have to kill the demon instead, also more golems. Golems are always the priority, except the giant golem, when that one appears, run (and pull the boss) all the way towards the entrance and stick to the wall literally, because it does this massive aoe that only leaves this tiny gap near to that wall untouched. After that aoe the golem walks away and just kill off the demon.
Second section, kill stuff on the way and reach the second subboss, which is Demon Wall at the back of a bridge with no walls on the side, so people can fall and die. Basically evade all the aoes which are clearly marked on the floor, try to stick to the middle and not to the sides, because DW does a push back attack that will push people off the bridge. The safe area becomes smaller on the second part of the fight and 2 flies appear which are very hard, so aoe Limit Break is recommended here to kill them and then finish DW off.
Third section, more standard kills until final boss, which is this FFXI Xarcabard dragon, have the tank position the dragon facing one of the sides and the other players standing to the side of the dragon, not on the back due to this huge aoe he does to the back.
When a huge ball of plasma starts forming in the arena run and hide behind one of the 4 statues (like during Garuda), then you won't take any damage. One of the statues will turn into a gargoyle or something and start attacking, kill it quick and make sure to hide again from the huge plasma attack (although there are only 3 statues left to hide).
He will do another attack when he does like a red laser line to a player, the targeted person should run preferably to the empty place where the previous statue was (before it turned into the gargoyle) since a red pulsating ball will form on top of the player and will start doing pulses that damage quite a bit, so basically run away from the other players to the empty corner and then run away from the red ball just formed.
Another statue will turn into a gargoyle, so only 2 statues left to hide behind, more plasma attack, laser/red ball, huge backwards aoe, another gargoyle from a statue, etc. that's basically the remaining of the fight. We killed the boss with one statue left, that hadn't turn into a gargoyle yet.
Tough fights, but after finding out the tricks, they can be done just fine.
tiggerkiddo
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Keep it windowed instead, I minimize it all the time without any issues.
Devilgunman
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This full server bs really annoys me so I decided to create 2 characters one for JP (Valfore) and another for NA (Ultros) so when one server downs I can jump to another. Goodbye my sleeping time 
Okay, about to hit 26. Once I do, I'm going to be hecka tempted to use Guildleves to get me to 30 in a hurry. Then, I can level my GLD for an hour and unlock WAR!
Also made private 2nd class tonight, farming Fates for seals became a lot easier once I settled in a level appropriate area, with lots of reasonably close fates. I should be able to farm Costa Del Sol soon though.
Just wish I could get a ton of seals asap. I'm stuck with Heavy Iron Armour right now, and i would much rather have the level 27 GC Tank Armour.
Also made private 2nd class tonight, farming Fates for seals became a lot easier once I settled in a level appropriate area, with lots of reasonably close fates. I should be able to farm Costa Del Sol soon though.
Just wish I could get a ton of seals asap. I'm stuck with Heavy Iron Armour right now, and i would much rather have the level 27 GC Tank Armour.
Seeing as a lot of these can be active participants in a battle, I'd be shocked if they could be disabled.
For me though, turning off NPC shadows is what made crazier fates playable for me. Which, might not be an option on the PS3.
Spiritreaver
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Had anyone gotten AA working for AMD cards?
Revolutionary
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Hmm.. I'm trying to get a promotion in my GC from Chief Serpent Sergeant (Twin Adders) and it's telling me I need to complete the second hunting log (done) and complete a quest on behalf of the commander but there is no such quest. Are the ranks capped or something?
Spiritreaver
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Finish the story, it will then open up a quest line for your GC that requires you to beat Ardapor iirc. That's where I'm at now.
Revolutionary
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Ah I see. Thanks!
SmarterUnconscious
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Each class gets their own points when they level up, so you don't need to worry about gimping yourself, except maybe for arcanist/scholar/summoner, I don't know how those work yet.
Given that the post right after mine is someone saying they just got in. I am going to assume they are not down and instead just having issues.
Ok time to keep hammering at it until it works!
It's the traffic. There are a massive amount of people trying to log in now that it's the weekend.
GrandHarrier
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Picked Conjurer because I thought I'd get sweet summons. Turns out I'm a healer.
Well fuck.
Thankfully I actually enjoy healing so it worked out. Definitely enjoying the healer instant dungeon queues.
Well fuck.
Thankfully I actually enjoy healing so it worked out. Definitely enjoying the healer instant dungeon queues.
Psycho_Mantis
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I see a lot of my friends playing this on ps3. How? Beta keys?
The PS3 version comes with a registration code just like the PC version.
Psycho_Mantis
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Oh shit I had no idea the game was out!. So I buy the ps3 version, how much would it cost me for a 3 month subscription?
And this carries through when getting a new job? For example of Monk would have had a different main stat.
Thank you for your answer
SUPARSTARX
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Damn, Behemoth popped on my server (Goblin) but not enough ppl awake to zerg him down
Thunder has very little attack power, but it causes the enemy's HP to slowly decrease, just like the poisoned arrow that the Archer shoots (same default button), so lead with Thunder and then switch to one of the other elements. When the Thunder icon up at the top of the screen reaches zero, the HP-down effect will be over, so then you might want to fire another bolt at the enemy.
I've found it pretty convenient to take an enemy down to 5-10% of their HP and then just walk away and get started on the next enemy, confident that the poison/HP-down effect will finish the enemy off even if I'm not still fighting it.
I use 3 of those for my nvidia surround set up, they are fantastic monitors!
MagicWithEarvin
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Only for certain dungeons during the story.
Blackage
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Oh, that sucks. This class is fun as hell when I'm doing stuff in groups...by myself...not so much. I like being able to just chill and cure everyone while they go in the heart of danger.
Teletraan1
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Healed Garuda and it was pretty challenging and fun. I was getting really low on mana when she died. Thank the Twelve she died when she did. That cut scene afterwards was amazing. I love where this is going.
Seriously? that's kind of sad
GrandHarrier
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If I have the PC version and buy the PS3 version as well, does the free month from the PS3 version stack on top of the one I got from the PC?
MagicWithEarvin
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There's an auto-sort setting (sort of) in the Character Configuration which sorts out the new items you get.
Yup!
QisTopTier
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haha 2nd time today this happened to me when I wanted to log in xD
haha 2nd time today this happened to me when I wanted to log in xD
This is really funny to me. Also, I can't get in either lol
Audioboxer
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Lobby error 2002
MagicWithEarvin
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The queue system is borked - someone posted a screenshot where they were 20,000 in queue.
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