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[Spiritreaver]

I swear every time I jump into this thread I read a post about shitty tanks. Is it really that bad?

Thank god I play as a tank. I tanked Ifrit first try without even knowing the fight. Hell I stunned eruptions myself. Although he's rather easy.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

I am so expecting a longer maintenance duration than what they officially announced.

The maintenance windows that are usually announced are estimated for longer than they believe the actual work will take, to allow for unexpected complications. They've been up earlier than announced before, but it seems like this particular undertaking is more involved than previous ones, so it'll be hard to say.

 

[Vitanimus]

Reddit user TastyChef has compiled a list of best equipment available at each level for DoH and DoL classes which is very handy.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLUxEnCBs-ttgWi5x8V47C3M0uXKHPrkmujJlHRLZ_8/edit

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

I swear every time I jump into this thread I read a post about shitty tanks. Is it really that bad?

Thank god I play as a tank. I tanked Ifrit first try without even knowing the fight. Hell I stunned eruptions myself. Although he's rather easy.

Today was the first time I played with a bad tank at Halatali. You know that lizard in the water that does lightning attacks? Don't go in it, I said.

"Tank rushes to the water*

Lure it up here, yo >_<

 

[Cryst]

I swear every time I jump into this thread I read a post about shitty tanks. Is it really that bad?

Thank god I play as a tank. I tanked Ifrit first try without even knowing the fight. Hell I stunned eruptions myself. Although he's rather easy.

It's easier to be critical of the party role that isn't your own, since presumably, you never see another one of those till endgame.

Haven't run into any terrible healers (except for that one guy who kept casting Stoneskin...what a terrible waste of a spell slot). DPS, on the other hand...nothing as frustrating as having explained a fight and their responsibilities only to have them ignore it. If I could click on the gushing water / lamp / cannons / their fruit for them, I would! Sometimes I have to literally drag the boss over to the "kill this thing to stop this mechanic" gimmick in a fight just to get the DPS to notice it.

 

[Ken]

...I like Stoneskin.

 

[threetri333]

Anyone know of a good updated guide? Class skills, jobs, etc.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Can you not sell the equipment drops you get from dungeons? The stuff that I'd like to sell in the marketplace is always greyed out. I see people selling their dungeon loot for crazy prices - I wanna do that too!

 

[kayos90]

The maintenance windows that are usually announced are estimated for longer than they believe the actual work will take, to allow for unexpected complications. They've been up earlier than announced before, but it seems like this particular undertaking is more involved than previous ones, so it'll be hard to say.

From my experience with MMOs and other online games, this is definitely not the case.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

From my experience with MMOs and other online games, this is definitely not the case.

Talking about FFXIV so far, not other games

 

[LostInNoise]

It's easier to be critical of the party role that isn't your own, since presumably, you never see another one of those till endgame.

Haven't run into any terrible healers (except for that one guy who kept casting Stoneskin...what a terrible waste of a spell slot). DPS, on the other hand...nothing as frustrating as having explained a fight and their responsibilities only to have them ignore it. If I could click on the gushing water / lamp / cannons / their fruit for them, I would! Sometimes I have to literally drag the boss over to the "kill this thing to stop this mechanic" gimmick in a fight just to get the DPS to notice it.

Finally someone who agrees with me. Any dungeon I do people are begging for Stoneskin. They think because it says duration of 30 minutes that it lasts that long and always negates 18% damage...maybe if they actually read the damn skill description they'd realize it's absolutely worthless.

 

[MoonLightWave]

No world is full error!! :OOOOOOOOOOOO

I guess they had to remove the login minigame. Too hard for casuals.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Amazon finally put back up their digital download for this game so I went ahead and bought a copy. Now to see if I can log in.

 

[BeEatNU]

Today was the first time I played with a bad tank at Halatali. You know that lizard in the water that does lightning attacks? Don't go in it, I said.

"Tank rushes to the water*

Lure it up here, yo >_<

lol, smh.

I had a pretty solid tank when I played

 

[MoonLightWave]

Dungeons should give more exp. It's not worth doing them just for gear.

 

[DrForester]

Yeah, Dungeon XP is pretty poor given how much you can get from Fates. Some single Fates give more XP than entire dungeons at the same level and only take 5 minutes or so rather than 30-60.

 

[Ken]

Dungeons should give more exp. It's not worth doing them just for gear.

Yeah, it would make it a more appealing alternative to FATEs.

 

[omlet]

Finally someone who agrees with me. Any dungeon I do people are begging for Stoneskin. They think because it says duration of 30 minutes that it lasts that long and always negates 18% damage...maybe if they actually read the damn skill description they'd realize it's absolutely worthless.

Not sure what you're talking about. Any healer not putting up stoneskin before a fight is a bad healer just like any healer spamming it during a fight is a bad healer.

 

[Perfect Cha0s]

Amazon finally put back up their digital download for this game so I went ahead and bought a copy. Now to see if I can log in.

The game is about to go down for a few hours for considerable maintenance. You might just want to wait.

Edit:

Not sure what you're talking about. Any healer not putting up stoneskin before a fight is a bad healer just like any healer spamming it during a fight is a bad healer.

No doubt, but the spell is arguably poorly designed. Why make a spell that is only good if it's used before combat and no other time?

IMO, it would be much better off if it were redesigned as an instant, 1-min cooldown that shielded for 50% of the target's health, so that it at least fills an interesting "Oh shit!-button" niche instead of a cumbersome pre-combat one.

 

[Teknoman]

Doesnt the butcher crown have good stats?

 

[Ken]

Can you get those crazy looking knight armor (like the stuff Judges wear in whatever FF that was with the shirtless guy) in this game?

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Yeah, Dungeon XP is pretty poor given how much you can get from Fates. Some single Fates give more XP than entire dungeons at the same level and only take 5 minutes or so rather than 30-60.

They're usually more fun.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

FATEs don't offer loot either, do they?

 

[kayos90]

Talking about FFXIV so far, not other games

You're right. This is SE and ARR we're talking about. I'm expecting a two-day-long maintenance. lol.

 

[Ferrio]

Yeah, Dungeon XP is pretty poor given how much you can get from Fates. Some single Fates give more XP than entire dungeons at the same level and only take 5 minutes or so rather than 30-60.

Yep they're bad, but I don't think upping the exp is a solution really, Then just everyone runs dungeons instead of fates, doesn't change much.

I think they should of put some real big gear checks in the leveling.

 

[DrForester]

FATEs don't offer loot either, do they?

Can get Minions from some of them.

 

[Apoptomon]

The problem with FATEs is that tons of people rush them and its hard for caster classes to get a word (well, attack) in edgewise apart from maybe an initial instant DoT because by the time stone/ruin/ice/whatever is done casting, the mob is dead.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

FATEs don't offer loot either, do they?

Minions or other small things like that.

They give GC seals which is another advantage (well you can trade dungeon gear for seals too)

 

[MoonLightWave]

Haha, the game is definitely low on Tanks. I have 50 tank as main but currently I'm leveling my scholar and it takes 20+ mins as a healer to get into a dungeon.

Or perhaps they do not bother to do dungeons because fates. Thank you fates!

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

They should give you a huge EXP completion bonus for dungeons

+Completion time
+Not dying
+Everyone gets one random unique for their class

Would make the lengthy dungeons worth it, IMO

Minions or other small things like that.

They give GC seals which is another advantage (well you can trade dungeon gear for seals too)

Wait, I didn't know you can trade dungeon gear for seals. Where?

 

[Kintaro]

Minions or other small things like that.

They give GC seals which is another advantage (well you can trade dungeon gear for seals too)

You can? At higher rankings I assume?

 

[Brandon F]

They're usually more fun.

This, plus I needs my foestriker set!!

 

[Ferrio]

They should give you a huge EXP completion bonus for dungeons

+Completion time
+Not dying
+Everyone gets one random unique for their class

Would make the lengthy dungeons worth it, IMO

They do that if anyone in the dungeon is running it for the first time.

 

[MoonLightWave]

They do that if anyone in the dungeon is running it for the first time.

Only 10k and that's like 1 fate.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

They should give you a huge EXP completion bonus for dungeons

+Completion time
+Not dying
+Everyone gets one random unique for their class

Would make the lengthy dungeons worth it, IMO

Guildhests give an EXP bonus for not dying/little deaths, is this not the same for dungeons then?

Honestly, dungeons just seem way more exciting (new locations/cutscenes/lots of loot/lots of challenge) than FATEs, which are usually just brainless spamfests in the field.
The latter might offer more convenience for getting EXP fast, but I'd rather go slow and steady and really enjoy dungeon running.

 

[RPGCrazied]

How weird, I didn't have to enter in a credit card to play. Do you only need to enter one in after your free time or something?

Play it a few hours today. Got a level 6 Maurder. I'm glad there is no tearing, I just wish there was some sort of AA, hate jaggies! To be fair, not many PS3 games use AA so. Also the framerate can get iffy in city. I've only be to Lisma so far. One thing that is bugging me, can you not collapse the duty list on PS3 somehow? Also I don't know how to hide UI when taking screenshots. Here is my guy I made.

 

[chrono01]

Here's hoping tonight's maintenance improves the condition of all of the servers, namely the 1017 error.

It'd be nice to actually log in/play whenever my heart desires, and not have to "plan" around it.

 

[Cryst]

You can? At higher rankings I assume?

You can but it's not worthwhile. 44 seals for lv15 gear, 80ish or so for lv32, off the top of my head. I'd rather turn that into materia and go FATE grinding if I needed seals.

 

[Vashetti]

How weird, I didn't have to enter in a credit card to play. Do you only need to enter one in after your free time or something?

Play it a few hours today. Got a level 6 Maurder. I'm glad there is no tearing, I just wish there was some sort of AA, hate jaggies! To be fair, not many PS3 games use AA so. Also the framerate can get iffy in city. I've only be to Lisma so far. One thing that is bugging me, can you not collapse the duty list on PS3 somehow? Also I don't know how to hide UI when taking screenshots. Here is my guy I made.

L1 + select

 

[Gold_Loot]

How weird, I didn't have to enter in a credit card to play. Do you only need to enter one in after your free time or something?

Play it a few hours today. Got a level 6 Maurder. I'm glad there is no tearing, I just wish there was some sort of AA, hate jaggies! To be fair, not many PS3 games use AA so. Also the framerate can get iffy in city. I've only be to Lisma so far. One thing that is bugging me, can you not collapse the duty list on PS3 somehow? Also I don't know how to hide UI when taking screenshots. Here is my guy I made.

You can make most of the UI smaller, or turn off sections all together. It's in the far right side of the start menu.

 

[Hellix]

One thing that bothers me is that there isn't much loot in this game. Where is XIV's equivalent to Notorious Monsters?

 

[WeaponKnight]

C'mon, I just wanted to craft for an hour before Bahamut strikes again :/

Let me in!

EDIT: nvm I'm in!

 

[Desi]

Logged off because I am supposed to go karting. Miss ffxiv but I did gain four levels and unlocked Brayflox even if I was 5 levels above the base level.

 

[Ken]

You can? At higher rankings I assume?

Yeah, when I checked though the payout wasn't amazing. It was like 60 tokens for one pink item. Good if you have no need of them though.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

The game is about to go down for a few hours for considerable maintenance. You might just want to wait.

Yeah I knew about it but I thought I could get lucky to get in right before it hits. Doesn't look like it though. Hopefully the maintenance does its job for Yoshi-P's sake.

 

[chrono01]

It surprised me to see so many still idle at the Sanctuaries.

I guess they didn't hear that maintenance is tonight and will be forced off at 5PM [PDT] anyway.

 

[RPGCrazied]

You can make most of the UI smaller, or turn off sections all together. It's in the far right side of the start menu.

L1 + select

Ok, thanks. What about the credit card thing? I can't even log into the lodestone website. Something about I don't have a service account or a character in-game. Yet I can play the guy I made on Ultros.

 

[daveo42]

Trying to get in for about an hour before they shut down the servers. Having no luck right now.

Edit: I'm in.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Just got in. Yay.

 

[demosthenes]

Just found out that tradecraft leves no longer give you materials to do it, so no more free exp. Feels bad man.