Also wondering this, having similar experience with FATEs where targets die and I'm not sure if I've even hit them once. Not helping that I was playing with gamepad and the Dpad targeting seems awful.
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Also wondering this, having similar experience with FATEs where targets die and I'm not sure if I've even hit them once. Not helping that I was playing with gamepad and the Dpad targeting seems awful.
tiggerkiddo
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Try Upper La Noscea for leveling, less crowded than that area.
Your contribution in FATEs is tied to your enmity. That's why tagging mobs will get you gold so easily. Even if you don't get the tag, just tabbing and dropping aero on everything that moves is gonna help. If you're a scholar, drop bio.
Healing will give you gold if there are folks to be healed, but I've had mixed success with rewards when just spamming heals on a target whether they needed em or not. Sometimes it was a gold, sometimes silver or bronze. It's almost like it's not factored correctly into the enmity scale for FATEs because if you spammed heals recklessly on a tank in an instance you'd have aggro very quickly.
Ideally, regen would give you massive enmity (just like it does in dungeons for some inexplicable reason) if you just spammed it on folks, but I never thought to try that when I was leveling up my WHM. Dropping your AOE heals and regen might be an interesting exercise to try on a few non-boss FATEs just to see what happens though. I was always just using Cure/Cure II.
Thanks for this, copied and pasted the macro.
Got the Garuda Monk weapon...now I'm leveling my Monk with determination!
Man, I absolutely love this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ca2cshOh4I
I managed to beat ifrit, only wiped once because I forgot about the nail 
Kind of glad I looked up online what to do during that battle. Still fairly intense with all the fire pillars towards the end.
1500 gill worth of teleports later and I could join a grand company and it didn't seem to matter much so I picked the immortal flames. The first quest involved helping a team takeout a bunch of imperials and then a magetech robot - the vanguard I believe it was. Anyway, I'm not a healer and the AI who was stopped healing the AI tank ... and well he died and then so did I I wasn't all to focused on my role though so it's my own fault. I also didn't bother to set uldahs crystal as my home point so I proceeded to be sent all the way to drybone 
Not sure how much I'll play this game for the remainder of my free month. Might come back to it towards the end of the year when all the other games I want to play are done with but I've mostly enjoyed it so far.
Kind of glad I looked up online what to do during that battle. Still fairly intense with all the fire pillars towards the end. 1500 gill worth of teleports later and I could join a grand company and it didn't seem to matter much so I picked the immortal flames. The first quest involved helping a team takeout a bunch of imperials and then a magetech robot - the vanguard I believe it was. Anyway, I'm not a healer and the AI who was stopped healing the AI tank ... and well he died and then so did I
I wasn't all to focused on my role though so it's my own fault. I also didn't bother to set uldahs crystal as my home point so I proceeded to be sent all the way to drybone Not sure how much I'll play this game for the remainder of my free month. Might come back to it towards the end of the year when all the other games I want to play are done with but I've mostly enjoyed it so far.
DarknessTear
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So, does anyone know when character creation will return? I have a friend who wants to play with me, but character creation is down, I believe..
mapachealocado
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Try checking at 3-4 am... Not ideal but servers usually open up at those hours. You can refresh the list every 3 minutes and see which ones are open.
Always check late at night 3am EST. They seem to open then, or at least that is when I have seen the best success.
I have to disagree with this. It os pretty foolish to use macros in this crafting system. It is too dependent on changing conditions. You have to build your entire crafting strategy around the flow of Normal->Good->Excellent->Poor. They are random and macros can't adapt to them. If you are macroing things, you might as well be using Quick Synthesis.
In my experience, in order to get the best results you need to build your strategy around making the most of Good and Excellent opportunities. That means planning around using actions such as Steady Hand and extension skills only when on Normal, and making certain to use a Touch action when a Good or Excellent appear. You also need to be certain to avoid using a Touch action on a Poor.
You can eek out a lot of quality by paying attention to the situation. Knowing where you can spare a little energy during one synthesis and when you have to change your approach on another.
I'm a level 23 crafter and I can get HQ items fairly reasonably on 40 Durability items even though I don't yet have access to the really good abilities. You just need to bury your nose in the system and really learn how your skills interact. I for one advise against Great Strides. It burns too much CP for too unreliable of an effect. It is useful if you can land it on a Good, but that is too unreliable of a situation. Otherwise, you can make two Touch actions for that CP cost, and get more quality. Also, moves such as Manipulation and Waste Not are generally much more powerful than Master's Mend, since you can control the timing of their activation more (and thus plan around Goods). Master's Mend 2 is useless for 40 durability, but Waste Not is ideal for it.
Crafting is all about paying attention to the changing situation and maximizing your efficient use of CP and durability. If you make any shortcuts in your creation process you will get inferior results.
Conrad Link
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It's all I stare at during CSs.
rykomatsu
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Which version are you playing? Try as I might, I don't see an inkling of a crevasse...just a bulge
But I don't want to do that for 100 logs. I'd rather just macro it and get a few HQ ones and save my sanity.
StunandStab
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I did AK tonight as a SMN with a Dragoon, a Bard, and a White Mage. Titan-Egi tanked. It was awesome. Took a bit longer than doing it normally with a tank, but we only wiped 3 times total and only to trash (due to some mistakes made with pulling). One shot every boss. The added challenge of not having a tank for trash made it a lot more fun to do.
I totally went full bore 100 HQ logs manually one day. Took about 30+ minutes, had a podcast on. Mostly did it to max spiritbond on my crafting gear, and the logs went onto the AH for a decent profit. Just put on a podcast and zoned out. Wasn't too bad and you get better xp for attempting HQ.
BTW spiritbond goes WAAAYYYYYY too goddamn slow when crafting. I blink and combat gear hits 100%, but crafting gear...WTF.
piratepwnsninja
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Actually, what I've found is this.
Healer = Get in a group and spam Medica to always get gold
Tank = Just stand there and spam Flash to always get gold
Dps = Single target FATEs should be simple, spam AOEs for group ones to always get gold
I've tested these out with great effect. The DPS one makes the most sense, but I'm serious when I say I can get gold by just flash spamming, even on single target ones.
Which version are you playing? Try as I might, I don't see an inkling of a crevasse...just a bulge
lol was thinking the same thing myself.
This. HQ boost is very dependent on carefully watching for "Good" and especially Excellent opportunities. It's easy to ignore and not even notice those words in the durability window, but once I started paying close attention and changing up my routine to push quality when they pop up, the added boost they give is extremely helpful. Using the observe skill if you have enough CP to hope for an improved condition on next turn is also useful.
It's a really interesting system and I do prefer it far more to other passive crafting systems in MMO's. It is time consuming and has its own quirks, but I dig the risk and reward of it all. Just as you get comfy with a rhythm a new skill appears that really changes things up and forces you to consider how you manage limited CP and durability. But yea, can't overstate how helpful Good and Excellent boosts are.
QisTopTier
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Was there an IGN article called what Final Fantasy can learn from Dark Souls at some point or something?
Amon-Lau
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Yeah flash spamming works every time, like I said, it's based on enmity to some degree. I haven't had as much luck with the healing, but it does seem to work at least semi regularly. I also haven't mass spammed Medica like that, so that may help. If it is truly all on enmity then the Medica thing should work every time, theoretically, which begs the question what the Scholar equivalent would be to spam.
mineskiller
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are bards OP?
redfiend00
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I have been seeing people posting pics with relic in AF armor.
Are you guys beating HM Titan in AF or just wearing it for the screen shot?
Are you guys beating HM Titan in AF or just wearing it for the screen shot?
Wouldn't mind some more phisical customization option, too. I was pretty disappointed by that aspect of the game, actually.
To fellow crafters and gatherers -- what have you had success selling on the market for decent profit? Over a week or so I've earned about 100K selling basic staples (Maple/Elm/Walnut Lumber, etc.) but I'm looking for a few other options as well for when the market gets flooded.
I notice shards seem to sell pretty well. Anyone think it's a worthy investment?
I notice shards seem to sell pretty well. Anyone think it's a worthy investment?
Well, finished Stone Vigil tonight. Went in with a DF group, but, the Healer bailed, so I had to call in a Gaffer to help us out. I kinda feel like we embarrassed ourselves a bit in that dungeon, but, with so many first timers. XD
Big shout out to Safflox. You da Bomb!
Edit: Or, was it Safflower? Dagnabit I'm too young to be having such a spotty memory! XD
Big shout out to Safflox. You da Bomb!
Edit: Or, was it Safflower? Dagnabit I'm too young to be having such a spotty memory! XD
Almost finished leveling WHM for to unlock the Scholar but meh, shit starting to get repetitive.
When does 2.1 come out? I really wish they had released more end-game dungeons, leaving the Coil for 2.1 since so few get to accesses to it anyway. Meanwhile, most ppl are forced to run through AK over and over again. =/
When does 2.1 come out? I really wish they had released more end-game dungeons, leaving the Coil for 2.1 since so few get to accesses to it anyway. Meanwhile, most ppl are forced to run through AK over and over again. =/
I keep hearing November. I'm fine with that, since I haven't even begun the endgame content yet, and since there are some other games I want to play during the month of October. For those already at the endgame content, well, that's kinda unfortunate.
I paced myself a bit, just for that reason.
Screenshot I'd imagine. The job/class art is illustrated originally with AF armor and relic weapon.
So people just wanna replicate that.
Unknown Soldier
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I somehow did that on Chimera. The whole party was dead with less than 5% of Chimera's life left. I managed to land the last hit that killed it with something like 100 HP left. It's still the most exciting fight I've been a part of in this game.
FlutterPuffs
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Question to the PS3 players: Has any of you ever gotten to level 50? Was it hard?
Mine arrived like 3-4h after account renewal.
It kind of is, for what's currently your highest ranked recipes.
Other than that you can just macro craft (and yes even HQ easily) everything.
Like almost everything that is not */** difficulty I craft just by macros and got a HQ rate like 90%+ with NQ materials.
Munba
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Also in the mog-station the veteran items appeared after that time? Thx.
Dunno about that, just had that in the mail this morning.
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