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Can somebody tell me how I can map a menu section to the hot bar on PS3?

Like I already have a shortcut to Character, I would like to have one for Recommendations.
 
I have a Question about the Carpenter's lv 50 Skill Byregot's Blessing.

Does using the ability itself add to the bonus to Inner Quiet? Then giving it another 20% bonus? Say something like this:

Inner Quiet
Steady Hand
Standard Touch - 125%
Standard Touch - 125%
Byregot's Blessing - 140%
Byregot's Blessing - 160%
Byregot's Blessing - 180%

Would it work like this?
 
earvcunanan said:
This is my first MMORPG ever and I was lost at first, but eventually picked up on things. I never used any sort of YouTube guides for the game as well - things just clicked with me. Though if you want some resources and basic rundown of things, check this site out:

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Game_Basics
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Guide
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Thanks I'll have to look through that site. I played WoW for quite a while, but this game seems pretty different. I'm enjoying what I've played and seen though
 
Anastacio said:
Can somebody tell me how I can map a menu section to the hot bar on PS3?

Like I already have a shortcut to Character, I would like to have one for Recommendations.
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Press Start.
Under the leftmost menu (the one your cursor starts on), press up until you find "Actions and Traits".
Open the menu for Actions and Traits.
Go down the left side (press down) until you get to "Commands" (it's at the bottom I think). Hit X.
Within Commands, there should be an icon for Recommendations. Highlight it and press Square to add it to your hotbar.

orion434 said:
I have a Question about the Carpenter's lv 50 Skill Byregot's Blessing.

Does using the ability itself add to the bonus to Inner Quiet? Then giving it another 20% bonus? Say something like this:

Inner Quiet
Steady Hand
Standard Touch - 125%
Standard Touch - 125%
Byregot's Blessing - 140%
Byregot's Blessing - 160%
Byregot's Blessing - 180%

Would it work like this?
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According to some comments on xivdb, the Inner Quiet effect is removed by using Byregot's Blessing. You'll probably get the 20% bonus the first time but not the subsequent times?
 
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My macro for gil sellers.
 
Einbroch said:
/r NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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My macro for gil sellers.
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More useful would be /blist add <r>
 
Shin Kojima said:
More useful would be /blist add <r>
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I don't blacklist gil sellers as most of the ones I've seen are actual players getting hacked. That would suck to get your account back and have had a few hundred people blacklist you. Also, most of the time it's simply one tell per person unless I'm in town for a long time.
 
So now that the mad rush of the game release has died down a bit, I have a question. I bought the collector's edition of XIV 1.0 on the first day of launch and ending up dropping it. One of the things I used from that collector's edition was that physical one-time password key but I've since lost that. I know I'll need to call into CS to have that removed from my account so I can log in but what are the wait times looking like with CS. Finally going to have a lot of time to myself this week and I'd like to jump into this world fresh (didnt even play beta!).
 
JoeFu said:
So I wanted to play an MMO and got this because I had credit on Green Man Gaming. I have no idea what I'm doing though. I've just been questing and am currently level 16. I just heard about getting a second class and all this stuff ... Kinda confused.

Is there any YouTube video that explains all the mechanics in the game?
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Don't worry about other classes until you are level 30, then unlock your job at the same place you get all your class quests at. This required a different class to be lvl 15
 
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
 
Zaptruder said:
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
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Sound like any other top tier MMO encounter. There is usually that one fight in a raid where the team just needs to know the fight like the back of their hand. You aren't reacting, you are just doing.
 
Ah, can't help there then. I'm surprised you made it that far in the DF (I know people have downed it with two tanks), but yeah there are a lot of ways to die in that fight.
 
man what's up with the lvl49 quests at northern thanalan, they were available when my pld was already 50, and i can't do them on my lvl47 war
 
So got bootcamp going on my Macbook and ran the benchmark program last night...got 2000! Seemed ok. Then I ran it again this morning and got 1000. Balls. AFAIK I didn't have anything running in the background either time, so it should have been the same. I'm a bit worried now that if I shell out for the PC version it's gonna have slowdown and be no fun to play.
 
aceface said:
So got bootcamp going on my Macbook and ran the benchmark program last night...got 2000! Seemed ok. Then I ran it again this morning and got 1000. Balls. AFAIK I didn't have anything running in the background either time, so it should have been the same. I'm a bit worried now that if I shell out for the PC version it's gonna have slowdown and be no fun to play.
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don't have a ps3? :(
 
Anteater said:
man what's up with the lvl49 quests at northern thanalan, they were available when my pld was already 50, and i can't do them on my lvl47 war
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Quests are weird. You're able to pretty much START any quest up to the highest level class you have even if you aren't currently playing that class. However you can only complete quests that your currently equipped class level meets the requirements for.
 
I got the PC version for my Macbook Pro (2010). At standard settings, I get about 17-23 fps. >.< Thinking of getting the PS3 version at least.

Lo and behold, theres a Gamestop that just got a Collector's Edition. =]
 
orion434 said:
I have a Question about the Carpenter's lv 50 Skill Byregot's Blessing.

Does using the ability itself add to the bonus to Inner Quiet? Then giving it another 20% bonus? Say something like this:

Inner Quiet
Steady Hand
Standard Touch - 125%
Standard Touch - 125%
Byregot's Blessing - 140%
Byregot's Blessing - 160%
Byregot's Blessing - 180%

Would it work like this?
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Byregot's is one-time used.
After you use it, you DON'T burn the Inner Quiet stacks like Rumination does, but still won't be able to use any more Rumination or Byregot's.
 
Zaptruder said:
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
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I hear you. At least your a PLD. Try doing it as a WAR. Nobody wants to do it with you, and I don't blame them. We just make the encounter that much harder. I have nearly 7k hp with buffs, but his mountain buster is hitting me for 4.5k-4.8k on regular, and his punch can follow up for 1.8k-2.2k. Even if I'm topped off, there's a chance I'm wiping if he attacks quicker than I can get a heal up.

There is nothing I can do about it. That's the frustrating part. I don't have a -20%, -40%, or -100% ability on top of a static -20% in tank stance. I can't increase block by 60%. I can't even block at all. All I have is an attack that can heal me ~1k every 20secs or so, but using that attack removes my +healing bonus. Most of the time that heal goes to waste, because the healer ends up overhealing me.

I don't wanna jump on the qq WAR pity party, but after slamming my head on titan for the week, I'm just frustrated as hell. WAR needs some help. I'm seriously considering just buying a clear. As much as I hate the concept, doing ~5 CM runs, sounds better than another 80 attempts at Titan.


Sorian said:
Sound like any other top tier MMO encounter. There is usually that one fight in a raid where the team just needs to know the fight like the back of their hand. You aren't reacting, you are just doing.
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Except the game conditions you to use 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 dps for every encounter. Then you get to HM Titan. If you bring a second tank it's a liability. Another healer or dps is much more useful to the fight. So you end up with an encounter with a glut of tanks shouting in Mor Dhona trying to run Titan, but there's not enough groups to go around.
 
How many gaffers can you fit on the company chest? We aim to find out.

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_Keiichi_ said:
Looks like my graphic card is slowly dying, I'll have to reduce my FFXIV time. x_x
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earvcunanan said:
Perfect timing - October is just around the corner! Which means: new AMD GPUs, price drops on last generation GPUs, and price wars with Nvidia!
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I actually thought my trusty gigantic Asus GTX 580 I've had for two years was finally dying after 150 hours of warframe. Since the last update it had been giving me rare video driver crashes during missions.

Picking up FF14 was actually partly because I wanted to put it to the test and see if the problem was my overclocks, the card dying, or Warframe being coded by monkeys. I haven't had so much of a hiccup since I started playing and my overclocks are still stable (if unnecessary, I've never dropped under 30 even during fate zergs).

Either way I still have another year of warranty, a backup card that could probably run this, and those new AMD cards are right around the corner. I'd still be sad to see this thing go, but every time I have a problem even remotely video-related I instantly think it's my video card dying, and it's always something else. I guess that paranoia is a side effect of spending so much on a single component.
 
Zaptruder said:
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
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It doesn't even sounds like you paid to beat Titan, it's more like you paid to play with competent people lol.

I too gave up doing Titan on shouts/DF and I'm just waiting for run it with my FC.


falastini said:
Except the game conditions you to use 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 dps for every encounter. Then you get to HM Titan. If you bring a second tank it's a liability. Another healer or dps is much more useful to the fight. So you end up with an encounter with a glut of tanks shouting in Mor Dhona trying to run Titan, but there's not enough groups to go around.
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This too. The chance you are getting into a good group that needs a tank and can dodge everything is freacking low as a tank. If you are a DPS and especially a healer NP, just a couple of shouts and you'll find your place in a party again soon (No wonder WHM relic is probably the most popular relic) even if the current one fails. But as a tank? Good luck with that. For every Titan run cleared without DF it's 2-3 healers and 4-5 DPS getting their relics and only 1 tank.
 
falastini said:
Except the game conditions you to use 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 dps for every encounter. Then you get to HM Titan. If you bring a second tank it's a liability. Another healer or dps is much more useful to the fight. So you end up with an encounter with a glut of tanks shouting in Mor Dhona trying to run Titan, but there's not enough groups to go around.
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I love when encounters do this. It helps solve the problem of dps being dime a dozen and tanks/healers being really rare.
 
Zaptruder said:
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
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I agree that the expected difficulty curve is crazy steep compared with Garuda. However, I think its fair because the fight is tied to the best weapon in the game for just about every class. The other ilvl90 weapons don't show up until Turn 5 in Coil, so the Relic ends up being far easier to come by and arguably superior.
 
Zaptruder said:
I give up on Titan.

I've spent so much more time trying to beat him as a tank, then I would have, if I just ran CM a bunch of times, farmed up the tomes, for the items and sold them on the AH for gil, to pay the Titan farming people.

So much more. It's not that I find the fight hard - it's that I have no control over the outcome, save for doing things like making rotation macros and warning people out of plumes. But even doing all that, assembling groups with decent gear, etc, etc... none of it works out.

The logistical challenges of getting a team of people geared and experienced enough to beat Titan are just too difficult and luck based for me to overcome unfortunately.

I mean... the jump in difficulty, on one hand, doable, evidenced by many titan clears. On the other hand, absurdly high, evidenced by the amount of heads bashed against the titan wall.

It just feels like there's a missing step between Garuda and titan - it goes from a reactive fight, where you can look at effects on ground and respond, into a memorization fight, where people need to know ahead of time what's coming in order to stand a good chance at avoiding the stuff. Up until this point, you've been conditioned with hundreds of hours of gameplay to play a reactive game.

And if anyone fails for whatever reason... the chances of the whole team failing are very high. I tip my hat to those that have had the skill/luck/patience to beat Titan legit. But I've had enough.
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I'm a PLD and the thought of just dropping the Relic quest and just start it as another job, happened more than once.

Is just useless: DF is a joke, you could find competent parties for Garuda, but that's over, even if you don't find AF geared ppl is not much better, they still can't dodge shit. Using macro to shout rotations? half people still won't look out for plumes. PUG parties aren't much better, you may find a good one out of ten and good gear dosn't help: the battle is too much for a lot of people. Also there's always tanks shouting for parties and always lack of healers.

The real challange for me is not the battle itself, is find a good party. My only hope is to run it with the FC
 
I'm seeing a lot of items that are higher level than 50, but you can equip them at level 50. Kind of odd. Wonder if that means the cap will always be 50?
 
I haven't played for two whole weeks. Signed in a day or so ago and I just cannot muster the effort to grind from 47 to 49 to progress the main story.

Think I'm gonna give up and wait till the PS4 version launches and pray they include more 40+ levelling content.

Sorry guys.
 
Vashetti said:
I haven't played for two whole weeks. Signed in a day or so ago and I just cannot muster the effort to grind from 47 to 49 to progress the main story.

Think I'm gonna give up and wait till the PS4 version launches and pray they include more 40+ levelling content.

Sorry guys.
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With all that lovely rest XP, just go to Northern Thanalan and do Dark Devices in a good group. You'll easily get 200K + XP each time.
 
Ugh. No way I'm gonna make it to help with Titan today, at least not in 30 minutes. Much busier today than I expected. Sorry to everyone. :( If it's still going on when I'm done, I'll be happy to help then.
 
Vashetti said:
I haven't played for two whole weeks. Signed in a day or so ago and I just cannot muster the effort to grind from 47 to 49 to progress the main story.

Think I'm gonna give up and wait till the PS4 version launches and pray they include more 40+ levelling content.

Sorry guys.
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I went from 46 with an empty bar to 49 last night after being in Northern Thanalan for 4-5 hours. I also had no rested EXP bonus since I didn't realize the three great nations don't give rested EXP bonus unless you go to an Inn.

Dark Devices is good exp, as are the other FATEs there. The area is also compact.
 
I think I'm missing the point of a Free Company, but I just helped a low level Lalafell through Sastasha because she couldn't find a healer to go with her. She was in a very large FC with 315 people.
How are you in a 315 man FC and NOBODY is a healer who wants/has time/is able to help his member beat the first story dungeon?
What is going on in this community? It's sunday afternoon in europe and I was three times in server queue before because of too many people.
This is so sad. It's not even a question of "she could've DF'd it".
Are big FCs now the Eorzean version of Facebook, where everyone and their mother wants in, but nobody wants to do anything with most of its members?
Sadness. Poor Lalafell.
 
TheWriter said:
I think I'm missing the point of a Free Company, but I just helped a low level Lalafell through Sastasha because she couldn't find a healer to go with her. She was in a very large FC with 315 people.
How are you in a 315 man FC and NOBODY is a healer who wants/has time/is able to help his member beat the first story dungeon?
What is going on in this community? It's sunday afternoon in europe and I was three times in server queue before because of too many people.
This is so sad. It's not even a question of "she could've DF'd it".
Are big FCs now the Eorzean version of Facebook, where everyone and their mother wants in, but nobody wants to do anything with most of its members?
Sadness. Poor Lalafell.
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Wait, let me drop everything I'm doing to help everyone who needs something.
 
TheWriter said:
I think I'm missing the point of a Free Company, but I just helped a low level Lalafell through Sastasha because she couldn't find a healer to go with her. She was in a very large FC with 315 people.
How are you in a 315 man FC and NOBODY is a healer who wants/has time/is able to help his member beat the first story dungeon?
What is going on in this community? It's sunday afternoon in europe and I was three times in server queue before because of too many people.
This is so sad. It's not even a question of "she could've DF'd it".
Are big FCs now the Eorzean version of Facebook, where everyone and their mother wants in, but nobody wants to do anything with most of its members?
Sadness. Poor Lalafell.
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This is actually what guilds are like in all MMORPGs, not just FFXIV. Usually you want to be in a guild with friends you already know, and you also want to avoid blind guild invites with someone you've never conversed with. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone can always help you at any time of the day.

I'm not in a guild myself and I'm making progress just fine.
 
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