Yeah I only use sleep if the adds are gang raping a healer or the tank has lost control. Sleep isn't a always thing.
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Yeah I only use sleep if the adds are gang raping a healer or the tank has lost control. Sleep isn't a always thing.
So just a heads up, if you try to pay your sub with crysta because S-E doesn't let you pay with a credit card for some reason, buy the crysta separately first and wait for it to appear on your account.. this might take a while.
At least in Europe, buying crysta has more payment options (paypal for example).
After you have the crysta, you can safely renew your account with it.
At least in Europe, buying crysta has more payment options (paypal for example).
After you have the crysta, you can safely renew your account with it.
Goodacre0081
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yes, use leves, buy the survival guides from your GC, and use food. I've been saving all my leve allowances for gathering.
I bought crysta on the account management and then set it to pay with crysta in mogstation.
SmarterUnconscious
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I'm sorry!!!! I'm an idiot ; ;
QisTopTier
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They should make the War's 10% bonus healing thing passive with their stance and not tied to stacks imo. Kinda derpy they lose "mitigation" just to use moves. Where pld keeps their 20% dmg reduction up 100% of the time and no, more hp is not the same as 20% more damage reduction
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I've mined roughly 60 stacks of Grade 3 Carbonized Matter, I still need to farm 60 more @_@!, just for a stupid golden pick axe... Fucking Vanity >.>;
I'm already 50!
Helps each sold roughly for 15-20K until under cutters came and shit the bed and made it < 7,000 gil
I had to buy them all out, stupid motherfuckers, and reset the market back to 15K, yet lost the battle again, now @10K per stack >_<
(At least I did gain money buying and resetting the market for a whopping 2 days, hell at least I was king for those 2 days on Ultros, making bank selling them left and right, until people picked up on a hot market and started cutting away)
tiggerkiddo
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Just did Dzemael Darkhold, and man I thought my friend was making up shit or remembered wrong when she told me I have done this dungeon with them before but I was drunk, I really don't remember a thing about it, these bosses are all new to me! But I opened the map and it was explored.
I do remember the laser thing though.
I do remember the laser thing though.
IonicSnake
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Man, the elitism in this game is insane. It's really ruining it, I know new players that have or are about to quit because them. Once my sub runs out I doubt I'll continue if this keeps up.
Totally agree. I've been playing FFXI for many years, and I have friends who have been playing even more than me, and we all get a mouthful from elitist players who are obsessed with stats.
I only thought FPS games had this kind of shameful audience, but I guess I was wrong. They're practically everywhere.
tiggerkiddo
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Join a FC with like minded players so you can ignore the elitists.
Is this just in post-game stuff? I just hit 50 and I haven't had a problem with elitism at all.
MrTeachwell
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In my experience I didn't see any elitism until Garuda and Titan. I've heard stories of people in Ampador Keep getting grouchy if the dragoon doesn't have a primal weapon but in terms of gear I went in there in full AF with no problem or complaints.
As for my experience with elitism, because Garuda is mainly a skill check it wasn't so bad, even without the DPS if you had good players and especially good healers you'd just take a little longer to beat it. But Titan is a whole other story, firstly you have players that've honestly never tried it or had a chance to get experience and as soon as they do something wrong someone will start flaming them and possibly flaming any other member of the party who doesn't have full darklight accessories. But the problem with this is that Titan is really hard, if players aren't geared for it there is very little chance to succeed.
In a titan party tonight I was paladin and forgot to put Shield Oath up... it resets everytime you die. But this meant I lost aggro about 5 minutes in and caused a wipe. The 'elitist' in the group called me a dumbass, complained about there not being any 'serious' players in this game and then quit. When one player quits it starts a trend and I lost the party I had spent 20 minutes building all because I forgot to put shield oath up and lost us 5 minutes.
IonicSnake
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Once you start doing end-game stuff you'll see. If you join a duty finder party in AF gear doing the harder stuff you'll most likely hear about it and not in a good way. My friend wanted to try hardmode Garuda and because he had AF on they told him "no way we're gonna party with you".
What kind of elitism are you witnessing?
I'm just curious, because a few things that I've seen specifically mentioned here (generally in complaints) I've found I'm not often able to sympathize with.
For example, shout groups of people running CM or Prae who ask for you to have relic/lv. 70 gear seems perfectly reasonable to me because there are just so many groups going at once and there will be something available for you as well if you don't satisfy the reqs there. If you want to take it slow, enjoy the cutscenes and if you're just wearing AF gear, that's totally acceptable as well - there are groups for those people just the same.
That's really not that crazy. I don't think that's elitism so much as a poor way of expression.
If I were that group leader I'd probably reject your friend for two reasons, 1) if he's still in AF, then he's likely a fresh 50 and has never done Garuda before on HM, so it lowers the chance of the group's success, and 2) he's just going to have less HP and do less damage than everyone else. Pug groups are often disorganized and messy as it is, and its just made worse when you have people who aren't geared enough to compensate for their lack of experience in the encounter.
He should have said "sorry but we'd rather invite someone more geared" instead of being a dick, but he has a point because there is a whole chunk of encounters and duties designed for people who are still in AF and your friend should be doing those first before he tries to join a pug group for Shin-Garuda. There's 25 levels of difference in item level between AF gear and Darklight gear. That's a big difference. If he was wearing a mish-mash of Darklight and AK gear with a DL or Ifrit weapon he probably wouldn't have gotten rejected.
If you want to leapfrog elements of the post-50 progression system, then that's fine but it's something you should do with your friends who basically recognize they're carrying you and can deal with your mistakes and inexperience.
In my eyes, pug groups are basically for 1 purpose: learning the encounter through loads of deaths. When you actually want to beat something you need to be stringent about gear reqs or go with friends/FC/LS-mates.
IonicSnake
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It is perfectly acceptable for people to shout for players that are equipped as they want but I do not find it acceptable when you enter a instance through duty finder and have well equipped players lash out and put down another player just because he or she doesn't meet that individuals "standard" for gear. If you enter through DF you can not expect that you'll join a full dark light/AF2 with relic party and then become upset because it's the first time for one of them who wants to watch the cutscenes.
If you want a party with people that meet your standard then form a static or shout, don't use the fucking duty finder.
That can partially be blamed on Square. I can get up to and enter Titan HM with nothing but AF armor and a shitty sub 50 weapon. Does that mean I'm ready for Titan? No. Can I still join Titan and be almost useless to the group? Yes. Just because you unlock Y fight after doing X fight doesn't necessarily mean that you're ready for Y fight.
Blackthorn
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So my girlfriend made her character on Sargatanus, so if I want us to be on the server I can only transfer to her from Ultros.
Only reservation after being used to Ultros is the lower population of a legacy server and the lower proportion of new players. Is this something worth worrying about or is the player count fine? Is there another legacy server that's better to play on that we could both move to?
Only reservation after being used to Ultros is the lower population of a legacy server and the lower proportion of new players. Is this something worth worrying about or is the player count fine? Is there another legacy server that's better to play on that we could both move to?
IonicSnake
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So that somehow give players the right to be assholes to new players who wants to try out the modes they have unlocked because Square didn't implement it well?
Yeah, for Titan that's on Square, but if we're talking about WP, CM or Prae groups raging because you watch the cut scenes and aren't wearing Darklight then I completely understand the frustration Snake is talking about.
The first time I ran Prae it was through the DF and the group leader said straight off "skip the cut scenes or we'll never get through this." I listened and watched the scenes later in my inn room, but I would never put that expectation on other random people. That attitude is fine to have in shout groups where you're looking for a speed run, but if you're just running in through the CF, you should expect to watch the cut scenes.
I think there needs to be clearer guidance on the post-50 progression. It's too easy as it is to just get 50 and open up basically the entire rest of the game without knowing exactly where to go next, and this creates situations like you said. Level 30-45 gear, jumping into the hardest encounter pre-Turn 4 is totally fucked :lol
No, but assholes gonna asshole, sadly. The point is that Square shouldn't make it so easy for them to.
That's why I said it's partially Square's fault.
I'd take 5 Titan HMs over Turn 2 any day. I still have nightmares...
IonicSnake
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Yeah but your post made it sound like the rest of the blame was on the new players.
Agreed.
Yeah but your post made it sound like the rest of the blame was on the new players.
No, but I can understand why someone might be frustrated if they keep getting undergeared players again and again in parties. Then again it works both ways. If you're undergeared and want to try a fight then try making a premade party understands that you're new to the fight and possibly undergeared who are okay with it, especially if you're in a FC. Alternatively if you're looking for stringent gear requirements then the same goes for that, get a premade party that fulfills your desires. I don't understand people who go into CM/Prae alone for speedruns and berate other players about being slow/new. It's not that hard to be social and just find 7 others who also want to speedrun it.
Probably super late, but you are supposed to open the crafting log and select an item to craft before you can synthesize anything.
Haha to be fair my friends and I couldn't get through Turn 2 today but it actually seemed simple to me in the end, we just couldn't keep full concentration until the last. Similar to Titan HM, but I guess the fact that it's faster paced makes it more difficult. It was our first time in Turn 2 and 6/8 of us were first timers for Turn 1 as well, so it felt good to be on the other side of some snake rape when we killed Caduceus or whatever his name is.
May I ask what strategy you employed for Turn 2? We went with the left path, so we had to deal with the Allagan fever or whatever the debuff is that you have to pass around to teammates. Sadly it wasn't anything compllicated that did us in, just people getting hit by lasers - got to about 25 or 30% on the last run, but we've got the mechanics down and should be doable in our next attempt.
We go right. I forget the exact order we go, but it's the first one, then the node that uses ballast, then the node that has piercing resistance and uses gravity well(?), then the boss. So the boss ends up with piercing resistance, increased physical damage, allagan rot, some cross shaped fire AoE then chain lightning. I wouldn't kill the node that takes away the rot since he gains haste and will pretty much destroy your tank in seconds, we tried that once and it didn't go well. I just like Titan because while there's a bit of AoE I can stay in melee range for the most part, here there's so much AoE around the boss and the possibility of getting hit with a cleave when the tanks taunt off each other it's just a huge pain. Not to mention with the silencing aspect and passing off the rot there's just more things that can go wrong. I like that snake encounter though, it just involves me standing in once place dpsing for a few minutes.
We have two bards and a Dragoon in our DPS set-up so we were reluctant to give him piercing resistance. Of the times we died, I think 2 of them were Allagan rot, then the other 5 or 6 times were either 1) bards missing silence on High Voltage or 2) healers getting laser-blasted while trying to manage the rot juggling and the heals.
Haha, we also have 2 bards, a drg and a smn. We still kill him pretty fast (3 clicks left or so) and find that it's better than any of the alternative nodes. Damage reduction isn't too bad.
It also can glow.
Interesting. We've still got some work to do. Happy with the progress in the first day though. I wonder what he's got that's different from what you're doing. He didn't have Chain lightning or the cross-shaped Flame blast for us. (we killed both those Nodes on the way there).
If you kill the add spawn on the boss you prevent the rot, but need to be fast as hell (in one hit of my brd died) and after that we wipe but no rot on.
(I think)!
That means that you have the ballast? The huge 270 degree AoE? Seems like that would be much harder to avoid in that boss room.
Thanks, I always wondered if you could kill that orb before it's eaten. Gonna try that this week. ADS without the 75/50/25 abilities would be a piece of cake.
Lavalamp1138
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I haven't done a leve for a gathering or crafting class yet so how do leve allowances work?
Spiritreaver
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Free trials are officially over? AWESOME.
When you accept a leve quest you get -1 allowance. You get 3 allowances per 12 hrs (I think, maybe 24?) and a max of 100.
Lavalamp1138
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When you say max of 100, do you mean you'll be able to do only 100 leves in your career or that you can increase your allowance to 100 leves per 12 hours?
You can only store up to a maximum of 100 allowances but you get +3 every timed period forever.
demosthenes
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Lavalamp1138
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Ok thank you very much!
Once again, it's Square's fault that they decided to give the highest Philosophy Tomestone reward to two story-heavy dungeons with many cutscenes.
If Square hadn't done that you wouldnt see so many douchebags trying to speedrun them.
Lavalamp1138
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Aww yiss. Just renewed my sub. I'm determined to beat Stone Vigil today!
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