Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail |OT|

Thinking about diving back into this today. I've been playing since the PS3 beta, this is a top 5 game of all time for me. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I've not played since.... January-ish, maybe late December. It's time.
 
I hadn't realized that the new vacuum suit mount could be bought on the market board. I found one for 900k and bought it. Someone told me they were going for 3 mil back when the patch first dropped lol.
 
Yeah the first few days to week of a patch, prices are just overinflated from all the submarine gil in the economy.
10/11 on cosmo relics now, just FSH left and I hear it's fast.
While still tedious, getting the 500k everything mount will be far faster\easier than Diadem was.
 
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Considering there's like 3 more cosmic locations coming, I feel like I'll hit 500k and get the mount naturally by the end of it. I'm just gonna finish up the relics and then go all-in on Clair Obscur before Occult Crescent drops in a few weeks
 
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10/11 cosmic tools done. Only fisher left but the A rank missions are mostly RNG and just feel fucking awful. It's best to just grind the Fisher IV data through Red Alerts IMO. Just need one more Red Alert and I'm free to play Clair Obscur... so close...

Edit: and done. See y'all in Occult Crescent in 3 weeks
 
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Also 11\11 as of last night. So the timed & weather missions give around 800 to 1200 points each and aren't much harder than the rest. I'm cycling through them and doing FSH\BOT\MIN red alerts. Nearly have everything hovering around 70k give or take now. This is going to be WAY simpler than Diadem was.
 
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I finally got tired of being FLASHBANGed every time I open the game.
I switched my title screen from Dawntrail to Heavensward.
 
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Slowly but surely... I'll maybe hit 150k with all before Occult Crescent drops. Just like Diadem, the gathering ones are going to be abysmal to grind.
 
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Japanese player already has the mount ... a lot of folks are screaming botter since he has 24k extra on the one job... but it could be from repeatedly forgetting to change back to gatherer for the dual class jobs maybe. Pretty nuts either way.
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Valonquar said:
Japanese player already has the mount ... a lot of folks are screaming botter since he has 24k extra on the one job... but it could be from repeatedly forgetting to change back to gatherer for the dual class jobs maybe. Pretty nuts either way.
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ooo I didn't realize there was a special black one
I assume you can't sell these on the market board like the other one?
 
Nah it's unlocked via achievement for getting 500k with every gatherer & crafter in Cosmic Exploration similar to the Pterondon mount from Foundation\Diadem.
 
I was going to let my FF14 sub run out and take a break, probably until 7.3
BUT then I was standing in solution nine talking to my retainer and someone was standing nearby wearing a full set of historia gear. I love the way it looks and I have a few of the pieces but I've just been glaming over it without paying attention.
I may resub immediately to continue getting historia pieces every week, plus 7.25 is getting close anyway. Hmm...
 
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Yeah Occult Crescent in 2 weeks. Of course once THAT drops, that is prob all there is to grind until 7.3 (guessing like 3rd week of Sept)
 
I generally avoid using Steam for MMOs unless it's required (New World, Lost Ark, etc.) because I hate seeing how much time I've put into MMOs :messenger_grinning_sweat:

So yeah, standalone
 
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I realized that you can buy the Dias of Darkness on the marketboard today.
I thought it would be like 5 mil, maybe 10-15 mil.
I go check the prices and it's like 50 mil
oof
 
Even from the story point of view, I still think that FF11 is far better than FF14. Chains of Promathia alone is maximum kino, and one of the best stories in the franchise. Treasures of Aht Urghan is also dope as well.
 
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Even from the story point of view, I still think that FF11 is far better than FF14. Chains of Promathia alone is maximum kino, and one of the best stories in the franchise. Treasures of Aht Urghan is also dope as well.
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I really loved Wings of the Goddess from a story standpoint as well.

But the gameplay... not so much, since the zones were basically just remixed versions of existing zones, which is something I hope XIV never does. When people were speculating that Endwalker would be a time travel expansion I was extremely worried that they would make that mistake, but they managed to avoid it.
 
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I was looking through my old achievements and realized that I started playing during Heavensward. What about y'all?

Character Creation Date

Is there anyway to a check character's creation date? Was wanting to transfer to a different server, but apparently my character is less than 90 days old. I tried contacting support and only got an automated response that did not even seem to relate to my question: How or where do I check this...
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"You could check your character page on the lodestone for the very first "Mapping the Realm" achievement you got, I think for the first few zones just entering the zone is enough to trigger the achievement so that might give you an estimate."
 
Managed to 100% Clair Obscur just in time for Occult Crescent. Feelsgoodman

If you are in this thread reading this post: I highly, highly, highly recommend playing Expedition 33. It's the best Final Fantasy since FFX... and that's coming from someone who is rather fond of both XII and XV. E33 simply represents everything I wanted out of a singleplayer Final Fantasy game for the past decade+... it's that damn good.
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I was looking through my old achievements and realized that I started playing during Heavensward. What about y'all?
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Made my character on day 1 of ARR beta

Is your character a DRG named Celcius? Saw someone in a hunt train a few days ago with that name
 
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Managed to 100% Clair Obscur just in time for Occult Crescent. Feelsgoodman

If you are in this thread reading this post: I highly, highly, highly recommend playing Expedition 33. It's the best Final Fantasy since FFX... and that's coming from someone who is rather fond of both XII and XV. E33 simply represents everything I wanted out of a singleplayer Final Fantasy game for the past decade+... it's that damn good.

Made my character on day 1 of ARR beta

Is your character a DRG named Celcius? Saw someone in a hunt train a few days ago with that name
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That was me lol
 
Played in the closed alpha of 1.0 but my PC at that time ran the game terribly. I gave it another try when 1.23 released and got my last job to 50 the day the servers went down for a year. Played 2.0 and up at release.

Wanted to get the black mech mount before OC released, but I still need 400k points on FSH to finish it off. I'll prob get back to that after burning through the new battle stuff.
 
Been having fun in Occult Crescent. Feels like a mix of Eureka and Bozja, but the relic atma drop rate has been absymal for me. I'm at Knowledge Level 14 and only have 5 atma so far. Feels like a classic case of the devs overcorrecting: People didn't want relics to be 1000 tomestones? Oh that means they want to grind days/weeks for a single weapon like back in ARR days, obviously! But whatever, I'm having fun playing around with the phantom jobs.
Edit: I've been informed that the atmas are a one-time step and then it's tomes. I guess that's a decent middle ground between both relic methods.

Finished up the storyline for now, just have to get prepped for Forked Tower. Hoping to do my first run over the weekend when I've hopefully got my phantom jobs in order.

Also, I highly recommend saving up 3000 silver (the CE/FATE currency) and buying the Riding Map first so you can traverse the map faster.
 
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Occult Crescent is peak Dawntrail. This is exactly what I had been wanting.

Currently knowledge lv 19 just about to hit 20. About halfway done with the relic grind. Got a few cool mounts too.
 
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Also the three default phantom jobs (Knight, Monk, Bard) seem to have lower XP requirements to max out than the jobs you have to learn, so it's probably a good idea to max those first. Phantom Bard's Lvl 2 skill also has a bonus to Phantom Job battle XP so you may want to grab that if you're farming mobs. You can activate the buff at a knowledge stone and then switch to another job if you want

Edit: Bard has less levels (4 vs Knight & Monk having 6) so it seems like they've distributed the XP values differently for it. But it still requires 2000 less XP to max out, according to this site
 
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Finally got my phantom weapon. Looks really nice already, can't wait to see what it looks like with the glow in a future patch.

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Enjoying Occult Crescent so far...my only real complaint is that a lot of the FATEs get cleared waaaaay too quickly if you've got a lot of people. Even with all of the teleport points and the mount speed boost, I'm frequently having trouble getting there in time.
 
Yeah the FATE scaling seems to have issues. I remember there being at least 2 FATEs that had that problem in Bozja as well but it seems to be an endemic issue in South Horn.
 
4 phantom jobs mastered so far, I'm assuming ideally you want like 5-6 for the forked tower...

Edit: After seeing what it's like inside the tower from watching online, I think maybe I'll just stick to the relic weapon grind for OC. Seems like a whole different level from BA.
 
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Yeah I plan on holding off on Tower until I have as many phantom jobs maxxed as I can stand and get a full set of +1 armors for the stat boost.
 
Yep just rejoined The Help Lines discord just in case I decide to try it down the line.
 
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I ended up spending the day grinding OC. Now 6 jobs mastered and also got the full set of furry gear, added materia, and dyed it brown instead of the hot pink color it comes in.
 
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I've been solo grinding the Berserker FATE spawn because the soul shard absolutely refuses to drop for me. Got multiple Oracles, Rangers, and notes of every FATE but it feels like my account is flagged to never receive the Berserker soul :messenger_grinning_smiling:

At least it's a chill grind. Catching up on TV shows and movies in the meantime
 
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Finally got the Berseker soul shard, shortly after weekly reset. Coincidence? Probably. But part of me thinks maybe not? I legit ran that CE at least 50 times and got SIX notes but zero souls until reset. Hmm...


Anyway, I've been watching some Forked Tower runs on Twitch and it seems like it'd really benefit from everyone being geared and upgraded (+1 armor and mastery bonuses) so I'm still grinding (at 9 mastery rn) before I jump in. Should be ready for some weekend runs... but then again maybe I should aim for some weekday runs so there's less of an issue with getting the entire alliance into the same instance.
 
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I am now on my last phantom job to level (oracle aka suicide yourself repeatedly) to have all maxxed. Have full +1 on Tank. Looked at the other sets and they are all so ugly I have little desire to go through the headache of getting those. Instead I'll use silver to get a decent stack of ciphers for tower runs since the 100 run achievement is going to be a chore either way. Will prob work on finishing off the 500 raises on chemist after oracle too. Already hit 500 fates, but only 225 into the 500 CEs. The chest & bunny achievements are just... good lord.

I'll prob swap back to Cosmic Exploration to finish fisher for the achievement mount before messing with tower. Give the groups time to settle into a cleaner farm state. It's def an undergeared\underleveled mess atm.
 
Stuck at campus Makerspace this week doing PC Exchanges so I DLed a file of thingverse and did a print:
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One wing snapped off so I gotta clean it up more before gluing back on and priming\painting, but can't beat free Ultima Weapon fig.
 
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I feel like they dropped the ball pretty hard with OC. The only thing that feels like an improvement over Bozja is the aesthetic.

Phantom jobs are neat, but I actually liked how ridiculous you could get with certain Lost Action combinations. I'm not even just talking about the total cheese shenanigans people used to cheese some duels, but some of the basic combinations were really fun to play around with.

Only 1 FATE and 1 CE being active at a time is pretty lame too since I funnels every single person in the zone into a single train, and destroying FATEs in like 2 seconds. Also removing the queue into CEs I'm a bit mixed on.

No 1v1 duels for people to test themselves, and for other people to spectate and cheer on.

Forked Tower is really interesting, but Bozja had 3 accessible raids in CLL, DR, and DAL. Then having a savage of one with DRS. OC basically just has a savage with FT and one of the worst possible ways to even get into it that promotes being as toxic as possible. How do you start off your new exploration zone with a raid that has no normal option and a simple queue when the last time you did this was so well done?

Reusing Eureka rewards is shit too.

I could keep going, but I'll leave it at that. Way too many steps back and only like 1 step forward.
 
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Recycling Eureka + Bozja mounts is probably my biggest complaint about OC. Why give people even less incentive to run the respective content (Dalriada, Delubrum, bunny fates in Eureka, etc)? This would have been a perfect opportunity to reintroduce Feast mounts into the game but for some reason those mounts are still untouchable in Yoshi-P's eyes.

And yeah having a BA-equivalent in the very first zone was a dumb move. Should have had a Castrum Lacus Latore equivalent first.

As for Phantom Jobs, I think I prefer them over Bozja Lost Actions because the average player just wouldn't engage with Lost Actions. Think of how many Castrum/Delubrum/Dalriada runs were longer than they should have been because dummies didn't bring the right Actions. Ugh.

But yeah, ultimately, Occult Crescent is indeed FAR from perfect. But it's something to grind for in this damn game so I'll take what I can get. Maybe they'll get it right for the next part... maybe.
 
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