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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| Raiders of the Void Ark
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Rising_Hei
Member
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
I'm playing on a 21:9 3440x1440 monitor now. FFXIV natively supports Ultra wide and its pretty sweet.
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07122015_2047591rs25.png
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07132015_053703ogkuu.png
The only thing is that all the cutscenes still render at 16:9, so there are black bars on the sides during the cutscenes as seen in the picture below.
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07132015_061648owsa8.png
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07122015_2047591rs25.png
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07132015_053703ogkuu.png
The only thing is that all the cutscenes still render at 16:9, so there are black bars on the sides during the cutscenes as seen in the picture below.
http://abload.de/img/ffxiv_07132015_061648owsa8.png
Sithlord77
Banned
Pyros thank you for taking time to explain those tips are helpful.
Phew, got all Alexander items for this week. I'm not going the most optimal route, but I've decided to grab legs and chest from Esoterics and have all other items from Alexander in 3 weeks total.
Anyway, 4 successful runs in an hour with different DF groups, I expected it to be much, much worse. At least most people know what to do and have high enough ilv to not drag the whole party down.
Anyway, 4 successful runs in an hour with different DF groups, I expected it to be much, much worse. At least most people know what to do and have high enough ilv to not drag the whole party down.
Rose of Eternity
Banned
Try not being dps?
FATE grinding to level explains a lot about some of the tanks and DPS I've been seeing via DF lately. Still nothing incredibly bad, but I'm coming out of this whole thing with a much larger appreciation for things like tanks that actually think about their pulls and party comp. Had two back-to-back double melee groups; one tank chain pulled individual packs allowing single-target to single-target and giving me breathing room to DPS. The other just pulled everything the game would let him despite anemic group AOE, preventing me from doing anything but heal spam and making things take forever. Bigger pulls aren't always faster. I blame North Thanalan for people not getting this.
Also I would like to find whoever started the 'tank The Vault boss at the entrance!' Trend and slap them. Stop doing that.
That said, still think DF in dungeons gets a worse reputation than deserved. It's occasionally rough but in almost every single case workable. Trying to work it out at least breaks up the monotony.
GB and ammo management is a part of the fun of the class, though. You can find people who have invested a ton of time and math into justifying stance dancing as the default approach, but circumstances have to be pretty ideal to justify that and even in a perfect situation (dummy parse so no mechanics forcing timing adjustments, as having basically any proc or buff means you should be in GB) the performance gain is minimal to nil. Basically you should have GB up unless you have a really, really good reason not to. Right now things are close enough it's not a huge issue, but with the way GB is expected to scale with gear by 3.1 I wouldn't be surprised to see a huge gap.
Good/bad news: once you get GB, double oGCDs is going to push out your GCD even without latency. I'm curious to see if anybody comes up with a single-oGCD opener that works, but for now I'm just eating the GCD delay.
Hot Shot and Lead Shot consuming ammo is still dumb; there are just too many GCDs before reloads and ammo right now. RNG us some more, decrease cooldown time on the reload skills, something. It's not horribly broken, but it's a relatively small tweak that would improve things greatly.
Also I would like to find whoever started the 'tank The Vault boss at the entrance!' Trend and slap them. Stop doing that.
That said, still think DF in dungeons gets a worse reputation than deserved. It's occasionally rough but in almost every single case workable. Trying to work it out at least breaks up the monotony.
GB and ammo management is a part of the fun of the class, though. You can find people who have invested a ton of time and math into justifying stance dancing as the default approach, but circumstances have to be pretty ideal to justify that and even in a perfect situation (dummy parse so no mechanics forcing timing adjustments, as having basically any proc or buff means you should be in GB) the performance gain is minimal to nil. Basically you should have GB up unless you have a really, really good reason not to. Right now things are close enough it's not a huge issue, but with the way GB is expected to scale with gear by 3.1 I wouldn't be surprised to see a huge gap.
Good/bad news: once you get GB, double oGCDs is going to push out your GCD even without latency. I'm curious to see if anybody comes up with a single-oGCD opener that works, but for now I'm just eating the GCD delay.
Hot Shot and Lead Shot consuming ammo is still dumb; there are just too many GCDs before reloads and ammo right now. RNG us some more, decrease cooldown time on the reload skills, something. It's not horribly broken, but it's a relatively small tweak that would improve things greatly.
SliceSabre
Banned
This is like the primary reason my dps class is summoner because I don't have to worry about that. I got lancer to level 11 and stopped, I just hate the class too much to continue.Leveling this god damn DRG to get "blood for blood" is destroying me,I swear.
WHYYYYYY is it so desperately needed for DPS
It didn't feel nearly as bad as when I had to level black mage to get swiftcast for my healers.
Sooo, I'm thinking of resubbing down the road, and figured I'd try and update the client (if I can do it without being subbed) to be able to jump back in on a whim whenever I have the time without wastind sub days on massive DLs.
Launching the PS4 client (not Beta, mind you: already googled that explaination) I get a Unable to Complete Version Check [20447][20526][whatever]. message on and on.
Can't find an official error guide to explain whats' wrong. Maybe it doesn't like the backup&restore I did to install a bigger HD in the console?
Any clue?
Launching the PS4 client (not Beta, mind you: already googled that explaination) I get a Unable to Complete Version Check [20447][20526][whatever]. message on and on.
Can't find an official error guide to explain whats' wrong. Maybe it doesn't like the backup&restore I did to install a bigger HD in the console?
Any clue?
I have a GTX 680. I did a driver update on Friday night. Since Friday, when playing FFXIV, my computer would randomly power off. I would get no error message, blue screen, or anything. This happened after about 5-10mins of playing FFXIV, and did not happen when playing any other game.
At first I checked my temps and made sure I wasn't overheating and everything looked fine. Then I remembered the driver update. I did a rollback to the previous version of the driver and it was totally fine, and was able to play FFXIV for as long as I wanted.
How the hell did a driver cause something so severe? Is this a known issue with the latest drivers?
At first I checked my temps and made sure I wasn't overheating and everything looked fine. Then I remembered the driver update. I did a rollback to the previous version of the driver and it was totally fine, and was able to play FFXIV for as long as I wanted.
How the hell did a driver cause something so severe? Is this a known issue with the latest drivers?
Is there any way for me to gift the griffin mount to a friend?
Still not finished the base game's story but was given the collector's edition of HW. Don't care for the mount at all. Can't seem to use the moogle mail thing to give it though. I haven't used the item yet if that makes any difference.
Still not finished the base game's story but was given the collector's edition of HW. Don't care for the mount at all. Can't seem to use the moogle mail thing to give it though. I haven't used the item yet if that makes any difference.
They would have to get the entire digital collector's edition upgrade for $20. The mount is an untradeable item.
Yeah, it happens to me too.
Like once every week though, not 5-10mins.
I've started playing on borderless fullscreen and now I rarely crashed...I guess alt-tabbing in full mode was the reason.
But who knows tbh with you...
Well, that's a shame! Was hoping to give it to them. Thanks for the quick response.
Unrelated, but is there a way to quickly see where the next main quest is? I spent so long levelling up my pugilist so I could become a bard that I forgot where it was...
You can't download patches without being subbed, it's really dumb.
Just check your journal and read the entry for the last quest. Hopefully it'll tell you which area you were in when the quest completed. Next quest should be in the same area.
Almost bought a 21:9 last week until I saw instances like this in other games. I'll wait until it's supported more
Well, that's a shame! Was hoping to give it to them. Thanks for the quick response.
Unrelated, but is there a way to quickly see where the next main quest is? I spent so long levelling up my pugilist so I could become a bard that I forgot where it was...
Check your Journal, it should say where the last one was.
Well if you are not paying the sub it stands to reason that they wouldn't be happy to devoting server bandwidth to you downloading large patches.
That is a dumb reason.
People want to be updated so they can play at any time when they do resubbed back in.
That's all. Don't know how this can seem strange. And anyway, I can't even get to the login page due to the error.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Got my DRG to level 50 earlier
I have two friends who wanted to download the patches before resubbing. It's not unreasonable for people to not want to fork over $14 to just download the updates so it's ready for them to play when they have time.
Yeah, sorry, I'm fine with them needing a sub fee before you start knocking on their server for downloads.
Yeah sure it would be nice to have but allowing every person who has ever played the game at some point to start downloading large files from the server is potentially a lot of additional resource and expense so I can see why they wouldn't want to do that. Plus there is no guarantee that any of those people will actually go on to be paying customers at any point. If it was a big issue maybe they could offer a grace period to download after you resub but I don't think this is such a big issue is it?
Are they that poor?
I can update pretty much a lot of my unsubbed MMO right now without a sub.
Then again...SE did mismanage their login error 2002 for 2 weeks so I am not surprise if we do somehow manage to knock down their servers from "free" downloads.
Edit: Seriously, how crappy are their servers? People are always complaining about latency in NA/EU saying that they can feel that .5-1 input delay.
I'm not so sure there's such a huge crowd of people that goes around DLing large files just to clog their HDs.
It's not like every single person who is not subbed is watching the lodestone for updates then each updating their clients when the patch drops and not playing.
Tons of f2p and b2p MMOs let you update whenever, but you might be right. This is SE's servers after all. They struggle under the strain of the currently subscribed.
It's not a big issue, it would just be a nice convenience for people who take several hours to download large patches to be able to download through the week so it's ready for them to resub on the weekend and jump right on.
Lol, Varth has the right idea.
It's world building.
Maybe there aren't that many people or maybe there are. But bandwidth is often at a premium and who knows how much capacity they have. It might not take that many people doing it to have an impact. Plus they would at least have to account for the possibility of the additional traffic that might generate.
irfaanator
Banned
Well, that's a shame! Was hoping to give it to them. Thanks for the quick response.
Unrelated, but is there a way to quickly see where the next main quest is? I spent so long levelling up my pugilist so I could become a bard that I forgot where it was...
can also check online to see where the next one starts
I'd just go ahead and chalk that under "SE needs to make the money they lost from 1.0 back and is trying to run the tightest ship possible"
djplaeskool
Member
FFXIV's rendition of Matoya's Theme is so good...
I remember when I put in my plans to resub I got annoyed by the fact I had to sub to even download the actual game data. So I couldn't just download the client, and then have it be ready to play once I resubbed.
The Elite
BOSS
All of that content was really good. Brought back memories.
No. FF14 is just another point/click MMO.
I am playing this on maximum setting and it doesn't look that good.
Great special effects and artstyle though.
Wait for Black Desert or even B&S this fall...or go play TERA >.>
It is still the best combat system to date.
I'm dying.
I'd give it a go, sure.
speedlolita
Member
Yeah I had a crash tabbing out of full when I began playing, switched borderless fullscreen and been fine since. Used the same on TERA too.
The sects basically have a basic change that impacts everything you do, and then a bonus effect that impacts your Aspected spells.
Diurnal sect is regen stance. It gives you a base 5% increase to cast speed, and then adds a regen to your Aspected Benefic (single target heal) and Aspected Helios (AOE heal) spells. These you use in addition to normal Benefic and normal Helios, not instead of. Think Medica and Medica II.
Nocturnal sect is shield stance. It makes all of your heals 5% stronger, and adds a shield to Aspected Benefic and Aspected Helios.
You cannot change stances in combat. Diurnal is generally preferred--the MP return is better than Nocturnal. Diurnal regen also stacks with WHM regen. If you have two AST, one should go in each stance as AST regens/shields do not stack. Neither do cards, so you have to be careful about not overwriting cards in a double-AST situation.
SliceSabre
Banned
You cannot 'sect dance' in combat which kinda sucks, so before a fight you need to decide which one you prefer to be in.
And several healer spells such as Aspected Helios change depending on your sect and Collective Unconscious can't even be used unless you're in a sect. No the spells are not separate, the spell simply changes effects depending the on sect you are in.
holdthephone
Neo Member
I've been running Sohm Al from lvl 54-56 and maxing out the MSQ until I cap it. Is this horribly inefficient or do I pretty much have the right idea?
SliceSabre
Banned
I just thought of something: Why isn't there a wide AoE heal spell akin to Cure III?
i.e. White Mage uses Medica III, for example, works like a combination of Cure III and Medica.
i.e. White Mage uses Medica III, for example, works like a combination of Cure III and Medica.
Some people FATE grind at N Than on even levels where they don't get chain bonus from dungeons but it's up to preference. Dungeon XP and FATE XP are probably 1 and 2 in efficiency if you can stomach the queue times or act of doing FATEs.
How Cure III's targeting works always seemed like a balance check to me since a Medica with Cure III's potency would be really strong especially considering it's hitting the MT too.
Most cases DS+Med is good enough. If not then just huddle up for Cure III. If you can't huddle up then that's why we don't have your idea of Medica III.