Hm, I have the expansion too but I haven't reached 50 yet. Shouldn't I have to reach 50 or 60 to play Au'Ra?
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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| Raiders of the Void Ark
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Hm, I have the expansion too but I haven't reached 50 yet. Shouldn't I have to reach 50 or 60 to play Au'Ra?
Pyros_Eien
Member
You can play au'ra as long as you have the expansion, regardless of levels. You do need a fantasia to change race though, or make a new char.
Understood, I see them in the option! I probably just didn't pay attention when I made my first character. lol
cultureculture
Member
Scrooge McDuck agrees:
I'm looking forward to getting my crafters to 60 so that I stop getting blindsided by jumps in how much progress I can get etc.
SliceSabre
Banned
[Follow-up] Aether Data Center Maintenance Extension (Jul. 14)
We in Aether are the troublemaker data center.
We in Aether are the troublemaker data center.
cultureculture
Member
I remember when Primal had so many issues, they posted an update about issues on the "Gaial" data centre because they were so used to copy-and-pasting "Primal Data Centre Technical Difficulties".
Audioboxer
Member
lol oops, accidentally posted this in the FF15 topic:
Damn I got hooked on Triple Triad the last few days and levelling has suffered lol. Only at 27. Just done the main quest in that fairy place where they make you dance nonstop. Whoever made that quest line is a bastard!
Need to hit 30 to accept a quest from gegeruju so I can challenge him for cards. You need to be 30 to accept a 30 quest, right? Unsure if I can accept it at 29 or something?
Managed to win 10,000 on mini cactpot which helped buy some gold card packs.
Damn I got hooked on Triple Triad the last few days and levelling has suffered lol. Only at 27. Just done the main quest in that fairy place where they make you dance nonstop. Whoever made that quest line is a bastard!
Need to hit 30 to accept a quest from gegeruju so I can challenge him for cards. You need to be 30 to accept a 30 quest, right? Unsure if I can accept it at 29 or something?
Managed to win 10,000 on mini cactpot which helped buy some gold card packs.
Spehornoob
Member
Question about crafting: I have a level 50 BSM, but not the gear to do really high level stuff.
Do I have to gear/materia him up significantly to continue onto 50-60 crafting content, or can I buy leveling gear like you can for 50-60 Combat Classes?
Do I have to gear/materia him up significantly to continue onto 50-60 crafting content, or can I buy leveling gear like you can for 50-60 Combat Classes?
Haman Karn
Member
Should be fine just with buying NQ vendor gear... Sure it might be a more of a pain to craft some HQ collectables but it's cheaper than buying a bunch of HQ stuff and melding it just to throw it out later
Sir Griffith
Member
Edit: oops, you said 3.0 cards.
As far as which order to go in, I'm not sure it matters. All the new NPCs are a bit annoying with random/roulette/chaos rules being the main offenders.
I remember Estinien (Gribillont) and Count Edmondt de Fortemps (Marielle) being the easiest, so you can start with those two. For Marielle, she plays in a set order and can easily be manipulated with the right deck. I think my first 3 cards were Scions, and my last 2 cards were Shanatoto and Gilgamesh, and that gave me like a 90% win rate.
I would save Aymeric (Yayake) and Matoya (Midnight Dew) for later when you get better cards with 8 values. Definitely save Hilda (Idle Imperial) for last when you have as many rare cards for random rule as possible.
I'll be on the look out for that then. I didn't think the fight was/is to hard but I swear people don't know how to dodge.
lazybones18
Banned
Finally got that Nidhogg card. Eat a dick, RNG
Still need Bismarck and Ravana
Decided I'm gonna work on my Lvl 50 gathering classes so I'll have something to do. Got the Collectible action but I'm concerned. I never bothered to get any of blue gathering tools/gear/accessories before 3.0 and it would seem that I would need to turn in items that could potentially be 2-star or even 3-star for exp and scrips. So I'm kinda boned, aren't I? And what is the Special Folklore category for anyway?
Still need Bismarck and Ravana
Decided I'm gonna work on my Lvl 50 gathering classes so I'll have something to do. Got the Collectible action but I'm concerned. I never bothered to get any of blue gathering tools/gear/accessories before 3.0 and it would seem that I would need to turn in items that could potentially be 2-star or even 3-star for exp and scrips. So I'm kinda boned, aren't I? And what is the Special Folklore category for anyway?
Sir Griffith
Member
My grind for these will soon begin. Probably going to do hard mode for primals because fuck pugs for the extreme versions.
The Elite
BOSS
I was happy with the zones the way they were so I will complain all I want.
Once that flying starts they really are perfect though.
I think they need to work out how to reward flying though. I don't like it being tied into MSQ quests. Honestly, I would just prefer if you could it just from searching for the currents.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it being tied to MSQs at it lets you get familiar with the land and you're not just breezing past everything during the story. I don't think it should be tied to sidequests though, since most of them aren't really fun enough to do without being able to fly.
Pyros_Eien
Member
You're fucked in the sense that you won't be able to gather the best collectables right away, but instead the shittier one. It starts with like a 2star or whatever but it's actually dumb easy compared to the rest(it is 50 instead of 51), I was doing it not so bad with unmelded AF and classquest/militia tools on my botanist, so yeah. But like anything higher level than that I could only get like 1 item and I had to dump 600GP everytime. I just mostly leveled it slow over time, doing GC daily, I'm 58 now and I still haven't bothered with collectable since.
However it is useful to note that you can in fact buy main hand tools very easily(pretty much every vendor has a tools section that sells NQ main hand tools every 2levels), and at 55 you can buy a full set of gathering(crafting too) armor at the moghome vendor. Offhands I'm not sure, I know the 59 and currently best ones are sold in
Matoya's Cave
Vincent Grayson
Member
Yup. I hit 52 PLD about 1 quest into HW MSQ. Just from doing the necessary story quests, and the few dungeon excursions required, along with maybe one or two low-level roulettes.
Haman~ It's the first time I see you on GAF. （´・ω・｀）
Can anyone give me pointers for leveling my BSM desynth?
I'm stuck at 80 and there's conveniently no easily crafted 80-110 gear to get me caught up to the HW baseline stuff. I want to be able to choose between conversion or desynth, but right now it looks like I'm going to be farming EX primals and rolling against 6 other people who are probably greeding and vendoring stuff.
I'm stuck at 80 and there's conveniently no easily crafted 80-110 gear to get me caught up to the HW baseline stuff. I want to be able to choose between conversion or desynth, but right now it looks like I'm going to be farming EX primals and rolling against 6 other people who are probably greeding and vendoring stuff.
You could also try joining an undersized garuda pony farm, most people don't care for the weapon drop so you'll likely only be rolling against one or two.
I agree with this; I had no problem with having to thoroughly explore an area on foot and finish the primary business for which the story took me there before I could fly. Plus, coming back out of the dungeon and having immediate access to flight felt like a great reward.
Imagine the travel section of the MSQ (from Ishgard to the Mist) with flying already available. Yeah nope. They just need to not put the aether quests after some other regular non MSQ side-quests.
Teletraan1
Banned
DF groups for just Bismarck Hard yesterday were hilarious. I went in blind as i always do as a DPS and the fight seemed pretty simple. Does having the snakes together give them some sort of toughness buff that reduced the damage they take because these runs were even more precious and hilarious if so.
After at least 3 vote abandon runs that ended in all sorts of crazy ways. We got the second snake down to ~8% while the damn snakes were too close for a good 15-20 seconds. You could see a link between them and their health bars were hardly moving. The tanks throw a fit tell us that our dps sucks that this isn't going to work AT ALL and rage quit. Them assholes leave and we get 2 competent tanks, the snakes melt away with no LB or anything and we win.
After at least 3 vote abandon runs that ended in all sorts of crazy ways. We got the second snake down to ~8% while the damn snakes were too close for a good 15-20 seconds. You could see a link between them and their health bars were hardly moving. The tanks throw a fit tell us that our dps sucks that this isn't going to work AT ALL and rage quit. Them assholes leave and we get 2 competent tanks, the snakes melt away with no LB or anything and we win.
So buy/craft things that are typically 100-200k+ apiece that I need potentially hundreds of... or farm primals that wherein I have to:
A) see dropped weapons that are classified as BSM and not GSM/CRP/ALC...
B) win against X many other people who probably don't care about my desynth level.
If I wanted to farm cards/ponies and try to convince everyone to pass on BSM weapon drops, I can do the following:
Mog HM: i75 weapons (might be too low)
Titan HM: i80 weapons
Levi EX: i95 weapons (might be too high)
Turn 5: i95 weapons (might be too high)
Ramuh EX: i100 weapons (probably too high)
Shiva EX: i110 weapons (definitely too high)
I can see myself farming some of these without pulling my hair out with an undersized party under the guise of pony/card farming. (edit: not for Mog or Titan, EX only gives accessories
)But basically Square Enix needs to make more ilvl 80-110 craftables to fill this gap that don't require your firstborn to create.
Have you actually looked at the cost of materials? How much do you think 110-180 BSM desynth costs? If it's already too expensive for you at level 80, give up now.
So I got this email as soon as I tried to log in last night. Is this something I should be worried about? I changed my password of course... but I'm a little confused. I had to restart my modem/router before which would have given me a new IP, so would that be the cause of this?
So I got this email as soon as I tried to log in last night. Is this something I should be worried about? I changed my password of course... but I'm a little confused. I had to restart my modem/router before which would have given me a new IP, so would that be the cause of this?
I remember receiving that mails lots of time long time ago during ARR launch. They stopped sending them once I used the one-time password thing that came with my CE.
LTW desynth has been surprisingly cheap and easy so far in HW. Sohm Al is the best thing ever. I need an excuse to go back and run it a million more times, because all the gear is leather and nobody rolls on most of it.
This is the answer. Without One Time Password, SE treats every IP change as a potential hack.
This is the answer. Without One Time Password, SE treats every IP change as a potential hack.
Yeah but you see, HW throws a bunch of gear at me through quests and leves and whatever that I could desynth for free.
And actually, HQ 115 weapons are cheaper than Perfect Pestles, lol.
What exactly are minions for? Can they help you in battle or something?
That would explain it! I've just been logging in normally each time. Will fix that up a bit later, thanks!
That would explain it! I've just been logging in normally each time. Will fix that up a bit later, thanks!
They serve to sell to kagari and get rich off it.
irfaanator
Banned
minions are just vanity
Minuet is clunky, Gauss Barrel is pretty smooth in general. All your 1-2-3 procs make your shots instant-cast so there's a lot of room on the player-side to work around the cast time. You have a lot of tools built around the idea of having a cast bar and dealing with that.
I just want to say that Deathflare is a beautiful skill and I love it. Summoner became really fun to play with the expac, and quite powerful too. I'm still adapting to the idea of managing to keep Aetherflow and Dreadwyrm Trance up all the time, but I'm doing quite well in dungeon bosses. Don't know how hard it is on the harder content.
Gotcha. Some of them are so weird! Thanks guys.
I wouldn't say stopped! More or less just play if someone needs my help at this point. Kinda shifted over to this game... Rather addicting
I wouldn't say stopped! More or less just play if someone needs my help at this point. Kinda shifted over to this game... Rather addicting
Beaten to "Minuet is shit, GB is awesome."
But um... GB really is great as long as you commit to the playstyle. It doesn't really play like anything else, and trying to treat it like anything else is going to be an exercise in frustration. It's less free than 2.x bard, and requires forethrought for when it's best to plant vs when to move in a way that's less punishing than Minuet or BLM. I think a lot of the complaints about GB come from people who kind of just want to prolong the pre-52 MCH playstyle, but pre-52 MCH isn't a fully realized job. GB makes it more complicated but also more rewarding when you do it right.
But um... GB really is great as long as you commit to the playstyle. It doesn't really play like anything else, and trying to treat it like anything else is going to be an exercise in frustration. It's less free than 2.x bard, and requires forethrought for when it's best to plant vs when to move in a way that's less punishing than Minuet or BLM. I think a lot of the complaints about GB come from people who kind of just want to prolong the pre-52 MCH playstyle, but pre-52 MCH isn't a fully realized job. GB makes it more complicated but also more rewarding when you do it right.
So essentially, GB doesn't allow for much mobility cuz there's no auto, is that right? I mean... unless you're dodging for a prolonged amount of time, it seems like GB being on is the way to go, right?
Aero 3 looks cool and I use it whenever I think tank damage is low enough/HoTs are high enough for me to sneak it in before SC Holy. Because it looks cool, and appearance is important.
GB on is generally the smart approach, especially as gear scales. There are currently I think very specific edge cases where toggling it off may have a slight numerical advantage (maybe--the parses I saw were literally 6 DPS ahead for dancing, and 5 of those were turret damage, so really only 1 DPS), but generally you want it on.
The thing MCH has, and Bard doesn't, is the ammo and proc system. If you have a proc'd shot on the 2 or 3 skills, it has no cast time. You can use ammo to guarantee procs. So if you know you have to do a couple of dodges in 10 seconds, you can use ammo to store procs to let you leave GB on and still attack while moving. Rapid Fire also gives you 3 instant-cast weapon skills. If you know you have to move constantly for an extended period of time, then maybe turn it off... But for the most part the entire point of the job seems to be figuring out how to balance mobility and damage.
I'm really bad at it, but it's more fun than Bard where when you know movement is coming you... Just keep doing the same thing because Minuet is half baked trash.
GB on is generally the smart approach, especially as gear scales. There are currently I think very specific edge cases where toggling it off may have a slight numerical advantage (maybe--the parses I saw were literally 6 DPS ahead for dancing, and 5 of those were turret damage, so really only 1 DPS), but generally you want it on.
The thing MCH has, and Bard doesn't, is the ammo and proc system. If you have a proc'd shot on the 2 or 3 skills, it has no cast time. You can use ammo to guarantee procs. So if you know you have to do a couple of dodges in 10 seconds, you can use ammo to store procs to let you leave GB on and still attack while moving. Rapid Fire also gives you 3 instant-cast weapon skills. If you know you have to move constantly for an extended period of time, then maybe turn it off... But for the most part the entire point of the job seems to be figuring out how to balance mobility and damage.
I'm really bad at it, but it's more fun than Bard where when you know movement is coming you... Just keep doing the same thing because Minuet is half baked trash.
Augemitbutter
Member
i don't get neverreap anymore. it's always fractal in roulette. i was in there 3x at the start of my career. i only remember the whirlwinds.
the dps in those dungeons dropped off considerably since alex launched. it's like i'm fighting a neverending battle. have to rest my hands after a run.
the dps in those dungeons dropped off considerably since alex launched. it's like i'm fighting a neverending battle. have to rest my hands after a run.