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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| Raiders of the Void Ark
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PhillipCostigan
Member
there are two skills
Tri-Bind, and Tri-Disaster which is a new skill unlocked at level 56 that applies all three of your main DoTS in one off-GCD ability.
Apparently it's from the same NPC in Ul'dah where you get your 52 and 54 quests
Alright, I'm in. Not very keen on playing another MMORPG, but the more I see of the game, the more I wanna play it. So that's what I'm gonna do.
I applied for the GAF FC, since I'm on Ultros, but I can't yet apply ingame yet, because of the Trial time I wanna use.
Just need to decide between the standard version or the CE.
I applied for the GAF FC, since I'm on Ultros, but I can't yet apply ingame yet, because of the Trial time I wanna use.
Just need to decide between the standard version or the CE.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Finally hit 60, that final story dungeon and fight were too good, even better than the finale to Praetorium. Now time to get my item level up so I can do the endgame dungeons and prepare for Alexander (And hopefully find a group)
What's the best DPS tracker for FF14 right now, im trying to find a good one because I swear I out DPS others as MT most of the time.
Also, what's the fastest way to level alt classes for this expac, I want to get Pally to 60 after Dank Knight but sidequests are gonna be gone, are leves the best way?
Also, what's the fastest way to level alt classes for this expac, I want to get Pally to 60 after Dank Knight but sidequests are gonna be gone, are leves the best way?
ACT - Advanced Combat Tracker with FF14 plugin is best imo. Lot of Overlay plugins to see in-game as well.
FATE farming and Dungeons are still the best to level. Not sure about 51-60 though. Leves may be better there, and daily hunts give good quick xp (pretty much the replacement to hunting logs I feel for 51-60).
Audioboxer
Member
I've just hit level 10 and have been going solo. Just joined the GAF guild though.
Having fun, but a little overwhelmed as there is soo much to do! Navigating around on a PS4 isn't anywhere near as easy as my time with WoW on a PC, but I'm learning quick. Time for bed though -_-
DeadPhoenix
Member
...its gonna take a while to be able to get a character on ultros isn't it? Any idea on how long it might take? Or do I just need to get lucky or what?
djplaeskool
Member
Lawd.
This grind from 55→56 is oppressive.
Of course now that I've unlocked flight in W Coerthas, Drav Hinterlands, and Mist, I'm just FATE spammin'
This grind from 55→56 is oppressive.
Of course now that I've unlocked flight in W Coerthas, Drav Hinterlands, and Mist, I'm just FATE spammin'
56-57 is just as bad.
Why in the world are you doing fates? Go run dungeons. You get the same xp killing like 5 mobs in a dungeon that you do from a fate lmao
djplaeskool
Member
Well maybe you should go finish that oppresive grind in like 1/10th the time and do it later?
Doing sidequests, joining fates when one popped near while waiting for the next dungeon to come up wasn't so bad for me. Leves give decent xp too and don't forget about daily hunts which are basically free xp if you can fly.
58 - 59. Lol
Dougieflesh
Member
Bismark fight was awesome. Can't wait to do the extreme version
Select another server, create your character, save the appearance, wake up early tomorrow morning, select Ultros, remake the character by loading the appearance, name it, confirm, go back to bed.
Temporal Mess
Neo Member
So I just started playing and I just got my White Mage stone. I hear that interface addons aren't as popular (or even allowed?) in this game as they are in WoW. Is this true? Because back in my WoW days I used to have an addon that let me have all of my heals bound to my mouse and had macros that let me cast without targeting first. Is this possible in FFXIV?
Also, hi, I am a scrub on Faerie (NA) and don't have any friends.
Also, hi, I am a scrub on Faerie (NA) and don't have any friends.
irfaanator
Banned
there are no addons like that. but there is mouse over targeting. Where if you hover over the party member's name it acts like you are targeting them. Not sure if that's what you mean
I dunno what you guys are doing different but I experienced 0 grind.
I would just do all the side quests available and run a dungeon once. It wasn't until 57 I ran a dungeon more than once (The Vault and The Library) and that caused me to have plenty of side quests still available in the level 59 range when I hit 60 (My Aryz Lla is just full of quest icons).
Those side quests also gear you up at each level.
I would just do all the side quests available and run a dungeon once. It wasn't until 57 I ran a dungeon more than once (The Vault and The Library) and that caused me to have plenty of side quests still available in the level 59 range when I hit 60 (My Aryz Lla is just full of quest icons).
Those side quests also gear you up at each level.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I said I was going to take some screenshots so here we go.
First up is my character in the new level 50 Ninja garb. I like this better than the Ninja AF armor.
And then here's Soul Flarz and I building our camaraderie by the fireplace!
YES DPS DPS DPS.
First up is my character in the new level 50 Ninja garb. I like this better than the Ninja AF armor.
And then here's Soul Flarz and I building our camaraderie by the fireplace!
YES DPS DPS DPS.
Temporal Mess
Neo Member
Yesss! That's exactly what I mean. Is that done via macros or in the game options? Or somewhere else?
And by the addon I mean that I would have, let's say, Cure I bound to my right mouse button so all I needed to do was right click on the party member's name to start casting it? So I take it that binding to the mouse instead of the keyboard isn't possible here? Or at least, if it is, I'm too dumb to find it in the options pane.
I'm a level 48 Paladin (edit) at the moment and haven't played since I downloaded the update for Heavensward. How is the rebalanced xp for the story quests leading up to the new content, should I be able to run through just the story stuff to get there or will it still take me awhile?
I really want to hit 50 to get that xp bonus and hopefully get the Dark Knight class but this grind getting there was really putting me off.
I really want to hit 50 to get that xp bonus and hopefully get the Dark Knight class but this grind getting there was really putting me off.
I only ever hit a wall at 57-58, but by the time I ran out of sidequests and had done my daily hunts I just needed to run the Aery once. Seriously people, do your daily hunts as soon as you unlock them at 52.
That's roughly 115k for the first stack of bills, then you unlock the next batch at 52 which adds even more exp, and then you unlock level 2 and level 3 at 56 and 59. That's a lot of EXP a day for relatively little effort (especially after unlocking flying in all zones) and it seriously adds up, in addition to giving you a stockpile of centurio seals.
Also did Neverreap. Guess I can chalk that off as "Never doing it again unless it pops up in roulette."
...Didn't help the MCH didn't listen to the explanation and promptly got knocked off at the beginning of the last fight leaving me to DPS down the boss for 3/4 of his health by myself.
wtf go make an advanced class!
irfaanator
Banned
mouse over is a game option you can set. Im not sure where since I havent used it. The second question would be related to the mouse over again. I believe you can rebind mouse 1 and 2 but I'm not exactly sure if those two are specific binds that are inherent to the game. You can check the keybind setting in the options menu. Like my mouse has 4 extra buttons and I use those for skills
nobody's going to wait anymore after a GM explicitly said that pulling early wasnt an offense in any nature a while back
Temporal Mess
Neo Member
Perfect, thank you. That's exactly what I wanted to know because I have a bunch of extra mouse buttons too. I guess I'll start picking around more carefully in the options menus to try to figure it out.
Thanks again.
I'm sure WAR's and DRK's are overtuned and will be nerfed.
I'm a lvl 48 Pali, my bad. Im at the quest where you try out your Magitek. I've got a lvl 38 Nin also but stopped playing when I heard they were going to rebalance the story quest xp too speed up leveling till the new content.
Just wonder how long would it take to get there now after the update?
irfaanator
Banned
no problem
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Man, these new jobs are REALLY not for everyone. Ran Haukke last night as DRK to get a feel for it after running all of the dungeons up to it in succession and
AST doesn't cast Protect "my Conjurer is level 2
LNC casts protect, doesn't have any offensive buffs equipped, just cure and protect
MCH doesn't use Hot Shot, either reload, no Raging Strikes, no Blood for Blood...
I ran as MCH after that to see if the damage is as abysmal as people say and I think it comes down to people just not understanding the properties of the job and the skills, and the game itself being relatively easy so that having one or two duds in your party won't hobble you too bad and you get people in full bahamut gear who can't avoid AoE and don't have support skills that you get in single digits.
AST doesn't cast Protect "my Conjurer is level 2
LNC casts protect, doesn't have any offensive buffs equipped, just cure and protect
MCH doesn't use Hot Shot, either reload, no Raging Strikes, no Blood for Blood...
I ran as MCH after that to see if the damage is as abysmal as people say and I think it comes down to people just not understanding the properties of the job and the skills, and the game itself being relatively easy so that having one or two duds in your party won't hobble you too bad and you get people in full bahamut gear who can't avoid AoE and don't have support skills that you get in single digits.
Oh I don't think too long just go do all the quests you can find and run dungeons and do your roulettes I would think it'll take a week at most of very casual play.
This is why they apparently have said they're tuning new dungeons/raids to not factor in things like healer dps, to excuse the casual players who like to stand there for 10 seconds waiting for someone to get hurt because 'dps'ing isn't my role'...
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Right? Like I understand if it's your first time running a dungeon, especially higher level ones, but at least hit the mob with Aero lol
SliceSabre
Banned
Damn my Lala looks awesome in every cutscene. Finally hit level 58 AST and I'm a third of the way through it. PROGRESS!
Also Collective Unconscious is also a better skill than I first thought. Its very situation but it works perfectly in times that you know big damage is coming or having to deal with damage being inflicted over time.
I hate to admit it but you are right. I'll enjoy DRK while I can.
creid
Member
Wow, thanks. I had started keeping notes for myself on the ones that are labeled wrong, but this should be much easier.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
That 6K Fell Cleave.
Thanks a lot for this. Opening the inventory and rechecking coordinates multiple times was a huge pain.
So after hitting 60 and running Machinist through some stuff...
- Gauss Barrel is everything Minuet should have been, and isn't
- The damage delta is probably real but is much smaller between support classes in real-world applications than panicking Reddit people and people who just mindlessly regurgitate Reddit rhetoric would have you think. That one bad DF run you had with a Machinist is probably more about the player and less about the job being a lost cause.
- Turrets are fucking amazing
- I cannot stress enough how much Machinist benefits from its pseudo BLM-stance having an actual thought process behind it. Fights that were just a nonstop exercise in frustration on Minuet Bard are manageable and plannable on MCH.
I do think the class could use a potency buff and a slight reduction on the CDs for Reload and Quick Reload, but I don't think MCH in its current state is as broken as Bard in its current state is. More to the point, in actual content MCH can apparently hold its own with Bard so far (please note I'm not speaking for theoretical edge case perfect bards, so much as the 90% of bards you're likely to actually encounter), so it's a viable alternative as a support class. It's just one that is better thought-out currently and is a hell of a lot more fun to play. There's a reason a bunch of bards you run into in DF just flat out never touch Minuet.
So, yeah, Machinist has problems, but it is not a fundamentally broken job. Both it and Bard need some work, but Machinist needs much less to be worth using the full toolkit for.
- Gauss Barrel is everything Minuet should have been, and isn't
- The damage delta is probably real but is much smaller between support classes in real-world applications than panicking Reddit people and people who just mindlessly regurgitate Reddit rhetoric would have you think. That one bad DF run you had with a Machinist is probably more about the player and less about the job being a lost cause.
- Turrets are fucking amazing
- I cannot stress enough how much Machinist benefits from its pseudo BLM-stance having an actual thought process behind it. Fights that were just a nonstop exercise in frustration on Minuet Bard are manageable and plannable on MCH.
I do think the class could use a potency buff and a slight reduction on the CDs for Reload and Quick Reload, but I don't think MCH in its current state is as broken as Bard in its current state is. More to the point, in actual content MCH can apparently hold its own with Bard so far (please note I'm not speaking for theoretical edge case perfect bards, so much as the 90% of bards you're likely to actually encounter), so it's a viable alternative as a support class. It's just one that is better thought-out currently and is a hell of a lot more fun to play. There's a reason a bunch of bards you run into in DF just flat out never touch Minuet.
So, yeah, Machinist has problems, but it is not a fundamentally broken job. Both it and Bard need some work, but Machinist needs much less to be worth using the full toolkit for.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Quick question, if I buy the physical copy of the expansion, but own the digital base game, is that going to cause me any problems? (can get the xpac cheaper physical)