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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT| The Midas Touch
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Dangansona
Member
I'm a Bard and the level 50 quest The Gifted is kicking my butt (where you follow the white robed ascian). Any tips? Did anyone else have a hard time with this quest?
edgefusion
Member
Day 4 of Odin and Ravishan is already in trouble for hitting on someone's Catboyfriend.
k1t4j
Member
So I just unlocked the Heavenward content and my god the stuff that went down was crazy.
I was super pissed at the screen and creaming internally, let me fight them god dammit!!!!
I'll take you all on.
Please tell me
Where do I grab my new paladin skills? I see no paladin trainer in the city, do I go back to Ul'dah? I am 55 at the moment.
I was super pissed at the screen and creaming internally, let me fight them god dammit!!!!
I'll take you all on.
Please tell me
the scions are ok, I don't want to too many spoilers though. That's why I won't google it but it's killing me I need to know 
Where do I grab my new paladin skills? I see no paladin trainer in the city, do I go back to Ul'dah? I am 55 at the moment.
creid
Member
Go back to the job trainer in Ul'dah, that should lead you to new job quests at 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60.
Have you no shame?
Ragingnight
Member
how is ultros population? I'm on sargatanas and it doesn't seem that populated? feels like a med server at best
Caelestis
Member
Sargatanas was awesome until euro servers came out, now it's just dead.
k1t4j
Member
You guys on Odin? me too Kitaj El'Shadai is my character's name
Thanks mate I found it, I went there every 2 levels after 50 but it mist have unlocked when I reached Ishgard.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Last I saw Sargatans and Ultros were like a few spots apart on the census, mildly in Sargatanas' favour.
A Japanese site posted these census numbers taken from lodestone recently. I believed the rankings here are based on lv. 60 players. http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckybancho/imgs/0/1/015a1b82.png
It seems like the number of people logging on the GAF FC has been down, especially during the week, but I'm still seeing way more pf's especially since relic started.
It seems like the number of people logging on the GAF FC has been down, especially during the week, but I'm still seeing way more pf's especially since relic started.
Ragingnight
Member
Sargatanas was awesome until euro servers came out, now it's just dead.
ehhhhh lol. I thought ultros was one of the better pop servers? I guess I was wrong
Because it's probably going to come up eventually, A4S Mount Count by server.
This is a considerably worse metric to judge by than Louisoix was for T13, because it's 1 per group per clear and not 1 per player per clear. The number is definitely under since depending on how long a given group's been clearing they'll represent between 1 and 8 mounts, and it's possible for 1-chest clears to not count at all if they got the weapon chest. Ultros actual clear count is at least 70, even though we're listed at 28.
It's still somewhat useful to see how servers rank relative to each other, but is unfortunately not a great way to gauge actual clears (I really wish A3S gave a minion or something, too--I'd like to see how much of the population that got 3 also got 4 vs gave up.)
This is a considerably worse metric to judge by than Louisoix was for T13, because it's 1 per group per clear and not 1 per player per clear. The number is definitely under since depending on how long a given group's been clearing they'll represent between 1 and 8 mounts, and it's possible for 1-chest clears to not count at all if they got the weapon chest. Ultros actual clear count is at least 70, even though we're listed at 28.
It's still somewhat useful to see how servers rank relative to each other, but is unfortunately not a great way to gauge actual clears (I really wish A3S gave a minion or something, too--I'd like to see how much of the population that got 3 also got 4 vs gave up.)
Which is weird unless they think a people on Zodiark 4-manned it or all transferred off to buy it and then back.
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Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
Hey guys and gals. Does anyone know how to write a macro? I'm interested in writing a macro for my Bard to perform buffs. But I don't know how to write it. I want to perform 3 buffs - Internal Release, Featherfoot, and Hawk's Eye in one macro. These buffs enhance my critical hit, speed, and DEX.
If there's one thing I've learned in my many years of reading this thread it's don't do this!!!
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Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
May I ask why not?
Yup. The short answer is don't do this.
Even if you were going to macro, these three skills make no sense to macro together. Featherfoot is a purely defensive buff (increases your evasion) that you'd only pop when being attacked and has nothing to do with the other two.
Internal Release is on a 60 second Cooldown timer and Hawk's Eye is 90 seconds, so you will activate both at close to the same time on pull but they become staggered after that. Macroing them together is a mistake for a number of reasons, but the most obvious one at this point is that you don't use them together every time.
You used to be able to get away with macroing Hawk's Eye and Blood For Blood together (since you hold B4B for HE every time), but even that's sloppy now with cast times since you can't double oGCD.
The only good macro is the Flaming Arrow macro due to the way FA and cast times work together like motor oil and peanut butter:
/micon "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow"
lets you fake queueing FA if you hit it at the end of the cast.
IF YOU INSIST on macroing (seriously, don't do this. Please. Please don't.), the above is basically how it works. /ac "Skill Name" and it will fire off the lines all at once. add a <wait.1> to the end of the line if you want it to fire off lines sequentially; without the wait it'll usually do the first thing and then fail to do all the other ones because you're animation locked. However, the waits are full second waits. With a cast time you don't have multiple full seconds in between GCDs, so it's a bad fit (it's always been bad, but in the post-Minuet world it's worse.)
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Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
I really appreciate the tip. I understand that Bard is a support role and I don't want to let my party down. I usually try to buff my party at the beginning with Swiftsong and debuff a group of enemies using Foe Requiem. Then buff myself. I'm level 50. But I'm only at lvl 33 story quests. I won't be using macros. And I appreciate any other advice y'all have.
Thank you.
If you want a giant overwhelming wall of text, this is the go-to How To Bard guide of the moment.
A lot of it won't make sense and a lot of it you won't have access to yet, but it's a good thing to have handy for eventually. As you get into later content you'll run into situations where you need to use your buffs multiple times during the fight, so that can be handy to have.
Most important thing is willingness to learn, though, so you're off to a really solid start.
I didn't even enter Verminion until this week!
let's play
Out of curiosity I checked my post history for Verminion and LoV and I didn't scoff at it much at all!
Ark's ok. Don't know much about Blizzana. Do these guys have an iTunes feed? Oh they do but you search for FrostyTV and not Mogtalk.
Eh, they're first and foremost a DPS. Bringing up "support role" often seems like a way for players to write off or justify their own low DPS as something intrinsic to the job. Not to say you're doing that but just a thought.
sensui-tomo
Member
So my friends were able to pull me back into playing this game and man am i loving it now (some reason i didnt feel it the last time) So this brings me to a question which i didnt see on the main page. Is there a way to make the keyboard useful for this game? (we usually chat via discord and whatnot so typing to chat doesnt suit me much) since i'd like to be able to get things done more effectively, I've really never played mmos much (i do understand roles and whatnot) but keybinds and that stuff usually goes over my head, i've been switching on and off arcanist (going to be summoner) and Con (going to be a WHM ) depending on our group setup since i feel like Arcanist feels like a Debuff/support like class (while doing good damage)
To sum it up, is there a guide or anything so i can set up a keyboard on the ps4 and be effective in playing with my friends while also using controller?
To sum it up, is there a guide or anything so i can set up a keyboard on the ps4 and be effective in playing with my friends while also using controller?
I played on controller and had a keyboard for communication only. I'd imagine it'd be a giant pain trying to hit a keyboard bound cooldown while having hands on controller. Controller was sufficient enough on its own, but I'm not really sure what you're asking.
sensui-tomo
Member
oh, i thought there was a way to use all of the keyboard to use different attacks outside of the 8 on each shoulder button. (like pressing W would activate Cure or something) if thats even possible.
basically using a keyboard as attacks or whatever while using controller to aim/move
You could but that sounds really inefficient, versus just doing all your attacks on controller. You'd also have one hand off the controller so you could only move OR aim. You might be overthinking the utility of a keyboard with controller.
Have you dug into expanded hold controls? That gives you another 16 crossbar slots to use.
sensui-tomo
Member
I only use zzz so that's a lie!
xxczx
Member
/busy
PhillipCostigan
Member
we got our weekly clear for A3S and then the server died just as we left the instance
holy moly
holy moly
Been on Cerberus all evening and did not get disconnected .
Perhaps its only a few servers that are out ?
Edit ; all servers show online on Lodestone : http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/
edgefusion
Member
I've not even been here a week and the data centre blows up ;-;
Sounds like chaos.
SliceSabre
Banned
Sub ran out today and I meant to cancel it. Realized it actually renewed yesterday so I was super late cancelling it.
Just when I think I'm gonna get out...
Just when I think I'm gonna get out...
Oh well, did get those goblin veteran rewards.
That graph shows story progression based on server. The number in the first column represents Active players. Ultros is slightly higher (16k) vs. Sar (15k).
My crappy JP server only has like 8k. Maybe I should switch before I advance too far but aleady feels like too much work with just a handful of classes at 10-15. Not sure if its worth the gold spammers though.
seems like something up your alley ken
.........huh
irfaanator
Banned
seems like something up your alley ken
lol