AFK Healing is easy in Tam-Tara though, especially if the Tank is new and doesn't do big pulls, I basically put on /follow and let Eos do her job.
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AFK Healing is easy in Tam-Tara though, especially if the Tank is new and doesn't do big pulls, I basically put on /follow and let Eos do her job.
Depths of Orion
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Don't forget the dps that run in, aggro a whole room, and bitch when they die.
ARRs quest system in a nutshell.
Step 1 do menial tasks for villagers because x npc doesn't trust y motivations.
Step 2 Finish menial task and do slightly less menial task while your progress is further halted by x npc halting y action.
Step 3 Npc betrays character, usually very easy to see coming within the first encounter of said NPC.
Step 4, goal that you were looking for was right around the corner and would have taken anyone 5 minutes of their time to point out, however every NPC in FF14 is a dick.
Step 5, reveal plans of bad guy npc and become heralded hero of location.
Step 6, travel to new location and repeat step 1-6.
Step 1 do menial tasks for villagers because x npc doesn't trust y motivations.
Step 2 Finish menial task and do slightly less menial task while your progress is further halted by x npc halting y action.
Step 3 Npc betrays character, usually very easy to see coming within the first encounter of said NPC.
Step 4, goal that you were looking for was right around the corner and would have taken anyone 5 minutes of their time to point out, however every NPC in FF14 is a dick.
Step 5, reveal plans of bad guy npc and become heralded hero of location.
Step 6, travel to new location and repeat step 1-6.
BadenBadenLily
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What lance is that at 00:19?
Lanrutcon
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High Allagan Spear it looks like.
BadenBadenLily
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LOL. it totally would drop in T9. The one 2.0 content that you can't just faceroll unsynced, assuming you can even find anyone to run it with you in the first place w/o having a poetics bonus. >.>
Not gonna torture myself just for the glamour.
DarknessTear
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Last I checked you can faceroll it! Hell, you can kinda-sorta faceroll A4S if you get people who can do the... royal... p-- what was it? ANYWAY.
Pretty sure last time I farmed A4s we killed it at the first set of pentacles. Or even before. Don't even have to know how to do those any more
Everyone can get those welfare Gobwalkers now xD
AuthenticM
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How can tanks and healers solo the main story quest?
Lanrutcon
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Had fun with A10s last night will clear it one day
https://twitter.com/Chille_UK/status/834935975147110401
https://twitter.com/Chille_UK/status/834935975147110401
AuthenticM
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They go away from keyboard?
Dandy Crocodile
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As a SCH I just get my DoTs going then spread them if I need to. Fairy keeps me fully healed so no worries there.
It can be slow sometimes but it's effective.
UtterlyPerplexed
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Healers have Cleric Stance that swaps their Mind attribute with Intelligence, so their usual offensive spells hit more than a wet blanket.
The tanks are capable of killing things on their own as well, some perhaps considerably more efficiently than others. Heck, Warriors are practically pseudo-DPS already.
The main story quest fights aren't all that dps-intensive. Tanks can go into off-tank stance and just go to town. Tanks can do pretty good damage on their own if they want to.
They could for most things, toss on auto attack and go make food, should be fine.
EndcatOmega
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Stop encouraging Gryvan.
As a SCH I switch to SMN for solo story quests.
Dandy Crocodile
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That makes a lot of sense, haha. I tend to forget I literally have a leveled and geared DPS class ready to go as well.
BossDarkseid
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So PoTD is best way to level a new class now?
Never tried it but want to try out Conjurer etc from my 58 Dragoon...
Never tried it but want to try out Conjurer etc from my 58 Dragoon...
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Nah, you can't faceroll it really. I've been in farm parties that wipe very easily. Much easier than launch but you know not everyone can clear it.
Just have a Tank that Spins Nael and fucks up her AI. :>
lmao 😂😂😂
SynthFetish
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That was me when I was still learning, it had been so easy to just kill everything so fast that I didn't even think and rushed in Diablo 3 style. Whole party just cracked up laughing, all realizing how green I was.
I didn't bitch though, I thought it was funny.
I've had no issues, I've only played with a controller so some stuff is a little tougher, like raids. But the DPS is solid.
Dandy Crocodile
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Wow, getting Ifrit in duty finder is super nice. Easy battle that only takes a few minutes instead of a whole dungeon!
Healers have Cleric Stance/DPS stance and tanks have their own DPS stance.
I did the entire story up to current patch as a Conjurer/White Mage. No problem killing things.
BossDarkseid
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I double checked. It's one giant 18GB patch. Each file in it is named for a patch apparently. But it still downloads a patch file and then updates then downloads the next one....
BossDarkseid
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Huh. I hadn't really noticed that before. I guess 100min is better than June, at least :
Pollux
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Is it possible to get by in most high end content with a controller?
Yes. I'd say most people play with a controller. Or at least half the populace does
You're fine. Some of the top 1% players use controllers even when playing on PC. There are many tricks that make controller easy.
(I'm terrible at controller so someone else could help you with them)
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Absolutely. This game is incredibly comfortable on PS4 for me with it.
The only scenarios that I feel like controller is a real barrier on:
- Healing outside your party in a 24-man alliance; there's some way to scroll through the alliance list but I don't do it enough to care so I end up just tabbing through a billion people
- 72 man PVP as a DPS, particularly Shatter. Targeting the crystal can be a struggle.
Neither is insurmountable, but both can be frustrating for control reasons.
Everything else is a matter of just working out crossbars that make sense to you, making use of extended bars, setting up target filtering, and adjusting the camera to Maximize tab target convenience.
Also Verminion kind of sucks on controller but nobody cares about Verminion.
Is there a place I can go to read about how to set some of this stuff up/good practices/habits for controllers? Seems like it'd be useful to figure out how I could actually configure things since I've only been using the default setup.
This is probably all the information you could ever need about target filtering basics./
Expanded crossbar is just a setting to make L2+R2/R2+L2 pull up a new crossbar that you map skills to. You can google around to find job-specific crossbar layouts; there's also the new W-hotbar but it's super situational and not worth worrying about until you have a problem the normal crossbar can't handle which in a lot of cases never happens.
The camera thing is just that if you're using left and right on the Dpad to scroll through targets, it only scrolls through things the camera can 'see'. You can restrict the number of things you have to click through by positioning the camera to limit what's on screen/preposition the camera to make it easier to drop targeted AOE skills.
After 3 days of switching back to summoner, all the muscle memory from my old hotbar setup came back. I was so happy with how I had it set up at 50 and now I'm worried about trying to find spots for the HW skills that will seem intuitive.
I'm not good at macros but I know there's a way to do this if someone can help. Basically I want it macroed so when I use Dreadwyrm Trance it switches to a different hotbar that is set up with all the abilities id cast in trance (ruin 3, tri-disaster....)Then a macro to have it switch back to original hotbar when I use Deathflare
I'm not good at macros but I know there's a way to do this if someone can help. Basically I want it macroed so when I use Dreadwyrm Trance it switches to a different hotbar that is set up with all the abilities id cast in trance (ruin 3, tri-disaster....)Then a macro to have it switch back to original hotbar when I use Deathflare
Pollux
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Good advice so far. Thanks guys.
What's the best way to level a secondary job?
Have a rogue at 28 and pugilist at 17 but I wanted to mess around with an arcanist and have no clue how to level that up quickly. Currently 4, should I just kill things until 10 and then do leve quests?
What's the best way to level a secondary job?
Have a rogue at 28 and pugilist at 17 but I wanted to mess around with an arcanist and have no clue how to level that up quickly. Currently 4, should I just kill things until 10 and then do leve quests?
I can't remember where I read this - probably reddit - but I set up a macro on L3 that is just "target of target" so I can target someone who is attacking the crystal and click the left stick to instantly switch to the crystal myself. Much easier than tabbing through a horde of people. It's also useful when DPSing as healer, you can instantly switch between targetting the tank and the boss.
Also the non-alliance target is L1 and left/right on the dpad. Easier than trying to manually target but you have to be in range for it to work. I got a lot of use out of that in this week's Dun Scaith run...
I went through The Binding and Second Coil of Bahamut with other lvl. 60 players via Party Finder, and I gotta ask:
How the hell was Twintania back in ARR? Someone who had done the raid before but didn't know English very well tried to explain to us what we should do and we wiped 5 times until we got it right. And we were lvl. 60, damn!
There must be some sidequests left for you to do (since you have Rogue and Pugilist, Gridania and the Black Shroud should have some low-level sidequests).
Beyond that, levequests, duty roulettes when you're able to, and maaybe FATEs. I heard that Palace of the Dead is a good way to grind for EXP, but I've never done it
How the hell was Twintania back in ARR? Someone who had done the raid before but didn't know English very well tried to explain to us what we should do and we wiped 5 times until we got it right. And we were lvl. 60, damn!
There must be some sidequests left for you to do (since you have Rogue and Pugilist, Gridania and the Black Shroud should have some low-level sidequests).
Beyond that, levequests, duty roulettes when you're able to, and maaybe FATEs. I heard that Palace of the Dead is a good way to grind for EXP, but I've never done it
Palace of the dead. Gives out tons of xp, is quick to get in and out, and has its own leveling and gear system so you can try a lv 60 class (will be a bit gimped without job stone thoug) way before you actually reach 60.
Here's the quest if you haven't unlocked it yet: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/The_House_That_Death_Built
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