I like MTQCapture (way more succinct than Mr Happy), but I think so far she only has a Turn 6 guide up.
My group's going to make its first concerted effort at Turn 6 tonight. May the wipes be mostly painless.
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My group's going to make its first concerted effort at Turn 6 tonight. May the wipes be mostly painless.
Turn 8 is very reminiscent of Titan in that there is no randomness to it at all. It all comes down to your raid dealing with 100% predictable mechanics continuously. It's pretty fun.
Ballistic missiles and the landmines are RNG components of that fight. Sometimes they can get a little tricky depending where their land, specially the landmines.
Well, the positioning is random, but our group at least just has everyone besides the designated mine exploders run in on top of the boss so it doesn't really matter where they are, since that spot is 100% safe from any residual damage. Only other problem we ran into was when someone forgot where all of the mines were, but that didn't happen very often. Ballistic missiles weren't too bad since with everyone stacked up and a designated circle-helper priority, they'd go off without a hitch.
I posted this in the PS4 update thread, I hope it's ok here too.
Anyone else have a problem with their PS4 shutting off whilst trying to play FF14?
It was working yesterday, then today I installed the PS4 update, all ok, but when I start FF14 the PS4 powers off after you log in and the Square Enix title comes up.
Then when I turn the PS4 back on it starts in safe mode.
This happens everytime I try it. Any solutions?
Anyone else have a problem with their PS4 shutting off whilst trying to play FF14?
It was working yesterday, then today I installed the PS4 update, all ok, but when I start FF14 the PS4 powers off after you log in and the Square Enix title comes up.
Then when I turn the PS4 back on it starts in safe mode.
This happens everytime I try it. Any solutions?
Was running Tam-tara with a GLD tank who had to be new and probably skipped over all the explanations of how their enmity skills worked. I kept noticing that this person would /beckon the enemy. At first I thought they did it on accident and it became an afterthought. But, through-out the dungeon I kept seeing "Tank beckons to enemy". This person really thought this increases enmity.
I tried to explain a few times that this doesn't work, use flash and your combos. Maybe this person wasn't paying attention to chat or didn't understand English because it continued through to the end of the dungeon. I had to share that because that was the first time I've ever seen that. Weird and kinda funny as it was happening.
I tried to explain a few times that this doesn't work, use flash and your combos. Maybe this person wasn't paying attention to chat or didn't understand English because it continued through to the end of the dungeon. I had to share that because that was the first time I've ever seen that. Weird and kinda funny as it was happening.
AuthenticM
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Man, this sucks. My character was deleted. Is this normal ? I was told that we kept our characters from pre-2.0. I just reactivated my account and payed for a month, booted the game and I do not have any characters available.
edit: never mind. I had to switch servers and worlds until I found it. Weird.
edit: never mind. I had to switch servers and worlds until I found it. Weird.
Xux
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They're not on any of the data centers?
Your pre-2.0 character should be there, on whatever server you left it on. As far as I know, anyway... That was certainly the case at launch, and I haven't heard of them getting rid of characters since then.
AuthenticM
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Yes, thank you. I had forgotten that I created my character on the EU servers, to play with francophones.
edit: maybe I'll pay the 18$ so I can play on Ultros. We'll see.
edit: maybe I'll pay the 18$ so I can play on Ultros. We'll see.
Iorv3th
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Yep. I'll try reinstalling it I guess - seems like my only option.
That's interesting... you would think those would have been discontinued completely.
Whatever level/gear you finished 1.x with was transferred to 2.0. Those players still needed to do the main quest, however, before going on to end-game content. So for example, I had a GLD at level 30 with about 100K gil and that was available to me on my Legacy server when I started 2.0.
It's a 3rd party but fulfilled by Amazon. Probably just came upon a box of them I'm guessing.
I wouldn't recommend it at all... the new version is frequently on sale for that price or less.
EteRnal PAL
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That same exact thing happened to me last night. Been playing FFXIV perfectly fine since it released on PS4 and then last night, after getting the new PS4 firmware update, proceeded to boot the game up but then my PS4 locks up and gets stuck on a black screen. Tried holding the power button on the PS4 down to shut it off but that didn't work. I had to unplug the power cord and plug it back in.
PS4 restarts in Safe Mode and then boots up normally. I was able to login to FFXIV fine after that. Good luck and I hope you get the issue resolved.
kingofthedead45
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get major Nelson on the case!!!
Man fc chat in the wee hours of the morning is weird. Tacos for days.
OK. My original 30 days is running out, I'll just buy a time card.
I'm kicking myself for passing on the collectors edition when it was on sale. I didn't know how much I would enjoy this game and just got the standard edition.
All those Europeans.
I agree with you to a certain extent, and I did watch a video of a run of the dungeon beforehand from a PLD pov to get familiar with it! But on that particular boss, the tank just literally has to stand there and take it. I could see something going on with the crystals that the DPS were handling, but there's no way that I could have given instructions to the new players that were any better than what the healer was giving them! (and was pretty much discarded straight away.)
It's actually why I've been working on levelling up both WHM and SCH/SMN - so that I can learn the actual boss fight mechanics to explain to newer players. On the Diabolos fight - I was aware that our healer was selecting a door, but my instructions were to "tank/spank, and don't worry about anything, I'll take care of it. Oh and stun Nightmare".
I understand the fact about being the team leader, so to speak. But I find it strange that in FFXIV dungeons at least, tanks are the least qualified to guide anyone through anything that's not a "don't stand in aoe, kill boss" fight.
kingofthedead45
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Are we certain that only Extreme Primals and Coil count towards the Tank Mount achievements? Cause, I have a single completion towards the Lion mount for my PLD class, and while I don't remember clearing any Trials with PLD since the patch, I sure as heck know I haven't used that class for Coil or Extreme Primals since the patch.
I agree with you to a certain extent, and I did watch a video of a run of the dungeon beforehand from a PLD pov to get familiar with it! But on that particular boss, the tank just literally has to stand there and take it. I could see something going on with the crystals that the DPS were handling, but there's no way that I could have given instructions to the new players that were any better than what the healer was giving them! (and was pretty much discarded straight away.)
It's actually why I've been working on levelling up both WHM and SCH/SMN - so that I can learn the actual boss fight mechanics to explain to newer players. On the Diabolos fight - I was aware that our healer was selecting a door, but my instructions were to "tank/spank, and don't worry about anything, I'll take care of it. Oh and stun Nightmare".
I understand the fact about being the team leader, so to speak. But I find it strange that in FFXIV dungeons at least, tanks are the least qualified to guide anyone through anything that's not a "don't stand in aoe, kill boss" fight.
Yeah, I've noticed this. Tanks tend to be the most qualified to guide people through dungeuns, but, unless the Tank has gone into a fight a ton or times, or as another class, they tend not to be the best people to go to for advice for Bosses/Trials.
Alternatively, a lot of the videos for various turns and such, aren't helpful to us Tanks, because they aren't from the Tank perspective. You don't get so much when the video is flipped around from the direction you'll be doing the fight in. Also, the lack of Tank perspective often results in Tank mechanics getting brushed over without mention.
This is why we continually stress writing down the emergency removal password.
Chat support can fix it for you.
Oh congrats man!
Ta! All that waiting around for the duty wasn't too bad at least. I got my archers hunting log finished and got the bard quest outfit for hanging around, so I should be able to finish the story now with minimal grind.
This is why we continually stress writing down the emergency removal password.
Chat support can fix it for you.
I could have sworn I wrote it down somewhere but it's nowhere to be found
EDIT: Okay I did find the token. Do I enter it where I would normally enter the one time pass?
tiggerkiddo
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Turn 8 doesn't seem too bad...well except for being a massive DPS check...
EteRnal PAL
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Is Garuda that tough? Just got to her on my main quest. Plan on tackling her tonight. Any tips on what I should be doing as a Dragoon?
I don't think so, but people just fail to listen to help. Hide behind pillars after she teleports, destroy the feather adds ASAP and on her last teleport, stand as far back as possible. Should be pretty simple.
Seems like only yesterday you were you were being halted by the Titan EM roadblock.
They grow up so fast...
...*sniff* I'm sorry, there's something in my eye! Who put these onions here!!
Cheers. Turned out I had to do a PS4 reinitialise then redownload and install/update to fix it. I hope that doesn't happen again!
No, go here and click "how to remove the software token from your account"
Great! Just make sure to write down your new emergency password.
I would say Turn 8 is basically similar to Turn 4 in terms of what it is with some added random damage mechanics thrown in.
Nephitamine
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It's really not bad.
So, I guess it's finally dawned on me, that with the Animus grind over until they add the Novus upgrade, the only goals really left for me at this point is the War Mount Grind, oh and Second Coil, but that's not a daily thing. XD
So, what do you guys think will be more effective? Jumping into Leviathan Farms every chance I can get? Or spamming Turn 4?
So, what do you guys think will be more effective? Jumping into Leviathan Farms every chance I can get? Or spamming Turn 4?
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Like most fights, the hardest part is getting 8 people to learn the mechanics and reduce RNG as much as possible.
theSlacker
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Yeah, that's pretty accurate. Everything is exactly predictable and all the RNG is trivial. Just pew maximum pews.
Turn 4 is probably quicker and you can DF it quite easily.
This is why we continually stress writing down the emergency removal password.
Chat support can fix it for you.
Thanks for this. Just saved mine in case.
Don't say that until you've tried it.
lol, well I never thought T8 was that bad even in the beginning. Less stressful than T6 for sure.
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