People could always buy their own off the market board...
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT5| All You Need is Gil
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People could always buy their own off the market board...
I've just spent 300k on a room. Ain't nobody got time for that
unless you craft... Or fancy buying gil...
Makes me glad there's not much drama on Adamantoise, as hilarious as it sounds. The worst anyone complains here is just about the FC Mimic, and only because some of their members pull too early.
Yeah just googled. I wondered what that key was for. Anyways I think I will stick to my chocobo. The magitek mount is large and ungainly. I also got issued another mount for three month sub but I haven't looked at it. I like my trusty Artax. I would only swap that for a coeurl maybe.
But there are only 24 hrs in a day total. A typo perhaps... maybe they meant "week".
SnakeLinkSonic
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Nope, not really. If you're in a party it's kind of easier to just show up now and get credit, but once the "zerg" engages, the mob is only gonna last about 10-20 seconds longer than it did before.
As most people pointed out, this is a band-aid on a broken arm. They're gonna have to either rework the system, alter the rewards, or simply cap seal gain on a weekly basis or something. I'm not sure what they expected when they added this, but it definitely shows a lack of foresight on the execution of Hunts in general.
That's why I've gotten so far into it myself. Seeing stuff like people out in the world scouting for oncoming parties on a mob they're trying to hold/hide---it's an amazing thing to look at socially. The drama, the tears, the salt. I love it.
The sands and gear are an afterthought to me behind that stuff.
Hamburgler
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Makes me glad there's not much drama on Adamantoise, as hilarious as it sounds. The worst anyone complains here is just about the FC Mimic, and only because some of their members pull too early.
The current trend is for NA/CL (mostly, other randoms as well) to pull early or without warning and once it's dead start shouting and pointing fingers at GAF.
Fat Chocobo for life. No regrets.
Its coming right at me!
EDIT: I vote flowerpots. I like having the FC house as a general hangout/meeting spot...and actually hope personal houses arent THAT convenient in that it kills FC hangouts.
Fat Chocobo for life. No regrets.
I just use mount roulette, but when fatty comes up, I do smile.
Clearly that's just how hardcore they are.
People are usually pretty good about not pulling here. My guildmate started a Linkshell with the intent of finding A/S rank ones, and allowing everyone to get there before they pull, and for the most part it works. Every so often you get someone jumping the gun and getting a few nasty remarks, but it's not the norm except for Naul.
Think about it though - if you spend 16 hours a day (somehow staying awake) to push coil, then you'll push it faster and that's what world first groups do. Then once you've pushed it out of the way, you just do it casually twice a week and get it over with and have more time to do other things, while everyone else spends like an hour 2-3 times a week coiling, taking them overall 3x more time to get it done.
I think from that perspective, if you can take the days off to do it, it's actually saving time in the big picture, plus getting new content out of the way as it comes out.
Zomba13
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We had an amazing spy doing some great work (of their own volition, no one asked them to) who was getting all the sweet hunt locations and then decided to stop for the evening and end with a joke about good luck with us getting any more hunts without them. People got upset at that saying how rude it was. Was completely true though which made it even funnier.
I'm super disappointed in the gardening. I wish it was more like the chocobo stables, where everyone can use it and help themselves or others. Like, I'd like to be able to plant my own crops while also have other memebers do the same and I'm able to water or whatever theirs and they can do the same to mine. Or at the very least give us pots for our personal rooms like in FFXI. I loved growing stuff (well, it was something cool to do every time I logged in a reason to pop on daily) and was excited about gardening but it's all been locked out and it means if I want to get the food stuff to train chocobos (and get the silly hat for my 'bo) I'm gonna have to spend a lot more on the MB than I would just growing it.
Hope personal housing isn't too expensive for a small home so I can try some gardening.
I did my first sustained run at hunts last night for about two hours and I don't think it's going to work for me. There's a few reasons: First, I can only come on during Ultros prime hours (9pm Eastern on) and all the marks were absolutely swamped. Second, most of the time I'm playing on an old Macbook that takes forever to load areas. So, because of these things, even though I would port the second the mark was announced on the LS I would only make it around 50% of the time, and all of the ones I made it for were B marks. For whatever reason, people seemed to pull the A's faster so I didn't get full credit for one A. In total I got about 60 Soldiery tomes and I could have gotten at least double that doing dungeons.
It sucks because as a concept I'm not against it. Band of adventurers scouting the world, figuring out where the next mark is going to spawn, it's fun. The scouting runs took me to places I have not been to in months. But because of the sheer zerg mob and not being able to make it in time it was ultimately just frustrating. Maybe it would have been different if S marks were popping.
It sucks because as a concept I'm not against it. Band of adventurers scouting the world, figuring out where the next mark is going to spawn, it's fun. The scouting runs took me to places I have not been to in months. But because of the sheer zerg mob and not being able to make it in time it was ultimately just frustrating. Maybe it would have been different if S marks were popping.
They waited entirely too long to add this.
I dunno. I can see some loner players doing it. Not me tho. I'm happy with my Free Company house and the personal room I have.
It'd be interesting if they tied Personal Housing to the wedding system in any way. Maybe like a house chest to store items that's shared between two couples?
Please be more hot fixes...
It's just NA/EU isn't it? Probably preparing for the Free Login weekend.
TheDancingWatermelon
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Lost in all of the hunt drama, theres a post on the Ultros GAF FC forums for "Fun event ideas!"
Elliott asked me to post and remind people to check it out and give input, so if that sounds interesting go look!
Elliott asked me to post and remind people to check it out and give input, so if that sounds interesting go look!
Yup everyone give it some thought. I do wonder how a chocobo race would work. Or maybe some kinda relay race?
devious.one
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Most of the food varieties aren't on the Market board yet.
The main one Drama was growing is though.
TheDancingWatermelon
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I thought shes growing alot of that one while experimenting to find other foods/pets or did I get that info wrong?
After grinding out the marks I needed for 1 sands I won't be touching hunts. My main issues are:
1. The main component of hunts is time, if you can be on 24 hours a day there is no limit to howmuch you can do. You can't be good or bad at hunts, you just have to be on for them.
2. Still cannot do it solo. I was in queue for CT2 yesterday and an A was up, I didn't want to group but ran over and got there before the pull. It was dead in 6 global cool downs and I got 2 marks for my trouble. If I grouped up it would have cost me the 15 min I was in queue for ct2
3. Logs dropping from mobs. It took me probably 15 hours of hunting to get the marks I needed, had no log drops. Someone could kill 3 mobs in 5 min and have the same result. The only way I would be ok with these dropping is if it went only to the person who actually found the mark, like if we got a non aggro ability to claim a mob for the log. This way solo players who find a mark up doesn't have to be afraid to call people
4. Naul again.... Wtf were they thinking
1. The main component of hunts is time, if you can be on 24 hours a day there is no limit to howmuch you can do. You can't be good or bad at hunts, you just have to be on for them.
2. Still cannot do it solo. I was in queue for CT2 yesterday and an A was up, I didn't want to group but ran over and got there before the pull. It was dead in 6 global cool downs and I got 2 marks for my trouble. If I grouped up it would have cost me the 15 min I was in queue for ct2
3. Logs dropping from mobs. It took me probably 15 hours of hunting to get the marks I needed, had no log drops. Someone could kill 3 mobs in 5 min and have the same result. The only way I would be ok with these dropping is if it went only to the person who actually found the mark, like if we got a non aggro ability to claim a mob for the log. This way solo players who find a mark up doesn't have to be afraid to call people
4. Naul again.... Wtf were they thinking
Pankratous
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Finally done Thornmarch Hard. Been putting it off for months because I thought it sounded really difficult, and it was absolutely pants. :s It was very Kingdom Hearty feeling. The music, specifically.
Got 0 commendations even though I tanked perfectly. :'(
Got 0 commendations even though I tanked perfectly. :'(
A day or so ago I was describing my beginner atttempts at tanking and I'm happy to report that my first full attempt at a dungeon resulted in a nice, smooth, easy win. I struggled more to understand the French spoken by my teammates (and even answer at times in my terrible never-actually-studied-the-language pidgin) than anything abttle-related, and can also report that Shield Lob was completely unnecessary, so the goofs I got stuck when I joined at the final boss of my first dungeon were probably just incompetent (and, rather than having been ditched by a bad tank, were probably given up on by a normal tank).
Loving this tanking so far even if I know it will soon get harder.
Regarding rare market goods: My retainers brought back a Goldenfin (green-icon fish) and I looked it up on the market board only to find that none had ever been bought or sold. Listed it for 60,000 gil and after sitting out there for a long time, it sold. I still don't know what it does. Maybe I should have asked for more.
Regarding PVP: Is there a way to set up pre-formed teams in Frontlines? If so, any Immortal Flame GAFfers interested in forming one? I find myself enjoying Frontlines but am still very much a beginner -- I still have no idea what's going on with the "drones". This could a tremendous amount of fun if we were well-coordinated and could learn together.
Loving this tanking so far even if I know it will soon get harder.
Regarding rare market goods: My retainers brought back a Goldenfin (green-icon fish) and I looked it up on the market board only to find that none had ever been bought or sold. Listed it for 60,000 gil and after sitting out there for a long time, it sold. I still don't know what it does. Maybe I should have asked for more.
Regarding PVP: Is there a way to set up pre-formed teams in Frontlines? If so, any Immortal Flame GAFfers interested in forming one? I find myself enjoying Frontlines but am still very much a beginner -- I still have no idea what's going on with the "drones". This could a tremendous amount of fun if we were well-coordinated and could learn together.
Trojita
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Anyone playing a Dragoon with a controller in End Game Content have any cross bar setups they find efficient for getting high DPS they don't mind sharing?
1-50 was mostly all about that Full Thrust Combo and some buffs and jumps. I was also including Leg Sweeps for those Stuns+Increased damage, but it lowers the chance for stuns when they are needed so I took it out of my rotation. Now I want to be able to use Heavy Thrust, Impulse Drive Combo, Phlebotomize, Full thrust Combo, while applying buffs and jumps at the most opportune time while doing it in a way that doesn't feel very inefficient and alien on a controller.
1-50 was mostly all about that Full Thrust Combo and some buffs and jumps. I was also including Leg Sweeps for those Stuns+Increased damage, but it lowers the chance for stuns when they are needed so I took it out of my rotation. Now I want to be able to use Heavy Thrust, Impulse Drive Combo, Phlebotomize, Full thrust Combo, while applying buffs and jumps at the most opportune time while doing it in a way that doesn't feel very inefficient and alien on a controller.
irfaanator
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drones are a bunch of neutral mobs that spawn at a set time in the center of the map on that huge plateau. If your gc kills one they get some points. One of the spawns is just one huge mob like roshan/dragon in dota/lol that all gc's try and kill and get a bunch of points. This only happens once I believe so you want to kill this
always use leg sweep if you aren't required/boss can't be stunned. how you gonna get sands/do coil and still be doing that buster dps
It was.
Yesh. That's why not all of the gardening plots are occupied by Krakka.
So far only managed to crossbreed minions though. I was hoping I could skip the whole choco food process and cross the lowest level food with the highest level plants and get a Thav Onion off the bat. Lol
RellyRell28
Banned
Yeah it sounds like Halloween town kinda
I don't use a controller, but based on how Dragoon plays...
R2:
face buttons: Heavy Thrust and Impulse Drive Combo
d-pad: Blood for Blood, Internal Release, Leg Sweep, Dragonfire Dive
L2:
face buttons: Phlebotomize and Full Thrust Combo
d-pad: Power Surge, Jump, Life Surge, Spineshatter Dive
L2+R2:
everything else
Go read the Rotation Reborn thread on the official forums to maximize that deeps.
Blackthorn
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I say integrate it with the sightseeing. Spotting a rare monster should be worth seals all by itself; imagine a birdwatcher who takes photos of rare birds but doesn't necessarily interact with them.
Maybe taking a screenshot could do the trick. (Castlevania Order of Ecclesia had a mini-game like this, IIRC.) Maybe you could give one kind of seal/mark for seeing the monster and the other types for fighting it.
There's no reason to do anything but hunts.
But seriously, only need to do Atma if you plan on continuing to Animus, Novus, beyond. Because the Atma weapon pretty much sucks without investing into Animus, as it keeps the same stats of the previous relic.
We're all waiting for the lack of lock outs and the introduction of Echo, like first coil.
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