well, at least the goldsellers have the decency to wish me a happy new year before advertising their shit now.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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Congrats!
This ... is the most fitting thing.
As far as second coil goes, which turns are the most challenging/ones you should probably brush up on the tactics?
I need to start pushing towards that on help nights. Also about how many people do we still have stuck on early EX primals? I've been itching for some rematches so I wont get too rusty, but i'd like to help some GAF in the process.
I need to start pushing towards that on help nights. Also about how many people do we still have stuck on early EX primals? I've been itching for some rematches so I wont get too rusty, but i'd like to help some GAF in the process.
tiggerkiddo
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9 is the toughest, anything else is easy to learn, or should be at least.
hmm you're right, umbral doesn't boost the blizzard damage lol
my point still stands though
better than Ninja loot
Ninjas have goad. Free TP for tanks.
Wow, just changed hotbar layout and used Elusive Jump accidentally instead of Spineshatter Dive...during Titan. Instant RIP.
Splatoonbarf.jpg at T13 weapons.
Splatoonbarf.jpg at T13 weapons.
lazybones18
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Question for those bought their own personal house: Is buying a personal home worth it? I have enough gil to buy me a small house and I did tell myself that once I got back into the game I would purchase a house. I definitely want to get the most out of owning a home but I'm still unsure if buying a home is the right call
Worth it how? Money wise all you'd get is the garden and I would take a lot of time to make up for the initial investment. Apart from that it's a cheap port with a mb, vendors and retainers close by.
tiggerkiddo
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If you have doubts, it's best to not buy one unless you're willing to put some work into it.
Augemitbutter
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Pyros_Eien
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Note that the price of the "house" itself is only a part of what you'll end up paying. You need to buy the land which is the big amount you pay first, but then you need to buy the permit to put a house on the land which costs 450k(for a small house), you need to buy a miniature aetheryte to get the TP to your house which costs 15k GC seals, you need to buy a deluxe garden to do gardening which costs 48k. Then on top of that if you want housing furniture, you're probably looking at 500k to several millions to decorate, depending on what you want in the house. Oh and forget the chocobo stable, it's absolutely not worth using versus our FC stable, because apparently the state of the stable is based on time not on usage, so you have to clean every like 2days which adds massive costs, while the FC gets cleaned pretty often by various people, I clean it when I notice for example but that doesn't happen very often so I'm sure a lot of people do it regularily.
And gardening is far from profitable. I mean, it can make money but due to the fair investment for the house itself, and the long time it takes to grow anything, it's a very long term investment that requires a lot of micromanaging. If you let your stuff die out because you can't play for a couple of days... well that's a lot of wasted money. Especially at 15k per soil and 50-70k per seeds for the good ones(or 300k for the onions).
But in the end it depends on what you want to do in the game, and how much money you have. I bought my house when they added the sub divisions on the first day of 2.4. To be honest, I think it was wasted money, but that's because I don't care much about decorating, I just bought one for gardening but gardening just isn't all that interesting. It's not a huge deal though cause money isn't necessarily an issue as long as I bother crafting a few things every now and then and checking my computer when soil spawns, but I probably wouldn't bother if I had to redo it.
It's basically a giant gil sinker, you'll blow millions with basically nothing in return.
Aye, there is gardening but don't expect to make milions like before since the price of anything but the onions (and even these are like 300-400k now) crashed.
Is it "worth" from a Gil-utily perspective? Not really, but there isn't much use for money anyway.
I will say, gardening is more interesting when you have more plots to manage, and more stuff to make. They haven't added anything substantial to gardening since 2.3x, so it's sort of in a dry spell right now.
It's going to be hell again when Gold Saucer comes out and everyone wants chocobo racing food.
tiggerkiddo
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It will be hell for anyone who doesn't have a green e thumb. Anyone else will make bank.
Pyros_Eien
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Yeah I guess it'd be better with more plots. I'd say one of the issue is how slow everything is, takes several days to grow stuff to cross breed to get seeds then several more days to grow that to actually get the stuff you want. Skipping ahead means spending just as much money on seeds as what you're trying to make so it's a waste, it's kinda meh. I also dislike how high maintenance the process is. Having to water your plant basically every day. You can get someone to do it for you but that's not really a solution at times so it's like, eh.
On a different subject, they announced the date for 2.5 on the new year's niconico stream, and it's January 20. That's a lot earlier than I expected, I might actually revise my plans to buy stuff with poetics since I'll want to get a weapon asap obviously.
Pellegri Testament
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Amazing how for once he threw everyone a surprise when it came to the patch date. Honestly thought he would announce it at the event at the end of January and it would be 1-2 weeks after that.
Trojita
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And Kagari was never heard from again for 5 months.
djplaeskool
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So I've gotten back into the game pretty hardcore.
After being away for almost a year, in the past week, I've completed my MNK relic from start to finish, unlocked Coil, and ground out enough tomestones for Soldiery leg and body pieces (and I almost have enough to get the mists for Sphairai Zenith). I think this is the most productive I've been in an MMO since my FFXI days.
After being away for almost a year, in the past week, I've completed my MNK relic from start to finish, unlocked Coil, and ground out enough tomestones for Soldiery leg and body pieces (and I almost have enough to get the mists for Sphairai Zenith). I think this is the most productive I've been in an MMO since my FFXI days.
Whoa, nice!
Better rush to get those T13 clears in before they introduce the poverty gear folks
^ Tabris smiley
Baleoce
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yeah the 90ks were real last night in frontlines. unplayable. absolutely fine outside of it.
My favorite woes
Didn't they say they were going to separate the lockouts so you can get upgrade items and gears separately? So it'd be less annoying to farm them?
DigitalRicket
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Just re-upped my subscription and I am completely lost. I haven't played in months and even when I did I mostly solo'd. Trying to find people who are patient and willing to take someone under their wing to understand some of the deeper intricacies of what's doable.
At the moment I'm doing my Relic Reborn quest line for my Paladin.
At the moment I'm doing my Relic Reborn quest line for my Paladin.
Demoskinos
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I'm glad that for fucking once I'll be caught up on relic nonsense and be able to go straight to the next step.
It's probably a good idea to get people to roll on loot, but I used to fall back to rolling on oil when I got fed up with ST for the week (5 runs/day for the stupid boots that drop off Scylla gets old fast, since you spend most of ST disappointed.)
Or maybe everything will be accuracy/skillspeed and I can just roll on whatever for vanity.
I would buy that small house. If your FC has a house, you can buy a room there if you are unsure. I have been enjoying decorating my room a lot!
cultureculture
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I'd go even further and say that it just doesn't work in practice if you're proactively Fire weaving. That said, there are a couple of minor cases where I do something similar:
- Fire before Aetherial Manipulation, if I have the time to do so (in which case I should be casting anyway, and I generally try to keep my rotation moving while I'm AMing, for example by using Blizzard 3 first if I'm out of MP so that I can get a tick during AM)
- Fire before Raging Strikes/x-pots (e.g. Fire 3 > Raging Strikes > Fire > x-pot > [Firestarter] > ... or Fire 3 > Fire > RS > [Firestarter] > ... ), but this is largely so that they don't wear off before Flare
Things get really messy when you get into the realms of proactively using Fire weaving, for example with skills like Virus or Apocatastasis. When I experimented with it, I found that the animation timing is such that half the time Firestarter proc'ed, I started a Fire 3 hardcast anyway. The only way to counter that was to pause slightly...which makes it no better than casting Fire and waiting. (In fact, it's worse, because you waste cooldowns.)
Powergamers must suffer.
Ninja hype is long dead.
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