crazygambit
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I find that vendor gear is almost always a bad idea, since you can buy the same NQ stuff from the MB at usually cheaper prices (people dumping stuff they got as rewards on quests).
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I find that vendor gear is almost always a bad idea, since you can buy the same NQ stuff from the MB at usually cheaper prices (people dumping stuff they got as rewards on quests).
I used 3-step Ingenuity II - Careful Synthesis II at the end, if the Manipulation ended at the right time I'd do Steady Hand II instead of Steady Hand. I love getting NQ on 94% then HQ on 16% haha
While you can do that, the Good / Excellent / Poor (which is what the purple glow is, for the record) on the crafting thing itself is the same thing anyway so you don't need the color inidcator.
It depends. Sometimes they're cheaper NQ on the marketboard so always worth checking that if that's the route you're going. HQ will bond faster but you can simulate it by melding cheap materia in them; this is almost always cheaper than just buying straight HQ.
As for crafting your own ... man, some of the mats for the crafts are a pain to farm. You can retainer venture a good amount of them I guess but it's still kind of a hassle + shard costs.
The system for gaining and losing ice/fire stacks is complete bullshit. So let's say you are in fire stance. The act of casting blizzard 3 removes your fire stacks but the act of HITTING a mob with that same blizzard 3 will give you your ice stance. Same in the opposite case going from ice to fire stance with fire 3. A hit means you did any number of damage (even with that number flashes by as 0). A non-hit means that you either got an invulnerable message or a dodge/miss message.
Edit: so in your particular case, you successfully casted blizz 3 so fire stacks leave but you got a non-hit on the boss because you got an invulnerable from the boss so you never picked up your 3 ice stacks.
On that note, I do believe that both Blizzard / Fire mechanics work the same on this: You can freely move without interrupting the spell once you see the buff get stripped off here.
Finished the story last night. I'm enjoying the world-building going on, and think overall that the story has gotten a lot more interesting in the past few patches.
One unintentionally hilarious scene (or was it intentional?) was when
I also enjoyed the secret trial. Ran it in DF and no one on the group had run it before, so we worked as a team and figured it out after a couple of wipes. Overall it's an easy fight once you know the trick, but it was fun to crack the patterns and mechanics as a group.
I like the build up of the Ishgardian lore, as well as that all-too brief scene around the Ramuh patch letting us know what's going on up in the Empire. I'm sure that'll be a big plot point in a few years.
One unintentionally hilarious scene (or was it intentional?) was when
Midgardsomr's chibi form pops up during Moen's funeral and starts throwing shade. Not the most appropriate moment for him to keep on bugging you, but I just though the whole thing was funny. I like how much of an ass he is and hope we see more of him and his attitude.
I also enjoyed the secret trial. Ran it in DF and no one on the group had run it before, so we worked as a team and figured it out after a couple of wipes. Overall it's an easy fight once you know the trick, but it was fun to crack the patterns and mechanics as a group.
Gold_Loot
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Yep, the same thing happens during Ifrits ,.and Garuda's big attacts when they go invulnerable.
Remove "invulnerable" from the game IMO and just make it so that attacks during those phases do 0 damage. Casting a blizzard 3 with the last of your mp and being stuck in non-stance is bull and kills all flow and DPS. You could argue that the BLM should know better and not cast in that situation but last boss in keeper is a particularly bad case because Garuda and Ifrit, for example, give a telegraph when they are going immune. Midgardsormr gives no real indication and goes immune instantly while you may or may not be on a cast.
Gold_Loot
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Honestly , I can hardly remember that happening but I admit, I've only ran that instance once. But
Yeah, I hear what you're saying but I guess that's the price we gotta pay for being so bad ass
Acquired all 8 Lucis Crafting Tools Last night... soooo many GC Seals! I have 97 HQ Redolent Logs and HQ 91 Antumbral Rock so I'll have Botanist & Miner done today
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/2803251/blog/1980609/
How did you get the moonstones z-z.
He's been there since last night, refusing raises and getting teabagged.
cultureculture
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I just think it's an awkward design - there's no tell, as you said, and the next targetable object takes a long time to come up. You get something similar with Imdugud's add phase, but it's much cleaner because you get a massive telegraph and the adds are quickly targetable, so the impact on your flow isn't so bad. In this case, the impact is pretty bad, because the best way to deal with it that I can think of is to Blizzard 3 early/transpose and wait (maybe throw out a Scathe if you're feeling frisky, but you're still gonna be waiting on that next target). And because you'll likely be doing it with DF parties that DPS at different speeds, you'll have to feel it out pretty much every time.
Many Grand Company turn-ins, each Moonstone cost 4,000 GC seals. All the materials for easy trade-in have sky-rocketed in price, even the crystals are crazy prices now, especially Earth.
Thank you, I knew there was another encounter recently that handles this better but I couldn't remember it. Imdugud is a much better case of this because he doesn't go invulnerable right after electrocharge. He gives out a 3 second leeway before going invulnerable which perfectly lines up with how long it takes the adds to spawn. Midgard is just awkward when it comes to this and only a BLM or a MNK trying to keep up greased would ever notice.
Can I get in on dis
cultureculture
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This conversation reminds me of something else I noticed, which is that it seems like they're trying something new with bosses that temporarily disappear in this patch. You can complete casts on the first boss of KotL when it jumps and is untargetable, and when the boss in
The Chrysalis
Losing all those /random bets has an effect on a lalafell's psyche.
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
So when can I start farming for mythology armor? I'm level 42 & I wanna start farming as I continue finishing the main quest line, or is finishing the main quest line a requirement?
& how do I get mythology currency? Do I just finish dungeons or are there special dungeons to obtain them?
& how do I get mythology currency? Do I just finish dungeons or are there special dungeons to obtain them?
Maybe if I finish the whole Hildibrand quest before you get this together. I've continiously been distracted by things like, Coil, hunts, gathering the materials for the Wootz Bhuj. (It's a very pretty axe!) Hopefully I'll be able to get that done tonight, with minimal interruption from hunts.
Pai Pai Master
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mythology tomes are no longer a thing, it's now Soldiery and Poetics.
But you get those from level 50 dungeons and trials, so you may as well complete the base game's story quests (Praetorium is the final dungeon for the first set of main story quests). You'll find yourself getting some tomes from that and the previous dungeon so that's where your farming will begin.
So probably enough people? 6PM PST/9PM EST-?, repeated Greg slaughter, lots of chickens.
Enkidu Farm Party Rule #1: NO PUNS OR KICK
Enkidu Farm Party Rule #1: NO PUNS OR KICK
If you want the Mythology armor for vanity, the dungeons, Qarn HM, Satasha HM, and Snowcloak, all drop tokens, (of a sort,) that can be exchanged for the armor. Assuming they increased the chests there like they did for the new dungeons, (haven't checked yet,) they should be pretty easy to farm out.
That wasn't a pun! XD
That wasn't a pun! XD
That's my FC on Odin! Is that the GAF FC? Had no idea it was in the exact same placeRemember guys, even afking in Mist has it's risks.
Determination for sure. I forget if Skillspeed or Crit was better for monks though.
Pellegri Testament
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Basically det/crit for all dps classes with SS only being good for blm. Acc is more of a welfare stat on relics if you want to be cheap about melds.
lazybones18
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I like this idea. I need that green chicken
Accuracy.... well, there are a few classes that have a hard time hitting T13 accuracy cap with only Ironworks and Dreadwrym armor. For those classes, accuracy is legit, since missing attacks is a huge DPS loss. Shame that having additional accuracy doesn't improve DPS at all. It'd be nice if it affected the crit rate or something.
irfaanator
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skillspeed at the highest ilvl is slightly worse than crit for monks, and I mean super marginal. You can put w/e you want that doesnt break the bank, but stat weight best is det/crit. You can even do a 3 split on stats and never use grade 4 materia
My bad, I was just reading old stuff & I'm not privy to MMO terminology.
So the Soldiery/Poetics tomes are all I'm gonna need for high level armor/accessories/weapons? Or are those items specific to armor only?
Pai Pai Master
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You'll want to mix/match soldiery/poetics gear with stuff that drops from dungeons and raids, the stuff you purchase isn't always the best you could get at that specific ilevel, especially if you're trying to carefully plan out your build for a certain amount of accuracy/crit/vitality/whatever.
Use Ariyala's Toolkit to plan out your post-50 progress, it's super helpful with the way you can filter through certain ilevel ranges and it tells you how to obtain the gear you want on the right side.
Typically you should start out by obtaining your Relic Weapon and running ilevel50-70 dungeons and grabbing some Soldiery pieces. You can also run Crystal Tower at ilvl50, and then once you start getting into the 70s move to Syrcus Tower, then World of Darkness at ilvl90. There are various dungeons from that range as well that drop some decent gear that will supplement your soldiery equipment. Poetics is a bit harder to come by and there is a weekly cap on how much you can earn, so you'll be picking and choosing that stuff a little more carefully, as well as supplementing it with gear from The Binding Coil of Bahamut and high level Primals.
Try doing Titan EX. I thought that, by now, people knew the strat. But no.
Did you explain mechanics? It's fairly straightforward I think if people understand what is going on. The dps check isn't that severe with LB either.
Hearing all of these people having horrible luck makes me feel relieved that I was [relatively] fortunate with my Duty Finder group. We wiped I think...three times, before we cleared the place. It's too bad so many are frustrated with it, the fight as a whole is pretty enjoyable.
I wish you luck! If I'm ever on when you/others are forming a group, I'll happily assist.
Do I hear p-pony farming??????
irfaanator
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if you don't know the phase transition mechanic it can fuck you up. Like me lol
yaffi
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Chrysalis: Went in there for the first time today. Someone quickly explained the most important mechanics (e.g. don't get sucked in before the debuff runs out, pop all cds, use lb3; there really isn't anything more to it). Did it first try, no deaths.
I should consider myself lucky I guess.
I should consider myself lucky I guess.
For maximum lulz, pop tank lb 3 right before everyone enters the portal for the last phase. 50 seconds of the entire group taking peanuts for damage is pretty hilarious.
Someone tried that when I did it.... the dps still somehow got themselves killed.
They tried to take meteors themselves, and the healers weren't really healing either.
Huh, tank did it once for fun and we mostly ignored the meteors and just let them do the raid wide damage. Tank just told the healers to treat it like Turn 2 enrage method and even then it seemed like the healers were over healing by a ton.
HylianScribe
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Maybe I'll get my poverty twine this Sunday. Couldn't get it before heading to PAX South. Btw Jeels if you're here, hit me up on Twitter or something. Was wearing my Leviathan shirt today.
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