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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale
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PhillipCostigan
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Yeah. Like if we're hitting 4 bennus we should be doing enough to beat it before enrage, right?
DarknessTear
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Yeah.
PhillipCostigan
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cool. We have two more days this week. I think we can do it in that time frame. Was nice to get T10 and T11 done and make serious progress in T12 all on the same night.
Some of the best tanks I know are girl Lalas in spring dresses.
I love it because it blows the minds of those MAN MODE people.
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Yeah man, 4 Bennu dream is the dream for a reason. I don't know real timers or any of that, but typically with 5 bennu you hit around 13-14 Flames of Rebirthish, and with 4 you should be hitting around 12. Flames of Rebirth casts every like... what... 30? seconds, so you'd be cutting off around a minute by pushing four bennu. My math is probably all over the place, but that's why we have scy.
I used gamerscape guide starting up and gamerscape is generally a good site to check for skills, items and such.
As for tips, races and god are not really important stats wise, so choose what you want. Class determines your starting city, but you can chance class at level 15 for any other so it's not a locking factor. Recommend getting to level 20 story quest asap so you get in a grand company and get your chocobro.
Roll on Ultros if you want easy access to "help" and "advice" from GAF. This may or may not be a terrible idea.
It's pretty much impossible to screw up a character given the way the game is structured (one character can be everything), but Reddit has guides for everything.
Lalafell is the best race.
PhillipCostigan
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Pick a class you like the look of, for one. There's no real optimal class to start with so just choose whatever takes your fancy!
GAF has a pretty large FC and everyone tends to be really helpful. We're on the Ultros server, so you can apply to the FC once the game allows you and I'm sure people will be willing to answer any questions you have or help you out with content.
If you're mainly in it for the story you don't have a lot to worry about, just do the quests and get yourself levelled up. It's pretty straightforward up until 50.
People tend to either have alts or lower level classes to level so there will likely be someone willing to help out in some way.
You can add me in game if you want other tips and stuff - Fiorelle Laurent
don't believe her lies
Yeah. We're hitting it by using LB1 right now which is still a little sub-optimal, but we have definite areas where we can improve our DPS so I'm pretty confident we can do it once we have some experience with the last phase.
If you want to see the story and play solo without having to wait long lines for dungeons, it's recommended you roll a Gladiator/Marauder (Tank) or a Conjurer (Healer).
The FFXIV subreddit is a wealth of information, especially in the top USEFUL INFORMATION header.
They actually have a full chronology of release content if you're looking to follow through patch per patch content.
The thing about the story now is there's a quite a bit of content to push through if you're just going for vanilla main storyline. My newbie free company mates are only just now polishing off the story. Best tip like any MMO is to have some friends to help you out along the way. Outside of dungeons it's all pretty solo friendly though.
The hard part of P1/P2 of T13 is primarily gear related. Mechanically speaking, a lot of T13 is easy to execute, it's just about meeting the requirements to not die immediately. After that it's about executing it all over the course of 13-14 minutes.
Each Flames of Rebirth hitting is roughly 14s apart (11s cast + 3s pause).
Prepare to never see the cutscenes in the last 2 dungeons because about time finished one the group is on other side of dungeon.
Thankuly you can rewatch them at inns but man it does kill the finale
I can understand that though. Imagine if your party couldn't top the DPS check and kept dying? It'd be a nightmare.
Man speaking of new players, Zodiac quest took me to DD and ended up with a party of completely fresh players. Took ages to clear but it was fun to have an enthusiastic group. The BRD didn't know they could use windbite/venom in unison so helped them get the DoT's down. Fun times. They seemed excited to clear. That was the only dungeon I didn't get a zodiac item on though... so well shoot.
So glad I did those dungeons with a premade full fc party.
I sort of suspect dungeon atma is the relic step that will have the long-term impact closest to what the Dev team wanted, in that it will directly benefit new players a ton. Light grind just means whatever's bright gets flooded with grinders and any new people will just get carried along through fights skipping most of the mechanics. The random nature of dungeon atma more or less guarantees most groups will mix new players wih veterans (since even preformed groups will generally fall apart before everyone gets the drop), and the four-man group comp decreases the odds of the party just ignoring the new person/people and continuing to steamroll. You more or less have to explain some things and work with new players.
The shine wears off helping new people by run six or seven of the same dungeon, but from a design perspective I do think they were pretty successful.
Yeah it's kid gloves on for that but I really like the concept. I want them to take that idea and run with it.
What this game really needs is a monster arena. Just throw crazy combinations of bosses into a ring together and let us have at it, something like BBI in Dragon's Dogma. Like the last boss fight of Stone Vigil HM but, like, five of those dudes. Or maybe two Chimeras and a Hydra...
Most definitely. It becomes super evident pretty quick. All of the parties consisted of a number of new players. I don't mind helping, but good lord I can see how it can get tiresome if you don't get something in a couple of runs. I just have a random selection of all the dungeons on my DF queue that are required for the quest. Hoping that wards off some of the fatigue.
My FCmate ran DD first over and over till he got his drop and said he was going mad by the end of it. Rather not have that.
Had a terrible WoD run yesterday with one of the three tanks (myself being another) actively trying to, uh, tank the group. Nearly wiped on boss one, which took a long time. Wiped on the five-headed dragon during discordance (a first), on the kill of the same boss saw it cast discordance a second time (also a first). Belly group on Cerberus decided to skip getting the mini buff and wiped themselves immediately, so that was a wipe. Finally arrived to Cloud of Darkness where someone was actively removing the waymarks set down, and I'm actively trying to coach everyone in alliance chat (like "try to evenly disperse into three groups") and we one shotted that boss, which was a nice surprise. Ended up getting the tanking chest too, although our dead AFK bard laid there in the instance with me for 300 long seconds while I filed a griefing report.
Sweet end to far and away the worst CT duty finder experience I've had since returning to the game a few months back.
Sweet end to far and away the worst CT duty finder experience I've had since returning to the game a few months back.
In all fairness, you can start a PF for people to watch cutscenes (or get people from the FC to come with you).
I did the PF for one of those two and some folks from the FC (and 2 or 3 DF people aka not enough to vote kick) for the other
.I have a funny image in my head now of Cerberus having his dinner for the day haha.
At least you got the tank chest after all that though
Has anyone ever asked a duty finder party to let them watch the cutscenes while fresh, just to see the response?
I know it'll probably be the same as the slight majority in XI as "watch it later!" but still curious. Best bet is to make a party finder too / Free Company party. at any rate.
I know it'll probably be the same as the slight majority in XI as "watch it later!" but still curious. Best bet is to make a party finder too / Free Company party. at any rate.
Gamer @ Heart
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I got my tank pants finally. Which i cant use in 13 without getting the dam head or arms or two shity ironworks right sides.
Shit.
Shit.
Don't have to ask to know the response. The SECOND someone important (Healer/tank) or all the DPS decides to watch a cutscene, someone (or several depending on the group) starts shouting "Just watch it in the damned inn"
And at least once (during all my runs) someone votekicked someone over it. I imagine the same would be done to whoever would ask that question.
I have a funny image in my head now of Cerberus having his dinner for the day haha.
At least you got the tank chest after all that though
Was definitely a really good capper to a really shitty experience (15+ runs and I hadn't seen it drop once). Simply beating the waymark troll by one shotting Cloud of Darkness was satisfying enough after all that though, truth be told.
4 people in the last week got Fat Cats in my FC out of ventures.
It's becoming harder to resist.
I'm working on crafting now just to get money for a Fat Cat. Seriously, it's going to be my first purchase when I'm able to get some money by crafting stuff.
In the process to level things to 15 I made 200k, and I have a Baby Opo-opo on the market. Can't wait to spend all that money on crafting stuff
In the process to level things to 15 I made 200k, and I have a Baby Opo-opo on the market. Can't wait to spend all that money on crafting stuff
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Leveling other classes without DR bonus would be so painful. I'm at 44 with my WHM now and I just do the DR each day and maybe one other dungeon then log off for the day (and hunts if they get called inbetween).
Should be 50 in the next few weeks then I can start gearing up and learning how to play with 8 person groups.
Should be 50 in the next few weeks then I can start gearing up and learning how to play with 8 person groups.
You know, when it comes to the expansion, one of the things I'm going to be most curious about, is how exactly they're going to handle the introduction of the Au Ra.
I mean, for new players, are they going to retcon the Au Ra to have a presence in Eorzea from the beginning, thereby rendering the whole Yugiri hiding her face thing entirely redundant and strange?
Or, what?
Ironically, despite the fact that Gilgamesh hits a lot harder in this fight, the mechanics are actually a lot more forgiving than the first Gilgamesh fight. I mean, aside from tanks needing to put some distance between Greg and any chained up party members. If the Greg hit as hard in the first Gilgamesh fight, when the entire party can get mini'd or frogged or whatnot, that first fight would have been a nightmare. XD
I mean, for new players, are they going to retcon the Au Ra to have a presence in Eorzea from the beginning, thereby rendering the whole Yugiri hiding her face thing entirely redundant and strange?
Or, what?
Ironically, despite the fact that Gilgamesh hits a lot harder in this fight, the mechanics are actually a lot more forgiving than the first Gilgamesh fight. I mean, aside from tanks needing to put some distance between Greg and any chained up party members. If the Greg hit as hard in the first Gilgamesh fight, when the entire party can get mini'd or frogged or whatnot, that first fight would have been a nightmare. XD
Domans. They could just say another ship arrived with more escaped immigrants or something if they want to be super lazy about it.
They came along with the Doman refugees. I suppose they should have more face hidden people like Yugiri hanging around but I don't think it's a huge deal.
Didn't they say they had more Domans aboard the ship that didn't want to get off yet. Even after the mass exodus to Mor Dhona?
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M0nochromatic
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I've caught up on all of the main content in the game, and my WHM is now i114, but I don't have a static so I'm just mulling about doing dailies, hunts, and leveling alts. I'm working on BLM, MNK, and PLD as back up combat classes, as well as getting all of my gathering and crafting classes to 50.
How long does it usually take to level other classes?
How long does it usually take to level other classes?
Eh 1.0 occurred before catboys were included and no one made a fuss. I don't even remember the reason they gave other than the calamity caused them to come out or something.
Is Square going to just skip anything like a closed beta for Heavensward? I'm a little surprised we're let's say three or four months off from release and we still know effectively very little about what it'll include content wise. Heard something along the lines of "same size as ARR" which would be quite a bit to roll out without a widespread test. That said, I expect a lot of it to fall neatly into the now pretty well established framework of things, so I could see them getting by with internal testing (and a lot of patching post release).
Am I missing anything with this bulleted list of features?
-New race
-New classes (Dark Knight, Astrologian, Machinist)
-Cap raised to 60
-New zones (Dravinia?), new city, approximately as big as ARR
-New raid
-Flying mounts
I'm sure I'm missing plenty, but as far as key things go is that close to it?
Am I missing anything with this bulleted list of features?
-New race
-New classes (Dark Knight, Astrologian, Machinist)
-Cap raised to 60
-New zones (Dravinia?), new city, approximately as big as ARR
-New raid
-Flying mounts
I'm sure I'm missing plenty, but as far as key things go is that close to it?
Yeah, but new players didn't start in in the 1.0 story once 2.0 came out. Conversely, I'm pretty sure in 3.0, players will still have to start out with the 2.0 story stuff.
They'll probably show a different arrival cutscene for them when making a new character.
Yuguri's going to pull her mask off and the entire population of Au Ra will burst out of her cloak.
Don't forget the Free Company Airship! Ie. the party boat.
Pyros_Eien
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I don't know if we'll get a beta. They don't do beta/test server stuff for their raids either, and they're surprisingly polished, both in tuning and lack of exploits/bugs. There was the T12 bane stuff in final coil for example, but that was kinda it iirc. I guess they just have much better internal testers than the western companies or something.
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