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Final Fantasy XIV |OT6| Casino Royale

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Wagram

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This never happened, you are imagining it. In fact you couldnt even solo queue into SCoB (or the BCoB, in fact) until several weeks after the raid was unlocked from the weekly lockout. You could only queue in the DF with a full party.

Possibly, I could have sworn for some reason that they put it on the DF before taking off the lockout. It has been awhile though so I am probably wrong.
 
Reading the above posts, question:

Does the game still have timers on Finder Dungeons and/or are they still all required to progress?

Hitting the limit of the later ones due to a "brb smoke" tank made me cold quit ARR hard.

Cloud is a bad character and anyone that wants to dress like him is a bad person

Yikes.
 
Reading the above posts, question:

Does the game still have timers on Finder Dungeons and/or are they still all required to progress?

Hitting the limit of the later ones due to a "brb smoke" tank made me cold quit ARR hard.



Yikes.

yes, but you can kick ppl and try to get another person to join the dungeon in progress.
 

neoemonk

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Does anyone know if the Mac version will need to be purchased separately from the PC version? I primarily play on PS4, however I do have the PC version. I would like to be able to play on my laptop but would rather not pay for everything again.

I'm hopeful it's a free download if you own the PC version but it wouldn't surprise me if they want to charge for it. It would be nice to have for my laptop.
 

styl3s

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How would one go about leveling a new class with no quest? I am fairly new, i just became a goon but want to try out Archer/Bard but since i did all my quest do i just farm fates?
 

suzu

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How would one go about leveling a new class with no quest? I am fairly new, i just became a goon but want to try out Archer/Bard but since i did all my quest do i just farm fates?

Guildleves / levequests, hunting log, challenge log, daily dungeon roulette, FATEs.
 

aceface

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How would one go about leveling a new class with no quest? I am fairly new, i just became a goon but want to try out Archer/Bard but since i did all my quest do i just farm fates?

Don't know if youve travelled to the other cities yet, but they also have mess of low level quests if that's what you want to do.
 

Semper88

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Lol, you named the best step of the relic grind as a reason not to do it. I'd have stuck with the animus books or the money sink known as Alexandrite step rather than any of the Light grind steps

Well its horrid!

Correct my math if wrong, but wouldn't it be 250 times on bright? (Bright gives 8, 2000/8=250). Not trying to be snarky, I really want to know because I'm doing this step now.

250 times the same boss.. Aint that enough?!

Hey, I like light grinding!

Keep it to your self oke :p
 

Frumix

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How would one go about leveling a new class with no quest? I am fairly new, i just became a goon but want to try out Archer/Bard but since i did all my quest do i just farm fates?

Dungeons with FATEs of appropriate or slightly higher level while queuing. Low level roulette daily. Tanks or healers usually don't have to wait so it's just dungeons.

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Sigh.
 
The pricing of the physical Heavensward C.E. ($130) is insulting to be honest. Not sure how they are finding an additional $70 (over the digital) in a small figurine, an art book, and a useless CD w/ trailers no one will watch.

I find myself autobuying this stuff and hating myself afterwards when the physical stuff collects dust.
 

Aselith

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The pricing of the physical Heavensward C.E. ($130) is insulting to be honest. Not sure how they are finding an additional $70 (over the digital) in a small figurine, an art book, and a useless CD w/ trailers no one will watch.

What would happen if you weren't to buy it?
 

Apoptomon

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I find it humourous that despite the small yet beneficial changes Square Enix have implemented to the game since A Realm Reborn launch that they still maintain the level 20 story quest rubbish in order for players to achieve their mount unlock. This story quest involves a dungeon run before you hit level 20. You can only begin to imagine how wonderful this is to face for a DPS class. Good luck to those based in Oceania who don't want to face the prospect of joining a random JP server and are therefore faced with being stuck on a US or EU server with irregular timezones.

Also a smart move in order to welcome new players or those who managed to scratch off that launch itch but want to rejoin for a piece of nostalgia. I'm sure if you looked up the definition of ineptitude then you would see the Square Enix logo emblazoned underneath its description regarding the complete lack of competence.
I'm not sure I follow. Does it really matter when mounts become available? What does being oceanic have to do with it? I play on US from Australia and sure, there might only be 20 people online in the FC in the evening (or less after a maintenance), but even so there's always people on. Also I don't feel as though it's that unreasonable that solo DF as a dps is about 17-30 minutes at any time of day. You can always do something else while you wait. That's not ineptitude on their part, it's impatience on yours.
 

Tiduz

Eurogaime
Tried T8 for the first time today with full gaf, 4 new, 4 expierenced

we almost made it! had alot of fun but the 1% wipe was heartbreaking D:
 

Xux

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Should I start the relic weapon quest? I've seen some people say it's useless since heavenward will be out soon.
It's probably worth it to get it up to the Zenith stage first to help get a soldiery or Shiva weapon. I don't think anyone knows just how worthless a Zeta'll be in three months but Zenith's at least a good steppin stone until then.
 

WolvenOne

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Tried T8 for the first time today with full gaf, 4 new, 4 expierenced

we almost made it! had alot of fun but the 1% wipe was heartbreaking D:

T8 isn't really hard, but, it's such a wierd fight compared to everything else in the game. Even vastly over geared players can wipe if they don't coordinate properly during it.
 

kiryogi

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Upps, sorry, I didn't mean it in that way.

I'm not on ultros :)


TBH at this point I'm happy with just completing all the content by the relase of 3.0. I'm sure the fight itsef is just a matter of time and practice, but I would need to find a static since most PUG are already are on T10 or T11. I shouldn't have stoppped playing these last months lol

Well with unlock now I can help you more
 

Valor

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I find it humourous that despite the small yet beneficial changes Square Enix have implemented to the game since A Realm Reborn launch that they still maintain the level 20 story quest rubbish in order for players to achieve their mount unlock. This story quest involves a dungeon run before you hit level 20. You can only begin to imagine how wonderful this is to face for a DPS class. Good luck to those based in Oceania who don't want to face the prospect of joining a random JP server and are therefore faced with being stuck on a US or EU server with irregular timezones.

Also a smart move in order to welcome new players or those who managed to scratch off that launch itch but want to rejoin for a piece of nostalgia. I'm sure if you looked up the definition of ineptitude then you would see the Square Enix logo emblazoned underneath its description regarding the complete lack of competence.
I mean, real talk, a mount ain't making those queues go any faster. Doesn't change anything about your experience whether you have a chocobo or not, since you need to do those three dungeons to move on with the story in the quest for the endgame.

I feel that the best thing to do is try to meet people on the game or join a free company to get help with those dungeons if you're a dps class stuck waiting forever for a queue. SE has actually done an awful lot to entice players to go into those older dungeons again with the exp rewards from low level roulette and the relic book that requires you to do those lower dungeons again. Some people are even running them for cards. It's hard to play FF14 solo at the start, especially for a dps, but it's not square's fault.
 

Aselith

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I mean, real talk, a mount ain't making those queues go any faster. Doesn't change anything about your experience whether you have a chocobo or not, since you need to do those three dungeons to move on with the story in the quest for the endgame.

I feel that the best thing to do is try to meet people on the game or join a free company to get help with those dungeons if you're a dps class stuck waiting forever for a queue. SE has actually done an awful lot to entice players to go into those older dungeons again with the exp rewards from low level roulette and the relic book that requires you to do those lower dungeons again. Some people are even running them for cards. It's hard to play FF14 solo at the start, especially for a dps, but it's not square's fault.

It would be nice if they gave you some more chances to run the dungeon for extra rewards per day as that would encourage people to run them more times and maybe help some with the queues that way. Why not have regenerating "charges" like they do with Levequests?
 

WolvenOne

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So glad for no nerfs to Final Coil yet, I would like to beat it before it comes to that.

Oh, definitely, though in my case I should have it down before final coil is unlocked, since I got started a bit earlier than you.

Honestly, this is one of the reasons I'm glad Alexander is going to be broken up into two modes. There shouldn't be any need for mechanical nerfs or an echo buff with Alexander, since you won't need to clear the hard mode to go to the next set of, floors? turns?

So if drama strikes (don't do it Galen), or you get a late start, you can still do the same content as everyone else with the challenge mostly intact.
 

Godan

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So going to get intot his game after not playing for like a year. Not reactivated my account yet but like every day or 2 when i log in I get the message below.


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Now I have chnage my password like 4 times even making it random letter and numbers. Is it possible that they think i keep changing location or something?
 

studyguy

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It never occurred to me that the new job was basically a huge nod to Olan in FFT. So we can assume the final quest for XIV's astrologans is to be burned at the stake. Fantastic.

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Ken

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So going to get intot his game after not playing for like a year. Not reactivated my account yet but like every day or 2 when i log in I get the message below.

Now I have chnage my password like 4 times even making it random letter and numbers. Is it possible that they think i keep changing location or something?

Dynamic IP will do it too.
 

Aselith

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So going to get intot his game after not playing for like a year. Not reactivated my account yet but like every day or 2 when i log in I get the message below.


d3Ioj4u.png



Now I have chnage my password like 4 times even making it random letter and numbers. Is it possible that they think i keep changing location or something?

I got the same. I had to use the authenticator before it would stop. And you have to put in that one time password EVERY time you log in which is also exceeedingly annoying.
 

BadRNG

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The reddit translation looks to have left out some stuff from the famitsu interview. Some things I noticed:

-Yoshi says benchmark will probably come out around the April niconico stream, which is around the 25th-26th.
- They plan to reveal all the new skills/spells for all jobs in a video shortly before the release of the expansion, please be excited.
- They are still debating on whether or not it will cost MP to draw cards as AST, but Yoship goes on to say that he believes MP management should be very important to healers.
- They didn't actually lie about the DRG limit break, the reddit translator must of just skimmed the question. What Yoship says is that the DRG one will be first to be shown, and that a promotional video is currently being produced that is planned to contain it. The live letter part was asked by the interviewer (or more precisely he asked if it will be shown in a live letter or something similar). Yoshi never specifically says "the live letter being released today will have it".
- BLM will keep meteor, PLD will keep last bastion, and BRD's LB may be something like a giant laser. (no seriously, he says giant laser)
- AF2 won't come from job quests, but Yoshi doesn't think it will be very hard to get.
- The current goal is to release at least 20 new TT cards every major patch, including 3.0 itself.
- They talk a little bit about the tournament, like the live letter he says changes to both the rules and rewards are coming. He also says the developer team wants a tournament atmosphere, for players to be in the event area and actually think a real life tournament was going on.
- "It's probably terrible balance-wise to have dungeon drops always be the strongest so we're trying to change that." this is the reddit line, and is not what YoshiP says at all. What Yoshi says is that he doesn't want people to buy gear to become the strongest, but doesn't want people to just do dungeons and be the strongest either, they want to create a balance somewhere inbetween.
- The "scripts" the reddit thing talks about seem to be a crafter version of allagan tome stones basically. Not sure why they left that part out.
- They still plan to keep the patch every 3 months schedule post-expansion. Yoshi says the amount of content in every patch may be even larger than what we have been seeing up till now though, they are still balancing out how to spread resources on that front.
- A crystal tower like raid has begun development, they will be alternating between it and Alexander like they did with Coil/CT. (HOW DID THEY LEAVE THIS OUT? isn't this big news or have I been living under a rock? I thought the expectation was CT would be like Alexander normal)

That interview was really good, shame they don't get official translations for these more often, this is one of the more indepth interviews I've ever seen him give.
 

Godan

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Thanks. Just added the one time passed there so hope it stops it.


So being from EU what would be best best server to go on if I want to play with people from here?
 
They could simply have more piety base, or the spell costs can be lower. Paladin has a semi ok mana pool already with no piety on gear, it's just the spells are expensive so you don't get to use that much. Having to gear piety instead of other stats would probably be a fair downside to the class, unless piety directly equals damage and at a similar rate as det/crit. If you need piety to function but it doesn't add the same amount of damage, then it'll be pretty crappy since you're basically just adding a stat requirement that doesn't actually do anything.

They mentioned Piety melds in the interview which is why I thought DRK gear might have Piety on it. If they're using MP/magic it's possible their stuff might work off of Intelligence as well.

The info we have is still pretty vague, I guess all will become clear when we can see what the actual abilities are.
 

Jobbs

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How does the PS4 version compare to the game on a nice PC? I've noticed on PS4 the framerate does have some issues, depending on area (e.g., around a crowded town it can be low), but other than that, how does it compare just in terms of raw IQ?
 

Eldren

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Thanks. Just added the one time passed there so hope it stops it.


So being from EU what would be best best server to go on if I want to play with people from here?

Most people here play on Ultros. There are quite a few of us UK/EU players on the server so even when it's quiet there are still people around to talk to and run content with.
 

Ploid 3.0

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I wasn't a fan of Riverne Site A01 and B01 but this type of thing seem suited for FFXIV big alliance raids going by Crystal Tower. Each side can go to their own island teleports/jumps and the size of the islands won't matter since they are boss platforms.
 
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