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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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SpaceDrake
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The lore implications are completely insane, although people first thought that FFXII happened before FFT, so that's causing a little confusion.
But yeah holy shit. New best 24 man, and I was going nuts the whole time through the plot.
But yeah holy shit. New best 24 man, and I was going nuts the whole time through the plot.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
ilvl 90 myth gear can never be dyed which is a shame but the ilvl 50 stuff looks similar at least for Summoner so I guess I can use that as a substitute. I'll know in my heart, though. :'(
Yeah, still don't get it if XII happened before, how come Lesalia was under Rabanastre?
From what it seems in here Tactics happened before.
Or is this XIV's own version if Ivallice?
From what it seems in here Tactics happened before.
Or is this XIV's own version if Ivallice?
Is there any reason why the runs are so early? Pretty hard to make for west coast PST people with jobs since it's 6pm. 7pm/10pm would be a heck of a lot easier, at least for me being on PST.
Missed the run today, gonna try it with random players on df ><
they're strongest healer atm (sch got buffed with 4.1 but they're probably still the 3rd choice after 2nd place ast)
If they were later, many wouldn't be able to attend (like myself), too. It's a hard balance.
MHWilliams
Member
Second call for any potential FFXIV questions for the devs now that 4.1 is live.
Trojita
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I don't think you want to ask this after Shirogane Savage happened
It's supposed to be XIV's own version. The logic and events are consistent with the other Ivalice things, but places Tactics before XII There's dialogue mentioning Vagrant Story as well. Basically, consider the beginning of 12 being with the Garlean Empire invading instead of Archadia and instead of a peace treaty and an assassination happen a war happens with the eradication of Dalmasca's royal line. It's said there's other territories in Dalmasca that have attempted revolutions, but have been stamped out. This'd explain why people like the Seeq and Ba'gamnan and crew show up.
not about 4.1 but do they have plans to add a ingame calendar for fc events and other things like WoW has.
Question about the map - are they planning to change the minimap icons to show elevation in relation to the player? Arrow up/down or something when necessary, like how WoW does it. Currently it's often very hard to tell where NPCs etc. are in areas with a lot of verticality.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Considering we just had Shirogane (Savage), I'm pretty sure 95% of the questions will be as follows:
"Do you ever plan on making housing better or is the plan to leave it this way for the lifetime of the game?"
edit:
I found this in the Reddit thread. Amazing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/75czxl/shirogane_housing_rush_megathread/do5ule0/
How high was Matsuno when he wrote Return to Ivalice? For real.
is hard to balance the times with east,west and uk players in the fc. me and drama are the ones who setup the runs and we are in the east coast. we do have west coast mods in the fc also like victor and sosul.
WHM was amazing in v4s prog and I'd be surprised if it isn't taken into serious Ultimate groups either. Hell, if you look at some PFs for 4, they have WHM as a /required/ role
IrrelevantAlex
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Man these area's for the Ivalice raid are pretty nice looking. Spoilers just for the people who haven't done it yet. I don't know to be sad or not but this is probably the best screen shot I've taken of the game lol.
What are they planning to do against the valid complaints of the game's vertical gear progression?
Thought it was FFXIV version, and had in mind difference of the Garlean and Archadia part. However didn't catch the Vagrant story reference. And due to us being in a hurry in the raid since we did not have much time left, I was not able to read the text on the walls much. I'm wondering if Matsuno will try to connect FFXII to Tactics even more, or is he going to tell us,in FFXIV, what happened to Ramza and Alma.
Depths of Orion
Member
So I finished the raid this morning. Are we only allowed one piece of gear a week?
Yeah. You get one upgrade coin and one drop per week.
Depths of Orion
Member
Damnit. I knew I should have held out for the chest piece. Got the stupid gloves instead. Ugh
We did a few blind lockouts into Shinryu with a random PF sub and oh my god it is so fun. I can definitely see why people are freaking out now, but it very much seems like 50 things at once but once you learn them it's super set. It reminds me a lot of O3S. Most of the fun has been figuring stuff out and experimenting, and then once the thing is learned it's super easy to repeat. So I assume in a few weeks PF will have rote strategies and assigned positioning and it'll be just another wolf farm, but it's really well done.
We finished the night having made it to 30-something percent, and
, so I guess it's all downhill from here? It's a good successor to Thordan, and manages to include a new gimmicky thing I really, really like and hope they use more of.
We finished the night having made it to 30-something percent, and
getting to the healer adds post-tail
Unknown Soldier
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An enterprising JP player tried to sell a small plot on Chocobo for real money.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ane-plot-for-real-money-and-it-s-no-small-sum
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ane-plot-for-real-money-and-it-s-no-small-sum
Jampsuliini
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Haven't played the Raid, but high in a good way or a bad way?
Will DRK get some love and attention in 4.2? Perhaps adjusting Dark Passenger, bringing back Scourge in some form, or other ideas?
SMN stuff: I don't understand why we can use Aetherflow while in Dragonwyrm trance. It's just an annoyance because it does nothing and you have to wait for the cooldown after you use it. I think it should either become unusable OR give you the full charge once you're out of the trance. So it'd be nice to know if they are going to adjust it.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Wouldn't be that surprising, some people spend a lot of money on games.
I remember, many many years ago, I sold and bought accounts in UO and AC, made quite a lot of money. One of my UO friends flipped one of the best geared AC Darktide character at the time for a 3500dollars profit. That's 3500dollars in ~1999 or whatever AC was, which a quick google search tells me would be about 4500$ with inflation nowadays. And those sales were surprisingly common back then. I also sold some armor sets that you could just farm pretty quickly in the game for a few hundreds(mind you, since it was a PvP server, while it didn't take too long to farm, you had to fight for the spot with other people while camping for respawns, which wasn't that easy).
Even nowadays whenever I stumble on the shadier mmo websites I see people selling accounts for 400-500$ pretty often, with some numbers higher.
When you consider people dropping 1-3k on keys for loot boxes or whatever in F2P games, it isn't really surprising that people would be willing to pay 1000bucks for a house in their favorite mmo. Hell people pay 500bucks for those PoE packs every 4months for a few shiny armors and a shiny forum title.
Back in 2010, I had a college roommate who played RF Online on a pirate server with a cash shop. He claimed that the members of his guild had to spend $1-2k monthly in order to stay competitive. He was the guild leader and the race patriarch (there are like three races with distinct leader) and he said that the guild members actually collectively paid for his gear/whatever, about $1-2k monthly as well. Not sure how true that all was.
E_Darkness
Member
I forgot and accidentally got a gear piece for my tank instead of my MNK.
Whoops. I'm far behind on gearing because I've been gone for a few months now so I might just grind against O1-4 and get lv330 while the weekly cap has now gone, I think?
Pyros_Eien
Member
I've spent most of last year playing a korean F2P game(Dungeon Fighter Online, great game, old school 2D brawler but with some mmo aspects). I spent like 40bucks on the game early on to get started but after that didn't spend money, just played the game, enjoyed myself, they had events every 2weeks(like a lot of events every 2weeks rotating) and pretty fast patch rate cause they were catching up to the korean version with a 5 year gap due to the game being ran by Nexon NA at first, who completely killed the game then closed it, so when the korean devs re-opened the game in the west, they reset it to an old state and started patching from there.
Anyway they have a super RNG gated system to acquire the best gear in the game. Back when I played, that gear wasn't even actually useful since you could do the hardest content(the Anton raid) with less gear, especially if you played a support.
The mentality on this game was way different than anything I'd experienced playing mmos for ~20years(mostly western mmos that is). There were a lot of players there that would spend like 1-3k a week on buying "invites" which is the currency needed to farm those best items. They only farmed this way, didn't play the game much otherwise, and generally once they were done farming they would quit cause there was nothing to do, altough a few would still log for a couple hours a week to raid with their super char and feel good about solo carrying the whole raid. There were a lot of ppl buying keys for the ingame boxes stuff for random bad rewards. There were a lot of people buying costume packs they had every 3months in rotations, just to resell them ingame for gold to buy other stuff. They'd have like 100-200$ every few weeks of packs to sell. I bought a bunch of money cards to buy stuff from the cash shop with ingame money.
The worst part to me is how fucked the economy was in terms of spending real money. Even if I wanted to spend say 100$ on the game to progress faster, the amount of stuff you'd be able to buy with this amount was ridiculously small. Like 100$ would buy me maybe 2days of farming? In 2days the odds of getting even one useable item would be pretty much near 0 especially as I got more and more gear and was only looking for specific pieces. I couldn't understand how anyone would want to spend thousands on a game where thousands wouldn't even get you that far.
It was really weird.
It was really my first experience with "whales" as they're called in the F2P market. Most F2P games I played before were more reasonable, or the amount of people spending a lot of money felt a lot smaller like in poe a few people spend thousands buying packs and stuff every league, but a very large majority of the players are pure F2P/only bought a few stash, but in DFO the ratio felt more like 50/50 between whales and pure free players. And a lot of the whales were really spending stupid amounts of money, consistently every week. Like even in my poe example the whales only buy the 500-750packs or whatever every league but leagues being every, 4months or something, that's not THAT much money, but in DFO you'd often see people selling gamecards and stuff every week in stupidly large quantities.
Revolutionary
Member
I just got a really nasty bug in the middle of the raid where none of my spells displayed an animation or the casting bar, but when the casting time would complete it would cast like normal. Really messed up my timings and had to back out because it was impossible to play that way. Hope this is remedied in the hotfixes for tonight.
Just show them this image and say "WHEN"
Just show them this image and say "WHEN"
This game doesn't have shortcuts for turning off UI elements, right?
Yesterday everything was fine, but during a dungeon today I noticed that I don't see my buffs/debuffs on the top of the screen. After the dungeon ended I went to the HUD settings and turned it all on again, but I'm still scratching my head as why it was turned off in the first place.
Yesterday everything was fine, but during a dungeon today I noticed that I don't see my buffs/debuffs on the top of the screen. After the dungeon ended I went to the HUD settings and turned it all on again, but I'm still scratching my head as why it was turned off in the first place.
Stone Ocean
Member
Did your game/PC/console crash or something? XIV sometimes rolls back some recent configs when that happens.
If you want, we can try to set a time during the weekend that is earlier.
Because GAF kind of spans the oceans it is difficult to arrange a time that works for everybody.
6% enrage at Neo Exdeath with 4 deaths.
Hopefully he goes down this week.
Hopefully he goes down this week.
They are very strong. Their big AoE heals are very important in later raid fights where the boss routinely brings the entire party low and the healers have to bring everyone back up quickly. Many strategies are based around it.
the_sun_king
Member
Preeeetty sure the squat, push up, and sit up emotes come from them.
E_Darkness
Member
Do we start to unlock more dungeons as the squadron levels up? They level real slow.
Oh yeah, my PC reset itself in a middle of a cutscene yesterday. I guess it reverted itself to the state before the patch? Thanks, that might be it!
Revolutionary
Member
My squadron was already level 50 and we have access to 5 dungeons. Halatali, Totorak, Brayflox, Stone Vigil and Wanderer's Palace.