Retro Edge
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And I heard a little round of PVP gives you around 670000xp (was for an around level 50 guy). Haven't tried it yet.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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Yeah. That was part of the update for Stormblood.
Yaska
Member
640k exp at lvl 62.
Italian player on Ultros here. Noticeable enough for me that moving out of a skill before it goes off can lead to me taking damage anyways, or moving while casting a spell before the spell casting is done won't interrupt the cast from time to time.
For normal stuff the lag isn't too bad but I just restarted playing and I've only been messing around with simple stuff so I dunno if it's still as annoying as it was 3 years ago when to dodge Titan stuff I had to start moving before he even started doing special attacks or he'd still hit me.
fluffydelusions
Member
Still cant do the cold steel quest!! Ffs
It's truly the worst, and what puts salt into the wound is that there's another wall like that just 20 minutes later.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Presumably there are fewer players connecting to Japanese servers than to NA ones.
It's not a major problem on every NA server either. It seems all of us on Ultros are shit out of luck, but I have friends on other servers who managed to get through the quests normally yesterday.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
They changed how sprint works with Stormblood.
The Last Wizard
Member
Ultros isn't even one of the most populated servers in NA -_-
That was my first thought, but I logged in around 10 am, saw a big crowd and a line (same as yesterday when I logged off) - when I logged in 2-3 hours later there was no one around and I did both Cold Steel, Pipin and everything else up to the new zone past Kugane.
While it's highly possible that it has something to do with the number of players, this jump from "super crowded NPC and everyone getting an error" to "no problems" in a span of 2-3 hours on Saturday noon is very confusing.
Retro Edge
Member
Shiva, Europe, is free from problems since 12 hours now.
If world transfer wasn't such a pain in the ass (take all stuff off MB, destroy room) I'd be tempted to do a server change just to get through these MSQ roadblocks. Ultros seems to be the NA server where the most amount of "gamers" play, and it's just broken.
I stayed up late until the server population was as low as it was gonna get and still couldn't get through. Woke up and still can't get through. Not happy.
I don't think this is the case anymore. Across all server instances, sure. But there are clearly servers where people are getting through (no lines etc...) and others aren't which makes it seem server-based.
I stayed up late until the server population was as low as it was gonna get and still couldn't get through. Woke up and still can't get through. Not happy.
I don't think this is the case anymore. Across all server instances, sure. But there are clearly servers where people are getting through (no lines etc...) and others aren't which makes it seem server-based.
E_Darkness
Member
Yay. I went out an hour ago and before I left I logged in Stormblood hoping it'd be on while I get back. I'm not even half way through the queue. Aha...
My RDM is lv57 and I'm enjoying it.
I would've been kicked off for idling anyway if I left it on
My RDM is lv57 and I'm enjoying it.
When not queuing
SuperStiltzkin
Member
No, but it no longer costs TP to sprint which is nice. Sometimes I just sprint at the boss with my weapon drawn.
I thought Undraw was supposed to auto-upgrade to Minor Arcana?
Because it does not, and it makes doing level synced content annoying for no reason.
Their idle-kick is super rudimentary and still can be cheated the same way as always: if you're mid-craft, whatever command they use to try to kick you will fail. So you can switch to a crafter, start and not progress a craft (I just carry around a pigment to start a dye), and then afk for as long as you want without getting idle booted.
I mostly use it when waiting for somebody to catch up or something, so I don't get knocked into queue while not doing anything in game.
Y U P
I hope that's a direction they continue down going forward
Because it does not, and it makes doing level synced content annoying for no reason.
Their idle-kick is super rudimentary and still can be cheated the same way as always: if you're mid-craft, whatever command they use to try to kick you will fail. So you can switch to a crafter, start and not progress a craft (I just carry around a pigment to start a dye), and then afk for as long as you want without getting idle booted.
I mostly use it when waiting for somebody to catch up or something, so I don't get knocked into queue while not doing anything in game.
Y U P
I hope that's a direction they continue down going forward
YuriLowell
Member
So whats the fastest way to level to 50? just do dungeons?
Demoskinos
Member
Sprint sucks now.
No TP usage though. Which is nice for TP heavy melee classes.
E_Darkness
Member
I wish I knew this, guess I'll just have to wait...
Unknown Soldier
Member
You can also just talk to an NPC and leave the dialog box open to defeat the auto-kick
Stand by Rauhban and stay talking to him and no one will know you're AFK, they just think you're waiting to get in the instance
Stand by Rauhban and stay talking to him and no one will know you're AFK, they just think you're waiting to get in the instance
AuthenticM
Member
So how do the jump potions work? Do I have to buy them on Square's website? What if I want to use one for the monk job, but I haven't unlocked it yet?
Unlocks new abilities for your class, so pretty important.
Vital Tundra
Member
Yeah job quest is probably priority 1 when it unlocks.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Feels like they just decided to kill DRK for no reason.
It's been turned into PLD 2.0 for no reason. I kind of doubt Quietus/Bloodspiller are going to change that.
It's been turned into PLD 2.0 for no reason. I kind of doubt Quietus/Bloodspiller are going to change that.
You don't need to unlock anything, just use the potion and you have monk plus all abilities/job quests done.
Yes, your final new level 70 skill comes from the Job quest line.
It's not an error. It's explained by the merchant who helps you in Kugane
Eventually, but there's 0 benefit to doing the SB ones while still leveling that I can see. You're going to have to go back and do the last one at 70 to get the skill regardless; the ones before are
I was always going to do them at some point. Just wondering since I've been learning abilities without them.
I guess it's nice to have it as a melee but it's extra annoying to use in the overworld when you want to flee and mount up with the duration being heavily reduced while in combat.
I was running this game at high (or more?) Stable 60 fps with an old GTX460. Game is well optimized.
They give a lot of xp (190k for the lv 63 one), so it would be a waste to not do them while leveling.
You are the devil.
Lookin' forward to it! The Lvl 61 dungeon had me drowning in nostalgia.
They're basically 1 MSQ or 2 sidequests of experience; it's nice if you're really close but at least so far dungeon EXP has been pretty good. It's technically a waste, I guess, but there's no reason to drop everything to go do them unless you're super close to a level.
From a tech side the game shoots pretty low so it's not super surprising. Texture work is not very high resolution and doesn't even use much blending. World geometry is extremely simple. Hopefully the dev team will take more steps forward in these areas in the future because the game is starting to look somewhat dated.
GuitarGuruu
Member
Just curious how the MSQ situation is going, is it still terrible at the first duty or has it evened out to the second more so?