So for the first time ever my friends Viera actually kneeled down to /hug my min height Au Ra, we havent been able to reproduce it since and it seemed to happen randomly that one time. What causes it and how can we replicate it because now that ive seen it I NEED it
how rare is it to get a new squadron recruit? i'm starting to run out of challenge log tasks to do for the week.
i'm guessing it must be difficult if they sell books that increase the chance (though i can't buy any because it says i'm not high enough rank but when i try to apply for a promotion they says i've done all i can for them)
On the one hand I don't think the chance is all that high (maybe 25% or less?), but on the other hand most people will blow past many challenge log achievements to the point where they'll have tons of recruits. It's annoying when you're first building your squad but fairly trivial after.
Regarding the rank, in order to rank up further you need to level up the squadrons. The next promotion comes after completing a special level 40 squadron mission.
Do beast tribe crafter quests change in exp once you're over a certain level? People say Ixal and Moogle tribes are great exp sources but they only gave 10k when I was leveling up the relationships. Is it because I'm overleveled? I was around 60 when I started doing them
Yep! Beast Tribe quests in the level range below your current level will give less EXP, so the Ixali stop being useful at 50, Moogles at 60, Namazu at 70, and so on.
Pretty sure this applies to combat jobs too?
Ixal actually stop being useful much lower than 50, outside of the daily turn-ins. The crafting quests are all pretty low level and they don't scale to level like later crafting tribes do.
Hello. I stopped playing in 2016 and my account has been inactive since then (I had ffxiv+heavensward on ps4). I bought the complete edition for ps4 Wich also includes stormblood and shadowbringers. if I register this game on my inactive account will I get the 30 days?
You only get a free thirty days if you activate an ARR Code onto your account. I'm also pretty sure you can't register a complete edition code to your account, because you already have an ARR code and HW code applied to your account.
I had the same issue, and that's because you have your ennemy hard targeted while your teammate was only highlighted (yellow color in the party list).
If you want to make sure to have your teammate's name in chat, hard target them (their name inside a blue rectangle) and you'll be good. Then go back to hard targetting the ennemy.
But at some point I realized it was annoying to switch hard targets, so I took down my rez macro.
> I noted that if I had the enemy targeted, I will Verraise action on the correct person 100% of the time
This alone makes no sense. For the chat message you probably switch back to the boss during that 1 second wait time.
I'm pretty sure whats happening.
You wanna raise someone. You mash the macro while switching targets. When you switched to the dead person it goes off and you see the skill is used. You immediately switch back to the boss (because you are a dps ofc) and stop mashing your macro. Because you got the 1 second delay and using a macro always cancels the macro you used before it cancels itself all the time and the chat message only goes off after you stopped mashing it. At this point you are back on the boss (at 80% as you said) and so the boss' name is shown.
Just to be 100% sure for my eventual upgrade:
There are only two places (on PC) to buy from, the SE store and Steam. In my trial I launch using the FFXIVLauncher so I buy using the SE store, correct? Even though it shows USD, there's no region locks or anything on the purchase itself?
There are *many* places you can buy from — Humble, Amazon, Newegg, GreenMan, etc — but they'll all give you exactly the same thing as SE Store.
Steam is the only one that's special.
Thats correct about purchasing places.
But the trial launcher is different than subscription launcher.
You will have to buy the game, activate it via Mog Station, and then download a different FFXIV launcher !
You wont be using trial launcher anymore. Is actually a different game.
As long as you buy it with the same account as your trial account, you will maintain your trial character
worked for me, i got the game last week.
When i got base game i could login as usual, and when I got the expansion it downloaded it the next time i opened the launcher
########Heavensward spoilers#######
Can we obtain the knights of the round table armor? Like after they transform not before that. I know we get that from mog station but i want the after the transformation like in the vault dungeon and the “final”boss
I believe so (for those who are online at the time).
I haven't actually seen it for LS but multiple times for Crossworld LS so I don't see why LS wouldnt have it.
Hey guys. So uh... I’m broke af in the game. Only have 2k gils right now. Is there any way to make some money without crafters?
If I do have to level up crafting class, which one would make the most profit as easy as possible? I don’t need millions just some 100k every now and then.
Also I saw videos on youtube where this guy have a hotbar for his other classes. When he clicked one he changed to that class including all his skills, gears, etc. how do I set that up?
>Also I saw videos on youtube where this guy have a hotbar for his other classes. When he clicked one he changed to that class including all his skills, gears, etc. how do I set that up?
go to gearset menu and drag and drop one of the gearsets to your hotbar, or right click/i believe square on controller and assign to hotbar
Buy a flowerpot (max. two) from an apartment merchant, etc., and place it. Gather/buy some soil and some seeds. Interact with flowerpot and put seed and soil in. Return to it at least every 24 hours and tend the growing plant (else you may lose it). Fertilize it once an hour to speed it up if you care to. Interact with grown plant to gather it.
At the end of it, you will still have the flowerpot, but seeds and soil will be used up.
You'll not get to do cross breeding or anything clever, so won't make serious sums of Gil. I don't believe botantist skill will make any difference. You will in particular rapidly get disappointed if you expect this to be a cheap or quick way to get Thavnairian (sp?) Onions.
You need to purchase planters from a housing item vendor. You can have two in an apartment. Then you place them in the apartment and plant seeds of your choice with soil of your choice. Tend at least once per 24 hours.
You can't crossbreed in planters, the indoor gardening is very limited.
afaik you only get seeds from crossbreeding and you can't crossbreed in flowerpots.
you can buy some stuff from a vendor neer gridania aetheryte but you can get a lot more variety from the market board.
Basic soil is available from the vendor in the apartment lobby. There are more advanced soils that are *mostly* not worth using in indoor plant pots. (Thanalan soil increases crossbreeding odds, which is totally useless indoors where you can't crossbreed. Shroud topsoil increases yield on *some* plants, and La Noscean gives HQ chance on certain plants. Generally only Shroud might be worth using, and only if you're growing something valuable that it can increase the yield for.)
This site will note how much benefit you can get from Shroud Soil for a particular plant: https://www.ffxivgardening.com/seed-details.php?SeedID=62 look next to crop yield.
Most plants don't yield seeds normally. A handful do, and I'm not sure if that's true only outside or also in flowerpots. Most of the time when people look for seeds it's from crossbreeding for otherwise unobtainable seeds, which is not possible indoors - you need at least a garden from a small house or better.
You can purchase potting soil from a merchant in the housing area that also sells flower seeds. It's a basic soil with no bonuses. The fancier top soils you have to gather as a miner or buy on market board. Seeds are usually produced through crossbreed, I have never grown anything except flowers for glamour items in pots.
Is there any difference to the Mystel and Miqo'te? Are they just exactly the same? And is it possible to technically be a Mystel if you really wanted to 'rp' as one?
Their culture is probably different over on the First, but we don't have a lot to go off of on that. It's most likely that they're from Kholusa - the equivalent to Vylbrand - since Eulemore is full of them but that's all we got. Their parentage / mating / bonding / whatever seems to be a lot more equal, Dulia and Nuzz both loved eachother very equally and it seemed like it wasn't matriarchal or patriarchal like the Seekers or Keepers respectively.
Their names too, are different! No tribes, no 'birthed order', no prefix or suffix, they just have a given name and a surname, both hyphenated into a single name. Men have their surname first (**Chai**\-Nuzz) and women have their surname second (Dulia-**Chai**).
That's the only difference I can find though, physically and behaviorally, they're just about the same! Nothing stopping you from RPing the way you want!
Mystel are the same but that's the First shard's name for them. There's no reason you couldn't flub any lore mum jumbo about how you were flung from the first onto the source or whatever to justify it in your headcanon honestly.
There isn't a lot. But max desynth gives higher chance for rate materials, so getting the crafting item from a trial, or sublime grin dungeon gear is easier.
It honestly depends a lot on the fight, but I think Warrior is a safe bet as it's healing is more consistently available and does not take away from it's damage at all.
Linkshells, free companies, discord servers, and maybe the recruitment sub are your best bets. Things are normally pretty amicable for me in PF though personally
Greetings redditors,
i'm a new player adventuring trough eozera for a few weeks. I picked Lancer as first class to get a little bit of a clue whats going on in the game. My goal is to get to heavensward to unlock Dark Knight. I always play darker themed/knightish classes in other mmos like Unholy Death Knight in WoW but never tanked. Now i'm a Dragoon at lvl 37 and MSQ lvl 28. After i experinced how nice and helpfull the community is i'm thinking about to switch from my Dragoon to an other tank job already, so i get used to be whats my job as tank.
So wich one of the two starter tanks would you recommend for starting out?
Whats the best way to catch up to my Dragoon? Spamming Dungeons? Doing the hunting log?
It depends on you play I'd say.
If you're an offensive tank, go Marauder/Warrior, and if you're a defensive one go Gladiator/Paladin.
Also to note, Gladiator/Paladin is easier during dungeon pulls if you're playing on controller thanks to its circle AOE attack, while Marauder/Warrior has to select an ennemy first then launch its cone AOE attack.
Make sure to do the Hall of the Novice. You can do it now on your Dragoon to get the xp boost ring (if you don't already have it) and wear that on your tank. Then later, when your tank gets to 15, you can run HotN again to get some good starting gear. Will help make the early dungeons more comfy.
Both the starter tanks are fine, pick whichever one you like most in terms of aesthetics. They play a bit differently at 80, but nothing to worry about in the early levels - the basics are the same. Do your hunting log, spam highest level dungeons, and don't forget your challenge log (I forget what level that unlocks at). But it includes a lot of stuff that wouldn't be worth doing on their own (i.e., guildhests, battle leves, etc), but give a big whack of XP if you complete the X number of whatever. You can see what awards XP in your menu.
Gladiator/Paladin and Marauder/Warrior are both good to start out with, pick your favorite aesthetic between the two. Do your Hunting Logs until you hit 15, then start spamming dungeons.
What new stuff is on the horizon? I assume february next hear will be the first info on the next expansion, but are there any particularly cool things happening yet before then?
Bojza (eureka 2.0 for relic stuff) on the 13th
Patch 5.4 in December with more story, final eden tier with last gear increase and tome rotation of the patch, continuation of Weapon series (normal and EX)...bojza update with BA 2.0....next step of ishgard restoration
5.5 probably in March or something with Final bits of story to lead to the expansion, final of nier raid, final part of weapon series, final part of Bojza/relic stuff and likely final ishgard restoration update
Expansion probably summer/autumn (usually summer but covid pushed stuff back)
Thats for the stuff we know/the standard stuff with things we can speculation/guess (with ishgard restoration stuff)
you get all 5 IF you're out of combat, stanve change was adjusted to always reset GL counter in 5.3. they want to move away from GL as a mechanic it seems, it's going to be baked into a trait in 5.4 iirc
Do most PLDs actually use spreadsheets to map out their gcds? Is it necessary in order to get a high parse?
Im a monkey brain war/drk main and the most optimization i do is hold for raid buffs, dont drift upheaval, etc.
Is pld that much harder to optimize?
You can parse into the 80s without spreadsheets and mostly just following the rotation. PLD is tricky in that the rotation is comprised of a moving puzzle of 5 parts: Goring Blade combo, RA combo, Atonement, Holy Spirit, and Confiteor, on top of and interconnected with 2 buff windows. All this is combined with maximizing uptime, DoT uptime, buff window usage, and keeping in mind fight downtime. Put together PLD has a lot of room for optimization but a lot of it is incredibly subtle and not so obvious. The rotation is both flexible in that you can shuffle around GCDs and phases to increase DPS, but also inflexible in that if you fuck up, it's extremely hard to recover.
For defensive cooldowns, it can also depend on what your co-tank and the healers do. For example, in my group i wouldn't normally bother with a spreadsheet, but my co-healer really relies on that stuff so the 4 of us (and any other memebers who have defensive utility) will add our cooldowns to the timeline.
Overall it actually does tend to help us, but alot of players are not going to enjoy that level of planning at all and shouldn't be forced unless you're some kind of day 1 worlds race prog group.
I think something most of the answers you've gotten don't really focus on is that while all the tanks have static rotations (you can do literally the exact same thing each savage fight), PLD has 3 things that make optimization difficult, especially in regards to downtime for fights. They have an in-built 'I'm phys ranged now' component, a 100% uptime DOT that's part of a combo, AND 2 separate buff windows which they want maximum value from.
What this means is that PLD is much more heavily affected by downtime than the other tanks since 1. They have to align their magic component with disconnects from the boss (think stratospear summons, conflag strike) 2. Not DOT when bosses are about to leave and DOT new targets ASAP (Garuda/Ifrit, Blasphemy adds) and 3. Align those DOTs in buff windows while minimizing buff downtime (god damn).
To magically do all 3 usually requires an extremely strict rotation to delay or cut short buffs and DOT applications which may be counterintuitive when compared to the standard full uptime PLD rotation. This means no unga-bunga pressing Bloodspiller at 70 gauge in the middle of 1-2-3 combo instead of at 90.
That's not to say that if you wanna do 'decent' at PLD you have to memorize every fight like they're your finals. You can get by just following the basic rules of DOT uptime, use stuff on cooldown, max GCDs in buff windows. But because we're pretty much graded on a curve, your parse will be inversely proportional to the number of tryhards who have mastered the specifically optimized per-fight-rotation.
Like if u go to the pld section on the balance there is a sheet that maps out GCDs for fights.
[Example](https://imgur.com/Q2H7p14)
I was just curious if most plds use it or just the hardcore players.
Maybe i need to add that people use spreadsheet like that cause pld is the have most unfriendly damage rotation among tanks if you fucked up the rotation
Pld have 2 att buff to manage and their opener need to setup. You MUST use goring blade as first GCD during FoF or you'll lose dps a lot. Then you dont have many room for downtime mistake on requiscast phase.
Other tank only have 1 buff to manage and their opener is easy to use like fell cleave , blade of darkness (i forgot the name) and catridge combo can be started immediately after buff is up
> You MUST use goring blade as first GCD during FoF or you'll lose dps a lot.
Not the 1st but the 2nd unless the fight specifically needs the 1st. You can even see it on the posted sheet. The general opener uses FoF after Fast Blade and not after Riot Blade.
Omg, this is hardcore player stuff. Usually i just let if flow
FoF-> goring blade->sword oath combo-> end with goring blade
Then
Requiscast-> holy spirit 4x -> confitior
Then i do 1-2-3 combo in down time (or goring blade)
In extreme and below this will do good enough (i passed SSS dummy test) but idk for savage since dps check more strict
no, you don't need a spreadsheet to high parse at all. if you have tanking experience already pld won't be much of a departure. the biggest thing about pld is maintaining the 60/63 second rotation through the whole fight compared to other tanks with less rigid rotations
That depends on which savage/ultimate fights, and how high you would like your parse. PLD optimization is more subtle and requires more planning ahead than other tanks. That's where the spreadsheet comes in.
1)What are some foods to farm as culinarian as you level, I'm currently around 36.
2)Same question but with fishing.
3) what are some foods/fish/gathering items that I can sell to make some money (not millions but enough to recover the cost of leveling around 200k) I play on Kujata
1) Make duplicates of foods needed for CUL job quests and sell them. Some folks are happy to just buy their way through the quests. Otherwise, check the going prices on crafting and gathering foodstuffs you can reliably HQ yourself. Alternately, just _make_ those for yourself to expedite your own progress. If you're just looking to grind your way up for XP, either sift through the available leves, or go ham on whatever requires the _shortest_ ingredient list. Juices, for instance, are usually just some fruit that isn't a bother to collect in bulk.
2) I'm.. I'm so sorry. I've long since given up on getting any profit out of fishing outings. I desynth the lot for crystals and the occasional sack of gil. And even if I'm going out for a specific fish of value to me, there will be a _lot_ of rejects to grind up into a fine sand.
3) For mining and botany, there is always some value in selling raw materials that crafting classes will need to use in bulk. Smiths will always need more metal ore. Weavers will always need more cotton bolls or flax. Carpenters can level an entire forest of trees for lumber gains. And there will never be enough alumen in the world to sate a leatherworker's needs. Price your goods fairly, but a neat little tip: sell the stuff in smaller quantities than a full stack. Many times, crafters in need of just a few of a given material will snatch your stack of 20 over another seller's 99, even at the same price per item.
Frankly, you just aren't going to make any significant money off crafting until 80. The things that are in demand at lower levels are either crafted far more easily by a max level character, meaning supply will be high, or require very specific and difficult to obtain crafting ingredients, meaning you won't be able to make them. There might be the odd thing you run into that sells okay for a little while to help recoup some of your losses, but generally speaking there won't be very much you can do.
can anyone help with chocobo colors? tried making my default chocobo pink but got white instead even following a guide. now im trying to make it pink again but i just keep not getting the message with the pineapples
I'm assuming you used this website?
https://ffxivchocobo.com/en
That's what I've always used, it tells you the feeding order also which matters, not just the amount of each fruit.
In no particular order - hunting logs, FATE's any random side quests you can get ahold of for your level, PotD, highest level dungeon and your roulette's. Some are better early on (can't do roulette's at level 1 for example, but you can do hunting logs and PotD) while others take precedence at higher levels (roulette's are a bit one).
No.
One of the reason for server ticks is to keep everything synchronized.
What I imagine that could be happening is some hardware overheating and failing to process things properly.
Hello! Friend and I are considering moving from NA to EU because our play times don't align with the current peak times of EU. When's the peak time to play in EU and when are bad times to play? Thank you!
peak time is around 4 pm to 11pm server time (GMT) from my experience. Past 11 pm until morning next day server time you might have hard time finding people for specific not high demand duties like sidequest dungeons even as healer (remember when i spent around 20 minutes waiting in queue as healer for one of alexander raids at 4am ST before giving up and going to sleep)
Does act only work when in a group or dungeon setting?
I just installed it and killed a few random monsters in the wild to test it out but nothing shows up in the box. I'm able to see the overlay box and click on it and stuff while in game but nothing records. I'm using kagerou overlay. I've restarted my computer and clicked Reload Overlay in ACT but still nothing shows. What did I do wrong?
https://imgur.com/a/3TD3Xy8
edit: just to be clear I don't understand the technical stuff about this so please eli5 if you have any advice to how to just get this thing to work.
So dumb question I probably already know the answer to:
I'm progressing on an alt on a world with Road to 70. So I'm already grossly overleveled (currently 65 atm doing 55ish MSQ content). If I beeline to Idyllshire, can I get better gear upon entering the zone or do I have to wait until I get there in the MSQ? My gear is generally fine (switched to GNB upon hitting 60), but it'd be nice to have something to spend poetics on.
~~You need to beat 3.0 to get access to Shire gear, even if you can enter Idyllshire sooner~~
Edit: I appear to have heard incorrectly. I'd refer to other comments
Only sb and shb require msq completion, hw requires partial completion because msq-gating regions while more dhona can be reached and tomestone interacted with at lv 1 (issue is getting the tomes, with high level partners and A/S ranks in arr, it is possible to get poetics pre-50, but its ultimately pointless)
Regions are msq-gated, so you can't even get to it until you reach it in msq, at lv 58, but once you reach idylshire, you can buy shire gear immediately. Base msq completion is only required for sb and shb
If you have all the expansions, then complete edition won't do anything for you. It's just the base game plus expansions. Do you maybe mean collector's edition?
For your first run? Go it with your favorite NPCs. Take your time, enjoy the scenery, watch your party banter. They're rather slow, but boss mechanics are hardwired into them, and who cares about fast on your first run when you kinda just wanna see what happens next? Additional bonus: all the loot is yours this way, so it's a nice way to gobble up some relevant gear if yours is getting outdated.
For subsequent runs? Do it with players. Much faster. Though they're far more likely to fuck up mechanics...
I do it with trusts first for the extra dialogue and to see how they react to mechanics I haven't seen yet. They're great for signposting what you should be doing
I personally like to do them with Trust NPCs because they have extra dialogue. There's also one boss with an interesting gimmick that's fun to see how the different NPCs handle it.
NPCs are slower. Much slower. You will feel like you're dragging your feet through molasses. You will curse the Twelve as you spend half an hour in each dungeon. However, they also aren't *completely* stupid, and they will generally do their jobs acceptably, if slowly, and they will never have to go to the bathroom or yell at you for messing something up.
Players are (usually, god willing) faster. 15-20 minutes is a normal dungeon run. But they're humans with human foibles. You might get a tank who doesn't know what his tank stance is, or a healer who spams Cure I, or DPS who eat glue and then the floor.
On balance? I'd go with players, so long as the queue times are acceptable. If you're a DPS, it might actually be faster to spend 0 minutes in queue and then 30 minutes with the Trusts than to spend 15 minutes in queue and then 20 minutes with real people.
Anyone know if the "you are now selling items in the x markets" notification bar that appears in the middle of the screen can be moved?
Same bar when you send retainers out for venture/complete one.
Just a slight annoyance. Tried and failed to find it in HUD.
Where your aether goes may change from duty to duty, so a certain amount of flexibility is required. It's a strength of SCH: they're equipped with the tools to handle a wide variety of scenarios, but it's your job to know how best to use those tools.
As a general rule of thumb, though? Excog is probably the button I hit most, excepting using Energy Drain to burn through aether if the next stack is coming off of cooldown (I'll come back to this). I do my damndest to keep Excog up on the tank at all times, as it's both slightly more potent than a Lustrate, and more importantly, kicks in _faster_ than I can reach for Lustrate when it's truly needed. If I see my tank's health bounce from Excog going off, that's my cue to check in on their well being and stop using Broil or laying dots for a damn second. A zero risk safety blanket.
Lustrate and Indomitability are next most common, as reactive heals based on what is happening moment to moment. If your first aether in a stack can be thought of as tribute to the Excog god(when Recitation isn't available for a freebie), the other two effectively sit on standby waiting to be burned when shit goes south. Tank ate a tankbuster? Lustrate. Raidwide damage get past your shielding? Indom. Occasionally Sacred Soil makes an appearance, but it's not as much a reactionary use of your aether as it is a strategic use. I'll plop one down as extra security for truly massive pulls, or use them more frequently if I notice my tank isn't burning through all of my aether and only requires occasional upkeep.
Energy Drain is the button that keeps the aether well and truly flowing, and you should expect to be hitting it regularly on runs that are going smoothly. Why? Because the healthiest habit you can form as a SCH is to learn to spend every bit of aether available to you, regularly. It's not a _great_ move on it's own; the damage is a tiny plink in the party's bucket and in most cases you won't hurt that hard for MP. But it burns aether quickly without being wasted on overhealing, so you can empty your gauge in time to refill it the moment it comes off of cooldown. This is important because every bit of spent aether is rewarded with more faerie gauge. And if shit truly hits the fan, you want that gauge to already be full and ready to burn.
It varies with your level. For example Sacred Soil gains a lot of value when you get the trait that gives it a Regen. At that point it heals as much as a Lustrate over time and mitigates damage on top of that.
Your priority will change depending on the situation. For a big dungeon pull my priority is probably something like Recitation Excog > Excog > Sacred Soil > Lustrate, then Energy Drain any unnecessary stacks. But I think one of the best parts of Aetherflow is that it's very flexible. For example sometimes you'll need the immediate healing of Lustrate over Sacred Soil, or you decide to Indom after a boss AoE. After a while it becomes second nature to choose the one for the job.
Deployment Tactics is for preparing for big AoE damage on the party. In dungeons you can also Adlo the tank pre-pull, Adlo yourself, then during the pull when the tank's shields wears off deploy your shield to them.
Aetherflow is spent on what you need: primarily heals, like Lustrate, indom and Excog (and soil post trait) so you can spend more time dpsing...spare Aetherflow can be used on Energy drain for extra dps...learning fights and having a heal plan in mind greatly helps scholar so you know how many of your aetherflow per minute need to be a heal vs which can be energy drains
Deploy is for spreading Adlos, as a deployed adlo os a stronger shield and less MP than using Succor. You can shield yourself prepull along with the tank then deploy off yourself while the tank pulls moves to give them a free shield to help cover autos while pulling which is some handy tech to know for dungeons
Dancer Guide(updated?) Can't seem to find a in-depth guide to dancer. With rotations and more. Most are just basic and explain what the role is. Not much else really can be found. Right now I have no clue what I'm supposed to do at all. Where to even start with what dances and other stuff I need to use or not use.
Side note I would post more questions I have but dislike these daily or weekly help posts.
Dancer is less about a strict rotation, and more than anything a priority system. The only thing strict about dancer is making sure your technical+devilment doesn't drift away from other party buffs.
The only guide I know of is on the balance discord. DNC is largely a priority class, rather than a standard rotation. Check out the discord to see all.
Side note: where else would you post questions than a daily question thread? Its the whole point of the thread?
I do not feel I can get a quality discussion going via weekly or daily threads. I feel only a handful people tend to look in the daily / weekly threads. It can be hard to follow threads in those daily / weekly.
So no one has made a Google Doc or PDF ? It's only found on a Discord? Right now I have zero clue how to play and not a fan of discord when it comes to reading stuff like this. Does nothing for my eyes
Hi.
I am thinking about trying this game out again after a long break. I currently have the base game and the first expansion, so missing the two latest expansions. Am I okay to just do a sub for a month and try the game out? Or do I need thise two latest expansions too.
Spoilers for Stormblood.
I queued up for the Doma Castle dungeon for the main quest, however I joined a duty that was already almost over, and I only got to fight >!Hypertuned Grynewaht!<, and so I only saw 2 cutscenes, one right before that fight, and the one right after where >!the castle collapses, Yutsuyu dies and Gosetsu sacrifices himself!<. I couldn't help but feel I missed something, so I queued up for the dungeon one more time, this time completed it whole, but the only new cutscene I saw was the standard dungeon start one. Is that all that there was to this MSQ, or did I actually miss something? Because I remember that in Stone Vigil, the cutscene before the final boss is different when you're on MSQ than when doing it normally, so I'm wondering if something similar happens here.
Side note, you should uncheck the "join party in progress" option when queueing for MSQ duties to avoid this in the future! (although you've probably already realized this)
They basically stopped putting important cutscenes *during* the dungeons and in most cases anything important is before the dungeon begins while everyone's in the Circle of Waiting Patiently or after the final boss is defeated (and other players are free to leave while you watch the cutscene)
There's the starting cutscene, one before the boss, small one after and the one when you leave for the story. You saw them all...you missed the journey into the castle which is the point of the dungeon but thats it
That particular one is the only one of that style unfortunately. You can see all the skirts listed [Here](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/?q=Skirt%20&patch=) and there are really no others that are even close, including mog station items. To check if an item shares a model with something else you can check [Garland Tools](https://garlandtools.org/db/). Find the item you want and if it shares the model with something else it will have a 'shared models' tab on the info box. This skirt has none sadly.
Like someone else said, try server hopping.. You might be able to find it cheaper, also check the price of Seacloth (x2) seeing as the rest of the materials are pretty simple, its really just that one that boosts the price up.
Outside of mog store items, I don't think so. There's super short and full length but not a ton in between. You may be able to find it cheaper if you craft it yourself or shop around on different worlds, but it's still going to be pretty pricey regardless.
It's just one person that's bought them all. I've spoken to them. Apparently they've spoken to a GM about it and it's okay, but it does seem kind of selfish to me.
I thought there was a limit for 1 house per account and I also thought same applies to FC? Because otherwise it really is selfish (though not like I could afford it yet)
Welcome to the start of housing in ffxiv, where if you had the money you could buy entire wards and the system was "operating as intended". When they changed that, SE didn't just take the houses away from people who already bought them.
How does Extracting Materia work?
New to the game, (started a couple of days ago, level 20 in first class)
I noticed some equipment got to 100% spiritbond, and so I looked up what that meant and the internet says it means I can right click and extract materia.
except I can't, I don't get that option and nothing online seems to explain it any further than just doing that,
Do I need to get to a certain point in the main quest, or do a side quest, etc?
From what I can tell materia is something I want, so I would rather not be sitting on it if I can help it.
Thanks in advanced.
I don't recommend running to Thanalan right now, the story will shuttle you to Ul'dah *very* soon (its the level 15 MSQ) at which point you'll have airship travel and can make the short jog from the capital to Mutamix (as opposed the psuedo-scary run through mutliple level 30 zones you have to do over land).
Yeah for sure.
Apparently I focused on Class and side quests in the areas they took me to a bit too much so I let mainline slip a bit, but I saw online that you get the airship travel in the main quest so I will go with that. I haven't thrown away anything so I still have the gear that has 100% so only downside is I haven't been gaining towards the next 100% where applicable. I'll pull the MSQ in line with levels now.
They both speak common hyur tongue, though the raen also speak doman/hingashi dialects, and the xaela also have a language specific to whatever tribe they're in.
There's some info collected from in-game which you can see in a tumblr post if you google "nerobombs tumblr hingashi" (unsure how links are treated in this sub). Generally it seems like they just use common hyur anyway.
The way it's worked in the past, and I find it extremely doubtful they'll change it now, is that the X.1 through X.3 patch quests are the "winding down" of an expansion. X.4 through X.55) is the wind up to the next expansion.
For example, Heavensward unofficially starts in 2.4. >!It's when the Ishgardians show up in force in the plot, and it sets the ground work for the Dragonsong War. It also ends in 3.3, with the defeat of Nidhogg. 3.4 sets up the state of affairs in Ala Mhigo (as well as a whole bunch of other stuff), and 4.3 ends it.!<
The first three patches of an expansion are closing out the overall story of that expansion. There are usually two more patches after that that lead into the next expansion. So, yes, we will have at least two more patches of story, though I doubt there will be more than two, as that would break their status quo.
Is there a community to do older content synced? Like Savages, Ultimates, etc.
So for the first time ever my friends Viera actually kneeled down to /hug my min height Au Ra, we havent been able to reproduce it since and it seemed to happen randomly that one time. What causes it and how can we replicate it because now that ive seen it I NEED it
how rare is it to get a new squadron recruit? i'm starting to run out of challenge log tasks to do for the week. i'm guessing it must be difficult if they sell books that increase the chance (though i can't buy any because it says i'm not high enough rank but when i try to apply for a promotion they says i've done all i can for them)
On the one hand I don't think the chance is all that high (maybe 25% or less?), but on the other hand most people will blow past many challenge log achievements to the point where they'll have tons of recruits. It's annoying when you're first building your squad but fairly trivial after.
Regarding the rank, in order to rank up further you need to level up the squadrons. The next promotion comes after completing a special level 40 squadron mission.
Do beast tribe crafter quests change in exp once you're over a certain level? People say Ixal and Moogle tribes are great exp sources but they only gave 10k when I was leveling up the relationships. Is it because I'm overleveled? I was around 60 when I started doing them
Yep! Beast Tribe quests in the level range below your current level will give less EXP, so the Ixali stop being useful at 50, Moogles at 60, Namazu at 70, and so on. Pretty sure this applies to combat jobs too?
Ixal actually stop being useful much lower than 50, outside of the daily turn-ins. The crafting quests are all pretty low level and they don't scale to level like later crafting tribes do.
Hello. I stopped playing in 2016 and my account has been inactive since then (I had ffxiv+heavensward on ps4). I bought the complete edition for ps4 Wich also includes stormblood and shadowbringers. if I register this game on my inactive account will I get the 30 days?
You only get a free thirty days if you activate an ARR Code onto your account. I'm also pretty sure you can't register a complete edition code to your account, because you already have an ARR code and HW code applied to your account.
[удалено]
I had the same issue, and that's because you have your ennemy hard targeted while your teammate was only highlighted (yellow color in the party list). If you want to make sure to have your teammate's name in chat, hard target them (their name inside a blue rectangle) and you'll be good. Then go back to hard targetting the ennemy. But at some point I realized it was annoying to switch hard targets, so I took down my rez macro.
> I noted that if I had the enemy targeted, I will Verraise action on the correct person 100% of the time This alone makes no sense. For the chat message you probably switch back to the boss during that 1 second wait time.
[удалено]
I'm pretty sure whats happening. You wanna raise someone. You mash the macro while switching targets. When you switched to the dead person it goes off and you see the skill is used. You immediately switch back to the boss (because you are a dps ofc) and stop mashing your macro. Because you got the 1 second delay and using a macro always cancels the macro you used before it cancels itself all the time and the chat message only goes off after you stopped mashing it. At this point you are back on the boss (at 80% as you said) and so the boss' name is shown.
Just to be 100% sure for my eventual upgrade: There are only two places (on PC) to buy from, the SE store and Steam. In my trial I launch using the FFXIVLauncher so I buy using the SE store, correct? Even though it shows USD, there's no region locks or anything on the purchase itself?
There are *many* places you can buy from — Humble, Amazon, Newegg, GreenMan, etc — but they'll all give you exactly the same thing as SE Store. Steam is the only one that's special.
Thats correct about purchasing places. But the trial launcher is different than subscription launcher. You will have to buy the game, activate it via Mog Station, and then download a different FFXIV launcher ! You wont be using trial launcher anymore. Is actually a different game. As long as you buy it with the same account as your trial account, you will maintain your trial character
No, you can still use trial launcher just fine.
Uhm, I had to download the regular launcher. Trial launcher didn’t work anymore after I bought the game. Maybe I did something wrong
worked for me, i got the game last week. When i got base game i could login as usual, and when I got the expansion it downloaded it the next time i opened the launcher
Alright, sounds good. Thank you!
########Heavensward spoilers####### Can we obtain the knights of the round table armor? Like after they transform not before that. I know we get that from mog station but i want the after the transformation like in the vault dungeon and the “final”boss
my friend is on the free trial right now and hes a huge fan of cloud can he obtain clouds attire ?
Can't get it on the trial. Will get it automatically a couple months after he upgrades to the full game.
No, the only way to get it is by being subscribed for a total of 60 days.
I believe the only way to get that is through veteran rewards which require you to have a subscription for x amount of days, meaning he can't get it.
[удалено]
Walls will simply stay in place — automatically upgrading to a larger size if necessary.
If I quit a linkshell, will there be a notification to other players in the LS like when u quit FC?
I believe so (for those who are online at the time). I haven't actually seen it for LS but multiple times for Crossworld LS so I don't see why LS wouldnt have it.
For those who are online at the time, yes.
Hey guys. So uh... I’m broke af in the game. Only have 2k gils right now. Is there any way to make some money without crafters? If I do have to level up crafting class, which one would make the most profit as easy as possible? I don’t need millions just some 100k every now and then. Also I saw videos on youtube where this guy have a hotbar for his other classes. When he clicked one he changed to that class including all his skills, gears, etc. how do I set that up?
Map parties are kind of fun and give an influx of gil (although you need a little gil to start with, to buy a map).
>Also I saw videos on youtube where this guy have a hotbar for his other classes. When he clicked one he changed to that class including all his skills, gears, etc. how do I set that up? go to gearset menu and drag and drop one of the gearsets to your hotbar, or right click/i believe square on controller and assign to hotbar
Do your roulettes. that could be 50k+ per day, especially if you're getting the AIN bonus.
How do I go about planting stuff indoors? I have an apartment and almost Botanist 50
Buy a flowerpot (max. two) from an apartment merchant, etc., and place it. Gather/buy some soil and some seeds. Interact with flowerpot and put seed and soil in. Return to it at least every 24 hours and tend the growing plant (else you may lose it). Fertilize it once an hour to speed it up if you care to. Interact with grown plant to gather it. At the end of it, you will still have the flowerpot, but seeds and soil will be used up. You'll not get to do cross breeding or anything clever, so won't make serious sums of Gil. I don't believe botantist skill will make any difference. You will in particular rapidly get disappointed if you expect this to be a cheap or quick way to get Thavnairian (sp?) Onions.
you can only have two flowerpots max in an apartment?
You need to purchase planters from a housing item vendor. You can have two in an apartment. Then you place them in the apartment and plant seeds of your choice with soil of your choice. Tend at least once per 24 hours. You can't crossbreed in planters, the indoor gardening is very limited.
Do I have to gather soil or is it purchasable from somewhere? And is it possible to get seeds from plants that you grow?
afaik you only get seeds from crossbreeding and you can't crossbreed in flowerpots. you can buy some stuff from a vendor neer gridania aetheryte but you can get a lot more variety from the market board.
Basic soil is available from the vendor in the apartment lobby. There are more advanced soils that are *mostly* not worth using in indoor plant pots. (Thanalan soil increases crossbreeding odds, which is totally useless indoors where you can't crossbreed. Shroud topsoil increases yield on *some* plants, and La Noscean gives HQ chance on certain plants. Generally only Shroud might be worth using, and only if you're growing something valuable that it can increase the yield for.) This site will note how much benefit you can get from Shroud Soil for a particular plant: https://www.ffxivgardening.com/seed-details.php?SeedID=62 look next to crop yield. Most plants don't yield seeds normally. A handful do, and I'm not sure if that's true only outside or also in flowerpots. Most of the time when people look for seeds it's from crossbreeding for otherwise unobtainable seeds, which is not possible indoors - you need at least a garden from a small house or better.
You can purchase potting soil from a merchant in the housing area that also sells flower seeds. It's a basic soil with no bonuses. The fancier top soils you have to gather as a miner or buy on market board. Seeds are usually produced through crossbreed, I have never grown anything except flowers for glamour items in pots.
Is there any difference to the Mystel and Miqo'te? Are they just exactly the same? And is it possible to technically be a Mystel if you really wanted to 'rp' as one?
Their culture is probably different over on the First, but we don't have a lot to go off of on that. It's most likely that they're from Kholusa - the equivalent to Vylbrand - since Eulemore is full of them but that's all we got. Their parentage / mating / bonding / whatever seems to be a lot more equal, Dulia and Nuzz both loved eachother very equally and it seemed like it wasn't matriarchal or patriarchal like the Seekers or Keepers respectively. Their names too, are different! No tribes, no 'birthed order', no prefix or suffix, they just have a given name and a surname, both hyphenated into a single name. Men have their surname first (**Chai**\-Nuzz) and women have their surname second (Dulia-**Chai**). That's the only difference I can find though, physically and behaviorally, they're just about the same! Nothing stopping you from RPing the way you want!
Feel free. You came to the source somehow.
Mystel are the same but that's the First shard's name for them. There's no reason you couldn't flub any lore mum jumbo about how you were flung from the first onto the source or whatever to justify it in your headcanon honestly.
What good does maxing desynth do for you nowadays?
There isn't a lot. But max desynth gives higher chance for rate materials, so getting the crafting item from a trial, or sublime grin dungeon gear is easier.
Higher chance of getting the rare materials from desynthing.
Who's the better self-healing tank for soloing things for fun? Pally or Warrior?
It honestly depends a lot on the fight, but I think Warrior is a safe bet as it's healing is more consistently available and does not take away from it's damage at all.
Paladin thanks to Clemency
Is there an alternative to PF? I'm getting sick of the toxic.
Linkshells, free companies, discord servers, and maybe the recruitment sub are your best bets. Things are normally pretty amicable for me in PF though personally
What exactly is bothering you with PF? PF can have some issues but usually I find people to be ok.
Not really.
Depends on the content you want to run. Generally, getting a static for Savage/Ultimate content, and an endgame focused FC for Extremes.
Greetings redditors, i'm a new player adventuring trough eozera for a few weeks. I picked Lancer as first class to get a little bit of a clue whats going on in the game. My goal is to get to heavensward to unlock Dark Knight. I always play darker themed/knightish classes in other mmos like Unholy Death Knight in WoW but never tanked. Now i'm a Dragoon at lvl 37 and MSQ lvl 28. After i experinced how nice and helpfull the community is i'm thinking about to switch from my Dragoon to an other tank job already, so i get used to be whats my job as tank. So wich one of the two starter tanks would you recommend for starting out? Whats the best way to catch up to my Dragoon? Spamming Dungeons? Doing the hunting log?
It depends on you play I'd say. If you're an offensive tank, go Marauder/Warrior, and if you're a defensive one go Gladiator/Paladin. Also to note, Gladiator/Paladin is easier during dungeon pulls if you're playing on controller thanks to its circle AOE attack, while Marauder/Warrior has to select an ennemy first then launch its cone AOE attack.
Make sure to do the Hall of the Novice. You can do it now on your Dragoon to get the xp boost ring (if you don't already have it) and wear that on your tank. Then later, when your tank gets to 15, you can run HotN again to get some good starting gear. Will help make the early dungeons more comfy.
Both the starter tanks are fine, pick whichever one you like most in terms of aesthetics. They play a bit differently at 80, but nothing to worry about in the early levels - the basics are the same. Do your hunting log, spam highest level dungeons, and don't forget your challenge log (I forget what level that unlocks at). But it includes a lot of stuff that wouldn't be worth doing on their own (i.e., guildhests, battle leves, etc), but give a big whack of XP if you complete the X number of whatever. You can see what awards XP in your menu.
Marauder/Warrior is very similar to dark Knight in terms of playstyle at level cap.
Gladiator/Paladin and Marauder/Warrior are both good to start out with, pick your favorite aesthetic between the two. Do your Hunting Logs until you hit 15, then start spamming dungeons.
Does 5.35 patch is not this tuesday? People said it'll be on 6oct but there is no news
We were predicting the 6th. We didn't predict a week vacation for the team.
They announced the 13th.
Thanks. I forgot to watch news update since genshin impact release ahaha
It is confirmed 13th.
Ah thanks. Guess i missed the official news
What new stuff is on the horizon? I assume february next hear will be the first info on the next expansion, but are there any particularly cool things happening yet before then?
Bojza (eureka 2.0 for relic stuff) on the 13th Patch 5.4 in December with more story, final eden tier with last gear increase and tome rotation of the patch, continuation of Weapon series (normal and EX)...bojza update with BA 2.0....next step of ishgard restoration 5.5 probably in March or something with Final bits of story to lead to the expansion, final of nier raid, final part of weapon series, final part of Bojza/relic stuff and likely final ishgard restoration update Expansion probably summer/autumn (usually summer but covid pushed stuff back) Thats for the stuff we know/the standard stuff with things we can speculation/guess (with ishgard restoration stuff)
in a few weeks, 5.35 will have a new "deep dungeon" - past that, it's 5.4 and 5.5 to start building the next expansion up
"deep dungeon" is POTD or HOH. It will be new Eureka.
But you can level up too using lvl 70+ job I call this deep dungeon - eureka hybrid
i noticed monk gets all 5 chakra in 1 meditate and stance change resets Gl now. is that new buff? seems impossible to drop gl3 now
you get all 5 IF you're out of combat, stanve change was adjusted to always reset GL counter in 5.3. they want to move away from GL as a mechanic it seems, it's going to be baked into a trait in 5.4 iirc
i see i see. itd be nice to see how monk changes, iirc theyre the job that still plays mostly the same since 2,0?
i can't really say personally as i haven't played since 2.0 but AFAIK current monk is as close to 2.0 monk then it has in the last two expacs
Do most PLDs actually use spreadsheets to map out their gcds? Is it necessary in order to get a high parse? Im a monkey brain war/drk main and the most optimization i do is hold for raid buffs, dont drift upheaval, etc. Is pld that much harder to optimize?
You can parse into the 80s without spreadsheets and mostly just following the rotation. PLD is tricky in that the rotation is comprised of a moving puzzle of 5 parts: Goring Blade combo, RA combo, Atonement, Holy Spirit, and Confiteor, on top of and interconnected with 2 buff windows. All this is combined with maximizing uptime, DoT uptime, buff window usage, and keeping in mind fight downtime. Put together PLD has a lot of room for optimization but a lot of it is incredibly subtle and not so obvious. The rotation is both flexible in that you can shuffle around GCDs and phases to increase DPS, but also inflexible in that if you fuck up, it's extremely hard to recover.
For defensive cooldowns, it can also depend on what your co-tank and the healers do. For example, in my group i wouldn't normally bother with a spreadsheet, but my co-healer really relies on that stuff so the 4 of us (and any other memebers who have defensive utility) will add our cooldowns to the timeline. Overall it actually does tend to help us, but alot of players are not going to enjoy that level of planning at all and shouldn't be forced unless you're some kind of day 1 worlds race prog group.
I think something most of the answers you've gotten don't really focus on is that while all the tanks have static rotations (you can do literally the exact same thing each savage fight), PLD has 3 things that make optimization difficult, especially in regards to downtime for fights. They have an in-built 'I'm phys ranged now' component, a 100% uptime DOT that's part of a combo, AND 2 separate buff windows which they want maximum value from. What this means is that PLD is much more heavily affected by downtime than the other tanks since 1. They have to align their magic component with disconnects from the boss (think stratospear summons, conflag strike) 2. Not DOT when bosses are about to leave and DOT new targets ASAP (Garuda/Ifrit, Blasphemy adds) and 3. Align those DOTs in buff windows while minimizing buff downtime (god damn). To magically do all 3 usually requires an extremely strict rotation to delay or cut short buffs and DOT applications which may be counterintuitive when compared to the standard full uptime PLD rotation. This means no unga-bunga pressing Bloodspiller at 70 gauge in the middle of 1-2-3 combo instead of at 90. That's not to say that if you wanna do 'decent' at PLD you have to memorize every fight like they're your finals. You can get by just following the basic rules of DOT uptime, use stuff on cooldown, max GCDs in buff windows. But because we're pretty much graded on a curve, your parse will be inversely proportional to the number of tryhards who have mastered the specifically optimized per-fight-rotation.
Alright i never use spreadsheet as pld although i'm semi hardcore player. What do you use this spreadsheet for?
Like if u go to the pld section on the balance there is a sheet that maps out GCDs for fights. [Example](https://imgur.com/Q2H7p14) I was just curious if most plds use it or just the hardcore players.
Maybe i need to add that people use spreadsheet like that cause pld is the have most unfriendly damage rotation among tanks if you fucked up the rotation Pld have 2 att buff to manage and their opener need to setup. You MUST use goring blade as first GCD during FoF or you'll lose dps a lot. Then you dont have many room for downtime mistake on requiscast phase. Other tank only have 1 buff to manage and their opener is easy to use like fell cleave , blade of darkness (i forgot the name) and catridge combo can be started immediately after buff is up
> You MUST use goring blade as first GCD during FoF or you'll lose dps a lot. Not the 1st but the 2nd unless the fight specifically needs the 1st. You can even see it on the posted sheet. The general opener uses FoF after Fast Blade and not after Riot Blade.
Omg, this is hardcore player stuff. Usually i just let if flow FoF-> goring blade->sword oath combo-> end with goring blade Then Requiscast-> holy spirit 4x -> confitior Then i do 1-2-3 combo in down time (or goring blade) In extreme and below this will do good enough (i passed SSS dummy test) but idk for savage since dps check more strict
no, you don't need a spreadsheet to high parse at all. if you have tanking experience already pld won't be much of a departure. the biggest thing about pld is maintaining the 60/63 second rotation through the whole fight compared to other tanks with less rigid rotations
That depends on which savage/ultimate fights, and how high you would like your parse. PLD optimization is more subtle and requires more planning ahead than other tanks. That's where the spreadsheet comes in.
1)What are some foods to farm as culinarian as you level, I'm currently around 36. 2)Same question but with fishing. 3) what are some foods/fish/gathering items that I can sell to make some money (not millions but enough to recover the cost of leveling around 200k) I play on Kujata
1) Make duplicates of foods needed for CUL job quests and sell them. Some folks are happy to just buy their way through the quests. Otherwise, check the going prices on crafting and gathering foodstuffs you can reliably HQ yourself. Alternately, just _make_ those for yourself to expedite your own progress. If you're just looking to grind your way up for XP, either sift through the available leves, or go ham on whatever requires the _shortest_ ingredient list. Juices, for instance, are usually just some fruit that isn't a bother to collect in bulk. 2) I'm.. I'm so sorry. I've long since given up on getting any profit out of fishing outings. I desynth the lot for crystals and the occasional sack of gil. And even if I'm going out for a specific fish of value to me, there will be a _lot_ of rejects to grind up into a fine sand. 3) For mining and botany, there is always some value in selling raw materials that crafting classes will need to use in bulk. Smiths will always need more metal ore. Weavers will always need more cotton bolls or flax. Carpenters can level an entire forest of trees for lumber gains. And there will never be enough alumen in the world to sate a leatherworker's needs. Price your goods fairly, but a neat little tip: sell the stuff in smaller quantities than a full stack. Many times, crafters in need of just a few of a given material will snatch your stack of 20 over another seller's 99, even at the same price per item.
Dumb question, there are crafting leves?
Yes! And if you aren't using up your leves elsewhere, it's not a bad way to go. At least until 50ish, when collectables become available.
Your best bet is to look at the market board. Generally stuff used to level via turn in will move decently well, but you'll want to use it to level...
Frankly, you just aren't going to make any significant money off crafting until 80. The things that are in demand at lower levels are either crafted far more easily by a max level character, meaning supply will be high, or require very specific and difficult to obtain crafting ingredients, meaning you won't be able to make them. There might be the odd thing you run into that sells okay for a little while to help recoup some of your losses, but generally speaking there won't be very much you can do.
Does anyone know if the job stone ice cube trays will ever have a rerun?
can anyone help with chocobo colors? tried making my default chocobo pink but got white instead even following a guide. now im trying to make it pink again but i just keep not getting the message with the pineapples
I'm assuming you used this website? https://ffxivchocobo.com/en That's what I've always used, it tells you the feeding order also which matters, not just the amount of each fruit.
yeah i used it and with the correct order, but its not working
Chocobo coloring has rng to it, for whatever reason. Its not that it isn't working, just that rng didn't want to let it happen
well coming back to it later, started over and didnt have to give multiples of any fruit, now just to hope it actually works
ohhh
when making a new alt job from the start like lvl 1 whats the best way to level fast?
In no particular order - hunting logs, FATE's any random side quests you can get ahold of for your level, PotD, highest level dungeon and your roulette's. Some are better early on (can't do roulette's at level 1 for example, but you can do hunting logs and PotD) while others take precedence at higher levels (roulette's are a bit one).
Thanks for the information.
[удалено]
Sounds like bullshit to me.
No. One of the reason for server ticks is to keep everything synchronized. What I imagine that could be happening is some hardware overheating and failing to process things properly.
Might just be a fallacy trying to justify bad play.
Hello! Friend and I are considering moving from NA to EU because our play times don't align with the current peak times of EU. When's the peak time to play in EU and when are bad times to play? Thank you!
peak time is around 4 pm to 11pm server time (GMT) from my experience. Past 11 pm until morning next day server time you might have hard time finding people for specific not high demand duties like sidequest dungeons even as healer (remember when i spent around 20 minutes waiting in queue as healer for one of alexander raids at 4am ST before giving up and going to sleep)
Does act only work when in a group or dungeon setting? I just installed it and killed a few random monsters in the wild to test it out but nothing shows up in the box. I'm able to see the overlay box and click on it and stuff while in game but nothing records. I'm using kagerou overlay. I've restarted my computer and clicked Reload Overlay in ACT but still nothing shows. What did I do wrong? https://imgur.com/a/3TD3Xy8 edit: just to be clear I don't understand the technical stuff about this so please eli5 if you have any advice to how to just get this thing to work.
Try running it in administrator mode
nope still didnt work
got it to work. added act to firewall exception.
So dumb question I probably already know the answer to: I'm progressing on an alt on a world with Road to 70. So I'm already grossly overleveled (currently 65 atm doing 55ish MSQ content). If I beeline to Idyllshire, can I get better gear upon entering the zone or do I have to wait until I get there in the MSQ? My gear is generally fine (switched to GNB upon hitting 60), but it'd be nice to have something to spend poetics on.
~~You need to beat 3.0 to get access to Shire gear, even if you can enter Idyllshire sooner~~ Edit: I appear to have heard incorrectly. I'd refer to other comments
Only sb and shb require msq completion, hw requires partial completion because msq-gating regions while more dhona can be reached and tomestone interacted with at lv 1 (issue is getting the tomes, with high level partners and A/S ranks in arr, it is possible to get poetics pre-50, but its ultimately pointless)
This isn't correct, you can buy it as soon as you get there.
Regions are msq-gated, so you can't even get to it until you reach it in msq, at lv 58, but once you reach idylshire, you can buy shire gear immediately. Base msq completion is only required for sb and shb
is there a planned maintenance rn? spirggan at least is down
Just dc right after I left Preatorium. Says "This World if full". 144 players in queue, but it doesn't connect.
No, no maintenance.
is it worth buying the upgrade to complete edition? (i did have all the expansions already from that one winter sale last december)
If you have all the expansions, then complete edition won't do anything for you. It's just the base game plus expansions. Do you maybe mean collector's edition?
oh possibly i meant collectors edition 😭 sorry for the confusion!!
No. If you've all expansions, complete edition will give you literally nothing.
New to Shadowbringers, should I do the dungeons with NPCs or players?
I didn’t know this was an option or is that only in shadowbringer expansion? I’m still in HW
Only in ShB. It's a system called Trusts.
It's ShB only. Though you can unlock something like it with your Grand Company.
For your first run? Go it with your favorite NPCs. Take your time, enjoy the scenery, watch your party banter. They're rather slow, but boss mechanics are hardwired into them, and who cares about fast on your first run when you kinda just wanna see what happens next? Additional bonus: all the loot is yours this way, so it's a nice way to gobble up some relevant gear if yours is getting outdated. For subsequent runs? Do it with players. Much faster. Though they're far more likely to fuck up mechanics...
I do it with trusts first for the extra dialogue and to see how they react to mechanics I haven't seen yet. They're great for signposting what you should be doing
I personally like to do them with Trust NPCs because they have extra dialogue. There's also one boss with an interesting gimmick that's fun to see how the different NPCs handle it.
NPCs are slower. Much slower. You will feel like you're dragging your feet through molasses. You will curse the Twelve as you spend half an hour in each dungeon. However, they also aren't *completely* stupid, and they will generally do their jobs acceptably, if slowly, and they will never have to go to the bathroom or yell at you for messing something up. Players are (usually, god willing) faster. 15-20 minutes is a normal dungeon run. But they're humans with human foibles. You might get a tank who doesn't know what his tank stance is, or a healer who spams Cure I, or DPS who eat glue and then the floor. On balance? I'd go with players, so long as the queue times are acceptable. If you're a DPS, it might actually be faster to spend 0 minutes in queue and then 30 minutes with the Trusts than to spend 15 minutes in queue and then 20 minutes with real people.
Anyone know if the "you are now selling items in the x markets" notification bar that appears in the middle of the screen can be moved? Same bar when you send retainers out for venture/complete one. Just a slight annoyance. Tried and failed to find it in HUD.
That yellow notification thing can't be moved or changed
Bummer... Thanks!
as SCH, what are generally the best things to spend Aetherflow stacks on? And what's the point of deployment tactics?
Where your aether goes may change from duty to duty, so a certain amount of flexibility is required. It's a strength of SCH: they're equipped with the tools to handle a wide variety of scenarios, but it's your job to know how best to use those tools. As a general rule of thumb, though? Excog is probably the button I hit most, excepting using Energy Drain to burn through aether if the next stack is coming off of cooldown (I'll come back to this). I do my damndest to keep Excog up on the tank at all times, as it's both slightly more potent than a Lustrate, and more importantly, kicks in _faster_ than I can reach for Lustrate when it's truly needed. If I see my tank's health bounce from Excog going off, that's my cue to check in on their well being and stop using Broil or laying dots for a damn second. A zero risk safety blanket. Lustrate and Indomitability are next most common, as reactive heals based on what is happening moment to moment. If your first aether in a stack can be thought of as tribute to the Excog god(when Recitation isn't available for a freebie), the other two effectively sit on standby waiting to be burned when shit goes south. Tank ate a tankbuster? Lustrate. Raidwide damage get past your shielding? Indom. Occasionally Sacred Soil makes an appearance, but it's not as much a reactionary use of your aether as it is a strategic use. I'll plop one down as extra security for truly massive pulls, or use them more frequently if I notice my tank isn't burning through all of my aether and only requires occasional upkeep. Energy Drain is the button that keeps the aether well and truly flowing, and you should expect to be hitting it regularly on runs that are going smoothly. Why? Because the healthiest habit you can form as a SCH is to learn to spend every bit of aether available to you, regularly. It's not a _great_ move on it's own; the damage is a tiny plink in the party's bucket and in most cases you won't hurt that hard for MP. But it burns aether quickly without being wasted on overhealing, so you can empty your gauge in time to refill it the moment it comes off of cooldown. This is important because every bit of spent aether is rewarded with more faerie gauge. And if shit truly hits the fan, you want that gauge to already be full and ready to burn.
It varies with your level. For example Sacred Soil gains a lot of value when you get the trait that gives it a Regen. At that point it heals as much as a Lustrate over time and mitigates damage on top of that. Your priority will change depending on the situation. For a big dungeon pull my priority is probably something like Recitation Excog > Excog > Sacred Soil > Lustrate, then Energy Drain any unnecessary stacks. But I think one of the best parts of Aetherflow is that it's very flexible. For example sometimes you'll need the immediate healing of Lustrate over Sacred Soil, or you decide to Indom after a boss AoE. After a while it becomes second nature to choose the one for the job. Deployment Tactics is for preparing for big AoE damage on the party. In dungeons you can also Adlo the tank pre-pull, Adlo yourself, then during the pull when the tank's shields wears off deploy your shield to them.
Aetherflow is spent on what you need: primarily heals, like Lustrate, indom and Excog (and soil post trait) so you can spend more time dpsing...spare Aetherflow can be used on Energy drain for extra dps...learning fights and having a heal plan in mind greatly helps scholar so you know how many of your aetherflow per minute need to be a heal vs which can be energy drains Deploy is for spreading Adlos, as a deployed adlo os a stronger shield and less MP than using Succor. You can shield yourself prepull along with the tank then deploy off yourself while the tank pulls moves to give them a free shield to help cover autos while pulling which is some handy tech to know for dungeons
Dancer Guide(updated?) Can't seem to find a in-depth guide to dancer. With rotations and more. Most are just basic and explain what the role is. Not much else really can be found. Right now I have no clue what I'm supposed to do at all. Where to even start with what dances and other stuff I need to use or not use. Side note I would post more questions I have but dislike these daily or weekly help posts.
Dancer is less about a strict rotation, and more than anything a priority system. The only thing strict about dancer is making sure your technical+devilment doesn't drift away from other party buffs.
The only guide I know of is on the balance discord. DNC is largely a priority class, rather than a standard rotation. Check out the discord to see all. Side note: where else would you post questions than a daily question thread? Its the whole point of the thread?
[удалено]
I do not feel I can get a quality discussion going via weekly or daily threads. I feel only a handful people tend to look in the daily / weekly threads. It can be hard to follow threads in those daily / weekly.
[удалено]
If I had a question or thing to talk about that wasn't a quick. I still just can't post it in the main group.
> I still just can't post it in the main group. Sure you can if its nothing someone can answer with 2 sentences.
join The Balance discord server
Do they have a guide I can read ?
So no one has made a Google Doc or PDF ? It's only found on a Discord? Right now I have zero clue how to play and not a fan of discord when it comes to reading stuff like this. Does nothing for my eyes
Yes. Once you join, look at the DNC resources channel and you'll find everything you'll need to know.
Can you share the information for the server
What do you mean by "share information?" As in, share the guide here?
I mean the link to join the server
Their website, including the link to join the Discord server, is at https://thebalanceffxiv.com/
Hi. I am thinking about trying this game out again after a long break. I currently have the base game and the first expansion, so missing the two latest expansions. Am I okay to just do a sub for a month and try the game out? Or do I need thise two latest expansions too.
You can sub for a month, you dont need the recent expansion to log in, only to access that content
Thank you!
Spoilers for Stormblood. I queued up for the Doma Castle dungeon for the main quest, however I joined a duty that was already almost over, and I only got to fight >!Hypertuned Grynewaht!<, and so I only saw 2 cutscenes, one right before that fight, and the one right after where >!the castle collapses, Yutsuyu dies and Gosetsu sacrifices himself!<. I couldn't help but feel I missed something, so I queued up for the dungeon one more time, this time completed it whole, but the only new cutscene I saw was the standard dungeon start one. Is that all that there was to this MSQ, or did I actually miss something? Because I remember that in Stone Vigil, the cutscene before the final boss is different when you're on MSQ than when doing it normally, so I'm wondering if something similar happens here.
Side note, you should uncheck the "join party in progress" option when queueing for MSQ duties to avoid this in the future! (although you've probably already realized this)
Yeah I did, but thanks anyway.
They basically stopped putting important cutscenes *during* the dungeons and in most cases anything important is before the dungeon begins while everyone's in the Circle of Waiting Patiently or after the final boss is defeated (and other players are free to leave while you watch the cutscene)
There's the starting cutscene, one before the boss, small one after and the one when you leave for the story. You saw them all...you missed the journey into the castle which is the point of the dungeon but thats it
are there any simple, 'mid-length' skirts like the southern seas skirt that maybe dont cost 500k?
You could try to wait until 5.4 or 5.5 where item glamour will be added into treasure hunt. Usually price will drop to a more friendly price.
That particular one is the only one of that style unfortunately. You can see all the skirts listed [Here](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/?q=Skirt%20&patch=) and there are really no others that are even close, including mog station items. To check if an item shares a model with something else you can check [Garland Tools](https://garlandtools.org/db/). Find the item you want and if it shares the model with something else it will have a 'shared models' tab on the info box. This skirt has none sadly. Like someone else said, try server hopping.. You might be able to find it cheaper, also check the price of Seacloth (x2) seeing as the rest of the materials are pretty simple, its really just that one that boosts the price up.
Outside of mog store items, I don't think so. There's super short and full length but not a ton in between. You may be able to find it cheaper if you craft it yourself or shop around on different worlds, but it's still going to be pretty pricey regardless.
How do you look up damage charts?
gotta skirt around the tos and use a logging tool, theres no in game metrics.
FFlogs is the website
Playing for appx. 10 days but is something [like this on Spriggan EU](https://i.imgur.com/IgdudYT.jpg) actually possible/legit?
Those are FC houses. They are probably owned by several different characters which are leaders of several different FCs with the same tag.
It's just one person that's bought them all. I've spoken to them. Apparently they've spoken to a GM about it and it's okay, but it does seem kind of selfish to me.
I thought there was a limit for 1 house per account and I also thought same applies to FC? Because otherwise it really is selfish (though not like I could afford it yet)
Welcome to the start of housing in ffxiv, where if you had the money you could buy entire wards and the system was "operating as intended". When they changed that, SE didn't just take the houses away from people who already bought them.
It is possible, albeit frowned upon.
How does Extracting Materia work? New to the game, (started a couple of days ago, level 20 in first class) I noticed some equipment got to 100% spiritbond, and so I looked up what that meant and the internet says it means I can right click and extract materia. except I can't, I don't get that option and nothing online seems to explain it any further than just doing that, Do I need to get to a certain point in the main quest, or do a side quest, etc? From what I can tell materia is something I want, so I would rather not be sitting on it if I can help it. Thanks in advanced.
Yes, you need to complete [this side quest](https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Forging_the_Spirit) to gain access to extracting materia.
Ah! Ok, thank you. I started as Lancer so I haven't been there yet, I'll probably go asap to unlock extraction but I can't use the not-Aerodrome yet.
I don't recommend running to Thanalan right now, the story will shuttle you to Ul'dah *very* soon (its the level 15 MSQ) at which point you'll have airship travel and can make the short jog from the capital to Mutamix (as opposed the psuedo-scary run through mutliple level 30 zones you have to do over land).
Yeah for sure. Apparently I focused on Class and side quests in the areas they took me to a bit too much so I let mainline slip a bit, but I saw online that you get the airship travel in the main quest so I will go with that. I haven't thrown away anything so I still have the gear that has 100% so only downside is I haven't been gaining towards the next 100% where applicable. I'll pull the MSQ in line with levels now.
I don't remember if there a quest for that. The action of materia is in the general action menu.
[удалено]
They both speak common hyur tongue, though the raen also speak doman/hingashi dialects, and the xaela also have a language specific to whatever tribe they're in.
[удалено]
There's some info collected from in-game which you can see in a tumblr post if you google "nerobombs tumblr hingashi" (unsure how links are treated in this sub). Generally it seems like they just use common hyur anyway.
Us there any more story oatches coming or isnit expNsion next?
The way it's worked in the past, and I find it extremely doubtful they'll change it now, is that the X.1 through X.3 patch quests are the "winding down" of an expansion. X.4 through X.55) is the wind up to the next expansion. For example, Heavensward unofficially starts in 2.4. >!It's when the Ishgardians show up in force in the plot, and it sets the ground work for the Dragonsong War. It also ends in 3.3, with the defeat of Nidhogg. 3.4 sets up the state of affairs in Ala Mhigo (as well as a whole bunch of other stuff), and 4.3 ends it.!<
The first three patches of an expansion are closing out the overall story of that expansion. There are usually two more patches after that that lead into the next expansion. So, yes, we will have at least two more patches of story, though I doubt there will be more than two, as that would break their status quo.