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So i'm finally getting around to playing this game. Both Black Mage and Summoner look interesting to me. Which in your opinion generally (1) does better soloing, and (2) has better looking casts/animations?
that's gonna be real subjective @ both of you
what do you mean soloing, maelwro? cuz all jobs can do the main story n such
and vhy do you have a gatherer or two leveled? being able to get your own mats makes it a lot easier
I do but i am wondering like
biggest deal is having your gear current/up to date on crafters
whenever spending 800k gil, or working for 2,200 scrips
if you're undergeared you'll struggle
I personally think BLM has cooler vfx, because explosions.
But Thats kinda all BLM has, Summoner has more skills and variety to it's kit.
in terms of scrip gain it's really only good at level 70/80
and by then, how's the gain?
for the level 70 craft it greatly depends on how much the prices of the materials and desired end product compares, though crafting it is vastly easier since you can just use Trained Eye and a bunch of progress skills.
the level 80 one requires a bit of melding and food, but usually has better profit margins
it's definitely something you'd have to look at the marketboard prices for
no real easy answer
Mmh
!trait Enhanced Umbral Hearts
This makes Flare not eat all your MP when you have Umbral Hearts
so you can flare twice with that normally
It's also the level where you remove Fire 2 from your hotbar
if you are not at lvl 68, you can use the mana gain skill afterwards to flare again
Do the dungeons for the event change, or are they going to be the same until 5.3?
This is the first time they changed
ohok im only 60 atm thanks
Ah okay, I just started playing again today. Bummer they are all low levels
Before, the dungeons that give it were the first 3/4 dungeons and the level 50 24-man raids
have they made the "fools threshold" window shorter?
Not that I'm aware of
im trying to place the window the same way but it seems shorter (left) and its seated in the same door typ too https://i.imgur.com/v5f1GYv.jpg
but when i count the squares it equals out to the same but yet it seems to be smaller. cant wrap my head around it
hm nvm i think he has placed some type of beam there
is there a way to try on multiple items at once?
when you try on an item, click the paper icon at the bottom of the window that pops up
that saves all the items you're trying on
whats like a guild in this game?
fc - free company
thank you
what would be most time efficient to farm yellow scripts? i have 80 cul and i finished the weekly deliv already. just wanna get some manuals to help level my alts
collectables?
Is there anywhere to repair at in eulmore? :0
there should be one near the summoning bell
@wary eagle theres the facets quests too else its just turn-ins
Been a long time since I played
oh right i dont think i did the facets stuff completely yet, otherwise turn ins aka collectables right? is there a guide on which is most easy to spam. some of these recipes got me needing ridiculous amounts of stuff
just whichever is starred that week since you only have cul? leveled, theres no much choices
oh ok you meant daily turn ins right
i guess when i exhaust all that then its just collectables
yeah, to rowena's in the timer
alright thanks
are you able to trade gear you buy with tomestones?
no
cool thanks
hi all so i recently bought the Steam DLC shadowbringers for the steam Final Fantasy 14 a realm reborn. noticing that the dlc is not loading up or even saying its registering under the mog station not sure what to do or if its even normal. im just level caped at 50
Did you enter the code into the mogstation?
that what i was thinking so i copied it to the clipboard and went to registration code enter item code and says the key is invalid
Is rampart still useful as a GNB even with the massive shit ton of other mitigation tools the job has in it's toolkit? Or can I swap it with something else? x.x
all the skills should be on your hotbar regardless
only "optional" tank skill is Shirk for content that doesn't require tank swaps
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Mmk, probs gonna redo my layout then so one of my bars is nothing but mitigation.
Sweet in registered. thank you guys much for the help
is it easy to join groups for savage raids or are people picky w/ requirements? i just want some glamour
depends
If you want glamour from old content then there's not much you really need to do besides maybe read up on the fight for any potential mechanics
like a12s still kills ya if you don't learn the fight mechs etc
but then like old coil stuff, ezpz
ohh okay thanks!
I don’t understand how PoTd works I thought the xp transfers outside too?
you get a lump sum of exp every 10 floors
You gain exp by a fix amount once you clear a set of 10 floors
for whatever job you joined as
It doesn't convert whatever you get inside
Think of POTD as a mini game with exp reward
how do i not get wrecked in heavensward as a lvl 52/ilvl 112 bard?
like should I have higher item level? I just came back, only played heavensward for 2 levels when it came out. I feel like I'm dying super fast the moment even just 2 mobs are attacking me.
overworld mobs are much tougher in the expansions relative to the base game
at equal level you pretty much need to 1v1 them or you'll probably die unless you're a tank/healer
If you have any spare tomestones of Poetics you can spend them at Mor Dhona for i120 gear
replacing your weakest slots should help a lot
man i sure would rather be a tank, been trying to buy the 70 boost but the store just gives me errors
What does your gear look like?
thinking of trying DoH/DoL after getting my first DoW to 53
any recommendations?
Oh i logged out in DOH gear, woops
Hi guys! I hope you're all well. Can someone verify a few things for me? My account is currently locked; not banned or suspended, just locked. The message I get is "Based upon recent suspicious activity, we have identified that your account may potentially be at risk. For your protection, we have temporarily suspended login access to this account. Instructions for lifting this restriction have been sent to the email address registered to your Square Enix Account. For more information about the login restriction, please refer to the following page: http://support.na.square-enix.com/j/lbna"
I have used the correct password and email/username. I am not sure why this is being flagged. Also, can you tell me if this link is an offical link to download the game app from? (If this is not, I will remove the link) https://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/playersdownload/na. Lastly, can you also tell me if this email is from an official email address from the game company? (Again, if this is not I will remove the email address) autoinfo_us@account.square-enix.com.
or links for tips/advice at least
Most guides out there @cerulean wigeon seem to say that you should level them in specific orders, due to some having cross class skills. That's old stuff, so just pick whichever you like and go for it. I've been doing Leathworking, goldsmith, carpentry, and weaver alternating every few levels, as it means I can make my own gear as I go up
Thanks. So all I would need to do is change my password in order to unlock my account?
I haven’t encountered the issue before but those links are legitimate so I would just follow whatever instructions they’ve provided.
SS threshhold for SAM?
@leaden ginkgo based on what you posted, you'd need to go read the email they sent you and follow those instructions
fwiw, i'd also change the password to the email you use for your SE/ff14 game account as well
I just had to change my password and I was good to go! 😄 Thanks for all your help.

If I decide to up upgrade from the starter edition, will I be able to do this via the account or do I have to pay for the game all over again?
I need to clear floor 30 of HoH to be able to spam floor 21-30 right?
Same account
I paid for the $19.99 edition.
Or do I need to clear floor 40?
Just 21-30 and then talk to a NPC outside to unlock the option
19.99 is Starter Edition aka A Realm Reborn
"FINAL FANTASY®️ XIV ONLINE STARTER EDITION [PC DOWNLOAD]" is what I bought.
If and when you want to, just get Shadowbringers PC edition from Square Enix store
Don't get it from Steam. PC and Steam version can't cross
Expansion don't require you to play a new save file
Yea, I think I own the steam version? But I prefer the client one better.
I am an ex-wow player, can you tell me if you guys have mages or hunters like in wow?
I know the concepts are different in how they have them designed, but it helps me understand what each one may offer or do or maybe point me to a video to see a comparison?
There are 3 Magic based DPS jobs
Does the mage open portals and can make food and drinks?
The short answer is toss everything you know about classes out the window for FFXIV and learn everything fresh. This game is nothing like WoW when it comes to classes or even raids.
no combat job can make food/drink for instance
We have:
Black Mage cast Fire spell to damage, Ice spell to recover MP. Prefers to stay still
Summoner summon pets / dragon /Phoenix, uses Dot.
Red Mage dualcast spells to build mana, use mana to perform enchanted sword attacks.
So you guys do not do tank, dps or heals?
No specs
No prot warrior/ fury warrior etc
Ummm, rotation is built around 15-25 buttons, they are not hard to learn
Okay! 🙂
(I am told that wow has 4 buttons rotation)
Hunter had 1 button rotation lol
But unlike wow each tank, DPS, and healer is entirely unique to itself with only SAM/NIN having similar yet still totally different mechanics to each other.
Well to be fair, we did have a little more than 4, though some classes may had been a 4 step rotation. 😋
Tank, healer, and DPS do share Role Action
What class do you guys recommend a new player to start with? Anything but warriors, I cannot get into that type of play style. I enjoy casting and pets. Oh yes, the pets. 😄
there's one pet healer and one pet dps
Arcanist/Summoner would be for you then.
and they both come from arcanist
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Awesome, I will start there.
Oops, I guess I should ask these questions in general?
Here is fine.
Here is fine
Okay.
Jinx?
Guys, there client looks so awesome. I love the new design.
Okay, so Arcanist/Summoner will be one class.
Can you recommend a website so I can read up on this class?
Also, I saw the website had a app you can pay for, what is this for?
Official page
If you just want to look at their general skills there's this website https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/battle/
It's for retainer (player bank) and marketboard stuff
Just install it for a favored teleport (lets you choose a teleport location to get a 50% discount) and then uninstall if you want
@obsidian patio This website is perfect, thanks.
Okay. So nothing to worry about paying for now?
It is entirely optional
The app is free
You can access those in-game as well
With a subscription thing you can pay for on top
how to leave fc?
So just get the app
Hummm I did not sub yet, I have the 30 days the game came with, does that not count for the app?
should be in Free Company > Info
^
Then the option is there
@leaden ginkgo the app subscription isn't game time subscription, it's something else and pretty worthless
The app is free, but has its own premium model
I personally don't even think the app is necessary
It's not necessary
but it's nice
and it takes 2 minutes of your time
It's not that it's necessary it's just "why would you not?"
I guess I would have to add a sub as it is not showing free.
Do I pick standard for the sub?
Standard just lets you have more than one character on a world and more characters total
!faq subprice
This is for the game time renewal.
You can do pretty much everything on one character
Which one do you guys use?
So the standard?
I only use standard for some FC alts that have a bunch of gold feathers for rare dyes
Just pick entry if you don't want to have like, 30 characters
Okay.
you can get more gold feathers from alts?
You get gold feathers when transferring from a congested world to a preferred world
how many
What is a 'Retainer Service'?
10
the gold feathers you get from recruiting people are account wide
I should've specified a bit
Hiring additional retainers on top of the two you have for free @leaden ginkgo
Hi Im new to the game, You probably had this question asked a hundred times but explain to me about expansions and their price
So to start I need a base game
Then I need to buy all 3 expansions?
It’s a small monthly fee for each additional retainer
Can you help me understand what those are? Is that a bodyguard or what?
Item bank
Retainers are the player banks
The base game is the starter edition. You can then buy Shadowbringers, it's the lastest expansion and includes all previous for free.
OR
And marketboard selling access
Buy the complete edition is both
Okay, so do we call them out?
Either or if you get those two things you got everything you need
Or is that just bank slots?
You have to go to a retainer bell to access them
Why buy complete edition then? if first two expansions are free with latest expansion?
You interact with a summoning bell in any major city’s marketboard
@copper plaza complete edition is base game + expansions
Okay, neat!
You could
You just wouldn't get the expansion races immediately
but that's all you wouldn't have
Yeah I read that
And classes
Nah
Since the first expansion jobs you can unlock is at level 50 which is the level cap you'd buy the expansions anyway
True
Also, can we pay to have our gamertag (Square ID) changed?
Since most dont have alt characters. Their character is their id so theres no seperate battletag needed.
I get you, okay! Thanks.
Yeah the only "ID" people can see is your PS4 account if you play on it.
For fun only
Scholar has a healing fairy
why is waking sands and the stones have an instance inside an instance
is there a reason for it
I think due to cutscenes and stuff? 🤷♂️
Yeah probably some wonky coding or something
Any recommendations for a good server to start on?
one that has preffered if you want faster leveling
theres 2 specific servers for rp which i cant remember the names for though
both Balmung and Mateus are currently congested and thus you can't make new characters on them. That said, anything on Crystal will get you in the datacenter that's got the most RP, if that's what you're after
RP server is good for me.
then any preffered server on the crystal data center
since you can visit other servers on the same data center
just cant join the guilds (free companies) on servers other than your own
and a few other things but they aren't that important
well if your main method of making money is flipping items
you can only sell on your home server
can buy from others though
How do I delete this old character I seem to have forgotten and start new?
Thank you!
So is Arcanist/Summoner the race/class?
I turned off hotbar sharing but whenever I change spells on my main cclass it still messes up every.other
What to do?
I do not see a Arcanist
I turned off hotbar sharing but whenever I change spells on my main cclass it still messes up every.other
@leaden ginkgo take a screenshot
Specifically your setting
What screenshot? I checked it now, the hotbar sharing for first 3 hotness is off.
Then which hotbar are you editing?
Does the race really matter when picking a class?
practically, no
It matters for the first 5 level
the small stat difference becomes insignificant the higher level you are
a difference of 4-5 points when you have over 3000-4000 means nothing
The points difference is like 5-6. But at lvl 80 you get 3-4k stats
Yeah
Basically, that difference can be made up with a Crit
It really doesn't matter whatsoever
Great! Thank you guys for all of your help. You have all been amazing. 🙂
1/100th of a crit Chronos
Lol, right?
Going back to hotbar question
Which hotbar or cross hotbar are shared in the setting?
Which hotbar or cross hotbar were you editing?
how do i unlock the healers in thisi game
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Conjurer is unlocked in Gridania and is the only healer you can directly start off as.
ok
Arcanist at level 30 can become Scholar, and Astrologian can be unlocked when you enter Ishgard at the start of the heavensward story.
Wynne are you a Lala?
yep
NPC only, though there is a squatting exercise emote from the grand company squadrons
is ffxivmb a reliable site for checking the mb outside the game?
none of them are since the update time is crazy high, they're good for rough estimate
okay thanks
so i leveled up to 79 and did all my hunts and my daily what do you guys think is the best way to finish 79-80 gap
i know the 79 place dont give as much as the 69 did in sb
you would be best off farming the level 79 dungeon yeah
by daily I'm assuming you mean you've done your roulettes, the pixie beast tribe quests can be solid supplementary exp as well if you aren't including those in "daily" as well, by the way
i see good to know thanks ^
What software can i use to remap ctrl and alt keyboard keys to Q and E but only in FF XIV?
I found some on the internet but it involves scripting, I don't want to do that.
Why do you want to remap them?
Whenever I try to connect Q and E with numbers (for spells), it doesn't let me.
I can use only ctrl, shift and alt for + commands
Ctrl + 1
Etc
I want it to be Q+1
I think Red means you attacked them first?
When blue mage first released .. chocobo leveling was absurd .. did they ever fix it or is it still crazy fast?
Isn't it purple?
chocobo leveling with BLU was fixed AFAIK
Can't say, pretty sure you can change the colors of those anyway and I've edited mine
yeah red = you're the one with the first direct aggro on it (attacked it first or aggroed it and healed/used an oGCD)
purple = someone else has that "red" aggro on it
then there's that dark yellow color that's basically "hey you aggroed something and you'd have that red aggro if you did anything but anyone else can still pick it up first and it'll be red for them, purple for you"
yeah, that's a bit more succinct haha
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If I have a potted plant in my house that is glowing. Can I ignore it and just let it be pretty or will it wither if I don't tend it anymore?
i accidently just sold an item from my retainers inventory
is there anyway to get it back :(
You put it up for sale, or someone actually bought it already?
i think it jsut sold it to some npc
If you sell to an npc, you can buyback until you close the window, then it is gone.
i had an item in my retainers inventroy that i wanted to sell so i thought if i pressed "have retainer sell item" i would be able to just sell it from it to the market board
You can sell stuff to a retainer like its an npc
but it turns out it just sells it to some random npc
If you already closed the retainer menu you can't get it back
if you click have retainer sell item. The retainer acts like a normal npc. Same rules apply though, there is a warning box.
Okay, this game is going to be a blast! Can you guys help me upgrade my game version? I see collectors, but what does that cover?
Collector's Edition gives some ingame cosmetics.
Typically a mount, a minion, a goofy glamour weapon
So it does not cover the new xpacks?
The base game and each expac has its own coll. edition
You just need plain old Shadowbringers if you don't mind not getting the stuff in the shadowbringers collector's edition
same thing for the base game
You can "upgrade" to collector's edition for each expac/base game using the "upgrade" option on the mog station
so don't worry about missing out
Can you link me to the page to buy that?
you can go back and pay for them later if you like the look of one of them
That will be fine. I can wait and go back for those.
Right page?
yes
That's coll. edition though
only go for that one if you want the Grani mount, Wind-up Fran minion and Revolver gunblade glamour.
Right, I am doing the standard. And you're sure I wont need the other ones?
Like I will have them with the xpack?
You only need the base game and Shadowbringers.
Okay
That's FFXIV in its entirety.
what lvl i can switch to blue mage ?
and also dancer class
50 after completing the base game story.
thank you
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i don't really understand the light/medium/heavy tug. from my understanding, it's how the character do the tugs. but how does that help me choose either precision or power hookset? i still wouldn't know what fish was hooked.
specific fish in each hole do specific tugs, for the most part
Small tugs almost always require precision set. Heavy pulls usually need powerful set. Depends on the fish but generally that works.
if it's a heavy tug then powerful hookset increases the chance you'll get it, same with light tug and precision
where do I go for 56 FATEs?
Only light tugs require precision hookset. Medium and heavy tugs require powerful.
It's distinguishing light and medium that's the trick.
Northern half of Sea of Clouds and the northern part of Churning Mists should do
Heavy tugs are pretty unmistakable.
They're distinguished by the way the tip of the rod is pulled
how much + the distinct sound effect of it being tugged at
You can use the action that puts a light on the tip of the pole to see the tugging types easier
Heavy tugs look and feel as if your rod is going to snap
Light is a tiny twitch
medium is a slightly more sustained twitch
You'll probably second-guess them for awhile before you're comfortable distinguishing them.
The upcoming patch 5.2 is slated to make the tug types easier to distinguish.
If you play on controller you can go entirely by vibrations
one is light, two is medium, and a constant is heavy
so it's the little tug when a fish is hooked?
damn, i didn't even pay attention to them
i would have like a second to decide
Hey guys I am working on the step for anima weapons where I need a ton of umbrite. What is the fastest way to farm Poetics?
daily roulettes and then spam either the Aetherochemical Research Facility or the other dungeons that give like 100 poetics
Ah yeah that's what I've been doing but it takes so long to duty find for Aetherochemical
If you're willing, you can also level up Blue Mage to 50 and do the Masked Carnivale for the hoard of first time completion allied seals and poetics
These dungeons give 100 poetics per run:
Amdapor Keep (Hard)
The Wanderer's Palace (Hard)
Keeper of the Lake
Baelsar's Wall
The Ghimlyt Dark
Those last three are story dungeons which should give them a better queue.
yeah the Anima weapon wants tons of poetics
the next step right after will want more unless you want to do a daily and weekly quest for them
you can buy things ahead of times though. So if you have nothing else to grab and are capped on poetics. I generally grab anima stuff
can't for your first weapon
Yeah I wish I would have amhad the foresight for that. I sat maxed for like 2 weeks
Have had*
Anima weaponry is probably the least grindiest of the 3 though.
Eurekan and Zodiac weapons are probably more "bash your head on this brick wall for 40,000 hours" type
Anima is more....remember your dailies
that 3rd option. notice on your map the place is called Isles of Umbra
Pharos Sirius is the name of the dungeon there
sorry brother
yeah yeah
just to rub a little salt in the wound 😛
whoops
the blue name didn't help 💢
hey, i'm gonna get married, and we chose the platinum plan, when do we get the chocobo?
after the wedding
oki! thank you :3
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Is Holminster Switch a little more tricky to heal with an actual party(as opposed to Trust)or do I just need to get good?
If it’s a “me” problem, then Thats fine, I’ll work on it.. i’m just curious..
It definitely is harder
But thats cause of the
Level scaling
IE: in heavensward content a lustrate will heal for approximately 50-75% of a tanks health bar
All non-drk tanks get rocked in Shadowbringers leveling dungeons
In shadowbringers its more like a quarter
and ALL tanks get rocked if they don't really know what they're doing
Thats assuming you are going into it with scaeven gear too
And packs are larger too.
Iirc level synced down makes it a lot easier
If your tank doesn't rotate cooldowns in leveling dungeons
expect to be performing the cardinal sin of healers in FF
cast bar heals!
:OOOO
I’m currently wearing all 385 HQ crafted gear for Scholar(73). Replacing it with SHB dungeon drops as I get them. Is it worth me getting Scaevan gear at this point?
nah you'll find at 75 its "on par"
and eclipsed by 77
just stick to your dungeon stuff
Scaevan will alleviate some of the early gearing woes but, yeah, will need to be replaced.
if you just cant get that 1 piece
For the 71 dungeon
then maybe an augmented scaeven piece will suffice
Well I need one more Trust run to get Ryne to 73 so I can trust Dohn Mheg.
They become rough til you get recitation and the HoT on sacred soil
I see
@ 74 / 78
Cause Recitation lets me use Aeherflow heals, without Aetherflow, yeah?
fellas i wanna get a sub to play the next patch 5.2 . when is it gonna be out on a guess? like should i get a sub now or wait like a week or 2
Yeah, and in general lustrate is not a strong oGCD heal, leaving you with only excog
@lucid solar feb 18
ah okay ty
Feb 18th is only an estimate for now. Release date isn't official yet. Timing, however, would match up with previous live letters so it's a fair assumption.
yeah i just wanted an estimate
Finding that on Scholar I really kinda have to stay ahead of the damage, otherwise I screw myself and the healing gets hectic.
keep your eyes to the lodestone news channel in up this discord
yeah i do
well yeah Jay
Its a playstyle that appeals to me.
Yea you gotta manage your bag of tricks well
Proactive and preventative rather than reactive.
Cast lucid dream on CD, it's a good habit to get into
I likey. I just gotta get the muscle memory and shit down
I tend to cast it at about 7500 mp remaining the first time
and then just let it roll every time its off cd
going forward
Me too. Now i just mash it.
Scholar definitely is a lot easier at 80 imo
it gets way easier with a DRK that isnt bad I tell ya
TBN in dungeons actually reads:
Is immortal for 10 seconds
on a 30 second window
There is something really cool and badass about a shield landing just before groupwide damage hits. 😁😁😁
did they finally fix that?
@marble drift oh ya, TBN is godly. It’s such a crutch, ngl it carried me to 80 on DRK.
Unless it helps saves a heal later, the shield doesnt really matter but its cool i agree.
Lets be real it carried everyone to 80.
that skill is dumb as fuck. Its great
and the better gear you get the better it gets
as its scaled to your health.
@whole wasp finding if I time it right, the group ends up taking minimal damage and I’m back to Broiling.
Sometimes
Yup. Thats a great play then
If you still gotta indom after and overheal a bunch thrn the shield didnt realy matter.
aka: dead
The name for broil in jpn is dope as hell too.
What do the Shields scale with?
For what job?
Scholar
Mind ofc
!action adloquium
Restores target's HP.
Cure Potency: 300
Additional Effect: Grants Galvanize to target, nullifying damage equaling 125% of the amount of HP restored. When critical HP is restored, also grants Catalyze, nullifying damage equaling 125% the amount of HP restored.
Duration: 30s
Effect cannot be stacked with astrologian's Nocturnal Field.
Its based on how much you heal
A critlo is over 1000 potency worth of effective healing if i did my math right. 👀
For Adlo, Crit = second shield. For Succor crit = bigger shield, right?
Succor doesn’t crit?
But yes it would atill be bigger than a normal shield.
No it can crit
no succor doesnt have a different shield
it can still crit, but it doesn't get a second shield
It doesn't get Catalyst
Right.
it rolls its crit into Galvanize
It just gets a bigger one
yeh
Aldo gets a special treatment because with the new priority thing. you can just re-adlo for a shield once galv has been eaten
and not mess with Catalyze
Crit Aldo gets an additional shield on top of the crit healing
yeah the actual crit heal is rolled into both Galv and Cata
So it is some seriously substantial mitigation
you can see it with the new "see shields on hp bars" thing
they put in for ShB
a Critlo in leveling dungeons
is functionally HP bar #2 for dps
and at like 50% for tanks
From what I remember reading, they split the Crit Adlo Shield into a 2nd shield..because you used to be able to Deploy the Crit Shield and that was OP as fuck?
yeah
yes. you could
it made some healing checks a pushover
because imagine giving everyone what was basically +50% of their HP as a shield (besides tanks)
You could literally skip some mechanics in Savage with that lol
Or rather.. Just eat them
and I mean. you can still "kinda" do that now too
get your entire group under soil, recit out a succor with Seraph out too
have her pop Consul and thats a fucking lot of shielding
it aint as good as it once was sure
but...its...so much
Recitting a succor is a waste
Fair.
Its better to let the party take the damage and use it on Indom
Fairy heals scale in your Mind also?
Yes but not 1:1
Fairy is around 1/3rd?
oh man could you imagine.
Iirc
they'd have to murder fairie potencies
to make up for it
or scholar would literally be 2 healers in 1 class
They did. Fairies were pretty nuts in HW.
I feel like this is better for #general-discussion
Agreed
Here is a stupid question. I’m not seriously considering this, but I am curious. They sell a Retainer Jump Potion on Mog Station. So suppose you use one of those and then assign your Retainer a Job. It then starts back at level 1, thus making the purchase useless, yeah?
Assigning a job to your retainer does not reset its level as long as it's a job that their class can take.
In other words it's safe 😛
I see.
No since you need to meet the level requirements to make it an expansion job
So if I level my Retainer as an ACN, then I can switch then to SMN or SCH without its level resetting?
From my understanding, you're unable to change it again after assigning it once.
Yep
Meaning a reset is necessary if you want to go from SMN to SCH
Gotcha.
can i skip this ? cuz i wait more then 1 hours no party
Nope
A bit confused on how housing works. Can we transfer houses or is it whenever u want a house, u have to wait until 1 is free then buy?
😦
Are u in the novice Network? People would normally be fine with helping u clear it. Otherwise i assume you are a dps class right?
Once you own a plot of land, you are able to skip the timers on other plots should you choose to relocate.
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As for transferring ownership, that isn't possible in the current system unless it's owned by an FC and FC leadership changes.
Although the latter case doesn't really count since it's still owned by the FC
what is the fastest way to get the sand for the aniomas reconditioned phase
crafting and gathering scrips
HW leves are one of the better options if you don't have a crafter or gatherer leveled up
I'm not sure if it's the fastest per se but one of the preferred methods for non-crafters is to spam HW levequests
There's also the ARR Extreme trial materials which you could solo farm for at 80 or buy off of the marketboard
Is there a macro to auto-target, interact and confirm teleportation? I have lag and can't teleport reliably on the first teleporter in Prae, and can't use the other at all because it gets canceled before I could even confirm teleportation.
Macro is sent from client's end
Can't interact with menus using ingame macros
You could use your numpad to try and speed things up
Numpad 0 is confirm and 4 & 6 are left & right
As a tank sometimes you just cant make it through the teleporter
You can respawn and use the shortcut near the spawn
yeah I have to spam it hard to sometimes make it through as a tank
The other tank can always do the next pull if you die so it's not a huge loss
uh, is there a way to make a hotbar with no job-specific abilities still change when swapping jobs?
Character config > hotbar settings > shared
what I mean is that here the 4th one is my "utility" one
but if I swap to DRG, it stays the GNB one
you can choose which hotbars are shared between all jobs and job-specific
as long as it fits their class then yes
Yeah retainer gearing is identical to players, more or less.
Except that Retainers can’t wear GC gear. Smh.
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Anything I can spend these on so I dont reach 2000?
Or can I increase the total amount I can hold maybe
Gear for alt classes, augments for current gear if you need it/haven't already
what's augments?
2000 is max, not increasable
those gems that you put in?
No, those are materia
Tomestone gear can be "augmented", increasing the ilvl by 10 levels (and making it dyeable)
Requires buying an item and trading the gear piece and item to an augmenting NPC.
For example, to augment Ironworks gear from i120 to i130, you purchase with Poetics in Mor Dhona one Carbontwine for each piece of body armour + weapon, and one Carboncoat for each accessory
and then take them to Drake in Hyrstmill in the North Shroud to have your Ironworks gear augmented with them.
ye done that
so like.. do i have to do each of those books for the relic weapons?
like theres 4 for the sword and 2 for my shield
Yes
ouch
yeah? the other relic weapons as fun as this one too?
You’re at what’s probably the worst step in any of them nowadays.
The concept behind all types of relic weapons is that they’re a grind though
Since they’re in some ways the alternative to savage raid weapons during the expansion that they’re current.
Im level 57, how can I get 115 ilvl to pass requirement to queue dungeons?
Oh no cog 😰
I got full lvl 50 gear
You should have been far past that level long ago
Huh
The best 50 gear—the augmented ironworks stuff I mentioned—is outdated by level 55
Also the MSQ should have provided you with lots of HQ gear if this is your first job
I bought this from Mor Dono at 50
Oh no
Okay for now, take all those tomestones of poetics you showed me and talk to Auriana in Mor Dhona
Who is the easternmost of those vendors in that minimap pic
And buy ironworks gear
Uh firstly the weapon
Which is a bit confusing
In Auriana’s “Allagan Tomestones of Poetics (Other)” section, buy 10x “Rowena’s Token (Poetics)” and 1x “Encrypted Tomestone”
Then talk to Aelina next to her and go to her “Ironworks Magitek Weapons” section
And trade those items for a weapon for your job.
ooo I've been here
I went here to buy accessories like 2 hours ago
Just didnt buy main gear
Then go back to Auriana and buy—yeah the left side gear
Fill as many slots as you can afford with Ironworks gear.
Now that should get you high enough to enter the dungeon at least, but it’s still low gear for your level
Don’t you have some dungeon drops?
51–59 dungeons are guaranteed to drop an item for your current job straight into your inventory upon completion
😰
ffxiv is crossplat right?
yes
ok thanks
And is just overall the most important stat wise
But do you not have any dungeon drops from leveling 51–57?
Check your inventory
no
How recently did you level 51–57?
Just now
Through regular dungeons?
Roulette and POTD
Or buy marketboard gear
Might have to buy marketboard gear to fill slots if you don’t wanna grind out more poetics.
Idk how to grind them
running msq roulette helps for poetics
^
That's only once a day though right
You’ll still get 200-300 even without the roulette bonus
So my plan was to create a character on a preferred world on crystal , then transfer to balmung once the patch dropped. But now I’m reading and it seems like you can only transfer after 90 days if you made a character on a preferred world
So did I just screw myself over?
Err yes
But also
There are no guarantees Balmung would have opened up anyway.
And you can just world visit if you want to RP there
Not really an rp thing, just like lived in servers. And Itd be cool to join a free company or whatever
Guess Ill have to wait till 5.3
All servers are lived in.
I always hear that Balmung is a bit stagnant now actually, what with there being no new players joining it
Balmung has always been stagnant because it was filled to the brim with role players and everyone in the roleplayer’s network.
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Hey there, just wanted to ask about custom deliveries. Is it 6 per week per person (Zhloe, M'naago etc.) or can I do all 3 in a week, since on Timers it shows an allowance of 12? Or am I limited to doing 2 lots of 6 per week?
Quick question about addon UI : i've seen some video with addon, like dps meter, skill used showed at the top of the screen, some things like this. How does that work? i mean is it okay to used them?
@bleak fulcrum 12 total per week, 6 per person
ACT, the damage meter used for the game, falls into a grey area. As long as you don’t use it to harass others or publicly tell random people in-game that you are using it then it’s completely fine to use.
As for the skill used thing, I don’t know what that would be exactly but it would fall under the same guidelines if I had to imagine
hm, i'll probably stay like that, don't wanna take the risk
Thank you
Has there been precedent to a Tia having a kid in the tribe? What happened?
It’s not something that’s been explored.
hi, anyone know why when i try on the padjali weapon it doesnt glow?
cause try on window has different shaders and stuff
so if i equip it, it will be normal?
yes
alright thanks!
why do my guy have alot of mp when im lvl 1
as for why it's not just a %.. your guess is good as mine really
Paying a sub with a card vs paying with crysta, is it basically the same price?
yeah
i been doing Shinryu so many times but i still can't figure out 1move that wind push to the cliff and died.. i notice only me that get get push but other teammate still standing at same spot. what should i do ?
press surecast/arm's length
or look where the water spout is when he casts tidal wave and get close to it, that's where the pushback is from
so he push players to water circle ?
but also can be prevent using arm length ?
got it
no, there's like a geyser of water on left or right edge or behind
and the geyser pushes you
if it's like
water | arena | nothing
then knockback is this way
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geyser water ? that water circle ?
oh
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where can I see the hunts I've accepted?
and are hunts a good way to get xp while waiting in queue? im level 58
what would you do?
beast tribes
vath or vanu vanu
Tho it's nice to to the bills if you need centurio, there minions / furniture and a mount locked behind those
The old HW wyvern mount need like 6 book you buy with centurio
How come even though I've set my game to standard laptop settings, I'm getting 30fps?
I've got a gtx960 and 16gb of ram.. so wtf
is there any way to farm poetics to speed up my anima?
@brave notch could be CPU bottleneck tbh. tends to be an issue with laptops
@leaden ginkgo most efficient is just do all the roulettes that give poetics 1/day and then walk away. if you really want to farm, you could spam ARF or castrum meridianum
@leaden ginkgo or find bonus runs for ppl needing to unlock all of Alexander or all of Delta if you got into stormblood
Hey, can someone help me with queue for A relic reborn : Chimera?
I recently unlocked the anima weapon missions. Are they worth it? What sort of effort is involved here? Priority on aesthetics
@stray saffron I'm on a self-built desktop though.. I only used laptop quality as a reference for how odd it was
with a intel i4770 cpu
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how do i download the game with the intent of playing the free trial?
from the trial site
Pc or ps4
pc
yeah i found it just now
do trusts give less xp? i've had 3 hard stops now from not being at the right level
no
the only difference between trust dungeons and player ran dungeons is the amount of loot inside the chests and the fact that trust dungeons will generally be 30~mins+
oh so not getting enough xp to level up to proceed with msq is totally normal?
if all you're doing is msq, yes
what are the major differences between the tank classes?
oh alright thank you
pld has a static looping rotation, warrior has a builder/spender rotation with keeping a buff up, drk is a gauge and mana management with a strong personal shield that when broken makes your next mp attack free and gunbreaker is the most complex one rotation-wise with 30s, 60s and 90s cooldowns constantly realligning in different burst windows
whats a "builder/spender rotation"?
you do your combo and you build gauge to spend on big hits
Afaict, GNB only has 1 90s ability
is it me or scholar is like, dps and heal with ogcd ? just watch a guide from desperius, and he just kinda said "all the castable heal cost too much mp and aren't good enough" O,O
Everything else should tuck nicely into a 30/60s rotation
You should prioritize using your oGCD heals
@strong falcon more or less. Your oGCDs are very powerful. But if you have to reach deep into your bag of tricks to survive, healers gotta heal.
But when you run out....
desperius is pretty bad so i generally would reccomend avoiding the guides @rugged ginkgo
!faq balance

Lol, vis, I think you @ the wrong player
came up when i started typing the @ 
I was really confused. 
what is best way to level an alt dps? i wanna level a level 25 drg. and queue times for dps is super long. also, is it better to queue leveling roulette or highest level dungeon?
I use a combination of levequests and company missions
Those missions where you take NPCs to the dungeons instead
Run levelling roulette once per day, do Fates while in queue. After that, do PotD 51-60 over and over if you don't have a healer friend you can queue with
POTD seems to have long queues lately
at least for early levels... I haven't gone past floor 20 or so befre
roulettes only give a 1 time bonus per day so after it u should run your highest possible dungeon
early floors will have longer queues, yeah
for potd most people only spam 51-60 to lvl the rest of the floors is often dead
Most people run floors 51-60 repeatedly too.
does the xp you get from beast tribe quests scale with your level or is it a set amount?
for ARR tribes, it is set. for all the expansion tribes, it scales (but no higher than the max level of that expansion, I believe)
ah
thank you so much guys for all your help, very informative ❤️
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whats the lvlcap?
80
whats the trial cap?
35
I just made a new character can I give her my mount and items? same dataserver
mounts are character specific so no, items only through a friend or a company chest by being in the same FC
you can't use mail because you can only friend other online characters, and you can't be online on 2 characters of 1 account at once
uhum so only company chest?
pretty much
Unless you have cash or special event mounts (like the Regalia from the FFXV crossover event), any mount you have on one character can be pretty easily obtained or farmed on another.
Hello im a new FFxiv player (wow refugee), anyone can point me in a site where i can read some beginner stuff what classes/jobs(dunno exactly even what those are)/roles are more in depths but with small words for a nab like myself?
Welcome fellow WoW refugee! Honestly if you're looking for a site like wowhead or icy-veins that spells things out, there isn't really anything like that for FFXIV.
aw, too bad :/ cheers thou!
oh ,shiny! thanks @whole wasp
You can, however, take a look at the job guides here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/
One thing I'll say up front is that, unlike WoW, a single character is not locked into a single job. So if you pick something you don't like, but don't want to start the game over, you don't have to.
thats pretty neat, need to make one all-in-one awesome looking char thou.. the pressure is on for transmog glory
Just reach level 10 with your first job, and complete the job quest, and you'll be able to change to any other job in the game (provided you meet the prerequisites).
FFXIV is a huge xmog (we call it glamour here) game.
There are icy-veins/wowhead-type sites devoted to glamour.
That's how big it is.
There's a lot of versatility in appearances over here. Gear is restricted by job rather than armor type, and certain pieces are completely unrestricted, so you can use them with any job.
You can get somewhat of an idea of the kinds of things people do down in #art
Just beware location spoilers.
what does the orange mean? https://i.imgur.com/y6n1McB.png
Pretty sure someone already lives there, is what it means
Does the quest Let The Hunt Begin have a requirement quest or something? It shows up as a red
on the minimap, but not on the screen, and when I talk to the guy, he just says "Talk to the storm flyer at the airship landin'. She'll take ye where ye need to go."
Does that mean I have to PvP to unlock hunts?
No, you don't need to PvP to unlock hunts.
are you second lieutenant?
You need to be Second Lieutenant
Better get on with my hunting log then in guess.
That's like halfway to max rank in a GC lol you've got to do some more promotions to get to 2nd LT.
just one more I think actually
Yep, Chief Sergeant is the rank before Second Lieutenant
Could also run some dungeons and turn in all the pink/green gear.
What does it say when you click on him?
Did you accept the quest to unlock the Wolf's Den but not actually go out there?
That's the only thing I can think of that might cause that particular dialogue.
I guess
I literally just did this quest, all you do is get rank 2 in maelstrom hunting log and do the quest the commander gives you
but I was confused as well so
(to get second lieutenant)
I'm about to upgrade from free trial to regular
where should I upgrade from? Mog station or Square enix store?
Mog station will redirect you to the SE store
You can't actually purchase the expansion on the mog station.
oh the upgrade via mog station upgrade will direct me to SE store?
ye
The purchase will redirect to the SE store. Once you've purchased the upgrade, you'll get a code which you'll need to enter on the mog station to activate it.
Gotcha thanks guys!
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whats that one time password?
one time password is part of the 2 factor authenticator. if you don't have it, just ignore that line
I typed help in bot spam nothing happened
Is there a better way to contact support than their website? Tried 3 times with a case sensitive email issue and all I get are auto replies.
I'm level 61 on my alt job now, do I just spam HoH?
ok so. Housing question. the Grade 1,2 and 3 paintings are tied to the Joyous Painter over in Idylshire correct? anything he sells goes in those?
yes
ok then follow up. Does the paintings he sells just go in any of the frames? and they just scale to size?
They scale yes
ok! final question. Why are alot of the painters options empty. Are they tied to like...sightseeing logs?
Yep
ok actual final question. are his paintings the things you see after discovering a sightseeing log? like the same as the journal?
Not as confident on this one but they should be recreations of what you saw
how do i aoe when i got foul and umbral soul?
do not all sightseeing logs have a painting?
But yeah getting more is all tie to sightseeing achievement, there a lot more color painting for Shadowbringers
the image you see in the sightseeing log when you've completed it, is the image the painter will have
There achievement for ARR, one for HW one for stormblood and one for Shadowbringers for the painting
ah hell. you need to do em all eh? its not 1 by 1?
But only the last one give painting
No
you need to get the appropriate achievement to unlock that section of paintings
so 1-45 needs the 1-45 achievement
Something like that yeah but gotta do each expension
what the painting will look like
ah ok so you don't get any until you get the acheivement which gives you ALL of them.
you literally picked the one I wanted
for that section, yes
😦
bummer
I wanted that and the one of Aynx Trine. 😦
so you need to complete HW sightseeing logs 1-45 if that's the one you want
HW vistas are in the easiest
Alternatively, you can ask someone who has them unlocked to buy the painting for you or check the market board
But they might be absurdly priced
oh real? that sounds way easier
Entirely up to you though
the only really annoying ones are ARR
I have HW SB and SHB fines, not ARR
expansion vistas are incredibly easy
ARR is sadness
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