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Yes
are you certain you did akadaemia and not Anamnesis Anyder?
because there are two anyder dungeons
one of them is msq (anamnesis)
akadaemia is a side quest in eulmore
oh, youre right on that part, havent unlocked akadaemia
its in the slums of eulmore
thanks
I'm having a difficult time with my gladiator level 30 quest called The Rematch
The objective is to search for proof of Aldis's innocence at the Sepulchre in southern Thanalan
The area it tells me to go seems closed off to me
I can't get inside of it 😦 it is all mountains
do you have friends
whoever said that Heaven On High is a decent levelling way for 61-70.. no, been in queue for 40+ minutes now 😄
yeah
tell one of them to get a high level char
go to coerthas and tag a high level enemy
and have your friend kill it
you'll get full xp and a lot of levels
Binny, I believe the entrance is right under that text...? There shouldn't be any real obstacles to getting there
ohhh
I will look again there. I will let you know thanks
so I can share exp with party member even if the level gap is rly high?
oh derp, didnt see it. thank you!
no, you get a penalty to exp
ok ty
or no exp at all
best way is to not be in a party, tag an enemy and let your friend finish it off
🤔
ah yes don't be in a party
oh ok
sorry I didn't mention this
Just pretend like you're a new player who accidentally attacked a high level enemy and the other person is a high level player who coincidentally is there to save you.
Over and over again
POTD, I guess?
which is also good so that I dont rly need to bother the others when they are busy
hunting log. ok
oh ok
Main Scenario Roullete is the only one that has a chance of putting me in the 2 last dungeons of main story right?
yes, MSQ roulette is specifically for prae/castrum
It's really really really good do though and lots of tomestones
i missed a duty queue pop and it says my penalty count has increased, what is that penalty meaning
More penalties you get, the longer you're lockes out from queing for stuff
It only starts slapping you after 3 pops missed in 24h
ah
I just hit 50 and did the castrum, the game is banging on about tomestones
And even after that, the penalty is like 30 min (at least for the first, dunno after that)
it's only 30 minutes
should I go and spend tomestones? or wait until later
The cap is 2000, so yeah go spend them
You'll also need to upgrade your items (I assume) so might as well go look at the vendors (I don't know why I'm thinking that's an assumption. Of course you'll need to upgrade items. You always need to upgrade items.)
Another good use of tomestones is to get the materials for anima weapons since they look very pretty, and take a lot of tomes if you haven’t pre-stocked the materials (that being said, anima is only something that unlocks after you finish heavensward)
so do I go to thanalan to spend them
mor dhona
Mor dhona, and later iddylshire
are there only 100 floors in potd?
Assuming you have your gear covered, I’d spend them to get around 70 umbrite and 10 of each of the 4 unidentifiable materials (all are in the “special arms” tab), as those are the big poetics sinks for if you’d decide to go for an anima weapon
oh
has to be a fixed party with no wipes to go past floor 100
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My game has been going pretty crazy since all of a sudden last night. It crashed while I was doing the culinarian job, then the textures started flickering and my pet (as arcanist) was locked into guard mode.
Now I boot up the game and on the main menu it says "unable to obtain character data." Is any of this (particularly the latter) normal or should I start to be worried and focus on fixes?
I hit level 80 just now. What do I do for gear at this point?
My gear score is currently sitting at 413
It looks like the unable to load character thing has to do with stress on servers?
Road to 70 is a 100% exp gain buff right, or its it 200%?
started to lvl gathering job yesterday and I really enjoy it, simple, fast, and cost nothing unlike crafting jobs lol.
But I have a question : does high lvl gathering requires absolutely overmelded max ilvl gear to get good materials like crafters absolutely needs perfect gear to achieve expert recipes? Same question for rotations, do I need to master every skill of the gathering jobs to gather high lvl materials (like crafting is impossible without mastering skills) or I can just come and farm easy with cheap gear and not high knowledge about skills ?
@blissful matrix +100%, 2x, or 200% total. However you want to refer to it
200% isnt equal to 100%
That's why I said +100%. There's the implied 100% that you already get. 100%+100% is 200%
The actual in-game bonus is (+100%)
When does Duty Roulette reset, earth time?
!daily
@twilit arch thank you 🙂
@vagrant copper for clarity, I'm asking how much bonus it actually is , not how to say it, so it IS 2x?
@blissful matrix Yes.
How long is character creation on Goblin likely to be blocked? That's where people I know are.
Given that it's Sunday, I'd guess until at least late evening
Though you might squeeze in at some point if you keep checking
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/ yea I got to squeeze into siren by checking every once in awhile
Where do I go for the next blm quest after hitting 50?
you can create the character and then save them as a preset to make it faster
Lalai doesnt have an icon
Where do I go for the next blm quest after hitting 50?
@forest lark you should have a little mark on the top left side of your screen
just under "next update"
np 🙂
But yeah you have to reach Heavensward story first for the quests after the level 50 one
@leaden ginkgo yea i did have to get closer to best in slot for patch 5.2 gathering gear before and have it overmelded
crafting gear was even more strict. same thing
expensive
@leaden ginkgo yea i did have to get closer to best in slot for patch 5.2 gathering gear before and have it overmelded
@echo tapir oh ok... do you think there's some items I can farm with gathering without expensive and overmelded gear ? like just white scrip gear ? I mean items that I can sell for some gils lol, or everything that ppl want is only the hard things to get ?
and yes doing expert recipe means you need to know what youre doing
and you can even still fail
lol
yeah but you dont lose anything I guess ?
I need help i haven't played for 2 year's I've jumped back into my previous character a tank which I've always been ok at but i jumped into a duty as part of my main quest was called terrible and said i was supposed to be a paladin which i thought i already was i don't want to start from scratch as want to beat the base game where am i going wrong?
like crafting you lose mats and money
You do lose mats
its a real fail
you do, cant remember if you lose it if you stop synth tho
Well
you dont have to do it tho
Pretty sure it operates like normal where you have a high chance to lose the mats like most recipes
where you can lose mats ?
not for gathering no
I talk about gathering lol
I know about crafting, thats why I stopped for a moment
Gdi Rab
I just wanted to know if gathering was as painful as crafting
i know to get a start in gathering before i just needed a few facet pieces and some of the jewelry. then i could at least do the 600 GP gathering rotation for appraisal and collectability
that was just the start of me farming and me getting legendary mats
@sharp epoch go to your character menu and check the bottom left slot and see if you have a paladin soul crystal
so I can farm and make some money with gathering without investing as much as I must for crafting ?
a bit
my gathering gear is actually still shit and i can still get stuff
@echo tapir thats what I wanted to know lol
Not like crafting is painful
You can make hundreds of thousands of Gil crafting and leveling to level 20 if you know what you're doing
like espansive leveling then "hey welcome to lvl 80 now either stop and lose all your money, either lose all your money and get perfect gear to maybe hope for getting some expansive mats"
i think at some point my own crafting needed only normal quality mats to make all HQ. that helped me
cause it means my gathering doesnt need to be perfect
i sold regular shit
sounds really good to me
my objectiv is too get back the money I invested in crafters with gathering jobs so I can sell a lot of mats
then go back to crafting and get perfect gear overmelded etc. then learn rotations
it will depend on your server marketboard still
without the fear of losing money
at what point do you get a summon whenever you want mount?
!faq mounts
'When can I get my first mount?'
The quest that allows you to use mounts, 'My Little Chocobo' is unlocked by completing the level 20 main story quest 'The Company You Keep'. The quest is located at the Grand Company base you chose and you'll need to buy the Chocobo Issuance from your Grand Company Quartermaster. You can get the 200 needed Grand Company seals by doing the main story quest that comes after 'The Company You Keep'.
'Are there any differences between mounts?'
Besides looks, all mounts are the same speed along with being able to fly in the expansion zones. Some mounts allow multiple people to ride at once.
'Can I make my mount faster?'
Zones have one or two ranks of mount speed that increase the ground speed of mounts. The first rank comes from completing specific quests in the main scenario quests, with the second rank coming from Riding Maps which are bought with either Allied Seals, Centurio Seals, or Bicolor Gemstones. Mount Speed Boosts do not increase the flying speed of mounts.
yeah I know, but the problem with crafter is that is sooo expansive to lvl up and gear
you should still also have leveled your retainer all the way to 80
and put old raiding gear on it or whatever
what do retainers do ?
and make them sell whatever you set them to find every hour
Im lvling one
retainer is bank space and selling
yeah I know what they do lol
so i still have a ways to go. thanks
like you can order them to hunt for things
I mean why lvling them
Not really Hokates. If you just leveled your gatherers ahead of crafting you can profit all the way throught the crafting experience @leaden ginkgo
cause the leveling makes them better at it
everyone needs to level their retainer all the way to 80
Not really Hokates. If you just leveled your gatherers ahead of crafting you can profit all the way throught the crafting experience @leaden ginkgo
@wintry chasm yeah know that but my bad, I just spent millions to rush crafting and just lose all my poor money lol, now im doing gathering to repair my bad
everyone needs to level their retainer all the way to 80
@echo tapir do they give like rare stuff that only retainer can bring ?
Well...I won't lie that's more of a you problem then a crafting problem
Can do @leaden ginkgo
It's also just nice for getting materials
Well...I won't lie that's more of a you problem then a crafting problem
@wintry chasm never said its a craft problem 😄 just went the wrong path and did crafter then gathering instead of gathering then craft
thx for all infos mates
btw is there any recommended class for retainers ?
for example my only one is PLD cause I just like PLD design lol, is that important ?
I'd say one battle one miner or bot
And what you want with a battle retainer is a class you play a lot of
Since it can't be above your level in that class and it means you can give them old gear
why ? So I can gear it right ?
oh ok
so PLD is a good choice since Im main PLD
and tank in general
but does the battle class I chose make any difference ?
Not in terms of what items you can get
I guess for miner/bot changes the items they bring
but for battle class doesnt matter ?
Correct
thanks a lot for all those infos
how do i perform a dance?
got it thanks
You can also access the emote list in the social menu but it tells you what to use right there 😉
how many percent have i cleared in the story at this point?
without counting the expansions
Do you want to include the A Realm Reborn patch quests? @pearl shuttle
yes
25% maybe...?
Nooo
more than 25% or less?
oof dont know if i should be happy or sad that i have so much content to do
Oh, I guess I was just counting 2.1. If you're talking about all the way through 2.55...
Right
I think ARR base game has 140 quests and patches is around 100 to make roughly 240 and I would have guessed you're...40 quests in?
In picture mode you can take pics of you doing certain attacks right?
I want to take one with the drk simulacrum ability
I think ARR base game has 140 quests and patches is around 100 to make roughly 240 and I would have guessed you're...40 quests in?
@wintry chasm not sure can i check that ingame?
You can go into the journal and count down the completed quests 
This is like, level 20 Meara
I started SB 2 days ago and I have question about the lore because i am confused
|| I got to Kugane, If I understand correctly, Griffin brought the resistance ppl in alliance cloths, and killed them all with magitek to summon a primal? I thought we entered to Gyr Abania to search for Omega, why we want to free ala mhigo and doma? I dont understand where the war began, thanks ||
I counted 54 msq
@icy quiver ||what Ilberd did basically framed us as attacking the Empire so naturally they were going to fight back so we kinda said "well fuck it if they are going to attack us we might as well attack them first and take Ala Mhigo. After the disaster at Reach we are going to the Far East to cause a rebellion and divert the Empire's forces.||
Can I restart shb without entering 5.1?
New Game +
Ok
@icy quiver ||also, he used the Eyes as an aether source, his own belief, and a vast amount of human sacrifice to empower the primal ||
||as the ex primals show blood sacrifice empowers a primal further ||
are side quests included in this list?
No
good
is main story
then iam 54/240 msq in ARR
Roughly
oh thanks a lot
|| so illbered is resposible for killing all the resistance ppl right? and I will get answer in the story why I couldnt kill the viceory? because I'm primal slayer and so so||
Sure why not Stave
Zenos or Yotsuyu?
Can i already play the first expansion after the 140msq?
hmm okey
i keep getting dragged into side quests lol
@icy quiver I'll just say ||If you're so strong why can't other people be so strong like Zenos?||
yep. ||you're not dead special. some people are allowed to be anime protagonists too ||
oh k thanks a lot
is there the 24 man raids for all the expansions? or just ARR?
also I did first dungeon and storm bloood and I felt we are so week, it took us 30min to complete it
its should be like that? In HW I felt I do more dmg
All
neat
Can you marry someone from a different world? (For example if you was from Twintania and you wanted to marry someone from Zodiark could you?)
rip lol
Shire gear is ilvl 260
oh ><
You're talking to the right lady but the wrong option
oh rip XD
thanks a lot!
is there a point where the quests in the area will exhaust themselves or is there a endless stream of them?
99% of quests are one time
I'm getting side tracked by side quests that I think I am overleveled
which isn't a bad thing
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Consider that almost 50% of the quests before you even get to Heavensward are all level 50 quests. So... yeah. Being overleveled is kind of normal.
Granted, I'm sure item levels will matter a lot more during all that
(Or hope... /shrug)
Ones you get to lv 50, spend poetics for ironworks gear, it’ll keep you until mid heavensward
Unrelated: anyone know of a way to stop people from sending you fc requests?
To get the title that comes with it, you only need to get the ARR relic weapons to stage 2 (being repaired), right?
Kinda considering getting the BLM’s starcaller title for my AST lol
You just need to get the actual relic
@empty bluff I think the only way is to start the process to form your own FC...? Though you don't have to go through with it or anything.
That expires every few days though right because you have a deadline to get people to join or something or am I misremembering
Hmm. IDK
Can you make a second character (on another world if you have the basic sub) and invite them to it?
That being said, why not just join a FC?
FC does not work cross server
"Joining this duty as a party will nullify any adventurer in need bonus"
Does this apply to parties of any size, or only parties that completely fill the duty?
Any
Oh oka
You have to be solo for adventurer in need
Wait, I just got the adventurer in need bonus even though I queued as a party (3 out of 4)
Did you actually get the bonus, or was it just showing on the duty finder?
I got the Gil, XP, and the cracked whatevers
about the quota thing for the ixali beast tribe, can I just submit 30 of the same item to reach the quota?
It's only good to do MQ roulette when the daily boost is active right?
Each item gives a certain amount of quota. The minimum you need to fulfill a quota usually about 3 items of the highest quots reward
But yes you can submit multiple of the same item
Iirc
HNCharlie, if you're going for maximum efficiency in leveling or whatever, then you'd just do the roulette once
ah so if I wanted to get xp for carpenter I could just submit 30 maple fishing rods?
What can I do to make thaumaturge feel less clunky?
if by clunky you mean slow, not much, except for ley lines.
I tried to do a quild Leve and I just get crushed
You only need to submit 3 @forest laurel
@vagrant copper thanks
I'm confused now
Your quota requirement is 30 and each rod gives 10
Currently level 12, should I maybe wait before trying to do anything like that?
Nah
was it a leve that's way higher level than level 12?
Is there any way I can block fc invites only and not tells?
It was 13
Other than joining an fc
No
What grand company should I choose, is there any difference?
Was there something the leve was trying to make you do which you weren't? Maybe it was one of those things where you have to use a key item to make the enemies weaker first Thaja
Only cosmetic KM
!faq grandcompany
'Which Grand Company should I choose?'
The only differences between the three Grand Companies are the looks of the equipment and where they're located. The story doesn't change in regards to the Grand Company you chose beside the quest that comes after "The Company You Keep". Here are two links leading to sample sets from each of the Grand Companies
'How do I get Grand Company Seals?'
You can get more seals mainly by completing your Grand Company Hunting Log (Go to the Hunting Log and click on the GC icon), completing FATEs, and turning in crafted/gathered items to the Personnel Officer if you have crafting or gathering classes unlocked. Once you are Sergeant 2nd Class you can turn in Pink/Green/Blue-rarity gear in for more seals.
(and the salute emote is different) 😦
I just went with the leader I liked best
Ah, thank you.
Alternate fire and ice stance
!faq blmleveling
Fire for damage ice for mana
Is it worth using Thunder?
Yes
Yes
Yes
It's your most damaging spell basically in the long run
Dots do damage every 3 seconds
So, uh, how does one obtain a behemoth pelt for the replica behemoth helm? None of the wikis have anything
I'm going to try the guildmete again, I'm just worried I'm going to pull more than one mob and die again
That should be the behemoth FATE in coerthas
That gives tokens you can exchange at mor dona
no, the pelt is from a eureka fate
Pagos specifically right Kael?
I can't read for shit
iirc, yeah
Is there a way to allow ppl who visit ur room in company house to interact with the items? I can only find an option to allow entry
The behemoth fate is in the northeast area of Pagos
Hey guys, I just have a question about the level boost and story skips in mogstation
If I want to skip all the missions and become max level, I need to purchase both of them?
And in order to be able to fully access the world, I have to skip all the story right?
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It won't skip all the story
It'll skip everything up to level 70
And you need to buy both
I see, thank u very much! 🙏
So for eureka, is fighting mobs 1 level higher than you a good way to level between fates?
I would say pick the mob that satisfy your challenge log requirement
Since eureka individual mob exp is shit ×__×
I mean
Its not really shit
If it's above your level, it's 10k+
Kill whatever level above you can safely kill
Alrighty
Ideally a party killing 6+ levels above is the best
Eureka potions are useful?
Very much so
is melding the new relic weapon worth it
If you don't have a better weapon
Anyone knows the name of these
yeah it's my highest atm
it's the monk one do I just go with pure crt
What does this icon mean in the Social window, Party Members tab?
um i need a big help. My friend was being an idiot and bought FF14 full expac bundle on steam while she originaly played ff14 via pc version. And right now, when she want to open the steam version game she gets this:
They have a comment in their search info
@prime harbor carbuncle slippers?
@rare sable ty
Mine is "Still Learning!" For example
idk how to even help her since i never used steam
ik ):
Have to go all out on steam or on PC
Is she launching the game through Steam?
Does she have the Steam version of the game?
she never created ff14 char on steam
Pro tip never play game trough steam if u don't absolutely have to
she bought the whole 40eur worth bundle through steam
haha
im trying to fix this mess
idk how
So she did buy through Steam?
yes
Refund...?
Did she add the code to the mogstation?
Its 20e on their site
Ok
Next person to give shit advice is getting muted
A) you can't refund FFXIV on Steam
And B) She already bought it, so why would she buy it again
Anyways
Right click the game in the library menu, there should be an option to view CD key
ok i tell her
ok she got the code
but she doesnt know how to sign up in mogstation via steam
@fresh lodge im really sorry to bother you, but can i ask how to log in to mogstation having a steam account
Can I check the syntax of the egiglamour command? I've tried /egiglamour "Garuda-Egi"Emerald Carbuncle but it errors as invalid now
/egiglamour "egi name" "glamour"
don't actually put it in quotes
...wow, is that really it
those are just to make it clear what to put where
yes you do
/egiglamour "Garuda-Egi" "Ruby Carbuncle" is the example used on lodestone
@fresh lodge she has an account of ff14 for pc version, so i assume she needs to create a new se acc and connect w steam?
never knew the command existed before today
that might be why, what's the quest?
"An Egi by Any Other Name", its in the arcanist guild
gotcha
appreciated
is there a repository of like, glyph-style commands like that? I know of the demibahamut size changer, and of this now, but is there any others for any jobs?
@warm siren Yes
Pretty sure that's it
soooo not sure if this goes here?? new player and honestly kind of have a myriad of questions... anyonw willing to hop on a chat with me?
You're certainly in the right place for it. I don't know if anyone will want to go to a private convo but you can definitely ask whatever questions you want here and someone might answer if they can help.
sure! more so meant just voice-connected. just little one-off things confusing me. like I'm level 10 and still mostly hanging around this starting city, and doing quests in the city and just around
am a gladiator, so making sure to do those, and have tried to knock out most the little starter quests scattered in the city
am I doing this right? things still seem SO slow
Focus on the main story and your job quests
(*lvl 11)
Those are top priority
job=gladiator story=flaming quests upper left
It starts out slow but picks up later
denotes main scenario quests and are pretty important.
That'll be the main driver to getting stuff unlocked, leveling up, etc.
When you get your class/job quests every 5 levels, break off and do them
You don't really even get the opportunity to leave your starting city until you get far enough in the MSQ to unlock the other cities
okay that all makes sense, noted. thank you that's super helpful
that makes me happy im clearing everything in Ul'Dah then
I hate to blow this chat up... lol
Don't worry about it. If people don't like it, they can leave. 😛
should I be buying gear from NPC's.. I notice I don't get many drops from mobs? Is gearing based around monster drops in this game or is it crafting/purchasing from players
which leads to a whole myriad of questions... which prof.... how many should I take to be efficient and not feel obligated to just gather constantly
Most gear is via story and dungeons drops
and which things do people sell back to NPCs to make gold, and what's wroth hoarding?
Or crafted
story and dungeons, crafted, ok
And some buying from NPCs if you need to fill stuff out. To start with, you'll be changing your gear out pretty often so don't worry too much about any of it
Selling stuff to NPCs is fairly useless except for special tokens you can get from quests. When you get choices for gear, it'll usally have a token worth X gil that you can choose. Everything else honestly sells for like... 1 gil each. If you get into selling stuff, you'd probably be doing it more to other players. (In my experience, which is not much.)
okay, that's kind of nice to know there's not too much benefit in selling to NPCs and can mostly hoard things
should I be picking up a profession early on right now?
You might fiddle with them but I'd say no tbh. Maybe try out miner just to see what it's like. They can be a pretty big gil sink for not much reward at the beginning. And they won't help you unlock some of the more useful stuff like retainers (which you use to sell to other players and other useful things).
Crafting and gathering are basically like playing a different game...you can ignore them if you want or do them whenever you like
gotcha... so where other games you usually want to do your prof throughout, this seems like it's pretty optional while leveling, and more of something to do at endgame to support your character or make money
looks like ill just focus on story and leveling, and getting my mount eventually
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if i could just have a small loan of a million gil ... maybe i could level all my crafts and gathers to 80 today
maybe someone can help me understand... because mog station isn't super clear
i am still on trial version right now... which I think lets you go to 35... but I think I like the game and I want to be able to add people and ping people online, esp as I start to do dungeons or other things
but which version do I transfer to... there's a 20 dollar starter edition then a 50 dollar complete edition
is it not just trial and full versions?
the starter edition is the base game
the complete edition is the base game + expansions
okay.. so obvi no point in getting starter edition?
if you want everything right off the bat, then no there's no point in getting starter edition
but if you're not completely sold on the game, starter edition is less of an investment
buying the starter edition and then the expansion comes out to about the same cost as buying the complete edition
ooo
you may have saved me there
usually it's BIG savings so I just do the full thing, but I'm looking at the pricing and yeah, you can still buy them all individually for about the same
question then - will I be missing out on dungeons/content through leveling - or is that all just content for endgame?
It's heavily favored towards endgame content. There are some things available early like a couple of races and... maybe some jobs?... but a lot of it requires you to finish the base game MSQ first.
I guess maybe "continuing story" would be more apt than endgame content?
ok, I just went with starter edition
damn. would have loved to just started as a paladin over guardian, I guess realm reborn added paladin
gladiator becomes paladin at lvl 30
The starting classes you pick each promote into their final jobs at level 30. Arcanist gets two options, the rest have only one promotion.
ah, sorry guys, thanks lol
No worries \o/
really enjoying this game though guys, and I am normally not a big fan of JRPG's
but this is enjoyable
don't believe there are mods for this game are there...? that map is tiny
You can change a lot of the HUD through the HUD layout option in the main menu. Resize stuff, move it, hide it, change forms, etc. Though I've never thought about making the mini-map bigger so IDK if you can. I just always keep the full map open. There are some mods out there but I honestly have no clue as to what they do or whether they're allowed or tolerated or whatever (I'm guessing not but /shrug).
got you, wasn't aware of the hud, going to look at that
There's also the system configuration menu and the character configuration menu. There are honestly so many configuration options that it's difficult to find the good options.
I'm "Nick Stallwall" in game if anyone wants to add
does text not appear floating above heads after typed? only in chat?
Correct
so I don't understand Blizzard and Fire II. I get it's AOE but doesn't seem too weak?
Would it be a good idea to start lvling a healer even though im not finished with arr (just became a bard, first playthrough)
Which with a good tank and healer is going to be like 5 or 6 (or more) mobs
so if I do Fire II against 3 mobs, it does 80x3?
(but yes, Fire 2 is really weak and you only use it starting lv50)
Yes, would be 240
is that per mob or in total?
Anybody have a link to an explanation about how dots do their dmg and interact with dmg buffs?
Prior to astral fire damage increase
In total
Dots snapshot any buffs on application
And deal damage every 3seconds
What did you mean it's only usable lvl 50?
anyone found a setting for adjusting the map (m) transparency when inactive
Because Fire 2 is extremely weak and Fire 1 still beats it...hell when you get Freeze you solely use that for aoe
!faq blmlevelling
you use fire 2 up until you get freeze
So (dottime/3)*potency is their total damage and I should apply buffs right before I use them?
!faq blmleveling
and then you only start using it a bit at level 50 again
@dry tree There's no solid reason to start a healer unless you want to. I find I enjoyed the class and the instant queues for dungeons are pretty awesome. Though it would slow down your quest progress and spread out your resources some. Which may or may not be a bad thing. Up to you really. 🤷♂️
up until level 68 where you stop using it completely
Yes and yes solid
Ok great thanks 👍
so i goofed and accidently deleted a spell off my hotbar. how do i get it back there again?
what classes would i benefit by maxing fisher
Not many....only culinary and a very tiny.bit of alchemist...and whoever uses their aethersands
Fisher is the least important gatherer, its.fish are not used.often
So.... Does anyone in this server can help me & my group with bahamut coils? Cause we stacked on t11 and we don't exactly know why. The boss just randomly can have two attack buffs
ok thank up
you *
I'd assume Fire 1 and Blizzard 1
I'm guessing they changed the name at some point
no?
ok, obvious in hindsight now
Whatever I was looking at earlier said Ice 1 and Ice 2. 🤷♂️
not quite sure what you were looking at, but it's always been blizzard
(Or I'm just loopy and need to sleep.)
So does Fire 1 get replaced with Fire 3 that's single target?
nope, it does not
the different ranks of spells are not replacements, but have different uses (outlined in the faq posted a bit earlier)
the only place that replacement spells happen is thunder 1 upgrades to thunder 3, and thunder 2 upgrades to thunder 4
the various ranks of fire and blizzard are different spells with different effects/uses
ok yeah, still getting used to it
how do i use the aether current to fly?
i have the pet, i unlocked a 2 aether currents
but i can see anything to fly on them
you have to unlock all of the aether currents in that zone
once you've collected all of them, just hit spacebar to jump up and start flying
what are the green and the red aether current crystals in the traveling book?
there are 5 quest currents, and 10 open world currents
quest currents are green, open world currents are yellow in the aether currents menu
is there a guide that better explains multiclassing and why someone would switch?
For fun
Experience
Achievements
Trying other jobs
Quicker ques
Raiding on another job
so you are essentially just changing from like BLM to a Archer?
You can literally go from a level 80 BLM with 450 item level gear to a level 1 archer with no gear just by equipping a different weapon.
You're BLM stuff means nothing at that point
sooo do the spells and activities for my guardian just keep getting pushed to my hotbar, how do I know what I should be using? look up guide?
are those quests for the aether current blue or normal yellow marks?
Every skill has a use
do you have to power level doing that? to get up to snuff for the level area that it's you are in?
Current quests are blue
No you.dont
Palace of the dead and hunting logs get you up to the level of the first dungeon
Then you dungeon spam away
Or do.more palace
Theres alot of ways to level alts
right now I'm only a lvl 19 BLM so i probably shouldn't be thinking about this right now
!faq altleveling
You also get bonus XP for your secondary classes based on the gap between that class and your highest class so it's not really that much of a grind.
For combat classes, that is
!faq altlvlguide
No, the Armoury experience doesn’t vary based on level gap
It’s a constant +100% experience boost for levels 1-69, which degrades to 50% at 70-79
does a buff show up for the amoury experience or do we just have to have faith while possessing the required factors
No buff, it just shows up as an experience multiplier when you kill stuff.
No buff.for it
does it stack with road to 70?
Yes

Stupid question. Conjurer leads to white mage, right?
Yes
Ok cool, i judt didnt want to be lvling up the wrong class :>
Now I'm trying to figure out how the hell I got like +350% XP at some point. Doesn't seem to add up but oh well
cheated to level 70, good way to fix bars for skills?
or maybe some videos to watch
@vagrant copper maybe a combo of armoury, road to 70, and rested?
yeah did that haha
Beat up a target dummy too
which job are you playing?
whm
ah
Thats a different boost
okay, are you on controller or keyboard?
Just go on with story
ah ok. i don't know keyboard so would've offered tips if controller
ty anyways
what do y'all do with stuff if you don't sell it to NPC's? store it?
Toss into retainer to store
i desynth all useless gear
That to
and materials i immediately sell on the marketboard for the same price as the lowest listing
im so tempted to skip the quests ugh
hi
hi
hi
is tank supposed to ignore adds at trials/boss battles?
and only focus on boss
depends which. a lot of stuff, if you're overgeared for it, it might not matter.
in a trial there should be an off-tank for adds
oh right
Usually off tank grabs adds during trials, in 4 man teams the tank should be grabbing adds otherwise the healer will be having troubles healing
generally in dungeons, if the adds spawn when the boss is less than 20% health or so, it's okay to ignore them
Dungeon-dependent, though.
The tank can still use aoes and grab enmity on nearby adds tho
yeah
true, i generally just throw a quick provoke on a late add and assume the dps won't hit it
i noticed my aoes are pretty weak tho, does it get stronger later?
Your aoes don’t need to be strong
which job are you?
You’re a tank lol
You get a combo
oh lol im a warrior
It’s just about grabbing enmity on multiple mobs
Plus the aoes are better on 2/3 target's
If you only attack one mob, you’ll lose enmity on the others if a teammate is attacking a mob you aren’t.
hm, not really then. you have your full aoe combo (2 hits) at level 40. steel cyclone will get stronger-ish, but
Cause its 140 potency x number of mobs
As a tank you aren’t expected to dps, just aoe to make sure you have aggro on the mobs.
!action inner release
You should always try to maximize your damage whenever possible.
Tanks probably have the easiest rotations to do so, besides Gunbreaker’s burst
better to say, your dps isn't expected to be the highest, but if you're in a group of enemies you still just spam AoE combo and do as much as you can
(Also besides healers)
I’m just saying in with groups of adds as 4+ you’re not losing dps by switching from single targets to aoes. And you get significantly more dps when the actual dps roles aren’t getting attacked and interrupted.
You swap to aoe combos at like 2 or 3 mobs
Tanks that use single target weapon skills on groups of mobs are cringe worthy
<anyone> that uses single target on groups
what do you guys use to keep track of Square-enix sales with FFXIV stuff and optional items
ah i see
except black mage apparently
Watch the Lodestone
Yea but tanks more so, because if tanks are using single target skills they literally aren’t holding aggro just by standing there
The server had a channel that gets a post whenever there's a new lodestone post
i'm leveling blm and the recommended aoe rotation between levels 60 to 72 is to use single target LOL
Uhhh
The stance doesn’t automatically provoke every mob near you, if you’re not damaging them you’ll lose aggro.
Yes
anyway i'm off topic now
thanks
That might be true at higher levels but lower levels teach you that you can just attack once and then do just about nothing. It's weird
!faq blmleveling
You do AoEs
i misspoke then, guess its just 60 to 67
I’ve seen tanks that charge charge into groups and attack one mob, assuming that the other mobs will hold aggro just cuz they look ugly
Flare
well yeah but the key part there is the fire IV
lol
Its just prior to 68 after 60
that's what i was referring to
You do some firw 4s then flare
also, how are you supposed to play as a tank in potd without a healer
Paladin
Stuff in potd do literally no damage
oh i see
Shit in potd die before they even do anything
And bosses are snooze fest
And barely threatening
lol
They only get threatening if people are 0 IQing and mess up mechanics
Any interesting loot come out of potd or is it mostly for the grind?
You can get some really interesting stuff that can go for a bit depending on what floors you are doing
so it costs money to tele to the aether in another city? can only use aethers inner city for free?
yes
teleporting to other aethercrystals costs money, but using the aethernet in major cities is free
the cost ends up becoming negligible pretty quickly however
For the most part. You can set up 1 free destination and several favored destinations, which I believe get some kind of discount. Then you can always use return to teleport to your home destination for free.
Though, yeah, pretty neglible. Even when doing the MSQ and teleporting every 2 minutes
Favored destinations is available via something else
Hey everyone, I used to play FF14 in 2016 when a realm reborn launched if I recall correctly and would like to get back into it. However I'm not able to find a lot of information on where to start and what to buy when it comes to version and DLC. Does anybody have some tips? thank you!
is blue crafters' scrip the best way to get Crystal Sand for HW relic weapon quest?
I’m pretty sure you buy shadowbringers and base game and that also gives you all the expansions before, I haven’t bought it yet but I think that how it goes, correct me if I’m wrong anybody
Yep!
correct
Thank you!
@dark pelican I suggest you first try logging into your old account to make sure you still have access before you spend money buying Shadowbringers
Then make sure you can access Mogstation so you can register Shadowbringer when you do buy it
@white sinew theres one by the grand company
plenty of people forget their account info and then spend way too much time and buying way too many things
I'm still able to log in, however apparently i made a mistake when registering and entered a different date of birth which im trying to fix first
@white sinew
do you mean upper limsa lominsa?
There's one on the map I showed you
but to get to the west side you have to take the boat
What do you guys recommend for the fastest way to lvl up, main quest? And can I skip unspoken dialogue and not miss story?
I don’t wanna be reading a bunch of filler without realising it
Ah okay thanks bruh
Yeah I suppose there’s no rush!
what does the spiritbond with your gear mean?
When its full, you can use extract materia to get free materia from it
Spiritbond is on your bound gear, which increases after usage of time, then when it hits 100% you can extract materia from it
i don't think ive extracted materia before, what is it used for?
Materia is used to give gear extra strats
You take the spiritbond and convert it into materia
Most gear don't have materia slots until level 15 or so iirc
anyone know how to bind side buttons of mouse as ctrl/alt?
You'll extract materia from it once Spiritbond hits 100
trying to fix my keybinds
@wintry chasm Hi ty for helping me yesterday :) just letting u know, things finally worked when I entered code thru my phone using mobile data :D
If I wanted to buy a house, what would be the best way to look for one?
Just go scan wards for open plots...port to different cities and scan the list
Doubt you'll find much with auto demo on pause
Are the new wards still restricted to FCs/Relocation?
Believe those are open now
hmm i'm not getting the option to extract materia from a 100% spiritbond gear in my armoury chest
would that be in any market place?
Thanks for everyone who helped me with class advise a few days ago!
Black brush station
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why is this sysinfo form in bug reports giving me a form error? https://img.thaun.dev/jsa3s.png
"The text you entered is too long"
wow ok
Is "Facet"- Gear lvl 80 the current to-go set for Botanist?
Dwareven = Lignum- gear?
The base 80 gear yes
Alright. Thanks!
does the fact that anyone or anye race can be w/e class bother you guys? Like it feels less personal or immserieve that you're THAT class
hm
The npcs are pretty diverse in that aspect so player characters don't really ruin it
ok
Lore-wise I think only White Mage has any racial restriction, being the Padjal.
is there rare gear ingame thats hard to get
or a gear that everyone wants for each class
Not counting savage raid gear, not really.
Theres bis=best in slot which is a set of gear mixing savage and tome gear for each job but this only matters if you're doing savage
If you're not doing savage you just take the higher ilvl gear
thats what im saying with other games theyre gears that people want and make it purposeful to wear yano...idk if this game has that actor
Gear is very straightforward and plain in terms of stats.
No cause everything is easily obtainable
Nothing with stuff like “increases potency of x skill by 50”
is there any point doing the 'hard' trials or should I just bang on with the msq?
ye by gear being easily obtainable doesnt that suck?
everyones wearing the same gawt dayum thing then
aight, I'm queuing for ifrit but I've been going for 30 mins now
All jobs
what you mean vinyl
"Good" Gear is locked behind harder "savage" tier raids, and the reward is the better gear
which sucks then nobodies like "o i want that armour"
na a mean?
oh
what you mean time gated
Once a week
Weekly loot lockout
Highest tomestones cab only get 450 of them per week
trying to remap my m4 and m5 to alt/ctrl so I can use for hot keys/hotbar but not working fml
And savage can only be cleared once a week
People want the best gear work for it
no one has an incentive to have a goal
By doing savage
anyone know how?
whats ur main / mosst fun badass class /job vinyl
i wanna go archer but idk if its fun..
I main summoner
hm never knew it was a thing
So i can bitch at SE about pet ai 🙃
lol
queues must be long?
For DPS
Nah
i wanna go archer but the queues scare me...rn im whm and its easyyy
What is worst pet ai?
But end game stuff it's not too bad
Cause i do Gunbreaker or white mage for ques
but u want to lvl ur summoner for queues for fun shit no?
I have everything capped
Most of my DPS queues are 10-20 minutes most of the time
oh fuck
I play Smn in raids
and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam
Pretty decent imo
For my static
whats smn
Summonrr
sweet ill check that out
is there one dps that outshines them all or theyre all pretty much the same
As always
Damage difference between top and bottom DPS is around 10%
Not that much to matter IMO
oh
People will take competent people over anything else
fair enough
does archer get flashy later on?
i wanna main it but atm its slow
im low lvl obv
They get songs which are like mini-stances they cycle through which do different stuff when you get procs with your Poison Bite and Wind Bite
Kinda
"flashy" is subjective but they get alot.to press
With juggling dots, songs, procs etc
!action Mages Ballad
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100.
Additional Effect: Grants Mage's Ballad to all party members within 30 yalms, increasing their damage dealt by 1%
Duration: 30s
Additional Effect: 40% chance to grant Repertoire when damage over time is dealt by Caustic Bite or Stormbite Repertoire Effect: Resets the recast timer of Bloodletter and Rain of Death
This action does not share a recast timer with any other actions. Furthermore, the recast timer cannot be affected by other actions.
This one makes Bloodletter/Rain of Death reset with the procs, letting you spam it more
whats the most flashy fun class u guys reckon
what exactly is a "yalm"
is that just what they call meters/yards
Pretty much
Basically
I’d say Black Mage or maybe Summoner in terms of big flashy spells
^
Red Mage too with their melee combo
Black mage is constant EXPLOSIONS
white mage spamming holy is pretty flashy
Summoner is giant space lasers and summoning bahamut and phoenix
is gold saucer accessible without a membership? ( incl playing games etc )
Yes.
You can go there on trial
summoner would be a dps in party? do they have any heals
oh ok, cause im trying to finish story before my membership ends
They're dps
Thats bahamut
summoner is a dps that summons primals to deal damage
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam
so then arcanist tho is a hybrid of dps/healer?
eventually leading up to them summoning bahamut
Summoner has no heals (they have phsyick but that heals 800hp at lv80....out of 100k+ hp 🙃
how do u unlock the class
Unlock Arcanist in Limsa Lominsa and then get it to 30 along with completing their class quests
How many allegory can you take? just 450? if so how will you get the ones that are over 450? got me confused
this got me confused. what is the this week 450/450? x-x
you can only earn 450 allegory a week
and you can have a total of 2000 allegory at one time
so it takes roughly 2 weeks or so to get gear that costs more than 450 allegory
where can i get a retainer?
At retainer vocates in major cities
okay thanks! so i get 450 a week c: then i can earn more the next week?
After progressing enough in msq
Yes, weekly tomes reset on Tuesday
So you can get more allegory
You can never get more than 450 a week
And you can hold 2k max
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okay thankyou so much!
how do i assign a class to my retainer?
!faq retainer
What is a retainer?
A retainer is a private NPC that will act as a personal bank for the player, holding up to 175 different items, that can be summoned to any of the Summoning Bells around the world. Retainers also act as your means to sell on the Market Board.
How to unlock a retainer
First, you must complete the quest The Scions of the Seventh Dawn then go to speak to any of the Retainer Vocates located in the market district of any of the major cities.
What are Retainer Ventures?
Ventures are the means to send out your retainers on missions to bring back items for you and can be unlocked by completing the quest 'An Ill-conceived Venture' (Ul’Dahn), (Gridania), (Limsa Lominsa)
Complete the quest “An Ill-conceived Venture” found at one of the city-state marketplaces
anybody playing on adamantois who wants to help a newbie starting out im lvl 22
Do..do monks not have a ranged attack?
nothing like piecing talon or throwing dagger, no
but I think Enlightenment does have a range on it?
can you change whether you have a limbal ring or not via aesthetician
Believe so
ik you can change the colour
yes
excellent, love the pfp kael i got the border set yesterday 😄

@lethal mural assigning a job to a retainer is a bit interesting, and generally depends on what you want your retainer to do (gathering crafting mats / gathering mob drops). Your retainer also can only be assigned jobs you have unlocked, and can only level up as far as you have for that level (ie. you can't get a level 80 WAR retainer if you don't haven't level WAR to 80).
If you want to assign a retainer an upgraded job (ie, GLD -> WAR) you have to be level 50 in that class, and the retainer has to be level 30 in the base class. Then you purchase Modern Vocation from a retainer advocate in one of the three main cities for 40 ventures to apply the upgraded job.
For special classes introduced in expansions (DRK, SAM, GNB, etc.) you need the player to be level 50 in the class for HW/SB advanced classes and level 60 for ShB advanced classes. The retainer will need to be a level 50 DoW/DoM for HW/SB advanced classes or a level 60 DoW/DoM for ShB advanced classes. They also cannot have an upgraded job assigned to them (ie. you could do it for a 50/60 gladiator retainer but not a 50/60 warrior retainer). This also requires a copy of Modern Vocation.
I'm level 52 but havent got the 52 dragoon quest available. do I need to wait until I get to heavensward in msq?
yes
Hey guys, does the game allow you to switch datacenters?
if you pay for it yes, unless you are switching off from a congested server iirc
How do you pay for it? and how much?
its one of the services you can buy inthe mogstation
Oh that's pretty expensive for switching datacenters
cost is a filter of intent.
If its a fresh character, can u just delete it?
is it possible to get asahi's armor? since the game doesnt let you dye the black version
you can just create a new char on another server or delete the current char and create a new one, yes
Asahi is wearing a special custom-dyed version of the Garlean uniform you steal earlier in the game
so no, you can't
rip
Btw, I just started the game and so you can switch classes by simply switching your weapons?
yes
After unlocking the class yes
Sound moogles make
Can they also quack?
No
.>
Probably
Damn really
They speak so



