#questions-and-help

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twilit arch
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@dawn mountain have you done akadaemia anyder?

dawn mountain
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Yes

mossy current
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It says you haven't

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Not amnesis andyer or whatever

twilit arch
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are you certain you did akadaemia and not Anamnesis Anyder?

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because there are two anyder dungeons

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one of them is msq (anamnesis)

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akadaemia is a side quest in eulmore

dawn mountain
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oh, youre right on that part, havent unlocked akadaemia

twilit arch
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its in the slums of eulmore

dawn mountain
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thanks

wheat lark
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I'm having a difficult time with my gladiator level 30 quest called The Rematch

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The objective is to search for proof of Aldis's innocence at the Sepulchre in southern Thanalan

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The area it tells me to go seems closed off to me

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I can't get inside of it 😦 it is all mountains

hot crane
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any suggestion on leveling new class before 15?

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it's a 2nd class

lament wagon
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do you have friends

main cairn
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whoever said that Heaven On High is a decent levelling way for 61-70.. no, been in queue for 40+ minutes now 😄

hot crane
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yeah

lament wagon
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tell one of them to get a high level char

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go to coerthas and tag a high level enemy

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and have your friend kill it

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you'll get full xp and a lot of levels

vagrant copper
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Binny, I believe the entrance is right under that text...? There shouldn't be any real obstacles to getting there

hot crane
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ohhh

wheat lark
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I will look again there. I will let you know thanks

hot crane
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so I can share exp with party member even if the level gap is rly high?

lament wagon
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if you initiate combat

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and the other guy kills it in one hit

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yes

wheat lark
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oh derp, didnt see it. thank you!

sinful breach
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no, you get a penalty to exp

hot crane
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ok ty

sinful breach
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or no exp at all

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best way is to not be in a party, tag an enemy and let your friend finish it off

hot crane
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🤔

lament wagon
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ah yes don't be in a party

hot crane
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oh ok

lament wagon
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sorry I didn't mention this

vagrant copper
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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.

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Over and over again

hot crane
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okie ty

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also any other way besides that?

lament wagon
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do your hunting log

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and potd

vagrant copper
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POTD, I guess?

hot crane
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which is also good so that I dont rly need to bother the others when they are busy

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hunting log. ok

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oh ok

distant plaza
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Main Scenario Roullete is the only one that has a chance of putting me in the 2 last dungeons of main story right?

twilit arch
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yes, MSQ roulette is specifically for prae/castrum

distant plaza
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Ok, never touching that then yikes

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Thanks

wintry chasm
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It's really really really good do though and lots of tomestones

red torrent
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Hell ya

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Throw on Netflix or a good audiobook

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Hey that sweet exp and poetics boost

blissful matrix
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i missed a duty queue pop and it says my penalty count has increased, what is that penalty meaning

faint flare
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More penalties you get, the longer you're lockes out from queing for stuff

blissful matrix
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cool so im not allowed to take a leak during a 30+m queue

rough anchor
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It only starts slapping you after 3 pops missed in 24h

blissful matrix
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ah

soft sleet
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I just hit 50 and did the castrum, the game is banging on about tomestones

rough anchor
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And even after that, the penalty is like 30 min (at least for the first, dunno after that)

slate arrow
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it's only 30 minutes

soft sleet
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should I go and spend tomestones? or wait until later

rough anchor
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The cap is 2000, so yeah go spend them

vagrant copper
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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.)

rough anchor
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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)

soft sleet
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so do I go to thanalan to spend them

slate arrow
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mor dhona

rough anchor
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Mor dhona, and later iddylshire

serene rock
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are there only 100 floors in potd?

rough anchor
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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

slate arrow
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200

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but you can only go up to floor 100 in a matched party

serene rock
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oh

slate arrow
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has to be a fixed party with no wipes to go past floor 100

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broken pasture
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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.

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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?

mild ermine
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I hit level 80 just now. What do I do for gear at this point?

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My gear score is currently sitting at 413

broken pasture
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It looks like the unable to load character thing has to do with stress on servers?

blissful matrix
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Road to 70 is a 100% exp gain buff right, or its it 200%?

leaden ginkgo
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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 ?

vagrant copper
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@blissful matrix +100%, 2x, or 200% total. However you want to refer to it

blissful matrix
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200% isnt equal to 100%

vagrant copper
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That's why I said +100%. There's the implied 100% that you already get. 100%+100% is 200%

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The actual in-game bonus is (+100%)

signal rover
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When does Duty Roulette reset, earth time?

twilit arch
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!daily

zinc orbitBOT
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Tick, Tock, Kupo!
Time Until Daily Reset:

0 Days, 23 Hours, 10 Minutes, 4 Seconds

signal rover
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@twilit arch thank you 🙂

blissful matrix
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@vagrant copper for clarity, I'm asking how much bonus it actually is , not how to say it, so it IS 2x?

vagrant copper
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@blissful matrix Yes.

rigid pivot
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How long is character creation on Goblin likely to be blocked? That's where people I know are.

vagrant copper
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Given that it's Sunday, I'd guess until at least late evening

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Though you might squeeze in at some point if you keep checking

blissful matrix
forest lark
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Where do I go for the next blm quest after hitting 50?

blissful matrix
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you can create the character and then save them as a preset to make it faster

forest lark
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Lalai doesnt have an icon

leaden ginkgo
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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

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just under "next update"

forest lark
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Ohh

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I see

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Thx

leaden ginkgo
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np 🙂

wintry chasm
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But yeah you have to reach Heavensward story first for the quests after the level 50 one

echo tapir
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@leaden ginkgo yea i did have to get closer to best in slot for patch 5.2 gathering gear before and have it overmelded

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crafting gear was even more strict. same thing

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expensive

leaden ginkgo
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@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 ?

echo tapir
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and yes doing expert recipe means you need to know what youre doing

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and you can even still fail

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lol

leaden ginkgo
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yeah but you dont lose anything I guess ?

sharp epoch
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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?

leaden ginkgo
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like crafting you lose mats and money

echo tapir
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no im p sure you lose mats

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for expert recipe failing

wintry chasm
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You do lose mats

echo tapir
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its a real fail

blissful matrix
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you do, cant remember if you lose it if you stop synth tho

wintry chasm
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Well

echo tapir
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you dont have to do it tho

leaden ginkgo
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are we talking the same thing lol ?

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there's expert recipe for gathering jobs ?

wintry chasm
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Pretty sure it operates like normal where you have a high chance to lose the mats like most recipes

leaden ginkgo
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where you can lose mats ?

echo tapir
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not for gathering no

leaden ginkgo
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I talk about gathering lol

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I know about crafting, thats why I stopped for a moment

wintry chasm
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Gdi Rab

leaden ginkgo
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I just wanted to know if gathering was as painful as crafting

echo tapir
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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

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that was just the start of me farming and me getting legendary mats

wintry chasm
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@sharp epoch go to your character menu and check the bottom left slot and see if you have a paladin soul crystal

echo tapir
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its not so bad

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my gathering gear is actually still shit and i can still get stuff

leaden ginkgo
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so I can farm and make some money with gathering without investing as much as I must for crafting ?

echo tapir
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a bit

leaden ginkgo
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my gathering gear is actually still shit and i can still get stuff
@echo tapir thats what I wanted to know lol

wintry chasm
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Not like crafting is painful

leaden ginkgo
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wow nice nice

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I really thought that would be the same as crafting

wintry chasm
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You can make hundreds of thousands of Gil crafting and leveling to level 20 if you know what you're doing

leaden ginkgo
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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"

echo tapir
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i think at some point my own crafting needed only normal quality mats to make all HQ. that helped me

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cause it means my gathering doesnt need to be perfect

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i sold regular shit

leaden ginkgo
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sounds really good to me

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my objectiv is too get back the money I invested in crafters with gathering jobs so I can sell a lot of mats

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then go back to crafting and get perfect gear overmelded etc. then learn rotations

wintry chasm
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Just craft stuff

echo tapir
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it will depend on your server marketboard still

leaden ginkgo
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without the fear of losing money

safe compass
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at what point do you get a summon whenever you want mount?

wintry chasm
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!faq mounts

zinc orbitBOT
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Mounts FAQ
Info

'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.

leaden ginkgo
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yeah I know, but the problem with crafter is that is sooo expansive to lvl up and gear

echo tapir
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you should still also have leveled your retainer all the way to 80

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and put old raiding gear on it or whatever

leaden ginkgo
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what do retainers do ?

echo tapir
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and make them sell whatever you set them to find every hour

leaden ginkgo
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Im lvling one

echo tapir
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retainer is bank space and selling

leaden ginkgo
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yeah I know what they do lol

safe compass
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so i still have a ways to go. thanks

echo tapir
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like you can order them to hunt for things

leaden ginkgo
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I mean why lvling them

wintry chasm
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Not really Hokates. If you just leveled your gatherers ahead of crafting you can profit all the way throught the crafting experience @leaden ginkgo

echo tapir
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cause the leveling makes them better at it

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everyone needs to level their retainer all the way to 80

leaden ginkgo
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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

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everyone needs to level their retainer all the way to 80
@echo tapir do they give like rare stuff that only retainer can bring ?

wintry chasm
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Well...I won't lie that's more of a you problem then a crafting problem

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Can do @leaden ginkgo

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It's also just nice for getting materials

leaden ginkgo
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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

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thx for all infos mates

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btw is there any recommended class for retainers ?

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for example my only one is PLD cause I just like PLD design lol, is that important ?

wintry chasm
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I'd say one battle one miner or bot

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And what you want with a battle retainer is a class you play a lot of

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Since it can't be above your level in that class and it means you can give them old gear

leaden ginkgo
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why ? So I can gear it right ?

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oh ok

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so PLD is a good choice since Im main PLD

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and tank in general

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but does the battle class I chose make any difference ?

wintry chasm
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Not in terms of what items you can get

leaden ginkgo
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I guess for miner/bot changes the items they bring

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but for battle class doesnt matter ?

wintry chasm
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Correct

leaden ginkgo
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thanks a lot for all those infos

pearl shuttle
vagrant copper
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type in /dance

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hit enter

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Oh, and target the person you're dancing for

pearl shuttle
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got it thanks

vagrant copper
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You can also access the emote list in the social menu but it tells you what to use right there 😉

pearl shuttle
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how many percent have i cleared in the story at this point?

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without counting the expansions

wintry chasm
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Do you want to include the A Realm Reborn patch quests? @pearl shuttle

pearl shuttle
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yes

wintry chasm
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Like

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Uh

vagrant copper
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25% maybe...?

wintry chasm
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Nooo

pearl shuttle
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more than 25% or less?

wintry chasm
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If I had to guess whatever 1/6th is

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If you give me a bit I can actually count

pearl shuttle
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oof dont know if i should be happy or sad that i have so much content to do

vagrant copper
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Oh, I guess I was just counting 2.1. If you're talking about all the way through 2.55...

wintry chasm
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Right

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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?

leaden ginkgo
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In picture mode you can take pics of you doing certain attacks right?

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I want to take one with the drk simulacrum ability

pearl shuttle
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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?

fresh lodge
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It uses whatever ability you used last

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What level quests are you on?

wintry chasm
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You can go into the journal and count down the completed quests haha

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This is like, level 20 Meara

icy quiver
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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 ||

pearl shuttle
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I counted 54 msq

wintry chasm
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@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.||

leaden ginkgo
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Can I restart shb without entering 5.1?

wintry chasm
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New Game +

leaden ginkgo
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Ok

agile laurel
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@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 ||

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||as the ex primals show blood sacrifice empowers a primal further ||

pearl shuttle
wintry chasm
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No

pearl shuttle
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good

wintry chasm
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msq is main story

pearl shuttle
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then iam 54/240 msq in ARR

wintry chasm
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Roughly

icy quiver
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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||

wintry chasm
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Sure why not Stave

agile laurel
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Zenos or Yotsuyu?

pearl shuttle
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Can i already play the first expansion after the 140msq?

wintry chasm
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No

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It's all one long line Scry

pearl shuttle
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hmm okey

safe compass
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i keep getting dragged into side quests lol

wintry chasm
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@icy quiver I'll just say ||If you're so strong why can't other people be so strong like Zenos?||

agile laurel
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yep. ||you're not dead special. some people are allowed to be anime protagonists too ||

icy quiver
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oh k thanks a lot

crystal bluff
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is there the 24 man raids for all the expansions? or just ARR?

icy quiver
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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

wintry chasm
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All

crystal bluff
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neat

leaden ginkgo
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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?)

wintry chasm
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No

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@icy quiver your ilvl?

icy quiver
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247

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dungeon needed 240

wintry chasm
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Bit low

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Do you not have poetic tomestones you can get shire gear with?

icy quiver
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i had shire gear, now I have 255 gear

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shire gave me 240 ilevel

wintry chasm
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That's not shire gear

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xD

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You bought the wrong gear

icy quiver
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rip lol

wintry chasm
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Shire gear is ilvl 260

icy quiver
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oh ><

wintry chasm
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You're talking to the right lady but the wrong option

icy quiver
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oh rip XD
thanks a lot!

safe compass
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is there a point where the quests in the area will exhaust themselves or is there a endless stream of them?

wintry chasm
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99% of quests are one time

safe compass
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I'm getting side tracked by side quests that I think I am overleveled

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which isn't a bad thing

zinc orbitBOT
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agile laurel
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you will be overleveled

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a lot

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sidequests or no

vagrant copper
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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.

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Granted, I'm sure item levels will matter a lot more during all that

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(Or hope... /shrug)

empty bluff
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Ones you get to lv 50, spend poetics for ironworks gear, it’ll keep you until mid heavensward

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Unrelated: anyone know of a way to stop people from sending you fc requests?

rough anchor
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To get the title that comes with it, you only need to get the ARR relic weapons to stage 2 (being repaired), right?

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Kinda considering getting the BLM’s starcaller title for my AST lol

fresh lodge
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You just need to get the actual relic

vagrant copper
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@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.

empty bluff
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That expires every few days though right because you have a deadline to get people to join or something or am I misremembering

vagrant copper
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Hmm. IDK

rough anchor
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Can you make a second character (on another world if you have the basic sub) and invite them to it?

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That being said, why not just join a FC?

whole wasp
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FC does not work cross server

rough anchor
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Ah, right

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Still, why not just join one?

fresh lodge
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Just set yourself to busy

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Blocks all tells and invites

gritty oracle
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"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?

whole wasp
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Any

gritty oracle
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Oh oka

fresh lodge
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You have to be solo for adventurer in need

gritty oracle
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Wait, I just got the adventurer in need bonus even though I queued as a party (3 out of 4)

open coral
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Did you actually get the bonus, or was it just showing on the duty finder?

gritty oracle
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I got the Gil, XP, and the cracked whatevers

forest laurel
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about the quota thing for the ixali beast tribe, can I just submit 30 of the same item to reach the quota?

distant plaza
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It's only good to do MQ roulette when the daily boost is active right?

little swift
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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

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But yes you can submit multiple of the same item

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Iirc

vagrant copper
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HNCharlie, if you're going for maximum efficiency in leveling or whatever, then you'd just do the roulette once

forest laurel
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ah so if I wanted to get xp for carpenter I could just submit 30 maple fishing rods?

noble plank
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What can I do to make thaumaturge feel less clunky?

forest laurel
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if by clunky you mean slow, not much, except for ley lines.

noble plank
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I tried to do a quild Leve and I just get crushed

little swift
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You only need to submit 3 @forest laurel

distant plaza
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@vagrant copper thanks

forest laurel
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Thonk I'm confused now

little swift
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Your quota requirement is 30 and each rod gives 10

forest laurel
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ahhhh ok

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gotcha

noble plank
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Currently level 12, should I maybe wait before trying to do anything like that?

little swift
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Nah

wintry chasm
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was it a leve that's way higher level than level 12?

empty bluff
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Is there any way I can block fc invites only and not tells?

noble plank
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It was 13

empty bluff
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Other than joining an fc

vagrant copper
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No

fresh lodge
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Welp

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Nope

vast thistle
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What grand company should I choose, is there any difference?

wintry chasm
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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

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Only cosmetic KM

fresh lodge
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!faq grandcompany

zinc orbitBOT
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Grand Company FAQ
Info

'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

Lieutenant
Elite

'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.

wintry chasm
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(and the salute emote is different) 😦

vagrant copper
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I just went with the leader I liked best

vast thistle
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Ah, thank you.

noble plank
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Honestly it just feels bad t

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Like is there a guide to low level thaumaturge?

little swift
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Alternate fire and ice stance

wintry chasm
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!faq blmleveling

zinc orbitBOT
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THM/BLM leveling rotations
little swift
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Fire for damage ice for mana

noble plank
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Is it worth using Thunder?

wintry chasm
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Yes

faint flare
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Yes

little swift
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Yes

wintry chasm
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It's your most damaging spell basically in the long run

faint flare
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Dots do damage every 3 seconds

rough anchor
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So, uh, how does one obtain a behemoth pelt for the replica behemoth helm? None of the wikis have anything

noble plank
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I'm going to try the guildmete again, I'm just worried I'm going to pull more than one mob and die again

meager bone
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That should be the behemoth FATE in coerthas

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That gives tokens you can exchange at mor dona

twilit arch
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no, the pelt is from a eureka fate

wintry chasm
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Pagos specifically right Kael?

meager bone
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I can't read for shit

twilit arch
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iirc, yeah

tight ridge
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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

fresh lodge
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The behemoth fate is in the northeast area of Pagos

leaden ginkgo
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Hey guys, I just have a question about the level boost and story skips in mogstation

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If I want to skip all the missions and become max level, I need to purchase both of them?

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And in order to be able to fully access the world, I have to skip all the story right?

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leaden ginkgo
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<@&473626701947994134>

fresh lodge
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It won't skip all the story

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It'll skip everything up to level 70

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And you need to buy both

leaden ginkgo
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I see, thank u very much! 🙏

mossy current
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So for eureka, is fighting mobs 1 level higher than you a good way to level between fates?

rare sable
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I would say pick the mob that satisfy your challenge log requirement

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Since eureka individual mob exp is shit ×__×

mossy current
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I mean

fresh lodge
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Its not really shit

mossy current
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If it's above your level, it's 10k+

fresh lodge
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Kill whatever level above you can safely kill

mossy current
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Alrighty

fresh lodge
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Ideally a party killing 6+ levels above is the best

mossy current
#

Eureka potions are useful?

fresh lodge
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Very much so

leaden ginkgo
#

is melding the new relic weapon worth it

prime harbor
mossy current
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If you don't have a better weapon

prime harbor
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Anyone knows the name of these

leaden ginkgo
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yeah it's my highest atm

mossy current
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Then yea

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VIII materia

leaden ginkgo
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it's the monk one do I just go with pure crt

sturdy mason
#

What does this icon mean in the Social window, Party Members tab?

warm siren
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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:

mossy current
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They have a comment in their search info

rare sable
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@prime harbor carbuncle slippers?

warm siren
prime harbor
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@rare sable ty

mossy current
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Mine is "Still Learning!" For example

warm siren
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idk how to even help her since i never used steam

mossy current
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Sorry, steam and PC don't mix

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For XIV

warm siren
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ik ):

mossy current
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Have to go all out on steam or on PC

fresh lodge
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Is she launching the game through Steam?

warm siren
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rn yes

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when she launches she gets the photo ive sent

fresh lodge
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Does she have the Steam version of the game?

warm siren
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she never created ff14 char on steam

prime harbor
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Pro tip never play game trough steam if u don't absolutely have to

warm siren
#

she bought the whole 40eur worth bundle through steam

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haha

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im trying to fix this mess

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idk how

fresh lodge
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So she did buy through Steam?

warm siren
#

yes

rare sable
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Refund...?

fresh lodge
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Did she add the code to the mogstation?

warm siren
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she said she never got the code?

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all it said "download"

prime harbor
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Its 20e on their site

fresh lodge
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Ok

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Next person to give shit advice is getting muted

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A) you can't refund FFXIV on Steam

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And B) She already bought it, so why would she buy it again

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Anyways

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Right click the game in the library menu, there should be an option to view CD key

warm siren
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ok i tell her

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ok she got the code

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but she doesnt know how to sign up in mogstation via steam

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@fresh lodge im really sorry to bother you, but can i ask how to log in to mogstation having a steam account

fresh lodge
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Uhh

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Has she made an Square Enix account?

agile laurel
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Can I check the syntax of the egiglamour command? I've tried /egiglamour "Garuda-Egi"Emerald Carbuncle but it errors as invalid now

twilit arch
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/egiglamour "egi name" "glamour"

junior yacht
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don't actually put it in quotes

agile laurel
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...wow, is that really it

junior yacht
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those are just to make it clear what to put where

twilit arch
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yes you do

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/egiglamour "Garuda-Egi" "Ruby Carbuncle" is the example used on lodestone

agile laurel
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ri-iight

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noted

warm siren
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@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?

agile laurel
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never knew the command existed before today

twilit arch
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also make sure you've done the unlock quest

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or else the command won't work

agile laurel
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that might be why, what's the quest?

twilit arch
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"An Egi by Any Other Name", its in the arcanist guild

agile laurel
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gotcha

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appreciated

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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?

fresh lodge
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@warm siren Yes

twilit arch
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Pretty sure that's it

dreamy estuary
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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?

vagrant copper
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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.

dreamy estuary
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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

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am a gladiator, so making sure to do those, and have tried to knock out most the little starter quests scattered in the city

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am I doing this right? things still seem SO slow

faint flare
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Focus on the main story and your job quests

dreamy estuary
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(*lvl 11)

faint flare
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Those are top priority

dreamy estuary
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job=gladiator story=flaming quests upper left

faint flare
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It starts out slow but picks up later

vagrant copper
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msq denotes main scenario quests and are pretty important.

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That'll be the main driver to getting stuff unlocked, leveling up, etc.

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When you get your class/job quests every 5 levels, break off and do them

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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

dreamy estuary
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okay that all makes sense, noted. thank you that's super helpful

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that makes me happy im clearing everything in Ul'Dah then

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I hate to blow this chat up... lol

vagrant copper
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Don't worry about it. If people don't like it, they can leave. 😛

dreamy estuary
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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

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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

faint flare
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Most gear is via story and dungeons drops

dreamy estuary
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and which things do people sell back to NPCs to make gold, and what's wroth hoarding?

faint flare
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Or crafted

dreamy estuary
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story and dungeons, crafted, ok

vagrant copper
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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

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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.)

dreamy estuary
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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?

vagrant copper
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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).

faint flare
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Crafting and gathering are basically like playing a different game...you can ignore them if you want or do them whenever you like

dreamy estuary
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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

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looks like ill just focus on story and leveling, and getting my mount eventually

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leaden ginkgo
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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

dreamy estuary
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maybe someone can help me understand... because mog station isn't super clear

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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

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but which version do I transfer to... there's a 20 dollar starter edition then a 50 dollar complete edition

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is it not just trial and full versions?

twilit arch
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the starter edition is the base game

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the complete edition is the base game + expansions

dreamy estuary
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okay.. so obvi no point in getting starter edition?

twilit arch
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if you want everything right off the bat, then no there's no point in getting starter edition

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but if you're not completely sold on the game, starter edition is less of an investment

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buying the starter edition and then the expansion comes out to about the same cost as buying the complete edition

dreamy estuary
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ooo

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you may have saved me there

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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

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question then - will I be missing out on dungeons/content through leveling - or is that all just content for endgame?

vagrant copper
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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.

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I guess maybe "continuing story" would be more apt than endgame content?

dreamy estuary
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ok, I just went with starter edition

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damn. would have loved to just started as a paladin over guardian, I guess realm reborn added paladin

twilit arch
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gladiator becomes paladin at lvl 30

dreamy estuary
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oh?

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so there's... 2 paladin jobs..?

twilit arch
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no

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there's only the one

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ARR (aka the starter edition) jobs have a base class

gloomy ice
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The starting classes you pick each promote into their final jobs at level 30. Arcanist gets two options, the rest have only one promotion.

dreamy estuary
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ah, sorry guys, thanks lol

gloomy ice
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No worries \o/

dreamy estuary
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really enjoying this game though guys, and I am normally not a big fan of JRPG's

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but this is enjoyable

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don't believe there are mods for this game are there...? that map is tiny

vagrant copper
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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).

dreamy estuary
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got you, wasn't aware of the hud, going to look at that

vagrant copper
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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.

dreamy estuary
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I'm "Nick Stallwall" in game if anyone wants to add

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does text not appear floating above heads after typed? only in chat?

vagrant copper
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Correct

safe compass
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so I don't understand Blizzard and Fire II. I get it's AOE but doesn't seem too weak?

dry tree
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Would it be a good idea to start lvling a healer even though im not finished with arr (just became a bard, first playthrough)

faint flare
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Aoe spells deal their potency to every mob hit

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So IE fire 2 is 80x number of.mobs

vagrant copper
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Which with a good tank and healer is going to be like 5 or 6 (or more) mobs

safe compass
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so if I do Fire II against 3 mobs, it does 80x3?

faint flare
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(but yes, Fire 2 is really weak and you only use it starting lv50)

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Yes, would be 240

safe compass
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is that per mob or in total?

sleek rapids
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Anybody have a link to an explanation about how dots do their dmg and interact with dmg buffs?

faint flare
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Prior to astral fire damage increase

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In total

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Dots snapshot any buffs on application

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And deal damage every 3seconds

safe compass
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What did you mean it's only usable lvl 50?

dreamy estuary
#

anyone found a setting for adjusting the map (m) transparency when inactive

faint flare
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Because Fire 2 is extremely weak and Fire 1 still beats it...hell when you get Freeze you solely use that for aoe

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!faq blmlevelling

zinc orbitBOT
#
Error!

No tag named blmlevelling exists, Kupo!

raw solstice
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you use fire 2 up until you get freeze

sleek rapids
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So (dottime/3)*potency is their total damage and I should apply buffs right before I use them?

faint flare
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!faq blmleveling

zinc orbitBOT
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THM/BLM leveling rotations
raw solstice
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and then you only start using it a bit at level 50 again

vagrant copper
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@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. 🤷‍♂️

raw solstice
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up until level 68 where you stop using it completely

faint flare
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Yes and yes solid

sleek rapids
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Ok great thanks 👍

safe compass
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so i goofed and accidently deleted a spell off my hotbar. how do i get it back there again?

faint flare
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Action and traits

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And drag it back

leaden ginkgo
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what classes would i benefit by maxing fisher

faint flare
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Not many....only culinary and a very tiny.bit of alchemist...and whoever uses their aethersands

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Fisher is the least important gatherer, its.fish are not used.often

leaden ginkgo
#

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

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ok thank up

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you *

safe compass
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just because i'm dumb, F1 means Fire 1 right?

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what does B1 mean?

vagrant copper
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I'd assume Fire 1 and Blizzard 1

raw solstice
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F1 = fire 1, B1 = blizzard 1

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T1 = thunder 1

vagrant copper
#

I'm guessing they changed the name at some point

raw solstice
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no?

safe compass
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ok, obvious in hindsight now

vagrant copper
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Whatever I was looking at earlier said Ice 1 and Ice 2. 🤷‍♂️

raw solstice
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not quite sure what you were looking at, but it's always been blizzard

vagrant copper
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(Or I'm just loopy and need to sleep.)

safe compass
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So does Fire 1 get replaced with Fire 3 that's single target?

raw solstice
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nope, it does not

#

the different ranks of spells are not replacements, but have different uses (outlined in the faq posted a bit earlier)

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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

safe compass
#

ok yeah, still getting used to it

green pagoda
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how do i use the aether current to fly?

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i have the pet, i unlocked a 2 aether currents

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but i can see anything to fly on them

twilit arch
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you have to unlock all of the aether currents in that zone

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once you've collected all of them, just hit spacebar to jump up and start flying

green pagoda
#

what are the green and the red aether current crystals in the traveling book?

twilit arch
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there are 5 quest currents, and 10 open world currents

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quest currents are green, open world currents are yellow in the aether currents menu

safe compass
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is there a guide that better explains multiclassing and why someone would switch?

faint flare
#

For fun

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Experience

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Achievements

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Trying other jobs

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Quicker ques

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Raiding on another job

safe compass
#

so you are essentially just changing from like BLM to a Archer?

faint flare
#

Role-playing

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Yes

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You.just swap jib

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By equipping their weapon after unlocking

vagrant copper
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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.

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You're BLM stuff means nothing at that point

dreamy estuary
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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?

faint flare
#

Read your tooltips

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And think what they're used for

green pagoda
#

are those quests for the aether current blue or normal yellow marks?

faint flare
#

Every skill has a use

safe compass
#

do you have to power level doing that? to get up to snuff for the level area that it's you are in?

faint flare
#

Current quests are blue

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No you.dont

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Palace of the dead and hunting logs get you up to the level of the first dungeon

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Then you dungeon spam away

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Or do.more palace

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Theres alot of ways to level alts

safe compass
#

right now I'm only a lvl 19 BLM so i probably shouldn't be thinking about this right now

faint flare
#

!faq altleveling

zinc orbitBOT
#
Error!

No tag named altleveling exists, Kupo!

vagrant copper
#

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.

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For combat classes, that is

faint flare
#

!faq altlvlguide

zinc orbitBOT
obsidian patio
#

No, the Armoury experience doesn’t vary based on level gap

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It’s a constant +100% experience boost for levels 1-69, which degrades to 50% at 70-79

blissful matrix
#

does a buff show up for the amoury experience or do we just have to have faith while possessing the required factors

obsidian patio
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No buff, it just shows up as an experience multiplier when you kill stuff.

faint flare
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No buff.for it

blissful matrix
#

does it stack with road to 70?

faint flare
#

Yes

blissful matrix
dry tree
#

Stupid question. Conjurer leads to white mage, right?

faint flare
#

Yes

dry tree
#

Ok cool, i judt didnt want to be lvling up the wrong class :>

vagrant copper
#

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

lethal mural
#

cheated to level 70, good way to fix bars for skills?

#

or maybe some videos to watch

faint flare
#

Remove all your skills abd place them one by one

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After reading them

blissful matrix
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@vagrant copper maybe a combo of armoury, road to 70, and rested?

lethal mural
#

yeah did that haha

obsidian patio
#

Beat up a target dummy too

lethal mural
#

i thought it would skip quests but nope

#

literally level 70 in same place

#

haha

trail rivet
#

which job are you playing?

lethal mural
#

whm

faint flare
#

It skips JOB quests

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Not story

lethal mural
#

ah

faint flare
#

Thats a different boost

trail rivet
#

okay, are you on controller or keyboard?

lethal mural
#

level 70 no mount kekw

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keyboard

faint flare
#

Just go on with story

trail rivet
#

ah ok. i don't know keyboard so would've offered tips if controller

lethal mural
#

ty anyways

dreamy estuary
#

what do y'all do with stuff if you don't sell it to NPC's? store it?

faint flare
#

Toss into retainer to store

trail rivet
#

i desynth all useless gear

faint flare
#

That to

trail rivet
#

and materials i immediately sell on the marketboard for the same price as the lowest listing

lethal mural
#

im so tempted to skip the quests ugh

valid nova
#

hi

trail rivet
#

hi

leaden ginkgo
#

hi

#

is tank supposed to ignore adds at trials/boss battles?

#

and only focus on boss

obsidian patio
#

Depends on the trial.

#

But for the most part, no.

trail rivet
#

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

leaden ginkgo
#

oh right

vale fable
#

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

trail rivet
#

generally in dungeons, if the adds spawn when the boss is less than 20% health or so, it's okay to ignore them

obsidian patio
#

Dungeon-dependent, though.

vale fable
#

The tank can still use aoes and grab enmity on nearby adds tho

leaden ginkgo
#

yeah

trail rivet
#

true, i generally just throw a quick provoke on a late add and assume the dps won't hit it

leaden ginkgo
#

i noticed my aoes are pretty weak tho, does it get stronger later?

vale fable
#

Your aoes don’t need to be strong

trail rivet
#

which job are you?

vale fable
#

You’re a tank lol

faint flare
#

You get a combo

leaden ginkgo
#

oh lol im a warrior

vale fable
#

It’s just about grabbing enmity on multiple mobs

faint flare
#

Plus the aoes are better on 2/3 target's

vale fable
#

If you only attack one mob, you’ll lose enmity on the others if a teammate is attacking a mob you aren’t.

trail rivet
#

hm, not really then. you have your full aoe combo (2 hits) at level 40. steel cyclone will get stronger-ish, but

obsidian patio
#

Warrior gets pretty decent AoE at the later levels

#

!action decimate

zinc orbitBOT
#
**Decimate** : lvl 60 WAR (50 Beast Gauge) (2.5 second cooldown)

Delivers an attack to all nearby enemies with a potency of 250.
Beast Gauge Cost: 50
※Action changes to Chaotic Cyclone while under the effect of Nascent Chaos.

faint flare
#

Cause its 140 potency x number of mobs

vale fable
#

As a tank you aren’t expected to dps, just aoe to make sure you have aggro on the mobs.

obsidian patio
#

!action inner release

zinc orbitBOT
#
**Inner Release** : lvl 70 WAR (90.0 second cooldown)

Allows the use of Beast Gauge actions without cost and nullifies Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, and most knockback and draw-in effects.
Additional Effect: Guarantees that all attacks are critical and direct hits
Duration: 10s

faint flare
#

Everyone is expected to dps

#

Lulwut

obsidian patio
#

You should always try to maximize your damage whenever possible.

#

Tanks probably have the easiest rotations to do so, besides Gunbreaker’s burst

trail rivet
#

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

obsidian patio
#

(Also besides healers)

vale fable
#

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.

faint flare
#

You swap to aoe combos at like 2 or 3 mobs

vale fable
#

Tanks that use single target weapon skills on groups of mobs are cringe worthy

trail rivet
#

<anyone> that uses single target on groups

blissful matrix
#

what do you guys use to keep track of Square-enix sales with FFXIV stuff and optional items

leaden ginkgo
#

ah i see

trail rivet
#

except black mage apparently

faint flare
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Watch the Lodestone

vale fable
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Yea but tanks more so, because if tanks are using single target skills they literally aren’t holding aggro just by standing there

faint flare
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The server had a channel that gets a post whenever there's a new lodestone post

trail rivet
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i'm leveling blm and the recommended aoe rotation between levels 60 to 72 is to use single target LOL

mossy current
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Uhhh

vale fable
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The stance doesn’t automatically provoke every mob near you, if you’re not damaging them you’ll lose aggro.

blissful matrix
faint flare
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Yes

trail rivet
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anyway i'm off topic now

blissful matrix
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thanks

vagrant copper
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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

mossy current
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!faq blmleveling

zinc orbitBOT
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THM/BLM leveling rotations
mossy current
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You do AoEs

trail rivet
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i misspoke then, guess its just 60 to 67

vale fable
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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

mossy current
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Flare

trail rivet
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well yeah but the key part there is the fire IV

leaden ginkgo
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lol

faint flare
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Its just prior to 68 after 60

trail rivet
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that's what i was referring to

faint flare
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You do some firw 4s then flare

leaden ginkgo
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also, how are you supposed to play as a tank in potd without a healer

mossy current
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Paladin

faint flare
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Stuff in potd do literally no damage

mossy current
#

Clemency

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Warrior

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Equilibrium

faint flare
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Potions and the sustain pots arw enough

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And out of combat regen

leaden ginkgo
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oh i see

faint flare
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Shit in potd die before they even do anything

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And bosses are snooze fest

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And barely threatening

leaden ginkgo
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lol

faint flare
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They only get threatening if people are 0 IQing and mess up mechanics

vagrant copper
#

Any interesting loot come out of potd or is it mostly for the grind?

faint flare
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Theres good loot from sacks post 150

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Rare mount up there

wintry chasm
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You can get some really interesting stuff that can go for a bit depending on what floors you are doing

mossy current
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Swimsuit stuff for females sells for a bit

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On aether, at least

dreamy estuary
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so it costs money to tele to the aether in another city? can only use aethers inner city for free?

crystal bluff
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yes
teleporting to other aethercrystals costs money, but using the aethernet in major cities is free

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the cost ends up becoming negligible pretty quickly however

vagrant copper
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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.

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Though, yeah, pretty neglible. Even when doing the MSQ and teleporting every 2 minutes

mossy current
#

Favored destinations is available via something else

dark pelican
#

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!

sturdy mason
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is blue crafters' scrip the best way to get Crystal Sand for HW relic weapon quest?

valid nova
#

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

mossy current
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Yep!

crystal bluff
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correct

dark pelican
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Thank you!

sage plaza
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@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

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Then make sure you can access Mogstation so you can register Shadowbringer when you do buy it

crystal bluff
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@white sinew theres one by the grand company

sage plaza
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plenty of people forget their account info and then spend way too much time and buying way too many things

dark pelican
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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

sturdy mason
crystal bluff
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do you mean upper limsa lominsa?

sturdy mason
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There's one on the map I showed you

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but to get to the west side you have to take the boat

valid nova
#

What do you guys recommend for the fastest way to lvl up, main quest? And can I skip unspoken dialogue and not miss story?

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I don’t wanna be reading a bunch of filler without realising it

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Ah okay thanks bruh

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Yeah I suppose there’s no rush!

hallow grove
#

what does the spiritbond with your gear mean?

faint flare
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When its full, you can use extract materia to get free materia from it

alpine shadow
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Spiritbond is on your bound gear, which increases after usage of time, then when it hits 100% you can extract materia from it

hallow grove
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i don't think ive extracted materia before, what is it used for?

faint flare
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Getting free materia

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Out of the gear

alpine shadow
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Materia is used to give gear extra strats

faint flare
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You take the spiritbond and convert it into materia

mossy current
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Most gear don't have materia slots until level 15 or so iirc

faint flare
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Thats different

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As long as you can spiritbond a piece of gear

lethal mural
#

anyone know how to bind side buttons of mouse as ctrl/alt?

faint flare
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You'll extract materia from it once Spiritbond hits 100

lethal mural
#

trying to fix my keybinds

daring cypress
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@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

mossy current
#

If I wanted to buy a house, what would be the best way to look for one?

faint flare
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Just go scan wards for open plots...port to different cities and scan the list

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Doubt you'll find much with auto demo on pause

mossy current
#

Are the new wards still restricted to FCs/Relocation?

faint flare
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Believe those are open now

mossy current
#

I see

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Welp

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Doesn't seem like any plots are on sale

hallow grove
#

hmm i'm not getting the option to extract materia from a 100% spiritbond gear in my armoury chest

faint flare
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Have you unlocked it

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Go to black brush station and do Forging the Spirit

hallow grove
#

would that be in any market place?

main cairn
#

Thanks for everyone who helped me with class advise a few days ago!

faint flare
#

Black brush station

main cairn
#

Dancer is amazing for someone like me.

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Really enjoying myself while doing 60 to 70

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alpine shadow
#

"The text you entered is too long"

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wow ok

vocal spade
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Is "Facet"- Gear lvl 80 the current to-go set for Botanist?

faint flare
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Yes

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With Dwarven accessories

vocal spade
#

Dwareven = Lignum- gear?

faint flare
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The base 80 gear yes

vocal spade
#

Alright. Thanks!

leaden ginkgo
#

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

faint flare
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No

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There aint rules

leaden ginkgo
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hm

raven sage
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The npcs are pretty diverse in that aspect so player characters don't really ruin it

leaden ginkgo
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ok

obsidian patio
#

Lore-wise I think only White Mage has any racial restriction, being the Padjal.

leaden ginkgo
#

is there rare gear ingame thats hard to get

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or a gear that everyone wants for each class

obsidian patio
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Not counting savage raid gear, not really.

plain zephyr
#

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

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If you're not doing savage you just take the higher ilvl gear

leaden ginkgo
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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

obsidian patio
#

Gear is very straightforward and plain in terms of stats.

faint flare
#

No cause everything is easily obtainable

plain zephyr
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The only gear people actually want is glamour gear

obsidian patio
#

Nothing with stuff like “increases potency of x skill by 50”

soft sleet
#

is there any point doing the 'hard' trials or should I just bang on with the msq?

faint flare
#

You're required to do ifirit, garuda and titan hard

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For story

leaden ginkgo
#

ye by gear being easily obtainable doesnt that suck?

faint flare
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No

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Cause you can be gearing like

leaden ginkgo
#

everyones wearing the same gawt dayum thing then

soft sleet
#

aight, I'm queuing for ifrit but I've been going for 30 mins now

faint flare
#

All jobs

leaden ginkgo
#

what you mean vinyl

faint flare
#

You can gear all jobs without much effort

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Plus the top tier is time gated

mossy current
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"Good" Gear is locked behind harder "savage" tier raids, and the reward is the better gear

leaden ginkgo
#

which sucks then nobodies like "o i want that armour"

#

na a mean?

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oh

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what you mean time gated

mossy current
#

Once a week

obsidian patio
#

Weekly loot lockout

faint flare
#

Highest tomestones cab only get 450 of them per week

lethal mural
#

trying to remap my m4 and m5 to alt/ctrl so I can use for hot keys/hotbar but not working fml

faint flare
#

And savage can only be cleared once a week

leaden ginkgo
#

oh

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idk i feel like gear being easily obtainable sucks

faint flare
#

People want the best gear work for it

leaden ginkgo
#

no one has an incentive to have a goal

faint flare
#

By doing savage

leaden ginkgo
#

true

#

fair enough makes sense

faint flare
#

Then they can take their BiS gear

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Into ultimate

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And have fun with that

lethal mural
#

anyone know how?

leaden ginkgo
#

whats ur main / mosst fun badass class /job vinyl

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i wanna go archer but idk if its fun..

faint flare
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I main summoner

leaden ginkgo
#

hm never knew it was a thing

faint flare
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So i can bitch at SE about pet ai 🙃

mossy current
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lol

leaden ginkgo
#

queues must be long?

mossy current
#

For DPS

faint flare
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Nah

leaden ginkgo
#

i wanna go archer but the queues scare me...rn im whm and its easyyy

primal steeple
#

What is worst pet ai?

mossy current
#

But end game stuff it's not too bad

faint flare
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Cause i do Gunbreaker or white mage for ques

leaden ginkgo
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but u want to lvl ur summoner for queues for fun shit no?

faint flare
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I have everything capped

obsidian patio
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Most of my DPS queues are 10-20 minutes most of the time

leaden ginkgo
#

oh fuck

faint flare
#

I play Smn in raids

leaden ginkgo
#

and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

obsidian patio
#

Pretty decent imo

faint flare
#

For my static

leaden ginkgo
#

whats smn

faint flare
#

Summonrr

leaden ginkgo
#

sweet ill check that out

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is there one dps that outshines them all or theyre all pretty much the same

faint flare
#

Every job is within enough dps to not matter

#

!faq meta

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Meta Jobs FAQ
Info

All jobs are good and viable in all content. The difference between meta and non-meta is minor, to the point that player skill is a significantly more important factor. Play what you enjoy/what interests you most, and you can make it work.

Click here for the best jobs in the game though

faint flare
#

As always

obsidian patio
#

Damage difference between top and bottom DPS is around 10%

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Not that much to matter IMO

leaden ginkgo
#

oh

faint flare
#

People will take competent people over anything else

leaden ginkgo
#

fair enough

#

does archer get flashy later on?

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i wanna main it but atm its slow

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im low lvl obv

obsidian patio
#

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

faint flare
#

Kinda

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"flashy" is subjective but they get alot.to press

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With juggling dots, songs, procs etc

obsidian patio
#

!action Mages Ballad

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**Mage's Ballad** : lvl 30 BRD (80.0 second cooldown)

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.

obsidian patio
#

This one makes Bloodletter/Rain of Death reset with the procs, letting you spam it more

leaden ginkgo
#

whats the most flashy fun class u guys reckon

crystal bluff
#

what exactly is a "yalm"
is that just what they call meters/yards

obsidian patio
#

Pretty much

faint flare
#

Basically

obsidian patio
#

I’d say Black Mage or maybe Summoner in terms of big flashy spells

faint flare
#

^

obsidian patio
#

Red Mage too with their melee combo

faint flare
#

Black mage is constant EXPLOSIONS

crystal bluff
#

white mage spamming holy is pretty flashy

faint flare
#

Summoner is giant space lasers and summoning bahamut and phoenix

leaden ginkgo
#

is gold saucer accessible without a membership? ( incl playing games etc )

obsidian patio
#

Yes.

faint flare
#

You can go there on trial

leaden ginkgo
#

summoner would be a dps in party? do they have any heals

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oh ok, cause im trying to finish story before my membership ends

faint flare
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They're dps

leaden ginkgo
#

vinyl i just saw a summoner summon this dragon

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fuckin looks nice

faint flare
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Thats bahamut

crystal bluff
#

summoner is a dps that summons primals to deal damage

leaden ginkgo
#

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

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so then arcanist tho is a hybrid of dps/healer?

crystal bluff
#

eventually leading up to them summoning bahamut

faint flare
#

Summoner has no heals (they have phsyick but that heals 800hp at lv80....out of 100k+ hp 🙃

leaden ginkgo
#

how do u unlock the class

obsidian patio
#

Unlock Arcanist in Limsa Lominsa and then get it to 30 along with completing their class quests

leaden ginkgo
#

o i like the spells of arcanist

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sweet

kind bison
#

How many allegory can you take? just 450? if so how will you get the ones that are over 450? got me confused

twilit arch
#

you can only earn 450 allegory a week

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and you can have a total of 2000 allegory at one time

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so it takes roughly 2 weeks or so to get gear that costs more than 450 allegory

lethal mural
#

where can i get a retainer?

faint flare
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At retainer vocates in major cities

kind bison
#

okay thanks! so i get 450 a week c: then i can earn more the next week?

faint flare
#

After progressing enough in msq

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Yes, weekly tomes reset on Tuesday

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So you can get more allegory

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You can never get more than 450 a week

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And you can hold 2k max

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kind bison
#

okay thankyou so much!

lethal mural
#

how do i assign a class to my retainer?

obsidian patio
#

!faq retainer

zinc orbitBOT
#
Retainer Guide
Info

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)

obsidian patio
#

Complete the quest “An Ill-conceived Venture” found at one of the city-state marketplaces

proud sequoia
#

anybody playing on adamantois who wants to help a newbie starting out im lvl 22

tired glen
#

Do..do monks not have a ranged attack?

twilit arch
#

nothing like piecing talon or throwing dagger, no

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but I think Enlightenment does have a range on it?

faint flare
#

Not a true ranged attack

#

But ye enlightenment does have abit of a range

mortal root
#

can you change whether you have a limbal ring or not via aesthetician

faint flare
#

Believe so

mortal root
#

ik you can change the colour

twilit arch
#

yes

mortal root
#

excellent, love the pfp kael i got the border set yesterday 😄

twilit arch
narrow glacier
#

@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.

soft sleet
#

I'm level 52 but havent got the 52 dragoon quest available. do I need to wait until I get to heavensward in msq?

crystal bluff
#

yes

leaden ginkgo
#

Hey guys, does the game allow you to switch datacenters?

dusky nest
#

if you pay for it yes, unless you are switching off from a congested server iirc

leaden ginkgo
#

How do you pay for it? and how much?

dusky nest
#

its one of the services you can buy inthe mogstation

faint flare
#

Mogstation and like 18 dollars

#

Iirc

leaden ginkgo
#

Oh that's pretty expensive for switching datacenters

vast anvil
#

cost is a filter of intent.

leaden ginkgo
#

If its a fresh character, can u just delete it?

crystal bluff
#

is it possible to get asahi's armor? since the game doesnt let you dye the black version

dusky nest
#

you can just create a new char on another server or delete the current char and create a new one, yes

leaden ginkgo
#

Oh I didn't know u could have multiple characters haha

#

That's great, thank you

junior yacht
#

Asahi is wearing a special custom-dyed version of the Garlean uniform you steal earlier in the game

#

so no, you can't

crystal bluff
#

rip

leaden ginkgo
#

Btw, I just started the game and so you can switch classes by simply switching your weapons?

crystal bluff
#

yes

faint flare
#

After unlocking the class yes

leaden ginkgo
#

I see, that sounds very easy, thank you

#

again 😉

#

And btw wtf is a kupo?

faint flare
#

Sound moogles make

leaden ginkgo
#

Can they also quack?

faint flare
#

No

wintry chasm
#

.>

faint flare
#

Probably

leaden ginkgo
#

Damn really

faint flare
#

They speak so

leaden ginkgo
#

That's my favorite sound in life

#

That sucks man

#

They do everything but can't quack