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you should be getting gear from quests
And gear from dungeons
If you're super desperate which I'd be surprised you are then yeah you can rerun the highest dungeon you have for better gear
Your level 45 quest will Hi
and 50
Btw it says in the creator that humans are the smartest of all races but does having a better brain really matter in the virtual world of final fantasy 14?
Race stats don't matter
Oh dang really
yes
race/birthdate/diety/whatever is purely cosmetic
Damn so we being lied to
lmao how are you going to rp with your birthday lol
Humans are just as smart as half animals?
by....having a birthday Xiilo
I assume the game wish us happy birthday on our birthday
No
Yeah thats what I did
my character uses my real birthday 
is there a good way to farm for gil?
That's an insanely broad question
roulettes give a fair amount each day, generally crafting or selling stuff, doing treasure maps, farming EX trial fights for rare drops, rare drops from other content like deep dungeons
spend currency you get in game on items that sell for a decent amount
¯_(ツ)_/¯
oh ok! thanks
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What do I buy with Tomestone of Poetics in order to make money and from where? Apparently I have better gear than what the NPCs are selling
!faq poetics
Ty
Is there a way to increase the amount of quests (that are in progress) showing on a map? It seems I have a limit of 5 😦
Dang, that sucks being a completionist. Some zones have like 10 side quests at once, its overwhelming
So I got my first Tomestones of Allegory, and Phantasmagoria. But Aymark isn't allowing me to purchase from him? What do I need to do?
Have you finished Shadowbringers
I'm on the trial called Dying Gasp.
Then do that first
You need to finish Shadowbringers
My Gear Score is currently 415. Do you recommend any higher at the moment?
are you having trouble in your current quests/dungeons?
Can you queue inside the Dying Gasp?
I can queue.
Then you should be fine
Did you get your ilvl 430 job gear Karma?
Gdi
Where do I go about doing that
South of the fish people village in Tempest
I have a question about a paladin skill called Spirits Within. it says "Potency increases up to 370 as own HP nears maximum" I don't quite understand what that means.
The game tells you that you can buy the job gear from him when you give him the crystal but I assume your skipped past that explanation Karma
It gets weaker the Lower hp you are
If you use it at close to max HP, it has maximum potency of 370
Use it whenever it’s ready, don’t worry too much about the scaling potency
@wintry chasm I must not have been paying attention truthfully. I've been playing all day, so my mind is mush lol.
Auto attacking is auto
But thank you for the info.
You don't have control
ya but I mean how often should I let my character do it?
you can't really stop them
Usually I spam my combo spell
All the time?
well you cant auto attack while youre using spells?
What job are you?
I am a paladin, gladiator
What level are you in that job?
how can I check?
Look at your exp bar
Oh I am a level 38
you'll get auto attacks off regardless of whatever
Unless you are too far away
As long as you’re targeting something you’ll be auto-attacking it
I was thinking if I attacking with other buttons that I was never autoattacking
You don't have control and you don't need to control auto attack
other than staying in range (which you'll always do anyways, especially as tank) you just keep using skills/abilities and your auto attacks will be taken care of
okay niice thanks
You don't need to leave a gap for auto attack to go off
Auto attack is on its own channel, so to speak
We will balance it with brilliant answer
it blocks incoming attacks
Whenever you need it
haha sucha great response
!action Sheltron
for me it is 4 seconds atm
yep
anyone know when the sales end on sqaure enix website
I haven't used it yet..
Handling adds: use it often
Handling boss: use it on big attacks. Specifically, attacks with cast bar and hit only the tank.
how do people exactly set up their apartments to be completely white for gposing? I'm trying to use white screens, but the floor in the middle has a big gap that idk how to patch
Combed Wool Rugs are a dyeable carpet that I see some people use for that.
!iglam Combed Wool Rug
Yep.
guess I gotta buy like, 2? to fill that hole in
oh christ the rug is going for 300k
ppl wild
you can preview it btw @forest laurel to see how many you may need and how they fit.
np!
for whatever reason my wired controllers aren't working right when I play final fantasy XIV that is to say sometimes when I press the left stick forward for example the character either won't move or when I let go of the stick after moving keep moving or sometimes it will walk in circles.
To this point I have tried it with an older Xbox 360 controller a new Xbox one controller and the brand new PS3 off brand controller. I had had the first one for a number of years so I had figured that age might have gotten to it. The second controller was brand-new right out of the box but had the same problems but because every time I plugged it in I got an error message I figured it might just be an interaction problem. Just recently I bought a new PS3 controller from Walmart off brand of course and it is doing the same thing so I am left to assume that it is something that is wrong in the game some sitting that I missed or something like that but I have no idea what I could use any advice that you could give me....
@tender estuary 
try uninstalling the device driver and replugging the controller in for windows to grab the driver back
little black mage question about transpose
so i use it to switch from fire to ice to heal but
is it good to do (I = ice, T = transpose, F = fire)
I > I > T > F > F > F > ... > T > I etc
so use transpose every time i want to switch or just I > I > F > F > F > ... T > I etc
you use it to swap between UI and AF until you get Fire 3/Blizzard 3, where you use those to swap stances and don't use transpose. Here's a leveling guide for what to do during various level ranges, for both single target and AoE:
!faq blmleveling
so i dont need to than use transpose every time to switch
if i have ICE and throw F3 it will just activate
but wont the 1st hit be than weaker?
@tame magnet Hank answered your question above.
if you use Fire 3 it'll grant you max stacks of AF, even from UI
if you use Blizzard 3 it'll grant you max stacks of UI, even from AF
it's the most effective way to swap between the stances, and particularly once you have the third stack of AF/UI, the F3 and B3 casts are twice as fast in the opposing element, i.e. using B3 in AF3, the cast time will be very short
@velvet reef wrong channel?
@remote lintel one drop per floor per week, for normal mode. You can run the fights as many times as you want in order to get a drop
!faq whmleveling
only BLM has the leveling command. Please use random bot commands over in #kupo-bot-spam , as well
this channel is for asking/answering questions
the reason I used the BLM one was for that purpose
outside of that, bot commands are better in the bot spam channel
I wanted to ask a question about whm rotation but then I saw the blm leveling thing so I answered myself
🤷♂️
You literally just spam glare and put dot
what are you uncertain about for WHM rotation? It's basically keep DoT up and spam filler, at any level. It's only BLM, where the rotation changes quite a bit here and there, that the leveling command was especially warranted
Oh I see
If I fight 5 enemies
Is it better to dot all of them and then holy spam
Or just holy spam without dot
just holy spam
Then around how many enemies do I want to dot before spamming fillers?
2 enemies? 3?
I think 4 targets is when pure holy spam is better
Oh okie
3 is when you holy spam and keep up the dot if they live long enough
So if it's 4 or more I do holy spam without dots
If it's 3 targets I dot -> holy spam
If it's 2 targets or less I dot -> single target skill spam
Yep
So it's better to single target skill if it's 2 enemies and not use Holy?
Is the only way to get wolf marks through daily pvp duty?
Is it ok for me to use Holy during dungeons tho? I've heard something about the fact that the stun resistance enemies get is bad
Thanks
and even at higher mob counts, it can be nice to tag various mobs mid-pull with your dot along the way until the tank gets settled down with everything
nah stun resistance is whatever
holy spam away
Where can I see all the crafting related skills?
better to just kill things off sooner, it's pretty rare that stunning a mob will really make much of a difference (and when it does, frequently silence is also an option which will always work)
Character > Actions and traits
and just having the initial stuns from the holy uses will help a lot with free mitigation anyways
So in the free trial, does it by default include content only from a realm reborn or does purchasing the complete edition and then subscribing allow you to explore what the other expansions have?
I am definitely considering getting just want to make sure of a few things
most of the expansion stuff are locked by main story
so no you can't just get the complete edition and suddenly get access to everything
No no I mean crafting and gathering skills, not character skills
yes I know that but would it allow it to be pursued
so in the free trial you cant do shadowbringers
That’s where the crafter and gatherer skills are if you’re on one of those classes
Right because you can only go up to level 35
oh thanks
The only thing Shadowbringers related you could do prior to level 70 which is when it's story starts is the Shadowbringers job unlocks at level 60 and be the Shadowrbringers races
Is there a skill that would considered rather unique to this game?
But you need the expansion to do those things
Ehhhh, probably not
Yeah thought so. Thank you for clearing it up.
All jobs in XIV are variations of classic FF classes/jobs
@velvet reefnu
I don't marry people xd
One if my friend deleted me
Because I didn't wanna marry them
And left our fc
my rl bf doesnt wanna marry me in the game >.<
🤔 these aren't questions you two
Btw, regarding Shadowbringers, while the completion of lvl 50 Crystal Tower alliance raid series in ARR is not compulsory for Shadowbringers, it is highly recommended
Full completion of this quest line will add additional story details to Shadowbringers
also, the Crystal Tower will be required for the 5.3 MSQ so
you might as well take care of it now
Plus more choices in Alliance roulette
Defensive Cooldowns for tanks are additive or multiplicative?
additive
I forgot
Multiplicative, I'm pretty sure, you get lesser effect by stacking them
multiplicative
so ok, technically their value decreases with each one you combo with.
Quick question, is FFXIV cross save? I have someone who doesn't know if they want to play on PS4 or PC yet.
Can I ng+ to heavensward and once I'm done with that ng+ to shb?
stacking defensive buffs has less efficiency
Your safest bet is to listen to Rika lol
aka 20% + 10% mit doesn't give you 30% mit
@robust magnet yes it is, but you need to buy both pc and ps4 version
since ffxiv is Crossplatform
doesn't matter if you play on pc or ps4
you play with everyone
Okay thanks I'll let them know.
Can someone answer my question pls
I hadn't touched NG+, but that sounds like it is how it'd work.

essentially once you finish your current ng+ save
or delete your ng+ save
you can start with any other one
I am level 38 and still wearing level 20 gear 😦
so yes you can go do ng+ HW
Yeah I'm planning on doing hw and then watching the sb cutscenes and then jumping to shb
i have a question, youre able to passively level other classes right?
even if they are unequipped, will they get exp?
there's no passive leveling
there is no character level or anything, only class level
Only "passive" leveling I can think of, by stretching the definition, would be SMN/SCH
it levels both jobs, but you're still leveling the same class
Mm true. They're both ACN based so
so other than the SMN/SCH classes, you will have to equip to the specific class to get any exp for it
@tender estuary two things the os is windows 10 and which driver am I look for. I should also note that I don't have this problem with any other game but final fantasy XIV
yeah, SMN/SCH are the only two jobs that share the same job level, since they share the same base class. All other classes/jobs are separate level/exp
i probably misread the tutorial then, i thought any other classes in the same job will get exp but guess not
The only jobs sharing base class is SMN and SCH
Jobs are extensions of base classes so that text is correct in a sense. But class doesn't mean role type. In this definition, class is defined by the weapon/tool in your main hand.
jobs = tank/healer/melee/etc?
no, job = black mage, white mage, bard, paladin
class = thaumaturge, conjurer, archer, gladiator
so then class will evolve to a job
yup, at 30 you get your soul stone from your class quest and equipping it you can start to run stuff as your job instead of the base class
for all classes but arcanist, you only go from one class -> one job
for arcanist you can be either scholar or summoner, depending on what soulstone you have equipped
and when you have scholar equipped, summoner will also gain the same exp because it shares the same base class
yup
it'll even say in chat log, "you gain xxx arcanist experience points"
since as scholar or summoner, you're still an "arcanist", you just have your job soulstone equipped
so they inherently share levels from this
gotcha thanks! it makes much more sense now
if I declined a mission reward because I need to check to see which gear I need better, I'l;l be able to grab the reward still right?
What materia should I be focusing on with DRK?
Is there a way to have a message displaying how long each duty takes?
Declining a quest reward will decline completing the quest although it is still ready to be completed. Just need to go back to the quest turn in and you'll be able to bring up the quest complete screen with rewards again.
You mean when you complete a duty? That only shows for undersized duties, and I don’t remember if there’s an option to toggle it for normal duties
idk if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know what windows those are?
They kinda added it with the duty timer not being hidden when you beat the duty
@obsidian patio Thank you
So you can look at that right when the last boss dies
Is equiping cowls for a BLM worth the trade off of not having a hat on?
@frail obsidian looks like a mishmash of various furniture, along with photoshop for the background image
Cowls and heavy armor that take up multiple slots will have extra stats to make up for the loss of that slot.
ohhh i see
I think it’s a weird mix of the Riviera and Oasis Wardrobes?
Which obviously aren’t windows
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where to get gear for btn lvl52?
I'd say the only thing to consider is whether you want to play a healer, tank, or DPS
All are good, but in terms of simplicity I like to recommend Marauder for tanks, Conjurer for healer, and Thaumaturge and Lancer for DPS
within each role, there isn't really any job that's super good or super bad for beginners
@iron oracle Ishgard market area
so i just have to go to the job NPC to get started?
Yes
Alchemist is sounding good so I'll give that a try
Just wondering cause I started playing again, has leveling crafters changed with the new Ishgard restoration?
Is the "road to 70" buff useful in the long run, or should just choose the most crowded home world on a data server based on ffxiv census?
It makes going through the story a lot easier since you basically only need to do that for experience
also i would take ffxiv census with a huge grain of salt
especially for their 'active player' numbers
@queen cove they’re a good alternative to leves and collectables, but not outright better
Ah
being on a bigger server is not necessarily better anyway. the main things a bigger server would offer is more potential free companies to choose from and that's about it. world visit means you can hop to another server do some shopping if you can't find what you need on your home world or can't find it for cheap
Cause Im considering a levekit and just get a bomb of exp but if its more efficient to do the restoration I might do it
Is there such thing as a great sword dps or only a dark knight tank
Also, is diadem the best way to level gatherers? I went in there like for 30 minutes and went from 16 to 22
dark knight is the only greatsword user and its a tank, so sadly no there is no greatsword dps
Damn
maybe we'll get one next expansion
a boy can dream
I love great swords lol but don’t want the responsibility of being a tank lmao
I don’t think I would have as much fun as a tank either doesn’t it get boring ?
From what I’ve heard Diadem drops off a bit in the later levels but is a nice alternative if you’re also leveling up your crafters
the only sword dps is samurai (though ninja gets a lot of daggers that basically are swords ._.)
Personally I was afraid to tank and thought it was too hard at first
but now I really enjoy it
can i play my pc account to my ps4?
No
I do think different classes have different levels of enjoyment though
oof
You'd have to buy the game again ps4 and connect it to your mogstation account
but i can meet someone through ps4?
Also do I eventually get a free gender change or something lol I made a female and I’m male and it just feels weird plus I don’t think some of the jobs IN MY OPINION will look as good female
oh okay cool
yeah its crossplay
yes @proud sequoia
The game is crossplay yes
okay awesome
@proud sequoia I wouldn't worry too much about it. I'm a guy and I like playing female characters
ill buy the game again then 
where is the alchemist guild? I know it's in Ul'dah somewhere but i can't find it
When you complete 2.0 (a couple quests after hitting 50), you will get a free Fantasia to remake your entire character if you want
It's on the top floor
I see it on the map, i just need to find the right hallway
I do not, i didn't know there was a upstairs until now
I don’t think thamaturge / black knight will be for me lol I love dps but it’s getting boring sitting in one spot
Granted I’m only lvl 24 and I do like no damage lmao
I'm completely blanking on what the teleporter closest to the Sultana is called 
Is there any way for me to test out how a class plays out with all their abilities unlocked?
Directly across from you
You're on the right floor
PoTD I guess @low ledge
Opposite side from there
The giant doors, durr
🙂
thanks
so i know you guys said that my level would reset upon changing weapons, I didn't realize it was strip me down to me undies
lol
Rofl, yeah, it'll do that depending on what you're wearing.
Not many people walk around in level 1 clothing
what's the diff between shared and cross hotbar?
cross hotbar = controller hotbar
just kinda wish i could at least change the color of my underwear
shared hotbar is a hotbar you want to stay the same between jobs
Does crafting produce anything worthwhile for the combat classes, or is it mainly a thing you do for its own sake? Most long running MMO's don't keep crafting relevant, and that's assuming it was useful to start with.
Crafting is relevant
so question for someone who likes dps. even though dark knight is a tank and i like greatswords will i have fun tanking as a dark knight ? and can i solo dps some random mobs and shit
so even though im usually addicted to dps in other mmos u think i wont get bored of dark knight tanking lol
DPS and tanks would need a chocobo with some healing skills if they want to take on bulkier enemies
The deal with tanking is
i seem to get bored of tanking in other mmos
The damage rotation is simpler compared to Dps rotation
If you want a tank with a semi-complex rotation I’d recommend Paladin or Gunbreaker
Dark Knight is very simple in the base rotation
i just think dark knight looks kinda fun lol
Most of their complexity is in their oGCDs
im only lvl 24 so im getting a bit ahead lol but i figured id think about it
A bit is a understatement
lol
Just play for fun for the time being
Who knows, maybe 2 months down the line, you will find yourself enjoying playing healers
is there anybody who wants to play with me on this server lol
Nobody knows for sure where they'd end up
adamantios i think is how u spell it lol
so cure I has a potency of 450 and a chance of no cost cure II, cure II 1,000 mp and potency of 700 and cure III is 1500 mp and only potency of 550 for me at lvl 70 whm
People don't come here looking to recruiting or for recruitment
If you need a guild, you are better off looking in reddit
Cure 3 is an AoE
cure 3 is a big AoE heal
Oh I see
Cure III is an AOE where you can control the original point
so I just have to essentially keep crafting stuff to level a alchemist?
so if people took a huge chunk of dmg and are close to each other, its pretty good to use
Most AOE has you as the center
what about medica II compared to cure III
You can designate a center with your Cure III
gotcha
medica 2 is if you need AoE healing but you don't need people immediately topped up
instead of self
You can self with Cure III as well
since you can let the regen from medica 2 top them up
@safe compass for the early levels, yeah.
But you aren't limited to self
right
After level 15 you can do leves which are basically turn-in quests for big lumps of experience
anyone whm?
I'm trying to learn whm and it's rotations
I've just been cure I, cure II triger and using regen
then stone + aero
that's about it
and lucid to mitigate mana loss
Medica: need to use this multiple times to heal spread group
Medica II: heal spread group, but I am not in hurry
Cure III: need to heal stack group, in hurry
WHM has the best mana efficiency out of all the healers even if that trait didn’t exist.
You can waste Freecure
trying to learn which skills to use which ones not to etc
But it is nice if it is there when you need it
Basically, you need to learn what to use when
That’s completely wrong
Ask them to shove it
LOL
Afflatus is no MP heal
gotcha
The Afflatus heals are free instant cast Cure 2 and Medica 1
!action Cure II
Solace
I'm only level 70 haha
!action Afflatus Solace
I think I've literally never user Cure 3. I should probably put that in a better place on my hotbars and figure out when to use it. 
Healing stack marker
my hotbar is a mess lol
Is probably the most common use case
It sees more use in high-end content where the aoe damage is much beefier
Going back to Afflatus
You’ll want a third bar, can’t fit everything on 2.
The bottom line is don't let it get to 3 stack of unused Afflatus
Character config > Hotbar settings > tick the boxes near the list of hot bars
right
anyone have a decent estimate of how much it costs to powerlevel a crafter from 1-80? i know its server dependent, but looking for some kind of range
!action Arm's Length
So this thing, what can it affect?
All trash mobs
The slow or knock back?
And majority of knockbacks
The knockback never seem to work
Slow works on most trash enemies
You don't use it on reaction
When you are already being pushed or pulled you can't use this to cancel it
You need to use it before they happen
Doesn't work that way
Like how do you identify when a boss is charging a knockback attack you can deny?
Experience
you just know
Never said it work that way, don't just assume
Since I have tried doing it with the Cyclops
You can’t without trying. :/
you don't pop anything on reaction in this game unless it's a cast bar reaction
The one without the uuuh unmarked AoEs
can i store anything in the chocobo saddlebag?
Coincounter doesn't have any pull or push attacks
Aurum Vale, Snowpass, and Fractal
Yes, Tech
Question about WARs, I understand the endgame rotations and openers but Im struggling to understand when to use Fell cleaves. Should I be doing it whenever I get >70 bar?
Pretty much
I cannot remember which ARR contents has push or pull attacks
Just gonna ignore the knockback part of it and use AL just for slow
Yeah, it is very useful for tanks when they pull mobs
The kd part is very good
How do I change grand companies?
!faq grandcompany
'Which Grand Company should I choose?'
The only differences between the three Grand Companies are the looks of the equipment and where they're located. The story doesn't change in regards to the Grand Company you chose beside the quest that comes after "The Company You Keep". Here are two links leading to sample sets from each of the Grand Companies
'How do I get Grand Company Seals?'
You can get more seals mainly by completing your Grand Company Hunting Log (Go to the Hunting Log and click on the GC icon), completing FATEs, and turning in crafted/gathered items to the Personnel Officer if you have crafting or gathering classes unlocked. Once you are Sergeant 2nd Class you can turn in Pink/Green/Blue-rarity gear in for more seals.
Talk to the personnel officer of the company you want to join after reaching second lieutenant
Oh, no info on changing them
ok thanks
!action Living Shadow
Now this, thing. This is just a DoT but fancier right?
Yeah
!action benediction
Basically when opening a battle, you gather dark blood to 50 and use it, after that spam bloodspliller/quietus till it finishes cool down
That's just a oh shit oh fuck heal right
not quite
@queen cove basically never cap your beast gauge, use fell cleave to dump gauge but basically never really go to 100 (or stay at 100). Ofc spam 5 fell cleaves during inner release
Benediction is a very stronf off global
This pairs well with tank invuln
!action Dark Missionary
off global?
elaborate..........
if you're hitting it when someone's dropping super low, generally you're using it too late
I treat it more as a really big cure 2 unless I need to save it for WAR/DRK using their tank immunities.

Not on the gcd
Weaponskill and spells are on global cooldown
Ok this, is this just an inferior version of another ability?
Ability are Off global cooldown
Aka you can use it inbetween other spells
No, since it works on the entire party
Global cooldown is basically your turn
I mean
It’s meant for group mitigation and not personal mitigation
Is there another tank with basically Dark Missionary but for all damage
So every 2.5s you get a turn to use weapon skill or spell

Cure is a gcd skill
Solace > off global > other gcd
okay gotcha
when you cast it, there's delay before you can use another skill
And you wont clip the gcd
But off global ability means you don't need to respect the global cooldown timer
!faq gcd
so
when you cast benediction, you do not incur the global cooldown, so there's no delay in being able to cast another skill
there's
But if you do Glare > off global, you'll clip
gcd non gcd
But outside of it really I should be doing the combos to add gauge/refresh timer, and then burn fell cleave when I hit 70 bar
will i still able to redeem my code if i buy the game on square enix?
tho my country isnt listed
anyone else have trouble fitting all the tank mitigation spells onto their hotbar, compared to a non tank class
Dont need to spefically be 70 gauge
As long as you're not capping it
Use fell cleave to manipulate your gcd to refresh eye as late as possible
Warrior has a %HP AoE shield that’s better based on how many cooldowns you burn for it.
Paladin has a 10% hp AoE shield.
And Gunbreaker has basically the same skill as DRK
And dump cleaves during raid buffs
Ah
Huh
Every 2.5s you get a chance to use a Weaponskill or a spell, then you are back on a 2.5s wait, this 2.5s wait is referred as Global cooldown. Ability are skills that is not on global cooldown, so they can be used while you are waiting in between your weaponskills/spells.
The ranged DPS have universal AoE damage mitigation
Oh
!action shield samba
oh okay I see
so cure is a gcd, aero is non gcd?
since you can use it right after
@sinful pewter You can have up to 10 hotbars. Chances are you're going to need at least 3 for most of your commonly used abilities. You might also need to change your keybinds to more easily access more abilities with the keyboard (if you're a keyboard user).
Aero is a GCD
Kinda annoyed about the fact that DRK only gets AoE combo lvl 72
No, Aero is just a GCD without a cast time.
Spells is a bit complicated, because they have cast time
No, they're both gcds
But your recast timer ticks down while you cast cure
So you cast a spell, the spell cast and global cooldown start running together
a handy way to differentiate as well, is anything classified as a "spell" is GCD, anything classified as "ability" is oGCD
If a spell has the same cast as your GCD, then you can keep casting endlessly without noticing a pause
If a spell is insta, then you will notice the global cooldown waiting to get ready
(and also weaponskills fall into the "GCD" category, for physical jobs)
If a spell has long cast time (like ressurect) then you will see that your usual GCD skills are ready, but you are still casting the spell
To see whats on global cooldown, just use a Weaponskill or a spell
And see what other skills goes on cooldown at the same time
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if you're at that point I'd mainly just look at tooltips to see spell vs ability, but sure
So the quest asked me to gather cyclop onion HQ but the HQ is 0% am I doing something wrong
Yep
There you go
If you’re by yourself, no.
The other tank vokes one to take away
In a full party, Pretty sure that means let Suprauda do whatev
1 tank on Garuda, 1 tank on Chirada
Main tank grabs Suparna while Offtank gets Chirada
And then off-tank grabs suparna once Chirada dies
Castrum abania or holminster for exp farming?
old old guides from when it was relevant you might see a suggestion to have dps pick up one of the adds instead
71+
Holminster
Hominster
Holmeinster
Guess reddit lied
but with more gear it doesn't really matter, you just don't want superna and chirada together

Highest level dungeon
Unless your castrum queue is miles better, somehow
Castrum is for GETTING to 71
Like 15-20 mins better
@white sinew nope
main tank has garuda and superna, generally. And other tank takes chirada
actually, castrum is better but only if you have the EXP earring from pre-ordering shadowbringers
but whatever happens as long as the two adds are separated, it's whatever
generally even if they're together you can burn them down fine but it's better to at least separate them
assuming you're doing it synced (not min ilvl)
Tell the sub tank that trying the same strat over and over again won't change the result
Voke and range attack it
that's fine too honestly
As long as they can kill it fast yeah
Tell thw tank to stop aoeing for a moment so you can voke and pull
that's the old strat haha
Lol, we haven't done this synced in ages
Yep
So we all need to double check
nah, I mostly remember all the old stuff
the most tricky thing is really the handling of the spiny plume
Do note the damage that attack does is based on how much of the rock pillars are remaining
Is that the one that cast sleep?
So make sure to never point Garuda or the mini-Garudas towards them
Satin is the sleep one
the spiny plume when killed leaves behind a bubble with big mitigation
that applies a stacking debuff on whoever has top aggro on it
so usually one tank will pick it up, and the other tank will voke it at 2 stacks
how long would a raid take on average? assuming all players know their role and the mechanics of the fights
Normal?
Fight-dependent
Savage?
ya normal
10?..10 minutes?
Each part of the raid is their own instance
yes, but the definition of raid is a bit specific here
dungeons are not raids, they are dungeons
That's alliance
well, it's still an alliance "raid" but that's a bit separate category than standard raids (especially since they don't have a higher difficulty)
those usually take on the order of 15-20m, sometimes a bit longer if it's an especially bad group. Will depend on the instance a bit
thanks for the answers and sorry for the super vague question, still pretty new to everything
For normal raid, 8 players, understood and have practiced mechanics: 10 minutes
what most people talk about when they refer to raids (like alexander, omega, eden fights), those are just single boss fights that usually take 10m or less
what about ultimate content?
15-18 minutes or so
the left one
I see, thanks 
@leaden ginkgo
If I may add more details
Raid/Trials or boss fight in general
Revolves around playing with multiple mechanics
And variation of them
Easy example:
First time: you need to stay close with your party to split damage
Then 5 minutes later, you do the split damage thing again, but this time, you also need to stand on specific spots to avoid damage from a different source
is that what the glowing pillars are? ones marked with 1, 2, c, b etc
seen them quite a bit in the raid guides i've been seeing
Those are markers for positioning and grouping to handle certain mechanics
waymarks
Their placement are dependent on the fight
players can put them down to help indicate positioning for various mechanics and how they'd like to deal with them
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easy to put one at a point and go "hey when boss does this, go stand on the A waymark"
or stuff like that
also do I have to clear every single instance in a raid? or could I just go into any one of them at any time?
at 1st yes.. like you need to clear from E1N-E8N
For normal, you need to go up floor by floor, iirc
to note, mostly people do not run ex trials through duty finder, but instead run them through party finder (so that you can go in at a higher level with even more gear and kill the boss super quick, ignoring all mechanics)
just wanted to mention, since it's not an especially clear thing to newer players in particular, and I kinda got the impression that you were just using DF for it
You can still find people to form party and experience these fights on level
Just not as common to do
wait does this also work for older raid content? or is your level always synced there?
Depends on how you queue it
you can only run things unsynced with a premade party, but you can go back and unsync anything but ultimate fights
even allows you to go back and solo ex primals pretty easily on a lot of jobs, when you return to them at higher level
Normal Raids (the ones with only the bosses) can be unsynced for both Normal and Savage difficulties. Alliance raids (Crystal Tower, Void Ark, Ivalice) cannot be unsynced.
Just so that's clear.
you can
it's just a pain to set up
you also can't go back to solo them
and certain mechanics prevent you from doing it with too few people, in general, for some of them
Triple triad: Why can I only use 1 rare card when NPCs can use like 5 5-star cards? What am I missing?
Labyrinth of the Ancient (first of Crystal Tower) has ... 2 mechanics that needed a lot of people
I mean... I can't argue with that lol
damn is this normal i just bought the game today (bye free trial)
now im downloading a 20 gig file
trial doesn't have all the data
ohhhh
every items are loaded into the trial
because chances are, high level players can show up in low level dungeon or starting cities
ohh i see
the additional download are getting you the map data and quest data plus other things
Expansion data is mainly cutscenes/zones/duties
tldr: whatever you can bring to starting cities or low level zone, no matter how unlikely it is, will be loaded in trial
Hmmm. So apparently the more TT cards you have, the more rare cards you can use......? I guess that almost makes sense. 
No clue how the game expects you to figure that out
I feel like it's mentioned somewhere early on when you unlock it/maybe in the active help stuff. But NPC can still use more than you're allowed to, even with that taken into consideration
that said, you can still generally have a strategy to pretty consistently beat any NPC even with lower rarity cards
How do I get the high allagan gear O3O
I might just be running into the wrong NPCs. Or all the NPCs out of the gold saucer are significantly more powerful than inside the gold saucer
There are some people who keep using cards I literally can not defeat
high allagan gear comes from second coil of bahamut, also referred to as T6, T7, T8, and T9. There are also crafted variants which you can get on the marketboard (with the same name, but replica at the end--these can also be dyed)
which they can also be crafted too, if you have crafters leveled--they require drops from the above fights though, in order to craft them
New player here. Just joined a friends party, is there a way to teleport to them?
and yeah, the NPC inside of gold saucer are a bit easier difficulty
you can't really teleport right to them, but if you've attuned to any big aetherytes you can teleport to those. If you've just started fresh, the only way to really be with each other right away is if you've started in the same starting city, otherwise you'll have to progress the main scenario quests a bit until they meet up at level 15 (doesn't take too long) where it takes you around to all of the starting cities
i don't think there is an option to teleport directly to your friend though
there isn't, no
if we are in the same city would they show up on map at least in theory?
should, yup
okie thanks
though there are different areas in the starting city, where if you're in separate areas you won't immediately see them
for example, if one of you is in old gridania, and the other is in new gridania
their name will be in orange (default color i think) because they are your friend
should be easy to spot in the crowd if any
Lodestone says yellow gathering scrip exchange vendor for level 70 is in ildyshire but the only option is level 50,where are the level 70 vendors?
Triple triad: Why can I only use 1 rare card when NPCs can use like 5 5-star cards? What am I missing?
@vagrant copper As you obtain more Triple Triad cards and get related achievements, you also unlock the ability to use more high-star cards in your decks.
Hey everyone I was wondering if I could get some opinions on optimizing having maxed retainers
Is there a downfall to having let’s say I make 3 DoW and their all paladins?
why would you have 3 Paladin?
what is odin?
can't get bot/min stuff. but unless you craft it's prob more money to have 3 dow
special event mob
Just an example since I haven’t played any other class
not meant to be fought alone
Basically a world boss
And to start leveling them up
make a Party in PF
then go to starting cities to advertise that Odin has spawn
remember to include coordinates
name your party something like Odin FATE in (x, y)
x y is the coordinate
@chilly briar if all 3 of your retainer is DoW/M
it means that you will get DoW/M materials 3 times as fast
but you don't get any DoH/L resources
Am I supposed to save a couple Ruin 4 so that I can weave Akh Morn properly?
I get that but I’m wondering if it depends on what DoW makes a difference?
I’d have the 10 retainers and I’m wondering what would be best way to optimize them
no difference with what you pick DoW/M
yes, saving R4 stacks for bahamut is a good plan
short answer, yes on stocking Ruin 4
if i'm against a ton of enemies, is it better to use outburst and hard clip akh morn?
@warped nest i went to Rhalgs reach and i found it
10 retainers: probably 4 DoW/M, 3 Miner, 3 Botanist
🤔 just how many enemies makes garuda more dps efficient
I think 2 or 3
!action Crimson Cyclone
@solid fog all of them but Eulmore’s should have the same items
!action Aerial Slash
huh, 2 apparently
With Eulmore’s having the current tier of master craft recipes and maybe a couple other things
it should be there... ummm i wonder if there are any quest you need to do there to open up idyllshire
Theres isnt any other blue quest other than some red ones
2
Here's another softball: Is the timer under Allagan Tomestones in the currency window as dire as it sounds (as in my 41 tomestones are about to disappear)?
Which tomestones?
you will never lose tomes
Uh... Poetics?
The only time you'll lose tomes are when they're "retired" during or at the end of an expansion.
and even then, you get a healthy window to trade them in for other tomes
And then, you have a period of time during which they can be exchanged for the newer tomes.
poetics specifically are around to stay though
I guess the timer would be for the "this week" thing on the allegories?
allegory tomes have a cap per week
the timer is your time before the weekly cap is refresh
you can only get 450 each week
!weekly
was your timer around 29-30 hours?
yeah, so you have 29 hours to fill this week's quota
It doesn't mean anything will disappear.
after that we move to next week
at least all these info are laid bare to you now
previously, we don't have these info in game
Weekly resets are always a thing in MMOs
Not sure if I’m misremembering, but you may lose out on weekly tomestones if you’re sitting at 2000 and try to get more.
btw, only Allegory has the capped
I haven't really played any MMOs other than EVE since EQ so... I'm a bit out of touch with modern MMOs
other Tomestones doesn't have any limitation
aside from their max capacity of 2000
Not sure if I’m misremembering, but you may lose out on weekly tomestones if you’re sitting at 2000 and try to get more.
@obsidian patio maybe you should try and let us know
it's a very niche thing but I'm fairly certain I remember it not allowing you to overcap and lose tomes that way @obsidian patio
What materia should a rdm go for?
definitely not spell speed
If doing raids like ruby
I remember my static DRG doing that by mistake and it being fine
Crit > Hit > Det, isn't it?
Crit > DH ≥ DET, roughly
Just like any other dps?
Meld Priority: Crit > DH ≥ DET - for tiers
it's not quite the same for every dps
most DPS usually want to hit a certain sks or sps tier
and it's always going to be a bit "it depends" based on tiers, how much of each stat you have, etc
then we go from there
but for a rough metric that meld priority is fine to go for. If you end up doing savage you can shoot for a specific BiS, but short of that it's not a big deal
UWU bow
Isn't that one of the Deep Dungeon ones?
no
HoH, maybe?
that is artemis ultimate
Ah
Or something
orange/red
Fight
how do I get thornmarch extreme?
@vagrant copper welcome to Eorzea, and don't be shy about asking questions
I did thornmarch hard
Its one of the hardest fights in the game
@lethal mural should be a sidequest in the waking sands
The Weapon Refrain (Ultimate) is one of the 3 Hardest fight in game, @velvet reef
notably a raid, not a dungeon^
damn lol
There are different glowy versions of it, which come from the ARR zodiac relic series
!iglam Artemis Bow Zenith
So, I got my relic weapon quest and it's telling me to go back to Gerolt on Gangos...but I don't know how to get there.
Interact with the Aetheryte at the Doman Enclave or talk to the boat/airship pilot near the docks
The 3 Ultimate fight in XIV
Lvl 70 The Unending Coil of Bahamut (Ultimate)
Lvl 70 The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate)
Lvl 80 The Epic of Alexander (Ultimate)
they are referred as UCOB (Unending COil of Bahamut), UWU (Ultima Weapon Ultimate), TEA (The Epic of Alexander)
I don't know how to geet to the Doman Enclave either
Would I be called more of a shitter if I played BRD or DNC
Teleport to it
I've looked all over my map
You did attunr
bb
Didn't you
White gathering scrips are only from the Collectable appraiser ?
if you haven't attuine
then travel to the west side of
Use your teleport to the Doman Enclave then
Guess I didn't attune to it
Which is weird because I teleported to it to leave in the first place
White gathering scrips are only from the Collectable appraiser ?
@solid fog you get it from your weekly as well
Custom Deliveries
Ah nice thanks
teleport to leave is not affected by local aetheryte attunement
Guess I'm screwed then
Go to yanxia
The doman enclave entrance is on sout end of Yanxia iirc
Then go to Yanxia at x12, y32
go to the west side of Yanxia
And take the boat in thr bottom left
take a boat
I'll look around for everything, thank you guys!
Go to the coordinates Wynne said and talk to the NPC there.
what's the command for the lvl 50 rdm rotation
They will take you across the river to the Doman Enclave
!faq 50rdm
thank u
advice for new high level jobs
remove everything off your hotbar
find a striking dummy
add skills back to your hotbar one by one
read tooltips and hit the dummy with the skills
this simulate leveling up
and it helps you find a good button setup for your hotbar
Does shadowbringers bring darker themed armor to all classes, or just dark knight?
Doesnt shadowbringer have job quest for miners? I have completed the level 70 miner job quest called "A Miner Success" and cant find the rest
In terms of the job-specific sets, they keep their relative themes.
shadowbringers didn’t add any crafter/gatherer-specific job quests
They got the facet quests in the Crystarium
Well heck
Yeah i just unlocked this facet delivery and i have no idea what im looking at
bunch of animal traces?
looks like horns
An item you gather
I have a lore question
Use spoiler formatting if needed, but depending on the question it may be better for #archived-lore-spoilers
is a crossover raid spoilers?
It can be.
alright I'll move there
Is there a limit to how many collectibles ican bring to rowenas house of splendors ?
Is there a skill that lets you collect x2 or x3 collectibles?
no
I just started a new class (arcanist) and my class quest is red since i have to lvl up to that lvl first to access it but my MSQ quest is like lvl 30 (from my previous class). Now I know i should be doing fates or hunting logs but do people in the party finder usually state hunting log partys or is this something i gotta do on my own? Solo is kinda boring
hunting party are hunting lvl 50, 60, 70, 80 targets
hunting log is a list of enemies you can check off and it gives one-off bonus exp
oh
that makes sense
So I should stick to solo hunting log to lvl up to my class questÉ
FATE and hunting log should be enough to quickly level you up to level 15
then you can do Roulettes in your duty for daily exp bonus
check your Challenge Log too and see if you can get any Bonus exp quickly
question: there wouldn't exist by any chance a tracker of bonus for the novus light farm, right?
There used to be a reddit live thread but it’s been discontinued for a long time
People don’t really bother with a tracker for it anymore since you basically just spam two different duties depending on your loading time.
Tam-Tara Deepcroft normal and Ifrit Normal, with Ifrit being slightly better but more grindy/repetitive if you have fast loads with an SSD
Undersized, of course.
Just to make sure, some abilities become straight up useless when you get new ones, right? Like there's absolutely no reason to use Aero 1 or Stone 1 when you have Aero 2 and Stone 2 (same cast time, same MP cost, higher potency)
hmm okay ty
Those abilities upgrade into the stronger versions with traits
!trait stone mastery
If you try to place stone 1 on your bar past 18 it automatically becomes stone 2
Oh. huh
And if you get synced to something below 18 it reverts into stone 1
chronos im stuck between archer or summoer(Arcanist for now)...i know ull eventually switch jobs but i wanna choose one to main....any recomemndation on which is more flashier/quick
Archer is probably a bit ‘faster’ with you spamming more buttons overall
Summoner is probably a tad more satisfying to play at lvl 50 compared to Bard, i guess
you can feel more oomph from Summoner though
with Deathflare
Deathflare is 60
DWT is 58 iirc
Yep
Should be
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