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I saw a message saying my retainer is no longer selling in the uldah market
Yeah it's fuzzy for me bc I played 1.0 and ARR during that first year
That just means they don't have their items listed while you're messing with their stuff
And market choice doesn't matter much besides the small tax difference that sometimes pops up, but really only matters if you're making very good use out of them for selling stuff
@livid oriole #1 tip is to stay within your region for datacenters, so Aether/Primal/Crystal for NA, Chaos/Light for EU, and Mana/Gaia/Elemental for JP
mostly for housing/marketboard prices/free companies(player guilds)
As the Duty Finder pulls queues from the entire datacenter
ah ok
What's the place with the WHM class quest giver?
I can't remember and from normal searching I can't find it
generally it's right by Camp Tranquil in the south shroud
The level 52 one?
North Shroud. 👀
Weeklys reset on tuesday correct?
ok thanks, nearing allegory max for this week so i wanna make sure i spam dungeons before tuesday
Hey guys, I recently unlocked the black chocobo and aether current so I can fly in certain areas. But what about the quest “I believe I can fly”? Aren’t them like the same thing?
i think that quest lets your yellow chocobo fly
Or the quest make me fly without the need to find all aether currents?
yeah that quest allows the grand company chocobo to fly, you still need the aether currents
Gotcha. Thanks for the help
could someone explain to me how the exp bonus works? My bf and I are the exact same level, yet im getting a 100% exp boost and he's only getting 50%. He mentioned an armory bonus, but I didn't think that applied since we're level 76.
If you have a job higher than your current one you get a 100%exp boost
we both have a class higher than our current one, and we're always in the same area. It just seems in the dungeons our exp is completely different
just kinda weird, doesn't make much sense to me
!faq restedexp
'Why does my EXP bar have some blue in it?'
That's Rested experience, which is an extra source of bonus experience shared between all of your classes. You gradually earn this while inside a sanctuary (town or area with a major aetheryte), regardless of whether you're online or not. Sanctuaries are also indicated with a crescent moon icon near your experience bar.
'How much of a boost is it?'
The most amount of rested experience you can have at once is one and a half levels of experience. That means that lower level jobs use up the rested experience faster than higher level jobs do.
its not rested
Do you have on exp boost items?
no
none work past level 70.
Hmmm
I might just be dumb lol, is the rested where I have a bar thats a little farther out than my current exp?
yep
OHH
Ok that makes sense, thought it was something totally different
Thank you lmao
which channel should I go in to request PF help for something
hey guys, i'm currently playing on the free trial but i'm getting close to the level cap. i have a heavensward code from twitch prime, but i don't have base game. i was wondering if it's more cost efficient to just get the complete edition of shadowbringers, or get the starter edition, play through heavensward & then get the standard edition of shadowbringers. thanks!
wanted to find an option to use as much of the subscription period as possible
Well bang for your buck, 14 is gonna last you a lot longer haha
I just finished downloading and patching my game. I chose a server, and it kicked me out of the game saying something about lobby error. I tried reloggin and I get this:
what button do i press to take a ingame screenshot?
print screen
that's true for your whole computer lol
oh I see
I forgot for a sec ffxiv stores it's own screenshots
what would be the best jobs for people with 100ish ping? or is no job affected by ping that much?
only Machinist suffers a bit with semi-high ping, every other job is perfectly fine at 100 ping.
oh ok, thanks 
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Can you not purchase mounts on marketboard?
There's also the Zu from airship ventures, Night Pegasus from Palace of the Dead, and the Dodo from Heaven-on-High
Etc
uhhhh... also the Gorilla/Ufiti, Albino Karakul, and Dhalmel from Ishgard Restoration
That's all the tradeable ones I can name
And the Eureka stuff minus Ozma
oh yeah those, the Eurekan Petrel and Eldthurs
And the t-rex
The Tyrannosaur is also untradeable.
🤔
Is it worth it to play through realm reborn story or can I just skip through as many cutscenes and talking I can lol
the Realm Reborn story forms an important basis for everything that comes after, though some parts of it consist of filler that could be skipped
basically, if you're in a hurry, skim stuff that doesn't seem important, but don't skip cutscenes outright
Ok that’s fair makes sense ty! What level should all of its main story quests take me to
The game is msq from 1 to 80
And 1 other question if I want to level up other classes at the same time how do I go about doing it? Thanks in advance
ARR is 1-50, then post-ARR is all level 50, and then HW goes from 50-60
With mild dungeon and roulette supplementation you should hit 80
and so on until level 80
!faq altlvlguide
Some side things you can do to lvl ither jobs
Potd roulettes highest dungeon spam etc
Awesome! So happy I found ppl to help lmao
Potd/hoh is only good if roulette / dungeon have significantly worse queue time
☝️
If it is like 5-10 mins difference, take the dungeons/roulette
Instanced content queues you across the data center
So you get matched with people within your server cluster
Not just your own server
Ohhhh okay that’s not bad at all can you also friend and play with people on diff server?
Is it good/bad/the same to set retainers as DoH/DoL (I have levelled them up to 80)
Yes you can friend/play with people on the same data center
You can only join guilds on your own server though
Its most common for people to do one dow/dom and one doh retainer@tough wolf
I've unlocked a few more, if that makes a difference
but i've not added a DoH/L yet so that's helpful to know 🙂
Quests may have overworld objectives you can complete with others but for some instances bits youre on your own with npcs
DoL retainer is helpful in getting materials
You cant make crafter retainers sadly
You can't make DoH retainer btw
is there anywhere i can find a summary of each part of the main story?
pins in #archived-lore-spoilers
has it up to the middle or end of heavensward patch story
alright thank you
how many more MSQ quests are there after Whorleater
until the end of ARR? about 56 quests or so

In total? around 482 to beat all current story
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I've got a macro to sort armoury and some of it looks like this
/isort condition armoury category
my question: can you sort chocobo saddlebag via macro?
not that I know of, since it's a separate inventory
RIP
DPS
poke bosses with the jam spreader
If anyone knows anything about importing models into FF14 with mods, could you ping/DM me, i tried asking people on TexTools and they didnt help too much
whats a good way to find an FC? I'm on JP data center but mostly looking for ENG FC
I understand Lodestone has na English forums but JP are JP only
Neoishgardian pcs in MB are legit i480?
As opposed to fake i480?
yes. make sure you get 
well, if they're NQ that would be fake i480
Dunno how anyone copes with the shame of listing a NQ 480 with their name on it
Desynth that shit
I have a question about Bard. I just got my second song, and I want to know, are both songs active or do they overwrite each other?
they overwrite each other
only one song can be active at a time
Why are other neoishgardian gear cost millions while others are like 100k only?
Thanks btw for the answers
If it is just a waist or accessories
Obviously it will cost less to make over a chest or weapon
Depends on the server
And that yeah
Coz in the gearing guide i saw, they start with ilvl430 so i assume its outdated? Is it advisable to just buy those pcs and start ilvl 480 to skip some of the grind?
you get 430 for free from completing the role quests
Just grind Phantasma and gear with Phantasma, then work your way up
you can skip to 480 by buying. thats fine too.
Thanks alot for the answers 🙂
is the regalia mount purchase unlocked only during the event? or can i complete the event quest & take my time farming MGP for it? i only need base game for it since the quest is lv50 right
You can only buy the regalia during the event
oh jeez
It was only during event
rip
And the event is loooong gone
Not yet
tyty
Well....there might not be a rerun
we don't really know in what way the FFXV event will come back if it does or if the items would even go on mogstation
A rerun is just assumed since all temporary collab events never had only one run so far.
but when it may come back is anyone's guess
heaven on high / dungeon spam
Can you be a little more specific? what are you trying to level up, and is it your main?
.. main story quest
it gives 16k
im lvl 63
completed heavensward
on the in between bit of stormblood
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What's the max for housing purchase timers again?
How do I go about seeing if there's an available house in the Mist? Do I just check every ward through the aetheryte every couple hours or...?
yep
Is aymeric's hair from his set unisex or I'm just seeing people modding it
I'm having some issues setting up controller - I've connected it, switched to gamepad mode, but it just won't input anything
belay that, it suddenly worked for no good reason
@nova wraith I think I can in a few hours
Hello! How would you guy recommend leveling a new character as soon as possible? Is it just just doing MSQ and class quests?
You can put the code in r/FFXIVRAF and people will grab it eventually
so I got from POTD bag an armor that is for males, is there a way to change the armor so females can wear it?
Biming, you're going to have to do all those anyways to get to any of the interesting content so, pretty much, yes.
Can I skip the sidequests?
oh ok
Nice! Any other tips where to get some quick EXP? Besides fates?
FATEs, POTD, hunting log, challenge log, POTD
roulettes
Gotcha.
how many goats do I need to sacrifice to remove housing timer? /s
777
darn
for good luck
can someone lend me some goats, i can't leave the placard to go get them
play goat simulator, and hope for the best
No
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you need an item called Antique Helm, it drops in Sastasha (Hard), Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard), and Snowcloak
one of the vendors in the main building in Mor Dhona will let you trade that for your helmet
so I am trying to get my mount but it tells me that I need serpent seals. I can't do hunting as I am not authorized, so how do I go about getting it?
If I get FFXIV Complete Edition do I got a free Story Skip?
the MSQ that you're on should give 300 serpent seals upon completion
I am doing the twin addire
You have to buy that separately; there's no job boost or story skip included with any version of the game
yw
I hate how they make you run around to get the chocobo
I have a question that any can answer
So I recently made a reddit post that I sparked controversy
on my xp bar what is the semi-transparent xp?
This is something I’m serious about and I’m genuinely confused why it’s getting the negative attention
@real thicket there's no Caucasians or Japanese, etc. either. There's no specific races that exist on Earth so why would they add one specific one?
I just made a huge fuck-up because I don't know how to read, it reset all my UI and setting back to default. and I'm slowly rebuildingmy hotbar layout however pressing any letter key is engaging the chat window rather than inputting stuff like movement
chat is not selected
I do not know what to do
disabling direct chat did it thank god
it still didn't work It is still telling to exchange serpent seals for it 😒
I have 300 serpent seals
Have you...gone to the quartermaster and buy the insurance then?
what insurance?
To get the chocobo
issuance
I don't see it anywhere
The far right tab in the quartermaster IIRC
either I am blind or its not here lmao
screenshot
These guys need to have an icon on top of them that states they can sell stuff. I have been banging my head for the last hour over this shit lmao. I googled everywhere.
Yes but you shouldn't bother
Hi All! So i just finished the Stormblood expansion (4.0) but not 4.1-4.56. Was wondering should i just keep pushing through the MSQ with the same class or?
that warrior thing is easy to get back and also just not useful
Are you finding you don't like the class you currently have or something @soft pivot ?
WHM is pretty good
@thin abyss To be fair the game does tell you to go to the quartermaster in the quest dialogue
Then...stay white mage? I mean unless you wanna change you don't have to
the MSQ is designed to be completeable on any job
Sure it might take a tad longer to kill a quest target but its only like 10 seconds maybe
oh no! 10 seconds.
and you don't have to like, stop to let your hp regenerate after pulls
absolutely not. you actually can take more risks on a healing class
Who reads the quest dialog. It is way tooo long. Also if I am right in that same shop while taking the quest, why do I have to right click on the quarter master that is next to him. Even if that is the case, it is more convenient to have like a coin symbol or something on the NPCs that are able to sell you stuff
knowing you can get yourself back to full in a blink
anyways thanks everyone
That's the wrong person
yeah wrong smug.
Also that's on you not the game
too many smugs right now
oh ok lul
Just watch out though because the dialogue will explain things to you which the objectives might not
also: those markers do exist Waly
It is tooo much dialog in the game. I get bored by it
in the minimap but not in the on top of the npc in the game
Is it normal for the game to take a second or two to go into a dialogue box whenever you right click an NPC?
generally they have the word "merchant" undernear somewhere over their heads
Do i need to get all the Aether quests completed before i go in to shadowbringers?
@terse jewel there may be a delay if the NPC is scripted to perform an emote, like standing up/turning around, before talking to you.
aethercurrents? not to my knowledge no
otherwise if there's a notable delay then you may be experiencing connection issues.
it only lets you fly in that zone.
was trying to catch up on my alts relics but i need to do the old 24 man first?
rabanastre or w/e
You need complete all 3 of the Stormblood Alliance quests
was wondering if i save them for my second class for the EXP
son of a bitch
you need to do Return to Ivalice for the 80 relic yes
which finishes with a quest after Orbonne Monastery
guess i'll do that later
It's not a lot of xp
just saves time whenever you go back there
yeah the aethercurrent quests draw is the ability to fly in the zone
which massively speeds up travel
flight is quite a bit faster than ground movement
mainly because you don't have to go around. just over
i feel so close to shadowbridgers haha but so far away!
shadowbridger 
the flying cruise speed is also way faster than ground travel.
Okay so my game seems to not want to go over 12 FPS in DirectX11. I switched to DirectX9 and it worked decently but the NPCs wouldn't load in for a bit and I had to hang around the area before they would load in. Changing resolutions, using Razer Game Booster, nothing worked.
I'm nervous because I spent $60 on this game plus got a 180 day subscription (which is almost $80) and it would suck if I can't play the game properly.
Runs Dust: An Elysian Tail just fine.
mmm
I don't think Dust is very intensive?
And FFXIV is on the lowest settings FYI
That's a very non-demanding game.
I've played Dust. its not graphically intense
!faq benchmark
Want me to send my specs?
I kinda want to see your score here or something
just take that link and compare
Specs would be good
_>
For a benchmark
FF is 60
I'm saying for a benchmark that seems kinda ridiculous
Hey so I havent played since before the first expac, but my fiance really wants me to get on board with her team? She told me to grab a dps, as they have tanks/healers.
Torn between summoner, dancer or samurai. Whats good for relearning the game?
Samurai.
Whatever ¯_(ツ)_/¯
its SUPER easy
Summoner has a lot of buttons to press at the beginning
melee tho. your call. I'd just play whatever kinda class you're most comfortable with
Dancer and Samurai are pretty easy
and for sam, i need a lvl 50 anything, first?
I'm getting a gaming PC as soon as I can, I know that.
Cause holy hell this PC sucks.
When using trial version, you can't invite people, but can you be invited in a party for instance?
yup. SAM needs a 50 anything. DNC needs a 60 anyyhing
yes, you can be invited to a party
Yeah theres a large chance that your PC isnt up to scratch to run FF
I'm already looking into good cheap gaming laptops
but run the benchmark and get back to us with your score
lvl 50 hard to grab, or nah?
yeah a semi-decent gaming laptop should blitz this game
I will, Silver.
maybe not on high but med-low easy
I did enter a raffle on Xbox Game Pass for an Alienware Gaming Laptop so we'll see what happens there.
Chances are I won't win but hey
Crazier things have happened right?
best of luck friend!
good luck
btw @limber hamlet 50 is not hard to get to at all
cool
a preferred server?
if you're not and you care about cutscenes. maybe 2-3 days (not 24 hour sessions of course)
I think what gets me is that an old laptop I had back in I wanna say 2017 ran the game just fine on low settings (wasn't the best but hey, I don't care about graphics usually) but it was way older than this PC I'm using right now.
some servers are meant to accomodate new players and thus have a massive xp boost to incentivise newcomers
Yet this PC struggles to reach 15 FPS (usually stays at 12) on extra low settings
Anyone looking between dancer, samurai, etc is not a new player/character Silverhand
They'd be starting at 50
Or 60 
you say that but I've seen multiple people who just got the game
asking "is GNB good"
I literally just got the game xD
when there highest character is like level 10
I'm starting with Thaumaturge
i havent played since before the first xpac lol
oh old ARR player are you?
yea
well if you capped out in ARR you can jump straight into samurai
dancer you'll need 10 more levels
and summoner you can get regardless as its a base game class
how is summoner? Sounded cool when I read up on it
of course summoner starts as "arcanist"
Focus on Damage over Time spells
high burst windows. very strong in the right hands in endgame content
also REALLY cool!
you summon a fuckin dragon
who just toasts anyone who looks at you funny
(on a cooldown)
oh, steam players can interact with non steam pc players, right?
yes
everyone shares a server. ps4, steam, non-steam
you will need to just be sure you're purchasing the right stuff when you buy xpacs or anything
alot of people sometimes buy the non-steam version for thier steam account and are sad about that
is it pretty lucky to get the Xanthos and Nightmare mounts at the same time in 3 attempts?
oh yeah sorry
Oh shit I wna win lotto
cactbot is an act plugin that has its own plugins to "help" you do things (fishing, locating hunts, and most famously, raid content). cactpot is a pick 4 style minigame
Jackpot = Cactpot
you only win MGP. and it costs MGP to enter
but you can get mounts with a ton of MGP which are cool
@stuck oracle Thanks, I was wondering what the drop % was 🙂
a bunch of different ones too
You can also get the Cloude Strife card for 1M mgp. lol
jumbo cactpot has a 1mil+ MGP 1st prize
Alright I'm extracting the benchmark
which can get you a sick Fenrir mount (of which I am a fan)
mini cactpot also exists and is pretty much a guaranteed profit every time you play it, the highest amount you can get being 10k
and you can play it 3 times a day
so MAYBE 3,000 mgp.
if you're just the luckiest son of a gun to every cross the Gold Saucer's floor
also. 30,000 mgp
forgot a 0
i've gotten 20k in a day out of mini cactpot once and never again
I got 10k and a 720 before. but thats about it for a single days takings.
also GATEs are a fun way to earn MGP too especially if you're good at parkour
I get 20k+ every now and then, though not with any frequency
big puppy is good times, got it a couple weeks ago finally
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also, what are those treasure map things i keep seeing being mentioned in PF? how do you get them/how do they work?
To unlock Treasure Hunt, players need to complete the level 36 quest: Treasures and Tribulations. Players can start the quest by talking to H'loonh in Eastern La Noscea(x21,y21).
You can get them either by buying them or with a gathering job
Will housing timers tick off on an hour/half hour or literally any feasible second
you'll find them randomly in some nodes
then you use them, you'll get a map part you'll need to figure out what it belongs to, go there, dig up the treasure with an action you unlock, fight some monster, get treasure (or spawn a portal to a dungeon where you can get additional stuff, hence the party finder stuff)
ohh, i see, i'm quite sure i've done that quest since early on i did every sidequest i ever saw
JESUS. So with high desktop settings the loading time was 322 seconds, and the score was..this
I'm gonna put it on the lowest settings possible now and see what we get
do I need gysahl greens to summon my mount?
I am not able to summon it then
JESUS. So with high desktop settings the loading time was 322 seconds, and the score was..this
@terse jewel where's that score from?
and only able to have your chocobo fight with you. Not other mounts
did you do the sidequest which allows you to have your chocobo fight with you
They are both greyed out
Hi I`m new to FFXIV. I want my final job to be a Samurai in character creation what class must I select?
!faq sbjobs
Stormblood Expansion Jobs: Red Mage (Caster DPS) and Samurai (Melee DPS). These jobs start at level 50 and require ownership of the Stormblood Expansion and a disciple of war or magic job at level 50.
Job Unlock Locations:
Red Mage - Distraught Lass at Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (14,12), quest name is "Taking the Red".
Samurai - Ul'dahn Citizen at Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (9,9), quest name is "The Way of the Samurai".
well gyshal is greyed out since you have 0
abysmal
My sentiments exactly
Thank you
my pc isnt very good at it scored over 10k
A load time of several minutes sounds like a serious HDD problem
try it agian on laptop-low
yeah but why am I not able to mount it?
Silver I customized everything to be as low as possible
and if you still score that badly. You will need an upgrade to properly play ff
I'm gonna see what that does
character > mount guide > chocobo
the issue is Mount Guide is greyed out 😒
then you don't have a mount
have you done the quest to get a mount?
what whistle
Did you redeem your chocobo voucher you bought from your grand company
You are given a whistle
check your inventory, there will be a whistle
or key or whatever
Oh, that's Windows only. Okay.
an item to "acquire it"
Or some item you need to use to register it
oh that explains a lot
oof
integrated graphics is absolutely terrible
and this game eats up CPU like there's no tomorrow
so do I need to keep the chocobo whistle in my inventory?
No
use the chocobo whistle
Use it
ok thanks
and then it'll be added to your mount guide
I did and it is working
Oh, there's no way the game is running on that, Fullmoon
do you only have integrated graphics? i have a 750 ti which is arguably garbage but i still run fine on that
even a lower-end graphics card nowadays should be able to run it at the bare minimum
hello quick question
someone left mid dungeon and didnt leave the party how long do i have to wait until they leave?
It's a laptop
You havr to.kick them
how do i do that
party list > right click > vote to remove from party
i dont have that option
oh
@terse jewel does your system have a dedicated graphics card? Ensure that it's being used to run the game
considering it's a i3 8100 laptop chip
press O on your keyboard and right click them from there
probably doesn't
ty ty
how do you know it's a laptop chip
Is there a way to change the camera on controller to not follow back after i release the analog stick?
I'm just guessing
No one is putting an i3 in a normal PC unless it's an HTPC or ... POS or something
it doesn't look like a laptop chip
turning off grass saved me like 20 fps
ah, i'm dumb
Btw, after marriage, is there some title? or some way to see with whom you're married?
the game looks better too
it's a desktop yeah
it should've had h after it
For other people to see?
cause grass in this game looks fcking horrible
not a laptop chip, but still slow af, I wouldn't even use an i3 for an office pc
Nah. I just think thought it would show
yeah no i3's are just terrible cpus no matter the generation
sooo I got the trait Freecure, I guess I shoudn’t forget that I have an Cure I ??
you should forget
don't fish for freecure
i5 is decent
freecure is just a bait
aha
Ryzen is love though, my new pc has one, good times
probably #technology-discussion talk more at this point
As a new playery only lvl 30 is it worth ranking up my grand company rank yet?
@terse jewel if you wish to play FFXIV, get either a GPU or save up to upgrade both your CPU and buy a GPU
I mean I wouldnt focus on it
if you have the seals required, then sure
but if you got the seals and did the log...sure
How do you rank up?
talk to the GC admin. and buy yourself a promotion
you talk to the GC quartermaster
Oh i see. Thanks
you'll get the option to "apply for a promotion"
Well here's hoping I win that gaming laptop then
Cause I know I ain't getting a gaming laptop/pc otherwise
get a second hand ps4?
is there anyway I could make the cutscenes last longer, because I am not able to completely read the dialogues
I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 3600x yesterday and I hadn't realised how inadequate my old setup was till now. Nonetheless, my Laptop can kinda run the game well.
I don't play playstation I play Xbox and PC
With integrated graphics
press space to disable auto advance
right but you can use a keyboard and mouse on your ps4 without issue
oh ok
yeah and its cheaper then a gaming pc
Silver I'm saying I don't have a PS4
right but you dont have a pc capable of running FF either
this is the cheapest option
unless you want to wait for FFXIV to come to xbox
im just saying if you really wanna play ff14, a used ps4 is the cheapest option
Silver I'm living off of my grandparents.
I don't have a job due to everything going on.
🤷🏻 I was offering solutions. If none work. Oh well.
Hey ya'll, So my GF wanted me to play this game and to do that she boosted me to 70 as a white mage. I have been trying to find a healing rotation but haven't had much luck, any tips? Thank you.
Here's the new score with lowest settings. Ughhhhh
healing doesnt have a rotation
healing is just you DPS until you have to heal
for one: she shouldn't have boosted you because it leaves people confused about how their class works most of the time
your dps rotation is keep your dot up and spam your main spell. its Stone now but it'll be Glare soon
and yes that.
I have played wow, so used to that game mainly. they have rotations, i guess
uh oh
@bright halo maybe this will help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VuHQE-Mfp4
Promises must be kept, so here it is, my first comprehensive healer guide starring Desperia, glamoured as Kuja, made kinda family-friendly for YouTube, representing the White Mage.
I hope I can deliver a comprehensive foundation to start into White Magic and wish you and your...
boosted players 👀
Would something like this run the game fine?
ofcourse
yeh
Thanks, watching that.
Plenty
yep
question, on controller, when healing, it doesn't stick to a party member
so i have to cycle through the list every time
yep
Hey guys I am trying to free up my armory chest, is the best thing to do is "selling" the weapons and such? or is there a way to disenchant them for materials or something
with 700 bucks you can buy a decent cpu+gpu combo
(noob question sorry)
Yes kinda
but you'll need the crafting classes level
and only some weapons can be Desynth'd
I might just get this one whenever I can if I don't win the raffle.
Which let's be honest
you can turn in green or higher rarity gear for seals at your grand company, desynthesis for materials (level 30 crafters) or just vendor sell
I probably won't
laptops are generally more expensive for the same kind of power
if you have a crafter levelled, check if the gear says "desynthesizable"
hi! so how exactly can i get hq items as a botanist? ;w;
Soltie that's because mobility
if you don't, just sell
you can get even cheaper if you buy the components yourself
hey guys stop
yes desktops are ideal but sometimes people need laptops for reasons
if it fulfills their needs and they can afford it
👌
end of convo
right. if you buy the one you linked it'll play FF just fine
thats what you wanted to know
Alright. Here's hoping I won't have to spend though and win that gaming laptop 
If I don't that's fine.
you probably could get something a little less than that and it'd run fine too
if money is tight
agreed, ffxiv would run fine on my old college laptop and that has like... the bare minimum specs to run photoshop
since i was a graphic design student
i mean if money is tight you might want to focus on other things then trying to play ff14 just saying
soltie please stop
^
I ran the game on a 3rd gen i3 and a 550 Ti until yesterday and it ran fine. So you can probs get away with less than that
yeah, ffxiv isn't that heavy of a game unless you're trying to play with super high graphics
FFXIV used to run on the PS3 and the requirements haven't gone significantly up either
ye know, i work in IT, and there are plenty of reasons to choose a laptop over a desktop, and suggesting that people should just invest into a desktop is pretty mean imo
A Ryzen 5 laptop with vega graphics will be more than enough to run it and fast
Yeah I don't mind graphics. Hell if I can play on only low settings but get 40-60 FPS then I'm perfectly okay with that.
I just want to play with my friends for once :T
you should target at least 60 fps, going below 30 causes some weird physics to occur
yeah, and fps lag can cause you to die to avoidable things
I always fluctuate between 40-60 fps
soltie, stop, they want a laptop, let them have the laptop
Soltie it's also the fact that I have giant monster hands.
My big hands aren't fit for a PS4 controller.
It's too small. I play Xbox for that very reason.
valid complaint as well
you can use mouse and keyboard on the ps4 lol
Macro help - it seems numpad0 is only Confirm when num lock is on, but what if I need numpad4/6 to be move cursor and not switch target while num lock is on?
maybe they want a laptop for laptop uses too
also consider: PS4 can only be used to PS4 uses
with a laptop they can also do classwork and other junk
I wouldn't wanna buy a PS4 just for one game, Soltie.
Like, case in point - if I want Confirm numpad0, I must have target switch 4/6 - how can i not have that
I use Xbox and PC for multiple games/other things. If I bought a PS4 then one day I'll get bored of FF14 and never touch it again.
anyways if you want to argue about the merits of buying a laptop or PS4 for FFXIV I recommend moving to #technology-discussion or else we're going to drown out other questions
Collecting dust in a closet somewhere.
@agile laurel you can rebind it in the keybinds menu under system
Alright yeah I'll stop. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks for the help guys, I hope to eventually play the game right.
np, good luck!
could you screenshot what the keybind menu says?
I haven't used macros much but why do the keybinds matter if you're talking about macro stuff?
they probably mean just keybinds
unless they're trying to do stuff with the macro menu
Anyways by default num4 and num6 act like left and right on the controller
the weird circle which hovers over entities is the "soft target" cursor
my point is, if numlock is OFF, num0 is not confirm
but if numlock is ON, num4/num6 are not cursor move, they're target select
with numlock off, num0 acts like the INS key
Numlock off 0 is Insert. not 0
insert is not a valid FFXIV input iirc
2, 4, 6, 8 are equivalent to arrow keys with numlock off
I just tested, it does detect Insert as an input
so having confirm and cursor move at once on numpad is impossible?
well there you go
No, you just need to change the keybind
Why does my "recommended gear" auto equip these earrings (which are clearly inferior) as opposed the ironworks one?
(ironwork)
Main Stat
What do you mean?
What class?
What job are you playing?
Samurai
you're a strength class
Samurai uses Strength as their main stat
those are aiming earings
then there you have it, striking gear is preferred for samurai
Main Stat > Sub Stats
they are main stat dex
With Samurai, you want Striking and Slaying gear
Dos our character ||become villain|| in shb?
samurai gear is usually the same as MNK gear so look for that generally
I think I read somewhere, not sure so better to ask here
I'd reccomend just playing
U can tell me on pm
With Samurai, you want Striking and Slaying
thanks a lot for this tip
I dont mind spoilers
it's spooilers you should just play the game tbh
you could just play through the story :P
this channel is not for spoilers
I never cared for spoilers tbh
Technically
seriously. just play
It is a place to ask lore questions without being spoiled in #archived-lore-spoilers
but with spoiler tags regardless
I know this channel is not for spoilers, thats why I suggested private chat
if you're already at shb you might as well do the MSQ instead of seeking out spoilers
Okbwell then I guess ill do that
The answer is ||no because that would make no sense.||
shared fates is basically the rewards system of FATES. in Stormblood they granted company seals which you could use to buy some materials
but in shadowbringers they grant bicolor gemstones which let you buy all the mob drops in the game for shadowbringers
shared fate progression just unlocks some collectibles you can buy with bicolor gemstones
and eventually the bicolor gemstone vendors in eulmore and the crystarium
what's the best thing to buy using phantasmorgia?
Just anything sellable in the market?
i mean, yeah it still depends on my world
But is it better than buying armors to convert them to seals?
entirely up to you, but seals is decent if you need seals, otherwise if you want gil I know a lot of people are in eternal need of dried hi-ethers
Would you say its better to do the Shared Fates at cap, or it doesn't matter much cus scaling?
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doesn't matter too much
i feel im gonna overlevel Shadowbringers a bit
but ah well :,D No biggie
Though...mh. An idea for later
hello, is a high level able to help me with a hard trial for main quest in an undersized party?
yes
quest progression doesn't care if it's done properly or not as long as it's done
yeah
unsynced or otherwise
just need the help 🙂
You'd probably have to say what server you're on and all that
not subbed and I don't have a crystal character unfortunately
server doesnt matter
ahh, well im on asura
oh i confused undecided with crystal whoops
Yeah I give up working out the difference Industrial
if all else fails you can just through up a party finder and use "unsync first time bonus"
What fight is this for anyway?
Which has more damage, Dancer or Summoner?
!faq met
Fair, fair
I'm just deciding which helps my team more, cause I know Summoner is one of the best but Dancer is super cool
Just pick what you want
dancer provides a lot of buffs to teammates
Guess I'll go Dancer, switch to Summoner if needed
The buffs that dancer gives more or less (try) make up for the lower personal dps
I'm currently at level 40.
I just like making numbers happen, you know?
Low or lower? Are they solo viable?
If they're trash
unlikely tbh, BLM is known as "nuke mage" for a reason
Dancer is the lowest personal dps wise but again, their buffs make up for it for the most part
Unless your BLM is mega Pepega small brain then you won't out dps them
Lowest of the DPS classes, or lowest in general?
Of dps jobs
Probably lowest of DPS jobs
but that doesn't take into account you buffing your party
and the damage from that
dps classes, i'm sure you'd probably be doing more damage than the healers xD
which is a good section of dancer's damage
i get to see big numbers when i have a dancer in my party and that makes me happy
like if you buffed your black mage and your black mage is really good that's going to really beef up your numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5bvyyv6dyk&ab_channel=DesperiusFFXIV
how do people do this kind of stuff like what
Thanks for helping me on this one @Lilly Yarborough.
I hope you like the collaboration and if that is the case, maybe he will also help me with the "Ultimate DNC" guide as well.
Enjoy the comedy, the tremnedous dance and some nasty BLM exploooshuns (16.8k DPS over 3 minutes)
...
By pressing buttons
press all the shiny buttons as close to each other as possible while the prettu buff is up
what is an uwu static
ye i got that question too, can someone explain what the acronyms UwU/TEA etc stand for?
Tea is the epic of alexander
ohhh
Uwu is Ultima Weapon (Ultimate)

Hello again all, I'd like to know if there's a way for me to save keybind 'layouts' like the HUD layouts? So I can toggle between different keybind setups.
Are you talking about hotbars or actually keybinds
hotbars are saved per job/class unless set to shared
keybinds aren't as flexible
Actual keybinds. I'm leveling a Bard to play with the Performances and it'd be nice if I didn't have to rebind all my keys everytime I'm done
Performance is under a seperate menu. Activating performance automatically pulls up a seperate screen with its own keybinds.
There's no need to have to rebind everything for performance.
Oh! That's perfect then, thank you! I was under that impression as I come from GW2 where we do have to rebind everything
Nah, FFxivs systems for HUDs and such are among the best in my experience. You can even design macros that make buttons appear and disappear xD
It's macro system is robust. The HUD is relatively simple, but super versatile with what you can and can't do with macros and commands.
The HUD may be simple in look, but imo the ability to customize it's layout is one of if not the best out of any mmo- you can move pretty much every element of the HUD in FF, which is huge
Nah, FFxivs systems for HUDs and such are among the best in my experience. You can even design macros that make buttons appear and disappear xD
Yep! One of the first things I learnt to do was get rid of all the noise and setup a cascading hotbar
@green pagoda asking in the wrong server, perhaps? Sounds like something from another game, not this one
Playing 14 has made me wish GW2 has that amount of UI customisation
Hey guys
I want to ask
The Dark Divinity war Body that you get from Odin fight in Urth Font..... Can you only get it by random drop from the fight??
Isn't there a token to purchase it from somewhere??
You can only get that as a random drop from the fight
ARR didn't have tokens for the majority of it's content
There is a different chest piece that takes up 4 slots and looks like the entire Odin set; that is purchased with tokens from the Odin Fate
Tokens weren't a thing until heavensward really
Tokens were a system introduced in Heavensward
I see
Aight then
Anyone knows a chest piece that looks like the Odin chest piece?? XD XD
need it for Glamour
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how hard are summoners, overall?
Was thinking of going arcan>summoner until 50/60, than trying samurai and dancer?
hard to learn, I mean
One of o the more complex
summoner's rotation doesn't change much but you get new bits which change how you play it
cycles? Crud, maybe not a good path for a returning player?
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see this for an introduction
"cycles" sounds a lot harder than it is
it used to be much more complex
The game introduces it slowly bit by bit
i mean still, just how complex are we talking? At least up to 50, as ima likely try samurai or hold out till dancer
oh not very
@leaden ginkgo Deepgold Cuirass of Fending dyed black might work
Under 50 ita simple
just keep up your DOTs, use your pet actions, and don't stand in stupid
well ill likely try samurai to 50-60, get dancer, than see what I like the most
what do you mean grab them?
._.
Free jobs
RDM is available at 50
exact same situation as Samurai and Dancer
except GNB is the 60 one
GNB and RDM are what?
I can assume rdm is red mage?
Gunbreaker and red mage
basically, just do all the
unless it's something like unlocking a class or a job
or leves
you can ignore those if you want to
(unless you're playing a class and it's at level 30, in which case you really should pick up the job.)
so just be on the lookout for the blue icons whenever im out and about
yep
oh and remember to do your class quests
starting from level 1, every 5 levels up to 50, every 2-3 levels afterwards
mmm
once you hit level 50 you'll have a bunch of
everywhere which are mostly optional dungeons
some are nice to do but there are so many I wouldn't sweat doing all of those
just the raids/trials and some optional dungeons here and there
well once i hit 50, ill likely try and grab samurai first
and rdm/gbm
seems like theres a lot to do though, if a tad overwhelming lol
@proud willow
Why thank you friend :D
remember gunbreaker is level 60 not 50
what are the items for phantasmagoria that are used in making neo-ishgard stuff?
Ugh God I can't remember them all by name
all? I thought it was like 2
Should be that some are for the old crafted gear and some are for the new oen
It's more than two
it's probably like, 6 of them
just look em up is my advice
ah okay, I'll just check the market board to see whatp eople want
It's not hard
they're all on the top of when you go to buy phantasma > other
they all cost some 10-50 tomestones each
i assume this is stuff I shouldnt worry about?
you mean the main story?
so for now though, just get to 50 so I can mess with samurai?
If you want
and maybe RDM
to be fair
My biggest gripe so far, is dungeons being required to progress the main story
you can worry about it now, people buy them off of you it's a great way to make money
20-30 min queue
Shouldn't be that long even as DPS
where do i go to look for hunt trains :oo
As a DPS it tends to be more 15-20
I had a few 30 min queues in ShB dungeons
Also joined a fc, and the nice people helped me with the first one
yea dps always have longer ques, in any game.
Usually roll tank, but the friends im playing with have a tank and off tank already, and really want dps lol
also it depends on the server
*data center
aether and primal DPS queues are 10-15 minutes during regular hours
You can try asking in Eulmore or Limsa for a Hunt link shell invite @hybrid jasper
Yea Im on Primal (which seems disliked)
Primal isn't disliked at all
Primal isn't disliked exactly
ahh alright
It's just not...talked about a lot?
i should go unlock every single hunt prereq i assume
Uhhh
or do i ?
You'll still get the currency from A and S ranks
Would I even get any benefit swithing data centers?
But you should unlock it anyways
iirc i had to go to the chick in kugane before
No not really
No Fried
it's just bad hours for NA DCs in general that's all
I would unlock all the hunt stuff just so you can use their vendors
So I have a simple question. Can I just level one character and play all the builds with that character? Or do I need to lvl up different characters?
You can be every job on one character
each job has a specific playstyle so you can't really "build" a job out
What do you mean Build?
so the starter class that you choose, is just a starter class. Like I could choose archer and then later on change to arcanist?
yes, but arcanist will start from level 1
like the sidequest of arcanist or the main story?
His base quest really
like I won't need to do the whole story all over again
base level*
the Main Story is not tied to your level
MSQ has its own level
you will have to do all the Arcanist sidequests though yes
ok thanks @slate arrow
That was what I was asking
And we can't share mounts with alt characters?
Some of the store mounts are account wide
Basically everything is character locked
ok I have no idea what is Mogstation but I will look into it right now
everything is based around characters unless stated otherwise
Its the place you pay for sub
Mogstation is the cash shop
And optional items
All things irl money related are on the Mogstation
Do note however you can't unlock mounts early
even if you buy a mount on mogstation you won't be able to use it until you unlock mounts via the MSQ
ohh ok
So I know how everyone feels about job level boosts, and I do agree in most situations. However I did buy one, to give the game a chance and see what the combat and content is like at endgame when the game is supposed to open up. It did work, I found combat and the game in general very dull at the beginning but having access to more skills and a couple that are off the GCD really livens it up. However I don’t know whether I should buy the ARR story skip. The base story is very uninteresting to me. If I did skip that story, does it open up in an expansion? How would I access it? Keep in mind that I’m an mmo veteran who has no issues learning a game, or my class quickly and isn’t afraid of the homework if it’s worth it. I’m just trying to see if it’s worth it. I almost quit in the early game, even after 30-40 levels.
tl;dr this is a final fantasy game first and mmo second
skipping ARR simply means you have to progress through the Heavensward MSQ
and after Heavensward comes Stormblood
etc etc etc
I'm in the "don't skip camp" and do consider that ARR was made in 1.5 years
while they were maintaining the flaming trainwreck of 1.0
after playing through ARR i get why people say don't skip
however I would gladly buy a skip potion just for the titan questline
arr is the basis of everything
if you skip arr you won't understand much of the expansions
that was the worst experience so far for me
as an example of how relevant old content still is, they're making the first level 24 main raid questline mandatory in the next patch
I’ll keep playing through the story. I guess if I don’t like it though this isn’t the game for me?
Probably.
For me the worst part was getting my mount. I had to jump through soooo many hoops to get it. Like you have to go back and forth through several different cities and talk with different NPCs to get it
While there is stuff to do, this game the main content is the story.
Honestly you could skip ARR and watch a summery online and still get most of the story beats
A lot of ARR is padding and needles busy work
Parts of post ARR are just as important, if not more than some parts of 2.0
ARR is a lot of world and lore building
But if you're not enjoying the story, then skip it instead of getting burnt out
i heard they're streamlining arr no?
Yes, the next major patch will streamline ARR's MSQ.
Yes in 5.3
keep in mind the reason ARR feels like a slog compared to the other expacs is because it literally consists of taking you up 50 levels
They will be, but not until 5.3 comes out
vs other expacs only being 10 levels
Which is still a few months out
Yeah it has too much busy work to FEEL like a MSQ line. Like they should reserve all of that for side quests
