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got a tell from a player saying “Square Enix should not allow this update at a sensitive time, please vote against it before they ruin the game on the forums” what’s happening?
a scam
ah
Did they have a link to the forums?
yep
Scam
Report them for suspicious activity
Don't open the link
Scam been going around for about a month
Don't log im
yep, I won’t
was just scared for a bit if something is happening to the game as I just started
nah
and if it were it wouldn't be spread around by mysterious pms with dodgy links
true
Roulettes daily are the best leveling method at all levels
Leveling, Alliance, Main Scenario and Trials are the good exp roulettes
And PvP if you can get the queue to pop fast
But only once a day for each roulette of course.
After that you go to dungeon spam or PotD
For the time taken yeah
Once you run out of Roulettes, you also have PotD and Squadrons. Or just Duty Finder if Healer/Tank.
Can you install the game on 2 computers and play your character on either ones? Spending the holidays at relatives and want to play some
yes
Yes
back up your ui and character settings
Ah ok, thought they might consider it password sharing like Netflix, who’s trying to stop it
How do you do 2fa? Is it easy?
you can either order a physical token or download the security app for your phone
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Thanks ✌️
what are some good NA servers with friendly people 🙂
That's a tough question to answer directly. Not that any of them are bad per se. Rather, you can find good people in any of the three. So instead I can offer the following suggestion. Aether data center is generally more focused on end game raiding. Crystal data center has a couple roleplay focused servers and is seen as the RP hub, more or less. Primal data center is somewhere in between, having a fairly even split of both.
How do I use my limit break in dungeons
As for specific servers within each data center, that I can't offer much insight on. Servers can matchmake/group up with any other server within their data center however. They can also travel between themselves as well. Data center has more bearing on your player pool than your home server.
@white ether There’s an action you can put on your bar to use it.
What’s the acton called
Limit Break
Where can I find the command
@white ether In your Actions and Traits window, under the General section, you'll find the Limit Break skill. Assign that to a bar to access it more easily. When running dungeons/trials you hit the LB skill once your LB gauge is full to activate it. The LB bar is shared among the whole party however so make sure you're in the right party role to use it.
I’m on pc
Oh in this instance, I'm saying LB as shorthand for Limit Break, not Left Bumper. 😅
Actions window is p on keyboard by default
Thanks
All of these windows can be accessed from this section of buttons which you should see somewhere on your UI, if you dont know where something is in the future
and on PC, it will show the current keybind to go straight to that window
Tips for a newb :0?
okay ty
is A10 allowable for Anima Density farming?
it gives density but it has more mechanics and more hp than a9s so there's kinda no benefit
well I saw some peps of PF farming glams @10 so why not join
anything heavensward related is ok right
one thing has baffled me on the scale of ishgard
like im looking at this and thinking "where the hell is the firmament"
it's on the backside
Will there be another expansion patches or is this it?
2 questions
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How many Hildibrand questlines are there? I’m currently on the second one, which takes place in Costa Del Sol.
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Is the quest Treasures and Tribulations in Wineport worth doing? It’s a blue ring quest, but want to be sure.
There's no indication of Yoshi-P wanting to end FFXIV.
the next expansion will be sometime next year, and we will have at least 3 large content patches between then and now
@slate crow a lot of them in ARR
So how long can I let my subscription lapse before they delete my character?
Treasure and Tribulations is a short quest to unlock the ability to obtain and open Treasure Maps
and i think a total of 3-4 in each of heavensward and stormblood
ARR Hildy is 21 quests
Unless you delete your character, it never goes away
You can come back 5 years from now and it'll still be there
HW Hildy is 8 and SB hildy is 9, but they are much more condensed compared to ARR hildy
ah right
What about if I buy a room at a FC? Will it still be there?
All I know is I just beat ||mandragoras who are apparently stealing vegetables or something||
Depends on if the FC house is still there.
If the FC still exists and you’re still in it when you return yeah it should be.
The FC owner can’t delete it?
How fun is tanking in this game? I am thinking of trying out warrior but not sure is it engaging as NIN or SAM ?
can the anima luminous crystals drop anytime or only when you have an anima quest active?
Quest
But you can get multiple crystals while the quest is active. I did it with a friend and by the time they got their fire crystal, I had five.
well unfortunaltyely i long since finished my previous anima
is there a samurai guide link?
is there a samurai guide link?
@molten spruce there should be one in the balance site, try https://thebalanceffxiv.com/jobguides/
!faq samguide
Boxer's Beginner's Guide:
http://bit.ly/SAM-Guide
Jahaudant's Shadowbringers Compendium:
http://bit.ly/SAM-Compendium
Should be the same guides
isnt there a thread of the hud layout? skill setup
Hello, is there a channel to search a free company?
!faq drgguide
Saving the Dragoon by Eve Malqir: http://tinyurl.com/drgguide5-0
@severe plover #recruitment-chaos
ty!
kind of weird question but how do I make it cycle through my idle animation when Im idle?
i see people do it but never actually figured it out myself
character settings
what is south shroud?
I found it earlier, but there was no "Cycle through.." setting
Maybe Im missing something?
You can only cycle through the poses in order
how come it takes so long to find a trial as a dps? there are 15 slots for dps and only 4 slots each for tank and healer but when i search as healer the queue is instant
yeah my bad
in this case the DPS queue is just lopsided
Tank queues are better since Gunbreaker is out
but it's just the nature of healing
not many people want to be a healer
but why does it take so long to find as dps when there are more than double the slots to fill as tank and healer combined?
4 tanks, 3 healer, 10 dps
are you queueing for level 60 or 70 content
1 tank slot, 1 healer slot, 2 Dps slot
or 80
This is before accounting for how many players don't play tank/healer
4 tanks 4 healer 15 dps
also it's like 3 am in California
we're entering the quiet hours for most of the servers
they're queueing for alliance raids
3 tanks, 6 healers, and 15 dps
sorry 3 tanks 6 healers 15 dps
which alliance r aid are you trying to queue for
It is crap hour, plus not everyone unlocks these alliance raids, unfortunately
Anyways there's not much you can do besides wait
yeah depending on your timezone it's either the dead of night or very early morning for NA
copied factory
its early morning so not many people are queueing
oh yeah of course copied factory is gonna be dead at this hour
and not many people are gonna need copied factory either
Most people spend their roulettes for leveling
And that's before you get into the item level cheesers
it's not just copied factory tho
Again, it's the middle of the night for most of NA
any alliance raid takes like an hour to find
it's the middle of the night
try in like 6 or so hours
most people are (unfortunately) going back to work now
i'm not on na
crystal is NA
that's my main
And/or unsubbed to FFXIV due to the delayed patch
well then what datacenter are you playing on?
elemental
ah in that case you're pretty much prime time.
Maybe check your duty finder settings to make sure you're searching for japanese players?
then u see my problem lol
Duty Finder > Cog at the top of the menu > click the J so it's on
it is

then you're just getting unlucky then
...No idea then. :X
are you playing as dps?
yes they are

hey quick question about lv52+ job quests, do i need to finish the story up to lvl 50 before i can accept those?
yes
i think it's just because there are too many dps classes maybe
you need to be on the heavensward msq before you can do heavensward job quests
I'm just running on the assumption that nowdays the playerbase is pretty diminished nowdays with not having a patch soon
alliance raids are generally the one queues dps win out on
because so many slots
but that said plenty of people are taking a break right now
so queues arent necessarily going to be that great
but just to comment on your point of their being too many dps jobs...it wouldnt matter if they added mroe tanks or healers
hey i added crysta balance to my account but how do i use it to buy a monthly subscription?
dps would still be the majority
@leaden ginkgo go to buy a sub > select crysta as payment
it only shows steam payment and paysafecard
on the website
but last month i also used crysta to buy a subscription
try a different browser or private browser
So I have a set of crafting tools I really like the looks of, could I use glamour plates to take on their looks? I never used those plates before..
Would it overwrite all my armor looks too? Would I need to use a slot per job?
Does anyone know what the cause for 90006 error on PS4 is about?
@jolly sorrel To use glamour plates you need to add the items to the glamour dresser which consumes them and makes then unequipable, but then you can use those items on as many gear sets for that class as you want.
How much of these 'glamour plates' can I have?
16, I think?
15
Okay, so to glamour my crafting tools I'd burn through over half of them.
Well, I guess I'm not using them for anything now anyway so
yep once you add an item to the glamour dresser you can't equip it again unless you remove it from the dress which would remove the glamour option
If it's just the tools, you don't need a whole plate for them
You can apply the glamour one time with one glamour prism
and it'll stay until you eventually get a new tool someday
unless you're still leveling, you should just manually glamour the tool
If you're still in the process of lev— yeah, what he said
I'm still leveling D:
yep glamour pirsims are really cheap so don't stress about burning through them
What gc rank are you
Oh, I could reserve 8 plates for leveling, and then remove the plates when I get to the current bis tools
Maxed, probably
But I'd need to keep carrying the tools I want to glamour with me too, right?
May as well. Alright, thanks
Is Zodiac still worth doing or is it more of an antiquity from ARR?
only if you want it for glamour
Nah, I did the first stage and just picked up the Zenith, but sounds like it's quite a grind.
It certainly is
Relic weapons are obsolete once a new expansion comes out, but you can still go back and get them for glamour purposes
Each expansion has one?
yeah
Ah, so something to grind for in order to get the most powerful weapon at the time.
yeah it's old endgame content
Atm, the "most powerful weapon" is from the 4th run of the savage tier
what is south shroud?
A location, south of shroud
the southern zone of the black shroud
is it on an expansion?
No
It's next door to where you start the game.
gridania is in the black shroud
oh yeah
Heyy everyone, I was wondering how can I know what Rank (A, B or S) is the hunt I just picked up is ... ?
the ones you pick up are only B ranks and normal mobs
there's no clan hunt board pickup things for A and S ranks
Alright, so how to I get Rank A and S hunts ?
you just do them
you get rewards from just killing them
A ranks spawn on set timers, S ranks spawn when secret conditions in the S rank's zone are met
is following the class stories worth it? or can i just skip through them
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ok soo wants again landed here ... i have a problem with the atma weapon books for whm there is a FATE that never seems to apear
@green grail Sounds good, going to search more about it, thanks
is it in Upper La Noscea?
nope eastern thanalan "the big bagoly theory ...
@leaden ginkgo the 1-30 class story? most are pretty meh IMO
i'm around lvl 60 on DRK now
DRK easily has one of the best job stories out of the jobs
there can only be so many fates up at once so try clearing out other fates
to put in context for their job story goodness: the person that wrote them wrote the story for most of (or maybe all of) shadowbringers
we did believe me we di d xD
but a lot of the fates for the books are only annoyingly long cds
so just have to stay in the zone
ooh interesting!
the problem is no matter what happens it just does not apear
will keep me motivated to continue reading for sure, ty
i spent around 4 hours the last time waiting for it ...
¯_(ツ)_/¯ just have to keep clearing fates in the zone and hope it spawns
like i said, the fates for the books tend to have annoyingly long cds
@obsidian patio out of curiosity what do you think are the other good job stories
bc DRK was the only really good one out of all the ones I have maxed
IT SPAWNED
and I am a sucker for a good story
SB WHM was nice, I liked ARR BLM since we worked with beast tribes before their actual tribes were unlocked.
I forgot all about SB WHM tbh and ye ARR BLM was nice imo
might be cheating, but I liked most of the GSM/CUL ones
I mean they're still jobs
pld is 
Heyy, quick question what is the best way to farm poetics after I'm done with my daily roulettes ?
What do you farm em for? I seem to have way too many.
@lime geode Anima
Ah I haven't gotten that far 🙂
hey guys, need a little help... I had started the WAR relic quest back in the day and did some steps, i came back recently and would now like to do another jobs relic. I abandoned the WAR quest but I cant see the WHM one pop up (im where its supposed to be). am I supposed to finish the WAR relic before I can take another?
I finished the 2.0 MSQ and all WHM job quests
ok, pretend i never asked anything 😅 i thought it was enough to go to the beastmen stornghold of your weapon right away, I missed the gerolt bit
thanks 😄
someone on tonberry could taxi me to gridania?
my friend EB is near and im wrong to make a new character
don't know if it would count as lore spoiler (imo no), but just to be safe
||do we learn about what happened in version 1 of the game ingame or is there a need to read it up?||
you can gloss over 1.0
All the important info you need to know is explained in the MSQ
yeah pretty much
the most important bit imo is the Answers cutscene, the rest is explained ingame bc ARR is all about worldbuilding
Basically events from 1.0 aren't really a thing to care about unless they're brought back up
Is D hit still the best for Dark Knight?
okay, thank you
crit is the best for like
everything
is there any controller guide on samurai?
Is completed anima weapon grind actually timegated by anything other than my sanity?
Hey do I sell low level dog shit gear or do I disenchant it or something
basically just how fast you can grind for poetics for the most part
@zealous bridge check if your gear is at 100% spiritbond and if so you can use the "Extract Materia" option to get materia from it which are basically stat gems
oh gee whiz. don't i recall you can also just buy the poetics gear now?
Alright
cause I have too much gil and would be wholly inclined to throw money at the problem til it goes away
nope :\
Anyone play AST with controller I'd like to see your set up
major oof.
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Beast tribes worth doing?
can be yeah
they give decent xp, especially the crafter ones give great xp
and every tribe has an unique mount
ixal tribe is good for low lvl crafting
and some other goodies like materia or crafting materials
and their own story too if you'd be interested
Hey quick question I’m trying to buy Fantasia off of mogstation I have the non steam version and the only payment options is steam wallet lol has this happened with anyone is it normal?
don't know if it would count as lore spoiler (imo no), but just to be safe
||do we learn about what happened in version 1 of the game ingame or is there a need to read it up?||
There is an official 1.0 recap video if you want @visual grotto
It's in the lore spoilers pinned messages "waning of the sixth sun"
Does one need to get the luminous crystals for the first anima weapon as the job?
or can you do it as any job
Any job is fine as long as you have the quest active
How to turn off other players abilitybeffects?
I cant see the boss from all the flashing
You can choose what you want to see here.
Thx
Recommend leaving it on "Show Limited" for party so you can still see the healer regen bubbles and stuff
Are there any off-hand equivalents to something like Luminary or Blessed tools? The fancy gold-coloured ones
how do i return to my home base? im in another world
at the crystal
idk which settings
to choose from
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it doesn't. but i never had a house in it
Your home world always has a mark next to it
I'm at an Aetheryte
There's an option that's like "Visit another world" or something
If none of the servers have the home world icon, you're currently on your home world
"Visit Another World Server"
TY!
does rested xp go up infinately even if im 80?
No
how much does rested stack up to?
which worlds are best for casual roleplaying?
1.5x of a level
is there a way to pay for the subscription without signing up for the auto renewing thing? I'm using the square enix site but paying for it steam wise
when new patches come out are there certain item on the marketboards that tend to change in price?
Primarily materia
ive been stockpiling crafting materia for overmelding the new crafter gear
ok SWEET thank u
you can choose when you pay for sub if you want auto renewal or not
are primal and crystal two different servers? thank you! ^^
what's it mean if someone's yellow role on here is primal and the purple role is crystal?
The colours are just a easy way to tell who is on what data centre
Ask her what data centre she's on
Data centres are clusters of servets
And you play with everyone on that data centre
The only real restriction between servers on a datacenter is that you can’t join someone’s FC on a different server
That’s it though
what's a good ilvl to start stormblood?
I'd say 270 is ideal, but 255 is fine
how long has everyone been playing ffxiv here
Can I login with my friend's account with my copy of FFXIV?
My main is at 291 days and I have ~10 days on alts
Let's say they have a copy of Windows version and mine is PS4's
of playtime. But I started playing in late 2016
Can I login with their account on mine?
You need a licence for every platform you're going to play on
how do i level up black smith?
It's not possible then?
You have a PS4 and they have a PC, right? You need a PS4 licence to login on PS4 and a PC licence to login on PC
so it wouldn't work
oh is your account on pc not able to be used on a ps4 ? that sucks
It is, you just need to buy and register the game again
You can have both a PS4 and a PC licence on the same account
(need to rebuy the expansions too)
Hellooo
so it wouldn't work
@median locust Thanks for the info. I wanna re-sub FFXIV again but probably gonna play mostly with Remote play so I wanna check how good the quality it is first and Idk anyone else with an account that have ps4 license.
I want to create a macro to alert a fellow astrologian in the group that I’ll be casting divination at a specific time, I have zero experience with macros, any tips?
Iirc, it's pretty straight forward. Have you tried it?
I want to make the noise as well, more often than not simply saying that doesn’t work
Doesn’t even help I get french astros in my English queues
That speak 0 English
ok, thank you
<se.NUMBER> goes up to 16
what does the number indicate?
The sound effect
I don’t want to make it too loud or distorting, which one do you advise?
I have no preference Other than danger bongos on 6 you can test then out in /echo
And take your pick
alright
What's the window like to not cancel your cast on moving? 75%?
bannock is an area not a person, and it's in a different map, I think
Bannock is in central shroud
Do any of the titles on the map have a quest emblem next to them? click that to change the map you're looking at
Walk out the gate of gridania and basically walk dead forward til you fall off a small cliff
@ my flag marker @void saddle
@agile laurel tyvm
it falls into the category of 'settlement real close to the city that doesn't actually have an aetheryte' so it can be awkward to navigate to
before you just figure 'it's right outside'
!faq slidecasting
• Slidecasting is the ability to
move at the end of the cast as the game registers your cast to be complete.
• Mistiming it too early will cause an interruption and moving late will cause your next queued hardcast to get interrupted. (ping relevant)
• Here is a visual (courtesy of Cecilia Atwood) of the estimated time the game snaps the cast to be complete:
In hells’ kier normal mode, the east set of symbols always shoots out first, right?
@median locust Awesome, thanks
@void saddle you can click on the MSQ tracker to show the NPC location
You'll have to check where the bird goes around the arena, I think
Also on any quest in your journal
I know it’s clockwise or counter clockwise
Conflicting info - for the second stage of anima weapon, does the weapon need to be equipped as the final boss of the instance dies, or as you leave the instance?
is there any blue side quests I should do? I always skipped them
but now I wanna do some
Raids
if clockwise, the symbols detonate clockwise, etc
Job quests
but I want to know which set shoots out first - as there are one on the east and west
is there an addon or something to make gathering nodes show on map
Those are the big ones
@agile laurel As you leave for the 2nd stage. As the boss dies for the light farming part that comes later
okay thx!
only on the mini map
Oh I see
@acoustic island This game doesn't really have add-ons.
@mossy tartan Pretty sure it's random but I could be wrong. Better to just watch the bird
Leveling an alt: Leves, FATES, finder, grinding
Any other options?
PotD
Lv15 and up, dungeons will always be better than those options (if by grinding you don't already mean dungeons)
Also early levels hunting log
Beast tribes and hunting bills are also good while you're in queue
Also adventurer squadron in your gc
Oh really? so just chain dungeons I was hoping for something a little different but if it ain't broke, I guess
is holminster switch a long dungeon?
Not sure what you're expecting, another Prae?
Palace of the Dead floors 51-60 from lv15-59 is more efficient for DPS if you have bad queues. 61-69 you'll wanna spam Heaven on High floors 21-30.
Dungeons will be the more efficient option (aside from roulettes) as long as your queues are good
It's normal dungeon size
To use the auto translate feature for a macro, what do I do?
All dungeons are normal dungeon size except Prae and Castrum and I guess ARF
ohh alright
second wind restores 500 hp it says
isn't it useless since I have 23k?
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like it's nothing
!action second wind
ohh
so it heals more the higher level you are
It'll never heal you for half your HP but it can save you from death sometimes
alright! nice to know
Is it after you finish HW that your adventurer icon changes to one with a flower?
The flower is for returning players
ah
That have been inactive for... I think it's 60 or 90 days
I did get a notifcation for that, but i declined it
i think i can accept it after i relog
You lose the sprout when you finish Stormblood + Patches and have 7 days of playtime
and what about the sprout with the yellow thing around?
That is the returning player thing
oh
Correction: Returner status is given if you haven't played for 45+ days and have at least one job lv50+
PoTD was great for leveling my CNJ/WHM when I really didnt feel like doing the other stuff. then it was all about dungeons after 15
lol, whoops. chat was higher up on my screen
not talking about that anymore
Game sound goes off a lot of times for me.
Been checking online seems no solution
don't know where to ask this, but does anyone have a preset for their bard Bome Midi Translator Classic? - I am european and my keyboard layout may differ from american. since I also have the scandinavian letters æøå instead of [ ] = ; etc on those spots.
- would highly appreciate it as I just got bard and wanted to play songs on my piano into the game.
I've a ring that I want glamoured as a Master Carpenters Ring as a CRP, and a Master Blacksmiths Ring as a BSM, etc.
How would I approach it? My gear set just changes it to the last glamour plate I applied and calls it a day
Glamour plate for all crafters, which is alot
or hold the rings and just glam them manually, which is barely worth the effort
I have that, a plate for all crafters, but when selecting a job it'll just ignore that entirely
I would have to manually re-select the glamour plate any time I switch jobs?
You need to swap in a town for thr plates to applu
I last applied the culinarian plate, saved it to a gearset, and then switched to carpenter- it just keeps the ring glamoured as the CUL ring and then says 'restricted class, cant show'
You can link glamour plates to a gearset to alleviate the manual switching
highest ilvl doesn’t mean best damage for that class right ?
Highest iLv will give you more potential damage but it's still up to the player to reach it
Higher ilvl will also provide more mainstats which are how you get more damage scaling anyways until you need to minmax substats with melds
That and weapon damage
Which scale with ilvl
Within 40 iLvl the better player will most likely have the better damage. But if they're 100 iLv apart then unless the highest iLv player is absolutely horrible, then they will do more damage
So iLv really does matter but within a few iLv, it doesn't as much
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at lvl60 what ilvl should be my gear?
260, shire
270 if you upgrade the shire
what's shire?
The lv60 version of ironworks
Brought with poetics in Idyllshire
You can get it immediately upon reaching Idyllshire
ohh at mor dhona
I'm at the beginning of hs
Then you cant go there yet
oh oki
where do we find wondrous tails in the menu? ;-;
gotcha, thanks!
what materia should tanks generally go for? determination and direct hit?
Tanks generally have a stat priority for melding endgame gear
Meld Tenacity before DH even
Tanks usually have around 2.4s gcd
I'm not sure what do you mean "stat priority" or "comfy sks"
What tank are you playing?
Are you even 80 yasu?
yes
Comfy SkS depends on the tank you're playing
are you progressing Savage raids or EX trials
dunno dude, I generally main healer
No like progressing as in attempting to clear them
either with a group or with pugs
Hey how do I revive if I die?
i mean i did most of them as healer lol
I have no options nothing
savage?
it'll say savage or extreme on the duty. the current tier of raids is Eden's Verse. If you're not looking to do those in the hardest difficulty
then your melds don't matter
I have 2 tanks lvl 80
Stat priotry is similar to how you meld healers
Healers typically have comfy piety > crit > dh or det
Tanks are similar, just swapping the piety for skill speed
Yes
I asked you which tank you play because it depends on your job.
I still don't get how that applies
Every tank needs X skill speed
based on your latency
to get enough gcds inside thier buff window
I like drk the most
every tank has these buffs windows
yeah my gcd is 2.39
You need like at least 2.38-2.4s gcd to hit 5 gcds under inner release
Same for dark
For DRK:
-1015 for 2.43 GCD - Tight af
-1117 for 2.42 GCD
-1218 for 2.41 GCD
-1320 for 2.40 GCD
-1421 for 2.39 GCD
-1523 for 2.38 GCD - Lenient
copied from the balance
you wanna reach your preferred amount of skill speed from those numbers
So you can fit 5 Bloodspillers under delirium
If you can't hit that, then you need more speed
^ If you can't, you need to meld till you reach the next Skillspeed tier then try again
If you can, then you have enough speed
Then you meld the next stat in your priority lisy
Which would be crit
i've been told it's either determination or direct hit
And if you cant meld crit cause its capped on your gear, you move down the list
Follow the stat priotry
oooh I think i know what you mean now
You meld to hit one of the skill speed tiers above. Then you meld the next stats unless you can't get the full stats from the materia. Then you meld the next thing, etc
That's why they're > layered > like > this
you mean following the list like this?
Yes, if it hits the cap and you would lose stats, don't meld it
You cant meld more crit on that gear cause its capped
But you can meld direct hit
Since it has none
ye that i know
But yeah for priority, DRK is Comfy SkS > Crit > DH > Det.
Meld to reach the tier of skill speed you want.
Then meld crit.
If you can't meld crit, meld DH.
If you can't meld DH, meld Det.
That's how stat priorities read
does speed affect gcd?
Yes
That's its entire purpose yeah
Thats the point of speed
oh shit I thought it was cast speed
Its both
what's the difference between determination and direct hit though
the explanation in game doesn't make much sense to me
Spell Speed is cast speel. Skill Speed is weaponskill recast.
Direct hits are mini crits
det is flat damage
oooh
Whenever you direct hitz you deal 25% more damage
Getting more DH increases the rate
You can crit and direct hit in the same attack
unlike crit. getting more DH doesn't increase the % in which you DH
For a critical direct hit
Direct Hit is a chance at dealing 25% more damage. More DH = higher chance to get a DH.
Crit is a chance at dealing X% more damage. More crit = higher chance to get a Crit AND higher damage from crits.
Det is just a general % increase to your damage and healing output.
Okay but what's "uncomfy" speed? Why wouldnt everyone want to max that stat to cap?
Allaganstudies has a full breakdown of stats and how each tier affects it
Because other stats are better
Because you're sacrificing a ton of other, better stats
everyones "comfy" is different based on timings as latency
Each tier of speed only reduces the gcd by 0.01s
You only need enough speed to hit that many more hits. If more skill speed doesn't make you get more hits under the buff window, then it's useless
i can do 5 bloodspillers under delirium
Then you have enough speed
i guess that's a gucci start
oh wow 0.01...wait are you saying it affects ticks on dots too? jeez
Noy entirely, only its damage
If you get 1500 skill speed you can hit 5 bloodspillers under Delirium. Getting 3000 skill speed won't make you hit more of them so that's 1500 wasted stats.
By a non noticeable amount
can you get 5 weaponskills under blood weapon?
i have like 1431 skill speed atm
That's fine
If you can get 5 Bloodspillers reliably, you can safely start melding other things now
I'm not sure I understand @marble drift
You need to fit 5 gcds under blood weapon as well
Otherwise its a lost of mana
And therefore lost of dps
yeah i can barely do 5 skills with blood weapon
As long as you can do it you have enough
Fissie posted the recommended list of speed
For DRK:
-1015 for 2.43 GCD - Tight af
-1117 for 2.42 GCD
-1218 for 2.41 GCD
-1320 for 2.40 GCD
-1421 for 2.39 GCD
-1523 for 2.38 GCD - Lenient
What decides what element the spirites in the diadem give you?
you mean what element the sprites are? I thought it would be the element of the sprite itself
well aren't they always the same color?
how do you make the buttons under the chat log, general,battle,event smaller? the chat log isn't included in the things i can change in hud layout
Hi guys. I'm in the crystarium, and I need to go to eulmore for my MSQ, but I forgot to unlock the aether thing. How can I get there?
Alright thank you
regarding the currency farm for anima weapons, would it be smarter just to farm poetics for the purchases or spam A1-4?
in terms of time efficiency
ignoring beast tribes cause I don't have the ARR/HW ones leveled
Farm Poetics definitely
ew. so just roulettes and ARF spam?
Eureka if you want/can
Best way to farm poetics by far + you work towards another relic at the same time
!faq poetics
2nd link has ways to get poetics efficiently
yeah i have no care to do eureka atm and trains are dead at my hours
thanks, though - appreciated
Anyone know where i can appeal a penalty on my account?
just found out about achievement certificates and I have 56 
hey guys, i just got the DLC but I'm running into this error
whats the best thing to spend them on?
anyone able to help me out?
Achievement certificates don't give useful rewards, only glamour, mounts and minions
so buy what you like
Its a swimsuit/beach outfit
Gives a black swimsuit
Nice
Achievement certificates are gotten every 50 points
the cascadier tokens are traded in mor dhona for the swimsuit
Ty
what is a legacy server, and is there anything I should know beforehand? thinking about transfering to aether/sargatanas
seems like it meant more around 2.0 and new servers getting added
Legacy servers are just servers that 1.0 players started on when 2.0 launched. That's it.
Nothing special about them
ok, i like the clear rates and slightly lower pop than other aether servers lol, so im eyeing it up. wish server transfers didnt cost money
buddy in my opinion always join new servers to level up fast that's what i did because you can play on any server later but on new you will get 2x exp boost
feel like I gotta get it right
how long does a character/server take? I'll be moving data centers
You can't get the exp boost if you transfer to a preferred server
Transfers are generally pretty quick
Only if you create a new character
oh is that so
yeah im not worried about leveling anyways, just looking for a home outside of crystal lol
There's no wrong answer for servers, the data centre is more important
ok, i like the clear rates and slightly lower pop than other aether servers lol, so im eyeing it up. wish server transfers didnt cost money
Clears are across the data center. There isn't (or at least shouldn't) be a reason to really look at server clears. It's a statistic which means nothing whatsoever
i mean, the answer to which data center/server is typically "just pick one", so ill take whatever sliver I can to direct me
but thanks
i guess
Sure but don't pick a completely useless sliver
then point me to a less useless one
Take whatever data centre is closee to you, if you're NA Go NA
ok, not a factor
im already leveled, im transferring
Datacenter somewhat matters but server doesn't
Alright I got nothing but still
Unless there's a specific FC you want to join
server would for housing and FC's to a point
Or friends on that server
Right Dreakon
smaller pops probably mean more availability, for what little there is id think
No matter where you go
Maybe all the servers on aether
I will put out there that if you're considering sargatanas then it definitely has no housing right now
Even on small pops
But on other data centers there should be space
IIRC Twin and Spriggan have slots for example on the EU ones (not like Dreakon would go there but hey)
anywho, im just going with the tools i got. while clear rates by server are unreliable and pretty meaningless with cross world parties and matchmaking, its probably not too farfetched that a legacy server would house a less casual crowd
which has some significance on FC's there id imagine
Most FCs don't really raid together at least on Sargatanas
Like I can think of a handful off the top of my head and that's not significant
odd, wouldnt that be the point for FC's focusing on that kinda stuff?
Most people use discord and linkshells
what do FC's do lol
interesting
fair enough
You really can't go too wrong with any aether server but Sarg isn't a bad option if you're really set
Do you want to be a dps or a tank?
I guess i eventually want to do both, but i like the aesthetic of pugalist
best servers for roleplaying?
eventually want to try dancer too
Then try pugilist first
does anyone play on NA exodus?
@heavy kettle balmung and mateus
how can i unlock this im already 35
Do your job quests
Should be in the maurader's guild at that level
i just became scholar havent done any job quest
Should br able to click on the small questname in the topleft of the screen to see where it is too if you got the mainstory progress ui element enabled
thanks guys
Job quests are mandatory
hi i am currently a level 10 fisherman and I was wondering if there is an effective/efficient way to level this job or do I just have to go to different areas and catch fish until the next job quest?
is there a cap on summoners summon amount
1 summon at a time
one
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@wanton herald do leves, ocean fishing every 2 hours when its up and grand company turn ins. Do namazu beast tribr and qitiri beast tribe at 60 and 70 respectively
when does the fashion report reset?
thankii
Is it hard to get the Kirin mount?
^ EX fights easy when you unsync it with people who are level 80 and stuff
Like, 30 second fights
how often do you guys use regen at level 80 stuff?
depends on the content
expert trials and savage content for example
assuming you're with players who only take mechanic damage? Probably only once or twice, if you know damage isn't coming up and it's only 1-2 players who aren't the tanks
Depends on the exact piece of content however
See the healing timelines in The Balance
Rofl I was afraid to pick the wrong flag
What're the rules for the #603040697884475393 channel? Am I allowed to post my recruitment for my FC there? is it tied to the subreddit at all to where if I posted on the reddit I shouldn't post here too? >.>
Yes you are allowed to post FC recruitment messages.
No, posting on the sub doesn't prevent you from posting here as well.
One more question, am I allowed to have links to other discords in my post, or should I remove that? >.>
Thanks for answering btw ;3
Does this app have voice communication for when y’all raid? It’s like the ventrilo
If I glamour the Eternity Ring will I still be able to use it somehow to teleport to my spouse?
@hot temple generally people tend to just ask for potential recruitment candidates to dm them and they provide the discord name and #tag
Thanks :3
Is it worth it to level the trusts? It seems really grindy to level everyone
@topaz hornet yes it has voice chat. You can re-react to the role in #612757637813239808 to remove it
@misty pelican As long as you have the ring itself on you then you can use it
It is if you value the achievement/ability to do dungeons for exp without using duty finder @trail ravine
@raven sage Thank you!
Also you can sorta glamour the trusts
Tyvm
@misty pelican Actually I should clarify better. As long as it's in your armoury or inventory you can use it
How fast do trusts level?
Mine are still at 71/72, took 3 runs of Holminster to lvl from 71-72
Takes longer bc i don't think the npcs use aoes
The runs are a fixed 30 minutes
What's the respawn time for the brick event
The npcs adjust their damage based on how quick you go
I keep showing up but nothing's there
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It takes a while. Like 30ish minutes? At least from what I noticed
30min is my avg
so I finally unlocked Ishguard Restoration and it's like...kind of overwhelming
what do most folks use it for nowadays since it's old content?
yeah most of my DoL stuff is above 70 atm, do I just do gathering turn ins then?
Yep. You can use it all the way up to 80 for leveling.
Then do the usual scrip turn ins and whatever.
and crafting is just...collectible turn ins then?
Yeah, right now.
I just learned about those yesterday, collectibles in general
did a few collectible turn ins in Idyllshire with Rowena at first
When they release the next stage there will also be FATEs that show up at certain timings (based on server progress).
Collectibles are just the same as HQing things, except you need a minimum amount to turn in and get rewarded based on collectiblity
so mostly Ishguard Resto is for grinding stuff up to 80 and picking through the rewards in the Skyscrip vendor?
Between construction phases like we are right now, yes.
yeah I'm on Balmung and I think all of our construction stuff is finished
is there no "global chat" in this game? I never see anyone talking to eachother.
No
so this is stuff that they'll keep updating then with new projects?
Yes
so how do you interact with people?
okay cool cool, so when I do get my DoL stuff up to 80....beyond the minions and stuff in the vendor....I can basically ignore it if I don't want to level up crafting stuff then?
Shouting, going to populated zones, talking while waiting in party finder, socialising in free companies
Pretty much, yeah @leaden ginkgo
I'm just trying to prioritize if I really really need to do this right now or if I can put it off until later that's all
Oh, you can totally put it off.
I finished Heavensward FINALLY and now I'm going back to look at my DoL stuff and DoH stuff
and it's like fuck me this is a lot
It will still be around several expansions down the road, much like you can still do the Doman Restoration (Stormblood's version).
I don't understand. If I go to populated zones I don't see anyone chatting. @faint flare
ooooh there's a doman resto too? Cool cool
Depends on server
how do I see/join linkshells
You get invited
Doman Restoration isn't the same thing at all, it's more similar to a beast tribe than anything else
okay okay I've done a handful of those beast tribe things, only have my eyes set on one particular one though out of all of them
You sell stuff to them every week to get new stuff from them
as a new player I don't know how I'm meant to socialize with other players. How do I get invited to a linkshell? how do I know how many there are/which to join?
this game seems to discourage socializing
@median locust so it's kind of like Zhloe's Orphanage in Idyllshire?
what does sitting in limsa do? I never see anyone say anything there
Its where most people hang out and you occasionally see people talk
Server depending as always
Doman Resto isn't crafting related
I'm on zalera crystal. Very populated and the game still feels extremely empty
large open cities with no one around
You sell stuff to them like a regular vendor and they give you more gil than you usually would
And there's a cap on it that you have to meet
and you have to try and meet the cap every week
You've sat in Limsa on Zalera and never seen anyone talking? Every time I go there I always walk into the middle of at least five different conversations in the vicinity of the main aetheryte.
@median locust so it's basically "here's a bunch of my junk" from a weekly basis and as each week moves past and as you sell more, the Reconstruction advances?
Yes, there's also quests to do to advance it
aye saw those in the wiki
You have a few different filters by default when you start the game. This is only theoretical but some of them do just cut out chat like the event and battle filters sooo
Lemon
do many people do Doman Reconstruction at all? because I'm trying to find the rewards for doing it
and all I can see are a few offerings from the Junkmonger
Title, few furnishings, the top, and all the money you get from doing it
I have everything enabled. I don't see anything that would indicate any filtering
also it's just really wholesome to do tbh
@gentle knoll You might just need to find a good, active FC to join then?
The bottom bits are filters just fyi
and the yellow dot tells you which one you have on
cool cool thanks!
in case it was set to one different
"on" meaning filtered? meaning disabled?
No
Just like Alisaie said, check the filters at the bottom of your chat window to see which one is currently active.
If you have the "Event" or "Battle" filter active instead of the "General" one, you won't see any conversations at all.
it is on general. I've never seen anyone chat ever.
Just unlucky then, maybe.
I'm lvl 72 on my first job and I just feel like I'm playing a single player game. Only player interaction I have is in duty finder parties
As we've noted, people tend to keep the bulk of their socialization within FC chat or linkshells.
I know of at least one very active, social FC on Zalera (which I'm a part of - thus how I know), but I'm sure there are others.
You can ask in /shout chat in any of the three major cities if there are social FCs recruiting.
I'm in an FC with friends already
idk this game just feels so sterile and lifeless at times. Not like an MMO
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Hey im relatively new, and im having issues choosing which class/role/job to go for, as my first. Can anyone recommend a video or anything of the sort, that can explain the different choices in detail?
What to expect etc
Yeah im not looking for a basic thats the thing
I don't think there's any really "in depth" comprehensive videos.
Honestly that Larry one is the best you're going to get tbh
I haven't watched it admittedly but his stormblood one was good
There might be ones for individual jobs, but those would be more aimed at people who have already selected a role they'd prefer to play.
I mean, we could break it down for you here and try to help you choose.
Or you could just try every job out on your own, since you can do all the things on one character.
Main just finished ARR but at one point of the final quest where you have to climb into a robot, I could not and the team was not helpful in telling me what to do so I miss the next segment. I later found the Magitek summon thing in my inventory. Is that what I have to use?
You interact with the console prior to the elevator
There's a pedestal before you go up to where the armour hangar is that you have to interact with first.
Then you're allowed to ride the magitek armour at the top
^
yea, ok so you have to interact before riding up
Yes
ok thanks
Everyone has to interact with it individually
Otherwise you won't have the required "authorization" to pilot a magitek armour
For levelling retainers, should I be doing hunting ventures or quick ventures?
Both. Quick ventures when you're online, then send them on a Hunt venture before you log off for the day.
It feels like quick ventures aren't worth it since the exp is entirely randomised
They have a shorter turnaround though, so it's more efficient to keep sending them every hour.
The hunting ventures are an hour too though
Also, does common vendor now a thing of the past after lvl 50, you have to get you higher gears thru new vendors quests and market
Hunting ventures are 18 hours.
MSQ will give you gear every once in a while, normally shouldn't have to buy vendor gear
You mean Field Ventures I think
I'm not talking about the field exploration ventures @open coral
or uh
Ohh
going for a specific item
Got it
I think Quick ventures are still the better option? idk now. I'm lazy so I just send my retainers out on 18 hour ones when I remember they exist.
but yeah, so I'm asking if it's better to do the one hour quick ventures, where the exp gain is random, or the hunting ventures where the exp gain is fixed - they both take an hour
Keep hearing about poetics stuff
yes
@sullen pulsar Yes. You got a special currency called Tomestones of Poetics from completing Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium. That currency can be exchanged for level 50 gear (and 60 and 70, but those aren't your concern yet) - the Ironworks set, which is the basically the best gear you can get at level 50.
is there an auto sort for inventory?
rightclick and press sort
also poetics aren't just from those two dungeons, it's just the first ones that give it. It's given from all level 50+ content from now on basically @sullen pulsar
^
Quick ventures are too RNG I'm pretty sure it's not the best @leaden ginkgo
IIRC
It's the hunting one most of the time and then set it for the field exploration ones when you go to sleep?
is most efficient?
Alisaie is smart and knows many things.
That sounds about right - looks like the quick ventures are only worth doing once your retainers are geared enough to bring back decent stuff since that gives more exp
mine keeps giving me malm kelp 😢
Love that for you tbh

