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ocean pilot
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oh i see

leaden ginkgo
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Probably not the best place for this question but what are good things to spend company seals on when capped at 90k?

faint flare
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Check what's selling on market board and buy that

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Stuff like coke etc

twilit arch
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prisms, venture tokens, coke/other crafting materials that sell well

leaden ginkgo
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Oh didn't think of that

tidal yarrow
robust crow
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to craft HQ grade 3 tinctures, is 470 scrip gear sufficient?

turbid crystal
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how is mid and end game like for this game? Are instance dungeons higher difficulties requires guild mates or can we mostly randomly join public rooms and have fun?

tidal yarrow
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do I have to get my reputation higher? I've done all beast tribes missions I could on the moogle

median locust
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That's the rank 2 quest so yes Yuuko

faint flare
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You can pug higher end raids but you'll be bashing your head against a brick wall alot

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Doable but slightly more headache inducing cause pugs are pugs

robust crow
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most of the game's content is doable through duty finder

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the highest end of content, savage raiding, is a steep increase in difficulty and will require you to study the fights

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but is still doable with a party finder party

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assuming you join one that has also studied the fight

tidal yarrow
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That's the rank 2 quest so yes Yuuko
I am 2. recognized. guess it's not enough?

median locust
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If it says Extreme, Minstrel's Ballad, Savage or Binding Coils, then you do it through party finder

robust crow
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but throughout the story, dungeons and bosses become more difficult to start preparing you for higher end raiding

faint flare
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Its the rank up quest

vagrant copper
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Did you do your 3 quests for the day? If so, you need to wait until the next day. Which 3 you get will be more or less random.

tidal yarrow
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oh.. so I gotta wait for tomorrow

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sad

faint flare
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Rank up quests dont count towards the daily

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When you're maxed out on that rep you can take it

median locust
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Yeah that's why ranking up beast tribes takes a while, it's only 3 quests a day

tidal yarrow
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yesterday I somehow managed to do 6, today only 3

faint flare
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Because you ranked up

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When you rank up, you can do 3 more

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Unless you rank up to 7 or 8, those dont have additional quests for the day

tidal yarrow
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ohh okay

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just to have an idea. how many days do I need to get moogle dance?

median locust
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Usually takes around a month to max out a tribe, and the moogle dance is at the 2nd to last rank I believe

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So around 3 weeks

twilit arch
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2 and a half weeks

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is how long it takes to max out a tribe

tidal yarrow
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holy

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man I just wanna dance..

vagrant copper
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Gotta put in the time if you want the swagger

median locust
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Fairly certain it takes more than 2 and a half weeks, a month after release is usually when I max out new tribes when I do them

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and I rarely miss more than 1-2 days

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but maybe I'm wrong

uneven galleon
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Hi guys. Where can I repurchase the Level 60 SMN job gear? the antiquated caller set?

median locust
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Forgotten Knight in Ishgard, for Centurio Seals

uneven galleon
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Thanks

median locust
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you also get it free for completing the lv60 job quest

uneven galleon
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I already did it

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seems like I accidentally sold

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frozen karma
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if I'm AST and I play a card on myself, does it increase my healing amount?

median locust
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No, it's only damage

twilit arch
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it takes 20 days to max out a tribe so a bit more than 2 and half weeks

mental garnet
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Wait can you combine status effects (other) with buffs into one bar?

stable hinge
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welp apparently if you queue before reset and you finish after reset it takes up your reward for the new day

vagrant copper
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Yep

twilit arch
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yes, thats what was said earlier

stable hinge
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oh I must have misread then

median locust
stable hinge
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yeah I did

twilit arch
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i question that just because it says "highest rep giving quest"

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which....you don't have a choice and all of the dailies for expansion tribes give the same amount of rep

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but either way though you don't need bloodsworn for the dance so its not going to take 41 days

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its going to be less

mossy tartan
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What are the names of the 2 serpent monsters that spawn in ||bismarck’s|| trial?

twilit arch
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So'Suwa and Ul'Sanuwa

mossy tartan
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Thank you

turbid crystal
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if I unlock a new class, i have to level up from lvl 1 right?

faint flare
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If its a base class

fresh lodge
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For the most part yes

faint flare
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Expansion jobs start higher

robust crow
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are grade 3 tinctures craftable in HQ with just the 470 white scrip gear

fresh lodge
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But job introduced in an expansion starts at a higher level

turbid crystal
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oh, so Samurai and Dark Knights starts higher?

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got it

forest laurel
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yes

fresh lodge
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Samurai starts at 50, Dark Knight starts at 30

faint flare
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50 and 30 respectively

forest laurel
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dark knight, astrologian and machinist at 30
samurai and red mage at 50
gunbreaker and dancer at 60

rich flume
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does MSQ roulette give a lot of exp?

robust crow
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yes

faint flare
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Yes

vocal shell
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yes

robust crow
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especially praetorium

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anyone who's there for exp wants praetorium

rich flume
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Compared to leveling roulette for example

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same or more?

faint flare
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But it takes forever

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More

rich flume
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ok ty

faint flare
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In terms of raw xp

vocal shell
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its around 40mins

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Iirc

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if you get prae

faint flare
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In raw xp,more...in terms of xp/per, probably less

halcyon glen
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Prae is 30 minutes of cutscenes almost to the second

robust crow
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great to watch some anime or do chores or something

halcyon glen
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And usually 15-20ish minutes of actually doing shit

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as long as the tanks know what they're doing and skip pulls 😛

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Praetorium from MSQ roulette is a solid half a level or more, even on your highest level job, until like 70 minimum

kind eagle
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Where is the flame company

faint flare
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Uldah

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Near the aetheryte

kind eagle
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oh

faint flare
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Go right after coming out

kind eagle
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i completely forgotten

nova umbra
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if you max out every beast tribe, would you ever do beast tribes to make gil?

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or is it just not worth it

twilit arch
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eh i mean they're like 5 minutes of work

gloomy ice
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You can sell some of their exclusive dyes or rank locked materials perhaps.

twilit arch
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but generally no, i dont bother with tribes once i'm done with them and have stuff i want from them

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finite socket
lavish vortex
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hi!! is the only way to get Atmas doing FATEs?

vagrant copper
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If you have a Steam FFXIV account, you need to use Steam. If you have a Windows FFXIV account, you need to use the Windows launcher. @finite socket

twilit arch
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yes the only way to get atmas is to do fates with a zenith weapon equipped @lavish vortex

lavish vortex
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thanks, do you know the drop rates? ive done 5 already in the north shroud and no Atma yet

finite socket
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@vagrant copper so I have to download the game over on steam, no way around it ?

vagrant copper
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Correct

slate arrow
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you can redirect the install to those folders I think but otherwise yeah gotta redownload it

twilit arch
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nothing that's for sure, but its guestimate to be around 25%

nova umbra
twilit arch
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its the busy status

gloomy mortar
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Is there a point to giving Retainers Level 80 rings if all they do is give +GP?

lavish vortex
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Just to make sure, this is the weapon I have to use to get atmas from fates right? And north shroud, correct?

twilit arch
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yes

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and yes north shroud is one of the zones

polar haven
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Is there a page/message somewhere with a collection of auto translate macros for dungeons? assuming that's what people use anyway

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I have to play on a JP server and I'm a bit sick of being "mute"

twilit arch
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rng is rng, just have to keep doing fates until you get one

lavish vortex
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Thanks

static yacht
open coral
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@polar haven If you start typing what you want to say and press Tab (or R1 if you're on controller) it will pull up a list of AT terms that match that word.

slate arrow
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@gloomy mortar nope, but some level 80 rings do give some stats other than GP so if you're retainer is short a few points you can also give them cheaply melded accessories as well

open coral
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Just remember that AT is fairly limited in scope, so you're not going to be able to have really coherent conversations most of the time.

polar haven
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ah, I didn't know you could do that

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I'm not looking to have conversations with AT, don't worry about that

open coral
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I only learned about the shortcut recently myself, and I've been playing for five years 😄

polar haven
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It's just that almost everyone I find in duty roulette says something at the start and end of the dungeon

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meanwhile I haven't said a single thing, not even a thank you

simple shore
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Good habit. Dont communicate with strangers.

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lol

open coral
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Oh! The hello/goodbye are pretty easy. You can just macro those into a quick salutation.

polar haven
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yeah, a macro was more what I was looking for (but the other thing seems useful anyway)

open coral
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At the start is atlLet's do it! atr

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And at the end is atlGood game! atr

polar haven
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something I press at the start and another I press after the end boss

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I'll go look up how to actually use the macro system

open coral
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For straight text all you need is:

/p atlLet's do it! atr (for example)

gloomy mortar
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How do you turn off other people’s Minion names but keep the player names?

open coral
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It's one of the checkboxes under nameplate settings, as I recall

faint flare
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Character config > name settings > npcs > minions

kind eagle
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How do dark blue dye looks like

molten spruce
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did dragon gauge get changed? it doesnt show me the eye charges or anything and doesnt have the cool dragon design

static yacht
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@kind eagle you can right click on an item and hit "view as dyed"

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and then see that item how it would appear dyed

vagrant copper
kind eagle
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Ty

molten spruce
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i mean im new, im just seeing shadowbringer vids and their gauge is way different

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and stormblood too

vagrant copper
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The gauges change as you level up and get more skills

molten spruce
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im in stormblood and got mirage dive, still no eye charges

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maybe job quest?

faint flare
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You get eye charges at 70

vagrant copper
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Life of the dragon requires the level 70 job quest, yes

faint flare
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As it has to do with Life of the dragon and Nastrond

molten spruce
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ahhhh

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ok

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so 2 more lvls for me

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gloomy mortar
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Does blacklisting someone mean you don’t get emote notifications in your chat window too?

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If a FC moves to a bigger house, do the private rooms go with it or do they have to be rebought?

craggy scarab
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what's the least played job?

gloomy mortar
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Blue Mage

vagrant copper
compact rose
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Does the queue pause during cutscenes?

twilit arch
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i would not believe ffxivcensus

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especially for active character information

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and no, queue doesn't pause

vagrant copper
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Which can be quite annoying if you've switched off the class that you queued with

turbid crystal
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for classes like armorer and blacksmith, are those combat classes? because they are treated as classes but doesn't sound like combat classes

vagrant copper
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Those are crafting classes

turbid crystal
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do they have the same level cap as the combat classes?

twilit arch
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yes

turbid crystal
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and I bet that you level them via crafting right?

wintry chasm
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Yes

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Crafting/doing crafting quests/other crafting activities like Grand Company supply stuff

quasi spire
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what's the best way to grind MGP?

little swift
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!faq mgpguide

zinc orbitBOT
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MGP Guide

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little swift
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Do your fashion report and daily mini cactpot

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Weejly Cactpot as well

latent prism
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is there level 50/60 scrip gear?

little swift
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Those are the biggeat ones

twilit arch
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yes, there is

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thought the 50 scrip gear is job specific

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Er

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60

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sorry, 50 doesn't have scrip gear

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easiest gear at 50 to get is the artisan set from gc seals. the gathering only has the mh and helm iirc

last seal
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is there a place that shows images of the weapons so I can decide what I want to try and get for glamour?

latent prism
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thanks, i'll check the gc set out

remote lintel
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gamerescape

twilit arch
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gamerescape has images galleries

last seal
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I cant find a gallery, I can find the list of weapons and their stats I just want to see what they look like

vagrant copper
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Did you click on the weapon?

last seal
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so I have to go weapon by weapon? oof that's gunna take a while

left cedar
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I found this weird floating flame in Il Mheg. Any idea what that's about?

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I've never seen it before

median locust
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Screenshot? Spoiler tag just in case

left cedar
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How do I spoiler tag?

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Oh wait

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Never mind

median locust
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When you upload the picture, there's gonna be a spoiler tag check mark

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I don't think there's one on mobile though

left cedar
median locust
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No idea honestly

left cedar
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Is it there for other people or is it just me? If anyone's able to check

halcyon glen
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It's spoilered for everyone

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you did gud

vagrant copper
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Is there anything on the other side of the terrain? Might just be a buggy reflection.

dusty summit
twilit arch
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modern legend

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can get it with restoration scrips or from the marketboard

halcyon glen
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On Android, you can rename a photo something like SPOILER_filename.png

dusty summit
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thanks @twilit arch ^-^

last seal
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is there an lfg on here for people who want to do older content? ie I want to get the giant golden chicken so I need to do the extreme hw trials

vagrant copper
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You can post in the recruitment channels if you want though most farming like that is just done through PF ingame

dusty summit
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id say PF is your friend

median locust
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That's mostly just party finder, plenty of people run old extremes for that

last seal
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45 minute wait on extreme trials one afternoon pf is not my ally

halcyon glen
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Ask your FC too - our FC ran Ravana and Bismark for birbs this past weekend

median locust
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Farms will be more active in the evening, for sure

little swift
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Ravana is a 15second fight

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Unsynced

halcyon glen
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Ravana was nice, Bismark was Not Nice

median locust
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Bismarck is nice. It just takes long. Which makes it not nice. I lied.

little swift
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Bismarck sux because it takes so long

halcyon glen
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also he just wasn't dropping birbs

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in addition to it taking 6 years

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and by 6 years i mean 3.5 minutes

last seal
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I actually like the Bismarck fight

little swift
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The fight itself isn't bad it just has a lot of downtime

halcyon glen
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oh sure, but just coming from unsynced Ravana with 5 level 80s and a level 70 there's just a ton of transition

last seal
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it's fun and challenging when people actually actually remember to use the barrier so we dont start the second half of the fight with less than 45 hp remaining

halcyon glen
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pfft we never touched the barrier unsynced

frank chasm
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Does anyone know a good amount about discord?

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Like very familiar with running a server?

vagrant copper
frank chasm
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Ok

deft quiver
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is there any way to get a 1 time password on pc or through email?

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running diagnostics and doing a backup on my phone rn cause screen is broken

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and cant access the app atm

median locust
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You should've gotten a recovery password when you first created your one time password

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If you have that you should be able to disable it temporarily until you can access your phone again

deft quiver
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alright thanks

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fair mountain
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If I’m a noob (~ lvl 30, first ff14 experience), at what point is it worth joining a FC?

pure flicker
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the social aspect, but they also have buffs they can put up that can you get you more battle exp, increase food buffs, crafting exp

light warren
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the half cost of tele is nice especially at low lvls

fair mountain
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So it’s worth doing it as soon as possible? It seems like a lot are oriented towards endgame/later content, and more experienced players

light warren
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theres plenty of more casual FC

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you can search them on the lodestone iirc

pure flicker
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if the company is actively keeping the buffs up i think its worth it. but there are a lot of casual ones too

twilit arch
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fcs for the most part are usually social stuff

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there certainly are some end-game focused free companies, but generally people join a static for that. and those aren't necessarily tied to their free company

unique oasis
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what causes enochian to refresh? cause i'll still be in AF or UI and it'll go down and from reading the description all it says is it turns off if im not in AF/UI but i'm not letting that run out so...?

twilit arch
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but there's no harm in joining an fc and leaving if you don't like it

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you need to switch between AF/UI to refresh enochian

unique oasis
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i've heard of some FCs that don't allow rejoiners i.e. if you leave they expect you to be gone forever

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they're jerks though

eternal grove
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How hard is it to level from 60 to 80?

unique oasis
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so you're saying, kaelwryn, that once BLM unlocks enochian you no longer play by emptying and refilling mana but instead by the enochian meter

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i.e. even if you havent spent all your mana you have to go to ice before enochian runs out

twilit arch
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no, you still will do thbat

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but you use f1/f3, b3 to refresh

rich bay
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Only players that were kicked are never welcome anymore normally in FC's. But yeah, there are FC's that act like cults.

eternal grove
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I was thinking of buying the paladin scroll to 80 because I know gunbreaker and dark knight atart at like 50 and 60

unique oasis
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but im not out of MP before i'm done casting fire IVs

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dark knight starts at 30

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buying those scrolls, especially on tank, just seems like a poor idea to me

twilit arch
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its why the lv 80 rotation is 3 f4 > 1 f1 > 3 f4s

pure flicker
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60-80 can be pretty fast with best tribes and dungeon queues on tanks

unique oasis
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i levelled paladin recently from 34 (where i left it in heavensward) to 80, and the slowest part by far was 60-80

twilit arch
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so you refresh your AF stack and keep enochain

unique oasis
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the early levels were so fast

median locust
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Your rotation looks like B3 T3 F3 F4 (till you have to refresh AF/UI) then F1, F4 till out of mana, B3 repeat

eternal grove
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Yea gunbreaker at 60 seems solid to me thankfully so I won't buy a scroll but paladin and dark knight start much lower

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But I understand you should get the fundamental first

unique oasis
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so i have to put a F1 in middle of the F4s

twilit arch
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yes

median locust
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To refresh AF/UI yeah

eternal grove
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I'm going through warrior now and I'm 45

unique oasis
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whats a polyglot stack

median locust
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F4 won't do it for you

twilit arch
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cos f4 doesn't refresh AF

unique oasis
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but AF isnt whats running out

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it's enochian

median locust
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You get a Polyglot every 30s enochian is up when you're 70+

unique oasis
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man i do not understand this job

median locust
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You can use it to cast Foul or Xenoglossy

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Foul is 70, Xeno is 80

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Foul is AoE with cast time, Xeno is single target and instant

unique oasis
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foul is a lot of potency

twilit arch
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You maintain enochain's timer by refreshing AF/UI

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so f4 doesn't refresh af

median locust
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Till you get Xenoglossy, just cast Foul whenever during Ice phase

unique oasis
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whats an umbral heart

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it makes fire cost less?

faint flare
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Yes

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It negates astral fires increase mana cost

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For the next 3 fire spells

unique oasis
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only get it by casting umbal soul?

faint flare
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No

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Blizzard 4

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And freeze

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Freeze gives 1, b4 gives 3

median locust
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Also can be consumed to make your Flare cost 2/3 of your mana rather than all of it

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If you have that trait

unique oasis
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blizzard IV never lights up and i don't understand why cause all I need is enochian and umbral ice?

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so when i hit blizzard III

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why doesn't B4 light up

median locust
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Blizzard IV enables you to cast more Fire IVs so you always wanna cast it in ice phase

faint flare
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Have you done.the job quest

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For it

median locust
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why would it light up

unique oasis
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?

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why wouldn't it light up if i have UI and Enochian

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that's what it requires right?

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I feel that I've never seen it lit up

median locust
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It's the same thing as Fire IV

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need enochian up

unique oasis
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yeah

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i don't mean dotted line outline like a proc

eternal grove
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Is warrior sought for in end game or its not the patch for it?

unique oasis
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i just mean lit up as in usable, not darkened

median locust
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yeah that's what I realised

faint flare
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Everything is fezz

unique oasis
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@eternal grove doesn't matter, play any job, all are viable

little swift
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!faq meta

eternal grove
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Ok cool

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median locust
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Should be able to use it under Umbral Ice if you have Enochian up too

eternal grove
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Just wanna play tanks for now

median locust
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If not, then you're doing something wrong

little swift
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Play what you want. People want competence not meta

unique oasis
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i can't make the bars on black mage make any fuckin sense

median locust
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Switch to the simple mode

pure flicker
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all tanks are fun smilered

unique oasis
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not talking about the gauge

median locust
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what bars then

unique oasis
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though it doesnt make sense that enochian runs out left to right either

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my hotbars

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i can't arrange them in a sensible way

median locust
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ah, those bars

little swift
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I group them by element

eternal grove
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I'll check out dps later on, was looking at monk or Samurai

median locust
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A handful of skills can just be removed if you're not planning on playing lower level stuff

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Like Blizzard 2, Lucid, Fire 2, those are all completely useless at level cap

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Remove Lucid, you never need it

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Blizzard 1 is useless

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Sleep is useless

faint flare
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Until synced

little swift
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Scathe not great either

unique oasis
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you dont even use lucid for a slight boost during ice phase when you're getting your shit back?

faint flare
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No

median locust
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Scathe is situationally good so I wouldn't remove it

faint flare
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It doesn't change anything

little swift
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You get like 1 tick of lucid

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Its basically irrelevant

median locust
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Yeah no, you regen all your mana in two ticks in Ice phase 3

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Makes no difference whatsoever

unique oasis
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fire 2 is useless?

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what do you use instead

median locust
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Yes

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Flare

faint flare
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Flare

median locust
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!faq blmlevelling

zinc orbitBOT
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Error!

No tag named blmlevelling exists, Kupo!

little swift
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Too many l's

median locust
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forget the one

unique oasis
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so

faint flare
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!faq blmleveling

zinc orbitBOT
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THM/BLM leveling rotations
unique oasis
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what od you do

median locust
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ty

unique oasis
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freeze and flare?

little swift
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And Thunder 4

median locust
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Here's all the best rotations at every level

unique oasis
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freeze T4 F3 Flare Flare repeat

little swift
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And f3 for the af ui swapping

unique oasis
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yeah

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man im moving my hands all over these bars to do that, i gotta find a better way

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playing this job is misery

median locust
#

Put F4 in an easy to reach space at least, it's your main button

unique oasis
#

its on the 2 button

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just avoid using the map

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it's useless

median locust
#

BLM has a super comfy rotation once you get down to it, but I agree it's daunting at first

pure flicker
#

do you mean the mini map or the actual map Angel?

tulip carbon
#

!faq poetics

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unique oasis
#

i just feel like i can't understand the abilities just by reading them

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i can't read it and understand exactly what its going to do or how it's going to work cause i can't keep everything else in my head

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i highly recommend removing the circular one from your hud altogheter

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there will be exactly two places where you will miss it - when levelling miner or botanist, or when you wanna know the weather in eureka or something

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the latter, you'll get used to what weathers look like based on the sky

pure flicker
#

the minimap is rough. for me personally I always am pressing M to just have the main map open. I use the minimap zoomed out and just pay attention to the objective arrows

unique oasis
#

the former, just turn it on only when you play miner or botanist

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as for the square map, it is what it is, not exactly a lot of cusomizing available but at least it has a reasonable range of zoom compared to the circular map

little swift
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@tulip carbon please use #kupo-bot-spam if you're not using the commands to answer a question

unique oasis
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the problem with the circular one is you can't zoom it out enough

pure flicker
#

ooo yeah, dont know ps4 commands ><

unique oasis
#

@median locust honestly im just gonna drop BLM

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in half a level

median locust
#

Your choice, honestly, can't make you like the job

unique oasis
#

im almost 80

median locust
#

It's my favorite by far though lol

unique oasis
#

so i can delete the scaevan gear i have and free up armory chest slots by sharing gear with my rdm/smn gear

white bronze
#

If I send my retainer on a venture will they keep selling?

unique oasis
#

yes

pure flicker
#

yes

unique oasis
#

somehow

white bronze
#

That was to me? Lol

unique oasis
#

yes

white bronze
#

Copy

unique oasis
#

the map in ffxiv is absolute fucking trash

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it needs a complete overhaul

median locust
#

I think I found the map clunky in the first 20 levels but then never found it annoying again

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so I dunno what you're talking about without any examples

vagrant copper
#

The map does what I need so 🤷‍♂️

unique oasis
#

it needs to be able to be made larger without using the hud scaling option for it cause that doesn't solve the problem

#

it needs to be able to actually show more, and hud scaling it doesn't show more

median locust
#

You can resize it at will

unique oasis
#

it doesn't zoom out enough

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talking aobut the circle map

median locust
#

just drag the corner

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ah that

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meh, never really use it for much

unique oasis
#

as for the square map, it's more adequate, and works fine as a square map

#

but it shouldn't be our only map

median locust
#

If I need to check my position I just open the actual map

unique oasis
#

we should also have a fullscreen map feature

#

like opening the map in something like guild wars 1 or 2, for example

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and dragging the box is not an alternative cause then you have to also drag it back and it's a whole process

#

anyway my solution is to just use the square map when i need a map, use no map most of the time, and only ever turn on the circle map when im playing miner and botanist

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and i just look at the sky to tell the weather

#

@leaden ginkgo i just click the blue text line in the quest list

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that pops open the square map centered on the destinatiopn

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destination*

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i take note of where it is, and then I just go there

#

but i also develop a really strong familiarity with the areas, which eventually leads to not really needing the map to go to my destination after I've checked what the destination is on the map

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i.e. at a glance i know where the marker is in the actual world and just go there

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but none of this is a real solution i guess its just how I cope with the absolute trash maps

simple shore
#

The maps are absolutely fine imo. You're just picky.

unique oasis
#

the sad thing is i qute like the art of the maps, the sorta parchmenty drawn visual style is great

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@simple shore no

little swift
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They do improve on it later

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You can see the verticality of the quest objective as well

gloomy mortar
#

How do you make the circle map bigger?

unique oasis
#

ctrl+home once you have it selected in the hud edit view

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note that it's literally just scaling and doesn't actually allow you to see more within the frame of the map

vagrant copper
#

You can get a UI mod that makes it a square instead of a circle. That gets you like... 27% more visible area. Though not really useful area.

unique oasis
#

is that not a TOS violation?

vagrant copper
#

🤷‍♂️

faint flare
#

Se doesn't care if you dont use it to cheat

#

Visual stuff is fine

simple shore
#

I just dont see what the big deal is. I have never once, while gathering or doing any other activity, said to myself "man, this map is too small, its useless"

unique oasis
#

it's useless

pure flicker
#

its quite small on resolutions bigger than 1080 in my experience

vagrant copper
#

I have the full map open 95% of the time and still find myself using the minimap 🤷‍♂️

#

I'm weird

simple shore
#

Useless? That's interesting. I must have divined the location of the untold thousands of mining/botany nodes ive dug up.

unique oasis
#

I already acknowledged that

#

but I suppose you overlooked it

twilit arch
#

don't need to argue about this

#

so either drop it or take it else where

frank chasm
#

Is square enix okay with discord bots?

simple shore
#

They dont really have a choice in the matter. Discord is outside of their purview.

frank chasm
#

I know

median locust
#

Doesn't matter if they're okay or not if it's out of the game

#

Unless you mean something like, a bot that pings you when your queue pops

#

Then that probably falls under a grey area

#

where they don't care

#

That or they can't detect it

frank chasm
#

No it does matter

#

If you talk about it in game could you banned

#

That’s why I am asking

faint flare
#

Then you just dont

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Talk about it

frank chasm
#

Just stop people

velvet lance
#

Hey guys, I leveled a WAR to 46 and started getting pretty bored of doing no dmg so I switched to a DPS, i've been playing a dragoon in palace of the dead and got it to level 35 so far (60 in PoTD so i got most of the abilites) and I just don't like the rotations, I was thinking about playing a monk or something are those any fun?

frank chasm
#

Was hoping for someone that could answer ToS question

twilit arch
#

Unless the bot does something to the game, the gms aren't going to do anything about it

#

because its affects discord

#

not the game

median locust
#

You asked a really vague question so I think the answers we gave were fine

frank chasm
#

So they’re okay with the bot that gives market prices?

#

And fashion report?

#

It doesn’t do anything to the game

median locust
#

The market prices are fetched from something else that doesn't have anything to do with the bot AFAIK so they'd go for that first

simple shore
#

As stated, its not in-game, and its not directly interacting with the game. Therefore they have no opinion on it. This has been their stance pretty much forever.

frank chasm
#

Ok

median locust
#

And Fashion Report sets are tested and found by players

#

Nothing against ToS to that

simple shore
#

If they were gonna ban for doing that

frank chasm
#

Okok. Thanks

simple shore
#

Then they may as well ban everyone who has ever posted in /r/ffxiv

frank chasm
#

😮

simple shore
#

Its equivalent

#

Fashion Report guides get posted there weekly, on the day of reset

vagrant copper
#

Ban twitter

simple shore
#

That might result in a marked improvement.

delicate stone
#

Anyone know how to make windup-alpha kweh? I tried /pet on it

median locust
#

Like make a noise?

vagrant copper
#

ThinkBeard I don't think it actually reacts to any specific emotes

median locust
#

Maybe with the mameteer title on it would

#

Mameteer makes Wind-up and mechanical minions act more like regular minions and react to emotes

delicate stone
#

How do you get mameteer?

#

I think that might be it

median locust
#

Collect 30 follow-type minions.

tidal yarrow
#

do I have to do a side quest to unlock masked rose at gold saucer?

median locust
#

I think so

tidal yarrow
#

they told me I could do something with him but he doesn't talk to me

delicate stone
#

ah gotcha, thanks!

vagrant copper
#

There should be a bluequest near.... Well, somewhere in the GS

#

"Passion for Fashion"

tidal yarrow
#

tyyy

remote lintel
#

what are heal swings

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median locust
#

Where did you hear "heal swings"?

delicate stone
#

If you accidentally discarded achievement gear, is it gone forever?

faint flare
#

You can reclaim it

#

At the achievement guy

remote lintel
#

on act

delicate stone
#

Ah, thanks!

median locust
#

Looked it up, it means the amount of hits

#

So if a WHM has 192 heal swings, they hit people 192 times with their abilities

remote lintel
#

ah

delicate stone
#

speaking of act, how should you interpret overhealing? a good chunk of ast ogcd are aoe heals, so even if im just using it for the tank i still get a bunch of overheal

#

im assuming using an ogcd is better than a benefic cuz it lets you do more dmg spells, but the overheal doesnt look great

median locust
#

Overheal caused by oGCDs doesn't matter if it gained you damage

#

unless of course you could've saved it a little longer for raidwide damage and then saved a GCD heal in the long run

delicate stone
#

gotcha, i'll keep that in mind!

white bronze
#

Why princess pudding selling so high?

median locust
#

Old event item that's not obtainable anymore

buoyant monolith
#

What event is now in effect?

median locust
#

You can buy it on Mogstation but it won't be this specific tradeable version

#

Dragon Quest collab and Moogle Tomestone Hunt for Law

#

or whatever that second one is called

tidal yarrow
#

is there a quest for veleda on gold saucer?

obsidian patio
#

Not that I know of.

#

Except maybe if you count the quest that would take you to the gold Saucer

tidal yarrow
#

she doesn't talk to me either and I heard you can actually play like a bingo or something there

#

mm..

obsidian patio
#

Wait, looks like there is a quest for her.

#

Look for the quest “World of Wonders” by the airship person

tidal yarrow
#

oh apparently it was the person on her left the one I had to look to for the lottery

#

but nice to know there is a quest for veleda^^'

deft quiver
#

So i just got a new retainer and made it a miner. The issue is that i dont have a lvl 1 pickaxe, theres none on the market, and blacksmith can only make a lvl 8 as its lowest level pickaxe. Is there any other place where i can get a lvl 1 pickaxe?

remote lintel
#

the miner guild?

deft quiver
#

do they sell lvl 1 tools?

remote lintel
#

don't they sell supplies there

median locust
#

Any of these 3 vendors

deft quiver
#

alright thanks

#

completely forgot there we vendors for tools

slate oak
little swift
#

!faq grandcompany

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Which Grand Company should I choose?

The only differences between the three Grand Companies are the looks of the equipment and where they're located. The story doesn't change in regards to the Grand Company you chose beside the quest that comes after "The Company You Keep". Here are two links leading to sample sets from each of the Grand Companies

Maelstrom
Twin Adders
Immortal Flames

How do I get Grand Company Seals?

You can get more seals mainly by completing your Grand Company Hunting Log (Go to the Hunting Log and click on the GC icon), completing FATEs, and turning in crafted/gathered items to the Personnel Officer if you have crafting or gathering classes unlocked. Once you are Sergeant 2nd Class you can turn in Pink/Green/Blue-rarity gear in for more seals.

little swift
#

not at all

deft quiver
#

location mainly

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1 in gridania, 1 in limsa, and 1 in uldah

gloomy ice
#

It’s purely aesthetic. There’s no functional difference between them aside from how far they are located from their respective aetheryte.

slate oak
#

gridania is the most easy to navigate for me...

deft quiver
#

plus you can change them later to get the other items

slate oak
#

oh

#

which is the gridania one again?

#

twin?

little swift
#

uldah's GC is the closest to the main aehteryte

#

yeah adders is gridania

#

flames is uldah

#

maelstrom is limsa

slate oak
#

navigation is really confusing in this game,my only complaint so far 😐

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and thank you for the help 🙂

#

hmm i guess i will go with uldah as you mentioned it being the closes to the aetheryte

little swift
#

its literally out of the entrance to the main aetheryte and to the right

stray dawn
strange coral
#

Idyllshire, not Ishgard

median locust
#

Shire gear is in Idyllshire, not Ishgard

stray dawn
#

oh LUL

#

should I buy lv 58 gear to replace my ironwork gears?

#

unless Idyllshire isnt that far off

faint flare
#

Idyllshire is lv58 story

#

Ish

strange coral
#

What level is the MSQ you're on?

median locust
#

I think you can buy iLv255 lv60 gear in Ishgard but I dunno if that's MSQ locked

stray dawn
#

just got into Ishgard, so right after arr

median locust
#

NQ ILv255*

gloomy ice
#

Ironworks gear will hold until you reach the level 55 dungeon.

strange coral
#

You're fine with ironworks then since you're not doing level 60 content yet. MSQ will give you some gear upgrades eventually

stray dawn
median locust
#

Yes

#

You're fine with Ironworks though, if you can't run lv60 stuff yet

stray dawn
#

roger

#

maybe I'll at least get the a weapon lv 60, so I hit stuff harder teehee

hearty obsidian
#

so do I have to memorize the way to places in this game

#

or will it just become 2nd nature the more I play

faint flare
#

Becomes second nature in the end

hearty obsidian
#

kk

#

rn I'm like wait where is this?

pure flicker
#

if it makes you feel any better i have close to 900hrs and I still have to look at the map lol

hearty obsidian
#

it does lol

#

name change is $10 right

pure flicker
#

Yes

hearty obsidian
#

alright

median locust
#

Or free if you're transfering servers to a server with a character that already has your name

#

Can save some money in certain situations

hearty obsidian
#

ah ok

median locust
#

Like if you're spending the money to transfer anyway, you can make yourself an alt on the destination server with your character's name, transfer with your main and get a free name change
*Only works with Standard sub, unless you ask a friend to create said alt

pure flicker
#

wow, big brain move

sullen pulsar
#

Damn finally finished with the post Ultimate weapon ARR, not going to go through that again 😭

#

but one question on game logic, now that you're a fugitive, what happen to your daily grand company activities?

median locust
#

Tag your spoilers pls

sullen pulsar
#

do you still go about that like normal?

median locust
#

you can still go there

little swift
#

don't think too hard about it

#

also please tag spoilers

vivid wolf
#

Is Doom spike useful? Seems pretty eh

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sullen pulsar
#

sorry didn't know just mentioning a quest name is spoiler

little swift
#

yes its an AoE

#

you're mentioning the state of your character in the game @sullen pulsar

vivid wolf
#

Yeah but isn't it a meh range?

sullen pulsar
#

ah got it

median locust
#

it's more about the ||being a fugitive|| part

little swift
#

aoe is good at 3+ targets

vivid wolf
#

Just a straight line

little swift
#

line yourself up to hit more targets then

willow marlin
#

DRG goes ham with aoes later

little swift
#

the shape of the aoe isn't the important bit since its still quite a fat line

median locust
#

If you hit 3+ targets it's better than doing your regular combo

vivid wolf
#

How does drg compare to Sam tho? Was looking into learning rdm since i struggled a bit with samurai's survivability (close range mechanics were messing with me)

#

So far it seems a bit tougher

willow marlin
#

A couple buffs for party members

vivid wolf
#

Tho less dps, which was to be expected

pure flicker
#

i dont know about Sam, but i found DRG to be much more satisfying at max levels when you have your full kit

obsidian patio
#

DRG’s rotation is much more static since you’re switching between two combos

pure flicker
#

it didnt really click for me until like 70

vivid wolf
#

Was my first job, but ditched it for bard for idk what reason

willow marlin
#

😢

#

Poor bard

obsidian patio
#

I started really liking DRG’s rotation at 64 when you get to do both of the 4th combo moves, which extends it to a 5-part combo

median locust
#

SAM is more hectic and faster

obsidian patio
#

Since that makes the rotation neat and simple

pure flicker
#

it does feel really limited below 60

hearty obsidian
#

what's a fate?

faint flare
#

A mini world event

#

For some xp

willow marlin
#

Can be a nice break from questing

hearty obsidian
#

ttyy

vivid wolf
#

Are the leveling roulettes worth it without the daily bonus?

strange coral
#

Not really. Even the adventure in need bonus is lacking

faint flare
#

No

vivid wolf
#

Anything else i could do?

mild ermine
#

Does anyone know any gloves that remove or hide shirt sleeves?

strange coral
#

Highest level leveling dungeon, or potd/hoh

mild ermine
#

I have the republican signifiers gloves, but I want to know if there are other options.

median locust
#

Ravel Keeper's Gloves which look kinda similar

hallow bloom
#

so after defeating the ultimate weapon how many hours/days does it take to get to HS?

remote lintel
#

to what

hallow bloom
#

heavensward

#

sword

#

however you spell it

delicate stone
#

Heavensward

#

HW

remote lintel
#

^

#

like a week or less

#

depending how much you play

hallow bloom
#

waiiit

#

heavens-ward?

remote lintel
#

yes

hallow bloom
#

:O

remote lintel
#

as in towards the heavens

hallow bloom
#

i been reading it as heaven sward

remote lintel
#

also the name of the temple knights called the Heaven's Ward

hallow bloom
#

i just thought they spelt sword wrong

remote lintel
pure flicker
#

lmfao

willow marlin
stray dawn
#

same, i thought it was Heaven Sward

tulip plover
#

If i log off ans log back in in a sanctuary will it still give me well rested

willow marlin
#

Yes

#

As long as you have that 🌙 next to your exp bar, you'll be well rested.

tulip plover
#

And the longer your away the more exp boost right?

willow marlin
#

Yea it has a cap though

delicate stone
#

Temple knights aka "our knights most heavenly" lel

#

Heavensward is my favorite expansion so far (in the patches between SB and ShB)

remote lintel
#

shb will be your new fave

delicate stone
#

Dunno, I really loved the characters in HW so it's gonna be hard to beat. SB was interesting cuz you saw a bunch of new places w/ their own politics, but the characters in HW were amazing

remote lintel
#

if you like characters then youll like shb

#

lol

delicate stone
#

Ah, I look forward to it then!

#

spoilers: ||It's just a shame that so many of my favorite characters died in HW >.>||

remote lintel
#

shb is definitely an emotional rollercoaster

delicate stone
#

oh no..., not again tears stop chopping dem onions >.<

rich bay
#

SB is more politics, but still a very good story, a ||----------|| war like a storm and payed with lots of blood.

remote lintel
#

there's less deaths but definitely more "hhhnnNNNGGGG" moments

rich bay
#

@delicate stone

Spoiler: ||most scions didn't die, only 1 knight truly died||.

remote lintel
#

they know already

delicate stone
#

spoiler: ||the best knight haucherfant, that and I liked ysayle||

#

that first one really made me sad, i loved that guy

remote lintel
#

ikr

#

||he died right as i started liking him more||

#

i was like "I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN"

rich bay
#

In SB more allied ppl die however, that is also where the title comes from.

ARR: A realm that was reborn after destruction.
HW: Looking heavensward to the dragons
SB: War as a storm and payed with blood.
ShB: WoL brings a lot of shadow.

1.x well..... ||that had no subtitle.||

#

Every patch has a name that refers to the story btw, i won't spoil anything.

delicate stone
#

||ever since he died, i started choosing "for those we have lost and those we might yet save" b.c i miss him||

#

HW also has a group called The Heaven's Ward

#

But yeah, the writing in this game is great, and there's a lot of clever names for quests and what not

jagged crow
#

Where is the best place to craft that has a company chest and summon bell as close together as possible

willow marlin
#

Possibly gridania

faint flare
#

Rhalgars reach has them pretty close

delicate stone
#

Our fc house has a summon bell and chest right next to each other

little swift
#

uldah

#

if you're thinking about cities

#

the marketboard summoning bell and company chest are in one space

#

where the aetheryte is

jagged crow
#

Neat ty

rich bay
#

The bell is pretty far from the aetheryte in Uldah, but you can teleport to it.

I should say Gridania, the marketarea has an FC chest, marketboard and a retainer bell 5m from each other @jagged crow.

remote lintel
#

i think channy meant the mini aetheryte at the marketplace

little swift
#

i'm speaking about sapphire avenue exchange

#

specifically

rich bay
#

Yeah, also a very good place.

little swift
#

because you have to go outside to reach the company chest in gridania

#

out past the marketboard and teh summoning bell

rich bay
#

True

delicate stone
#

Kugane has them pretty close too, but it's pretty far from every other city

#

Bell, Market board, and FC chest all on the same street

strong adder
#

If I cant afford to buy the game and I have a good friend who plays, can we share the account with me to play when he sleep or whatever or he will get banned? fatyoshi

leaden ginkgo
#

is it normal on summoner/scholar for my pets to just stand there doing nothing when I preform one of their actions?

void fossil
#

is there a way to turn off the "clicking" sound when spamming a skill

faint flare
#

Yes rift cause of how pets que actions

willow marlin
#

@strong adder technically against ToS but they're more concerned about bots

#

Might raise a flag if you live far away from each other

strong adder
#

Well, different continent

strange coral
#

That will likely get the account flagged for suspicious activity.

delicate stone
#

Reminds me of that old larryzaur(?) video on smn where every other button press was "obey"

#

Cuz the pet ai can be interesting sometimes lmao

faint flare
#

Definitely with ghosting and action duping

leaden ginkgo
#

i see, ty

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strong adder
#

@willow marlin what about that 1 time password feature? Using that wil lstill flag the account even if its a feature to literally prove everything is fine

#

Assumnig he keep giving me the 1 time password everytime he go offline so I can login, we are violating ToS but Enix cannot prove that

#

So we cant get banned?

little swift
#

its less about 1 time password but more about how frequently the IP address his account is connecting from is changing

#

and how large that distance is

willow marlin
#

^

strong adder
#

Yikes, its very distant. I dont understand why making such a fuss out of it if the account in question is getting paid by someone

delicate stone
#

wait, but wouldn't a vpn hide your ip from ff14? why doesn't vpn usage cause problems?

strong adder
#

Why they care if 1 or 50 ppl are using the account if its a legal account getting paid monthly

little swift
#

its a terms of service you agreed to

#

you're violating the contract by doing this

delicate stone
#

Because they could be making money off of more than 1 person lol

vagrant copper
#

VPN usage can cause problems. It's just not that common. Just like what Alex is running into is not that common.

strong adder
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Ok but still makes no sense to put that in ToS

little swift
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GWaobloChildPepeShrug there's nothing to argue about here

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just don't do it

strong adder
little swift
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just play the trial for now if anything

delicate stone
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Where else would they put it if not in the ToS?

strong adder
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Like, not putting it at all

lime sphinx
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whats considered a high level duty for the tank mounts?

warped seal
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Account sharing is against ToS

oblique bane
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where does leveling roulettes xp reward sit amongst other daily roulettes?

willow marlin
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Anything savage or extreme

oblique bane
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like % wise

willow marlin
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It's pretty good

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Unless you get one of the normal trial fights for Garuda/ifrit/titan

little swift
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level 50 stuff for the first achievements

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and 61+ for the others

lime sphinx
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and it says full party, so i'd assume i can't unsync arr extremes

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would have to unsync with a full aprty

willow marlin
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You can

faint flare
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You can

little swift
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you can unsync

lime sphinx
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not solo tho, right?

faint flare
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Yws

willow marlin
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Yep

faint flare
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Very easily at 80

lime sphinx
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yeah i know that, but the achievement says full party

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thats why i wasnt sure

willow marlin
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Still counts

lime sphinx
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ah okay then 😛

delicate stone
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ngl, that time they made you redo titan hard in the story, i just solod it desyncd on my ast lmao. Took like 15 minutes, but i had already been in queue for 10 minutes as a healer lmao

serene jungle
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Hey! Ive hit 80 today - very first time now! Im wondering if I should buy the ishgardiam amour from the MB to start.. or is there a more non-expensve way to get a good start?

delicate stone
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Not 80, but im guessing tomestone exchange? (that's what my friend rec'd i do lol)

agile laurel
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yeah, get gear from 80 roulettes, get phantasmagorica, get deepshadow gear

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get allegory, get crystarium gear

little swift
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this also depends on how far into MSQ you are

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if you're not done shb, finish that first

serene jungle
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I am at the lvl 78 MSQ, .. cough

little swift
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you'll get gear from it

serene jungle
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Ok!

little swift
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there's the i430 artifact set

delicate stone
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msq keeps your ilvl at about where it should be for the content

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if you want to power through, you could buy from marketboard, but from what I've heard it's not necessary

little swift
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this the first phase stuff

sullen pulsar
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Just finished ARR and starting Heavensward, how long will that last

little swift
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do phase 2

unique oasis
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oh you're right

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i just had to click (2)

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straw is just a regular material?

little swift
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heavensward is 94 quests (including the post patch quests)

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straw is regular stuff

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each ishgard restoration thing is made of approved stuff and a regular material

sullen pulsar
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ok so should go for a good bit,

unique oasis
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my goal is to make collectables? @little swift

sullen pulsar
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the thing the bugs me about the post ultimate weapon part of ARR is all the running around and lack of character progress

little swift
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all ishgard restoration items are automatically collectables

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you want to get a high enough collectability

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to get rewards

unique oasis
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what rewards

sullen pulsar
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the story is decent but running around to talk to someone for 3 sentences and then running back

little swift
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exp, skybuilders scrips, kupo stamps

unique oasis
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this guide has a macro but my stats are nowhere close to what it is asking for lmao

little swift
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you need stone soup

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and also get up to level 20 and do your class quests

leaden ginkgo
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you can get cheap vendor gear from one of the city states

little swift
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also grab some cheap vendor gear ^

craggy scarab
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I'm new to FFXIV and i honestly have no idea what job to play (i have gotten conjurer, thaumaturge and archer to around level 15) could someone help me pick out a job?

willow marlin
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Sure why do you like to play?

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*what

craggy scarab
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like role?

willow marlin
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Yea your playstyle

unique oasis
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why do you like to play is a really good question to get to the bottom of this

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even if it was a typo

willow marlin
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Lol

flint grove
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yeah, do you prefer to tank and absorb a lot of damage in melee, deal big damage, or play in a support capacity keeping others alive?

craggy scarab
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in other mmo's i liked being a support player so it would be a tie between tank and healer

delicate stone
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Yeah, the game has a holy trinity of tank, healer, and dps; dps has subcategories, the tanks are rather distinct, and the healers are special too

unique oasis
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@little swift there aren't any abilities locked behind crafter quests any more though, I heard

little swift
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there are

craggy scarab
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lol i just watched that video maybe 10 minutes ago

little swift
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stormblood quests give you manipulation

craggy scarab
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was still clueless lol

unique oasis
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that starts in the 60s then?

willow marlin
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If you want pure heals go with conjurer which becomes a white mage. Scholar is tied to summoner whose base class is the arcanist.

little swift
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yes but you have to do the class quests up to that point

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to get to them

unique oasis
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lol that can wait until then

upbeat storm
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Tanks
Distinct
is it really? they all more or less play the same just look different

delicate stone
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Ah xD, well if you're thinking tank / healer, all of them are viable, they just play differently

willow marlin
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Scholar is more like a support healer with shields instead of raw heal

pure flicker
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arcanist becomes scholar, which is a healing class. the bonus is that you get 2 classes for 1 basically because scholar and summoner share levels

agile laurel
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scholar is also a really proactive healer

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playing reactively is going to be pain and sadness

pure flicker
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but imo white mage has a really cool high level kit

craggy scarab
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is healing hard to learn in FFXIV?

unique oasis
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if you level SMN by playing SCH you're gonna be totally lost, confronted at level 80 with SMN and no idea how to play it

delicate stone
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Naw, healing isn't hard tbh; tanking is harder though

unique oasis
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so I honestly don't recommend levelling arcanist to level two classes unless you do all the levelling as SMN and make SCH the one you learn afterward

delicate stone
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I wouldn't recommend tanking to new players as their first class

little swift
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healing is definitely harder than tanking

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tanking is the simplest out of the three roles by far

upbeat storm
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tanking easy

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press 123 and dont stand in aoe

willow marlin
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Lol I'm a better tank than healer

craggy scarab
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now i'm just confused lol

pure flicker
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whaaat

vagrant copper
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Don't even have to target stuff most of the time. Just spam AOE

pure flicker
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you gotta do dps when tanking LOL

delicate stone
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You gotta do dps on all classes, even healers

unique oasis
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tanking is no slouch in savage and stuff though

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so i feel like it depends on the content

pure flicker
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if we're talking roulettes, yeah its braindead aoes. but in savage you have to do way more

craggy scarab
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i came from ESO where as a tank all you had to do was gain agro and block as a tank

delicate stone
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Tanking also needs you to know some boss mechs, whereas as a dps you can kinda just blind run everything and be ok since the healer will res you

leaden ginkgo
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don't be afraid to tank, you only have to worry about what you're doing later on

willow marlin
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And don't forget tank cooldowns

leaden ginkgo
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since I assume you're not gonna buy a skip potion for story and a tank job and head straight into shadowbringers

willow marlin
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White mage is a new player friendly healer

leaden ginkgo
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by the time you do reach savage encounters, you'll have a general idea of what's expected from you as a tank

craggy scarab
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i did like thaumaturge but i found during quests my hp just like melted so then i tried conjuror but found i couldn't kill things very fast so now i'm here xd

delicate stone
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Healing is honestly not that much harder than dps imo; you have a very simple dps rotation that you spam until you need to heal / shield

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Then the way you use your heals / shields / utility is where the complexity comes from, but that's pretty much it

dense pier
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Is it lore-related only? What is this "Lovely branch" that I this feathered barbie is saying? Is it an item I can be using

delicate stone
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Plus you get short queue times on healer

dense pier
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Depends what healer you play and how optimal you want to be

craggy scarab
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how do i kill things faster though? lol takes ages to do quests

dense pier
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AST is hard-mode from what I've read

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and I love playing AST

delicate stone
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I love ast, das my main rn

unique oasis
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no no no

willow marlin
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You don't really lol

unique oasis
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AST is considerably easier than WHM or SCH

dense pier
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What

pure flicker
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as a whitemage you wont be doing tons of damage lol. until you get a chocobo

unique oasis
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because of the cast times, weaving, slidecasting, and dodging mechanics as AST gives you a lot more leeway than as SCH or WHM

craggy scarab
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like i went to ul'dah to become a thaumaturge, loved the job but then i found myself dying tons and idek why tbh

dense pier
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Hrm

upbeat storm
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yeah but whm easiest for starter

delicate stone
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I wouldn't recommend only leveling a healer for your msq, it's quite easy to collect msq exp on a dps class while doing dungeons to keep your healer leveld up w/ the story

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Thaumaturge becomes White Mage (healer) at level 30

craggy scarab
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msq?

delicate stone
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Main Story Quest

unique oasis
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it's more difficult to play AST purely 100% correctly and in particular, nail the opener, therefore it has a higher ceiling, but it's also considerably less punishing to learn on in the first place because it's way more mobile and has more like, freedom

craggy scarab
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oh

open coral
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Conjurer becomes WHM, not Thaumaturge

willow marlin
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Thaumaturge becomes black mage lol

craggy scarab
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i know

delicate stone
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Ah, mb, got it mixed up

open coral
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There's also nothing wrong with starting as a healer for MSQ

craggy scarab
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oh void said it lol

dense pier
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I recommend leveling a powerful DPS alongside whatever main you have.

Even if you don't like it, the difference in damage that a DPS can do over healer/tank is crazy as you get into later content and makes finishing up MSQ super quick

delicate stone
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^

dense pier
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I personally leveled my tank, healer, and dps alongside each other

open coral
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I have leveled CNJ as my primary job on MSQ, and it's really not an issue.

unique oasis
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^

dense pier
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Tank is my main, but I DPS to clear content quicker and heal to get fast queues to finish MSQ and farm gear for my tank/dps

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I've gotten really good at my RDM so I just blow everything up honestly

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and the difference between my RDM and PLD in terms of damage is huge

delicate stone
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I personally leveld summoner first and picked up ast along the way because I knew I wanted to be a healer and ast appealed to me the most
SMN has the benefit that it levels both summoner and scholar, so you get a healer along w/ a good dps class for the msq content

dense pier
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post Heavensward

unique oasis
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yet the time investment to level all 3 would still slow you down compared to the gain, the first time through, especially if we're talking going tank or healer rather than dps as the single class

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if you want to play tank or healer, better to just run through to the end on your 1 job the first time through, and then level alt jobs after if thats what you want

mental garnet
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do you get more aetheric density from a savage clear versus a story clear? for some alexander stage (i think a9s is farmed the most?)

unique oasis
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people are like microgaming the shit out of the advice for a new player who should just play the job they want to play @craggy scarab

open coral
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tl;dr: If you want to be a healer, level as a healer. If you want to be a dps, level as a dps.

delicate stone
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^

unique oasis
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just pick the job you think seems cool or fun and roll with it

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its not like this is a life altering decision, you can always change your mind later if you really dont like what you ended up picking

delicate stone
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If you want to play tank or healer, but also have an easier time through the MSQ, you can level 2 classes simultaneously or pick SMN/SCH which levels both a healer and dps

agile laurel
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yes @mental garnet

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a9s is farmed cause it's fast as hell and gives great progress

delicate stone
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Healer and Tank have very short queue times (and adventurer in need exp bonuses) since they're in demand, so leveling them using exp gained from doing dungeons is very quick

mental garnet
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kk, gotcha @agile laurel

open coral
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Picking a dps to go through the msq isn't necessarily going to be "easier" though.

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Personally I think that going through as a healer or tank is actually the easier option because you'll die a lot less.

craggy scarab
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i thought that when i started so i tried thaumaturge then ended up dying tons

agile laurel
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I leveled as bard til Heavensward, did a bit of leveling with astrologian, and then I got my shit kicked in by Ravana and reasoned I'd rather level as bard

open coral
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Thaumaturge (Black Mage) is the "glass cannon" class. Lots of damage, but squishy af.

dense pier
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On my data center

delicate stone
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Killing mobs as ast is a pain

open coral
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And they don't have any good ways to heal themselves, so that makes it more difficult to survive if you overpull.

craggy scarab
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so now i'm on cnj and now i never die but it takes ages even to kill just a common enemy 5 levels below me

dense pier
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Tanks have pretty long queue times

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Sometimes as long as DPS

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Healers are almost always insta-queue

willow marlin
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Yea that's how it is unfortunately

open coral
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@craggy scarab First, what level are you? Second, are you making sure to keep your Aero (dot) on your target while you cast Stone?

willow marlin
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It'll be work but every class finish the MSQ in FFXIV

unique oasis
#

??????????????

silk summit
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Just got collective unconcious, is it basically just a "help tank obvious attack" skill?

craggy scarab
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archer was okay but i didn't like the theme of the guild

dense pier
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What's there to ???

unique oasis
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the only thing tanks have long queue times in is alliance raids

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everything else usually pops less than 5m or instant

delicate stone
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Tanks are the lowest queue time class; at least on my DC

craggy scarab
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@open coral my cnj is level 14 and yes i am

dense pier
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My queues as tank can be anywhere between 8 - 15 minutes in a lot of cases

delicate stone
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But everyone has long alliance raid queues, even healers

willow marlin
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F

dense pier
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Rarely am I below 5 minute queue times as Tank

vagrant copper
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Okay, so the problem Xbye, is that you have really short DPS queues lol

unique oasis
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Aether has an excess of tanks i guess then

dense pier
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Lmao

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My DPS queues can be between 15-22min

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as most

open coral
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@craggy scarab When you get to level 30, you'll be able to pick up a quest called "My Feisty Little Chocobo" which will teach you how to summon your chocobo mount (obtained at level 20 in the msq ) as a battle companion. That will help lower your kill times by a LOT.

dense pier
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but I usually get in under 12

craggy scarab
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oh 1 other question is this like ESO where there is 1 main healer and if you mess 1 thing up the whole boss fight is fucked?

hallow bloom
#

whats the auto run button when using xbox controller?

open coral
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Noooo

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Not at all!

delicate stone
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Dungeons have 1 healer, raids and trials have multiple
Some dps classes also has a res (Red Mage and Summoner)

open coral
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Dungeon content only has 1 healer, but all large group (8-man party) content has 2 healers.

craggy scarab
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oh okay, good. in eso if u messed up ur rotation everyone will die

open coral
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And one tiny mistake will not wipe the group

unique oasis
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in a dungeon if there's no red mage or summoner and the healer dies, everyone will likely also die, unless the tank is a paladin who uses clemency to finish the fight off

delicate stone
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Naw, healers dps for most of the fight, and heal like 20% of the time

sullen pulsar
#

is there a way to filtered out currently equipped stuff from expert delivery?

dense pier
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PLD is part healer

unique oasis
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that's kind of a misleading way to describe it

open coral
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There's an option at the top of the menu by the dropdown menu @sullen pulsar

delicate stone
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Usually, you want to use heals that you can weave into your dps rotation to maximize dmg output if you're trying to do optimal play

sullen pulsar
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I know it filter out the stuff you're currently equipped but what if you are multi class

agile laurel
gloomy ice
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There’s a drop down menu near the top. Set that to Hide Gear Set Items.

open coral
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It filters everything that's in a gear set

sullen pulsar
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ah thanks a lot all

unique oasis
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expert delivery at the grand company?

open coral
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@agile laurel That was a reward from one of the seasonal events last year, but you can buy it on the Mogstation now.