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the minions and orchestrion rolls from Mor Dhona might sell nice, but make sure to double-check their prices before buying them.
The live letter is at 1 pm Amsterdam time right?
!ll
Cool! Ty
Buy ironworks gear for other classes you plan on playing.
so i'm level 50, and i've played through and beaten the ultimate weapon fight
and now i'm just doing what feels like
garbage
it feels like they made this game in the past, people finished the content, and they just produced filler content for the players of yesteryear
who needed something to do
I made the mistake using spare poetics to buying Umbral ether and Superior Enchanted Ink, and I won’t be able to use them until basically the end of the game when your doing relic weapons
and now i'm suffering for it
all of that is to say, i'm considering a skip potion
should i just skip arr at this point
am i so deep that i should just grind it out
should i skip deeper
Its really inadvisable to skip on your first time
Like ppl do half of 2.x and skipp not knowing their reward was like the latter half
so again, i've completed the ultimate weapon quest
so if it's like
2.3+ is gonna be good
okay sure
2.3-2.5 are good
but if all of the rest of arr is like what i'm dealing with rn
It’s ok
Pretty much
2.3 onwards get pretty decent story
Still mostly fetch quests inb3tween
tbh i just cant imagine paying IRL money to skip what amounts to like, a few hours of play.
and the amount of things you will miss are large
i think it's a matter of willpower tbh, it took me a month to get through the first half of post arr content
It is
Btw theres a study that ppl are willing to give themselves electric shocks than to be bored
to unlock kaeshi I have to finish shadowbringers?
bc it felt like such a slog i just couldn't do it
and then i quit for a year lmao and just skipped it
Is Wootz gear just for glam? The items have terrible stats and cost a lot to make and sell for almost nothing
like i totally get why people say don't skip it, bc the latter half is good
but if you know yourself well enough to know that you're not going to enjoy 90% of it and that is enough to make the good 10% not worth it i don't think it's wrong if that makes any sense?
It's about 6 hours at most, less if you skip the inbetween quest dialogue
at the moment, it's thoroughly unenjoyable
i just wanted people to let me know if i should just hang in there
or if arr past this point is all bad
It is a really bad idea to skip your first time.
i would rec speeding through the filler quests
Hang in there! I just did it a couple weeks ago, it sucks but the rewards is worth it.
and 2.3+ is good. hell 2.2 is acceptable, and sets up significant portions of story for later
@tidal yarrow shouldn't need to, Shadowbringer actions are not locked through quests
The problem with ARR is the pacing. It has lots of important stuff hidden in seemingly menial tasks. From 2.3 onwards, however, it starts setting up the Heavensward plot, and actually becomes pretty good
TL;DR 2.1 is basically shit. Most everyone asking the question is in 2.1
but tl;dr i think it's better to play through it for most people, but personally i played through all of it and regret it immensely bc it burnt me out on the game really hard and tbh i just didn't care about the story at that point. i'm probably an exception there, but if you feel that way then I think it's fine to skip
i'm pretty sure roughly a third of all the msq from arr could be deleted
and i wouldn't miss it
good
Its 10% fetch quest reduction
it's really a slog by modern design principles
ye i believe they're taking out some filler quests? and making others less tedious
i'm enjoying all of the actual dungeon/raid content, however
I honestly dont understand the complaints. 2.1, which is the really bad part of it, is like 2-3 hours of play tops.
it's really the only thing keeping me invested atm
i think it just depends on the type of players
i should note that arr's storyline was largely unengaging for me
i don't think people should be made to feel bad for not enjoying certain parts of the game bc thats just how subjective opinions work
I wouldn’t mind the long slog if I wasn’t paying money every month
but i've heard heavensward is quite good
im a lorehound now and i love the story but i honestly had/have zero interest in arr
its worth going through post-arr
but my friends loved it, so it really just depends
Post-ARR, for all its faults, sets up a significant portion of what happens later.
Going into HW, SB, and ShB
^ i would say if you do end up skipping it, make sure to like read a recap on everything bc
there's a lot that happens in the last half of the post arr content that is very very plot relevant
i'd just watch those cutscenes on youtube or read a synopsis though, if the content itself was terrible
yeah
Watch the Edda story
It should be
If you skip arr, you’ll skip Edda because she’s in a low level dungeons
just to be clear, the thing he's talking about is a side-story at best. Its not relevant to anything later other than POTD, which is also optional content.
that's all good
Edda is the best part of ARR
lmao my friend did not pay attention to any of the msq plot until shadowbringers
but he's an expert on the entire edda story
so take that how you will LOL
your friend sounds like me
implying that 2.5/2.55 isnt the best part of ARR
Edda is the best 😎
anyways, thanks for the opinions
if a riot breaks out in the next 24 hours, you'll know what happened
@tidal yarrow shouldn't need to, Shadowbringer actions are not locked through quests
so, now that I've done my lvl70 job quest. if I reach 80 I will have all abilities?
Yes
70+ skills aren't quest locked
Lv70 is the last quest locked skill
For now anyway
awesome
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Does upping Strength help Red Mage because it has the melee attacks?
no
Why not
Because the melee attack damage is scaled off int
^
Since it deals magic damage
What about DH&CH
DET?
Yes
Piety?
No
useless for red mage
Useless
Thats healer only
Meld Priority: Crit > DH ≥ Det
Red Mage never runs out of mana if you use Lucid Dreaming as it becomes available
assuming you're not chain raising people
So for food, best is increase DH&CH or Spell Speed?
Crit + dh or det food
Red Mage can raise people?
Best food currently is a crit + det food
The main food assuming you don't need specific GCD tiers is Stuffed Highland Cabbage
yes
!action Verraise
i think your BiS food is currently stuffed highland cabbage
At 64
It works with dualcast
Btw
Its why people call Red mage "Res mage"
Cause they can literally chain res
true, just focus on highgest ilvl till max ^^
it is good to be asking these questions though ^__^
What food is desynth-able?
None
Culinary levels via fish desynth
So my culinary desynth skill is basically zero. Should I buy cheap fish to desynth?
Basically
But I am a level 80 Culinary. Will it still work?
I leveled up CUL desynth via Diadem fishing
your level in the crafter does not matter at all for desynth
as long as you're at least 30, since that's the minimum needed to desynth for that class.
Could a mod give me
? It's not an option in the role selection
@lucid sedge ask in #discord-feedback if none of the mods notice you in here
tyty
Is there a way to tell if crafting an item gives you one or three items? For example 3 meals or potions. I recently bought mats to make 3 inks, then realized each craft gave me 3 each
The item's tooltip in the log when you select it will have a number on it
Should I hang on to my Gordion/Alexander/Medan gear (springs, plates, coils,bolts) or toss? Do you get more mats in the Alexander Extremes?
Or are they different
different items entirely
and the savage gear is dyeable, so if you're looking for glamour the normal mode stuff is worthless
(except accessories since you can't dye those)
Is the savage gear visually identical to the regular Alexander gear?
yeah but you can dye it
So toss?
yup
yep
😮
is there usually a translated letter from the producer?
emphasis on 'you can dye it'
like live?
similar case for most savage gear
The mod team has translators for live translation
the mod team for this discord?
what happens if someone refuses to come out of BA? will no one be able to enter? 😄
Which channel are we going to be looking at for live translations
thank you
When retainers go on 18-hr missions, do they only bring back items that you don’t have in gathering log?
3 missions in a row I got 6 sprigs of Peppermint 🤷♀️
200 Gil each
what level is your retainer ?
2200 gathering stat
If you want retainers to make money for you, quick ventures are better (as long as you know what sells)
80-Miner brought back 6 raw Petalite. 200 Gil
They vary
2-3 hours is the general length, but this one might be longer
oh that's quite long : o i guess they show a lot of stuff?
yep
Most stuff in fact
I cant be fucked with trying to watch live letter and translation and do my morning work meetings, so summary after it is.
do note that if you want to talk about the topics in the live letter, #general-discussion and #archived-lore-spoilers are the channels you want to go to.
2-3 hours? jesus christ
are they going to line by line the code for the new patch or
this is okay to do right? There's no reason to have the original?
Correct.
In fact, turning it in is pretty good since it means you don't need to carry around the original to get replicas from drake
(unless SE fixed that and I forgot when)
nah, my retainer had to hold it the entire time
and jeez, they give you like 4 warnings making sure I wanted to turn it in lol
Zohie turn ins supposed to be this easy? Make Souvenirs for scripts?
Custom deliveries are the easiest of all turn-in crafts
When do the Rowena turn ins get changed? The same items seem to be available every day. Only a few changes
that's why they have a weekly cap, but yeah they're the easiest way to fill up scrips
!daily
rowena changes at a different time
daily isnt accurate
oh yeah
the time is in the timer window iirc
also the lower level you are the less options you'll have for it to change to
but there's only a few items per category, like 2-3 generally, only a few more at max level
I made the same item 3 days in a row
some only have one item too iirc
Off doing things
Off doing his own thing for the most part
He pops in now and then, mainly in post patch quests
He tells you what he's been up to
Estinien?
What are Kan-E and Merylb doing in Stormblood? Shouldn’t they be helping?
They are
Mostly offscreen
But ||Raubahn is the general of coolness soooo||
They appear nearer the end
||kan-e helps so hard she accidentally reinvents cross class actions||
Ray-o?
Not really a leader
raya's kinda just been inhabiting a rock in camp tranquil
also her job is more protecting the forest
and really i think anyone who hasn't played white mage could be forgiven for forgetting the other seedseers
Why didn’t Ray-O go to Doma? They don’t have a healer!
Padjal have pretty strict rules regarding not leaving the forest
Do you guys know if there are going to be any story spoilers for post-game Shadowbringers in the Live Letter?
What is the rule
Please be careful of asking story questions in here, there is a channel for it
on that, is kan-e actually a padjal? I can't recall if she is and just uses a basic hyur model for conveniences' sake
That is if you don't want to be spoiled
on that, is kan-e actually a padjal? I can't recall if she is and just uses a basic hyur model for conveniences' sake
She is but also the leader of the state so probably gets some exceptions
yeah, forgot cause model and she does leave a l o t
What is the rule
Pretty much that you don't
kan-e is basic midlander model, right? can't remember if she uses the twins' model or whether the regular padjal have that
They should have recruited Edda.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
They should have recruited Edda.
Alright now I feel like these aren't questions worth having at this point because they don't have any importance. I will add ||Edda is dead/fucking crazy||
yeah in terms of transferable skills she ain't up there
They recruited every class except Healer
Could argue if you've done the white mage questline they kinda do. that being you.
Hildenbrand is dead and reanimated, so. Why not her?
Not questions material anymore
Plot hole questions
It's not
New player here, are there spoilers of the main quest storyline on the new patch 5.3 video?
Yes.
Okay thank you, I was watchi ng
and then I see the masked dude
and i was like nopeeee, still not there
Of course it'd have the new main story so if you aren't caught up...
Definitely dont watch if you haven't finished everything story wise
Hell even if you are caught up it's kinda "...what?"
I didn't know what it was tbh, I started playing like 3 days ago.
Since it said patch 5.3, I thought it was gonna be changes or bug fixes
Live letters show us stuff coming next patch
And not a trailer to a new story maybe :/
That's actually pretty cool
Most games just do patches and don't include nothing new in terms of story progression
I'm glad it is like that, been enjoying it a lot
Wait, does that mean 5.4 and 5.5 are essentially just gonna set up the next expac
Thats how it gows
if you dont have an estate, are you able to garden somehow to get o'ghomoro berries?
.4 and .5 are leads up to next expac
Stormblood and heavensward. 4/.5 set up the next expansion respectively
And maybe slightly more
Especially when looking at heavensward post stuff
yes, you can use flower pots to grow things. just can't crossbreed @signal pond
You can have 2, iirc, flower pots in an apartment
Yes 2 pots
sick, ty!
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gawd its gonna take forever to get to that storyline quest. time to stake the markets for ages x.x
anyone know why the follow on the liveletter channel doesnt wokr? :( doesnt post anything on my server
it has a limit on how often it can post/push updates, thus it only pushes the one initial update. this is a discord limitation, not something on the translators.
it pushes the one update
Liveletters are a lot of messages
it would take weeks to post the whole thing as it is
whats the point of the feature then xD and ik its not hte translators
i see
Question , So why is blu still a limited job? seems A very fun class
because it was designed like that and it won't change unless they decide to go an entirely different direction
And iy does some VERY broken stuff
Just you know
Casually clear dungeons in 5mins
As you do
Doom the boss and move on
Kill raid bosses from 30% with final stings
Do more damage than Lb
As you do
And diamondback exists so lul mechanics
BLU can never be allowed to be even close to the level cap, or it would have to be gutted so hard that it wouldnt be BLU anymore.
Hey so can i obtain tomestone of allegory by spamming dungeons at level 80 etc, or how do/can i get them?
lv80 roulettes, lv80 raids and dungeons
Is it only once daily or?
The DF will show you what rewards you get.
Roulettes are once daily, but individual dungeons are not
Roulettes are once per day, the rewards are visible in the Duty Finder. Dungeon rewards are unlimited (besides the global 450 allegory / week cap)
I think they still limited to 450 per week
That said, there's really no reason to grind for them unless you're not able to play for most of the week
So what kind of dungeons should i grind to get allegory ?
Roulettes easily cap you in a few days
expert roulette for weekly cap
Doing Expert + Level 80 roulette will give you 125 every day.
If you absolutely need to grind them, I would probably do Grand Cosmos - 50 tomestones per a 15-minute run. But as you can only get 450 per week, that's going to limit you more than anything else - grinding only gets you today something you could get this week anyway with only daily roulettes.
(tl;dr just do the daily roulettes)
or hunt trains
Expert roulette once a day for 5 days cap allegory
If you wanna do the minimum effort
technically minimum effort should be hopping on a hunt train
4 days if you do Expert + Level 80, which can be beneficial just to sell phanta mats
can generally cap in an hour or so
Where/how do i sell phanta mats?
Market board
phanta = tomestones of phantasmagoria. so buy crafting materials from the tomestone vendor and toss them on MB (or use them if you are able)
Hhmm, what is generaly the most proiftable mat to buy and sell?
Materials needed for ilv480 gear.
the stuff at the top worth 20 phanta
just check your marketboard to see which ones sell the most
So not the mowens token?
only if you want the deepshadow weapons
assuming you mean this item
!item Mowen's Token (Phantasmagoria)
You can't "stockpile" phanta with these, they're only for the i460 weapons
Alright so if you have nothing else to spend on etc?
if I do this while on a combat class, does the combat class get the exp?
No.
then which class gets it? :0
Not sure. 
is 5.3 live?
august 11th
❤️ ❤️
Dont you get armory exp at 70+
Sure. If you have something higher level.
armoury bonus applies so long as you're on a job that is lower level than your current highest
Depends on the raid
It's just when i play my level 71 machinist i dont get 100% exp, and i have a 80 dark knight
As a DRK, is there any way to tell for what attacks I can use Dark Mind?
Bonus from 70 onwards is 50%
thats because 70-80 is 50%
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1-69 is 100%
@jolly sorrel not really other than common sense
Does it look like magic? its probably magic
Works for me
Any time then, I'd maybe wait for reset to get a queue through roulette
For actual endgame stuff you can look up of course
That said its kind of rare for Dark Mind to be actually useful
Most tankbusters are physical
Weird, it feels like DM would be important
Think of it this way - the majority of the damage you cant avoid as a tank is either gonna be autoattacks, or (again, mostly physical) tankbusters.
Most magic damage can be avoided, and most if it that cant be, you're going to take next to nothing from anyway because its scaled to hit the whole party at once.
So I can leave the buff mainly unused?
2 hours seems definitely off for a queue but is is a dead period where many people aren't playing at all so
It has uses, its just niche.
hmm that sounds pretty off for crystal tower raid tbh
Some bosses do alot of magic.
what duty finder language settings do you have enabled?
because CT is like one of the most common pops
What makes DRK not lag behind on mitigation from PLD or WAR?
Since it has so few CDs then
TBN
the cogwheel at the top of the duty finder window
YES
Oh god yes
lowkey disable french because memes
PF is whatever language but the DF you need to select the languages you want to queue in since it's automated
PF you can just read the name of the party and if it's german well, you know you should speak german
the duty finder language settings is just telling the game which kind of players you'd like to play with. Given that the majority of language in both EU/NA is english
The duty finder language setting is essentially "match me with only people who speak this language". If you set it to only French, you will only get people who also set it to French. Which is not many people.
And aside from the question of how to mitigate as DRK- what should I be using during Blood Weapon? Are there oGCDs that also drain MP?
enabling the E language on duty finder expands the pool of people you're going to draw from
@jolly sorrel Edge of Darkness (later Edge of Shadow) is your single target mana dump. Flood of Darkness (later Flood of Shadow) is your multi target mana dump.
well, barring savages you can just use
Auto-Translate
for almost everything, so language barrier shouldn't be that big of a problem
No uh, I meant the opposite
During Blood Weapon, is there stuff I should be using to get even more MP back?
and if you have the mechanics down for re-clears, probably even savages
No
Okay, so any GCD I use will drain MP and I don't really have to worry about which
during blood weapon you just keep using the normal stuff, you just dump more mp so you don't cap
and no oGCDs add to that
No GCD's add to it
*oGCD's
but be careful about double weaving during Blood Weapon. Unless you have alot of skill speed, double weaving during Blood Weapon can lead to you missing a GCD
Its also extremely important exactly when you trigger Blood Weapon
Oh?
you need to get... what is it, 6GCDs in? And if you mess up you only get 5 so you get a lot less mp
That nets an extra hit?
i.e. GCD -> oGCD -> Blood Weapon -> GCD
might be more I haven't played ina while
If you do it on the first weave window you're guaranteed to miss out on a hit
you can also just activate blood weapon late in your GCD
unless you have ludicrous skill speed
just have to be mindful of it
Huh, neat. Good to know, thanks.
hi guys, ninja or samourai ? I read more forum dating from 2018 and they say "samourai isnt good in teamwork". Is still true in 2020 please? 🙂 (sry for my nooby english)
Whichever one you enjoy more
SAM's good now, still has 0 team buffs, but actually does enough personnal damage
yeah samurai is perfectly viable
The only job thats like, an outlier currently is Summoner
it doesn't have any utility, but its utility is its raw damage output
sam enjoy more but i want be useful in team
sam isn't 'not useful'
"Useful" is subjective
Samurai's like "What's utility? MINE IS DAMAGE ⚔️ " but it's okay
Ninja is bringing a Vuln Up but less personal damage
SAM usefulness is doing a lot more damage than everyone else, so even accounting for team buffs, you do more damage
But its not bringing like raidwide mitigation or anything
Like, legitimately not joking Sam's purpose in a group is high damage output
Same as black mage
if you want to like, give people heals and mitigation and stuff, you'd have to look at DNC and BRD mostly, with MNK very slightly(mantra)
and nin's utility is basically just trick attack, which admittedly is a l o t
yeah but it's just damage
If you want to look at it this way: as Samurai, your sole and only purpose is to do a ton of damage - as Ninja, you really, really, really don't want to mistime Trick Attack (in a static - in a pug nobody cares)
I guess SMN has aoe heals too and rez, RDM has rez also so that's something
Uh so my alt job is level 19 I wanna get her to 20 for command missions
Is there any level 19 fate
rdm has the best rez in the game by far
Other than food/FC/armory exp, is there any other way to get bonus exp that isnt too hard to achieve?
smn uses swiftcast in its rotation so bit awkward for it to rez
wow thanks for so much answers !!! I take time for read 😄
That said, go do your pixie quests because they give a fuckton of exp every day
(actually i play sum lv 30-40 but i pref cac class with sword :p)
@half kraken around Aleport
If you want to look at it this way: as Samurai, your sole and only purpose is to do a ton of damage - as Ninja, you really, really, really don't want to mistime Trick Attack (in a static - in a pug nobody cares)
@sly zinc what is the trick attack please?
!action trick attack
Delivers an attack with a potency of 350.
500 when executed from a target's rear.
Additional Effect: Increases target's damage taken by 5%
Duration: 15s
Can only be executed while under the effect of Hidden.
You would need to reference a guide, but specifically you need to time your Trick Attack at a very specific time
Like, down to the specific GCD if you want to be optimal for the group
essentially if you're optimizing damage as a static group, everybody will be timing their burst to your Trick Attack (simplifying a bit, of course)
ok. So the mob take 5% more damage ?
Like, down to the specific GCD if you want to be optimal for the group
@simple shore GDC?
GCD = Global Cooldown. Its how openers tend to be measured. I suggest you go read the Ninja guide in #resources as a starting point for understanding this.
When was this cooldown syncing thing added? I can't recall it being so important a few years back
it's just raid buff alignment
GCD = Global Cooldown. Its how openers tend to be measured. I suggest you go read the Ninja guide in #resources as a starting point for understanding this.
@simple shore nice thanks. I'll go read this 🙂
This has always been important @jolly sorrel
aligning your CD's has been important ever since raidwide CD's have existed. But it mostly came into popularity / near-requirement in Heavensward
@simple shore Pixie quests is only for 70+ yh?
Yes
But yeah, aligning CD's....that was pretty much make or break from A3S onwards. Fuck EVERYTHING about that fight.
I must've just hung with the wrong crowds then.
sounds it
you only get gil back if you're transferring from a congested world to a preferred or to a new world
normal world transfer, you have to demolish your house before you can transfer
(There are currently no congested worlds)
I’m looking for a FC. what’s the best way to find one?
afaik, you can't demolish with items in the estate storage
if you can i think they just get destroyed so
Assuming you're not picky and you just want an FC for the buffs, literally just stand next to an aetheryte in a main city for awhile. If you want something beyond that, there's unfortunately not really any good tools for finding one, other than expressing your interest in locations where people tend to congregate.
pls help a colorblind person out, is this blue or purple?
yeah :c
Indigo
Kind of inbetween
It’s in-between
is this close enough to indigo? I don't see an indigo dye :x
Thats not at all close to the first thing you posted.
god darn it, I hate being colorblind
I usually have my friend to help me with this, but he's sleeping >_<
Try fiddling with the in game colourblind filters? It's not much but might help
I'd say the bottom of the sleeve in the first picture is a somewhat lighter Abyssal Blue for reference, but the lighter section of the sleeve is closer to Lavender Purple, to use in-game colors as the example.
ty, the naming helps a lot xD
The second picture you posted looks like Turquoise Blue dye to me, roughly, at the top half.
I think I'll go with lavender purple, thanks a lot!
Hello! What's the deal about the 5.3 MSQ apparently requiring the completion of Crystal tower raids? Does this mean one can't start the 5.3 story before running them?
yes
I'm not sure if exact details have been released, but in some form or another: yes
No it doesn't
It says "in accordance with the ARR changes"
aka it needs to be done in ARR
Same with the mount unlock quest
It doesn't seem to say it's needed for 5.3 patch story specifically
just needs to be done in ARR for new players?
I think some people are making assumptions about it for 5.3 because trailer and not remembering that certain things are already addressed in dialogue.
they've said several times in past live letter you'd need it for 5.3, it's possible you won't need it for the 5.3 MSQ, but today's stream didn't absolutely confirm that either
Sure Pyros but it really seems to be leaning to just "ARR for new people"
prepatch notes will confirm it for sure(assuming they don't confirm it on the website earlier)
so you'll have a weekend to get it done before the patch
I've been hearing various times that the "ARR story" will change, or something? Is that this?
or well if it's monday, you'll have a few hours
Part of it Tael
Well the patch is it
CT and mount unlock being mandatory is part of it
It's also just cutting out some of the badly paced bits
to make the ARR story flow better
ARR story isnt fundamentally changing, just being streamlined and also some things being mandatory that werent.
Well it certainly looks weird to require an ARR raid to advance a 5.3 story, but I've seen ppl mentioning it several times on reddit so...😕
Hmkay, I see.
To be honest you should be doing it before 5.0 anyway FYI Tomana
I'd mainly like to see the MSQ roulette quests change up D:
@zenith plaza are you complete through 5.2 but never done CT yet? That's the only way you'd think that was weird.
Yeah I rushed the Msq to 80 and ignored everything else lol
Well, that explains it. You should really go do CT.
^
It's highly recommended to be done before 5.0 by Yoshi P and staff and players
Hello. I'm new to this, I've gotten free game time of 30 days back in 2015 and never used it. Now I wanted to play the free trial and it says I'm not eligible most likely because of that previous 30 day free, can I still somehow use that account for the free trial?
Guys, how far can Foestriker gear carry me as a lancer? I don't see any gear that's nearly as good looking in my immediate future 
@jade shadow if you like it just convert it to glamour and replace with better gear.
that sucks
Level 20 to 30 I can just do command missions and it's efficient enough for leveling isn't it? Since I need to do 10 to unlock the emotes anyway
What is the command for mouse over macros again?
/ac "Skill Name" <mo>
<mo>
if someone on an other server is afk on my friendlist it still shows as online right?
@simple shore I'm very new to the game, could you elaborate for me please?
it doesn't show as afk
!faq glamour
'What is Glamour and how do I unlock it?'
Glamour is the process of changing an equipment's look into a different item with the use of Glamour Prisms. You can unlock the ability to glamour by doing the level 15 quests 'If I Had a Glamour' in Vesper Bay, West Thanalan. Although not required, you can unlock the ability to dye gear with the nearby quest 'Color Your World'. You can get the Orange Juice needed by talking to the nearby Merchant & Mender. Items used for glamouring are not lost upon use.
'How do I glamour? Where do I get more Prisms?'
Glamouring is done by right-clicking (Square or X on controllers) on the equipment you want to glamour and choosing the option 'Cast Glamour'. After clicking this you choose the item you want the appearance on the right half of the menu that opened up. You can get more Glamour Prisms by either crafting them after completing the quest 'Absolutely Glamourous', buying them from your Grand Company Quartermaster, or buying them from the marketboard.
^ that.
Thank you 
is this the right channel to ask about technical stuff? my partner is having trouble installing the game
how far am I to the next dungeon/trial if I'm on stormblood at "path of no return"?
so I can't remove the base game from my account? even though now you get more with just the free trial and just having the old base game
can I delete my account at least than?
the base game will go up to lvl 60
same as the trial, without the restrictions of the trial
but you have to pay for a sub to play
@tidal yarrow around a dozen quests until the next dungeon - you'll unlock something meanwhile, though
till which level does the free trail go for
currently 35, next patch 60
60
jesus
@tidal yarrow around a dozen quests until the next dungeon - you'll unlock something meanwhile, though
wow that's so much. thank you!
if I cancel my account, can I remake the account with the same username / email? or are they unusable forever? I really want to keep my username and email
Hi, this is the second time this is happening to me but FF wants to reinstall?
you can close the service account(not this)
you can also not delete it and just add another service account
Steam just gives me the install button and then I need to reinstall the launcehr and the launcher wants tod ownload the full game again even though I stopped blaying a few hours ago
yeah it doesn't, but if I cancel the SE account this way..
I wonder if I can just make a new one
I don't know if you can reopen the same one though, should contact support and see what they say
alright. thanks
You could just make a new account
You'd probably save more money in the long run than paying for a subscription with the already bought base game you have
probably would, but I really like having one username/email for most of the stuff
@shrewd cradle If you cancel that account, it doesn't actually erase it. Your characters, email and names are still in use
depends on whether or not you plan on staying at 60 to farm, and if you can find the starter edition on sale, a month sub is less than the non sale price of the starter edition(and it never goes on sale on the Squeenix website or Steam)
Why is the follow-webhook from #translations-and-liveletters channel not posting? Or will only "special" messages be posted?
@shrewd cradle If you cancel that account, it doesn't actually erase it. Your characters, email and names are still in use
@jade shadow yeah, figures
thanks anyway
discord limits how many messages can be posted, only the initial post to let people know the live letter is happening is pushed out @opal plover
Ah I see
if I'm watching a cutscene and I'm on a queue at the same time. if the queue pops will I get the notify/sound of it?
yes
okay nice
and if you take the queue you'll have to start the cutscene over from the beginning
thanks
Any controller users here?
Seem to have encountered an issue where my camera has gone inverted when I haven't changed a thing.
Both ways
Not a controller user, but i assume you need to look at these options :
Yeah managed to find it. Somehow it had ticked the game pad reverse axis thanks though
I did plug my controller into my old PC to play FFXIV but I don't think that would have an effect on my ps4 controls lol
Wondrous tails lines
Tails doesnt give allegory pre-80 i thought?
I think if you have one class at 80 you do?
Everywhere and Nowhere
azim steppe nighttime
yeah, just changed to that one
Yeah before that one. It plays in the core of Eden too
And also in the area of the pixies before it becomes all titania ish
Unrelated question - black mage aoe rotation is precisely freeze sharp T4 B4, F3 flare (foul) flare?
is there anything i'm missing in that?
i don't think i'm wrong but I'm losing in numbers to rdms going haha impact and it feels not right
hi!, im trying to decide if i wanna get into E6S raiding with Dancer or BLM... when i do the dummy trial, i can complete it with dancer but not with BLM, does that mean im doing more dps as a dancer? or should i still be doing more dps as BLM?
especially with dnc
!faq SSS
- SSS does not account for a job’s RDPS contribution via skills like Battle Voice
- SSS is a 3 minute burst window where you adjust your rotation to fit in that period and does not reflect a realistic raid scenario
- Different jobs will be in peaks and troughs of their burst windows
- Different jobs have different SSS dps requirements
- SSS is not accurately tuned for the jobs they are supposed to represent in most cases
- 3 minutes is short enough to be able to be affected by lucky DH Crit bursts
- Certain jobs gain dps by having additional party members like Dancer/Monk
is it possible to look exactly like her?
no
No
generally if you have that question, you can look the NPC up on garlandtools website
and if you can, it'll tell you what settings they have
in the creator
cough ardbert
Derplander gonna derplander
||He's supposed to look like you tho...||
Yshotla you can pretty easily make
a fair number of major story npcs can be recreated
i think
yes, she can
pretty much the main thing that makes the scions "unique" is their tattoos
but their ARR appearances can be recreated
@wild bone
Just told you in #general-discussion but maybe it got snowed under so here is the guide again:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/
i mean point aside I've bumped into Thuncred Watters about 5 times this week who's a thancred-identical unsurprisingly
so most of them are near-doable
Hi which DLC should I get first?
beside some hairstyles which're on mog
I just got level 50
@fallen vigil the game doesnt work that way
I'm planning on getting the DLC
You can only get shadowbringers now, which gives you all DLCs
you can't buy dlcs seperately
oh
shadowbringers gives you the previous expansions
You also cant pick what order to do them in
so I just buy shadowbringers?
You will be going to Heavensward next
yeah shadowbringers has everything
cool
how much of a time commitment is the HW relic weapon compared to ARR relic weapon?
Wait, if shadowbringers has everything, why is there both shadowbringers and a complete edition in the store?
it's shorter by a fair bit, especially if you have a crafter to get blue scrips(via yellow scrips)
because most of anima is poetics
complete edition=starter edition+shadowbringers
oh dang... I just spent my 2k on demicrystals...
shadowbringers does not come with the starter edition
Ohh
they asked what to buy at 50, so they already have starter
so if you only buy shadowbringers, without already owning starter edition, you can't use it until you do
complete edition is for people who dont have the game at all and want to buy everything in one go
how many poetics do I need?
like roughly 13k or so
amount kinda varies depending on RNG and what you choose to do for sands
oh gods
what else are you going to do while waiting for 5.3? 😛
@simple shore back to the topic of BLM vs DNC on dummy, so i shouldnt pay much attention to it?
If you want any sort of real measurement you need to parse in a real setting.
what is an efficent way to level to level 50?
The dummy is very ineffective at telling you anything
thing is im on PS4, so i dont have any way of measurement tool
potd and squadron command missions are great ways to level to 50
You could have someone on PC measure for you
roulettes obviously too
@simple shore thanks!
for parses there is a distinction made between personal DPS and raid DPS, which is a combination of your own personal DPS plus the damage done by your party members due to your buffs. DNC excels at raid DPS, which is impossible to see on a dummy
i see, i feel more comfortable as dancer to be honest, but i always feel like im not doing enough DPS before enrage
If you're doing content with enrages
i.e. savage
there's a fair chance someone has parsed you already
You should go see if your character has entries on FFlogs
When you unlock a new job, like red mage, do you only unlock that job? Do you get any starter gear for it?
You should go see if your character has entries on FFlogs
@simple shore how do i do this?
RDM IIRC does give you some starting gear
but for most jobs you get a weapon and that's it
you get starting gear for rdm/sam/gnb/dnc
drk/ast/mch give you a weapon, chest and soul stone
@lavish vortex go to https://www.fflogs.com/ and enter your character name in the search box on the top left
the starting gear doesn't include accessories and I think belt though
if it shows up with your server indicated, then see if you have any parses up for fights you've completed
found it, thanks!
Ok ty
Can someone in #archived-lore-spoilers tell me what the blue-quest Slither Along with the NPC ||Quinfort|| unlocks...? The first one gave me an aether current and this next one doesn't seem to give anything.
its part of the qitari unlock
qitari being the gathering beast tribe
its a quest chain, so you have to finish it
Oh, alright
You happen to know how many quests it is
Having trouble looking up the chain
ok, my rDPS for Ramuh was 10,068 as dancer. is that good/bad/average?
You can see your percentile next to your damage as well.
the higher percentile, the better (roughly speaking, "this is how many % of the player population does less damage than you")
is that Ramuh Savage?
yes, rahmu savage
because i dont think that number is accurate otherwise
4 @dense pier
10068 is very low
kk
10068 is very low
@simple shore got it!, thanks!
whats an average or good number for DNC in that fight??
This channel is for new or returning players to ask questions and discuss Final Fantasy XIV. As a reminder this channel is a troll free and an off-topic free zone. For general discussion please use #general-discussion. <@&473626701947994134> are available to help in this channel. Thank-You, Kupo!
@lavish vortex have a look: https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/33#boss=69&class=Global&spec=Dancer
19643 is the max parse ever. 50th percentile (i.e. "average" parse) is 15336. You can look at this information by hitting the menu on the top left of FFlogs, going to Eden's Verse and clicking "Statistics"
nice!, thanks!
the churning mists is housing area?
No
Do note that all parse numbers at the high end
Are more than likely done by people at ilvl 500 BiS
Also generally they will be grinding parses to get higher numbers via better RNG alignment
If you are just starting out, looking at the blue - purple parsed might be a better comparison for
Still, looking at the mid-tier percentiles is a good way to know if you're grievously wrong.
"Perfect play"
Does the Alexandrian Coat of Casting have a dyeable version without the ass-wings?
if i transfer to a server tha tis prefered will i get the 100% exp boost?
cause savage equivalent has the ass-wings
@wild bone you only get a bonus on transfer if you are on a world flagged as Congested. Currently no worlds are flagged as Congested.
Ita for newly created characters
how long wud it take if i were to play form 1-70 rushing the MSQ and skipping all cutscenes
That's completely up to you
i made the mistkae of creating my char in the shit cyrstal server where no one can raid
and my goal with this game is to get ot end game raiding
i mean there is raiding on crystal but you'd be more reliably better off on primal/aether
Statistically speaking, Crystal is simply inferior for raiding.
shud i just spend the 18 dollars and transfer to aether?
the fked part is i even asked people 24 7 if crystal was good
and no one told me how shit it was for raiding
i wud amade it in a diff server then
What is the rising?
The anniversary event
i think imma jus tbuy server ransfer to aether
which server shud i pick in aether i want the one that is the most populated
Gilgamesh
Anyone running copperbell mines? 
are u sure its gilgamesh?
Yes
i want to make sure and not make mistake like last time
where people said crystal was good server to make char
If your objective is 'the most populated server on Aether" then yes, i am absolutely certain it is Gilgamesh
As long as you're on Aether its fine
However server population matters very little
i just want alot of people shown in the world thats why
tbh i understand your pain
ok I will be switching to gilgamesh
hopefully yall are right and its the most populated
I am 100% certain of it.
Gilgamesh was THE raiding server before cross world PF was a thing
Sooooo
Yeah
Fair number of world first raiders there as well
If i recall
I quit FF14 due to burnout back during Sigmascape (had god kefka on farm, but just got tired of the lack of stuff to do at the time). Came back a few months ago to find out my old Aether server (Coeurl) ended up on Crystal. Needless to say, i rerolled on Primal.
ok i just switched
to gilgamesh
costed me 18 dollars
how long does it usually tkae
cause it stilll shows iam in goblin
idk ive never done a transfer, someone else will have to answer that
Ive heard its fairly fast though
oh
it worked
was liek 5 seconds
now how much is a char customiztion change?
i want to play as the veira race there hot af
No clue, go look on mogstation
like 5-7$ iirc
10$ for fantasia
so summoner is gonna get toned down right?
my main class is bard
i really hope they buff bard
some how
BRD is "Bard: Potency increase for GCDs". Summoner is "Summoner: Tri-disaster nerf" from the Live Letter notes.
oh
So i assume that means (Heavy/Burst Shot)/Straight Shot/(maybe the DoT's) are getting buffed for BRD.
summoenr is only tri dissaster nerf nothing else?
Thats what it says
ehh thats not even that big
Depends on the nature of the nerf
i was hoping it wud get nerfed more
bard needs potency increase for both dots burst shot and refulgent arrow
then it will be good
This is the potential loss in DPS from tri disaster nerf
Not going to be world breaking
if its a potency decrease then yeah, its a joke of a nerf
its a potency decrease thats not even that big
we wont know the exactly details until the patch notes are out
what the hell
if its a redesign of it to be "doesnt apply both DoT's" then that would be much more significant
why does summoenr always get to be op
so theres no point in discussing it until then
We have only vague information so there's no way of knowing what it actually means
prelims are released fridays before the patch, with full notes being released during maintenance
so aug 7th for prelims, most likely
Gotta say I was amused by the line about Monk though
someone in the reddit actually posted "wtf, why another smn nerf"
i wanna bash the guys head on
How do I get the follow to work in my discord? So far I haven’t gotten any news there on the live letter
there is only one message that is pushed out from #translations-and-liveletters and its the one to announce the live letter is starting
this is due to the fact that discord only allows so many messages to be published
and the live letter translation exceeds that number by a large amount
also gilgamesh seems very empty...
comming form goblin the main town areas are soo empty
wdf
People are in limsa and eulmore
Also its a major content lull
Which will be fixed in a few weeks
I remember when Ul dah was banging, but thy was also like 4 years ago
Yeah, keep in mind you came from the "RP Datacenter" to the "Definitely not RP datacenter, and definitely not RP server"
Bard has been the one of the best in this game since forever
This expansion it isn’t
But that’s because ranged got fucked this expac
The bard buffs should be significant. Even a minor potency increase if it hits both Burst and Refulgent will have a major effect.
Yes
yeah
Retainers can wear any gear you can, basically
Because they're not in a grand company
That's an exception, but one of the only ones
So they can't
No
why did u put this "Definitely not RP datacenter, and definitely not RP server"
As in, Gilgamesh is the polar opposite of anything on Crystal
Gilg is definitely the raid server lol
Gilg is 1k clears above the 2nd highest NA server
is it possible to enter a dungeon queue as multiple classes so i have better chances to find a grp quickly ?
thats the point
Well then just queue as healer if you have it available, because that's the ticket to fast queues.
is there a non-cash shop scythe for glams?
so it would be cool if i could tell the system im also fine with tanking
idk what to tell you, what you want doesnt exist, but healer on average is the fastest option
The deepshadow blm staff is a scythe but thats pretty much it @ashen linden
say weird question, for old relics
If you slotted materia on a Relic weapon
Did it pass to the next one?
no
No
its the same as augmenting
you're effectively getting a new weapon, thus the materia will be destroyed
Yes, even though "story-wise" its being upgraded and its the "same weapon", functionally the existing weapon is being destroyed and replaced by a new one.
okydokey
How long do their livestreams last for..?
it's been 4 hours..it's not like a special 14 hour one..right ..?!
Yeah you can stop watching now
Live letter previews are usually long
ok great, i'll catch up with translation on reddit..or is the stuff here better?
they're just doing announcements
I want to read all of it but summarised is ok I can wait till tomorrow
Summary would probably be in reddit thread
o..images..ok i'll see both after i've finished work. Thank you @faint flare @twilit arch
Or a video a YouTuber makes
Live Letters are usually like 2 hours long but they did say it would be longer than usual
Nah, I like to read. Hmph
Like Meoni or mr happy
ew no..not Meono no offence, Mr Happy is ok..
they'll also make a forum post on the OF
(no offence!)
that summarizes it
sure thing, thanks
Yeah
They deva do live letter digest
Which would be best for you
And usually insert clips
where can I find the Colisuem pythos
n
I searched online there aren't any cordinates
they're in the dungeon, Halatali
ohh
which is a lvl 20 dungeon, unlocked via a 
Hi everyone! I just joined the server and I apologize to immediately start asking questions and stuff but I couldn't find an answer anywhere else.
Anyway I'm looking to make an alt and I had a question regarding story skips. If I bought, say, the Stormblood story skip does that skip everything up to Stormblood or just Stormblood msq?
it just skips msq
I think they meant "Does it also skip HW MSQ"?
Yes! Sorry
which i dont actually know
Oh okay, neat! Thank you so much that's exactly what I needed to know 🙂
I was wondering, when the Free Trial extention comes out and, if you have the Starter Edition and are out of sub, are you still locked out of the account? Bc that would be sad, the free trial being a better deal than purchasing the base game. You only get social options unlocked out of it.
The story is entirely linear so yeah
Yeah I've done it about.. 7 times now.
