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Get a tank or healer friend to queue with you, or don't play DPS, is how you get better queue times
mb mb
so what quest starts the line for nirvana WHM weapon?
Would anyone know when the patch notes come out?
Nirvana Zeta? That's ARR yeah
I think someone said preliminary patch notes were coming out on friday
and the full notes during maintenance
Ah okay thank you!
@median locust guess have to wait longer xD dont have any friends in this game , went over from Tera
you learn to live with it as a dps main
found it' it's not the praetorium theme as kael claimed it was

oh so i still have to grind through this stupid books? for some reason i heard that i could skip some stuff(im at atma)
thanks btw
yes
fudge nuggets
you can skip the first step of the lv60 relic with a fully finished lv50 relic
but it's not worth the time
the first lv60 step takes like an hour
@twilit arch
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Former WoW player since vanilla, any suggestion on what to make for my first character?
Depends what you like to play
i got happy for a second that i didnt have to do this
thanks for all the help anyways
Prefer melee 🙂
but know that if you hate your class, you can switch whenever you want after level 10 with no downside
Lancer or Pugilist are melee
you can also pick up Rogue pretty early on after first creating your character
Lancer/Pugilist
and Samurai unlocks at level 50 if you own the expansions
Awesome, Lancer sounds good! I'll give that a shot
I'm sort of confused by rogues are they actually melee
so does greed only proc if nobody needs
@cobalt narwhal yes
Yes
Yes they just happen to have some skills that have range and look magical
And rogues are melee
ive been passing on everything cause i didnt wanna fuck anyones loot rip
It rolls between everyone that Needed. If NOBODY Needed, then it rolls for Greed.
Also, any suggestions on a Data Center? Dunno if there's a reddit guild or not
what region?
East Coast USA
Aether or Primal if you're planning to maybe raid
sorry, can't help. :p
Primal or aether if you want to raid, Crystal for roleplay
North American datacentres are all in the same location
subreddit does not have a guild that it runs
Boo, lol
wait i joined a rp dc?
Not for different time zones or coastal areas
the members of staff are all on different worlds anyways
yikes
my condolences
how much is a transfer
as long as you're not on Balmung
$18 usd
Hello, i was wondering if anyone new a good guide for easy mounts to get with pictures. I'm level 43 and wan't to know if theirs any mounts i can pick up fairly easily. but the guide i could find has every mount. and its a bit of a hassle trying work out which ones are easy to get and which ones are bleh
im on mateus, only joined cause there were 3 bonus xp worlds
and the other ones were full when i tried
You can still raid on Crystal, it's just not as active of a raid scene
😢
full only means you can't create a character during peak hours
@tawdry onyx this one has pictures and how to get them https://playerassist.com/game-guides/ff14-mounts-final-fantasy-mounts-2020/
(i think)
oh wow
@tawdry onyx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TZiVFt_mNk
Video footage of every single mount + how to get them
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^ that works too
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Yes
yes
not 3x
But 100% increased exp
2x, sorry, lol
stars on the server name are preferred servers
is there a guide out there for the most efficient way to meld 75 materia onto this scroll for the zodiac quest T.T
but its from all sources to all jobs/classes under level 70
Mainly wanted one that diddn't have every mount, just the easy ones
Buy a bunch of tier 1 materias, meld them till you can't. Buy tier 2 materias, meld them till you can't. Etc.
@celest herald its mostly slam whatever you can from g1 until you can't anymore
then g2
Sell what you didn't use afterwards
I can only join a FC on my home world right?
yes
yes
so if a meld fails i lose the alexandrite?
I'm doing MSQ Aether on Demand.
I found 3/4 Inconspicuously Suspicious Items.
The fourth one is hiding really well. Hints?
@celest herald You only lose the materia
ahh okay thx
@short sparrow there's one up high
Thank you, that's what I thought but still didn't find it yet.
if you'd like I could give you a bit more of info, but you can probably find it searching around looking up if you'd prefer
I will hunt for a bit, thank you.
yup no problem, enjoy and good luck
sorry if I'm being repetitive but i get anxious about misunderstanding stuff. so for zodiac its atma>animus>novus>nexus>zodiac braves>zodiac zeta. the zodiac braves weapons are just an upgrade to the nexus weapons? not an entirely separate thing.
thanks again
yeah it's just an upgrade process through each step/stage of the relic as you've listed
ok cool. i understand 100% now after 10 years. ty
Which chest in the aery does lesser panda drop from? wanna know if I need to be running the whole dungeon lol
final chest
Do you need to do the Zodiac and Anima weapons to get the Resistance ones?
No
no
Separate relic chains
Relics of different levels are completely separate
Only exception is you can use a completed lv50 one to skip the first step of the 60 one, but it's not worth it, and you don't have to
@raw solstice found it, and wow it's really easy once you catch sight of where it is from a distance.
sure is yup haha
The only world with bonus exp is not accepting new characters -.-
yeah u gotta wait for the server to not be congested to make a new character
Means too many people are online, you can wait till less people are online
usually works well in the middle of the night, or early in the morning
@short sparrow thankfully not much of that after arr lol
I can almost smell Heavensward! It's in my sights!
Other than MSQs is there anything else I should / have to do before moving into the expansion?
How do I unlock those... I've done one raid so far, I forget which it was called. Not Coil.
Hello , I want to know which Materia to go for as dragoon in order
Critical Hit is max limit , should I go for direct hit or dete ?
Critical Hit Rate > Direct Hit Rate > Determination > Skill Speed
If not level 80, ignore substats, go for item level
If you can fit in Crit, go crit
If not, go DH
If not, go Det
that's how it goes
@median locust Thank you, I will go and find that soon. I've done some
but are there any other specifics you think are important to get done ASAP?
There's a ton of lv50 dungeons you can do but none of them are really mandatory
but they're still fun
Should all materia be lv8 or is lv6 alright ? ( lv6 is 40 , lv8 is 60 )
if you don't feel like continuing MSQ, they're a nice break
6 is alright, but make sure to have 6's in the last slots
Because when you remove materia, you always remove the last one
so if you wanna replace them with 8's later, you don't accidentally break the 8's you already have in it
Hey is there a good video or image or gnb rotation
Cause 6's can't break, but 8's have a 60% chance to break when you remove them from gear
I heard all materia breaks if you removed them
Nope
Also the tonberry dungeon is my favorite
Tiers 1 through 6 never break
Tier 7's have a 20% chance to break
Tier 8's have 60% chance to break
!faq gnbguide
How rare is the unhidden leather map
Yeah when ||the dragon took them from you in the midgar dungeon||@median locust
12 raids sdfasdf
Wait no you said 3 24 man raids too, OMG I will never get most of this stuff done. XD
Except for A Realm Reborn, there's 13 raids and only the higher difficulty
and an even higher difficulty for 4 of those
ARR was weird
Well it was... not the first really, but still kinda the first.
Nobody does the Coils synced though, don't queue for those lol
grab a level 80 or two to get carried through them instead if you care about its story
Which is pretty good btw
My FC have said they might walk me through the coils.
It's pretty important actually
Else at one point in the MSQ you'll be like "hey who're you"
So wait do you count the raids against primals as raids?
So primal are trials?
Trials are a single boss, a lot of the time MSQ related but not all the time
hello!! anyone know what's the best way to level up my anima weapon? i am on the 2nd to the last step, the one after you do 3 dungeons and submit 15 pneumatics
Raids can be a little more, and it's part of a series
it says i need to do events with my weapon equipped
@grave totem If you can get a party, do Eyes of the Creator (Savage) (A9S) unsynced with a handful of people over and over
You'll be done in like 90 minutes
if you're gonna do it solo, do Brayflox' Longstop (Hard)
over and over, but it's way slower
ohh okay thanks!
i dont have a party 😦 i dont have many friends lol ! ill do brayflox then 😄 like around how many timeS?
I've never done it that way but I heard it's the most efficient solo way, honestly lol
also you can make a party finder to find people
There usually are a handful of other people doing the same thing
i see. does fate events counts towards the aether tho? because im also working on my eureka armor / weapons. i was wondering if i equip my staff doing those i can do 2 birds with 1 stone?
or just dungeons?
Lv70 stuff doesn't count
It's only lv50 dungeons or Heavensward content
so lv60 max
I'm not sure if Fates work
Oh i see :( thanks!
So the
Legacy of Allag, I can't see it on my map... or in my completed quests, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
Have you beaten the base game MSQ?
not the patches but just the base game
like have you beat Praetorium
Yes, definitely. I'm in like patch 2.4 or something.
Should be this guy next to the Mor Dhona aetheryte
you might have already picked it up though
Yeah, which section would it be under if I completed it already, in the sidequest list?
All good, lol
Crafters don’t have any shadowbringers job quests?
The Crystalline Mean acts as their job quests
thank you
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Something to note though the crystalline mean quests are shared between crafters/gatherers
gsm/bsm/arm, ltw/wvr/crp, cul/alc, bot/min and fish has its own
so you're going to have to pick and choose which one you're going to do for each. general recommendations are gsm/wvr/cul for crafters
though it largely doesn't matter at this point with restoration.
What is the name of the website that shows you gear that share the same model?
garlandtools
so you're going to have to pick and choose which one you're going to do for each. general recommendations are gsm/wvr/cul for crafters
@twilit arch it’s fine, I’m only leveling weaver to 80 followed by botanist (for the time being) Ishgard restoration gives so much exp that leveling others wouldn’t be that much of a problem for me
if i join a free company, i must be on their world? or just data center?
@dry prairie Same world
oh
@ionic hazel 30
tyty
is there any quick way to doing the zodiac weapons or am i stuck with these stupid books?
you have to finish the books
I've been seeing a lot of people specifically doing level 5 FATE stuff at level 50+, is there a long-term grind that involves doing stuff like that, or is it just for cheevos?
Hi i want to download the game before the 11th but the launcher told me to enter a key to be able to download the game, i even tried with a friend account who had not this problem
but will i have to download the full launcher atfer the 11th ?
I guess i should ask, are you on the trial or the full game
In july 2019 i use this account to try the game
I downloaded this, yours have _ft at the end
if you haven't bought the game, then just use the link i posted. its the trial launcher
Ok
I will be okay when the game will extend his "free trial" in 5 days ? Or will i need to download the game once again ?
You won't need to download the game again, you'll just need to download the update (like everyone else)
you only need to download the launcher again is if you're upgrading from trial to full game, since trial launcher and full game launcher aren't the same
Ok that's working, thanks 👍
Hey will bozja be released on the 11th or sometime after?
it'll release later
After
Can you bind hotbar actions to the PS4 chatpad?
For example, say that I want to save space for the 32+ Cross Hot Bar. Would I be able to assign Mount/ Dismount to Hot Bar 1 Button 1 and assign HB1B1 to lets say "1" and if I press 1 on the chatpad would I mount/ dismount?
how do you ping a PF?
just started crafters and noticed all the skills so far are exactly the same... are all crafters the same (aside from what they craft)?
yuppers
ah, that makes things easier! though I kind of wish they all shared the same hotbar then
can the scholar cast spells through eos?
my friend was telling me about a rathalos strat where you can circumvent some mechanic by casting adlo via eos
anyone?... anyone know how to link a PF in chat?
but i'm a level 60~ scholar and have never seen anything like that
@nova umbra there should be an icon beside the pf message
Your friend has incorrect info
something that looks like a chat bubble
click that and it should show up in chat as <pfinder>
Even if Scholar fairy can heal through the ex rathalos debuff
There are no way to cast Adlo through a fairy
In ex rathalos trial or any other trials/raids/dungeons
ty anna
is steam having some lag now?
If you're talking about in-game lag
@warped nest ty
just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing some crucial mechanic this whole time
alot of people have been complaining about lag
I'll copy-paste what i said in another channel
"idk about the other DC's, but ive been seeing widespread reports of connection issues on Primal - though based on what testing i did, its most likely not FF14's fault, some node taking a shit somewhere more likely. I imagine it could be impacting Crystal/Aether too. Might explain some stuff."
ive been lagging pretty badly too
@remote lintel steam servers completely fell over about an hour ago
i see
TL;DR on my scenario
18ms average 0 packet loss to google servers, etc.
110ms average 15% packet loss to Primal DC.
Turn on VPN
Fixes everything
So somewhere along the pipe something is dying
probably impacting alot of people
how long are login queues when new patches are released?
Depends on your server. But its not going to be obnoxious....usually
I was thinking about taking a few days off to play, but I remember in other mmo's it's almost impossible to play due to lag or login queues
Oh, yeah, it doesnt get bad like WoW or anything
good
Usually if its going to be particularly bad (always for expansions) they turn on auto-logoff AFK until things get less congested.
@leaden ginkgo Tuesday, July 28 at 1:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 27 at 12:00 a.m. (PDT)
Like right now the only reason you get logged out of the game is if you manually do it or your connection gets interrupted
So you have people AFK for days on end online
Thank you
I don't get how they can afford to stay afk for so long
my electricity bill would skyrocket if I were to do that
who do you generally target with synastry?
i assume the off-tank in an 8 man
but what about a dungeon?
tank or melee dps?
the tank, because it'll boost the single target heals you do on them
unless you absolutely need to heal two targets at once
Computers aren't that expensive to leave running, and if you don't have FF14 as your active window it limits the framerate and load on your GPU.
@twilit arch ty
Yeah, computers actually are pretty cheap on electricity usually
do melds affect my retainer's performance?
for combat retainers, no
tl;dr they can help gathering retainer
gathering retainers they can help
I see
Unless your computer is a monster rig with 8 screen
does it matter if I have a miner or botanist?
And blast audio through another 10k equipment
insofar as?
as items I can tell it to collect
Then keeping it on 24/7 is not gonna increase your bill by a massive margin
for specific 1hr ventures, yes. what they bring back depends on what they are
Well yeah
Miners bring back stuff that you as a miner could go get
Botanists, same
you can also only have them gather items you personally have gathered atleast once
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Can you bind hotbar actions to the PS4 chatpad?
For example, say that I want to save space for the 32+ Cross Hot Bar. Would I be able to assign Mount/ Dismount to Hot Bar 1 Button 1 and assign HB1B1 to lets say "1" and if I press 1 on the chatpad would I mount/ dismount?
Guys i just gotmyself an item from the moggle store, i close game and reloaded. and my item is still not in my moogle delivary
how long does this normally take
so, right now I've only leveled one retainer, who has the same class as mine (I haven't upgraded its job though)
If it is account wide, it will take a short while
Guys i just gotmyself an item from the moggle store, i close game and reloaded. and my item is still not in my moogle delivary
@tawdry onyx it can take a few minutes
Yeah its an account wide
yeah, those take longer
You can upgrade the retainer?
yes
You can get more retainer
What's it do?
Like, go watch an episode of anime and come back longer. or like day logner
Visit the Postmoogle and select “reward delivery request” (small circular button at the top of the Postmoogle window) to speed up delivery
i'm guessing the answer to my question is "no"
no like
@lime geode you can upgrade base combat class retainers to their jobs, or switch them to expansion jobs
upgrade from marauder to warrior
but I don't know if it does anything for retainers
It doesn't do anything on the performance end
It lets them equip job gear
Yeah, there's no reason to not upgrade them to jobs
helps you waste ventures afaik
Because you want your retainers to have the same jobs as you do
I do have a question for an opinion. Is Intel HD Graphics 520 that bad?
@gray sage yeah, probably a no
so you can load them up with free gear
For example if you’re a scholar
darn 😦
You’re gonna want to upgrade your arcanist retainer to Scholar
@quaint forge Yes, its that bad.
Makes sense.
So they can use your outdated healing gear
or some job sets that are exclusive
Mine is only lvl 39 right now so I had not thought about it. Once she hits 50 she can use the poetics gear.
like the ones you get from the job quests
@simple shore That explains it. In fact, my FPS will be lowered if I go heavy high graphics
Anytime you see "intel HD Graphics", it's an "integrated GPU", rather than a dedicated card. TL;DR its fine for watching youtube videos or netflix, but it will perform very poorly in gaming.
Which is I have to keep it to normal
So any Intel HD graphics does not fit for gaming
Yeah its one of those misnomers that gets marketed to people
True. I could get FF14 for PS4, but I don’t own PS4. (Don’t have to worry about computer setup)
Ehhhhh not really. If you're playing more modern games it will barely run it, if at all.
true
FF14 is a pretty old game at this point
I own Window Surface Pro 3, it’s a education purpose, so it would be obvious it won’t run into good gaming graphics
Plus, my laptop slowly getting 60-65 degrees for running FFXIV
It's old but still beat on graphics cards pretty hard. I can't run max settings on my Vega56.
And that's a reasonably good card.
are base jobs still "playable" if you remove their crystal?
Though I run on a 2k screen.
i.e. use my gladiator instead of paladin
Besides, not everyone has their own beefy PC.
What button do you press to hide the chat log window?
You mean with Mouse Mode?
Yes, keyboard too
@leaden ginkgo you technically can, but it would be a really bad idea.
On top of losing all your job-specific abilities, you also lose a significant amount of stats
You right click the chat log @gloomy mortar
Then select hide log window
Right click one of the chat section(s)
On top of losing all your job-specific abilities, you also lose a significant amount of stats
@simple shore hmm I thought they would compensate the loss of abilities with more stats
Nope
About the keyboard, I never looked at it
Job stones give you bonus stats
You can try it for yourself, just take one off and look at your HP plummet
Hmm also, I’m curious what was everyone’s graphics they’re running?
I run rtx 2080
1070
but with rtx, like 30% of the silicon you pay isn't used
I heard it’s really expensive to afford it
rtx 2080 is like a 1080ti, but I went for the 2080 due to less power consumption and lower temperatures (I live in a hot region)
Integrated graphics chipsets will struggle to run RuneScape
Plus, with my current 520 HD intel, it didn’t do any good for my Animation courses + major route (But I digress)
You use desktop, yes?
I used to play on a toshiba laptop 15 years ago
some games glitched, but I still played
anyone getting major latency issues?
so judgement volts go through rezz invuln?
but now I can pay for it
anyone getting major latency issues?
@weak wharf not here
@weak wharf im having huuuge major latency issues
i dont lag on any other game rn, just ff14
weird
Building your own desktop takes a lot of time and money to put to use
are you in primal by any chance?
Aether
Aether
im pinging the NA database and its timing me out 4 of 5 times
Tbh, I always given an outdated desktop from my parents. Then I got laptop windows surface pro 3 from Rehabilitation department (college purpose).
Tbh, there's not an important reason to have the PC of the year
@leaden ginkgo how do you ping the server?
I gave my Windows 7 desktop to my grandparents after we moved our new home.
Taskmanager, Performance Tab, open Resource Monitor at the bottom of the window, click Network tab, search for ffxiv_dx11.exe and ping the address displayed
And true
!faq datacenterip
List of IP Addresses for each Datacenter
Aether: 204.2.229.9
Primal: 204.2.229.10
Crystal: 204.2.229.11
Chaos: 195.82.50.9
Light: 195.82.50.10
Mana: 124.150.157.156
Gaia: 124.150.157.157
Elemental: 124.150.157.158
how do I ping the IP?
Windows: Open Command Prompt and type ping *insert IP Address here*
Mac: Open Terminal and type ping *insert IP Address here*
That explains why everyone feels cringy when I took a normal graphic in game screenshot
thanks!
pinging primal timed me out too once
is this just something to wait out
its not patch related is it
its not for a week
@cobalt narwhal hover over it, its listed in the item description just above its level requirement
It's probably regional or ISP related. Not everyone is having problems, so I doubt it's an issue on SE's end. Just somewhere in between
Once I graduate from 4-year transferred college, I’ll try to afford my own desktop, but better be with good graphic driver.
does judgement volts go through rezz invuln
It’s also for my future career’s purpose
Once I graduate from 4-year transferred college, I’ll try to afford my own desktop, but better be with good graphic driver.
@quaint forge if you're playing mmos, just go big on CPU, it helps more than a high end GPU
Agreed @leaden ginkgo
is there any cheap crit food for leveling?
mmk
Dont bother trying to match stats on levelling food
Just buy the cheapest
Boiled Eggs or Raisins
I buy boiled eggs
well
just wanted to check if it existed
since if it did, the extra crit would be nice over time
it's just 2 points of crit
Virtually meaningless
ya meant something more substantial than that
you would get .00001 crit rate
i'll just check the wiki's meal page
You’re fine sticking to boiled eggs
boiled eggs are your best bet
There’s nothing actually worth your time and money.
kk
Recommend completely disregarding stats on leveling food
better food is way more expensive for the little benefit you get
Hmm hold up: Is NVIDIA GeForce GT 635 runs a good graphic?
like 3k each food, gtfo square
if someone who cleared a savage floor joins our party and enters the floor but we don't clear it and leave does that permanently mess up our loot?
Doesn’t have to be too extreme
Doesn’t have to be too extreme
@quaint forge depends on what you want
No, its only when you clear is loot decided
do you want better settings? or more fps?
thanks vinyl
Just a FPS
This NVIDIA GeForce GT 635 belongs to my father’s desktop, that’s what I recall. Comparing to my Intel 520 HD
Don’t need to think too hard, I guess I better start learning bout the graphic drivers.
I randomly found this "fellowship finder" thing, is this an FC finder, or is it something different?
Fellowships are basically just ingame message boards
They're also a dead feature tbh not really popularly used.
Does it have its own dedicated tab? I recently joined one, but it doesn't seem to have anything for it.
You can use them for your own personal use, self entertaining etc
@thorny bluff it’s under socials
Ah, I see it. Thanks.
Yeah, can't really say I can't see why it hasn't been used too often.
Seems so strange there's no general/world chat equivalent in this game.
if your companion is on free stance does it use abilities on its own?
does anybody actually know what the points in ffxiv do?
i mean, what the stat points equate to
Like, is 322 crit, 3.22% crit extra? How to quantify the gains/
They are by breakpoints so it depends on your current stat too.
There is a spreadsheet with all the stat values mapped to actual combat stats. Gimme a sec to find it.
Tldr: a lot more is better, a lil bit more only matter if it push you to the next tier
!faq stats
And stats are definitely not equally worthwhile
Yes
Yes
You can do it all
Thank you guys a lot
what item is best for GC seal to gil rate?
just trying to figure out a easy way to quantify what my gear is doing
@copper pasture do take note that you need to be an Arcanist to initiate and complete the SMN and SCH job quests
ill just keep it simple and go for biggest numbers lol
Oh just to add, it depends on level too.
So if you become a SMN, you need to remove the soul stone to be an Arcanist again to finish the SCH unlock quest
2k crit at lvl 70 and 2k crit at lvl 80 is completely different.
Or the other way around
thanks
oh ok
Have fun.
wow thanks
and once ive done both unlock quests i can switch between them just by equpping soul?
Yup
You save your job gear as Gearset
Then you swap gear set to quickly change job
Don't manually equip a weapon, armor, soul stone
The only weird thing is that they share levels. So a lvl 70 sch is automatically a lvl 70 smn. Thats about it.
To change to another job
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To add, if you grind your SCH to lvl 70, you still need to complete your missing SMN job quests too because some of the skills come from the job quests
whats a fast way level up a new class without MSQ
!faq altlvlguide
1-15: hunting log / fate
15+: Roulette (once per day) , highest level dungeon, etc
also if i started MSQ on my white mage
uuh are there any blu groups that are doing gilgamesh hard for missile
can i still continue the MSQ on another class?
nothing in party finder atm, thats why im asking here :s
Could ask your NN too.
is having 8 blu in a group a guarantee for a spell drop or nah
and is missile a low drop rate
what does PotD mean
palace of the dead
hi!, i hear that tank is the easiest role a lot, does that apply to savage raiding as well?
8 blu in a group is not guaranteed drop for spells. if the spell comes from a dungeon, doing it sync'd ensures its 100% chance to learn
if you do it unsync or the spell is from open world mobs its a %
tho im not sure on exact percent
This may be a dumb question but why aren't more quest like the hildebrand line? Outside of these quest i haven't seen anyones face change in a unique way like it does here. Is it just difficult to do?
hildibrand is, iirc, where they do a lot of silly things that they eventually do use for msq and such
if you look at sb/shb, there's a lot more facial animations in it thats not really present in arr/hw
It’s a fair bit of cutscene budget to make Hildibrand yes
I noticed a bit in shb but its not quite as present as it is in hildebrand.
Just something I was curious about because it makes me almost 10* more interested than the static faces they normally have
But also a lot of those Hildibrand faces are deliberately pushing the facial rigging to, like, breaking point for comedic effect
Doesn’t really gel with other kinds of content
hildibrand has a lot more freedom in being able to push the broundries for silliness
Shame
Hi, I'm here too
Hope shb gets a hildebrand still going through it so I dont know if its concluded or not
The devs have said that there’s no Hildibrand planned for Shadowbringers
As they’re rather tired of it and want to try different things
hi!, i hear that tank is the easiest role a lot, does that apply to savage raiding as well?
@lavish vortex this is debatable, but in general there are also more tank based mechanics in savage as well. As someone who tanks it, i would say once you know the fights, tanking is still probably easiest out of them
tank swaps become more prevalent as well and important
so tank coordination is important
It wasn’t initially going to come back in Heavensward even, but player demand caused them to bring it back and stretch it out
You can check all tradable non-class-restricted glamour items on the marketboard
Pick say the chest slot category
And scroll through the pages of results until you reach the level 1 stuff
can the chocobo companion get all the skills in all 3 stances?
Yes
But leveling your chocobo companion all the way to rank 20 to get everything is a long grind
And also requires feeding one Thavnairian Onion in order to allow your chocobo to level up for every rank past 10
Thavnairian Onions usually sell for like 100–200K on server marketboards
you can get 2 onions for free from 2 side quests in heavensward
thanks
I can change jobs now. I assume Levequests are used to level up jobs?
Levequests are very efficient for gatherers and crafters. For combat, its pretty meh.
@compact citrus yes. Thats called rubberbanding and caused by lag
You can get to level 15/16 mostly off just hunting log targets
so pretty much old school kill-monster-to-level-up grind?
And then do daily leveling roulette, and then spam your highest-level dungeon repeatedly
No absolutely not
That’s the actual worst option
Dungeons are the go-to
If dungeon queue times are too long, can try Palace of the Dead floors 50–60 repeatedly
what gear should i get for gatherers at lvl 60?
where can I found gear for war disciples as free-trial? Wanna mess around with archer/lancer for a bit, but I main a conjurer so my gear is only cloth.
During queue times you can try FATEs, or from level 41 or so on daily beast tribe quests
Vendors in all the main city market districts sell gear from level 1–50
@compact citrus nothing much you can do. Can try those ping services like wtfast but servers seem to be slightly unstable recently. Should get better in time.
The market area in the 3 starting cities sells gear up to 45
For all classes
I see
is crafting is only for end-game? Or I can gear up along the way with leveling up my craft?
At level 15 you can also run the Hall of the Novice as a physical dps to get disciple of war gear that will be good until about level 30.
You can get into crafting at any point
And could potentially make your own gear but it wouldn’t really be more efficient than just buying stuff or getting dungeon drops
Crafting is more like a side hobby thing. You dont need to do it if you dont want to.
If you want to make your own gear then you realistically need to level all the crafting classes except culinarian
is hall of novice gear good for disciples of magic too?
what gear should i get for gatherers at lvl 60?
Yup
it is kinda fun though a bit grindy. I help with deforestation as a Botanist 😄
Yes if you run it as a disciple of magic
@lavish vortex you can get yellow scrip gear, but honestly would just recommend pushing to 61 and getting the bloodhempen set
Level to 61 and wear white gear from vendors is what i did.
@lavish vortex easiest option would be to hit 61 and get the level 61 vendor gear from Kugane
thanks a lot!@twilit arch @jade quartz
should i keep old gear (like, for some game, I can dismantle them), or should I just sell them to vendor?
51/61/71 vendor gear is pretty much enough to carry you all the way to 80 tbh
Anything else is a waste of effort
okay :d
Momo if you've unlocked it you can desynth it
But at early levels its not worth bothering with that
Since the materials themselves are fairly worthless at low levels too
@simple shore this applies to gatherers too?
the 51/61/71 thing? Yes
yeah, thx
Just started playing the game and went arcanist. are dots just annoying to put on targets till you get bane? always feel awkward when there are like 10 targets in a dungeon and they die by the time i dot all of them w bio
should i just Ruin instead
Arcanist is pretty rough in early levels
If you dont have bane available, yeah, its a bit of a waste to bother manually dot'ing everything if its dying fast
Later on you'll have very good AoE, so its only a temporary problem
okie think i will just focus on ST dmg then by dotting up one target and festering then ruining
till i get bane
This lag normal in dungeons?
No
with your emerald carbuncle you'll also have egi assault for aoe and its autos
so don't worry too much for now
There is something going on that is causing significant lag, but its not FF14's fault as best as I can tell
People who use comcast are all getting lag.
Yeah
Seems to be the general report
As soon as I turned on my VPN it instantly resolved the problem
F
so some midway node is getting shit on
how do i go to a player and give them items
I heard they using noping to route around it
some reddit comment said it's an "NTT issue" which i assume is one of the node companies
Right click and select trade. Cant trade if free trial
i just used my phone to tether my computer
Can use free company chest to transfer items too
Having a weird networking issue on Comcast right now. It looks like my location information is being sent to the server just fine, but I'm not receiving information from the server. Assuming this information is UDP, I'm dropping incoming UDP packets from SE, but not outgoing it seems.
its impacting everyone on US DC's right now who uses Comcast, yes.
kk
Either VPN or deal with it until its fixed
What is the quickest way to lvl 30
i spammed dungeons
lol
Lol i do and i forget 
dungeon mobs are big xp, especially early
!faq altlvlguide
ye u should bookmark that lol
how efficient is scathe as black mage
Aight cool ill be back to ask again tommorow! 
Completely inefficient
i heard its pretty useless, but for me, it helps me do some damage in boss raids with hl players
Its literally a button of last resort, and the difference it makes is minimal
your lowest potency fire skill is 180 pot before astral fire stages
its not worth to cast scathe
Like, you could go through your entire black mage career never once having pressed Scathe and still orange parse every fight in the game
even thunder3 initial and 1 tick of the dot is 110pot
so its better to wait it out
TL;DR the only time its a gain is if you have no other viable way to get a cast off, AND it will not delay your next cast
and with the tools available to you at 80 - those situations are nearly zero
rightclicking on their name and it aint working
i only ever used it to get one last hit on a mob as it dies or just as a boss goes untargetable but its completely unnecessary
Is interject any good past 60?
yeah
Yes
spells are still spells
Still vital when it’s vital
Interject is better past 60
lol
There's alot more thing to use it on, and the things you can use it on make alot more difference
they are starting to implement raid/dungeon mechanics that require interrupts with ShB onwards
iirc coil needs interrupts too
Yeah any ADS type mob back in the day required a silence
@whole wasp the player is level 2 those that change anything since im not seeing any of that
Is the player on trial? Are you on trial?
no
are they in the same map as you?
you have to be in the same area to do the face to face trade
huh one sec then
Hah, asking the real questions now.
VPN fixed it, thanks for the tip @ lag
Yup
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So when using food for lvling do you have to use it before or after the dungeon
Ok
@whole wasp that worked i was able to trade thankyou
Is msq the besg way to farm poetics and how do you upgrade shire gear
Augmented shire gear is done by an NPC in Idylshire
it needs Shire gear plus a Deepest Gobdip, Tautest Gobtwine, or whatever the last item is. it's another -est word.
You can obtain the augment items from the Tomestone vendor for an extra 100 tomestones or from the vendor to the right of her for a token obtained from each of the three HW alliance raids
As far as farming poetics go, honestly theres a lot of ways to do it
darkest gobcoat
that's the one
What was the guide on how to get 1-70 in 5 days?
old faithful for poetics farming for HW is spamming Aetherochemical Research Facility
and honestly it still works
!leveling
!lvlguide
!faq altlevelguide
!faq level
!faq altlvlguide
Thank you <3
thanks
don't spam bot commands if you don't know what it is
I WAS LIKE 90% SURE 😦
if you get it wrong and start guessing go to #kupo-bot-spam
does interject do anything at or past level 60?
Yes
i haven't seen anything for a while
You will soon
the 61 dungeon has something it works on
Last trash mob of the 61 dungeon is a prime one for interject
Actually come to think of it, there's i think 3 things in there you can use it on
There's some in the 63 as well
Not only is it more common 61+
It also makes a bigger difference
In the 73 dungeon theres something only interject can stop and its really bad if you let it go off
Well
Only Interject/Head Graze
When you were doing the adds in E1S you learned to keep a finger on Interject
i forget what do e1s adds do if you dont interject?
do you have to do a quest to unlock levequests in Kugane?
looks like just level 60 DoH/DoL?
thx!
They give themselves an attack buff and then one-shot you with the next Mana Burst
oh right you die
New player here, just hit lvl 12.
Right now I am doing all the quests I come upon however I can only play like 10h a week. Can I skip most side quests and just do the main story one?
yes
Are there any lvl requirements for the main quest?
do these
do these when you can
Oh okay!
It's advisable to only spam MSQ and class quests
yes, but odds are you're literally never going to hit the level wall on MSQ
after level, like, 4.
Yeah I am playing on a extra exp server as well.
And when you accept a main quest it says in the upper right corner what level it is, same for if it's red when you try to accept it
Ok, tack 🙂
if a quest shows up here, do it basically
Gotcha!
is there any difference in which grand company i join
not rly its just whatever colour you like more
and whatever place you can tolerate navigating whenever you want to do turn-ins
How often do optional mog items come out? Can we expect some at the next patch?
Can anyone tell me which crafter and gatherer gears I should get for level 80
for end game gear i keep seeing conflicting info should we be going for the highest ilvl or overall stats?
until you're at Best in Slot ilvl, just focus on getting higher ilvl
When you're at best in slot ilvl, then worry about secondaries
do you not always win a TT card from the NPC? beat him twice with no reward other than MGP
no, its a chance of getting a card
okay thanks and pretty much thats crystarium then move onto edenchoir if im able to do savages
could get the card in 2 wins, or 20
thanks
mhm, BiS is generally a mix of augmented tomestone gear and savage
gonna be a long few weeks then
Buy Neo Ishgardian gear
yeah ive been doing by with part neo and some crystarium
Where can I buy level 75 crafter gear? (Gil)
Doddard in the crystarium
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What about crafter jewelry? The NPC next to doddard only has fighting jobs equipment
ok
can someone link me to a faq/ guide for weapons? white mage specifically. tks
is requirement for the samurai any class at 50?
Any battle class at 50 and Stormblood installed
but dark knight and the other two require finishing arr right
Yes, they learned from their mistake of putting the HW jobs inside the expansion area and didn't do it after that
smeone mentioned theyre changing quests?
next tuesday - is that affecting the hw start
no just ARR
is it shortening it?
ye a bit of a trim
At the least they're removing 13 quests from the patch quests and a bunch of quest steps. There was something about them increasing the exp in the base game so you don't get "level walls", too
They wanted to remove more than 13 quests, but there was a ton of "important for later-stuff in those
I'm a returning free trial Steam players that just reinstalled the game after my laptop crashed, but i can't log in.
I keep getting This service doesn't have valid license
on average without preferred server, how may hours does it take to get to heavensward?
I download it from steam
how long ago was your trial
Uhhh i started it in 2017, relog in again just around last year
Before my laptop crashed and i stopped again
hmm
i was thinking that it maybe that you logged in prior to the 14-day trial change
I have a suspicion that its caused by my country not supported so the steam version is not updated
No, i already logged in after 14 day trial change
So do we have a WoW refugee !faq? I think it could be pretty helpful considering the games are very different
hmm what country are you from?
Indonesia
i don't think we have that as an faq but there was a wiki page about it on the subreddit wol
I'm level 16 and got invited to a FC
What can I do to contribute to the FC rank?
I think I have to be level 20 and in a Grand company
We should make a faq about it then
you just have to play the game to contribute to FC
I'm level 16 and got invited to a FC
What can I do to contribute to the FC rank?I think I have to be level 20 and in a Grand company
@olive horizon play the game
I also got password change prompt prior to this error, does that cause the problem?
I logged in the website and it still says free trial
after sergeant 2, do i need to be 44 to rank up again?
sergeant first class just requires 7k seals
Actually, the mogstation kinda floppy
after i hit sergeant 2 i got tons of seals from all my dungeon gear and couldnt rank up and was sad
I did logged in, but any button i pressed hauls me to the login page again
hmmm have you tried another browser?
hmm something might be wrong with your SE account
Oof, i guess restarting from 1 again then, RIP
since you were on the trial you weren't that far thankfully
i'm not particularly techy, so if you still want to try recovering it
I only 35'd 5 job i guess
they may have some solutions
Log in again
I did, and it still kicks me back in mog station
is palace of the dead worth running on new characters?
or is exp better grinding fates
it depends on whether you would have quicker queues for potd
floors 51-60
in some cases dps would have better queues
i'm in a group of 4
but highest level leveling dungeon would always be the best after roulettes
so we have auto queues
right, we're sub 15
just wondering if fates are better xp/time
you guys can do your hunting logs
to top out your exp first
if your higher level jobs are high enough
you can always do the monotonous grinding thing outside aleport
have someone outside the party blow up whatever you pull
are we stuck to base jobs if we haven't unlocked next job?
i don't really recommend this method because its mindless
ie i'm past 30 in potd, but still a conjurer
you'd have to leave and complete the job quests
will i stop getting new skills
How do I find glam on the market board
if you know the name of it
you can type it in the search bar
otherwise you can always select an equipment type
and scroll through
I dont know any names of any glam sadly, im trying to see if there's a glam that looks like dnc gear
!iglam thavnairian bustier
like this?
Mhmm
My char's a male tho
just as a data point, my base job dps players got a new ability at level 38 in potd
so you can still get something
just not much of something
unfortunately thats female only
your base class will still get abilities
but those would be the class abiltiies
not job abiltiies
Should i bother with a relic reborn or doesnit give me lvl 50 weapon ?
can i do the "born again anima" with my 80 PLD, cause technically my WHM weapon IS in my inv
Doesn't work that way
you have to do it on the class you want it done on
okok
@limpid lantern you have other means to get lvl 50 weapons
ironworks is more accessible woopwoop
Relic stuff are for glamours
Yeah i have ironworks :)
Alright ^^
Yeah im just soing all the blue + quests
Like i was told and this is one of them
Is there a site w the male glam tho?
Are u able to link it? Its ok if not
a bit outdated but this has a lot of older stuff
this one is in japanese but has more updated information
Hm
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Here's a random question, when does Maudlin Latool Ja become available to exchange allied seals for stuff? Do I need to level blue mage all the way to 60 and do class quests or something else?
yes
what is eureka? is it something you can do solo?
can it take a while for a new player to go through story and level up to 80?
Its an instanced zone with their own independent leveling, you can solo but you get greater rewards doing the content in a party @smoky glade
yes @spare plinth . i'd say take your time leveling up as it's the meat of the game
ohh okay thanks @clever cave
i only have arr and i got my black mage up to 50, i wanna level up my other doh classes and jobs
do most people buy materials from market place for their crafting class
it's cheaper to gather or craft the materials yourself while leveling up the other doh/dol classes
if you're short on gil i wouldn't recommend using the marketboard to buy materials
Any seasoned players out there who knows how many nutsacks its gonna cost to upgrade i490 gear?
im only in the 20s for crafting
Is there a way to install ffxiv without an active subscription? Using the download link and logging into my account just tells me my sub isn't active
no you need a subscription
if you're looking for free trial, it needs a separate launcher
Isn't the install the same as the free trial?
different launcher
Would that mean if I have both launchers I would install the game twice?
no, iirc, one is for free trial players, other is standard sub players
if you're on free trial you use the trial launcher, once you buy, you use the standard
Yeah but the content is the same isn't it?
If I install the game with the free trial
Then get a sub
I will need to install fully again?
for now ft only goes to 35, but next update you go to heavensward
if you get the sub, you need to install the standard launcher
Yes but you would still install the entirety even if you don't have access to it wouldn't you?
I don't mean the launcher, I mean the game itself
i think the game is still there, once you unlock standard sub then you can proceed
And I looking for a work around right now
By downloading the game you download everything
Because I want to install the game before I start my sub
No work around it
only the launcher is different so you dont have to redownload the parts that free trial already downloaded/installed
but free trial only has the base game so there might still be some small patches/content
Wouldn't making a "free trial" give me access to the download and then when I use the actual launcher it wouldn't make me reinstall everything?

