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... I'm dumb, thank you. didn't notice.
hmm how often do you use bene in trials? 🤔 from what i see i'm maybe too panic about it and sometimes i just waste it by not using it
i mean, sometimes i remember about it when i see that one of tanks is near death but only sometimes
often
primarly i use buuble and assize (best spell, prove me wrong) and shield from oGCD
you'll be catching most residual dps with aoe heals and regens and spending most of your gcds doing your dps abilities
and little bene that i never remember name but it's okey beacuse short CD
so when someone gets hit by a mechanic or a tank drops really low after an unmitigated or vulned buster, you're gonna want it then
if you're low level, most of the people you're playing with are synced from higher gear, and know the fights, so they're not making enough mistakes for you to feel like you need it, yet
well mostly time i just use oGCD + lily spells (cure 2 only in emergency and cure 3 in stack mechanic)
but as you begin to catch up and do more on-content trials and raids you'll discover the use real soon
Try pug savage if you want to bene a lot
even in static savage you'll still get a bunch of use out of it while progging for example
well yesterday we failed to do normal eden titan, so thanks but not
maybe if you're godlike players on farm you wont use it as much but yeah
it's one of your best tools
i could save with LB3 but i was blind about it xD (i mean i always see LB as just DPS free estate)
xD
also if a dark knight basically ever uses living dead
Unless I’m planning to use Benediction to deal with DRK/WAR tank immunity, I generally just treat it as a really big cure 2
well, and from what i see from recording, it's good idea to apply regen to people when doing fight mechanic?
most time i just use DoT beacuse i can't focus in targeting members when i try to avoid things
Medica 2 yes, regen no
Is block rate better than block str for tanking?
can guilds be across worlds?
i mean, medica 2 have cast time
and when i avoid mechanic i mean when i'm running from orange zones/lava/toxic/black holes/and other bad floors
while you're forced to be moving, yeah, throwing down an instant like regen or solace is fine
ideally assize if its gonna hit the boss
but yes, better to do that to keep your gcd rolling cause doing anything is better than doing nothing
Regarding my Steam-Mac-question, I've made a discovery that eases my mind a bit: I bought Shadowlands for Mac, it includes everything. I paid 19.99€ for it and 30 days of general game time has been added to my account. So I lost 5€ to play on Mac after all. This is weird, but fine.
Hey, lost all my hotbar setups on controller for my crafting. Any 5.3 ready crafters on controller mind showing me a screenshot of their bar setups? I'm loathe to try to replug everything from memory
@elder sinew doesn’t really matter, shields will eventually have equal amounts of both. Just make sure you’re wearing whatever has a higher item level
anyway in your opinion what is better target to swiftcast rez in situation when : There is Me(healer), One tank, Two DPS and all other party member are dead
i rez usually healer beacuse he can rez too
but what do you think?
Regarding my Steam-Mac-question, I've made a discovery that eases my mind a bit: I bought Shadowlands for Mac, it includes everything. I paid 19.99€ for it and 30 days of general game time has been added to my account. So I lost 5€ to play on Mac after all. This is weird, but fine.
(sorry, I've hit Enter too fast. My comment regarding this is 4 messages further) :/
Sounds good, thx
(and when there is caster dps i rez him before others dps beacuse he can rez too xD)
Red mage if you have, otherwise other healer
Now I have to buy SB on steam, but Id need to do this anyway
if you're 100% confident you can solo heal for longer and there's a red mage whos willing to chain multiple rezes it could be better to do that as they can res like 2 or 3 more in quick succession if they mp pot and lucid when they get up
but thats edge case
99% of the time just rez the other healer
the other time i dont rez the other healer is if there's no tank alive and that means we're gonna astart dying to auto attacks
and in which situation that im confident i can roll solo for longer
cause in most cases the other healer can just get the tank after they get up
so it's an assessment of how fast you need that
okey, so another question, how to wave bubble? i mean i just need to practice it or use macro to apply in location of target?
i always fck GCD when i use it
i have no idea what that means
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Asylum?
oh, weave?
Asylum
you have enough time, so just practice
macro will always clip gcd
never macro any abilities basically ever
Ehh, asylum and other ground based aoes are exceptions for controller players, due to how stuff like that is placed based on camera
including rez macros, stop using one. content that you dont use voice chat in isn't hard enough to matter if you accidentally stack rezes with someone. content where it would matter and could cost you is like savages and extremes which you ideally wanna be on voice anyway if you ask me
but thats a more controversial opinion
i mean, macro that just use asylum in target location nothing more automatic is bad too?
so you know how you can press your next gcd before the current gcd cooldown is over and itll roll smoothly into the next ability?
macros break the gcd queueing
An example macro for ground-based target stuff would be this.
/ac "Asylum" <t>
/ac "Asylum"
/micon "Asylum"
/ac "Sacred Soil" <t>
/ac "Sacred Soil"
/micon "Sacred Soil"
which means you clip the gcd, a loss of uptime
i don't use macros of that sort, personally
And sometimes the time it takes for a player to aim it at a person can take just as long or even longer.
i mean, i break it even when i click (for example) Dia > Asylum(Macro) (in 0.7 after Dia) > Glare?
why is assize on a macro?
dia assize shouldnt be a macro
oh i get it
yeah that macro will probably cause an issue, cause itll prevent glare from rolling over smoothly
How much are server transfers, and can they transfer across data centers?
it'll stutter the gcd between the macro ending and the glare starting, that glare won't be "queued"
i'm pretty sure even if the ability is an ogcd
it messes with the gcd queueing
so even if macro doesn't havy any <wait> it still blocks gcd for more than 0.7 of normal animation? huh
cause for example its common for ast players to want to use card macros and those are all ogcds and they still cause problems
and aren't recommended
its not that it blocks the gcd necessarily
cast 2 cure IIs on yourself right now if you're in game
@keen fable $18 and yes
notice you can press the second Cure II before the global cooldown is done cooling down, and that it will auto cast at the first instant
!faq macrogcd
macros interrupt that functionality
thats what kawa is referring to
if you mean quene of skills well it's not like 0.5 before skill?
@oak ice ty
that said macros are not the end of the world if you want to use them
the idea here is that they do not queue
which means they are more likely to misfire
and whne the misfire
you miss your gcd roll as well
Are there no new GNB wep skins from the primals?
I will admit that my "absolutely no macros ever ever ever ever ever" mindset might be a liiiiiiiiittle extreme
and when ideally used asylum you have something like (for 2.6 GCD) still 1.2 sec for click next GCD? 🤔 (beacuse subtrack 1.4 for animations of prev GCD + Asylum)
it doesn't really matter how much time you have left over
its not that the macro takes up more of the time
so in more practical you could waste 0.6 sec after GCD and 0.6 sec before next gcd
it's that it literally breaks the queueing
watch the clip in the faq edam
so its like the game can't assume you're free to cast at the end of the gcd, but rather instead the server has to wait to make sure your macro is cleared and that means waiting until the gcd ends
or something
@thorny dove no, no dancer or gunbreaker weapons
i might have the actual specifics of how it's engineered wrong but the point is that it isn't really about the timer of the cooldown but rather the mechanic of the buffered queueing of gcd abilities
I'm assuming because they don't have regular weapon drops in those trials
They didn't have it in Shinryu either
oh okey so tl;dr even if you had 10 sec GCD it just works that even one macro oGCD in between GCD disable queueing until GCD regen?
yes
oh, so that's bad :/ i thought that it only bugs when you want to use macro
not skill after macro
it doesn't disable gcd queuing though
its the macros themselves that are incapable of queuing
which can cause clipping
which is a different thing altogether
then why is it still a problem when the macro only contains an ogcd?
cause it still messes with it doesn't it?
in his question, the ability is only an ogcd
because macros attempt to read the whole thing at once
okey, just to be sure. I want (maybe not but just thinking about it) to macro 1 oGCD skill not GCD
1 line/frame
so theoretically if you were doing something else
during that time the macro is being executed
it could fail
meaning the macro doesn't go off and nothing happens
and macro ogcds it really depends on what it is
ah
for some there's really no point
making a macro for one ogcd is fine, but put 15 lines of it
so it would be like that GCD > Macro(just one oGCD with <t>) > GCD
yeah idk i just have a deep distrust of them
i had a rez macro for a bit and it often failed and made me waste gcds by pausing to make sure it went off anyway and it just became a thorn in my side so i dropped it
i figure if it matters enough, then its savage or extreme or something and im on voice chat and can call out my rezes. otherwise its not hard enough content to care if i overlap my rez with someone else
I've just been doing MSQ and each duty once. I just got to a point where I'm 47.2 and I need to be 49 to get the next MSQ. What do you recommend for quick leveling?
swiftcast raise is a bad macro
@little swift agreed, and i think i covered why
@fallen lotus here's an example of a macro i use pretty frequently
even in savage raids
@raven crown leveling roulette
you attempt to mitigate teh queuing issues it has by making the macro ready all the lines
if you've done it, do a couple runs of the previous dungeon
increasing the chance it goes off
ty
okeeey, so i think that i will change flexible but needed to click Asylum to Asylum <t> and it will be fine
i mean, if there is no problem that this is macro it's okey
^^^
but i get lazy with it too sometimes and i get it
do ineed to concern myself with my right side stuff being low level?
same with soil and star
beacuse in fight you always wanna to target someone with it, and maybe in later part of keyboard have manual assylum for special situation?
Not particularily, they are pretty bad until 50
might want to buy accessories at 50
it'll be easier to get accessories once you finish level 50
what do you mean you always wanna target someone with it?
here's an example of when you don't
for example just use it for place where is tank
Eden Fulmination Savage: Fury's Fourteen. Sometimes I place the earthy star (in my case, as AST), on the edge of the arena where we're about to get knocked back to, but I place it while we're all lined up in the middle before the knockback happens
basically i'm putting at an imminent, future destination, where nobody is yet
I imagine I might do this with soil or asylum maybe, though probably much more last second as i don't want to waste it's duration due to how different it is than star
Where to buy new custom delivery turn in mats?
maybe not the greatest example for asylum or soil but the point is i can think of situations where you might put it somewhere where yo u're going to be in like the next 1-2 seconds instead of where you are right now, but doing it in advance is worthwhile
guys which one is tank ?
or even placing it ahead of the group while you're all running to a safespot
Gladiator
etc
alright
marauder is a tank too
and maruder
my static AST tends to put it after we get knocked
since the boss needs to be repositioned anyways
@raven crown yes
I've just been doing MSQ and each duty once. I just got to a point where I'm 47.2 and I need to be 49 to get the next MSQ. What do you recommend for quick leveling?
@raven crown wait a day and do a roulette
im not really here to discuss if my example was the best way or not i guess i'm just saying there can be situations where its workable to place something where you aren't yet but will be soon
and for that reason, manual placement is the best way to go and to be used to using the skill, rather than macro on <t>
placing it on the tank isn't always optimal as well depending on size of boss
your party might not be standing there
my group tends to stay bunched up a little bit on the edge after the 14 knockbacks before moving back to center
How do you go about finding this guy for the quest? Journal isnt helping nor the map
and for earthly star which really only has its one moment where it pops, rather than a duration of healing like soil and asylum,
it can work in that particular moment
welp, so i will need to just click faster for ground XD from one side you have 2.4~2.6 sec is normal time for reaction, so i need just to git gud
put it this way edam
if you're unfamiliar with AST, even their main damage skill, with a cast bar, that isn't an instant
malefic II
has room for 1 weave
remember your mouse doesn't always have to be clicked edam
you can have it hovering the area you want to drop the circle onto
you don't need to click mouse for ground spells?
you do need to click to drop it
i press 3 and click
the point here is that you don't have to always have your mouse in a certain space, it can be free from constant camera control
aaaah i mean i just use Keyboard Button > Hover mouse over area > Click Left button
to line up your ground target placement before you need it
when i do this particular weave i put my mouse where im gonna drop the star during the cast bar of the first malefic, and im mashing 3 and clicking and as soon as i see the malefic castbar end i know my star's going down cause its queued, so i'm then mashing "1" again, my button for my next malefic
your mouse can be hovered there before you need it
works every time
but most time i non stop hold right button to camera control xD
but most time i non stop hold right button to camera control xD
@fallen lotus thats exactly what i'm telling you you don't need to do
Does anyone know where to get the materials for the new custom delivery?
so i need to learn to operate with more static camera, yeah?
its almost like pre-aiming a corner when you're moving in an fps. you dont have to "aim" cause your crosshair is already at head level and where the enemy would be, if an enemy is gonna be there
same idea, when you know your next weave will be the ground aoe, start moving your cursor well ahead of time, during the prior gcd
only really move the camera when you need to tbh
For the gathering ones you can right click them and search
the crafting ones you can right click for raw materials list as well
lots of them use the same materials as before
Haven't done the crafter ones, but a merchant close by, I assume
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lTum0zVSc well my camera control is like ||Dark Aether|| - Chaotic XD
@oak ice they're literally the same materials you would have used before. the item that you make now is just a specific collectable based thing
Oh
yeah i checked earlier today, things like rarified syrup is just the materials for cunning craftsmans syrup
same ratio too
Anyway you recommend to use F1-F8 to target members?
i use my mmo mouse buttons for that
or clicking them is okey? i mean i use mouse only for ground control, eventually sometimes if i need to read mana cost etc. and member targeting
or again practice less right click camera movement
and click the party list
that works too
well, for now i click party list but idk. About mouse i eventually will buy something with more buttons but for now i have only standard 3
Hmmm, but with more static camera you need to change movement system yeah? i mean for now i have this standard
where S is backwalk, and AD is strafe
mmo mouse is optional
i use legacy movement but standard is fine
just adjust the camera when you need to move
I can't find the vendor for the stuff for custom delivery 😐
the new one
do you guys recommend controller or MnK for the game ?
either are fine
Thank you
thanks guess i will go controller for convenience
for me keyboard is better but if you play many games with controller i think it will work more fine for you
Hey all
I'm installing the game to give the free trial a go. I come from Moonguard RP server on WoW. I see the 2 RP servers are completely full on FFXIV (north america). Is there a 3rd best choice, or is anything on Crystal OK?
well you can always
just visit other server when you are in same DC
you stay on visited server even when you log off
Does that impact anything?
if i remember correctly
servers are more like instances of overworld
you still can do instances with other servers in same DC
Hey whatever happened to alpenunds sister?
She just kinda disappeared after a few missions
(and visit them so you know). Oh but guild and markets are limiteded when cross servers if i remember correctly
I get that, but what I'm asking is that if I'm on Crystal (where the 2 main RP servers are, apparently) does my choice of server matter?
Ah okay
Are there any RPers who can comment on 3rd best choice then?
can trial players join an FC?
hmm no? but maybe they changed it
Is there a way to get better AA, more clear picture on forestation, and perhaps even a filter to make it like different? I love the game but I feel a few background things needs to be a little different
@leaden ginkgo you can wait until restriction is lifted, usually latenight /early morning
@leaden ginkgo If you want a consistent community of RPers that will have extensive longer term RP, you should try and get on those 2 servers, being in an FC helps loads
What's an FC?
Free company
free company (guilds)
Ah okay
So I should wait until I can get on Mateus then?
What stats order do I meld my crafting gear?
when does this reset?
Daily Reset
when's that
In 7 hours
ty
What stats order do I meld my crafting gear?
@leaden ginkgo craftmanship and control to hit a threshold, then as many Control / CP
do the replayable class quests include job quests or just the class quests
is Cure III overall considered better than Medica I ?
I mean they're replayable CLASS quests so
is there a way to set hot bars to only show when cursor is hovering over them?
@leaden ginkgo cure III has limited range
Ok what about Healing gear?
@raven crown probably no
What do I meld?
AST
Check here for meld priority
ty
Visit the balance for melds yeah
medica feels more of a raid skill
? They both are used for raid healing, just different types of
cure 3 has more usage in situations where people are nicely stacked together because it has less range
that medica cast time though
the one interesting thing is you don't have to click off the boss to use if your party is stacked close
I struggle
That's not an issue with Medica
medica ii over medica anyways if the regen isn't up
Medica II: I need to group heal a lot, but I don't need it to happen right now
Medica: group heal right now, and I might need to redo this
Cure III: same deal as above, but my group are nice packed, and I get to heal more
what's the overall recommended method to target my allies?
mouse over party tiles?
The one that is easiest for you
Whatev floats your boat
F1 to f8 also work
is there a way to macro Earth 2 to target my target's target?
Tbh the times you're going to single target heal as a whm outside of benediction are next to nonexistent
Earth 2?
Stone 2 obvs
You don't need to keep any ally targeted
Can ||Ala Mhigan Quarter|| he reached as soon as you reach that Zone?
There's very little reason you need to permanently keep your ally targeted
Set them as a focus target instead
Iirc not right away
I have a friend that flies me around to Aether Currents and might try to get that aetheryte if I can.
You can probably fly over the walls
But I cant recall if you can get the aetheryte that way
is there a way to link a HUD layout with a job or gear set?
are unreal trials suppose to be harder than extreme or harder than normal?
You can probably set a macro that puts both commands in
sorry for asking so much, I just started with the healing job, the role is completely different from tank or dps
Unreals are simply lvl 80 of the old extreme. Not that difficult
oh, I'll try that, thank you
sorry for asking so much, I just started with the healing job, the role is completely different from tank or dps
@leaden ginkgo ask away thats the point of this channel. Healer is a bit more micromanagement but you'll be ok
the macro you shared works wonders, thanks again!
The Patch Notes say that virtually all 'Wolf' items were removed from the recipe list. Does anyone know the reason? Were people just not using or selling it?
play like two hours.... half of it is fetch quest
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does the patch change much for early levels
ok
@gloomy mortar they were basically useless i50 gear.
They used to have a stat specific to PVP but that was removed long ago.
there's no update for ACT yet, right?
"Collectable Synthesis" was removed according to the patch notes. What was it replaced by?
"Armor coffers obtained from level 60 job quests will now yield upgraded gear." I have a few armor coffers that I've never opened, because when I got them, I was already way above Level 60 and I didn't have the inventory space. If I opened them now, would they produce the old or new gear?
No idea, probably new
Where do you go to start Grand Company quest & the chocobo? Level 33 and havent reached it yet lol
is there a limit(per day) on getting Faire Voucher
So I should've gotten it already
What is your msq level?
Oh nvm, lvl 17 apparently
no @leaden ginkgo
Wow, this new lvling is insane
Road to 70 buff is huge, yes
@green grail Thanks
@gloomy mortar nothing. You now craft specific items that automatically become collectables to turn in at the House of Splendors
Your character level means fuck all, just focus on msq @elder sinew 99% of stuff is msq locked
They’re the “Rarefied” items in the “collectables” section of the crafting log
Oh, I'm trying to unlock all the blue quest stuff also
Good habit
As for the treasure coffer, it should give the upgraded stuff, though I can’t tell you for sure.
is the summer event out yet ?
Yes
ty
What do these icons mean?
Red square means its aggroed to you
Ah ok
Green circle means its not
That's useful, playing a tank lol
where do you go to start the moonlight faire stuff?
limsa
Where can I read about that?
friends moonfire quest wont complete when she does the fate, why?
is the starting quest a fish to far?
yep
it stays for 90 days from character creation or as long as the server is preferred
90 days or server loses preferred status, whichever lasts the longest
So for example if the current server stays for 120 days i will havr it for 120
Yes
So 90 days minimum
Yes
no, it's active on all jobs under lvl 70
Yes, every class under 70
Dark Kight: "Flood of Shadow Duration of effect reducing target's HP recovered by healing actions has been increased from 6 to 10 seconds."
What does that mean? Flood of Shadow is basically an AOE attack. What does healing have to do with it?
yeah sounds like a pvp change
The PVP version reduces how effective healing spells/potions are on that target
Ah... 
That's a nerf too
increased from 6 to 10s a nerf? 
fair
All the expansion tribes start at 3
also to my question earlier
where would ryne be AFTER 5.3
Only ARR tribes start at 1
afaik she's not anywhere. might hang around after the end of 5.4 eden
How do aquariums work? If you catch a fish, can you put it in an aquarium?
New chapters have been added to New Game+.
Disciple of the Hand Quests
Carpenter - Part 1 Carpenter - Part 2 Carpenter - Part 3
So does that mean if I already completed the Carpenter quest to completion, I have to do a new game to see the new quests?
You can put some fish in the aquarium, it will say on the fish description if they're suitable for display and their grade of aquarium
And no, if you do new game+ you can redo the crafter quests
Only fish that explicitly state in their tooltip that they can go into an aquarium can be put in it
!item copperfish
*The copperfish's dull orange scales─a hue rare in freshwater wavekin─make this species popular amongst Ul'dahn nobles, who apparently prefer even their fish to be the color of their coin.
[Suitable for display in aquariums tier 1 and higher.]
[Suitable for printing on small canvases.]*
you can see a full list of eligible fish in the aquarium interface, should be accessible by clicking a paper icon button
does playing quests in easy mode take away anything?
So if it says "Suitable for printing on medium canvases" means no aquarium? And what does printing a fish mean?
okay so i got the achievement smile you son of a, does that mean ive done the event ? and where do i go to claim the outfit
okay nvm found the vendor but how do u get more seals ?
Should be a repeatable quest somewhere there
for the most part yeah
Are there still limitations on the free trial?
the blue quests that you can safely skip generally are the "Leves of x" ones and the "So you want to be a x" quests for classes that you don't want to unlock.
@obsidian patio thank you
mostly the social limitations and gil cap, but the content should be the same as starter edition
A lot of the social limitations are also just to prevent RMT and make it more difficult in general
I got a message and a tutorial that I got a high quality item now and that The Active Help entry High-quality items has been added under the category items. I can’t find it in inventory or armory. Where else do I look?
what was the item
probably some crappy mob drop, they have a shiny icon like this 
and
at the end of the name
hq gear is a thing too but i thiiink only if it's crafted.. or a quest reward, and yeah it'll have some extra stats
while hq materials will increase the starting quality of the craft (which translates into higher chance of the craft being hq too)
What is a Mammet? A robot?
Anyone wanna help me lvl my machinist :)
Basically yeah, admiral
Plz.... the dps queues are cold and dark
do I get 10 allegory every single e8n run?
do fates during wait times
do I get 10 allegory every single e8n run?
@tidal yarrow yep
should I bother grab the loot of it?
I always press pass not sure what they are for
of Shiva)
you can exchange them for i480 gear
should say how many you need in the description of each
The pieces are literally showing what slot they're for
And yeh, description says how many
low level you might not be able to without help
chocobo companion with some healer skill will work when your character is higher level
Take note that some rare FATE boss are significantly harder and they are definitely not soloable
Now that you need to do the ARR raids for MSQ, if I skip ARR will I still need to do the raids to access 5.3?
Are free trial more lonely then subbing? Theres no chat? Or banter of any sort? No barrens chat in the newbie zones here ? :) Zero player interactions. Played my first 5 hours yesterday and it's quite lonely:p
none
They're under Ishgard Restoration
it uses different conditions instead of good/excellent
@leaden ginkgo looking at the story skip page, it seems that the Crystal Tower series is now included in it.
Special, high level recipe for lots of crafter score
@obsidian patio omg for real? Thats wild
free trial vs starter edition has no differences in content, just the social limits, so yeah you'll be more lonely, as a paid player you can join a free company (guild) or novice network (closest you can get to a general worldwide chat) @neat stratus
These are the different crafting conditions that can occur in expert recipes:
Centered - Increases action success rate by 25%
Sturdy - Reduces loss of durability by 50%
Pliant - Reduces CP cost by 50%
@neat stratus there's no map chat in this game outside of /shout
Normally people join FCs for osocial interaction but trials can't dp that so yeah
the crafts are centered around having very high stats
They're basically balanced around having melded facet gear with maximum CP.
@obsidian patio just checked, I can't see any reference to them on the store page?
I was looking at the page that details all the stuff it includes
Oh ty king
The last 3 duties it lists for "Available Duties and Trials" are the CT 24-man duties
Is the legacy warrior glam in the moonfire fair vendor shop thing?
nope mogstation
Darn, i had hoped
previous year rewards go to the mogstation
pat pat
is macro useful in this game?
"Cure Potency: 500" Does that mean it gives you 500 HP? Or something else
don't think so.
potency is basically a multiplier to tell you how relatively effective an action is for your toolkit
Macros are useful, but only for specific actions, as they don’t have an input buffer like normal commands
@plain python for the most part no. Macros are intentionally designed in such a way to not be effective for use in automating combat
macros are useful for crafting, but they're quite jank in combat and should generally not be used
Maybe things like a raise macro which is swiftcast + raise + saying in chat who you’re raising
One last question regarding the ARR revamp: was the quote regarding ARR having aetheryte tickets that would allow you to instantly teleport to the waking sands a joke or not? I haven't seen anything regarding them in game
Looking at garland tools they're rewards from specific MSQ
Oh, huh. No other way of obtaining them?
From what I can tell, no.
should I run low level dungeons multiple times or just once for the MSQ?
if you need to level up run the highest level one you can do again, if not then just do the story as it gives a lot of experience
So how many HP should I expect to get from Second Wind (Cure Potency 500)? More than a Super-Potion that states it gives 4800 HP (I forget the exact amount)
Depends entirely on your gear
Is there no voice acting for the entire ARR? When does it become a thing?
also potency isn't directly comparable between jobs due to multipliers and such
To use two actions as an example
!action cure II
!action equilibrium
despite a difference of 500 potency these heal around the same amount assuming the WHM and WAR have equal gear.
base game doesn't have much voice acting unfortunately, no @neat stratus
but there's a few voiced scenes
@green grail the xpacs do? From heavensward?
more common, but it's not 100%
yeah, even the post base game lvl 50 quests have more iirc
and expansion msq is mostly voiced
it's mainly reserved for notable cutscenes
I just went from Stormblood to Shadowbringers and it was 2-3 hours of voiced cut scenes.
There was so much more voiced scenes in the xpacs.
2.0 also has a decent amount of voiced scenes, but they're usually limited to important story events
Alright. Ty:)
Can I get a link to the patch notes
Gratze
Damn that's fast
do i need to make HQ items for beast tribes or does it not matter
only if they directly ask for it
if they're fine with Normal quality there's no difference
o so if the symbol for hq doesn't show in the uh quest objective it doesn't matter
yep
tyty
how long would the dragonsong quests take?
are they long quests, or is it more like 1-2 steps?
got like 1 h left till my job interview so might do a quest or 2 if they arent too long
you mean all the HW patch quests?
maybe a week at most depending on how much you can play and if you take the time watching cutscenes
but i've noticed some quests post-arr were usually 1-2 steps to complete
wondering if it's the same with hw patch quests
the expansion patch quests are more condensed for the most part, usually filled with more cutscenes.
Like a patch may only have 6-7 MSQ but those quests can still take a few hours depending on how story-heavy they are.
as a semi-extreme example, Patch 5.3 MSQ seems to be taking most players about 3-5 hours or so depending on their speed doing the non-cutscene stuff
is there a way to get old moonfaire items? i resubbed for this event specifically but it doesnt seem like
right-click the item you want to meld and choose meld materia
you can only overmeld equipment that doesn't have the tag "Advanced Melding Forbidden"
Is there any way to get the fairy-themed summoning bells from Norvrandt?
looks like you didn't do enough quests then
@leaden ginkgo old event rewards can only be bought from the mogstation if you didn't participate in the older ones and got the rewards from them.
Yeah go back to Central Thanalan and to the Bonfire
You probably did the wrong one?
shoot. well.
Anyone know a cheap graphic card that runs the game well on medium?
1050ti @stray holly
The specific quest you need to have done is "Melding Materia Muchly"
Or are you trying to use a materia melder NPC Dakaalim?
is there a place where i can find people willing to q into duty finders with me? i've been searching for striking tree for 18mins and im the only person lol
Not sure if it still works, but you should be able to just retrieve the materia from the item and then immediately meld it back in and it'll count
Did you select JEDF for the language setting?
@strong tide striking tree hard?
Wait isn't it like, in the middle of night in the US?
So how does limited loot work in the new alliance raid? Does it cover all drops or only the gear pieces?
yeah it's the dead of night
3am PST
3am-6am for most of NA depending on the time zone
i'm playing on JP though
Gear only Orion
Aside from language setting, 18 minutes is not unusual for queue duration, don't forget that it is 3-6am in NA now
elemental server
Like if I roll on a minion or orchestrion roll, does that use up my roll for that week?
Gear only, okay! Thank you :)
This is day one for a new patch
oh then make sure to enable the J if you're playing on elemental
^
^
So people are probably not queueing for trial roulette either
You ARE playing on a JP server
ah makes sense, but i didn't want to be inconsiderate if i cant communicate lol, guess i'll just try my luck then
Most people are jp
especially since it's my first time running the dungeon
1 piece of gear per week
plus 1 guaranteed coin and 1 materia cluster
minions and cards and music are unlimited
No Problem!
what are the coins for? I'm got a bunch of random ones
scaevan is still leveling gear
also the un-augmented versions were practically removed with this patch
so only really applies for the lvl 80 coins/raids
I haven't hit 80 yet but have Mhachi, Raqbanastran etc
So I can overmeld but I cannot go over the stats cap
@finite swift yeah, this is to prevent players from getting too many good stat
Yeah and of course I have mostly unaugmented! All good though since it won't be useful for much longer.
Mhachi are for lvl 60 stuff, and Raban are for lvl 70 stuff, but they are obsolete now
Welcome to overmelding
Makes sense since I'm not 80 - just discard them?
Yeah, pretty much
not even sure if there's any use for the old coins if you can't upgrade anything with them
Maybe eventually they will find some use for these coins, like let you trade for the alliance gear for glamour
But for the time being, they serve no purpose
What does "CW dps mean?" From a PF.
"Anyone wanna test out shadow gwiber drop rates? no salt pls. cheese method and CW dps"
Clock wise
CCW for counter clockwise / anti clockwise
I have no idea
I have only done some Titania/Innocence EX
XD
i guess for the pairs if they have a macro for clock pos
TH on inter, dps on cardinals, and dps rotate clockwise for the.. ascian prime whatever the mechanic's called
at least that's what i'd assume
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where do i turn in faire vouchers?
costa del sol
small island to the north of it
there should be a vendor in one of the huts
ty
When does moon festival start?
already started
What's the language spread in the two preferred servers in Chaos (Louisoux and Spriggan)? I'm Italian and afaik Ragnarok is the only world to have the reputation of hosting an Italian community.
Any particolar details to know about those two servers as far as gameplay and community focus goes?
how important is the plot for ARR
i skipped all of it so far till the MSQ at lvl 27
because ARR is such a drag
very important, as it's setting up the building blocks for the expansions
Just skip and then watch a recap on youtube just before you go heavensward
You should get it in some way atleast
i only roughly follow the story line, which is you the adventurer start off with helping out important task for adventurer's guilds, found out some shady org is trying to do something bad
then got scouted by the scions of fate which is another secret good guy org trying to stop the evil org
the rest i dunno yet since im at lvl 27 only
i mean the MSQ
@rich grail haven't heard anything about Ragnarok having a sizeable Italian population, tbh
But both Spriggan and Louie are predominantly English
It's not france/Germany big yeah
i only roughly follow the story line, which is you the adventurer start off with helping out important task for adventurer's guilds, found out some shady org is trying to do something bad
|| Scions of the Seventh Dawn. You skipped out where the big bad empire is gearing up for another invasion of Eorzea. There is also that weird secret society of masked people doing bad things too called Ascians. You have a power called the echo which lets you (unwillingly) look into people's pasts and you got a crystal of light after finishing the starting city-state story. Other than that after you joined the Scions you were tasked to deal with Ifrit, a primal summoned by the Amal'jaa. Long story short you get kidnapped and were about to get tempered (primals can basically force people into being slaves of their will) but you find that your echo prevents that from happening and you kill Ifrit. Minfilia just talks about how important the echo is to stopping the primals for that reason. Other than that you generally missed information regarding the cities, the general state of the realm and all that.|| @acoustic osprey
(that was longer than I thought)
What vanity reward(s) do the new Nier raid give?
No outfit if that's what you're wondering
What does a "Light Party" in a dungeon mean?
4 player
Early dungeons are all 4man?
The rewards at the end is just...cards, 2 minions (one rare) some music and that's it Chronos
all dungeons are 4-man
All dungeons are 4-man except 2
Noted, Calisaie, thanks
Trials become 8-man after the first few
the 2 non-4man dungeons are mistakes, not dungeons 
Just want to point out that everything becomes more standardized once you hit Heavenswards
Dungeons/Raids/trials, rewards/loots, gearing, etc etc
Vis plz
There are a lot of "stuff, except this and that" in ARR
It is not a complete mess, just not very consistent, that's all
Question from a new player i just hit 80, but haven’t completed the last 3 or 4 patches (shadowbringers) MSQ..
Is it mandatory to focus on getting this done before doing something else ?
Yeah
Umm I'd do Eden
I've just unlocked MNK and mapping out my abilities. Is six-sided star and tornado kick worth putting into my hotbars? I've heard they're really bad.
Tornado kick is bad in so far as it's really niche
tornado kick not really, six-sided star kinda
Thanks
i think SSS is ok if you have to disengage from the enemy for more than a gcd
Do take note that MNK will be getting a significant update in 5.4 (?)
So keep an eye out on that
i don't know anything about mnk tho 
Oh if you haven't finished base Shadowbringers story you need to do one role questline or else you'll get stuck so be sure to complete that @lean temple
Hmm, how do you use the Limit Break skill when it's max bar?
does anyone know the model of Incacitus mount?
There should be a Limit Break button there
Incitatus*
Ohh, thanks Wynne
Oh nice
If you are on keyboard mouse, you can just drag and drop it in your hotbar
If you are on PS4, press square will open the context menu to assign it to your hotbar
@wintry chasm thanks again
Where can i buy a ring from an NPC - need it for MSQ, I'm 50
Any jeweller in main towns sell them, they are in the shopping district area where the attendant is
ty
Any tips for targeting, especially in large clusters of monsters?
It feels a bit clunky compared to WoW
target any and use aoe attacks
how much time would it take to rack up enough faux leaf to get the mount?
is 600 a lot?
Not much you can do with targeting in clusters. Eventually you get used to it but it still feels clunky
probably depends on your luck in the minigame, i think there's like rare tiles that give you more leaves
Also you don't get a set amount of leaves (depends on what you uncover)
Ok about to start a new character having played in years. Any reccomendations on a preferred server in U.S
Luck is not quantifiable so
It's more probable you'll get the high faux leaves reward but you need many of those still to get 600
can I ask questions regarding the new 5.3 trails here ?
or do I have to ask in patch 5.3 spoilers ?
wondrous tails gold certs are super rare since you need 3 lines iirc, which happens like 0 to 1 time in your life, and faux tails you can keep grinding the leaves every week until you get the mount
oh nice
if it's normal mode trial mechanic questions then here with spoiler tags should be fine, for extreme you can use #endgame-lounge
and lore or whatever else then #retired-patch-6-3-discussion
hey all, brand new player here and im stuck on which class to choose. Im being called towards Gladiator or Pugilist. Any help on what I should choose?
idk if I wanna be DPS or Tank, im a very indecisive person xd
character -> reputation @elder sinew
@jaunty ruin Try both
Oh, what can you do with it
You're the best judge after all
@elder sinew achievements, stuff like titles, equipment and its a requirement for getting mentor
I just dunno what class I should choose xd
you get achievements the more commends you get and the achievements give some exclusive rewards, titles, mounts, glamour
Nice
You can see how many comms you've gotten on the second tab of your character sheet
Gladiator seems like the best bet but Lancer seems pretty fun too
they're all pretty slow and crappy until level 40-50
Who?
all classes
pick one you like the most aesthetically
I loved Gladiator \ Paladdin one of my favriote tanks until Gunbreaker
ima go with Glad, polearms make me feel weird xd
Warrior is also a tank incase you want a giant axe to swing around
Where’s the moon fire quest? Costa la sol?
Starts in Limsa
Upper or lower decks?
Should be in the Aftcastle
Alrighty
Is there any updated guide out there, on a number of things i need to focus on when hitting 80..
Getting kind of overwhelmed at 80 as a new player
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At 80, your biggest priority will probably be getting sufficient gear to do the level 80 instance content like YorHa (Alliance raid) or Eden (Normal raid). Since that's the case, you'll want to do level 80 dungeons to earn tomestones of phantasmagoria and allegory, and use those to purchase gear to allow you to get into those instances.
Look for
in the Crystarium and Eulmore
Those will unlock the optional (non-MSQ) dungeons which will help fill out your 80/Expert roulette lists, and can be used to earn those tomestones.
Once you've obtained sufficient ilevel, you can go into Eden's Gate (E1-4) and Copied Factory to get a feel for what level 80 group content is like and get additional gear without requiring tomestones.
Many thanks @open coral really appreciated
Keep in mind, this is only one path. If you're not interested in group content, you can simply not focus on gear and instead choose to level another job or pick up a crafting or gathering profession to level.
Although ultimately you will need at least some ilevel to proceed through subsequent parts of the MSQ. The 5.3 content released yesterday has a minimum ilevel requirement of 460.
Will work in that then, its just the MSQ is bugging me not sure if i continue or do what u said, from what i gathered from online resources it seems there is atleast 100 more quests required to finish all MSQ
You can't unlock the additional content until after you've completed at least the 5.0 MSQ. If you have more than 100 quests remaining, you haven't even done that.
So your focus then, should be to finish the MSQ.
And tbh i dont care about story want to get into raid/group content right away
Wow player 😅
I'm also a WoW player, and the lack of story in that game annoys me 😄
Many thanks friend
This game, though. you really do need to complete the MSQ. If you really don't care about the story you can skip the cutscenes, but... you're missing out, imo.
Everything is locked behind completion of the MSQ, more or less.
Where's the retainer guy in Ul'dah? trying to look for an icon, but not sure he has one
In the Sapphire Exchange.
Gotchya
so the song I was looking for was tomorrow and tomorrow reprise, the piano version
the orchestrion roll for that isn't available right ?
The msq is really good in this. Especially Shadowbringers. Story wise.
The piano versions are mostly from the Mogstation, have you checked there?
can somebodyu tell me what im doing wrong?
Exactly what it says. You don't have a high enough Craftsmanship rating
You need 2480, but only have 2447
well yeah but i have competence 8
melded to my gear
but i dont know what more i need to do
or food/pots
^
FOOD
Yup, you need better gear / better melds / consumes
hello. as a summoner, which of the pets should i have out for questing?
Yes but is it penta'd? The 3 star requirements are pretty stiff
@signal hollow Each of the pets is situational. Ifrit for single target fights, Garuda for AoE, and Titan if you want to be a little less squishy.
White scrip gear and relic can't be melded
thank you very much! @open coral
Does all mounts have the same speed regardless of looks, e.g. the ones you buy in market
Faster than chocobo then?
Even the chocobo has the same speed
Then how do ppl race chocobo
Mount speed is based on zone completion, not on the mount itself
Or only diff speed in races
Chocobo racing is a minigame in the Gold Saucer
Chocobo races are its own thing
Oh you dont use your own chocobo
Completely unrelated to actual mounts
For that
Technically you do, but any stats there has no bearing on anything else
Just how your minions can fight in verminion but not in the field
You use your own "racing chocobo" (which is different from your company chocobo) in races
people talking about new gear and glam on 5.3 but im so confused, where can i find those or look at them? o: anyone know what theyre called?
All f2p available mounts can also fly.
Your chocobo can fly when you beat the base quest
Nice
All mounts can fly, period
@lavish breach new gear is either from the 24 man raid, which you can't preview unless it drops for you or you see someone wearing them, or use an outside source.
Glam and the crafter gear can be previewed on the marketboard
Can you even pug those endgame raids or have to actually join a raiding guild?
What are the raid tiers/difficulty levels?
can i join my friends fc after leaving my fc on my current home world? i used world transfer to them, does 24 hours penalty applied?
so i updated act today and still can't get it to work is that normal?
Normal/story raids, Extreme trials, Savage Raids, Ultimate
theres no new gear in marketboard lol
ACT takes a while after a big patch to start up again and requires an update
- hard in between normal/extreme
Oh, that gear, you can't preview it unless it drops or see someone wear it
But the patch notes have an image with it
not have tall enough shoulder pads
You see the job images there
DRG is third from the left
Got pictures of the Nier gear?
Nobody has those yet. They didn't publish a preview, and nobody will have more than one piece at this point.
no coffers?
No coffers
technically people could just link their piece in chat, and "try out" a full set like that to take an image, right?
ah
Not glam coffers like CF had, at least
hey guys which is the right channel to make friends that could teach me the game?
How does one check ping in-game?
he showed some art for them
you cant check ping ingame
you need to do stuff outside the game to either check the network connection of the ffxiv process, or ping the correct datacenter
!item scattered cargo
Did you have that quest in your log before yesterday @tame jay ?
Hmm, might be a bug related to the update.
@vivid thorn
Windows Key + R
Type "resmon"
Tab "Network"
Click "FFXIV"
Look under "TCP Connections" and you will see two FFXIV entries showing you the ping.
That new tank gear looks nice. Might be able to do my fallen holy warrior Paladin glam with some of that 
The cargo will be in your Key Items tab
there should be a tab to go to quest items in inventory
The Feature Quests, are they only done once? Same as MSQ?
I can only think of two possible solutions. The first would be to drop the quest and redo it.
yes @neat stratus
how and when do you unlock dark night job ?
@simple pine Ty
The second would be to submit a bug report to SE and wait for a response.
last question what are the jobs available at that level ?
Which level?
10
this has a good overview
Hey all, hope you are well. I have a question, How Can I make something like downloading FF14 in an other disk because C: is full and I don't see how i can put it in my other disk
sorry for my english
as well as what the jobs turn into
thanks
Pre-HW jobs are ROG/ACN/MRD (Limsa), LNC/ARC/CNJ (Gridania), and THM/PUG/GLA (Uldah)
all of the "starting level 1" will be available as soon as you reach level 10, but as i mentioned earlier you need lvl 15 MSQ to visit some of their starting locations
You have to both reach level 10 and complete the level 10 job quest for your initial class.
i was going for tank if dark night was an option so i will just switch to lancer for dragoon
instead
And the MSQ "Sylph Management" iirc.
sylph management is for the level 30 job
If you wanna go tank, and specifically Dark Knight, you should do Gladiator until you reach HW. You'll get accustomed to the type of playstyle you need
@tame jay Submit a bug ticket through the game. Yesterday's patch may have screwed something up.
Yeah, just gotta wait then.
You've got to remember that all of the work on this patch was done in an unprescedented setting of all of the teams, including the QA teams, working from home. Some bugs this time are to be expected.
And this patch included major edits to the ARR MSQ as well
Isn't that an old quest?
It is.
did they increase the gil cap for trial players?
Is Eden done, or will it continue later?
great
Eden will have one more wing in 5.4
There is one more tier of Eden coming in 5.4
How do you link a Skill in chat?
so what should i spend my gil on? im at cap 300k
There's ways to circumvent the cap, too
the only thing you can really spent on is gear from shops, and then make sure to always pick those money bags from quests
and hold onto those
in terms of....ways you can hold onto more gil in the form of items
How do you sell stuff as f2p?
On the marketboard? You cant
to link a skill in chat, type the start of it and press TAB
Ah nice
you can also use the TAB to put messages such as "hello" and "pull enemy away" and it will auto translate to people who play on a different language
is there a way to recover GP faster?
Is there a reason to do the crystarium doh/l quests other than story and do
does the game stop with the cutscenes after a realm reborn ends please say yes
no there are always cutscenes, more of them will be spoken @tame mirage
Normally yes. I'm not sure it's available right now though.
Finely I can play it
Why did my WT changed from 11mil exp as reward to 0?
no there are always cutscenes, more of them will be spoken @tame mirage
thing is how many cutscenes compared to gameplay I'm level 15 and the game has been 60% cutscenes
.....
A lot.

He is having some issue with some item he can't turn in
but I don't want story I want raiding
well then buy a level skip



