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yeah not this games strong suit.
i have no idea where the firmament is
honestly tho there are a million and one pvp mmos.
the entrance is at the end of the brume
Some might scoff but Elder Scrolls Online PvP is some of the best I've played in an MMO (when its not lagging)
I would definitely play that one if you're looking for a pvp experience, open world and instanced
ya i enjoyed my time in ESO
@remote lintel says I dont have access
did you do the quest towards the firmament
I sure didnt, which is why I was asking if anything like that existed
and i told you that
in ishgard next to the aetheryte
ty!
I bought the game during the black friday deals, entered the code in the mog station and supposedly I have 30 days now
but I can't play the main quest, am I missing a step?
the starter edition comes with 30 days
^
did you buy shadowbringers?
You got the starter edition
the base game gave you 30 days. so you probably entered that one without the expansions
were you logged in when you entered the code
Yeah
log out
🤔
Did you close the launcher too?
no
try restarting the game
^
ok
Cause the launcher needs to be updated
^^^
Stormblood and Shadowbringers maps and stuff for example
16 gb of stuff
Yeah it popped up
Yeah you'll be good now Jam
Thanks for the help!
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I need to be level 60 to do the Ishgard resto stuff?
To unlock it, lv20 to actually use it as crafters
i need to do the crystal tower to progress the msq, where do i go? T_T
Lv10 as gatherers
legacy of allag in mor dhona
Mor dhona, legacy of Allag
Do that entire quest line
Ooh okay good to know, ty

Should point the way by clicking the quest thingy
I thought i could just stroll in as a level 3 crafter lmfao
you can pick up vendor mats and just auto-craft your way to 20
from low level stuff
and then head to Ishgard for the rest of the leveling
heyyyyy, is The Great Hunt going away in this patch or is it permanent content?
considering it was a Stormblood thing first
how to get embrace? i know marriage is involved
@tidal yarrow
See this special website to see you a merriage in FF14 works:
i’m still new to this game but how do you presave your outfits according to class/job
/gearset
For saving gears use a gearset.
If you want to keep the appearance always the same:
Make a glamour plate and like that to a gearset, when you update the gearset the glamour plate will keep the appearance same.
can i get the emote with someone of an other server? that's what i was tryna look for and that is a lot of infos in there
i know you can't attend the marriage cross server but maybe the first steps including embrace?
no you cant marry someone from another server
aight thank you.
is it cheaper to repair your own gear or use a mender?
self repair is free
dark matter yes
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pretty cool
@leaden ginkgo
When you repair your own gear, the game simply adds 100% to the durability.
So if the durability 67% for example, the resulting Durability is 167% when you self-repair it, NPC menders can only repair up to 100%, so self repair is very useful.
gotcha
repairing thru npc is super quick n ez
so i was wondering if its cheaper to do it yourself
also u have to carry crystals around with you right?
fflogs counts each encounter
Wait where can I find it?
upload your logs
Oh I mean like lifetime pulls
i doubt it
How many times I died to e8s in the past few months in total
not unless you used fflogs every time and then counted them all up
@leaden ginkgo
Yeah, true.
Self-repair can be a lifesaver. Because you can repair everywhere, even in duties.
Also because it gets beyond 100% repaired you don't need to repair that much.
It is up to 199% btw. 99% + 100.
(The game doesn't allow repair gear that is 100%+ ofc.)
I see... but yeah, I did use FFlogs all the time, but going though all logs to count seems too much work
I do wish fflogs have a small window that show you how many failed attempts you have
how do you get the dark matter crystals?
wolf marks, gc seals, buying them
buy from npc, it's cheap o_o
@leaden ginkgo
Sold almost everywhere, just go to any vendor in a city or town.
because eventually it becomes like 3k gil to repair one set of gear every time
and then you have like 10 sets of gear
Simple, you can repair everywhere.
And like Ceberus says, higher item level gear is more expensive to repair.
okay thats what i needed to know
ill do that instead
ty :]
convenience trap :p although i use npc myself
can we get somehow to the roof of ala migho castle , the one at SB ending ?
no afaik
i think theyre asking if they can go back
ow re-visit
You mean to the Royal Menagerie area? Yeah you can
ye , how?
You just talk to one of the guard dudes outside
outside there is only the ala migho dungeon entrance :/
They should have a gate icon looking thing on your minimap
You need to progress the story slightly past 4.0 iirc
I think completion of 4.1 or something unlocks it
I just clicked the wrong thing and retainer sold an item in a shop, is there anyway to undo that? can usually buy back from shops
oh nvm. I closed the "sell items on marketplace" retainer page and there was an option right there in the menu. I was afraid to do anything incase closing that page locked it in
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Am I allowed to change the buttons I use for my skills ?
esc -> keybind -> hotbar
Hey, how far through the msq do I go through before I start focusing on getting better gear mostly? Like, do I stop focusing as much on the msq once I get to lvl 80 and start focusing more on doing dungeons for better gear? Or do I just keep doing the msq and only start focusing on gear after I finish it?
Am i supposed to use Heart of stone on cd as a GNB?
eh? but msq gives you better gear? msq and blue quests will gives you access better gear or give you the gear
yeah use it on cd, it's mitigation for boss normal attack
What are the pre requirements to start farming for relic weapons?
usually the end of each expansion, you'll see one of the blue quests available to you
Ah, so I do just keep going through the msq even at level 80?
Generally speaking, you can use the Augmented poetics gear for 50/60/70 for about 5 levels before dungeon gear starts being better. At 80, it's best to complete the MSQ, since you can get further dungeon gear and endgame tomestones from the level 80 MSQ dungeons.
I finished ARR, can I start farming them?
Ah okay, so now that i'm 55 I should be focusing on the augmented poetics gear?
if you like the glamour, sure 🤔
@tame dove if you finished ARR, you should be buying them from the blue pouch npc available for you in main cities
At 55 you should have at least an Ironworks weapon, and enough poetics for more already.
it will costs you around 3.5k poetics in total
not sure where are you in MSQ right now
I'm up to the praetorium atm
Although you can get decent gear from leveling dungeons now, and just save poetics until you hit 60 and can buy Shire gear.
Not sure where ARR actually ends, is it after this quest or after the patch quests?
ah yeah, not yet I think shortly after praetorium
The Ultimate Weapon (the quest you're on right now) is the last quest in the 2.0 MSQ
I managed to buy an augmented ironworks shield (playing paladin)
But didn't have enough for anything else
Yeah i'm on the ultimate weapon
ooo yeah, you need to do more duty roulette
There are then another 50 or 60 quests between that point and the beginning of HW
do duty roulettes once per day
Basically, you're overleveled for content.
Ohh okay, so I should be doing duty roulette once per day is it?
We recommend doing at least MSQ roulette the first time per day for the free 500 poetics.
Hey guys, I'm a returning player that's new to endgame, i have the Neo Ishgardian set for my bard, where do i go from here?
yeah and frontline challenges if you are at it
all duty roulettes gives exp+all kind of tomes depending on your level
so if you can, you should do them all once per day
You can also unlock the 50/60/70, Trials, and Alliance Raid roulette upon completing The Ultimate Weapon, which will also offer a first-daily bonus of poetics tomestones.
Just start earning Tomestones
when we we likely to get glowing weapons for the other SB trials like susanoo and byakko
Don’t worry about much else since patch is in a few days
What about the vendors in mor dhona? They sell ironworks gear right?
We’re still missing Zurvan from Heavensward so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, that's where I bought the shield
oof
Yes, the Mor Dhona vendors sell the same augmented ironworks gear that you can get from the new vendors in the major cities.
Okay, so to summarise, right now my goal is, while getting to level 80 is work through the msq and do all the duty roulettes each day, and work on getting the augmented ironworks gear?
@tame dove Once you finish the Praetorium, you should have enough poetics to buy a sword.
Correct.
yeah, and also blue quests
Ohh, so do the job specific quests
Once you've gotten a full set of poetics gear, you can just save up your poetics to start grabbing the level 60 Shire gear.
ehh if it's the job you are playing, you need to do all the job quests
I've done them up to a point, but now instead of that it just tells me to do "My feisty little chocobo", not sure how to get the next job quest
Which by that point you should be pretty close to being able to equip.
Go do My Feisty Little Chocobo
So should I buy the whole ironwork set, weapons and armour, before progressing through msq?
That lets you use your chocobo as a combat companion
well you don't need to.. but it's convenient to wear ironworks set
You don't need to if you reach level 60 and a point where you can purchase the Shire set before you get full Ironworks.
As Vie said, it's basically a matter of convenience
Ah okay, so basically my goal is while leveling to 80 to get the level specific gear and work through msq
Pretty much.
What about when I hit lvl 80? Do I keep doing the msq from there or just focus on specific dungeons?
But this is only after unlocking ishgard right? Or is the requirement just lvl 60?
Your priority will always be
, then 
Level 60 and start HW
That's it.
So I just spent some money to boost archanist....or rather I did last night I have realized I dont have the time to fully commit to this game 100% and I wanted a DPS and a healer role alongside of my tank role PLD. (For now. Once I unlock DRK imma be maining that).
I've done some research into the rotation of summoner...would it be smart to practice it in parts? Or rather like...try to master the first six actions then bump it up to seven and so on
The level 70 Scaevan gear is, however, unfortunately locked behind finishing the 4.0 MSQ
SMN is basically broken down into three phases. You can't really cut any parts out to practice the max level rotation because they each feed into each other.
Well you're basically practicing filler phase until you get dreadwyrm
Everything prior to dreadwyrm is filler
Akhmorning.com has levelling rotations for Summoner
For you to look and go over
is akhmorning only summoner related stuff?
i couldnt find the rotation for the class i was looking for on akh
Its only casters atm
Thats what I mean. I tried doing the rotation fully but I failed hardcore. Like I'm so slow that dreadwyrm trance expires instead of me mainly cancelling it via...that one spell. Like eventually I want to practice the full rotation but until I get tje speed to do it cause muscle memory....
if you want info for others jobs, then you can go to saltedxiv
You dont stay in the entwr duration of dreadwyrm that often
Dreadwyrm offers no dps benefits UNLESS its a heavy movement phase and the instant casts allows you to not use ruin 2s
Your best option to get the muscle memory and increase your rotation speed would be to group your spells on your bars in such a way that your Dreadwyrm rotation is in one spot and your downtime rotation is in another.
More often than not, you end dreadwyrm after a few gcds
If your bars have logic to you, then you won't have to think as much about what you're doing.
question for anyone who is playing.....are people not focusing so much on dungeons today as much as on completing the yokai stuff? because my tank queues have been in the teens in terms of waiting
Thats what I have it as. I'm on ps4 so all my oGCD are on the D-Pad and my GCD is on Cross, Square, Triangle, and Circle
Its going away sooooo...later comers are scrabbling
is there going to be significant downtime on monday?
starting when?
And I even have it set up so rekindle bahamut and summon bahamut are the exact same button
To help muscle memory
Unless you're using that Better launcher summoner macro stuff, probably gonna hinder you more
Since its also enkindle phoenix
Base bar is L2 + Square to enkindle and then summon is L2 + R2 + Square
Oh yeah that type of same button
My Summoner hotkeys are wack
But the site has some hotbar layouts but eh
As long as stuff is quickly accessible and easily seen
so 5 AM EST on tuesday is when we can play again?
What's the maintenance for? I saw no news of it and I'm at work rn
5.4 patch.
How do you remove an etherite from your favorites? I missclicked
You just overwrite it with another one
or are aesthetite penta-melded better
Aesthete is better for now
Aesthete penta are better
The final update for them is 5.45 where its probably highlu likely better
By the end of the expansion fully-upgraded skysteel may quite likely be better.
Also current skysteel are still good enough to craft anything.
And they’re pretty easy to get
Personally I’d say they’re worth it
Yeah i think i might do the relics since itll future proof it atleast until the next expansion comes out
Beween pentamelded aesthete and the relic is only +21 craftmanship or +14 control difference in favor of the crafted tool
You need to start from the beginning. Can't skip phases.
Whole grind
crafter relic is just making the requisite items with the tool equipped
But you need to grind scrip?
do some things on party finder show for your current world only?
scrips aren't exactly difficult to obtain
you can filter by Datacenter, world and private parties @thorny knoll
like if i join a different world, i see different fate parties up
Usually people put fate parties as a PF only people on that world can seems
oh, its a setting for when you setup the listing?
PFs by default are cross world but you can make them visible to only people on that world
ah
People mainly do it for fate groups so people doing fates in that world can see it. Not too many reasons for other worlds to see it
Fate groups/trains further benefit from non-cross-world parties from sharing teleports and such
Hey guys stupid question but what duengeons do you start getting good gear? like mounts and stuff?
Dungeons dont drop mounts often, there's like 2 or something dungeons that drop mounts
wait which 2?
Mount drops are usually from extreme trials and the last fight savage raids tiers
Ala mhigo drops one and another I'm forgetting
the only mount from a dungeon is ala mhigo
Or its just one
wutttt?
the magitek predator
Magitek predator
okay but when do they star dropping good gear and stuff?
It drops the first boss of Baelsar wall
and thank you
All dungeons are good gear
^
It's just, over the course of patches it looks way worse than the gear that comes out at the end of an expansion
Dungeon gear is equal to HQ gear and tome gear of the same ilvl
okay thank you
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No it has to be in the right ring slot
It says needs right side
But either way you can right click and equip to the ring slot
Just try the ring on
And see where it appears
If its your right hand
You got the right slot
Still to save you time just right click the ring
It should ask you which slot
Or whatever your subcommand button is
Re: to this. Its super easy to get through the fates so everyone that wanted to do it did it within the first month or so.
And grinding in Bozja was a fine enough alternative as well
could finish all of the memories at the same time as cluster farming
what ilvl does the puppets' bunker sync down to?
How do I unlock other duty roulettes? All I have right now is the main scenario one
puppet's doesnt have an ilvl sync
oooo ok
Does anyone know how to get the aether off here? I am useless at navigation! 😂
@leaden ginkgo
actually snowryn's picture is much better, it shows the whole route
hello quick question, when next week is 5.4 coming out?
Ok I’ll try thank u guys! 💙 I failed geography at school that’s my excuse! 😂
when monday in est?
It will NOT be up early
correct
Servers never go up for Savage or if housing is added
Pretty much so the world race doesn't get messed with
do people still do rival wings or should i keep doing frontlines for marks?
All the gear you get from quests in Idyllshire is just a stopgap until I can afford the full Shire set right? (Or Glamour)
How do savage pugs work on NA? I've only played on JP server and they use macros to show and assign mech positions
How the fuck do I get up there?
Yes
top category in twitch, not likely
Thats a cave virrah
if it was ultimate, it would be a bigger boost yes
You enter it on the second floor of the tower
but savage world first isn't that much of an interest boost
There’s a tower? Where??
Where the aetheryte is
Oh looked familar
@unique oasis Any reason why NA doesn't adopt macros?
You there by the cave further north
because they cant communicate
Yeah, but macros feel self explanatory o_o
people dont want to
Oh... that's unfortunate
There will be a commentary/organizer stream that will oversee some/host some of the world racers as well
okay, I just hit level 80, is there anything I can do for immediate gear upgrade
!faq gearguide
get your job set
I cleared shadowbringer
got that already
I bought some neo ishgard accessories but the rest is too expensive
I am at ilevel 428 rn
you dont have to buy neo ish
hmmmmm, well shoot :/ was thinking about making an NA alt since EST time zone and Tonberry timezones are pretty rough, but NA just sounds... unpleasant lol
Also get your relic weapon if you've done the lv70 24mans
Oh before I forgot. As a scholar when should I use each fairy? What healing spells should be my primary focus? And finally what combination of spells should I use to have some for of dps?
They're the same
doesnt matter what fairy you use
There's no difference
@twilit arch @mental garnet thank you!
got through e5-e7 in a couple months with a couple pugs pracs each week no problem, but haven't made it past add phase in e8 like that; you think I'd have any luck w/ statics on na?
There isnt? That's kinda dumb. Then what's the point?
And got it. Was curious cause since boosted summoner I'm scrabbling to catch up scholar for my healing role.
because they used to be different
Its a hold over from that
but one fairy was clearly better
Now basically artificial glamour
so they stopped being different
Okay, that makes sense
Alright. Thanks so much. Now back to work before my boss yells at me TwT
You'll find the same issues at this point into the tier
Every pf is an lr prog pf to some extent
Yeah, I'm mainly thinking about how to prog next tier, I hit 80 right before 5.3 was released, so I'm pretty satisfied w/ how I've done in savage so far; just hoping to actually clear the upcoming tier xD
Clearing through pf definitely doable
Gotcha, I guess I'll keep trying on Tonberry and hopefully ride the wave of decent players cuz you're right that every party is an LR party at this point
or a dd party shivers
A static does make it more consistent feeling
But won't be the reason you don't clear
Imo, the benefits of statics are any progress made as a group (hopefully) persists. The downsides are that any drama also (definitely) persists
Oof, I'd love a chill 2nights a week static in my tz, all the ones I see recruiting are like 6hrs x 5 days first week xD
I think that is the most importent thing when joining or making a static, make sure everyone is on the same page what you want to get out of it
Keep checking recruitment
New reqruitment page?
Itll probably increase a bunch on tuesday
If it makes you feel any better, I dont even do savage
#reddit-recruitment-feed and the regular related channels here
As well as the balance, erc , etc
Is it possible to get the chest piece the lockpicker has in Anemos? It's so cute
yes
Little QUestion: Since their are Birdwatchers in Pyros, Aenemos und Pagos - Is there also a possibility to buy these scales in hydatos from a birdwatcher?
..How would I get it? What's it called?
Serge Gambison of Healing/Casting/Aiming, brightlinen gambison of scouting also scares the same model
is what she's wearing
hey guys what is a good healer to start with?>
White mage
the only one you can start as is conjurer
Its the only healer you can start as, conjuerer/white mage
oh ok thanks 🙂
Do you guys know if they nerf the Weapon farm in hydatos?
..There's a hydatos weapon farm? What is it?
Eureka has been nerfed all expac by Echo buff.
The items required etc. have not been nerfed.
There is one thing I've been wondering about tho
Let's say 2 people do a lvl 50 dungeon
1 person has lvl 50 equipment and the other has lvl 80 equipment
I know the games scales down the stats of the lvl 80 one
but does it scale to the point that both ppl are equally strong?
or will the higher lvl always have an edge, as small as it may be
if its not specified then it scales to the highest ilvl of that expac
I get that but I'm just wondering if the mechanics will measure your power to that of your party or if there's a max
Yeah, that answers pretty much what I was wondering
Like cerb said, unless the duty specifies then the game will sync the high-level people down to the highest ilvl of that time period
At lv50 its i130
Which is why castrum and praetorium are face roll as fuck
Aight, thanks for the explanation
Those yellow boxes on the duty finder are the sign there's additional ilvl sync placed
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So Stone vigil hard syncs to 110 as specified, while something like Qarn hard will sync to 130
so house does buying a house for an fc
if someone lower buys the house does it technically belong to the guildmaster
No it belongs to the FC
but like the fc is controlled by the guildmaster so they would be able to control all the housing settings and stuff right
Though yes whoever is the guildmaster could technically kick out every FC member and become a FC of one that owns the house
Yes the guildmaster along with whoever has rank permissions can control all the housing settings
okay that was my question
i often see shouts of pple handing out santa/dream outfits for free. is this a scam?
thanks
No
@thorny knoll msg them and have them trade you
its hard to scam in game if you don't offer any of your own belonging
No this is a commonplace thing people do at Christmas time
People who completed old seasonal events, like super old, can rebuy event items for super cheap gil
Like the dream set
And people hand them out so they can have it
is the dream set on mog?
Yes
The original is still tradeable
But only those who completed the event all those years ago can get more from Calamity salvager for a little gil
So they have an infinite supply to trade
wtf i havent seen people handing them out
People do it in Limsa or party finder
👀
I saw some try to give away parasols in lisma
Then I remembered Trials can’t get traded things
can also check the mb for them
but there's also a chance the mb is gonna be over priced
It’s not a scam
And you shouldn’t be suspicious when you see one lol
There’s no way they could reasonably scam you
he did say it was free
you need to do it to get to HW
ahh. crystal tower. my bad. woah. was this there before?
yes
guys i finished all msq's recently, is there any blue quest i should complete first?
they made it a requirement
It unlocks after completing castrum and praetorium
@barren basin did you unlock all raids?
ok. is it a puzzle type of thing? or can i muscle my way through?
No
its a raid
24mans are just larger dungeons
It used to be side content but now it's basically main story
@barren basin do all of them
if you want a starting point the stormblood alliance raids are required to get your lvl 80 relic weapon
the stormblood 8 man raids also have a good story
will do after i finish heavenwards 8 mans
and is going for max ilvl is a must or its preference?
Preference really, you only really need ilvl to enter content
Bis is only "needed" for ultimates
But there's only 1 lv80 ultimate which uses i470 gear due to sync
oh ok
You got to use legacy movement i think it was and walk backwards then jump into it
Or standard yeah
oh ok that's probably why.. i play on legacy controls
I honestly have no idea how people can stand standard
why is the Sharlayan Tank gear a fancy coat and skirt?
where can i get level 60 jewelry for botanist
because all of the gubal library normal gear is like that
It’s a university gown
one tanky uni student
You’re hogwarts tank
You're a tank Harry
Harry gives up his wand for a large sword and casts "Ebony Darkness" at Voldemort
A while back after 5.3 dropped there was someone posting a series of how the MSQ felt after the ARR trimming on the main sub.
Does anyone have links to that or remember something distinct about them that I could search for (MSQ, ARR, etc and terms like that are too wide)?
I’m trying to push my sprout friends through the postARR slog and it’s going a bit different than I remember.
The majority of the changes in post-ARR were the removal of "fluff" quests. Things like going the quest where you have to go save Tataru from herself when she decides to become a Miner to raise funds for the Scions.
Post-ARR was where the majority of the MSQ pruning happened.
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Was there some specific thing you were trying to remember to help your friends that went differently?
as amusing at that would have been, I am glad that the quests were trimmed down
The last big thing we did was Moogle Hard, and I was expecting us to get the series of EXs or Coil, and I was hoping I could start taking them into some difficult content like that.
The last thing we saw was Y’shtola in the mining outfit.
Oh, the EX stuff is still exactly where it always was. That wasn't connected to the MSQ directly so it's unchanged.
Likewise Coils
Exs and savage tier content like coils are never required
I know I just can’t QUITE remember how far we are from accessing them.
So just go look for Urianger at Sands?
If they've cleared "The Ultimate Weapon" the quests should be available from Urianger, yes.
You can access them the moment you clear that
After doing the hard mode primals causr arr is wack
for coil, you need to complete the side quest chain "A Recurring Problem"
Just remember that those are sequential, and require the corresponding (Hard) mode versions (also from Urianger at the Waking Sands)
which starts with minfilia in the waking sands
All the side content people do at level caps at unlockable after finishing the levelling story of that part of the game
Sweet. For me dying in EXs was when I saw the game could be hard, so I wanna show my friend that lol
I’ll let them decide how to deal with Coils though.
Basically, pray return to the Waking Sands.
Awesome. Thanks everyone.
Just be ready for like 7 hour ques
Honestly, just have your friend continue through the MSQ and they'll quickly hit the difficulty spike.
The Chrysalis still causes wipes because people do p2 wrong.
ARR EX trials, even synced, aren't typically much of a challenge except for maybe Ramuh.
Yeah I remember my time through them. I just wanted to mix it up for them, but I feel like it gets harder to sell the slog the more I have to try it—they have the sort of attention span that needs the variety.
Biggest goal is definitely just getting to HW; or at least that long cutscene at the end.
Post-ARR isn't as much of a slog as it once was. I created a new character for the express purpose of going through the redone MSQ and was pleasantly surprised how quickly it went.
The Crystal Tower is now a required piece of content though (as it relates directly to the ShB MSQ), so that could be an interesting change of pace for them.
Assuming they haven't done it yet.
They got Crystal Tower and then..... we didn’t follow up with it. It seems like the NPC just left em hanging? I think we collected the four aether sands do we have to go to the gates?
Depends on which point in the quest they got to, but yes. They would have to go to the gate and enter the instanced area around that point.
How do server transfers work?
If they're on the quest "Labyrinth of the Ancients" they'll need to go to the gates. Earlier steps have other objectives.
You choose a server and it transfer you whether the serve is full or not?
If the server is closed to new characters at this time, you won't be able to select it.
What do you bring with you? Your retainers? Chocobo?
Did they not add the ability to eat while sitting down yet?
all that matters is whether the server is congested or not
That's what I meant.
that's....not the same thing
Is... it not?
a server can be locked to character creation and not be deemed congested
you bring everything but fc/friends list/house @stable herald
In peak hours character creation can be blocked on any server
i mean if you server transfer within the DC your friendlist will just adjust
but if its out of the DC it'll say "Unable to Retrieve"
Thanks!
They arint waht i think they are
8man raids are typically fights against 1 boss...they usually come in "tiers" consisting of 4 different fights in a tier. See Alexander or Coils
24mans are basically large dungeons with 4 bosses and 24 people in them
24mans are 1 instances with 4 bosses, 8mans are seperate instances with one boss each and seperate loot
instances?
Yes, anything not in the world actively is a instance
Duties
ok
Duty is another word
Where do you get the HW Relic Dark Knight sword? The one Sidurgu has?
on dragoon I just unlocked fang and claw and I'm struggling to see the utility. I can add it to my true -> vorpol -> full thrust rotation, but doesn't look like it really increases dps.
thx
the centurio seal one is dyeable
first few steps of anima are not but they have glow
Anima is post-HW yes?
Yes
@agile night it's another attack so it adds more dps to you by default. It's meant to be used to keep blood of the dragon up which increases your jump potencies
right I can see the blood of the dragon benefit at least. Maybe I'm thinking of dps wrong, I was looking at the potency. It doesn't look like it really increases average potency of my attacks, so I assumed doesn't increase dps
It's also a massive part of your full rotation once you have nearly all of your buttons
that part makes sense at least
blood increases the potency of your jumps
It increases damage of jumos by 50% and the potency of Fang and claw and later wheeling thrust are stronger than the firsr few steps of your combo
Which get stronger with lance mastery and allowing them to chain off each other for a 5 step combo
which should be used pretty much on cd so its prettydecent chunk of your dps
alright. I'll try to get used to mixing it in. I might need to rebind keys some
Thats what we're talking about
Dragoon basically revolves around blood of the dragon
they just unlocked fang and claw
so they dont have geirskogul yet
so BotD is just a potency increase to jump/spineshatter plus fang and claw
but despite that, you should still build the muscle memory of using it since, as said, its an integral part of later rotation
If I switch GCs, does my rank stay?
no
In the old GC. Yes
you start at rank 1 in the new gc
you'll have to rank up in your new GC
I get the feeling I'm going to need another hotbar soon
but everything from the old one is frozen as is
Thanks Vinyl
All jobs use 3 hotbars
if you play on mkb you use like 3 hotbars
At most
ah. alright, yeah I have 2 hotbars and then a global hotbar, I'll just add a 3rd, might as well try to get used to that now
make sure you have them unshared
you can add skills you haven't learned yet to your hotbars, by the way
the class ones
that way you can set up how you want your hotbars to be when you're 80 so you can build up the muscle memory as you're leveling
rather than having to adjust as you get new skills
yeah that might be a good idea. otherwise I'm just forcing myself to relearn stuff every time
is there any such thing as a typical layout people might use? be nice to have something to compare to.
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does ilvl sync affect melds at all?
if you're ilvl synced, melds are completely ignored
as in they don't contribute to stat at all
correct
dang
why is it neccessary to go inside cerebrus' stomach?
to cripple him
what happens if you dont?
you wipe
He gets too many damage stacks
And kills everyone
He constantly gains damage stacks while he's unchained
if he's not slumped to the ground before chains it'll be really hard
and then he'll just wipe everyone
where do you get the aether compass
gibrillont only has a quest
there's a quest you have to do
and then there's a option to get aether compass
Spoilerish
Can you unlock PotD as F2P? the wiki says you need to hire a retainer in order to do the quest required for opening PotD
Yeah
you definitely can
ty
♥
@frozen girder assuming you mean the boots, yes. they're mostly tank boot models
how come no one ever stays behind to grab the loot from alexander?
isn't the alexander weapons better than shire?
normal mode doesn't drop weapon
dont u trade inthe tarnish/precision parts to obtain the weapon?
no
what are they used for?
Parts are for accessories
like rings?
tarnished parts are for the normal mode gear
which is worse than shire
precision items are for the anima quest
precision drops straight into your inventory so there's no reason to stay behind to roll for tarnished
unless you want the normal mode for glamour and don't want to deal with trying to find people to do savage unsync
How do I increase the number tomestones I can carry?
2000 is the limit
Damn. Can I store it somewhere?
No
does machinist have any abilities that increase ally dps?
No
hm weird... as soon as we got a machinist in our party it seems like some people's dps went up...
placebo? xD
is there some buff for having one of each role in a party?
whats the point of feeding your chocobo companion
the food has different effects
like boosting stats?
yes
Other than MSQ roulette & leveling roulette, what are the fastest ways to get tomestones of poetics?
!faq poetics
See vid
so if i gift someone a game time card and they have extra retainers, i take it they have to pay for the retainers, but do they have to reactivate them or something cause the card doesnt include the cost of the extra retainers?
well this is kinda rough. is there any place to try to organize it myself if the game won't do it? been wanting to do the quest for this for a while
dont queue for EXs
^
Just don't. The only roulette which can queue into extremes are Mentor Roulette and you'll usually just end up with a bunch of pissed off people
If I pass the date of a new wondrous trails and then compelete the old one later and turn it in, do I need to wait for the next time or can I still get a new one
You cant turn in wonderous tails after the date
It'll be expired and you cannot open it
where can i sell my bronze peices?
Any vendor.
oh didnt know thank you
No I mean
The deadline is roughly two weeks, but you can get trails weekly
If I pick up one on a new trails day,go like twelve days before turning it in, will I have to wait two more before getting another one
What is off tanking?
@potent lava you can turn it in whenever and pick up a new one
off tanking is not aggroing the boss
and dealing with adds/other stuff
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How will I know if the other tank is main or off tank?
Does it depend on job or gear?
by using chat or seeing who pulls first
- ask them
- if they have stance on
- if they pull
especially if 2 and 3 happen together
Even off tanks will have their stance on right?
So the main tank will always deal with boss and the off with the adds and later rejoin with main?
you should be bringing the adds in unless theres a specific mechanic with them
and no sometimes there are tank swaps
particularly in endgame content
Servers go down in 36 hours, correct?
Do '!maint" in kupo bot
Ty!
What do I do during duty finder?
Whatever you want
Cool and it must be exactly 24 hours because people need to race for eden clear right?
Yes
Nice
Patches with savage or housing never come up early or late
But yeah, just find stuff to do
Usually other games for me
Also consider not doing quests
Because you get locked to your class while in a cutscene
I think I'll take a nap, since I'm queuing as DPS it always takes me 30+ mins to find a party
But yeah I really really wish they can implement a way that you can exit a cutscene without skipping it
Also I’m still pissed that they reduced queue pop time from 60 sec to 45 sec
It’s now exactly not enough time to finish a craft
I honestly can't wait to get to ishgard and change my job to dark Knight
if your queues are taking 30+mins
i would suggest looking at your duty finder settings and making sure you've got J language enabled
for icelit dragonsong
Oh lol
after u drop the puddle
because if you're queueing for normal dungeons/trials, they shouldn't be taking that long
dps go west and east?
after dropping your initial puddle you go to the N or S, near mid
you get knocked back towards the edge and wait there until the AoEs go off
oh
then you split off to either side, towards the side you placed your AoE on
Also I have completely failed, I thought we were talking about diamond frost for some reason
3 puddles drop, start making your way inwards after the 2nd AoE
and step into the middle tower if you have two stacks
then stand on your clock position to take the protean
popping sprint helps with the movement with puddles, since you have a heavy
Is it better if I switch to party finder instead?
levi hard is in trial roulette
So you should be able to find a party relatively easily, but like i said
make sure you have Japanese enabled in the language settings
Make sure you have all languages enabled just in case
It's been 35mins
The cogwheel at the top of the duty finder opens the settings menu for it, and make sure J is highlighted
What's the setting where there's no level restriction? Is it the Undersized party option?
yes, the undersized option will let you go into an instance as your current level/ilvl
Ok. Something went wrong, I just went in solo
yeah
You go in as your current party set up when you select that option
you can't be put with a random party when you have the undersized option enabled
Hey guys! Hope you're all alright! I just came back to FFXIV and was getting my bearings first. Now, I'm looking at my equipment and I have no clue what should I do. Since my character is lvl 70 with Ilvl 326 (Lost allagan gear with some materia).
Now sure where to go from there! Should I just push Main Scenario and get what they give me?
does it matter what dps class I make my retainer? is it different stuff if I make it a summoner vs a ninja?
if you have spare poetics, you can grab a few pieces of scaevan gear from the vendors in rhaglrs, but ultimately yeah i would just push forward with the main scenario quest
nope the items are the same, all that is different is what gear you give them and what lvl they can to (assuming both aren't max lvl)
When you finish the Stormblood MSQ (4.0) you'll have access to purchase lv 70 Aug. Scaevan gear with Tomestones of Poetics
in Rhalgr's Reach
You have to give it class specific gear so generally you want to make it your main class so you can give it your old gear. Otherwise, it doesn't matter
Does the Aetherochemical Research Facility not have loot besides the Poetiics?
nope
Thanks folks!
Will the Singularity Reactor have loot? Or are they saving that for whatever comes after?
Singularity doesn't have loot either
What’s Singularity Reactor?
Thordan
Trial fights from Heavensward onwards general dont have loot in the story version
Comes right after ||two Ascians get yeeted?||
||Archbishop becomes a Primal?||
Presumably the end of Heavensward?
spoilers
The location specifically
yes thats end of 3.0
Because you ||revisit it later for a different primal||, and I was like “wait I’ve been here before?”
Yep enabling all languages really helped. Found a party in 3mins
if you play on a JP server, you basically have to have JP enabled in the language settings
or you're going to be in for a very bad time
command for savage drop?
!faq savageloot
ok ty
When buying revelation Gear, should I aim for chest or weapon first?
You won't be able to buy the weapon until week 7
so you can start saving for it on week 5
Oh okay Ty!
that's assuming you're doing just normal, I guess
If you're doing savage and clear e10s and win the item, you can get it week 3
iirc you can buy chest+pants+helm/glove/boots
and still have enough to buy weapon by week 7
at what point can you unlock m'naago for custom deliveries?
Think 4.0+level 60
can i use a crafter thats below level 60 to make the delivery
or do i have to use the crafter class that's > 60
i have done both
You have to use 60+
m'naago is min 60
jokes in the discussion channel please
no
is there going to be a place to watch the race to world's first of the new raid tier? do people stream their progression?
How long do paid emotes take to show up >_>
usually single character mail doesn't take too long, can talk to the mail moogle and click on the "request delivery" button or w/e its called exactly to try and speed things up
but ultimately just have be a bit patient
I believe Method is planning to stream world first race again? Which I find is a fun environment may or may not to be to your taste
Otherwise just click the FFXIV category on twitch and the top streams will probably be the people farthest into the tier
Also is there a way to get a version of the Black Mage class armor that I can dye red?
which one
are you talking about the one u get in your class quest?
Yeah
the lvl 50 one?
you get augment materials and trade them in for the augmented version
in mor dhona
And I can dye that one?
are the 5.4 patch notes for the job changes up yet? i think i saw other people talking about it
They don't
no
they don't
job changes aren't gonna be in until full patch notes, which will drop during maintenance
Can relics be destroyed or discarded? I’d like a weapon better than my current Ruby Tide book for trying to do the magic role quests tomorrow on the Summoner I’ve never played before and if I can somehow make it not take up extra inventory it seems like 1k poes for a ShB relic stage 1 would be more worth than 600 for a Scaevan
But I’m worried about not being able to at least shove it on a Retainer or something
also need to do all the Summoner 30-70 job quests since like I said I’ve never played this job before but it’s my lone 80 magic DPS
pretty sure you can discard them, but they can be put into retainers or your chocobo saddlebag
so unless those are both full 
they probably leveled via SCH
ohhhh that makes sense
put in glam dresser
Yeah I’m a healer main so I leveled Scholar to be done with the 80 healers
anyone want to join for Castrum Meridianum?
I actually like Red Mage but 71-80ing one class in 2 days was painful enough as it is and I don’t wanna do another atm
Since I also wanted a tank role quest done
Guys. i buy something on mogstation and i forget my maill is Full 20/20 and i just login and already delete it but im not sure my maill is gone or it gonna give me later ?
oh okie thanks you ^^
thx
Okay I may be stupid but in (ShB spoilers) ||In Good Faith it says to “call Emet-Selch.” I’m not exactly sure how to do this? I tried /whistle and /call, neither of which are commands. Then I tried typing his name in chat and nothing. Do I have to run back to him in the village and speak to him||?
find the location with your lamp
I did
Oh I’m an idiot
It blended in with the blue flowers so I didn’t see the sparkling
So will there be another battlecraft crafted set like Neo Ishgard in 5.4 or 5.5? Or should I just grind tomestones for that gear
yes, there's gonna be a new crafted set in 5.4
but its going to likely be expensive at release
Oh I know that, I just hope that if I need alc/ltw mats it just isn't incredibly expensive
Is it going to need another master recipe book
nope
Expect everything to be overpriced as hell week 1
the new recipes will be added automatically if you have the master recipe books already
Should I still just do Ishgard resto for 70-80 crafters?
why do they say culinarian is good for making gil? do you sell high quality food on the market board or something?
Raid supplies
Though Culinarian’s profit margins drop pretty hard from my personal observation the longer a patch has been out
coffee biscuits
from the levequests
Since the best endgame food becomes less and less required for meeting DPS checks and it being moved more towards not failing mechanics
What's the best food oyu can buy from NPCs pre-Stormblood for BLM?
it'd probably be in Ishgard, but you don't really need food for anything at that point in the game
I'm at the Gil cap and not currently needing to buy tons of Idyllshire crafting supplies
The food from Ishgard is extremely weak level 40-50 food
Nothing good enough to buy as a combat class, IMO
Which ex trial is more efficient for gil farming? Shinryu or Tsukuyomi?
Depends on your server
Tsukuyomi's mat sells for about triple shinryu's
Compare the prices of the crafting material and the finished weapons, along with whichever sells more often
But can't be gotten from desynth
Demand is a big part of it. The Tsukuyomi weapons might be much higher in price but depending on the weapon they can sell much slower
So I recommend looking at each weapon and see how often and when the last one for them got sold
Where can I find statistics for how many were sold per day?
In the purchase history when viewing an item
You can also find weapons with no current sellers and try to stake your claim with a weapon on those
And sell a bit higher or around what previous ones sold for
Use !maint in #kupo-bot-spam
It seems like the tsukuyomi weapons sell at about the same pace if not slightly faster than Shinryu weapons, but the material is far harder to procure than Shinryu's scale, should I still grind Tsukuyomi anyways?
I mean how much do you want that money
While I don't need it, I would like to have some decent amount to buy mats if needed for when 5.4 drops
That and more money for skybuilders stuff
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I already do have 1 kimono remnant, but I'm considering making it into a glowing weapon for myself.
honestly id offload that cuase theres gonna be new primal weapons 5.4 and then people will be wanting to buy those more
so there will be a craze for those for aw hile
not necessarily
there is a possibility of a new primal weapon
but that's not assured
thought they added primal weapons every major patch?
nop
assuming they dont intend to go back and add the ones they skipped
we'd be a titania
which i don't really see them adding while shadowbringers is still current
The skipped ones being Zurvan and Susano
byakko as well
Up to level 60 what’s the highest ilvl i can get?
275
I270, with i275 for weapon
Thanks!
Only I275 for the savage raid weapon though, iirc the shire weapons are still 270
Also, I feel the tsukuyomi weapons are still 1.7 mil+ mainly because the material is hard to procure, it's a random chance to show up in a random players inventory, along with the small chance of showing up in the normal loot chest.
Even if we get new primal weapons (Titania and Innocence probs) I indeed have some Immaculate wingblades to turn into weapons, so I'm fine on that front.
inno doesnt have a weapon
Oh yeah, he just drops acessories.
Would we get like special accessories then?