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most people's big weekly investments are capping your weekly currency and clearing the savage raids
You can cap currency with just a few days of dungeon roulettes and Normal raid runs.
thats how I feel with WoW, its takes a lot of time investment to anything decent and getting gear is a nightmare imho
It's maybe a total of 4 or 5 hours investment over the whole week.
You also can't get duplicates of the same piece you already have.
i510 gear is piss easy to get
the difference between i510 and i530 is probably between 10-20% output, maybe less
So there's no chance of getting the same thing 10 weeks in a row and never getting an upgrade for the thing you need an upgrade for.
i520 gear is weekly gated and doesn't require anything high end
all i530 pieces currently require high end, but won't in a few months
I see, from what I've been keeping up with, FFXIV "end game" can be more rewarding
so if you were a casual, you can expect to be doing only a little bit less damage than a player in BiS
By the time the next expansion rolls around, even the most casual of casual players can theoretically be geared to a similar level as people who do Savage.
Gearing in general tends to feel a lot more rewarding in XIV, simply because there's a much lower level of RNG associated with it. Unlike WoW where you might not see something you need for an upgrade drop for five or six weeks in a row, XIV has a system where once you've cleared specific (Savage or EX) content a set number of times, you can simply buy the upgrade with tokens you get on each clear.
Yes! This is a big issue with wow right now, it's sooo discouraging to do anything : \
I know. That was a big reason behind why I quit WoW just last month.
I ran high keys, raids, getting the vault filled up and 0...
I literally didn't get a belt upgrade for the first four weeks, and I didn't get a weapon upgrade until the day I quit.
And 14's gear doesn't have randomized stats/traits on them. This one named piece of gear has the same stats as everyone else's of the same name (before adding materia). And no titanforging to worry about.
they got rid of titanforging, finally, but getting an item..omg...it's so scarce.
if you are curious
I can link you a guide to this tier's first boss
so you have an idea what a savage boss looks like
Eden's Promise: Umbra (Savage)
Cloud of Darkness
Raine Cetra@Hyperion
0:00 Ground-razing Particle Beam (Raidwide)
0:07 The Art of Darkness
0:18 Clock Assignments
0:25 Pair Assignments
0:49 Devouring Dark (TB)
1:02 Obscure Woods (Phase Change)
1:09 Flood of Obscurity (Plants & KB)
1:31 Rejuvenating Balm
1:45 Breaking Tethers
2:02 Wide-ang...
It's funny you say chaotic, but the fact is that XIV raids are actually much more scripted than WoW ones.
the primary mechanic in this raid is the tiles that happen around 4 minutes into this video
haha I bet! but...so many things exploding and happening at the same time, kinda frightening
If you have no clue what’s going on or going to happen savage raids are confusing as hell lmao
Let me put it this way: XIV fights, even the Savage ones, are scripted enough that addons like DBM or Weakauras are completely unnecessary (and also not allowed in the game - they're a bannable offense if you get caught).
That said equivalents for those exisy
The only addon that many people use for raiding purposes is ACT, which is a Details!-like parser. But you can't mention if you use it because, as mentioned, you'll get banned.
Cactbot and triggernometry exist
But just like warcraftlogs is a thing... we've got fflogs.com
you can use that personally? so you can track your performance?
Yes
Just don’t talk about it ingame
It’s a dont ask don’t tell policy
Literally the same as warcraftlogs, just for XIV
alright, got it
it's good tho, WoW mods do too much
the only thing left is for those mods spoonfeed you
After ARR, mechanics telegraphs in XIV got a lot more standardized, so it's always going to be fairly obvious what to do with a mechanic.
some WA's even tell you where to dodge or use a mitigation CD
do i need to do anything to control my partner chocobo?
he's learning skills, he learn one with high enmity but i never see him cast anything special and he never takes aggro
souns good
Like four big arrows over someone's head means "stack on this person"
Well fflogs and warcraftlogs are run by the same person
Chocobo companions aren't very good tanks. You're better off speccing them as healer or dps first.
I really like how free XIV is, so far, I don't feel punished to pursue other jobs to lvl up or explore some zones
Can go into the companion menu and change the stance to encourage them to use skills of a specific type more but free stance is better
and the combat feels really good
Tank choco is generally the worst
It won't aggro more than you
Healer and attacker are better
ok, that's good to know
Combat gets a lot more interesting at higher levels too. You get ogcds that will weave in between your gcd abilities for more dynamic rotations. That you, as a person who's played WoW, are finding the combat fun now is very unusual.
Most people complain a lot about the 2.5s gcd
I really like it ahah I find it more easier to track what you're doing and leads less to skills overlap
ff14 is slower than wow at first
yeah it was, I felt that at least until lvl 20 - 30
but ff14 also takes a long time before it becomes "faster"
like, level 60-70
also, one thing that happens in wow that doesn't happen in ff14 is pooling resources
it'd be great if they shook things up a bit at low levels in the next expansion
classes like rogues will stand and do nothing for seconds at a time to save energy
that never happens in ff14
all classes in ff14 universally follows "always be casting"
but with covid, it's even harder to work on this
true, saving resources for CDs and etc
you keep your GCD rolling always no matter what
It isn't
They're on track to releasing the next expansion. We're a week out from the next announcement
this makes sense
this isnt really a traditional question but im stuck and cant find one of the battle themes, i dont know what to search for to find it
It's incredibly rare that they drastically change any class at the low level end. They only do that when they entirely rework a class because it just doesn't work the way it's meant to.
Where did you hear it?
guys btw, thank you very much for the honest feedback. Can't wait to get to max lvl ^^
i meant that if they're already busy with an expansion and an ultimate fight, it's especially hard to divert resources to other stuff, in the current situation
ive heard it multiple places, but the most recent spot i heard it was in the post-stormblood quests, i was doing a duty, and during the 2nd phase of the duty the theme started playing.
i'd just like a wardrobe system like wow and a dungeon journal to give you a tiny refresher on mechanics when you do some really random dungeon in the leveling routlette
Do you remember which duty?
is there any place to see all the duties ive done?
You can check the duty finder to see what you've unlocked if it was a group instance @valid iron
Okay, so I've decided to focus on leveling astrologian, red mage, and white mage (and samrai on an alt), so what might be the best way to level these? Astro is level 36, rdm is 56, haven't started white mage yet, and i'm going to unlock sam on my other. I know that's a lot, but I want to have some options so I don't get bored with one class
!faq altlvlguide
Do msq first and foremost though
I knew as soon as I saw the question that Channy was gonna drop the faq
@open coral hi there
Hi dead
i believe it was return of the bull, it involved aether spheres and deflecting them with your active duty ability
and every class feels so unique. This is a plus for me
well, i'm on my main trying to level other classes, which is the main (heh) problem. i've heard most people do fates and palace of the dead
or whatever the gelmorra thing is
no one does fates
if you want to level quickly you'll be following the guide that was linked above
in addition to doing dailies
OH, I know what quest you're talking about @valid iron give me a minute to make sure the song I'm thinking of actually plays during the second phase of that.
palace of the dead is an alternative option
alright! its basically a boss-ified version of one of the main themes in the game
Isn't it the same song that plays for all of the SB dungeon final bosses?
It's not. It's uh. Channy help. I don't remember what it's called.
I know the song though.
okay, that's a really good guide, thanks
What collectability does Aethersand guarantee an HQ from reduction
Alt in this case refers to alternate jobs. Very rarely do people play another character
is it only at 1k collectability or
im honestly not sure, theres a lot of recurring themes in this game so finding one specifically is a pain
did you ping the wrong person channy
one more question: after which quest do i get the iconic astrologian set? i've been looking on wikis, but none of them state which ones give the set
Oh, actually it is the boss theme from SB.
Yes I did lmao fuck phone scroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqfN-ju1MQ @valid iron
Video showing footage from the final bosses of several of Stormblood's new levelling dungeons. I always love a boss theme but my god I've fallen in love with this one.
Find the rest of the FFXIV OST here!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL5mKr-nFprKMsrDqpwsI1L0FKj4KgouH
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Is this your song?
I believe the job quest at 50 does, Tsukii
Lv60 70 and 80 @civic spoke
Oh, nevermind
phone
Thank you channy
50 gives a generic set
damn, all the way at 60? that's going to be brutal
thank the gods healer queues pop like crazy though
You only get artifact sets for the jobs from their expansion onwards
So red mage only gets 2 sets
As a babeh WHM I can confirm this
i'm pretty sure it's almost always HQ if you're doing aetherial breakdown, but regardless you want to be at 1000 collectability at all times
yes it is, thank you, i feel stupid for not figuring it out lol
it's worth going to 1000 even if you're 950
No problem. 😄
1k is the limit
Does it affect the amount you get?
My queue times have been exactly 0 
For bonus its nice
being maxed collectability dramatically increases your chances of getting bonus
Can give a bit more yield
ah figured
bonus is where the majority of your aethersand is going to come from
Though thats usually rng anyways
Did they get rid of having to augment your IW gear?
Yes
they did
it comes augmented by default now
they also removed the unique restriction on rings
so you can wear two ironworks rings
Oh nice!
I was wondering about the rings.
Thank you!
On non endgame tome gear you can wear double augmented now
Oof i read slow
how do you get your chocobuddy? seen some fellas with it but duno how to get it
There’s a quest you can do in gridania, after getting a chocobo mount
You have to do the level 30
"My Feisty Chocobo" in Camp Tranquil.
That’s the bitch
ah damn! saw that Q but ignored it xD gotta do it
thx
Almost every
is some kind of content unlock, and worth doing. The exception to that rule would be that you can ignore the "Leves of X" and "So You Want to Be A X" ones.
The former unlock levequests, which are basically low level content, and the latter are the class/job unlocks.
Everything else will unlock things like combat chocobos and glamour and additional dungeons or raids.
alright! I saw it now that blue quest givers also unlock dungeons...no wonder I had so few x')
Most of your dungeons you'll get through the MSQ (one every odd level from level 51 onwards), or upon reaching the patch content for each expansion.
The patch dungeons get their own roulette, and don't really give great rewards or xp since they were never meant for leveling purposes.
After you finish the level 50 MSQ "The Ultimate Weapon" you'll see a TON of
appear to unlock the level 50 patch dungeons, as well as things like the Binding Coils of Bahamut raid and the Crystal Tower alliance raid.
I had to do the Crystal Tower raid in order to move on with the MSQ
it was really fun tho
Oh, you're already past that.
yeah, Im in Ishgard and that cloud thing
CT used to be optional content, but because it's directly connected to Shadowbringers, they made it required content when they revamped the ARR MSQ.
had fun on CT
There are raids like CT in each of the expansions.
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!faq contentunlock @sage cape
For reference on where some stuff you.might have missed
thank you Channy!
is it okay if i the tank to pull less mobs to get higher safety margin and put less strain on healer even it will result in longer clear time ?
Judge how well your party is doing
Theres no firm yes or no answer here
If things die really quick there is 0 reason to not pull more at once
As a healer, I would prefer that you, as a tank, set a pace that you're comfortable with.
If the dps have a problem with that, they can deal with it.
And safety is rarely an issue unless you're playing incorrectly or the healer is
So I just tried Frontline, and I had no idea how to PVP. I play RDM and had issues hitting enemies because they're out of range or die before I can get finish casting a spell. What do you guys suggest I do?
Consider figuring out how your skills work in pvp
They may not have the same cast times as they do in pve
Your rotation is different too
@little swift I'm aware of that, but it's more I'm actually unable to finish a spell or get to them
if healer got less burden and more free cooldown, healer can just do some dps right ? so there is few downside ?
Slidecast as well
Not necessarily
its fine in the early game, but its considered trolling to single pull past Heavensward
If you're sure they're going to die then swap targets
@little swift slide cast? What's that?
!faq slidecasting
• Slidecasting is the ability to
move at the end of the cast as the game registers your cast to be complete.
• Mistiming it too early will cause an interruption and moving late will cause your next queued hardcast to get interrupted. (ping relevant)
• Here is a visual (courtesy of Cecilia Atwood) of the estimated time the game snaps the cast to be complete:
so you do have to learn to big pull eventually
You're slowing down a pace means you also have to use more resources to pull
Oooh. Didn't even know that had a name or was a mechanic. Thought it was a bug
Again, it's going to depend a lot on the strength of the party as a whole. If the dps are burning enemies down and you're not taking a lot of damage because you're being efficient with your own cds, then pulling smaller just means that you're slowing down the run for no reason.
Stretching resources thin is not a good way to approach dungeon pulls
i see some WHM who kinda... "brave" and use holy in the mid of the mob crowd , ended up got hit with 3 layer AoE , died instantly, wiping the entire party
Thats a player issue
That was the WHM's error then.
^
Holy usage is expected
Not because you pulled wrong.
White mages are meant to holy
^
If there's aoes then they're expected to move out
WHM's main thing for mobs is holy spam
Or hope they're stunned prior and stop the aoes
cause it stuns all mobs up to 3 times
theres no better mitigation then making it so enemies cant attack
aside from killing them
You literally give every tank hallowed ground every single pull
Holy stun diminishing return is accumulated with other stun right ?
Yes
Yes
Always let the white mage stun
how long does it take to queue for a frontline roulette at 2021
also if ur a tank, dont neglect to se ur role actions. a lot of bad tanks dont use them despite how good they are
Varies depending on the time
depends on the time of day
Faster during peak times
aigoo
@placid bane 5-6 minutes when I did it a half hour ago
Depends on data centre region
Yea im pretty sure its still bed time in JP
i kinda use rampart and reprisal a lot 
feels bad
You're meant to
Use Arms Length too
You're meant to be using ALL your defensive cooldowns during trash pulls
it slows all enemies who hit you
One at a time
Sometimes pairing weaker cooldown
And yes, it includes USING YOUR TANK INVULN
ITS NOT AN OH SHIT BUTTON
is the defensive cooldown stack ?
Use your invuln, especially if you've just pulled a massive group of mobs.
i kinda use it in turn when the others in cooldown
As long as you have at least 1 defensive up you're fine
it stacks!?
Yes
yea
Not well but they do
Yes, but with diminishing effect.
ay caramba! thats great
you shouldnt do it constantly
Using Rampart + Sheltron + Reprisal (for example) all at the same time on trash isn't generally recommended. Better to use them sequentially.
But you might need to do exactly that to survive a tank buster on a boss.
and the panic button, i tend to avoid using it.... i die a lot because of that... as DRK
alright, got it
With living dead and Holmgang, tell the healer you're using it Im advanced
So they can plan around it
And heal it off when it proca
The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak any idea how this is unlocked?
MSQ
MSQ
Know which quest?
don't remember the name but it's level 24
I forget the name but the quest is Lv 24
"Into the Beast's Maw"
Into the Beast's Maw
Ok thank you
you can check this https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Dungeons
it will tell you how to unlock X dungeon
For the majority of dungeons, the answer will be "just do the MSQ"
the first non-MSQ dungeon is Halatali at level 20, the next non-MSQ dungeon is the Sunken Temple of Qarn at level 35
Is there a way to get notified of sales?
Like when the game goes on sale? They usually announce it on the Lodestone site.
What's that?
Is there no way to get a notification or something like that?
Not that I'm aware of.
Dangit
i wonder what is the upside of using PLD skill Holy Spirit ?... they cost a lot of MP, and the damage is so-so?
!action holy spirit
Good question.
Maybe it's has a combo
!action requisescat
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 150. Potency increases up to 550 as MP nears maximum.
Additional Effect: Increases attack magic and healing magic potency by 50% if current MP is at 80% or higher , and allows spells to be cast immediately Duration: 12s
ah... spamable... ?
Yeah you use holy spirit like 5 times before it wears off
um... only on higher level tho ? right ?
Ye
on lower level it didn't have extra effect of no cast
Oh yeah the instacast is like
76 or some shit
so.. bellow 76 holy spirit is kinda... not that usefull ?
Nah so basically
Flight or Fight phase with your normal physical combos
Then after FoF wears off you use requiescat and holy spirit
It's a cycle of shifting through a physical attack phase and magic attack phase
with the cost, only enough for 2 cast
You get 5 out
Per requesticat
4 + confedditor at 80
Even prior to the instant cast
well, i am talking at low level
Prior to requesticat its not super worth using except when you're away from the boss, essentially replacing shield lob
I've seen PLDs use it for doing the first pull on a boss heh
Yeah basically
pld... kinda have few ogcd skill compared to other tank...
Hey! i finally unlocked my Machinist, super happy about it!
One question: i stay ranged as much as i can right cus i hear that it plays melee too or something
You stack on the boss's ass unless mechanics say otherwise
So you can bait aoes cleanly
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Ow okay thank you!
it just helps that you have to possibility to do range i guess
but you play melee
what pet actions should I be keybinding as a summoner?
Wait
So i just did the managment quest to finally get my job
Its over now
Didnt get anything lol
Go back to your trainer to pick up the quest
that only unlocks the quest for your job quest
the sylph management quest doesn't actually give you your job
So to ossuary?
what job are you @rigid wolf
Na its a chocobo quest
its a prerequisite to do sylph management, but it doesn't hand you the job stone on completion
go back to the thaumaturges guild
You need to do that too
i guess PLD didn't use MP that much... expect on higher level....
I did
if you've completed all your class quests
Bro like days ago
go back to ul'dah
and have finished that quest
Yea
thank you
go to ul'ah
on lv 70, the PLD action that using MP is only Clemency and Holy Spirit....
all you need to do is equip the crystal
How do i get the soul cyrstal guys every time story changes
Their MP is only for Holy spirit/holy circle and Confedditor
we haven't changed our explanation
Like first was lvl 30 then that quest now its what?
!faq job
To unlock your class' job you need to be level 30, complete all of your class quests and the main scenario quest 'Sylph Management' (lvl 20 quest) to be able to pick up your job unlock quest. Once you've done the initial unlock quest, you will be given a soul crystal which you must equip to become your class' job.
this
did you acquire the spell Manafont @rigid wolf ?
has not changed
Manafont is spell you get for unlocking the black mage
No
if you have that spell, that means you've unlocked black mage
then you have not completed everything
I dont
@rigid wolf refer to the faq and make sure you have met every single requirement
Ok. So where do i do taking the black quest?
can you screenshot your game @rigid wolf
Ossuary?
If you don't have that spell then it's back to the Thaumaturge's Guild
just screenshot your game
its at the thaumaturges guild
and put it here
alot of us are just making assumptions on where you are in the game based on what you are telling us
Im on ps4 take pic of what?
it's just easier to post a screenshot
on Emergency, Clemency can be used.... i guess ? the most worth is Confeiteor, and the other is not worth when used outside requiescat...
of your game screen
even Confeiteor can't be used outside Requiescat
Clemency is for soloing or when your healer is literally afk.
PLD is the best job for soloing old content
Again. Paladin bounces between a physical phase with Fight or Flights and Magic phase with Requiescat
or when the boss is almost died, and the healer is KO...
whats that command for 1-70 lvling
My Little Chocobo (Maelstrom)
Imagine not doing your Chocobo quest
Again when the healer is afk and completely incompetent
!faq levelingguide
PLD is unique cause its burst DPS phase is ranged
!faq altlvlguide
oh
Thank youu!

@rigid wolf can you press J
Theyre on ps4 lmao
he's on controller
He's on PS4
that's weird
Well ur at ul'dah so
Whats weird
Check the thaumaturge guild
i didnt know my little chocobo can show up as a class quest
See if there is a new quest
Because its a MANDATORY quest
Also do thw chocobo quest like asap
Man thats like hidden tho
Ok yeah thats whre u get the job then
It unlocks mounts
Well normally it shows at the top left
Ye im on track now
But u got the chocobo quest overriding it
I guess the chokobo thing hid it
It did
Interrupted
It unlocks mounts
Because mount
well, on lower level PLD is completely Physical....
You literally cant use mounts without that quest
Yea everything is limited at low level
since even Requiscat is only unlocked at 68...
Dark Knight doesnt even get its main ability till level 70

until 70 Dark Knight is a nominally worse tank then the other 3
Aura is tank main 
Even without TBN
TBN is so fucking good tho
What is TBN 🤔
!action the blackest night
!action The Blackest Night
Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage totaling 25% of target's maximum HP.
Duration: 7s
Grants Dark Arts when barrier is completely absorbed.
Dark Arts Effect: Consume Dark Arts instead of MP to execute Edge of Shadow or Flood of Shadow
Just because it's good doesn't mean that without it DRK is worse than other tanks at lower levels.
Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage totaling 25% of target's maximum HP.
Duration: 7s
Grants Dark Arts when barrier is completely absorbed.
Dark Arts Effect: Consume Dark Arts instead of MP to execute Edge of Shadow or Flood of Shadow
Hopefully next expansion shuffles around skills to make levelling more enjoyable
Until 58, PLD uses no MP 
Like PLD getting their gap closer around 30 like everyone else
Healers get gap closers when?
instead of god damn 74
Or drk aoe combo
WAR circular AoE
Why its 72 when its literally got reworked god knows
you really shouldn't be casting clemency regularly
If you're using Clemency regularly, I (the healer) will think you don't trust me.
And that makes me Sad.
You don't want a Sad healer.
And wasting resources
We get mean.
the only other tank that uses MP regularly at high levels is DRK
And you're HP neutral/negative using it
when there is no skill that use MP, and there is Emergency, it will always be a choice 
You're not actually gaining health using clemency
I'm the healer not you 
Clemency is just a resource consumer with no gain
it kills ur uptime
like when i using Healer, and i KO at last moment when the boss is around 4%, the PLD saves the day 
could you use it to proc your own divine veil (or whatever that was called)?
ah
If they dont then they didn't need it
You could. You could also tell the healer to do it and not waste resources like a brain damaged puppy.
^
Indeed
brain damaged puppy
do regen count ?
Generally speaking, assume your healer knows what they're doing unless they prove to you otherwise.
I has question
Just because your HP is low doesn't mean the healer is letting you die.
hrm I guess places where you'd actually need divine veil are places where the healer should know to use it
Yes dead, what would you like to know @dire prawn
Usually in raid situations Veils placement is planned
What's the proper use for Regen now that MSQ isn't level syncing me to where I can't use it anymore
even the healer didn't know, they will most likely proc it without they knowing.... since they always healing tank
theres a fine line between a really good healer and a really bad healer
For now, try to keep it on the tank as much as possible while in combat.
But do not pre-cast it while they're pulling.
So refresh it on the tank like I do with Aero on enemies
Wait why 🤔
the unpulled mob will aggro you
pre-cast regen while pulling, the monster will target you...
If the tank has regen on, but doesn't have aggro on an enemy, the enemy will attack you instead.
You can fuck up the aggro table
its fine to precast regen
if your tank isn't a monkey
tank stance makes it a joke to pull
it just basically means the tank has to be on top of the game in rounding up all the mobs
You're assuming a lot if you expect pug tanks to not be monkeys though.
and if for whatever reason it does aggro to you
you should have been sprinting with the tank
What if you're my tank 
just bring it back to them
well, sometimes there is a problem, since regen is 20 second, and there is still left over regen duration
Then you definitely shouldn't precast it, because I'm a monkey tank @dire prawn

since regen is 20 seconds you shouldnt have to cast it more than once per pull
so it shouldnt ever be an issue
when i cast regen, then the battle is over with 12 sec regen leftover, the tank is very active, and pull the next mob immediately while regen still active... duh...
If that's the case, you have a decent group and nothing to worry about.
Does Regen heal enough during normal pulls to not require me to use Cure II on the tank 🤔
depends on the group of mobs
Well uhh
Monkeys can tank
My next dungeon is Stone Vigil
I've been on both sides of this spectrum
What kinds of mobs does that have
Tank and Healer
Regen's gonna help you a lot in there.
Do you want me to come with you for SV @dire prawn ?
Stone Vigil is pretty ez
I'm only on the WHM spectrum 
then again all dungeons are ez
That question implies that you have a choice 
I mean, I could simply not log in.
True
Then I'd have executed my power of choice, wouldn't I.
aura has other characters
You're assuming that I'd have to log in on a character that you could ask me to help you with.
😄
I could log in on my JP server character, then what would you do?
I'd be on a whole different datacenter.
And region.
JP alt 
We're getting off topic here though.
i wonder how many regen can stack ? as far as i know, i once found there is 2 Regen Stacks and 2 Medica II stack at same time, and the Tank is feels like on steroid with super Overheal
Pretty much all regens stack
Its why they are so ez
Although usually healers from other alliances are focusing on their parties.
All of WHM’s HoTs stack as much as they want
Regens stack, shields do not.
It actually used to be a cheese tactic in early 2.x PVP. Just be 8 white mages and keep up Medica 2 and Regen on everyone.
if all 6 WHM give regen to single tank, i guess no active healing needed... just rely on HoT.... 
A good number of shields stack, just not GCD shields
It was extremely hard to kill someone who was regenerating basically their entire hp every 3 seconds
Like noct helios/succor
Why would I not want you to come with me for SV
¯_(ツ)_/¯
You said when you encounter it in MSQ it's another healer check dungeon
so 8 WHM for savage content?
And my weapon is still 10 levels below me ;-;
Yeah, that happens.
Nah.
At least it's not level 18 though.
You lack mitigation for strong raid wides and busters
7 WHM and 1 tank for Savage. Let's make that happen.
I remember a full Healer O1S
I mean
make that tank be gunbreaker and cast aurora
Or at least a no tank O1S
u wouldnt pass the first DPS check
o1s was unique in that it had no a very piss easy dps check
What is dps check 🤔
Basically no check 
people did a 4man o1s later in the expac
do as much damage as fast as possible or its a wipe
@dire prawn A dps check refers to a mechanic where you have to do a certain amount of damage within a set amount of time.
Aka if you dont kill this thing in 30s, you automatically die
Usually failing a dps check means you're going to wipe.
what's the earliest example of a dps check in this game?
Ifrit
are there any in ARR and HW?
Ifirit nails
WIth his Infernal Nail spawn
oh yeh
If you dont kill the nail you die
The Infernal Nail in Bowl of Embers is technically a dps check.
the DPS checks that are actually worth a damn are all in savage
what about one where u have to kill the boss
A laughable one but a DPS check nonetheless.
not the adds
in the past, on Early HW update, Odin Fate is still very Crowded, and there is a LOT of DoT stack on it 
Hard enrages came in coils and extremes
That's usually called Enrage.
Extreme Garuda or Coil
@manic flare ||Ultima Weapon in Praetorium||
really?
which version
Yes. The second round.
After it teleports it starts casting Ultima.
If the cast goes off, it's a wipe.
^
back when the game was new
With trash/afk people
a lot
It used to happen a lot as recently as Heavensward.
Praetorium was actually hard once upon a time
You don’t see it anymore with overgearing the fight
what happened
But with power creep it's basically gone.
Remember, Praetorium was balanced around i45-ish gear
why don't they impose a item level sync for prae
And most people (if they've DONE THEIR JOB QUESTS LIKE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO) have ilvl 90 or so.
Well you kinda have to to even get the ilvl for the instance
Because most people in prae are just running it for roulettes and the unskippable story bits still take a long time
You can get it with the level 45 gear.
when does ironwork gear become available
After you finish Praetorium
I want an ilvl that isn't sub-30 already 
You'll get there.
where are you in the story
hmm...stone vigil can be tough if you are undergeared i think
it's really the first dungeon that punishes you for not being adequately geared
Yes, but his gear is fine for SV
I've been helping him. He's got plenty.
The MSQ gives you baseline gear, and he also has some dungeon gear.
I need a new weapon though 
u dont really need a great weapon as a healer
just as long as its not your starting weapon
Nah, you've got a level 32 or so weapon, right @dire prawn
the weapon is every jobs strongest piece of gear
It's Lv 32 yeah but I'm Lv 42
whether you're tank, healer or dps. having an as up to date as possible weapon is important
if you need another body for i'll be around just ping me somewhere
One of the other people we were hanging out with yesterday had a healer with a level 18 weapon in SV who insisted that they didn't need a better one because they're a healer.
They were doing like 500 HP heals.
So you absolutely do need a decent weapon, but honestly a level 32 weapon should be sufficient to handle SV
Having good gear on the vigil is a good idea for healers because of the tanks that do big pulls without asking the healers in there and the mobs hit really hard in there
Could even get lucky and get the WHM weapon in the dungeon.
At least SV will let me use Regen and Cure III 
Worst case scenario I can always tank that one and keep pulls smallish.
Not my first choice, but I could do it.
If a WHM weapon drops in SV I'm greeding it
healer can use dps if there is some leeway... if there is no leeway, if barely geared... healer won't have that luxury tho...
u mean needing it
@dire prawn If you do that, I'm disowning you.
You can need it
you should be needing every gear that's an upgrade from your current one
^
greeding puts you at risk of not getting the item
so you should be hitting need on any and all upgrades
Need make you roll a 99 greed makes you roll a 1d99 essentially
I don't actually unless it's like this necklace I found that was better than my like Lv freaking 1 or 5 or whatever one with half its durability
Always. Need. On. Upgrades.
^
Visit a mender and repair every so often
so you are saying the tank weapon actually offers higher defense than the similar ilevel tank body armor?
So to make sure I understand this will always give me the reward it shows with the 1900 flame seals?
Where do I find one
Necklaces are always greed not need I think
They're not if they have your mainstat on them.
Like if I do dungoens over and voer I mean
if you're the class that it says for in need bonus, yes
yup I'm a tank
Weapons give vitality as a stat
Any majorcity and most places with aetheryte typically by merchants
then yes as long as it says tanks are in need, sometimes it'll flip to healer
sounds like after I complete the main story I need to go back and learn healing
Weathered Earring that I still haven't been able to replace 
right i know that. but if you were a tank, would you buy the body armor first, or the weapon first
@dire prawn Look for an "Independent Mender" or "Merchant & Mender"
doing some more side questing for now as I need to build up stats
if you want to prioritize defense
Armor
You can also find them in Inns by The Smith
yup but the only better armor would be level 50 stuff
But again, it depends on what slots of gear are behind the furthest
But you should prioritize damage
assuming all slots are equal, weapon should always be your first priority
Accessories tend to lag behind in general.
it is the biggest boost to your dmg
But they're also lower priority.
which, even as a tank, is important
Priority should be weapon > armor > accessories.
These are my current stats
having trouble around mobs still
I spent 40+ minutes in hawk manor yesterday with two dps that wouldnt read there skills and had starting gear
Are you using rampart and such?
That sounds like pain
yes
I'm using my AOE and Defense skills
I did Haukke Manor yesterday with Aura for my leveling roulette 
What do you mean specifically by trouble with mobs?
This quest right now has a bunch of level 43 small creatures mobbing up
spriggans
do your job quest i see it in your side bar @leaden ginkgo
you can literally get 4 pieces of gear right now
Yeah, definitely do that.
that is decent
so I can get another skill
from the job quest?
yes
head/arms/legs/feet
look at the objective "obtain 4 piecse of the gallant armor"
The best you'll have access to until your level 50 job quest.
no chest
With that quest you want to try to very carefully only engage gigiry and as few mobs as possible and run away after you kill gigitty
@leaden ginkgo For that MSQ though, just pull and kill each of the mobs in the area one at a time.
Clear the area, then summon Giggity.
Also summon your chocobo
Yes
To heal you
Also summon your choco
If you NEED fo you can summon chocobo
no reason why you shouldn't if you can
Does that mean I'm also coming up on that MSQ after SV 
leveling your chocobo is good
There's no reason why you shouldn't use your choco
Because I hate pet mechanics
It's a little ways after, but yes @dire prawn
No Sarg queue time 
ok thats your prerogative that doesn't its not good advice to do so
its barely even pet mechanics
"Pet mechanics"
set it on free stance and let it do whatever
You literally just summon it and let it do its thing.
When did I say “dont summon your choco”?
its still way more beneficial than do nothing
You don't have to control it
What if my Chocobro doesn't have shit for skills because I don't have the green things to summon it so it can level
I didn’t so don’t strawman me pls and thank you
Go to Bentbranch and buy some @dire prawn
you're suggesting here that its if you need to. i'm saying there's no harm in always just doing it. thats not the same thing
And repair your gear while you're there.
gysahl greens can be bought at several locations, notably Bentbranch Meadows
no one is strawmanning you
i'm just saying that you hating pet mechanics is irrelevant to the conversation
its in general good advice to just have your chocobo out for overworld stuff
Bentbranch Meadows is the same spot with the actual Chocobo trainer that lets you summon your bird into battles right
yes
Yes
Actually no, I was simply saying its a suggestion I am offering if they find that they need to.
You assumed bad faith it seems like
ur companion chocobo doesnt have any pet mechanics other then level it up
my apologies then clearly i read the intent of your message wrong
with the capitalized need
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I agree, by emphasizing "need", you seemed to be implying that it was only if they needed, not something to do as a regular occurrence.
your response with i hate pet mechanics implied blatant refusal to utilize it
i just found a perfect moment to use clemency
got a party of dps that dying a lot because didn't avoid AoE, the healer is very busy, and already use swiftcast on first raise
Really? Weird I would suggest it then?
while casting the 2nd raise, the other dps started dying again, i use clemency on him 
Yes, that's a valid use of Clemency @quasi thistle
So people are bad yes
implied your refusal doesn't mean that its not advice you can give
Edenmete gear from tokens you cant upgrade in any way right?
Weird that I have used it then?
no one is saying you haven't used it
^
gochu so it's basically alrenrative 510 gear
If you wanna optimizate substats at that ilvl
i'm saying that the way you worded it seemed like you don't want to use it
Or avoid paying gil
if you really wanted to be pragmatic about it
i'll probably use it for a flex class
so i can potentially do stuff not just as a healer
It is basically alt gear after a few weeks
does any class use cryptlurker weapon as BIS or is it always not-bis because the e12s weapon is 535 instead?
uhhh i think the majority of classes use eden savage cause of the substats, last tier some used the upgraded tome weapon cause of substats, but raid weapon is just better all around this tier
blm can use the augmented cryptlurker weapon for their high sps bis
I see, otherway it seems to be placeholder weapon huh 
mhm
ngl guys, I just started playing like for third time and now I really want to play it... But i feel that the game looks quite ugly and dunno exactly why. Been looking into mods but no clue
shame, kinda hoped it'd be best for at least 1 class im intrested in but i guess not this time, tho i suppose it's still strictly better than emerald weapon if i'd actually get that before trying savages in any shape and form
only if its upgraded
depending on theclass emerald is still superior to 520 depending on substats
Gshade/ReShade are the popular/go to shaders
I see
I assume healers is one of the cases where emerald would be better
yes
was trying to download reshade, but the addon software is not working. The website is down :c
yeah i assumed so
it isn't that piety is a dead substat
its worth less than the others
is what i mean
Yeah the Emerald weapons as a whole have spicy secondary stats, all of them are crit/det or crit/DH
its more that if you don't need the mp regen its less useful
and this tier
has a lot of outgoing damage
where you might consider more piety as a result
so you don't eat ass
it does, but if you're in full exarchic with exarchic weapon or tome 520 weapon
you're sitting at 2k piety
depends on team i feel, if barely anyone makes mistakes you probably wont run into MP problems, at least on AST between lucid dreams and card draws
idk, even in party finder up to 12 savage phase 1 enrage i wasnt running more than 1200 on any healer
Im on ast without ring/braclet/earring/weapon from crafted and im at 1.6k piety without any meld for it
yea the crafted sets give a LOT of piety
i can agree tho a bit more piety can be nice, especially for prog, but i feel not THAT much. lol
i try my best
know exactly what will be comfortable
^
thats true but yeah i actually dont mind more piety for now with my kinda-regular group as there's alot of mistakes going on
so sometimes more mana is really needed lol
honestly it really depends, if theres too many mistakes you wont meet the dps check so at that point it might be kind of a bust
that as well
but in the end as channy said
as i'll slowly crawl my way to bis
i'll loose some of the piety anyway
ye
im honestly happy if i do between 8-9k dps as AST on emerald at this point lol
nope
paladin stays paladin
but you do get that chestpiece
and inside the coffer
is an exact replica (appearance wise) of what you just got
but stronger
So there are no more job skills
Or do I have to start a new job with different skills?
Yes, there are
All the way to 80 you'll keep earning more, some from job quests, some from just leveling up
Resistance Supplier at Southern Front
you'll get more job quests with more skills once you reach the next expansion, heavensward
Ty oh and does that mean eqch class will receive 85 and 90 lvl skills?
Or just one with new expansion
Is The Heretic Among Us MSQ about to send me into a dungeon
If so, cant wait to see whm new skills :o
Because there's a dungeon marker by the MSQ marker but it doesn't have a name when I hover over the icon
The next quest does
Yup
As a paladin?
as every job
the job quest chains are separated by expansion
so you have 1-30 on the base classes
30-50 for those jobs
50-60
and 60-70
Does damage eventually get way higher?
Why won't it?
So I understand that the expansions add more jobs, what types might I enjoy later on?
should i feel bad that because i dont feel confidant at playing dps class i kinda want to try out dancer first and foremost? :X
no don't feel bad
Currently a paladin
everyone starts somewhere
Where do I get ultima token, I see thqt ai only need 1 for I thibk ultima weapon theyre beautiful T.T
what kinds of jobs do you like
i mean the class being easy aside, i just really like dancer design lol
you get it from completing the weapon's refrain: ultimate
and given i really like supportive classes, among dps dancer probably fits my tastes the most because of that
tho Dragoon also have teamwide utility
Is that extreme trial of praetorim boss
Aww man
not something you can just pop in and out of in like 10 minutes
Looks like I wont be getting those anytime soon, I dont do hard content but all weapons are locked behind them Dx
yes a lot of the nice glowy ones are locked behind ultimate
Hmm its either git gud
but there are nice glowy ones that are crafted, and relic weapons are accessible too
most dps have some sort of supportive capability, besides machinist/samurai/black mage
How painful is zenith weapon quest for whm? Xd
which do have role specific defensive actions
zenith is quick to do
finishing the whole thing is what takes a bit longer
I got to first step where I have to craft staff for whm, but i dont have alchemist lvl 50 :(
You can buy off the marketboard
And cant buy it on mb
F
I dont think so, I tried to search
you should be able to
FFXIV is picky about searches
so if it doesn't match it wont show up
!market chaos madman's whispering rod
Hmm I tried adding like first three or four letters
31,500
x1 [Ragnarok]
15,750
x1 [Louisoix]
16,937
x1 [Omega]
19,424
x1 [Louisoix]
19,949
x1 [Ragnarok]
19,950
x1 [Ragnarok]
20,087
x1 [Ragnarok]
21,000
x1 [Ragnarok]
21,000
x1 [Omega]
21,164
x1 [Louisoix]
31,500 
15,750

16,937

19,424

19,949

19,950

20,087

21,000

21,000

21,164

Oh wow
I swear I tried to seqrch it multiple times
and make sure you have partial match checked off
Ah alright Ill chexk then and start my relic weapon for whm rn :I


