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I need to help my friend because she wants to play the game
Mainly in limsa because they're degenerates
its also friendly to new players as in it assumes you never played a game before in its handholding at the start
May I know if theres a way to take picture of background only?
you mean without your character?
yes!
Go first person
you could zoom in all the way
The Home button
Zoom alllllllll the way in
what vinyl said
Or that
ahh! I never knew about that. Thank you guys
How is the crafting in FF? I actually enjoy this aspect of games and want to be able to craft without needing to perform in end game raids, is that possible?
Its entirely optional
endgame raids are always optional
And raids are optional
crafting is like a whole other system
Nice, so no raid drops required to be able to craft all items
sometimes
That is great to know
Well raids drop some stuff
oh...
ahhh, thats ok
Not actual gear
you can buy them off the market board
Since it sounds very solo focused, does the game have anything like guilds or families?
it has guilds
the only solo focused thing about it is the main story
Its a final fantasy game first, mmo second
its just that being social is optional
Due to story
sadly psn store are like steam, they are regional stores so if u can’t find ffxiv there, there might be a chance the game is region blocked in ur region
oh no
but SE store is global and no regional restrictions so u might want to try the SE pc version
she doesnt have a PC tho
her PC is a company PC, and because of covid she has to put off of buying a personal laptop
Can someone explain to me like im five what the umbral pip things for BLM do? I'm only level 38 but i feel like i missed some explanation or something
create an hk or sg account
Astral Fire increases your damage and mana cost, Umbral Ice reduces damage and greatly increases mana regen
or create a us account (this is what i did for me)
Fire stance buffa your fire spells alot but stops all mana regen
I know all that but every time i land a spell i get a pip. i havent figured out the pips
Its a stacking stance
Bigger effect
like more damage?
Yes
Yes
oh gotcha
3 fire is 1.8x fire damage
hard to believe i didnt figure that one out
It's something like 120, 140, 180% damage for the stacks
does it reduce cast time?
Only if you have 3 stacks, it halfs cast time of the opposite element
3 stacks of fire reduces cast for the next ice spell and vice versa, but only do that when you're done in fire/ice phase to switch back
Which you use on Fire 3/blizzard 3 to swap your mode
of the opposite element okay
There's a general description of your gauge in Actions and traits
The question mark at the bottom
yeah i read that but i was still confused so thats why i asked for the dummy version cause im a potato
BLM is by far the most complicated class ive come across so far
it really isnt
you underestimate my idiocy
Summoner every expansion rework
The basic idea is get 3 fire stacks with fire3 for more damage and use fire1 because it uses less mp. Then transpose into ice in order to get mp back and also throw lightning (dot). Then go back to fire 3 again to get 3 stacks to repeat. That is the low-er level general idea of blm(not optimal but whatever)
the stances i understood cause they're pretty straight foward. Whats the point of Scathe? just a quick poke tool?
i figured
Use a lot of mp, get it back, use most of it all again
Itd the nichest of niche
cause it didnt seem to fit into anything
If you really, really need to move and have no other tools available
scathe is a movement tool/last tap of damage before something dies. It's something you increasingly have more options that are better to use than it as you get to higher levels, and it's often detrimental to use because it costs just barely too much MP
I think Rika gets a ping every time someone mentions black mage
remove it on your hotbar
even if you really have to move like, legitimately just casting an early B3/F3 is better than scathe, which is pretty frequently still a possible thing to do
do not remove scathe entirely
You could say the leylines called her
Actually? Like its that pointless?
do not remove it entirely from your hotbar. While niche it still has its use, and it's not like you'll be really running into issues with hotbar space
Put it in a far corner of the hotbar
No but I'll admit BLM was the most hotbar intensive class so far
Yes scathe is nearly pointless. Its supposedly for shoot and scoot on later leveling you get triple cast and ability to go to a party member amd back to lay lines. Its better to learn that in muscle memory for mobility enjancement than depend on scathe
its use for movement is essentially pointless. Its use elsewhere is not. It can, for example, be an invaluable choice in TEA on jagd dolls
(disclaimer: i dont play blm because i never learned that and get tripped up on mobility)
of course that's not super relevant while leveling, and scathe for movement has a good bit more value while leveling too compared to at 60+ when it starts to actively hurt you a decent bit more
Did You check this? (In case it helps you understand AF and UI phases)
!faq blmleveling
@cloud palm following that guide and seeing what the phases do maybe you realise it better
well i got the jist of it and i've been looking at rotations. honestly I just couldn't figure out the pips for whatever reason but now that i got that it makes sense
I use that Salted site cause it looks nice
we have the BLM stuff ported over onto akhmorning, if you want something a bit more visual
Rika knows everything and more about BLM
I seem to recall SCH and SMN sharing level progression when I last played. Is that still the case?
Yes
Ye
how do i make a raid party? lol like more than 4 player in a party
(Have to say, that guide is outdated, there is no "cold Flare")
it is not outdated
Is it 1:1?
Yes they still share xp
Just invite more people
@fresh wing invite them?
o
You specifically level up Arcanist
You can have 8 people by default
(This will go off topic)
Oh...so if I level as a summoner to cap, I can just crystal swap and be a lvl capped SCH as well?
There's no raid parties, other than alliance raids
!exp
Which is just 3 full parties
yes
You don't get "summoner experience" or "scholar experience", you get "arcanist experience", and summoner and Scholar share levels with Arcanist
not especially, I can answer briefly here. It lists the general recommendation for most cases which is hot Flare, and refers to the BLM guide for more information such as cold Flare, etc. The command itself is just meant for a brief overview, not for details on every specific use case
Yes although sch will need to do its job quests
Yeah job quests are ez pz now with flying mounts, I’m not too worried about that
whats the rested xp thing again
Is conjuror by chance linked to AST?
the bot command
no
No
Aww
sch and smn are the only 2 classes that share exp
If dont have suitable sch/healer gear set will need that too
I woulda expected WHM and AST be joined like SCH SMN
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@grizzled rover !faq restedexp
(It would be great a full BLM guide, not to mean that guide is bad of course)
oh hey that Akh site is the one i was using. Salted just links you to that. Neato
Blue means you have enough for the next level
Blue is rested isn’t it?
Blue means you have rested exp
In rested xp
how do i claim it
you dont
Kill mobs
You do stuff
huh? There is a specific BLM guide with plenty of details. The leveling thing there is just a rough overview for what to do for each set of levels
By gaining exp lol
doing stuff
oh
No
It's 30%(?) more per mob you kill until it runs out
Ok, then this would not be off topic:
What is that best, updated guide?
It just means yoy have enough rested xp bonus stored up for the next level
!faq blmguide
Thanks 👍
again would stress that the leveling command is not out of date, but is just specifically light on details for general ease of access
Yes, you mean that guide is great, and indeed it is
^^
It helped me a lot though made me sad that trash pulls until 50 is just Freeze spam 💔
Yeah fire 2 is just that pathetic
but their later AOE route is pretty bomb diggity. Once you get there of course.
Talking about aoe rotations, I only see their use in dungeons, not in anything more...
trials and raids have adds
Someone recommended me only when there are 3+ enemies
There's not many bosses that summon adds
But when they do people briefly aoe them down
oh well for me I do a lot of dungeons so its pretty good to know for that
hell its been like 70% of my experience at this point since i aint got no raid buddies
You are gonna use aoe a lot in dungeons, and raids, in trials... I use it, but not so much, sometimes I prefer a fast kill single target rotation to defend a healer or other dps
a vast, vast majority of time that will be the incorrect play
adds will generally be tanked and they won't be on the healer or other dps
I mean if I see an enemy slashing a healer, I target it and take it down
Yeah well...
the tank can and should be able to easily pick the add back up
just keep using aoes
Be a darling and tell the tank to stop eating glue
oof
blast the largest concentration of mobs
Extremely few adds cannot be tanked
healer can take care of themselves
but that gorilla glue be fire tho
hey , do the memories for shb relic cap at 20 ? also if im at 20 for one sort will the other drop more frequently ?
in fact healers will know to drag the mobs to the centre of all the mobs
No
You can farm as many as you want
You can have as many as you want and if you're doing FATEs, they're 100% for gold
Speaking of i need to cluster farm soon...
thats kinda whack , ive double the amount of tortured compared to sorrowful
Change zone
Bsf?
Blues are in the middle zone
Oh
Yellows are bot, blues mid and reds top
ah i see, that makes sense
You generally get alot more yellows cause people prefer to cluster farm there
Closer to base and all
Outside of Bozja, you have yellows in western coerthas and the floating islands that I'm blanking on, blues in forelands and Churning Mists, and reds in Azys Lla and Hinterlands
whats the point of clusters anyway , i dont see anything worthwile in the shop
The items can go for alot of money
do they ?
Plus the new fragments are Required For savage Delerum
The mount can go for a few hundred thousand

The new fragments are like 10k +
Depending
On the type
So if you want quick cash while in Bojza
Just check the market to see whichs high
are these savage duties mandatory for the shb relic ? or whats their point
No
Savage Delerum is if you want the dyeable judge gear
And the cerberus mount
Which is a 4 seater
Is doing Castrum on the Southern Front something I should join a Discord server for?
The maintenance in just under 2 hours is supposed to increase drops to actually make people run it after completing it once
Like difficulty wise, how does it compare with that final dungeon in Eureka? Is it anything like that?
Tbh i need to run it for more Fonts...
Its nothing like BA
Its a glorified 24man
Just get your splits right and use Essense
And you're gucci
And a party with half a brain to do Lyon on last boss
Discord callouts helps for some mechanics but the biggest problem is herding cats for door boss (even split top side and bottom)
As long as someone takes control in ordering parties can calling for splits it generally goes fine
I personally take control whenever I've done it and cleared every run
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How Feasible would it be to win the final battle of the tank questline in 5.0 using level 70 armor?
@raw solstice thank you!!
Probably not that much.
It's not that bad
Kinda doubt it
I think last role quest syncs to 420 so it might be doable if are a god gamer but youre really going to be having a bad time
Maybe with good cooldown mitigation and healing
The difference in stats isn't nearly as sharp as SB leveling
No
No
?
Do dungeons
NQ gear is worse than Scaevan
(meaning dependent on npc healing and prioritizing mechanics)
You lose like 50 item levels worth of stats without HQ
You make yourself weaker
Just do the fight, it's without risk of dying anyway
I really don't intend on using htis job at all. I'm only doing this for Shadow Walk with Me.
The tank one takes a long time but deals almost no damage
So I'm not going to waste money on high 70 HQ armor when I'm two levels and two quests away from the job armor. I'll just buy NQ from some NPC's.
What ilvl do you have now?
390, been leveling via Bozjan so I've been able to get by with it.
If you have Scaevan you should be able to do it
Should be able to get 400 scavean to help but dungeon dropa are better
If you're really scared you can spam dungeons
But like I said, it's extremely low damage in it
It's just for one fight, and I can't see NQ and HQ being the difference between winning a job fight if I'm at an adequate ilevel.
Its not just item level but main stats and amount of hp/vit difference
i410 NQ gear will have a lot lower stats than i390 Scaevan
Since Scaevan has the HQ boost
i am looig for an fc to join in midgardsormr i just started
It's just for one fight tho... LIke literally, I'll have this armor, go back to Bozjan to level up to 80, do the rest of the quests, get my job armor, then probably never touch this job again until 6.0 so I can do additional story content.
Listen to me, you're actively shooting yourself in the foot by getting NPC gear
It is objectively worse than what you have now
Guys! I need a help, backing to the game Today, I have the Game+Stormblood DLC on Steam but I want to play trial in steam with new account (I think I lost my last account)... How I do that? my fear is: download Trial Version on steam and dont unable to upgrade to stormblood in my new account even though the game has already been purchased...
Because you just can't do that on your current steam account
You can't go back to trial once you bought the game
Also, I was wrong, only like four of my current gear is 390, the rest is 385. And the one that is 390 is from the Ivalice raid.
If you've already ought it on steam, you'll have to make a new account and download the trial from the website
^
That's fine if the i385 gear is HQ 
You can't get it from steam for a new SE account
I mean, I'm comparing the stats and even at NQ they are objectively better.
Vs the Dwarven armor at 78, that is.
Just buy tome gear
Just trust us when we say augmented scavean is better (and then lv75+ dungeon drops)
I made a new account and play in Free Trial client, but not in steam, now I download it on steam but my fear is I can't use my old Stormblood key, what do I do with this dlc in the account now?
Because you can't
I'm not farming tomes for a single job fight. <_<
Your old stormblood key is linked to your old account
Then go do some high-70 dungeons and get some tank gear
Sad, did I miss my expansion because I no longer have access to my old FF account?
I certainly should be able to recover, but I had no intention of paying the monthly fee without knowing how the game is going.
Thanks bro! for the help
According to what I'm seeing, you're getting lower strength but like 1% more defense
From the i390 piece at least
Roughly, depends on the piece
Which I only have four of
And the i385, assuming it's HQ is like 1% loss in stats overall
The difference is so minimal you won't even notice it
And if you fail, I'm pretty sure that fight has a very easy mode
So basically you were originally saying I would have a very hard time with level 70 armor doing the final fight, but you're also saying I'd have an equally difficult time by using NQ armor of that particular level?
I was saying from the start that the fight is super easy
And you should just go in your current gear
Feel free to make fun of me if this is simple but is there a way to rotate the stairs so they're facing the other direction? I've tried placing them and rotating but that doesn't work at all and no matter how I try to place them they're always facing the one way.
https://i.imgur.com/CYYZeNy.png
Paladin is noob friendly tank? starting play from zero
Yes
PLD is spin master flex tank
last time I played DK, I am looking for something to play tank since the beginning
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Paladin and Warrior are both really easy tanks
Warrior looks a little selfish, but very badass
all tanks are easy
The way you say it makes it look like the whole game is easy xD
Well, yes, but PLD and WAR are easier
there is no class in this game thats too complicated for new players
Should I pull the trigger and buy lol. It’s on sale for another 14 min
In the free trial version can I release the Samurai? one viewer asked about that
you can hold the code until you want to use it
no
You need Stormblood installed for SAM
And if I start playing the Free version out of steam, can I migrate the account to Steam in the paid version later?
youll have to
once you touch steam youre locked to it
oh
yeah you can go from windows trial to steam full
you cant go from steam trial to windows full
Got it, I have a steam account with Stormblood's dlc but I don't have access to the old FF account. So I created a new one to return to the game without paying a monthly fee (windows trial), but I didn't know if I could go from the windows trial to the steam full later. (I will probably have to buy the latest expansion and use it on the new account)
youll have to unlink your steam account
I've not messed with glamour at all, but can you not glamour say.. a machinist jacket for a gunbreaker?
Kinda lame, but ah well
So you see how on controller, you cycle through your enemies with r2/l2 + r1/l1... can you make it so that instead of cycling through your enemies, it cycles through your party list?
But when healing, doing that with dpad won’t let you move, so you have to get into position and then select... Id like use the method I’m asking, is that possible?
Do you think it's worth it to play Stormblood again one month (pay monthly fees), and buy Shadowbringers later? I believe I still have level 60 content to do. I'm almost 3 years away, sorry for the question.
is there any macros 4 when u change jobs it changes the glamour plate as well
where can i buy level 50 gear
just link equipment set to glamor plate
@lavish vortex you can set target filters in character config > control
like wrist bands and stuff
@grizzled rover mor dhona for poetics
im ngl idk what that is
Hey all. So, in the roll-selection, I've chosen Healer and Primal. Is there anything else I need to do on this server to have full use of it?
@finite solar you dont buy stormblood alone, it comes with shadowbringers
@grizzled rover what msq are you on
oh 🧍♂️
rock the castrum im doing the duty finder meridianum
Oh so no poetics for you
then you can access the gear after you beat the ultima weapon
ok
no
also does item level matter
you can get poetics when you reach lvl 50
you just cant use them
yes
@fervent oar full use of what
Well yeah it does lol
I’m trying that, but pressing L2 + R1 is still cycling though enemies when weapon sheathed, even though in filters I put to only cycle through friends.. am I missing something?
I mean, is there anything else I have to do (register or something else) in order to see all of the server and participate in all that's available?
That’s all you need.
@lavish vortex were you using the dpad to cycle
Well there’s other rooms, one for each role, and two more for the other regions.
i think the target filter only applies to the dpad actually
Okay, thanks much. One last question. I'm looking for an FC, so where would I go in here to scout around?
Yes, with dpad it respects the filters I’m setting up, but what I wanna do is cycle through my party list with R2 + L1. Not with the dpad
#603040697884475393 or the community finder
you cant afaik'
Is that even possible?
Oh, someone on the Balance Discord sent me here for that purpose.
Oh ok, thanks
Hey, thanks.
so id miss out on the rewards along the way?
you would get the item rewards except the fantasia
okay thanks
Only the quest-exclusive rewards*
You lose out on all experience, equipment, and Gil given through the story, along with the aforementioned Fantasia
is it possible to pay the game monthly fee with the balance of steam?
yes, if you mean your steam wallet, its a payment option if you have the steam version
I was answering to this lol
also does item level matter
Somewhat new to the game here. Game said if I can only use glamour plates in cities? Does this mean that the glamour disappears if I enter dungeons?
Oh that's cool. Thanks!
Probably not
Since it isn't a big maintenance that unlocks new contents
(I don't think it is)
it's just hotfixes, they will announce on the twitter if maintenance will end early
does the 3rd step for shb relic have to be repeated in full ?
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yes
the 2nd step is skipped
once you've done your first SHB relic with the 2nd step
you immediately jump to the 3rd
the step with the memories is skipped ?
but not the one with all the raid grinds ?
ouch
ok ty
wait
does only the DR have to be repeated ?
or all of the steps
the 15 loathsome memories from CT
and 32 runs of HW raids
Why is it a good idea to logout before maintenance?
so you dont fuck anything up
wat
or rather
so nothing you were trying to do gets fucked up
because youll get kicked out
think stuff like transferring items or gil can get messy if the timing is off
how often do they do maintence?
damn. I just wanna finish shadowbringer ;w;
I'm like, three fucking quests away from Heavensward but Crystal Tower told me to go fuck myself and do it
XD
i mean they told you it was mandatory at the end of ARR
And I can't do the last part of Crystal Tower because maintenance
You have to do crystal tower. trust me you will see why later in another expansion
People told me the reason is in 5.3
oh it's in 5.0 actually
are there any patch notes for the hotfix?
they will be up
i assume it's the castrum/bozja stuff they were talking about
What Castrum/Bozja stuff
castum giving people mettle or whatever
they said there were going to hotfix something to bozja to make it easier for people to get their first clear
didn't say exactly how they would incentivize it or make it easier
the crystal tower raids is basically important for the lore in shadowbringers
can DR be started at will or is it rng
without spoiling anything o.o
via DF ?
wat
its like potd and hoh
o
you gotta talk to an npc to queue for it
from sjeros or the other guy
It's time for 4 hours of suffering and isolation real life
those are the same words
so its not like bsf duties rng
no
kk thanks
Do we still have no info on the hotfix?
the patch notes will be on lodestone
I can't find white clay? I was using the ff14clock to see when the node spawns, but I never saw it.
Okay... how hard would it be to get 18k wolf marks if you’ve never touched PVP?
would take some days, just do daily frontline
a couple week sif you only did roulette
Do you know the best time of day to do this?
Activity peaks
Usually when roulettes reset
I honestly couldn't tell ya. often I see people in pf advertising pvp done at certain times but my queues vary from instant to hours long
@grizzled rover over 30 seconds yes
ig
is it normal for the inside of your mouth to shed after using mouthwash
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Hey all, question here. I keep seeing "toxic" this and "toxic" that. Could someone explain to me what is toxic in FFXIV?
being mean
I'm gonna just say "The floors in Aurum Vale" and leave that one alone.
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basically what cerberus said, being mean to people is normally what people mean by toxic
Ah, okay.
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people still run BA
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not as frequently anymore but it really depends on data center because they each have their own discord to organize it, second question: probably a few eeks
weeks
cuz you gotta level and stuff
grinding eureka from lvl 1 would prob be like a few weeks?
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more if you only play 3 hours
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If you're lucky and there's people running trains when you're doing Eureka you can probably get it done faster
Got an issue here. I deleted my last char, which was level 49, and started a new one today. Lodestone still doesn't recognize me, and when I run the ! whoami, it brings up the old, deleted character.
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What's the best set up for old on control?
@fervent oar when did you make it
Pld
this is gonna vary heavily honestly
Just today, very eary, several hours ago.
wait longer
both are gonna vary heavily based on what people are more comfortable with
Skill bars yes
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Yeah I would say grinding Eureka alone is a bad idea in general
lodestone takes several hours to update from my experience
@hoary fossil all of them
Warrior outside of extreme optimisation
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@remote lintel Okay. And how do I delete the old character off here?
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If you don't have a party for Eureka, I personally don't recommend doing anything beyond your challenge log
Everything else is extreme grind: progress ratio
Hmm. Well, it hasn't deleted it yet. Guess I'll just wait until tomorrow and see if things change. Thanks!
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But if there's a NM train in your instance, join it and leech what you can
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Eureka is a large scale insurance
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Instance
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Honestly? Join the instance and shout "LF NM train". That's what I did.
Skill bar for pld? And do you guys run instances
That aside you can join the Eureka discord for your data centre
wym instances
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every duty is an instance
I think they are called dungeons
But yeah basically to start just go in grab your first quest and start beating up monsters
dungeons are required in the game so yes
And wouldn't ya know! Just as we finished up on this, I checked again, and viola! Lodestone has it updated now. Crazy!
all you gotta do is complain and SE hears
Are servers back up
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Like being in a active ffxiv group
Servers just went down so I assume it'll be at least a couple hours
Ask and ye shall receive!
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(Crap! Sorry, wrong quote!)
I just want to know if CLL will be worth doing
Also I am only lvl 50 pld and first time playing ffxiv so dry for the noob questions lmao
Everyone starts somewhere
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But tbh hotbar setup is such a subjective thing
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Is their like a preferred on for pld
no
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it's preference
I guarantee anyone who looked at my hot bar would recoil in horror "what is this hot mess"
Lol same
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Dkm
If you want a general idea, try thinking about the functionality of skills and grouping them that way
So on a paladin you'd have your basic 123 comboes, your damage cooldowns, defensive cooldowns and utility oddballs
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I have my 123 combo and aoe on right trigger and movement/ogcd attacks on left trigger
and buffs/defensives/etc on hotbar 2
Oh right, your AOE stuff.
So far everytime I do a dung I get commodations so I think I am doing something right lol
Think about the fact that ogcd timings can be tight, whereas you know you've got ~2.5s between weaponskills and spells
you can fit 2 ogcds between gcds
Ok I will train and try to master my timing
So yeah, nobody can really tell you the "correct" hotbar setup, just what to think about when setting them up
What's clipping
?ogcds
delaying your gcd because you used an ogcd too late
there's a .7s animation lock on ogcds
Whatever the bot command is
!faq weaving
Ohh ok
that's a detailed guide
Ok damn this game gets that serious
Lol
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basically don't try to use more than 2 ogcds between gcds
whats the dps difference between clipping and non-clipping
big
Depends on the class, but big
Do u guys know a gambling discord for ffxiv
Essentially the #1 tenet of being effective in this game is your gcd should always be rolling
And clipping means that isn't happening
I only know the player run casino on primal 
kinda seems weird that this is a thing, is clipping an intended mechanic?
Honestly in arr it might've been coincidental
clipping is a natural effect of that
But they've absolutely designed combat around it since then
hm interesting
and they intentionally made macros bad
Macros being useless is such a bad design imho
true, haha, why put it in the game if players cant use it effectively
Luckily illegal tools can get around some of the dumbest problems with them
not all of them are useless
and crafters use them a lot
and it's to stop botting
I mean, even the useful ones are glitchy as hell
"to stop Botting" is an incredibly weak reason to make them as bad as they are when Botting absolutely runs rampant regardless, though
to further prevent botting from becoming a bigger issue
same reason why free trial players have all those social restrictions
Making macros neigh useless doesn't actually prevent Botting at all though
it does from running dungeons
well, i think it's a new player's first instinct to macro abilities together if they have too many abilities to choose from, seems like ability bloat is a real thing on a few classes in this game
If you don't actually need to be efficient (and bots absolutely do not) macros can do combat just fine
it really isn't
And again.. there's plenty of bots, broken macro system or not
I'll be over here hugging my moactions for giving me basic UI functionality
and there's less bots in dungeons
you can't automate the game
you have to actually play
You absolutely can automate the game, lmao
with mods sure
rn im playing PLD and it feels like i have too many abilities
you get used to it
Well yes, that's sort of the point. You wouldn't be able to automate the game with functional macro, either.
There's no conditional system
I'm just pointing out that their thought process is laughable.
and this isn't the channel for it
But yeah, back to the point: don't use macros for combat abilities with a very limited list of exceptions -- the incredibly poor design makes it a terrible idea
yea, sounds good
I wish I could though, I come from WoW and Combat macros are a way of life
The exceptions list is pretty small -- shirk macros are pretty standard
you have to actually play the game
So basically u cast 1 gcd then 2 ogcd on a 2.5 sec window then gcd asap and rinse and repeat?
Eh, I do press buttons in wow, I think i have higher apm in that game
because tanks don't have high apm
Watching a youtube video on clipping and weaving
Yeah lol functional macros are not about "pressing buttons" lol
A this ain't wow
If you're not asking or answering questions, please move this topic elsewhere
B macro in XIV doesn't work that way
This is not the channel for this
Alright, I need a DoH/DoL guide, are there any good ones
#doh-dol-lounge pins
#612757637813239808 grab the doh/dol role first
neat ty
Should servers be back up by 4am est time?
There's a reasonable chance they go up earlier than that, but that's the schedule
Ok ty
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Eh, it's pretty common when it's not a patch with competitive content
5 AM EST is when FFXIV should come back up
Source: I'm 5 hours behind EST, and maintenance is scheduled to end at midnight my time
Oh, est is 3 hours ahead, sorry my mistake
Yes EST is three hours ahead of PST
How in the hell i do 11gcd under pld physical buff? I can only do 10..
Double weaving?
What’s the small patch for XIV just now?
Are you using the buff on the tail end of the gcd beforehand?
Probably CLL rewards hotfixes, possibly others
I think so
SKS?
2.40
I don't have Paladin experience but I'm pretty sure it's the same principle -- you want to use the cooldown at ~1.5-1.7 into the previous gcd
So basically the cooldown animation lock finishes as your gcd rolls
Varies a bit depending on latency
I have bad ping and occasionally drop a fell cleave as a result with inner release, so I feel you there
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Yeah it is a pain :(
I think fof is a bit tighter too like blood weapon is
Inner release and delirium have a bit of forgiveness built in
Oh yeah...
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Poetics for i400 gear from rhalgrs but 385 is perfectly fine for now
If you're doing msq you'll get gear as you level
If you've got poetics you can throw some at gear but it's not really necessary
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At the very minimum throw poetics at your weapon
There's zero reason to not be using a poetics weapon until you get to like 74 or whenever endgame weapons start popping up
endgame weapons are 80
If you unlock bojza weapons at 80 through a tank class can you pick a dps weapon when it gives you the choice?
well you need the poetic stuff to "buy" new weapons
if you finish the quest as tank, if you don't, you'll have to redo the quest as DPS to switch
you take the quest as the class you want the weapon for
You need the DPs to be 80
You get the relic weapon for whatever job you currently are
And you need to be lv80 to do the quest
After the first weapon, later weapons just require 1000 poetics though
Also just woke up, any patch notes yet?
So if you complete the quest once on your tank and save 1000 poetics you can get the first tier relic immediately on your later class
Provided said class is already lv80
Okay it’s just the regular tomestones that cap at like 2k?
Ye
poetics
poetics ones, the "old expansion" tomes
Poetics, the pre max level tomestone
if you have BLU you can farm like 550 of them in 5mins so that covers half a weapon
provided you haven't done the weeklies yet
yes, if only for the buffs
most FCs run 10% combat xp buff permanently with another buff on top(gathering or crafting xp quite often but can be other stuff)
Patch download is up
there's no penalties for leaving a FC, so if you don't care about that anymore/don't like people you can just leave after so no downside to joining a random one with big recruitment
think you ogt this wrong, most fcs run the teleport buff along with something else
atleast on primal
that'd be a really weird thing to run
but I haven't seen a FC run that over combat xp
Tp and combat are the most common fc buffs I see around, both are excellent for new players
might be datacenter specific but most open recruitment FCs are about getting newbs in, and the combat xp buff is what newbs want
fair, probably data center ya
ive seen most primal fcs run the teleport buff cause it cuts 30% off the costs of all teleports and noobs dont normally have a lot of gil
I remember when I actually blinked at teleport costs.
Once I get fishing to 80 what crafting job would you recommend that I start lvling?
culinarian and start farming blue crab and make some chili crab (sell it to the mb).
or you could sell the blue crab as a material though
Thanks I will give that a shot
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Because if the party wipes its always your fault
Lol
90 mins
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It's good to mix it up every now and then
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Healers and tanks are always in high demand
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Tanks are nearly idiot proof until late game content -- not understanding mechanics becomes your healer's problem
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Whereas if you're the healer and you fail mechanics and die as a result, the rest of the party may be unable to complete a fight even if they're doing them well
in dungeons a healer being dead isn't necessarily the end of the world
depends on the fight and the tank but yeah
tanks do have a plethora of tools to manage stuff
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like PLD at 70+ can often just keep themselves alive against most dungeon bosses, and also keep one DPS alive(sometimes 2)
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It's not necessarily the end of the world, but as a healer you're the only person whose solo death can cause a wipe
Because yeah like I've completed malikah's well final boss after the new healer got hit by both initial mechanics and died by abusing nascent Flash on Warrior, but without nascent Flash that's just an instant "this isn't happening" about 15 seconds in
when is the maintence over
Dead tank or DPs? Swift raise > .. Anyways..
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Whats a fast way to level miner and botanists?
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Diadem and using food and the gatherer scrolls
Any rotations I should know for doing diadem low level? Or just fly around
follow node by node through map
Alrighty thanks I’m trying to get into doing sky builder stuff so I can get scrips
levequests
it's there anything new with the update?
Just said hot fix
Loathsome memory drop rate in bozja is buffed
life-changing
You also now get 5 of them for beating castrim
i see ty
Is maint over?
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Are beastquest worth getting into while grinding up levels, I've seen mixed opinions?
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You might as well
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They also give mounts
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ah awesome,ty
By that same token they can be useful for levelling alt jobs
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max rank increases xp from beast tribe daillies though, they don't necessarily give the same xp if you're not maxed, but yeah they're nice enough to do while waiting for queues or whatever
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70
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or you literally cant craft the stuff
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can do moogles from 50 to 60, and birdbois earlier but that one's not great for lvling crafting iirc
expansion beast tribes are made to assume that you automatically have the base level for starting the expansion 50/60/70 respectively
can probably level CUL on the cheap just to do these tbh
namazu beast tribe is available to level 60 crafters and gathers
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or if you have like 400k, pay someone to make you a levekit or buy mats for ishgard restoration
ixali is especially good because when you rank up more daily quests will open up so you can get multiple levels a day below 50
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basically they make levequests items
and you turn them in
for levequests
since they're just normal items that are tradable
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but levekits normally have levels like 1-50 or 1-60 things like that etc
yea thats fair, idk about jp servers but na servers sometimes have people selling levekits for various levels that are cheaper to buy than stuff off the marketboard if you're looking to do a bunch of levels
like in na a levekit for cul for 1-80 could be 400k, but i could spend 600k on the market board buying the same stuff
keep in mind that while levekit is an option, but if you are looking to get beast tribe rewards such as mounts, emotes, and minions etc. You should just do them daily to get reputation with them and rank them up while gaining decent exp for your crafting/gathering jobs
^ really depends what you're after
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i tihnk thats from a combat tribe
you can go back to them after you reach max level but personally I don't find that as efficient
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yeah that's from the snake tribe in stormblood
honestly it depends, like, at higher levels you can 2 button hq synth stuff etc so it depends what your goal is
i found going back after leveling to be more efficient for me because i had to spend less time doing it
each day
but i also wanted to craft endgame stuff so that played a big part in how i did it
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yea
i levelled my doh/dol classes to 80 to craft 80 stuff mostly, then i went back and did beast tribes for several reasons, one of which was: trained eye lets you 100% hq anything 10 levels lower in one button
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and some of the beast tribe doh/dol classes require hq things so instead of 4 buttons or whatever to hq it , i hit 1(trained eye), then another to complete the craft, so i had to spend less time doing it each day
but if you're on a budget and wanna level the doh/dol classes beast tribes are a good way to do that
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np, gl with your beast tribes
Should I not be worrying about DoH/DoL leveling till a certain point? Whenever I get tired of questing I’ve just been spending time crafting. But I’m pretty new to the game so I’m not sure if my time is best spent.
I mean, if that's what you want to do is not really a waste of time
honestly, most stuff is locked behind msq so i recommend atleast hitting 80 first and completing shadow bringers base quests first so you arent locked out of zones at like, a level 80 miner but level 50~ in msq
its not really a waste of time either way though
whats the difference between them?
Nothing about being higher level combat really makes creating easier except for zone and materials access
only the color and name?
yes, but they're dyable
No big difference, they're all dyeable
oohh, is it permanent in the store?
Cause I’m like, lvl33 WAR, but in my 20s in about every crafting job
yes
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probably better to ask on #elemental-recruitment i think is the channel name? or whatever data center tonberry is on (i cant remember which it is)
er #recruitment-elemental or the data center equivilent
I has questions
Is there a way to brows FC in the game?
White Clay is up right now, how come I don't see it?
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/community_finder/ pick server and data center
thats what the channel is here for , for questions
Soooo... I haven’t touched the game since late summer of 2015. Just yesterday I decided, since endwalker is releasing soon, that after 5 years of not playing, NOW would be the perfect time to hop in. The problems is that it’s been 5 years since I played the game and feel super lost and have honestly forgotten how to play or how I should go about figuring it out >~< can anyone here kinda guide me or direct me on what my next steps should be?
for bozja, my friend is really confused on relic steps. he says he "can't progress dnc until he completes castrum, and gnb is on the first step of needing 60 memories (3 kinds of 20 each, which how does the game decide which ones you get from bozja fates????) if you do the hw fate zones for them, they're determined by which zone you're in in bozja it's just critical engagements how does it know which ones you have or how much or what you need"
Are you using world visit?
Bozja is divided into three sections, each gives a different color
excellent ty, do you know which is which for the memories? it didn't say in game, he said
I don't recall off hand, I want to say that the order inventory sort places them in South/centre/North but I'm not sure
The most efficient way to farm them is to cluster farm all 3 zones at once with split groups
no
don't they only drop from crit engagements?
I don't see gale rock either
Only things I can think of are a) not high enough level b) in the wrong location (ephemeral node locations changed recently)
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https://imgur.com/a/fushtgX
@dim ridge here's a cluster farm route for the first step memories
level 80, mostly 470 gear.
ty!!
Do I need to do something to unlock them?
Have you unlocked collectables?
that only spawn in the given time
That might be it
#doh-dol-lounge message
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I'm pretty sure I do, I do custom deliveries and thats collectible right?
and this message from the pins has the updated locations
It is, that leaves me at "you're using old locations information"
most likely then.
Noobie question here, what exactly is direct hit?
Providing you've done all of your quests
direct hit is like a mini-critical hit
does more damage at a fixed multiplier
increasing the stat will increase the chance
Oki, tysm
Direct hit is chance to deal 25% bonus damage, stacks with crits
Increased stat = increased chance, unlike Crit which increases both chance and strength
I found a Ephemeral Node, now I just need to find the right one, hehe.





