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im not sure why but for samurai class the meditate ability does not work for me im above the level to use it but it never lights up or anything am i suppose do my job quests or something?
gotta be in combat
am i suppose do my job quests or something?
yes, it's unlocked from the level 60 samurai quest
Is it normal for the master gauge for MNK to never light up ever in battle
what's the usual limit for the amount of an item?
no
how many you can carry in your inventory? 999
OH
I use the same thing multiple times like it tells me and nothing happens
"the same thing" elaborate further please
Have the S ranks for Thavnair and Labyrinthos not been found yet?
pretty sure they have
Like it says use the same attack multiple times, I do that and it does nothing special
you're talking about opening the nadi under perfect balance?
The what
the chakra gauge then?
ahh ok
I just wanted to make use of the master gauge
i assume they may be added in 6.05 then?
A question since Active Help navigation is not helping me at all to find this. When the bottom gauge for Bard runs full, what is this linked to? Which action can be executed? I'm not seeing any grayed out button that suddenly is enabled
Apex Arrow
What does perfect balance even do, I've never used it
That's for Apex Arrow. The more bar you have, the more damage Apex Arrow does. You need at least 20 to use the skill.
Masterful blitz becomes a different attack based on what form the gcds used were
For gauge info ingame see actions and traits > ? Button at the bottom for gauge help
Ah that's why when it's full, it makes this pop sound
!action Perfect balance
Grants 3 stacks of Perfect Balance, each stack allowing the execution of a weaponskill that requires a certain form, without being in that form.
Duration: 20s Additional Effect: Grants Opo-opo Chakra, Coeurl Chakra, or Raptor Chakra depending on the form required by actions executed
Maximum Charges: 2
Can only be executed while in combat.
Yes and Apex lights up
Alright, thanks for the help
Are GCDs like my fire wind and earth things because I don't remember what counts
GCD = global cooldown
the opo-opo, coeurl and raptor things
Yeah I know but like are those it
Bootshine, snap punch, etc
What
Your combos
But those aren't GCDs those are just combos
Skills labelled weaponskills are gcds
…….
What do you mean by this
But they cool down instantly
Your combo actions are gcds
It's called gcd because they share a cooldown
They trigger the 2.5s global Cooldown
No they take about two seconds
GCDs are the ones that have a super long cooldown
The global cooldown refers to that 2.5 second (reduced for Monk) cooldown that you must incur between casting two weaponskills/spells
No
No
No they are not
I was taught the game this way
!action bootshine
Then let it be taught to you now what the terminology actually means
You were taught shit
these 2.5 second cooldowns are your Global Cooldowns
You were somehow taught entirely backwards then.
I was taught by a mentor
Lol
Whoever taught you that is an idiot
Means nothing
QED
Mentorship isn't hard to get, don't take the word of a mentor as gospel
Mentors have a bad reputation for a reason
unfortunately burger King crown mentors in game are terrifyingly incompetent
Although he didn't teach me my positionals either because he was trying to make me be a tank instead of MNK
GCDs are your weaponskills that share a 2.5s or less global cooldown
outdated"?
oGCDs are abilities not on the global cooldown (hence “off global cooldown”) and have longer cooldowns of their own
it's out of date not like this
It took me a year to memorize my positionals and now I'm having to re-memorize them because they changed in the monk rework so like... I dunno how I'm gonna learn this master gauge
it's better to not think about the master gauge in relation to your normal rotation
It's a seperate system
By some I mean most
You only interact with it during Perfect Balance
Otherwise you just do your monk things as you have been before
You can still hit the positionals like they still exist 
That's why I have to rememorize, I keep forgetting which ones were removed. And I totally forgot what they were in the gap where I couldn't afford to buy playtime.
I'm a bit late, but
when you use an action and like 15 things go on cooldown, that means it's part of the global cooldown
But now, they're only on demolish (rear) and true strike (side)
They removed the positionals on your Opo-opo and Raptor attacks
when you use something and it is the only thing that goes on cooldown, that means it's not part of the global cooldown
Only snap punch and demolish have positionals
I.e. only the third step of your combo
I'm still yet to memorize which attacks do which stance
All that's left is the ones on your Coeurl attack so Snap Punch (Flank) and Demolish (Rear)
Bootshine and Dragon Kick are your first stance (Opo-opo)
Then think of them as parts 1 2 and 3 of your combo
Only part 3 of a combo has a positional
True Strike and Twin Snakes are your second stance (Raptor)
Snap Punch and Demolish are your third stance (Coeurl)
1st column is opo-opo, 2nd is coeurl, 3rd is raptor
You should set up your bar in such a way that this is easy to intuit
And then it wraps back around to Opo-opo from there
I suppose this is why I should've picked a simpler class like never-play-a-battle-class
Yeah like that
or was it 2nd raptor and 3rd couerl
Monk is a simple class
busy, but simple
Anyway, that's how the thing flows from left to right
Raptor is second Coeurl is third
That hotbar there is very similar to mine
My bar is the crossbar because PS4, no setup ever makes much sense
hm
Can still make that intuitive
I have no experience with controller
Like say for 123 you have square X circle
Then for alternative 123 you have square X circle on the other hotbar set
I have it set up so main combo and meditate on left hand, dot combo on right, then AOE combo on left hand.
Then your third combo part will always be circle
That seems like an unintuitive setup
And would explain your confusion
Can we assign macro on PS4 back button attachment?
You can assign the back button to a face button
I’d recommend having your two sets of combo actions on the same buttons just different hotbar
Are people not allowed to make new characters at all? or can we do it at low queue times?
but you can't back the back buttons "unique" inputs
Only existing controller buttons
Like
Is there a "best" map to farm Bicolor Gemstones? Like, is there any map more popular than others? Or just random really lol
Wdym?
L2 + square x circle and R2 + square x circle
Ah I see
I got the setup from a guide
That doesn’t mean it’s good
And if you’re confused about your GCDs your hotbar setup seems like an obvious factor
set up your hotbars for you first
others are merely guidelines
some people can and will have wack ass setups
Almost everyone has their own completely unique setup
There’s not like a consensus setup that everyone uses.
R2+ Circle X Triangle = Bootshine Combo
R2 + D-Pad = DOT Combo
L2+ Circle Square Triangle = AOE Combo
What’s face button?
My opinion is that this setup is extremely cursed
Square, triangle, circle, cross, dpad, stick clicks iirc
I'm not sure what's the full list of valid inputs
My opinion is that that's indeed extremely cursed
Then R2 + Square = Meditation, L2 + X = whatever is supposed to turn into Elixir Field but just doesn't and I don't get why
Up up down down left right left right b a start
Like why is your AoE combo on a totally different order of buttons than your single target
@granite root personally, I'd just make it so that square cross circle is 123, l1 is main, l2 is dot, and put AoE on an entirely separate crossbar
Why a different crossbar
The only opinion I'll parrot for hotbars is controller: setup crosshotbar 1 for single target, crosshotbar 2 for aoe.
So you just need to press r1 to swap modes
Yeah that’s the same as what I was recommending
I would have R2 as Bootshine/True Strike/Snap Punch and L2 as Dragon Kick/Twin Snakes/Demolish then use Cross Hotbar to have R2 again as Arm of the Destroyer/Four-point Fury/Rockbreaker
because you're either always using it or never using it
Cuz you basically never need both at once
Because you don’t need to AoE at the same time as single target
They're all attacks, why do they need to be different crossbars
Rare exceptions being short periods in uwu and old flourish on dnc
Make your own hotbars first. I usually make sure that one combo is on the same group. And the one need casting is on D-pad
I put all my cooldowns on one bar and all my attacks on another
That seems clunky
Cuz space is limited and you don't almost never need both aoe gcds and single target gcds at the same time
You need your cooldowns on immediate access
They are though
This leaves more space for cooldowns so you can track them and ogcd abilities
I just snap a button and there they are
#protips-and-ui if you're having crossbar issues then
We can't help you if you don't want to change
Can you consistently weave them without clipping and pull off an opener?
You appear to have come asking for advice
Yet you just seem to argue with what's being given
I don't know how to pull off openers so I just kinda... Don't?
Please come to a decision

…
So learn an opener

And then figure out how to build your hotbar such that the opener can be done smoothly
We can't force you be good at the game, but we can tell you that this makes you bad at the game
Speaking of hotbars, how do I arrange a monk's
https://xivbars.bejezus.com/
Use that to plan a hotbars
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You find what works for you and from there
imma play devil's advocate and say that perhaps you aren't really cut out to play dps
You have buttons you press the most often on the easiest access
That’s how you build a hotbar
You understand the skills, and place them in a manner that suits how you use your hands
From there it’s personal taste
I think the most important part of a dps is consistency in their rotation
I cannot handle healers and I forget mechanics very easily so I cannot tank
and I stink at that
I mean in terms of their combo arrangement
Aight I'm just going to shut this down
Dps have the most mechanics of any role
If you don't want to learn we can't help you
Tanks learn the same amount of mechanics as everyone else
Horse has been led to water
I do wanna learn... :/
then stop degrading yourself and practice
Then start with an opener
Then check that infographic posted above
Make things that work for you
The people have the impression you do not want to 
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Yeah and I put the non-casting one in face buttons instead of D-pad 😂
This has things you can load to have callouts and shit
if you have issues then find solutions
What's the class with the least mechanics
Simple classes? Any tank, machinist, dancer
Mechanics to the job, dancer, mechanics you have to handle in a fight. There isn't one
Summoner
old summoner a fair bit
It got reworked
old SMN, perhaps
New summoner is easy
Well then there's something a little harder for you to start with
Summoner currently is among the simplest jobs
If you keep running from anything outside your tiny comfort zone you'll never improve
Either I’ve played with SAM for too long but I feel SAM have easy rotations and mechanics
Expand your horizons
What if I found Dragoon to be a bit complex
Or as the kids these day put it: git gud at somethibg
SAM is straightforward, just gotta learn the large number of buttons
Like pre-50 Dragoon even
SAM isn’t too difficult to learn, but I wouldn’t say it’s the job with the “least mechanics.”
Uh
Then practice it until its not too complex
That’s troubling
Dragoon is literally just roll your combos and do shit on cooldown
We can't make the game easier for you dude
Did they remove the positionals for dragoon
No
Rip
Mechanics, yes. Potency, no
You still have 3
Dragoon has no positionals until 50
Someday they'll remove the positionals
from where do i exchange EW materia crystals ?
!action fang and claw
Old Shar
I see. Maybe I’m just getting used to it or I did something wrong 😂
no positionals until 56
Any materia vendor in ew areas
I honestly thought MNK at 70 felt way simpler than DRG at sub-50
!action chaos thrust
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
140 when executed from a target's rear.
Combo Action: Disembowel
Combo Potency: 220
Rear Combo Potency: 260
Combo Bonus: Damage over time
Potency: 40
Duration: 24s
Combo Bonus: Grants Enhanced Wheeling Thrust
Duration: 30s
Effect of Enhanced Wheeling Thrust ends upon execution of any melee weaponskill.
Somehow I thought that dragonfire was the lv50 skill
This isn't a place for that discussion
Wait, how long have you played FFXIV?
anyway
It's time to stop.
I'm half convinced it's a troll
The point is, you can't improve unless you want to.
Since just before Stormblood preorders opened
DRG has a lot of oGCD’s, ye..? Maybe that’s what makes stuff difficult for you. Dunno which jobs have the least amount of oGCD’s, though. (Probably BLM, but I wouldn’t recommend that to someone who’s struggling.)
If you want to, you need to practice.
ye olde weaving (and that's not the crafting class)
You can't just sit here and complain when you don't even want to change your own hotbar layouts.
God helps those who help themselves
and with that, I will start handing out mutes for comments. Legimate questions are still fair.
Sorry... :/ Didn't mean to start all this.
If you played since before Stormblood than it should be easy to plan a hotbar by yourself that it’s working and DRG is much simpler than a Monk…
!mute @cosmic pilot 30m
Am I missing something here…
Conditional buffs are only for select buffs
The only setting for that is your own debuffs
You can separate your own proc buffs to a separate bar
Oh by the way is there any way to preview hud stuff so you know if you're positioning it okay or not? I'm having trouble positioning my hud pieces because I can't see what I'm positioning, and its impossible to get the time to reposition certain things mid-duty.
the HUD Layout preview is generally good enough. Party List technically extends to the right a little and the Enemy List goes down up to 8, but besides those everything in HUD Layout is accurate to the size.
if you die, do your buffs/ debuffs stay active?
Job Gauge resources generally yes, buffs no
misc buffs stay active
Only exceptions I can think of off hand are brd codas
Food, fc, manuals and technically potions stick around
All the tanks loose their gauge but keep stance
oh i meant stuff like reprisal, tactician, step buffs 
SMN keeps Phoenix/Bahamut, Sage keeps Addersgall (it actually charges while they're even dead)
Blm loses job gauge
Don't the Astro cards also go away when you die, or was I just seeing some tomfoolery in the videos I watched?
no
ast cards are buffs so they do disappear
Reprisal is a debuff, that stays
Buffs applied to you during the fight: gone
heat/battery gauge goes bye bye
Poor scholar
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That's specifically proc related stuff like raiden thrust ready and the continuation buffs on gnb
!trait thundercloud
Grants a 10% chance that after each damage over time tick inflicted by Thunder or Thunder III (3% for Thunder II or Thunder IV), the next Thunder, Thunder II, Thunder III, or Thunder IV will add its full damage over time amount to its initial damage, have no cast time, and cost no MP.
Duration: 18s
Or this
Nope
It does get leaden fist tho
And perfect balance I think, but I usually blitz through that too fast to notice
Pretty sure formless fist is in there too
Subscriber rank means nothing nowadays, right?
Like I know it used to mean you got rewards but like... Now that's all nada right?
hm every time i try logging into the normal client, it says i need to update direct x but i have direct x 12 lol
i can't update it anymore than i already ahve
should i do the most gained xp from levelquests or stuck with lv 81 intead of 84 for less mats crafting
It never meant anything in the first place
server boosting never gave anything
Higher level leves = better exp, your decision
Oh no not server boosts I mean the game. Subscription days = rank which got you rewards
Veteran rewards cap at 300 days iirc
After you get your 4th veteran reward, yeah
330 days is the end of veteran rewards for sub rannk
so after that, yes it means nothing except to tell you how long you've been subbed
And they're unlikely to add new rewards
i know
i asked if its better to do the lv 81 nows for cheap mats instead of lv 84 mats
Shame, means poor Jonathas slides further and further into irrelvancy
there used to be significantly more veteran rewards but they scaled that back and put them as quest rewards
and/or achievement rewards
vet rewards =/ achievement cert rewards
Whichever you want.
Ones better rewards for more effort, ones less rewards for less effort
That's what I did
Leve allowance wise its less efficient but gil wise...
So you choose save gil or save time/allowance
there's a likely chance jonathas may see an update eventually
Or refer-a-friend feather trades, right?
They’ll update the shop one day, you’ll see
i can't update directx any more than it already is. is there a fix for this?
Afaik, those cert rewards are largely those old veteran rewards
That's a windows issue my dude
much of them is yes
#technology-discussion would know better
but there are plenty of them that are not
Thank you all
ty
but that still doesn't mean them saying they are not going to add anything to vet rewards means jonathas is never seeing an update
When was the last time they added more achievement cert rewards?
i do think its a client issue, as the quick launcher thing that skips log in works just fine
For ARM anyways a standaout leve is the Alembic one at like, 84
I just spammed that shit to 90 lmao
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Are VIII materia stronger than IX or am I missing something?
Read the rest of the text
Overmeld
Well, odds and evens are linear but yeah
Ok, so even though it looks like this: "Critical Hit + 24" when I hover on my melded gear, it's not giving the full value?
Yeah I still have no idea what that means, thanks
It can't be used for high level advanced melding
if its red that means you hit the cap
IIRC if you aren't seeing the full value you should've used a lower value one
It's not red though, it's showing up as if it's 100% valid like always
!faq melding
How do I unlock melding?
Complete Forging the Spirit (materia extract/npc melding) and Waking the Spirit (player melding) in Central Thanalan.
How can I get my gear melded?
To meld visible Materia slots a NPC melder in any major city will do (marked with a Blue Materia icon on the map). To overmeld gear you'll need to request another player to meld your gear or to do it yourself.
Why can't I meld this Materia to my stuff?
Every Tier of Materia has a minimum item level requirement that gear must meet to allow melding of that Tier. Tier 6 Materia requires an item level of 290 while Tiers 7 and 8 require an item level of 420.
Why is my meld giving +0 stats?
Every item has a maximum amount of stats that can be given through melding and the natural stats found on the gear. This can be seen at the bottom of the Materia Melding menu, as seen in the picture below.
The secondary stat with a higher number is already at the cap and cannot be further melded.
If you don't know what it means the tl;Dr is to just meld 10s and call it a day
That one doesn't cover this
example
Go ahead if you want to use it when rank x materia exist
I mean, I'd use X if I had any, obviously, haha
That's not the difference between viii and ix
So what you're saying is the value shown on the Materia is higher than the 24 there even though the gear has more space?
I mean from what Raksis was saying
Like everything you just said is wrong
You can't even advanced meld on npcs so raksis can't do that
I'm not sure then. I've only ever had friends meld for me because of course I don't have a crafter that can do that yet
Then don't worry about it
Advance Meld?
Man, I'm just sitting here in front of my materia melder trying to decide between VIII and IX lol and VIII shows up with a bigger number on my gear
If you don't have any 10s
then go with 8s
And call it a day
Don't bother and wait til you get some 10s
8s are plentiful and honestly will serve you enough
Unless you actually want to go for early savage raiding and actual proper parses
Odd number materia are for advanced melding
run expert roulete, market materia you don't neeed, buy materia you do
Materia almost always go for good money so you'll most likely make an amount that allows you to repurchase later if you need
No, no they don't
Well, the higher numbered ones do
Only 1-4 and current materia sell for good money
why do 1-4 sell for good moneh?
Is the higher one have less value cause it have 40% chance on retrieving from gears
Wanna rephrase that?
1-4 sell well due to arr relics and shtuff
5-8 are worthless because those gear levels are kinda just
whatever
You zoom past them straight to 90 gear
which can use 9-10
Less value on marketboard
5-8 are listed on the market board for below what the vendor would give you
I see
And I don't even know if people buy them but I seriously doubt it
I buy them for doman reclaimation
i pentamelded my gatherer man that was expensive
But you can get tons of gear for that just by existing near a dungeon
I just use the allagan pieces I get from retainers
Smn petglamour question. I used to set my ifrit egi into a Ruby carby pre EW. Now in level synced content, my ifrit egi appears as Ruby carby. I tried to switch bsck via
/pet glamour "Ifrit-Egi" "Ifrit-Egi"
But was given the error Ifrit-Egi is not a valid option name. Anyone know how I can fix this? Changing the first one to Ruby carby doesn't work
People still buy 8s here and there cause ofr some reason they don't have any
/petglamour "ifrit-egi"
its petglamour "ruby ifrit" "ruby ifrit"
Well for one thing there's no space in petglamour
And secondly you leave the second argument blank to reset it
Thats a typo right there i got the command right in game.
Nice thanks @regal pawn @warm snow
dis wrong
For all I know you copy pasted
@warm snow all good
You can't glamour the 90 primals (which is just sad)
At least you can shrink them
not the same as having a rat
And you can't glamour baha or loui either
pre-90 summoner superior
Carby army.
Back in 4.0 there was a bug that let you keep baha out permanently
huh
It was purely visual but shenanigans ensued
can I join an FC in a home world other than mine?
no
not even in the same DC?
nope
nope
gotta be your home world
has to be same world
ok..thanks
Is there any way to see gear and fashion accessories you can't buy on the market board, on the race/gender of your choice?
Alright boys, this question ya'll may have seen plenty, but I'm a jit and can't find the FAQs. So if I would like to try the game out, do I have to buy Endwalker? They suspended the starter editions
endwalker will do nothing for you if you do not already own an acct/stater edition
you're just going to have to be patient and wait for them to re-enable trial/starter/complete
how do i get these?
white scrips
buy them with white scrips, need to have the radz-at-han house of splendor unlocked tho
No
With the exception of one new item, all fashion accessories are wings and umbrellas so race really doesn't matter there
The one exception is a pair of glasses
What about the one person I saw with a halo? Or was that just attached to the wings they had?
that was part of their head piece
that's not a fashion accessory
Angel outfit on mogstation
!iglam angelic circlet
Oh, I thought that mightve been a fashion acc. too because I swear they were also wearing other headgear
they weren't
garland tools sometimes
unless they had the glasses accessory
only other way to do it would be with glasses fashion accessory
Oh, you can put on multiple at once. I didn't even think about that.
no
the new glasses fashion accessory allows you to have glasses on with whatever other helm you have
but its not useable in combat
Oh.
How do you even use that if you don't know the name of what you're looking for
for party finder and 1 job per party, it treats SGE and SCH as one job cause both shield?
no
they only have 15,000 items
oh, so party leader is excluding SCH on both?
I do not know what your party leader is doing
So I’m trying to learn PLD. So since Goring Blade is a ST DoT, should I be trying to DoT every target with it in trash pull?
Nono, at 3 or more aoe combo simply deal more dmg
Only for two targets, IIRC
I'm just hunting for Ex groups, just surprised to see two groups with SGE and needing 1 healer, both have blocked SCH
Alright thanks!
they don't want two barrier healers.
they likely have a barrier slot and a throughput slot
sch and sage can work well together but for most it's not super feasible
Endwalker content tried to be optimzied for 1 pure 1 shield healer(iirc yoshi said this)
2 of same is doable but harder and tend to have less room for errors / harder to recover
last few times I've been SCH with SGE in group, they just tell the poor SGE to not cast any shields haha
im sorry to interrupt but i have my "Skip playback of previously viewed scenario cutscenes" option disabled (so i can skip cutscenes)
but...i've been getting cutscenes again, and they always play in succession
How do you get the unsung blade?
what content are you doing? @leaden ginkgo
Is it the pratorium or castrum meridianum
all content

im getting cutscnenes for things i've done before
Thats.... Interesting
clear the 4th floor of the pandaemonium raid
thanks
I would think you need to have "Skip playback of previously viewed cutscenes" enabled in order for the cutscenes to skip.
oh wait disabled, lol yeah you need to have that ticked on
to skip stuff you've already seen
oh my god what the hell
lol
i've been losing it the past couple of days lol
Don't be sorry, you didn't do anything to us haha
what tribes are good for exp i know pixies ne ones eles?
Shb only pixies for combat job
jeez
General advice will be gear and learn crafting rotation but i think someone here can give more in depth tips
This is for ishgard collectable I presume?
Uhh, your gear is up to date right? Not using lvl20ish gear. And i think aiming for 2nd grade is okay? Without some skills aiming the max grade is hard iirc
Most important are the weapons followed by armor etc and last accescories
So generally every time i unlock a new firmament item to craft 20, 40 etc i want to do class quests + upgrade my gear so i can get higher collectability?
Is there a way for me to edit debuff on target? I have mines at 120% but still pretty difficult to see this tint green debuff compare to party wide debuff.
Yes, Cant use old gear, stats wont be enough
Noob Tank question, so when you do big pull and use your range skill to pull aggro, do you stop to do AoE to make sure you grab aggro or keep running? Watching a tank guide, suggest I shouldn’t stop just keep running and tossing.
aoe
sorry
do your aoe combo to make sure the dps or healer don't get aggro'd
If you're paladin or gnb, you can pop your aoe dot
Generally not advised cause you end up losing damage
But if the corridors get long, you can lose aggro here and there
Hmmm I see, thanks a lot.
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For lootmaster runs, what happens if the leader leaves before loot gets handed out?
Q: do Crafting/Gathering job quests end after level 70? I just hit 80 leatherworker but no quest prompted.
There a way to turn off the camera resetting on it's own?
eeyup
much like combat jobs, for shadowbringers and endwalker they have "role" quests
called crystalline mean and studium deliveries respectively
so they're turn ins for a set of crafters/gatherers
ah ok,..I seen those in the Crystalline then,..ty
crp/ltw/wvr, bsm/gsm/arm, and alc/cul for crafters, bot/min and fisher for gatherer
I thought Tole quests were just a little side action thing,..heh.
Role
so EW continues them too , eh
yep
kk,.ty
most likely how it'll function going forward for expansion
can i wear lower level gear to force a lower level dungeon on roulette, or will it have an affect on how much xp i gain from it
it wont handicap my xp?
For the Qitari does it matter which version of history I pick
Kinda lame that they don't uncover the truth
Gear has nothing to do with xp unless it says so
Pretty sure they mean will forcing the lower level dungeon handicap their XP gain
These might help you get started. It's all guides aimed at beginners.
https://www.akhmorning.com/pvp/
Here's the next Crystal event for training that might help too/
and the answer is it depends
because lower level dungeons do give less experience, but the leveling roulette bonus is based on the discrepancy between the dungeon and your level
It's possible someone has mathed all of it out, but if they have, I'm not aware of it.
anyone else having severe lag spikes? Feels like it just started a few days ago
However, I can say that a significant portion of players do regularly remove their gear to cheese the ilvl requirements and force a Crystal Tower alliance raid in alliance roulette, because it's a faster run for the same amount of tomestones.
I personally hate it because those raids are such a drag, but it does happen quite a lot.
word, thanks for the advice
Hey this is more of an opinion question but for context, I played WoW for about 2 years and then I joined ffxiv. One of the things I loved about WoW was the Shadow Priests in its gameplay and aesthetics. Im wondering if you guys know the closest class to Shadow Priest in FFXIV cause I really miss the class from WoW and I kinda feel tempted to return to WoW just for Shadow Priest which I dont want to.
What do they do 
hello, does anyone know how to mute system sound of "duty commenced, duty completed, etc"?
anyone know if there are hats like this that players can wear? a straw hat with sunglasses
There's a straw hat
But not one with sunglasses
bummer
They apply damage over time, When you reach a certain amount of power you use a really powerfull damage over time spell called Bubonic plague, they have this super cool form that boosts their damage and powering them up even more
just did my first ocean fishing trip, what to do with the fishes ?
the form in the lore infuses them with more void power which just made the class even cooler
Ah
Then no
We have kinda a similar thing with Summoner
But they don't have a dot anymore
All healers only have 1 dot
either vendor or desynth
nothing really else to do with them
And only astro and white mage have personal dps steriods
Maybe not the DOT effect, but what im looking more for is like a kind of dark aesthetic caster that can i guess go into a phase where its powered up?
thanks, gonna desynth them
black mage
Summoner then I guess
if that makes sense? like the Priest going into void form to boost its overall damage output
reaper
Caster
definitely reaper
Only "dark" casters would be like black mage
i'd probably say black mage is more akin to spriest than summoner
reaper though would be closer imo in the dark aesthetic
Well summoner has the whole Dreadwyrm trance thing
since you literally go dark edgelore
ehh
playing an s-priest myself, it really doesn't feel the same IMO
s-priest void form would feel more like reaper's avatar mode tbh
but reaper is melee
just be a harpe mage kappa
caster i would go blm personally for s-priest like aesthetic, but it doesn't have a void form
Soulsow spam time 
huh. Melee is fine though but would prefer it to be a caster
Reaper then
but blm plays akin to like arcane mage tbh
in that you dump mana into fire phase and use ice phase to refill mana
Reaper for basically the aesthetic and void form
Summoner for a caster with a power up form
Black mage for a darkish aesthetic
eh kind of
It summons stuff to enhance itself
you do like big summons via baha, primals and phx
Aether charge/dreadwyrm trance/summon bahamut/phoenix
The tank that's doing the most damage is the one who holds the highest threat, right? Or does the person who gain it initially have some sort of threat boost to help them keep it from other tanks stealing it without provoke?
ooooooh
so its not quite a power up form to you personally
!reset
10 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
16 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
6 days, 3 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
2 days, 3 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
3 days, 22 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
3 days, 16 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
3 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
Enmity bar is poor DPS measure for tanks
Purely damage
And healing
#kupo-bot-spam
but it is a big visual effect
Healing also generates aggro
You do actually have your own power up from it
It's mentioned you still have dreadwyrm trance while baha is out. Same with firebird
I think arcanist would probably be better for me cause it also has scholar for healer queues... scholar and summoner both level up when you level one up right? if that makes sense
still don't quite agree with that but meh
Yeah
you, visually, are not changing is why i don't agree with it
but i'm also thinking about this from the perspective of an spriest for "power up form"
cos void form causes you to grow tentacles and shit so
I mean eh
You still power up and enter a "trance"
(Dwt, aether charge and fbt should have visuals imo)
I'd love if they added wings do dwt and fbt
And some aether stuff to aethercharge
semantics ultimately tbh :p
wait, you don't eat them? /s ok no shitposting

but yeah back on topic the main spectacle is summoning your, well, summon
and the power boost is a part of it but not that flashy
so that's really up to the person on if they enjoy that sort of dynamic
When in doubt
Reaper it up
very true
Is there a way to see when did I start playing a character?
Like character creation date?
acct creation should be somewhere on mogstation i think
I'm mid way through end walker MSQ and my poetics about to max out. What do?
probably 3.3 ish
Yeah should be 3.3
Can we make macro for waymarks?
Can someone tell me what this glowing orb is?
that's a sightseeing log thingy
stand there, do an emote (usually /lookout) and get a bit of xp and history
Oh! Thank you!
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buy more tomestone gear for alt classes you want to level/are leveling, or buy materials to sell on the marketboard
I have no more alt-classes to buy for at the moment
and before you ask "what materials are best", that depends on the server and the time of day/week/current crafting meta/supply-demand
Yeah, but what's generally sought after?
so there's no coverall answer except to look at the market and play
Funny I’m watching this video on that exact subject right now
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even if i have endwalker on my pc and i wanted to play instead on my ps5 and get a license for it, i can't due to the halting of ffxiv sales right?
nothing i just have it currently on pc
then yes, you will have to wait
until sales open again to be able to transfer to ps5
demicrystal sell price got nerfed, not worth
Any advice for Urinager's Part in 5.5, the last Duty? I'm not familiar with his class so I keep failing
I think he's a healer and you're intended to keep his buddies alive
I dont remember tho
Are there any additional quests from completing all level 90 role quests?
Poetic -> cryptlunker earring of any -> seal (prefer with seal boost buff from FC/GC) -> duck bones -> 54,000 gil/90k seal
Read his skill tooltip might give you idea what do do with each skill
thanks ill try lol
not yet
Iirc based on patch note, yes
Oh wait not yet?
i dont believe so
Ah okay, was wondering if I was just not seeing the quest, good to know
the combat role quest cap stone isn't in yet ye
the one for the studium deliveries is however
I have a ton of old armor sitting in my retainers inventory, how should I go about sorting through it
like will random old stuff be useful or am I just being a hoarder
Aside from potential glamour options you might like, no, old gear isn't especially useful.
whichever you like for glamour keep in the dresser
and trade the rest for gc seals
or level desynth
Is there a mod to increase your max camera distance?
If you have the Doman Restoration active/completed, you can donate unwanted items to them for up to double merchant value at a cap of up to 40k/week
where/how do I do that stuff again... just getting back into the game after a bit of a long hiatus
the gear isnt worth much in gil, trading for GC seals for ventures is a better deal even if you're just trading them for glamour prisms
Once you're a 2nd LT with your Grand Company, you'll have the option to turn in green/blue gear to your Company Provisioner at its headquarters for seals, and then exchange those seals for various items at the guy next to it.
ok fs, so if I'm not keeping it for glam, just sell it there
im first lieutenant anyway, ill be good
Is Drusilla male or female ?
female
ah guess she just flat




anybody got any extra rc codes 
What activities are there to do on courel/crystal besides the raid grind
Im bored as shit
group hunt
eureka
its a mode to replay the MSQ
and certain other side quests
it grants no exp or rewards
oh interesting
and im assuming if you start it you can just end it if you wanted
yeah
ye can pause at anytime
you can turn it off and on
nah
but dungeons will still be synced
its literally the same as playing thru it the first time, beyond the fact that open world stuff is going to be 1shot
solo duties will be sync'd ofc
oh cool
but you can always unsync hte dungeons for the msq
and its only the main quests and important side quests
as opposed to?
you cant redo the extra side quests
oh got it
so from what I hear, theres basically never a good reason to start a new character
cause I was thinking of doing that
there are a few
but every reason I had is kinda irrelevant
one is rotating for gear in savage raiding
mhm
the other is access to more inventory/retainers if you have an FC that lets you transfer items with the chest
or
have an alt to play in a different world,
hmm i would say the flow of msq is a bit different doing it on a new character vs ng+
but ultimately tho ng+ is nicer since no need to unlock things again
you cant swap worlds within a data center can you
Does Melee DPS do more dmg with LB3 than Mages or Rangers?
within data centers yes but some people want to play on different DCs
on single target, yes
we dont have that capability yet
2+ enemies, mage/phys ranged will be stronger
Thanks!
ah okay perfect, cause a friend just started a new character on a different world in the same DC and I was worried I would have to make a new one
thanks for all the info :)
you can play with them but you wont be able to join the same FC
if you're on different worlds
mmm interesting
just a real quick question, i havent really seen too much on it. with the regalia mount, does the crossover happen yearly or just whenever square feels like it?
when SE decides to rerun it
is there a guide or something I can reference for what to do at endgame for minmaxing? I started playing with Endwalker so I don't really know what to do once I'm geared from the EX trials and am waiting on the normal raids lockout.
do i just spam lv90 dungeons for materia X and meld?
is mentor ingame not real ?
but unless you are going for a first few weeks clear you can take your rime
yea i've already finished farming EX and am sitting on normal raids lockout
one of my friends is mentor said its easy to get mentor and it doesn't mean he's guide person
literally looking for more things to do that isn't glamours or leveling an alt/crafting job
How many grade 1 materia can I put on a sphere scroll before I need to use a higher grade materia?
well for now im leveling all my alts and glamours so yah
what happens on savage and what kind of gear do i need for savage, do they need to be melded, etc?
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and its better to get melded gear
i think the MB has one
i forget the name
you can check on mb
shaded spectacles
so I gotta spam lv90 dungeons, then either level crafter to lv90 or find someone to overmeld for me?
hello is there a way to buy the game because i cant on steam ?
No
game sales are being put on hold due to too many players
can use the materia melder npc to meld but it costs gil
bro this game looks more fun than the other mmos talk about suffering from success
npc melder can't overmeld
npc cannot do that
so yes, to pentameld you would either need to level crafters yourself or get someone else to do it
does anyone know when the sales are gonna be put back ?
no
no
no
there hasnt been an announcement yet
They’ll tell us when it happens
but queues seem to be slowing down at least
they WILL tell us
because of christmas
even post christmas it hasnt been that bad imo
so from your opinion how long do you think it will take for the game to be put back onto sale
probably a couple of weeks at least
maybe SE expanded the servers without telling us ?
very unlikely
yeah oceanic servers lol
lmao
given that semi-conductors are the main issue
OCE servers have been planned for awhile
but when that's being released is tentatively 6.1
aight thanks for the info ill just have to wait for it to be released
DC TRAVEL WHEN !#@?
probably after oceanic servers
when oceannic server
assuming they can get the hardware they need
for OCE they already have the servers but they cant get their engineers there due to covid
so each expansion has 3 alliance raids do we get the them all on one update ?
no
6.1 will be the first
they always come in the next big patch after the savage raid patch
6.3 2nd, and 6.5 the last
a year ?
basically even patches are 8man raids, odd patches alliance raids
around 6 months
around every 3-4 months there is a big content release, either savage or alliance raid
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It's designed to be paced out, instead of dropped all in one go, so that people have the option to clear content at a pace comfortable to them without feeling pressured to finish things immediately, and so people can take reasonable breaks from the game, which Dir. Yoshida actively encourages.
What spells/abilities trigger SGE's Kardia?
technically yes, but so long as you don't talk about them in-game SE wont do anything
anything that does damage
What are some of the more fun classes in everyone's opinion? I don't really care for whats meta
is there a way to see the added shield on the hp bar, too?
its all really personal preference
i dont really like tanks or melee
but i do quite like healing and range classes
tank pally, melee monk, ranged physical bard, caster black mage, healer scholar
those are my favorites
There is no meta so you'll get a different answer from everyone
There's nothing wrong with trying them all out and playing what you like the most
Need plugins to see that sadly, don't know why it's not in the game to begin with 
which weapon is this?
TEA wep
i'm seeing a bit of mixed opinion when it comes to being able to clear baldesion's arsenal, do i need to get a set of elemental armor to be able to beat it or not?
i just have the kirins chestpiece
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Newbie question about potd, can I run this solo to get to floor 50 so I can level alts? Been sitting in queue for the past 2 days waiting to match with people to get through floors 1-50
i wanted to renew my sub but it didnt take local price is that normal?
hello, is there any discord bot for Fête timer and reminder?
are you supposed to not rush a dungeon when it's someone's first time?
The norm is still a fast and efficient clear. However it's also just polite to slow down a bit if it is someone's first time and they need that
Especially if they ask for it
thanks. big pulls make it efficient right?
sometimes when i make big pulls the healer just goes on ahead into the boss
though when there's no first-timers, of course
That's due to the change that made mobs not have any exp anymore
o wat
Exp drops from the boss now so some ppl just run thru now
That's not possible in all dungeons tho
well i hadnt logged in a month due to avoiding the long queues but i dont read the patch notes lol. So exp is just now dungeon completion?
ah ok
For fishing, is the area that you're fishing in used to determine the level of fish, or is it bait, or both?
but you still have to kill the mobs that chase you because they can enter the boss room with you too, right?
and make it harder
@grim valve each fishing spot has a predetermined pool of fishes it can pull the fish from
Then some baits attract certain fishes
@vestal magnet depends on the dungeon
Just leveling it rather than trying for specific fish. So sticking to level appropriate zones should be the best plan?
Personally, I think it is a bit bullshit that you can run through mobs for certain dungeons
@grim valve for leveling, you either do fishing leves or ocean fishing
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hello, is there any discord bot for Fête timer and reminder?
Related info should be there
oh fête related to DoH DoL?
for diadem is it faster to go through a whole line of nodes per island before moving onto the second line or is alternating between them faster
does the no-exp trash mob update apply to Potd?
potd has always been that you gain the exp after killing the boss
ah wait i don't even know anymore, its been months since i last went to potd
ah thanks
what does healers stay dps mid tanks far mean in party finder?
But your "leveling" inside potd is still exp gain from each mob
also i dont remember, but do trash mobs eventually stop chasing you if you just run long enough? Seems like today as a tank I'm just following everyone else to the boss room but the trash mob groups become almost as hard as the boss
might just do some dps for a bit before tanking again
get a feel of endwalker
does gilgamesh ever open at night for char creation
Have they released the item level requirements for Asphodelos Savage?
It's a positioning strategy for dealing with a specific mechanic in that raid.
I'm getting a 401 error when I'm trying to pay for a name change, triple checked the details of my card
not working
Any way to fix it?
Should I anticipate to meld the current Lv90 DoH/DoL gear, or should the next post-expansion sets be craftable without melding? Do we know which X.XX patches they usually drop?
For the new raids, does it matter which of the 4 you do for the gear weekly? I assume the sword only drops on the 4th but the rest I mean? I'm farming the first for the card but unsure if I "need" to clear all 4 for all weekly drops or if the regular gear exchange item weekly limits are shared between all 4 anyway.
You get 1 drop per fight
So if you want all 4 drops, you do all 4 fights
Sword is counted separately
You get 1 drop per fight; need to do all four to max. You may want to get accessories > limbs/head > body/legs to get the most ilvl out of the time before savages. The Balance may have specific gear to target within the first couple of weeks or state BiS.
I see thanks, will just do all 4 then no worries.
so completing Eden's Gate: Sepulture (Savage) rewards a free 4 seater mount. as of being level 90 im EW, can we make a 8 ppl 90 group and just trivialize the entire dungeon and get a 4 seater with almost no effort?
think i could get a little bit of blackmage help? ive been leveling my blackmage and my damage is so low im pretty concerned
Yeah, you still need to handle some mechanics though
If you’re not aware of mechanics, you’ll die
are the mechanics easily learned from youtube videos?
When are peak hours for Europe?
is that updated for this expansion LC?
General BLM rotation is, fire spells in fire phase do a lot of damage, repeat until out of MP, go into ice, recover MP, go into fire
Yes, chase
yeah thats basically what i doi
but my damage is so so low
im losiong to the white mage i play with
What level are you?
73
375
basically just have a level 60 necklace and thats all thats not really up to date
You should have scaven
375 is low
i don't think tis so low that my damage should be as low as it is though.. im litreall;y doing half of the next dps
For reference, lvl 71 dungeon drops ilvl 395 ish gear
im only missing a necklace and ring
Which ring should I use, one has CH and Tenacity the other has Determ and Skill speed?
samurai
yep
could you tell me if this is generally right? i start the fight off with a fire 3 swfitcasted and then i use fire 4 until oom, and then i blizzard 3, blizzard 4, fire 4, and kinda repeat
TLDR SAM = Striking
while using ley lines and triplecast when appropricate, preferably on cooldown
Do you weave thunder in between?
Some of the low level accessories are whacky
In that they don't have class requirements
I assume that's what threw Rowoon off
If an enemy has a hitbox with a full circle does that mean there are no positionals? Or is it only flank positionals?
Omni
!faq positionals



