questions-and-help

[remote lintel]

tell him to get better then

if your dps is low then its a dps skill issue lol

[obsidian patio]

There's a bit of contention with jobs like Warrior and Samurai benefitting less from crit buffs since they have skills that force crits to happen, making those less valuable

[sly saffron]

Weird question but how are people killing themselves

[sacred oracle]

Well i cant go on Arthras stream and tell him to get better cant i xD

[green grail]

reaper is kinda shit in general because of the amount of downtime in that fight

[sly saffron]

Are they switching classes or something?

[narrow jay]

Likely Self Destruct, it's a blue mage spell.

[remote lintel]

blue mage can kill themselves

[sacred oracle]

Oh i see

[sly saffron]

Ah lol

[green grail]

but yeah doesn't matter either way, any comp can get through the dps check

if you're good enough

[sacred oracle]

Mm i know, my question is what's squish more though is it monk or drg, or just sam

[remote lintel]

squishier?

[sacred oracle]

More rdps

[outer mural]

uh

[boreal storm]

Okay you’re asking for different things here

[outer mural]

rdps doesn't correlate to squishiness at all

[remote lintel]

well samurai doesnt contribute any rdps so

all the other melees do

[outer mural]

yeah i would argue drg is marginally slightly more rdps than monk but like

[remote lintel]

but samurai also has some of the top personal dps

[outer mural]

the difference is minute

[remote lintel]

but ultimately it doesnt matter

your ninja and/or rpr is just shit

[green grail]

drg is probably stronger cause 2 targets, but it's ultimate, you should be playing the job you're comfortable enough on that you can play it blindfolded

[outer mural]

more rdps being moree of its damage being in its rdps buffs

[steady hollow]

what's the difference between the paths offered in the Nier raids?

[remote lintel]

dialogue

[obsidian patio]

just dialogue for that quest

[boreal storm]

So nothing relevant

[obsidian patio]

nothing changes outside of it

[outer mural]

there's also factors you have to consider

samurai is considered a prog unfriendly job versus ninja since you have to actively map out gcds moreso than other classes to optimize while learning by how its sticker system works

meanwhile ninja just hits buttons off cd

[remote lintel]

i mean its not a composition issue in the first place

[outer mural]

so just because sam is more personal dps doesn't encessarily mean it'll be easier to achieve the higher dps in the first place if that's your issue

[remote lintel]

at best you would get like 1-2% more dmg

[outer mural]

yeah even if the dps difference were that big in the first place too lmao

[heavy wadi]

nin dps is pretty cracked rn

[outer mural]

tl;dr this is all a complicated way of saying pick what's fun and good for you

[heavy wadi]

just pick which one you like the most aesthetically and go for it

[remote lintel]

thats not what theyre saying sen theyre saying their nin is complaining about rdps

which is a skill issue lol

[sacred oracle]

I know, im kinda feel weird with drgoon and reaper rotation in that fight, and my duo is ninja, just curious maybe i should change class coz it feels so weird the timing there xD

[outer mural]

their nin needs to get better yeah lmao

[obsidian patio]

Me and the boys running 2GNB/2SGE/4MCH for ultimates because we like guns /s

[outer mural]

TRUUUUUE

[remote lintel]

i mean there have been speed kills of DSR with 3 caster/ranged dps so its definitely not your composition

[outer mural]

tbf nin and reaper are also 2 minutes

[remote lintel]

your dps need to play better

[outer mural]

it really depends on what poison you wanna pick

drg's animation lock, reaper's forced cast, ninja's forced standstill with TCJ and spaghetti

it's gonna feel weird if 2 minute windows are just messy for everyone

[sacred oracle]

For drg Up until p3, end of p4 everything line up, but after wrath i have 2 mins windows but no LOTD dont even know what i did wrong it just gone, it's just weird

I just have 1 eye and that's it, so rn im thinking if other dps has this issue

[faint flare]

Our drg just asked us to old At points cause we killed too fast

So he got his jumps

[sacred oracle]

At the end of p2? Yes i ask so i can get dive ready

But it

It's just not sync :/

[outer mural]

check out the balance and upload a log of a run up to p4

[faint flare]

Shouldnt need holding again into p5

[outer mural]

should help sort it out

[faint flare]

We killed nid just after the final drachenlance

And eyes just before or just after the last cast

[sacred oracle]

I wanna use everything on cd, i heard monk has just brother hood to keep in mind, do monk use all on cd?

[outer mural]

everyone will use 2 minutes at the same time so it depends on the phasing if it would interrupt your buff windows

[faint flare]

Downtime can cause weird alignment with Riddle of fire

Since sometimes 1mins come up at weird times

Usually more so later

[outer mural]

60s alignment may be fucked yeah, could also be messing with your dragon eye since jump / mirage operates on minute timers too

[sacred oracle]

Aside from personal buff, there's no big skill to hold right?

[outer mural]

if they old bh they may hold burst

[faint flare]

Shouldn't be, aside from the mentioned Riddle

[outer mural]

pb charges maybe

but nothing crazy

[faint flare]

Probably

[outer mural]

i would check with Balance to make sure

idk enough dragoon to help but they probably will

[sacred oracle]

Okay, thanks a lot

[outer mural]

need a link, or are you in it?

[sacred oracle]

Yes i am in it, thanks a lot though, i just feel uncomfy when gcd is so out of place every pull and my mind always focus on "what is wrong", i normally use GCD timing to get used to mech

[outer mural]

yeah for sure

they'll set you up

i'm sure you have logs so maybe find a log where u feel ur things are desynced, then put it into xiva and give it to them

they should be able to point out what's up

[sacred oracle]

Sure thing

[lost echo]

when is the maintaince? after how much hours from now?

[remote lintel]

use !maint in #kupo-bot-spam

[woeful drift]

anyone know what the settings i called on keybind to allow your chat log to get full screen?

think im blind

[jovial quarry]

Got the option highlighted here

[woeful drift]

thanks! got the tab too!

makes sense i am blind

[sonic fern]

Hey guys just curious if the home world transfer feeature not always available?

[twilit arch]

its currently down until after maintenance

[sonic fern]

Ooh gotcha so its just because maintenance is around the corner?

[twilit arch]

its because of this patch specifically

bringing datacenter travel, as well as a new datacenter for JP and worlds for EU

[sonic fern]

Thanks for confirming that

[warm snow]

It's gonna be down longer than usual after this maintenance because of all this new shit

[sonic fern]

gotcha!

[cosmic sleet]

riding maps dont change flying speed right?

[twilit arch]

correct

[last mural]

Is it possible to get the resplendent fishing rod without catching any big fish?

[hoary dune]

does anyone know the exact number of unique fish in the game atm? The best i'm finding is 1181 at the end of shb but i cant find any numbers for endwalker

[twilit arch]

I believe there is now 1,145 fish in the game

er

hm i think catbecamehungry doesn't have them all in the fishing guide or my math skills are fucking off as fuck

[hoary dune]

that number's definately wrong because the resplendant fishing rod from shadowbringers needed 1140 unique fish to get and they've added a few more than 5 in endwalker

[twilit arch]

yea, true

so catbecomehungry probably doesn't have them all

i think frankly might be better to ask in the angler's discord, for both of you

[last mural]

Hmm? There's a fishing discord?

[twilit arch]

but if i ahd to guess caffeine, at this point probably not still

yes its in #resources

[last mural]

I've been trying to find one but to no avail

... ah...

[warm snow]

You can just check the in game fish guide

Eqch page is 25

And then count the last page

But I just logged out cuz maintenance

[twilit arch]

primal and crystal

[solemn jewel]

It's regional datacenter travel

So it allows traveling between the 3 NA ones

[twilit arch]

yes, its currently going to be within the same region for now

[warm snow]

3 data centers is what, 24 worlds?

[twilit arch]

they said that they will look into cross region, but thats probably going to be a ways away

[warm snow]

Full cross dc travel is on the list of "potentially never"

[umbral dune]

they need to finish the expansion first, so 2-3 years

[last mural]

1378 fishes

[mint ferry]

is anyone having issues with coloring their chocobo?

I've tried twice now using the chocobo color calculator and neither time has my chocobo come out the right color

[warm snow]

It's all rng

Calc is just the best closest guesstimate a computer can give

[mint ferry]

How is it rng? I thought each fruit changed a specific RGB value?

[warm snow]

It changes an rgb value a random amount

[mint ferry]

aaah, I see

[warm snow]

Calcs average it out and give you an estimate

[mint ferry]

if I wanted to get full black, could I just feed it more fruit over and over until I eventually get to black?

[warm snow]

Just gotta keep running through the calcs to hit a certain point

[mint ferry]

or do some fruits lower RGB values?

[warm snow]

Idk the full specifics

Cuz I ain't done it

[solid fog]

I got some plants planted on my garden,they are going to wither on the maintenance , any way to save them ?

[warm snow]

But after each session just run your new color into the calc and try again

[warm snow]

Well that depends on the plant but basically you're fucked now

Cuz maint has started

[mint ferry]

I heard if you put your garden into your storage it puts them into stasis

[warm snow]

You could have stored the garden

But it's too late

[mint ferry]

has it started?

[warm snow]

I think so

[solid fog]

im still ingame

[mint ferry]

I thought it started in 40 minutes, I'm online atm

[warm snow]

Oh then store

Go

Go

Go

[solid fog]

Why canit i sleep on my private room wf

[mint ferry]

in your estate/apartment?

I don't think beds work there cus you can move them around

iirc same reason they said you can't have glam dressers in your room too

[warm snow]

Cuz that would involve an animation to get out of bed when you get back and furniture can be moved

And waaaaaaay more trouble than it's worth

Iirc when they tested giving players a personal glamour dresser it crashed the server

[twilit arch]

the real main issue with colouring is that the rgb values aren't multiples of 5, for a lot of them

so basically you're trying to get as close to say 28/33/57 (random numbers) with items that increase in the value of 5~. my general recommendation if you're not getting the colour you're wanting but are getting close ish, use the calculator to see what you need and feed until you get the message that you have colour change then stop. even if the calculator suggests more @mint ferry

[mint ferry]

gotcha

I got a dark green, and according to the calculator I only needed like 2 fruits to get to soot black, so

I fed it both fruits and got the message "Color will no longer change"

Which I don't think i've gotten before?

[twilit arch]

yea it can happen, though afaik its kind of rare

i would suggest just do the valfruit since that gave a colour change

and then see what you get next

snow white and soot black are the worst to get, its very easy to over shoot

[mint ferry]

well those were the only two fruits it asked for, so I only fed it those

I actually had snow white but I wanted to change to black

I got it first try, I had no idea there was any RNG involved

[twilit arch]

very lucky

but yeah, all you can do at this point is keep trying (until you get too frustrated x| ) and do feeds in small increments to edge your way to black without hopefully over shooting the rgb values

[mint ferry]

If you over shoot the RGB values, how would you know?

[twilit arch]

sadly you don't

[mint ferry]

ah lol

Is there a way to lower the values at all?

Or do I just need to feed it a lemon to get it back to yellow?

[twilit arch]

there's 2 sets of fruits, one that increases and one that decreases.

[mint ferry]

aaah, I see

[twilit arch]

though if you wanna be technical, they all increase/decrease >_>

[teal eagle]

Do I need to keep all my augmented gear for other toons that I level? Or should I just buy them from calamity?

[autumn anvil]

Other jobs you mean, on the same character?

[teal eagle]

Yes

[autumn anvil]

Anything buyable from the salvager is probably job-specific. Cross-job gear is worth keeping unless you expect to be swimming in tomestones.

[teal eagle]

Ok ty

[warm snow]

Game admittedly hands out poetics like candy so it depends how eager you are to level alt jobs

[teal eagle]

I want to level all jobs to 90

[warm snow]

Good kitty

:pet:

[vocal cobalt]

How many aglia coin do u get per run

[warm snow]

1

And you only get 1 a week

For now

[vocal cobalt]

WHAT

SHIT I COULD HAVE DONE THAT BUT I DIDNT

[warm snow]

Lol

I don't think you can finish agalaia this week

[cloud crypt]

If I start ff14 as Marauder and do the Quest to become a Warrior at lvl 30 but actually wanting to play Reaper at 70, does my base Marauder get experience aswell while playing Warrior? Or do I have to strictly play Marauder up to 70 and then do the Reaper Quest line?

[vocal cobalt]

Yea

[dapper cosmos]

what does that long orange bar mean

[digital lake]

nah u got 13 minutes plenty of time

[warm snow]

Rested exp

[twilit arch]

!faq restedexp

[zinc orbit]

Rested Experience FAQ

'Why does my EXP bar have some blue or faded yellow in it?'

That's Rested Experience, which is an extra source of bonus experience shared between all of your classes. You gradually earn this while inside a sanctuary (town or area with a major aetheryte), regardless of whether you're online or not. Sanctuaries are also indicated with a crescent moon icon near your experience bar.

'How much of a boost is it?'

The most amount of rested experience you can have at once is one and a half levels of experience. That means that lower level jobs use up the rested experience faster than higher level jobs do.

[warm snow]

Marauder exp is warrior exp

[robust crow]

warrior and marauder are effectively the same thing

[warm snow]

Marauder is like baby mode warrior til you become a real boy

[dapper cosmos]

so basically if i stay in the safe area the xp slowly goes up?

[warm snow]

No

You accumulate bonus exp for your next exp gain

[vocal cobalt]

Marauder and warrior is same due

[umbral dune]

the bonus when you actually gain exp

[warm snow]

Otherwise you could just level by afking

And that would be dumb

[dapper cosmos]

oh so when i gain xp it will go up to that bar

[umbral dune]

use up that bar

[warm snow]

You'll get some extra exp from that bar

[dapper cosmos]

alr

thanks

[warm snow]

Not all at once tho

It caps out at a level and a half, so hope you logged out in a sanctuary

[umbral dune]

leveling a level 1 and it will be real fast

[cloud crypt]

I think I get it

thank you

[warm snow]

Reaper starts at level 70

[vocal cobalt]

Guys for 6.2 do u think they will rework drk

[umbral dune]

no

[warm snow]

They haven't said they will

[solemn jewel]

Drk is in a good spot

[warm snow]

Might give it some potency changes but it doesn't need any changes rn

[umbral dune]

even DRG and AST scheduled for some tweak are postponed

[vocal cobalt]

No it’s not

[solemn jewel]

???

[vocal cobalt]

Drk is not that good in dungeons it’s lacks so much defensively

[solemn jewel]

It doesn't

[vocal cobalt]

Compared to other ranks

Tanks

[warm snow]

Drk is the highest dps tank, its only issue was a lackluster invuln and blood weapon being fucky with gcds, which have both beenbfixed

[cold quarry]

that made me chuckle

[warm snow]

Lol no

[twilit arch]

drk is pretty good, esp with the living dead changes

[solemn jewel]

Have u played drk since the changes?

[umbral dune]

does not mean you die, if you and your healer play the job right, honestly that is never a problem

[vocal cobalt]

See I played as a healer and did the same dungeon with warrior paladin and dark knight and dark knight was a nightmare to heal

[warm snow]

Just because bloodwhetting is busted af in aoe does not mean every tank needs to be that overtuned

[twilit arch]

sounds like the DRK was shit

[cold quarry]

please factor in player skill

[warm snow]

Have you considered that that drk just sucks?

[twilit arch]

not the job itself

[umbral dune]

so many factor come into play, they can be undergeared as well

[twilit arch]

having bad players in your runs does not mean the job itself is bad

or needs adjustment

[vocal cobalt]

Listen with the upcoming hard dungeons coming up drk needs something defensively at least tweak oblation.And paladin needs damage buffs the difference between paladin and drk is like 10 percent is some fights

[storm sapphire]

Drk mitigation is more proactive than reactive

[warm snow]

Anyways no upcoming planned adjustments outside of the eternal chance of potency adjustmeents

[warm snow]

#general-discussion

[twilit arch]

either way this frankly isnt the channel to argue it

[warm snow]

Sir, this is a help desk

Not a soap box

[twilit arch]

we have heard nothing in regards to drk getting a rework or adjustments

[vocal cobalt]

Will there a another ll for upcoming patch

[delicate elk]

faq metajob

[solemn jewel]

Yea

[warm snow]

Yes

[solemn jewel]

There's gonna be pll part 2 soon

[warm snow]

There's almkst always 2

[vocal cobalt]

I am gonna pray

[warm snow]

Afaik

[umbral dune]

I misread question, sorry

[warm snow]

Pray for better drks in roulette lol

[vocal cobalt]

See I do agree that drk is s tier in raids

[warm snow]

Oh christ

Anyways take that discussion to #general-discussion

[umbral dune]

please don't state your argument in here, this is not the place for that

[velvet nymph]

i think i just got banned from the game

i cant get in

[half hare]

thats called maintance

[lilac mason]

nah, maintenance just started

it'll last for 24h from now

[velvet nymph]

oh oj

ok

[warm snow]

I'm sorry but

Lmaoo

Yeah try again tomorrow

24hr makntenance

[velvet nymph]

nah thats too long

might just go chill on the private servers for a lil

[warm snow]

Play a different final fantasy game

Almost all of them are on steam

[velvet nymph]

ok

[restive talon]

So I'm still not understanding this DC travel feature that's gonna be implemented. Does this mean we can connect with NA servers too?

[upper cove]

Nope

Only within your region

[twilit arch]

the datacenter travel feature functions pretty similarly to the current world travel system, but allows you to visit other datacenters within your region

so NA datacenters can visit one another, EU to EU, JP to JP

[upper cove]

Light - chaos
Primal - aether - crystal
Elemental - gaia - mana - meteor

[twilit arch]

they have mentioned the possibility of extending this to cross region but that's probably far down the line

[restive talon]

I see, thanks for clarifying

[sonic fern]

hey guys just curious how the duty finder wait time is in the elemental DC around this time? Im in Sophia OCE, DC and am curious if the wait times are around the same or if OCE server is just dead kek

[warm snow]

It's infinite

Cuz all servers are down for maintenance

As for general wait times we'll thats 99% content dependent

[jade quartz]

Oce is overall much lower pop and does have trouble with queues for some content.

[warm snow]

What are you queueing for?

[obsidian patio]

From what I’ve heard, a lot of the optional content can take pretty long

[sonic fern]

@obsidian patio in elemental dc?

[obsidian patio]

Oh elemental, not materia

[sonic fern]

ooh

[jade quartz]

@sonic fern use spoiler tags when discussing spoiler content.

[obsidian patio]

Elemental is pretty fair during prime time, just be sure to search for JP players

[sonic fern]

@jade quartz sorry didn't know that was spoilers

[jade quartz]

Anyway it’s normal for late MSQ trials to take a little while to queue

[sonic fern]

ahh i see

[warm snow]

Especially the 83 trial

[sonic fern]

what would prime time be in elemental 6pm AEST?

[jade quartz]

But yes JP would probably be faster in general

[sonic fern]

Thanks for the insight

[jade quartz]

Prime time in JP is a lot longer than in Oce because of all the SEA players

Bigger window

[sonic fern]

Makes sense considering OCE is mostly 1-2 hrs apart maximum

when i get home from work and queue its past prime time

[empty cedar]

i noticed how lonely it seemed to be in the oceanic servers, used to the packed JP ones lol

[hidden garnet]

does maintanence usualy go for full24h? or do they usualy end before ?

[obsidian patio]

Dependent on the content being added, generally.

This one is 24 hours due to new servers being added, and Data Center Travel

[hidden garnet]

oh ok :3 so gues ill check tomorow

[obsidian patio]

Most of the time, big patches are around 8 or so hours if they’re not adding something very delicate.

And if something is being added that uses the weekly reset timer, then it usually means the maintenance will NOT end early

To avoid possible abuse of doing the content before weekly reset happens for an extra week’s worth

[autumn anvil]

Last few smaller maintenances I've seen have ended a little before but not that much. (<1 hr)

[warm snow]

This one has the potential to end early but its also very delicate so who knows

[bright pagoda]

is there a guide on how to purchase endwalker xpac on the square site? I reactivated my account but its from 2013 and only has original game

it wasnt intuitive and I couldnt figure it out 😦

[obsidian patio]

If your account was pre-beta, you MIGHT not have the base game license.

[bright pagoda]

I just need to buy endwalker right?

[obsidian patio]

What do these parts of the mogstation look like for you?
(2nd image is below the first one)

[bright pagoda]

ok sweet thanks, didnt see this part before

[obsidian patio]

On the home page, there should be a button that looks like the Endwalker logo. Click on that and it’ll ask for your product code.

As for where to buy it, any non-steam seller will do.

(I’m assuming your account isn’t steam since you played before 2.0)

[bright pagoda]

yeah its not

wait I can grab a russian key for this?

[obsidian patio]

Log onto the square enix account management website and see what your “Registered Region” says in account information.

But in all likelihood you’ll need an EU key assuming you didn’t do weird stuff with setting up your account

[steep egret]

make sure the key is for the correct region, otherwise you cannot redeem it

[bright pagoda]

yeah fair all good

thanks

[viscid moth]

6.18 is only datacenter travel or is there more to it?

[hot eagle]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/c9a406ea32e9be602e61a9e396b94ae0a5917aee

[half musk]

Hello guys, I'm f***... I was trying to log into my account and it wouldn't let me, tried to change password, didn't let me. So, I decided to create a new account (I am new so I didn't really care about the other one) everything went smooth until it asked me to input the registration code... It says that's already linked (probably to the other account). I have no idea what do, I've been trying everything... Please help.

[umbral dune]

You mean you want to play free trial on steam right?

[jade quartz]

The game is currently under maintenance, you’re sure the problem wasn’t just that?

Can’t log in currently

[half musk]

I bought the game

[half musk]

No... I had the same problem yesterday

[jade quartz]

When you say it wouldn’t let you log in

Do you mean you had the incorrect password?

[half musk]

No,

[steep egret]

then you need to get access to that account

that the code was registered on

[jade quartz]

You can’t reuse a code

[steep egret]

if you can't then log a ticket with Square Enix support

we can't help you with account issues really, only Square Enix can

[jade quartz]

Either regain access to your account or buy a new copy of the game, those are the options

Of course you’ll ideally want the former

[half musk]

Problem is, in my little head, I thought that if I cancelled that account I could get that code back xd, so now that old account is cancelled, and this new one is linked

[jade quartz]

So if you can’t track down your current login credentials you’ll need to contact support

Canceled accounts can be reactivated by support

[half musk]

Yeah I did it, they're taking a bit too long xd

[jade quartz]

Nothing for it but to wait for a response

[steep egret]

no, otherwise people would cancel accounts after they stop playing and resell their codes,
that would be a big issue, so no way that would work

[half musk]

I see... Thank you guys. I'll keep waiting

[torn canopy]

how long is maintenance take place?

[obsidian patio]

24 hours.

[north venture]

wut.

[obsidian patio]

They’re adding new worlds and datacenter travel, both very delicate things.

[torn canopy]

why is it so long? is it 6.18 update already?

[obsidian patio]

Because of the things I listed.

[north venture]

so, how long remaining?

[obsidian patio]

And it will be 6.18 when it finishes in 22.5 hours or so

[north venture]

noice

[torn canopy]

thanks for the info

[stable knot]

Oh no

[simple shell]

With the new data center traveling does that mean we can 1. be queued with people from other data centers in roulettes/PF?

2. Can they join cross world linkshells from different data centers ?

[obsidian patio]

Duty Finder/Party finder still only use your datacenter. You need to visit that DC to do content with them.

And yes they can join Cross World Linkshells from other datacenters, but you need to be on that datacenter to send and receive messages.

[simple shell]

I see. Good to know it’s still possible! So just go to their data center first before the party invite i assume

[simple shell]

Ohhh ok so if they’re on another DC it’ll just be invisible like if we are talking on aether and they’re on crystal?

[obsidian patio]

The linkshells goes inactive for them, basically

[simple shell]

Ty!

[wet ibex]

Hello, I am currently on Ragnarok EU and it feels a bit unpopular so i'm thinking of switching to a different world, just have a few questions:

1. Is the switch free?
2. What chaos worlds are more friendly and popular?

[left whale]

yeh its free, you can leave your homeworld behind and stay somewhere else indefinitely with a number of restrictions tho like no longer having your retainers and FC and such

said under the assumption one meant the upcoming DC travel

[obsidian patio]

It’s only free when you transfer from a non-new world to a new world

Or from a congested world to a preferred world

[vital ruin]

when's the next patch?

is it 6.2 or 6. 25

[obsidian patio]

This maintenance is for 6.18. 6.2 is assumed to be sometime in August.

6.25 assumed late September or early October

[vital ruin]

there's a maintenance going on rn?

[sleek needle]

Yes

[obsidian patio]

Yes, for the next 22 hours

[vital ruin]

f

wut

22

[storm heath]

hey does anyone know how long the free transfer to the new worlds is available for?

[modest igloo]

Gotta start checking #lodestone-news-na

[sleek needle]

New worlds & dc travel

[vital ruin]

dam

[obsidian patio]

Until the world is no longer classified as New.

[sleek needle]

Until it stops being a new world

[storm heath]

is there no set time for that?

[sleek needle]

That's up to SE to decide

[obsidian patio]

No, SE manually sets the classification of worlds

[storm heath]

any previous reference point?

like the oce servers

[obsidian patio]

They’re all still new

[storm heath]

damn ok

[olive socket]

Where do i go to talk about ff7r? Couldnt find a discord server for it

[modest igloo]

#video-games-general

[olive socket]

Thanks

[primal snow]

@obsidian patio are they also expanding player capacity in worlds?

[obsidian patio]

Hasn’t been stated if so.

[primal snow]

I think I read something they wanted to add more players so more people can be on a server at a time

due to the expanding player base

[obsidian patio]

They’re adding more worlds over time

[primal snow]

makes sense cool thank you

[obsidian patio]

EU are getting half of their new ones right now

NA is eventually slated for a 4th DC IIRC, and the other half of the eventual EU worlds will grab the old ones and make a new DC

[primal snow]

oooo nice

[visual pier]

when does the maint end btw

i totally forgot

[umbral dune]

19h

[visual pier]

she its maint for whole day?

so*

i just added more sub time

[obsidian patio]

Yes

[visual pier]

was not very bright of me then

[obsidian patio]

Maintenance will end at 6am EDT

[visual pier]

no idea why i thought it would not be that long

[obsidian patio]

They’re doing a lot of intensive stuff this patch

[faint flare]

This is why you check the maintenance post

[obsidian patio]

Shuffling worlds in JP to form a 4th DC
Adding 4 new worlds to EU
Datacenter Travel

[visual pier]

wish they were adding a new server to Na,

[faint flare]

They will later

When they get them

[visual pier]

But yeah does make sense for it to be down

think i play some league then

have good morning peeps

and thank you for replies

[steel meteor]

Hi all. Is there a way to search for groups of people to do older content, like savage Eden, without getting a new FC?

[obsidian patio]

Party finder, mainly

If you don’t care about doing it synced

If you want to do old high-end content synced, try this discord for Light. https://discord.gg/AQbZUbg

[leaden ginkgo]

if i searched on allaince or any duty content it will only choose players from my Datacenter or it will choose the whole region after the update

[faint flare]

Data centre

[heavy wadi]

duty finder isn't going to be cross-dc

[leaden ginkgo]

then whats the use of data travel

[faint flare]

The update only allows travel, not adding those DCs to ques

You travel to a data centre and que with that data centre

So travel to Light to que with light people and vice via

[heavy wadi]

it's detailed in the lodestone post

[leaden ginkgo]

i thought it will increase the player search yikes

[boreal storm]

To meet with people in that DC, which has always been the point

[steep egret]

it was never said it would do that

DC visit, is basically a temporary transfer

[leaden ginkgo]

who said we can play with them

[faint flare]

You can

When you visit to that data centre

[leaden ginkgo]

if i traveled

pain

thanks anyway

[steep egret]

if you travel, you are now in that DC, and when you queue for content, you queue up in that DC

[heavy wadi]

which is why it may not be advisable to do it day 1 so you don't get stuck on some other dc :)

[near saddle]

So I can travel from Light to Primal to see my buddies over there?

[boreal storm]

No, it’s not across regions

[heavy wadi]

they said it may be at some point in the future

but it's more involved than doing it between dcs within regions

as they're all located in the same place physically

[obsidian patio]

Yeah sending your data to another server in the building is a lot easier than several thousand miles

[heavy wadi]

not to mention how much load that could cause in general

the lag just from that alone would be atrocious

[obsidian patio]

Yeah I genuinely don’t suggest trying out DC visiting for the first day or two

When World visit first got added, some people were bugged and got stuck between worlds

And then getting back to their home server was a long wait for some

[heavy wadi]

yeah my fc leader got stranded on another world for like... 1-2 days shortly after ew launch

[obsidian patio]

My FC was basically hard stuck on siren except for the dead of night for a whole week

Ruined our plans of using rank 3 FC actions

[heavy wadi]

[near saddle]

This news makes me sad, I was excited to visit my buddies on primal

[boreal storm]

they’ve mentioned that it’d be restrained to regions for a good while

[steel wigeon]

reminds me of people trying to do hunts

being in queueing limbo

[heavy wadi]

god hunts

fuck

cross dc hunts

oh no

[steel wigeon]

it gonna be SPICY.

[modest igloo]

nah it'll be fine after the first week

[steel wigeon]

waiting for people across data center

with a big influx of player going in a server

[heavy wadi]

it'll be interesting for sure. anyways this isn't really a discussion channel lmao

[steel wigeon]

yes yes, my bad

[leaden ginkgo]

The game will be down until weekly reset ??

i haven't done all my weeklys

[faint flare]

After reset

[leaden ginkgo]

.....

[faint flare]

Maintenance always comes up after weekly reset

[leaden ginkgo]

a full day maint sigh

[boreal storm]

The maint command is still a thing
And if you’re gonna keep complaining, this ain’t the channel

[leaden ginkgo]

thats sounds a complain

dang

sorry then.

[shy needle]

Hello! I'm new to the game, would you guys happen to know if this kind of patch downtime would last the entirety of the 24 hours (or even more)?

[heavy wadi]

yes

it'll be 24hrs

[halcyon garden]

Do we get an "extra" day of sub as comp since this is 24h?

[heavy wadi]

no

because this is not impromptu

[halcyon garden]

Dang

[ancient locust]

What’s the letter abbreviation for Coils of Bahamut?

[half hare]

cob

[umbral dune]

you could just call it coils, the raid is pretty strange from the standard raid in HW forward

[boreal storm]

Nobody really does letter abbreviations unless you’re talking about a specific floor

And in that case it’s T[number] as in like turn 3

[jovial quarry]

It’s usually just Coils. I sometimes see the different tiers abbreviated (BCoB/SCoB/FCoB) but not as often. Individual floors are usually referred to as Turns or T# for short. Like T9 for example.

[steel wigeon]

so many cobs to eat

[carmine fossil]

no

thats 6.25

[jovial quarry]

Which should be around September/October

[kind marten]

Hello, my friend is thinking starting to play ff14. Will they receive the new world bonuses if they create a character on the new worlds, whilst playing the free trial?

[faint flare]

Yes

[kind marten]

Thank you!

[spiral briar]

Hi guys!
Not really a "playing the game" related question, but about the Island Sanctuary...

I already assume free trials won't be able to have their own islands, once Island Sanctuary is 6.x content and all. But did they ever say something about free trial players/people who don't own Endwalker visiting other people's islands?

[alpine shadow]

there isn't anything said about it being locked to level 90

[heavy wadi]

we know barely anything about how it works yet

[spiral briar]

So it's not even decided if it's really Endwalker content?

[heavy wadi]

it's probably ew content

but how visiting works and the specifics we don't know

probably won't until either closer to 6.25 or the pt 2 LL for 6.2

[hidden garnet]

just wondering (im only in lv 64) is there allot of difference between ilevel 570 to 605 it sounds like only 5% increase in ilevel is it also 5% increase in stats?

[vocal cobalt]

What’s the best gcd speed for drk

I can’t find a clear answer on balance

[faint flare]

Whichever speed is comfortable for you

[heavy wadi]

would guess it's comfort lmao

[faint flare]

Pick one of the speed tiers and use that bis list

[heavy wadi]

if there's no answer it's just whatever you feel best with

[vocal cobalt]

The difference is meld right

[narrow jay]

Comfort is true BiS

[carmine fossil]

theres BiS that are recommended for certain fights and how you play but its just whatever you like

[narrow jay]

But no, not always. Different pieces of gear may be used to boost skill speed. It just depends on what tier you're going for.

[solemn jewel]

for comparisons sake. not the exact ilvl u mentioned but alas

[hidden garnet]

oh i seee so its exponantial!

ty

[narrow jay]

I wouldn't say that, no.

[faint flare]

You also need to Consider the strength of weapon damage increases

[boreal storm]

Higher item level = better stats
That’s basically it, in a nutshell

[faint flare]

Which is fucking giant

[vocal cobalt]

I don’t understand why go for direct hit rate in the build isn’t it a weaker version of crit

[faint flare]

+1 is already a large boost

[faint flare]

You can both crit and direct hit at the same time

Both increase your damage

Plus since tanks have none inheritly, getting SOME direct hit is already a good boost

The initial points jumps dps a good amount, especially if you're lucky and crit direct hit during buffs

[boreal storm]

Direct crits do more damage then only one of them occurring

[narrow jay]

Although the focus of most builds is to maximise crit, there's a bit more to the math under the hood than simply "all Crit materia". Each piece of gear has a maximum amount of stat bonus that it can hold, and the listed bonuses on the gear pieces count towards that cap.

For example, in the i575 gear piece Sasha linked, you can't put any more Crit in that gear. 241 is the max. So melding more Crit materia is a waste there.

That gets you into balancing mathematics between how much Direct Hit/Determination you have from the gear without melding, and what melding various amounts of slots with those two stats will get you and what their resultant effect on the theoretical damage would be.

Same with skill speed; a faster GCD means you're attacking and using abilities faster, which can mean more damage as well--depending on what other substats you sacrificed to get to that GCD tier.

As for DH itself ... there's no reason not to go for it, it's extra damage. DH and Crit use independent rolls to find out if each one occurs, and although DH can only provide a 1.25x damage boost, the higher the DH stat the more often it happens. And the damage from DH and Crit stack together.

[warm snow]

This is very quickly turning into a min max conversation for the balance, try one of their channels?

[untold thicket]

is there a date for the end of the garo collab event?

[heavy wadi]

nope

could be years

[untold thicket]

oh okay then, thanks

[rotund spruce]

was actually curious about this, so did a bit of graphing

here's main stat plotted against item level for every piece of gear

the different streaks are likely different slots

personally i interpret this less as exponential and more as a few linear steps

one up to the end of ARR, one up to endwalker endgame, and one for endwalker endgame

with the separating points being 130 and 560 ish

[warm snow]

Might want to remove or mark tank gear for the strength plotting

[rotund spruce]

ya tank gear likely accounts for those lower strength lines

[leaden ginkgo]

it do be linear piecewose made to have steadily increasing slopes.

[rotund spruce]

exponential would be kinda nuts lol

[hidden garnet]

next expansion the slop gona almost vertical for some items lmao

[leaden ginkgo]

not necessarily

[hot eagle]

hard to say we could get another stat squish

[rotund spruce]

nah they could just squish endwalker to fit with the HW,STB.SHB line

[leaden ginkgo]

have they done stat squishing before

[rotund spruce]

ya

[carmine fossil]

they just did it

with endwalker

[faint flare]

Only for endwalker

[hot eagle]

yes with endwalker release

[hidden garnet]

its good higher number gona make it hard to read

[leaden ginkgo]

so the shb gear before ew was better. gotxha

[carmine fossil]

technically

but not really

[rotund spruce]

the logic behind the steps is pretty simple

• arr is weird
• hw to shb having a consistent linear setup is nice
• raid gear needs a bigger incentive

[faint flare]

We were hitting 150k+ during buffs regularly

[hot eagle]

squish also hit the enemy

[rotund spruce]

they could squish the slope just for endwalker to put it in line with the previous slope

or they could raise the slope again

[leaden ginkgo]

I mean it makes sense as it is a pretty invenious method to slow power creep

[rotund spruce]

the latter seems more likely because its less work and only poses an issue later

if we start getting too big numbers theyll likely do another squish but it would only have to be stuff endwalker onwards

[hot eagle]

the squish was also needed since the big numbers caused errors in the backend

[warm snow]

Big numbers means bigger packets and it adds up

Among a dozen other things

[boreal storm]

not to be a stick in the mud, but like this is getting discussiony. Just saying before someone shows up

[rotund spruce]

ya i just wanted to drop that graf

gear being exponential is a common misconception

[narrow jay]

Yeah, in general "exponential" is thrown around a lot because it sounds cool.

[warm snow]

*looks at cruise chaser

[lone iron]

Hello people! 🥰 Me and my brother just started our journey on FFXIV, and we have tons of questions. I will not ask all at once of course 🤣

[faint flare]

!faq newplayertips

[zinc orbit]

Terms & Tips Guide for New Players

reddit post
image

[lone iron]

Quite small to read ahahah

[faint flare]

That's why you click

And enlarge

[lone iron]

Done it, just joking

🥰🥰

[solemn jewel]

You have the next 16 hours to read it anyway, the games down for maintenance

[carmine fossil]

wonder if theres an updated version

since by the poetics stuff it hasnt been updated in a while

[solemn jewel]

Iirc they're working on one

[lone iron]

Our question is about the Disciplines of the Hand, there are very cool jobs to do. The alchemist looks amazing! Now we were wondering about becoming one day owner of a Guild that is focused on production of weapon and more. The question is exactly about this! If we become for example amazing alchemists we can probably make good quality potions right? Than we can sell our potions on the market or to people I guess. Will this be profitable you think? Or is better to focus on fighting and buy stuff from the market?

[faint flare]

Potions are always needed cause raiders use them

[carmine fossil]

its profitable but making an FC solely about crafting may not be popular

[boreal storm]

Not HP potions

[faint flare]

The price fluctuates quite abit

Usually dripping low later the patch goes

Stat boosting pots

[carmine fossil]

also you'd sell to market board as trading is nonexistent and nobody does it besides to gift people items (or to skip MB tax on high price items)

[faint flare]

You WILL need to level the other crafters and gatherers to maintain self sufficiency

[solemn jewel]

You will have to focus on fighting too to reach endgame

[carmine fossil]

^

[solemn jewel]

Otherwise u can't even get some ingredients without relying on other ppl

[carmine fossil]

yeah

most profitable is leveling gatherers

which requires you to be max level to get the most benefit on a character that has completed the story

[leaden ginkgo]

I havent even started crafting and Ive already lost my sprout status

[lone iron]

Oh I see, so you cant focus only on jobs, you have to be a fighter first anyway.

[faint flare]

The story locks EVERYTHING

[leaden ginkgo]

^

[faint flare]

Literally everything

[carmine fossil]

yes unless you buy it from market board

[faint flare]

You can't even go to higher zones without story progress

Or unlock the vendors

[leaden ginkgo]

job specialization only comes after the level 20 main quest

[faint flare]

Story is flat out mandatory

[leaden ginkgo]

to be fair youd get oneshot by everything in the higher areas

ao like even if you could go there it would be pointless

[lone iron]

Coming from an RP background I thought something completely different lol. I was already thinking of a classic old wise alchemist doing only crafting for heroes. 😥

[faint flare]

It's still an MMO

You need to.do the story

This ain't DND

[leaden ginkgo]

you can be a crafter main but to progress the sotroy you need to train combat skills

[lone iron]

Oh don't get me wrong, I love the game already, I just hoped that I could have done that too, but I will not just uninstall it for this ahahah. That's why I asked you guys.

[lone iron]

Precisely

Well guys what can I say if not thank you. I guess we will have to modify our plans. 🤣🤣

Again, thank you for taking the time to explain me all this.

[eager basalt]

🤔 So i've been playing for a little while now and i've reached lvl 70 Bard, Now the higher the lvl the class is the more spells and abilities i get. I've unlocked several higher starting lvl classes and i keep into the same problem on all of em. And i'm starting to get it on my bard and my 50 paladin. The problem is that especially for the higher lvl starting classes, it's hard to figure out what the "Rotation" is what spells and abilities i have to use a lot and which are situational and what spells are combined with which. Now my question is mainly is there a website or a guide that tells me what the rotation is and which spells are important and which are less important? And is there a way to tell if i'm playing good or bad?

[narrow jay]

!faq balance

[zinc orbit]

The Balance

Discord
Website

[faint flare]

Weskabler videos on YouTube for levelling rotations

Balance for endgame rotations

You should naturally pick up on the basics of your job as you level, like maintaining dots and rotating through songs 1 by 1 as bard and so on

[narrow jay]

That, and if you record your fights using, say, ACT and then upload it to FFlogs, you can put said logs into a website called Xivanalysis which will give you a general overview of checklist items and things to work on.

[eager basalt]

Bard for now is fine. But if i want to try out like a class that starts at 50 it's overwhelming to figure it out and i get Discouraged from trying to play it.

[faint flare]

That's why you remove all your skills

And read them 1 by 1 while smacking a dummy

For any job that starts higher level

[narrow jay]

The game also throws all your new skills onto your bar in order of acquisition by level, with no regard for what skill does what or works with what.

So doing what Vinyl suggested also helps get rid of visual clutter and confusing nonsense.

You might like to know, also, that SE plans to add things like combo chains to the Actions&Traits pane in game

which will also help decipher things a bit

[normal sphinx]

yo I have no friends who play ff 14 I would like some friends to play with

[carmine fossil]

they are adding that in 6.2 btw

or 6.2x idk

[carmine fossil]

joining a free company would be a good place to find some

if you just ask in like limsa lominsa you'll get an invite to one

[eager basalt]

That's what i like about starting on lvl 1 you get the skills by lvl and you only need to figure out one skill at a time when you get it instead of all of em. Can i macro multiple spells/abilities to one button by writing a macro? Are there any rules or things i should be aware of when writing a macro?

[faint flare]

!faq macrogcd

[zinc orbit]

Why you shouldn't macro your GCDs

Macroing GCDs adds up to lost casts overtime, significantly harming your potential.

Check this video for a striking dummy comparison:
https://youtu.be/VgpUCgExvbA

[heavy wadi]

don't do that

trust me

it's awful

[faint flare]

You could but you would be killing your performance to the point of 'physically stop playing"

[narrow jay]

Combat macros are highly inadvisable.

The reason for this is that macros do not check to see if the command they performed actually worked.

They simply perform the command and move on to the next line.

[little swift]

This isn't the kind of game where automating it is a good idea

[boreal storm]

They also don’t allow you to move or it cancels

[faint flare]

Or combining stuff for hotbar space

[carmine fossil]

GCD is 2.45 (varies) seconds
macros are only in whole numbers. you cant have your macro do an action at the 2.4th second, or even 2.5th, only the 3rd second, which is the big reason why macros are very bad

[narrow jay]

The few skills that are recommended for macroing (like Sprint) have about ten to twelve lines of telling the macro to repeatedly execute the skill so you have a reasonable assurance it actually gets used.

[heavy wadi]

just look at weskalber's guides

[carmine fossil]

and also other skills like shirk are macro'd so you dont neeed to click a party member to use the action

[eager basalt]

Mainly thinking of Cooldown macro's ? The reasoning isn't for automation but more to need less keybinds and click less abilities. For example in another game i made macro's that changed depending on the target. If it's a friendly it does a heal spell if it's a enemy it's a dps spell.:)

[faint flare]

No0e

[heavy wadi]

can't do that here

[faint flare]

The moment a skill in a macro it becomes infinitely shitter to use

Macros don't skill que

Thus come out much slower

Slower = less dps

[heavy wadi]

not to mention weaving is impossible that way.

[faint flare]

Due to losing several casts of it

[warm snow]

Macros are deliberately shit for combat

[faint flare]

And you can only have 1 macro running at once

[warm snow]

Designed to be shit

Do not

[boreal storm]

If you want to heal someone you aoe, or target them

If you want to attack something you aoe, or target them

[carmine fossil]

macros are only used for the slight convenience that it may provide, it is not intended to actually macro your entire (or even part) of your rotation

[faint flare]

So trying to do countdown for multiple don't work

Just use an additional hotbar to track your cooldowns

That's what everyone does

[tight mango]

What is the "direct hit" stat

[faint flare]

Mini crits

They do 25% more damage than a regular hit

[boreal storm]

They can be critical on top of that, which is even more damage

[warm snow]

That Stat is getting a slight rework in 6.2 so answer is subject to change

[sleek needle]

There are 3rd party plugins that does that & puts combos on same button, it's not recommended tho as it'll break after a patch

[heavy wadi]

it's not recommended period

builds bad habits, makes weaving difficult.

just work on learning the job

[sleek needle]

Yup

[warm snow]

"just git gud" but actually

[flint lance]

If I create a new character on a new server then transfer my existing character from a diffrent server with the same name to that new server, do i get a free name change?

[warm snow]

Yes

[carmine fossil]

its probably less expensive to just buy a name change

oh wait its not

[warm snow]

World transfer is down til they're sure the new worlds are stable btw

[carmine fossil]

but i feel like they have something against that

[warm snow]

So we don't have a date for it's return

[flint lance]

well new worlds will be added to my data centre today, and we get a free transfer

[warm snow]

Probably not today

[flint lance]

somewhere between today and like tommorow morning

[warm snow]

Probably not gonna be able to do it til Wednesday or later

Probably later

[eager basalt]

🤔 So the only way to keybind all of the abilities is to work with control and alt combinations? Or are there other way's? Also this ain't about "git gud" this is about how to be efficient with keybinds. Sinds i can't use my whole keyboard for keybinds cause my hand don't reach from one side to the other side . For example AoE ability vs Single target ability if i can use Alt or Ctrl modifiers that would fix the challenge i been having which is i have to click eather single or multi . ^^ Anyways thanks for the advice on macro's.

[flint lance]

nw, i just wanted to confirm that name change thing for my character

[boreal storm]

You only need 3 hotbars at max

[heavy wadi]

you don't need to reach to the entire other side

3 hotbars max

[warm snow]

This seems like a time for my patented, use controller lol

[solemn jewel]

Use modifiers, yes

[faint flare]

Everyone uses modifiers or whatever keybinds they want

[heavy wadi]

you have plenty of keys with modifiers

[warm snow]

Controller is also a completely valid option

[carmine fossil]

everyone uses modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt,)

i usually only have to reach to 7 on my keyboard

[heavy wadi]

123456, qerty, fghzxcv and alt/control/shift on those

[warm snow]

It's highly customizable so it's more of a case of find what works for you

[lone iron]

Guys another question, please forgive me ( I know they might sound stupid ) Online I see that the most profitable way is to level all DoL/DoH because apparently they are connected to each other. So I should be a Weaver, Leatherworker, Blacksmith, Botanic all of them. Is this really necessary? I know is not, it is a choice, but what I mean is, how big is the financial gap of being for example only a Weaver and buying missing mat produced by other profession?

[solemn jewel]

Big

[warm snow]

Oh it'll add up very very fast

[faint flare]

Yes it's necessary if you want to be self sufficient

[heavy wadi]

you should be all of them if you want to ever really make a profit

[solemn jewel]

You are at the mercy of the player driven economy which lives off of lazyness tax

[warm snow]

Depends how much you plan to craft

But it will add up

[faint flare]

.

[heavy wadi]

otherwise you won't break even with material costs

[lone iron]

That's soooo sad! 😥

[faint flare]

Crafting and gathering is one big package

Do it all or waste all your money

[eager basalt]

I got lucky and joined a good FC. If your lucky you can help eachother out with things. ^^ Like if i want something made i can ask my fc and they'll help me with making it.

[lone iron]

Ahhhh 🥲 This limits so much my RP vibes. But as you said before, it is still an MMO

[faint flare]

It doesn't

No one cares about what jobs you levelled

[carmine fossil]

i dont think theres really much RP in crafting

[eager basalt]

You can rp about anything . You don't really have to lvl em all as i said you can use the MMO part and worktogether with a good fc. 😄

[carmine fossil]

yeah if you do wanna rp you could just use 1 job

[lone iron]

In a perfect world your effort of making a charater focused on one single art, take for example Mining will allow you to make the difference. If you chose to dedicate ( in real life ) your entire life to a specific thing o maybe two, you will always perform better in that thing compared to someone else.

[faint flare]

No one

Cares about that

Literally

Even the big RP nerds on crystal

[heavy wadi]

strange logic but that's not something that any rper cares about

if they care about it then it's unusual.

[carmine fossil]

theres also not really a "this guy is really good" i just buy what i want from MB without a care whos selling it

[lone iron]

@faint flare I get you, the problem I see is that you cannot make the difference in the game. You are just like any other to the extend that you can become completly autosufficient.

[faint flare]

That's something for people to be ultra mega anal about

[carmine fossil]

the game is to large to make a significant contribution as a single player

[heavy wadi]

?? i don't understand this

either way

your question was answered

[solemn jewel]

Thing is, ur ability to craft things is based on gear. Everyone will have the same gear at endgame. Everyone who leveled alchemist will be able to create the same things

You cannot spec ur character

[faint flare]

Someone really needs to separate RP from actually playing the game

[heavy wadi]

this is an mmo with railroaded story and gear progression, that sort of concern for uniqueness is out of place here

[faint flare]

Your uniqueness is in your character background that you apply to RP only

[solemn jewel]

Crafters make money by abusing players lazyness. I don't wanna level alchemist, so I will buy potions that are marked up, even tho I could make it myself if i put in a smidge of time

[lone iron]

I got what you mean guys. Thank you again for answering me.

[warm snow]

And that's how I made millions lol

[main stratus]

I added playtime to my account but steam says my account has no playtime

[heavy wadi]

the game is under maintenance.

same with mogstation

[main stratus]

oh noone can login right now?

[carmine fossil]

yes

[main stratus]

my bad

[sleek needle]

What? Don't spread misinformation here/meme in #questions-and-help

[untold willow]

is there a way to marco aoe skills to place centered under the player ur targeted on? instead of having to place it urself

[silent sundial]

How does Duty roullete 1st time of the day EXP works? How much more % EXP do I get for the 1st roullete ?

It says ~50k but i got 1mi at the end of the dungeon

[hot eagle]

/ac "xxxxxxx" <t> can also use <1-8> so it targets party member 1-8

[outer mural]

yes, actually

oh chibi said it before i did

thank u chibi

examples can be found in the faq below

[oak lily]

Scales with level

[outer mural]

!faq whmmacro

[zinc orbit]

What are good macros for WHM?

Macros in FFXIV do not queue / buffer like normal ability casts and are prone to clipping even at reasonable ping. The best solution is always to avoid using spells or abilities in macro's whenever possible. The one slight exception to this rule is for ground targeted abilities like Asylum and Lilybell, since the targeting reticle can cause delays even without macros when double-weaved. However, you should still have the non-macro version on your bar for more flexible placement. Some examples macros can be found here.

Another solution for this issue was added in 6.0 and allows you to press your keybind twice to instantly place your ground-targetted ability. This setting can be enabled under Chacter Config -> Target -> Press Action Twice to Execute

[leaden ginkgo]

Not sure if you refer to me but I was joking with independence day. It was not in any way meant to be taken seriously.

[untold willow]

ooo ty

[outer mural]

i get you're trying to brighten up the channel with humor but a joke like that without full context may be confusing in the questions channel here
i don't blame you but be a bit more mindful

[untold willow]

i saw someone said also to spam the skill and have /merror off to work

for ping issues

[outer mural]

that is correct

hit the link and you can see

[carmine fossil]

it depends on the roulette and level
the arrow is how much XP you actually get from doing the roulette but it doesnt really show

[outer mural]

the reason why macros are 'bad' outside of highly specific skills is becuase they don't queue in advance

[untold willow]

i thought the link was the image x3 i will hit it

[outer mural]

so they are less responsive

np it's a weird image

[drifting haven]

So, I have a friend whose cousin is going from a free trial to full. He set his region to Canada, but it mysteriously swapped to US or something. Is there a way to fix this? I know Mogstation is currently in maintenance at the moment so he can't actually go from free to full now, but yeah. Should he just go through support and pray once maintenance is over?

[leaden ginkgo]

Ah sorry. I understand what you mean. Yeah. I deleted my original post for reasons you stated. I'll avoid it in the future

[untold willow]

ty!

[outer mural]

yeah all good, i absolutely get the sentiment so don't sweat it

[outer mural]

it doesn't matter as long as payment is fine

you sohuld be considered "NA" in general for actual in-game purposes regardless

the only time region matters is your mogstation account matching the country or region you are paying from, so you can actually purchase, but otherwise it doesn't care where you actually are

ie: german friend of mine plays on crystal, an NA datacenter

[outer mural]

you may also be looking at the adventurere in need bonus

if you match a role that is 'in need' for a specific roulette you can get bonus exp and gil on top of the normal bonus, which was previously explained to be % based on your current level

[leaden ginkgo]

The adventure in need bonus is also always available (But only in roulettes) IF you were to do a completed roulette again.

[faint flare]

And is extremely shit and not worth going after

[leaden ginkgo]

Right. This is a fact worth noting as well, indeed

[outer mural]

ye

[sleek needle]

Gotcha, and ye no harm no foul but best keep jokes out of here for the reasons Jim said

[outer mural]

[leaden ginkgo]

My judgement skipped reason for a minute. I think I was merely trying to be clever. But yeah XD

I'll be careful.

[rough fossil]

Since I ended CC season 1 in Crystal, my understanding is that I’ll be bumped down to Diamond 5 for season 2. If I don’t participate in season 2, will I then be knocked down to Gold 4(?) and so on for the following season?

[faint flare]

Yes

[rough fossil]

Hm so if I don’t play a single match in season 2, will I still get the frame kit reward?

[faint flare]

Probably

We haven't been through a season change yet

But you're still considered that rank so

[silent sundial]

Dumb question: Is taking damage with mitigation cds to generate LB a viable strategy?

[carmine fossil]

you'd probably want to play 1 match at least

[faint flare]

You do that in normal game play

You only get extra LB generation when shields prevent lethal damage and when healing people who are in critical/low hp

[outer mural]

depends what you consider 'viable' but it has been done at some point

[rough fossil]

Ironically difficult to get the full set of tier rewards then, if that’s what you want

[outer mural]

it's generally not going to cheese whole savage fights but there are niche scenarios where it'd be useful, and has been exploited before

[hollow turtle]

i'm sure this is a common question, but if i transfer my character to one of the new worlds can i still make an alt and get the rewards or should i get the rewards first before transferring

[carmine fossil]

think so

[faint flare]

It explicitly says the rewards are once per service account

Period

[carmine fossil]

but also ^

its one-time

but i think you can make a new character and then get it

[faint flare]

You only get the gil once ever

[carmine fossil]

and sub time

[faint flare]

No

One time forever

[carmine fossil]

thats what i just said LOL

[hollow turtle]

i haven't got the rewards yet, i was just wondering if i can transfer the character first and then try to get the rewards or if i should get the rewards first

[faint flare]

It doesn't matter

[obsidian patio]

The Gil is once per datacenter, the sub time is only once per account

(Unless the Gil one got changed)

[leaden ginkgo]

Any idea how long SE will wait till they allow World Transfer again? How did they handle it in the past as they introduced new servers?

[boreal storm]

It’s re-enabled once maintenance ends, like they told us

[faint flare]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/a41a0971de57ab267e4d85e6b963e7a686b1fc95

[leaden ginkgo]

They said they wait till server are stable. That's why I'm asking. Not after maintenance is done. "After the release of Patch 6.18 scheduled on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, the Home World Transfer Service will resume after verifying that the Japanese/European data centre expansions and the Data Centre Travel system are stable."

[carmine fossil]

which is likely a bit after the maintenance

[faint flare]

After the initial rush

Probably the later half of the day

If not the next

[leaden ginkgo]

Let's hope so

[median knoll]

with these coming changes with transferring data centres could I go from OCE to the american dc's and back and does that take long?

[leaden ginkgo]

anyyone ever transfered server before? how long does that generally takes?

[slate arrow]

you cannot, it is region based currently

[jovial quarry]

DC travel is only within your region unfortunately. OCE has to stay in OCE for now.

[slate arrow]

we don't know, this is the first time such a system is being implemented

[median knoll]

ah okay thanks for the clarification

[sleek needle]

If you mean transferring your char's home world and not visiting, it's usually pretty fast. Took a few minutes when I did it, tho that wasn't to a new world so the traffic wouldn't have been as heavy

[leaden ginkgo]

k thanks!

[north venture]

how long is remaining? lol

[carmine fossil]

!maintenance

[open coral]

About 12.5 hours.

[faint flare]

Ask the maint command in #kupo-bot-spam

[hollow inlet]

It’s !maint

[faint flare]

It doesn't work in this channel

[carmine fossil]

its also what i posted so..

[hollow inlet]

It’s also being spammed in #kupo-bot-spam

[leaden ginkgo]

wait. we can’t get the fiend armor from the pvp battle pass thing after 6.18?

[faint flare]

Yes

The season is ending

Not series

[slate arrow]

!faq pvpseries

[heavy wadi]

you can still get it

[zinc orbit]

The difference between PvP Seasons and Series

PvP Season: The ranked season, shorter than a Series, you receive rewards based on your Crystal Conflict rank at the end of the season.
PvP Series: The battle pass style reward system for PvP, rewards unique rewards alongside crystal trophies, each season lasts 1 major patch, example 6.1 > 6.2. Series EXP can be gained through all PvP modes, not just Crystal Conflict.

[faint flare]

Completely different

[leaden ginkgo]

oh i was about to cry

ok sweet

[faint flare]

You'll buy it with trophy crystals after it rotates out anyway

[leaden ginkgo]

ok that’s even better now i prob won’t even remember to que up

we’re people actually mad about ew relics being locked behind hildi?

[outer mural]

only thing that changes with the series is just the reward pass right

sorta, it's mixed opinions because hildibrand being silly + having to do all of ARR - HW - SB hildibrand is a lot of work for a relic series despite the entirety of Rabanstre for ShB relics being mandatory and Hildibrand is relatively short per expansion

so some people arent' expecting the relics to be 'good' in their opinion, and don't wanna do the quests

[leaden ginkgo]

yeah, i mean they told us months in advance is what i mean.

like i never did it but i did it all this weekend

[modest igloo]

Some people just don’t like to grind before thier grind, esp if they don’t like the comedy

[outer mural]

yeah as much asthe majority of people like hildribrand, it's not for everyone

[modest igloo]

But it’s optional content locked by optional content

[outer mural]

I think ShB set a precedent by needing all of Ivalice and some stuff after that done tbf, but that's my opinion

[autumn anvil]

It's the price to actually getting some background story with your relic quests I guess.

Cause even if the Hildi questline is pretty silly, it does deal with some more serious background story that isn't touched on (much/at all?) elsewhere.

[noble epoch]

Is the game on maintenance right now?

[faint flare]

Yes

Will be for the full 24h it was stated for

[noble epoch]

Gotcha. tyvm

[oak lily]

Another 12 hours or so @noble epoch

[tepid heart]

Stupid question but do i need to server travel to search for a player from that server? Like if im in Spriggan and i wanna search for someone in Louisoix, would i need to travel to Louisoix to search for them?

[modest igloo]

Ye

[tepid heart]

Okay cool thanks

[eager grail]

As an entirely new player, is there any benefits to purchasing the complete edition? Or would I be better off playing through the trial first?

[oak lily]

!faq buy

[zinc orbit]

How to buy the game

Click here for NA

Click here for EU

Click here for JP

Before purchasing, you may wish to try out the game with the Free Trial, which allows you to experience the game up to level 60 with no limitations on playtime, albeit with some social and trade-related restrictions. See !faq freetrial for info.

Please be aware that FFXIV is a subscription-based game, and after purchasing the game you must pay for each month of play. There is no way to return to being a Free Trial player after you have registered a purchased copy of the game to your account; you must pay to log in and continue playing.

PC users: make sure to buy the game on your preferred store (Steam vs. Square Enix Store). Purchasing the game on Steam locks you into using Steam for all future expansion purchases, and similarly purchasing it via Square Enix Store or any other non-Steam retailer locks you out of ever using Steam to play FFXIV. After your game code has been registered to your FFXIV account, this decision can never be changed.

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Starter Edition:
AKA the ''base game.'' Gives access to A Realm Reborn and Heavensward. This is the same content that you can play during the Free Trial, but with the Free Trial restrictions on social interactions, trading, PvP etc. lifted. Comes with 30 days of subscription time.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker:
Gives access to Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and the latest expansion, Endwalker. Does not include any bonus subscription time.

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Complete Edition:
Combines all of the above into a single purchase (including the 30 days of subscription time). This cannot be used if you have already registered the Starter Edition.

Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/xp5BSz3.png

[eager grail]

Cheers.

[boreal storm]

TLDR you get the rest of the game

The trial is free tho, so like why wouldn’t you start with that

[eager grail]

Yeah, just curious if the rest of the game would be worth buying if I'm still like level 20 at the beginning.

[eager grail]

Yeah true, I'll stick to the trial.

[faint flare]

Unless you super really ultra need to be a viera or hrothgar then you don't get anything for having the expansions at an early level

The earliest you'll run into something that needs the expansions is the stormblood jobs at lv50, samurai and red mage

But that's it

[eager grail]

Quite a distance away. Thanks, yeah, I'll stick to the trial for now then until I get through realm reborn.

[boreal storm]

And the fact that PvP isn’t on trial, but both what me and vinyl mentioned are totally optional

[noble epoch]

Okay so, here's a question that might be a bit specific but has been on my mind a bit. I'm aware that the FF14 story is a cut above other MMOs, basically because every other MMO story is just a "spam until it's gone because the dialogue is trash" but I personally can't get into that mindset with FF14? So is there anything in particular that helped you guys to really just force yourself to really read through the dialogue bubbles in between?

And second, I am a visuals person, so FF14 admittedly doesn't have BDO levels of graphics, but is there any way to enhance the eye candy to make it more pleasing to watch/play? thanks

[oak lily]

https://youtu.be/7LM08VrEs6k

[boreal storm]

I just got invested in the plot eventually, it doesn’t happen immediately

[noble epoch]

Oh fucking perfect. thank you

[leaden ginkgo]

i always say if you watch anime in sub then just imagine ffxiv as an anime, it’s definitely as epic as one. the great moments hit so much better when you actually read.

[noble epoch]

Anything for visuals?

Like a preset graphics settings or 3rd party although idk how the devs feel about that

[leaden ginkgo]

also in data center travel i can do all content there right ?

[oak lily]

ARR and HW were made in 2013…. So

At least those graphics were

[faint flare]

Gshade

[robust crow]

you can use mods and gshade

[faint flare]

Or reshade, whichever you fancy

[boreal storm]

the patch notes say exactly what you can’t do

[robust crow]

as long as you don't advertise you using mods, no one cares and it's undetectable

[faint flare]

You can que for stuff basically same restrictions as world visiting really

[robust crow]

i.e. don't stream with mods or post screenshots with your character name and mods on

but even if you do that it's unlikely they take action against your account

[noble epoch]

So basically don't advertise it, but community doesn't really care if you use it

[obsidian patio]

The label list for how you can tell if you can access the content added

2.x also includes trial players

[leaden ginkgo]

i see i see

man i can not wait for 6.25 , i hope the gear for 6.2 savage looks good

or the new crafted

[leaden ginkgo]

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/41/#timespan=1000 what exactly is the Score variable fflogs is tracking for this dungeon

[heavy wadi]

clear speed i believe

[obsidian patio]

Yeah that has the speed option selected

As for what “score” is, idk

I assume it’s a way of mathing the number to a smaller and more easily understandable comparison

[leaden ginkgo]

ah

ok

that makes sense. I'm looking at the longest recorded rn times of these endgame dungeons and I'm thinking how on earth does it take 1.5 hours to do smileton

[obsidian patio]

Maybe it’s milliseconds

[leaden ginkgo]

no some of then are in hours, I see average dps for those runs were like 362 with an enormous amount of damage taen. 37mil to be exact with an average HPS of 1030,

[faint flare]

just auto everything to death

:)

[crystal bluff]

asking for a friend, if youre on steam free trial can you transfer to windows full game?

[faint flare]

no

[crystal bluff]

figured, thanks

[faint flare]

once you touch steam you're done

only non steam trial to steam works