After 10 days, 23 hours, and 17 minutes of game time, I finally made it to 5.0. This BETTER be worth it

Do you want to come to my teaparty, Yea Forums?

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That furniture indicates that you are an enormous memelord, so no

the rooooooooad that we waaaaaaalk

Are you sure it's the furniture and not the fact I'm a lala conveying that?

For me, it's

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Did you get your Garo sets and mounts yet?

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How you get the mounts?

one mount is 10 frontline/rival wings wins using a makai title
another is 30 feast wins using a makai title
and the last one is 60 wins total (feast/rival wings/frontlines) using a makai title

Exciting

>want to do roulettes
>all classes are at 51 (which means I gotta do the job quest right after) or 69 (which means i have to do all the job quests)

fuck me i hate this dumb system.

military grade autism and a misplaced sense of superiority for being able to grind mindless, unfun, unbalanced content

The mounts are pretty easy to get. If you're aiming to get multiple sets of garo gear you'll almost certainly get them just farming the wolf marks to obtain the titles. Feast matches take like 3-4 minutes and training mode works for getting the wins/marks from it.Do that 50 times, then frontline 10, and you're done.

Having the title achievements lets you rebuy the event gear from the calamity salvager even after the event is over, so it's worth getting them all instead of just hanging on to individual pieces. (The paladin invisible shield piece isn't included in this though, so don't discard that)

No, because PVP seems dead on my server in JP land.

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jesus you weren't kidding

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You most likely queue for it at a bad time

I switched to a lalafell and I can't take him seriously in cutscenes, I wonder if this is a phase and it'll switch soon.

It’s not, go back to your old race.

>skipping the story in an rpg
what’s the point then

>trial roulette
>titania normal
>wipe three times on the same exact part of the big add phase
good fucking LORD

If you haven't done Crystal Tower, do it now.

It's good comedic relief

I'm war main, but I'm thinking of going pld for Titan progressive. Is that a good idea or should I stick to war?

Imagine being unable to take lalas seriously. This attitude is why you're poor both in gil and raid performance.

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>undermining all dramatic tension in the best MMO expansion storyline in recent history is a Good Thing!!!
neck yourself

As someone who went through the slog that was everything post shb, it isn't.
The expansion starts off really strong but takes a huge nosedive soon after. It's kept alive and carried by a character that is completely ruined by the end anyway. It still suffers from the same massive problems of all the other expansions - inane padding sections that just want to make your alt f4

Male midlander is kinda boring, might go elezen but i'm a fucking manlet and being tall feels offputting to me.

>Kino News

Kino confirmed

>a character that is completely ruined by the end
What are you smoking?

honestly, does everyone just seem like bots to you guys or is it just me?

WHERE THE FUCK CAN I FIND THIS SCENE ???

>presented as a completely different ascian than all others that interacted with you before
>in the end he's just yet another selfish edgelord who wants to destroy the world to bring back a home no one fucking remembers anymore
The only way you can think he's a good character is if your experience of villains is animes and Japanese videogames.

Mom-e-senna is the best!

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> implying

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>he doesn't know about the hidden gridania sidequest series
boy are you in for a trip

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We're just lines of code in a NEET's basement.

When is best? I queue for an hour and nothing ever happens.

I've been noticing it for a long time now. It's getting beyond creepy.

How can one girl be this perfect

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Do you want to come to my tea party, Yea Forums?

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Everyone's responses just feel like they come outta an AI. It's uncanny. the only thing that isn't is constant bickering and moaning in alliance raids.

youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM
Was it kino?

>presented as a completely different ascian than all others that interacted with you before
And he was.
>in the end he's just yet another selfish edgelord who wants to destroy the world to bring back a home no one fucking remembers anymore
You only know fucking ANY of that because he told you unlike the other Ascians you fucking mongoloid. He was different. He tried to tell you the truth and get you to stop because he believed he was right, if not recruit you in the process.
>B-B-BUH HE AN EDGELORD CUZ HE WANTED TO WIN?!??!!!!
Get a fucking brain.

It's about time you realized the NPC meme isn't just a meme. Gnostics have known about it for a long time. They called them Somatics.

No, he's an edgelord because what he's trying to do is completely retarded, and the writing tries to make the player sympathise with a total nut job without giving any reason to. There wasn't enough time early on to get to know him or develop any connection to emet selch. Am I supposed to empathise with him when he asks me to submit and destroy 7 worlds just so he can have his home back? Fucking lmao. Doubly hilarious after all the crazy shit his people have been pulling for the past 2 expansions + vanilla game.

Everything anyone says in this game feels completely canned. I miss when everyone was calling each other faggots in online games, I fucking hate how censored and
"safe" everything is.

>he's an edgelord because what he's trying to do is completely retarded
Can you even name what's retarded about his plan, or how that makes him an edgelord?
>the writing tries to make the player sympathise with a total nut job without giving any reason to
The reason to sympathize with him is because he's a tired old man who's lost everyone he ever cared about and he wants them back. How is that not sympathetic?
>Am I supposed to empathise with him when he asks me to submit and destroy 7 worlds just so he can have his home back?
You're supposed to be able to see it from his point of view, yeah. He knows as an absolute objective fact that the life in the world should be something greater and that it was stolen away and made into weak, corrupt, pain-filled husks. That's not him being edgy, it's just a fact. You can't empathize with someone who's lost everything and wants it back? You sound genuinely autistic.

Why are there fake discussions for this mmo in Yea Forums everyday? Also don't you know you're not supposed to be here? Piss back off to /vg/ you have a dedicated general there.

>GAIUS DADDY
>CID DADDY
>NERO DADDY
>ESTINIEN DADDY
>OMG HAURCHEFANT SO SAD ;_; I CRY EVERYTIME
>OMG EMET-SELCH SO SAD ;_; I CRY EVERYTIME
>OH NO HE'S HOT XD
>MANDER-MANDER-MANDERVILLE MAN!!! XD

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>Be me
>Playing Classic WoW and FFXIV at them same time
>Doing Post Heavensward MSQ
>Questing on Level 13 Undead Mage
How do I manage my time with two MMOS? How do I decide when I play one over the other? What have I gotten myself into?

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I think that user just misunderstands what sympathetic and empathetic are. You can understand someone without agreeing with them. And that's what Emet has, we understand his need to do this, but in the end can't agree to it and have to stop him.

I already did. He wants to bring back a world no one remembers, and is surprised and angry when people reject his stupid ass faggot selfish idea.
>lost everyone he cared about and wants them back
Game fails to develop any of this though. We don't see any flashbacks or him talking about someone important to him for example. We don't ever see or hear about that special someone or something that makes him want to go back. It's just a shitty excuse that's left in the air and never goes anywhere writing wise. Almost like they came up with it last second.
>You're supposed to be able to see it from his point of view
I am. He's a complete idiot, selfish and a cunt. Much like his brothers.

It's kinda true. Threads have been shit recently but honestly vg is a fucking trash fire. You can't win with this game.

>Talk about in Reddit
Everyone is either a circlejerking faggot or a justice boner edgelord

>/vg/
Hahahahaha ahahahahaha

>Yea Forums
Edgelords, contrinarianss and assholes. At least some game discussion happens here.

>Discord
Massive fucking circlejerk.

Play classic WoW during content drougts.

>How do I manage my time with two MMOS?
You don't.
Only play one.

>a world no one remembers
He remembers you fucking autist.
>and is surprised and angry when people reject his stupid ass faggot selfish idea
What? He's not surprised, he just had some hope that maybe he could get you out of his way without violence.
>We don't see any flashbacks or him talking about someone important to him for example.
You mean the ENTIRE FUCKING CITY HE BUILT OUT OF HIS MEMORIES?

>How do I manage my time with two MMOS?
Unless you're a mega autist streamer who is making money streaming both, you don't. You play one until burning out then play the other one

>he remembers you
Yeah 1 second before he dies. And that's a plot point for another expansion, not even worth bringing up in this context cause it's literally never relevant.
>the entire city
Does the city talk or something? Do we get to find out all about the special relationship he has with the city beyond "He lived here lol"? Is the city his mother or something? His long lost brother? The father who sacrificed everything for him when he was young? Get some reading comprehension you fucking weeb

Are you white?

>he remembers you
I was talking about him remembering his fucking home. If this is the level of reading comprehension you have, it's no wonder you couldn't manage to understand the story or even a simple character.
>Does the city talk or something?
Yes, it literally does.

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explain how someone can clear E3S 4 times and their highest parse is 9th percentile

Cringe

Where does mommy go to get her hrothies?

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Sounds like they're shit.

>Triangle between thighs

Fucking Yoshida

>hrothies

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>she doesn't like hrothies
Good, more for me.

Please die.

>Imagine kissing and licking that perfect back of Y'sthola.

why live.

yeah but I mean isn't that like beyond shit though?

Why?

>think she's going to be annoying like old Minfilia
>turns out to be best girl of the expansion
pleasantly surprised.

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>wow why is this managerial person who ran a non-combat guild before having a mission way out of her league thrust onto her not running around blowing stuff up wow so annoying
>OMG Y'SHTOLA OMG SHE'S SO HOT UNNFFFF I FUCKING LOVE FRIGID OLD CAT WHORES WHO DO LITERALLY NOTHING FOR 4 EXPANSION YESSSSS BASED BASED BASED

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>turns out to be best girl of the expansion

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>queueing for levelling roulette as BLM
>#33
>estimated time: 15m
>suddenly it pops out of nowhere
>Elapsed Time: 9m
>it's Aurum Vale and one of the DPS and the tank abandoned
great.

Depends, what DC?

Should I level up MCH or DNC to 80 next?

>He can't tank with manaward
turn in your black mage hat

nice vagina bones

Fae don't count.

No because I'm also a Lala but not a cancerous memey fuck

What glamour are the shades called?

I don't wear hats as black mage.

Fucking kill yourself

I'm literally about to start the final ARR mission.
Man all this stuff about tomes and new job opportunities and everything has me kinda like lost.

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Pale imitation of the actual Shantotto, don't care what that will o wisp has to say

All this strife over some hats...

I can't say anything creative because overtly sensitive faggots take things way too seriously and i already have 2 strikes on my account.

I thought shantotto rhymes when she speaks

WHEN ARE WE GETTING AN ALISAE AND ALPHINAUD MODEL UPDATES REEE, THEY SHOULD BE AT LEAST A FOOT TALLER AFTER ALL THIS TIME THAT HAS PASSED.

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The actual one from XI does, this one is an expy and not the real one.

Shantotto does. That's Shatotto.

>Suddenly getting mogged by the cute giraffelet with a huge crush on you
I want art of this happening and my soul is crushed into even more fragments every time I realize that it will never be drawn.

You'd think XIV would be absolute porn central but it's all just futa OCs.

I wish there were more opportunities to tease the twins or flirt with them.

Technically the time that passed on the First for them wouldn't age them, since they aren't bodily there, its just their souls taking some sort of physical form, so they logically wouldn't age.
Hell look at Thancred, he's been there 5 years and it legit looks like he deaged compared to his old HW edgy look.

>he's been there 5 years and it legit looks like he deaged compared to his old HW edgy look
He does look his age in the opening FMV. They just didn't age his actual game model because PS4 limitations prease understand.

He just needed a shave and a haircut.

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What attracts all these raidtrannies to this game?

Dear fucking lord...

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For ARR beast tribes, what's the most efficient way of doing them? Save the 2nd/3rd tier and only do 3 highest reward dailies each or just rush one beast tribe to max first by doing all their dailies only?

Are you not? You aren't allowed to be here then.

How long has Thancred known the WoL?
>Thancred knew Ryne longer than he even knew the WoL
>Five years plus however long it was since Heavensward and he's still stuck on Minfilia

>Person A has an extensive history of terrible performances in every fight in the tier but is doing current fight fairly well in that moment
>Person B has an extensive history of excellent performances in every other fight in the tier but is doing current fight fairly poorly in that moment
>Person A gets snippy and high-and-mighty toward person B
Who's in the right?

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Finished HW, but I feel little lost on how Calamities and ultimately how the Ascian's plan works. There needs to be Calamities on both the Shards and the Source? So the Flood in Shadowbringers was gonna the that shards first Calamity while the Source has to suffer more than one, with Bahamut being the most recent and from what the raids starting with the Void Ark told me, the one before was a flood that resulted from a War?

Well, it's obviously not person A. How is this even a question.

Huh. I actually didn't really appreciate just how long a server tick was until now.

>obviously not person A.
Person A is performing much better than Person B at the current point in time, so why not?

If you played 1.0, he knew you for a little bit five years ago and hasn't seen you since. Everything from ARR to ShB is within the same year.
>and he's still stuck on Minfilia
He's known Minfilia for 15 years, since she was a kid. He viewed her as his daughter. Of course he's stuck on her.
>There needs to be Calamities on both the Shards and the Source?
Yes, technically what happens on a shard is a flood of a specific element. What happens on the Source is a disaster aspected to the same element which breaks down the dimensional membrane and entices the aether on the shard to flood in and enhance the disaster.
>with Bahamut being the most recent and from what the raids starting with the Void Ark told me, the one before was a flood that resulted from a War?
Yeah, the past Calamities in order are:
>Calamity of Wind, tore the Floating Continent apart into what's now the Churning Mists + Sea of Clouds
>Calamity of Lightning, caused by industrial pollution
>Calamity of Fire, the sun got really close to the planet and turned Thanalan into a desert, somehow caused by religious inquisitions
>Calamity of Earth, earthquake caused by Dalamud's powerload being too much for the Crystal Tower
>Calamity of Ice, cause unknown but was an extensive ice age
>Calamity of Water, floods caused by the overuse of magic during the War of the Magi
>Calamity of Astral, which was Dalamud

The flood in the First would make the Black Rose in the Source go out of control and guarantee a calamity and thus a rejoining. "Calamities" as we know it in the Source aren't a thing in the shards. The Flood is the Flood. Not a Calamity. What would happen to the Source as a result of the overabundance of light aether in the First getting slammed into the Source would be cause a rejoining and thus a Calamity.

Because if Person A is going to bitch out Person B for having an off night, when their own overall performance has been shit up to that point, they really don't have any room to be talking. When person A starts performing on the level consistently, and Person B starts eating shit every pull, then I'd be more inclined to agree with A.

Its the catgirls

>caring about the story in an MMO
Just read a book/play an actual RPG.

The server's actual tickrate is a lot shorter than once every 3 seconds, that's just the interval they use for DoTs and other tick-based actions like Anatman. If they were using that tickrate for everything then you could run out of an aoe, be out of it for 3 full seconds, and still get hit. The actual tickrate is about 4 ticks per second.

For comparison, competitve FPS games typically have a tickrate of 64 per second.

I'm thinking about taking the plunge. Can I comfortably play through the story parts up through the new expansion solo? All my buddies have been playing for years so I'd like to just level up and play the story until I'm close enough to their level to begin playing with them.

>Can I comfortably play through the story parts up through the new expansion solo?
Yes, it's designed to be done solo

yeah you can just use the duty finder to get through dungeons and trials

What stats are important for a tank? I want to add materia to my shit but I'm not sure what I should add.

You can play it like a single player JRPG if you want. You'll need parties for dungeons and trials, but duty finder automatically pairs you up with other players so no problem

>You'd think XIV would be absolute porn central but it's all just futa OCs.
Why does this have to be true...?

critical hit and direct hit. Tanks aren't any different really the focus is on increasing your DPS

I understand now, thanks anons. Last question, but where does leave the shard that has succumbed to the void, does that mean there's a chance that Zodiark will never regain his full power?

The Void was a failure. The Ascians accidentally flooded it way too quickly because they didn't know what they were doing yet so now it's fucked and the Lifestream was totally consumed by the dark, so there's nothing left to rejoin. There's more information on it during the role quests in Shadowbringers but if you want spoilers the Ascians apparently had a plan to save it which involved using the Flood of Light on the First. The Eden questline also seems to be heading toward using Eden to save it.

Cool, sounds great. Also, on Steam they have a bundle with the original game and Shadowbringers for $60. Do I not need the other two expansions also, or are they included in the base game now?

They come with Shadowbringers.

>Spoiler
i herd this entire raid storyline was a rip from something in VIII

There is no possible fucking way its only been a year since ARR, even with Atheryte travel the entire Stormblood campaign would have had to have taken a year in and of itself just to cross the ocean the multiple times we did not to mention the armies that joined us on both sides of the world. In Heavensward we walk from Uldauh to Ishgard. That would have taken Tataru, Alphinaud and the WoL at least a few months because of the limited airships. Im pretty sure the accepted timeframe between ARR and ShB is 2 to 3 years which would make Alphi and Alisae at least 19?

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>tanks no longer about focusing purely on damage mitigation and gemming/gear appropriately

What the fuck happened to modern MMOs?

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don't buy on steam lol buy from the square enix site

How do the Simpsons have multiple christmas episodes but Bart is still 10?
Just give it up dude, time doesn't pass in this game. Just accept you're lusting after a 16 year old elf and move on with your life.

Alright thanks. I thought that tenacity would be worth it since it says it reduces damage while also increasing damage done as a side bonus, but hadn't seen anyone really talking about tenacity.

You get all the mitigation you need from your tank cooldowns, so the rest of your gear should focus on getting more damage/health, with damage being the priority

Only Eden itself is from VIII. The story is original.
>There is no possible fucking way its only been a year since ARR
Word of god says it has been, and the story itself confirms it multiple times when they say it's been 20 years since Ala Mhigo, 25 years since Doma, 5 years since the Calamity, etc.
>Stormblood campaign would have had to have taken a year in and of itself just to cross the ocean the multiple times
According to the lorebook, a trip to the Far East is about 2 months. There are three canonical boat rides, so 6 months including the post-SB storyline.
>In Heavensward we walk from Uldauh to Ishgard.
No, you get a carriage ride to Camp Dragonhead. And even if you walked, Eorzea isn't that huge. A chocobo can run from Ul'dah to Gridania in a day.
>Im pretty sure the accepted timeframe between ARR and ShB is 2 to 3 years
It doesn't matter what people headcanon. Devs have confirmed that it hasn't been a year yet.

>Bought from Steam because I didn't expect I'd be playing this game for the amount of time that I have
Shit. There's no way to move accounts or anything, right?

I just want new models for the twins senpai, there is justification for it and the designers are just being lazy cunts.

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It's a solved easy game. You don't seem them on anything that requires flex on the fly thinking or anything requiring reflex

Yeah the devs are lazy and retarded. The time bubble explanation is literally aids but they never said that time hasnt passed bljust that we are experiencing a time bubble arounds the events in Eorzea.

Time has passed, but not a year because if they move forward in years then writing/talking about the lore gets more complicated, plus they want everyone to be on roughly the same page no matter when they started the game.

honestly the thought of all these non stop happenings in the world and you're in the spotlight in every single major conflict with zero rest and downtime sounds pretty dumb

Cant they do that with Instancing like they do with Doman reconstruction? They surely make enough money for that shit and its not like everyone experiences the same shit since most things are locked behind quest memes. What are they gonna allow people to access Ishgard housing pre reconstruction even if they haven't finished the Isgard story with the Archduke still in power rofl.

Eorzea's an exciting place. Plus think about how much other shit has gone on and has just been stopped by other heroes like Tenzen and Ramza. You don't generally hear about disasters that were averted.

What's the difference exactly? Do I get the game and all the expansions for $60?

They use a time bubble (i.e. "please just ignore the concept of time") because it's the only way anything in the game makes sense since you have all kinds of anachronistic shit going on in the game constantly, like a 1-hour long day/night cycle even though a year is still only 365 days like it is in real life, or seasonal events which clearly acknowledge the passing of years even though the same time couldn't possibly have passed in the main story, or a player at the end of the story being able to party together with someone who is at the beginning.

Time effectively doesn't exist in XIV and it's retarded to even argue about it because it's deliberately ignored. You are meant to ignore it. You may as well argue about the logic of Loony Tunes.

the difference is that buying on steam forces you to buy everything FFXIV from steam for all time unless you want to buy the square enix version too. 99% of people buy from square directly

I mean WoW does this along with other mmo's not allowing for a 1 to 1 time progression like in Even but showing a change in time by way of a change in enviroments and people. They instance retards that havent finished the quest allowing for the change to prevent and continuity problems fucking with immersion. Is it really that hard?

What Melee dps should I learn, coming from BLM and a tank

1. You need to buy all game expansions going forth from steam
2. You have to have the steam client running in the background to play

Phasing was one of the worst things to happen to WoW

My working theory goes like this:

{spoiler]Eden's function is to restore aetherial balance. The Ascians approach the few remaining people on the Thirteeth right before its destruction with a plan to create this thing in a last ditch effort to save their world. They agree and Eden is created. Since the Thirteenth is being flooded by Darkness, Eden is keyed up to start shitting Light out everywhere. But right as they're hitting the on switch, some Ascian fuckery yoinks Eden away to the First and it starts shitting Light there instead, causing the Flood of Light there. Voidwalked/Gaia comes screeching across the void in a bit to reclaim Eden for the sake of her world, thinking we're villains who stole Eden in order to fuck everythihng up. This is all made possible because the flow of time between the shards is completely fucked up.[/spoiler[

Phasing or instancing? Becuase we already have Instancing in FF.

Goddammit fucked the spoiler tag

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Oh, alright. Thanks for the heads up.

Phasing =/= instancing

>plays XIV
>call others weeb as an insult for playing it
everytime

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Can anyone post their crafting melding setup for the lv80 crafting set?

I mean Instancing is splitting up a populace for server population memes, while phasing is changing of environments and populations depending on how far ones progressed the story reflecting the environment as such. I dont understand why phasing for the sake of immersion is a bad thing?

So does the $20 starter edition include Heavensward and Stormblood? All I see are the starter edition and Shadow Bringers

Just Started Red Mage
Any tips? What food to eat? Also the materia to meld?

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20 dollar edition is just the base game. If you buy Shadowbringers you also get Heavensward and Stormblood with it as well.

Base game and a month free iirc, get the base game, there's more than enough content for you to gauge before sinking another 60 usd into the expac(which includes all the other games)

CH > DH > Spellspeed iirc

Oh ok. That makes more sense. I'm just used to how WoW does it (or used to anyway, it's been years) with having to buy each one separate.

If you set a zone to be phasing, people wont be able to see or play with other people until they have progressed as far as the farther person. If you change say, limsa to be phased, you will essentially make it so you never see a newer player until they finish the current story.

With a game the devs are literally trying their hardest so that everyone can play with each other, I really dont think they will do that.

If you just started rdm why are you asking about shit that doesn't matter until you hit 80, you have 30 levels to gain

user you better elaborate i need this in my life

Would it be so hard to have hubs render differently with different npcs for different people. Like you can see other people but they see different things. Or is the technology just not there yet. Also i dont see anyone in old zones anyway at this point rofl so I cant see the argument for playing with others.

Finish the Adder squadron.

Is it really that hard to suspend your disbelief for this one thing when you already do it for a hundred other things? The reason they don't do it isn't because it's hard, it's because the only people who care are turbo spergs. The time bubble approach works for the type of game they want to deliver.

The game actually DOES show things changing as you progress the story. NPCs appear and disappear depending on what you've done. Story characters might change in appearance like Y'shtola. There is even occasional environmental phasing like with Alexander. It simply never acknowledges how much time has passed because it doesn't matter and just invites more confusion.

Once you acknowledge time, it opens up other questions like "how can this happen at this time if this other thing happens here?" or "how could we have done both this and this in the same time period?". The point is it's irrelevant, the story happens the way it happens regardless of whether it takes place over a year, a month or a week. There is no reason to care, except some autists just can't let it go.

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Not wrong though

Trying to farm potd. might as well farm the potshards for the mount
>#2 has obtained potshard
>#3 has obtained potshard
fuck you game I opened the chest

But that's inherent to the race you little malformed goblin

where my highlander girls @

They're on /vg/, go there if you want to erp

My tater is MY malformed little goblin and don't you forget it, fucker.

I can't wait to see how they fuck up PvP once again in 5.1. Where the balance is for feast but the new map is fucking FL. Dumb devs.

HOW THE FUCK DO I MAKE MONEY WITHOUT CRAFTERS?

With Gatherers instead

Use retainers and send them out on the quick missions to get dye and sell that.

True it dosent stop me from calling the nips lazy and retarded for not doing it especially with all the money they make and how long each content drought is between patches. I can suspend my disbelief but they can also add a few more tidbits here and there to help with immersion/continuity.

the new map is dead after the first week when everyone gets the mount. it's a seize map.

Yeah that is because they have always fucked PvP. RW did one good thing and that was moving away from GC bullshit. Less premade reliance to win and making teams light parties instead. But it was dumb moba shit so no one liked it.

you're god damn right it's worth it
best fucking Final Fantasy story in several years

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>it's my birthday
>everyone left early
>no one to play/talk to in FFXIV

God I love current years MMOs.

>Make your game exactly like wow so I can still play wow but actually be playing a game with good story

Why do you even play this game? Just go back and leave us.

Sell dye and special clothing drops on RP servers, You'll make a killing. Also I just saw three RP people on a bed with a lalafell and two lions, i don't like where this is going

Thank you, user!

Grind high end PotD and HoH
and get mounts

Uh, forgetting something, retard?

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I guess this is the problem with the game actually being popular.

Can't you make do with a midlander?

Revolution is coming you little shit. The day of the boot draws near.

I like Rival Wings but its problems are that it's too confusing for first timers, and the gameplay is too reliant on the robots. There is almost no player-to-player PvP, you are either piloting a robot, attacking an enemy robot, or farming ceruleum so you can spawn more robots.

It also has no daily challenge bonus like Frontlines so people just don't bother to queue for it except at pre-organized times.

I want to impregnate her before leaving the First so that she'll always have a reminder of our time together.

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Maybe you just have shit friends. Or you didn't do enough to nurture your friendship. Regardless, you should do something nice for yourself. Happy birthday, user

How does allowing more forms of continuity detract from the gameplay? Kys you faggot.

>no doujin where the corruptied WoL fills her with his Light blessed seed

Same shit but in expert roulette
>FAGGOT has obtained GOOD MATERIAS
>ANOTHER FAGGOT has obtained GOOD MATERIAS
>you have obtained battledance VII

Every Titania NM I've had since early access ended has been like that. It's a mystery how the people who play this game manage to even breathe.

Even shit materia is useful to reroll into Craft/Gather materia

Is there porn that doesn't have OCs? Haven't looked yet

Actually I don't they're basically family and they left around midnight EST because everyone was working tomorrow, thank you! PLEASE BE ON SIREN

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desu this is close to my /played to get 60 in wow classic

Yikes. Red flags all over this one. Run away very fast.

2.0 and on is stuck in a perpetual time bubble where "enough" time has passed to make a story make sense, but not enough to actually make a difference. We somehow simultaneously spent months on the boat to Kugane, but it's still also been less than a year since we first came to our starting city, stopped Gaius' plans, ended the Dragon Song war, liberated Ala Mhigo and Doma and saved the First.

>it's still also been less than a year since we first came to our starting city, stopped Gaius' plans, ended the Dragon Song war, liberated Ala Mhigo and Doma and saved the First
WoL is just really good at doing impossible shit.

...

I'm a 34 years old straight white dude, I was only joking obviously.

I'm on crystal, user. Sorry. You deserve a happy birthday though. Seriously do something nice today. Eat some good food or see a movie! Treat yourself
>emotions are bad
Don't you have some fanfiction to write?

Damage is the end-all be-all of the FFXIV meta, so while Tenacity was created specifically to be a tank stat, it provides less damage up than other stats, so no one cares about it.

>he isn't already lvl 60 on wow and 80 on XIV
Nigga what are you doing

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The true bitch of it is, there's a built-in reason for why they won't get a model update when we go back to the Source, since far less time has passed there than on the First.

Well treat yourself and love yourself you bitch ass nigger.

take your pills Y'shtolafag

Just make sure you get on a striking dummy and learn the basics of how RDM actually uses it's Dual Cast.

Man, fuck off. It's perfectly fine and acceptable to criticize things you don't like in a game you do like. Especially on Yea Forums, of all places.

I play male Au'ra and have this same issue. I look too edgy to be taken seriously.

>he plays classic

Fuck off Barry

If you really want to make money, there are hundreds of ways to do it. But you don't even need to actively try to make money. Just play the game normally and have your retainers sell shit and you'll gradually build up more gil than you know what to do with.

If you're looking for a fun/easy way to make a bit of money (not a lot, but a bit) just run map parties. Even if you don't win any of the major drops, just the gil you get from each chest adds up quick.

It's also part of the reason why Koji/that-other-guy waved off any questions asking about the passage of time at fanfests.

>FFXIV porn
>without OCs
Good one

Gridany
Neko Daisuki

seething
Good thing he stepped in to keep your game alive.

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then what?

I liked the story near the end, and some of the character interactions, but it was a fucking mess, with an even worse climax

I'm level 55 now
This class is hella fun now i get all my spells and to balance the magic. The job storyline is pretty good to, now i just need to dye everything red now

I hate to ask when you're already spoonfeeding, but where should I search for those?

>i just need to dye everything red now
My glamour game for the colored mages is held back so much by my autism insisting I use the appropriate colors but I would go fucking nuts if I didn't do it

You figure we'll ever get an Ult that is OC, or would that piss-off the casuals too much for not being able to do an 'exclusive' fight?

Sadpanda, of course. Where else?
If you have not even heard of Sadpanda, you need to stop posting and lurk more.

Excellante

Ryne tho
The one with Sadu is good as fuck too

Best girls by expansion
ARR: Kan-E Senna
HW: Hilda
SB: Sadu
SHB: Emet-S.. hahaha just kidding of course it's Ryne.

That one was such an unexpected blessing.

I thought the sadu one was laughably bad.

>Hilda
>Sadu

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The real answer for all of them is Momodi

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I just beat ARR and got a fantasia. What race to I change to?

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Midlander

Yes, that is exactly how I looked when I heard someone was fapping to that. Same with that moogle raping Yda/Lyse.

>He doesn't like hot Xiela gf with attitude

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It's a consequence of tight enrage timers.

I'm wondering the same thing as a Lala
I was thinking of trying a Miqote lad because of these stupid fucking images for some reason

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Ryne came out when c96 was being hosted. Might have to wait for a while for doujins. Also all the people who posted Ryne lewds using the ffxiv engine got banned.

The reason they could do ultimates is that they were reusing assets and even mechanics.
They have some budget for new stuff in ultimates, but it's not much, like that ultima enrage was a new thing.

That's what you think.

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to live is to suffer

>I was thinking of trying a Miqote lad because of these stupid fucking images for some reason
Be careful, if you want to do it to get cuties like that in game, you'll more than likely just get dudes.

Sea Wolf Roe?

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>Roe
eh
>Sea Wolf
Fuck no, holy shit.

yes

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Ignore the animal memes and potatoes.
Join the elf club.

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Put a helmet on, then it'll look good.

Nothing stopping them from recycling models and slapping a new skin on top. Mechanics/animation recycling is nothing new either for raids. How many times now have they reused Titan gaols in other fights in a variety of different colours?

Pic unrelated, but someone here will be baffled by it none the less.

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One of the better Roes I've seen.

Fucking HOT

If you're trying to sell elves why would you post that enormous prancing faggot shit

God I wish each female race got the option to make characters with larger milkers. That would give me a reason to either play titty monster Roe and or a shortstack Lala. Fuck the tiny tits we have in game.

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you got the sans undertale eye

just mod it then

Grown men playing as little children or lady furries is not faggoty shit to you then eh?

b-b-b-b-but that's what the erpers do!!

Not compared to that collection of half naked cockgobblers, no.

there are only male furries in this game and potatos look like fucked up dolls not kids or any human being for that matter

eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/18346512/blog/4029462/

I'd rather the devs allow us to have user-defined variables to build macros off of. That way we can make proper toggles without needing to swap hotbar sets like an idiot to do so.

what is the point of this? I'm kinda retarded. This seems super useless.

This is basically how I feel most of the time, just make the Miqo'te a couple shades darker. And replace the Viera with a Miqo'te christmas cake woman and the other Viera with a bunch of random Au Ra crafters.

Let's you not waste precious hotbar space (since we only have 10) for menu-related business, especially with regards to class switching. At this point I could really use a class-switch radial wheel.

I just want to wear hats on my Rabbit. Why can the fucking cats display headgear but my bunny can't? I'm willing to spend the $10 to get a Fantasia and make a fucking potato at this point.

miqo'te christmas cakes... sounds like my character

Trying to. Frontlines is easy but can't get any wins on Feast, won 2 matches out of 10 I think. I've read up on it and sorta know what to do but also it is just not fun. The only mount I really want is Magna Roader and they keep it locked behind seasons of this shit.

>At this point I could really use a class-switch radial wheel.
Just open your gearset list you lazy fag

That's such a good idea.

I only have NIN PLD DRK. I'm pissed that WAR doesn't share with DRK despite their gear being the same, yet all casters are one set.

Don't make a Potato.
They're really cute and endearing at first but you'll grow tired of it after a while. Same for Roe and Hrothgar desu
Trust me senpai.

rabbit ears are not the same as cats so they dont work with most headgear

>Proposed idea: hold button, move mouse/analog-stick in direction of class, let go to switch

>Brilliant user: Open character window, click gear list, scroll down to the class you want, right-click it, equip

Will I be able to prog e4s with an ilvl453 or should I wait for more gear? I'll be dps'ing.

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You'd still have to equip the fucking gear set you want for the class you've switched to so you've saved no time at all. Good job fag.

Is there a complete collection anywhere?

Hang yourself Epperson

You know you can just drag out the gearset from the list and put it on hotbar right?
Also you don't change job/class so often to warrant such feature.

I'm five years in and could never change off Lala. The main reason is that i feel way too fucking slow playing as anyhting else even if it's all placebo.

>Radial menu is the list of gearsets you have saved in order of ID
Good thing the game already has an option to reassign the ID too for organizing purposes.

What race would you recommend? Or should I just stick with my Viera?

I cleared 4s week 2 as i453 SAM.
Though at this point if you're not in static you're just being dead weight not having at least 460 (or even i470 since you only need 4 levi tokens to get it).

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So now you just want the exact same gear set menu but with one less click. Stop being so lazy zoomzoom

Prog? That's fine. The fight is really easy, In my opinion easier than 3. The only challenging part of it is hoping your healers don't get greedy and conserve MP for the last minute of the fight, they need to heal spam and a lot get into of the mindset of "raise first then heal" and then people die because they didn't get topped off. Phase 1 is the hardest, which isn't that hard if you respect the few mechanics it has.

Epperson would just make his own wouldn't he...

>You know you can just drag out the gearset from the list and put it on hotbar right?
You know there's 29 classes right? That's two and a half hotbars.

Epperson is the one who made the screenshot collection and he's here in every single fucking thread posting one of them and then responding to his own post asking for a collection.

What about it? Are your hotbars so filled up with some other shit you couldn't spare 2 and half on it?

They give you twelve fucking hotbars. What sort of bullshit are you filling that many bars with if not class switching buttons?

Now you can be a lying nigger and tell me that you play all 29 constantly. Or you can be honest and tell me which you actually play.

It uses up 4 bars, how is that saving hotbar space? It just uses less screen real estate and looks cool.

>mfw filling up my hotbars with useless emotes and shit and still have enough space for everything crucial

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You mean 460 weapon, right? If so, I'll have it next week so that'll help. I don't mind waiting until then.

>The fight is really easy, In my opinion easier than 3.
That's crazy considering how braindead easy e3s is. I'm an absolute shitter at raiding and it took me a day to clear meanwhile e2s took me a week and a half.

You have a nice character.

thank you

5 for active hotbars for classes
2 positioned about in 4x3 grid for onscreen skill procs for jobs that warrant it (BRD, DNC, etc)
1 for misc shit (non-raid pots, chocobo commands, UI toggles)
1 for LB with nothing else on it
2 for gearsets
1 for marks

Not every bar is full (obviously the LB one plus the 2 proc hotbars), but every one has its own use case.

>all this hotbar talk
>and here i am using a controller

>spend an entire big fish window trying to get the last fish for my intuition buff
fucking why

that's XCOM baby. I'm still not sure of the appeal of it though. I only fish to craft.

Yes. You should get at least high green if you know the basics of your job and don't have BiS (but not

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Go play BDO if you wanna jack off to your character all day. We don't need more gamers like you running around.
besides it wouldn't work anyway with how the textures are handled; hope you like seeing giant pixels stretched across your tits

Phase 1 punishes greed, so that's why it's hard to "figure out" for some people, since you're trying to optimize. Phase 2 has braindead easy pf strats but a lot of retards watched the MTQ video which over complicates a mechanic or two. Still easy though. P3 is just free uptime for dps, but entirely reliant on hoping your healers actually heal/don't die. Same thing with tanks, if either of them dies, 90% you're fucked because the healers have to spend the MP to raise which means they will probably not have the MP to keep the party alive.

big fishing is fun, it's neat seeing fish lore and everything.

10 hotbars is more than enough. You literally only need 3 at most for job abilities and the rest you can do whatever the fuck you want with. Unless you're loading them with emotes, I have no idea how you could be running out.

>You literally only need 3 at most for job abilities
I need four for my jobs for the way my hotkeys are set-up with my mouse. Fifth row I use for PVP shit on battle classes (UI toggle for it when not in use), and crafting, thanks to the amount of macros I use in addition to some manual shit.

I'm glad you enjoy it. I don't think I could get behind waiting weeks to roll the dice at a 1% chance of a fish catch.

Real talk, new to the game, lv55, how the hell do I track and do stuff like this so I can see how well I'm doing as my role? Or is this only for the most end of end game stuff and as such I'll not have access towards things like this for months more to go?

I have an MMO mouse and I only use 3 hotbars with some space leftover, where I put food and LB. Hell on some jobs I still don't even use every space on those 3 bars.
Two bars for miscellaneous bullshit like WT, glamour/dyes, chocobo stuff, mounts, teleport, etc.
Two bars for job switching, three if you have crafters leveled

And that's at least 3 left for whatever you want. Macros, etc.

That's a website called fflogs. You can use a third-party program called ACT to parse your damage output in fights, then upload it to fflogs to compare your performance to other players.
You wouldn't really be using this outside of current Savage fights though.

It's quite annoying at times but when you finally stand up off your chair and reel it in, it's all worth it.

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Is the fflogs parsing percentiles at this point in the raid tier just speed kill crap? I'm getting low purples as SCH, but I've also not been pumping pots ever since our enrage timers became a non-issue after week 2.

Pretty much. Chances are you won't see past 95 unless you're super optimized.

The long term effects and impacts of potions are extremely overrated
Healer damage parses are just all about letting your cohealer handle as much as possible while you spam Glare or Broil

Not impossible
>got 2 stacks of damage down on E2S this week and still pulled a 96 on BLM

>Greyt dps after greyt dps in levi groups
>Just want to get back to Titan work
I've been desperate enough to join clear for x parties or even stay in surprise bonus parties, but of course they've all been memes.

The shit you see on that image is generated through a tool and a website mentioned by other user, usually posted for endgame stuff. You could always use ACT to check your self and other's performance everywhere but bear in mind that using ACT (parsing) in dungeons matters not, and doing it on lower level trials as well, but at least gives you an idea how well you are doing. I would not bother parsing

I'll live not hitting orange. One more reset to go and my group is on vaycay until the Ult next month.

Hopefully the devs find some happy medium between UCoB & UWU this time. Didn't like how cut & dry the majority of UWU's mechanics handling was compared to UCoB, which had more RNG in its setups/ongoing mechanics.

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It's harder now for support jobs like your SCH if your team is unable to take full advantage of your damage buffs. I can still get fairly easy 95+ runs on NIN with competent groups, but it becomes much harder with pugs who are unable to burst every 60 seconds

Is this dude on Balmung?

>nero only got purple
poor fella. no wonder he's always trying to one up Cid.

We only got DRG and DNC for group buffs, which only means pairing myself with a weaker TA every Chain (which I can't cover the full duration of, plus SE nerfed it this expac), and Litany every other Chain.

Unrelated to my group comp, I'm curious if RDM would still be garbage if they buffed Embolden to be straight 10% dmg boost (instead of physical-only for the party), with no decay. Why does the decay even exist? No other job has that kind of penalty.

>drg friend almost begging me to join his e2s party as heals because he wont be able to raid until next week
>we clear
>he links me the logs
>those numbers didn't look that awf-
>summoner
I mean he didn't die that's a good thing but THAT PERCENTILE IMPLIES THERE ARE WORSE SUMMONERS THAT CLEARED? MY CAPS LOCK IS FUCKY BTW FUCK HOLDING SHIFT

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Thanks for the heads up. being a PLD and I don't know if doing my opener if it's better to hit my damage boost at my 3 and then spirits within, or just hit it at the start of my 1 and spirits within right away and go from there. Among other things as well, but I feel like it's the little things that'll get me in higher content, and if I don't get them down -now- it'll hurt later.

Keep in mind that the entire pool of logs also contains people who died numerous times throughout the kill but could get carried by their party due to item creep, people who are ilvl 440 in week 8 and so on.
DPS =/= Skill

Believe it or not, Devilment and and Litany will actually boost the overall effectiveness of your Chain. Numerous SCH's have told me that having a DRG alone in their party is a pretty big gain for their own individual parse

In regards to RDM, it would be better with Embolden losing its decay, but likely still trash. The job identity needs to honestly be reconsidered as a whole I think. Especially since SMN is basically a stronger "support" caster in every capacity more or less, and even that job is dwarfed by BLM currently

>WHM doing more than both tanks
Was he relatively overgeared in comparison or something?

How exactly do people take advantage of other players' damage buff windows when you have a rotation to push through anyway? What can you change that consists of burst?
>BLM
>Dump all your Xenos
>Monk
>Dump all your shoulder tackles

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SE needs to drop the 'support' considerations for casters unless they decide to remove Addle from BLM to weaken its raid prog appeal, given how much of a clincher it can be for allowing healers to minmax the amount they need to heal/shield for the big hits.

Some jobs have different optimal openers based on job comp to make full use of when the expected burst window opens (usually 4th GCD).

Even if you bork something as you level up you have tools like practice dummies to train on at max level anyway

I'VE BEEN IN QUEUE FOR CASTRUM ABANIA FOR 30 MINUTES

THE AVERAGE TIME WAS 10 MINUTES WHEN I STARTED AND NOW IT'S ALSO 30 MINUTES

WHEN AM I ACTUALLY GONNA GET IN?

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Oh. I guess thats what my static-mate was talking about when he was talking about using a trick attack opener when he wasn't a ninja

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PLD playstyle/opener changes a lot on level 78 or 80 so dont worry too much for low level, but it's good to read your skills and use them in order since very early
You are doing good because you should be using Fight or Flight after Fast Blade for maximum efficiency, and spirits after rage of halone(royal authority) but you could always hold on spirits for a bit if you know you wont be topped any time soon

If you are using an optimal opener, every big CD should basically line up with buff windows as long as you are pressing everything on CD. That said, with the advent of rDPS, the benefits of complex optimizations are largely finished. Just press everything without charges on CD, and things like Wildfire or Phoenix should line up naturally

Agreed. I would also like to see melee go in this direction of losing their raid utility in favour of buffing their own damage. At the very least, I'm looking forward to Trick being adjusted in 5.1

Can someone explain how, as a MCH, having roughly the same amount of casts in the same kill times rape me by like 500 rdps? I'm VERY close to raid bis and somehow I still only get like blue on titan. I'm not a great player by any means but I genuinely don't understand it? There's no fuckin way one extra drill is making his skills hit harder

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Or penalize greedy jobs by giving them less personal utility, like losing Arms Length,therefore forcing more situations of either sucking it up and running, or holding a gap-closer ability for a bit.

WAIT.

Did you complete the Crystal Tower questline? If not, go the fuck back to the source and finish it before you get too far into the Shadowbringers story.

>enchanted redoublement now applies a 5% self-buff for magic damage that lasts 30 seconds
>new skill, enchanted remise, same potency and mana cost but applies a 30 second DoT to the enemy
>both are melee combo finishers that trigger holy/flare
Rate my plan for buffing RDM damage while simultaneously raising the skill ceiling

I don't know what fucking job you're playing to help you

I kinda want her to get the yellow hair back when she powers up, as to bringing up the full power of the oracle but it looks like she's going SS. Then come back to her normal hair color when not in combat

Compare adps for one-on-one figures.

potion, food buff, raid buff alignment
bear in mind weapon and chest/legs BiS matters a lot

Become better.

If Epperson is the person who made all of these, then you are absolutely wrong about him posting them in every thread. I post lewd Ryne at every opportunity because she's a miracle and anons deserve to see her in all her glory.

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I don't fucking care.

GIVE ME THE LINK EPPERSON!! I WANT TO FAP!!! NOW!

Isn't rdps without those raid buffs, though?

I get what you're going for with the blind eye, but heterochromia is never okay.

Literally just go through the motions.
Ignore everything your team is doing. The new FFlogs ADPS system is absolute cancer because it makes playing around other peoples buffs an ADPS loss. Treat every fight like a training dummy.

Sounds like you're doing absolutely fine and shouldn't worry about it so much. If you can improve your DPS, that's great, but it's not necessary.

Drill is 700 potency. Anything higher than a roughly 80 to 100 potency loss is considerable in the results of your final parse

That sort of happened with Surecast getting the insanely massive nerf from being 30 to 120 seconds. On the contrary, True North is an absolute joke now with it having 2 charges at 45 seconds each. As a result, MNK literally has no positional requirements anymore. It would be cool to see the skill ceiling get higher, but I only see the opposite happening as time progresses unfortunately

Sounds like something a selfish DPS shitter would say. My job actually has a raid buff and that means using it properly help make my numbers better. Also who the fuck gives a fuck about adps?

>want to finish all four role quests before ShB MSQ
>decide to level SMN and SCH to unlock their respective role quests as they are the ones I'm missing
>unlock SMN and SCH
>test SCH in a squadron dungeon

What the fuck, this is easy mode leveling. Just run, aggro and let Eos heal the bots. Thanks Yoshi.

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Cry more faggot. I drift my Tsubame Gaeshi and Higanbana just to fuck with you buff sluts.
Adjust.

>another 101 brute leeches wasted trying to get this bucket
plz..

>i reduce the party's DPS because I'm mad that i can't claim other people's rDPS contribution as my own damage
Yikes my dude. You know support jobs were gutted right and even with the fflogs change you selfish jobs are still beating them in total rDPS right? That's just some petty ass shit

Monk can nullify their positionals, at most, 72% of the time (if you can maintain perfect RoE uptime, which you probably can't). But since ALL of their weaponskills are positionals, all that would mean is that they end up having to do roughly the same amount of positionals as every other melee.

FFXIV also has shitty meta infrastructure compared to the size of it's player base. The only thing that people are on top of is creating an up to date Fashion Report guide every week.

Eh? There's quite a few resources for just about everything out there.

>it actually took 35 minutes

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Not him but you're a faggot. The only thing that matters these days when getting recruited for a potential spot into a raid group is your rDPS/aDPS. Gear factors into this as well as experience, but logs are main priority. You can bet people will want, naturally, to get the best numbers possible to be considered over another player.

it's okay to be grey

>has no argument

Might as well put "i'm a fag" in your job cv, so your employers can know how gay you are in real life.

Raid trannies take your shit to /vg/

Keep seething, i'm enjoying my easy oranges now that you padded trannies can't steal them anymore.

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>buzzwords

I'm really getting into your mind, ain't I? You think this game's endgame is anything to brag about? The incoming ultimate will filter you cocky arrogant shitters back to WoW or your single player game of choice.

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I will clear it like I cleared the others.

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the only only thing u clear is your ass to make way for more dick lmao

I'l also clear it too :)

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>parse trannies invade the thread

> leveled Bard to 70
> enjoy playing it, love the multi tasking, get more then one player commendation sometimes, never die
> get bored of it tho
> buy a 70 boost for Dragoon
> pretty easy to get skills down, looks cool
> try doing some raids, trials, and dungeons
> am constantly dying
> have to pay a ton of attention to positioning to not die and to maximize damage
> healers get tired of rezing me
Fuck I didn't realize how easy Bards have it, I can see the entire battlefield, jump wherever the Hell I want, and can buff myself & others.
Should I just go into Shadowbringers with my Bard? I feel like if I'm gonna continue Bard I'll have to fantasia into some qt female.

I can clear more than one thing.

>boosting
never ever if you've never played the job, bro.
Now that you have, just learn the flow, learn what you can do for movement and figure it out if you're really wanting to play it.

out of the way shiters.im the only one who will ever clear it

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>boosting
>plays like shit

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This is why you never buy boosts.
It's one thing to just read the skills, it's another to learn how to use em from the ground up.

looks like he is going to clear his hairline first

>finally lvling MNK
>was afraid to mess up the form mechanic
>it’s actually intuitive
>having fun
My only complaint for now at lvl 53 is that I wish punches really felt like they punched something

what do you have more fun playing pick that

Is it fun? I'm about to start ShB and want to learn a melee dps. Leaning towards DRG/SAM but wanted to try MNK too.

You spent 300 hours on a game you didn't find fun in the holes that it pays off. Why not just find a video game you like from the get go jesus christ.

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>I wish punches really felt like they punched something
You won't really get that any more than where you are now, their whole point is being the fast motherfuckers.
DRG is my pick, but I'll admit I haven't done the other two to 80 yet. But I love Geirskogul, Nastrond and Stardiver.

dilate

i made mine have black skin and white eyes like a neo ff9 vivi so it's perfect

the fuck are you talking about

Personally I’m having fun with it. Of course like every ARR job, it gets more interesting after lvl 30.
That said my first melee job was SAM but I spent some time learning how it works before jumping into dungeons and stuff.
Still you should pick the one you think you’ll have the most fun with. Just be aware that contrary to MNK and DRG, SAM has weak party utility

Kek I played Lancer to about 15 and had fun, I make money and all jobs are on one character, not to mention all the jobs that start at 50 and now 60. So boosting one job to 70 and playing thru all the dungeons sounded like a fun side project. Again the combos are easy peazy it's just dodging shit that's taking a getting used to once I passed 50 content with DRG.
I found out to just follow other Bards in raids helps much. Also didn't realize how fucking cluttered Alliance raids were.
However my obvious mistake was not realizing that just because it looks cool doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy how it plays. So, lesson learned, am still gonna play it some more.
My real life job requires an incredible amount of multi tasking at once so playing Bard feels very similar and therefore very easy for me.

Works on female casters

She's 100% coming with us. Remember she has Minfillia's source juices.

My logs are utter shit.
I'm saving first life on all but Leviathan and try to line up my eye, lance charge and battle litany to either FT or CT, always trying to grab 9 gcds out of them.
I'm 1 coating, 1 twine, gloves and weapon away from full BiS.
What the fuck is wrong with me?

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I don't know about you but I checked myself on the analysis website and it turned out I was doing a lot of double weaving the jumps and mirage, as well as geirskogul and nastrond. I suppose that is a huge dps loss.

Do males play healers

theoryjerks.akhmorning.com/stats/ten/
That's because Ten is shit

Try this, man. You obviously have to account for the fight, but it seriously looks like you're doing something wrong rotationally?
xivanalysis.com/

Yes but mostly by necessity when the raid team needs one.

people of all races and genders play all jobs

Maximum autism

That's the thing, the DRG rotation ain't that hard and I'm pretty sure I'm getting the basic one two three down, so it has to be down to the way I line my CDs.
Also sadly xivanalysis is useless for DRG.
Wait, why is geirskogul and nastrond in the same wave a dps loss?

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yes but I make my healer characters girls

I guess because two of them is enough of an animation lock to clip the next GCD according to that website. But yeah I really don't know why I'm doing so bad as DRG either.

Ranged physical is one of the hardest to actually get high orange on because it's filled with botters. Since you only have to move around, an ACR profile can do your entire rotation perfectly.
>playing ranged physical in 2019
That's literally why Yoship nerfed ranged physical so hard. We're probably going to see cast bars readded just to fuck with botters.

That might either be you lagging the nastrond a bit or your skillspeed because I double tap gerskogul when it's ready in a single weave window and these are the only clips the website reports.

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You can't do anything else without triggering some snowflake.

is that really why my friend who's top dps if i'm not playing one still ends up gray?

Try asking on The Balance, they'll be able to give a more thorough breakdown of your performance

Sam is really smooth and fun

I've been having a lot of strange possibly lag-related issues with E2S nyxes killing me from nowhere when as soon as guillotine goes off, and E3S puddles dropping at the same time he does the waves. Skills have also been unresponsive. I have a good 100mbit internet connection otherwise though.

yeah fair I came here first because it's anonymous and I don't want members of my static to know what I'm doing wrong.

>I don't want members of my static to know what I'm doing wrong.
Well they already know you're parsing gray, so they should already be breathing down your neck. Going and asking for help on the discord will at least signal you're trying to improve.

You beat the game every three months. You hit the level cap of the expansion in a week. Is this really an MMORPG? The game isn't difficult unless you want to memorize some dumb routine. This seems like a retirement home for gamers.

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k

mfw i started to the Anima relic grind a few days ago
mfw im stuck on part 3 where you need a shit ton of Poetics

The grind fucking sucks but that Terpander Lux looks so fucking good

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How to level gathering, just go out and gather random shit and sell it, or some better way?

Collectables and sucking your own dick

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You will have to do grind leves for MIN/BTN until lvl 50, and for fisher you have to manually fish your ass to 50.
After you get there it's all on autopilot and sunshine. Focus on getting either MIN or BTN to 50 first then get enough collectables to buy survival manuals and level the other two using that.

>haven't played it yet
>game now has an actual year of content to get through

I wish i was a lala again just to wear the dwarven cotten set

HEY I'M A ROEBRO. I THINK I WENT WARRIOR.
I HAVEN'T PLAYED FOR MONTHS.
MAYBE I WAS LEVEL 40? 50?

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OP said they did it in 10 days

Only if i have to or for role quests

Bros....

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Bashing tranny fantasy makes me a tranny.

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>survival manuals
damn, 14 levels to go for min i guess. What do those manuals do?

Doubles? Exp gain until its gotten you an extra 300k.

+150% exp, you'll be earning 2.5x times the exp from all but quest rewards.

>bought a house in G*let at meh spot
>Keeping tabs on 2-3 plots that i actually like but i know i wont get them
>Dont want to decorate my house in current spot
>Realise i have no idea how to decorate it anyway
Why did i buy a house btw.

Damn that is pretty sweet.

The worst parts are the umbrite and aetheric light. Putting a PF together to farm light for any relic is pretty hard right now.

TOOK TOO LONG

GAME IS DEAD
EVERYONE UNSUBBED, maybe they come back for neir raid?

It feels like with each swing people burn out faster and faster. 5.5 will be a fucking ghost town from the get go.

I get queues on aether even tho i log in at weird hours

because theres nothing else to do in the game and money is pointless

D-daddy

thavnairian onion farming

>you get there it's all on autopilot and sunshine
how ?

>feel like raiding
>don't have friends who want to raid in a static
Guess I'm not raiding

Raiding with your friends is a bad idea anyway. Eventually one of them will turn out to be a shitter and you'll risk your relationship when you tell them to press the right buttons

I don't care about them being shit I'd just like to play the game with them

Collectibles, custom deliveries, and you can do Namazu dailies as DoL once you hit 60.

The queues are proven fake retard.

that's 10 days game time I assume, as in 24 hours playtime for one day and that's probably only the main story line, crafting and gathering are the real time sinks and then all the small additional shit like the gold saucer for example, we can argue how this is content is shit and all, but here is a lot of stuff to do in this game.

You'll eventually care about them being shit when you can't pass e2s cause one of them is doing 5k

You doomsayers are funny people

ah

I legitimately don't care. I like playing with my friends.

I guess 240 hours is okay across 3 games.

lmao cope doomtards

There can be no one on the server and there is a queue. Tested this with server restarts. I shouldn't have a queue yet they make a fake queue to pretend people are playing in a server with no one on it.

>fake queues
this is the weirdest cope

>server restarts
You mean when literally everyone is trying to sign in?????

Fake and queue.

Will 5.1 MSQ be a let down compared to the master class of 5.0?

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>manually fish
If you have controller it's super easy, especially if you have 2 monitors but not required
1. enable "controller works when game not selected"
2. go fishing
3. alt-tab to a movie
4. controller vibrates when fish bites.
Sure probably won't get any rare fishes this way because mooching/looking for tugs is impossible this way but its afk and its easy.

We have no clear set up about who could be the 5.3 kino trial yet, are there any theories?

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Literally nothing I the story has let me down since 3.1 so I doubt it.

You are pretty dumb if you don't understand what a queue is. There shouldn't be a queue if the server is fucking empty.

Sin Eater Ranjit

The Squall fight isn't going to be as good as the Selphie one.

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Sin Eater Ryne.

Its going to be ranjit's dragon wearing ranjit as armor.

There's that rumor that Zenos will get his hands on Odin's sword and become Raiden

But I've already killed Raiden

>Zenos turns off his pain inhibitors.

Based

Sin Eater Krile

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The queues are for a large amount of players signing in at once, afaik, doesn't actually have anything to do with the amount of people in game.

As someone that understands server technology I will explain how shit fun fantasy servers are. Most modern servers are able to allow multiple people to login at the same time in other video games. However FF14 is unique where regardless of server population everyone is given a number and must wait in line as the servers don't have enough ports to allow multiple login attempts. This is also why classic world of warcraft was recently under a ddos attack. A large number of people can login at the same time. In final fantasy 14 a ddos is much harder to perform as why the servers after all these years never got one ddos.

In short the game has ddos protection or just extremely shitty servers. My vote is on the second choice. Especially since the game is so heavily Instanced and segmented as the game can't handle large volumes of people in large areas.

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Explain why every other multiplayer game is able to have multiple people login at the same time yet FF14 can't?

Was I defending it? No, sounds dumb but it probably keeps the fucking servers up after the shit show that was Stormblood launch lol.

MSQ is an absolute fucking slog and the reason FFXIV has, and always will have trouble maintaining its playerbase. Survivor bias means people that do actually manage to stick it out will never complain, and veterans that only had to do it as current content won't remember it as being so bad, but as a fresh player looking to see what all the hype is about, a subscription based game asking you to invest 300 or so hours or cough up an extra 60 dollars alongside your sub, the base game, and Shadowbringers is not just unrealistic but insulting.
I have first hand experience trying to introduce people to the game and burning out before ever getting to current content because of just how long and tedious the MSQ is. Out of 9 people I've tried to get into the game, only one actually still plays it, and only five actually got past ARR and the utter headache that is the Seventh Astral Era quests.

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O/

MSQ is 50% of the reason to play the game, even ARR. If they don't enjoy it, they won't enjoy the endgame anyway.

Why do people shit on the Astral Era questline?
>2.1 sucks yes that's unforgivable
>shit actually happens FAST even if it's filler
>get headquarters for the scions at a place WITH an aetheryte next to it
>the assault on the sahuagin with like 9 hours of cutscenes
>the Unforgettable Luncheon
the only thing I'd find insufferable in those 100 quests is the fact that the moogles have any relevance at all.

It's long and filled with dialog so it's bad I just want to fight things :((

That is bad considering all I remember is I'm the warrior of light and ascians were the dark. everybody died a couple times but came back to life. Ishgard was rad but they fagged it up with the dragons being the good guys. Stormblood was Stormblood, hated Domasia except for the Steppe. The side quests were all forgotten including most DoH/L ones except for the Alchemist and the Pugilist ones were memorable. I have everything leveled to at least 70.

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But there's like 5 trials and a good number of dungeons in there! Compared to, y'know, 3 trials in 2.0.

>Implying you can even take the scenes seriously by how the way NPCs move their necks/heads while they talk

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The filler quests, the sheer number of quests, and the placement of the content on the timeline itself make for a terrible experience all around. Imagine if in WoW, before you could move onto Burning Crusade content, you had to attune to all the end-game content from Vanilla that no one else wants to do, is outdated to the current game's mechanics, and is an all around mess designed by a relatively incompetent dev team.

Actually 6 to be fair. If you're counting Steps of Faith I'll gladly count the Chrysalis.
Only 2 dungeons though iirc? Snowcloak and KotL.
I'm sad I can't do ARR right away for NG+.

Well if you don't like the MSQ those people should 100% quit. The content of the game is the story. If people find the story shit they should fully unsub.

I wouldn't call the gameplay or gearing system of FF14 that good, only great part is through story. If people quit because the story is shit they quit for the right reasons as that is the major feature.

Sure, but when you've only played 2.0, it's a fuckin' breath of fresh air. And then at the end you get the treat of moving onto some of the best main story in the game.

That's fine Keeper of the Lake is a dope dungeon so I'll count it as several.

FFXIV story, while pretty good for a Final Fantasy game, when delivered through a series of fetch quests and filler, makes it intolerable. It's like reading a novel via individual fortune cookie slips.

I think content design is the other important part of the game (and I'm talking content, from dungeons, to savage, to ultimate, to fishing) and FFXIV still does that well so I think even if you don't like the story there's SOMETHING but overall yes. The story, even ARR, needs to be acknowledged to really enjoy the game.

I'm actually not a big fan of the bosses in KotL besides the last one. Dungeon run itself is really fun though.

>Sure, but when you've only played 2.0, it's a fuckin' breath of fresh air
I can tell you 0 of those 9 people felt that way. It was compared to running into a wall during a marathon.
Post-patch content is great when it's current content, but it's nothing but a sharp decline in action and quest quality when it's already established content.

The 7th Astral Era shit made me drop the game the first time around.
I only came back several years later and made it to Shadowbringers which I enjoyed very much, and I'm still playing the game now

I mean, I felt that way. I even told my friend "what the fuck, everything's happening so fast, I don't need to find 3 different colored crystals across the world because my WoL can't say WIND CRYSTAL PLEASE before fighting Ramuh, I don't need to find goblin cheese to fight Shiva".

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The Job system, instanced content, music, armor design, etc. is all stellar. As a WoWfugee I can tell you that I give absolutely 0 shits about the story- I've unapologetically skipped every cutscene the game has handed me and have been enjoying everything else.
I don't mind the story, though I do wish it didn't make leveling with other players virtually impossible, and even when the game isn't throwing you into a solo duty every other quest, you're just running back and forth talking to people and there isn't really any reason to do it with someone else.

>enjoyed the game all the way from level 1 to 80, ARR included
low levels were comfy.
Bandwagoners fuck off.

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good for you but you are also probably autistic

2.0 scooby doo is more vexing in turn
>All of the quest involving cid before he remember's he's cid
>The god damn slyphs is outright just stupid fetch quest that ends with "Oh yeah never mind!"
>The ENTIRE lead up to ultama...and then the resulting two slogs that no one's going to explain how they work and you get dragged along into them anyway with some of the most piss poor bosses the game's had to date.

At least the Crystal Braves and the turncoat plot, along with the primals (Outside fo moogles) and midgar's dickery is redeemable for 2.x, but 2.0 is in and of itself a painfully dull slog, and you end up out leveling it WAY before you complete it, but you can't even GET the unlock classes TILL you beat it either!

Same, I loved the low level stuff. Really felt like I was working my way up to greatness. Then the patch series was lots of fun too.

If only FF14 players will stop coming to wow threads. Every wow thread they come and constantly shove their shit in people's faces. In all honestly I bet 90% of wow players tried FF14 and just hated it. They probably hated the MSQ and hated how even more simple the game is, especially for gearing. Look at this thread. Wow players don't care about FF14 and they don't care to attract its players. I have no idea why FF14 players have the need to constantly push the game like a religion. The MSQ is just such a shit design and everyone has to do it.

I wouldn't call a 4 boss savage "good design" when competitors can have raids of 10 bosses.

It's a final Fantasy game why wouldn't there be a story they want people to do

Because it's also an MMO and the MSQ system strangles most aspects of player interaction.

What does that have to do with how fun they are

The job system is great but that is only because it is needed.

People don't dare to make an alt in this game.

Honestly, with how slowly the game doles out skills I can't imagine most people actually willing to try FFXIV got past 20. I personally enjoy both games but would never recommend a fan of one to try the other. FFXIV is painfully slow to start and handholdingly casual sometimes.

I don't think so at all.

It's an mmo... An mmo shouldn't have story be its focus. Welcome to SWTOR. If SWTOR came out later it would be a big success.

Fun is subjective. Content is objective. 10 bosses versus 4 bosses is bigger.

Try to introduce a friend to the game and play the MSQ together. You literally can't. The amount of times the game will rip you out of the world and shove you into a solo instance is appalling.

I think MMOs can succeed with a variety of focuses, and FFXIV has readily proven that.

You literally can't do content with other players if you are on a different part of the story. That is extremely bad design for an MMO.

I was the friend, admittedly in 2.4. I played with my friends together plenty. They got me into crafting while I was leveling, and we had lots of fun together.

Your friends giving you crafting materials and maybe running the two available roulettes pre-60 hardly counts as player interactivity.

It feels like half the dev team wanted to make an MMO and the other half wanted to make a single player Final Fantasy game and neither could agree on how so they just made it so where you can't just come for one without being forced to put up with the other.

They didn't give me anything, we hung out, ran dungeons, ran fights, they gave me tips. It was a lot of fun.
I mean really though, no shit your high level friends can't do anything with you. What mmo is that any different? At least ffxiv has synced content so they can run fights or dungeons with you.