Board 8 > FFXIV Topic Part 6 -- Reaping What Yoshi-P Sowed

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Just found out there's only one gig and my Fisher is always going to have this level 61 common gear and it's never going to be OK.

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Yeah the gig is annoying

An even worse version of losing 10 items levels to the second ring slot and being unable to have a nice round total ilvl without getting a savage ring!

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Yeah the gig is annoying

An even worse version of losing 10 items levels to the second ring slot and being unable to have a nice round total ilvl without getting a savage ring!

So I thought this was how it worked...but my Weaver has two Handsain't Rings equipped somehow. I shouldn't be able to do that right?

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Unless it says unique you can equip two. I dont think any DoH/DoL gear is unique.

Like all dungeon/raid drop gear and tome gear is, though (besides them recently removing that restriction for 130/270/400 rings when they got rid of the unaugmented versions).

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Just wanna point out I have never once crafted a single item with any of those uncapped classes and I only started doing daily provision just over a month ago.

Daily GC provisions are a trip, man.

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Holy smokes, doing Delubrum in a PF that requests proper essences + actions is amazing.

A blazing fast 20 minute run. Highly recommended you hop into a tryhard run if you're gonna grind out DRs for the relic.

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Delubrum speedruns are so good, I'll never duty finder them again.

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Got my Emerald card and gwiber!

Somehow in four runs the mount dropped every time

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So how EXACTLY does this Summoner/Scholar thing work? If I get Scholar to 80 do I just have to go back and do all the Summoner Job Quests?

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

So how EXACTLY does this Summoner/Scholar thing work? If I get Scholar to 80 do I just have to go back and do all the Summoner Job Quests?

Yes

Though it does leave you in the awkward position of having a level 80 class you dont know how to play...!

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Yes....that's my big worry. It does not help that Summoner is from what I am told the most difficult/complicated class.

I may switch to Summoner during good queue times.

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I have a similar problem playing Scholar, where I leveled SMN exclusively through FATES and know squat about it, even though WHM was my first 80.

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I hate hate hate playing SCH.

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First Astro leveling roulette was Satasha and boy that sure doesn't have a lot going on at level 18 or whatever.

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Im leveling Summoner right now, i think its a real cool job. Could use more, well, summoning though

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Summoner is fine if you follow the DoTs for the 120 sec cycle.

Then downtime happens and wtf do you do.

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Wow there are like 50 people here for this 5.55 fish (Cinder Surprise) on Lamia

Its been like 10 days since it was last available so it makes sense, but still... very weird to see!

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Wow there are like 50 people here for this 5.55 fish (Cinder Surprise) on Lamia

Its been like 10 days since it was last available so it makes sense, but still... very weird to see!

Yeah I didn't get a single bite, upsetting. :(

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Neither did I :(

I'm one fish away from the last "I caught that" achievement and my glowy rod... but all of the remaining fish suck to catch...!

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https://twitter.com/Mcstronghuge/status/1406690128144240645

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...welp, this is gonna be fun

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Patch notes:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/4f379e06b6471c55ea02f138b6ada581b088ab2e

Most notably:

The number of timeworn artifacts received upon completing Delubrum Reginae has been increased from one to three.

Thank god, so glad I put off doing this step for more than one weapon

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"Field Notes on Dyunbu have been added to the possible rewards for completion of the skirmishes "Brought to Heal" and "No Camping Allowed."

Oh thank god. Freaking Dyunbu's notes will be less of a pain in the ass to get.

Minor note - Eden's Promise Savage has loot unlock and a 10% Echo buff, for those that are inclined to raid.

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Yeah; that's also a confirmation that all of the reports of her notes dropping on her first two skirmishes "very rarely" before were false...!

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Oh hey I have another time card

My subscription ran out earlier this month, but will try to use this one when I know I have more time to focus on it

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Can you only add people who are currently online? Finally getting back to this and trying to add people, but it keeps saying "no search results."

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mccheyne posted...

Can you only add people who are currently online? Finally getting back to this and trying to add people, but it keeps saying "no search results."

Yeah they have to be online at the time you add them. It's something that has irked me since 2013.

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I think you have to actually party up with someone before to you can search them on the friends list? I never figured that out.

Custom Deliveries completed, shockingly easy to catch up on 8 years of those. Also down to just 6 level 80 white scrip crafting tools to buy and more level 8 master recipe book with yellows, and the only thing left for gathering scrip is another 10 regional tokens for the Norvrandt fishing map.

Then I assume there's absolutely no reason to bother with scripts anymore??

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Besides buying materia to sell (not that great at the moment, but decent money when all the crafters/gatherers need to pentameld new gear), gatherer's scrips are useful for high cordials (and bait if you collect fish). The blue scrip tokens are also one possible choice to get through the really annoying 230-240 step of the HW relics.

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Finally got my e12s mount.

Lol Echo.

You can survive towers in e9, reliably clear before voidgate 2 in 10, and easily skip at least two cycles in 11.

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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Finally got my e12s mount.

Lol Echo.

You can survive towers in e9, reliably clear before voidgate 2 in 10, and easily skip at least two cycles in 11.

My group is learning the second half of E12S and we have a lot of deaths that are people just barely dying to AoEs so I'm really hoping the echo mitigates that.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I think you have to actually party up with someone before to you can search them on the friends list? I never figured that out.

Nah you can add someone through the player search feature or by simply right clicking them. They just have to be online.

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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Finally got my e12s mount.

Lol Echo.

You can survive towers in e9, reliably clear before voidgate 2 in 10, and easily skip at least two cycles in 11.

Still had a 10 run that lasted past the final Umbral Orbs and might have also seen one of the AoEs before enrage.

Echo can't save extreme incompetence in PF.

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Did some fishing, got that up to level 15. Definitely feels like something I can get lost in for multiple hours lol.

Still a level 49 bard. Did Cape Westwind, so the dude with two shields is dead. I think I have a couple missions left in ARR! Are these last dungeons super long? Trying to find a time to get into them.

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Note to self: don't suddenly jump into a level 80 dungeon as WHM after not doing real healing for almost a month. Downright traumatizing.

mccheyne posted...

Still a level 49 bard. Did Cape Westwind, so the dude with two shields is dead. I think I have a couple missions left in ARR! Are these last dungeons super long? Trying to find a time to get into them.

Super long (around 30 minutes for the first, 50 for the second), but super easy. The actual gameplay isn't insanely long but there are tons of cutscenes, around 30 minutes worth in the last one. You know how the Westwind guy was an absolute joke and just melted? The dungeon equivilant of that. It's all TbG (trivialized by gear) and there will be plenty of people in the party that will be wrecking it efforletsly.

Just follow the pack, make sure not to pull anything yourself. There are plenty of mobs that just get skipped, and everything dies fast. As a Ranged DPS you will be at zero risk whatsoever.

Spoiler free tips if you want, but will put them behind a spoiler anyways in case you want to go in totally blind. Just note this isn't an issue of difficulty, primarily mechanics you might miss because everyone has done this a million times and doesn't slow down for anything. Especially the last paragraph, would at least read that at bare minimum.

First dungeon: for the first phase of the last fight, you aren't actually attacking the boss. All the damage is from the cannons. You can interact with the missle piles to load them and shoot the turrets when they're glowing, otherwise you're only attacking spawning trash mobs. There's also not real tanking here, when you shoot missiles you may pull agro, in which case just go stand in the middle so the boss won't damage the turrets. Even the flimsiest character is going to take basically no damage, when playing a healer if I pull agro I just straight up dance in the middle of the arena while I'm getting shot.

Second dungeon: the only thing difficult in this entire dungeon is the second teleporter. AT LEAST ONE PERSON ALWAYS DIES ON THE SECOND TELEPORTER, usually the tank, because they have agro and keep getting interrupted by the 20 trash mob units that get completely ignored during this section. Nobody on earth has ever killed these mobs, it is just accepted that the tank will die 90% of the time and respawn themselves.

Not a requirement, but as a ranged DPS, when you start the boss fight with "the red guy", go ahead an use your limit break on him the second you have control. Your party loses the LB bar as soon as the fight starts, so it's free damage on pull that will go to waste. This only saves like 8 seconds on the fight so it doesn't actually matter, it's just...tradition??

When you enter a small room after opening a door and the entire party goes to a computer panel, make sure you do this too. This ain't everyone rushing to push a button, it's an item you need to collect to actually play the next section of the dungeon. Otherwise you're just going to be standing around for 10 minutes doing nothing.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Note to self: don't suddenly jump into a level 80 dungeon as WHM after not doing real healing for almost a month. Downright traumatizing.

Super long (around 30 minutes for the first, 50 for the second), but super easy. The actual gameplay isn't insanely long but there are tons of cutscenes, around 30 minutes worth in the last one. You know how the Westwind guy was an absolute joke and just melted? The dungeon equivilant of that. It's all TbG (trivialized by gear) and there will be plenty of people in the party that will be wrecking it efforletsly.

Just follow the pack, make sure not to pull anything yourself. There are plenty of mobs that just get skipped, and everything dies fast. As a Ranged DPS you will be at zero risk whatsoever.

Spoiler free tips if you want, but will put them behind a spoiler anyways in case you want to go in totally blind. Just note this isn't an issue of difficulty, primarily mechanics you might miss because everyone has done this a million times and doesn't slow down for anything. Especially the last paragraph, would at least read that at bare minimum.

First dungeon: for the first phase of the last fight, you aren't actually attacking the boss. All the damage is from the cannons. You can interact with the missle piles to load them and shoot the turrets when they're glowing, otherwise you're only attacking spawning trash mobs. There's also not real tanking here, when you shoot missiles you may pull agro, in which case just go stand in the middle so the boss won't damage the turrets. Even the flimsiest character is going to take basically no damage, when playing a healer if I pull agro I just straight up dance in the middle of the arena while I'm getting shot.

Second dungeon: the only thing difficult in this entire dungeon is the second teleporter. AT LEAST ONE PERSON ALWAYS DIES ON THE SECOND TELEPORTER, usually the tank, because they have agro and keep getting interrupted by the 20 trash mob units that get completely ignored during this section. Nobody on earth has ever killed these mobs, it is just accepted that the tank will die 90% of the time and respawn themselves.

Not a requirement, but as a ranged DPS, when you start the boss fight with "the red guy", go ahead an use your limit break on him the second you have control. Your party loses the LB bar as soon as the fight starts, so it's free damage on pull that will go to waste. This only saves like 8 seconds on the fight so it doesn't actually matter, it's just...tradition??

When you enter a small room after opening a door and the entire party goes to a computer panel, make sure you do this too. This ain't everyone rushing to push a button, it's an item you need to collect to actually play the next section of the dungeon. Otherwise you're just going to be standing around for 10 minutes doing nothing.

Thanks for all of that! Will keep that in mind when I likely go at it later tonight!!

Going to basically leave my game on most of the day (starting in about 15-20 minutes), though it may be idle at points. Will be fishing and such, easy to do while I work. If anyone else comes on from the same area and wants to add me as a friend (Primal, Lamia), feel free!

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Finally finished collecting all of the Triple Triad cards!

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Finally finished collecting all of the Triple Triad cards!

Nice! Time to start the big fish grind. That's what I did after finishing TT.

I hate myself and all aquatic life.

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I've actually already been doing that!

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I don't know how the hell Twitch works, someone explain how I get this Fat Black Chocobo.

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You go to one of the channels that are eligible and gift 4 subscriptions to people in the channel while the channel is streaming FFXIV.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I don't know how the hell Twitch works, someone explain how I get this Fat Black Chocobo.

1. Have a Twitch account
2. Visit one of the streamers on the shortlist whilst they're playing FFXIV.
3. Click on the 'Subscribe' button, then choose to gift subscriptions rather than subscribe yourself.
4. Gifting 4 subs is enough for the mount.
5. You should get a notification on Twitch eventually with a code to be redeemed in the usual way on the Mog Station.

The list itself looks odd on first glance, since a lot of popular and/or well respected community streamers have been overlooked, but the working theory is that SE didn't include anyone who shows ACT on screen.

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Already just 4 gift subbed Mr Happy.

I guess it's just wierd that they can track stuff like that accurately enough to get a code, but again I don't know nothing a out no Twitch so I'll trust it.

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https://i.redd.it/nrja68ocfcv31.jpg

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Is there any actual reason to level up all 3 grand companies?

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Minions, bardings, and titles

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Castrum Miridianum done.

Died once before the cutscene showing us how to take down the aircraft thing, because I was rushed by all those iron giant things lol.

Also, the music when fighting Livia is fucking great, holy shit.

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mccheyne posted...

because I was rushed by all those iron giant things lol.

yessssssss
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Oh no

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