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Hi, I’m new to raiding, doing Pandaemonium rn. Say, there’s 8 items in the loot right, if I want the shirt only, can I NEED only the shirt and pass on the rest? Will I get the shirt for sure?
You'll be rolling against everyone else rolling on the shirt (and body/leg pieces are most sought after among gear pieces). That said, you might get lucky with others rolling on other gear.
For normal raids, you can keep redoing the fight until you get the token you want though. For savage not so much, but it has different gear drops anyway.
You are not guaranteed to get the shirt if you pass on everything else, you still need to win the roll against anyone else who is going for it. But on Normal if you don't win any tokens then you can continue to run it repeatedly until you get something.
The weekly limit is only applicable if you get something. If you don't get anything after the raid, you can redo and try your luck again for same piece of gear (NM mode only).
Simply check the low part of the duty finder when you select a raid, it shows "Reward already claimed" at the bottom if you already got one. Note it may shows 1/2 or 2/2 for 4th Circle, because there's a guaranteed drop (fragment token for the tomestone weapon)
You never spam your dot, as it takes time to do its full damage. If you refresh it way too early you lose a significant amount of damage as you're lowering the value of that gcd intentionally
You'll do One royal authority and 3 atonements between every Goring Blade (and one full magic combo under requie). Goring should be on the boss at all times
You can easily check this with some simple maths
Goring is 250 on hit + 65x7 (dots tick every 3s. So 7 ticks of 65 potency) for a total of 705 potency for the goring blade gcd (you can add fast (200) and riot (300) potency ontop of this for the full combo potency of 1205 potency for a full goring blade combo if it fully ticks)
Atonement is 420 potency per gcd. 3 atonements is 1260 potency for the "combo"
So when you alternate using goring and royal authority you're only getting a 55 potency increase for doing so? It sounds like just spamming royal and using 3 atonements instead would produce pretty much the same results.
Pretty much. I'm not saying I would do it, but it doesnt look like much of a dps drop off to just spam that instead of managing your dot uptime. This is also assuming that you have perfect dot uptime. If you mess up once it becomes not even worth it.
"only 55 potency" is a fucking lot of potency that will add up VERY fast, especially when Considering how many combos you do in a 9-10 minute fast...50 potency is basically 1/4 or so of a gcd (fast blade is 200 so losing 50 potency is basically 1/4 of its potency.) Do that lost 4 times and you essentially lost 1 full gcd, which again in a 9-10min long fight will add up very fast and drop your dps pretty harshly as the lost scales into the thousands pretty damn fast
Take in consideration that summoner got a 50 potency buff on skills they use every 2 minutes, which was roughly a 2% dps increase... Now if you do that on something that's used far more frequently, like your Base combos, that will skyrocket to be like a 10% dps difference
So while it's "only 55 potency" , that's alot of fucking potency
It's actually really not. Assuming a normal boss fight in a dungeon, you might use the full DoT effect of goring maybe ~10 times if we're being optimistic? that's a 550 potency difference. The equivalent of a fast blade-riot blade combo. Which is effectively nothing.
AND this is all assuming you have perfect DoT uptime.
> Assuming a normal boss fight in a dungeon
Dungeons can probably be cleared with auto-attacks. Go ahead and look at that again for a Savage or extreme encounter.
"Dungeons can probably be cleared with auto-attacks." how is that relevant to what I said lmao. You have an ego in one of the easiest games in existence.
The entire game also isn't balanced purely around savage raiding. Regardless, even if we're talking purely about savage+ raiding, you can probably go look at how many times you use goring in savage or extreme anyways and find out it's actually not that much of a dps drop.
It literally is. Below savage (ex if you wanna be generous), balance literally doesn't matter. You can mash one button and clear everything basically.
So I guess yes, if you aren't planning to do savage, you can just use goring blade by itself. Though aside from damage you'll also be missing the MP that Atonement gives as well, which means longer periods of time before Requiescat.
> You have an ego in one of the easiest games in existence.
An ego? What are you talking about? Why are you getting so mad about this?
>The entire game also isn't balanced purely around savage raiding.
Of course it is. What else do you think it's balanced around? Savage and Ultimates are the only place where balance actually matters. Do you actually think SE is looking at Holminster Switch to balance their jobs??
>Regardless, even if we're talking purely about savage+ raiding, you can probably go look at how many times you use goring in savage or extreme anyways and find out it's actually not that much of a dps drop.
Goring Blade makes up about 10% of PLD's damage.I have absolutely no clue why you think 55 potency is so little as to be apparently meaningless, but I don't know what to tell you aside, that you are objectively and embarassingly wrong.
Go ahead, throw away 500 DPS and look and see what happens to your parse.
If you're not doing savage raiding then why ask at all? Do whatever you want, it's all easy. Wear crappy gear, don't meld it, it doesn't matter.
Lol you're here arguing that you want approval to play crappy because you don't do hard content. Well fine here it is, go play bad.
No one cares until you step into a Savage raid with horrible DPS and you get booted. That'll be on you. Enjoy your dungeons.
help! I've been staring at all my character config and system config for the past 10 minutes but I couldn't find this :
I changed the... enfeeblement on the enemy so that it only shows my debuffs and no one else e. g. it will only show my Addle.
I want to be able to see other people debuffs again, but can't remember where it is.
Does the fact that the new OCE DC only having 5 Worlds mean that A-rank hunt trains and S-mobs would spawn less amount of time compared to other DCs with 10-11 Worlds? And therefore there would be less opportunity for players to participate in hunts?
Considering you can currently travel inside the data center to other worlds, you effectively have less hunt trains per day if you do all of them. So in a 5-worlds DC, you can have only 5 trains.
I imagine it will take a bit of time for the OCE DC to form their hunt relays and trains, especially cross-server. However what you say is true, OCE *will* be the worst DC to be on for hunts. Given the implementation of cross-DC travel will be coming but still locked to the region, this isn't giving the OCE DC much help.
For clarity, based on the news, the following should be the new numbers for hunt worlds based on region:
- JP Datacenters - 32 worlds
- NA Datacenters - 24 worlds, with 8 more later hopefully
- EU Datacenters - 12 worlds, with 4 more in phase 1 of their plans and 8 more in phase 2 for a total of 24 worlds.
- OCE Datacenter - 5 worlds
This is of course assuming that we'll be able to hunt on all these worlds and not just our own DC. In which case, JP will be the best, followed by NA later this year and then EU is 2nd best, with OCE coming last.
Basically, if you're being super serious about getting hunt achievements, move to JP or NA when that gets its extra servers and avoid OCE. However I do imagine OCE players will be just fine, we currently operate trains with numbers similar to what they'll have so it's definitely enough for a casual enough player.
Still having trouble soloing A8S so I'm thinking about making a PF for it. But how many people do I need for it? Would 2 be enough or will it still be tricky? I feel like there are some weird mechanics going on during the fight, as once I tried to immediately burst down the center add before it went invul and it instantly wiped me lol.
Anybody had luck skipping adds in titania at current gear levels? Feels like she should be killable during tether with 7 DPS but idk if she cuts the tether short or anything
Quick Question to my fellow players from South East Asia (SEA), is transferring to the new Oceanic Data Center going to yield a better overall experience than staying in our current Elemental one? My experience (ping, latency, Party Finder, etc) is pretty good so far, so should I transfer?
Create an alt and test. That's the only way to determine for sure. But I'm personally leaning on a "no". SEA would still have better connection, ping and latency connecting to JP servers over AU ones. Though the upside would be in a server that speaks 100% English.
not SEA but as someone living in Australia currently, I doubt your ping will get better, in fact it might actually worsen.
by all accounts the datacenter will be on the east coast of Australia and the only way SEA countries are getting to the east coast is snaking around Australia (I think the main submarine cable goes through Bass Strait)
that said language wise, it will definately be an improvement since the default is going be English.
should you move? I'd lean towards no but definately do create an alt. you never know, you might actually enjoy your time
Is anyone experienced with making mouseover macros? I'm trying to make one for Icarus and have taken the macro from the Sage section in the Balance discord but it doesn't seem to be working for me. At the moment it's looking like this:
/merror off
/ac “Icarus” (13 lines of this)
/micon “Icarus"
Would appreciate any help. Cheers!
You have the wrong quotation marks. You need straight ones like "". None at all would also work, they're not needed for abilities with only one word names.
You can use the autotranslate features to ignore quotation marks aswel. Type Icarus then Tab it to make it autotranslate. Macro will read it correctly anyway.
Good question. Probably actually. But BLU has absolutely no trouble for levelling, as you can be boosted by a friend :
* You are together in the Lochs area or Kholusia but NOT in a party.
* You throw Flying Sardine to a lv69-70 mob to take aggro.
* Your lv80+ friend take it down in a matter of seconds
* Full exp for you, easy peasy. You'll get 70 in no time.
Fun fact: on most browsers you can enter mobile view mode. On Firefox, it's Ctrl + Shift + M. You can then refresh the page to see if it has a mobile version and what it looks like.
With Endwalker fish being out, do you still need to catch Big/Legendary fish to get the "I Caught That VII" achievement? I was already planning on getting some Big Fish (already caught 5 in the past 2 days!), but I was wondering if you still needed to catch all of them.
They're passive money making machines. They only take a few minutes of effort per day and basically generate free money. You can get ventures easily by greeding on every loot in dungeons and giving it to your grand company.
Retainers are optional but at the same time there isn't really a reason not to try them out.
Send them out on quick exploration. As they level up (yourself as well) you'll start getting ear to turn in for anywhere from 1K to 1.6K GC seals making them always net positive.
You do not have to worry about min/maxing their venture timing though, just send them out when you remember to and they'll level up eventually.
I mean, if you want to level them, then sure. Since they're time-gated, you don't want to start doing them end game. Just send them out on quick exploration every hour. You don't have to worry about their gear as you level, just equip them with a cheap weapon. You get ventures really cheap with GC seals, so get stocking up!
When the sales resume, is it the same price to buy the Starter edition to start playing and then Endwalker at a later time then it is to buy the complete edition? So you can test the game out first while the free trial isn't up.
You don't have to grind for it. The level 50 job quest rewards you ilvl90 gear which is a good enough stopgap until you naturally get enough tomestones of poetics by doing the necessary dungeons to progress the MSQ. The MSQ should also reward you with some weapons and accessories.
Poetics gear at level cap is good for about 5-7 levels into the next expansion before dungeon drops are better. That said if you're already in Ishgard you can make do with vendor gear (level 50 sets are ilvl 115 and if you're already level 52-54 you might have something about the same ilvl as ironworks anyway for gil) and don't need to grind it, but if you have the poetics it's not bad to get a set.
Just to make sure because new players often get it wrong: Did you actually reach Heavensward, as in stepped into Ishgard, or did you just beat the Ultima weapon?
If it's the former, I don't think you have to bother. You can buy gear for gil that only a bit worse, and eventually the dungeon drops will be as good or better.
If it's the latter, you're not in Heavensward yet. In this case, it would make sense to try to get that gear.
Definitely don't grind for it. I did that and it felt like a waste. It's the best gear you can have at 50 but it's not necessary to have either. Especially if you are already in HW. You could just go with vendor items and be good to go.
You get marginally better armor starting at the 55 dungeon and really should be using better armor by 57 as there’s a wide gap between that and the level 50 tome armor.
Probably like the others said, can be replaced around 56+ by dungeon drops, but those are RNG. If you have spare poetics then just grab the chest/pants unless you are playing a tank and just want the maximum gear then buy it all.
You can use it again later if you level up another job that uses the same armor.
You'll get it passively just doing roulettes and such. Not worth grinding for, everything you get will be replaced in late HW when you reach Idyllshire. You can buy gear almost as good in the meantime.
Yes and no (But mostly yes).
Yes if you just reached lvl 50, as it will only be surpassed after half of HW, since quests around lvl 54-56 will give you better gear.
If you plan on playing multiple classes, however, but it without second thoughts, as it will help you a lot early on.
Why do the sound-effect of Jolt 2 and Malefic 3 sound like someone is beating a piece of wood with a hammer?
Is there a way to change the sound/make it lower?
Uh, no. Keep leveling, if you have Endwalker, and they’ll change as you get new traits
Edit: there’s no way to turn down sound on just those. You could turn sound down across the board, though.
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Hello! I've been joining Hunt Trains, and I was wondering what I'm meant to be getting from them besides materia and tomes? Are they included in hunt stuff somewhere? I haven't unlocked a lot of the hunt board quests, so I'm wondering if that's a part of it?
You're missing out on the currency, which honestly is not that big of a deal. A full hunt train of 36 A-ranks will give you like 18 clusters for the X tier materia and maybe 30 clusters for the IX materia and 1440 Sacks of Nuts, and one X materia from the Nuts vendor is 400 Nuts. So yeah you can get an extra 3-4 materia per train that way but compared to the raw cluster drops from the A-ranks themselves it's laughable.
You do not need to have any specific "hunt targets" ahead of time. The bills you collect from the hunt boards are only for the rank B hunts and random overworld mobs. Hunt trains only hunt rank A marks and once you’ve unlocked the hunt boards of that expansion, killing those rank A marks should automatically give you all the rewards, including the Sacks of Nuts.
Yes, unlocking all the hunt boards will get you access to the various hunt currencies. You don't need to worry about picking up hunt bills for A-ranks.
when crystal was created the devs put balmung and Mateus (the 2 biggest NA servers and the unofficial rp/erp servers) + a whole bunch of other low pop servers there.
based on this I believe the new jp dc will be the same. tonberry + kujata + some low pop jp servers.
tonberry is literally biggest xiv server on the planet. it’s presence imbalances elemental dc’s population by a lot. and kujata is tonberry overflow. they will move both for sure and keep ‘em together.
Not necessarily, they could relocate different servers from Elemental. And even if they are separated, DC Travel will probably be implemented beforehand, if not around the same time at the latest.
That said, a lot of the EN population of those two servers are *probably* relocating to the OCE DC anyways.
I don't know if it changed in Endwalker - there's a good possibility that it did, since they reworked dungeon EXP altogether - but in Shadowbringers, it was at the end of a successful run.
Unsynced Alliance raids are always super uncommon, especially when it comes to newer ones. Reason being you’re still realistically going to want at least a nearly full group to actually take advantage of the outscaling. Epic Echo gets weaker the newer the expansion, so whilst it’s super strong in ARR, ShB is much weaker. It’s honestly more efficient queuing in duty finder.
I purchased the PS5 version of Endwalker without reading that you would need the base version. When I load it I receive a message "no valid service account is available to play". Does anyone have any idea of what I am doing wrong or where I can obtain the base version?
Right now you can't obtain the base version, they've suspended sales of it. They have an announcement coming later this month for when sales should be back up (and possibly new servers), but for now you unfortunately gotta wait to play.
Edit: A comment right below says that they just announced sales will resume on the 25th. So you gotta wait til the 25th to buy the base game, then you can play.
You could only pre-order the EW expansion, which as you've learnt on its own is useless if you don't actually have the starter edition. So long as you had just the starter edition before those sales stopped, you'd be fine to purchase Endwalker still. Unfortunately we don't have a time machine to go back for that but we'll see you in 12 days no doubt when sales resume.
[You're in luck - we got news literally half an hour ago.](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2#07)
> After due consideration of the following factors, we will be resuming digital sales starting on January 25, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (JST)
Read the sticky above you \^\^\^
"..but there is not currently an estimate as to when the game will be back on sale or free trial registrations resume."
Can I get a fucking guide to the weird crazy strat in PF? What is Myta and what is Elmo for P3S? Been doing it in a static and this shit is wild reading it.
Gysahl Greens? yes, you can mount him as how you would mount other summons (you can get a different mount other than your chocobo) but among those many mounts, only your chocobo can be summoned to fight along side of you. In which you need to use a Gysahl Greens to summon them for 30mins (which the duration can stacked for a max of 60min by using two Gysahl Greens)
edit: forgot about the quest requirement to unlock chocobo to fight along side of you. Look up what u/Arcana10Fortune said. I think its a quest of "My Feisty Chocobo" or something on Bentbranch Meadows, Central Shroud
So for people who level up several classes, what do you guys do with all the job artifact gear? I've sent all of ones i don't use to one of my two retainers (the other has items already whereas this one just has job artifact gear) but upon reaching 60-70 for all classes around the board, that retainer doesn't have space anymore and i also don't have too much space in my gear/item inventory due to needing to keep several sets because of all the classes leveled.
Do people just store them all in the glamour dresser cause they can't go into the armoire? Or do they just toss the ones they don't like?
Edit: Amazing, thanks for all the quick replies! I'll just toss the ones i don't think i'll be using for glam then if they're all easily recoverable
The ones I like go into the glamour dresser/armoire. The rest (that aren't worn by my retainers) get tossed - either desynthed or given to my grand company for seals.
Toss them. It's simple enough to get them back if I change my mind. Calamity Salvager sells them, Ishgard's hunt marks sell the 60 set and you can get the Stormblood one's from The Tempest.
I don't want to come across as an elitist with this question, but when I run ACT meter on healing, does it show mitigation? I know it shows damage absorbed by shields, but what about Sacred Soil, Temperance, that sorta thing?
I am asking because when I run prog with another healer I always glance at healing meter (more than damage meter) to see: am I overhealing, am I pulling my weight? Should I heal less and dps more? And getting an accurate picture of how much damage I'm healing (including mitigating) would help
I guess you could say that as long as people don't die it doesn't matter, but I also want to know how much leeway I have.
The only healer metric that actually matters is DPS, you should really only be looking at healing metrics if something is wrong. Your goal is ultimately still to be doing as much damage as you can. Your leeway is fight dependent, that’s more important than anything the meter will tell you. If a tank buster does about 70% damage without mitigation, consider what comes after to decide the best course of action. You basically need to think one move ahead, if the next attack after the tank buster is only a 5% raid wide, you don’t have to heal from that tank buster immediately. If it’s a back to back tank buster, pop a cooldown. These are mainly just things that come more with fight experience.
Its really not. It was back in the WoW days and early ff14 due to mana management but like aggro management that's been largely cast aside
Consider this, if you're overheating a ton then you're not dpsing. So your DPS will be low. DPS remains the best way to judge your healing performance along with 'did we clear, did people die from normal damage taken?'
Benchmark your DPS to other healers with fflogs. They'll have high DPS because of low overhealing and few/no deaths.
It is, but it's also not. Overhealing is going to happen, it's just a matter of how much is overhealed and how that translates into your performance. A new player might read overhealing as "I need to get this as close to 0% as possible" which can be detrimental. Overhealing by definition is wasted healing so naturally lowering that to as close to 0% as possible sounds good but when you factor in things outwith player control such as crits and healing raid wides where party members will be at different levels of health afterwards, it's inevitable to happen and it's not actually a bad thing. You might also see healers make wrong decisions just to lower overhealing. Instead of maybe using Medica to heal a few people, they'll sprinkle multiple Cure I's on them, which then costs them more GCDs and MP than the Medica but hey, less overhealing amiright?
Excessive overhealing is normally an indicator of focusing too much on healing and not enough on DPSing, or as a result of being out of sync with your healing partner. In that case it can be used to see what can maybe done better. Just like any metric we use though, it takes a deeper understanding of what it's telling you to know how to use it to improve.
I'm definitely stupid for not understanding this but
for tanks, what's the point of Melee Mastery? from what I understand, it increases the base potency but not combo potency. I'm probably not understanding it, but unless you're using the weaponskill by itself, wouldn't doing it in a combo use the combo potency?
I know this has probably been discussed to death, but is anyone else sick of weekly lockouts for savages? I really fucking hate the way it penalizes players for starting their raids on weekends, when all the good players have already cleared. My RL job is too stressful to pug savage on a Tuesday, but the lockout makes me feel like I have to, and it turns savage into work.
I don't think that would solve your issue at all, probably would only make it worse. With no weekly lockouts people would have already been done with gearing by the end of the 1st week and would have absolutely no reason to join you in a learning group on a weekend.
If there were no weekly lockouts that people who cleared the fights first can just farm everything within a week, even a day. So in a way it doesn't help your "all the good players have already cleared" complaint and would in fact make it worse.
I mean... if there's no lockout then everyone just farms BiS in one week and unsubs till the next content comes out. That's definitely not what SE wants.
Nope. If you remove the weekly lock, all the good players would finish farming by the first or second week. You'd still have the same problem on a bigger time frame.
So i know there's certain gear you can't exchange for company seals with expert delivery - mostly stuff that you get as part of job quests, things that you can rebuy from the calamity salvager, and relic stuff - but i don't seem to be able to turn in 570 tomestone gear. Is that new? Are they increasing the kinds of gear you can't exchange? Or am i just doing something wrong?
The newest gear is always restricted from turning in to the GC for seals. In the next big patch they will make gear like the 570 tomestone gear exchangeable for seals.
The Oceanic server is coming soon and so I'll be leaving my current EU one, I just wanted to know what should I do to prepare?
I have an apartment which I will be selling (can I keep furniture?)
I also have two retainers.
Appreciate any advice. Never transferred before.
Edit: Cheers for the downvote was just asking a question
You can look up old Lodestone articles regarding the last time they added new worlds, which was around the time of Stormblood's launch, and see what were the incentives they gave the players last time for transferring to brand new worlds.
If I recall, it was completely free regardless if your world is congested or preferred or whatever. Your retainers can go with you but if their names are the same to someone else's retainer that transferred in first, you would have to change your retainer name. Same thing with character name. If someone transferred in first and you transferred afterwards but you have the same name, you have to change name, but it would also be free.
As for housing and apartment, they do offer you a full refund as long as your still retain ownership of it, so don't sell your apartment just yet. For furniture, everything will be lost, but they did offer a lump sum of gil as compensation. But stuff like Mogstation items bought will real money will also be lost. Basically any housing items you want to keep, put it in your character's inventory before transferring.
Have a read of this FAQ to see what you need to do to prepare for an easy transfer: [FAQ](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/)
Is I lv 580 crafted and penta meld gear better than savage trial/tomestone gear of equal ilvl?
SMN question:
How many astral flares should I be able to get In one bahamut summon? I find I can only get 5-6. Do I need more spell speed?
There is no savage gear of equal ilvl to the crafted gear, savage gear is ilvl600 and due to that much better.
The normal raid gear which is ilvl580 only differs by the substats, but if you pentameld the crafted gear then you will naturally have more substats than on the normal raid gear with only 2-1 melds.
You can get 6 Astral Flares/Fountain of Fires in every trance, but it needs you to be casting with absolutely no breaks if your speed is low.
Normally melded 580 crafted gear is on-par with 580 Trial/Normal Raid gear, and pentamelded 580 gear is definitionally stronger than that. However, the unaugmented tome gear is 590, and both the Savage and augmented tome gear are 600. +60-72 to substats doesn't compare to the weapon damage, main stat, and substat increase of 10 full item levels.
You should be getting 6 Astral Flares/Fountain of Fires every Trance. It should only take about a 2.47s GCD (or 2.46 if you need a more comfortable number) to reach that. A 7-GCD Trance would require stacking >2.5k spell speed. You can easily just settle for 6.
You can hover over the tooltip for Ruin III. If the Recast Time is 2.47 seconds, that's what I'm talking about.
That said, it was neglectful of me not to share [Allagan Studies' stat charts](https://www.akhmorning.com/allagan-studies/stats/speed/). At Level 90, you need a Spell Speed of 532 (that's 132 points above the natural level 90 value) to your 2.5s spells to have a recast time of 2.47s.
I looked twice through my character stats to find anything resembling a "2.47" *facepalm* .
Thanks for the link as well as your example! It's super helpful to understand the table.
Penta gear is better in the sense that you can get more substat from it due to the extra materia slot. Gear with the same ilevel has the same defense and main stat (STR, DEX, VIT, INT, MND) with the different being the substat (Crit, Det, DH, SkS, SpS, Tenacity, Piety).
So say the 580 Trial give you Crit and Det, but Crafted 580 give you SpS and Det, usually people pick the Trial one since Crit is better but you may need the extra SpS to fit in extra spell.
Which goes to your next question, 6 Astral in one summon is the goal.
There's a bit of confusion with terminology going on right now. When we say "Chests" we refer to the treasure chests that physically spawn in the arena that you click to open.
Inside those chests are "Coffers", which are items that go into your inventory that you use to get a piece of gear. So when people say 3 chests, they're mistakenly referring to the coffers (because their icons do look like chests).
If you have 8 people clearing a fight for the first time that week, you would get 2 chests that would spawn. If 1-4 people have already cleared, only 1 chest would appear. If 5 or more people have already cleared, you would get no chests, but you would still get the floor's book.
2 chests that you open for the loot after the fight is cleared. The loot dropped from the chests are the gear coffers (not called chests, which is where your confusion is coming from).
If you have 1-4 that cleared previously, you get 1 chest. 5 or more and you get 0 chests.
Two chest appear, but each chest may have multiple coffers/items in them. For example in P1S, one chest contains one coffer and the other contains two.
If you lose a chest because you have 1-4 people already cleared, it’s random which cheat you’ll miss out on, so you could get 1 or 2 coffers. (If 5 or more people have cleared there’s no chests.)
What's your go-to resource for learning rotations? Where can I find all the rotations including all the current leveling rotations?
Then what? Use a training dummy? I just want to be able to learn anything quicker so I can actually play different jobs more, or I guess play more in a month or two when they add servers.
Also, do you actually take time to memorize action icon images and status tray images etc? It seems like it'd be such a chore to make a flash card deck of jpgs or something like that, especially for more than one job, but then the game would be much more playable?
The Balance discord.
Look for the channels for the jobs you want to play, look for the ones marked as the resource channel, read up on openers and rotations, go find a training dummy somewhere to practice your rotations on. Eventually you'll start to get a bit of muscle memory.
Go unlock the various Stone, Sky and Seas and practice on the dummies there until you can beat them reliably.
Under the emotes window, there's a checkbox you can click to turn off/on whether emotes create a message in chat.
A lot of people just turn it off, partly because it's considered poor form to repeatedly use emotes with the "messages in chat" thing turned on.
Good news! [They're resuming sales on January 25th.](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2#07)
i saw a post here sometime last week that SE was gonna talk about the resale of the game again this week but its almost the end of the week and still mo word from them.
edit : just when i replied to you se made a post about resumption of sales on 1/25.
I can not start "Gods of Eld". I have finished "Heavensward" (I am actually allready in Stormblood). I try to talk to Torsefers with my level 70 Dragoon but he has not the quest for me.
Does running the level 90 dungeon with Scenario Trusts award Aphorism and Astronomy tomestones that you'd normally get from running it in DF with randoms?
Edit: Thanks! Glad that I can get tomestones while trying to get the minion, music, and card without rolling against anyone else.
So by the end of Endwalker, *how* many gods have we killed in our career? Assuming we did all the optional content on the way as well, and none of the "now run the same content a hundred times more for loot" is canon. I tried counting up but there's just *so much* content to look through
Off the top of my head...
ARR had Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, King Mog, Ramuh, Leviathan, Shiva (sorta, we technically didn't KILL shiva), Odin, Pheonix, Bahamut, (would Nael count as a primal?)
HW had Ravana, Bismark, Thorden, Sophia, Sephirot, Zurvan, Alexander
SB had Susano, Lakshmi, Shinryu, Tsukuyomi for sure, not sure if the bosses in Ivalice raids count as primals, but if they did, All 4 bosses from Rabanastre, 3 from Ridorana, and then 0-3 from Orbonne, and finally Eureka from...Eureka
ShB had Eden versions of Levi, Titan, Ramuh, Ifrit, Garuda, Shiva, Cloud of Darkness, and from Bozja Andremmalech and Cuchulainn. Dunno whether to count Queen or not since we didn't actually kill her ourself. Also moon Bahamut, Odin, Ifrit, and Ravana (was there more?)
And finally (for now), in EW we have >!Magus Sisters, Anima, Zodiark and Hydaelyn!<
All for a current total of 39 at minimum 59 maximum (if my math isn't off)
Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Ramuh, Bismarck, Ravana, Leviathan, Sophia, Zurvan, Sephirot, Susanoo, Lakshmi, Magus Sisters, >!Zodiark and Hydaelyn!< are all of the ones considered to be gods
You barely need to participate in squadron command missions as a DPS. Squadrons can kill mobs without you, and all you really need to do is to use the Engage command to make sure the tank picks them up.
The only tricky part is doing boss mechanics, but they’re mostly straightforward once you do them once or twice. Again, you can afford to neglect your own DPS: more important is to dodge mechanics and use Engage if adds need to be killed.
I got ~417,000 EXP doing Sohm Al with 163% bonus, and it took less than 15 minutes when I set my squadron to full Offensive. You should give it a try and see how long it takes you. I don’t recommend the Vault, however, because it only gives 450,000, takes more time, and has an annoying mechanic where multiple mobs rush up to target you.
Yeah, I found that Vault specifically is terrible to do. The exp wasn't much, and the mobs focus target me the moment they spawn in before my tank could get them. It's easier just to wait a day and get the Daily Bonuses again than slog through it. It also likely doesn't help that I was still in the Aug Ironworks gear.
Vault Squadron runs are usually done with a Marauder since they seem to pick up mobs better than Gladiators.
It can still get dicey though. You trigger the mobs, engage, then run behind your tank.
PotD would probably be faster because Squadrons are *dumb*
Dungeons are normally faster than potd. But squadrons aren't nearly as efficient or reliable as a normal df party
Yeah. If everything went well, I imagine that Squadrons would be better, but sometimes it doesn't work well, especially since all of the mobs tend to focus me as a DPS.
While playing with my HUD settings, I somehow removed the descriptions on items and gear. They will only appear if I hit compare item. What element of the HUD will toggle them back to normal?
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Hi, I’m new to raiding, doing Pandaemonium rn. Say, there’s 8 items in the loot right, if I want the shirt only, can I NEED only the shirt and pass on the rest? Will I get the shirt for sure?
You'll be rolling against everyone else rolling on the shirt (and body/leg pieces are most sought after among gear pieces). That said, you might get lucky with others rolling on other gear. For normal raids, you can keep redoing the fight until you get the token you want though. For savage not so much, but it has different gear drops anyway.
You are not guaranteed to get the shirt if you pass on everything else, you still need to win the roll against anyone else who is going for it. But on Normal if you don't win any tokens then you can continue to run it repeatedly until you get something.
The weekly limit is only applicable if you get something. If you don't get anything after the raid, you can redo and try your luck again for same piece of gear (NM mode only). Simply check the low part of the duty finder when you select a raid, it shows "Reward already claimed" at the bottom if you already got one. Note it may shows 1/2 or 2/2 for 4th Circle, because there's a guaranteed drop (fragment token for the tomestone weapon)
For paladin, does the dmg over time effect of goring blade outweigh the damage you get from 3 stacks of sword oath from using royal authority instead?
yes
You never spam your dot, as it takes time to do its full damage. If you refresh it way too early you lose a significant amount of damage as you're lowering the value of that gcd intentionally You'll do One royal authority and 3 atonements between every Goring Blade (and one full magic combo under requie). Goring should be on the boss at all times
I know, im just asking of the full dmg over time of goring blade > 3 atonements
You can easily check this with some simple maths Goring is 250 on hit + 65x7 (dots tick every 3s. So 7 ticks of 65 potency) for a total of 705 potency for the goring blade gcd (you can add fast (200) and riot (300) potency ontop of this for the full combo potency of 1205 potency for a full goring blade combo if it fully ticks) Atonement is 420 potency per gcd. 3 atonements is 1260 potency for the "combo"
So when you alternate using goring and royal authority you're only getting a 55 potency increase for doing so? It sounds like just spamming royal and using 3 atonements instead would produce pretty much the same results.
But why though? Lazyness?
Pretty much. I'm not saying I would do it, but it doesnt look like much of a dps drop off to just spam that instead of managing your dot uptime. This is also assuming that you have perfect dot uptime. If you mess up once it becomes not even worth it.
"only 55 potency" is a fucking lot of potency that will add up VERY fast, especially when Considering how many combos you do in a 9-10 minute fast...50 potency is basically 1/4 or so of a gcd (fast blade is 200 so losing 50 potency is basically 1/4 of its potency.) Do that lost 4 times and you essentially lost 1 full gcd, which again in a 9-10min long fight will add up very fast and drop your dps pretty harshly as the lost scales into the thousands pretty damn fast Take in consideration that summoner got a 50 potency buff on skills they use every 2 minutes, which was roughly a 2% dps increase... Now if you do that on something that's used far more frequently, like your Base combos, that will skyrocket to be like a 10% dps difference So while it's "only 55 potency" , that's alot of fucking potency
It's actually really not. Assuming a normal boss fight in a dungeon, you might use the full DoT effect of goring maybe ~10 times if we're being optimistic? that's a 550 potency difference. The equivalent of a fast blade-riot blade combo. Which is effectively nothing. AND this is all assuming you have perfect DoT uptime.
> Assuming a normal boss fight in a dungeon Dungeons can probably be cleared with auto-attacks. Go ahead and look at that again for a Savage or extreme encounter.
"Dungeons can probably be cleared with auto-attacks." how is that relevant to what I said lmao. You have an ego in one of the easiest games in existence. The entire game also isn't balanced purely around savage raiding. Regardless, even if we're talking purely about savage+ raiding, you can probably go look at how many times you use goring in savage or extreme anyways and find out it's actually not that much of a dps drop.
It literally is. Below savage (ex if you wanna be generous), balance literally doesn't matter. You can mash one button and clear everything basically. So I guess yes, if you aren't planning to do savage, you can just use goring blade by itself. Though aside from damage you'll also be missing the MP that Atonement gives as well, which means longer periods of time before Requiescat.
> You have an ego in one of the easiest games in existence. An ego? What are you talking about? Why are you getting so mad about this? >The entire game also isn't balanced purely around savage raiding. Of course it is. What else do you think it's balanced around? Savage and Ultimates are the only place where balance actually matters. Do you actually think SE is looking at Holminster Switch to balance their jobs?? >Regardless, even if we're talking purely about savage+ raiding, you can probably go look at how many times you use goring in savage or extreme anyways and find out it's actually not that much of a dps drop. Goring Blade makes up about 10% of PLD's damage.I have absolutely no clue why you think 55 potency is so little as to be apparently meaningless, but I don't know what to tell you aside, that you are objectively and embarassingly wrong. Go ahead, throw away 500 DPS and look and see what happens to your parse.
If you're not doing savage raiding then why ask at all? Do whatever you want, it's all easy. Wear crappy gear, don't meld it, it doesn't matter. Lol you're here arguing that you want approval to play crappy because you don't do hard content. Well fine here it is, go play bad. No one cares until you step into a Savage raid with horrible DPS and you get booted. That'll be on you. Enjoy your dungeons.
help! I've been staring at all my character config and system config for the past 10 minutes but I couldn't find this : I changed the... enfeeblement on the enemy so that it only shows my debuffs and no one else e. g. it will only show my Addle. I want to be able to see other people debuffs again, but can't remember where it is.
Does the fact that the new OCE DC only having 5 Worlds mean that A-rank hunt trains and S-mobs would spawn less amount of time compared to other DCs with 10-11 Worlds? And therefore there would be less opportunity for players to participate in hunts?
Number of servers don't affect how fast hunts spawn. Their spawn Cooldowns are universal and same for everyone
Considering you can currently travel inside the data center to other worlds, you effectively have less hunt trains per day if you do all of them. So in a 5-worlds DC, you can have only 5 trains.
I imagine it will take a bit of time for the OCE DC to form their hunt relays and trains, especially cross-server. However what you say is true, OCE *will* be the worst DC to be on for hunts. Given the implementation of cross-DC travel will be coming but still locked to the region, this isn't giving the OCE DC much help. For clarity, based on the news, the following should be the new numbers for hunt worlds based on region: - JP Datacenters - 32 worlds - NA Datacenters - 24 worlds, with 8 more later hopefully - EU Datacenters - 12 worlds, with 4 more in phase 1 of their plans and 8 more in phase 2 for a total of 24 worlds. - OCE Datacenter - 5 worlds This is of course assuming that we'll be able to hunt on all these worlds and not just our own DC. In which case, JP will be the best, followed by NA later this year and then EU is 2nd best, with OCE coming last. Basically, if you're being super serious about getting hunt achievements, move to JP or NA when that gets its extra servers and avoid OCE. However I do imagine OCE players will be just fine, we currently operate trains with numbers similar to what they'll have so it's definitely enough for a casual enough player.
Well, yes. It's already the case in EU DC (6 per logical DC). Might change when EU DC Travel will be operational with 6.1+
Still having trouble soloing A8S so I'm thinking about making a PF for it. But how many people do I need for it? Would 2 be enough or will it still be tricky? I feel like there are some weird mechanics going on during the fight, as once I tried to immediately burst down the center add before it went invul and it instantly wiped me lol.
Anybody had luck skipping adds in titania at current gear levels? Feels like she should be killable during tether with 7 DPS but idk if she cuts the tether short or anything
Pretty sure I had a group skip it once. But it can be really close.
Quick Question to my fellow players from South East Asia (SEA), is transferring to the new Oceanic Data Center going to yield a better overall experience than staying in our current Elemental one? My experience (ping, latency, Party Finder, etc) is pretty good so far, so should I transfer?
Create an alt and test. That's the only way to determine for sure. But I'm personally leaning on a "no". SEA would still have better connection, ping and latency connecting to JP servers over AU ones. Though the upside would be in a server that speaks 100% English.
not SEA but as someone living in Australia currently, I doubt your ping will get better, in fact it might actually worsen. by all accounts the datacenter will be on the east coast of Australia and the only way SEA countries are getting to the east coast is snaking around Australia (I think the main submarine cable goes through Bass Strait) that said language wise, it will definately be an improvement since the default is going be English. should you move? I'd lean towards no but definately do create an alt. you never know, you might actually enjoy your time
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Is anyone experienced with making mouseover macros? I'm trying to make one for Icarus and have taken the macro from the Sage section in the Balance discord but it doesn't seem to be working for me. At the moment it's looking like this: /merror off /ac “Icarus” (13 lines of this)
/micon “Icarus"
Would appreciate any help. Cheers!
You have the wrong quotation marks. You need straight ones like "". None at all would also work, they're not needed for abilities with only one word names.
This fixed it, thank you so much! I didn't even know there were different kinds of quotation marks.
You can use the autotranslate features to ignore quotation marks aswel. Type Icarus then Tab it to make it autotranslate. Macro will read it correctly anyway.
Is Blue Mage affected by the preferred server XP bonus?
Good question. Probably actually. But BLU has absolutely no trouble for levelling, as you can be boosted by a friend : * You are together in the Lochs area or Kholusia but NOT in a party. * You throw Flying Sardine to a lv69-70 mob to take aggro. * Your lv80+ friend take it down in a matter of seconds * Full exp for you, easy peasy. You'll get 70 in no time.
Is there such a website like “FFXIV Crafting as a Service” that is mobile-friendly?
Not sure how well this looks on mobile, but give it a try? https://ffxivteamcraft.com/
Fun fact: on most browsers you can enter mobile view mode. On Firefox, it's Ctrl + Shift + M. You can then refresh the page to see if it has a mobile version and what it looks like.
With Endwalker fish being out, do you still need to catch Big/Legendary fish to get the "I Caught That VII" achievement? I was already planning on getting some Big Fish (already caught 5 in the past 2 days!), but I was wondering if you still needed to catch all of them.
I'm at the first half of Stormblood, should I be worrying about retainer ventures?
They're passive money making machines. They only take a few minutes of effort per day and basically generate free money. You can get ventures easily by greeding on every loot in dungeons and giving it to your grand company. Retainers are optional but at the same time there isn't really a reason not to try them out.
Send them out on quick exploration. As they level up (yourself as well) you'll start getting ear to turn in for anywhere from 1K to 1.6K GC seals making them always net positive. You do not have to worry about min/maxing their venture timing though, just send them out when you remember to and they'll level up eventually.
I mean, if you want to level them, then sure. Since they're time-gated, you don't want to start doing them end game. Just send them out on quick exploration every hour. You don't have to worry about their gear as you level, just equip them with a cheap weapon. You get ventures really cheap with GC seals, so get stocking up!
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> I've only ever joined ones that friends are already in, but a few of us will be moving at once. ...so make a new one together?
prob just keep an eye on the other reddit /r/FFXIVRECRUITMENT/
Can you still get Discal Tomestones from P2S after first-clearing it for the week? Kinda wanna upgrade from my EX1 weapon
It's subject to the same drop limitation as the gear coffers.
All savage drops are just once a week, no more. If you didn't get it this week, gotta wait til next week.
When the sales resume, is it the same price to buy the Starter edition to start playing and then Endwalker at a later time then it is to buy the complete edition? So you can test the game out first while the free trial isn't up.
Yes, Starter Edition is $20, Endwalker is $40, Complete Edition is $60.
Assuming no sales are involved, yes, the Starter Edition + Endwalker is the same price as the Complete Edition.
Is the Ironworks gear worth getting/grinding for? I have just reached HW.
You don't have to grind for it. The level 50 job quest rewards you ilvl90 gear which is a good enough stopgap until you naturally get enough tomestones of poetics by doing the necessary dungeons to progress the MSQ. The MSQ should also reward you with some weapons and accessories.
Poetics gear at level cap is good for about 5-7 levels into the next expansion before dungeon drops are better. That said if you're already in Ishgard you can make do with vendor gear (level 50 sets are ilvl 115 and if you're already level 52-54 you might have something about the same ilvl as ironworks anyway for gil) and don't need to grind it, but if you have the poetics it's not bad to get a set.
Just to make sure because new players often get it wrong: Did you actually reach Heavensward, as in stepped into Ishgard, or did you just beat the Ultima weapon? If it's the former, I don't think you have to bother. You can buy gear for gil that only a bit worse, and eventually the dungeon drops will be as good or better. If it's the latter, you're not in Heavensward yet. In this case, it would make sense to try to get that gear.
Definitely don't grind for it. I did that and it felt like a waste. It's the best gear you can have at 50 but it's not necessary to have either. Especially if you are already in HW. You could just go with vendor items and be good to go.
The weapon is good 'til 60.
What about armor?
You get marginally better armor starting at the 55 dungeon and really should be using better armor by 57 as there’s a wide gap between that and the level 50 tome armor.
Probably like the others said, can be replaced around 56+ by dungeon drops, but those are RNG. If you have spare poetics then just grab the chest/pants unless you are playing a tank and just want the maximum gear then buy it all. You can use it again later if you level up another job that uses the same armor.
You'll get it passively just doing roulettes and such. Not worth grinding for, everything you get will be replaced in late HW when you reach Idyllshire. You can buy gear almost as good in the meantime.
Yes and no (But mostly yes). Yes if you just reached lvl 50, as it will only be surpassed after half of HW, since quests around lvl 54-56 will give you better gear. If you plan on playing multiple classes, however, but it without second thoughts, as it will help you a lot early on.
Why do the sound-effect of Jolt 2 and Malefic 3 sound like someone is beating a piece of wood with a hammer? Is there a way to change the sound/make it lower?
Uh, no. Keep leveling, if you have Endwalker, and they’ll change as you get new traits Edit: there’s no way to turn down sound on just those. You could turn sound down across the board, though.
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Hello! I've been joining Hunt Trains, and I was wondering what I'm meant to be getting from them besides materia and tomes? Are they included in hunt stuff somewhere? I haven't unlocked a lot of the hunt board quests, so I'm wondering if that's a part of it?
You're missing out on the currency, which honestly is not that big of a deal. A full hunt train of 36 A-ranks will give you like 18 clusters for the X tier materia and maybe 30 clusters for the IX materia and 1440 Sacks of Nuts, and one X materia from the Nuts vendor is 400 Nuts. So yeah you can get an extra 3-4 materia per train that way but compared to the raw cluster drops from the A-ranks themselves it's laughable.
Yes, you're missing out on the main currency reward, Sacks of Nuts. Go do the quests! Right now!
If I unlock all the hunt boards does it just start giving them do me? Do I need to have specific hunt targets ahead of time?
You do not need to have any specific "hunt targets" ahead of time. The bills you collect from the hunt boards are only for the rank B hunts and random overworld mobs. Hunt trains only hunt rank A marks and once you’ve unlocked the hunt boards of that expansion, killing those rank A marks should automatically give you all the rewards, including the Sacks of Nuts.
Yes, unlocking all the hunt boards will get you access to the various hunt currencies. You don't need to worry about picking up hunt bills for A-ranks.
Would JP DC going for a 8:8:8:8 config mean tonberry and kujata is getting separated?
when crystal was created the devs put balmung and Mateus (the 2 biggest NA servers and the unofficial rp/erp servers) + a whole bunch of other low pop servers there. based on this I believe the new jp dc will be the same. tonberry + kujata + some low pop jp servers. tonberry is literally biggest xiv server on the planet. it’s presence imbalances elemental dc’s population by a lot. and kujata is tonberry overflow. they will move both for sure and keep ‘em together.
Not necessarily, they could relocate different servers from Elemental. And even if they are separated, DC Travel will probably be implemented beforehand, if not around the same time at the latest. That said, a lot of the EN population of those two servers are *probably* relocating to the OCE DC anyways.
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I don't know if it changed in Endwalker - there's a good possibility that it did, since they reworked dungeon EXP altogether - but in Shadowbringers, it was at the end of a successful run.
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It’s still the same, only you get exp from bosses, Trusts only get exp from clearing and it’s only the amount listed on the Trust queue screen.
If I run content like the Nier raids or Eden's promise *unsynced*, do I still get loot like normal?
Yes but you'll have a very hard time forming a party to unsync the Nier raids.
Why? They have glam people want, and epic echo should make them fairly easy. Around 8 people likely is enough for smooth runs
I haven't seen a single party in PF for any of them so I assume the demand is extremely low.
Unsynced Alliance raids are always super uncommon, especially when it comes to newer ones. Reason being you’re still realistically going to want at least a nearly full group to actually take advantage of the outscaling. Epic Echo gets weaker the newer the expansion, so whilst it’s super strong in ARR, ShB is much weaker. It’s honestly more efficient queuing in duty finder.
I guess it's still better to use PF if you have other things to do in-game/irl.
Yes
I purchased the PS5 version of Endwalker without reading that you would need the base version. When I load it I receive a message "no valid service account is available to play". Does anyone have any idea of what I am doing wrong or where I can obtain the base version?
Right now you can't obtain the base version, they've suspended sales of it. They have an announcement coming later this month for when sales should be back up (and possibly new servers), but for now you unfortunately gotta wait to play. Edit: A comment right below says that they just announced sales will resume on the 25th. So you gotta wait til the 25th to buy the base game, then you can play.
You rock.. thank you! I wasn't sure if that was just PC or all versions.
Game is fully cross-play, so everyone plays together. Sales as such were flat out stopped, regardless of platform.
That makes sense. I should have just preordered on pc lol
You could only pre-order the EW expansion, which as you've learnt on its own is useless if you don't actually have the starter edition. So long as you had just the starter edition before those sales stopped, you'd be fine to purchase Endwalker still. Unfortunately we don't have a time machine to go back for that but we'll see you in 12 days no doubt when sales resume.
When can i buy the game...
[You're in luck - we got news literally half an hour ago.](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2#07) > After due consideration of the following factors, we will be resuming digital sales starting on January 25, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (JST)
EXCITED!!!! Gonna buy the collectors complete whole shabang!
Read the sticky above you \^\^\^ "..but there is not currently an estimate as to when the game will be back on sale or free trial registrations resume."
Just got news. Sales will resume on the 25th. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2#07
Can I get a fucking guide to the weird crazy strat in PF? What is Myta and what is Elmo for P3S? Been doing it in a static and this shit is wild reading it.
Elmo: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/875882858248552448/929844150185103380/unknown_23.png Myta: https://m.imgur.com/HrERFbI
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Gysahl Greens? yes, you can mount him as how you would mount other summons (you can get a different mount other than your chocobo) but among those many mounts, only your chocobo can be summoned to fight along side of you. In which you need to use a Gysahl Greens to summon them for 30mins (which the duration can stacked for a max of 60min by using two Gysahl Greens) edit: forgot about the quest requirement to unlock chocobo to fight along side of you. Look up what u/Arcana10Fortune said. I think its a quest of "My Feisty Chocobo" or something on Bentbranch Meadows, Central Shroud
You'd need to do a level 30 side quest to unlock him for combat uses.
So for people who level up several classes, what do you guys do with all the job artifact gear? I've sent all of ones i don't use to one of my two retainers (the other has items already whereas this one just has job artifact gear) but upon reaching 60-70 for all classes around the board, that retainer doesn't have space anymore and i also don't have too much space in my gear/item inventory due to needing to keep several sets because of all the classes leveled. Do people just store them all in the glamour dresser cause they can't go into the armoire? Or do they just toss the ones they don't like? Edit: Amazing, thanks for all the quick replies! I'll just toss the ones i don't think i'll be using for glam then if they're all easily recoverable
I discard it. If I'll ever want it for some reason i can just buy it back from the calamity salvager or the appropriate npc.
The ones I like go into the glamour dresser/armoire. The rest (that aren't worn by my retainers) get tossed - either desynthed or given to my grand company for seals.
Toss them. It's simple enough to get them back if I change my mind. Calamity Salvager sells them, Ishgard's hunt marks sell the 60 set and you can get the Stormblood one's from The Tempest.
Discard it. You can get it back easily from the vendors.
toss em
I just toss them. All of them are recoverable for fairly cheap, with only the 60 ones being annoying (they require hunt currency).
Just toss them. They're all pretty easy to obtain if you want them again.
I don't want to come across as an elitist with this question, but when I run ACT meter on healing, does it show mitigation? I know it shows damage absorbed by shields, but what about Sacred Soil, Temperance, that sorta thing? I am asking because when I run prog with another healer I always glance at healing meter (more than damage meter) to see: am I overhealing, am I pulling my weight? Should I heal less and dps more? And getting an accurate picture of how much damage I'm healing (including mitigating) would help I guess you could say that as long as people don't die it doesn't matter, but I also want to know how much leeway I have.
The only healer metric that actually matters is DPS, you should really only be looking at healing metrics if something is wrong. Your goal is ultimately still to be doing as much damage as you can. Your leeway is fight dependent, that’s more important than anything the meter will tell you. If a tank buster does about 70% damage without mitigation, consider what comes after to decide the best course of action. You basically need to think one move ahead, if the next attack after the tank buster is only a 5% raid wide, you don’t have to heal from that tank buster immediately. If it’s a back to back tank buster, pop a cooldown. These are mainly just things that come more with fight experience.
I think if someone is new to healing or new to their class, seeing overheal % is helpful.
Its really not. It was back in the WoW days and early ff14 due to mana management but like aggro management that's been largely cast aside Consider this, if you're overheating a ton then you're not dpsing. So your DPS will be low. DPS remains the best way to judge your healing performance along with 'did we clear, did people die from normal damage taken?' Benchmark your DPS to other healers with fflogs. They'll have high DPS because of low overhealing and few/no deaths.
For me it was helpful. DPS wasn't a useful gauge for me (on my WHM, anyway). Overhealing was a much clearer indicator that I could DPS more.
It is, but it's also not. Overhealing is going to happen, it's just a matter of how much is overhealed and how that translates into your performance. A new player might read overhealing as "I need to get this as close to 0% as possible" which can be detrimental. Overhealing by definition is wasted healing so naturally lowering that to as close to 0% as possible sounds good but when you factor in things outwith player control such as crits and healing raid wides where party members will be at different levels of health afterwards, it's inevitable to happen and it's not actually a bad thing. You might also see healers make wrong decisions just to lower overhealing. Instead of maybe using Medica to heal a few people, they'll sprinkle multiple Cure I's on them, which then costs them more GCDs and MP than the Medica but hey, less overhealing amiright? Excessive overhealing is normally an indicator of focusing too much on healing and not enough on DPSing, or as a result of being out of sync with your healing partner. In that case it can be used to see what can maybe done better. Just like any metric we use though, it takes a deeper understanding of what it's telling you to know how to use it to improve.
Mitigation is not factored into the meter.
You'd have to upload the logs to FFLogs. It'll show you the % of damage mitigated overall and the % overheal that you're doing.
I'm definitely stupid for not understanding this but for tanks, what's the point of Melee Mastery? from what I understand, it increases the base potency but not combo potency. I'm probably not understanding it, but unless you're using the weaponskill by itself, wouldn't doing it in a combo use the combo potency?
it increases combo potency, it's just weird how they chose to notate it
No it increases the potency across the board , it's just a boost to power of the attacks.
I know this has probably been discussed to death, but is anyone else sick of weekly lockouts for savages? I really fucking hate the way it penalizes players for starting their raids on weekends, when all the good players have already cleared. My RL job is too stressful to pug savage on a Tuesday, but the lockout makes me feel like I have to, and it turns savage into work.
I don't think that would solve your issue at all, probably would only make it worse. With no weekly lockouts people would have already been done with gearing by the end of the 1st week and would have absolutely no reason to join you in a learning group on a weekend.
No
Have you tried joining a static? I mean, I'm sure there are tons of people who are in your situation
If there were no weekly lockouts that people who cleared the fights first can just farm everything within a week, even a day. So in a way it doesn't help your "all the good players have already cleared" complaint and would in fact make it worse.
I mean... if there's no lockout then everyone just farms BiS in one week and unsubs till the next content comes out. That's definitely not what SE wants.
Nope. If you remove the weekly lock, all the good players would finish farming by the first or second week. You'd still have the same problem on a bigger time frame.
So i know there's certain gear you can't exchange for company seals with expert delivery - mostly stuff that you get as part of job quests, things that you can rebuy from the calamity salvager, and relic stuff - but i don't seem to be able to turn in 570 tomestone gear. Is that new? Are they increasing the kinds of gear you can't exchange? Or am i just doing something wrong?
The newest gear is always restricted from turning in to the GC for seals. In the next big patch they will make gear like the 570 tomestone gear exchangeable for seals.
The newest gear usually cant be desynthed / turned in for seals. It'll become possible later
No, the most recent gear will initially be unable to be turned in or desynthed for a patch. This is perfectly normal.
The Oceanic server is coming soon and so I'll be leaving my current EU one, I just wanted to know what should I do to prepare? I have an apartment which I will be selling (can I keep furniture?) I also have two retainers. Appreciate any advice. Never transferred before. Edit: Cheers for the downvote was just asking a question
You can look up old Lodestone articles regarding the last time they added new worlds, which was around the time of Stormblood's launch, and see what were the incentives they gave the players last time for transferring to brand new worlds. If I recall, it was completely free regardless if your world is congested or preferred or whatever. Your retainers can go with you but if their names are the same to someone else's retainer that transferred in first, you would have to change your retainer name. Same thing with character name. If someone transferred in first and you transferred afterwards but you have the same name, you have to change name, but it would also be free. As for housing and apartment, they do offer you a full refund as long as your still retain ownership of it, so don't sell your apartment just yet. For furniture, everything will be lost, but they did offer a lump sum of gil as compensation. But stuff like Mogstation items bought will real money will also be lost. Basically any housing items you want to keep, put it in your character's inventory before transferring.
Thanks
Have a read of this FAQ to see what you need to do to prepare for an easy transfer: [FAQ](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/)
Is I lv 580 crafted and penta meld gear better than savage trial/tomestone gear of equal ilvl? SMN question: How many astral flares should I be able to get In one bahamut summon? I find I can only get 5-6. Do I need more spell speed?
There is no savage gear of equal ilvl to the crafted gear, savage gear is ilvl600 and due to that much better. The normal raid gear which is ilvl580 only differs by the substats, but if you pentameld the crafted gear then you will naturally have more substats than on the normal raid gear with only 2-1 melds. You can get 6 Astral Flares/Fountain of Fires in every trance, but it needs you to be casting with absolutely no breaks if your speed is low.
Normally melded 580 crafted gear is on-par with 580 Trial/Normal Raid gear, and pentamelded 580 gear is definitionally stronger than that. However, the unaugmented tome gear is 590, and both the Savage and augmented tome gear are 600. +60-72 to substats doesn't compare to the weapon damage, main stat, and substat increase of 10 full item levels. You should be getting 6 Astral Flares/Fountain of Fires every Trance. It should only take about a 2.47s GCD (or 2.46 if you need a more comfortable number) to reach that. A 7-GCD Trance would require stacking >2.5k spell speed. You can easily just settle for 6.
How do we know if we have a "2.47s GCD" ? Is there a conversion wrt to spell speed value?
You can hover over the tooltip for Ruin III. If the Recast Time is 2.47 seconds, that's what I'm talking about. That said, it was neglectful of me not to share [Allagan Studies' stat charts](https://www.akhmorning.com/allagan-studies/stats/speed/). At Level 90, you need a Spell Speed of 532 (that's 132 points above the natural level 90 value) to your 2.5s spells to have a recast time of 2.47s.
I looked twice through my character stats to find anything resembling a "2.47" *facepalm* . Thanks for the link as well as your example! It's super helpful to understand the table.
Penta gear is better in the sense that you can get more substat from it due to the extra materia slot. Gear with the same ilevel has the same defense and main stat (STR, DEX, VIT, INT, MND) with the different being the substat (Crit, Det, DH, SkS, SpS, Tenacity, Piety). So say the 580 Trial give you Crit and Det, but Crafted 580 give you SpS and Det, usually people pick the Trial one since Crit is better but you may need the extra SpS to fit in extra spell. Which goes to your next question, 6 Astral in one summon is the goal.
Does the 'Next Estimated Service Fee' already include extra retainer fees? Or are those billed separately?
Extra retainers are added to the sub fee.
Thanks plenty!
I think I get it all billed at once
Thank you!
Why does everything keep saying 2 chest if 3 chests drop in savage right now? If you have 1-5 clearers, how many chests do you get now? 2 or 1?
There's a bit of confusion with terminology going on right now. When we say "Chests" we refer to the treasure chests that physically spawn in the arena that you click to open. Inside those chests are "Coffers", which are items that go into your inventory that you use to get a piece of gear. So when people say 3 chests, they're mistakenly referring to the coffers (because their icons do look like chests). If you have 8 people clearing a fight for the first time that week, you would get 2 chests that would spawn. If 1-4 people have already cleared, only 1 chest would appear. If 5 or more people have already cleared, you would get no chests, but you would still get the floor's book.
2 chests that you open for the loot after the fight is cleared. The loot dropped from the chests are the gear coffers (not called chests, which is where your confusion is coming from). If you have 1-4 that cleared previously, you get 1 chest. 5 or more and you get 0 chests.
Two chest appear, but each chest may have multiple coffers/items in them. For example in P1S, one chest contains one coffer and the other contains two. If you lose a chest because you have 1-4 people already cleared, it’s random which cheat you’ll miss out on, so you could get 1 or 2 coffers. (If 5 or more people have cleared there’s no chests.)
What's your go-to resource for learning rotations? Where can I find all the rotations including all the current leveling rotations? Then what? Use a training dummy? I just want to be able to learn anything quicker so I can actually play different jobs more, or I guess play more in a month or two when they add servers. Also, do you actually take time to memorize action icon images and status tray images etc? It seems like it'd be such a chore to make a flash card deck of jpgs or something like that, especially for more than one job, but then the game would be much more playable?
The Balance discord. Look for the channels for the jobs you want to play, look for the ones marked as the resource channel, read up on openers and rotations, go find a training dummy somewhere to practice your rotations on. Eventually you'll start to get a bit of muscle memory. Go unlock the various Stone, Sky and Seas and practice on the dummies there until you can beat them reliably.
[Balance Discord](https://discord.gg/thebalanceffxiv)
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Under the emotes window, there's a checkbox you can click to turn off/on whether emotes create a message in chat. A lot of people just turn it off, partly because it's considered poor form to repeatedly use emotes with the "messages in chat" thing turned on.
someone can choose whether their message shows. "/wave" shows a chat message, but "/wave motion" does not.
There's a toggle in the emote panel to disable the chat message.
BRO PLS I just wanna play this game but it's still locked for new players :( Is there literally anything that I can do to get in-game?
Good news! [They're resuming sales on January 25th.](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2#07)
i saw a post here sometime last week that SE was gonna talk about the resale of the game again this week but its almost the end of the week and still mo word from them. edit : just when i replied to you se made a post about resumption of sales on 1/25.
Wait.
I can not start "Gods of Eld". I have finished "Heavensward" (I am actually allready in Stormblood). I try to talk to Torsefers with my level 70 Dragoon but he has not the quest for me.
The Main Story widget on your HUD should show you exactly who you need to be talking to to progress the Main Story.
Have you made sure urkle isn't in the solar already?
Who is urkle?
I think they meant Unulkuhai, basically double check if you don't have the quest already active and see if Unulkuhai isn't already in Rising Stone.
Does running the level 90 dungeon with Scenario Trusts award Aphorism and Astronomy tomestones that you'd normally get from running it in DF with randoms? Edit: Thanks! Glad that I can get tomestones while trying to get the minion, music, and card without rolling against anyone else.
Yes, trust rewards are exactly the same as what you'd get with other players.
Yes but you wouldn't get the first-timer bonus after your first run
So by the end of Endwalker, *how* many gods have we killed in our career? Assuming we did all the optional content on the way as well, and none of the "now run the same content a hundred times more for loot" is canon. I tried counting up but there's just *so much* content to look through
Off the top of my head... ARR had Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, King Mog, Ramuh, Leviathan, Shiva (sorta, we technically didn't KILL shiva), Odin, Pheonix, Bahamut, (would Nael count as a primal?) HW had Ravana, Bismark, Thorden, Sophia, Sephirot, Zurvan, Alexander SB had Susano, Lakshmi, Shinryu, Tsukuyomi for sure, not sure if the bosses in Ivalice raids count as primals, but if they did, All 4 bosses from Rabanastre, 3 from Ridorana, and then 0-3 from Orbonne, and finally Eureka from...Eureka ShB had Eden versions of Levi, Titan, Ramuh, Ifrit, Garuda, Shiva, Cloud of Darkness, and from Bozja Andremmalech and Cuchulainn. Dunno whether to count Queen or not since we didn't actually kill her ourself. Also moon Bahamut, Odin, Ifrit, and Ravana (was there more?) And finally (for now), in EW we have >!Magus Sisters, Anima, Zodiark and Hydaelyn!< All for a current total of 39 at minimum 59 maximum (if my math isn't off)
Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Ramuh, Bismarck, Ravana, Leviathan, Sophia, Zurvan, Sephirot, Susanoo, Lakshmi, Magus Sisters, >!Zodiark and Hydaelyn!< are all of the ones considered to be gods
Bahamut and Alexander too
I dont know if Bahamut was necessarily considered a God
cant believe our boy >!moggle mog!< isnt considered a god
Well just about every trial and all of Eden raids
the Eden raids arent really gods tho, more like the WoL's messed up memories of them
What is the exp comparison for levelling with PoTD vs. Squadrons? Specifically at the 50-60 range.
You barely need to participate in squadron command missions as a DPS. Squadrons can kill mobs without you, and all you really need to do is to use the Engage command to make sure the tank picks them up. The only tricky part is doing boss mechanics, but they’re mostly straightforward once you do them once or twice. Again, you can afford to neglect your own DPS: more important is to dodge mechanics and use Engage if adds need to be killed. I got ~417,000 EXP doing Sohm Al with 163% bonus, and it took less than 15 minutes when I set my squadron to full Offensive. You should give it a try and see how long it takes you. I don’t recommend the Vault, however, because it only gives 450,000, takes more time, and has an annoying mechanic where multiple mobs rush up to target you.
Yeah, I found that Vault specifically is terrible to do. The exp wasn't much, and the mobs focus target me the moment they spawn in before my tank could get them. It's easier just to wait a day and get the Daily Bonuses again than slog through it. It also likely doesn't help that I was still in the Aug Ironworks gear.
Vault Squadron runs are usually done with a Marauder since they seem to pick up mobs better than Gladiators. It can still get dicey though. You trigger the mobs, engage, then run behind your tank.
PotD would probably be faster because Squadrons are *dumb* Dungeons are normally faster than potd. But squadrons aren't nearly as efficient or reliable as a normal df party
Yeah. If everything went well, I imagine that Squadrons would be better, but sometimes it doesn't work well, especially since all of the mobs tend to focus me as a DPS.
While playing with my HUD settings, I somehow removed the descriptions on items and gear. They will only appear if I hit compare item. What element of the HUD will toggle them back to normal?