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Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward |OT2| RIP Bowmage 2015-2017.
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SoundPulse
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I wish Idyllshire had an inn room, especially since The Hard Place or whatever technically fills that role for Idyllshire.
At least Stormblood should have two inns since we'll presumably have Ala Mhigo and Kugane.
IonicSnake
Banned
Yeah
panama chief
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Hi. Are there any catch up guides for someone that stopped a month or two before Haevensward released? I have a white mage at 50 and my clothes are lvl50 too. Help please!!
panama chief
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Good place to start. Thanks
Did Garuda and Titan Hard Mode today.
Titan the party wiped four times. At that point it became personal so the 6 of us who didn't leave made sure to finish it, lol
My comfort is that I was never the first healer to die. My counterpart kept getting knocked off by landslide, lol. One of my deaths though was me not looking where I was going and I ran into a corner of three intersecting eruptions... Woops. Fourth attempt I healed solo for the more than half the fight, and almost did it, except I panicked in that I couldn't see which bombs were about to blow (plus Titan covering my screen) and I got blasted.
Gonna attempt again tomorrow, hopefully no wipes, lol. I look forward to one day trying Titan Extreme.
Titan the party wiped four times. At that point it became personal so the 6 of us who didn't leave made sure to finish it, lol
My comfort is that I was never the first healer to die. My counterpart kept getting knocked off by landslide, lol. One of my deaths though was me not looking where I was going and I ran into a corner of three intersecting eruptions... Woops. Fourth attempt I healed solo for the more than half the fight, and almost did it, except I panicked in that I couldn't see which bombs were about to blow (plus Titan covering my screen) and I got blasted.
Gonna attempt again tomorrow, hopefully no wipes, lol. I look forward to one day trying Titan Extreme.
AuthenticM
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FINALLY DONE WITH THE MSQ!
*whew*
So, that last dungeon I was missing from the roulette was not the one from the MSQ. That one was for the Expert Roulette, not the level 60 one. The dungeon I was missing was Hullbreaker Isle (Brutal), which is gotten from this lone dude in Limsa Lominsa. I'll do it later this week.
So here's what I want to do now! I would like to finally try out Palace of the Dead. I've never been in it, and I'd like to go there to level my Monk job to level 60. I want to roleplay as a monk for the MSQ of Stormblood.
I've heard that you need to be in a team to do the dungeon past certain floors. I'd very much like to go in the Palace for the first time with a bunch of Gaffers. Would some of you be interested in joining me in this adventure? I'm EST. I can usually play in the evenings from 19:00 to 23:00 in the weekdays, and any time of the day during week-ends.
*whew*
So, that last dungeon I was missing from the roulette was not the one from the MSQ. That one was for the Expert Roulette, not the level 60 one. The dungeon I was missing was Hullbreaker Isle (Brutal), which is gotten from this lone dude in Limsa Lominsa. I'll do it later this week.
So here's what I want to do now! I would like to finally try out Palace of the Dead. I've never been in it, and I'd like to go there to level my Monk job to level 60. I want to roleplay as a monk for the MSQ of Stormblood.
I've heard that you need to be in a team to do the dungeon past certain floors. I'd very much like to go in the Palace for the first time with a bunch of Gaffers. Would some of you be interested in joining me in this adventure? I'm EST. I can usually play in the evenings from 19:00 to 23:00 in the weekdays, and any time of the day during week-ends.
SoundPulse
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Congrats.
For PotD, you can do floors 1-100 solo, with a matched party, or with a premade party. To enter 101-200, you must take a premade party from either floor 1 or floor 51 all the way through without a party wipe. You'll have some grinding to do before you set foot in those floors, though, as they are quite nasty. You'll probably want your aetherpool gear stat as high as you can get it, if not maxed, which you'll get from the silver chests you'll find throughout. The ones that don't explode in your face, anyway.
If you want to do so after, there is an achievement and title for clearing it solo.
Jumped into 12s on DRK today. Cleared on AST like four months ago buuut first time I've ever been in there on tank. Got to... 14% on my second pull! So that's cool. That was second puddles so pretty much the entire fight. My DPS was kinda awful (like 1300 on that pull) but still trying to learn it
Really fun fight to main tank. Doesn't seem like you need grit outside of establishing hate
Really fun fight to main tank. Doesn't seem like you need grit outside of establishing hate
Lanrutcon
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There's screaming, running and an overall sense of impending dread and panic. Not in that order, obviously. Basically just do your best and when the dust settles: blame the Dragoon.
Or go hit up the wiki/Youtube for a quick breakdown of what to do so you're prepared. Going in blind to the Extremes/Savages of the world is just going to cause frustration unless you're with understanding friends.
IonicSnake
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Pyros_Eien
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Hi. Are there any catch up guides for someone that stopped a month or two before Haevensward released? I have a white mage at 50 and my clothes are lvl50 too. Help please!!
There was a reddit post a few days ago actually about preparing for Stormblood, which I guess is about the same thing really:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qge69tpx6vHFhlKMMvpNG0kw7Szf-Ov1PR5nmX0XJG4/preview
I didn't go through it all I just bookmarked it for later but it looked like it had all the stuff you'd need to know what to do. I'm also planning on compiling the patch notes info stuff from the patches I missed so I know exactly where to go to unlock everything but I haven't started yet.
Anyway if you quit BEFORE heavensward, the most obvious thing to do is the story. Just do your main story quest, until you're out of them. This is the first thing you want to do in general since it unlocks parts of the game, and also lets you be safe from potential spoilers you might hear in random chats ingame(and there's quite a bunch).
Johnlenham
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The way the xpack works is really frustrating. IM level 53 and ive just looked and seen Ive got loads of bits locked off until I rattle through this post ARR quest :/
Im currently dealing with refugees revolting and I had to stop as I spent a whole day grinding these annoying fetch quests and picking up boxes and finding stupid children. Atleast the flavour texts acknowledged how absurd it all was for me to be doing that.
Im currently dealing with refugees revolting and I had to stop as I spent a whole day grinding these annoying fetch quests and picking up boxes and finding stupid children. Atleast the flavour texts acknowledged how absurd it all was for me to be doing that.
Oh that was me last week. Lmao.
Ugh, hated those ones. If you have gil, and hate wasting time, just straight up buy them from the market board. The game doesn't care if you gathered them yourself, only that you have them.
You can even buy them in advance of the quest, since they don't change.
Hydrophobic
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Unfortunately I think you're like 30-40 quests away from where the story gets interesting.
Johnlenham
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hosannainexcelsis
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If you're not interested in getting high quality items, it's probably not worth trying to level up gathering jobs.
Have you been doing the Hildibrand quests? That might make you feel better between MSQ garbage. Some of the 2.1 to 2.3 MSQ chains are baaaaaaaaad.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I wouldn't mind if PLD became the 15% attack speed up tank in Stormblood.
Like there are some dps like Ninja and Monk where having increased attack speed is a core part of their playstyle.
With Paladin's faster autos and one handed sword style I think it would make a good fit.
Like there are some dps like Ninja and Monk where having increased attack speed is a core part of their playstyle.
With Paladin's faster autos and one handed sword style I think it would make a good fit.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
It feels like PLD attacks don't hit as hard. They do have faster auto attacks than Dark Knight and Warrior though.
If they want to keep that image of them doing less per hit but more of them I think they should up that attack speed.
Johnlenham
Member
I dont think so, just loads of ones to dungeons.
Oh wait yeah I have one about doing a fate with zombies, about as far as Ive got with it.
SoundPulse
Banned
You can get more fish to put in an aquarium.
The true true endgame.
That's the start of Hildibrand's quests. Honestly, it's some of Square's best writing in years, and it's a nice break from the soul crushing monotony that the 2.x stuff can get to be.
First time through HW is slower, but you'll be fine exp wise if you do all the sidequests. There is also POTD if you want to do some quick leveling
Stone Ocean
Member
Ding ding ding
Lanrutcon
Member
The XP curve is completely different for HW. Last 2 level are painful.
I imagine in SB the curve will be different, and the HW curve will be brought in line with the base game.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I remember Yoship saying that Stormblood will have more main quests than sidequests this time around. He also gave a comparison but I can't remember which interview/fanfest/whatever it was from.
cartoon_soldier
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That would be nice.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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I hope the main questline is 2x bigger than Heavensward.
Lanrutcon
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hosannainexcelsis
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I think I've tackled a fairly sizeable chunk of HW so far and I've only encountered a couple of 8 man instances.
Not too sure about raids because I haven't touched them yet!
Lanrutcon
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Raids: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/duty/?category2=5
Raids are dungeons meant for either 3 full parties (24 players) or 1 full party (8 players). You can unlock them via quests, and queue for them using the Duty Finder. They have their own tabs (one for vanilla raids, and one for HW raids). Some of meant for groups of random people, some are meant for organised groups due to difficulty. Think of raids as more complex dungeons. They're often grand with some terrifying boss fights.
It's worth doing them for the story, as well as the unique rewards they offer.
AuthenticM
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Cool, thanks!
So does anyone want to do some Palace of the Dead with me tonight? I would start from floor 1. I've never done it, so it'll be fun! I can play at 19:30 EST, so in one hour and a half.
after 2.0 story all trials ( Hard or extreme) will be 8 man content .
edit : oopd i see you meant dungeons . no only these 2 dungeons are 8 man . everything else is 4 man .
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