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MogCakes
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(Today, 06:26 AM)
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Now that the semester's finally ending my friends and I are planning to start this game anew with new chars. A couple questions: we have four people (so basically a perma-light party), we've designated who wants which role, but I'm curious as to how scholar fares as the healer of a light party.
oneils
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(Today, 06:29 AM)
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Originally Posted by Aeana

Open up your actions and traits window, and check the first page (I think)?

Originally Posted by dramatis

Either use Actions & Traits from Set 8 or press start and find Actions & Traits in the leftmost menu (above where you start highlighted on 'Character').

When Actions & Traits is open, on the left sidebar head down to 'Main Commands'. Press X to get into the right side of the window, where you should be able to find inventory and journal icons. When you have highlighted one of them, press Square, and it will enter hotbar editing mode, where now you can hold L2/R2 and place your command where you want it.

Awesome. Thanks guys. I'll be checking that out tomorrow.
tiggerkiddo
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(Today, 06:36 AM)
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Everyone should take advantage of that deal, especially if you want a cheap month of ARR!
Aeana
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(Today, 06:39 AM)
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Originally Posted by MogCakes

Now that the semester's finally ending my friends and I are planning to start this game anew with new chars. A couple questions: we have four people (so basically a perma-light party), we've designated who wants which role, but I'm curious as to how scholar fares as the healer of a light party.

Scholar is fine, but they don't exist until level 30, so you won't be able to heal until then.
Totakeke
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(Today, 06:54 AM)
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Originally Posted by Teknoman

Everyone needs to post in some XIV forum direct message to Yoshi about their CT concerns asap. I dont think its too late to change the mechanincs right?


I was really looking forward to it, even though i'm just like lvl 44. Something so amazing sounding, to be squandered potential (at least the way the first floors work, since I assume they are adding more) due to lockout mechanics.

Fundamentally they're screwed either way. Whether you get your gear in 5 weeks due to lockouts or 1 week without lockouts, padding content in between ilvl50-ilvl90 when most people can easily get or already have ilvl90 is a silly decision they never bothered to reverse. Even if you don't do CoB you already have myth tokens to get AF+1 gear.
MrTeachwell
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(Today, 07:23 AM)
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Originally Posted by Aeana

Scholar is fine, but they don't exist until level 30, so you won't be able to heal until then.

not completely correct. While Scholar isn't available till 30 ARC gets physick (their main heal) right away and does fine healing in dungeons till they unlock their dedicated healing profession.

I started ARC about a month ago and took over healing in Satasha when the Conjurer dropped. Although if you use duty finder to enter dungeons you will be designated a DPS role, but if you've got a static group you can enter with ARC as your healer just fine.
Aeana
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(Today, 07:48 AM)
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Originally Posted by MrTeachwell

not completely correct. While Scholar isn't available till 30 ARC gets physick (their main heal) right away and does fine healing in dungeons till they unlock their dedicated healing profession.

I started ARC about a month ago and took over healing in Satasha when the Conjurer dropped. Although if you use duty finder to enter dungeons you will be designated a DPS role, but if you've got a static group you can enter with ARC as your healer just fine.

I guess you could, but you'd be working a lot harder/healing for less than a conjurer with the +mind and maim and mend traits. Not a big deal in Sastasha, but it'll get progressively more difficult with each further dungeon. Toto-rak as arcanist would be interesting. You wouldn't have leeches and you wouldn't have the fairy, and you'd need to be able to keep up with the AoE poison still.
jagaman
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(Today, 08:21 AM)
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So for once the gamfaqs rumor was true.
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I never played another MMO. I'm not defending the week lock-out system, but isn't that what all MMO's are about? Grinding till your head explodes to keep you playing?
Totakeke
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(Today, 08:25 AM)
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Sure, but now you can only grind for a limited time in a week rather than infinite. How about if you were just allowed a one level cap a day?

All these are just artificial ways to lengthen people's subscriptions.
jiggle
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(Today, 08:29 AM)
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Originally Posted by Totakeke

Sure, but now you can only grind for a limited time in a week rather than infinite. How about if you were just allowed a one level cap a day?

All these are just artificial ways to lengthen people's subscriptions.

Reminds me of the xp penalty from 1.0
Teknoman
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(Today, 08:45 AM)
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So about pure blood garleans:

I never noticed the third eye on Cid...but I guess he never took off his goggles (that you somehow gave him?) in 1.0. Is the third eye literal or just figurative, and happen to look like a sort of eye. I couldnt tell if it was a gem like lalafell, or an actual eye that had a blind color tone.

Anyway, the whole CT situation sounds like the only way out would have just been to make it something to tackle after Coil instead of proceeding with it as planned...especially since i'm not sure how it ended up missing launch, while something taking place afterward didn't.

At any rate...time to take down Garuda. Well later today anyway.
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tiggerkiddo
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(Today, 09:17 AM)
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We need to do a group photo of the FC.
chrono01
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(Today, 09:25 AM)
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Originally Posted by tiggerkiddo

We need to do a group photo of the FC.

I agree. Preferably as Lightning/Snow.

Because we can never have too much Lightning/Snow.
Teknoman
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(Today, 09:25 AM)
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Damn it...Akihiko Yoshida left S-E. Heres hoping that he continues to do designs for XIV for the future.
Riposte
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(Today, 09:32 AM)
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Originally Posted by Teknoman

Damn it...Akihiko Yoshida left S-E. Heres hoping that he continues to do designs for XIV for the future.

Actually, I really dislike his female costume designs. He needs to be kept in check.
Totakeke
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(Today, 09:33 AM)
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Originally Posted by Riposte

Actually, I really dislike his female costume designs. He needs to be kept in check.

What female costume designs?
Riposte
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(Today, 09:35 AM)
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Originally Posted by Totakeke

What female costume designs?

e.g Ashe from XII, Miqo'te RSE in XIV.
tiggerkiddo
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(Today, 09:37 AM)
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Originally Posted by chrono01

I agree. Preferably as Lightning/Snow.

Because we can never have too much Lightning/Snow.

So a whole lot of kitty Lightnings and Shows.
chrono01
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(Today, 09:39 AM)
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Originally Posted by tiggerkiddo

So a whole lot of kitty Lightnings and Shows.

There will be at least one Hyur in there [me].

It might be difficult to see, though.
Teknoman
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(Today, 09:39 AM)
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Originally Posted by Riposte

Actually, I really dislike his female costume designs. He needs to be kept in check.

Which is really strange considering his FFT and Ogre series female designs. Then again, XII and onward probably represents him having more freedom, so you could be right.

Originally Posted by chrono01

There will be at least one Hyur in there [me].

It might be difficult to see, though.

Ahem.
Kenai
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(Today, 09:41 AM)
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Originally Posted by Aeana

I guess you could, but you'd be working a lot harder/healing for less than a conjurer with the +mind and maim and mend traits. Not a big deal in Sastasha, but it'll get progressively more difficult with each further dungeon. Toto-rak as arcanist would be interesting. You wouldn't have leeches and you wouldn't have the fairy, and you'd need to be able to keep up with the AoE poison still.

If he steals a lot of aggro/bosshits with Topaz they should be fine. It's how one of my randoms got through Haukke Manor final boss after our healer d/ced 45 seconds in.
Unknown Soldier
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(Today, 09:57 AM)
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Originally Posted by tiggerkiddo

We need to do a group photo of the FC.

Good luck getting everyone online at the same time. Especially the ones who are unsubbed.

Originally Posted by Riposte

Actually, I really dislike his female costume designs. He needs to be kept in check.

You're crazy man.
jagaman
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(Today, 10:05 AM)
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Random question. Is it okay as a bard in WP to constantely steal aggro from the tank because I'm spamming my AOE's like crazy? Or should I relax a bit and let the tank gain aggro? I don't know if it's annoying for a tank, but after running WP for 100 times I just want to it finish as quickly as possible.

PS: Eve, sorry for stealing so much aggro and pulling everything during our WP run yesterday.
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Totakeke
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(Today, 10:07 AM)
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Originally Posted by jagaman

Random question. Is it okay as a bard in WP to constantely steal aggro from the tank because I'm spamming my AOE's like crazy? Or should I relax a bit and let the tank gain aggro? I don't know if it's annoying for a tank, but after running WP for 100 times I just want to it finish as quickly as possible.

It's annoying for the tank, or for the healer if you get hit, but it's the tank's job to hold aggro. But as long it doesn't slow down the run or wipe the group, it doesn't really matter.
DarthWufei
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(Today, 10:17 AM)
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Ouch, just saw that 2.1 news. I haven't been playing much lately and dropped out of my BC group because there's no incentive to level other jobs to 50. I realized this when I hit 50 BLM and got full DL. You can't do anything. What made it even worse is that I was doing BC as PLD and there was zero chance of me switching out to play DPS while all the DPS players got to change jobs willy nilly.

If PVP turns out to be terrible I won't be touching this game until 2.2.
Ferr986
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(Today, 11:25 AM)
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IMO the Miqote RSE is a little silly (basically the skirt, is so short that she may aswell just go around without it).

The rest are cool though, and I like Yoshida's art.

[QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Teknoman

Everyone needs to post in some XIV forum direct message to Yoshi about their CT concerns asap. I dont think its too late to change the mechanincs right?

Official forums would be a good place if it wasnt for the insane amount of white knighting there.
Anyways the best place would be the japanese boards... I wonder how are the japanese players reacting to this.
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Ken
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(Today, 11:26 AM)
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Originally Posted by jagaman

Random question. Is it okay as a bard in WP to constantely steal aggro from the tank because I'm spamming my AOE's like crazy? Or should I relax a bit and let the tank gain aggro? I don't know if it's annoying for a tank, but after running WP for 100 times I just want to it finish as quickly as possible.

PS: Eve, sorry for stealing so much aggro and pulling everything during our WP run yesterday.

Play Mage's Ballad and it shouldn't be a problem.
jagaman
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(Today, 11:41 AM)
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Does Mage's Ballad reduce emnity? Because the tank was a WAR so he was using Overpower mostly and the healers usually don't have MP problems.
Ken
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(Today, 12:02 PM)
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Originally Posted by jagaman

Does Mage's Ballad reduce emnity? Because the tank was a WAR so he was using Overpower mostly and the healers usually don't have MP problems.

Oh, dunno then. As a PLD I usually ask for MB since I have to spam Flash and I usually hold aggro well enough.
jagaman
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(Today, 12:15 PM)
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Originally Posted by Ken

Oh, dunno then. As a PLD I usually ask for MB since I have to spam Flash and I usually hold aggro well enough.

What's your name again on Ultros? You always give some good advise. Jamie Anderson here.
Ken
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(Today, 12:20 PM)
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Originally Posted by jagaman

What's your name again on Ultros? You always give some good advise. Jamie Anderson here.

Obama. Bookey Obama.
tiggerkiddo
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(Today, 12:41 PM)
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Originally Posted by Ken

Obama. Bookey Obama.

Filthy liar Qhon.

Don't listen to Qhon's lies, Guy lives!
Nohar
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(Today, 01:44 PM)
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I litteraly threw a nerd-rage fit when I read that the crystal tower restriction was true.

Now, I have calmed down. I'm still kinda disappointed though. 1 week is way too long.
Ichabod
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(Today, 01:49 PM)
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Aside from more endgame stuff and thangs to do, this game could really use more classes. Yeah, yeah, "they need to balance the ones we have," but there's really nothing else I want to level for a main class aside from maybe SMN. I'm holding off on leveling a tank because I'm hoping a new tanking class is in the works. How soon, realistically, will it be before we can expect to hear rumblings about more classes? Six months? A year? Longer? *Gasp*
jagaman
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(Today, 02:00 PM)
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I think we may get new jobs first perhaps with 2.3. New classes probably with a new expansion. And that could be in a year...
How was it with FFXI?
tiggerkiddo
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(Today, 02:05 PM)
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I hope we get DNC/NIN and a Final Fantasy V style Mystic Knight.
Nohar
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(Today, 02:08 PM)
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Originally Posted by tiggerkiddo

I hope we get DNC/NIN and a Final Fantasy V style Mystic Knight.

I want the Mystic Knight too. That, and the Red Mage (though I wouldn't be against a mix of both).

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