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thetrin

Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Still haven't gotten any sort of answer from my last post, but I'll ask another question anyway!

On PS4, do I need to maintain both a PS Plus sub AND a Realm Reborn sub to continue playing? I have 3 months free PS Plus right now, so it's impossible for me to tell if I can play without it.
 
Still haven't gotten any sort of answer from my last post, but I'll ask another question anyway!

On PS4, do I need to maintain both a PS Plus sub AND a Realm Reborn sub to continue playing? I have 3 months free PS Plus right now, so it's impossible for me to tell if I can play without it.

You do not need a PS Plus sub to play FFXIV.
 
finally was able to make a character on ultros. this game looks alot better on ps4 than 3. i actually just saw a guy with the GAF tag while i was turning in one of miounne's tutorial quests.
 

Kintaro

Worships the porcelain goddess
After watching Second Coil of Bahamut Storyline Cutscenes... no spoilers, but opinion. Will tag anyway...

Six months in-between such garbage is pure Wings of the Goddess level shit. I'm not talking about the encounters, but the "story." They really should be ashamed.

On top of the story campaign ending on the same point the 2.1 campaign left out on... just wow man. Failure.
 

Aeana

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not sure, but i'm not surprised if he's right

maybe that's just peak dps, i'm blm and i reached 500 once, the other blm i was talking about he said he peaked at 700+
...In what, a five second fight? What parser are you using? For reference, I'm looking at EncDPS in ACT, which is the metric most people use.

300 DPS is considered really good at this point with the gear most people have. 350 DPS is exceptional. The reason why turn 8 is a blocker and why groups are subbing in a 5th DPS for it is because you need to push 1500 DPS with your raid. If everybody was doing 400+ DPS, that wouldn't be necessary.
 

BLCKATK

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not sure, but i'm not surprised if he's right

maybe that's just peak dps, i'm blm and i reached 500 once, the other blm i was talking about he said he peaked at 700+



no, that's lower than my dps with the suboptimal rotation and i'm a blm

Dude that parser sounds broke, highest I've seen is like 500+ on the initial pull with Battle Voice up (That is like a 10 second window) or during heavy AoE phases. I'm using ACT.
 
not sure, but i'm not surprised if he's right

maybe that's just peak dps, i'm blm and i reached 500 once, the other blm i was talking about he said he peaked at 700+

Are you talking single target or aoe? 700+, even as a peak sounds pretty farfetched in (assuming, considering how early into the patch we still are) ilvl90 gear.

I don't mean anything by it, but I'm gonna invoke Whitney here for a second and ask for some receipts.
 
Some people's problems (I know mine, my wife and my friend's does) come from the fact we were 1.0 players. This game is 4 years old and two years ago we capped every job available as well as at least one crafting, going on two for my friend and I. When 2.0 hit crafting became even easier than before so I capped all but cooking in a relatively short amount of time with almost zero investment. I finished my miner, but since they took away the little mini game from 1.0 and you just pick what you want, I don't find gather as interactive nor as fun. There are some of us in our 4th year of the game (minus the downtime from 1.0 to 2.0) and we have nothing left to do on the side but dailies and grind Tomes/gear; there's almost nothing else for us to do at least that we find fun. My wife capped every crafting job from nothing (or at least I believe she finished) because gathering didn't interest her and she had nothing else to do but dailies for her Slyph pet. She hasn't logged on since, except to do the holiday events.

XI, although I know this opinion is unpopular, allowed for great horizontal progression by keeping all of it's content relevant and allowed for wonderful amounts of experimentation by rarely putting minimum caps on anything (Salvage was the only thing offhand I remember having a cap). We pushed ourselves a lot in XI by seeing what was possible and what we could achieve with 3 people, with a variety of jobs who weren't hardcore end game players, and that was fun. The three of us could trio some of these dungeons, no it wouldn't be as fast, but allowing the players to experiment with party sizes and job coordination would be fun and would go a long way in my opinion. I've come to concede I'm just not a fan of vertical gear scales (or at least not how it's being handled here) since if you can hit the iLevel cap (or get close) before the Crystal Tower update, you almost might as well not play for the next 2.5~3 months.

I still hope this game does something to change my mind; I've been hoping every patch is the miracle patch to change my mind because I want to love this game as much as I loved XI. Hell I started gaming because of the Final Fantasy back in '89 so part of me hopes this game proves to be worthwhile and a rocking success eventually. I love helping people, hearing new players' expression about great cutscenes or tough battles in thrilling, but the content and design is just so boring and lazy to me as it stands now.
Wow, I thought I was the only person who felt like this.
 

Qvoth

Member
...In what, a five second fight? What parser are you using? For reference, I'm looking at EncDPS in ACT, which is the metric most people use.

300 DPS is considered really good at this point with the gear most people have. 350 DPS is exceptional. The reason why turn 8 is a blocker and why groups are subbing in a 5th DPS for it is because you need to push 1500 DPS with your raid. If everybody was doing 400+ DPS, that wouldn't be necessary.

i know they're using act, not sure if it's encdps
 

Taruranto

Member
After watching Second Coil of Bahamut Storyline Cutscenes... no spoilers, but opinion. Will tag anyway...

Six months in-between such garbage is pure Wings of the Goddess level shit. I'm not talking about the encounters, but the "story." They really should be ashamed.

On top of the story campaign ending on the same point the 2.1 campaign left out on... just wow man. Failure.

B-but we got to perfume a chocobo!
 
Really enjoying fishing again.

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Ken

Member
well started healing some old coil stuff and Levi EM. kinda fun though i probably need to read up more on advanced techniques for SCH and healing in general before i tackle the frantic stuff like T5/EMs.
 

neojubei

Will drop pants for Sony.
So when do I become a paladin? I'm level 30 gladiator and level 19 conjurer. I went to the immortal flames and they had my go to the wolves den which looks like pvp stuff. Do I have to do a number of matches to become a paladin?
 

IMBored

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So when do I become a paladin? I'm level 30 gladiator and level 19 conjurer. I went to the immortal flames and they had my go to the wolves den which looks like pvp stuff. Do I have to do a number of matches to become a paladin?

That's got nothing to do with it. You have to go to the gladiator's guild, that'll refer you a trainer for paladin. Assuming you complete all the gld quests so far.
 

danthefan

Member
Been playing on PS4 so far, if I buy the PC version do I get another 30 days gametime? Might go for that.

Also, to get anywhere in the endgame, I assume being in a decent guild is necessary?

I'm really enjoying and up to lv 22 now but I feel like I'm almost leveling too fast with all the quests and leves and now the first dungeon to to.
 

SRTtoZ

Member
Can someone done give me a rundown on what dungeons I should be grinding to gear up at end game? I quit the game right before 2.1 came out so I was stuck with my relic weapon, some artifact gear mixed with darklight (mostly). I notice my HP is a lot lower than most people I duty with so I need to know the best way of getting tomes to gear up pretty quickly. So far I've just been running random duty finder stuff but I know there are certain dungeons that are probably better off than others. I also haven't touched the Crystal Tower, is that worth checking out? I just want to get to a point where I can do a lot of the harder end game stuff like the extremes and whatnot. Any help would be appreciated.
 
How in the blazing hell do you access a one time password on PS4? I can't figure out how to set it up - I even have an app on my iPhone but it wants my username, date of birth, and something called a registration password that I can't figure out how to get.

Can anyone help me?
 

aceface

Member
Go to crystal tower for awhile you can pick up ilevel 80 gear which drops there and also bank myth tomes to buy ilevel 90 gear.
 

danthefan

Member
How in the blazing hell do you access a one time password on PS4? I can't figure out how to set it up - I even have an app on my iPhone but it wants my username, date of birth, and something called a registration password that I can't figure out how to get.

Can anyone help me?

I set it up on MoogleNet or MogStation or whatever the website is called. You fill in a form, they email you the registration password.
 

Ken

Member
So I can't do it from the PS4? I have to do it from a website called mogstation?

can also do it here : account.square-enix.com/‎

sign in and scroll down and click one time password or something like that

for more info click this http://www.square-enix.com/na/account/otp/
Can someone done give me a rundown on what dungeons I should be grinding to gear up at end game? I quit the game right before 2.1 came out so I was stuck with my relic weapon, some artifact gear mixed with darklight (mostly). I notice my HP is a lot lower than most people I duty with so I need to know the best way of getting tomes to gear up pretty quickly. So far I've just been running random duty finder stuff but I know there are certain dungeons that are probably better off than others. I also haven't touched the Crystal Tower, is that worth checking out? I just want to get to a point where I can do a lot of the harder end game stuff like the extremes and whatnot. Any help would be appreciated.

yeah crystal tower is pretty easy and lax on the individual's gear/skill/brain. you can derp around and hope the other 23 people know what to do and reap the rewards. there's also potential for 3 pieces of i80 gear per run while also getting 100 myth and some pitiful amount of soldiery!!!

God, what have I got myself into lol

i didnt read his post but all you have to do is press the button that says "increased emnity" and you win the game
 
Fought my first primal (Ifrit) last night. Really liked the fight, though it took my party several times because we'd always be one last hit away from finishing off that damn nail. I was disappointed that I didn't receive any loot or XP for the fight though... Took this shot with the share button that I really liked.
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Also; I've done three different dungeons (one twice for the xp and loot) and so far I'm the only person that has used the limit break.
 
Question on cross class abilities:

Once I hit 30 and for my WHM I immediately leveled my THM to 26 so I could swift cast.

I know the other cross class ability I need is eye for an eye. Can I get this ability as a level 30 WHM since it's a 34 ACN skill? Or do I have to be above level 34 with my WHM before I can use a level 34 ACN skill?
 

Frazley

Member
So I'm reading that I only need 1 character and I can play all classes!

That is awesome! Only having to worry about stats on one character, one hunt log, quest log, etc.

I have heard the complaints on inventory or appearance, but I can hire 2 retainers for free and add 2 more if I need to. I mainly only play one character type in any game, but I can switch out on a whim and do others if I get bored!

Plus, only paying for the entry level sub means I can feel less guilty when I can't play.

This game keeps getting better! It is casual friendly and also has taken a lot of the complaints in MMOs away, plus I love being able to play with a controller.
 
Fought my first primal (Ifrit) last night. Really liked the fight, though it took my party several times because we'd always be one last hit away from finishing off that damn nail. I was disappointed that I didn't receive any loot or XP for the fight though... Took this shot with the share button that I really liked.
igJenhuxQ3mGJ.jpg


Also; I've done three different dungeons (one twice for the xp and loot) and so far I'm the only person that has used the limit break.

I thought this fight was easy. We did it on our first try. I imagine if you're stuck in a group with a couple of people who don't bother to attack the Nail when it drops, you're screwed.
 
So I'm reading that I only need 1 character and I can play all classes!

That is awesome! Only having to worry about stats on one character, one hunt log, quest log, etc.

I have heard the complaints on inventory or appearance, but I can hire 2 retainers for free and add 2 more if I need to. I mainly only play one character type in any game, but I can switch out on a whim and do others if I get bored!

Plus, only paying for the entry level sub means I can feel less guilty when I can't play.

This game keeps getting better! It is casual friendly and also has taken a lot of the complaints in MMOs away, plus I love being able to play with a controller.

Stats vary a bit when you switch classes. Hunting logs are unique to classes. This is a good thing because it's easy exp.
 
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