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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down

Killthee

helped a brotha out on multiple separate occasions!
Is there a way to instantly remove all of the hud? This game looks gorgeous during the day and I've been wanting to take screenshots on PS4.
Can do that with what PepperHam said plus there's a photo mode you can access by entering /gpose into the chat box that gives you additional camera, lighting, and emote control.
 

Xux

Member
Jeeze, 50, 51-59, 60, 61-69 WT spread to gobble up that new expansion shower of Secomd Chance points.

Yeah, well, I'll do a level 50 dungeon for peanuts in EXP. You didn't win!
 

Astral

Member
Does anyone else think Tataru is absurdly cute? I just found her wearing a maid's outfit and her hair in a ponytail.

Also, I think I'm about to enter the final area/map of HW. Do you
reunite with other members of the Scions in HW besides Y'shtola before he end of 3.0?
A simple yes or no would suffice.
 
That moonfire event this year is really really weird.

why the fuck was there a female lalafell in a bikini as one of the objects of attention to spy on? Absolutely disgusting.
 

Sorian

Banned
Does anyone else think Tataru is absurdly cute? I just found her wearing a maid's outfit and her hair in a ponytail.

Also, I think I'm about to enter the final area/map of HW. Do you
reunite with other members of the Scions in HW besides Y'shtola before he end of 3.0?
A simple yes or no would suffice.

I think the answer is no. I might be forgetting the timing on someone though but probably no.
 

Sorian

Banned
Add in Grand Cross Zeta with blow dart section. Need to hit the correct target to fire off the correct laser color to handle debuffs.
 

Frumix

Suffering From Success
lalafell peeping blowdart action

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QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
That moonfire event this year is really really weird.

why the fuck was there a female lalafell in a bikini as one of the objects of attention to spy on? Absolutely disgusting.

I mean, I've seen plenty of people in skimpy outfits as a female lala, it always get's a
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? WHY?
reaction from me
 

Omni

Member
Managed to knock out all four floors of Savage today for reset. One-shot Neo exdeath. Genuinely surprised at how easy it has got after our first clear last week. I think next week I'll probably try to go back to AST and co-heal will go SCH instead of AST/WHM like now

Also healer chest dropped buuut I got out-rolled. FEELS BAD
 
They changed leve xp. It's much higher and takes far less items.

Takes the same amount of items as far as I can see, 1 per leve(3total for triple turn in leves).

They did boost the xp a lot on the leves that involves crafting actual items though, and left the material leves alone. For example crafting high steel nuggets is still 230k base value per nugget(x2 for HQ, x3 for triple turn in, so ~1.3m total) but crafting a single high steel head knife is 700k base xp and crafting a single high steel kaltzbalger is a whooping 910k base xp, for the lvl 60 BSM leves. Mind you the kaltzbalger is a pain in the ass to craft with a bunch of mats from other crafts, so it makes sense it's a lot more rewarding as a result.

For comparison, before the patch both the non nuggets were about 450-465k each, so they doubled the harder one and increase the slightly less annoying one by 50%.

Seems nice, especially for leves you can turn in using quest rewards that are still somewhat cheap on the AH(GSM especially). Triple turn in material leves are still a lot cheaper to do but if you don't mind the money cost, doing triple turn in leves with actual crafted items seems way faster and leve efficient, plus the HQ rate is higher since they're 80durability items instead of 40 so you can make more robust macros for them.

Would have been nice if they did that from the start though, since I'm already done with all crafts but eh.
 

Kenai

Member
That moonfire event this year is really really weird.

why the fuck was there a female lalafell in a bikini as one of the objects of attention to spy on? Absolutely disgusting.

The NPC peeking was a Lala too though. I also had a hard time with the mental gymnastics of the female peeper Lala with one of those Roes she was creeping on, so much so that I just gave up
 

Eldren

Member
I have a month off work so I've made it my goal to complete the sightseeing log. The Heavensward and Stormblood ones were easy and I did those as I went along
still haven't done Shiozaki Hostelry RIP
but the Realm Reborn ones are an complete pain in the arse. I've done 17 of the first 20 but I missed the one at the Invisible City so now I have to wait like 3 days. And then after this a bunch more are unlocked. Thank god for the vista tracker.

I'm really into WHM now. I thought I'd like AST more but I levelled WHM from 60 first and it's a lot of fun. I've started gearing up with Omega Normal drops and VI melds so hopefully if one of our FC's healers can't make it I can sub in for some content. I'm still hoping for some tweaks in 4.1, mostly Divine Benison and Plenary Indulgence, but overall I like it.
 

Isaccard

Member
That moonfire event this year is really really weird.

why the fuck was there a female lalafell in a bikini as one of the objects of attention to spy on? Absolutely disgusting.

I mean, I've seen plenty of people in skimpy outfits as a female lala, it always get's a
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? WHY?
reaction from me

We've had this conversation guys

Not saying peeking is okay, but Lala's aren't the sheltered child race everyone sees them as
 

Luminaire

Member
They're beardless dwarves. Nothing sexual about them. I've seen some whored up lalas but they pale in comparison to the copious amounts of brothel-born-and-employed cat girls and au ra that consider clothing to be little more than a suggestion.

I'm more disturbed at people wanting kids to be a playable race option, like Khloe.
 

iammeiam

Member
Is MCH good again

Overheat actually being worth doing is making the rotation a little less bland to me, although I know a lot of people hate the 'dumbed down' nature post-4.05 and the extra damage is very apparent very quickly. Dismantle is a really good utility skill, Hypercharge is hypercharge. It's alright but it seems like the overall belief is Bard's current state is OP and if they continue to buff MCH to the point it counterbalances bard we'll end up back in the Creator era double-phys-ranged dream comp. I do think we're back to optimizing Bard potentially being harder than optimizing MCH, but if you play by smashing random buttons blind it's easier to do "okay" on Bard than MCH.

Not FotM still, but respectable enough IMO.
 

rezn0r

Member
I have a month off work so I've made it my goal to complete the sightseeing log. The Heavensward and Stormblood ones were easy and I did those as I went along
still haven't done Shiozaki Hostelry RIP
but the Realm Reborn ones are an complete pain in the arse. I've done 17 of the first 20 but I missed the one at the Invisible City so now I have to wait like 3 days. And then after this a bunch more are unlocked. Thank god for the vista tracker.

Speaking of the Sightseeing Log, I finally got around to really trying to complete the original ARR 20. What in the unholy shit is up with the leatherworking guild, #9? Anyone have any tips for this besides what I've found in 2-3 year old posts on GFAQS & Reddit? I cannot make the jump no matter what I try, which includes dropping FPS cap, switching to PS4, headbutting the wall, etc.

The other ones marked as hard jumps I did, so I'm not completely inept.....

edit: Yes I love that site :)
 

studyguy

Member
tfw they replace characters you don't care about with other characters you don't care about.


Krille could not exist and I wouldn't care.
 

mcw

Member
All right, I'm level 46. And now I need to level to 49 so that I can continue with the MSQ. What do you recommend as the most enjoyable way to do this?
 

scy

Member
What's BIS for healers ATM? Is it still CRIT on the left and VIT for accessories?

VIT is mostly a prog meld; after enough left side upgrades to get to ~36k baseline, it's no longer really necessary (until Super Savage, maybe? I'm keeping my crafted pentamelds for that anyway).

Spell Speed is probably the outright best for DPS* for WHM (+ HoTs oboy) but it seriously screws with nAST/SCH stats. I'm just going Crit and Det primarily so most of the gear can be shared where possible; minimum Piety already puts you at a high Crit set of gear anyway so might as well meld to accommodate it.

*Direct Hit is king but it's less than +1% over the other stats and does zero for healing so eh.
 

Astral

Member
All right, I'm level 46. And now I need to level to 49 so that I can continue with the MSQ. What do you recommend as the most enjoyable way to do this?

There is no enjoyable way in my experience lol. That was the toughest leveling stretch. Just do the Duty Roulette for the daily bonuses and run the Stone Vigil dungeon over and over.

EDIT: It's not the Stone Vigil. It's some level 44 dungeon.
 

Eldren

Member
Speaking of the Sightseeing Log, I finally got around to really trying to complete the original ARR 20. What in the unholy shit is up with the leatherworking guild, #9? Anyone have any tips for this besides what I've found in 2-3 year old posts on GFAQS & Reddit? I cannot make the jump no matter what I try, which includes dropping FPS cap, switching to PS4, headbutting the wall, etc.

The other ones marked as hard jumps I did, so I'm not completely inept.....

edit: Yes I love that site :)

Pretty sure you have to use sprint to get it. You can get like 3 attempts per sprint and then you have to wait for the stupid long cooldown so it's best to get there early if possible.
 

rezn0r

Member
Pretty sure you have to use sprint to get it. You can get like 3 attempts per sprint and then you have to wait for the stupid long cooldown so it's best to get there early if possible.

I swear I've been spamming it, I always get pissed when I run off the edge the first try, and then there's 7-8s left on sprint running back up the steps for my 3rd try. I don't know if it's the last little bump you run off of throwing me off or what. I've had the 'vista' message popup once and that was completely random and I hadn't landed on the top. So annoying.
 
Meant to ask this after it happened but I totally forgot. I ran the trial roulette yesterday and the group was in need of some heals but they already had the Medica 2 regen effect with like 20s left so I decided to throw out a Medica 1. This prompted the other healer to tell me that I shouldn't use M1 and should always use M2, unless I'm in content where M1 is my only AOE heal.

I'd assumed that you wouldn't want to throw out another M2 if you've already recently thrown one out and got the regen since M1 is a higher potency initial cure and you're still getting the benefit of the regen.

Was my assumption right or am I doing it wrong?
 
If I'm just doing Materia Vs at the moment and farming easy content, I assume I shouldn't be doing prog melds. I'm doing DRK for Savage but just kinda dicking around with AST.
 

Squishy3

Member
Meant to ask this after it happened but I totally forgot. I ran the trial roulette yesterday and the group was in need of some heals but they already had the Medica 2 regen effect with like 20s left so I decided to throw out a Medica 1. This prompted the other healer to tell me that I shouldn't use M1 and should always use M2, unless I'm in content where M1 is my only AOE heal.

I'd assumed that you wouldn't want to throw out another M2 if you've already recently thrown one out and got the regen since M1 is a higher potency initial cure and you're still getting the benefit of the regen.

Was my assumption right or am I doing it wrong?
You should use both Medica and Medica 2 depending on the situation, other healer's an idiot if they're telling you never to use Medica. Medica 2 doesn't heal as much since it provides the raid-wide regen, and Medica is more equivalent to an AOE Cure 1.

The higher numbered versions of spells do not work like they do in other FF games, where they usually end up replacing them after you get far enough in the game. They all do different things and provide different benefits.
 

iammeiam

Member
Meld VIT if you expect to end up in O4S at any point. 3S if you're wearing a bunch of verity gear on the left, maybe. Beyond that eh.

But seriously as a healer nobody appears to care what I meld, what pots I use, or what food I use. I'm mostly just tossing on Det, followed by Crit and then random Spellspeed if the meld will move me between tiers. I even have a meme DHit meld on the hat to go from 0% Dhit to 1%. I'm expecting to eventually end up with the two gear sets again--disaster PF High Piety set, and srsbsns low-Piety max DPS set--so I'm just kind of YOLOing melds.


I am completely not helpful.
I'd assumed that you wouldn't want to throw out another M2 if you've already recently thrown one out and got the regen since M1 is a higher potency initial cure and you're still getting the benefit of the regen.

Was my assumption right or am I doing it wrong?

You are correct. Medica 2 to get the HoT rolling if you know people will be taking enough damage to warrant it, medica/cure 3 for AOE healing. Medica 2 spam is the sign of a bad WHM; you can clip the HoT if you have a reason to, but definitely don't chain med2.
 
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