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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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SynthFetish
Member
So tomestones of Verity. Do I just keep collecting this? Ive better gear then what I can exchange it for & I dont craft.
I cant find another use beyond 310 gear and crafting..
I cant find another use beyond 310 gear and crafting..
The first phase is by far the hardest and there isn't really much going on. On a couple runs it appears that a lot is randomized but he's really scripted with very few variations.
Just save it, they'll be used for the new artifact stuff.
huh?
Are you telling me that old outdated tomes will suddenly be relevant for the latest gear at some point? I've been trading all mine in for items to sell on the MB.
Or do you mean that like once creation tomes are for i350 or something, that verity will work for i330 or something?
Stone Ocean
Member
They won't. The moment 4.2 hits, Verity is gone.
But didn't the Verity analog stick around for the whole expansion in HW? Soldiery was it? I can't remember.
Stone Ocean
Member
No, Law tomes were gone in 3.2. The only tome type that stays is the last one in each expansion.
Nah, Law was the HW Verity, Esoterics were HW Creation. When 3.2 hit, Esoterics bumped Law out of the uncapped tome spot, Lore replaced Eso as the capped tome, and Law itself became outdated and couldn't be spent, only traded in for Eso. In 3.4, any Law you hadn't upgraded to Eso got deleted, Eso took the Law spot of "stuff you can't earn or spend, just trade in for the new uncapped", Lore went uncapped, Scripture was the new hotness.
So if nothing relic related happens before 4.2, you'll probably just turn stored up Verity into Creation at a reduced value, Creation will be the uncapped grind 5ever tome.
I think the breakdown is:
Philo - Law - Verity
Myth - Esoterics - Creation
Soldiery - Lore - ????
Poetics - Scripture - ????
And then when the expansion is over, all 'old' tome stuff gets moved to Poetics
Once 4.2 hits can we exchange verity for whatever relevant tome there is?
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
It'll be able to be transferred into Creation at some ratio, almost certainly.
Scripture is what should be removed, Verity should become unearnable?
So it'll be poetics->creation uncapped->whatever the new weekly capped tomestone is. also think they'll reduce the price of the creation stuff right away since the verity stuff was all super cheap at launch
So it'll be poetics->creation uncapped->whatever the new weekly capped tomestone is. also think they'll reduce the price of the creation stuff right away since the verity stuff was all super cheap at launch
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
That dude in that getup riding it is like the best reason I've seen outside of 'confused ghost costume' of getting it to be honest.
Glendemonium
Member
Same here but I've found it easier to move my enemy bar over to the right of center so I can see what each wing is casting. Got to Diamond dust but the healers and tanks failed the chain part just before that. Also I got an Earth shaker icon literally in a bad spot where I couldn't make it to the corner in time. Also watching a Mr. Happy video only for the party I went in do a completely different strategy which took me some getting used to. Really regret spreading creation tomes on other jobs, wish I was at least 330 but I'm going back into Savage on MNK and trying for some gear.
Though what got me was that tile breaking pattern. There were times where when I had the tail icon, we were down to ONE uncracked tile, and there was supposed to be one more marker for tanks. It doesn't happen all the time, but I wonder if the healer didn't go far enough so when the tail comes down it cracks three tiles instead of two.
Also some folks forget to spread for Levinbolt. I also spread for Judgement but it's a force of habit to just do Lightning-spread, and Fire-stack in one puddle.
ChasingComets
Member
Thanks to the introduction of raid roulette I've finally managed to try the crystal tower raid when it was previously almost impossible to queue for. Overgeared as we were, it still is a heck of spectacle. Now I'm looking forward to reaching the endgame and trying Ivalice. Love the 5 mins DPS queues as well, the roulette is going to give me a great source of daily exp for leveling up my SAM class.
Stone Ocean
Member
No, its just that there's more than 3 fisher leves per tier until level 50 or 60 (dont remember which) and every time you beat a leve it rerolls so you just kinda have to luck out.
I really don't understand how DPS mains do so much damage.
Like I main a healer. But I've been gearing my ninja on the side. It's i333 with a 345 weapon. A few 320/330 pieces too but nothing major. I did 3.6k dps in Shinryu ex... but that's apparently only 30th percentile on logs which is kinda bad? 95+ percentile is in the 4k range... I must be doing something majorly wrong, right? I feel as if I'm missing something super obvious
/random rambling and all that
Like I main a healer. But I've been gearing my ninja on the side. It's i333 with a 345 weapon. A few 320/330 pieces too but nothing major. I did 3.6k dps in Shinryu ex... but that's apparently only 30th percentile on logs which is kinda bad? 95+ percentile is in the 4k range... I must be doing something majorly wrong, right? I feel as if I'm missing something super obvious
/random rambling and all that
Stone Ocean
Member
Its all on optimization and getting comfy with the fight. Knowing when to be greedy, knowing when to do weird shit like letting all your buffs drop to do an extra damage combo because its a DPS gain, etc.
Did you put rank 6 Materia in all your gear?
TBH this is where FFLogs is arguably the strongest; if you hit up the comparison tab, you can do a search for other recent kills within 10 seconds or so of your own, and then compare what you did to what they did. Casts will tell you if they're staying on top of their GCD better, or if you're hitting certain skills more and others less and losing damage. You can tell from the average damage from autos if their baseline damage is higher from more/better/better melded gear. Buff and debuff uptime, if they're staying on the boss vs peeling off (one relatively little discussed trick for Shinryu: the tail inherits debuffs from the boss. Piercing/blunt/slashing/whatever will be auto-applied to the tail if Shinryu has them, and Trick works the same way.) If you notice your DPS spikes are at different times or entirely missing, it can be a clue.
It's also worth noting that healer logs, much like tank logs, basically get a gigantic boost just for trying to do damage, whereas all DPS logs revolve around it. The minimal-to-no DPS healers, and the full tank stance uptime tanks, create a hefty cushion at the bottom where you get essentially a free boost in percentage just for pushing damage buttons.
Like, looking at AST (because that is what I'm most familiar with in the fight):
10th percentile Shinryu is 454 DPS. 50th is 794. 99th is 1,572. So you can hit 50th percentile on a healer is really just doing around 50% of the damage somebody in 99th is doing. You can hit 10th doing less than 30% of the damage of 99th.
Ninja at the 10th percentile on Shinryu is 3,246. The 50th is 3,742. 99th is 4,294. The jump from 50th percentile to 99th is only 550 DPS--hitting 50th requires doing 87% of the damage that hitting 99th requires. Even hitting 10th percentile is 75% of the damage at the 99th percentile.
All bets are kind of off at the higher percentiles, but getting to 50th on a DPS generally involves being a lot more on top of GCDs and raid synergy than getting purple on a healer in my experience. It's sort of the tradeoff for the DPS getting to mostly tunnel on damage, while healers and tanks get to output damage as a reward for having a bunch of other stuff already under control.
It's also worth noting that healer logs, much like tank logs, basically get a gigantic boost just for trying to do damage, whereas all DPS logs revolve around it. The minimal-to-no DPS healers, and the full tank stance uptime tanks, create a hefty cushion at the bottom where you get essentially a free boost in percentage just for pushing damage buttons.
Like, looking at AST (because that is what I'm most familiar with in the fight):
10th percentile Shinryu is 454 DPS. 50th is 794. 99th is 1,572. So you can hit 50th percentile on a healer is really just doing around 50% of the damage somebody in 99th is doing. You can hit 10th doing less than 30% of the damage of 99th.
Ninja at the 10th percentile on Shinryu is 3,246. The 50th is 3,742. 99th is 4,294. The jump from 50th percentile to 99th is only 550 DPS--hitting 50th requires doing 87% of the damage that hitting 99th requires. Even hitting 10th percentile is 75% of the damage at the 99th percentile.
All bets are kind of off at the higher percentiles, but getting to 50th on a DPS generally involves being a lot more on top of GCDs and raid synergy than getting purple on a healer in my experience. It's sort of the tradeoff for the DPS getting to mostly tunnel on damage, while healers and tanks get to output damage as a reward for having a bunch of other stuff already under control.
And all the furries rejoiced
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Shouldn't the ffv wolfman be wearing a naff human suit or something?
Gunblade47
Neo Member
A miqo'te can never have too many ears imho so let's get this party started!
Edit: Start taking bets on whether races with tails will have terrible clipping again.
Edit Edit Edit: https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002183.html (The tail and ears of miqo'te are hidden when wearing this
)
Most likely only on Saturday when my SO has time.
Edit: Start taking bets on whether races with tails will have terrible clipping again.
Edit Edit Edit: https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002183.html (The tail and ears of miqo'te are hidden when wearing this
)Edit Edit Edit: https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002183.html (The tail and ears of miqo'te are hidden when wearing this
but isn't this the best case scenario
Gunblade47
Neo Member
Pretty much but I wanted 4 ears to go with the meatballs hanging on the side of my miqo'tes face. The fox headband will just have to do
the_sun_king
Member
Huzzah! I found my emergency removal password for my security token late last night so now there's no need to get in touch with Square's Support! I'd already e-mailed them though so I'll have to politely decline them whenever they contact me lol.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
I just imagined a bunch of FFXIII Lightning clones beating the shit out of player characters...... and now I'm disappointed this isn't a thing.
it's generally a better idea to run canals with full 8 person, with each person bringing 1 map minimum
"better" chance of getting into lost and hidden canals
E_Darkness
Member
I love the Lost Canals but I can never have anyone to do them with and PF hardly helps. I should find some friends on my server.
Got into the newmap dungeon. It was the exact same but with three doors now. Wasnt it supposed to be tuned to i340 8 man party with an all or nothing mechanic?
Stone Ocean
Member
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Ultimate Bahamut lol
This is what makes me wanna never touch that, it's because it's down to lottery whether you'll even be admitted to it or not, it's the same problem with Diadem 2.0. There's no skill or persistence involved, you just roll a dice and that's all you do. However lucrative it might be with rewards (Hidden Canals apparently just drops up to 3 mil per person at the highest) "content" with RNG admittance is just absolute bullshit. To this date I haven't seen an Emergency Mission spawn in Diadem. Like, what.
Nooooooope. It says on the item description i340 reccomended full party.
So I have a weird question. Is it possible to level a crafting profession past my highest class? I'm like level 52 or 53 on my Samurai just starting Heavensward, but I want to level stuff like fishing and goldsmithing to 70 if possible. I do the main story with a friend and don't want to speed past her, but I want to make gil in the future for a big ass house.
you can .
Stone Ocean
Member
Yeah but you'll likely be gated by MSQ due to having to unlock areas for leves. You'll only be able to realistically get to 70 with them once you're nearly done with the base Stormblood MSQ.
Yeah I actually got a Fabled map on the 4th floor. Really we just wanted to see how far we could get but we were not ready for what was at the end lol.
Finally finished this trash content.
