Final Fantasy XIV

Is XIV a good game to play until XV is released? Also how much longer until the next expansion?

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Stay away. If you hate it it will be a colossal waste of your time if you like it it will consume you.

Heed my words user.

No, it's shit.

XIV thread? Is it better to get all crafts and gathers to 50 before going to 60 territory?

Depends on how baller you are. If you plan on just buying off the MB to turn in leves to level or quicksynching everything then it doesn't matter.

But if you're broke and you actually need to gather your turn-ins then craft them then yeah you should get everything to 50

All 50 it is! Then I also have shit to do when I only have my shitty computer.

I never leveled a crafting class past 10.

Gil seems worthless outside of relic weapon materia shit and housing, never saw the point.

Well its something to do when you que as DPS. Its a comfy thing. I just want to be able to craft rare shit when they come out rather than fork out millions.

There's a free trial! 2 weeks of game time I believe.

Like everything else in the game it's an intrinsic thing.

If you like crafting you have to get gil by crafting to keep crafting

If you like Triple Triad you have to play Triple Triad to get Triple Triad cards to challenge better opponents

If you like PvP you have to PvP a bunch to raise your rank and actually be competitive in PvP

And in the end you might get glamour, a mount, or a minion

I mean it'd be fucking GREAT if you got some shit from crafting that could help you in PvP, or you play a bunch of TT to unlock a quest that nets you some sick loot for raiding but with the linear way gear works in this game and Square Enix being scared shitless of their fanbase it would never work out.

I mean other games in the series give you great combat rewards for sidequests and minigames but they're not wrong; people would bitch and moan about being "forced" to do side content

Oh how they would bitch and moan

if it's shoved to the side as it's own thing it's retarded

Gear shouldn't drop past level 50 apart from main story 'catch up to content' shit. Everything should be materials which an appropriate leveled crafter then needs to turn into gear for you. Make it so that getting another player to craft something for you costs an extra material/token (so if crafting a piece of body armour would take 10 tokens, it would be 11 to get another player to do it for you) and have the player who's doing the crafting pocket that extra token themselves as an incentive.

Dragon's Dogma Online does this where almost no gear is dropped after early levels, you have to craft everything else.

>FFXIV thread
>No one's posted their characters yet

Step it up, fampais

contain the autism to the general

Heads up, SE trademarked "Stormblood" today. They trademarked Heavensward one week before it was announced so we might have the title of the upcoming expansion.

why dont you fuck off back to /vg/ you cancerous shit

Stormblood is a terrible name for an expansion based around the glorious Ala Mhigo. It'll be for some dumb phone game.

Why are Lalafells so lewd?

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Retard, nobody posts lewd Lalafell in the general. /vg/ is a furry board.

Cred Forums isn't a potato board either so your best option would just be to not post

at all

>only 10 IPs

Thread as dead as the game itself, with as many poster as subscribers.

If you hate modern MMOs you will hate FFXIV unless you have massive weebvision.

You've capped your lore right guys?
You do want to have crafted i250 gear that will be better than the I260 Scripture gear don't you?
Do you want to pay million of Gil in Lore materials for each piece?
I really hope you've stocked up on Materia for Pentamelding.

Hoping 1000 Craft and 930 Control will be enough for 4* crafts. I don't want to put in 5 more control 4s into 7% slots.

I've capped everything that can be capped, even wolf marks (lol not like they'll ever let you buy anything useful with them, can't piss off the PvE-only crowd.)

I too ask.

How'd you get so much craft, I reckon ill be at 955 craftsmanship 962 control myself, and that's with the specialist soul.

I've got meme melds in the non-ring accs and chest/belt though, since those cant be capped without overmelding Vs and I don't wanna go all in yet.

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I went hard on the Craft5s and Control5 since I got a lot of them from the moogle tribe. The price went down a bit while everyone was completing them as well so I filled any guaranteed slots that could take 5s with them.

I haven't played since 3.2:
Do I stay as an AST or jump ship to SCH or (wildcard) NIN?
I hear AST is getting buffed but they've been "buffed" several times before and are still shit.

are you doing savage content with your static and your co healer is a SCH? if yes to both, do you feel like your healing is adequate or would you rather give up your utility (cards, CU, disable) for more healing (cure III, assize, bene, larger radius healing). if yes switch to WHM

if you are doing savage, are you replacing the SCH spot in your raid group? if yes, switch to SCH.

if you aren't even touching savage doesn't matter do whatever with whatever co healer or whatever class

Yoshi said that he's worried about the AST changes coming in 3.4 because he's admitted that in the right hands AST can be very powerful but in the hand of the average player it's not good enough so the buffs coming are going to drastic.
It'll probably be on par with WHM and SCH but the really interesting thing is that it's going be an absolute monster in PvP. It was already fringe OP even after the nerfs.

Go away furry.

What does Samus represent?

This is how my first three months with the game was. Knew I was getting a better PC soon so I mostly just crafted shit and wound up with all my crafters/gatherer's maxed.

I don't regret it, poised to take my seat on the Jew cabal soon.

>he doesn't craft his own food to be more useful in raids

Maximum carry pleb

The struggling American housing market.

They all need to burn

Not my fault if Square Enix is ok with sexualizing them. I love it too.

Only cute Lalafells allowed.
Slutcats and slutfells need to die.

I don't do Savage but AST currently has a stigma and it's not uncommon to see a PF listing which disallows ASTs from joining. And I actually played WHM all the way from 2.0 to 2.55 but switched to AST because it got boring.
I miss the hell out of Cure 3 though.

This makes me want to wait and see what the buffs are. The class is in need of a complete redesign though. From Day1 mashing WHM/SCH together was a bad idea.

>play Lalagirl
>know some autist on Cred Forums is triggered every time I log in

This was my first MMO so I was unaware of the rampart memery surrounding the "small" races in MMOs, but this little added bonus makes it worth it.

My Lalafell isn't a slut, she just happens to have skimpy equipment. No ERP allowed.

statue of liberty

We truly are the Master Race.

Just dress her up in some modest clothes, you monster.

Hildebrand is the best part of this game.

>filename

I get it

I would have picked that race but they just look like downies to me.

I'm glad someone did. I'm sad it's an animeposer though.

It's still Summer, my Lalafell isn't a Muslim. Also wearing a sexy outfit doesn't automatically make you a slut.

really wish they played more with the synastry idea instead of making WHM/SCH-lite. that and time dilation and CO just don't mesh with shields while they are amazing with hots.

>he doesn't realize it's a ploy to keep people from realizing their true intent

>playing japanese mmo #365
>complaining about anime poster

We know who has the real power in Ul'dah.

>Aquapolis
>tank just let some mobs swarm the healer and they're down to 10 percent HP
>fight through and starting to get a handle on the situation
>Arges appears!

>Wanting to go to the Africa/Middle East of Eorzea.

You wouldn't let your 8 year old daughter walking around like a bitch, right?
Dress her up in cute not revealing clothing and enjoy the lobby hugs.

>having any problem in Aquapolis
Did you have ilvl 170 gear?

Cute dresses?

Every lala in this shot is a boy

You never went to the beach huh.

Exactly the kind of words I'd expect to hear from some Gridanian elf faggot.

No one can understand the plight of Ala Mhigo.

From the trailer it looks like we're going to learn exactly what their deal is. What are the main theories?

Except right now, Ala Mhigo is populated by Garleans, not Eorzeaniggers.

Calling it now: Those caves Yda and Papalymo were in were Resistance bases for Ala Mhigans working to retake it and Stormblood is going to have some cheesy shit to do with the "fire/lightning in their veins" and some shit like Raubahn's whole primal power shit.

Report and ignore. At least use sage.

>want to resub for an apartment
>dont want to grind same two boring dungeons for boring statstick gear
>dont want to grind boring 4 alexander bosses

I hope 4.0 changes a lot.

no surprises there. nothing but pure degeneracy from players who choose a degenerate race

Isn't the reveal in October?

They're the Warriors of Darkness, duh.

They want to bring Eorzea back to the 1.0 age and stop the madman primal named yoshi from further turning the game into WoW.

>I've got 1000 volts of lightning flowing through my veins, 3 foot of steel in my hand and it's flavor is "pain"
Red mage confirmed!

>that spoiler
This is haram

>I hope 4.0 changes a lot.

Yeah they're gonna dumb the game down further.

>/vg/ faggots already invading the thread
Why are mmo players so cancerous? Jesus fucking christ

>Warriors of Darkness

I want this stupid bitchs outfit already FUCK

Oh man. Fuck yeah. That actually makes a lot of sense. I mean they already ripped off Powerman 5000 for Sephirot's music, watch, Stormblood will be a huge Duane & Brando tribute.

>ripped off Powerman 5000 for Sephirot's music

Not really, play them together.

Should I even bother hoping on the treadmill now as an 180 SCH or should I just wait for the next expac?

Gear is getting reset in 2 weeks. Once lore is unlocked you'll be i230 in a few days of dungeon running and only need to run 4 alex 8 story modes for a 230 weapon.

wait and see the expac offers anything new or if it's the exact same gear treadmill as heavensward (it will be)

Unless you've saved every single Lore tome you've got, have surplus of 25 million Gil or are an omni crafter with 10 million Gil than you'll need to grind to reach about Ilvl 225 to get into the normal version of the next raid.

Game is dead. Only 260 active characters... not players/accounts.

>b-but no one is playing for the story and unlock new content.
Shut ffxiv shill. before the census everyone played for the story!

I play it for the music.

>260

the never ending bad earworm soundtrack? Good MMORPGs have ambient music.

260k

post your best balmung drama

>my arbitrary values are all that matter

why dont you take your balmung cancer back to your cancerous general where faggots might actually care

Have a recent classic forum post instead that's been circulating quite a bit.

>We were right in our own way
>Do you have the conviction to stop us?

Yes, if you are into ERP.
I know MANY that play it and hate it, and keep playing it because their virtual boyfriends play it

It is also balmung drama

Goddamnit I hate cancer live but you are fucking right
On a side note, SE shills are the most pathetic shills I have ever seen

She would be waifu material if she wasn't a lala

Holy, who gives a shit?

muh virtual avatar im so kewt pls call me cute disregard my horrible body in real life btw im not using pictures of random russians to pretend thats me

so why do those 2 fags from /vg/ come and anonymously shit up every FFXIV thread on Cred Forums? is it because nobody likes them anymore and wish other people who wish to discuss the game the same fate?

Attention syndrome

theyve spent so much time on /vg/ that they cant go on without posting their ugly mug on every goddamn post since they have to maintain their online persona in check

typical Cred Forums mmo player behavior

and people say /xivg/ should be purged, they'd fill this board up in droves. Keep them there to keep Cred Forums safe, or better yet the rest of the internet.

they're secretly blizzard shills to turn people off of ffxiv
or they're high functioning retards

I sure SE is crying over their 260k active, 500k paying sub count 1.3 years after their expansion released because I'm sure most MP games that aren't dota/CS could sustain such a % of active players after so long.

Alternatively, they're watching it burn in FFXV's money furnace.

>they're secretly blizzard shills to turn people off of ffxiv
>or they're high functioning retards

Both apply to the majority of Cred Forums.

They're also the same type of retards that buy games like Overwatch and Fallout IV/

THIS COULD BE YOU

>FFXV in development for a decade
>a stupid movie was made that costed tens of millions and didn't even see a fraction of its money back

Holy fuck SE stop blowing money on FFXV already who knows if its even going to make a fraction of what's been put into it at this point. Put some money into this game that's bleeding subs.

the fat guy is german

>he thinks XV has been in development for a decade
They didnt give a shit about XV for many years, they worked some bit on it, released the "big progress", then completely abandoned it to jump to something else, and its been like that for said decade. The total time is completely speculation but it cant be more than 2 years.

cutest lala EU here

That set looks better with the Ifrit Staff.

game is dead kek

Slowest FFXIV thread yet.
Yoshida should stop making these threads and just work on making 4.0 good.

If only that was the case. I'd be able to buy a house then.

Reminder that apartments will be all snatched up by greedy autismos

tfw not enough c@boys avatarfagging

when this potato bitch first appeared i was sure she would stab me in the back because her timing was just too perfect

now i think it's just shit writing

Gas the lalas.

I'm basically playing XIV because while I think it's shit, I also think it has the best chance of becoming good among all the MMOs that aren't dead.

I also think that Cred Forums is right when they say it's bad but completely wrong about the reasons why.

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Can't wait to free Ala Mhigo and not receive a single thanks, fucking WE WUS ingrate beggars.

Umbrite price nerf WHEN

3.5 :)

>rape fantasies
lol

>"hey user, can you gather 10 (cheap low-level materials) for me?"
>can't you just buy them on the MB? there's 10 of them for only 200 gil
>"okay?... :/"
This happens all the time with 2-3 different people, and every time I suggest the marketboard they respond like I just said something weird. It's even more hilarious when the teleportation fees to gather costs more than buying it on the marketboard. This is confusing the shit out of me, am I somehow being offensive by valuing my time or is my guild just autistic? Is this something common?

Get your own material fag. You make it seem like its so easy to go out and gather them yeah. Go gather them yourself, and if youre not going to do that, buy them.

I absolutely loathe people like you. Ill be in the middle of fucking duty and ive got people asking me to go and harvest them 10 bumfuck logs so they can turn them in for GC seals and XP to level up. Go do it yourself you fat fuck, I have better things to do than have people like you all day every fucking day drag me away from my things and go do something for them. Fuck you.

You should read over that post again.

Disregard my entire post because I didn't read yours. I saw your greentext and instantly thought you were one of these people.

But my post still stands to people who do that to us.

Esos are getting phased out after this week right? Should I dump them all into eikon mats to sell, or go into 3.4 with 2000/2000 in case they're useful for something?

It's 3.4 soon, everyone should have their gatherers high enough to get those items already. With Aquapolis, it's so easy to pay your way to level 60 gatherers and crafters.

save them. everything bought with esos will probably now cost lore, at a discounted price.

2000/2000 will turn into 500 Lore. Better to buy Eso items before patch and have Lore at 2000/2000 because all the items for it will become cheaper.

Nah, it's pretty shitty. If you can find a key for cheap i'd say go for it to play through the story with the free month though.

Fuck literally everyone who pulls this shit.


Another lesser annoyance of mine
>"hey user could you make me this bumfuck weapon"
>alright sure I'll craft it after this dungeon
>10 minutes pass
>okay I can make you the weapon
>"okay cool what mats does it need?"

People who don't supply the mats, and better yet people who can't spare the literal one minute of time to do a brief google and see what it requires, infuriate me like nothing else.

>Only started playing a month ago
>one dps at 60 and levelling healer at 34 currently and 23 carpenter
>everyone always talking about crafted gear and houses and stuff happening in an expansion I've heard nothing about
>PF always full with something called a static
>just trying to get levels by soloing fates in Costa del sol surrounded by gobblues

Help
I don't know what's happening

People are just weird like that, I think they don't understand the concept of opportunity costs.

The weirdest are those 'muh self sufficiency' people who insist on gathering everything for their own crafts. Buy something off the MB and spend 30 minutes making back the gil for it, vs spending 30 minutes gathering the mats yourself - its all the same in the end, money is just the medium of exchange.

It's very fun and has a really nice community. If you're starved of vidya and have a lot of free time, for sure go for it. I stopped playing it after awhile after growing tired of it though.

>>Only started playing a month ago
Ignore everything and just enjoy the main story. It will basically take you to level cap on your first class so you don't need to FATE except for events like the yo-kai watch one.

It's alright to not know, user. It comes in time.

Try asking people what those terms mean, but try not to worry too much until you get into endgame stuff. It all becomes apparent then.

For now just cruise through the MSQ and enjoy the ride.

The difference in this situation is that I don't craft for other people, nor do I craft to sell things on the MB. So ill be damned if I give other shitheads my money. I'll get my own mats. I craft for me.

I bought Heavensward without really doing any of the content, but I liked FF14. Is there anyone on the EU servers who wants to form a group an enjoy the content? I can play DPS, tank or healer or whatever, but I really want some decent people to play with.

People just can't understand that time is money.

>The weirdest are those 'muh self sufficiency'
I have to agree with
And also, I find gathering fun and relaxing. So even if it's better in the long term if I just buy off the market board, being self sufficient is enjoyable for me.

Well that's a weird philosophy, but fair enough in that context. I don't see why there's a need to go Galt like that though, the economy and specialization are a thing to be leveraged.

If I need mats worth 50k, I could spend 20 minutes going out to gather them myself. But I can also make 50k just sitting in town pressing buttons for 10 mins and crafting things for sale. It makes no sense for me to gather anything on my own in that case, it's literally half as efficient a use of my time.

add me, level 19 gladiator trying to play with other people. on free trial so I cant join free companies or add people. let me tank 4 u /s pls

What server?

>Controller
>MMO

You people sicken me.

>1280x949
>controller
Let me guess, you play on a laptop

shit, my bad, leviathan

I haven't had any gameplay disadvantages from using controller, and I got the keyboard right here anyways

Main monitor broke, using my second monitor.

>Controller is bad meme

Anyone playing on Shiva?

Is there a mouse that I can map the ctrl button to?

Accessing the 2nd hot bar without talking my hand off the mouse is very awkward using number Buttons while holding ctrl with thumb or pinky

>I haven't had any gameplay disadvantages from using controller
And you shouldn't. Controller gameplay is perfectly fine and there are end game raiders who use controllers.

New preview. Press release should release soon as well I'm guessing.

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Why don't you just get an mmo mouse?

What is the fucking minimum iLv already?
>the one piece of useful information this might contain is conspicuously absent

Why is she black?

Probably 220 and 240 for ex.

She isn't "black" black, her skin is just obsidian, you wanker

It'll be 15 iLvls above the minimum required to enter the previous hard mode/extreme mode trials. So for Sophia EX it'll be 235.
Because every single thing in XIV is utterly predictable, right down to iLvl requirements for duties.

So I need to grind 15 iLvs?
Fan-voming-tastic. I had to grind myself 20 iLvs to attempt Nidhogg and that delay caused me to miss the initial wave of competent PUGs.

History repeats itself, and I flush 3 weeks of my life down the drain partying with idiots.

I'd say her skin was a dark silver, or mercury in colour.

Just buy the 250 crafted gear, you're not poor are you?

She is suppose to be White.

You do ignore all potatoes that tries to talk to you and be cute right? If a potato does emotes and want totalk you should just ignore them while actively talking being cute with other races.

Blacklist all the annoying little shits, especially the asshats who stand by marketboards and spam emotes.

>that delay caused me to miss the initial wave of competent PUGs.
Lucky for you in 3.4 EX trials after Ravana will be in Raid Finder apparently.

BIG

FAT

EIKON

TATS

Most Lalafell I ran into on my server are some of the most passive aggressive shits.

why does she want to kill me

why can't we just have endless sex instead

>no mouse over
>no direct targeting

It is though, it can severely limit you on certain jobs but especially healers and maybe summoner. I've heard a lot of complaints from healers, especially scholars that they have too much abilities and pet macros and not enough space of their crossbars.

If one want to play efficiently the average person should stick with keyboard.

You mean like the G600?

Pretty happy with this raid tier/patch. A8S was a great fight, probably one of the best Square has made, surprisingly. Nignogg was too easy, but whatever.

Do you guys think The Creator will be better or worse than Midas?

I play just fine and I've had no issues, it's simplistic as fuck. Try it for yourself for more than 5 seconds.

Depends how much it costs.
I have like 10 mil on me (JP server, so no gilseller inflation). I'd be happy to buy bits and pieces to hit the minimum iLv if it actually is just 235 as suggested, since Alex Creator also exists and I can probably grab at least an accessory, but 10m might not be enough for day-1 bleeding edge craft sales.

Hmm, if that's the case I should probably stock up on Lore to buy some of the mats myself. I only have about 300 on me.

No one is going to use the Raid Finder.
It's a waste of resources.

Yea.

Was this fight designed by the same guy who did Titan, Thordan and Sephirot?

His shit is so tight.

SOPHIA MY DAUGHTER

YOU ARE WOMAN NOW

>tfw gonna have 2K Lore ready to go for 3.4 and 2K Esoterics to convert into more Lore afterwards
Been spending the past couple of weeks preparing for the patch. Feels good, man.

>tfw had to switch jobs for my static
>barely at 232 now
>will probably get close to 235 on 3.4
I seriously fucking hope I'll manage. Guess I gotta farm Void fucking Ark for those damn upgrade tokens.

Someone said it was from the dev that did Leviathan. I don't have the image that shows what each team did so I'm not sure what else this developer did.

From forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/304702-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-XXXII-Update-Thread?p=3853932#post3853932

> For Sephirot, it was like playing jump rope what with the hand sliding across the battlefield, but for Sophia it's more of a mind training game. The mechanics may feel easier than The Final Steps of Faith Extreme for some.

Most likely we'll have some math puzzle to keep the platform balanced.

>Starting to run low on cash from frequent odds and ends while leveling up crafting
>Check Retainers to see if I have anything left in there I can sell
>mfw I just now realized that my retainer keeps the money from things he sells on the market and it doesn't just go right into my inventory
HOLY FUCK I HAVE 6 MIL

it is only if you don't optimize your UI, i got 34 keys on my SCH to use and i find it extremely comfy.

How do you not have at least 230 already by now on one job

Do you even play the game

No.
Why the fuck would I play between patches if the only thing to do is lyse braincells running expert roulette? Raiding is a pointless fuckfest after they opened the doors to casuals; the only thing left of value are EX primals.

If you didn't have to grind Alex normal weekly for gear I wouldn't be complaining, but you need that gear which turns it into a chore and evaporates all the novelty that USED to exist for raids.

>that pic

muh

>Raiding is a pointless fuckfest after they opened the doors to casuals
So why don't you do it before the casual door is opened?

>250k active chars

game is ded

Excuse me?
Alex:Creator story releases at the same time as A:C Savage. And it has gear superior to the previous tier of welfare/raid gear.

You're basically forced to run it weekly until you extract any/all upgrades you require from it. Even if you're actively raiding Savage concurrently.

I just want a reason to resub.

Yeah, so? It's not like the Binding Coils were a super-hardcore raid tier, either. They were designed in such a way that they were accessible to casual players AND hardcore players. Only difference is that now we're getting that same accessibility as a tangible difficulty selection, because shitters complained that they were too bad to clear the Coils and still wanted to see the story.

>shit skin femroe

>Raiding is a pointless fuckfest after they opened the doors to casuals

Oh, you're one of those autists who thinks savage is pointless because normal mode exists - as if the reward for raiding is seeing exclusive content and not the, you know, higher ilvl and dyeable loot.

Ironic, since you not even being i230 means you look no different to a 'casual' to anyone that inspects you.

I know that feel so badly.
I found myself with 7mi out of nowhere when I couldn't barely afford to TP to Idyllshire/

> I had to grind myself 20 iLvs to attempt Nidhogg and that delay caused me to miss the initial wave of competent PUGs.

So apparently you didn't learn anything from that experience. Maybe you shouldn't be playing the game, we have enough people with learning disability in it as it is.

Agree but there's also the satisfaction of beating something with 7 of your buddies, which is fun.

It's also funny how people who don't like raiding talk shit about it instead of simply admitting it's not their cup of tea.

Asking just in case since I found this pic in these thread but does anyone know the source of this?

> Defeat the wakened thralls and slay the stirring Goddess, lest her divine "balance" bring all the world to equal ruin!

So we're basically fighting an SJW goddess with her weakened numale/shemale thralls?

>start playing again mid/early August
>join some training parties
>get a grasp on the mechanics pretty soon
>just join some farm parties, people complain about the bonus but no one tends to leave
>don't fuck up and kill him easily
I really don't know what the problem is.

Exactly.
And I don't care about the story, I care about novelty.

Story-mode primals are a one-and-done kinda deal that lay the foundation for the mechanics you deal with in EX. You never have to do the story versions again if you don't want to.
Not so for Alex. You're forced to run both versions constantly, and it sucks all the fun out of progression.

>as if the reward for raiding is seeing exclusive content and not the, you know, higher ilvl
Pretty much. I grind out higher iLvs so I can see new things, not for some desire to pursue mindless progression.
I'm not sure what you want from me here.

I've been busy the past few weeks, else I'd have grinded out a 240 set by now. My plan in future is to resub 2.5 weeks before a patch so I can grind out the iLv necessary to attempt the new content in my remaining week and a half.

Raiding was fun back during Coil. The problem is Alex sucks ass.
It's too hard, they're too miserly with the gear drops/iLv increments, they give visually identical gear to casuals for infinitely less effort and there's no point doing it for the novelty because story mode exists.
If the gear was unique I'd maybe raid. If the story and bosses were unique I would definitely raid. But until they actually incentivise raiding again SE can get fucked.

>tips the platform to the side and you have to split up your raid on each side to restore 'equality'
>male characters 'weigh' twice as much as female characters because of privilege

>You're forced to run both versions constantly, and it sucks all the fun out of progression.
That wasn't true for Midas and it won't be true for Creator, either. Midas gave us 220 gear and accessories and Sephirot EX gave us 220 weapons. Creator's giving us full sets of crafted 250 gear including weapons, AND Sophia weapons. Hell, if you wanted to you could just do each floor of Creator Normal once in order to see the mechanics, then work on Savage. There's absolutely nothing forcing you to farm Normal for weeks unless you're not doing Savage in a static that's not super-casual.

>Yesterday morning in a T9 farm party
>We get in but we see there's a bonus
>Ask who's new but nobody say anything
>Think about your post (since your posted it in the past) and say "Well, as long as they know what to do it should be fine"
>Proceed to wipe 7 times in the very first phase
>Literally 5 out of 8 people fuck everything up
>Party disband immediately
>Mfw

no

finally got all the yokai weapons after being lazy as fuck about it and i dont even really care about the look of the mount, i just wanted it because it is a limited timed thing

T H A N K Y O U S E

>don't fuck up

That's the problem. It's not even the new people, it's just PF shitbaggery, half the players who feel like they're up for ex primals perform no better than the typical DF garbage too.

Normal mode is here to stay. It's a success according to Yoshi just by sheer participation numbers. As much as the thought of a exclusive story appeals to me, it simply will not happen just because the majority of the playerbase will whine about not being able to see it. And MMO devs today cannot, justifiably so, see the value of focusing a bulk of dev time on appeasing the 1%.

Reminder that the Allagans did nothing wrong.

And Garleans too right?

>it's a 24man tank moves boss out of a safe area into a fuckyou area for no reason episode

I don't know what pisses me off more about 24mans that there's only 5 dps above 1k or that all the tanks in it are retards, I'd bet money on most of the decent dps are war/drk mains who switch to dps for 24mans.

HOW TO FIX RAIDS IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS

Tier launch: Normal raid mode, regular new gear that you get from Coil/Savage Alexander, the de-facto weekly farmable.
Two weeks to month into tier launch: Savage mode, rewards are exclusive mounts/titles/minions and a chance at a piece of gear exceeding current de jure cap.
Ketchup patch: 24 man giving middling left side and 8 man story mode giving equal ilvl right side.

Wow that was hard to come up with, it's almost like there's a game that does this already

>Also how much longer until the next expansion?

Expected next May-June because they said quite recently they're ahead of schedule, unlike Heavensward which was behind schedule.

Also, ignore the shitters. It's a pretty good game so far to get lost in.

Probably guaranteed you'll play it longer than XV.

>i just wanted it because it is a limited timed thing
Stop this.

BINGO

Tank queue is actually the longest queue in 24 man HW.

I haven't read up on guides but what are tanks meant to do in the final battle of Mhach with the cross seed shotting extension? I can't figure out a good spot to take the boss so the following haircut doesn't fuck up some people.

>that there's only 5 dps above 1k
Tell me about it...
Ilvl226 MNK.

Besides taking her back to the center after her charge->X formation aoe, nothing else. You might get the occassional shitbag who blames you for killing him but everything in the fight is avoidable no matter where you take her, yes even if its the 8 axe/hammer formation and you take her north, every caster/healer/ranged goes east and the thing just happens to spawn east too.

How much DPS should you do against a boss as a 183 NIN with 180 weapon? 800-900 ain't that bad for that ilvl right?

New raid tier, new trial and 4 star crafting...Just give me the patch already...

WE WUZ ALLAGANS AND SHEIT

Is it best to do Max level field exploration or just quick exploration with Disciple of Magic follower with high iLvL?

Quick exploration

I never do Quick Exploration because of the random reward.

I just do the first 2 depending on which is more EXP efficient based on how many hours I'll play that day.

If you're up to 183 ilevel why don't you have a PotD weapon?

Is the patch out today?

My NIN is not my main class so I was just a little curious after doing a dungeon on it. I'm thinking about maining one for the next patch but not sure if they do enough dmg for me wanting to change.

quick exploration with any combat retainer

if it's a gatherer though, you should look up the item tables for ventures to see which one will yield the most

>appx 40 waterside explorations
>two fat cats
>still no gestahl

I just got to level 50 and beat the 2.0 story. What should I do? Get better gear or continue with the story. I only have the il90 gear from my job quests

27th, user

Motivate me to level my crafters

Quick explorations all day and then the venture that takes a really long time when you log out for the night (field exploration?).

Ah okay, thanks.

Keep doing the story since the next part is really padded out until 2.4ish. If you get up to a part where you need some better gear that quests haven't given you, you can unlock some of the level 50 dungeons and buy some tomestone gear.

Why the fuck do cross class skills exist?

Why can't I just do a quest to get the skills instead of having to level a shitty dps class I don't wanna play. Fuck BLM I just wanna spam dots and have fun.

Well T9 is just a shitfest. I don't know, the meteor mechanic seems to be too hard for people to fucking understand. Even if no one has a fucking bonus.
To be fair I've only done the fight unsynched and I don't fucking know what happens in the phase after the area change because I only had to tank him and I really didn't ever have to do shit but still.

Relics of the past. Seriously it's just a stupid system they used in 1.x that they for some reason still decided to have. The same thing with Grand companies and shit, that has not been updated since 2.0

I don't like the whole system either. It's fucking weird. I mean I get that it can be an incentive to try out other classes, but most of the cross class skills are either too good or too fucking retarded

>Provoke
Every tank needs it
>Blood for Blood
10% more damage for 25% more damage taken, what the fuck, who comes up with this bullshit
>Skull Sunder/Savaga Blade
Who the fuck would ever consider getting the second skill of a three skill chain. What the fuck, Yoshi.

A lot of it looks retarded in hindsight but that's what happens when you have to remake a dead game in a year and a half and you're not sure how it's all gonna work out.

I quite like Cross-class but I'm hoping it does get a rebalance in 4.0 - it would be too jarring to change it in the 3.x cycle as raids are coming out.

Let's not forget.
>Some classes give 5 cross class skills
>Others only give 3

Also no class yet can cross class Rogue.
Maybe that will change in 4.0 with SAM or DNC?

>Skull Sunder/Savaga Blade
They have enmity gain built in. I used Skull Sunder on MNK back in ARR to gain hate on Titan EX gaolers.

Oh also.
>Look up DNC on FFXI
ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dancer
>Seems fun as fuck on paper

If they really introduce the DNC in FFXIV, I wonder if it will have all the mechanics of the FFXI one....
Stance dancing is already a thing in FFXIV but making literally a dance out of it seems really fun!

The best part about DNC is that you have an excuse to wear slutty if you play the class.

>DNC uses TP to heal

Thats cool as fuck, actually.

Classes can cross-class ROG. Jobs can't.

Yeah, true.
I used Death Blossom in early dungeons for AoE while leveling Monk for Mantra.

Blood for Blood is a MUST to cross class for every dps tho except casters.

It's a left over from the 1.0 armoury system

>Attempt to transfer a character
>Was always a pretty fast process
>Can't login anymore now and the character doesn't display on the mogstation either
Fucking chinks can't code no game

>unsure about the requirements for 4 star crafting

I'm pretty sure I can get there with food but still nervous they're gonna make it something absolutely retarded. Also wondering if there's gonna be new mats to gather, they just gave us new gatherer sets in 3.3 but this far there hasn't been any real need for them.

Yeah, obviously it's a must, I don't deny that. However I think it's pretty shitty skill in general. 10% more damage done, which you don't really notice that much, for 25% more damage taken? That's not really a good deal. It would be fine if it was at least 20/20.
Or fuck, just remove that shit and give every DPS his own cooldown.

If we extrapolate from the existing requirements for 2, 3, and 3.5star, itll likely be around 910 craftsmanship, 850 control to start the craft, and maybe ~1850ish difficulty.

>just got gravity on AST
is this what being a BLM feels like?

Newb question here:

How do you determine what level crafter you are in terms of the star system.

I just used the master carpenter's II book. Does that mean I'm two star?

No, it's like being a White Mage but it doesn't stun so it doesn't have any of the utility Holy does.

You can use it with Lightspeed to spam it pretty nicely though.

>Tfw Stormblood
What giant FF summon you hope to see being part of the raids next expac?
>Doomsday
>Ruby and Emerald weapon

>You can use it with Lightspeed to spam it pretty nicely though.
Shame about global cooldown though.

>Lightspeed
>wanting to reduce your damage by 25%

nah

Uh, doesn't Lightspeed cut down your damage by 25%?

The damage loss is mitigated by a much reduced cast time, obviously. It's a shit move in general. Astro is kinda shit overall.

>tfw don't want to keep subbing but really want all the vet rewards

fml

It's determined by gear. Select a 2star craft and look at the bottom of the list. There's a description that tells you what minimum on stats you need for crafting it.

Also minimum doesn't mean you can simply normal quality craft it. You may need a shitload of skills to even get enough progress.

Meanwhile WHM can just PoM and go nuts with Holy.

I see, thanks. I managed to save up for a full ironworks set.

Precisely, though ideally, you're probably going to want to go Holy > Aero 3 > Holy repeating, because by the time that second Holy is coming out, stun should have worn off and will re-apply.

doesn't holy do slightly less damage

They do the same amount.

Same potency, Gravity is targeted with the stun, so you can do it at range. Holy comes out from you without being targeted but stuns. The stun alone though means that Holy does damage while preventing incoming damage, which means it's infinitely better.

targeted without the stun*

youtube.com/watch?v=CbjhzVnVY4I

what do you think they're doing with ast to make it worth mentioning in the patch notes for 3.4?

Ast mount

Nice, I've been wanting personal Astrologian mount for a while.

Except thats wrong

200 potency on a 3 second cast time is 66.7 pps
150 potency on a 2.5 second cast time is 60 pps

If I were to fix AST, I'd make Nocturnal Sect shields more powerful, I much prefer to use Diurnal right now and I'd make it so that if you draw a card, redraw guarantees you'll get one from a different family (based on the royal road buff). So if you draw a Ewer, you can't draw Spire or Ewer again on your next pull.

Yeah, WHM is super easy mode.

Lightspeed makes Gravity come out in around half a second though. You're not getting your casts out half a second quicker, you're getting them out like 2 seconds quicker.

Is WHM more brain dead than SCH

I don't particularly like maintaining 70 dot skills on each enemy constantly

>Lightspeed makes Gravity come out in around half a second though. You're not getting your casts out half a second quicker, you're getting them out like 2 seconds quicker.
>I dont know how GCD works, the post

D O O M T R A I N

>new content about to hit
>just hit the end of 3.0 msq
>i will be behind and miss everything
>on a dead server so after the first week or so nobody will be willing to help
>stuck doing DF shit forever

>Garlemald uses trains to transport supplies between their castrums
>beast tribe in Gyr Abania is extremely primitive
>they live just near the tracks connecting Castrum Ostrens to occupied Ala Mhigo
>they don't understand what the train is, but know that it's dangerous and horrible things happen when it comes by (Garlemald fucking their shit up)
>they name it Glasya Labolas and begin to worship it in hopes of appeasing it and ending the death
>summon Doomtrain

The only thing people want to do on high pop servers is make meme PFs or advertisements for statics for 3.4 raids anyway. No one actually does things.

OMEGA

If you can reliably HQ 2star crafts without any HQ mats, you can consider yourself a '2 star' crafter I guess. And so on for 3 star, etc.

It's just the ceiling at which you can reliably HQ stuff for your current gear.

Just transfer to leviathan.

And atleast the post-3.0 stuff is more interesting and quicker than the post-2.0 stuff. You can catch up easily before 3.4 hits.

youtube.com/watch?v=ogdfCVYY2Hc

speak for your own bad server
I see nidex parties every day

XIV is alright if you like themepark mmos. its polished and comfy.

XV is going to be hot garbage though. don't even bother. ff is rip, SE is shit. let it end.

The sad thing is my FC is fucking cool and was not easy at all to find. Trying to find another group of chill people on a new server when this game does everything in its power to make it not a requirement to speak because "muh story" doesn't sound like a good deal.

I'm kinda stuck.

>finally got a new PC
>constant 50 - 60 fps
>could try Titan Ex again
>or T5
>can't find groups that aren't farming
FUCK

If you're not going to do anything to change your situation, then stop whinging about it in every thread. Its not hard to find FCs

>Its not hard to find FCs

>I'm an insufferable shitter so I'll blame my loneliness and inability to make friends on others

It's not hard to find a FC of course, but finding a good one is extremely hard.

Did Mr.Happy unfuck himself yet?

Probably going to be better than XV.

New expansion announced next month, and probably some hints about it in the next patch that will hit next week.

does first time bonus apply in unsynched?

Nope, he's still a retarded that unapologetically mispronounces words you learned in kindergarten.

I'm in a FC you nerd. But it was no easy task like I said. That was the whole point.

Yes

>look at people's FCs
>ask if you can join
>they accept you because 99% of FCs always accept new people

???
That isn't hard

We already have been getting tons of hints for half a year, mate. You'd know this if you didn't skip cutscenes.

We're going to Ala Mhigo and meeting up with Yda and Papalymo. Ilberd, who is a RDM, is the dude in the mask at the end of 3.3 MSQ going on baout Ala Mhigo. The Stormblood trademark confirms Ala Mhigo yet again.

It'd be easier if you weren't an insufferable cunt. Just because you're unlikable and can't make friends doesn't mean it's hard to do.

>Yda

I...I'm sorry user

I don't watch the cutscenes, is she kill?

There is a shot in the trailer of Papalymo, and he's without Yda and looking pretty conflicted. That doesn't say anything, though.

i'm kind of annoyed they copped out on killing the potato queen of ul'dah

the line that is being read when he's doing it too is similar to the one Matoya said about Minfillia.

just conjecture at this point. but I have a feeling Yda is not going to join us next patch

I think I figured out why Sophia is next.

Sephirot is a "good" primal who just wants to protect his people, just like Daddy Titan.

Sophia clearly goes for a neutral primal depiction, with her backstory and the weighing scale and I bet she's a good waifu.

Zurvan then will obviously the evil baddie no-good of the three and thus the way more dangerous and powerful one. He looks like a Dragoon, so AOE skills should instantly kill him.

Popular theory is that she's some sort of Ala Mhigan royalty or something, that's why in the earlier patch when it shows her and Potatolymo in the Ala Mhigo camp he keeps hounding her about not being able to stick around and they have more important stuff to do. She wants to stick around and help the resistance.

Chances are she'll join up with Ilberd for awhile to overthrow the Garleans.

>He looks like a Dragoon
>Zone in
>Instantly win fight
>But he rolls 99 on all the loot from beyond the grave anyway

Papalymo better change out of that low level gear he has already

Probably because he looks at Louis' staff. Yda I guess is still with the resistance to keep an eye on everything.

>Esthys Asher's theory
FTFY

youtube.com/watch?v=nEWgZJMtsa8

Opinion on this "podcast"?

What are you maining in Stormblood: samurai, red mage, or puppeteer?

what

>story gated

Let me guess. Its a wowfag bitching aboutnot being able to boost immediately to endgame for an hour.

Red Mage, unless they give it some annoying bullshit like Enochian or Wanderer's Minuet

Zurvan should actually be the neutral one. His Japanese title means 'god with the fury of an oni'. Fiend is 'majin' which is evil god, and Goddess is 'megami' which along with her appearance implies she's good.

Also, the tower you climb before Kefka in the final battle reflects them as incarnations of the Divine Comedy. Sephirot at the bottom as a demon with only his upper body showing just like Satan in the Inferno. Zurvan in the middle as purgatory, not gentle but not evil. And then Sophia at the top reflecting heaven.

>Ethys shit again
His theories are all full of holes, and I've listed them in these threads before, but I'm drunk and don't want to sit through his videos again to point them out. There's nothing pointing to her not being Ala Mhigan royalty, but there's also nothing pointing to her being Ala Mhigan aside from being a hyur that punches things.
>she's stupid so she must actually be Ala Mhigan!
The tattoo she has signifies mastery in her area of study in Sharlayan. She isn't actually stupid, she's just an airhead. She also had the privilege of learning under the most accomplished wizard of the current era. Not only that, but Sharlayan has a strict neutrality policy. They don't get involved in foreign politics. Louisoix is considered a pariah there now for trying to stop Dalamud, and taking in the Ala Mhigan princess would have been a big, BIG no-no especially when they were doing everything to avoid war with Garlemald at the time.

The only thing I hope is that the Ala Mhigo expansion will actually feel like a war, because the Dragonsong War didn't feel like a war at all.

You show up in the aftermath of the attack on Ishgard, the places you went to weren't affected by the war, it was pretty upbeat for most of the story, and you spent most of the time dealing with a conspiracy of the church.

more like
red mage, samurai and dancer/viking
everybody wants red mage, if SE doesn't implement it they are fucking dumb, same with Samurai and Vikings are the Stormbloods so if it's true that the expansion is called that there will be vikings, if it's not though they will probably make dancer

I think they should keep the tradition of being story centered because it's a mainline Final Fantasy game, MMO or not. Final Fantasy fans know what they're getting into, if a WoWfugee wants to play they either get used to it or find another game to play. That's not to say they have to like the story though.

I want to fuck that femroe

Lolpup

Vikings are a sea wolf thing, from far north Ilsabard. The stormblood makes everyone think viking, but it's just referring to Ala Mhigans who are like a weird mix of Scottish, Chinese, and Native American. Their patron god is Rhalgr, the god of lightning, hence Stormblood.

Viking = dual hand axes (one slot like Nin)

Yay or Nay?

Viking isn't happening. We already have Warrior.

Viking shares Marauder with Warrior just like Summoner and Scholar share Arcanist
make it happen

If it's a dps class, then yes. I love axes and wish I didn't have to be a tank every time I want to use one.

What kind of weapons does strip- erm I mean dancers use?

Viking = Giant hammer

Make it so

>A party member has withdrawn from the duty. Finding new member.
>A party member has withdrawn from the duty. Finding new member.
>A party member has withdrawn from the duty. Finding new member.

24 mans were a mistake

Fans or whips.

Daggers, cloths like in Tactics, or whips.

>She isn't actually stupid, she's just an airhead.
Yet there are people who don't like her because of this. People are shit.

viking dual wields shields. so none of the above

Fan main hand whip offhand

>Whips
That class sound way too kinky.

>looking for 4.0 related videos on youtube
>MRHAPPY
>MRHAPPY
>MRHAPPY
>MRHAPPY
ENOUGH

>Alphinaud "dies" in 3.4 getting soul jacked by the WoD in an effort to spare us that fate
>Alisae takes his place as our sidekick for 4.0 trying to get him back

I can feel it coming

>it's an aethero in the 60 rou episode

why do people think this is quicker than antitower?

only if you do it unsynched

why is it synced? Praetorium was never synced

no tomes then though, right?

you can't unsync or underman any HW content yet
but you can do aetherochemical in 15 minutes anyway.

They're the OG warriors of light, after Louisoix used his dimension hopping magic on them

they have basically seen the destruction of several worlds and realize that what the ascians want will be best to save every world and stop some world ending destructive force or some shit, even if the ascians goal seems malicious to us

then its going to be a story instanced fight against them where its just "AIGHT NIGGA IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR CAUSE JUST I CALL UPON YOU TO DEFEND IT WITH YOUR LIFE" and shit

I suspect we will not defeat them though, I have a feeling these guys will be recurring for the remainder of FFXIV's lifespan, since they've been in all the cinematics so far

Another theory of mine is that the Cinematics take place in an alternate timeline that they're from

not with df tanks and dps though, these dudes can't into cooldowns

Hydaelyn told us after Antitower that when she ripped Zodiark from her that the universe was split into 14 reflections of the Source world. The WoD were heroes of one of the reflections that have since been collapsed back into the Source.

Now remember in Aetherochemical when Lahabrea and Igeyorhm showed us that two Echo users can use it to break down reality and fuse together into a super being?

He seemed like an OK guy, but then I go on his stream and he's chatting about content creation and business shit. It's abundantly clear he's a streamer to get internet moneys, and nothing he does isn't calculated to do that.

oh god. they're going to go voltron on us

what does the super warrior of darkness look like though?

I don't mind that dungeon only because I like Allagan shit. Neverreap is something I don't want to do again even if it has gotten easier because of gear, it in a 3 way tie with Hullbreaker and Anti Tower are the boringest dungeons ever to come out of HW.

just do a PF, people want to farm ARF all the time.

I was thinking more that Darklander was going to Echo fuse with the WoL to fuck up the real big bad.

I honestly don't think Antitower is that bad. The difficulty is faceroll but it's an absolute visual treat at least.

If you actually played 1.0 and used that character for 2.0, everyone immediately recognises you as the same WoL that louisoix teleported back then, which means he teleported you (and it implies your team) to the future. They ar not the 1.0 WoLs, you are canonically (if you didn't play 1.0 then nobody remembers this but 1.0 and non-1.0 players have to have the same canon).

I'd rather not be in the ARF at all. Roulette is a bitch

3.3 was full on warmode

My only issue with it is that it's not especially fun on Monk or whatever because the dolls fuck really badly with melee range.

The meteors in the Ziggy fight don't react well to tab target for me either.

I can relate to that, its pretty fucking annoying
>tab while looking at meteor near me
>locks onto the farthest meteor

Targetting is weird as fuck. But it only targets stuff on your screen so you uave to move your camera in weird angles in order to tab target well.

I don't remember it being so bad when I played melee in 2.0

>tfw playing DRG
>AOEing and being drained of TP
>MCH senpai gives me TP with his turret
>mfw

FORWARD

I think it's based on the name/health bard. Like Echidna can be a real pain to target too.

AND BACK

This native american outfits offend me as a white person.

Any good MCH knows a DRG's AoE is going to be faster and more reliable than his own unless he's got all of his CDs ready to go. But that requires actually having a good MCH, which is rare.

>tfw want to play something else but your FC wants you to always be MCH because they can't find any good ones

I never should've picked up this class

I wanted to pick it up but I already went bard :^(

>tfw goading DRG and MNK as a NIN but still don't get commendations

>FC wants

Tell your FC to

>Playing MNK
>Rockbreaker spam all the mobs
>Ninja goads PLD

Hitting tab targets your nearest enemy target if you don't have a target already. Whenever you hit tab with something targetted it goes to the next target found along the X-axis.

If you look in the keybind options you can actually find more options for targetting like "next closest". I've got tab set to closest target and then shift+tab to next closest, and ctrl+tab as farthest or something.

>not having BRD and MCH both at 60 and geared so you can switch as needed

I did and started leveling BLM and WHM. But I switch to MCH when we raid

Oh, I know how it works, it's just a bit wonky in the situation is all. Mouse clicking the target there is more reliable but takes longer to do so it's not ideal

The fuck is up with these posts in these threads lately?

>leveling YET another DPS class

pls no user I know I can share gear but still

the fuck you grouping with a pld for?

>Tank can't position mobs for shit so your rockbreaker only hits one mob.

Fuck it, snap punch it is

It was one fucking cut scene.

pictures.hentai-foundry.com/a/Anasheya/355548/Anasheya-355548-worst_player.jpg

it's got futa

It was the finale of the war that's been going on this while expansion. You'd know that if you didnt skip everything

I know what it was. It doesn't make it ok that everything else was lack of anything remotely feeling like a war.

Watch the 3.4 trailer.

>shitty western "art"
Get out.

>be the "crafting guy" for my FC
>always getting bugged to make shit

At least most of them are courteous to bring their own mats

The war was going on elsewhere while you, Estinien, Ysayle, and Alphie were busy doing the important behind the scene shit.

Don't skip cutscenes next time.

Guess I should watch it again, I don't remember anything about that at all.

It's just a dubfag meme. Watch with the proper voice overs

They're talking about the music, fag

>Don't skip cutscenes next time.
Not that guy and I watched all cutscenes, but the whole thing really didn't feel like war. Also not enough dragon bosses and new types of dragon mobs.

That's because you weren't fighting a war, you were trying to stop it. Why are you fags so retarded?

We the players entered a war, but lacked things to make it a war. The players spent most of the time doing dumb shit like dealing with the moogles, chasing the archeduke, dealing with two primals, and doing fetch quest for damn goblins.

>i didnt pay attention to the story except for some flashy cutscenes at the end!

Maybe you should stick to Mass Effect, kid.

i got the main quest to around where you fight garuda the first time

is there much more? I kind of want to play but desu, if i have to do like 30-40 hours of main quest just to even start doing the basic end game shit, it's going to be a bit tedious. I'm level 50 which was cap before HW afaik.

I really enjoy my class and stuff, but i'd like to get to the part where i'm gearing up for actual relevant content fairly quickly. I'm used to WoW where you can fairly reasonably level a character to cap and start working on stuff within 20 hours

youtube.com/watch?v=rgZRObd6CxE
>he doesn't believe it
Slight tempo change and of course different lyrics but you can't fucking deny it's the same base song. It's painfully obvious.

Plus the Japs are known to do this kind of shit, homages and "sampling" aplenty. Hell, FFXIV in its' entirety is using previous FF material and slightly twisting it around in diff enough ways to be familiar yet different, e.g; Krile, Matoya, whats his face from the Syrcus Tower questline, Une and Doga, all characters and a lot of situations are ripped from old FFs and used in XIV. The Garlean Empire and Magitek from 6, Cloud of Darkness in WoD with Une and Doga from 3, this Heavensward shit with Estinien is loosely based on Kain from 4, the current Warring Triad, Sephirot from the ripped off song in question is from FF6, so is Sophia coming in 3.4 and then the third, Poltrgeit/Demon, will be in 3.5, the list quite literally goes on and they haven't touched half the FFs yet.

TL;DR: Jap game devs stealing/"sampling" shit isn't a new practice, that's why the translation team changed shit in the old days, Rock & Roll because Megaman and Roll, so many music-themed names, DBZ did it too with fucking Bulma's entire family being named for underpants(Bulma = Panties, Trunks, Dr. Briefs), then Piccolo and numerous other instrument names.

>first garuda

you're about 80% through the 2.0 scenario

FFXIV's official statement was saying that Soken just made the most generic sounding Industrial Rock song they could, and it just happened to sound like Powerman 5000.

Powerman 5k were on their way out of relevancy when i was in high school, and I'm 30

>Why are you fags so retarded?
Maybe because you are?
If we were fighting the war or not, just acting behind it or not doesn't fucking matter.

The WoL still would see all that has happened through war, but it comes of as a recentlly started inconvenience with some minor destruction. Nothing that shows that the Dragonsong War is going on for a thousand years. No army to be seen in Ishgard, neither an actual Horde on the dragon side.

Also WoL joined the war battle at the very least in 3.3. The cutscene(s) before and the Final Steps. Yet the battle that is going on looks like a mere struggle. Not many fighting on each side, neither in the background. You know what had a good representation of the Dragonsong War? The fucking FMV intro of Heavensward those cutscenes tried to recreate. It felt grand andexactly what you'd expect from humans fighting dragons. I don't know if it's because of PS3 limitations or devs, but the war that was supposed to be going on in the actual game wasn't really there visually. Also Eggnogg wasn't as pissed at us for killing his waifu as you'd think he would be.

oh boy you have shitloads of stuff to do before you even begin the end game stuff

>Hell, FFXIV in its' entirety is using previous FF material
That is not an argument since it belongs to the franchise and SE. You should use other examples that are actually legally questionable.

kys

Oh I'm not defending Pman5k at all but you'd have to be deaf and retarded to not realize it's the same song. The fact that Pman5k was long out of the picture is why they probably thought they could steal it. Of course they're not going to up and admit it, they would be terrible PR, even if we know they're lying through the teeth otherwise.

i don't believe Soken intentionally made the song so similar and was just coincidence. then again, PMan5k needs to learn what a 'genre' is

Fiend is a better song lyrically

>first Garuda
Hahahahahaha. Nigga, you've barely even begun. That's not even the end of 2.0, let alone 2.1, 2, 3, 4, and the literal hours upon hours of quests that 2.5x is that wraps up the pre-HW story, ended with a 30-45min nonstop cutscene. Oh did I mention there's at least 3 MSQ story cutscenes at 50, in-dungeon, that people won't let you watch and will ditch your ass if you watch them?

Is it just me or is this patch painfully underwhelming? I could not care any less about Alex. I'll run it once and never again. Apartments should have been in the game from the beginning, if not when the houses were added. The new tome gear looks like generic garbage, though that is subjective. They turned a whole fucking region into a dungeon, and POTD is POTD.

I believe he did, but noone's ever going to admit it and only he knows the truth. I agree otherwise, though.

>POTD
>I'm going to clear the entire dungeon because I need another Pomander of Witching and then use an alteration and get everyone pox'd

joy

youtube.com/watch?v=xdV_bzJgRxE
>all those dead shitters on SepHM

>I'll run it once and never again.
You're only going to get one book?
Oohh I get it you're not doing Savage but complaining about there being no content.

>I kind of want to play but desu, if i have to do like 30-40 hours of main quest just to even start doing the basic end game shit, it's going to be a bit tedious

>help, the game has too much content, I just want to hit max level and spend all my time queueing and running the same dungeons over and over instead of enjoying a decent story
Go back to your demon hunters in WoW, faggot.

>use an alteration and get everyone poxed
A) Alteration affects the next floor and is not immediate
B) Sometimes it's not Mimics
C) Whether it's the screamers or Mimics, both are worth MASSIVELY more experience which is ALWAYS worth it pre-41-50. The sooner you ding 60, the sooner you have a better chance at a weapon/armor upgrade and the easier the last floors are.

ChaosD1 is that you?

>Its another Savage (read:tedious content) is more content-episode

Hey man, don't put him down, he's cool. He wouldn't want to skip that shit either.

although he does kinda type the same as Chaos talks, but that shit is scripted for MMOGrinder and he's a bit diff on stream

That's your problem. Under examination we're not only getting a massive amount of content for any MMO across several styles of gameplay, but also features that're feeding towards the long term health of the game.

Also the "turned a whole region into a dungeon" thing is a fucking stupid complaint people need to stop making because there's no tangible difference on the user end and they can scale it up on demand if they decided they needed it down the line.

>the music
>dubs

Stupid faggot

>Savage
>Content
Alex is the worst mistake to ever be added to this game. In ARR I did all of coil when it actually mattered, and even I know calling 4 bosses you fight once and get locked out of every week is a fucking joke to call "Content."

Gordias was an abomination, Savage was even worse. Midas was just as awful so i didn't even bother trying savage. If that's any better I don't know but the point still stands that calling 4 bosses you can only do once content is a lie.

I've cleared A8S and even I'd argue that waiting for the rest of your static to learn mechanics and slowly progress through harder versions of the same content you cleared first week of the patch, isn't actually more content.

>Hey man, don't put him down, he's cool. He wouldn't want to skip that shit either.
So you didn't see his IV review where he complained about the same thing
>if i have to do like 30-40 hours of main quest just to even start doing the basic end game shit, it's going to be a bit tedious
complains.

Not to mention Chaos didn't reach endgame at all, clearly didn't try to learn how his class/job works which you can tell from said review and then went full salty when he was met with constructive criticism and a few salty XIVfags.

>Leveling my first character
>Been skipping all the cut scenes just because
Should I have actually followed the story? I've heard that it's good from some people, but others say it's a waste of time.

it doesn't matter

>If that's any better I don't know
A6S and A8S are both T9 tier. They were mechanically difficult and fun learn. 2 of the best fights added to the game. A5 was the best first fight of any of the raids and A7S was also a very good fight.
Midas is easily the best raid we've had.

>even I know calling 4 bosses you fight once and get locked out of every week is a fucking joke to call "Content."
The content comes from learning the fight, not spending the 3 hours a week getting your loot off of each boss. Most groups were learning the fights for months, not that you were apart of those. You were too busy thinking that expert roulette is end game content.

They're never worth it. You will always be 60 before Edda, being 60 does not significantly increase your odds of upgrading, and your clear speed is 99.9% dependent on the skill of the players.

After 30 you should probably pay some attention to it, it gets pretty good

Soken doing 80's style retro music for XIV when?

I skip non-MSQ cutscenes.If youre mid 50s and you just arent interested then by all means.

I really liked HW story, especially when you have been given the eyes power and you slowly walk towards nidhogg to do battle
I got goosebumps

>Yoshida:"if you have BiS in 3.2, you shld be able to clr turn 1-2(3) easily. 3.4 is not tuned for world firsts, so it shld only take 5 days"

>My shit tastes better than yours!
This is what this game has devolved to.

so basically going back to the FCOB level of difficulty instead of being tuned for autists

>3.4 is not tuned for world firsts
You know what? I'm okay with this. "World Firsts" was a mistake.

Well, it's over, the shitters have finally won.

Yeah. Despite how well received Midas was Yoshi said he though it was too hard.

Probably a little harder to take seriously as a Potato in a Maid Outfit, but I still had goosebumps there too.

Yeah, it'll actually be fun again to do with friends, now if only they removed lockout so you weren't stuck doing with the same 7 people.

>if I can't beat it no one should

>easier than fucking Girdias
>too hard
What is with that man?

...

>he doesn't know XIV was an mmo designed for people new to the genre and retired vets who just want to chill

Goddamnit. I don't even do Savage but this is fucking ridiculous.

Midcore ruins absolutely everything. Fuckers want to feel like they're good without actually seeking accomplishment.

Got goosebumps at this part too. Shit was intense.

>he doesn't hurr durr hurr

I don't see the issue when it's already hard enough to find 7 people who play at an acceptable level. I'm not even talking about raiding with actual GOOD players.

That's not the issue. World First is like rule #34. It brings all the autists and worst part of the community to do a thing first for something that doesn't matter at all in life, just to brag and be miserable to the community.

Except Yda. Needs more in-game and porn Yda.

Having two modes was a mistake in the first place.

Most of 3.0 has been nothing but trial and error testing.

>I was actually hyped for diadem too...

Exactly. Let's ruin the last decent thing for everyone else because you are socially incompetent and have difficulties finding 7 people.

Is FFIV a goo MMORPG to get into if the only MMORPG that I've played (and loved) has been Old School Rune scape?

I've not even bothered with raiding in alex because of finding 7 others was a chore and making time. coil drained me a bit anyway. Now i'm just enjoying the normal and running it once for the lolstory then not bother, because fuck the gear grind. I'll do all the content once then quit until next patch.

>socially incompetent
You have to be naive if you think that is the only reason why many don't do these raids. There are other factors.

>he thinks it has anything to do with social aspects
(You)

Free Trial on Steam, find out for yourself. Just be warned the story is meh till 20-30 and the Trial stops at 20. It might feel a little slow/few skills at that level range.

That's some serious projecting there user.

They recently bumped trials up to 35 because someone on the team developed a brain and realized that the game is shit until you hit 30 and get a job.

It's easier than Gordias DPS/tankbuster check wise but it's still mechanically complex.

are warriors of light demi gods or are we pretty much gods at this point

Oh? Well that's good to know but I never saw them state that anywhere

I've been trying to form a group for months now to be ready for 3.4 and we're still missing one person. It's really discouraging and should NOT be this difficult just to be able to enter the content. Unfortunately everyone I trial is a massive shitter who cant kill a8s dummy in 230+ or simply cannot make our times. At this point I'd be fine carrying just one shitter if the content gave room for it JUST so I can actually attempt to play the end game.

there really is such a criminally low amount of yda porn
why must we suffer?

I never saw the announcement either but someone pointed it out to me in a duty and when I looked it up to confirm, I saw that they'd changed it with the PotD patch.

>People that clear entire floors
>people that run all the way back for a gold chest when we have 3 strength and steel and a succubus
>people that use the big monster on a floor with no knockback
>people that dont use items and never sprint
>healers that arent in cleric
>people that can't fucking play thier classes even if at a lower level
>people still falling for traps after they have been dispelled and marked
>floors 41-50 with retards

POTD was a mistake. If people weren't retarded this mode would have crashed the market.

The Warrior of Light, aka you, is basically a Primal summoned by the various people of Eorzea. Noone in the story who can see Aether energy, aka any scion or Krile with those stupid glasses, says anything though because you're on their side and for obvious gameplay/plot inconsistency reasons.

>when you get a group but that one shitter destroys it and you can see it coming from a mile away

It's usually that girl that's with one of the others.

Most of 1-50's story is absolute dogshit, the Job Quests starting from levle 30 are fairly interesting depending on the job

It's only once you get into 2.x-3.x shit that the main story stops being boring as fuck

Nobody gives a fuck about you waifufaggots aka 80% of this game's fanbase

Literal cancer and the reason why I dont play that much any more. I get matched with you faggots who cant play for shit.

>I'm a skilled, unique snowflake, everyone else is bad. One wipe and I'm gone. REEE shitters
>WAHH it's hard to find people everyone is so bad

Unlike you mongoloids, I've always had a static since 2.1 and never had difficulties finding one. Not my fault some people can't network with players or make friends online.

POTD 50-200 floors

What the fuck are they going to do/add to it? It was boring as fuck before.

50 to 100 is just a continuation and more story
100 to 200 are going to be "Challenge" floors for bragging rights and probably some "okay" rewards.

this, Louisoix summoned you in the same way a summoner summons an Egi and now you've just been WoL-egi eating aether off of primals and growing bigdick strong all the while for some sort of endgame goal that the scions will reveal in the final bullshit expansion where it turns out the Warriors of Darkness and the Ascians were right all along.

PLEASE

LOOK

FORWARD

TO

IT

"There cannot be darkness, without light. All light casts a shadow."

Fucking stupid mental stretch

When will you retards stop spouting this dumb meme theory?

This is why you never ever play with girls, user.

>never had difficulties finding one.
Well no shit, it's easy as shit JOINING a group. Try forming your own and then get back to me. Some of us have friends we want to raid with and it's not as simple as "well just join a static bc it worked for me lol"

>Your glowing weapon now glows even more

No more stretched than the "Warrior of light (and their adventurer friends)" every time you clear a dungeon story-wise to explain the WoL needing a party of 4 to 24 random-ass motherfuckers to get shit done. I mean really, if you're going to say that shit's a stretch or meme theory you have to apply it to all the shit the game already does to make gameplay-related things "make sense" ICly.

t. someone who has never led a static

You know making friends ins't the hard part right? It's making friends who don't suck ass at the game.

>He still doesn't have "Myth Breaker"

Are they going to nerf yokai watch or make drop rate even easier before the event ends soon?

People need to work in Eorzea. I thought that much was obvious after the whole Uldah debacle.

I agree with all of this, but I'd like to add:

>people who try to speedrun and accidently or on purpose pull too much the group could handle

BUT THAT'S A THEORY

How do I gitgud at healing

I can tank and DPS just fine

>people who try to speedrun and accidently or on purpose pull too much the group could handle

bonus points for pulling a slime and 1 shotting everybody

also

>both DPS refuse to use LB
>tank is spinning the boss around
>dps uses succubus
>tanks fighting for aggro both in tank stance
>healer in the back just healing instead of lobbing rocks and diseases

Fuck this

That's a theory, and the original theory did not state that you were 100% primal - but that you are acting as the vessel for the collective hopes and dreams of Eorzea which unintentionally is transforming you into something transcendent.

Do the healer questline and listen to everything the video game is telling you to do. There, you just became better than 75% of all main healers worldwide.

>Fag goes in a room by himself
>is now running towards us with 3 slimes + more adds

do you think getting nidhoggs eye is part of the warriors of darkness's plan?

>i dont know how lightspeed works: the post

You need to become really submissive and accept being a target of bullies is all in a days work for healer, and embrace that rather then hate it.

>I'm a skilled, unique snowflake, everyone else is bad. One wipe and I'm gone. REEE shitters
>WAHH it's hard to find people everyone is so bad
Your attitude is exactly what prevents some players, who could learn that content easily, from even trying.

>every time you clear a dungeon story-wise to explain the WoL needing a party of 4 to 24 random-ass motherfuckers to get shit done
Except that is canon. Most content tells the WoL to gather friends/adventurers before going into those dungeons and trials. It's canon.

Never. Only 6 days left after patch hits. I will never understand why they did a Atma tier grind with a timelimit for this particular event.

>it's another WHM acts like a bitch and rushes through everything getting "her"self killed while blaming others episode

YDA PRIDE WORLDWIDE

So you don't dps? I don't want you in my group then.

>you
>acting as a vessel for the collective hopes and dreams of Eorzea, transforming into something transcendent

>Lady Iceheart
>acting as a vessel for the hopes and dreams of those wronged by the dragonsong war, transforming her into Shiva, a Primal

>random Sahagins
>acting as vessels for the collective hopes and dreams of the Sahagin people, letting Leviathan possess them

>every other Primal basically being summoned by the collective hopes & dreams of their respective beast tribes, Ixal:Garuda, Ravana:The bug dudes, Bismarck:VanuVanu, etc.

>King motherfucking Thordan
>acting as a vessel for the hopes and dreams of Ishgard's people to end the Dragonsong war but also the King's want of power and control, also a primal

I mean pretty much every primal in the game is in the same situation you are. Honestly at this point I'm going to be genuinely surprised if fucking Raubahn isn't Maduin and the Ala Mhigan people's Primal, too, you saw what he was able to do in pic related.

Anyone seen that post some guy in the thread posted about how if you refuse to make content harder by not gearing down or not doing mechanics on purpose, you can'twhine about difficulty?

reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/53nq0x/yoshi_on_creator_savage_difficulty/d7uyb33?context=3&st=itburj8p&sh=b9c6d4c7

Nigga is literally Ifrit/Titan

>Japanese voice
>Fucking cute as fuck would listen to for 10hours
>English voice
>30+ years old bitch

Why.

>mfw I set my mouse for wheel up/down to target cycle left/right
Shit is comfy and you can target anything in an instant. Also Alt+wheel to cycle through party members.

Had no issues with Krile, though their changing Tataru from "Kawaii Sugoi qt3.14" in 2.x to "Oi GUV WHEN YE GON' RAM IT IN ME BUM? I GOT A RIGHT GOOD WANKER 'ERE I DO!" in Heavensward was blasphemy.

The key difference is you don't have a special uber transformation. You are yourself. You have always been yourself. And until you become something else, the people of Eorzea will continue to see you as one of them - a champion of the common man, righting wrongs and slaying evildoers everywhere through the sheer might of fuck you.

>Took about 18 tries to complete the version check and log in

Oh boy, these Duty Finder runs wont have connection problems at all.

Tataru was just Yda's VA at a slightly higher pitch before HW. She's shit either way so I don't really care.

That's what I mean though - we don't need to "transform" into a primal, we ARE the primal. Or the WoL is and we players "become" them. Which would "canonically" explain our varied classes, races, and genders all being the WoL.

I want my DRK side to return as my sidekick. Major lizbean vibes with a female WoL.

Just a theory for now. Remember that you were dangerously mortal and helpless when Midgardsomr raped you in your spiritual bum.

>See room full of mimics
>turn 360 degrees and walk away
Wow that was fucking hard, faggot.

>healers that arent in cleric
Honestly I drop cleric for portions of 41-50 depending on how much the melee is eating shit.

I'd add
>Level 41 mimic on floor 11 immediately where everybody spawns and it just one shots everybody
Always have a huge fucking laugh at this

Thank you so much man!

I have no idea what class to choose

Im thinking lancer. Classes dont have more than one path right?

Hows machinist? Not sure which class turns into it though

True, though Midgardsormr has some kind of higher power rivalling Hydaelyn, the fact that he rebirthed himself and "inhabited" you for awhile showing proof of that power.