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    Quote Originally Posted by Berethos08 View Post
    Say, in the New World, thousands of miles away, there is also the legend of Ifrit, but in the thousands of years since that original seed of myth, he’s grown into a very benevolent god that… <laughs> gives flowers to children and is the fire that roasts your marshmallows… that’s a different essence, even though it’s the same Ifrit.
    LOL. I almost want to see that in-game.
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    Talk about a weird image in my mind right there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity Divinity View Post
    Yeah, that part had me a little confused. I thought primals dissolved into aether after being defeated and needed to be resummoned with crystals/prayer/etc, yet Bahamut seems to have left a mess of himself all over the place. (There's probably a reason but I just don't know what it is!)
    Like Odin he is an Elder primal. Though what you are seeing are the aftereffects of so much aether let loose at once. As for him coming back the remains of dalamund were resummoning him

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    I'm still slowly working on the ARR Beast Tribe quests. I've got some at Rank 1, others at Rank 2 and another at Rank 3.

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    Snagged 4x Arrow @ 160K each today. wee.

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    Silly newb me; I have none of the beast tribe reps to the point I could've obtained these items from them. Otherwise I would probably be done with my 210 weapon by now. I blame my apprehension towards doing them to how OCD I was in WoW with reps (where I literally had every rep but 1 or 2 in the game at exalted).

    Going to work on getting them all maxed out before xpac's end; figure they will likely nerf some of the requirements for the anima weapons at the end of the xpac with 4.0 looming on the horizon, so to have the tribe reps done + crafting leveled up will have me in a much better spot for getting these weapons on alt jobs going into next expansion.

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    Got all crafting to 60 over the weekend. Blacksmith and Armorsmith from 57-60 had 0 cost as I gathered the mats and made titanium nuggets for 8 blue scrips each to grind them up. Same process for weaver with ramie and flax. I did buy a few and did the final bit using lower level leves and buying the Ramie belts from the Ok'Zundu vendor.

    Also have every Master III book for crafting. Now to figure out my path to getting gear to be able to make more stuff and what I'll make for big scrip turn ins towards Master IV books.

    Also close to 59 PLD now. I'll probably FATE grind that out tonight to finish it off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faroth View Post
    Blacksmith and Armorsmith from 57-60 had 0 cost as I gathered the mats and made titanium nuggets for 8 blue scrips each to grind them up.
    Incorrect. They had the same cost as if you had sold the materials on the Market Board.
    People always make this mistake when considering costs. Your playtime is a currency just as much as gil is.

    Personally, I'll only pursue crafting gear once they implement a set that can be worn with every profession. It's insane effort to equip them all individually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faroth View Post
    Got all crafting to 60 over the weekend. Blacksmith and Armorsmith from 57-60 had 0 cost as I gathered the mats and made titanium nuggets for 8 blue scrips each to grind them up. Same process for weaver with ramie and flax. I did buy a few and did the final bit using lower level leves and buying the Ramie belts from the Ok'Zundu vendor.

    Also have every Master III book for crafting. Now to figure out my path to getting gear to be able to make more stuff and what I'll make for big scrip turn ins towards Master IV books.

    Also close to 59 PLD now. I'll probably FATE grind that out tonight to finish it off.
    I only gotten the Master III books because they are necessary to complete the class quests.

    Master IV books ... I can't bring myself to get them ... 720 scrips a book ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    Is it just me or is the loot system in Alex rather horrible?

    Sure for guild groups it works good, but if you queue solo you always roll against 7 others.
    Pretty crappy odds.
    I'm not complaining as I tend to get an item from each every week. I'm only missing the chest piece for my monk but I nearly have a 2nd set for another class.

    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    At this rate I'll probably be finished mid/end of may. Then they will deploy the next patch and knowing my luck they'll nerf the crap out of the relic step. >.<
    Ha ha, that's why I'm waiting still. :P Will be getting the Dragoon weapon (currently level 49).

    Sorry....
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    Quote Originally Posted by SodiumChloride View Post
    Master IV books ... I can't bring myself to get them ... 720 scrips a book ...
    They are specialist recipes only, so rather useless for non specialists right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Turbotef View Post
    I'm not complaining as I tend to get an item from each every week. I'm only missing the chest piece for my monk but I nearly have a 2nd set for another class.
    Ofc the lucky ones won't complain about RNG based systems haha. :<

    Regarding the relic: knowing SE they will most likely nerf the Poetic/eso costs of the items into the ground instead of cutting the amount required. So it makes little difference, since I do beasties in order to sell the materia and eso/poetic stack up rather naturally as by products.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    They are specialist recipes only, so rather useless for non specialists right now.
    Ah ... Then I won't bother. :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by SodiumChloride View Post
    Ah ... Then I won't bother. :P
    You need VERY high stats to craft 3*** anyway.
    My almost completely i180 GSM still can't do it. >.<

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    Incorrect. They had the same cost as if you had sold the materials on the Market Board.
    People always make this mistake when considering costs. Your playtime is a currency just as much as gil is.

    Personally, I'll only pursue crafting gear once they implement a set that can be worn with every profession. It's insane effort to equip them all individually.
    *sigh* No out of pocket cost of lowering my current level of gil, nitpicky nitpicker. I know you hate crafting and want everyone to realize it's an abysmal pit of despair, but shoosh! :P

    I refuse to fall into the "time is money" bullshit mentality because my life isn't going to revolve over every second thinking about money, not irl, not in a game. I was capped on EX, ran Void Ark for the week, have my relic, almost full 230 gear, and wanted to finish leveling crafting. I lost nothing by *gasp* playing the game in order to do so.

    SO..... no cost out of pocket.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Faroth View Post
    *sigh* No out of pocket cost of lowering my current level of gil, nitpicky nitpicker. I know you hate crafting and want everyone to realize it's an abysmal pit of despair, but shoosh! :P
    I don't hate crafting. If Idid, I wouldn't have leveled all of them to 60. Well... almost all. Darn cooking. ._.
    But everyone can see that it is horribly balanced in terms of effort -> reward one you go for the rather extreme stuff.

    I refuse to fall into the "time is money" bullshit mentality because my life isn't going to revolve over every second thinking about money, not irl, not in a game.
    Who says anything about "every second"?
    It's only logical to think about "do I farm half an hour to save 10K gil or do I have ways to make 10K gil within minutes?"

    Sure, if you have unlimited playtime you might not care, but most players do not have that luxury.
    I always chuckle if people obsess over farming for hours and then somehow think they got the mats "for free" because their gil counter didn't go down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    Sure, if you have unlimited playtime you might not care, but most players do not have that luxury.
    I always chuckle if people obsess over farming for hours and then somehow think they got the mats "for free" because their gil counter didn't go down.
    In any game I do crafting I always prefer to gather my own materials, even if I could spend less time farming something else and buying it. I know it's not the most efficient and I realize it's not free, there's just something about being self-sufficient that I enjoy.

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    While I know the joys of being self sufficient and making sth yourself all the way, I guess I just don't enjoy mindlessly swinging a pickaxe as much as you do.

    Generally farming is rather boring to me, so I try to minimize it as much as I can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    While I know the joys of being self sufficient and making sth yourself all the way, I guess I just don't enjoy mindlessly swinging a pickaxe as much as you do.

    Generally farming is rather boring to me, so I try to minimize it as much as I can.
    I know it sounds odd, but sometimes I do actually enjoy the tedium of doing something like that. I can just kind of zone out and turn my mind off for a while, it's relaxing in a way. More often though I watching TV or a movie with my wife while only half paying attention to the game or listening to an audio book.

    Still, I -should- focus on something that would make me more money and just buy what I need. That would still be self-sufficient. I'm really just compelled to do it the way I do for some reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lathais View Post
    I know it sounds odd, but sometimes I do actually enjoy the tedium of doing something like that. I can just kind of zone out and turn my mind off for a while, it's relaxing in a way. More often though I watching TV or a movie with my wife while only half paying attention to the game or listening to an audio book.

    Still, I -should- focus on something that would make me more money and just buy what I need. That would still be self-sufficient. I'm really just compelled to do it the way I do for some reason.
    I get this actually It can be kind of like meditation in a way

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    While I know the joys of being self sufficient and making sth yourself all the way, I guess I just don't enjoy mindlessly swinging a pickaxe as much as you do.

    Generally farming is rather boring to me, so I try to minimize it as much as I can.
    That might have been a mentality swap, I'll admit. I got about a level and a half mining

    I think I'm halfway to 59 because of gathering the mats.

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