[Megathread] Final Fantasy XIV

[Granyala]

If you can find a group after 3 years of waiting that is.

[Aruhen]

It was instant as a Healer for all three rofl.

[Berethos08]

If you can find a group after 3 years of waiting that is.

With the most recent Anima step having an item that is given by doing the weekly for CT, it's probably a bit easier to actually get in than since the release of Heavensward.

[Kazgrel]

The new anima step had me like "Woo, now I have reason to unlock CT".

Then I remembered I'm still on the first step.

(For the record, I stopped playing during 3.1, and only hit 50 2-3 weeks before HW release, hence why CT and several other level 50 raids/dungeons weren't unlocked).

[dope_danny]

The new anima step had me like "Woo, now I have reason to unlock CT".

Then I remembered I'm still on the first step.

(For the record, I stopped playing during 3.1, and only hit 50 2-3 weeks before HW release, hence why CT and several other level 50 raids/dungeons weren't unlocked).

Its not that bad -as long as you can afford or craft/know someone who can craft the 16 HQ items. The rest is not hard but just a grind.

I've been doing it one and off from the dailies and buying the unidentifieds with tomestones since launch with a bunch of weekly breaks and im at 15 to go out of 80, with a server that has a hunt link shell you could get it down in a week easy, but unless you speak german my server is kind of lacking in this regard but if you can find one its not that bad, just takes time unless you want to do more than your once a day bonus roullettes for it. I just spend like 2 hours after the 4pm reset and that gets you a few a day alone and it all adds up.

Its funny though, my friends kept saying i was wasting my time and should just go for the lore weapons and now they are all in a mad dash for that 230 ilvl

[Berethos08]

Its not that bad -as long as you can afford or craft/know someone who can craft the 16 HQ items. The rest is not hard but just a grind.

That's been the main block for a fair amount of people...except those lucky sods that are on servers that saw the price drop after the specialist requirement was removed.

Now that I'm approaching the point of making good progress on the tokens (spent more time on other things and classes, for a while I was only getting one token like every 5 days or so), I'm starting to really focusing on saving up as I'll need around 5.4 million to complete the crafting item part (the prices for the mats have been all over the place, especially for HQ mats, so getting it crafted only to have it fail could end up more expensive on my server)...at 2.1 million so far. I figure I'll be close to what I need when I'm close to finishing the tokens.

Though I do think it's silly it hasn't seen any adjustments at all. They said they designed he overall process based the difficulty of getting a 210 weapon from Gordias Savage, so it would make sense to see more tweaks than we've seen once that particular situation no longer applied.

But it's pretty much the exact same, outside of needing more than one person to craft the items. Unfortunate choice by them, in my opinion.

[SodiumChloride]

Speaking of the anima weapons ... I'm suppose to collect crystals from doing FATEs right? (I don't have a zeta to trade in.)

How rare are those stupid crystals?

[Eleccybubb]

Speaking of the anima weapons ... I'm suppose to collect crystals from doing FATEs right? (I don't have a zeta to trade in.)

How rare are those stupid crystals?

Well sometimes RNG will decide it wants to fuck you until you start screaming and the other time it will do it the proper way which is take you out for a nice meal, maybe a coffee after then take you home and leave you with maybe 3 easily dropped crystals and a goodnight kiss.

[Aruhen]

Speaking of the anima weapons ... I'm suppose to collect crystals from doing FATEs right? (I don't have a zeta to trade in.)

How rare are those stupid crystals?

It "seems" to be slightly higher than the ARR version from my personal experience. I've gotten 6/18 in 2 hours but I could just have been really lucky. The nice part is that you can do it on characters that you need to level up so you can get some exp along the way.

I personally just started and I'm on the second step. Its an insanely long grind but I had some tokens saved up before hand. Saving your Esoterics/Poetics helps a lot in this part.

[Eleccybubb]

It "seems" to be slightly higher than the ARR version from my personal experience. I've gotten 6/18 in 2 hours but I could just have been really lucky. The nice part is that you can do it on characters that you need to level up so you can get some exp along the way.

I personally just started and I'm on the second step. Its an insanely long grind but I had some tokens saved up before hand. Saving your Esoterics/Poetics helps a lot in this part.

Best thing to do for the 80 item grind now is pace it. Do 3-4 a day if you can and you will be done in 2-3 weeks. Then you can spend 5 weeks doing CT if you don't rush and if my timing is right 3.3 will be around the corner.

[Berethos08]

Speaking of the anima weapons ... I'm suppose to collect crystals from doing FATEs right? (I don't have a zeta to trade in.)

How rare are those stupid crystals?

As mentioned it varies.

I spent enough time to max out seals in the Hinterlands almost 3 times for the last of the three I needed there.

The 3 I needed in Western Coerthas came from a total of 5 FATEs.

[SodiumChloride]

Also ... 3 of each crystal? I'm having trouble understanding what the quest is asking of me. :x

[Kaelwryn]

Yes, you need 3 of each crystal. So you need 3 from Coerthas Western Highlands, Sea of Clouds, etc.

So go to the first zone, do fates until you get 3 crystals and then move the next zone until you have 3 of those and repeat.

[SodiumChloride]

Yes, you need 3 of each crystal. So you need 3 from Coerthas Western Highlands, Sea of Clouds, etc.

So go to the fist zone, do fates until you get 3 crystals and then move the next zone until you have 3 of those and repeat.

OK thanks.

[TirielWoW]

Train wreck? Really? I can't beging to comprehend what you're looking for in a UI if you think XIV, with its toggle on/off, resizing everything, move everything anywhere you want it, is a train wreck.

I'm looking for this:



But the really important stuff, you can't even see.

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I just want to be able to change the party list. I fucking hate the dumb big block that it is.

Yup, that's a major issue I have. I hate how it looks. I hate that I can't see my HoT durations. I hate that I can't resize it the way I want to. I hate the extra buffs and debuffs I don't need to see are all over the place. I really hate it.

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DoT / Buff / Debuff tracking & nonexistent filtering (As a healer what do I care about a TP regen buff?) is a trainwreck and could be solved so much more elegantly. Esp once you factor in sounds etc.

Sure FFs UI is usable, but frustrating at times.

Basically. It's usable, but horribly frustrating and clunky.

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That's the max I remember seeing in the options. I just wish you could choose to track up to 5, but not be forced to see 5 all the time. Dislike how it force tracks quests even if you don't have the toggled.

Yup, that's another annoying thing. Sometimes I just want that area to be blank, but I don't have that option unless I drop every quest in my quest log.

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They shouldn't be optional. They should be in the game by default. Therefore no one has to install them, they aren't optional. That said No one will be "at each others throat" in normal alex if the clears are clean. Just like the standard PF notion of 3 mistakes you're replaced. DPS is irrelevant if the clears are clean and reasonably paced. If they're not the group can easily decide if they want to keep going or replace the bad player.

If anything, you could have situations where a duplicate class player says wow you did so much damage, do you have any tips? our gear is about the same. God knows I've done it once or twice thanks to ACT.

People make things toxic, not tools.

Story time!

When my guild at the time was raiding Highmaul, we were working on Mythic Imperator. Our Resto Druid was consistently going OOM, but she didn't know why. I also didn't know why. I had no way of telling why she was going OOM - were people taking too much damage? Was she spamming too much Regrowth? Was she not taking advantage of Clearcasting procs? What was going on?

But thanks to having a meter available, and the ability to export parses into Warcraft Logs, I was able to look at multiple pulls on the boss and pinpoint the fact that she was using Wildgrowth on CD when it wasn't actually needed (and Wildgrowth is a huge mana hog). Had I not been able to actually break down her spell use and see what she was using and when, and actually see how her mana was dropping over the course of the fight, we wouldn't have been able to progress because people were dying because she kept running OOM.

Did this turn the situation toxic? No. Because the situation was already toxic because no one could figure out why people were dying to unavoidable damage when all the healers were at such high HPS (hint: it was because one of the healers was blowing her load in the first 2 minutes of the fight and had no mana to continue from there on). It would have turned worse if we didn't pinpoint the problem.

So I brought it to the healing lead and let him take care of it. Problem solved, no negativity, and I didn't need to spend an extra 200 wipes on Mar'gok because the Resto Druid couldn't keep her mitts off the Wildgrowth button.

In FFXIV I just have to sit there, scratching my head, and going, "um, well, maybe I should have healed more..." Because there's no way to tell what the hell is going on because we can't actually see what other people are doing without targeting them and staring (which isn't wise when you're trying to down a raid encounter).

[Aruhen]

Best thing to do for the 80 item grind now is pace it. Do 3-4 a day if you can and you will be done in 2-3 weeks. Then you can spend 5 weeks doing CT if you don't rush and if my timing is right 3.3 will be around the corner.

You can actually get the items from the weekly CT quest without the relic quest. That way you can have all five by the time you finish and just turn it in right away for a 230 weapon.

[Granyala]

Yup, that's another annoying thing. Sometimes I just want that area [quest display] to be blank, but I don't have that option unless I drop every quest in my quest log.

Actually you do.
I have a macro for that:

/hud aufgabenliste (German client, should be "task list" or some thing like that in english). Goto macros -> syntax to find it.

This macro toggles quests/dungeon objectives. I usually have it all hidden to get more free space on my screen.

What I personally hate is the giant gold font that appears for a few seconds when you accept a quest / send a retainer etc. SOOOO unnecessary and annoying.

[dope_danny]

OK thanks.

Also you dont need to be on that job to get them, just have the quest, its amazing to power level alt jobs with. I got my first leveling my alt job, then got my alt jobs leveling another job and so on.

[Eleccybubb]

You can actually get the items from the weekly CT quest without the relic quest. That way you can have all five by the time you finish and just turn it in right away for a 230 weapon.

Oh I understand what I meant is if you gimp it purposely and spent 3 weeks now on the 80 items then just do 1 CT a week with no Eso you would have your 230 in late May which is near 3.3 time. Ofc don't do it if the wep is Bis for you. Do it if your lore wep is better.

[Granyala]

I still can't be arsed to put in the effort and gil for the 210 version. Feels so bad to work so hard for an item that is worse than my current tome weapon.

If it at least would look pretty.... but ... not even that. ._.