Right, but starting New Game Plus from there would be like rebooting a TV show and starting from season 3. You're missing a huge chunk of buildup.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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Right, but starting New Game Plus from there would be like rebooting a TV show and starting from season 3. You're missing a huge chunk of buildup.
Thanks for the tips on new NIN. Starting to get the hang of it and yeah the burst damage seems insane. So for hunts and solo stuff it's nice.
Any idea where NIN stacks up on the overall raid meta since trick went from 10% -> 5% but personal DPS increased?
Ah, yeah I always just kind of did my own thing with crafting. I'd use inner quiet and then steady hand & waste not and then use rapid synth at yeah 90% chance to make fast progress until I was 1 careful synth away from completion and then just focus on quality touches finishing with great strides and bygrot and then a careful synth.
After messing with the new options, it actually seems easier now to HQ everything? I'm using reflect + that 100% progress + 100% quality one with the 150% quality on goods and then when quality is maxed out I use that new elementals thing that doubles progress for the next 3 attempts and then the 100% progress (now 200% progress) x 3 to finish anything.
Then again like I said, I've always just been winging it crafting for hundreds of hours and never used any macros or guides on the the most efficient way to craft. Never bothered trying to craft HQ 40 durability stuff, but now I definitely will.
Any idea where NIN stacks up on the overall raid meta since trick went from 10% -> 5% but personal DPS increased?
Ah, yeah I always just kind of did my own thing with crafting. I'd use inner quiet and then steady hand & waste not and then use rapid synth at yeah 90% chance to make fast progress until I was 1 careful synth away from completion and then just focus on quality touches finishing with great strides and bygrot and then a careful synth.
After messing with the new options, it actually seems easier now to HQ everything? I'm using reflect + that 100% progress + 100% quality one with the 150% quality on goods and then when quality is maxed out I use that new elementals thing that doubles progress for the next 3 attempts and then the 100% progress (now 200% progress) x 3 to finish anything.
Then again like I said, I've always just been winging it crafting for hundreds of hours and never used any macros or guides on the the most efficient way to craft. Never bothered trying to craft HQ 40 durability stuff, but now I definitely will.
Eh, i watch shit from points all the time
if i'm aware of the story then i have experienced that build up
Ah well. I just found out there's no EXP in NG+ anyway, so that's gonna be a skip from me. Would've been nice to finally level up a mage or healer class but fuuuuuuuck that. Too damn tired of deep dungeons and MSG Roulette.
emet-selch: "blah blah the world was so much better in my day, i'll kill you all to make it whole again rargh blargh"
wol: "ok boomer"
wol: "ok boomer"
Is the solvent used to upgrade your tome weapons usually locked behind Savage? I guess I've only upgraded gear before and never done the 1000 tome + prototype tomestone to get the weapon and thought I could just upgrade it to i470 with an item from the raid like you do with gear.
If the whole point of the tome gear/weapons is so that non-savage playing people can spend a billion hours grinding tomes instead to gear up, why would the solvent be locked behind savage?
If the whole point of the tome gear/weapons is so that non-savage playing people can spend a billion hours grinding tomes instead to gear up, why would the solvent be locked behind savage?
The dip is locked until the .odd8 (5.18 in this case) series patch. Usually around the time they make savage gear drop per run instead of weekly. If you need an upgrade beyond i460 without going through crafted + unlimited tomes or weekly tomes you'll have to beat Hades Ex 5 times (or get lucky).
This was patch 4.18
Edit: To add on its locked behind savage as gear progression. It makes DPS checks easier as you get more clears so you feel like you're making progress due to what I'd call gear echo rather than actual personal DPS improvement (Assuming the barrier to clearing is DPS checks and not dying to mechanics)
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Usually starts in the .25 series and continues every .X5 until the finale in .55. Relic series should also start in .25
Finally all crafters at 80. Now to craft the gear to craft the new gear.
Also since I can officially do it myself I melded everything appropriately for Black Mage BiS Officially doing Eden runs to gear alts.
Also since I can officially do it myself I melded everything appropriately for Black Mage BiS Officially doing Eden runs to gear alts.
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Melding especially old left side gear is bit questionable at this point as doh melds are up in price, tho the 430 melded to the brim can 0-100 all the new gear...
Kai Shirr collectables should get you a decent amount of white script (In addition to one of the other four custom deliveries) that you should get all your guaranteed melds done and a few overmelds if you decide to grind some white scripture out.
The real pain in the ass is the 3rd and 4th forbidden melds.
pumping out cunning syrups for rowena is the best way to get ton of yellow scripts
I'm following this guide for gearing up my crafters:
Currently on the "Farm 20k white scrips for mats for the Facet gear" step 😩
Currently on the "Farm 20k white scrips for mats for the Facet gear" step 😩
I really like the trust system if for nothing else than it makes the scions actually feel like traditional ff party members. All they need now is to give us a bit of customization on setting up their gambits or a menu command system to tell them to aoe or focus target, shield, etc. The npc dps is low but I get that this is to avoid people afk leveling.
I wouldn't go that far on the Trusts thing, as there are lots of people that would prefer to do stuff solo. I'm just sort of annoyed they make leveling them such a grind. At least from what I read, as I wasn't around for ShB launch and don't know if they've boosted them since.
Yeah, I love the trusts from a story perspective mostly. Now they don't have to find an excuse for them disappear for the dungeon, which makes a way more sense then the old "secure the entrance" duty they were usually stuck with.
They really need to change how level syncing works. Finally hit 80 Black Mage and man it's great fun in the later levels, but roulettes are a real pain in the ass with the rotation changing all the time.
Just readjust stat syncing and let people have all the skills they've earned on the job thus far.
Just readjust stat syncing and let people have all the skills they've earned on the job thus far.
Pixie beast tribe quests giving like 1/10th of a level in exp per quest is blowing my mind. These used to be just barely worth the time investment. Between this and the DOL/DOH exp buffs, it seems like they recognized the EXP grind needed to be addressed.
Does anyone know if they tweaked old beast tribe quest EXP up as well?
Does anyone know if they tweaked old beast tribe quest EXP up as well?
Nah. I love trusts. They mean I can do a dungeon on my first try at my own pace without waiting half an hour for a DPS queue or dealing with jerks who just want me to AOE rush the entire way through and yell at me when I don't.
Tbh, modern dungeons seem pretty easy for AOE rushing anyway
But yes, sometimes not having to deal with people is a blessing 😅
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I haven't looked at beast tribe quests specifically, but the dwarf quests were showing the level sync icon and weren't giving anywhere near as much exp as the pixie quests are. I think it was like 300k exp? I didn't look too closely, just noticed it wasn't anywhere near the 1.8 million exp pixies give.
Dwarves aren't implemented yet afaik, are you talking about sidequests?
Yeah, I meant the side quests. Was mainly trying to say the other beast quests may not be the same crazy exp because even though they're all level sync quests, the dwarf side quests don't give near as much.
I know... I know they're not beast tribe quests. I said originally that I understood they weren't beast tribe quests, and I hadn't checked them. I only mentioned it because they were level sync quests as well. :(
I know... I know they're not beast tribe quests. I said originally that I understood they weren't beast tribe quests, and I hadn't checked them. I only mentioned it because they were level sync quests as well. :(
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Ninjutsus are now on the GCD, so yeah you have to wait, they act like any other GCD, only have very short cooldowns themselves(kinda like when you overheat on MCH). The only weaving you do now is the usual Mug, Bhakavra(which you do quite a bit more often since they adjusted the costs of Ninki abilities to 50 instead of 80), Trick attack, Dream within a dream > assassinate and finally you can start TCJ while on GCD. Rest is on GCD, so you basically replace a standard combo(say your Shadow Fang combo, since you don't need the first 2 steps for that) with a Ninjutsu cast(0.5s per mudra then 1.5s for the ninjutsu, so 2.5s for Raiton like a standard GCD although not affected by skillspeed/huton so a bit longer). Might trip you a few times at first when you try to weave mudras and they don't come out/the 2nd one gets queued up after your current GCD, but once you're use to them on the GCD it's fine tbh, is fairly similar to DNC steps without the whole locking all your abilities, or well they're still effectively locked since you get a rabbit if you don't finish your ninjutsu without pressing a random button.
The XP gain for each trust NPC got boosted pretty significantly after launch, from what I recall it got boosted to something like 2.5 times the XP they were getting initially. Still a bit of grind to get them to 80 (think the math is about 23 runs or so to level 3 trust members to 80), but nowhere near as bad as before.
I like the Trust system a lot, and glad they're continuing it for the 5.x MSQ dungeons. I always get a bit of 'healer anxiety' running new content for the first time, and it's nice to do ShB story dungeons in Trust completely stress free going in blind, and also getting some dialog from the Trust party that adds to the story a bit.
I like trusts. I got to the 5.1 dungeon and wasn't sure if I had enough time before I had to leave to run the whole dungeon so I just started it with trusts to check it out and ended up finishing it but no anxiety about if I had to have bailed out 2/3rds through. Very helpful at times.
I'm dumb and don't get what's different with TCJ?
You still have to stand still and each button still does a ninjutsu one after another. What's changed?
I'm dumb and don't get what's different with TCJ?
You still have to stand still and each button still does a ninjutsu one after another. What's changed?
You used to have to use the Ninjutsu after each mudra. It went from six buttons to three.
oh so instead of hitting A->(activate ninjutsu) -> B-> (activate ninjutsu) -> C -> (activate ninjutsu)
it's just A (auto activates ninjutsu) -> B (auto activates ninjutsu) -> C (auto activates ninjutsu)
I guess that makes sense. I'm so used to hitting the activate ninjutsu button I don't even notice it.
Trusts are a waste of time. I can queue for a dungeon, wait my 10-15 minutes, and usually do the dungeon with randoms faster than I could with Trusts.
Old beast tribe quests are always decent experience if you are in the level range. The amount tanks if you go over.
Like, the Namazu quests were a great, cheap way to level crafters from 69-70. But once you hit 79, the exp received tanks.
It's less a question of difficulty and more "I like to multitask while playing and being constantly yelled at to run forward and spam AOEs or pull half the dungeon at once so the mage can nuke everything is not really fun".
Idk man, watching giant mobs get nuked is fun as hell. I hate small pulls. My last SAM run of Mt. Gulg had a little Lala WHM in it that went full Rambo asking for bigass pulls. She went hard as fuck.
If I'm in the mood for it it's fine. But I don't really enjoy it when I want to take my time and chat while playing.
I wish I would of saw this before I decided to put 8s on my right side cause I could of waited and done this meld until I craft everything.
Yeah no way that happens if you hit 15mins queue, MAYBE with 10mins queues. Dungeons take south of 20mins in pubs unless you get super lucky on your DPS and healer(and tank too to an extent) and will often be close to 25 than 20 in my experience, at least leveling. Expert roulette is faster granted, at least most of the time, due to overgearing. Trust dungeons take 25-30mins depending on how fast you're going and if you're familiar with what you can double pull and how. They're not great for leveling efficiently since during the queue you can keep getting xp so the total xp is a lot higher but for say doing the dungeon the first time without pressure, doing the dungeon when you know you might have to afk halfway, doing the dungeon while you watch netflix with even less input(pull pack, go afk, obviously works best when using a DPS but works on tank if you throw a couple of aoes before alt tabbing) and farming specific gear without a group of people, they're great.
At least for level 80 dungeons in expert roulette, that just sounds like you're wasting people's time. It's especially annoying as healer when a DPS is semi afk or not AOEing, since they're not the ones who have to deal with the problems from that.
If not expert dungeons then yeah, it's whatever but even in leveling dungeons it can be a bit iffy.
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