This is what I do on DPS queues. Now that I finished all of them I guess I'll just take a nap or something when I queue up.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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This is what I do on DPS queues. Now that I finished all of them I guess I'll just take a nap or something when I queue up.
not sure how you guys say you can do 70-80 with just the MSQ (or until 78-79 as some said). I went into ShB at 71, so 1 level "ahead". The initial Ali / Alphi questlines took me to almost 72 (the are lvl 70 so you assume they would take one to 71), but then the 71-72 bracket is literally just 2 MSQs, the dungeon quest and then the conclusion of what happens there. Two MSQs would take noone from 71 to 72.
No, the M72 MSQ bracket is just 8 quests until you need 73 for the next one. 8 quests at 540k xp is roughly 5-6mill xp, and you need 15.5mill to go from 72 to 73.
So yeah, you absolutely cannot just do the MSQ in ShB.
No, the M72 MSQ bracket is just 8 quests until you need 73 for the next one. 8 quests at 540k xp is roughly 5-6mill xp, and you need 15.5mill to go from 72 to 73.
So yeah, you absolutely cannot just do the MSQ in ShB.
You can't. I did MSQ and the leveling roulette everyday and I still was level locked a couple times.
yup that's what it feels like already. Guess ill move my daily stuff starting tomorow to my dancer for a bit then and "leave" the Astro at 79 for now.
do your pixie dailies. It is by far the best xp to time investment in the game.
dont have that yet, I assume its a beast tribe? And yes those are usually on par with the MSQ, its awesome.
Agreed. It made him ook like a dorky tryhard.
....besides, it looks better on me anyway.
Finally did Leviathan Extreme for the first time. Including me, 3 of us were doing this for the first time. We managed to get it all done with 5 minutes left on the clock and barely dodged another party wipe.
Ended up snagging the Horse from it too.
Ended up snagging the Horse from it too.
Just a heads up that you can do those unsynched. Makes them super easy to grind for mounts.
Try to collect all of those horse, and you'll a quest to get another horse. Also Conjurer/White Mage gives out a horse too.
I kind of disagree. Sometimes they pull it off very well.
*shadowbringers*
Like the Zenos fight right before SHB where you finally kick his ass on your own.
Really felt like an epic rival duel.
Really felt like an epic rival duel.
Overall, I think they've made great progress in making the big solo content battles feel more meaningful and epic.
did they add difficulty levels to solo duties in the last couple of patches? I don't remember this option.
Outside of wanting to get them done, that's what I'm aiming for.
I have a really high level friend, but I want to try it out naturally before I ask for essentially a free clear.
they take too long and if you fail, like I just did, you have to start over from the start, and if its a duty with a ton of trash before the boss, its a pain in my opinion (like this battle vs that old guy general just now). I get enough of that shit in dungeons, where granted that's the whole point. Here, I'm just trying to level and see the story, not fail and have to re-do 15mins worth of meaningless fodder and 15 mins of a boss with 10 health bars worth of health. To each it's own.
edit: to be fair, bullet sponging is one of my major pet peeves in games and the absolute WORSE way devs can make things "difficult"
when you fail you can drop it down to easy or very easy.
I had been pretty disappointed in the way solo content was handled before HW patch content started changing things.
Now they feel like they have abit of meat on them so a light breeze doesn't knock them over and can be more interesting mechanically.
Like you said tho, to each their own.
Now they feel like they have abit of meat on them so a light breeze doesn't knock them over and can be more interesting mechanically.
Like you said tho, to each their own.
That is new then in one of the post ShB patches. It used to just give you a stacking echo buff each time you died.
There's one near the end of Shadowbringers that is the worst in the game. It takes about 15 minutes to clear it. It's terrible.
As happy as I was to finally see a gunblade class (while disappointed that its not DPS), was kind of bummed they went the "garlemald aren't using real gunblades apparently" route.
I was hoping that job would be more linked to the empire and you would maybe get a Garlean mentor and a magitek armor suit as artifact gear ala Gaius or Julia.
I was hoping that job would be more linked to the empire and you would maybe get a Garlean mentor and a magitek armor suit as artifact gear ala Gaius or Julia.
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Yeah, not too get too much into spoilers, but the fights with that guy in particular are pretty tedious. Not difficult, but just takes too long to finish them. One of the very few things I didn't like about the 5.0 MSQ.
Imo burning through the MSQ is just not a good idea when you have years of legacy content to catch up on.
The content is barely content, it's a treadmill of story events that unlocks the really good stuff like trials and raids.
Its unfortunate that it's hard to get groups for ARR ex content cause it's worth checking some of that stuff out if you can.
The content is barely content, it's a treadmill of story events that unlocks the really good stuff like trials and raids.
Its unfortunate that it's hard to get groups for ARR ex content cause it's worth checking some of that stuff out if you can.
GNB lore is the greatest thing in this game, tbh.
But yeah, I would have loved to see it connected to Garlemald more, if only to get more of a glimpse into the Empire.
Different cooldowns too. Technical is a DPS cooldown, Standard is part of your rotation and a buff you maintain.
hey y'all- how often does the Complete Edition on PC go on sale? i know it just was and grabbed a key for myself but i convinced a friend to possibly join me tonight and just realized it wasn't on sale anymore. figure i can have them join me in the trial mode until it goes back on sale again.
Still trucking along and having a lot of fun. I finally just hit my first level gate nearly at the end of ARR/2.0 with 8 missions to go; I have to be level 49 to accept the next MSQ and I'm only about a third of the way to 48 currently. I've consistently been staying 2-3 levels ahead of everything up until now just by doing the class Hunting Log (I accidentally found out there was a GC hunting log this morning lol), the first daily leveling roulette and otherwise just mainlining the MSQ. Haven't done a single non + sidequest since the very starting area. I know I've still got a ways to go (I know there's a ton of stuff post 2.0 before HW starts proper) but overall I've still been having a blast and I haven't found it nearly as laborious/awful as a lot of people seem to say. I'm sure part of that is me coming to it this late (IIRC the MSQ XP rewards and other things have been largely buffed since 2.0 launch) as well as me having a pretty big tolerance for grindy shit, but I think also since this is my first MMO I'm not nearly as burnt out on the talk to people and fetch quest bullshit as some others might.
Looking forward to hopefully clearing 2.0 sometime this week and starting in towards actually hitting HW.....which is probably at least another week or two. On a side note do the DoL/DoH jobs just get stupid XP gains? I've only been playing a Botanist on the side while in DPS duty finder queues on my main, and right now my Botanist is sitting at freaking level 48, and this is why my Bard was at 42. I've only done one daily GC turn-in as well which was a full level at the time, and fieldcraft leves also seem to give incredibly high XP. Did they want people to kind of just speed through these jobs?
Looking forward to hopefully clearing 2.0 sometime this week and starting in towards actually hitting HW.....which is probably at least another week or two. On a side note do the DoL/DoH jobs just get stupid XP gains? I've only been playing a Botanist on the side while in DPS duty finder queues on my main, and right now my Botanist is sitting at freaking level 48, and this is why my Bard was at 42. I've only done one daily GC turn-in as well which was a full level at the time, and fieldcraft leves also seem to give incredibly high XP. Did they want people to kind of just speed through these jobs?
Patch 5.1 massively increased the levelling speed of the DoL/DoH jobs, it used to be much, much slower
Yeah the free trial is your best option until it goes on sale again.
So am I supposed to be using Standard every time it's available regardless of how much more of the buff duration I have?
Also, just used MCH for the first time in an actual dungeon at level 75 and goddamn this job is hectic and stressful. My eyes are like this:
Yes, use it on cooldown.So am I supposed to be using Standard every time it's available regardless of how much more of the buff duration I have?
Also, just used MCH for the first time in an actual dungeon at level 75 and goddamn this job is hectic and stressful. My eyes are like this:
Re-learning Summoner, and I always forget that Carbuncle likes to run off to Narnia whenever Aetherpact comes off cooldown if I don't use Place. :^)
Use them on cooldown, as they'll align well. Standard has a c/d of 30s, while Technical has a c/d of 120s.
Use them on cooldown, as they'll align well. Standard has a c/d of 30s, while Technical has a c/d of 120s.
I actually logged in today and did content for the first time since November. Got SAM from 70 to 72 today. My goal for 5.2 is to get all the melee dps BiS. Thankfully 3 of them share accessories.
Highly recommend you save phantasmagoria until 5.2 launch so you can make a lot of gil selling it or make your i480 crafted gear.
All of my extra times are going to my static's crafters so that I can get free crafted gear week 1.
yes it hits like a truck. Also you want to be close-ish to the mobs / boss even tho Dancer is technically a "ranged dps" because all your aoe is around YOU, not the mobs, and for example when you use Flourish to get feathers, you want to dump all the procs, including the aoe procs (which would fizzle if you stood miles away like a black mage or something)
Man I remember the Moogle hard and extreme trials in the old days wipes everywhere alongside that music. Nearly drove me insane
Not necessarily
Part of the Eden story revolves around Ryne learning to do things on her own and not rely on Thancred etc so much so they could easily write it so that she finished it up on her own (with your help of course).
The first boss is a nightmare cause it's hard to do the mechanic and they don't mitigate damage well so vuln stacks will likely kill you. The other 2 were easy.
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