Only "harder" content (e.g. Savage, EX, etc.) needs you to go out and find a group.
For normal level content (like the stuff B.K. and I are telling you to do), you just use Duty Finder to queue up for it as you would a dungeon or trial.
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For normal level content (like the stuff B.K. and I are telling you to do), you just use Duty Finder to queue up for it as you would a dungeon or trial.
Been playing a new character from the very start of ARR for the last couple of weeks, am just about lvl 50 and finishing up the final few MSQ quests... how long is the patch 2.1 -> 2.55 stuff in comparison to what I have already done for the MSQ? Looking forward to getting on to HW.
you don't need to find groups for most raids outside of savage level content. It just matches you with other people like dungeons. Depending on the raid though it can be like an hour wait.
This. Yasumi Matsuno is back writing more story/lore for FFXIV.
Damn, I cleared the Return to Ivalice quests and raids about a month ago but I skipped the vast majority of cutscenes (thinking it wasn't so important or that it would continue) so I probably won't have a clue what's happening come 5.2.
Anyone got a handy story summary?
Anyone got a handy story summary?
Check the journal in an inn room. It lets you rewatch any cutscene you've seen.
If you need to I think a decent portion can be reviewed in the "Unending Journey" cutscene replay in a town inn. If not that one of the things getting added in 5.2 is the ability to use new game+ for raid stories so you can do them from scratch if you want to do the story again. In general I think the cutscene you need to watch again is literally the final one at the end, that is the one that seems to be setting up most the story for the new content, it was the 'tease' at the end pointing to new content to come.
WHM stealing some poor person's weather vane for use in a cane is top tier gear design and I will not hear this slander.
Square released their official translation of the other day's live letter. Some interesting things I saw:
What's going to happen?? :O
So it seems like the relic quest trial is going to have a regular and extreme version too? I wonder what the rewards for the extreme version will be?
What's going to happen?? :O
So it seems like the relic quest trial is going to have a regular and extreme version too? I wonder what the rewards for the extreme version will be?
My big takeaway from the live letter digest was that that translation is much less hostile to ACT in general than I expected from summaries.
Removing the placing of way marks miid-combat is still a trash decision they should revert, but their general stance on third party things is still fairly sensible.
Removing the placing of way marks miid-combat is still a trash decision they should revert, but their general stance on third party things is still fairly sensible.
It said in what I quoted there you do it solo for the story, and then you can come back later with a full party to do it at about extreme level difficulty.
Yeah, what I got from that translation is- mods that mess with game data=bad, you'll almost certainly get penalized if you get caught using them. Third party tools that don't interact with the game at all=we can't really tell if you use them at all, nothing we can really do unless you harass people.
r/ffxiv - Dengeki Online interview with Naoki Yoshida. No Ultimate in 5.3.
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Man the gap between 5.2 and 5.4 is going to be insanely dry unless they've got something interesting in the wings.
On the bright side, if Ultimate really does land in 5.5 the run up to next expansion will be a lot less dead than normal.
On the bright side, if Ultimate really does land in 5.5 the run up to next expansion will be a lot less dead than normal.
Hot damn I already though 5.1 MSQ is pretty meaty already and it turns out 5.2 will be even more????
5.3 should feature new Hildibrand quest 3 times longer with 1 dungeons and 1 trial.
Sorry I think I might be wrong and it's for normal mode only. Kinda like innocence story trial.
EX might start immediately in P2 but I'm not sure.
Not sure how I feel about no new deep dungeon. On one hand it's probably the best 'multitasking content' in the game and it makes it really easy to level alts while listening to podcasts or watching videos. But if it's a question about resource allocation, I'd probably rather see them make something new than another 10 level deep dungeon.
I feel the simplest solution would be to just adjust the XP gains from Heaven on High so it can work for 60+ leveling to 80 instead of just 70. In that case I probably would agree that they don't need to waste resources making a brand new deep dungeon every expansion (maybe add one every other expansion or so in that case). But not sure if they'll actually do that.
I feel the simplest solution would be to just adjust the XP gains from Heaven on High so it can work for 60+ leveling to 80 instead of just 70. In that case I probably would agree that they don't need to waste resources making a brand new deep dungeon every expansion (maybe add one every other expansion or so in that case). But not sure if they'll actually do that.
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I'm personally fine with no new deep dungeon. I really didn't enjoy PotD or HoH at all.
Damn though the Digest has me really excited. 5.2 and 5.3 is gonna be some good shit.
I think 2.4 and 2.5/2.55 are actually pretty good though. That's where the lead-ins to Heavenward happen and all the plot threads start to pay off.
Damn though the Digest has me really excited. 5.2 and 5.3 is gonna be some good shit.
It's 100 quests. Most of them are only a few minutes each, but it feels long for various reasons. 2.1-2.3 especially is kind of all over the place and the story quality isn't great. Lots of filler quests. A lot of subplots and moving pieces that are seemingly aimless. A lot of it doesn't pay off until the very end of 2.55. Some of it doesn't even pay off until further into the expansions. It's definitely the weakest portion of the MSQ, all things considered. Yoshida has acknowledged that it's the stretch of game that sees the most dropoff in active players and they're trying to rework it.
I think 2.4 and 2.5/2.55 are actually pretty good though. That's where the lead-ins to Heavenward happen and all the plot threads start to pay off.
yeah, the post-ARR stuff is a slog
on the contrary though, the post-HW stuff was great and I like what little I've seen of the post-SB stuff
on the contrary though, the post-HW stuff was great and I like what little I've seen of the post-SB stuff
Finally got to the end of the patch notes and realized they're still not telling us about job skill changes lol.
Post-SB retroactively made SB great for me. Love than it close alot of the story arc sets up in SB for good.
With the imminent release of FF7 Remake, I wonder if we'll get some tie-in content. I'd love to get Tifa or Aerith outfit, but the most realistic would be Red XIII minion.
Best news from the patch notes. Amaurot is such a boring dungeon that isn't done any favors by the 310 item level sync.
Typical Yoshi-P, raising taxes on hard working Eorzeans who are just trying to put HQ Mashed Popotoes on the table /s
That's one step closer to them not being completely useless, I suppose
What? No, you just have to beat Eden normal and finish those quests like usual.
The last quest for Eden requires completion of (at least some of, but probably all of) the 5.2 MSQ, and you need to complete the Eden quests to unlock Savage, therefore Savage is probably locked behind MSQ.
Last Eden quest:
Why are people so sure you need to finish the Eden normal questline entirely to unlock Savage? Is there some concrete information I'm missing? I'd guess the final Eden normal quest is just an epilogue quest after you've wrapped up the core Eden story and all 4 fights, and it's the penultimate quest that gates off Savage. They aren't shitty enough to force raiders to skip MSQ cutscenes if they're trying raid on day 1.
Yeah, this is what I'm guessing. Making people rapid skip through the MSQ if they want to do day 1 savage raiding would be pretty shitty.
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