Managed to almost hit 33 in Pagos yesterday. Did the challenge log in Anemos and had a full 8 man party so it went really fast. Was also super cool experience because people kept talking in party chat and it just reminded me so much of FFXI, which I know is the inspiration to Eureka. And even if people don't talk I actually find Anemos to be a very relaxing experience. Anemos is cool.
About Pagos, now that I am Lv 32 and can teleport to all locations it feels better. Now I can at least get to all NMs in time and just safely follow the train through mobs. But god the NMs can sometimes be slow to spawn. I was in a group trying to prefarm / pop some of them and we did that for 20mins with no pop. At that time I started to get hungry so I AFK:ed in the base camp and watched the map while eating. I think it took 40 mins total before a new NM popped. And that just feels way too slow. Sometimes you get a few in a row though. Oh and... Tons of AFK:ers in Pagos, even more than Anemos. I don't blame them though because of how dumb Pagos feels compared to Anemos.
I posted this before, but you have to clear out the bunny fates if you want NM's to spawn faster in Pagos. People are still hung up on Amenos logic which is you kill x number of enemies and the NM pops. Pagos doesn't work like that, there's a fate scheduler that can pop a new fate every few minutes. Any prepped fate (you've killed 30 of the appropriate mob) has a random chance to spawn, along with Snow Queen and Taxim, which are always considered prepped if their cooldown is up. However there's only 3 fate spots, and if 2 of them are taken up by bunny fates, the chances of an NM spawning goes way down. So, killing hundreds of the same mob does nothing, if you want NM spawns to happen more frequently, clear out the bunny fates.
There is a free login campaign yeah, and they stopped the demolition timer for a while because of hurricanes or fire or whatever happened in the US, so might still be fine. They usually send mails for demolition but their mailing system isn't super reliable.Shite, haven't played in almost a month now. Is there still time to save my house? I hear there's a free login campaign.
Yoshida: I thought "Anyone who can't beat Faust [enemy fought before the boss in Alexander - The Fist of the Father], should quit now! You said this game is too easy, didn't you? Then how about this!?" I guess I got kind of carried away, and made a bad call.
A few months before Shadowbringers comes out they're gonna increase the weekly cap for Genesis to 900 which is about the most that's gonna happen for tomestones. They could drop the price for mendacity stuff too but I don't think that's happened before. We'll also have the new 24 man coming in January which will drop 390 gear on a weekly lockout from whenever you get anything from it.I have a question, around when can I expect them to fast track the post-SB content for easier progression in preparation for Shadow?
Basically a true fast-track won't be available until Shadowbringers is out. You'd still have to follow the natural item level progression if you wanted to do 4.5 and it's associated content before Shadowbringers is out.
It's relatively fast to gear up now since you can buy 360 gear with uncapped tomestones, but you'll still have to play a decent amount versus just hitting 70 on a job, it giving you gear to get started and then the MSQ giving you the rest.
It's relatively fast to gear up now since you can buy 360 gear with uncapped tomestones, but you'll still have to play a decent amount versus just hitting 70 on a job, it giving you gear to get started and then the MSQ giving you the rest.
Well in that case, the starter town for 5.0 should have some basic lv 70 gear that should be high enough to finish SB. You can ask someone to buy it for you or buy it off the mb to skip the tome grind.I've completed SB MSQ when it came out, just got hit by the ilevel requirement for the first post game story content and kinda just left it alone since then.
IIRC that gear should also in the future be available to purchase in one of the capitals in Stormblood, you can buy the item level 255 stuff they added in Stormblood in Ishgard. Completely forgot about that so it's a good reminder.Well in that case, the starter town for 5.0 should have some basic lv 70 gear that should be high enough to finish SB. You can ask someone to buy it for you or buy it off the mb to skip the tome grind.
It is pretty quick to catch up in 4.55 and higher generally, although it still requires actually playing the game. That said you don't need the accelerated gearing to actually just clear the content, the accelerated gearing is purely to gear characters in the best possible SB gear but the ilvl requirement to enter content are much lower and don't make use of any of the faster ways, since those are still relatively slow and way higher than you need.I've completed SB MSQ when it came out, just got hit by the ilevel requirement for the first post game story content and kinda just left it alone since then.
Most servers are fairly populated, and starting on the less populated servers, recommended ones which have a star in the server selection window(not the datacenter one, the one after), you get a Road to 60 buff that doubles all your xp until 60 for 90days/until the server isn't preferred anymore, whichever comes last.I've seen a couple of videos online and got interested with the game and finally bought it on Black Friday and looking forward to start. But the servers confused me. Which server should I start with ? I want to have fun with people and don't want to play by myself all the time, I want it to be lively. Can anyone help me ?
The servers are gonna get an overhaul in a couple months. But if you have no attachment to any particular server then just join one that has a star next to it for the exp buff (these tend to be smaller servers). The bigger ones for NA are Leviathan, Cactuar, Gilgamesh, Mateus (an RP server) and technically Balmung, but good luck actually trying to join Balmung. I believe the biggest server for EU is Ragnarok. But I do strongly recommend joining a smaller server because they will soon implement a system to visit other servers anyway.I've seen a couple of videos online and got interested with the game and finally bought it on Black Friday and looking forward to start. But the servers confused me. Which server should I start with ? I want to have fun with people and don't want to play by myself all the time, I want it to be lively. Can anyone help me ?
Most servers are fairly populated, and starting on the less populated servers, recommended ones which have a star in the server selection window(not the datacenter one, the one after), you get a Road to 60 buff that doubles all your xp until 60 for 90days/until the server isn't preferred anymore, whichever comes last.
The issue however is you will largely be playing fairly alone early on, because not that many people are out and about in the world anymore, people who level alts mostly do so by spamming dungeons or potd(which is a special dungeon that scales with your level) so they're not out in the world, other than large cities, and even then a lot of people are in the last current cities rather than the old ones.
Your best bet then would be to find a FC(in other mmos guilds, just groups of people that share an organization) that has a lot of people so you have a chat and people who can help you do stuff rather than rely on random people(which works very well mind you, just obviously not quite the same). You could try joining the ResetERA one I guess, not sure what's the server anymore but should be in the OP in this thread, you won't get the preferred server bonus on there most likely, and in my experience the FC was not always super active either, but might be now, I've switched to EU servers a while back.
There should be a surge of people doing old content in a month or so when Blue Mage is released, but if you start now you'll probably be long past that.
The servers are gonna get an overhaul in a couple months. But if you have no attachment to any particular server then just join one that has a star next to it for the exp buff (these tend to be smaller servers). The bigger ones for NA are Leviathan, Cactuar, Gilgamesh, Mateus (an RP server) and technically Balmung, but good luck actually trying to join Balmung. I believe the biggest server for EU is Ragnarok. But I do strongly recommend joining a smaller server because they will soon implement a system to visit other servers anyway.
If you are NA, join the Aether or Primal data center, if you are EU, join Chaos.
I have a question, around when can I expect them to fast track the post-SB content for easier progression in preparation for Shadow?
Thinking about the Trust system they announced. I imagine that this is just building off of the Squadron/Command mission system they've had for a while.
So you'll probably choose party members based on what you're entering as. So if you're a DPS you choose a Tank, Healer and another DPS just like in Command missions. Thing is that the characters you can take with you would naturally fit into one of the three roles.
As I see it Aphinaud/Alisaie/Urianger are probably DPS based on what they've done in the story.
Y'shtola is probably Healer.
My guess is that there might be more than what's shown in the slide. But if not and they're just going to to let you pick from the characters accompanying you in the story then what role do you think Thancred fits into? If the leaks are correct, based on this and the CG trailer tease I'd say he's going to be a Tank as far as the Trust system goes. I think this idea holds as long as the Trust system's pool of character is constricted to mainly the Scions like they've shown here in the slide. Because for this to work they need at least one character that can fit the Tank role if this is going to function like the Command missions which remove the need for actual players as NPCs fill the roles needed for a dungeon. And Thancred currently is the only one that would fit as a tank due to a combo of the leaks and the CG trailer showing him using a Gunblade.
Of course, this only holds if like I said the pool of characters you can use are just the scions. If the pool is in fact larger and includes characters that are not part of the main group of Scions then this isn't really a strong indicator of Thancred/Gunblade being anything.
We'll see how they're implemented in this. In XI they did let you solo most content, but at some point they just weren't as good as real player, due to gear disparity mostly(no REMA on trusts, so poor endgame scaling plus they capped at lower ilvl). I'd kinda expect Trusts in this to be limited to non cap content, basically everything until the cap. Maybe everything until the last dungeon of the story? Not too sure. They could ilvl cap them for the same result I guess, like say currently trusts would be capped at 280 or so, so you can finish the MSQ with them but not 4.1+. I think they'll be great for soloing old content if they make them work there though.It being limited to MSQ dungeons sounds good to me. Honestly, I'd probably take a "trust" team over a queued team most of the time - if friends aren't available. The DPS is usually better (if going off of squadron dungeons) and queues would be instant.
It does take away from the MMORPG-ness but I guess there are a ton of people who literally play just for the story - so for them it's the best option.
From the example in the beta thread, it should be in the toolbar between the thread title and the first post, but judging from the number of people asking about this feature in the announcement threads, maybe they forgot to enable it.trying to add a cover for the OT but can't find were to do it lol.
I'm guessing the Pyros weapon probably isn't very valuable without grinding light to get those substats, but man, I think I've finally hit my limit for Eureka grinding (at least for the time being) so not sure I'm going to bother with that and just save it for glam. Almost have enough Alphascape Crystalloids to get the i390 weapon anyways.
Pyros light is easy to get, you can gets tons of it with minimal effort thanks to the logos system.EVen then the Pyro's weapon isn't going to be much value if you're been trying to prog in Alphascape.
Whenever I get off my ass and decide to grind stuff in Pyros I'll probably start chasing the light dragon for some sick off stats. I sincerely hope this weapon hits ilv405.
ilv405 with 800+ crit would probably be stupid insane and I'm all for it.
Pyros light is easy to get, you can gets tons of it with minimal effort thanks to the logos system.
The lv 55 moth that spawns penny does a magic attack susceptible to reflect; get a group of 6 or 7 lv 49s with each dps carrying reflect and you'll have anywhere from 4 - 9 bars of light after 20 mins/3 chains of moths. If you time it right and get super lucky with an empty instance you can also pull a wind sprite on 10, 20, & 30 in the chain for a nearly guaranteed chance at a full bar of light.
No chasing NM's or bothering with dragons, just pressing 1 button when the attack marker appears.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/a1g7mj/lightspeed_in_pyros_lightfull_party_strat_for/
Yeah if you're healing or tanking you can skip reflect and instead focus on other stuff that might be useful like the defense buff for tank, protect L, or anything that helps the tank survive the massive amount of damage the moths inflict...I'm guessing the Pyros weapon probably isn't very valuable without grinding light to get those substats, but man, I think I've finally hit my limit for Eureka grinding (at least for the time being) so not sure I'm going to bother with that and just save it for glam. Almost have enough Alphascape Crystalloids to get the i390 weapon anyways.
Thanks, that's interesting maybe I'll give it a shot. I don't have any mitigative logos to make reflect, but guess you don't need it as healer based on that guide. Feels weird to de-level to 49 though, but guess it's easy enough to level back up in Pyros.