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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| A Realm Reset
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So comprehensive, thx so much for typing that out! Now I know what to shoot for as I finish up Eureka the next few weeks.
edit: One more question only slightly related. All the stats you roll on your weapon obviously carry over once you turn it into a Hydatos weapon right?
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Yes, you can also reroll after you finish the nm crystal steps in hydatos.
Do you guys think I'll be able to complete the Seventh Astral Era (about half left), Heavensward, and Stormblood quests before the new expansion drops? I can play for like 2-3 hours a night. Really want to get to 70 before release but not sure if it's practical. I will focus on pretty much exclusively the MSQ, and maybe some Golden Saucer for getting the FFXV promotion.
Great, thanks for the info. Would you recommend getting all 5 rows of stats rolled while in Pyros or wait until I'm done with Hydatos?
If you actually play about 2.5 hours a day focusing on MSQ, I feel you'll easily be ready for ShB.
It's 75 days until early access still.
Don't think it really matters either way, but i wouldnt waste too much time with rerolls right now simply because you can always come back and solo more light while BA is slowly dying and will likely be dead come late June.
It doesn't really matter. If you want to be able to equip it as soon as you upgrade it in Hydatos then get the stats first. If you're not 60 already maybe do the stats first, since the extra exp you'll get from grinding light will put you closer to cap in Hydatos.
Roger that, thank you both :)
Yup its freakin' terrible. AA solution and texture resolution are my biggest problems with the visuals. Both some of the shittiest around.
I vote for Parallax mapping being the visual thing which ffxiv does worst.
Shinryu and Seiryu are the hardest to farm. Shinryu is still hard because if two or three people mess up in the first phase, it's a wipe. That fight is still rough. Seiryu is only rough because you can't out level it.
Oh yeah it's horrid, but isn't that a symptom of the horrid textures? Like if you fix the textures we could have better mapping right?
Yeah I don't have the patients to deal with that. Usually just get the extreme mounts the next expansion over. Probably gonna take ShB more seriously and get things done as it comes.
You can always do Lakshmi and Susano Ex now to get a head start. Those two are actually easier on Extreme than the normal modes, if you're geared up.
Damn when I think about it, Shinryu was the only Extreme fight I didn't beat. Everyone else was manageable at worst but Shinryu was a fucking bastard. Not sure if I even wanna go back and finish it because the Tsukuyomi dog is the only one I was lucky enough to get. Farming dogs sounds like a pain in the ass.
Honestly w/ the expansion Shinryu should be an example of learn to use arm's length/surecast.
I might jump on that, kind of feeling lazy though.
Thanks for the tip.
shinryu is much like thordan ex in that it's really more of a savage raid-tier boss fight that they slapped an extreme label onto
Shinryu is a lot more forgiving than I think a lot of people remember. I dipped into a PF of four blind newbies with a couple of other people I knew a couple months ago and... uh.. this happened:
no clear, but somehow getting to third phase like that was an adventure.
It's also a really good fight if you're looking for something low-profile to practice disaster recovery/quick party save decision making in. Going in for just dog farming would be suffering but as think-on-your-feet practice it can be a trip.
no clear, but somehow getting to third phase like that was an adventure.
It's also a really good fight if you're looking for something low-profile to practice disaster recovery/quick party save decision making in. Going in for just dog farming would be suffering but as think-on-your-feet practice it can be a trip.
Thordan was less forgiving because if your bitch ass died in that fight you (Unlike now) were missing 15 or 30% HP and the then relevant gear wasn't saving your ass from getting shit on by AOEs at the 8th or 9th phase.
Thordan was an extremely fucking good fight though holy shit can't wait for the ultimate version.
Oh god its such an exhilarting fight especially as it goes on. Each phase its own little puzzle you have to figure out until you have this 11 minute gauntlet that by the end of it the gloves are off and they're throwing everything at you before enrage.
This is a fun read. A WoW developer talking about what they liked in Thordan Extreme.
https://pedrothedagger.blogspot.com/2016/03/raid-boss-dissection-ffxiv-thordan.html
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...90002-error-and-I-can-no-longer-log-in./page2
Incomplete event, for the true FFXV launch experience.
Incomplete event, for the true FFXV launch experience.
Good. They need to fix this asap. Hopefully those who got locked out of the game will be able to log back on soon too.
Will the post-Stormblood quests be changed to reward players with EXP once the new level cap hits?
Higher resolution texture would probably help. That being said it seems like their pom texture resolution is even lower than the texture itself, otherwise I don't understand that horrendous grid which sometimes appear :
That being said I have limited experience with Parallax mapping, only time I did some myself was like 8 years ago for a Minecraft texture pack. But I feel like their biggest mistake ( other than resolution ), is that there is far too much noise, they should try to give volume only on place where it really matter. They seem to think that no part of a texture with pom should ever be flat.
Yes and likely i370 gear (Equivalent to the i240 primal stuff in HW) but probably not enough to get you maybe a little more than level71. You'll probably still hit an EXP wall somewhere at level75-77.
Anything to cut down on the grind helps. I've held off on doing it because Stormblood only took me a week to beat, so I want my time with Shadowbringers to last a bit longer (even if it's technically more of Stormblood added into the mix). I could probably use some new gear as well.
Eh i'd do it now because 4.1 to 4.56 should take about I dunno 6-8 hours. Its 3 dungeons (4.1, 4.4, 4.5), Several instances, and a Trial.
In any case you'll need 4.1 done to do 3 of 4 Custom Deliveries (Highly recommend you get crafting to 70 now for the self repairs), 4.2 for the Four Lord trials, and 4.5 for Expert Roulette access.
tbh it makes no sense to hold onto it for the exp. I plan on getting all my alts gear to i38X with crafted and pre 5.0 ready. (I have 5 alts right now at level70 lol @,@)
FFXV event seems to have been fixed now.
It's not just for the EXP, but also the additional game time. Like I said, Stormblood felt a bit short to me.
It's not just for the EXP, but also the additional game time. Like I said, Stormblood felt a bit short to me.
Oh don't worry it is shorter. ARR + 2.x is like 30 fucking hours and HW + SB combined (Up to 3.4 at least when I recorded my IGT without any afk time) is 3 days of game time.
Thank you for this! In the group I'm helping now we're doing 2-2-1-1 and tank LB1 memes for booms (well that's the plan. I've not seen this LB1 strat done successfully as of yet, haha). I think I'll try to get them to hold shake or something for Titan just as a buffer.
Mana management is giving me a bit of trouble too. Can you remember where you use Lucid Dreaming in Ultima? With how I'm doing primals, it comes off CD in the middle of the Ultima transition that I can pop for free and then the next one is during the tumults > mistral shriek after Predation (I extend with my star/bubble regens so I don't have to use any GCDs healing there). My problems seem to occur when I get to Suppression as my mana is almost dry at that point and Lucid is a few seconds off. Which isn't the end of the world; there's no healing for a bit anyway. I'm just a biiiiit worried about primal roulette on AST and if I should try to line up refresh to come up sooner.
I've recently gotten back into the game after playing sparingly over the past few months. I've completed Return to Ivalice, the Four Lords questline, almost done with Hildibrand, and plugging along on the main story quest. Is there anything else cool I might have missed or things I should be sure and get done before Shadowbringers?
You really don't have to do it unless you really crave the relic weapon but... Eureka.
It's annoying how they have barely updated hairstyles in this game. 1 or 2 every expansion isn't enough.
No - you will need to buy a Fantasia from the Mogstation https://secure.square-enix.com/account/app/svc/mogstation/
You will need a base account + expansion (just shadowbringers will give you all of them)
Fantasia. Log in, take all the clothes off your character, use fantasia, log out, click on your character name and re-edit, change race and customise.
Viera won't be out until EA for Shadowbringers launches.
Also is there anything to do with company seals right now? I am cleaning out old gear from my retainers and quickly banging against the 50k seal limit.
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