So how does one go about buying a house? I've been running around checking to see if anything's available. Am I doing it right? Does Ishgard have housing? I also hear you can buy apartments for only 500k. I might just do that if I can.
I'm going to assume you have no house. In this case you need to get lucky.
When a house is released or auto-demo'd there's a RNG timer that goes up. There is currently no way to find out how much time is remaining to purchase said house so you'll either have to camp it or hope you get lucky and buy it when its up.
If you have a house you can trade plots and bypass the timer. This means someone can snap up the house before the timer is up and another plot somewhere else will become available.
Ishgard does not have housing. Gridania, Limsa, Ul'Dah, and Shirogane (Need access to the zone) have houses.
I did the fight again just for practice and me and some other guy were the only survivors of the Tidal Wave. That fight is so much more chaotic than I remember. I don't know how the hell I kept up with where the tail was in Extreme. Maybe it's because I was less busy as WHM.
I don't find it that hectic but then again I've since I did it on launch my characters have had i350 or i380 crafted gear so a lot of damage is a joke and I'm used to raiding so maybe I'm biased as hell.
Still, 9 out 10 times when someone dies its because they either stood with a tank for Akh Morn or got knocked off. My i380 WHM ass did tank an Akh Morn.
That was fun.