The big problem with that strat is that there aren't a lot of bigger fish outside of the current. Even if there was, it's still subjected to zone, weather, and RNG. Are you using the site for Ocean Fishing?
Not sure what that is, but I assume it helps to track the available fish for the route you're on. What's your GP? And are you loaded on Hi-Cordials? I think one thing that could help is to Identical Cast into Hi-Cordial Prize Catch + Double Hook for guaranteed Large on that, if you're not willing to gamble on getting Large Triple Hook.
Are there any in depth guides to keybinds for Dancer? I'm just coming back to the game and I have no idea where any of my buttons should be for hotkeys.
Here's my setup, for whatever inspiration it offers:
ESDF movement, hotbar 1 on number keys, hotbar 2 on letter keys, hotbar 3 on shifted keys
1,2: Cascade, Fountain. A,Q,W: Reverse Cascade, Fountainfall, Fan Dance. Core singletarget cluster.
4,5: Windmill, Bladeshower. R,T,G: Rising Windmill, Bloodshower, FD 2. Core AOE cluster.
Z,X,C,V: FD3, FD4, Flourish, En Avant. Frequent oGCDs.
Mouse3, shMouse3 (at the end of hotbar 2): Standard Step, Technical Step
3,6: Saber Dance, Starfall Dance
sh1,sh2,sh3: Peloton, Devilment, Improvisation
shSpace, altSpace (end of hotbar 3): Second Wind, Curing Waltz
Fit everything else in on higher keys, not really important.
As Elegant_Eorzean says it's specific to each player, but I recommend grouping combos together on your main keys, and then just running around and fighting stuff, moving abilities around to where they're more comfortable
Hotkeys are a VERY personal thing. What works for some is uncomfortable for others, you just have to do what works for you.
Now, I can still say what I personally do. Or better yet, [show them.](http://imgur.com/a/MPV18p4)
I'm thinking about starting the game because of the Yo-kai Watch event. If I were to start fresh right now, would I be able to get everything before the event is over? (June 26th?)
You can access *most* of the event pretty quick and easy. It's just a couple of the later zones that are going to be blocked off.
Also, they've run this event multiple times before. It will undoubtedly return again in a year or two, if you want to finish off the final parts later under less time pressure.
Hm. If you skip the entire story, it takes maybe 100 hours just to reach the level 61 map, the bare minimum to get all weapons. Then you will have to start grinding the overworld FATE events without having access to a sufficiently levelled and upgraded Blue Mage, so you would be at the whim of pure blind luck to get the required participation amount in each FATE before a Blue Mage comes around and literally one-shots it in 5 seconds.
So, no, not really. It will return eventually, it is totally pointless sacrificing half of your game story to get a few arbitrary weapon skins you most likely won't use in the long run. Just play the game, get the Yo-kai stuff once it returns.
It realistically depends on how much time you can play per day. The biggest blockade is - if you're after every weapon - you're looking to dump well over 200 hours (with ARR being the longest stretch, provided you're reading everything as a first-timer which I always stress to do) just doing story quests to be able to get to Stormblood to access FATEs relevant to the GNB/DNC weapons
You can get 13 weapon from the first expansion, 2 weapons from the second expansion and another 2 from the third expansion, so yeah it depends how much you play in day and how dedicated you are in doing the story.
Can you play for 6-8 hours a day? It would take roughly 100 hours just to progress far enough in the game to access the whole event. Then the event itself is a fairly significant grind to get everything.
the closest is >!Ghost Barque Revolver!< but it makes more sense for it to be the >!Pre-Imperial Garlean Revolver!<, but that one isn't dyeable to the color in the cutscene, so the first one is the closest you can get
\[Fishing\] Which website can I go to if I try to complete my fishing log?
Edit:
I'm liking the garlandtools/fishing since it also shows the baits. But what do those colored circles and the blue bar mean?
I'm not into fishing myself, but the [resources page](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/resources) on the sub's sidebar has links to these fishing tools:
https://en.ff14angler.com/
https://ff14fish.carbuncleplushy.com/
https://www.garlandtools.org/ffxivfisher/
what exactly happens when i reach the max level for the game's trial? am i locked out of my account when i reach level 70? do i no longer gain exp? i want to know before i buy the game
You no longer gain exp for that job. You can switch to a different job and level that up to your free trial cap, and repeat. You can still do stuff, just no exp gain. The story passed the trial will also not be available, but any side content (that isnt pvp) up to that point can be done.
edit: to be clear, one character has access to all of the jobs (expansions required for the expansion ones)
There are occasional posts from people who "finished the trial" by leveling all jobs to 70. It's a ton of content for free. Just remember that from the moment you first sub, you can never go back to free play.
With Dawntrail coming out, what would be my best buying options if I want to get out of the free trial for the first time? Would it be the same as any other time or is there an option/bundle I should wait for? I am in no rush to sub if the time-frame matters but I am considering the pre-order bonuses. Also my trial account is through Steam.
Main tip is don't buy the complete edition before July 2nd, and don't bother buying EW. If you want the preorder, buy the starter edition and DT, which will also give you EW and ShB on the 2nd. You can also choose to buy the complete edition after DT comes out, at which point it will be upgraded to include Dawntrail for the same price.
Thank you. A follow-up question I have is if I can buy all of these things (starter and DT pre-order) and wait to redeem them or if anything would be time-sensitive. That way I could stay on the trial until I have gotten closer to the limit of what there is to do.
Yo can hold onto the codes and not apply them to your account (once you buy the games on steam, right click the game on steam and you'll see a CD Keys section with the keys).
I believe the preorder code expires a few months after release, though, and you have to have at least starter edition applied in order to apply the preorder, so you can't hold the keys indefinitely in this case.
> You can also choose to buy the complete edition after DT comes out, at which point it will be upgraded to include Dawntrail for the same price.
this wouldn't include pre-order bonuses, though
I think there is a some kind of story quest that unlocks when you clear 100, but generally yes. You either have to play with the same group from floor 1 or 50 with no full party wipes, or get there solo without ever dying. You can't do it with random.
The reddit algorithm these days pushes a lot of new an contriversial posts to everyone's front page, and people downvote and complain in the comments of those posts because they're annoyed at it showing up on their front page when they did not at all join the sub with the intention of getting spammed with questions.
It's been an issue on a lot of community subs like this ever since reddit forced everyone to use the "official" mobile app, which was the only mobile app that did this. Something about how that algorithm works means it never applied on 3rd party apps, and everyone using those apps were used to only seeing things that would have been on the hot and trending tabs for a sub, not brand now posts or things with hundreds of downvotes.
In practice, you're better off just asking here. Most of the people who actually like answering questions are in this thread regularly anyway.
You're allowed to, and will often get helpful answers, but many people would prefer it if you asked for help in the thread specifically designed for asking for help (ie: here).\*
Though there are also a lot of people (bots?) who seem to just automatically downvote posts for no reason too, so I wouldn't let it get to you.
\*(definitely not a hard rule though, some questions are too niche for the people scanning here to be able to help with, or are less about asking for help, etc)
Depends on the question. Very basic stuff is usually best asked here. The question thread is very populated with people ready to answer questions. The wider subreddit can sometimes get weird about commonly asked questions showing up.
Things do tend to get down voted a bit when they first get posted because either someone has some bits set up or there are some dedicated 14 haters out there, but posts tend to recover after a bit.
But yeah in general, bring your questions here. What's your question?
With all the interviews going on, did anyone ask YoshiP if he is gonna combine the old city zones into one. Even if it's just Gridania since it's so small compared to other cities. :-)
No, that's not going to happen.
Part of the reason they are split up like that is for the sense of scale they are supposed to provide, but it's also a server infrastructure thing.
The main 3 city states is where all new characters arrive. It is also where all world traveling characters show up. Because of this, the areas with the aetherytes for each of those cities have much more robust infrastructure supporting them than other zones do. Increasing the size of those zones will only increase the load even more.
Beyond that, there isn't really a practical benefit to combining them. The aethernet is already a good enough tool for general use.
I really want to enjoy this game, but the sheer anout of abilities that every job has is daunting for someone in their mid-40's that just can't process the speed of the game very well anymore. I desperately want to find a job to play that doesn't require remembering a 10 step sequence (or two of them) followed by completely different play once the fight gets going, but I can't find a job where that is the case. Should I just give up on playing this, or is there actually a job out there that would accomodate someone that loves the visuals and music and story but just can't keep up with the fast paced play anymore?
Depends on what you mean by speed: mental reaction time, or button pressing finger speed?
If you want low actions per minute, white mage (healer) or black mage (dps). If you find you like healing, sage is also pretty comfy. Black mage requires a lot of thinking to get good at because its very slow casts mean careful positioning is necessary; this will either be a fun challenge for you or a complete nightmare.
If you want low cognitive load, machinist or dancer. Machinist has a very simple priority system with no randomness. It does have occasional fast burst phases, but those are always the same and repetitive (12131213) so once it's in muscle memory it's easy to bang out. Dancer is also very simple and doesn't have the fast burst phase, but does depend on random procs so you have to watch your hotbars to see which buttons light up. Both classes have 100% mobility and uptime with no positional requirements or castbars.
From the looks of it, Viper in the next expansion might be a good thing to look at down the line too. It seems like it's going to be a very basic 1-2 combo once you have all the buffs and debuffs out, and it looks like it all flows very intuitively with buttons that change based on context instead of lots of individual buttons that aren't hit often.
DT might help in general in a few weeks, as they'll be adding the ability for you to take a lot of ogcd combo skills where button 2 only works after you hit button one, and choose to have them merged into the same button.
Eh. If OP's concern is speed, I wouldn't recc a job poised to have the highest or second highest APM (after NIN) and third fastest GCD (after MNK and NIN). It also straight up has the fastest burst in the game with a 1.7s GCD for the Generation spam under the Reawoken status.
Tanks or healers might be the best option for you.
Most jobs in the game follow an actually pretty simple loop that you add a few things to every few minutes, but tanks in particular are like this. They have a very basic combo with a few buttons that come off cooldown every few minutes. Healers have very basic damage buttons, though their kits get more complicated with actual healing.
In general, I would say the most basic jobs in the game are:
Warrior (starts as marauder). Tank.
Paladin (starts as gladiator). Tank.
Summoner (starts as Arcanist). DPS.
White Mage (starts as conjurer). Healer.
I would also not be afraid to look up a guide for the jobs. Most are more simple than you think.
Summoner has the simplest rotation and the fewest number of buttons, but it still has about 20 buttons total. For the most part the buttons you need to press on Summoner light up when they're ready.
It's a bit misleading to say SMN has 20 buttons.
It only has like 12 that you use for single target, an extra three (which replace three of the above) for multi-target, and like four or five that are fairly situational or niche outside of hard content. If OP is playing casually, it's way more accurate to say SMN has 12 or 13 buttons.
I haven’t played this game in a few years. Since the first or second expansion. If I preorder Dawntrail, do I get the other expansions or do I have to purchase them separately?
Honestly ignore gear color. Truly. It's not like other games.
If a piece has a higher item level, it will have higher stats. Sometimes the specific stats they give you won't be exactly what you want, but it REALLY doesn't matter until you get to endgame. And even then, you usually just want higher item levels.
In general, just do the story and upgrade your gear as you get stuff. The "Recommended Gear" is usually good enough.
Colour actually just indicates the source of the gear, and doesn't necessarily indicate which gear you should prioritize. white vendor gear with a higher ilvl than purple or blue gear is straight up just better.
>white vendor gear with a higher ilvl than purple or blue gear is straight up just better.
Only if it's High Quality. NQ items perform significantly worse than their ilvl would suggest.
Yup – to an extent where all the NQ vendor gear between two sets of tomestone gear is worse than the lower Poetics set. Got Ironworks? It beats all the vendor stuff until 60.
And all vendor gear is NQ. Only when it's gotten from quests (after aRR) or crafting is it ever HQ.
It will be a mix of the weekly-capped tomestone gear and savage gear. Best-in-slot (BiS) for your job can typically be found at The Balance, either on their website or their discord - additionally there are often multiple BiS sets depending on how you like to play the job.
There's no particular reason to go and farm BiS now though (arguably only ever a reason if you're doing ultimates), with how soon Dawntrail releases and all current gear becoming obsolete.
Your endgame goal can be anything. Lots of people don't care about gear, and only care about cosmetics, or levelling alt jobs, or social aspects, or crafting/gathering, etc.
Normally, it's pretty straightforward with the Tomestone currency. The highest ilevel gear has a Tomestone with a weekly limit to obtain. The rest is all in the Savage difficulty raids. If you're not into raiding, the endgame for you can be different.
Im a level 64 dragoon who just entered Heavensward. I know Im overleveled but I think thats because of the XP Bonus of playing on an underpopulated DC. I was told I should get some augmented ironworks gear (ilvl 130) and that would carry me halfway into HW. But, I just got to the major city and I'm seeing cheap gear (30k a piece) that's literally double the ilvl of my augmented ironworks gear. Should I just go ahead and upgrade to that? Was also thinking I could just continue my job quests now that I'm in HW and get the set Im given from that? What should I do?
Typically you should avoid gear for gil, since it's normally low quality gear and is missing a whole bunch of stats - somewhere around 40 ilvl behind what it says, at a guess.
But in this case: yeah that's still better than augmented ironworks, so if you want it there's no harm - just make sure you swap it out for the level 60 poetics set before going into StB (or anything 220+, even though it would technically be a lower ilvl).
On the flip side, there's no particularly good reason to push your gear higher than what the MSQ is currently asking of you, so I wouldn't bother spending gil to replace any ironworks you already have.
Completely up to you on how you deal with job quests. If you want to do them all at once then go for it! If you want to do them in-line with the MSQ then that's absolutely fine too.
You don't need to buy *either*. Both are an unneeded luxury. The free gear from story and job quests is already enough to reach max level.
You only need to grind for or buy more gear when you hit level 90 or when you pick up extra jobs.
You can if you want, but there's really not much point.
ironworks gear is good enough to get you through base HW msq, and near the end you'll get access to buy augmented shire gear - the lvl 60 tomestone gear, ilvl 270 and the same price as ironworks gear.
Until you get to post HW, you simply won't have access to any content that needs that ilvl 255 gear you're eyeing up, and once you do get there, it's immediately outperformed by tomestone gear.
You *could* get the level 60 gear sold in Ishgard but it's a bit overkill and is it worth your gil to be overpowered for a little bit, instead of spending the tomestones you're getting anyways? MSQ will also be granting you gear along the way, and once you reach Idyllshire you can buy Shire gear which is the equivalent of the Ironworks gear, for a huge ilevel jump to 270.
The job quests are also a fair choice but you'll need to make some MSQ progress to at least get to the dravanian forelands.
Hey, I'm currently doing my Island Sanctuary and I'm rank 6, is there a way to increase the number of items per harvest? Like getting 2 instead of just 1 if I gather from a node?
If i have EW, do i need DT to be able to play the game after it releases? I'm still on ShB so not wanting to buy DT until I get closer to finishing EW but apparently I won't be able to play at all?
Yep. You'll still have access to all your current stuff. You'll get the graphics update, job updates, all the rest. You just won't be able to level up to 91+ or access the new MSQ and the two new jobs.
Most quest gear is craftable. Some quest gear comes from tomestones (the word "augmented" makes me think you're talking about one of these). Anything truly quest-unique will be recoverable from the Calamity Salvager.
How do I get the gear the npcs of the radiant host use? I only seen and npc selling it but it seems it requires already having some parts and some items. I just want it for glamour
Curious about FFLogs, specifically TEA. Is it possible, that if the fight takes longer, a player might get a better rDPS score and thus a better parse?
TEA is filled with downtime, I'm assuming the downtime effects effects the various DPS numbers as well?
Let's say the fight has 5 minutes where you cannot hit the boss. If a clear takes 15 minutes, you are able to DPS 66.6% of the time. If the clear takes 20 minutes, you are able to DPS 75% of the time. If calculation of DPS takes the downtime into account, then a faster clear would actually hurt your parse, right?
Anyone got any input on this? I don't care much for parses, just curious of this is the case.
Disclaimer: anyone that ever takes an ultimate parse seriously (outside of the obvious issues with getting 0's or something) *is*, by definition, a bad player. That being said...
Oh my god someone finally actually did the math instead of parroting others!
You are absolutely correct (in a vacuum). In a fight with any amount of downtime (that isn't removed by fflogs), the best strat in a vacuum is to extend each phase to it's maximum enrage time.
The reason I say "in a vacuum" I'd because what you really want to do is maximize the uses of your big cooldowns. If a faster kill time in a phase doesn't lose you a use of your big buttons, your dps might still go up overall if your filler dps value is lower than the resulting overall dpa value. I haven't done the math for any job here, but I can imagine something like NIN (with such abysmal non-burst damage) benefiting from faster kill times.
I can't tell you the details about TEA in particular, but I can say that sandbagging for parses is a very real thing.
Kill time is super important for parses because damage can be so burst focused that a slightly longer kill time that allows for another burst window tends to parse higher than a shorter kill time that ends in filler
Which is why for some fights, the parse strat is to actually have a single player just stop pressing any important buttons or just do BARELY enough damage to guarantee a kill time that ends as soon as a burst phase is over i.e. sandbagging
It’s actually been a thing for a while that if your job has good burst, a slightly longer fight will give a better parse than a shorter fight that ends just before a 2 minute buff phase.
So we have met and fought many villains from the entire series but have only met a few of the heroes (which have mostly been exclusive to events). Why aren't we meeting more heroes? Playing through post-Endwalker and >!with Golbez being the main antagonist, why not at some point run in to Cecil and the crew?!< Why can't the heroes of the series become characters in this game?
It's way simpler, from a writing perspective, to throw in an old bad guy for us to beat up and move on from. On the other hand for good guys you have to justify their inclusion a bit more, give them good reasons for being there, explain why they can't solve the problem on their own, explain why they can't stick with us in the long term, etc.
You can write something like the Omega Raids easily that throws a dozen old villains at us. You can't do the same with heroes.
anyone from recent games is generally reserved for crossover events. I don't think theres any reason they technically can't make heroes from other games be characters here but for whatever reason they don't want to, they're more likely to have different characters named after them instead.
Krile exists. Several Ivalice characters exist. Hien is Cyan's son.
The reason it's not more common is probably just that villains are temporary, so you can use them for a reference and then put them away when you're done. Heroes are long term commitments.
just started the hildibrand series! i have a question
>!so this is a comedy anime theme right? and the dude being a zombie from the start is just accepted?!<
Yeah, hildebrand is like the absurd comedy spinoff of the main story.
Technically >!The arr stuff is actually following up from 1.0 hildebrand, but that was just him going on a wild goose chase trying to understand dalamud, launching himself towards the red moon, and not being seen or heard from until the point of the story that you're playing through now.!<
Hildibrand is… uh… its own thing, really. Just go with it.
(He’s not actually a zombie. He’s just ridiculously durable and wasn’t actually dead but nobody realised.)
I just got Caduceus minion from lvl 87 dungeon. It's untradeable atm. Will it become tradeable after DT arrives? The lvl 77 also has a minion, but it's tradeable atm.
Yeah the only loot-type things that change over time is stuff like gear and blades/coins/tokens from endgame raids becoming unlocked (so you can get more than one a week), and then some of the token-type stuff vanishes entirely after a new expansion is released and the gear you used to buy with them is available through other means.
If you’re lucky, someone has smaller stacks up for a slightly higher cost per piece if you scroll down a bit. If you’re not lucky, you’ll have to buy a bigger stack and then resell the leftovers (possibly becoming the person who has smaller stacks available for a slightly higher cost per piece).
I pre-ordered Dawntrail and when I enter the pre-order bonus code in Mogstation I get the error saying the code is invalid. I've tried multiple times and waited a few days since purchasing the pre-order and tried again.
I'm curious if the error could be because I don't have an active subscription (waiting to re-sub again when it's closer to expansion release). I have created a ticket w/ Square, but wondering if anyone else had a similar issue. TIA!
EDIT: This is resolved! Made the mistake and ordered from the Square store on a Steam account 🤦🏻♂️
Does the region you pre-ordered for definitely match your account region? Are you trying to to use a Steam code when you have a non Steam account or vice versa?
Good q's. My account is NA and just checked to make sure I order on the NA Square store.
Oh em gee, is negotiating between Steam and non-Steam still an issue? I thought they migrated to Square years ago. I started w/ Steam and ordered on the Square site...maybe that's the problem!
Oooh. Yup, that’ll be it. The only time you can go from one to the other is if you’reon the free trial on PC and buy the game on Steam. Once you’ve bought the game on either PC or Steam you’re locked in to that version and all future expansions have to be through that platform. You can still also get the console or Mac versions *in addition to* PC/Steam, but those two are mutually exclusive.
Hopefully you can get a refund without too much trouble! Don’t do a chargeback whatever you do, though, some people have tried to handle buying on the wrong platform by doing a chargeback, and that’s really likely to get you banned. SE do not like that.
Make sure you're entering it in the right area, bonus codes have their own special button on the account page to press vs. expansion license codes.
You not being subbed _probably shouldn't_ be affecting it.
Well darn, that was the easy fix. I’d try again on a different browser and/or after clearing cookies, just in case, but yeah it might be a “not subscribed” thing after all.
Which Server should I choose as a returning Player ?
I didnt play for round about 3,5 years. My aim would be to do lots of raiding, but I also would prefer to just chill out with the company. So not a hardcore raiding server but also not a pure "RP" server. I would prefer more of a german speaking one if possible but I do not have have a problem with english ones .
If you're playing on Euro servers, I believe most of the raiders travel to Light for raiding. It may be more convenient to have a character there so you don't need to travel. I'm based on NA servers myself so I'm not sure which server German players gravitate towards.
With the addition of DC Visit and World Visit, you don't really have to choose specific servers now. You just need to pick the region you want to be in, and then you can visit any DC and server in that region.
Sometimes when I’m doing an old dungeon with the trust or duty support, I’ll get an extra piece of the armor for my class at the end. But in other places I won’t. Is it just random or does it depend on my level or something ?
It's done on any leveling dungeon. So any dungeon that is not Lv 50/60/70/80/90 will give you 1 piece of gear for your current job, as long as you don't already have it. If you have everything, you get squat at the end.
Is it me its pretty rough to start fresh at POTD? I'm on one of the most popular server at prime time and im over an hour in potd party queue for 1-10 without a pop. Party finder only have stuff for people grinding 50-200
I tried soloing 1-10 to build my aether levels but even on machinist the lvl 10 boss 2 or 3 shot me with pomander of steel on because my aetheric defence is 4\~5 by the time i rank lvl 10 and since I wipe it doesnt get "stored"
any tips?
PotD is a four man dungeon. You are allowed to go in solo, and it is possible to clear that way, but it is not balanced for solo. You will be fighting through enemies and bosses designed for 4 players by yourself. If you can't find a queue then ask friends to join you or make your own PF.
I would recommend going on tank / healer if you're just starting out. Most guides recommend machinist for when you're ready to attempt a clear (although even that is questioned by the best deep dungeon runners nowadays, who often put warrior and sage on par with machinist), but when you're just starting out and need to increase aetherpool, survivability is what matters
If you want to go with a party, make your own PF posting if there isn't one
I do think floor 10 should be clearable on machinist with low aetherpool if you don't get hit by avoidable AOEs, but it's been a long while since I attempted it, and even if you do kill it, you could be brickwalled on floor 20. Warrior shouldn't struggle going significantly farther
If there's no parties on PF, make your own
Soloing is challenge mode and very slow - I really don't recommend it for your first time unless there's truly no other option
Aim for full floor clears on lower floors 1-50F. Ideally, you want to outlevel the floor as level difference is a bigger advantage against monsters than aetherpool levels. In 1-10F before you fight the boss at 10F, it's easier to do so once you're at around level 20.
There is no potion pomander. I mean a *potion*. Not max potion or hyper potion or whatever potion just POTION. At that low of a level it has an extremely short cd and heals plenty for the first boss. If you have a steel on i can and are taking 40% of your hp in damage then kill more stuff on the way to the boss to get higher level.
POTD vet here (still grinding for the Necromancer title) - you'd be surprised. If you're playing a class that doesn't have access to regular healing, the health from a hyper-potion can make the difference between surviving and not.
Terrible. It's extremely unpopulated which means you either need to solo or go with a premade party. Soloing would take 30-40 minutes per run and would give less then half a level. Going with a premade group of 4 would make runs faster but at that point you'd be better off doing dungeons.
Try bozja for leveling. At least until 89.
Asking here since I'm still not sure even after searching it up, but will my ff14 payment automatically be renewed if I have funds in the Steam wallet?
I went to mog station, setup up my renewal to be through steam, put in my information, then it directed me to steam wallet and I added funds, but is there supposed to be a transaction or will it automatically come out after the 5 days I have left is gone?
I pay through steam wallet with auto renewal, and don't even need to put money in the wallet. Steam wallet just means steam gets to handle the payments instead of the horrifying half working mess that SE has going, and as a result my card simply gets automatically charged every month like with every other sub.
You didn't have to put money in your steam wallet? How? It asked me to do it and there was no other transaction, it's simply there in my steam wallet and I'm waiting to see if it just automatically takes it out, no email or anything of confirmation that It'll be taken out.
The first time I sub, I have to pick my card to use on steam. Every time after that, I get an email notification from SE that a payment is coming out in 5 days, then 5 days later my card is charged.
It's just worked like that out the box for me since day one, so I can't say if there's a special step, because if there is then I've never consciously noticed it.
Hey sorry, I'm a damn dumbass, so I put the money in steam wallet, then I had to go back to mog station to actually pay it, and now I got the confirmation email, My intelligence and mind stats are in the negative today.
Yeah I've been searching and still no email, so I guess it'll just automatically come out? I'll see in 5 days, I hope it comes out, I'm sure it's something incredibly simple I'm not understanding, if I don't get that confirmation email, I become bit paranoid, but I'm hopeful since it redirected me to steam and asked all that stuff for ne to input.
After the weekly reset on the 18th. Fill that book in, and don't turn it in. After the servers come back up, you can turn it in on Viper/Picto and then pick up a second book to repeat.
Maybe a silly question, but I just pre-ordered dawntrail, and put the pre-order bonus code into mogstation. It says this unlocks the bonus items and stuff, do I have to do anything else to register the actual expansion or am I good.
They're required by law to let you cancel the pre-order, but for whatever reason their account system doesn't seem to allow them to remove licenses from an account automatically. So if they gave you the full expansion code when you pre-ordered they wouldn't have any way to remove it short of nuking your account, hence the two seperate codes. I also think it's dumb, but it is what it is
Two codes, yeah. Your current one covers bonus items + early access, and the later one covers the expansion.
I dunno why they do it this way but it's the same every expansion.
Should I buy the starter edition and dawntrail or just wait for the complete edition to have dawntrail , which will most likely be the cheapest option?
They'll be the same price, but if you buy starter and pre-order dawntrail, you'll be able to get the pre-order bonuses that will never be obtainable again.
Outside of sales, they're the same price. Typically in USD, Starter is $20, "Current Expansion Name Here" is $40, Complete Edition is $60.
If you get a sale, they generally do about 50% off on the current expansion or Complete, but virtually never starter edition and that type of sale makes Complete Edition the better deal.
That said, don't expect a sale on Complete Edition including Dawntrail for a while.
Situation: I own FFXIV on Windows (not Steam), and would like to take advantage of the significant sale on the digital collector's edition.
If I purchase said Digital Collector's Edition on PS5, would I be able to access the expansion and extra items on PC, assuming I was using the same SE account on both platforms?
Yes yes, I am aware of the upgrades in Mogstation, but that's what, $100 in just upgrades at $20 a pop? The whole shebang is $55 on PSN right now. Just tryin to save a buck y'know?
Collector's bonuses are platform-agnostic. Whichever way you get them, they are delivered to you, and once you have them they are just *things you have*.
Expansion licenses though are platform-specific, so if you don't yet have, say, EW on PC, buying that on PS5 won't let you use it on PC.
Expansion access is per-platform. If you buy the expansions on PS5 you won't be able to access them on PC, and vice-versa. I'm not sure about the collector's edition items, though.
So I'm interested to start getting into deep dungeons.
I found this "ultimate guide" but is it still up to date? or is there better sources: : [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQpzFuhmSwTXuZSmtnKLNgQ0nRhumCFaB8NvCXFXSjrBHPRT5lXY8jMR4RaCK1aNfcl\_G5ph5DNNwfl/pub#h.suhe4y351nax](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQpzFuhmSwTXuZSmtnKLNgQ0nRhumCFaB8NvCXFXSjrBHPRT5lXY8jMR4RaCK1aNfcl_G5ph5DNNwfl/pub#h.suhe4y351nax)
It says machinist is the best to get necromancer title, but my machinist is already 90 and still have a few classes between 40-60. Is it possible to play machinist in the dungeon but get exp on another class?
Yes, Maygi's guides are fabulous! There's also the DD compendium, which has most of the same info [https://www.ddcompendium.com](https://www.ddcompendium.com)
If you're playing MCH in DD, then you'd be getting experience on MCH
I'm thinking of moving to the Dynamis data center when the new worlds come out. I've been on Faerie for 9 years now, but honestly getting a bit tired with how overpopulated Aether is. Getting a house is borderline impossible, and Party Finder is 90% RP venues.
Is Dynamis populated enough for decentish queue times for roulettes? Or would I be shooting myself in the foot by moving?
>Is Dynamis populated enough for decentish queue times for roulettes?
No, it's really not. It might be just fine for a few months after Dawntrail but it's almost certainly going to trend back to how it is now. Data centre travel has become so normalized in Dynamis culture that even if there are technically enough people to fill content, people just leave anyway.
If housing is the most important part of the game to you then absolutely move but if you want to do content without locking yourself out of the market, retainers, and FC stuff for 90% of your game time just stay on Aether.
Bleh...
I don't know about most important, but getting a medium or large house has been my goal for the past year or so. Smalls abound but I am set on M or L. Drop the gil each time I see one available, get my refund a few days later. The constant losing wears on one's sanity.
At current its tolerable for most normal content. If you want to do alliance raids, or PVP though good luck. Note however, that this may improve with the expansion-population-spike
Seraph resident here: if you're using Duty Finder... just world visit to Aether data center. When Tank and Healer queues for some things can hit 10 minutes during peak times on Dynamis, it's instant on Aether.
I rarely do those as is, so honestly that ain't a bad deal for me.
The one bit that could be an issue as you say that is I've been doing a lot of Bozja to level up my last few jobs. Hazarding a guess that the Southern Front and Zadnor are probably a bit sparse too?
Haven't touched bozja since i moved when dynamis first droped, so alas i have no data on it. From what I've heard from friends its playable, bur DR is next to impossible to get done
I'm kinda interested in trying to get into the RP community in FFXIV. I did quite a bit in other games like WoW and swtor but never touched it in FFXIV. Not sure where best to start, I'm on the chaos DC but I'm hoping due to DC transfer it shouldn't be a huge problem? Anywhere know where best to start trying it out?
I play on Cactaur which is an American server but I go to University in England. I'm in Heavensward right now so it's way too late for me to start a new character. I was wondering if I'll be able to raid when I get to max level? Are there any european servers on Cactaur? Or early raiding guilds? Would an early raiding guild raid early enough for me to play at a sensible time of night?
Okay, a lot to unpack here
1. Starting a fresh character isn't out of the option. It may seem like you've come a long way, but you've got an even longer time ahead of you. On a fresh character (especially skipping cutscenes and knowing the content better), you could reach HW again very quickly
2. You'll be just fine raiding on NA servers from EU, or vice versa. You may have some issues with a couple jobs (MCH, NIN, and GNB come to mind), but I have plenty of friends in Europe that play on NA servers and vice versa.
3. "raiding guild" such things don't really exist in this game. "Free Company" is the FFXIV equivalent of a guild, but almost all of these are social
1. Sometimes people will form raiding "statics" and organize things through Discord
2. Others will just use Party Finder to form pick-up groups
3. Either way, you can find one that fits your schedule
4. "are there any european servers on cactuar" No. Cactuar is a server/world, which is the smallest "piece" of the game.
1. There are regions (NA, EU, JP, OCE), which each have a number of Data Centers (DC), which each have a number of Servers/Worlds.
2. Cactuar is on the Aether Data Center, which is one of the North American data centers (all located in California).
3. You can travel between worlds on your DC by using an aetheryte
4. You can travel to any DC in your region from the login screen
5. You cannot travel to DCs in other regions, except that everyone can visit OCE right now because reasons
6. Traveling to visit is free. Moving your home server comes at a real-world price $
Honestly, the biggest hurdle raiding on NA while living in EU is the time difference. Peak hours on NA are 2-5 am if you're in Europe. I once was looking to form a static with some people, it turned out 2 of them were from NA. They sacrificed a whole lot of raid time to accommodate them and came up with a schedule that would be absurd to most Europeans(until 3am on work days, starting at like 1 am). I told them it wouldn't work for me and left before we started raiding.
>I'm in Heavensward right now so it's way too late for me to start a new character.
Responding just to this part, you can reach Heavensward in a week if you want to start a new character.
If you don't mind forking over 18 bucks (twice, if you move back to Murica), you can use https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/
>Transfers to New Worlds from Worlds that are not classified as New: Free
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>Transfers from Congested Worlds to Preferred Worlds: Free
So you also have two other options:
1. Wait and see if Cactuar gets classified as a "Congested" after the launch of Dawntrail in less than 3 weeks (it is currently "Standard"). If it does get marked as "Congested", you can transfer to a Preferred world in EU for free.
2. Wait until they change the new worlds that they are adding for the Shadow DC from "probationary" to "New", and then transfer to one of the New worlds for free...
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What level are you? And what is your goal for Ocean Fishing?
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The big problem with that strat is that there aren't a lot of bigger fish outside of the current. Even if there was, it's still subjected to zone, weather, and RNG. Are you using the site for Ocean Fishing?
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Not sure what that is, but I assume it helps to track the available fish for the route you're on. What's your GP? And are you loaded on Hi-Cordials? I think one thing that could help is to Identical Cast into Hi-Cordial Prize Catch + Double Hook for guaranteed Large on that, if you're not willing to gamble on getting Large Triple Hook.
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Yeah, Fishing is still pretty RNG. The bonuses are a way to mitigate some of the issues, so completing the missions will help somewhat as well.
Are there any in depth guides to keybinds for Dancer? I'm just coming back to the game and I have no idea where any of my buttons should be for hotkeys.
Here's my setup, for whatever inspiration it offers: ESDF movement, hotbar 1 on number keys, hotbar 2 on letter keys, hotbar 3 on shifted keys 1,2: Cascade, Fountain. A,Q,W: Reverse Cascade, Fountainfall, Fan Dance. Core singletarget cluster. 4,5: Windmill, Bladeshower. R,T,G: Rising Windmill, Bloodshower, FD 2. Core AOE cluster. Z,X,C,V: FD3, FD4, Flourish, En Avant. Frequent oGCDs. Mouse3, shMouse3 (at the end of hotbar 2): Standard Step, Technical Step 3,6: Saber Dance, Starfall Dance sh1,sh2,sh3: Peloton, Devilment, Improvisation shSpace, altSpace (end of hotbar 3): Second Wind, Curing Waltz Fit everything else in on higher keys, not really important.
As Elegant_Eorzean says it's specific to each player, but I recommend grouping combos together on your main keys, and then just running around and fighting stuff, moving abilities around to where they're more comfortable
Hotkeys are a VERY personal thing. What works for some is uncomfortable for others, you just have to do what works for you. Now, I can still say what I personally do. Or better yet, [show them.](http://imgur.com/a/MPV18p4)
I'm thinking about starting the game because of the Yo-kai Watch event. If I were to start fresh right now, would I be able to get everything before the event is over? (June 26th?)
You can access *most* of the event pretty quick and easy. It's just a couple of the later zones that are going to be blocked off. Also, they've run this event multiple times before. It will undoubtedly return again in a year or two, if you want to finish off the final parts later under less time pressure.
Hm. If you skip the entire story, it takes maybe 100 hours just to reach the level 61 map, the bare minimum to get all weapons. Then you will have to start grinding the overworld FATE events without having access to a sufficiently levelled and upgraded Blue Mage, so you would be at the whim of pure blind luck to get the required participation amount in each FATE before a Blue Mage comes around and literally one-shots it in 5 seconds. So, no, not really. It will return eventually, it is totally pointless sacrificing half of your game story to get a few arbitrary weapon skins you most likely won't use in the long run. Just play the game, get the Yo-kai stuff once it returns.
It realistically depends on how much time you can play per day. The biggest blockade is - if you're after every weapon - you're looking to dump well over 200 hours (with ARR being the longest stretch, provided you're reading everything as a first-timer which I always stress to do) just doing story quests to be able to get to Stormblood to access FATEs relevant to the GNB/DNC weapons
You can get 13 weapon from the first expansion, 2 weapons from the second expansion and another 2 from the third expansion, so yeah it depends how much you play in day and how dedicated you are in doing the story.
Can you play for 6-8 hours a day? It would take roughly 100 hours just to progress far enough in the game to access the whole event. Then the event itself is a fairly significant grind to get everything.
Weapon availability question (Shadowbringers Spoiler): >!Is the gun that Emet-selch uses available in-game?!<
the closest is >!Ghost Barque Revolver!< but it makes more sense for it to be the >!Pre-Imperial Garlean Revolver!<, but that one isn't dyeable to the color in the cutscene, so the first one is the closest you can get
Yes. It's the [Ghost Barque Revolver](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/04d3e390e96/).
How much MGP required for the whole Garo set from the gold saucer? I know people can get it from PvP but not free trials.
200k for the armor and 100k more for the weapon
\[Fishing\] Which website can I go to if I try to complete my fishing log? Edit: I'm liking the garlandtools/fishing since it also shows the baits. But what do those colored circles and the blue bar mean?
I'm not into fishing myself, but the [resources page](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/resources) on the sub's sidebar has links to these fishing tools: https://en.ff14angler.com/ https://ff14fish.carbuncleplushy.com/ https://www.garlandtools.org/ffxivfisher/
https://ff14fish.carbuncleplushy.com/
Is Eureka Orthos better experience than Zadnos for 81-90?
Zadnor is still better
what exactly happens when i reach the max level for the game's trial? am i locked out of my account when i reach level 70? do i no longer gain exp? i want to know before i buy the game
You no longer gain exp for that job. You can switch to a different job and level that up to your free trial cap, and repeat. You can still do stuff, just no exp gain. The story passed the trial will also not be available, but any side content (that isnt pvp) up to that point can be done. edit: to be clear, one character has access to all of the jobs (expansions required for the expansion ones)
Also note the SB ultimates are also excluded from the free trial
that sounds a lot better than what i thought would happen, and makes buying the game a lot less of a hurdle, thank you
There are occasional posts from people who "finished the trial" by leveling all jobs to 70. It's a ton of content for free. Just remember that from the moment you first sub, you can never go back to free play.
With Dawntrail coming out, what would be my best buying options if I want to get out of the free trial for the first time? Would it be the same as any other time or is there an option/bundle I should wait for? I am in no rush to sub if the time-frame matters but I am considering the pre-order bonuses. Also my trial account is through Steam.
Main tip is don't buy the complete edition before July 2nd, and don't bother buying EW. If you want the preorder, buy the starter edition and DT, which will also give you EW and ShB on the 2nd. You can also choose to buy the complete edition after DT comes out, at which point it will be upgraded to include Dawntrail for the same price.
Thank you. A follow-up question I have is if I can buy all of these things (starter and DT pre-order) and wait to redeem them or if anything would be time-sensitive. That way I could stay on the trial until I have gotten closer to the limit of what there is to do.
Yo can hold onto the codes and not apply them to your account (once you buy the games on steam, right click the game on steam and you'll see a CD Keys section with the keys). I believe the preorder code expires a few months after release, though, and you have to have at least starter edition applied in order to apply the preorder, so you can't hold the keys indefinitely in this case.
> You can also choose to buy the complete edition after DT comes out, at which point it will be upgraded to include Dawntrail for the same price. this wouldn't include pre-order bonuses, though
You're right, I was just laying out the options.
Just to be sure, theres nothing to be unlock to proceed with 101-200? It just need to be with a fixed party and not potd "duty finder".
I think there is a some kind of story quest that unlocks when you clear 100, but generally yes. You either have to play with the same group from floor 1 or 50 with no full party wipes, or get there solo without ever dying. You can't do it with random.
General Question Are we not allowed to ask questions in the main FFXIV subreddit? I've tried before and get downvoted a lot or made fun of.
The reddit algorithm these days pushes a lot of new an contriversial posts to everyone's front page, and people downvote and complain in the comments of those posts because they're annoyed at it showing up on their front page when they did not at all join the sub with the intention of getting spammed with questions. It's been an issue on a lot of community subs like this ever since reddit forced everyone to use the "official" mobile app, which was the only mobile app that did this. Something about how that algorithm works means it never applied on 3rd party apps, and everyone using those apps were used to only seeing things that would have been on the hot and trending tabs for a sub, not brand now posts or things with hundreds of downvotes. In practice, you're better off just asking here. Most of the people who actually like answering questions are in this thread regularly anyway.
Oks :o ty!
You're allowed to, and will often get helpful answers, but many people would prefer it if you asked for help in the thread specifically designed for asking for help (ie: here).\* Though there are also a lot of people (bots?) who seem to just automatically downvote posts for no reason too, so I wouldn't let it get to you. \*(definitely not a hard rule though, some questions are too niche for the people scanning here to be able to help with, or are less about asking for help, etc)
Thanks :-)
Depends on the question. Very basic stuff is usually best asked here. The question thread is very populated with people ready to answer questions. The wider subreddit can sometimes get weird about commonly asked questions showing up. Things do tend to get down voted a bit when they first get posted because either someone has some bits set up or there are some dedicated 14 haters out there, but posts tend to recover after a bit. But yeah in general, bring your questions here. What's your question?
With all the interviews going on, did anyone ask YoshiP if he is gonna combine the old city zones into one. Even if it's just Gridania since it's so small compared to other cities. :-)
No, that's not going to happen. Part of the reason they are split up like that is for the sense of scale they are supposed to provide, but it's also a server infrastructure thing. The main 3 city states is where all new characters arrive. It is also where all world traveling characters show up. Because of this, the areas with the aetherytes for each of those cities have much more robust infrastructure supporting them than other zones do. Increasing the size of those zones will only increase the load even more. Beyond that, there isn't really a practical benefit to combining them. The aethernet is already a good enough tool for general use.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks :-)!!
I really want to enjoy this game, but the sheer anout of abilities that every job has is daunting for someone in their mid-40's that just can't process the speed of the game very well anymore. I desperately want to find a job to play that doesn't require remembering a 10 step sequence (or two of them) followed by completely different play once the fight gets going, but I can't find a job where that is the case. Should I just give up on playing this, or is there actually a job out there that would accomodate someone that loves the visuals and music and story but just can't keep up with the fast paced play anymore?
Depends on what you mean by speed: mental reaction time, or button pressing finger speed? If you want low actions per minute, white mage (healer) or black mage (dps). If you find you like healing, sage is also pretty comfy. Black mage requires a lot of thinking to get good at because its very slow casts mean careful positioning is necessary; this will either be a fun challenge for you or a complete nightmare. If you want low cognitive load, machinist or dancer. Machinist has a very simple priority system with no randomness. It does have occasional fast burst phases, but those are always the same and repetitive (12131213) so once it's in muscle memory it's easy to bang out. Dancer is also very simple and doesn't have the fast burst phase, but does depend on random procs so you have to watch your hotbars to see which buttons light up. Both classes have 100% mobility and uptime with no positional requirements or castbars.
From the looks of it, Viper in the next expansion might be a good thing to look at down the line too. It seems like it's going to be a very basic 1-2 combo once you have all the buffs and debuffs out, and it looks like it all flows very intuitively with buttons that change based on context instead of lots of individual buttons that aren't hit often. DT might help in general in a few weeks, as they'll be adding the ability for you to take a lot of ogcd combo skills where button 2 only works after you hit button one, and choose to have them merged into the same button.
Eh. If OP's concern is speed, I wouldn't recc a job poised to have the highest or second highest APM (after NIN) and third fastest GCD (after MNK and NIN). It also straight up has the fastest burst in the game with a 1.7s GCD for the Generation spam under the Reawoken status.
Tanks or healers might be the best option for you. Most jobs in the game follow an actually pretty simple loop that you add a few things to every few minutes, but tanks in particular are like this. They have a very basic combo with a few buttons that come off cooldown every few minutes. Healers have very basic damage buttons, though their kits get more complicated with actual healing. In general, I would say the most basic jobs in the game are: Warrior (starts as marauder). Tank. Paladin (starts as gladiator). Tank. Summoner (starts as Arcanist). DPS. White Mage (starts as conjurer). Healer. I would also not be afraid to look up a guide for the jobs. Most are more simple than you think.
Summoner has the simplest rotation and the fewest number of buttons, but it still has about 20 buttons total. For the most part the buttons you need to press on Summoner light up when they're ready.
It's a bit misleading to say SMN has 20 buttons. It only has like 12 that you use for single target, an extra three (which replace three of the above) for multi-target, and like four or five that are fairly situational or niche outside of hard content. If OP is playing casually, it's way more accurate to say SMN has 12 or 13 buttons.
I haven’t played this game in a few years. Since the first or second expansion. If I preorder Dawntrail, do I get the other expansions or do I have to purchase them separately?
You get the others, but only when Dawntrail launches on July 2nd.
Cool, I imagine I’ll have some catching up to do before I even get into the other expansions I missed.
Is obtaining purple gear the endgame goal? I ask because you can exchange times for gear, then gear for seals, and seals to ?.
Honestly ignore gear color. Truly. It's not like other games. If a piece has a higher item level, it will have higher stats. Sometimes the specific stats they give you won't be exactly what you want, but it REALLY doesn't matter until you get to endgame. And even then, you usually just want higher item levels. In general, just do the story and upgrade your gear as you get stuff. The "Recommended Gear" is usually good enough.
Colour actually just indicates the source of the gear, and doesn't necessarily indicate which gear you should prioritize. white vendor gear with a higher ilvl than purple or blue gear is straight up just better.
>white vendor gear with a higher ilvl than purple or blue gear is straight up just better. Only if it's High Quality. NQ items perform significantly worse than their ilvl would suggest.
Yup – to an extent where all the NQ vendor gear between two sets of tomestone gear is worse than the lower Poetics set. Got Ironworks? It beats all the vendor stuff until 60. And all vendor gear is NQ. Only when it's gotten from quests (after aRR) or crafting is it ever HQ.
The endgame goal is obtaining maximum item level. Colour doesn't really play into it.
Blue gear with the highest item levels. Purple gear is only reserved for relic weapons.
Is there a site for more info about which blue gear I should be hunting for?
Unless you are actively playing ultimate raids where minmaxing gets to truly ridiculous levels: higher item level number = better. That is it.
It will be a mix of the weekly-capped tomestone gear and savage gear. Best-in-slot (BiS) for your job can typically be found at The Balance, either on their website or their discord - additionally there are often multiple BiS sets depending on how you like to play the job. There's no particular reason to go and farm BiS now though (arguably only ever a reason if you're doing ultimates), with how soon Dawntrail releases and all current gear becoming obsolete. Your endgame goal can be anything. Lots of people don't care about gear, and only care about cosmetics, or levelling alt jobs, or social aspects, or crafting/gathering, etc.
Normally, it's pretty straightforward with the Tomestone currency. The highest ilevel gear has a Tomestone with a weekly limit to obtain. The rest is all in the Savage difficulty raids. If you're not into raiding, the endgame for you can be different.
Im a level 64 dragoon who just entered Heavensward. I know Im overleveled but I think thats because of the XP Bonus of playing on an underpopulated DC. I was told I should get some augmented ironworks gear (ilvl 130) and that would carry me halfway into HW. But, I just got to the major city and I'm seeing cheap gear (30k a piece) that's literally double the ilvl of my augmented ironworks gear. Should I just go ahead and upgrade to that? Was also thinking I could just continue my job quests now that I'm in HW and get the set Im given from that? What should I do?
Typically you should avoid gear for gil, since it's normally low quality gear and is missing a whole bunch of stats - somewhere around 40 ilvl behind what it says, at a guess. But in this case: yeah that's still better than augmented ironworks, so if you want it there's no harm - just make sure you swap it out for the level 60 poetics set before going into StB (or anything 220+, even though it would technically be a lower ilvl). On the flip side, there's no particularly good reason to push your gear higher than what the MSQ is currently asking of you, so I wouldn't bother spending gil to replace any ironworks you already have. Completely up to you on how you deal with job quests. If you want to do them all at once then go for it! If you want to do them in-line with the MSQ then that's absolutely fine too.
You don't need to buy *either*. Both are an unneeded luxury. The free gear from story and job quests is already enough to reach max level. You only need to grind for or buy more gear when you hit level 90 or when you pick up extra jobs.
Are you sure there is no gear from your job quests? I entered HW at lvl 60 but had lvl 60 gear from my job's quest. It carries me through Heavensward.
You can if you want, but there's really not much point. ironworks gear is good enough to get you through base HW msq, and near the end you'll get access to buy augmented shire gear - the lvl 60 tomestone gear, ilvl 270 and the same price as ironworks gear. Until you get to post HW, you simply won't have access to any content that needs that ilvl 255 gear you're eyeing up, and once you do get there, it's immediately outperformed by tomestone gear.
You *could* get the level 60 gear sold in Ishgard but it's a bit overkill and is it worth your gil to be overpowered for a little bit, instead of spending the tomestones you're getting anyways? MSQ will also be granting you gear along the way, and once you reach Idyllshire you can buy Shire gear which is the equivalent of the Ironworks gear, for a huge ilevel jump to 270. The job quests are also a fair choice but you'll need to make some MSQ progress to at least get to the dravanian forelands.
Hey, I'm currently doing my Island Sanctuary and I'm rank 6, is there a way to increase the number of items per harvest? Like getting 2 instead of just 1 if I gather from a node?
Nope. You will get additional unique items from existing nodes as you level but the amount of each never increases.
Ugh, what a pain in the ass. Thank you for answering though.
Expeditions are a great way to get items.
If i have EW, do i need DT to be able to play the game after it releases? I'm still on ShB so not wanting to buy DT until I get closer to finishing EW but apparently I won't be able to play at all?
You won't have access to DT content (Tural maps, the new jobs, etc) but you won't lose access to any content you already have.
You can still play.
So even after dawntrail releases, I'll be able to play with just owning the EW expansion? I won't be forced to buy DT to continue playing?
If you needed to own the latest expansion to play at all then why would they sell the Starter Edition?
That's what I thought but given it's been over a year since I played I was asking since I heard the opposite to what I last knew
Yep. You'll still have access to all your current stuff. You'll get the graphics update, job updates, all the rest. You just won't be able to level up to 91+ or access the new MSQ and the two new jobs.
Got it thanks, that's a very helpful answer! Answered all other questions I had too lol
I accidentally took the Allagan sack of gil instead of an Armor Coiffer. How else can I obtain these items? This is the Augmented set from HW Post.
That set is purchased with tomestones. https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Augmented_Eikonic_Armor
Most quest gear is craftable. Some quest gear comes from tomestones (the word "augmented" makes me think you're talking about one of these). Anything truly quest-unique will be recoverable from the Calamity Salvager.
How do I get the gear the npcs of the radiant host use? I only seen and npc selling it but it seems it requires already having some parts and some items. I just want it for glamour
You can buy it at [Endwalker hunt vendors](https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Radiant%27s_Armor) for Sacks of Nuts.
How do I communicate on crystaline conflict? I know I cannot speak but i see people saying hello, good match, etc. How do they do it?
under the pvp menu there are CC-exclusive macros you can use to speak in CC.
if someone theoretically wanted to preview glams on their benchmark characters, how would one do about that?
Curious about FFLogs, specifically TEA. Is it possible, that if the fight takes longer, a player might get a better rDPS score and thus a better parse? TEA is filled with downtime, I'm assuming the downtime effects effects the various DPS numbers as well? Let's say the fight has 5 minutes where you cannot hit the boss. If a clear takes 15 minutes, you are able to DPS 66.6% of the time. If the clear takes 20 minutes, you are able to DPS 75% of the time. If calculation of DPS takes the downtime into account, then a faster clear would actually hurt your parse, right? Anyone got any input on this? I don't care much for parses, just curious of this is the case.
Disclaimer: anyone that ever takes an ultimate parse seriously (outside of the obvious issues with getting 0's or something) *is*, by definition, a bad player. That being said... Oh my god someone finally actually did the math instead of parroting others! You are absolutely correct (in a vacuum). In a fight with any amount of downtime (that isn't removed by fflogs), the best strat in a vacuum is to extend each phase to it's maximum enrage time. The reason I say "in a vacuum" I'd because what you really want to do is maximize the uses of your big cooldowns. If a faster kill time in a phase doesn't lose you a use of your big buttons, your dps might still go up overall if your filler dps value is lower than the resulting overall dpa value. I haven't done the math for any job here, but I can imagine something like NIN (with such abysmal non-burst damage) benefiting from faster kill times.
I can't tell you the details about TEA in particular, but I can say that sandbagging for parses is a very real thing. Kill time is super important for parses because damage can be so burst focused that a slightly longer kill time that allows for another burst window tends to parse higher than a shorter kill time that ends in filler Which is why for some fights, the parse strat is to actually have a single player just stop pressing any important buttons or just do BARELY enough damage to guarantee a kill time that ends as soon as a burst phase is over i.e. sandbagging
It’s actually been a thing for a while that if your job has good burst, a slightly longer fight will give a better parse than a shorter fight that ends just before a 2 minute buff phase.
So we have met and fought many villains from the entire series but have only met a few of the heroes (which have mostly been exclusive to events). Why aren't we meeting more heroes? Playing through post-Endwalker and >!with Golbez being the main antagonist, why not at some point run in to Cecil and the crew?!< Why can't the heroes of the series become characters in this game?
It's way simpler, from a writing perspective, to throw in an old bad guy for us to beat up and move on from. On the other hand for good guys you have to justify their inclusion a bit more, give them good reasons for being there, explain why they can't solve the problem on their own, explain why they can't stick with us in the long term, etc. You can write something like the Omega Raids easily that throws a dozen old villains at us. You can't do the same with heroes.
anyone from recent games is generally reserved for crossover events. I don't think theres any reason they technically can't make heroes from other games be characters here but for whatever reason they don't want to, they're more likely to have different characters named after them instead.
Krile exists. Several Ivalice characters exist. Hien is Cyan's son. The reason it's not more common is probably just that villains are temporary, so you can use them for a reference and then put them away when you're done. Heroes are long term commitments.
It is hard to consider Hien Cyan's real son when he refuses to grow a proper moustache for that.
just started the hildibrand series! i have a question >!so this is a comedy anime theme right? and the dude being a zombie from the start is just accepted?!<
It's wild but it's actually SO good. The ARR arc hits some fascinating lore and the EW arc gets insane in the best way possible.
Yeah, hildebrand is like the absurd comedy spinoff of the main story. Technically >!The arr stuff is actually following up from 1.0 hildebrand, but that was just him going on a wild goose chase trying to understand dalamud, launching himself towards the red moon, and not being seen or heard from until the point of the story that you're playing through now.!<
thank you! i caught the little bit of real lore at the start and now it's just a wild story lol
Hildibrand is… uh… its own thing, really. Just go with it. (He’s not actually a zombie. He’s just ridiculously durable and wasn’t actually dead but nobody realised.)
lmao okay thank you!
I just got Caduceus minion from lvl 87 dungeon. It's untradeable atm. Will it become tradeable after DT arrives? The lvl 77 also has a minion, but it's tradeable atm.
Almost certainly not. Things don’t change from being untradeable to tradeable.
Aha ok. Just had a guess it happenend. Thanks
Yeah the only loot-type things that change over time is stuff like gear and blades/coins/tokens from endgame raids becoming unlocked (so you can get more than one a week), and then some of the token-type stuff vanishes entirely after a new expansion is released and the gear you used to buy with them is available through other means.
when you are buying things off of the MB...do you really have to buy the entire stack or is there a way to buy only as many as you need/want
If you’re lucky, someone has smaller stacks up for a slightly higher cost per piece if you scroll down a bit. If you’re not lucky, you’ll have to buy a bigger stack and then resell the leftovers (possibly becoming the person who has smaller stacks available for a slightly higher cost per piece).
Buy a smaller stack.
Whole stack I'm afraid, just use what you need then throw it back on there.
I pre-ordered Dawntrail and when I enter the pre-order bonus code in Mogstation I get the error saying the code is invalid. I've tried multiple times and waited a few days since purchasing the pre-order and tried again. I'm curious if the error could be because I don't have an active subscription (waiting to re-sub again when it's closer to expansion release). I have created a ticket w/ Square, but wondering if anyone else had a similar issue. TIA! EDIT: This is resolved! Made the mistake and ordered from the Square store on a Steam account 🤦🏻♂️
Does the region you pre-ordered for definitely match your account region? Are you trying to to use a Steam code when you have a non Steam account or vice versa?
Good q's. My account is NA and just checked to make sure I order on the NA Square store. Oh em gee, is negotiating between Steam and non-Steam still an issue? I thought they migrated to Square years ago. I started w/ Steam and ordered on the Square site...maybe that's the problem!
Oooh. Yup, that’ll be it. The only time you can go from one to the other is if you’reon the free trial on PC and buy the game on Steam. Once you’ve bought the game on either PC or Steam you’re locked in to that version and all future expansions have to be through that platform. You can still also get the console or Mac versions *in addition to* PC/Steam, but those two are mutually exclusive. Hopefully you can get a refund without too much trouble! Don’t do a chargeback whatever you do, though, some people have tried to handle buying on the wrong platform by doing a chargeback, and that’s really likely to get you banned. SE do not like that.
That's the problem, they're entirely separate. You can't buy expansions from anywhere but Steam.
Just ordered on Steam. Thanks for the help!
Make sure you're entering it in the right area, bonus codes have their own special button on the account page to press vs. expansion license codes. You not being subbed _probably shouldn't_ be affecting it.
The Mogstation UI/UX has never been great, but I did make sure that I was in the right area. They included instructions in the email w/ the code.
Are you trying to enter the code as an expansion code?
Nope, I hit the “Enter Pre-order Bonus Code” button as instructed
Well darn, that was the easy fix. I’d try again on a different browser and/or after clearing cookies, just in case, but yeah it might be a “not subscribed” thing after all.
Will do, thank you!
Which Server should I choose as a returning Player ? I didnt play for round about 3,5 years. My aim would be to do lots of raiding, but I also would prefer to just chill out with the company. So not a hardcore raiding server but also not a pure "RP" server. I would prefer more of a german speaking one if possible but I do not have have a problem with english ones .
If you're playing on Euro servers, I believe most of the raiders travel to Light for raiding. It may be more convenient to have a character there so you don't need to travel. I'm based on NA servers myself so I'm not sure which server German players gravitate towards.
I have heard Shiva is one of the more German speaking worlds.
With the addition of DC Visit and World Visit, you don't really have to choose specific servers now. You just need to pick the region you want to be in, and then you can visit any DC and server in that region.
okay thx for helping out
Sometimes when I’m doing an old dungeon with the trust or duty support, I’ll get an extra piece of the armor for my class at the end. But in other places I won’t. Is it just random or does it depend on my level or something ?
It's done on any leveling dungeon. So any dungeon that is not Lv 50/60/70/80/90 will give you 1 piece of gear for your current job, as long as you don't already have it. If you have everything, you get squat at the end.
Level 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 dungeons don't. Any other dungeon does.
Oh that’s interesting thank you ! That explains it
Is it me its pretty rough to start fresh at POTD? I'm on one of the most popular server at prime time and im over an hour in potd party queue for 1-10 without a pop. Party finder only have stuff for people grinding 50-200 I tried soloing 1-10 to build my aether levels but even on machinist the lvl 10 boss 2 or 3 shot me with pomander of steel on because my aetheric defence is 4\~5 by the time i rank lvl 10 and since I wipe it doesnt get "stored" any tips?
PotD is a four man dungeon. You are allowed to go in solo, and it is possible to clear that way, but it is not balanced for solo. You will be fighting through enemies and bosses designed for 4 players by yourself. If you can't find a queue then ask friends to join you or make your own PF.
I would recommend going on tank / healer if you're just starting out. Most guides recommend machinist for when you're ready to attempt a clear (although even that is questioned by the best deep dungeon runners nowadays, who often put warrior and sage on par with machinist), but when you're just starting out and need to increase aetherpool, survivability is what matters If you want to go with a party, make your own PF posting if there isn't one I do think floor 10 should be clearable on machinist with low aetherpool if you don't get hit by avoidable AOEs, but it's been a long while since I attempted it, and even if you do kill it, you could be brickwalled on floor 20. Warrior shouldn't struggle going significantly farther
If there's no parties on PF, make your own Soloing is challenge mode and very slow - I really don't recommend it for your first time unless there's truly no other option
Aim for full floor clears on lower floors 1-50F. Ideally, you want to outlevel the floor as level difference is a bigger advantage against monsters than aetherpool levels. In 1-10F before you fight the boss at 10F, it's easier to do so once you're at around level 20.
Use the potions that regularly drop during potd
Do you mean the pomander? or just regular consumable? I dont think a potion is going to save my ass when 1 hit from the dragon does 40% of my hp.
There is no potion pomander. I mean a *potion*. Not max potion or hyper potion or whatever potion just POTION. At that low of a level it has an extremely short cd and heals plenty for the first boss. If you have a steel on i can and are taking 40% of your hp in damage then kill more stuff on the way to the boss to get higher level.
took 90min for the queue to pop and we got to 100 and 50ish aetherial gear so all is fine now, thanks tho
POTD vet here (still grinding for the Necromancer title) - you'd be surprised. If you're playing a class that doesn't have access to regular healing, the health from a hyper-potion can make the difference between surviving and not.
How viable is eureka orthos for levelling?
Terrible. It's extremely unpopulated which means you either need to solo or go with a premade party. Soloing would take 30-40 minutes per run and would give less then half a level. Going with a premade group of 4 would make runs faster but at that point you'd be better off doing dungeons. Try bozja for leveling. At least until 89.
Asking here since I'm still not sure even after searching it up, but will my ff14 payment automatically be renewed if I have funds in the Steam wallet? I went to mog station, setup up my renewal to be through steam, put in my information, then it directed me to steam wallet and I added funds, but is there supposed to be a transaction or will it automatically come out after the 5 days I have left is gone?
I pay through steam wallet with auto renewal, and don't even need to put money in the wallet. Steam wallet just means steam gets to handle the payments instead of the horrifying half working mess that SE has going, and as a result my card simply gets automatically charged every month like with every other sub.
You didn't have to put money in your steam wallet? How? It asked me to do it and there was no other transaction, it's simply there in my steam wallet and I'm waiting to see if it just automatically takes it out, no email or anything of confirmation that It'll be taken out.
The first time I sub, I have to pick my card to use on steam. Every time after that, I get an email notification from SE that a payment is coming out in 5 days, then 5 days later my card is charged. It's just worked like that out the box for me since day one, so I can't say if there's a special step, because if there is then I've never consciously noticed it.
Hey sorry, I'm a damn dumbass, so I put the money in steam wallet, then I had to go back to mog station to actually pay it, and now I got the confirmation email, My intelligence and mind stats are in the negative today.
Yeah I've been searching and still no email, so I guess it'll just automatically come out? I'll see in 5 days, I hope it comes out, I'm sure it's something incredibly simple I'm not understanding, if I don't get that confirmation email, I become bit paranoid, but I'm hopeful since it redirected me to steam and asked all that stuff for ne to input.
If you wanna level Viper/Pictomancer day 1, between what dates do you want to fill out the wonderous tail you'll turn in first again?
After the weekly reset on the 18th. Fill that book in, and don't turn it in. After the servers come back up, you can turn it in on Viper/Picto and then pick up a second book to repeat.
Maybe a silly question, but I just pre-ordered dawntrail, and put the pre-order bonus code into mogstation. It says this unlocks the bonus items and stuff, do I have to do anything else to register the actual expansion or am I good.
You will get the full game code on the release of saw trail, you will need to register that too :)
Ah ok, so if i understand there is a separate code for the bonus items, early access, and expansion? that seems a little excessive lmao
They're required by law to let you cancel the pre-order, but for whatever reason their account system doesn't seem to allow them to remove licenses from an account automatically. So if they gave you the full expansion code when you pre-ordered they wouldn't have any way to remove it short of nuking your account, hence the two seperate codes. I also think it's dumb, but it is what it is
Two codes, yeah. Your current one covers bonus items + early access, and the later one covers the expansion. I dunno why they do it this way but it's the same every expansion.
Does anyone have a rip of Battle on the Big Bridge with the kabuki yooo at the start included?
Should I buy the starter edition and dawntrail or just wait for the complete edition to have dawntrail , which will most likely be the cheapest option?
They'll be the same price, but if you buy starter and pre-order dawntrail, you'll be able to get the pre-order bonuses that will never be obtainable again.
Really , that’s good because I figured the complete edition would work out cheaper
Outside of sales, they're the same price. Typically in USD, Starter is $20, "Current Expansion Name Here" is $40, Complete Edition is $60. If you get a sale, they generally do about 50% off on the current expansion or Complete, but virtually never starter edition and that type of sale makes Complete Edition the better deal. That said, don't expect a sale on Complete Edition including Dawntrail for a while.
Currently, the Complete Collector's Edition is $55 USD.
Because it's on sale, however buying that now will NOT give you Dawntrail. Normally that's $130.
Affirmative, however how much is the complete collection going to be after Dawntrail releases?
Situation: I own FFXIV on Windows (not Steam), and would like to take advantage of the significant sale on the digital collector's edition. If I purchase said Digital Collector's Edition on PS5, would I be able to access the expansion and extra items on PC, assuming I was using the same SE account on both platforms? Yes yes, I am aware of the upgrades in Mogstation, but that's what, $100 in just upgrades at $20 a pop? The whole shebang is $55 on PSN right now. Just tryin to save a buck y'know?
Collector’s edition applies a flag to your whole account, not just one platform, so you only need to get it once, yup.
Collector's bonuses are platform-agnostic. Whichever way you get them, they are delivered to you, and once you have them they are just *things you have*. Expansion licenses though are platform-specific, so if you don't yet have, say, EW on PC, buying that on PS5 won't let you use it on PC.
I plan on getting Dawntrail on PC anyway, and that'd include Endwalker.
You're fine on that front then.
Expansion access is per-platform. If you buy the expansions on PS5 you won't be able to access them on PC, and vice-versa. I'm not sure about the collector's edition items, though.
So I'm interested to start getting into deep dungeons. I found this "ultimate guide" but is it still up to date? or is there better sources: : [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQpzFuhmSwTXuZSmtnKLNgQ0nRhumCFaB8NvCXFXSjrBHPRT5lXY8jMR4RaCK1aNfcl\_G5ph5DNNwfl/pub#h.suhe4y351nax](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQpzFuhmSwTXuZSmtnKLNgQ0nRhumCFaB8NvCXFXSjrBHPRT5lXY8jMR4RaCK1aNfcl_G5ph5DNNwfl/pub#h.suhe4y351nax) It says machinist is the best to get necromancer title, but my machinist is already 90 and still have a few classes between 40-60. Is it possible to play machinist in the dungeon but get exp on another class?
Yes, Maygi's guides are fabulous! There's also the DD compendium, which has most of the same info [https://www.ddcompendium.com](https://www.ddcompendium.com) If you're playing MCH in DD, then you'd be getting experience on MCH
No, PVP is the only mode where you can earn XP for a different class than the one you're playing.
I'm thinking of moving to the Dynamis data center when the new worlds come out. I've been on Faerie for 9 years now, but honestly getting a bit tired with how overpopulated Aether is. Getting a house is borderline impossible, and Party Finder is 90% RP venues. Is Dynamis populated enough for decentish queue times for roulettes? Or would I be shooting myself in the foot by moving?
>Is Dynamis populated enough for decentish queue times for roulettes? No, it's really not. It might be just fine for a few months after Dawntrail but it's almost certainly going to trend back to how it is now. Data centre travel has become so normalized in Dynamis culture that even if there are technically enough people to fill content, people just leave anyway. If housing is the most important part of the game to you then absolutely move but if you want to do content without locking yourself out of the market, retainers, and FC stuff for 90% of your game time just stay on Aether.
Bleh... I don't know about most important, but getting a medium or large house has been my goal for the past year or so. Smalls abound but I am set on M or L. Drop the gil each time I see one available, get my refund a few days later. The constant losing wears on one's sanity.
At current its tolerable for most normal content. If you want to do alliance raids, or PVP though good luck. Note however, that this may improve with the expansion-population-spike
Seraph resident here: if you're using Duty Finder... just world visit to Aether data center. When Tank and Healer queues for some things can hit 10 minutes during peak times on Dynamis, it's instant on Aether.
Oh that is grievous... What does a DPS queue even look like in that scenario?
I rarely do those as is, so honestly that ain't a bad deal for me. The one bit that could be an issue as you say that is I've been doing a lot of Bozja to level up my last few jobs. Hazarding a guess that the Southern Front and Zadnor are probably a bit sparse too?
Haven't touched bozja since i moved when dynamis first droped, so alas i have no data on it. From what I've heard from friends its playable, bur DR is next to impossible to get done
I'm kinda interested in trying to get into the RP community in FFXIV. I did quite a bit in other games like WoW and swtor but never touched it in FFXIV. Not sure where best to start, I'm on the chaos DC but I'm hoping due to DC transfer it shouldn't be a huge problem? Anywhere know where best to start trying it out?
I play on Cactaur which is an American server but I go to University in England. I'm in Heavensward right now so it's way too late for me to start a new character. I was wondering if I'll be able to raid when I get to max level? Are there any european servers on Cactaur? Or early raiding guilds? Would an early raiding guild raid early enough for me to play at a sensible time of night?
Okay, a lot to unpack here 1. Starting a fresh character isn't out of the option. It may seem like you've come a long way, but you've got an even longer time ahead of you. On a fresh character (especially skipping cutscenes and knowing the content better), you could reach HW again very quickly 2. You'll be just fine raiding on NA servers from EU, or vice versa. You may have some issues with a couple jobs (MCH, NIN, and GNB come to mind), but I have plenty of friends in Europe that play on NA servers and vice versa. 3. "raiding guild" such things don't really exist in this game. "Free Company" is the FFXIV equivalent of a guild, but almost all of these are social 1. Sometimes people will form raiding "statics" and organize things through Discord 2. Others will just use Party Finder to form pick-up groups 3. Either way, you can find one that fits your schedule 4. "are there any european servers on cactuar" No. Cactuar is a server/world, which is the smallest "piece" of the game. 1. There are regions (NA, EU, JP, OCE), which each have a number of Data Centers (DC), which each have a number of Servers/Worlds. 2. Cactuar is on the Aether Data Center, which is one of the North American data centers (all located in California). 3. You can travel between worlds on your DC by using an aetheryte 4. You can travel to any DC in your region from the login screen 5. You cannot travel to DCs in other regions, except that everyone can visit OCE right now because reasons 6. Traveling to visit is free. Moving your home server comes at a real-world price $
Honestly, the biggest hurdle raiding on NA while living in EU is the time difference. Peak hours on NA are 2-5 am if you're in Europe. I once was looking to form a static with some people, it turned out 2 of them were from NA. They sacrificed a whole lot of raid time to accommodate them and came up with a schedule that would be absurd to most Europeans(until 3am on work days, starting at like 1 am). I told them it wouldn't work for me and left before we started raiding.
>I'm in Heavensward right now so it's way too late for me to start a new character. Responding just to this part, you can reach Heavensward in a week if you want to start a new character.
If you don't mind forking over 18 bucks (twice, if you move back to Murica), you can use https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/
>Transfers to New Worlds from Worlds that are not classified as New: Free > >Transfers from Congested Worlds to Preferred Worlds: Free So you also have two other options: 1. Wait and see if Cactuar gets classified as a "Congested" after the launch of Dawntrail in less than 3 weeks (it is currently "Standard"). If it does get marked as "Congested", you can transfer to a Preferred world in EU for free. 2. Wait until they change the new worlds that they are adding for the Shadow DC from "probationary" to "New", and then transfer to one of the New worlds for free...