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Lakshmi.Flavin
Server: Lakshmi
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2013-11-07 16:15:18
Ive got miner at lv.30 but I dont know what craft it compliments, armorer blacksmith or something else? Also which is better between allagan spear and gae bolg +1? blacksmith, armorer and goldsmithing... There are a few Alchemy ingredients as well...
Lakshmi.Flavin
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2013-11-07 16:18:00
In my FATE grinding ACN/SCH at Dragonhead, I've been waiting on Svara to pop since by the time I get to anything else, it's over or I can't see the mob till it dies. In doing this, I have a lot of downtime and I've begun to notice this one BRD at Dragonhead. Idk if its true or not but someone was saying fate grinding exp is based on emnity building... you can get into a group and spam flash and such to see if you can tag some mobs... when they go down that fast you don't really have to worry about getting wasted... that and even if you die you still get the exp and can set hp at the crystal there...
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By Anna Ruthven 2013-11-08 07:58:09
In my FATE grinding ACN/SCH at Dragonhead, I've been waiting on Svara to pop since by the time I get to anything else, it's over or I can't see the mob till it dies. In doing this, I have a lot of downtime and I've begun to notice this one BRD at Dragonhead. Idk if its true or not but someone was saying fate grinding exp is based on emnity building... you can get into a group and spam flash and such to see if you can tag some mobs... when they go down that fast you don't really have to worry about getting wasted... that and even if you die you still get the exp and can set hp at the crystal there... It all seems like numbers to me, but it could be enmity, I noticed that as SCH I could spam 75-105 dmg Ruins and get next to nothing but in a party I could cast 500-700 Physicks and get gold consistently. I swapped to ACN and would just put Topaz on Svara and fight Aevis and usually get gold.
Ragnarok.Hotkarl
Server: Ragnarok
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By Ragnarok.Hotkarl 2013-11-12 19:24:14
I'm almost to 50 and got a few tombstones, where are good spots/dungeons to farm them as I will be needing DL gear soon? And say an nm drops 20 stones, is that distributed 4/8 ways or is that the set number you yourself will receive?
Cerberus.Pleebo
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By Cerberus.Pleebo 2013-11-12 19:56:53
Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium will get you 100 philosophy tomestones (sorry, pet peeve) and have very lenient gear requirements. Wanderer's Palace will get you 100 philo and 30 mythology stones and again, has a lenient gear requirement as long as you avoid speed runs (SRs). Amdapor Keep will get you 100 philo and 40 mytho, but has a stricter ilvl requirement in order to complete (ilvl 60+ preferably). Garuda speed runs (can be done in 4 min or less) get you 20(?) philo and 10 mytho, but has high gear requirements and requires you to know the fight. Titan gets farmed as well but that is mostly for badass ***.
Personally, I try to do a mix of all those methods to avoid boredom, but for someone just starting out, I would stick to the dungeons with lesser gear standards until you start building up your DL and get a relic weapon. Also, tomes aren't distributed among the group.
Edit: Forget to mention the difference between the two currencies in case you didn't know. Philos are used to purchase DL armor, accessories, and crafting mats while Mythos are used to purchase ilvl 90 relic armor and Hero accessories.
Ragnarok.Hotkarl
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By Ragnarok.Hotkarl 2013-11-12 20:21:00
Nice,Ty
Asura.Ina
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By Asura.Ina 2013-11-12 21:57:44
Amdapor Keep will get you 100 philo and 40 mytho, but has a stricter ilvl requirement in order to complete (ilvl 60+ preferably). It's worth noting that this is a player enforced requirement not based off the actual difficulty of the dungeon. If you have friends to run with AF and AH weapons can get you through just fine and get you lv60 gear in the process which is not only good enough to take you past titan but gives you some guidance on which DL peices to get first since you can fill out the slots you don't get AK gear for. If you try DFing it you can expect some butt hurt with less than a primal weapon and DL though, shout groups are getting to the point where they want lv90 gear.
By daddyrabbit4444 2013-11-13 01:23:19
is the new housing update in 2.1? anyone know?
Asura.Ina
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By Asura.Ina 2013-11-13 02:05:06
is the new housing update in 2.1? anyone know? The Free company housing I believe yes, personal housing will not be till down the line.
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By Valefor.Monkeynutz 2013-11-13 05:30:15
I'm almost to 50 and got a few tombstones, where are good spots/dungeons to farm them as I will be needing DL gear soon? And say an nm drops 20 stones, is that distributed 4/8 ways or is that the set number you yourself will receive?
Pleebo said pretty much all you need to know, but I figured I'd drop this in here: Virtually nobody runs Praetorium regularly -- it's longer than CM and gives the same reward. CM is the only level 50 instance with no real DPS check at all, making it ideal for players without much or any darklight armor. With low enough DPS the second bosses of WP and AK become unwinnable. Garuda is easy, but becomes quite painful with low DPS. Ifrit is actually harder for PUGs unless you get the correct jobs (need to have at least 1 PLD and one mage DD to complete it easily). Titan isn't as hard as people make him out to be, except that many players are terrible and will die to the easy to avoid attacks, let alone the tricky ones. In any case, I'd recommend getting a few darklight items (not accessories -- you'll want the VIT boost, though if you're a tank you can disregard that since tanks get VIT accessories), then transition into WP and AK as far as the DF goes. With friends, obviously, do whatever. Lastly, your relic weapon is a massive upgrade and until you get it you should always be thinking about getting it. Also, your first 900 mythology tomes should probably go to upgrading your relic to +1 (additionally this means that you should have your relic within 3 weeks of beginning to farm mythology tomes, but your mileage may vary).
EDIT: I forgot to mention you should buy a decent weapon at 50 (GC or HQ crafted) if you don't already have something a previous class greeded. Primal weapons are nice, but the drops can be so erratic that you just might drive yourself insane trying to get one. I've personally killed Ifrit ~20 times and Garuda ~50 times and have several weapons for classes I don't play, but have only seen knuckles drop twice from Ifrit (lost both times) and never from Garuda. Still primal battles can be fun to flag if dungeons are draining you. Garuda gives decent mythology (if done quickly) and a chance at a good weapon.
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By daddyrabbit4444 2013-11-14 16:24:45
anyone heard anything about flying mounts yet? im talking about in the sky mounts not the floating ones.
Ragnarok.Hotkarl
Server: Ragnarok
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By Ragnarok.Hotkarl 2013-11-18 18:12:25
Somebody in a fate party mentioned possible name changes, any truth to that? I didn't see anything when I googled it.
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By Raein Tilgung 2013-11-19 06:03:18
anyone heard anything about flying mounts yet? im talking about in the sky mounts not the floating ones. Seem pointless to me. This isn't WoW, the game zones into new areas instead of being relatively seamless.
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Ragnarok.Ashman
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2013-11-19 15:38:01
Sorry if this has been asked before:
If i switch grand companies (again), do I lose my rank/seals?
For example: I started with ul'dah, then moved to limsa, if i switch back to ul'dah: will my ul'dah seals still be there (and rank). Same with limsa when i switch back?
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By Zyrin Pyrial 2013-11-19 15:43:11
Sorry if this has been asked before:
If i switch grand companies (again), do I lose my rank/seals?
For example: I started with ul'dah, then moved to limsa, if i switch back to ul'dah: will my ul'dah seals still be there (and rank). Same with limsa when i switch back?
From the description of the transfer, they mentioned that your assets (company seals) are frozen on transfer, and I'd imagine you keep your rank too. However, I have no first hand experience about this, Duffman.
Ragnarok.Ashman
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2013-11-19 15:49:04
Sorry if this has been asked before:
If i switch grand companies (again), do I lose my rank/seals?
For example: I started with ul'dah, then moved to limsa, if i switch back to ul'dah: will my ul'dah seals still be there (and rank). Same with limsa when i switch back?
From the description of the transfer, they mentioned that your assets (company seals) are frozen on transfer, and I'd imagine you keep your rank too. However, I have no first hand experience about this, Duffman.
thanks babe. Ill let you know if no one else chimes in. i swapped before getting choco barding and now the completionist in me wants to go back for it. However, the thought of doing aurum vale more than the absolute minimum makes my *** pucker.
Siren.Mosin
By Siren.Mosin 2013-11-19 16:26:17
can someone who knows something about crafting run down the types of crystals / shards / ect and how to get them, n' such?
I don't understand why there are three types, & a friend was asking me as well.
thanks in advance.
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By Odin.Minefield 2013-11-19 16:29:55
Best way to do it is level Gathering to 50, and ...gather. :o
Other than that, killing higher level spirits, i.e. ice/fire, can net you some, but that's slower.
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Ragnarok.Terazuma
Server: Ragnarok
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By Ragnarok.Terazuma 2013-11-19 17:01:55
Shards are used in almost all non-star recipes (so anything below Lv50 or something like that). Crystals are used in elemental-aspected recipes. You'll see them for recipes that require "damaged" gear/weapons that you'll commonly find in dungeons (qarn or stone vigil for example) and 1-star stuff. Clusters are used in 2-star recipes exclusively (Lv70 weapons/armor). Probably a rare exception here or there.
You can harvest all 3 types from DoL (except fishing) at Lv50.
In case you're curious, you can't break down cluster to crystal, or crystal to shard.
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Siren.Mosin
By Siren.Mosin 2013-11-19 17:54:42
thanks to both of you.
By Angrymog 2013-11-20 03:10:35
i swapped before getting choco barding and now the completionist in me wants to go back for it. However, the thought of doing aurum vale more than the absolute minimum makes my *** pucker.
Just a heads up, the GC barding doesn't transfer over. Lost all my Limsa going to Ul'dah. Suppose if you wanted it just in case you go back then I understand. As for the seals, on the 3rd GC now will know in 30 days when I go back to my original but if you look at your currency before logging out it'll have the old GC currency greyed out.
Ragnarok.Ashman
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2013-11-20 07:42:44
i swapped before getting choco barding and now the completionist in me wants to go back for it. However, the thought of doing aurum vale more than the absolute minimum makes my *** pucker.
Just a heads up, the GC barding doesn't transfer over. Lost all my Limsa going to Ul'dah. Suppose if you wanted it just in case you go back then I understand. As for the seals, on the 3rd GC now will know in 30 days when I go back to my original but if you look at your currency before logging out it'll have the old GC currency greyed out.
There's an achievement for getting all 3 sets of barding. I'll end up doing it eventually but if it was at a no-seal loss, i'll hop right now.
Ragnarok.Afania
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By Ragnarok.Afania 2013-11-20 10:03:10
Somebody in a fate party mentioned possible name changes, any truth to that? I didn't see anything when I googled it.
Create an alt on another server then change to that server.
By Angrymog 2013-11-21 02:58:30
There's an achievement for getting all 3 sets of barding. I'll end up doing it eventually but if it was at a no-seal loss, i'll hop right now.
Talking about "Pimp your Ride"? That should trigger just by grabbing just the 3 from any single nation... I hope there isn't another one because I just switched not long ago and don't want to wait another 30 days after this one to go back to my original GC.
Ragnarok.Ashman
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2013-11-22 11:45:51
There's an achievement for getting all 3 sets of barding. I'll end up doing it eventually but if it was at a no-seal loss, i'll hop right now.
Talking about "Pimp your Ride"? That should trigger just by grabbing just the 3 from any single nation... I hope there isn't another one because I just switched not long ago and don't want to wait another 30 days after this one to go back to my original GC.
I was. I guess i misinterpreted the wording on that then!
Asura.Ina
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By Asura.Ina 2013-12-11 04:21:32
Aside from +1 lance and body which other pieces of mythos gear are important to get for drg assuming the possibility of getting allagan exists?
Also what determines if an item gets a signature or not (or if it is removed)? Everything I make seems to have it but when I look at gear I got off the AH which, was HQ so definetly crafted by someone, it seems to be kinda on and off if it has a signature.
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By Dalmonn Highwind 2013-12-11 08:12:36
Aside from +1 lance and body which other pieces of mythos gear are important to get for drg assuming the possibility of getting allagan exists?
Also what determines if an item gets a signature or not (or if it is removed)? Everything I make seems to have it but when I look at gear I got off the AH which, was HQ so definetly crafted by someone, it seems to be kinda on and off if it has a signature.
I see a lot of people get the Wyrm Helm ASAP, dunno why though, because I read that it gets replaced by the allagan version. Though I think you got the necessary pieces already. Not 100% sure.
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By Poupee Goo 2013-12-11 14:51:32
Vayna healing set vs darklight healing body?
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By Dalmonn Highwind 2013-12-19 11:17:06
How do you give a player commendation? I havent seen anything about it yet.
Also, has anyone heard anything about if they are implementing name change options? I'm sick of being looked down upon simply because I have the surname Highwind.
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Game: FFXIV
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By Zyrin Pyrial 2013-12-19 11:43:53
Vayna healing set vs darklight healing body?
(One week later...) HQ Vanya with the right Materia should outclass Darklight, but I believe DL has the better stats without the Materia involvement.
How do you give a player commendation? I havent seen anything about it yet.
Also, has anyone heard anything about if they are implementing name change options? I'm sick of being looked down upon simply because I have the surname Highwind.
Players who are solo are allowed to vote for players they feel did well in their Duty Finder. I think it MAY be specific to Duty Roulette, but I'm not entirely sure.
Name changes are planned to be implemented, but they haven't given a definitive date yet.
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I've been noticing a lot of topics being created lately that are asking a single question that only requires a single answer. I think it would be beneficial for everyone if we could group those single answer questions into a single topic.
We've done this previously with FFXI, and it worked out very well, and I believe it will for XIV too. So if you have a question that is something like this:
What Body equipment should I wear for my level 25 Archer?
or this:
Where can I find Sylvan Scream for the Order of the Twin Adder Hunting Log #5?
They would fit very well into this topic. However, if your question is much more complex, where the answers are more opinions than facts, where there never is just one single answer, then creating your own topic might not be a bad idea. Please try to find a topic related to your question before creating your own. It's very likely that someone has already created a topic, or even a news topic, that matches your question. You can browse the forum searching in sections relevant to your question, or you can search the forum using keywords to describe it. You can even search within this topic to see if someone asked your question before, chances are they have. The search box is located at the top right of every page.
If you have a question, but you are afraid to ask because you think it's too silly of a question to ask, just know we are here to help you. The purpose of this topic is to share knowledge with each other, so we can help each other out.
However, if you think it's funny to bash someone for asking a question, hating on them, calling them out, this is not the forum for you. This topic is to help players and educate them on the knowledge they are seeking. They might not know nearly as much about the game as you do, but that doesn't mean you have to be rude. We've all been newbies, it's personally my favorite experience of a game, and asking questions can be intimidating when other players are years ahead of you in experience.
Asking questions shouldn't be intimidating, it should be fun! Try to have fun and be respectful to each other, and please respect the forum and help reduce clutter on the front page and the forum itself.
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Square Enix Account Management System - Old, still running but you should be using Mog Station instead. SE is trying to push everyone to use it, and it will be the only the system we use for XIV shortly. Click the image below for Mog Station, and put it in your bookmarks.
also:
Community site for News, and your character profile
General Information... for everything: XIVDB, very good site.
Server Status: ARR Status, a very good site, even has an android app if you're into that.
Wiki: XIVWiki, not sure how good it is yet really.
Wiki: Gamer Escape Wiki, the aftermath of the FFXIclopedia team, not sure how they're doing right now.
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