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Paladin feels great for dungeon tanking, shit like Clemency, Cover and Intervention to save retards. It's just kinda bad whenever you get a low lvl dungeon and all you do is rage of halone combo cause the alternative combos only are available at 54 and 60. Not as bad as before though cause you...

Other than weapons, 10ilvl rarely makes a huge difference either. Well some extreme cases of aoe fuckery that does just the right damage to kill you if you don't have enough hp, so the 10ilvl vit on left side is useful, but you can meld some vit in your accs to compensate nowadays, even without...

The endgame kinda builds up over time, but the first patch of expansions is pretty bare. If you're interested in savage though there's a decent amount I guess. The game thrives on parallel progression with stuff like alts being classes on your main character, crafting being its own sphere of...

Probably, it's the same as HW pretty much, make sure to get all the ones with the compass thing as you level up(some zones are MSQ locked to a higher level, similar to Sea of Clouds in HW), and do the sidequests that reward them, so you unlock flight asap. But it's basically the same as what you...

They have explanations, the characters used are used within the lore of the game, they're simply using char design and playing on nostalgia with musical and graphical themes from some old FF. For example the Warring Triad is perfectly acceptable within the lore of XIV. They're powerful entities...

Red mage is simpler than Samurai I think, at least once you unlock the secondary gauge for samurai and have to manage it with positionals and stuff(62 I think is when you get the good stuff). Red mage pretty much plays like 2.0 BLM in some aspects, mostly you just have to pay attention to procs...

Na they use a lot of the previous FF stuff for new content. For example in HW, the primals were inspired by FF6, The Fiend, the Goddess and the Demon, the Warring Triads. The 24man Crystal Tower is inspired by FF3. The current Omega wing raid is all FFV inspired. The next 24man was titled Return...

The healer told him to change his accessory, which prompted the "but str accs are bis" discussion. Obviously it's faceroll, it was still slower than usual and probably a lot more annoying for the healer to see him spike to 20% hp constantly from every "big" hit cause he had 60% less health than...

Well potd is different, cause tanks are pretty much worthless and healers are only good when shit goes wrong, which is like once every 3 full runs in my experience and if you have a witching pom you can just fix it anyway. But realistically potd can be soloed by a decent DPS with 50/50 and...

The best joke is how the mindset bleeds into other spheres even though it's completely out of place. The other day I had a PLD in Shisui(the 63 dungeon) using STR accs, unmelded and unupgraded(i260) cause he was a shit scrub that read on reddit that str accs were bis or watch xeno's videos or...

Geared or not barely makes a difference on the GCD, you're going to shave maybe .1 sec so you go down to 2.4. The only thing that has a real impact are skills, stuff like the WHM spellspeed buff, or class permanent features for Monk/Ninja/Samurai which lowers their GCD to around 2secs. Monk...

Well you need Stormblood on your account activated, and you need a lvl 50 class. You can't "start a samurai" as they start at lvl 50. After that you go to Uldah, find the samurai guy iirc he's near the gladiator's guild, and he'll give you the job.

You don't actually need a DVD drive though, since all that's on the dvd is the launcher to download the game afaik. All you need is the key inside to apply to your account then launching the game will update(technically just launching the game even without stormblood will update to SB anyway...

RDM when shits hits the fan in dungeons is pretty fun. In Bardam's Mettle the healer kept getting confused by the turn around thing, tank dies right before the add phase, I rez the tank, tank wastes his provoke during add phase so after that's done, boss kill the other DPS(I used lucid dream to...

Honestly unless you're doing high lvl potd or 41-50, tanking the boss can be done on any class even without pomender of steel. Just avoid the mechanics and it's fine, I've done it with bard and rdm(without self healing) a lot on the 51-60 boss. Higher levels I could see it being an issue, but at...

Cards don't stack yeah, and now you can't see the other AST cards which is annoying, but getting Balance with RR aoe is not really that common, and you can make a macro when you have it to say "I got next balance". Realistically you'll still hit times without a balance up even with 2AST, and...

Well unless they actively remove the ways currently I don't see much of an issue, hunts drop those cluster whatever things and dungeons give a bunch of VI all the time. I'm not sure if white gear can be spiritbound>convert for VI but that's probably not a big deal. And it's likely they'll add...

Well it depends but overall AST is the better healer. WHM looks pretty fun though with all the instant free heals stuff. The thing is, AST is basically more or less a WHM that also has the card mechanic on top, so it's less boring in a way. Personal DPS isn't a big factor, at least for single...

Obviously voided yeah, ppl are getting stupid loot. Looks pretty fun but meh I'll wait for expansion.

A lot of vanilla MSQ is very boring stuff. Gets better near the end of 2.0(like 40 and 50 stuff) and then before Heavensward, but it's pretty bad overall. Once you start HW's MSQ though there's a lot less bullshit fetch quests and stuff in the MSQ(all the sidequests are basically still that...

Yeah I'll have to look into it more seriously at some point. I haven't even finished the job quests for the gathering classes or most crafting classes. Hell earlier when I picked up BLM I started doing my bar setup and I couldn't find fucking Fire IV I was wondering what was up. Turns out I...

Grats, RDM armor is definitely top tier, even just some parts are good to keep for glamour like the boots and stuff. Been fucking around on a bunch of other chars just doing my expert roulette on Monk. Got AST to 68.5(probably 70 tomorrow I'll push a bit more than usual, run that 69 dungeon...

Haven't gotten to level mine other than getting it to 62, read a lot of negative opinions on that theorycrafting discord thing. Looks kinda meh now? Damage is way lower especially aoe, like garbage tier aoe compared to WHM or even AST, but that's ok for raiding content and stuff, just annoying...

It'll be pretty easy to carry next gear tier or something but yeah atm it's a rough roulette. I did it first time with like everyone being new and it went really well, we wiped like 3times at various stages to figure out stuff, first wipe being like 20secs in when everyone fell down and then...

Oh was it, I haven't played HW much and early on it was like the end of 2.0, at the end of 2.0 it was pop PB, then pop all your cooldowns while you're building and refresh dots before the buffs drop. But now it feels it's just start fight with demolish > PB > snap punch > snap punch > dragon...

70 Monk quest was actually harder than the 67, impressive stuff for a solo instance. It wasn't like really hard but I almost died a couple of times. Got the 70monk skill and as expected, it's partly shit. It's super RNG, sometimes you get a bunch of chakra, sometimes you don't get shit. In 4mans...

Hmm maybe I missed something obvious but the 67 class quest for monk was actually really challenging. Not complaining it was pretty refreshing, but didn't expect to have to work for it that hard. The 70 one will probably be disapointing as a result, almost there.

Yeah that was a few hours ago, it fixed itself soon after I posted I got my stuff done. Did a test on my AST, at 61 doing the 61 SB dungeon with rested and armory xp, FC buff and food buff, I got a bit over 1.8m xp from the run. That's pretty good, although without rested it wouldn't be as...

It's down on EU too, can't enter a solo instance even though I'm on Omega and no one around(and it's 5AM). I think it might be a different issue this time though because it makes little sense to have issues at this hour on a low pop server. Oh well I had to do my beastmen daillies and hunting...

I mean you can keep going with it if you like, pretty sure it still works past 60. But yeah it's boring as fuck, I only do a few runs on my alts then switch back to another char. You could technically level doing other stuff but potd is stupidly efficient for xp so hard to beat. I think it's...

There's apparently a much worse issue with people getting disconnected on Susanoo at the end(and potentially in other places too) where you basically brick your char and can't log back in. They said it'll take a couple of days to fix too, so you're fucked until monday/tuesday if that hits. I'd...

Yeah seems they managed to kinda fix it. It's not perfect, lots of ppl DCing instead of getting in, but a lot of people got in too, I can actually see the NPC now, just need to manage to reconnect and shit. Edit: Reconnect after queue, DC while loading and requeue. Zzzz.

Probably not as I said the xp curve is weird on these. Potd gives 400k+ even at lvl 40 which is ridiculous xp, but it doesn't increase all that much per level. Meanwhile Frontlines seem to give like 10-15% xp, which is a lot lower value at lower levels due to xp scaling, but gets better as you...

Yeah it's new, it's very good xp at 60+ but not sure it's so good before that the scaling seems way different than potd. Supposedly only 180k or whatever at lvl 50, while it gives 600+k at 60. So potd is a lot better up to 60 it seems. Gonna go take a nap, can't do anything atm. Potd/frontlines...

PvP overall seems a lot more fun. I did a couple frontlines on my monk and while the lag is fucking unbearable as a melee until they open server transfers, it was still pretty fun. Has few abilities but flows nicely, also the abilities are different enough from the pve stuff that it feels kinda...

Honestly I'm slightly excited about pvp changes, they sound pretty interesting. Not having the usual 2 full bars+half a bar of hotkeys then adding 6more abilities and actually having to use the shit keybind abilities cause root/knockback/stun/whatever was good in pvp is really nice. Like...

Yeah I still have a bunch of HW crafting/gathering quests to do. I was really disapointed with crafting back in 3.0 though so we'll see, not too sure how it was changed over time but if it's the same I'll just do leves to get them to 70 then forget about them, just need to be ready for 5.0 repairs.

With the new expansion though it's almost guaranteed that just like HW, you'll be able to buy white gear for cheap with way higher ilvl once you reach 60, which lets you skip the whole gearing process and just do your shit. Original vanilla story is the same, the moment you hit 50 you can grab a...

You could probably find a summary of the story though and not miss that much especially if you sit a couple of hours in the inn checking the various cutscenes and stuff. A large part of the MSQ is still "go talk to this fucker, now teleport somewhere and go talk to another fucker" and the...

I mostly want it for glamour, my SCH is like i255 or whatever so it's good enough for leveling, although I've been second guessing myself on which class to take to 70 first, Monk or SCH. Monk would benefit from faster queues if I level it first, a bunch of DPS will be rolling the new classes...