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  1. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You're not learning correctly if you just DPS stance every dungeon regardless. In dungeons, the correct way is to asses your and your party's gear, as well as how they're playing and use the appropriate stance for that. DPS stance in 4man pub dungeons always depends on other stuff than yourself...
  2. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Raids and general play are very different in terms of tank stance requirements. Yes for savage you definitely will want to optimize your DPS stance time, as in, it should be 100% unless you use tank stance as a "cooldown" for certain things, and maybe on pull for initial threat if you don't have...
  3. Pyros

    new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 cards released

    The new info about the cheaper RTX line apparently says BF will support 1080p DLSS so it should work at any resolution, just need to do whatever things you have to do with Nvidia to get it working, which I assume a lot of companies won't bother. Says the new RTX cards are being bundled with...
  4. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It is worth it imo. What squadrons do eventually is 2 things. First they act like retainer ventures, you send them out, they bring back stuff. If you spec them properly, they will bring back GC seals(so free trips), crafter or gatherer red scrips(free money more or less) or crystal clusters...
  5. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You should learn the moveset though since Cyclops come back in various forms over and over, so learning how they work asap is useful for later. Same with Chimeras, knowing that ram is a pbae and dragon is a donut is useful for whenever you fight random chimeras. In general, they do a pretty good...
  6. Pyros

    Twitch.tv

    Isn't this new thing specifically doing it so it's not that easy by basically masking ads as normal content. That's what I assumed they'd do if they wanted unblockable ads. And for the delay thing that was mentionned, I don't think they'd do delays, they don't atm either I think? They just play...
  7. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well as I said, you can outgear it. Do Sigmascape 4.0 4times(which isn't super hard, just need to get the few tricks to it) and get 1000mendacity for a 360weapon, or buy a 350crafted HQ weapon, or a 380HQ crafted one if you have more money/they're cheap enough on your server or better yet if you...
  8. Pyros

    Twitch.tv

    If they do it right I don't know how you could block them. I assume the tech to do it "right" was more complicated than it sounded, but if the ads are directly into the stream you're getting, you can't block just one part of the stream, you either watch it or you don't. I guess you'll be able to...
  9. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah they can't be sold so there's no price increase. I think retainer fantasias can be sold on the market, maybe, but not even sure(you get them from ventures).
  10. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    They meant the next expansion big raid boss kinda thing. Bahamut > Alexander > Omega. Not too sure what's next going to be, might just be new stuff rather than a callback. Could be Ascian related maybe too. Same log for all of Eureka, it's easier/faster to complete it in Anemos, many grps there...
  11. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Raids used to have trash, but they kinda stopped at least for 8man content. 24man raids still have a bit of trash here and there and are actually large places you run around in, but 8man are just series of boss rooms only, it used to be only trials like that(primals and shit like Susanoo) but...
  12. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Don't think it ever did but not 100% sure. I wouldn't count on it at least.
  13. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I did make a couple of chars when I fantasiad to figure out voices and skin tone in real lightning and stuff like that. Things to note: Check the voice sounds. Make like a PUG or ARC I think those tend to spam noises the most even with low lvl abilities. You don't want to pick a random voice...
  14. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    From what I've seen, there's people in there on my datacenter, it's just shitty to level in regardless and most people seem to be farming light. My plan is to just do the challenge log until 4.5, which is supposed to have some Pagos nerfs. I'll probably be 26 or 27 or so by then so will only...
  15. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I do think it plays better than monk overall. Having both a skill that moves you away and a charge, and the fact your buffs are longer and easier to refresh while having less positional requirements and such. Only downside of SAM is having to stand still for Midare, which can be annoying if the...
  16. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Don't wait if you haven't touched it yet. Do the challenge log in Anemos. Anemos goes really fast it's Pagos that sucks and is getting nerfed. Basically, go to Anemos, do the challenge log, maybe try shouting for someone doing it at low lvl like you but otherwise you can solo it, make sure to...
  17. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Seems weird you're having issues, maybe you could try doing a few bounties to get some centurio seals and upgrade your gear to 330 if you haven't, especially the weapon. Alternatively if you have the ilvl for it, doing sigmascape V4.0 4times for the crystalloid and 1000mendacity for a 360...
  18. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Old gear that requires a bunch of annoying mats. You could do scrips or just get your ass to 61 doing HW collectibles or something and get the white entry lvl SB gear which should be a fuckton cheaper(can buy NQ from vendors too, although if you know a crafter they can easily make HQ version for...
  19. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Current tier of crafting gear should be the last tier unless they pull out something different than other expansions, which is unlikely. That's why melding this is kinda worth it. They'll be adding new recipes, but mostly for cosmetics shit at this point. Melding can suck a dick though, it's...
  20. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Decent time to restart, next patch is in 2weeks so you can kinda clear current content and be ready for more content after that. Almost caught up on my crafting shit again. I fucking hate melding so much. Trying to have semi decent gear for next expansion leveling though unlike last time...
  21. Pyros

    Path of Exile

    All shocks are "guaranteed" now, but the % damage increase is based on the damage you do versus the life of the monster, so in this case it'd probably shock for 1%. If you have shock conditionals though it's still fine.
  22. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    There is a tank summon. They're permanent, but Bahamut is a temporary replacement, you have 3 main summons otherwise, Ifrit which is melee DPS, Titan which is tank and Garuda which is ranged DPS, they come with their own skills and you have to micro them a bit at times. You can reskin them to...
  23. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You might want to wait like a couple more MSQ and that'll unlock travel to other cities, it's like lvl 15. Bard is fine, pretty boring at low lvl though and very active at higher levels, you basically get a ton of procs and low cd stuff coming up at all times to weave in your basic rotations...
  24. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Basically the original classes "morph" into jobs at 30 by equipping a a job crystal, and you still gain marauder xp even as a warrior. As for DPS it's kinda up to you, what appeals to you in terms of style and design. You could level another tank too if you prefer just to have more optons...
  25. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You do need to do the quest that requires a crafter to open the vendor though as I was saying. I remembered the quest wrong though, the one you need for Emperor stuff is Absolutely Glamorous, the quest to learn how to make glamour prisms that follows the quest to learn how to glamour. You do...
  26. Pyros

    Path of Exile

    Well anything with self cast lightning is going to love this since so many builds run MoM nowadays too. And since Storm Brand seems pretty popular, that'd be definitely worth several exalts.
  27. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Probably because there's not much money to make selling these. You need craft lvl... 15 I think it was?. It took me like 5mins with Road to 60 to get one high enough to unlock it though, just bought a bunch of materials from the guild vendor there and crafted a bunch of random shit for first...
  28. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You can actually meld stuff with a NPC nowadays, in all major cities there's a materia melder NPC(look for a blue orb icon). You can also get someone else to meld stuff for you via a menu, but with the NPCs it's a waste of time, that's how the quest was done back in the day though. The only...
  29. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Also avoid the trailer if you don't want a bunch of spoilers, as usual. The content of the MSQ seems VERY exciting, but yeah shit's like spoilers upon spoilers especially if you haven't finished the MSQ up to 4.4. The BLU stuff they've shown got me really excited for the class again. We'll see...
  30. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I didn't bother with a single sidequest and still have more than enough xp on my other account. I think I hit 50 on both chars and I was still on like lvl 44MSQ or something like that. Only sidequests I did were the ones in Uldah where I started to get from lvl 1 to 5 to get going, after that...
  31. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I hope they make these necessary in the MSQ at some point though, because so many people still skip them and suck. You get a nice ring for xping too, especially when leveling more chars. Mentor channel is a mixed bag, really depends on your server. On some it's good, on others it's just...
  32. Pyros

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    The historical low is 22€, on Steam, a year ago. The devs decide the sales, they don't want to make it cheaper evidently. The fact many devs never reduce their base price lower than 60bucks and then don't do sales for much more than 50% means a lot of games don't get discounted even several...
  33. Pyros

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    It's been that way for like, 5+years? The 3rd parties basically cut their share to less than the 30% steam requires, to do better prices. Steam is ok with that because they get traffic and people end up buying shit on Steam eventually. 3rd parties don't sell everything(especially indie games)...
  34. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Tanks are great for solo leveling, since they take reduced damage so you rarely have to wait for health to come back, and they do very decent damage with their DPS stances(higher than healers, lower than DPS). On top of that as mentionned, they have the fastest dungeon queues, making all the...
  35. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Was it maybe Extreme, like at lvl 50? Because the normal and hard mode Garuda are really not super complicated. Mind you at release people were a lot shittier at the game in general, lots of FFXI players, people who had never played mmos and such and no one was used to the XIV raid style just...
  36. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Hmm technically it's possible to fail the story stuff sure, but multiple times? Really unlikely tbh. I've done all the ARR old content when I was playing and even the "hard" stuff is pretty easy nowadays since most of the players are higher levels getting roulettes and stuff. Also for all the...
  37. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You can find houses on populated servers nowadays though, other than Balmung obviously, as long as you're not picky about where you buy the house. With the demolition shit there's a lot of spots being vacated constantly, mostly small houses though. That said you can also just buy an appartment...
  38. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Oh also if you're buying new, some info about the what to buy etc: The starter edition is the base game, comes with a month free, capped at 50, can't make Au'Ras(dragon scales race) but otherwise not much difference until 50+ so you can just grab that to get started, there's A LOT of stuff to...
  39. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I don't know about the forum's guild, there's a few people playing but it seems fairly fragmented, I'd give it a day or two for people to check the thread and answer that. For the population balance, it's pretty well balanced nowadays, there's not too many servers and they did another promotion...
  40. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well getting your old account matters if you want to get your old account, that kinda depends on what's on it, how much you played etc. Doesn't really matter much though. Getting your info back is easy if you don't have an authenticator linked to it and you have access to your email you...