Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

There's an app or something called ACT, Active Combat Tracker. I haven't used it, but I think it monitors dps in real time. Not certain.

Edit: no addons in this game

Yeah ACT is a 3rd party app, monitors real time dps and also has an overlay for when in game (gotta be in Windowed or Borderless Windowed).

Live Letter XXXVII went live today, questions regarding patch 4.05 and future patches.

Savage Omega:
-YoshiP plans to have Omega be harder then Creator for sure, but not as hard as Gordias.
-Random weapon drops like previous tiers, but there will also be a unique drop that will give the winner a weapon for their job.

Tanks:
-A minimum amount of strength will be added to tank accessories alongside vitality with the intent to make the 270 accessories obsolete in current content. The downside being the additional strength will not scale the same as Vit when going up in ilvl.
-Due to paladins overwhelming defensive kit they have decided to nerf Holy spirit, and buff the damage of both Warrior and Dark Knight, design intent is to have War and Dark Knight do more damage then paladin.
-When level syncing tanks will be given additional strength, no other jobs will get this.
-No plans to change tenacity at this time.

Warrior:
-Changing Stances no longer reduces gauge by half (removed).
-Storm's Path Combo Potency will be increased.
-removal of the cost of unchained and inner release.
-Shake it off will be reworked for 4.1, not the upcoming 4.05. They agree the ability is underwhelming.

Dark Knight:
-Potency increase to Dark Arts
-Potency increase to Souleater combo.
-Quietus will gain an additional affect, but may not be in by 4.05

Paladin:
-Changing Stances no longer reduces Oath gauge by half.
-Holy spirit will see a potency nerf and/or longer cast time.

Healers:
-No plan at this time to change the role actions for healers, but they are taking feedback on the issues.
-By 4.1 they want to revert the change so that aetherflow and Astrologian cards will show up on the party window again. They also are working on a solution for two white mages in a party and how confession stacks are displayed.

Scholar:
-Miasma 2 will be reintroduce to scholar only.
-Emergency tactics cooldown changed to 20 seconds.
-Indomitability [stay tuned]
-Strengthening Excogitation
-Changed the range of Fey Union to 15 malms.
- Aetherpact has been changed to increase Faerie Gauge even when Aetherflow actions does not inflict an effect on the target.
-Introduction of a trait reducing the cooldown of Aetherflow.

Astrologian:
-Arcana and Royal Road cards can now be discarded via an action.

White Mage:
-Adjustments to the rate of which Healing Lilies are granted.
-Plenary Indulgence will see some major adjustments.

DPS:

Black Mage:
We made a couple of adjustments which black mage players will understand.
Also, when doing their skill rotations, there are moments where they lose all their MP, so we’re making some adjustments to the MP.
- MP cost for Foul has been removed.
- Recast time for Triplecast has been reduced from 90 to 60 seconds.
- Recast time for Fire IV and Blizzard IV has been reduced from 3 to 2.8 seconds.

Ninja:
-Potency for Gust Slash will be reduced. The reason for this is because the players found a stronger skill rotation than those the dev. team was using while making adjustments.

Machinist:
-Hot Shot Increased physical damage effect from 5% to 8%. Increase to Heat Gauge reduced from 10 to 5.
-Removed the Heat Gauge reduction effect from Quick Reload.
-Increased Rook Overload potency from 400 to 800.
-Increased Bishop Overload potency from 300 to 600.
And more.

Dragoon:
-Changes to sight abilities.
-Potency buffs.
-increased range on dragon sight.
-BOTD increased duration to 20 seconds
And more.

Misc:
-Instances will return with 4.05 to deal with congestion. May be limited to Lochs and Yanxia
-Working on simplified versions of the job gauges, no time table given.

***All of this info is subject to change with the release of the patch coming this Tuesday.

Malakriss said:

If you do the lighnings and don't cloud the raid, how can you lose on Susano? Lakshmi on the other hand people have trouble not getting 2nd on aggro list, positioning cross beams, hitting vril on two abilities in a row, not killing adds right after the vril buff jumps, pairing off during charm, etc.

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I've seen the enrage 5 times now.

Maybe i'm super lucky, but most of my Lak runs were complete faceroll on PF. Took me a few hours to get all my accesories and close the book on that bitch. Susex took me all week to slowly get 10 tokens for my weapon through PF. Between shit DPS and lightning slackers it was a nightmare. One bad attempt meant everyone rage and drop. Farmed my last 4 tokens with an actual competent party and it was super fun though. So much so that I stayed and did an 11th run and got my weapon drop seconds before server restart.

Pyros said:

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 should have been doing in HW so nothing really important there.

Also unlike HW, you can level to cap mostly on MSQ, at least when I leveled I didn't touch any sidequests. I had rested xp the whole way though but still shouldn't be that far, and that was with like one dungeon run every time cause long queues as DPS. Talking of dungeons, the one thing you might miss is the 63 dungeon. It's not part of the MSQ, it has its own sidequests in the Ruby Sea. Once you unlock the underwater stuff there as part of the MSQ you can get the quest I think, it's in Sui-no-sato. Other than that it's basically more of the same.

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Well so this hasn't been my experience at all so far. I've had to do maybe ~100-200 side quests now Keep outquesting my level with just MSQs.

Maybe I'm missing some big EXP thing I should be doing?

The way the dungeons for the two expansions are designed, on odd levels you get a chain bonus which is worth a lot of extra experience but you do not get this bonus for even levels. So when you unlock a new dungeon run it 3 times for a full level. On even levels do MSQ, Leveling Roulette, and Trial roulette. Do sidequests/fates if waiting in queue. The 50/60 roulette isn't worth the time investment really unless you're just really sick of doing other methods. Abusing the chain bonus is the key to leveling fast as it allows for more MSQ experience on even levels. Here is some of the math and the strategy I used to be first day 70 on launch day, under 20 hours.

Exp Needed to level | MSQ Experience gained
60-61: 4,470,000| Level 60: 3,682,000
61-62: 4,873,000| Level 61: 2,457,000
62-63: 5,316,000| Level 62: 2,019,600
63-64: 5,809,000| Level 63: 1,533,600
64-65: 6,364,000| Level 64: 1,998,000
65-66: 6,995,000| Level 65: 2,079,000
66-67: 7,722,000| Level 66: 2,116,000
67-68: 8,575,000| Level 67: 3,585,600
68-69: 9,593,000| Level 68: 2,322,000
69-70: 10,826,000| Level 69: 1,922,400

Suggested Method: (Non MSQ-Roullete methods in order of efficiency, Highest level dungeon/frontlines/potd 51-60/SB hunt quests/fates/HW Beast Tribe quests/sidequests.)
60-61: Do the main story quests, and then you'll get the remaining 1.2 million from Leveling and trial roulette.
61-62: Do the first dungeon, 3-4 runs maximum for a full level. Use challenge log experience here if possible.
62-63: Do the 61 and 62 MSQ chains, you'll have 839k experience left at worst.
63-64: Unlock the optional dungeon in Ruby Sea and do 3-4 runs for a full level.
64-65: Do the 63 and 64 MSQ chains, you will have 2.8m to make up at worst. Use the list from above for efficiency, use roullete(s) if they have reset.
65-66: Do the level 65 dungeon 3-4 times for a full level.
66-67: Do the level 65 and 66 quests, you will have 3.5m to make up at worst.
67-68: Do the level 67 dungeon 3-4 times for a full level.
68-69: Do the 67 and 68 MSQ chains, you will have 3.68m to make up for at worst.
69-70: Do the level 69 dungeon 3-4 times and ding 70. Do the MSQ quests between queues.

*If you are a tank or healer you can add the Main Story Roulette to the list of dailies.
**Only do sidequests if you have unlocked flying in the zone you are questing.

Should I bother with crafting stuff at all right now? I don't know if maybe something like alchemist makes a huge difference but I don't need the others except for making gil or something.

Also, what should I save vs. throw out? I see the glamour system (which I haven't used at all yet but I've unlocked) seems to be like old WoW xmog so you need to save the items, I'm not sure what you can and can't get back later on.

So is there a reason to keep all of these crafting mats I have banked. I have two retainers full of miscellaneous trash like skins and horns and rocks and shit. I'm guessing none of it is actually rare.

Palum said:

So is there a reason to keep all of these crafting mats I have banked. I have two retainers full of miscellaneous trash like skins and horns and rocks and shit. I'm guessing none of it is actually rare.

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Dump it all. There aren't "rare" mats in this game.

Yaaay inventory

Doma was pretty decent.

Back to Gyr Albania, more drab shit no one cares about where you fight with a bunch of incompetent Mujahadeen against a Scotswoman and a dude with a golf bag full of swords.

Fennin said:

The way the dungeons for the two expansions are designed, on odd levels you get a chain bonus which is worth a lot of extra experience but you do not get this bonus for even levels. So when you unlock a new dungeon run it 3 times for a full level. On even levels do MSQ, Leveling Roulette, and Trial roulette. Do sidequests/fates if waiting in queue. The 50/60 roulette isn't worth the time investment really unless you're just really sick of doing other methods. Abusing the chain bonus is the key to leveling fast as it allows for more MSQ experience on even levels. Here is some of the math and the strategy I used to be first day 70 on launch day, under 20 hours.

MSQ Experience Gained/Exp needed to level:
60-61: 3,682,000/4,873,000
61-62: 2,457,000/5,316,000
62-63: 2,019,600/5,809,000
63-64: 1,533,600/6,364,000
64-65: 1,998,000/6,995,000
65-66: 2,079,000/7,722,000
66-67: 2,116,000/8,575,000
67-68: 3,585,600/9,593,000
68-69: 2,322,000/10,826,000
69-70: 1,922,400/12,310,000

Suggested Method: (Non MSQ-Roullete methods in order of efficiency, Highest level dungeon/frontlines/potd 51-60/SB hunt quests/fates/HW Beast Tribe quests/sidequests.)
60-61: Do the main story quests, and then you'll get the remaining 1.2 million from Leveling and trial roulette.
61-62: Do the first dungeon, 3-4 runs maximum for a full level. Use challenge log experience here if possible.
62-63: Do the 61 and 62 MSQ chains, you'll have 1.3m experience left at worst.
63-64: Unlock the optional dungeon in Ruby Sea and do 3-4 runs for a full level.
64-65: Do the 63 and 64 MSQ chains, you will have 3.46m to make up at worst. Use the list from above for efficiency, use roullete(s) if they have reset.
65-66: Do the level 65 dungeon 3-4 times for a full level.
66-67: Do the level 65 and 66 quests, you will have 4.28m to make up at worst.
67-68: Do the level 67 dungeon 3-4 times for a full level.
68-69: Do the 67 and 68 MSQ chains, you will have 4.91m to make up for at worst.
69-70: Do the level 69 dungeon 3-4 times and ding 70. Do the MSQ quests between queues.

*If you are a tank or healer you can add the Main Story Roulette to the list of dailies.
**Only do sidequests if you have unlocked flying in the zone you are questing.

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So I tried to do this, just hit 68 but did all the MSQs in 67 in 67 instead of waiting. Is it worth spamming Doma Castle again or no because it's not an odd level? Maybe I'm missing what that 'chain bonus' thing is with the dungeons.

Is there any logical reason they make raid loot so overly confusing?? I spent 2 hours last night getting parts for gloves I already got last week.... I know i'm an idiot and I fucked up but why can't the parts just be named after the piece they make. If its like HW, its only gonna get more and more confusing when savage starts. You need currency to get currency to get currency, like really?