Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Noodleface said:

Thanks for the info pyros. I might be wrong. But I thought the story skips came with Max level gear, or currency to buy it?

Either way, I'm broke as shit obviously. Might be worth doing hw questing just to get money

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Level skips come with a set of Shire gear(lvl 60 tome gear), but not sure story skips come with anything. Not sure what lvl you are, but generally you shouldn't have to actually buy much gear, especially past 50. Ironworks and Shire use Poetics tomestones, which is an "endgame" currency, only for the old endgames from past expansions, you get a ton of them doing lvl 50 content including 1st time bonus on each 50 dungeon(and there's like 15+), as well as lvl 50 dungeon roulette and alliance raid roulette(assuming you land on a 50 or 60 dungeon, which is guaranteed if you're not 70 obviously). You can buy a full set of ironworks in just a couple of days with these, and then keep doing them as you level so you have poetics ready for when you hit 60 for shire.

General rules imo for tanking in dungeons:

Trash packs: Always tank stance. There are some fringe cases for DPS stance, but generally only if you can only pull one pack or whatever, or you're vastly overgeared(dungeons that aren't item level synced at old caps for example, especially when trash didn't hurt). Rotate cooldowns, spam aoes.

Boss: Start in tank stance, secure threat(this depends on the party composition and how geared and/or retarded your DPS are, it can be nothing with smart people+ninja to having to do 2 full threat combos in tank stance at the start with retards who don't use threat moves with good gear). Then switch to DPS. Make sure to cooldown tank busters and keep some cooldowns up the rest of the time. Don't do this on certain hard hitting bosses if your gear is shit, especially in leveling dungeons, these are the worst compared to cap dungeons because of the defense formula fluctuating rapidly, or if your healer looks vastly undergeared/retarded or your DPS are eating all his attention by stepping into every fucking thing. But generally it's safe.

That's for pubs, if you play with people you know you can definitely do better, but for pubs I restrict myself to that, and I adjust based on what I see is happening around.

Also obviously due to how warrior works, do what Fennin said before you have Fel Cleave, you don't really want to "no stance" content before you have Deliverance and you don't want to sit on full rage either once you do but don't have Fel Cleave yet.

I mean it's the same for all 2FA shit, always note down the removal password somewhere and that fixes all your issues. Everytime people complain about this, it's because they "lost" or "don't have" the removal password, when the whole point of the removal password is to avoid these situations.

Alternatively you can just not use 2FA. You lose a free teleport I guess but not much else, security wise if you have a unique password for the game shit's about as secure. At least I've never been "hacked" in the 20years I've been playing mmos even though I'm registered to hundreds of forums and other shit sites that got all their info leaked.