Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Warr and Drk myself

Pyros said:

Battle usually has more expensive mats, but gathers less of them so tend to lag behind. BTN/MIN make good money. FSH tends to suck but can be good the first few weeks of the expansion if you spam leve fishes. You level using 1hour specific item, and 18hours when you go to bed/can't use more 1hours. Quick ventures once the prices go down after launch to get random crap like housing items, minions or EX primal drops.

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Having just leveled an extra miner and botanist retainer from 1 to 70 before expansion, I really feel like as long as their gear is somewhat current to whatever level they're at you get more exp overall from quick ventures over the 1 hour specific item ones. Obviously you get the benefit of building up specific good mats you know you will use with the specific 1 hour ventures, but just seemed like a lot less exp than the average for quick ventures would be.

Merrith said:

Having just leveled an extra miner and botanist retainer from 1 to 70 before expansion, I really feel like as long as their gear is somewhat current to whatever level they're at you get more exp overall from quick ventures over the 1 hour specific item ones. Obviously you get the benefit of building up specific good mats you know you will use with the specific 1 hour ventures, but just seemed like a lot less exp than the average for quick ventures would be.

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The real question is how many days it will take to get the 18hr minions for free. Mameshiba was a real bitch (pun intended) to acquire. However, I lucksacked two koala joeys in two consecutive days, so that was probably why.

dvoraen said:

The real question is how many days it will take to get the 18hr minions for free. Mameshiba was a real bitch (pun intended) to acquire. However, I lucksacked two koala joeys in two consecutive days, so that was probably why.

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that's all just pretty much get them to 80, and roll the RNG thing. I'll sell the first one I get for sure.

Noodleface said:

All the cool kids are on Leviathan

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Pfft, just some old dude with a noodlebutt and a van that has been up on blocks in his driveway the past couple years.

If Levi people want to collect in sort of one place, you're welcome to join my fc. Caveat: if you're looking for vibrant fc chat from a pile of existing members, you'll be disappointed. It's just me, my alts, and one guy who isn't likely to log in again anytime soon. I'm living in Eureka until I rush through the patch content, so I suck at looking for anyone. You can click the placard at my house (Lavender beds, ward 10, plot 21, forever sad I missed Shirogane opening and I hate you if you have plot 30.) Should have an application button, and I can add you from that if I don't catch you online. I'm mostly on Obsolete Model, if you want to add me and don't care that I pretty much just lurk here.

I'll join it. I'm in some weird as fuck FC

Finally finished all my relic weapons from anima to eureka. Eureka took me about a month and half to complete and the anima about 2 weeks. Definitely going with the gold anima(the one before this one is blue) as my default weapon glam opposed to the hydatos one.

Trying to clear my quest log before xpansion. So I ran through all the Aliance raids this week. Did Orbonne Monastary today and the mechanics are really unforgiving. Pulled through and got it done even though I had only the basic grasp on some mechanics (did need to be revived a few times .

How do these duty finder raids in FFXIV compare to Wow. Surely harder then LFR at least. I never raided much in WoW so not sure how they compare. Normal or heroic difficulty?

LFR is braindead. The only people that sort of need to know what's going on are tanks.. and even then...

If you have a pulse you're good

I'd say the 24 mans are somewhere between LFR and normal. You can generally complete them with half your team dying to stupid crap (and will usually actually have half your team dying to stupid crap), but they have a little more in the way of mechanics than LFR. Both occasionally have mechanics that'll wipe the raid if enough people fuck them up (looking at you, Coven), but no one is shocked when it happens.

Generally, the alliance raids scale higher in difficulty throughout an expansion. So the 3rd one will be more difficult mechanically than the first two, and the first two you have the advantage of being able to overgear them as the tiers continue. People will die, but as long as enough people can do the fight properly and throw out rezzes to the shitters you can still finish.

Raids are tiered weird in this game. You have your 24 man alliance raids with one difficultly setting. Then you have 8 man raids with normal and savage difficulty. You also have ultimate 8 man raids. This is the hardest one. Trials are also 8 man raids with normal, hard and extreme difficulties. It's all over the place.

Ya, 24 man raids are somewhere between LFR and Normal: Doable by pubs, but a lot less forgiving on mechanics. Especially week 1 lol

Trials are a mixed bag. Most of the normal trials are pretty easy (except Omega's robot form...the English translator was a fucking troll with that starboard/larboard shit). The Extreme/Savage trials would be more similar to heroic/Mythic in WoW...people need to pull their weight and meet gear/DPS checks and not fail mechanics or you'll die.

You get a lot of tools when you hit the expansions for WHM. If you're looking for ELITE DPS then you're probably shit outta luck hah, as they pretty much drop a couple of dots and then spam their single Stone spell over and over until they need to do something else.

However, for healing and just general utility, they are pretty beastly. Rarely run outta mana due to an ae heal/dps/mana regen spell and the normal healer mana regen ability. Giant AE stun/dps spell that you can combine with insta-cast and the diminishing returns to drop 3 at the start of basically any group fight before you need to go back to healing, due to the stuns. Of course an insta-cast full heal every 2 minutes, but you also get a much faster cooldown medium heal. Add in some synergy with an insta-cast regen spell, an absorption shield based on target HP, and of course the EZmode Medica 2 AE heal+different regen(stacks with Regen) hits, and you have a pretty fun and active class during fights.

But solo leveling is pure cancer.