Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Harkon_sl said:

Still the old update time in the world apparently as I got nailed by rams voice when doing Go, Go, Gorgimera when leveling my monk class; even though I was well out.

RAAAAAGE...!!!

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Always seemed to be a problem with huge boss Fates. Was doing Svara this morning with like 8 people and there was significant lag (abilities not firing and so on). I understand back at launch when there was like 100 people beating on it, but come on, with just two groups it should work fine.

So I just unlocked the SCH job and love it. It's turned boring low-level dungeons into frantic instances of "let's see if I can out DPS the actual DPS classes without the tank exploding!" The amount of damage I can pump out is absolutely ridiculous, especially in AoE thanks to being able to Adlo the tank before the pull and then do my 3 DoTs + Bane. Tanks hate me though, because I usually let their HP get down to about 30% before I pop out of Cleric Stance and start healing them, hehe.

I just wish Eos was more responsive. I'll be hammering on the Whispering Dawn key for like 5 seconds before she does it.

Don't hammer, the pets queue skills so hit it once and go back to what you were doing.

Kriptini_sl said:

So I just unlocked the SCH job and love it. It's turned boring low-level dungeons into frantic instances of "let's see if I can out DPS the actual DPS classes without the tank exploding!" The amount of damage I can pump out is absolutely ridiculous, especially in AoE thanks to being able to Adlo the tank before the pull and then do my 3 DoTs + Bane. Tanks hate me though, because I usually let their HP get down to about 30% before I pop out of Cleric Stance and start healing them, hehe.

I just wish Eos was more responsive. I'll be hammering on the Whispering Dawn key for like 5 seconds before she does it.

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Kriptini_sl said:

Uh, pretty sure the chimera "voice" attacks don't have indicators. Either somebody silences the cast or people die.

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Ram's Voice and Dragon's Voice are just circular AOE's. You back a few feet away for ram's voice or hug him for dragon's voice as melee.

So are X-Dex pots easy/cheap to make? I am starting to get to the min/max stage on my NIN but there is no way I can afford the prices they are going for on the MB.

Pyros_sl said:

Generally, just cast it when you know damage is coming, or after if there's no risk, a 2-3secs delay from her finishing her normal heal isn't going to matter much.

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It does when you're level 31 and too busy out DPSing the DPS classes to be bothered to heal. =P

StoiCynic_sl said:

So are X-Dex pots easy/cheap to make? I am starting to get to the min/max stage on my NIN but there is no way I can afford the prices they are going for on the MB.

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I only ever use them on progression content when I know that we're wiping due to enrage. I never use them on farm content, except on T12 when pushing four bennus.

Is there some way to roll a character on the Gilgamesh server? I've tried for almost a week now and it's "not accepting new characters".

Vithe_sl said:

Is there some way to roll a character on the Gilgamesh server? I've tried for almost a week now and it's "not accepting new characters".

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Just transfer one of your existing characters over. You can do it at any time (except during maintenance).

Vithe_sl said:

Is there some way to roll a character on the Gilgamesh server? I've tried for almost a week now and it's "not accepting new characters".

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I'm on Excalibur and it took me 3 days of logging in around 6:30am central before I was finally able to create a character there. I assume Gilgamesh is the same way. If it's already locked by the time you try to login in the morning, you are pretty much screwed for the rest of the day.

Vithe_sl said:

Is there some way to roll a character on the Gilgamesh server? I've tried for almost a week now and it's "not accepting new characters".

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Use the following website...http://worlds.nyxstudios.moe/

It'll notify you via e-mail when it isn't restricted. It isn't a perfect solution, but it might help. The best guidance is to check during off-hours, very early morning on weekdays tends to work for most restricted servers.

Xaxius_sl said:

Yep, in Patch 2.1. The server originally updated your character's position once very 0.3 seconds at release. In 2.1, the applied fix reduced it to 0.1 seconds in all high-level content, trials and PvP.

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God bless....tell me they made global cool downs like 20% faster or so and i'll start downloading right now! (my poor keyboard...smashing provoke over and over as the healers died; first game I focused my 2 box to be a tank and it was such a painful experience). Have they hinted at any changes that the expansion is going to bring as far as how significant power creep is going to be and new abilities? Is it like WoW power creep where like a few levels in greens completely destroy the gear you worked 100's of hours to get or at least a bit more balanced like EQ was back in the day where top end raid gear had some level of staying power. Guessing we don't know at this point but sure would be nice.

Global cooldown is still a base 2.5 seconds.

Turbo_sl said:

God bless....tell me they made global cool downs like 20% faster or so and i'll start downloading right now! (my poor keyboard...smashing provoke over and over as the healers died; first game I focused my 2 box to be a tank and it was such a painful experience). Have they hinted at any changes that the expansion is going to bring as far as how significant power creep is going to be and new abilities? Is it like WoW power creep where like a few levels in greens completely destroy the gear you worked 100's of hours to get or at least a bit more balanced like EQ was back in the day where top end raid gear had some level of staying power. Guessing we don't know at this point but sure would be nice.

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My money is on i130 gear (highest raid/tomestone armor and accessories) will be the Darklight equivalent, but that's strictly a guess on my part.

Nehrak_sl said:

My money is on i130 gear (highest raid/tomestone armor and accessories) will be the Darklight equivalent, but that's strictly a guess on my part.

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My guess is that level 60 vendor gear will most likely completely outclass any level 50 raid gear.

On weekdays Gilgamesh is pretty routinely open for character creation between 6am-8am Central.

Xaxius_sl said:

Use the following website...http://worlds.nyxstudios.moe/

It'll notify you via e-mail when it isn't restricted. It isn't a perfect solution, but it might help. The best guidance is to check during off-hours, very early morning on weekdays tends to work for most restricted servers.

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Thanks man that worked. I was able to create a character on Gilgamesh after they emailed me.

I started up again too after only playing the first month. Went from ilvl 60 (wearing the AK gear lol) to ilvl 90 in a day and a half, can do World of Darkness now at least for 120 (110?) gear. I think the hard part is going to be catching up on the damn story. When you get to the parts that say "Queue for this specific dungeon that nobody runs anymore" I just want to rage delete my character because DPS queues are sad pants. And no I don't have a Free Company.

Main story quests usually aren't that bad, as they drop ponies and other shit that even max geared raid players sort of chase after. That, and farming the "lights" for one of the relic stages goes faster if you do non-endgame 8mans. But yeah, being DPS is going to suck and the only thing that will really make it unsuck is to make friends with a healer or tank. Or a healer and a tank, and then your life is cake.

WoD is 120 ilvl, and you should definitely get your story to that and past so that you can unlock the weekly, which will let you get an ilvl 130 weapon in a couple of weeks. It isn't main story quest and it really just involves clearing labyrinth/st/wod once each to unlock, then you just do all 3 again each week for the quest. The queue time for those, especially the first couple of days after a reset, are quick even for dps comparatively.