Servers down for a couple hours for emergency maintenance so I'll post a few things I've been up to.
Adventure classes now have daily quests with various factions, 11 end game party dungeons, tiered 8 man content and tiered raiding all on probably the best group finder I've seen in an MMO. You can also change class after you have queued until it pops.
Dungeons :
Dungeons - Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn Wiki - FFXIV / FF14 ARR Community Wiki and Guide
End game gear :
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/
Plenty to do for Disciples of the Hand and Land as well. Quests open up merchants that trade to you for higher tier gear than has been previously available. Also new tiers of recipe book available for all classes. There are two significant forms of currency for getting the gear and recipe books. One is obtained by harvesting at rare nodes that have seriously high stat requirements before you can harvest from them (370 Gathering 332 Perception)- there are types of this for all three harvesting classes. The rewards include new 'armor' and 'tools' eg :
Desynthing items has been added to FFXIV. Most crafted and dropped items can be desynthed to retrieve some of the materials the items is made from, with a chance to drop new tiers of Materia called Demimateria. This Demimateria is the other new form of currency.
There are two head gear items bought with these new currencies, one usable by all Disciple of the Hand classes and one usable by all Disciple of the Land classes :
Most of the new stuff is from a new NPC in Revenants Toll called
Talan. He won't speak to you until you do the quest on the NPC next to him. All that entails is speak to him holding a lvl 50 DoL/DoH main hand item.
The specs cost 10 x a particular item from the new higher tier recipe books. Each class has one item they can turn 10 of in to get a pair of the specs. First you need to get the new recipe book off him so that you can then make the item to buy the specs - these each cost 5 x a 2 star 40 CP crafted item. Remember those individual items you used to spend Tokens of Philosophy on (Coke, Peacock Ore etc) - its the high level gear that uses these. The good news is they are much cheaper than they used to be and can now be bought with company seals.
i) By far the cheapest/easiest is if you have CULN. Other DoH jobs buy individual crafting ingredients but for CULN for some reason they come in a stack of 10 for the same price in seals. SO buy 10 x Cooking Sherry from your Grand Company HQ for 2,200 seals. Make 5 x HQ
Sauteed Coeurland turn them in to Talan to buy your new higher tier Master Recipe Book.
One of the new recipes is
Spicy Tomato Relish- make 10 x HQ of these and turn them in for your Artisan Specs.
ii) Next step - preparing for higher tier harvesting. DoL each have a new tier of rare harvesting resources. They need higher Gathering and Perception requirements (370/332) so you are going to need to do a good job on putting materia into all your HQ gear. You need 60 x HQ of these new items to buy your Foragers Hat (any of the three DoH items for the hat) and 60 of each to buy their new respective harvesting tool with leet stats.
iii) It makes a massive difference if you can get your stats firstly to 600 GP and then 605 GP while you are gathering these. Remember you have 6 harvesting attempts on a node, these things only show up once every in game day (70 minutes) and you need 60 HQ. 600 GP from gear alongside using HQ Dzemael Gratin for a total of 630 GP allows you to :
a) takes you first strike revealing the item at the node
b) (Sharp Vision) 50 GP increasing your harvesting success by 5% (to around 95% on new higher tier and 100% on existing rare noces)
c) (Unearth II) 300 GP to increase HQ rate by 30%
d) (Solid Reason) 4 successive hits each returning 5 CP bring you back to 300 GP - gives you an extra harvesting attempt, allowing :
e) (Deep Vigor) 0 GP cost, only usable after chain #4 making next attempt 100% success and guaranteed HQ
Getting to 605 GP allows you one failed harvesting attempt and still being able to have 20 CP returned, giving you 300 CP to use the one extra harvesting attempt skill.
What I've been doing as a 'route' so as not to waste the HQ food :
2AM-5AM -Upper Paths (slot 6) South Shroud Fragrant Log (60 HQ to Talan for higher tier Botanist tool))
6AM - Camp Tranquil (slot 7), South Shroud Umbral Rock (60 HQ to Talan for higher tier Miner tool)
5-8AM - Gold Sand (slot 2), Short run to east side of Thanalan don't use skills
9AM - Gold Ore (slot 6) same map, near to Gold Sand use skills as above for 100% harvesting 40%+ HQ
7-10AM - Prickly Pineapple (slot 4) Costa Del Sol, Eastern La Noscea - don't use skills
1PM - Dzemael Tomato (slot3) - same map, near Wineport , use skills
This gives you all the materials for the crafting above and the desynthing below. If you want to do something different the following is a great tool :
FFXIV Clock - Eorzea Game Time and Alerts
Onwards to desynthing. Again one of the DoH classes is much better suited than the others for a new system and this time its GSM. The best and most lucrative item in the game for desynthing atm is the artisan specs above and those are desynthed by GSM, as well as having the easiest/cheapest crafting items to desynth and the most common dungeon drops that can be desynthed.
Firstly you are limited to a max of 300 skill points in desynthing across all classes. Even if you aren't at cap while you are lveling one desynth skill another will loose points. You need to pick just one class for now to desynth on.
You can craft and desnyth enough items in an hour to get you to around 30 skill level - level 1 to 15 items using materials sold at your job vendor. Get to around 35 using a lvl 20-25 item and then on to the good stuff. Use Marbled Eye from your vendor and Aldgoat Horns from the new daily reputation Kobold Vendor (you only need do first couple of quest before he will sell these to you) to make Goathorn Staff, These have a chance to deynth into Battlecraft I demimateria !
Kobold Vendor :
FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone | Eorzea Database: Kobold Vendor
Once you are at around skill 50 in desynth move on to Mythril Chokers. These can desynth into Fieldcraft Demimateria I which is what we really need to purchase the new ilvl 55 DoL accessories (10 each). At skill 60 move on to Electrum Ring of Crafting. At skill lvl 70 we hit a massive bonus for GSM desynthers -Aetheryte Rings. They only cost 1 Rose Gold Nugget and can desnth into Rose Gold Nuggets/ Fieldcraft Demimateria II This takes us to mid to high 70s when its time to run HM Brayflox for accessories then on to desynthing those specs you need 10 Tomato each for. Get ready to make a lot of these - but the pay off is massive as these desynth into the Mastercraft Demimateria :
Demimaterias :
Final Fantasy XIV : A Realm Reborn (FFXIV ARR) Database
Final Fantasy XIV : A Realm Reborn (FFXIV ARR) Database
Kudos to :
Forager's Dolabra? :: Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV, FF14) :: ZAM
