Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Apparently I don't have a mygames\final fantasy etc. folder anymore. I don't know why, but it seems fresh installs don't create one, but it's possible to save a backup file (a single file apparently) from the launcher options.

I just remade everything from scratch. I appreciate that the UI has a bunch of new cool features, very very useful for returning players (like the recommended gear!), unfortunately I had to reposition each skill on the hotbars where I wanted it, for each job, but once done, it's done. This game has its charm, undeniable.


EDIT: meh, it was the fucking OneDrive taking priority over my goddamn local Documents folder, fresh installs are so fucking annoying.

Lol any of you Gilgamesh people have a screenshot of the Kugane aetheryte/Ferry Skipper currently?

On my dead server it's already fucking packed 7 hours before the servers even go down. This is gonna be one salty race.

Gilgamesh population is probably less than yours at this point. We have more alts but that's about it.

Malakriss said:

Gilgamesh population is probably less than yours at this point. We have more alts but that's about it.

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Wat? Why is that? (on Gilgamesh but haven't logged in for ages)

Grim1 said:

Wat? Why is that? (on Gilgamesh but haven't logged in for ages)

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They locked character creation since before the expansion released. So the population only went down as people transferred off, quit, or got banned for botting. We never had a queue past the first week of Stormblood except when they forcefully kicked everyone on the datacenter and we all had to get back on.

The economy is the worst it has ever been for shards/crystals or basic stuff.

Asmadai said:

Lol any of you Gilgamesh people have a screenshot of the Kugane aetheryte/Ferry Skipper currently?

On my dead server it's already fucking packed 7 hours before the servers even go down. This is gonna be one salty race.

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Yeah I parked near there before I logged out for work (approx 12:30pm PDT). I considered parking in Shirogane itself so as to use the ferry/zone to move wards instead of have to load into Kugane. Then I remembered I wasn't the one determined to get a certain plot as soon as servers came up. ;p

Looks like new crafting set is a white 2-star All Classes, but no belt or jewelry in ariyala's DB. Specialist locks for recipes may be back.

Fucking kill me, 1200 queue the SECOND the servers came up.

I'm hearing Shirogane completely sold out in 10 mins.

Logged in 250 in queue. Couldn't get world data - finally get in 25 minutes later.

Miele said:

I just remade everything from scratch. I appreciate that the UI has a bunch of new cool features, very very useful for returning players (like the recommended gear!), unfortunately I had to reposition each skill on the hotbars where I wanted it, for each job, but once done, it's done. This game has its charm, undeniable..

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Just in time for them to release new UI features with the patch so you get to do it again, heh.

We'll be above to move buff/debuffs, enemy cast bar, and simplify the class feature graphic.

The problem is still the hotbar. I sure as fuck can't tell when some of these cooldowns have finished. The icon barely changes, and the timer is in 4 point font.

In WoW I used weakauras so extensively that I almost never needed to even see my hotbar.

Shirogane sold out ultra fast, but there are open original housing plots on Marlboro as of the time of this note.

I made 2 million gil from selling basic housing shit this morning. Thank you, housing bubble. Shit will crash hard once all the whales finish buying their decorations. Anything weeb related sells extremely well, btw. Oriental Bathtub prices shot up 2-3x since yesterday lol. Tier 4 fishtanks shot up to close to a million, when they were like 300k yesterday. Lightning Module is close to a million now, though...which sucks. I'll have to wait to snag one.

Crafting was raised to another level even though it's still 2-star. 3543 diff / 15837 qual became 6377 diff / 28506 qual for the new stuff. HQ mats are definitely needed the problem is the yellow scrip material is guaranteed NQ along with Fieldcraft and Mastercraft demimaterias. So you absolutely want to hit that 1200 perception threshold for HQ gathered mats plus HQ aethersands and even then we're still back to...

...the age of Maker's Mark.

Did they remove centurio and allied seals yet?

People thought they were removing Allied Seals, but I still have mine and the vendor is still there. I haven't killed any ARR hunts since servers came up though, so i'm not sure if they are still dropping.

I'm bitter I spent so much Centurio's on Veteran Clan Mark Logs hoping they'd use that as the currency for the Lost Allagan upgrade tokens, but noooo they fucking made a Mythic Clan Mark Log.

Well one bonus to the shit housing is you can buy Shirogane style house materials (walls, roof, door, etc) for houses in the other 3 districts.

It's not a perfect solution, as we all would rather have a house IN Shirogane, but a solution none the less. (Assuming you have a house already.)

Explanation for why people thought allied seals were going away: Devs used a created character to show the patch gameplay, and that character had never recieved allied seals which means it never shows on the currency window. So people watching the preview saw that and assumed they were gone.

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I really enjoyed the 4.1 story updates, enjoyed the solo encounter, enjoyed the dungeon, enjoyed the raid story arc, and loved the landscape/scenery design of the new raid zone. The raid boss fights were amusing (specifically watching 10-15 die to a tower falling made me giggle). The simplified job gauges are all great on every class I played yesterday, and I am sure I will appreciate the buff bar changes once I setup it up for use with bard.

Patch 4.1 - 9/10 solid update

I would score it higher but housing is AIDS mixed with cancer and they didn't improved it in the slightest for adding a pretty new area with distinctive housing styles. Fortunately, I have reason to be salty as I didn't play the RNG server connection lottery because I am moving data centres in a few weeks, so it didn't bother me. That said, they need to burn their housing design to the ground and rebuild from the ground up using better instancing concepts.

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Non-instances housing with finite limits keeps people subbed. I paid a subscription to Archeage for like a year and a half after I mostly stopped giving a shit about the game for the sole purpose of not losing my houses/land, and I knew plenty that did the same.

IMO the best solution they could use

1) Add a new pleb housing area and add a deluxe housing area. Deluxe is large plots only with inflated prices. Make them super nice. This will cause a rotational effect: Whales will move to the Eorzian "Beverly Hills", which simultaneously removes large amounts of gold from the server and reduces the likelihood that people will buy multiple plots with alts, while making people move out of the "pleb" housing zones, freeing them up for people.

2) Make house ownership 1 per account per server. Right now it is per-character, even on the same account.

3) Make a super apartment...call it a condo or whatever. It would be slightly larger interior wise than a small house. Add a special "garden" feature so you can garden like you would at a small house. Make the price slightly less than a small house. Allow free companies to use this for FC housing, so you get workshop access/etc.

This simultaneously maintains scarcity of non-instanced housing to make it desirable, while at the sametime not "crippling" your character/FC for not having one.