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Feenix posted:Ah thanks for setting me straight. It's not really worth saving a lot of crafting materials. Keep on hand what you need right now or will need soon and sell the rest. The small cost of having to buy-back or re-gather later is worth the sanity from having cleaner inventory/retainers. You will be surprised at how much of that junk you won't ever use again.
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CrashScreen posted:The Chocobo Raising preview is out, and it seems interesting. Looks like you'll be able to increase the maximum rank to 20 (and probably achieve it as early as next year). It looks like you can even raise someone else's Chocobo if they're in your FC? Seems kinda neat to me. Everyone's missing the important part here: Literal poo poo-cleaning duties. We should assign it to whoever the slowest learner of Football School is  (That'll be me if I ever reach the end game)
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Majumbo posted:It's not really worth saving a lot of crafting materials. Keep on hand what you need right now or will need soon and sell the rest. The small cost of having to buy-back or re-gather later is worth the sanity from having cleaner inventory/retainers. You will be surprised at how much of that junk you won't ever use again. Additionally a lot of the stuff you have in your inventory is on the market board for the sell price or lower. You can just sell or discard most things you have on you.
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Jul 3, 2014 20:08
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RuanGacho posted:For those of you thinking about it, both PBC and DGKK have online populations about the same as when 2.2 came out, and we are most definitely in the most dead time in the patch cycle. Don't take me as naysaying or anything, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you guys think that this patch in particular is going to be so popular. It just seems like a standard 2.X patch to me, which is good mind you, the major patches have all been great as far as content, but I don't see anything that says, "This is the patch people will resub for."
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Velthice posted:Don't take me as naysaying or anything, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you guys think that this patch in particular is going to be so popular. It just seems like a standard 2.X patch to me, which is good mind you, the major patches have all been great as far as content, but I don't see anything that says, "This is the patch people will resub for." Because of something called the content cycle. New patch is released -> people sub for a month -> month runs out, they finished the new content -> less people around, so subbed players go on hiatus until next patch -> New patch is released. This is something that's readily observable in basically every WoW style game ever.
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Velthice posted:Don't take me as naysaying or anything, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you guys think that this patch in particular is going to be so popular. It just seems like a standard 2.X patch to me, which is good mind you, the major patches have all been great as far as content, but I don't see anything that says, "This is the patch people will resub for." It's the pattern we've seen with the previous two patches. It's also an odd-numbered patch, which are the ones with more casual content.
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Niton posted:Because of something called the content cycle. Oh no, I understand that fully. The part I don't get is people saying that this will be equivalent to what it was like at launch. Edit: The Chairman posted:It's the pattern we've seen with the previous two patches. It's also an odd-numbered patch, which are the ones with more casual content. That's all I was really looking for, thanks.
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Jul 3, 2014 20:20
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There's also that free weekend thing. Should bring at least some people back into the game.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Additionally a lot of the stuff you have in your inventory is on the market board for the sell price or lower. You can just sell or discard most things you have on you. Depends on what it is. A lot of common mob drops (skins/teeth/whatever) sell for like 10g tops, but occasionally you find something really weird that's actually worth more than you'd think. It's still probably only going to net you 500g unless you're sitting on a rare crafting mat and don't know it, but it still might be worth it to just open the "sell on the market board" menu and throw poo poo up to check on prices if you're cleaning out your inventory anyway.
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I was thinking about giving this another shot. Did they ever fix the AoE delay issue they had at release?
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tehfeer posted:I was thinking about giving this another shot. Did they ever fix the AoE delay issue they had at release? One of the very first patches fixed that.
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Changing the delay of movement updates from 0.3 to 0.1 seconds did a lot to convince people there was an issue and that it was fixed.
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Velthice posted:That's all I was really looking for, thanks. To add, we're just seeing higher player retention in the lower time, based on the people we know who are still subbed and just waiting for the patch to drop and the amount of players we have on right now, our player count goes up an average of 50-100 players or so when a new patch drops, which puts us in the ball park I described.
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Fozzie Bear posted:Wouldn't second coil be the definition of difficult bosses that give better loot? There are two pretty clear gearing paths, one grindy and one shorter with difficult mechanics. Coil is definitely an alternative but it's limited to once a week atm, and even if you can clear it you might not get the drop / lose the lot. If clearing coil gave a 100% item used to upgrade a weapon to everyone then that's more along the lines I was thinking. Might sound like you're being handed a weapon but try getting turn 6-9 done with someone outside of your FC.
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Rohypnol Blitz posted:Coil is definitely an alternative but it's limited to once a week atm, and even if you can clear it you might not get the drop / lose the lot. If clearing coil gave a 100% item used to upgrade a weapon to everyone then that's more along the lines I was thinking. Might sound like you're being handed a weapon but try getting turn 6-9 done with someone outside of your FC. You have unreal expectations. Also this does occur for the Extreme primal weapons.
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Belzac posted:You have unreal expectations. Also this does occur for the Extreme primal weapons. You're right. I think it's just because my FC doesn't do any end game content so I'm limited to party finder. What's the requirements for joining DGKK/PBC?
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Rohypnol Blitz posted:You're right. I think it's just because my FC doesn't do any end game content so I'm limited to party finder. What's the requirements for joining DGKK/PBC? ffgoons.com posted:Sponsored members I'll sponsor you for 1 million gil.
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Goons looking for east coast static for 2.3 and beyond I'm creating a new one, check out thread: http://forums.ffgoons.com/showthread.php?tid=27399
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Belzac posted:I'll sponsor you for 1 million gil. And to think I just spent that last million on a baby opo-opo gosh darn it.
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I never thought I'd see this in a level 41 dungeon, but:  My Stone Vigil party has dissolved twice so far because of bad healers in Stone Vigil. Is this dungeon a big level check for healer classes, or??
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Saint Seafoam posted:I never thought I'd see this in a level 41 dungeon, but: Stone Vigil is realistically the first dungeon in the game with a lot of really blind, lovely pulls and ambushes that take parties by surprise. To make it managable literally everyone has to be on the ball, or you clear out small sections, establish it as a sort of 'beachhead' and let the tank run ahead to pull mobs back into it by using empty rooms as safe spaces to fight in. Gauge the strengths and weaknesses of your party on the first 2-3 pulls and then decide how cautious you want to be.
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Saint Seafoam posted:I never thought I'd see this in a level 41 dungeon, but: It can be a bit of a level check/gear check on both the healer and tank. A poorly geared tank who doesn't bother dodging anything will take a ton of damage and the healer will have to be on the ball to keep them healed. So it's not so much a level check for healers, but it can definitely catch new healers unaware, since they'll have to be more on-the-ball than in any previous dungeon. And a bad tank can make their job even harder.
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Yeah, Stone Vigil was the first dungeon I ran into while healing that caught me off guard and was legitimately difficult (Brayflox was tricky but only because Scholar doesn't have Leeches if you're running it at-level for the story). The triple-drake pulls can be brutal even if you're doing it right, and there's lots of potential for accidental adds from patrols or damage spikes from the dragon if the party is fighting in the wrong parts of the halls. Usually it's unnecessary but if sleep is available then use it on the drake fights.
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Wow, never seen a queue to join the Excalibur server before. I guess that's a good sign.
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Tortolia posted:(Brayflox was tricky but only because Scholar doesn't have Leeches if you're running it at-level for the story).
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Saint Seafoam posted:I never thought I'd see this in a level 41 dungeon, but: It is a bit of a level check, yes. There are also many surprise spawns and opportunities to make bad pulls thanks to patrols. If your tank is cavalier and/or stupid and pulls everything in the worst way possible, it will be brutal. If your tank is cautious and/or intelligent it will be much better. That said, HURR OVERPOWER OVERPOWER HURR
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Use more CC. There's a reason you get Tri Disaster/Sleep/Repose, use it. Or get overgeared and AoE everything to death.
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The last side room in Vigil in particular can be nasty for healers, although more experienced tanks will generally flat out avoid that one.
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There's one unavoidable three wyvern pull, and that's the last one before the end boss, the others are either patrols you can split or contain mobs vulnerable to CC (wyverns aren't). Not that It will help when you are the CC and the tank / dps take it as a mission to hit mobs right after sleep, or when you are the tank and the CC doesn't even know they have something useful in the spellbook. I leveled WAR as my first class and I have died literally every time on the side room with 2x Wyvern + 2x elementals near the end. Cooldowns didn't seem to help.
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RuanGacho posted:For those of you thinking about it, both PBC and DGKK have online populations about the same as when 2.2 came out, and we are most definitely in the most dead time in the patch cycle. I'd like to know if a shitballing noob such as myself would be tolerated. I haven't played this since launch, at which time I played for approximately 10 minutes before turning the game off forever.
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zwdzk posted:I'd like to know if a shitballing noob such as myself would be tolerated. I haven't played this since launch, at which time I played for approximately 10 minutes before turning the game off forever. If you come in with a decent attitude and are willing to learn we'll except you with open arms.
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Speaking of Stone Vigil. My finest BLM moment. I will never reach this level of greatness again.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:That said, HURR OVERPOWER OVERPOWER HURR My go to strat as a newbie MRD. For some reason my TP's always low. 
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zwdzk posted:I'd like to know if a shitballing noob such as myself would be tolerated. I haven't played this since launch, at which time I played for approximately 10 minutes before turning the game off forever. DGKK always welcomes new people. Hell, just had a ton of new people join thanks to the recent Steam/Amazon sales.
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...well, I woke up this morning after getting DC'd last night to get on, and my subscription had ended overnight. No biggie, yeah? I used Crysta last month to pay for it, I can do it this time too. I add the Crysta, and head on over to the Mog Station, where they button to pay with Crysta is now gone. Under Account Services, of the buttons there, the only one that says "Subscription Payment" is "Steam Wallet." I've been searching and clicking around Mog Station and the Account page for near 20 minutes, and I can't find the ability to use my Crysta to re-sub at all. I've sent a support ticket to SE, but...do any of you know what's going on, or why this would happen?
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Full patch notes are available now.zwdzk posted:I'd like to know if a shitballing noob such as myself would be tolerated. I haven't played this since launch, at which time I played for approximately 10 minutes before turning the game off forever. Both guilds still get a lot of new players, especially recently; I know the comparison seems a little sometimes, but I haven't see anything quite like it since vanilla Warcraft. You will have no trouble fitting in to either group (although DGKK is currently geared a little more toward helping our newer members while PBC is composed more of 1.0 and ARR launch veterans), especially if you're willing to learn and improve. To this day, either group will run "relic trains" for new 50s at the drop of a hat (I.E., help people finish their relic weapon quest).
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Domitor is a dumb title It's dumb and I hate it but will do anything to get it
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SpaceDrake posted:Full patch notes are available now. Yeah, this definitely sounds like what I've been looking for. If it's anything like those oldschool MMOs, I'll probably be happy with it. I was just reading about the fishing system, and that alone has me excited. Now I just need to figure out which casting class I want to show my incompetence with. I'm hoping there's a good exploratory aspect to the game as well. zwdzk fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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quote:Thaumaturge These changes were exactly what I was hoping for, just flat potency buffs without any change to mobility or the current BLM meta-game. SE makes good balancing decisions, mobility buffs would of just killed the only fun, skillful part of BLM play.
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