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"The assassins will find it hard to reach me"? Jenlyns, you're literally standing in the same place you've always been, at the edge of a loving balcony. A trio of lalas could assassinate you easily. e: I have made a new portrait in honor of the stupidity. 
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Believe it or not the 50-60 questline is even stupider.
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Jan 15, 2023 08:11
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Electric Phantasm posted:Kind of want to level Paladin just to experience the questline for myself. Paladin is a cool job but don't go in expecting the quests to be "so bad it's good", they're mostly just quite dull. (1-30 and 60-70 are fairly decent mind)
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Jan 15, 2023 08:50
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Mainwaring posted:Paladin is a cool job but don't go in expecting the quests to be "so bad it's good", they're mostly just quite dull. (1-30 and 60-70 are fairly decent mind) And the lv. 80 reunion quest feels pretty good, too.
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Jan 15, 2023 09:02
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Picayune posted:And the lv. 80 reunion quest feels pretty good, too. It and 60-70 are the only decent PLD quests.
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Jan 15, 2023 09:11
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That's the issue with PLD: all the decent story quests are the ones where you are a Gladiator.
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Jan 15, 2023 12:25
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Paladins having the lamest quests is thematically appropriate at least
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Jan 15, 2023 13:53
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The PLD quests are bad and are the only job quests I started just skipping cutscenes on, and I am not a cutscene skipper. I read all of that poo poo and google for opinions on quests and cross reference lore and poo poo while playing. I couldn’t take it anymore in the HW quests
biceps crimes fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 16:13
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The only skips I did was WHM because they were just so boring.
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Jan 17, 2023 17:12
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as the amaro's strongest warrior, I've skipped zero cutscenes
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Jan 17, 2023 17:13
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I skipped most of the monk cutscenes between 30 and 50. It did get better after that.
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Jan 17, 2023 17:53
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I was baffled on the PLD questline when I fought a bunch of sultansworn for my new armor and did not end up an enemy of the state.
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Jan 17, 2023 18:02
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ive never skipped a cutscene but i do mash through some without really reading, which you might argue is a pointless distinction
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Jan 17, 2023 18:03
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Super No Vacancy posted:ive never skipped a cutscene but i do mash through some without really reading, which you might argue is a pointless distinction I used to do this, but I learned my lesson eventually Except for sidequests when they're boring
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Jan 17, 2023 18:05
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The only cutscenes I've skipped have been in the stormblood alliance raids, because they're boring cutscenes about unlikeable characters
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Jan 17, 2023 18:10
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I will say I don't skip cutscenes in sidequests but I've also not retained any information from anything that wasn't part of a chain of them
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Jan 17, 2023 18:20
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Qwertycoatl posted:The only cutscenes I've skipped have been in the stormblood alliance raids, because they're boring cutscenes about unlikeable characters My favourite part is when they explain to my viera what viera are and how rare they are outside
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Jan 17, 2023 18:21
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Dedekind posted:My favourite part is when they explain to my viera what viera are and how rare they are outside It's even funnier when you're a male Viera, because they just start calling you a myth to your face. But the game is kind of bad at accounting for Viera player characters in general, there's a throwaway line in ShB where they explain Viera lifespans to you like you're totally unaware despite being a Viera, and despite it being the expansion Viera were first released as an option in.
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Jan 17, 2023 20:50
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I never skipped the Paladin cutscenes because I was warned they would be terrible and wanted to experience it. I still wasn't sure exactly what was going on until I read about it later.
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Jan 17, 2023 21:04
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Like Clockwork posted:It's even funnier when you're a male Viera, because they just start calling you a myth to your face. Ok, now imagine being a male Rava who you headcanon is from Golmore specifically… (tbf my boy has a reason to go “oh wow yeah I guess you need someone from Golmore I wouldn’t know I was just a city boy in Rabanstre”. But still.)
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Jan 17, 2023 22:37
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Qwertycoatl posted:The only cutscenes I've skipped have been in the stormblood alliance raids, because they're boring cutscenes about unlikeable characters Ramza acting real fuckin haughty for someone on the wrong end of the Garlean alphabet hierarchy
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Jan 17, 2023 22:46
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biceps crimes posted:The PLD quests are bad and are the only job quests I started just skipping cutscenes on, and I am not a cutscene skipper. I read all of that poo poo and google for opinions on quests and cross reference lore and poo poo while playing. I couldn’t take it anymore in the HW quests that's what you get for wanting to play a cop
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Wheeee posted:that's what you get for wanting to play a cop give me a tier list of most cop jobs to least cop
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Jan 18, 2023 23:56
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biceps crimes posted:give me a tier list of most cop jobs to least cop ROG surprisingly high on the list, but then NIN drops back down. SAM pretty high. Arcanist you technically are a cop working for Customs, then SMN and SCH just go do their own thing. CNJ and WHM rather more like Animal Control than people cops.
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Jan 19, 2023 00:10
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Hang on, I'm making a tier list.
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Jan 19, 2023 00:16
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DRK has to be low-tier because you start the questline by killing cops, right? e: how does Elf Steve's rapturous lust for the right to bear arms come into play here, he comes into conflict with the status quo but he's ultimately down to arm everyone including extant cops Like Clockwork fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 00:22
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DRK was a cop but took the Chris Dorner approach.
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Jan 19, 2023 00:28
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ALCs are basically CSI specialists breaking the cases.
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Jan 19, 2023 00:57
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I kinda disagree on GLD/PLD, the quest NPCs sure but not the WoL themselves. The WoL is a pitfighter who gets roped into increasingly dumb bullshit against their will.
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Jan 19, 2023 01:31
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Bloody Pom posted:I kinda disagree on GLD/PLD, the quest NPCs sure but not the WoL themselves. The WoL is a pitfighter who gets roped into increasingly dumb bullshit against their will. To the point you go back to pitfighting because screw this bullshit.
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hopeandjoy posted:To the point you go back to pitfighting because screw this bullshit. Without spoiling anything, I will say the payoff you get at 80 is almost worth it. Almost.
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Jan 19, 2023 01:43
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In the 50-60 SAM questline you play as the Kampeitei trying to stop the Kwangtung Army from restarting the Sengoku Era but with more fascism, where does that fit in the cop scale.
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Jan 19, 2023 01:52
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i beat endwalker so i'm killing time by leveling LNC, just got to DRG questlines, oh man estinien is here
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barclayed posted:i beat endwalker so i'm killing time by leveling LNC, just got to DRG questlines, oh man estinien is here DRG is high on the list of job quests that come out weird if you do them later, beaten out only by doing ARR CUL in early HW.
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I spent the last two days hammering out the Stormblood crafting quests while I'm in the .X section. I'd done Weaver as soon as I got to Kugane, because I'd been really maining Weaver throughout HW and was already 70 by the time I got into StB (Likewise with Miner/Botanist, I was 80+ thanks to the Diadem by the time I got to the appropriate zones to finish the quests). I'd done Goldsmith last week and felt like more of that chill, fairly feel-good story you get with the crafting questlines. So yesterday, I sat down and just powered my way through a bunch of collectibles and GC turn-ins to get everything from the mid-60s where I'd left them up to 68-70. To start, Leatherworker. I had been wondering why there were only a few very specific pieces of taxidermy we could put in our houses, and that explained most of it.  I paid about 200k total for the Carbonweave cap and coat, which is probably going to be my crafting glam for a while. I'd gotten a full set of Handking gear at Rhalgr's Reach, so whenever I hit 70 I'd slap it on with those glams. Next, Carpenter. Head to Kugane and use our saws to solve people's problems, huh. Well, not sure exactly how I can help a lady's confidence with carpentry... I split this one over two days, about half each day.     Beatin just keeps showing up with wood for wood.  Next up, Blacksmith. I went to buy some GC turn-ins for XP, but they were rare on the market board, going for about 75k. Then I realized, they're asking for Doman Steel, and I'd spent a couple hours a few days ago harvesting materials for Doman Steel. Wow, it's hard getting just the Doman Iron to high quality. Oh, that's why, I'm wearing level 60 clothes, but my tools are in the low 50s, a full ten levels behind the recipes. Well, let's see what it'll take to upgrade to intermediate tools... About 35k each. I wound up doing the BSM quests to 65, getting the quest reward tools, then using those to make the Doman Steel turn-ins I needed to get BSM and ARM to 70.  I only took one picture, because the BSM quests weren't too notable. Also on the "not too notable" front, it's time for more Armorer adventures with Blanstyr and his quest for relevance! First, I needed to finish the HW ARM quests because I'd left them in the middle. Having to source Titanium after three whole questlines of "Here, take these quest materials and make this quest item. You barely even have to move" felt rude as hell. I bought everything my retainers weren't holding onto in Idyllshire. Then it was off to Kugane again to walk back and forth across the city a few times and watch Blanstyr make his own mistakes. Mild amusement was obtained by having my Armorer gear glammed into the Heavensturn yoroi while Blanstyr talks about the Heavensturn helmets. I took only one relevant photo, as I took a break to do a Fete.  And finally today, Alchemist. I'd been forced to reluctantly put Fantasy CSI on hold until I got more levels, which meant I had to take a moment and refresh myself on the plot as I came back. Fantasy CSI, weirdly incorruptible corpses, a cursed dagger. Feel like that's the gist of things, but I don't know why F'lhaminn's involved- (MSQ background spoiler, talked about late/post Heavensward)  ...Oh. And then there was the typical problem one has when doing quests across a level range back to back: "We've got him cornered! You go get some rest, we might be in for a siege." *I do not move* "Sorry, he got away..." This questline just brings into question exactly how corpse disposal works in Eorzea. Like, most of the people we see die dissipate into a cloud of sparkles (or dark miasma if they're evil). But we also need to occasionally pick up and carry corpses, there's a thriving business in graveyards and burial chambers, and sometimes zombies happen. But anyway, that's all my crafters leveled to 70. I'm certainly not forgetting anyone, certainly not one that hasn't even started the Heavensward questline because I absolutely do not want to source cooking ingredients.
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Dareon posted:But anyway, that's all my crafters leveled to 70. I'm certainly not forgetting anyone, certainly not one that hasn't even started the Heavensward questline because I absolutely do not want to source cooking ingredients.
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GilliamYaeger posted:If you've got a combat retainer levelled, you can send them off to get specific monster drops and they'll come back with a stack of them an hour later. Super easy. I think the maximum is a stack of 15 each time, which is going to be plenty for most crafting.
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And the rest of it you need you can source using Botany or sometimes buying a resource off a merchant.
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quote:"We've got him cornered! You go get some rest, we might be in for a siege." *I do not move* "Sorry, he got away..."
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