Hey Sup Forums, I see you're grinding tomestomes...

Hey Sup Forums, I see you're grinding tomestomes. Would be a shame if there were a patch that made all that grinding useless...

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can i fucking skip straight into HW yet? planning on resubbing again once im sick of legion but can not be fucked doing like 20 raids and shit just to be able to play a fucking expansion that i already own

Nope. Next year they're releasing another expansion and that one you have to finish HW to access too.

You mean every patch that introduces new gear? The gear people always call "welfare gear" regardless?

Just progress through the the story, they'll practically give you armor and weapons just talking to people. You could always buy from the MB or get lucky with a dungeon drop. No raids required really. Also when you complete Steps of Faith you go into Heavensward.

Game is dead. 270k active players... the Jewish-P

yeah but im only on ultimas bane and dont i have to do a bunch of EX shit as well?

EX stuff is completely optional, people only do those for mount drops or weapon glamour.

Really stupid they didn't go the same route WoW did and make each Expansion new where you could start a new character on instead of leveling your same character.

heavensward is actually exactly like tbc and wotlk in the sense that you couldn't play the new content or class until you had your character at a certain level of progression

and it's a good thing, people that want to experience content with zero context need to kill themselves so the mmo genre can be saved

That is total BS!!!

Heavensward is crap and nothing like BC or WotLK.

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Have they killed off the only other husbando yet or not?

they'll just give him a sleeping potion

He's still alive but we all know Alphinaud is the real qt.

>Hey Sup Forums, I see you're grinding tomestomes

what no I'm not

I REstarted in tbc after I took a break from vanilla. All I did was relevel a character from 1-50 and then access the portal. I didn't have to do any of the vanilla level cap dungeons and raids or slog through some kind of 'main story' fetch quests bonanza.

Your comparison is retarded tbqh senpai.

he's still alive, for now. Just wait until 3.5

Didn''t they say the exact opposite? That you wont need to have finished HW to access the next expansion

He's the new Azure Dragoon after Estinien retired. Only instead of being a DRG, he's a Paladin on a Dragon Mount.

You don't have to do any hard content to get to Heavensward, and the stuff you actually have to do are included in daily roulettes so that people always run it.

Besides, getting to Heavensward unlocks just more of the same. This mentality that "THE EXPANSION IS BETTER ALWAYS LMAO GIMME GIMME GIMME" needs to die.

So he's not a dragoon at all

I want to play, but dungeons take so long to do compared to WoW.

>Didn''t they say the exact opposite?
Yes they did, but then again it might change. It's a Square Enix game after all.

They shouldn't take any more than 20 minutes.

~270k in eu
~250k in jp
~450k in us

yeah, sure is dead out here

They're also more mechanic heavy, as to WoW most of the time is "watch out for this attack".

and yet somehow you still get people with full 60s who cant understand basic ex mechanics from fucking 2.3

What's the point of tomestone or savage gear now?
A full 250 crafted set will be enough to complete the new raid tier.
This game is a complete joke.

If you're using DF you can't complain, just make a PUG and explain it to them or point them to a video guide.

That's why I stopped playing until 3.4. Progression is just a means to experience content. There's no point if you've already done everything you want to do.

Vertical progression is dumb.

I haven't dfd anything in months because I just can't bring myself to hurt myself like that. I'll probably have to in 3.4 but still

Even PF groups are garbage, though. If the content is under a month or 2 old, you have decent chances of getting competent people, or people open to learning and suggestions. Post 2 months, all you get is shitters wanting a carry.

I'm going to need to convince my static to farm birds if I actually want any more than the fucking ravana one any time before 4.3 lmao

im not bitter i promise

What I understand is Alex content, just like Binding Coil content, just gives you a few item levels more than other players. Other than that it's pointless once a new EXPAC comes out.

the point is the pretty glamours, the titles, and seeing everything the game has to offer.

Otherwise, everything is pointless once new gear/expac comes out.

>to a video guide
Then they'll watch the ones by Mr.Happy. Also videos don't fix your stupid. They should join a training group if anything.

My server (Famfrit) is kinda shit when it comes to PF groups. Nobody wants to help others learn, it's always (insert EX primal), bird farm, no bonus. The only way of getting a clear is going in DF and crossing your fingers or make a PF clear/learning party and hope players join.

I've been on a server like that. generally, its not that nobody is willing to help, its that nobody wants to help people they don't know. its clique-ish. If you have friends, and those friends have friends, there won't be much trouble getting a learning pt together for content. Especially since people are more willing to join near-full pfs, than a pf with only a single person.

it would be wonderful is everybody willingly helped strangers, but i think the majority of people who are capable have had bad experiences with that...

That's probably the smartest way to go about it. There's really only ever a point in gearing yourself up twice per cycle:

Sub for 3.4, bumrush lore tomestones to meet the ilvl for the content. Then work on getting the best raid gear because you know it'll be best in slot until the end of the next expansion. So it's gear that'll stay relevant for a good 8 or 9 months.

Then buy the expansion, play it and max out the gear on that. Then you can unsub until 4.4 where the cycle begins again.

What's the point in subbing for 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 when you know that the trials/gear/raids will only be relevant for 3 months? You may as well as save them until 4.4 when you can just skip to the most relevant ilvl and content that'll have the longest shelf-life.

I never understood the hate around Mr.Happy. I've watched his guides and they've helped me. Surely they're a bit longer than MTQ's videos but still.

But if someone wanted the glam and titles they could wait for the expac and go back and do it unsynced, making it easier. Surely people aren't that desperate for glam and titles.

>video guide

But they're dated. Say you point them to T5. They'll watch this super long video full of almost by the second instructions, not taking into account the various nerfs, the introduction of the echo to the raid or the huge difference in gear people have now. The way T5 is done now, isn't the same way that it was done when those videos were relevant.

The issue is that (and this is likely no longer true) he would often rush to get his guide out first, and as a result they would feature lots of misinformation.

His rabid fans would take every single word out of his mouth as the word of god, and refuse to accept them as wrong.

The most notable and annoying example is in his WoD video he said that you can skip a fight by not opening a chest.

That's straight up false. You must open the chest to progress, but that part in the fight would ALWAYS cause drama between his viewers and everyone else, to the point where people would get kicked for opening the damn thing.

Other than that, yeah, his guides are ok. A bit long winded and tangential, but ok.

The challenge is also part of it. Its fun to challenge yourself and down content with your static while its still relevant

>soon will be free of the awful looking primal gear

I know it's my own fault for not going savage Midan gear, but Euros can't into serious raiding.

>LB3 used twice before the aetherial tear appeared in The Chrysalis

go to odin. lots of fucks in midan tops and shit. tons of statics recruiting. don't know how they are, though. i'm in one for a couple weeks and its ok so far, but theres definitely lots more than my last server

now's prime time, too. everyone's getting ready for 3.4

>Chrysalis
>Having enough charge for TWO LB3s
>Before the burn phase
Can you guess why I know you're full of shit?

This is the most annoying shit when you got this for trials and just wanted to get your tomes ASAP.

Odin or Cerberus? Is there any EU server with frequent savage PFs up?
>tfw no 60 boost potion

i havent been on cerb, so i dont know. odin has lots of weekly a5s and sometimes a6s clears in pf, don't know how they are because im in a static. someone's also constantly selling runs (for stupid high prices) if youre into that

If dps weren't shit we wouldn't even need the lb.

That's assuming the DPS's were DRG's and SMN's. Got any MNK's or MCH's on your team then you might need the LB.

Cerb is pretty empty from what I've been told.

All those who did statics and training groups left to other servers in hope to get a more active community. Ironically every server had the same problem and only the influx those leaving kickstarted thoose new progression groups.

All that is left on Cerb are a few good statics, statics by elitists and shitters and a good number of those who gave up on progression instead of changing server and rather craft.

> tfw moved to cerb in search of competent players to clear savages with

It's still better than where I came from, but eh. When I have the time to raid regularly again I'll just start a new static or something.

>Grinding.

Does anyone in the game ever grind for tomestones? The only thing I grinded for in the last few months is primal birds and yo-kai weapons.

At least you're not on Faerie with a bunch of faggots.

They grind when new tomes come out, but they end up nerfing the grind anyways. Then make new tomes, rinse and repeat.

the fucking yokai weapons. i just need the last 2 now but outer la noscea is so christing boring. its such a fucking shame that i came all this way and im still not gonna get the mount because its too mind numbing to fate grind the same 2 fates

There's also those who unsubbed. They might come back with the new patch. That's something that happens on every server though.

In general I'd Cerb is mostly friendly and we used to have some good progression. Even had FCs who would carry for free to counter scam FCs like .

what is a scam fc?

Yeah but does anyone grind? After they added capped tomes to hunts, I haven't had to sign up to content just to get tomes, I've just been doing what ever I want to.

And now PotD and Aquapolis also give tomes, I manage to cap before the weekend even begins without even trying.

FC's that sell runs or ask for gil to join the FC I'm guessing.

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the second thing is definitely a scam, but i dont see anything inherently wrong with merc fcs...

>Yet the Ixal have never forgotten that which was once denied them, and so they seek divine intervention once more─to summon Garuda and beseech her strike down their enemies. In the shadow of the First Mountain, the ritual nears completion

So Garuda is confirmed the end boss of the dungeon?

That's not what a dragoon is. wtf is square smoking?

Jokes on you I have BiS crafting gear

>WoD are gonna be shafted as a solo instance fight

fucking why

>non-melee using the LB3

I doubt it's the final time we fight them. Most likely in 4.0+ they'll get something more interesting like The Final Steps of Faith in 3.3.

The one FC I mentioned sold kills. Thing is, they forced their buyers to pay more to even get the kill. Basically the first buy is just a run/get inside the instance and they didn't tell their buyers until the last possible minute.

He's got an annoying voice and ugly lips. Would rather fug his sister

>WoW is starting to do those 3 months per patch cycle
XIVcucks are finished LUL

>The entry quest for Library Hard is "Let Me Gubal That For You"
Goddamnit

to be fair, 3 classes are locked behind getting to ishgard
>melee not using the lb3

That's fucking scummy. Had to stop following a popular FFXIV Twitch streamer because he was in an FC that does that.

>Melee always waits until the last 4% of the final boss' health before using the LB

They can get fucked. As a SMN I use it all the time. Even on trash pulls.

The absolute best feeling is when I can see that the LB bar will only fill when the boss has so little health that it'd not be worth it. Using the LB1 or LB2 when the melee was so close to having that bar filled up fully and they were gearing up to use their super special move on a boss that's virtually dead already is so satisfying. You can almost feel the anger when they hear the LB activation.

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The live letter logo was better

thats fucking awful. fuck those guys, then. that's not selling runs thats extortion.

Wait

There's ilvl250 gear?

>Aetherochemical
>be BLM
>first orb mob
>single attack orb
>until tank has all spawning mobs in one place next to orb
>about to unleash Meteor
>melee DPS uses LB on orb

They also love wasting it on Hydrus when he's almost defeated. I had one who used it at 2%, despite excellent damage output.

The sequel we deserve but not the one we need right now

fuck this patch name. all i can think of is soul sacrifice

next patch. i250 is just what the crafted will be

MSQ

> After a thousand years of bloodshed and sorrow, the shade of Nidhogg, rage incarnate, fell at last to the Warrior of Light. So it was that the Dragonsong War drew to a close, and the survivors, bloodied but unbowed, could begin to pick up the pieces. A new day dawns in Ishgard, and her champions may rest easy─if only for a moment. For every ending marks a new beginning.

So what the fuck was those retards' problem?

ayyy, brother.

p.s. anyone know how they could possibly make the story different if you've finished coil? i bet its just going to be one or two one-off lines of dialogue... and i bet scrubs who still havent finished coil despite it being faceroll now are gonna bitch

Allagan Tomestones of Scripture will be introduced in 3 weeks.

So i250 tomestone gear, i255 Goddess wep and i260 raid gear.

We'll probably start to find out as we head into the expansion.

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It's just going to be different dialogue with Alisaie. That sort of thing is already all over the main quest e.g. Estinien has like 1 line of different dialogue if you're a dragoon.

20 minutes a day for 6 days isn't that bad. I'd say the issue is more you can't take a break or stock up tombstones for consecutive lockouts.

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oh. people were hyping it up so i thought itd be something different

I guess I dont have to worry about skipping through all the cutscenes and dialogue this patch, either c:

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Normal raid will be 250. Tomestones will be 260, 270 upgraded. Savage raid will be 270, 275 weapon. Goddess weapon will be 250.

This is all assuming they follow the pattern they've been using for the rest of the expac.

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>Vega in my Final Fantasy

Are they finally gonna fucking do something with this guy? Like, we've known he's an ally of the Ascians since Chrysalis.

What class do you need to create gear?

I only have carpenter