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Pharone

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Debatable, really. If you're a questholic like I am, you're given HQ gear as you begin and progress through the 3.0/4.0/5.0 MSQs and their side quests. If you spend poetics on gear, you won't need to replace it until approximately 54/64/74 in terms of ilvl.
This is pretty much what I have seen so far going through Heavensward. The Ironworks gear is a great for getting all your gear to 120 easily. Then around level 54 MSQ, you start replacing it with 125 gear.
 

Janx

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Been playing monk and got it to 80. Threw some crafted 450 gear on it and liking the play style way more than machinist so far. Now to work on getting Dark Knight and..probably Astro
 

Flipmode

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Got my BLM to 80 a couple weeks back. Have MCH up to 65. I find MCH much more enjoyable than my BLM due to its mobility. There is so much I forgot about this game. Any good returner guides that are current?
 

Pyros

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Hmm nice crafting RNG. Figured I'd make one of the new fireglass chest stuff for myself since price went down a bunch. Craft one, no reuse proc, I figure I'll reclaim and try again. 90% chance to succeed isn't so bad. Fails first try. Ok well let's do another then. No reuse proc, reclaim, fails on first try again. Ok then, guess I'll just craft one and eat the loss. Stupid ass reclaim, 10m down the drain in seconds. Granted I didn't really have to gamble it but figured it'd work at least a couple of times. Oh well not really an issue, sold most of my SB mats and my retainers are filled with money anyway, haven't even bothered actually making money yet.
 

Valderen

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I finally did it, yay me. :)

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Pasteton

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man so frustrating, spent so many hours in pf tryin to clear e2s, sub 1% so many times but its like whenever quietus/cycle phases start everyone decides to go full retard
 

Pyros

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man so frustrating, spent so many hours in pf tryin to clear e2s, sub 1% so many times but its like whenever quietus/cycle phases start everyone decides to go full retard
To be fair that's like the only hard part in the fight because you need to memorize the 2 patterns and how they're named, and fucking it up gets you instantly killed(and potentially everyone else after). Will be easier to clear next week probably(and every week after that for a little while, until it shifts the other ways and the only ppl still in clear parties are the shitters).
 

Pasteton

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just cleared it right after this post. lol i think all the frustrated people that seriously thought they could clear it before reset all logged in at once and we killed it first pull. all the mouth breathers had logged for the night. thank god , will make next week so much easier to find groups.
 
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Needless

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I'm so sad PAL doesnt get their charge until mid 70s lol.

I was watching an old ass MTQcapture video yesterday and had a nice throwback of how god damn lame tanking was when this game first came out lol
 

a_skeleton_02

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Sucks I was on a week long vacation the same day Savaged launched. Luckily i was able to get a last minute clear of E1S before the reset.

Should be on Titan this week though with the static.
 

Pyros

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I'm so sad PAL doesnt get their charge until mid 70s lol.

I was watching an old ass MTQcapture video yesterday and had a nice throwback of how god damn lame tanking was when this game first came out lol
On one hand, yeah it sucks, but on the other it's not as bad as DRK not getting TBN until 70 and their 2nd aoe combo until 72. That shit would be super cancer if I didn't level it before, especially the 1 aoe. PLD and WAR get the 2nd at like 40 and GNB at 52 or 54 or so and since you pretty much aoe everything besides bosses, having just one aoe is really fucking boring and you don't get mp regen or blood thing off the one aoe. DRK's pretty cool to play in 72+ dungeons though I like it a decent bit, TBN is great.
 

Fyff

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Is there a problem with ACT? According to fflogs the best healing is like 14k. This guy in my group was consistently doing 30k plus. AST btw. It felt no different as a cohealer to my normal partner who does like 13k.
 

Pyros

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FFlogs uses its own way to figure out values, especially in terms of fight duration and such. I would also wager it displays effective HPS, so removes overhealing. It'd make little sense to track HPS if it counts every terrible healer vomitting aoe heals with 90% overhealing.

Oh also your parse is fucked. No way you killed Eden Prime in 4mins. It probably cut the fight during the transition since it's so long. So maybe it does count overhealing, but you don't have the right value for yours anyway.
 

Fyff

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FFlogs uses its own way to figure out values, especially in terms of fight duration and such. I would also wager it displays effective HPS, so removes overhealing. It'd make little sense to track HPS if it counts every terrible healer vomitting aoe heals with 90% overhealing.

Oh also your parse is fucked. No way you killed Eden Prime in 4mins. It probably cut the fight during the transition since it's so long. So maybe it does count overhealing, but you don't have the right value for yours anyway.
That wasn't a kill, it was a wipe at 4 minutes. The overhealing thing makes sense. I am a scholar so he was in HoT stance on his AST. He probably just kept throwing out crazy amounts of HoTs on everyone.
 

Pyros

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That wasn't a kill, it was a wipe at 4 minutes. The overhealing thing makes sense. I am a scholar so he was in HoT stance on his AST. He probably just kept throwing out crazy amounts of HoTs on everyone.
Well can't really estimate values off a wipe, but I think it might be overhealing stuff too, not sure how FFlogs does overhealing but it's what makes the most sense otherwise the numbers would be skewed way higher I think, especially with WHMs keeping Medica II rolling at all times and then still spamming heals. Some people love overhealing.
 

Malakriss

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A43: Will be making large changes to Disciples of the Hand and Land-related systems in 5.1. Desynthesis rates will be changed to be 100% guaranteed, no need to level up skills. Desynthesis will be something used when you have a surplus of something. That’s the plan we have in mind. I’ll provide more details on this when we’ve solidified the details.
You animals.

Q30: Do you have any plans to ease Eureka so weapon upgrades/progression can be done with a smaller party or solo?

A30: This is something we're currently discussing, and we plan on working on it. We haven’t made a decision yet, but we may add new Logos Actions to make it easier to play solo.
That sounds like minimalist attempt to even touch Eureka. Outlook dim.
 

Merrith

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changes to crafting/gathering makes me think they're going to make it even easier than it already is