Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Gotta run those to cap phantasmagoria anyways. Speaking of which, is running the experts the most efficient way to cap??

Maps or hunts will cap you the fastest. Honestly I capped off 15 straight S rank kills on tuesday.

I'm getting some Vex Thal vibes out of Amaurot, can't be the only one.

If it was like Vex Thal, then you'd have to clear 400 trash mobs before talking to a quest NPC.

Noodleface said:

If you're not a crafter, what are some good gil making activities? I assume you could play the market board pretty hard here but I'm not sure I want to

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I made my first 50m doing deep runs of palace of the dead in groups (aiming to clear floor 200 w occasional wipes at 180+), and throughout sb made at least 100m from potd + hoh deepruns combined. I got a bit luckier than average, but gf came to all of these and she made at least 75m.

Ehrgeix said:

I made my first 50m doing deep runs of palace of the dead in groups (aiming to clear floor 200 w occasional wipes at 180+), and throughout sb made at least 100m from potd + hoh deepruns combined. I got a bit luckier than average, but gf came to all of these and she made at least 75m.

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Do the deepruns drop shit or?

Ya, you can get various items/hairstyles/etc from the treasure bags you earn.

Noodleface said:

Do the deepruns drop shit or?

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The hidden treasures do.

Ever since I got a Razer Naga everything is just 1 through 12 and shift alt and Ctrl added in.

gshurik said:

I was streaming a few weeks ago and people were going nuts about my strange HUD. I have limited mobility in my left hand so I needed to work out a mouse alternative for the bulk of my skills. I have changed it a bit since then and made it so my buttons past 4 now are on alt mouse [x] which made it easier.

Always looking to improve it though.

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(here's what my HUD looks like without massive text boxes)

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What mouse is that?

Pyros said:

Yeah you can cap faster doing hunts, that said you can cap lazily by just doing expert like 5times or whatever(so once a day for 5 days). That's generally what I do since I haven't bothered hunting.

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Not sure how hunts go for everyone, but on our datacenter for A trains or ShB S, nothing lazier than just swapping to your tank class and hitting your ranged threat gen over and over for a bit for easy 100% credit while 100+ people kill the mob. Far less effort for me than having to run 5 experts with potential terribads.

Sounds not bad. Is there a good guide to get started. "pretend" I'm retarded and have nothing unlocked

S ranks and A ranks don't require any unlocks, simply show up group up and get credit. They differ from normal enemies in that credit is entirely aggro based, so spamming AE heals even when the party is full health still generates more aggro credit. A ranks will auto respawn every couple of hours, S ranks take days to respawn and require specific conditions to happen before they show up. **For level 80 shadowbringer hunts if 200+ people are there it's generally desired to have one or two tanks in the party to guarantee full aggro credit**

Allied seals (ARR), Centurio seals (ARR/HW/SB), and sacks of Nuts (SHB) are the currency unique to hunts. The Allied seal vendor is at your GC headquarters, Centurio main vendor is Forgotten Knight in ishgard but there is a secondary one for stormblood at Rhalgr's Reach. Nuts are only used for materia right now at Crystharium (rookery aether) but starting in 5.1 they should be used to get the Deepshadow augment items which currently drop in savage. This is why odd patches are called catch-up because even non-raiders will be able to upgrade i460 tome gear to i470 if they wait 3 months. (Semi-related note, first weekly clear of the 24-man alliance raid will also yield a token to turn in for a Deepshadow augment). The clusters (50% drop off A's / 100% drop off S) can be turned in at the materia vendor in the Crystharium market or Eulmore.

There is a separate "hunt" system called mark bills unlocked / picked up at the same locations. Basically daily quests to kill normal enemies around the world for experience rewards (read: alt leveling) and a tiny amount of hunt currency.

Thanks dude. Too much shit in this game that I don't even know I don't know

nvm, I got confused by a hunt mob Called ‘O poorest pauldia’ and I thought the O was it’s rank, it’s an A rank

I tried an MMO mouse and my man hands can't handle the baby buttons