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Pharone

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I am amazed that you are even close to your MSQ level requirement. Im a bit ahead of you, but between food, rested exp, and items - I just dont know how you are not. Ive constantly been at least 5-7 levels above the MSQ and Im probably ~100 quests within Shadowbringers start. It could be related to the fact that Ive put everything off till I have completed the MSQ with one class, but still.. I cant imagine how you arent at least a few levels ahead.
I have spent a metric ass ton of time doing harvesting and crafting while leveling up and doing MSQs. I am sure that has bit in to my rest experience a lot.
 

Janx

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Well for me we had a healer doing 0 dps that was lashing out at people and then our 8th spot was rotating every week to new people. After three weeks I couldn't take it
wait wait wait wait wait. We had a healer doing 0 dps?
 

a_skeleton_02

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Yeah I'm on there. Subs done anyways

There's nothing different here from leading in any MMO. People suck

It's different in the sense that with 8 people you are recruiting more like a sports team than a guild or community.

I've said maybe 3 words outside of raiding to our samurai I'm pretty sure he's from like Belarus or something but he shows up and does his job.

It's just 100% reliability and effort since it's detached from the social FC aspect.
 
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Pasteton

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Dude I get yelled at if I pull under 5k dps as a scholar. Meanwhile we have tanks that don’t know how to use cooldowns on black smokers. Healer doing 0dps means they are new to this game.

I totally forgot u could buy crafting mats with tomestomes asdf. Been cappped on Goetia tomesones for weeks now. What mats sell best?
 

a_skeleton_02

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Dude I get yelled at if I pull under 5k dps as a scholar. Meanwhile we have tanks that don’t know how to use cooldowns on black smokers. Healer doing 0dps means they are new to this game.

I totally forgot u could buy crafting mats with tomestomes asdf. Been cappped on Goetia tomesones for weeks now. What mats sell best?

it changes daily but the adhesive and solvent are the top sellers right now
 

Pyros

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Alchemics sold quickly too when I checked, since it goes into new tinctures or whatever. Most of the items are named Multifaceted ... so you can search for that on the MB and quickly compare the prices, iirc only a couple are named differently.
 

Valderen

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I finally managed to purchase a small house for my FC. It took a while, I saw houses for sale all the time, but they were not ready for purchase yet, and I never bothered to wait for one to become available, timer being 1 to 24 hours, I don't have that amount of time to waste. This morning found one where that was available. :)

It's in The Goblet which is my least favorite district, but who am I to complain.

I built the Workshop, and now need to gather 50 billions mats to make my first airship. :)
 
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Pharone

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I got to the last section of MSQ for Heavensward this weekend. I probably would have gotten more done, but my cat passed away Sunday. After that, I just didn't really give a damn about anything.

That all being said, I really like the look of the last zone (I am assuming it is the last zone). The visuals in this game continue to just blow me away.

This might not be a big spoiler, but for anyone that doesn't know that you get flying chocobos in Heavensward I didn't want to give it away.

Now that I have unlocked flying in a couple zones of Heavensward, it has massively improved the ease and enjoyment of some of doing some of the side quests. I did all but one of the dragon side quests just because it was easy to fly back and forth between the objectives.

The only side quest I can't fidugre out there is a flower I'm supposed to pick, but I can't find it. I've gone to the location on the map, and checked both the above ground and the below ground areas of that location, but I have yet to find a flower. I ended up abandoning the quest, but might try it again in the future just to be a completionist.
 
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Soygen

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There any forum guilds? I'm on Gilgamesh(does server even matter?).
 

Malakriss

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You have to be on the same server to join the same FC. Which is odd considering FC chat innately works cross-world as well as showing you log in/outs for members.
 

Soygen

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I run a super small FC in gilga if you just want the FC buffs and a house to port to. It's not really a guild FC though just me and some friends.
Yeah, I'm very casual and just looking for the guild perks basically.
 

Pasteton

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just transferred to primal. anyone need a sch or astro replacement for es1-3 this week. i already have a few drops so would be doing a lot passing
 

Pharone

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I look at companies like Square who patrol their MMORPGs as if they actually give a damn, and I wonder why in the hell other companies don't do the same.

Time Period: Aug. 8, 2019 to Aug. 14, 2019

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
 ・Accounts terminated: 9,045
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 19
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
 ・Accounts terminated: 4
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 17
・RMT advertising
 ・Accounts terminated: 1,743
Time Period: Aug. 1, 2019 to Aug. 7, 2019

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
 ・Accounts terminated: 4,255
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 21
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
 ・Accounts terminated: 5
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 25
・RMT advertising
 ・Accounts terminated: 260
Time Period: Jul. 25, 2019 to Jul. 31, 2019

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
 ・Accounts terminated: 9,626
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 19
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
 ・Accounts terminated: 3
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 25
・RMT advertising
 ・Accounts terminated: 782
Time Period: Jul. 18, 2019 to Jul. 24, 2019

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
 ・Accounts terminated: 6,906
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 46
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
 ・Accounts terminated: 7
 ・Accounts temporarily suspended: 27
・RMT advertising
 ・Accounts terminated: 456

They do this twice a month, and they post it to be seen on their news feed. You're lucky if you see a ban once a year for other MMORPGs.

To me, this is what it means to give a shit about your game and it's community.
 
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khorum

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So do they verify that those 1,743 accounts that were used to advertise RMT activities were actually bought and paid for that reason or if they were hacked accounts from otherwise legitimate accounts.

I had my wow account hacked years ago and aside from sharding and selling all my shit, they used my account to create alts to spam shit. Blizzard recovered my shit, and the specialist said the hackers usually DON'T use hacked accounts like that but instead use stolen credit cards to buy new accounts instead.
 

Pharone

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So do they verify that those 1,743 accounts that were used to advertise RMT activities were actually bought and paid for that reason or if they were hacked accounts from otherwise legitimate accounts.

I had my wow account hacked years ago and aside from sharding and selling all my shit, they used my account to create alts to spam shit. Blizzard recovered my shit, and the specialist said the hackers usually DON'T use hacked accounts like that but instead use stolen credit cards to buy new accounts instead.
I honestly don't know.

I do know what you are talking about though. It happened to my brother's account back in the day in WoW. He logged in to find his character standing at a mailbox naked. He didn't get banned, but it sucked that he had lost his stuff.

That being said, I have always suspected that it was due to a certain program he used to run for fun. The reason for my belief is that he just happened to get hacked while we were away from the game for a long time. It's my belief that a certain program was keeping track of your activity, and if it saw you had not logged in to the game in a few weeks or more, it would alert them to log in to your account and empty it with the thought being you won't login to figure it out for many months or more.

I always assumed this was what was going on because his account got hacked, and mine didn't. Low and behold, I didn't use the program.
 

Pyros

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So do they verify that those 1,743 accounts that were used to advertise RMT activities were actually bought and paid for that reason or if they were hacked accounts from otherwise legitimate accounts.

I had my wow account hacked years ago and aside from sharding and selling all my shit, they used my account to create alts to spam shit. Blizzard recovered my shit, and the specialist said the hackers usually DON'T use hacked accounts like that but instead use stolen credit cards to buy new accounts instead.
Yeah it's new accounts.

But for all the bans they hand, the game is still heavily bot infested. On EU they've been concentrated on the new servers but every ban wave, Tamtara and Qarn basically become unplayable(as in you can't enter the dungeon, even unsynced on your own, it'll be reserving servers for hours). Wandering Palace has been in that state forever since that's what they farm at cap. And you have bots spamming RMT shit in all starting capitals all day and in the Novice Chat too. Overall I know many people feel like Square actually does nothing against bots because they see so many.

But they do ban them, but they just remake accounts constantly. It's more or less an unwinnable battle. The best bet would be to make a way to skip ARR MSQ entirely, so basically the bots mostly become hidden from people and stick to dungeons instead of doing the MSQ and one shotting random mobs from under the world and turning in quests with dozens of chars at a time resulting in weird level up spam. Like wow does pretty much, bots are still on wow, they're just not displayed for anyone to see cause there's no reason to and they ban them and they remake accounts but that shit's basically in the background and out of sight out of mind for most people. While in XIV, if you hang around the ARR areas you're bound to see bots teleporting around and shit.
 
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