Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Malakriss said:

Dungeon xp increased 66% and Mark bills increased 33% is the numbers I'd seeing. They did that specifically because Bozja was too fast for leveling and had to make them compete rather than blanket nerf it.

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Dungeons were 50%, I checked every dungeon besides 83 and 89 and was always 50%. They do provide substantial xp now though, around 40-45% of a level per run, so 4runs with some side shit is enough to do 2 levels, or 5runs and you'll have leftover(so next 2levels only 4 runs).

Bozja has 2 different systems for leveling from what I've seen, Zadnor being the slowest of the 2. It's still pretty fast and easy due to the FATEs spawning in a certain order, but it's not very fast. The fastest is Bozjan proper, but you need like Recall consumables from Zadnor and mount speed essence, and basically the idea is you go to every FATE on the map(any zone), tag a few things for credit, then TP out and run to another FATE. It's frenetic shit and looks really annoying, but apparently the xp is higher than even current dungeons if done properly(lvls every 30-40mins depending on the lvl range, since the xp doesn't scale).

Honestly I've been dungeons since the start, I fucking hate doing Zadnor. Even for 70-80 on SGE/RPR, I only did like half of it in Zadnor and the other half doing roulettes and shit, cause I just can't bother staying in Zadnor too long, and definitely don't want to do the shit in Bozjan.

But yeah now dungeons are very fast, much faster than previous expansions. One downside is you level faster than your trusts, which makes trusts leveling a pain in the ass(more than it was). I'm tempted to just wait until they nerf them in 6.5 or whatever.

And yes for side stuff, Fairy daillies are about 1-2mins depending on the set for a flat 1million, which is nice enough, and hunt marks are about 8-10mins for 3+millions, which is also very nice. The scaling on huntmarks is a bit weird too, so you get like 205k per quest at 80(so still 3m, which is half of your fucking level), but doesn't go too high so you only get like 3.3m at 88 or something, so "only" a 3rd of your level. Still for the time involved, it's a must do.

I've been lvling healers and the amount of terrible tanks in 81+ dungeons feels definitely a bit worse than usual. It's not like all bad, there's your good tanks and average "I'll take it" tanks still, but I think it's exacerbated by the fact the 82 skills are so good, and yet so many of these absolute fucks don't press the fucking button. It's a 25s cd(less for PLD but capped by ressources so about the same), that does SO MUCH, and yet they don't fucking use it. It'll be up again in the same fucking pull, it'll be up the pull after, it'll be up for the boss too, it's up all the fucking time, but they don't press the goddamn button. It's maddening. I don't even get why you're tanking if you're not pressing your tanking buttons.

The worst ones are the ones showing up with HQ white gear(but lower lvl than the dungeon cause they didn't want to actually spend too much money), a 485 shb relic instead of a fucking cryptlurker poetics weap, who stops at the first pack for like 3 GCDs, then decide "oh wait I'm gonna wall to wall I forgot", then start running WITHOUT SPRINT to the next pack, and proceed to just stand there, not using ANY FUCKING COOLDOWN yet somehow doing low damage and possibly losing aggro(???) to DPS. Like what the fuck goes through the brains of these people. I mean it's an extreme case and usually it's only some of these elements, but they do seem to go together often.

I ragequit one dungeon so far and I consider myself quite accepting. Earlier I just used the autotranslation name of the skill in party chat, nothing else. Turns out, they did have the button cause they started pressing it after that. It was Bloodwhetting too, the whole fucking reason you want to play a WAR, it's like wow look at my hp bar it just refilled instantly, it's so gratifying to press that button, but this absolute moron shithead wasn't actually using it(was using rampart and vengeance though, no arm's length/reprisal/thrill/equilibrium, but can't have everything I guess).

It really isn't fucking complicated to tank, you literally just have to press one aoe(technically you'd want to press the other aoe buttons, but one is enough to hold aggro), and then one cooldown per pack. Honestly that already qualifies as "good enough" in my book. It's not good tanking by any means, but it's enough. The bar is already rolling on the goddamn floor, but you still have some randoms competing at retard limbo trying to slip under that shit.

Luckily I'm almost done, SGE is 87 and it's my last healer. After that it's not my problem anymore, I can just chill doing DPS and just not care if the tank is single pulling but still not using any cooldown so the healer still has to GCD heal that shit.

Then again, it's obviously not all tanks. The other day I figured I should start farming dragon mounts, joined a Ruby EX unsynced, there was a 90 samurai doing 1k DPS. After like 4pulls he had improved all the way to 1.5k DPS. There was a guy who died SEVEN FUCKING TIMES and still did triple his damage.