Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

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spronk

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some ISIS assholes ruined the gilgamesh inaugural RP theater staging apparently. kruegens the doctor krieger looking pedo at the end

 
Voldeth

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Vilgan_sl said:
So, if someone were to run AK 10 times and then chill and raid some, AK some, and not worry about beating turn 4/5 ASAP this wouldn't be as huge of a problem?

Maybe I'll be regretting saying this in a few weeks but right now this seems like a problem that impacts the vocal minority who want to play a LOT of hours. I guess we'll see where this goes in 4-6 weeks when more people are 50 and might be impacted.
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I don't understand why people think that the lack of content is only effecting players who have 'a LOT of hours' to play. I missed 4 days worth of playing due to connection issues and I haven't logged in very much outside of our coil runs. I finished 2 sets worth of darklight gear (I'd have only done one if speed running weren't available). There's just very little to do to progress your character; I've even level'd up conj for a cross class skill that I'll never use just because I had nothing else to do.

The problem is there's no meaningful content to do at 50 apart from Coil and this is bad design. There is exactly one dungeon to do once you hit level cap (WP doesn't count since AK drops superior gear). There should have been several hard mode dungeons available at launch that would give both casual and hardcore players something additional to do once they reach cap. This doesn't mean that I don't enjoy running coil / playing the game. It just means that there's a distinct lack of content which should have been anticipated and this affects everyone, including Timmy casual that just hit 50 yesterday.
 
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I'm not even sure why all the dungeons did not have a hard mode. Seems like something simple for them to put in, and some of those dungeons are pretty fun.

For me the biggest downfall of this game is not enough stuff to do if you don't want to level/gear alts all day, or craft.
I like the job I picked, and rather just stick with that, but there isn't much to do now for my type of play style.

When I heard about the coil in early access I thought it was going to be the huge Sebelis type of dungeon, and it turned out not being the case.

In everquest, and wow you could at least twink out low levels just for the lulz. There is really none of that in FF14 other then having a full set of darklight with a garuuda/titan/relic weapon ready to go when you hit 50.

I think its a good game, and might become better later. For right now the only reason I'm loggin in is to cap myth, and finish coils.
I'm already seeing allot of Coil raiders leaving on my server cause they are just bored.
 
Pyros

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Yeah but before you hit Turn 4, you have all the primals and the first 3 turns. It's not like before you do any endgame content, you HAVE to farm 70runs of AK. You need it for Turn4-5 assuming you don't farm the first few turns for a few weeks+mytho which will give you 1 or 2 pieces of AF+1, which reduces the amount of darklight you actually need a lot(plus you get philo running mythos). The idea that you need to farm 70 runs of AK before you can do anything is absolutely fucking retarded and calculating times it'd take IN PUBS to get the gear needed to do the hardest fights in endgame content you CAN'T PUB pushes the limit further.

Also I don't even know why we're talking about AK if your plan is to farm philos to buy full darklight anyway. After the speedrun nerf it's pointless to do AK for philos, just run it for mythos, get the greens on the way, then do castrum. Even pubs can do castrum faster than AK, and in guild groups it rivals AK early on when people didn't have garuda/relic weapons to farm it in 8-10mins.

Edit: Meh was on last page. Still.
 
bixxby

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Sean_sl said:
Why can't people do that? Well you can, butI for one do not want to spend 2 months killing the first 3/4 bosses of the zone hoping we get the right gear drops just so we can kill one last boss. That's rather silly.
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Here is why this game is a joke. Raids should be built around doing that and the last boss should rain sweet sweet nectars of heaven all over you like a 50 man bukakke.
 
Stave

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spronk_sl said:
some ISIS assholes ruined the gilgamesh inaugural RP theater staging apparently. kruegens the doctor krieger looking pedo at the end
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Holy shit I about died laughing when Arnold yelled about John Connor all serious like, while standing there spraying a spark stream out of his cock for like 30 seconds.
 
Needless

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bixxby_sl said:
Here is why this game is a joke. Raids should be built around doing that and the last boss should rain sweet sweet nectars of heaven all over you like a 50 man bukakke.
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Long gone are the days of people having patience of you know.. progressing through... progress content.
 
Barellron

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Voldeth_sl said:
http://www.twitch.tv/voldeth/c/2940777

50 second video to highlight the 'gear check' that is coil 5.

Notice that we stack up on the first AE and everyone *BARELY* survives it?

The second AE that we stack up for Sutekh dies (he is missing a few darklight pieces).

If we have an additional person help stack to reduce the damage, we can't make the dps check to burst the person out of the prism (in this scenario, Taxt is prism'd).

This is the only encounter that could be considered a gear check and is tuned for players only in at least full darklight.
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Needs more Stoneskin. And Adloquium (no SCH on the A-team though).
 
Muligan

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mkopec_sl said:
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Got my code and notice in email today. Curious to see how many new accounts are made today. I actually heard quite a few people the last few days saying they were looking to buy the game. Hopefully the drop off and new guys will offset. It has been good to see groups of people at every quest hub.
 
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