Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

a_skeleton_03_sl said:

I am cool with that. I play to mash buttons and kill big dudes to get +better gear.

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I'd consider watching the really long cutscenes at the end, and then the heavensward stuff, but eh up to you I guess. Can always watch them later if you change your mind.

Anything that has 70 or 35durability has lower chance to get good procs, that's basically everything in the 2nd part of the crafting log, like 56+. I think point was to make specialization better by giving them Heart and Whistle while you work stuff, but it's pretty annoying to level up the crafts without them, and even with them the skills aren't very good, especially heart.

Also on Adamantite, it's only really BSM/ARM that need it. CRP often doesn't have any, or only one, GSM has mostly aurum regis based crafts with a few that requires 1 adamantite, LTW and WVR rarely require adamantite(though both of these tend to be equally dumb due to chimera manes and general leather prices). ALC tends to be a lot of garbage and CUL has some really cheap stuff but you really want a botanist to get the all the unspoiled node crap.

TBH I skipped every single cinematic until the final scenes of 2.55.

Now I'm skipping all the cinematics for Heavensward.

And now I haven't been on in like 3 days because of stuff and reasons. I'll probably hop back in tomorrow and grind out another level.

AladainAF_sl said:

There's just too much emphasis on Adamantite. At least with Aurum Regis, theres many nodes that spawn it and its not unspoiled, nor it required for any scrip gathering.

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Wasn't saying Adamantite was fine, it's completely fucking stupid to put a main material on an unspoiled node AND also have it be a red scrips turn in, shit's beyond retarded, and you need 5 per combine too because fuck you crafters. But quite often for red scrips turn in you don't need them, though a bunch of the crafts do use them for some of the turn ins so some days you can get adamantite everywhere(kinda like the day you listed).

In general the situation is fucking garbage, it's not just adamantite, though it's probably the worst, chimera mane drop rate is shit, various skins drop rate is shit and before they hotfixed it required a fucking unspoiled node to make into leather(and cloth/lumbers also needed unspoiled node to make into hallowed versions), hardsilver ore and titanium ore are both fucking hidden mats so you need like twice as many nodes to get your shit done and you can't use retainers.

The whole system is fucked up, you need 4-5 of everything and the drop rates are as shitty as before, or worse in the case of metal because fuck you ARM/BSM. Then you have the whole fucking food/potion shit, with like potions being barely better than the old ones but you only craft them 1 by 1 and require ephemereal HIDDEN materials(so like you need to wait the right hour for ephemereal like unspoiled and then you have RNG to even get the materials) and are gated behind a master book even though they're not even 60 crafts and food is like a festival of complete retardation with a mix of 1 star fishes that require weather conditions, ephemereal hidden nodes, legendary shit, unspoiled shit, reduced collectable sands and even fucking blue scrips materials all that for small benefits over the old 50 food that takes way less effort to do. And it's 1 food per, because again, fuck you crafters.

Crafting certainly seems like a fucking waste of time atm, gathering at least looks decent, even though favors look dumb as shit, you just gather your shit then sell it and make your money, no complication beyond that. And since you can't hit 700GP apparently, a lot of the gear isn't even that useful so it's like whatever.