Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Rezz said:

Yeah; I was just remembering that you would get xp for trying to HQ the various moogle/ehcatl quest items because they were just items, while the namasu just flat out don't give XP until handin.

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Pretty sure they fixed that back in HW, makes sense, if you get xp for crafting quest items, you can just drop the quest and pick it up again, leading to an infinite amount of ressources to craft with for free, so you can macro all the crafts to cap without spending any money.

a_skeleton_03 said:

Got the BLM up to 34 from 20 something today.

So now that I hit level 50+ do I reset and "start at 50" every time? I am 34/45 in arms/armor for aetherpool do I turn some in for an aethergrip? Will that gimp me hard?

I need to figure out my level 60 BLM rotation because my hotbar is full of shit and I use like 4 skills.

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Yes you chain the 51-60 part, once you finish, you just delete the save and start at 51 again, that's what most people do, you get the same xp for 51+ per clear, it just gets harder as you go up to people reset it, but it's also much better xp than pre 51. Also you get to play with all the skills(well for potd).

As for Black Mage, at 60 it plays more or less like this:
Cast Enochian. Your goal is to never drop this, although you can drop it and just recast it if it's off cd, it will clip your GCD a bit generally.

Then Fire III to get AF3, then Fire IV spam until low, then Blizzard III to get UI3, Blizzard IV to get the 3 stacks, Thunder III(II if aoe), Fire III etc. Depending on the mana tick, sometimes you have to cast Blizzard I after Thunder to get full mp? But it really depends and lines up weirdly depending on your level and shit. When between combat, spam Transpose to keep Enochian. While technically not needed at 60, it's good training for 70 when you don't want to drop it because every 30secs spent in Enochian means you can cast Foul.

Leylines as you see fit, Sharpcast is generally a bit weird to use I'm not sure what's the cases for it now, I believe it's situational, if you know you'll need an instant cast soon for a movement phase you can force it on a fire I or thunder. Convert for an additional Fire IV whenever it's up.

If there's a bunch of enemies, the aoe rotation involves Fire II and Flare but I'm not sure what it's at currently. With Blizzard IV buff you can flare multiple times though. Use Thunder II instead of III for AoE too, eventually you get Thunder IV to replace II.

IF there's a BLM guide, it should more or less apply to 60 other than Foul, which can be replaced with a Blizzard I if needed for mp filling purposes.

Doesn't take long to finish 4.3 and 4.4. Definitely should do it before january since 4.5 is likely to contain a bunch of spoilers so you kinda want to do that asap. I'd also consider doing it before the unanounced live letter in december, probably in a couple of weeks, if you want to watch that, again, might contain 4.4 spoilers and what not. It's not super spoilery yet, but it's getting there.

Valderen said:

It was my plan to finish 4.3 and 4.4 before 4.5. I didn't consider the live letter though, so I might have to prioritize that a bit more, it's not like I have a deadline for crafting other than Shadowbringers.

I just got distracted.

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Yeah when I get into crafting I generally just do that all day for weeks on end, make so much money and catch up all the shit, meld all the best gear. Then I get bored and stop crafting for a while. Gathering I find boring all the time though, only do it because it's something to do. I do like fishing every now and then, but I hate how you often need super good gear just to get a decent chance at catching some of the fishes and then it's still several layers of RNG.

Anyway was just saying, but shouldn't take long to do both stories, like an hour and a half maybe? More I guess if you have to farm gear to enter The Burn and such, but if you pop your centurio weeklies and buy some crap gear from that you're pretty close already, just need to run a few dungeons, especially first time, to get some tomes and be done, the requirements for dungeons are always pretty low. Think it's like 340 for 4.4 dungeons and centurio gear is 330 while non capped tome gear is 360, so it's pretty quick to strike a balance by buying left side centurio right side mendacity.

Valderen said:

I hadn't really looked into what would be required to gear up. Well this is going to be easy.

Tome of Mandacity(Unlimited) rewards 360 items.
Tome of Genesis(450 a week) rewards 390 items.

I don't think I saw weapons though just armor and accessories, I may just have missed them. I was logging off and checked quickly.

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There's weapons, but they use a more convoluted system. Basically to buy a weapon, you need 10 rowena tokens that you buy for 100 tomes each, there's tokens for every type of tomes so buy the right ones. Then you need a weapon thing, forgot the name but it's just another token, these drop in savage, or can be exchanged for normal 8man raid drops, crystalloids or whatever. For the mendacity one, you need to do Sigmascape v4(Kefka) 4times. For the genesis weapon, you need to do Alphascape v4(Omega) 7times. It'll be reduced to 4 in 4.55 or 4.56 I forgot. Issue with the genesis one is drops from Alphascape are weekly capped, so what that means is right now, you need to wait 7weeks before you can buy one(and also have 1000genesis tokens, so like a week and a half worth). However Sigmascape is uncapped and since it's only 4, it takes like an hour or so to get the tokens and get a 360weapon.

You can also upgrade that weapon with some items you can buy with the drops from 24man dungeons. For Sigma, you need the first and 2nd dungeon(I forgot what they're named, but whatever's available currently). For Alphhascape you'll be able to get those tokens once they add the last 24man, and as with the weapon tokens, they also drop in savage Alphascape. Upgrading can be done for all tome gear, and adds 10ilvl. It's pretty big for the weapon, less so for the rest of the gear.

Basically all the good stuff drops in savage mode but even the casual plebs can buy the things eventually via other ways.

So yeah what you want to do is, do some bounties, get centurio seals(do HW and SB bounties, they both give the same centurio seals, it's 105seals a day per so 210, with an additional 100+100 for the weeklies, you need like 800ish seals to buy a full set of 330 including the weapon, which uses the same system, you just buy all the parts I mentionned with centurio). Meanwhile run dungeons for first time bonus and whatever dungeon is the highest once you're stuck to get mendacity. If your goal is just to raise ilvl, aim for accessories/belt first, since those are the cheapest. That means your weapon will be pretty much garbage, but that's not so bad for soloing or easy content. Eventually if you want to start gearing up seriously, just focus on the weapon instead, but since it costs the most currency it's the worst investment for ilvl padding, it is however the most important piece of gear.

Honestly the whole process doesn't take long at all. Even the dungeons themselves drop good gear when you're raising ilvls, like 15ilvl higher than the minimum requirement, so you can fill up slots like that on the way.

Also make your DPS archers, all of them, they're just better than the others apparently.

I haven't tried the system at all, I will later since I want to unlock GC ranks and stuff but it's only marginally faster than potd from my understanding.