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So I did the level roulette + spam max dungeon. Apparently my gear was pretty bad. We completed the level 44? dungeon but people complained. Hit the AH afterwards and they were right, severely undergeared. I'm just about 45 so should be able to hit 50 tonight or tomorrow.
 
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Noodleface said:
So I did the level roulette + spam max dungeon. Apparently my gear was pretty bad. We completed the level 44? dungeon but people complained. Hit the AH afterwards and they were right, severely undergeared. I'm just about 45 so should be able to hit 50 tonight or tomorrow.
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Its super easy to lose track of your gear while leveling especially as a tank/healer since you insta queue and level so far.

I always make sure to hit up the AH every 5 levels until 50 then 50 poetics will take you to 60 then upgraded Shire will take you the rest of the way.
 
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Its super easy to lose track of your gear while leveling especially as a tank/healer since you insta queue and level so far.

I always make sure to hit up the AH every 5 levels until 50 then 50 poetics will take you to 60 then upgraded Shire will take you the rest of the way.
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Yeah that's true. I never really played seriously so I kind of just joined groups and did whatever. Last night some DPS in the group told me to hang back after everyone left and lectured me on my gear lol. It was nice.. but stern.
 
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He didn't but I kind of laughed because at the beginning I said "I don't know this dungeon, so just yell at me where to go if I go the wrong way" and this black mage said she hadn't done it either.

The ENTIRE dungeon she complained every minute about how slow we were going and didn't have any direction. That dude took the lead on explaining stuff, so it was nice, but I couldn't believe someone who hadn't even done the dungeon before was bitching.
 
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Noodleface said:
He didn't but I kind of laughed because at the beginning I said "I don't know this dungeon, so just yell at me where to go if I go the wrong way" and this black mage said she hadn't done it either.

The ENTIRE dungeon she complained every minute about how slow we were going and didn't have any direction. That dude took the lead on explaining stuff, so it was nice, but I couldn't believe someone who hadn't even done the dungeon before was bitching.
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What were they complaining about? Did you lose aggro a lot or something?
 
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They were probably just being a little bitch. As long as the tank is holding aggro, the only thing an undergeared tank means for a healer is that they have to press their 1 button harder.
 
Nola

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Running dungeons on a Drk is hella fun. Pop rampart while sprinting, pull 2 to 3 packs, group them up, drop salted earth, spam dark arts/abyssal drain combo and use quietus to regain mana. You're in god mode while your dps and healer AoE them down.

Drk is definitely my favorite tank despite being the underdog one with paladin being next. Not a huge fan of the warrior tho. I can't until next month for the live letter on class changes/rework.
 
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With the MSQ skip, the game isn't feeding you level appropriate gear as you level. Most of your roulettes will also give you garbage. The only relevant gear you were getting was the 1-3 pieces you'd get from the highest level dungeon.

It's all fine until Aurum Vale, though. The ARR dungeons are easy as shit and tank stance is supremely OP.
 
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Yeah i didn't cause wipes or anything, also kill speed isn't really me
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Kill speed isn't really the tank, but pull speed is. Generally every dungeon past ARR leveling is designed to be pulled several packs at a time, quite often "wall to wall", which is basically sprint and aggro everything you can until you can't progress anymore(door closed, rocks, whatever, that'll disapear once you cleared trash). A few or the earlier ones don't have these limits but later on that's how it works, and every dungeon is super linear so as long as you look at your map for directions rather than visually trying to find the way(which can be super confusing at times) you can run pretty quick even the first time. And generally you'll want to group 2-3 packs together for aoeing so it goes faster.

Mind you if your gear is shit, pulling several groups is a good way to die. Armor is actually fairly relevant for tanks, unlike DPS who can get by using outdated garbage as long as they keep their weapons relatively fresh. I'd say upgrade your armor and weapon every ~10levels before 50. After 50, you just want to buy Ironworks at 50 and Shire at 60, and just upgrade whatever you find in MSQ dungeons but not bother much more. You'll have to be careful if you haven't upgraded your armor(although the MSQ gives a bunch of HQ gear for that) in the 57/59 and 65/67/69 dungeons(65 because Bardam mobs are notoriously vicious, even with the right gear). Still pulling packs 2 by 2 should be np, just rotate these cooldowns and keep an eye on the healer to adjust, if they're not DPSing and casting a lot of heals but overhealing, you can pull more, if they're not DPSing and casting a lot of heals but not overhealing(you're taking a lot of damage), keep that pace or slow down, if they're DPSing almost the entire time, you can probably pull more.

Side note, just did the free transfer and made a bunch of money just for transferring. Bought a house plot before moving and apparently they reimbursed me the plot price on the base price rather than the reduced one? So like ~3m instead of the 1.5m I paid(Goblet shitty plot at min price), plus another 3m for "furniture" even though I owned it for like 10secs. And then 1m for my appartment(500k for the price I paid and another 500k for inexistent furniture). Should make a little bit from some Rakshasa pieces I bought before moving too.
 
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Noodleface

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Thanks for the info pyros. I might be wrong. But I thought the story skips came with Max level gear, or currency to buy it?

Either way, I'm broke as shit obviously. Might be worth doing hw questing just to get money
 
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Scholar is hitting 70 tonight and then I think I'll spend a few days playing around with Summoner that I got for free.

After that, not sure. Warrior? Great in eureka but don't really plan on grinding that much between now and ShB. Samurai is probably what I'll do. Played it only a few levels but much more fun than Dragoon.
 
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if your warrior is like level 10 then maybe skip it. But if its past 50 and you plan on going into Eureka then do warrior. Especially if you DONT have a tank. Warriors even go "blue dps" in BA where they outdamage pure dps on the last few bosses.
 
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You're not gonna be really soloing in eureka so any class is fine. You're gonna be following a large group of players(a train) killing named monsters (NM aka notorious monsters) and mostly likely on either Tuesday or Wednesday you'll be killing regular monsters in a group to complete your challenge log.
 
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Spent the day reading about FFXIV. I have one question for the warriors.

I don't have my DPS stance yet (I think I get one at 52? something?). Do you typically stance dance in dungeons or hang in defense stance? Maybe it'll make more sense when I get it.
 
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Noodleface said:
Spent the day reading about FFXIV. I have one question for the warriors.

I don't have my DPS stance yet (I think I get one at 52? something?). Do you typically stance dance in dungeons or hang in defense stance? Maybe it'll make more sense when I get it.
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vs mobs: I typically stayed in defensive stance all the time while leveling and pulled as many mobs as I possibly could
vs bosses: I typically opened in defensive stance then hit offensive stance

Also, if you need anything on Levi feel free to hmu - Something Wicked in game or Ehrgeix#1732 in discord, I main warrior.
 
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Ehrgeix said:
vs mobs: I typically stayed in defensive stance all the time while leveling and pulled as many mobs as I possibly could
vs bosses: I typically opened in defensive stance then hit offensive stance

Also, if you need anything on Levi feel free to hmu - Something Wicked in game or Ehrgeix#1732 in discord, I main warrior.
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Pretty much this. I would suggest stay in tank stance while you're still learning the class and wait until 70 to swap top offensive or stance dancing. That's when you have all your toolkit available to you. Being a tank is all about managing your defensive cooldowns in FFXIV plus the trash mobs can wreck you faster than bosses can. When your at a point that your comfortable with the job and the dungeons/raids then I would suggest tanking in offensive stance or stance dancing. You won't get any shit for tanking in defensive stance, just tell the group your new and they will understand. I had a discussion in the Balance discord about defensive vs offensive tanking. If I can ever find the discussion I'll post it for you.
 
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