In all seriousness, what do I do with Cruor now?Follow

Well, can't brew lock anymore either, so you'll need more cruor for brews. It's also still used to buy teleports, voidwatch items, temps etc in abyssea.

In short, it's less useful overall than it used to be, but it's a lot more balanced.

Have you upgraded all your voidwatch atmas? That'll only take 66,385,000 cruor. How much free time have you got?

And while you're at it, please let me know what I should do with all my Conquest points/Imperial standing/Allied notes/marbles/Ichor/assault points/fellow points/dominion notes/resistance credits i've accumulated over the years.

Yeah, I am sure you're not the only one. I only used that trick when I was a 100K or 200K away from being able to afford an expensive item (especially something not often up on the AH) - but I feel like I got enough benefit out of it, regardless. I also agree with them nerfing it, because it was putting too much new gil into the economy.



Naw, if you do the lower tiers almost anyone can deal with it as long as they know their procs and have the skill to hit them.

And then when you start doing Jueno etc, if you only have so so gear you're fine as a mage. As a blu, you need to have your spells, work with the other blu, set them, and have high enough skill/MACC that you can land the debuff procs - as a BLM you mostly just need to have the spells, as a BRD, it's mostly having high enough skill that your debuffs land and doing appropriate buffs (ideally with an appropriate instrument), as a whm, just don't suck as a whm. As a smn, do the appropriate procs and maybe toss out a heal or two? (not sure about SMN really) Not super hard. If you can manage that, you'd be fine in all city climbs and Jeuno up till at least tier 3. Tier 3 is great because it allows you to farm the bodies, which are all good in their own right, and upgrades to a lot of common gear out there (especially if you aren't doing, say, neo nyzul, which is sounds like you aren't) - you can also get heavy metal plates, which is a nice source of gil for a scrub player, and will allow you to make enough cash to get some decent AH gear.

The main key to success in voidwatch is HIT PROCS. Obviously it's good to have a few heavy DD with good weapons/WS to finish off mobs, but if the group is hitting their procs, even so-so DDs will have the time/space/temp items they need to finish off a mob on the lower tiers. Voidwatch only goes south when people don't work together to hit procs (like for example, I usually have a staff equipped for doing my procs as a blu, so if a staff proc is called, I pop my wing and take a swing at it since I usually have pld subbed, I can try a few WS - I've hit it a few times that way too. If sword is called, I strap on my sword and help out with that too. Ditto with club)

Edited, Jan 24th 2013 1:49pm by Olorinus

Thanks for the replies. If AF3+2 and Magian weapons are still considered decent gear then I should be OK for most of my 99 jobs. I think I did start my VW counter way before I left so I should have some stones ready when I go back.

Visit your local Purveyor.

This is true. It's still possible to sell blinks to a vendor, just not at an ungodly rate of return any more.

Let's be real here...their item description and the NPC you get it from doesn't state:

"You use these for gil."

So while it punishes RMT, it also makes it less lucrative in general because it's being used for something other than it's intended design use. They could have made them R and allowed you only 1 at a time or EX and make them unsellable. That would be punishing the player.


Edited, Jan 25th 2013 9:52am by Theonehio

It's funny I was in an akvan group last night, and the problem we had was that some fool was parsing it so the DDs were trying to compete and they kept killing it too fast... it didn't help that mr. ******** was constantly using magic shield, making it hard to proc him.

Someone needs to remind them that ukkos is not a proc skill. Seriously. I mean once we have capped red, ukkos away, but why the hell do people open with that?

The problem is that it did do what it was suppose to do till SE decided it was time to nerf it.

Yeah, melees continuously hitting it almost always results in that. If it's ever possible to get them all turned around, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to get those magic procs.

OK, I agree and I guess I'll back off my comments a bit. Can still be very handy to understand things like accuracy.

But what I was really thinking about was what I normally see in VW, when someone says they're parsing and tells the DDs who "won" the parse. And without fail if people start discussing parses, the DDs tend to go nuts trying to go all out for max damage, procs be damned. THAT is inexcusable and a terrible reason to parse a VW run.