Final Fantasy XVFollow

Titan is pretty soon after Brayflox iirc. Just a few more series of quests.

If you need a DD, I'd run Brayflox again. There is some pretty decent gear in there.

I'm a hardcore altaholic myself. I know this is a bit sadistic of me to tell you this, but I leveled a Pugilist to 17 and had a blast. It's a very complex class. You need to not only consider the order of your skills, but the uptime of the de-buffs to manage their own rotation, and the positioning of your character in terms of the mob (side, back, side). When you do it all correctly, no one can touch you in terms of dps. At least at L17.

And there's a L42 cross-class skill called Mantra which is described as: "Increases HP recovery via curing magic by 20% for self and nearby party members." Sounds nice for use with an AoE heal.

And as we all know, L17 is the gold standard for comparing dps classes!

Seriously though, in my time leveling and going through pretty much all of the pre-50 dungeons, most dps classes seem to be on par with each other numbers-wise and it's dependent on execution and boss mechanics.

You are not helping! He thinks the one class he can rule out leveling is Pugilist. Yes, I did feel a bit guilty making that statement, which is why I said "at least at L17," but I went ahead and made it anyway because it was for the greater good.

I run them occasionally, if I remember. They're not perfect but they do give me a decent idea of what I should be striving for for single targets at least. I generally subscribe to "if the mobs/boss died and no one died, then we probably did fine" mentality, but it doesn't hurt to try to improve!

Stop leveling so fast!!!!!111!!111!

My highest is 36 Dragoon. I keep getting distracted by crafting. I've got 27 Leather, 22, Carpenter, 20 Blacksmith, 19 Botany, and 17 Mining.

I'm a 36 Conjurer right now, but don't have anything else as high as what you list. Arcanist at 15, Botanist somewhat higher.



That would destroy my Arcanist. XD Between my pet and the 3/4 DoTs I use...

In SE's infinite wisdom, they set up the market to sort by retainer name when multiple items appear at the same price level/quantity.

So expect to see a lot of seller names that are variations of Aaaaaaaaaaaa.

And, of course, I named my Vennic.

I'm hoping this is one of those changes that will be made quickly due to outcry, now that the news is really breaking. It's ridiculous.

Still a decent number of people playing. You can pst any of the people in this thread for an invite.

I just took down Garuda. Was slamming my head into that fight yesterday. It is NOT friendly to marauder tanks - so much burst damage. But it was a piece of cake with a Pld. We wiped the first time, because a brd kept moving into the center, so the pillars went down. After that, no problem. (I <3 Regen).

The following cut scene was very satisfying and then very unsatisfying Spoilerand that thing looked stupid flying away.

Oh, and what a great idea, Alphaunaud, let's Spoilerrebuild the scion base in the exact same indefensible position that you put it in last time. Simply genius.

I honestly don't know if I'll sub once my free time runs out. I can see me coming back to the game in the future, but not sure it's what I'm looking for right now. I'm doing more grinding than I'm happy about. The story quest alone was sufficient to level for a long time. Once that stopped being true, the going got rough. But, to be fair, I wouldn't be having such an issue if I wasn't trying to save the side quests for future leveling assistance.

That said, it's a shame. There doesn't seem to be fame or any sort of reputations in the game, nor anything else that would make the actual content of leveling more interesting. Well, there ARE, with the GCs, but I don't find them interesting. And I loathe the gear model they use for the armor. Plus, they don't really apply to anything at endgame, and you don't really generate enough seals for the lower-level rewards to bother. I'm not sure what their purpose is actually supposed to be.

I can see a lot of room for improvement, and just including the things I know they said they're already working on adding (housing, GC housing, more primals, etc.) it's interesting.

But I'm also pretty sure that after EQN launches in the next year or two, FFXIV will feel firmly like an MMO of the past.

They seem to have a lot planned in coming updates. It's possible they should have left the game in development a little longer, but I can't say the stuff in game is unpolished.

The lack of quests is the biggest issue for me. At most you can get 3 combat classes up to cap with a nonstop fount of quests (assuming you're running Fates at the same time). With, what, 8 class options that's problematic. I've been trying to stretch the story quest on my Whm, just to leave the side quests for other classes.

I also want to punch whichever writer decided it was a good idea to spread the story quests all over the world for no reason. Half the time, it's not even about going to help them with something. It's usually blatant time-wasting to stretch out the story between levels.

Like when Minfilia calls you ON YOUR LINKPEARL, to ask you to come all the way back to Vesper Bay (YAY, no aetheryte crystal there to port to), just to then check in with you. Are you serious? You had a direct line of communication to me right there. I don't ask coworkers in Chicago to fly to NJ just to check in.

And it's not just story quests. The class quest I'm about to do is going to send me all over the world on a pilgrimage to honor an old Whm sage.

In the best case scenario, I get to go node to node in different city states. In the worst case scenario, she'll send me to one, make me come back, send me to another, etc.

It's just... bad game design.