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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers |OT| First World Problems
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Embarrassingly ignorant question: what do you do with squadrons? I was invited to raise a squadron for the Immortal Flames, so I hired five people and send them off on a city patrol (I think) which raised their stats.
What do you eventually do with these people?
What do you eventually do with these people?
You can run dungeons with them, not unlike trusts. But only certain ones.
Okay, so I think this question is vague enough that it doesn't need spoiler tagged, but I'll do it anyway - regarding the actual quests:
Do I really need to finish a level 80 quest to continue with the level 79 MSQ?
Wait, really? What do you to to get to that point? I sent them off on some trivial task but would love to use them as allies running dungeons with my under-leveled classes. That sounds like fun!
Quick question: Is the amount of exp you get per dungeon with the Trust system the same as doing them with other players?
Much much much slower, lol.
I think trusts are good for one run, they let me go slowly and appreciate the amount of work that goes into the dungeons (the design, the levels, the scripted sequences, plus learning mechanics) but after that it's just more efficient to run standard duty finder.
Conjurer/White Mage is nice.
You get pretty good damaging spells from the get-go, and being a healer means your queue times for dungeons and such will be next to nothing.
I feel Red Mage is the best designed class for solo and progression play. Simple but fun system, and has a toolkit for literally everything. But the kicker is that you can only get that job at level 50.
Starting out I think it's better to play a tank because of faster queues and more engagement during low level dungeons. And WAR personally feels better to play between the two. You can also play healer (WHM) which is super in demand right now, but it's kinda boring at low level play because you're just spamming stone and tossing out the occasional heals.
Yes but much slower. Worth doing for the dialogue and sightseeing imo.
I never felt like the trust were that much slower than running with with other players but maybe the fact that I'm a black mage helps with that.
I've tried it a few times and it really doesn't seem that much slower. Parsing shows the other DPS at ~8k, though I wouldn't be surprise to find that's ACT reporting the full party incorrectly. Still, it's ~24m runs on average when I was doing it on Dancer with DF varying around 16-20m depending on pulls and people actually AoEing (which was basically never tbh). 6 minute queues and it's more-or-less a wash but once you get to 8, 10, 12, etc. mintue long queues? Pretty easy swap.
The EXP gain for the Trust NPCs, though, is stupid. They need 12 runs of the 71 dungeon to get to 73. You'll need far less than that due to Armory and EXP buffs.
The EXP gain for the Trust NPCs, though, is stupid. They need 12 runs of the 71 dungeon to get to 73. You'll need far less than that due to Armory and EXP buffs.
Just did the 3rd dungeon and got the Big Ass Lore Dump..........me and my friends stopped playing after that scene and just talked for a good hour about what we just learned and are left sorta baffled, theory crafting and such.
Okay, I've gotta say, dumbing down healer DPS to 2 buttons in ST situations and then making the healer role quests completely about DPSing shit down is a real punk ass move, Square.
Does this game always have this much maintenance? I've missed out on two nights this week now because of this shit.
It's a new expansion release for a MMO, this is nothing new. Also if it did... I think people would be masochists for wanting to keep playing if this was the norm for any game lol (No it doesn't always have this much.)
Ah man.. I planned on finishing tonight, made it to the 77 dungeon entrance. Saving the final stretch for tomorrow then I guess.
So did anyone notice any scaling issues during the Final Trial of the expansion? The 79 one. I have 67K HP outdoors, but inside the trial it scaled me down to 60K even though I'm 6 ilevel below the cap. Because of this it was statistically impossible for me to survive the ultimate move even with perfect execution.
Spent six straight days getting through the Shadowbringers MSQ. Even though I did do some crafting and gathering, watched every cutscene, and spoke to every NPC repeatedly as they changed dialogue while progressing through the story...I'm still surprised how many people got through it before me. There were gunbreakers and dancers in my final dungeons, while I have done nothing but eat and sleep since Early Access started. I don't know how they do it.
On the train back to work now, so my Shadowbringers vacation is over...
On the train back to work now, so my Shadowbringers vacation is over...
To add to the first reply you got, aether-aspected critters are basically possible in all sorts of configurations, but the 1st and 13th shards are unique in that they've been overrun with one dominant aetherial aspect (light and darkness, respectively). Play the Crystal Tower alliance raid series if you're curious about what happens when darkness eats a shard. As far as we know though, the thirteenth has been entirely lost.
You have my sword -- by which I mean suddenly far-less-effective spellbook -- on that one.
The feeling of playing SCH and then your duty matching you with another SCH
Or matched with an AST that doesnt want to change sects even after asked. :(
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