I doubt Eureka will be an issue until it's 2-3weeks before the expansion because of obvious time constraints, it should be populated until the expansion, people doing multiple relics or just catching up and stuff.Am I going to be in trouble if I start Eureka in a week or two? I wanted to catch up on the MSQ and raids/trials before going in, but FOMO is starting to kick in pretty hard.
Yeah some are really bad, especially in HW. Honestly SB was pretty good overall other than the couple of <1% uptime ones(and one of them is a white fish so no failling that one) and ARR is pretty trivial with all the higher lvl skills, but a bunch of the HW stuff is still really stupid. Sea Butterfly, Charibenet, Opabinia, Lord of Lords and Problematicus are just terrible, to mention a few of the most egregious. Then a few were especially annoying due to bad RNG even though they had pretty ok conditions(The Second One took like 700 baits and Madam Butterfly failed so many times).I've fallen back into the fishing grind. @_@
some of these fish man...
They doubled crystal drops or something like that and you can buy penny drops with crystals too so you don't to wait for heatwaves, so yeah much easier. Also as expected for the most part the logograms prices crashed pretty hard(but tactical went up or something). Light hasn't been buffed though, I'd expect they might do that in 4.58 or whenever they do the last round of current content nerfs.Pyros is definitely nerfed from what it was originally, right?
I could probably finish this entire stage of the relic tonight or tomorrow if I reaaaaally tried. I just bought the logograms from the MB to save some grinding. Not worried about sub-stats yet either. But for the actual main part, I'm actually getting through this very quickly.
I plan on camping the ever loving crap out of BA this weekend so I can get some +2 gear and maybe a V. Cloak for my black mage.
Any tips for a still fairly new player heading into the later stages? Almost lv 35 with DRG right now and I feel I'm getting into the swing of the battles a lot more now I've got a more interesting hotbar. Working in stuns to hold off big attacks reasonably well too.
I still feel like there's so much to do and I don't know what to begin prioritising though. I've been grabbing all the blue quest marks that aren't for leves to unlock classes and other handy features but I've not really tucked into these other classes yet.
Should I put some time into getting armourer and blacksmith up soon or leave everything until I've hit the cap for the base game? Is there other important stuff I might have easily glossed over?
You can't do the class quests until Stormblood, but unlike HW, you get the skills/traits as you reach the proper levels, other than the 70 skill which is a reward for the 70 class quest, so it's not a big deal like with HW where you can hit 60 and have no HW skill due to post ARR MSQ.I'm now level 65, slowly making it to my first 70. I'm on the verge of starting the Stormblood MSQ. These post-heavensward quests are okay, not as bad as post-ARR. Still a bit of a slog.
From what I can see I cannot do any class quests post 60 until Stormblood is started.
Also, is the Era FC still active on Ultros? I keep getting random invites to FCs but I'm not sure I'm staying on Ultros if an EU transfer comes up for free and/or I don't play hardcore enough to really do proper end game content. So, just looking to join something casual and when I'm around, I'm around.
I would grab leves too, the original quest leve thing in each camp, to unlock leves for the future. Don't obviously take than that one but it'll save you some headaches if you want to lvl crafters/gatherers but haven't unlocked them since leves unlock sequentially(I think). You should pick all other blue quests and do them too, there shouldn't be that many tbh.Any tips for a still fairly new player heading into the later stages? Almost lv 35 with DRG right now and I feel I'm getting into the swing of the battles a lot more now I've got a more interesting hotbar. Working in stuns to hold off big attacks reasonably well too.
I still feel like there's so much to do and I don't know what to begin prioritising though. I've been grabbing all the blue quest marks that aren't for leves to unlock classes and other handy features but I've not really tucked into these other classes yet.
Should I put some time into getting armourer and blacksmith up soon or leave everything until I've hit the cap for the base game? Is there other important stuff I might have easily glossed over?
If you haven't gotten in yet, try doing a player search from the Social menu. Leave the player name field blank, drop down to the location setting and check the "Kugane" box. You'll get a list of players and their free company tags, look for one that has "Era" under the company column. There's usually at least one of us AFK'ing there.So i decided to finally get back into this game. Never really played much to begin with. Keep hearing how good the game got so wanting to see for myself.
Looking to join Era's FC and am on Ultros. Trying to search for some of you guys to apply for it, but not having any luck. Char name is Aetton Staniclies if someone would be kind to help out.
It's still around, not as active as it used to be during EU hours cause most of the EU players left when the EU data center was relocated. Join us using the instructions i posted above and if its too dead for you use the free server transfer in May to move to a EU server.I'm now level 65, slowly making it to my first 70. I'm on the verge of starting the Stormblood MSQ. These post-heavensward quests are okay, not as bad as post-ARR. Still a bit of a slog.
From what I can see I cannot do any class quests post 60 until Stormblood is started.
Also, is the Era FC still active on Ultros? I keep getting random invites to FCs but I'm not sure I'm staying on Ultros if an EU transfer comes up for free and/or I don't play hardcore enough to really do proper end game content. So, just looking to join something casual and when I'm around, I'm around.
Any tips for a still fairly new player heading into the later stages? Almost lv 35 with DRG right now and I feel I'm getting into the swing of the battles a lot more now I've got a more interesting hotbar. Working in stuns to hold off big attacks reasonably well too.
I still feel like there's so much to do and I don't know what to begin prioritising though. I've been grabbing all the blue quest marks that aren't for leves to unlock classes and other handy features but I've not really tucked into these other classes yet.
Should I put some time into getting armourer and blacksmith up soon or leave everything until I've hit the cap for the base game? Is there other important stuff I might have easily glossed over?
Any tips for a still fairly new player heading into the later stages? Almost lv 35 with DRG right now and I feel I'm getting into the swing of the battles a lot more now I've got a more interesting hotbar. Working in stuns to hold off big attacks reasonably well too.
I still feel like there's so much to do and I don't know what to begin prioritising though. I've been grabbing all the blue quest marks that aren't for leves to unlock classes and other handy features but I've not really tucked into these other classes yet.
Should I put some time into getting armourer and blacksmith up soon or leave everything until I've hit the cap for the base game? Is there other important stuff I might have easily glossed over?
Yeah, I've been playing the game for, according to steam, over 2000 hours. I'm only now getting around to half of the crafting jobs.Crafting and Gathering is ignorable entirely, if you want, but being self-sufficent is nice, and having something to do while you wait for longer queues is good. Go for Miner/Botanist before delving into crafting, imo.
Fishing is its own special kind of Hell.
Alchemy is very necessary for anything above 50 though, since it makes many of the intermediate crafts for stuff, including pretty much all of endgame gear at 60 and 70. And it isn't really any different to level than other stuff, uses a few more mats maybe but generally has some of the most efficient leves in terms of items used, as long as you have a combat retainer farming various monster items. Also the cross class skills are very good, so all in all, Alchemy is a pillar of crafting.Yeah, I've been playing the game for, according to steam, over 2000 hours. I'm only now getting around to half of the crafting jobs.
But not Cooking (or Alchemy). Nope...not yet..
Some late 2.0 content spoilers.
It's honestly weird that after Minfilia & Co watched their friends be slaughtered and then are tortured for weeks or months (passage of time is vague), the game doesn't discuss that at all after they are saved from the empire
This might start to happen with some frequency now. It happened to me around the same point and I had it happen again shortly after. If you're grabbing the blue missions as you go though you should have opened up a couple more dungeons recently that give you somewhere new to grind a little.Hit a road block for the first time with progression. Need ilvl 340 to progress during the main story...
I'm pretty sure you get a different trainer at 30 and a class quest every 5 levels after that that will give you new abilitiesOK I have an odd question. I'm a level 36 dragoon and the level 35 dragoon skill hasn't unlocked. I went to the lancers guild and there's nothing left to do. Have I missed something? I figured the abilities would still unlock but now I'm wondering if theres a dragoon guild or something I need to find.
This might start to happen with some frequency now. It happened to me around the same point and I had it happen again shortly after. If you're grabbing the blue missions as you go though you should have opened up a couple more dungeons recently that give you somewhere new to grind a little.
OK I have an odd question. I'm a level 36 dragoon and the level 35 dragoon skill hasn't unlocked. I went to the lancers guild and there's nothing left to do. Have I missed something? I figured the abilities would still unlock but now I'm wondering if theres a dragoon guild or something I need to find.
This might start to happen with some frequency now. It happened to me around the same point and I had it happen again shortly after. If you're grabbing the blue missions as you go though you should have opened up a couple more dungeons recently that give you somewhere new to grind a little.
I'm pretty sure you get a different trainer at 30 and a class quest every 5 levels after that that will give you new abilities
Ah thanks! That would explain that conundrum.Once you get your job unlocked, you dont go to the guild anymore. If I remember right, the drg quests are in Western highlands. Should be the guy you met when you did the job quest where you got your souls of the dragoon.
I hope they open content like POTD when Blue mage hits 60 I feel like that would be a ton of fun to run and provide a really good challenge. I'm fine with blue the way it is, it's a nice piece of side content that they hopefully update more often.The complaints about blue mage and the calls for it to have a set rotation and be given skills are dumb as fuck. That destroys the whole concept of the blue mage and turns it into red mage 2.0. The right solution is to make it able to do duties but at a severe damage penalty or give it more solo/party specific content, not to change the fundamental way blue mages have always obtained skills. It is supposed to be an overpowered and different class. The current blue can't do high end content but it does stay faithful to the job, and that to me is more important than having yet another caster spot to compete with BLMs and SMNs with a quest-given set rotation and optional or overworld only skills that would inevitably be rendered useless in the name of job balance. I actually like the idea that some jobs aren't meant to be used in the metagame.
I just did an A4S unsynced mount farm. It was the first time I ever did that fight. I watched this video before we went in:
That video makes the fight look really easy. It's not. Every clear took three or four pulls. At the end of each fight, there were at least three or four people dead. That fight is a lot harder than it looks.
holy shit BA portals is soooooooooooooo fucked-uply designed
think i won't bother with this shit until they implement 1 party 1 portal entrance instead of individual entry
I'm trying to some post 2.0 duties (Gilgamesh) and I've been waiting in duty finder for 30 minutes now, and nobody else has joined my party.
Is some content basically locked from me due to this :(
There's a Square Enix sale on Steam this weekend. The Starter Edition is $20. Stormblood is $20. The Complete Edition is $40.
That's.. going to be very annoying for recent Twitch Prime newcomers when they found out it doesn't work with their version.There's a Square Enix sale on Steam this weekend. The Starter Edition is $20. Stormblood is $20. The Complete Edition is $40.
It really isn't plus you still have plenty of time before the expansion comes out. After the next major patch there will be a lot of down time for people to catch up and complete any loose ends. Just doing your dailies will give you a ton of exp and they should be uncapping tomes soon so you'll be able to get all your gear quickly to be ready.Gods help me, it's tempting to get Stormblood on Steam so I can be 100% ready for Shadowbringers when it hits.
I thought it'd take a lot longer to go through 1-50, but it's not really so bad at all.