[XIV] Heavensward Discussion

Minfillia is the potatoes.

No one really cares about them unless they are covered in a slightly sour white cream.

"Use the specified key item to-"



(Me doing leves as DRK)

What theory crafting nonsense have you been listening to?

I did 0-50 and the entire story up to 2.55 in about 10 days of slightly more than casual play. You could be up to current content in less than a month of casual play assuming you don't blow a lot of time on totally optional content and gear farming.

My new Au Ra <333333

I rolled an Au Ra today too, so not used to being that tall lol.




Unlocked AST (eh... I'll give it a shot...)

Unlocked DRK (Why do I like this job?!? I never liked tanks lol)

Machinist I think is the one i'll be taking to 50 soon.

Soloed to 36 DRK so far. >.> lol

yeah I may FATE grind it to 50, not sure yet lol.

I'll be using Machinist in dungeons and ***though, once I actually play around with it more other then just unlocking it lol.

If anyone is still confused about this, you had to finish MSQ 2.0 to do your level 50 AF fight also.

SMN had to beat all the way to Garuda Story Mode to get past 45 job quests. IT surprises me that going that right you dont need to clear Bahamut Prime to LB/Use aethertrail. Howell, chashewall game is cashewall.

As far as adjustments go: I dont notice much of a difference damage wise in crits outside of the one more point in DEX i got from level 51 (On BRD). and the DET "Nerf" doesnt seem all too bad...Overall a lot of the nerf hammer seems to be irrelevant useless nerfs ala-OF pandering.

I was going to make an Au'Ra but the females are way too short (I want a tall character) and the males have even worse positions than Elvaans do in this game.



Not that I dislike my Galka anyway.

I just dont like the look of a midlander with dragon acne. Stats are good, but i just wouldnt be very interested in either super hulk male dragon highlander or super short dragon midlander female.

I haven't played by maybe up to level 18, once ARR was released, and that was only a week or so after its release. How hard/how long would it take me to catch up, and are there any good sources for info available?

Right now, it would actually go faster than anything you've seen listed in this thread.

You get instant queues as DD right now (you already get insta queue with tank/healer otherwise) due to the influx of players and people filling the tanks/healers roles with DRK/AST.

Honestly, if you want to start/catch up it's now or never. You can catch up in a couple weeks considering decent exp is actually available for anyone up to lv 50 and exp is the only limiting factor otherwise.

It's easier than ever to complete various content (HM and EX primals) due to shitters having access to high ilvl gear easily.
Also, the storyline now grants you i110+ gear just for doing it.
Catching up is as simple as doing Main Storyline Quests right now.

Jump in while it's hot.

Regarding information, it's a bit of a vague question. Check the usual forums and the usual wikis. On top of that, make sure to check patch notes as they have good details in general.

The specialized websites are more designed around end game, if not end endgame and I only remember one from when I quit over a year ago. I've seen other useful sites mentioned but I can't remember any of them.

Depends on your playtime but it would probably take you a month if you play normally. Mountains upon mountains of fetch quests.

So far I've seen full sets of 125 for the main slots and 115 accessories, all HQ.

I quit and the returned 6 months later. I only had story 2.0 complete. I was able to get 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 done along with the additional primals (EX) and dungeons in about 5 weeks. Would have been 3, but kept putting off Shiva, because with PS3 limitations, seeing some of her moves is a pain.

I also played 2-3hrs/day, with some days off of game, a couple of days 8 hours.

I'd say if you played 4hrs/day and didn't worry about crafting you'd probably be done in about 4 weeks, maybe less.

The hardest thing is finding a free company that suits you and is actually helpful and informative.

I think you get gear to help you get up to at least i90

I've submitted changes to Scragg to fix the following things on XIV Pro (HW related, I promise):

- new jobs added to the DB
- new jobs added to the site
- lodestone parser is fixed (it's been broken for a while)

If you notice problems with any of that after it's been deployed (and the new jobs show up) let me know. Thanks!

It's not asking you to do something no one else has done. We have all done the main story and you don't buy a game just to skip to the end. In any games you play you have to progress to access areas and do endgame content even XI had Sea/Sky you had to progress through part of the story to access. New players should not be buying this game expecting to skip to the end they have a lot to accomplish including the main story/level their first job to 50(which is now 60). If you only want to buy the expansions for the hype of them then i recommend from now on you keep up to date on all the missions they keep releasing.

I've been told of i140 items being handed out by those MSQs.

I don't know if it goes higher, though.

Considering all the MSQ's in 2.0 had gear that progressed in level with the storyline I'm betting we'll see i150+ unless i140 was at the end of the MSQ.

are ilvl 135 zodiac weapons easily done solo? and are they worth doing? Just wondering if i should farm tomes and upgrade my lance or if i should just go for other gears instead

3.1 is bringing the level 60 relics. Supposedly having a zodiac will allow you to do less work for the 60 relic in some way. So its probably definitely worth doing if not just to have a 135 weapon immediately for primal content (If there arent easily accessible weapons before then).

Easy to get but very time consuming

Has there been any in depth napkin math on how much Crit affects crit damage now?

I dont want to go on to Reddit cause its hit or miss and the BRD thread on BG is pretty much like prelim patch notes old.

Are old dungeons uncapped now? I see people talking about soloing dungeons on OFs with ilv 115-130 jobs.

Amazon phone support: "Early access codes are going out in batches, you should see it within 2-3 days."

Do you guys know what early access means? Jeesh

Storyline/leveling is supposed to go to Ilv150, then law tomes for 170.

i190 Axe

Not sure how far off these weapons are from being obtained, but they already exist.