FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN DISCUSSION THREAD

I've only watched it on youtube, but it seemed like it was pretty epic.

After the last patch, players started noticing that the moon was getting bigger and bigger over time, or rather, closer. In the final hour it was gigantic and everybody knew what it meant. Players gathered together, awaiting the end, and right as the time came, the game faded to black, and a cutscene played showing everyones hopeless struggles.

www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1m4aei/what_was_ffxiv_10_like/ Heres the reddit. Experiences from a player who was there from the start.

I feel my resolve being tested. I...



...welp. My wallet is going to hate me.

So jokes aside unless I do a 180-turn on the idea *again* I'll probably end up buying  this game tommorow. Why am I posting this, well two reasons. One is to check if someone here plays on PS4 and ask if it's true that I can buy a keyboard, a mouse and use these instead of a controller. The other is because going over other forums I learned that there is, or at least was some recruit-a-friend scheme giving goodies to both new players and person that does the recruiting. Assuming that still stands true and there is someone here from EU servers, well... wouldn't mind benefiting from that

Ooh, alright.  Sounds cool already.

Excellent.  Now I just need to buy the expansion before I do anything else with this game.

Since Heavensward launched, quest EXP rewards were re-balanced so that completing just the main story required quests is enough to level up one class to reach the expansion content, where previously you'd need to complete as many side quests as possible in addition to main quests.

Remember, though, that there are a some side quests which unlock important features, such as additional dungeons, the weekly challenge log, gaining a chocobo companion, and using gear dyes and glamours, among others.

Depends on your preferences. I believe you level up fairly well, sans sidequest exp. You can do levies and guildheists, run your daily quests, farm FATEs, etc.

Food buffs help, as do buffs from any exp accessories such as the friendship circlet or moogle cap (up to a point). If you're in a FC that has exp buffs, that helps too. You don't really need the sidequests, but they can certainly help.

Another tip I've seen is about gil farming. Simply take the money for every main 1.0 quest and you'll wind up with about 300,000 gil by the end, and a materia worth a good bit too (if memory serves).  Of course, the gear is nice too, but you can just make that yourself, which helps level your crafting and gathering classes. lol

If you ever need any help, just let me know. I'll do what I can.

Tank>Healer>DPS

This is the order of wait times going in ascending order, and amounts of stress involved going in descending order. DPS generally don't have nearly as long wait times as they used to, it's a lot better these days, but it's still considerably longer than either healer or tank. At the same time, those two roles also provide a lot of stress. The healer has minimal stress for the lack of wait time it provides, but the tank provides a whole lot of stress just to get the shortest wait time. Once you get far enough into endgame, the stress Healer provides can start to match the tank, but will drop considerably as better gear is released over time.

IIRC the bonus exp is only for the daily roulette, in which the role with the lowest number of players in it will be up for bonus exp. This includes DPS, but almost never is due to the high volume of players selecting dps. Healer and Tank often change out in roulette. The roulette also provides a bonus just for doing it, only once each day.

Greens are generally the best gear. Some greens are tradeable, but are far and few in between. If you're lucky you can rely on greens your whole way through, so long as you get an appropriate weapon about every 10 levels or so.

Astaroth specifically
Haukke Manor was the original "shit is getting real" dungeon, but is likely a cake walk now. Most of the dungeons until past level 50, are probably generally cake walks, depending on the density of your server. Quite a few of the 15-50 dungeons are either based on or taken almost completey from pre-2.0 content, but dungeons past 2.0 are mostly original, minus the "hard" versions of old dungeons, which are actually quite different from their counterparts. The Lost City of Amdapor is by far my favorite dungeon, and I'd like to know what you think once you you've experienced all the dungeons up to that point. If you ever get to a point where you're worried about not knowing what to do in a boss encounter or dungeon mechanic, MTQcapture is a youtube channel that houses a large amount of FFXIV guides, and is the go-to for the community. They're very professionally done, though you may have to rewatch some of the more complicated ones.