Final Fantasy 14 (FFXIV)

Very nice little video. Actually gave me some yearnings for my BLM again.
Only reason I put it down was because the cast times were quite long (at least in leveling gear) and the bosses were becoming increasingly movement based. I'd spend half the battle moving out of damage areas so it's nice to see that casting looks quicker and movement a bit better.
I share your feelings on BRD. It was my main before the changes but now it just feels boring to play. Maybe it improves later but that was when I changed to Dancer. I'll definitely be getting this one to 80 before any others.
Funny enough with regards to healers - Whenever I've played one, I've always focused on...healing. Dealing damage was never in my mind. Any reading I've done on them for FFXIV says to do damage as well. It'll be an interesting change when I decide to level one for sure.

Sadly my crafting / gathering is severely lacking with gatherers each to 20 and crafters each to 10-15. It's on my "to do" list for sure as I do enjoy the way it is done, but seeing as I needed to get through all content from scratch, it was fairly down the list. Same with a lot of other things. I've left many Trails still locked such as Odin etc.. Pretty much all of the optional ones in favour of leveling and finishing the story.

Onto the post SB quests now and really enjoying them. The story so far has been better than the actual SB quests themselves

Just finished the 4.x or ShB pre-quests. All I can is... wow. Did they change writers or something?
This entire line feels very different to any quest line from before and I absolutely loved it. Some of the characters were amazing.

The scenes leading into ShB were so well done. I actually had goosebumps on my arms at times. That sh1te ain't happened to me in a long damn time. :pac:

What is it with Final Fantasy games eh? They can really get to you. So amazingly done. I'm currently in the middle of a FFVII play through as well. (overall intention is to play through them all again for sh1ts and giggles)
I'm almost at "that scene" and the feels are already upon me even though I've been through it plenty of times before.

Damn I love this series. First games I ever fell in love with and they just keep it going so well.

Haven't they needed the damage dealing of healers in shadowbringers or did I watch a bad video.

In the work to game videos they were basically saying the damage dealing abilities were simplified.

The back and forth quests are a real killer alright. I remember doing one in the Sea of clouds and it was a constant 30 second run back and forth between the same two npcs 3 or 4 times in a row. Nearly lost it. Dunno why they add rubbish like that when it has nothing to do with any story lines.

Finished the first two dungeons from ShB now. The cutscenes after the first are so damn good. Both quite fun dungeons too.

DPS meter wise - I'd love to see what I'm doing as I really have no clue. Is there an easy way to get it or is ACT still the only way? I can't use ACT cause my game goes screwy in windowed mode for some reason.

Finished SHB storyline few days back, its the best one yet. Didn't have me in tears but really gave me the "feels" as people are want to say, getting goosebumps on my arms recalling it as i type this

Working on my bringing WAR to 80 now, at about 76. Was leveling an AST but stopped at 77 when i couldn't keep a tank alive after a wall to wall pull. Not sure if the Paladin was managing his CDs correctly or not, but i just couldn't keep him alive, it was shameful. Meanwhile i ran the same dungeon with a DRK who had The Blackest Night unlocked and it was stroll in the park.

kevovek wrote: »

Just a quick question do the older DLC content become free when new ones are released?

Shadowbringers includes the previous expansions, according to a search anyway, contemplating picking it up hmm

Lone Stone wrote: »

so i picked it up on steam and when i go to the mog station it only shows up that i own the base game and none of the expansions are showing up as owned =/

You need to go to mogstation and add the code to upgrade. FF14 is really bad in terms of its steam integration, it basically uses it as a launcher but everything else including the sub is controlled by square.

https://secure.square-enix.com/oauth/oa/oauthlogin%3Fresponse_type%3Dcode%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fsecure.square-enix.com%252Faccount%252Fapp%252Fsvc%252Ftop%253Frequest%253Dmogstation%26client_id%3Dffxiv_mog%26alar%3D1%26lang%3Den-us%26facflg%3D1

Where are you entering them?

That sucks but yeah it kinda shows you the square disconnects I abandoned my first account for the same reason.

Hope you get a refund, you should if done immediately as you did.

right i got my subscription cancelled and the enix support issued it for a refund, so now all i got to do is figure out how to use a steam... account err..
woop refunded that was really frustrating.

Calhoun wrote: »

Any of you guys got recommendations for the UI ? Also are there dps counters ?

Never used it, but google says use this: https://github.com/easly1989/ffxiv_actor

There is an option in the control settings to move your camera up a bit, putting your character lower on the screen, which apparently is better for seeing boss mechanics.

Other than that, the HUD is very configurable, so just move things around as you see fit. I've also not looked into macros yet but from speaking to friends they sound pretty powerful when you need to switch jobs often, or do a lot of crafting.

Kiith wrote: »

Ok, the story is already getting better. Got the airship back, and i enjoyed that zone, and the Dragoon story has been good so far. Onwards and upwards hopefully.

Any other good class quests? Just thinking of my next character.

Was the dragoon good ? The Archer one is a bit meh.

I plan to do them all on one character , I'd love a decent story driven one as the Archer is very much a story of a racist elf and the lessons he learns.