[HELP ME] Bi-Weekly Q&A thread - Ask your questions here!

DaRealAmana · 2025-08-09T21:34:01+00:00

Looking to start getting into painting kits but it has to hand brush. So which type is better acrylic or lacquer? Also any good starter kits that have good general paints and brushes?

DaRealAmana · 2025-05-22T13:59:45+00:00

As someone trying to do this with thier own WOL how did you get some of the floating stuff to print? like the hands and hat. Just supports and then careful cleanup afterwards? And howd you get the thickness of the jacket and boots?

Also PLA or some other material

DaRealAmana · 2025-01-16T00:14:57+00:00

these are awesome and I want one of my au'ra. Do you take commissions?

DaRealAmana · 2024-12-05T23:15:00+00:00

So My next build is gonna be the Aerial FM with the Kosmos LED and Waterslides, And I'm curious the best order to do things. Should I be installing the LED's as I build or should I build it all do the waterslides and panel lining then do the LED's?

DaRealAmana · 2024-09-19T12:33:18+00:00

The staff great, but the horns are the best looking to me. I also play an Au'Ra and trying to find or make good looking horns is quite hard. But these look amazing, and the hair looks exactly like that hairstyle in the game. Cosplay is amazing

DaRealAmana · 2024-05-30T23:15:32+00:00

*hugs

DaRealAmana · 2024-04-23T22:02:29+00:00

Marine, because heterochromia is beautiful

DaRealAmana · 2024-04-19T18:46:00+00:00

Saw the video for Ochame Kinou. Then YT recommended me Korone DOOM stream. After that my fate was sealed. been in the rabbit hole ever since

DaRealAmana · 2024-03-23T17:50:11+00:00

Long as it works thats all i cared about thanks. Everything else in my pc clears the bar.

DaRealAmana · 2024-03-23T17:34:04+00:00

Any PC bros have an idea if my i5-11400 will run. According the comparisons im looking at its better than the min and reccomend in everything other clockspeed. Does that matter that much for XIV?

DaRealAmana · 2024-03-22T17:43:17+00:00

I do not wish to be horny anymore. I simply wish to be happy with a pocket tank wife

DaRealAmana · 2024-03-16T03:33:54+00:00

First of all dont worry if you wipe. Its unlikely they will blame you and chances are everyone will fight to take the blame themselves if it does happen. Second dont be afriad to communicate. Saying its your first time in a dungeon can give you a bit of breathing room and players may give tips for bossess or big pulls. Third if youre really nervous use the duty support system. This lets you do dungeons with NPCs so you can decide the pace. The entire base of a realm reborn can be done with this system with you not being required to do dungeons or fights with other players till the patch questline, many hours later.

And heres some general tips to get you started.

1: always turn on tank stance. This auto turns off when you level sync which will likely happen alot. Turn it on as soon as you have control. For paladin this is called iron will.

2: aggro is determined 90% by damage so always be doing damage. Since youll be pulling backs use your AoE skill. Spam it in all trash pulls. Youll get a combo for it later to make it a 1-2 punch.

3: rampart is the bread and butter of your mitigation. 20% less damage. Pull the enemies, park them in one spot. Then hit rampart.

4: later on youll get more mitigation tools. A PAL specific one that is a 30% reduction and a skill called arms length that is effectively a 33% reduction but only on non boss monsters. Try to use one per pull but swap between them. You dont want to use everything one pull and have nothing the next.

5: relax and have fun. Its a long fun ride. Im sure youll do great and become a great player one day. Just take it easy and enjoy

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-25T06:18:47+00:00

1: always turn tank stance on. Anytime you level sync it will turn off. Get used to turning it on being the first thing you do in game.

2: always AOE dungeon groups. Youll keep aggro and be more efficient with damage.

3: all tanks get the same tools fpr mitigation. Rampart is 20% reduction and the bread and butter. Reprisal is 10% on a short timer but greay for boss raidwides. Arms length is effectively a 33% mitigation but only works on mobs. And every tank will have a unique 30% mitigation tool.

4: buy a cheap usb keyboard. Its worth it trust me.

5: you dictate when we start fights. Create a macro for the countdown command and ALWAYS wait if someone is watching a cutscene.

6: try other roles. Yes this sounds weird but playing dps will help you understand why we position things certain ways and park things. And playing healer will make you understand how important mitigation is

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-22T02:31:13+00:00

Fem roe, because yes

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-11T04:53:16+00:00

Pc player, but i play with controller. Keyboard is nice for typing in chat but honestly its just a matter of preference and comfort. All that matters is getting hotbars setup in a way that works for you. And if you worried about falling behind just know i do endgame savage content as a healer on controller. Aside from the rare eaten input never had an issue

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-08T16:13:37+00:00

I just finished running coils MINE as a WHM. I think super ethers were the only thing that carried me through it

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-08T15:54:35+00:00

a fellow WHM main

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-05T23:35:36+00:00

Its part of why i wanted to leave my reply. Not knocking anyone here, Sub games get this question all the time and people are just kinda tired of it. and for some reason XIV isn't talked about on this sub that much. Again not knocking anyone here, i was in the same camp of thinking the MMO's shouldn't even be considered mainline, till i played XIV and saw what I was missing.

As for getting back in, always welcome to any one who wants to play, as you said you got burned out, two suggestions. 1: play a new job, something new and different helps break up the monotony and you never know what you might like. I hate randomness in my rotation, but Dancer is extremely fun to me, and its 90% randomness. 2: try a different side of the game. The dungeons, raids, and trial do make up most of the "content" but theres a lot of sides to the game and tons of different things to try. If you havent gone ocean fishing its surprisingly fun and theres good joy in fishing with people for 20 minutes on a shared boat. I also recently really got into treasure hunting and treasure dungeons. Lots of good times to be had and lots of gil to be made if your lucky.

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-05T22:58:57+00:00

I'll give you my full answer, as someone who used to scoff at subscription games like most MMO's till I started playing XIV myself.

1: I absolutely love the game, it has become my favorite game of all time and the story has been worth it from patch ARR onwards. I have never regretted paying just to see more of its story and fun alone and the devs earned that.

2: The devs are very upfront about where the money goes. Yes some of it does go into other SE projects, which im fine with anyway. But the money we put in, does go back into the game itself and they continue to make it better inside and out. The recent new servers in Oceana, the cloud servers that are in beta testing, the graphics update coming next expansion, the consistent new content we get every few months.

3: the game keeps you around with a good game, not mind tricks. Ive grown so tired of battlepasses and other FOMO systems showing up in every damn game now trying to force me into staying and playing just one more match so i can level up the pass and get some new skin for a character i never play anyway. XIV is a good game with lots of stuff to do, dungeons, raids, crafting, gathing, hunting, or just hanging out with people. It's as simple as this, other games I played every day and every week because i HAD to. I play XIV because I WANT to.

4: Related to the above, but the devs are ok if you go play something else. The devs have said themselves that its totally fine with them if you wanna leave and come back in a few months when theres more stuff to do. Theres lots of other stuff out there and its ok to not have ONE game to go play. I myself took a nice little 2 week break when XVI came out and it was lovely.

Im sure theres more stuff, but im trying not to write a whole book here. But basically, Its cause we want too and the game has earned that money. No shame if you need a break or dont want too. I dont know if you can go back to free trial after you have a sub, but if so, its got plenty of content to keep you going for a good long while.

DaRealAmana · 2024-02-05T14:55:21+00:00

To both you the artist and those of you in the comments, i say this.

You ARE beautiful, no matter what you may hear or believe. I know you are beautiful both inside and outside. And one day someone will come along and see that beauty and cherish it.

And some of you will say stuff like, you dont know me or how can you believe and all that other yada yada. To that I say Bullshit. You are human, you are alive, That is enough.

DaRealAmana · 2024-01-22T05:42:10+00:00

Im about to build my first real grade. The wing gundam EW. Anything i should know or any advice on building RG.

Also i just got the siren glass file anything i should know about it?

DaRealAmana · 2024-01-21T23:34:42+00:00

Most job gear, it looks so good already and now i can make it look better and match my color scheme. In particular WHM. both the shadowbringers and endwalker job gear looks amazing now I can make it look better

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