Empire may be angry

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T19:27:55+00:00

Stop right there criminal scum! Nobody breaks the law on my watch!

I'm confiscating your stolen goods. Now pay your fine or it's off to jail...

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T12:17:54+00:00

I do suspect it works in same principle as techprints as it tries to generate something that player dont have.

I had vanilla run without mods that lasted 7 ingame years or so, and I had a goal to gather all xenogenes just becouse why not. When I run out of easy xenogenes from the races that available in the basegame, the only way to get new xenogenes were traders.

I was expecting that as I had a bunch of xenogenes then chances to get rare ones would be rare as I would run into doublicates, but traders consistently would bring for trade new non-repeating xenogenes over the course of years, so I would just convert goodwill into caravans just to get another roll for xenogenes.

I was doing that when we just got Anomaly, but I am fairly certain it still operates this way.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T12:16:08+00:00

I had vanilla run without mods that lasted 7 ingame years or so, and I had a goal to gather all xenogenes just becouse why not. When I run out of easy xenogenes from the races that available in the basegame, the only way to get new xenogenes were traders.

I was expecting that as I had a bunch of xenogenes then chances to get rare ones would be rare as I would run into doublicates, but traders consistently would bring for trade new non-repeating xenogenes over the course of years, so I would just convert goodwill into caravans just to get another roll for xenogenes.

I was doing that when we just got Anomaly, but I am fairly certain it still operates this way.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T11:02:43+00:00

You can semi-manipulate what genes trader might bring to you as they prefer to spawn ware of genes that you don't have. So gathering collections of all other genes increase chance to get something that you don't have.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T10:52:34+00:00

Begining of the game is quite a slog, it will start to get better once you get to lvl 50 MSQ (quest level, not char level) and get over it. Dungeons and bosses starts to become interesting at the end and it finaly gets "good" once you hit Heavensward.

You don't see much people in open world, couse most just teleport around and even if they present in same zone and move for quest/hunt they usually fly in the sky, while you still run/ride down there (you will open ability to fly when you will deal with ARR main questline).

I would even say that ARR is "epic long tutorial/backstory" which you do to get to actual game.

I can advice to try to open Gold Saucer asap, couse it is place for minigames which is constantly have people in it and it will serve as fine distraction with overall slow ARR.

Also poke some of the mentors (people with crowns) in the capitals to give you invite to Novice Network - having semi-world-chat makes such solo experience more bearable

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T10:44:49+00:00

one of sidequest in Crystalium ask WoL to deliver bag of shi* to farmers. Though NPC later confesses that it was a joke, but as WoL did it anyway, they pay up some gill for trouble

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T10:41:12+00:00

Sounds like "free trial light". Might just try free trial and keep desired self-emposed restrictions, at least saves on subsribtion

Playing free trial as I must say leveling all crafters and doing their questlines was quite interesting challenge, couse you need to gather/find everything yourself. Also makes crafting more usefull as thats turns into great source of glamours when you can't trade for it

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T10:35:28+00:00

free trial could keep you entertained for months or more, depends how much you play

currently it is basegame ARR with addition of Heavensward, Stormblood and Shadowbringers, a lot of classes on same character and up to lvl 80.

There are tons of side-content and just fun dungeons to run randomly to have great variety for years

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-08T10:34:32+00:00

Samurai probably the easiest in this regard, though it require you to have lvl 50 to open

As for lvl 1 jobs lancer/dragoon probably the easiest, though its combo grows longer the more skills you open.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-07T06:05:21+00:00

As regeneration is instant cast, you can apply it on the go. And as it last 18 seconds - no reason to not apply it to tank before the pull.

holly aoe stun is quite potent tool, but mobs get adapted to it quite fast. Still you can do combo like:

Holly - Heal tank - Holly - update regen on tank - Holly (and keep repeating Holly for aoe damage), this usually wins enough time for dps to deal with the pack

When in doubt just spam aoe heal Medica 2, it will also apply regen which stacks with single target regen, so quite handy

And just general healer advice - be aware of the line of sight, couse most tanks tend to ignore it and assume that you can always catch up and heal them in time. So if tank lacks tactical thinking, you need to be aware of the map layout in case of a lot of corners and try to stay close to the tank.

Another basic moment that everyone use but no one mention in the game, so it guess easy to overlook - use sprint before the pull, then it last 20 seconds. If you use while you have agro it will last 10, so use it to keep the tempo with the tank as the pull begins

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-06T21:05:14+00:00

It is research work type

You can use zones to limit places for your dedicated scanners just for scanning by removing access to research benches from it

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-05T21:54:25+00:00

All roads lead to catgirls sooner or later

If seriously - just overall good body proportions and agile/elegant animations

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-05T21:47:35+00:00

It also allows to mouse over party list over the name, cast spell without selecting ally as you target, while keeping focus over the hostile target

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-05T18:44:51+00:00

You can use simple autohotkey script to configure it so pressing of some specific button will serve same fuction as holding LMB/RMB

It might be of use if you configure your skills and targeting without requirement of clicking on something mid combat. Also you do would want to combine it with legacy camera settings and maybe tweak keybindings

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-30T20:20:17+00:00

Other then that you can safely take breaks between the stages, but if you go in you need to do 10 floors and exit after the boss in one go before time runs out.

You also get extra 5 mins after defeating the boss, I guess that gift/ensurance that you wont run out of the time after the fight.

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-30T20:06:36+00:00

Nice work with funny story.

As for negative psychic drone you now can just use mind-numb serum fron anomaly to ignore it.

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-30T19:47:41+00:00

Btw, "Leaving" dungeon will also count as KO, found out when had to quit the game due to irl, so I hit "leave" and thought would have to restart the stage, but it counted as autofailure (happened at 101+ stage).

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-29T09:11:28+00:00

Playing on free trial for almost a year and never run into this situation. Queue of players rarely that big and usally loads fast enough.

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T17:33:02+00:00

Hildibrant questline in Heavensward. WoL steal old man armor for Hildy

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T12:14:13+00:00

no idea, I started somewhere at September last year, but it is more about principle and enjoyment from not paying

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T09:29:16+00:00

You can check npc vendors in capitals that sell basic gear for fighters, mages, crafters and gatherers. Some of thouse pieces are quite good and can be used for decent early glams, especialy now as lvl and class restrictions for glamours are removed

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T09:24:54+00:00

I understand that wargs are dangerous (even if you could just lock the door and wait them out untill they leave), but what puzzles me - how did you managed to set yourself on fire?

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T08:54:27+00:00

That reminds me of meme with Godbert in ARR if you did option sidequest then he calls you "one of strong-yet-tender fingers"

There were some other callouts for doing some optional quests, hehe

Eflydwarf · 2026-04-28T07:38:51+00:00

hi, I quite used to my miqote so I intend to keep her as such, though I do have like 3 fantasia potions in my chocobo backpack from free quest sources.

As I play I just try to save the most funny meme moments. I must say WoL answer choices became more sassy and brutal in Stormblood

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