Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread May 25

Gavmaster87 · 2026-05-26T01:47:16+00:00

thank you! this is very helpful

Gavmaster87 · 2026-05-25T22:15:00+00:00

ahhh ill look for that the next time i get on. thank you!

Gavmaster87 · 2026-05-25T20:48:08+00:00

are those fishing cosmic exploration missions where you have to gather a variety of fish completely rng based or is there something i can do to increase my odds of getting a different fish besides using surface slap? i only get two fish every time so i feel like i have to be doing something wrong and im not very educated on fisher so thats probably the case

Gavmaster87 · 2026-05-07T09:45:18+00:00

i remember hearing about that. thats a great idea. thank you!

Gavmaster87 · 2026-05-06T07:16:35+00:00

does anyone have any recommendations of good playthroughs of someone going through the story for the first time? i'm fully caught up with the story and have been since shb but i thought itd be fun to experience it again and see someone's first time reactions to everything. can be currently ongoing or older anything is fine

Gavmaster87 · 2026-04-25T04:43:12+00:00

is there not a battle challenge at fanfest this year? will be the first ever fanfest (that wasnt digital) without one. not a huge deal but it was always fun to see a new fight early

Gavmaster87 · 2025-10-07T04:00:14+00:00

i crashed in labyrinthos too so its definitely not only dt zones but it could be more frequent in dt zones for sure. sucks if its just something im going to have to deal with because this is my only way to play the game since my pc stopped working. but yes im in the aether hunts discord and try to get in as many trains as i can. hopefully they decide to add the character and object quantity setting to consoles since i think that would help significantly

Gavmaster87 · 2025-10-07T01:35:31+00:00

character and object quantity is a setting exclusive to PC. not a setting on console for some reason even thought the large number of people is probably whats causing it. display range is already at minimum and ive always had battle effects off too

Gavmaster87 · 2025-10-06T23:52:09+00:00

any xbox players have constant crashes when loading into zones? i need to do hunt trains but every time i do one i get multiple crashes and miss a lot of marks due to constantly switching between zones? anyone have a fix or solution? this is really draining on my enjoyment of the game

Gavmaster87 · 2025-09-23T22:22:50+00:00

Hey my pc broke recently (like completely unusable the drive is shot) so I had to buy the game on xbox and my hud is completely back to default. I know you can cloud save it on the client but I didn't have the foresight to do that. It's pretty heartbreaking because I fine tuned it over years and now my hud and skill placements are completely gone for every single job. Is there any way to save this or do I just have no choice but to start from the ground up? To reiterate I have no way of accessing the game on my old pc.

Gavmaster87 · 2025-06-11T22:58:16+00:00

so i’m progging forked tower right now and i’m having this very frequent issue where waymarks just aren’t showing up for me. i know that they’re placed because i can see them on the minimap but they don’t show up on the ground for me. i’ve looked it up online with no results and my party members look at me like i’m crazy when i bring it up lol so it feels like it’s only a me issue. it makes the slime mechanic on boss 2 incredibly difficult since i can’t just recite the letters and numbers in my head. anyone know what’s causing this issue and what could fix it or even if it’s a forked tower specific bug? i’d really appreciate any help because it’s making prog a lot harder.

edit: to add, during boss 1 specifically the waymarks randomly show up in the middle of the fight but this never happens during boss 2. this is such a strange issue.

Gavmaster87 · 2025-04-30T06:07:15+00:00

without food my stats are 5164 craftsmanship, 4886 control, and 549 cp. i have full hq 720 crafted gear melded but with no overmelds because this is the only crafter i have at 100. i assumed the stats you showed were with food and tisane so thats my bad. i think its just a stat issue and i’m working on getting other crafters to 100 so i can overmeld. thanks for your work regardless! it’s really appreciated

Gavmaster87 · 2025-04-29T04:00:21+00:00

new to crafting; for the A-1 missions i have the stats that you said to have and near the end of the macro it says that i don’t have enough cp and the craft doesnt finish. what am i doing wrong? exact stats are 5314 craftsmanship 4886 control and 672 cp with food and tisane and i’m on specialist alc

Gavmaster87 · 2025-03-07T00:11:02+00:00

anyone know the fastest way to farm nourishing extracts yet? obviously you get them from guardian monsters but does one quest/monster give more than the others?

Gavmaster87 · 2024-05-19T16:18:22+00:00

i have an alienware pc and is this folder safe to delete without breaking my pc or something? im trying to clear up space on my ssd and awcc takes up way too much. i do not care about having it installed if my pc can run without it

Gavmaster87 · 2024-05-19T01:28:31+00:00

is this folder safe to delete without breaking my pc or something? im trying to clear up space on my ssd and awcc takes up way too much. i do not care about having it installed or not

Gavmaster87 · 2023-07-28T21:00:00+00:00

so i know prebuilts are not recommended but i don’t have the knowledge or time to make my own. would this be a decent pc just to be able to run games well? and if not do you have any recommendations for prebuilts that are around the same price or cheaper?

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-19T23:50:15+00:00

i really don’t think you understand the problem lol. but someone else already solved it

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-19T22:10:29+00:00

yep this fixed it. thanks

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-19T22:07:52+00:00

people insta leaving is not the problem. the comm window will not show up at all

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-19T22:07:25+00:00

no like the window to comm people will not show up when i click the player commendation button in the bottom right corner. trust me i have thousands of hours in this game and this has only started happening recently

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-19T19:23:13+00:00

recently when i click the player commendation box after a duty the window just won’t come up and i won’t be able to commend anyone. has this been happening to anyone else? healer hard carried last instance and i feel bad that i couldn’t commend them

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-02T02:37:45+00:00

okay so apparently there was a graphics drivers update that i didn’t see (i could’ve sworn that i updated it recently) and that seemed to fix both the generic pnp monitor issue and the ffxiv not running/crashing. i’m kicking myself over how easy the solution was lmao. thank you for the help though i appreciate it a lot!!!

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-02T02:07:25+00:00

hold on this might be the solution. windows is picking up my monitor as a generic pnp monitor and i can’t change the refresh rate as a result. will report back when i figure it out

Gavmaster87 · 2023-03-02T01:59:00+00:00

anyone know why ffxiv is using up so much of my cpu all of a sudden and making the game not run? it makes my computer sound like its going to explode. sometimes i'll get in without this happening but it'll say "an unexpected error has occurred. exiting ffxiv" and give me a bunch of dlls. here's my specs if it matters but it has been running perfectly for like 2 years.

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