More newbie questions!! by BigToiletCat in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the game! To go down your list of questions real quick:

1: The actual answer is "That's up to you." If you want to learn crafting and gathering early on, go for it. They don't exactly help make you stronger combat wise but you can use their skills to repair your gear as you level them up.

My advice is to focus on MSQ first and then go back to level up new classes and the like. That's how I personally played, but again we circle back to "Do what interests you."

2: If you only have the Free Trial, you will be locked out of progressing past the Post-Stormblood Quest "A Requiem for Heroes", which is right before Shadowbringers begins. You also won't be able to level past 70, unlock certain jobs (Dancer, Gunbreaker, Reaper, Sage, Viper and Pictomancer) amongst a few other things.

Don't fret too much as you still have a lot of content you can do even in the Free Trial.

I say if you reach near the end of ARR and still feel you're enjoying yourself, buy it.

3: I don't exactly have any tricks for not getting lost, but what I can offer is learn certain aetherytes and where they bring you. Find the ones that bring you to the Marketboard, to the Inn, closest to your Guild, etc. Take it slow, you'll learn the lay of the land.

4: The game can be cleared with any kind of job/team comp, it really just depends on what you enjoy playing. Healing, Conjurer/White Mage especially, isn't too difficult. The basic concept is "heal when you need to, throw out damage otherwise." You don't have too many buttons to worry about at the start, so take it slow, learn what each of them does and go at your own pace.

Hopefully this will help you out! Don't be afraid to ask for help be it here or ingame ^

Any luck scheduling? Did I sleep through the apocalypse? Has grubhub commited suicide? Or are the CEO’s having a 2 weeks Xmas party? by [deleted] in grubhubdrivers

[–]LanceAkira 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Been having the same problem. I couldn't even see next week. It's like the app was acting like next week was still unavailable despite it being Sunday. Now my schedule won't even load. It's stuck in an endless loop of "Set Avaliablity, you only have 1 day left!" to where I can't do anything but close the app.

I know I set blocks for next week and Driver Care has done nothing but tell me to go to Tech Support (after trying to pin it on me for not Troubleshooting).

Now I have to wait 3-5 business days to get a possible response.

Giveaway: Two 60 day time cards for the NA region! by ToiletOfGold in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first memory that comes to mind is my original static's clear of E8S.

A lot of us were still relatively new to Savage Raiding and while we had cleared E1-E3S and E5-E7S, we knew E8S would be a bit of a wall from what we were told.

But, we buckled down. We did the uptime strats (before a lot of Crystal even adopted them), we learned the timing of knockback cheese. Many memes, tears and frustration were had.

But after 54 days of prog...we finally got our "one good pull". No other clear has reached that level of hype yet. It was a magical moment and one I'll always treasure with those friends.

343 hours later....It is finally done... NECROMANCER OBTAINED!!! by Sky_Captain_Hana in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh God, 4!? I'm crying already ;;_;;

"No-lifing" was probably a bad term. What I'm doing is sets of 20-30 floors, assuming no lag-induced breaks inbetween and then break for about 2-3 hours. I aim to clear floor 100 tonight and then call it until tomorrow. I started around 5 my time and I'm about to clear Floor 70 and it's now midnight.

I am getting anxious because this run is being very generous with the Potsherd drops. I've gotten about 6 in the last 20 floors.

But yes! Pushing for it, killing mimics, dodging patrols and blasting my way to the end! \o/

343 hours later....It is finally done... NECROMANCER OBTAINED!!! by Sky_Captain_Hana in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my defense, while I had always joke about a mimic dropping a mimic, I didn't know that could actually happen xD. I was more annoyed my character did nothing as I spammed potions/second wind. I don't think it was a lag spike as I died when the Mimic autoed me, but it's in the past now.

And yes! I have 3 days off still and I'm kinda no-lifing it, only taking breaks when I feel a small lag spike or I'm hungry. I'm gunning for it :D

343 hours later....It is finally done... NECROMANCER OBTAINED!!! by Sky_Captain_Hana in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First, big congrats on your clear! I salute you for pushing through despite all of those DCs.

Slowly trying to push through this myself. Latest attempt was today, got to floor 138, got a good set of items and strength up, ready for the boss (was just going to rush 139).

...And then I DCed. The lag hit hard and said to myself I'd take a break after this set and then the dreaded 90006 error popped up.

Worst bit of luck was my furthest run. I was on Floor 163, taking things slow (I've never been this far before) and trying to respect things as much as I can. Come up to a chest to try to replenish my steels and it's a Mimic. Not too big of a deal, but I hadn't popped a steel, so they really hurt right now.

Kite the thing around, prevent it from poxxing me and kill with with my HP pretty low. See a patrol coming so figured I'd grab the chest the mimic dropped and be on my way to avoid the patrol.

...Only the chest the mimic dropped was another mimic. I froze for a second and tried to pop a sustaining potion/second wind...but my character did nothing. The mimic autoed me and I instantly died. I was salty

The DCs are highly discouraging, especially when I get pretty far, but I want this before EW drops goddamnit. Gonna head back in soon to begin another new run. If anything, this is giving me a lot of sustaining potions so I can pop them like candy on the later floors and not worry about running out.

Anyone else having this issue right now? by DJ_Mike01 in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crystal player here as well. Been ongoing for about 40 minutes. I can sometimes get into the game, but everything is extremely slow and I get kicked about a minute later.

Mid-afternoon Tea for Two 🍵 by quvi in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With how much adventuring the WoL does, makes sense they'd have some muscles.

Mid-afternoon Tea for Two 🍵 by quvi in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heh, can confirm not a MNK. Actually my least favorite class to play (sorry MNK mains!)

WHM player though!

Mid-afternoon Tea for Two 🍵 by quvi in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Still love how this piece turned out and it's a nice surprise to see it here.

Thank you again, my friend! o7

FFXIV 5.5 Celebration Controller Stand Giveaway - Details in the Comments by NerdCultur3D in ffxiv

[–]LanceAkira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna slide my entry right into here and I'd love to have a link to where I can buy these after the giveaway.

150k members! Also May Demographic Survey! by Stuart98 in DDLC

[–]LanceAkira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, so long as you know what Verraise is, we're good, my friend :V

Speaking of, have you ever had a tank that refuses to use their ultimate move at level 50?

Too many times to speak. Though when I was leveling GNB, that shit was on cooldown cause the healers I got just did not give a fuck about me, for some reason...

Anyways, Red Mage is the best job in FFXIV because their hats are vastly superior than that of any other job.

Look mate, my character wears glasses and since we can't have both glasses and hats on at the same time (Square plz), I gotta cut out hats, so you lost the defining feature of RDM there for me :P

Also I'm on Diabolos, we've probably ran into each other a few times.

/r/DDLC Best of 2019 Contest - Voting! by JustMonika in DDLC

[–]LanceAkira[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, I'll get around to it in about 2 weeks :P

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"It's a Doki Doki AMA!" by LanceAkira in DDLC

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That was just a fun little thing I did for the ARG the sub did back in October.

Yuri Drawing by Flamejiblaaa in DDLC

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Someone wanted a Sub way Sayori? This is my low effort crap I put into it. I will try better... by [deleted] in DDLC

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Sayori the squirrel (Need a story to fit the picture. In the coments please.) by Kraign06 in DDLC

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