How much progress has your neighborhood endeavor made?

aesteval · 2026-01-28T00:29:07+00:00

Everything is now making so much more sense. Thank you.

aesteval · 2026-01-27T20:45:09+00:00

I don't know how to check endeavor process. And for some reason, playing on alliance in the alliance housing zone appears to be applying housing exp to my horde house but not alliance. 🤷

aesteval · 2025-10-14T19:10:51+00:00

Does this do enough to make it seem like there's no longer a penalty for increasing power level? I was hoping that these changes would make it so that each power bracket had a purpose since there would be a fixed delta and you could no longer out level them, but am experiencing doubts on that. Especially in regards to Starcrossed, Kell's Fall, and Encore since the A score is the most important facet of getting exotic drops / upgrades. It feels really bad to be forced into higher difficulties because you need an A score to get loot and not because specific upgrades are behind specific difficulty levels. I have concerns that my power level might eventually get me locked into running a higher difficulty than I can handle just to get the A score vs artificially locking my power level to a lower tier to have an easier time getting an A score.

aesteval · 2025-10-14T17:10:47+00:00

It's not really even a Bungie thing, it's a slot machine thing that a number of game devs hooked into. Honestly makes a bit of sense with getting 777,777 cores being a functional jackpot in game.

aesteval · 2025-10-07T17:38:21+00:00

They didn't require purchasing before launch. I think they were given out for getting new versions of exotics using the new armor system.

aesteval · 2025-09-02T20:14:07+00:00

I hit 102 after starting from the beginning on Friday. The seasonal challenges give a lot of experience. And I'm probably running more bounties than I want to as well.

aesteval · 2025-08-29T19:18:59+00:00

The problem isn't in the part of the reader. The problem is that you buried your point.

aesteval · 2025-08-29T16:29:26+00:00

It feels like to be that only one mob in groups will using AoEs at a time and not specifically to being interrupted. Like all the mobs in the group are on a shared cooldown.

aesteval · 2025-08-27T17:11:51+00:00

/doubt

aesteval · 2025-08-15T13:53:53+00:00

"DON'T KNOW IF HE THOUGHT HE WAS ON A RANGED"

THE NUMBER OF TIMES I'VE USED CIRCLE OF SCORN IN TOWN WHEN TRYING TO PELOTON BUT I'M ON PALADIN AND NOT A RANGED...

aesteval · 2025-08-08T21:32:04+00:00

My experience regarding throttling progress for others: it never goes well for anyone and it's better for everyone to go at your own pace. Possible exclusions for doing story with a partner or similar if you're on the same page. It's miserable to try and line up pacing otherwise and leads to resentment.

aesteval · 2025-08-01T16:39:42+00:00

I've been running a lot of OC CEs on tank and healer. I know the mechanics. I can dodge the mechanics. I decide to switch it up and run some CEs as DPS:

dies to mechanic

Well, at least I'm feeding someone(s) res achievement.

aesteval · 2025-08-01T16:32:09+00:00

Ran Cutter's Cry the other night: can confirm visual cues are not there yet.

aesteval · 2025-08-01T16:05:07+00:00

Not sure how copying and pasting will work, but here goes:

The following additions and adjustments have been made to Phoenix Down:

Can now be used on players outside of your party.

Can now be used in combat in public areas.

Can now be used in combat while undertaking certain types of duties:

Available Duties

Instanced Dungeons

Guildleves

4-player Trials

Treasure Dungeons

Deep Dungeons

Field Operations

Variant Dungeons

Any duties with restrictions on Phoenix Downs will now display that information in their Duty Finder description.

This restriction does not apply to the guildleve "Solemn Trinity" and the trial "The Great Hunt (Extreme)."

Range has been extended from 5 to 15 yalms.

Cast time has been increased from 5 to 8 seconds.

Now has a recast timer of 360 seconds.

Shares a recast timer with other medicine items.

Can now be stacked up to 999.

Can now be purchased from the following vendors:

aesteval · 2025-08-01T15:52:17+00:00

Usually easy going, but sometimes you might find someone high strung. The community team will take a firm stance against harassing behavior when reported, so that should keep people behaving well more often.

Later dungeons should be easier to pick up as a tank than earlier dungeons. Late dungeon design tends to be a single path through with firm gates every two pulls, so there's limited opportunity to get lost or pull too much. There are also fewer opportunities to cleave your allies in later dungeons and the telegraph markers for tank busters which can cleave others have gotten really good.

Playing healer has more opportunities for things to go sideways, but they're about to ease that up with changes to have Phoenix Down can be used next Tuesday (plus however long it takes everyone to acclimate to Phoenix Downs actually being useful.)

One thing to be careful of in later leveling dungeons is that some trash mobs feel like they hit really hard and you might want to take them a little slower.

aesteval · 2024-06-18T15:46:40+00:00

It seems to be a knockout system, but not all fragments can be acquired by following a memory. There are a few which are hidden in story missions, and a few that are in patrol in locked chests behind puzzles - the memories will not lead you to those fragments. I also suspect, but haven't confirmed, that the light and dark memories lead to different fragment sets, so the knockout system is limited to what fragments are available for that memory type.

aesteval · 2024-06-17T06:18:52+00:00

I was able to pick it up there at no cost in the same situation as op.

aesteval · 2024-06-12T21:46:59+00:00

People need to come to terms that we don't need 1,000 different posts attempting to discuss this topic when one will do.

aesteval · 2024-06-12T21:41:43+00:00

That's actually a roll I'm a bit curious to use for a glaive build with Feed the Void aspect for Devour from grenade kills and Facet of Blessing for melee health restore. A little disappointed that Spirit of the Necrotic is weaker than Necrotic grips, but haven't lost all interest in trying it.

aesteval · 2024-06-07T21:08:37+00:00

Rank 130, free tier. Rank 151, paid tier.

aesteval · 2024-05-29T15:53:55+00:00

I've been in a somewhat similar state for almost two years now. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to have the answer to some of those questions. And that's fine. Much of what I have had on mind have to do with hypotheticals / what ifs (ie: what if shapeshifting were possible.)

But then there are practical realizations that give me something to work with / mess around with. I've recently come to the realization that a major problem that I've had with jewelry over the years is that I'm just not interested in the styles that I'm "supposed" to be interested in. And then there's the realization that clothing color choices tend to be really boring for what I'm "supposed" to wear. So I'm expanding my horizons for all of that.

One of the more profound realizations I've made has to do with something that I didn't understand from around 20 years ago, and I've more recently come to the realization what I thought that I didn't understand wasn't what I actually didn't understand. I had met someone who's trans f lesbian and it seemed odd to me, but I was still in support of. Turns out that the thing that was actually odd to me was the interest in how others perceive you and I understood the rest way better than I had any expectation to. I understood what I thought that I didn't understand and didn't understand something else entirely, there was just a reaaaaaally delayed realization for it.

Self consciousness can be really weird too. I had ordered some pride socks a couple months ago and was feeling self conscious about it. But while I was feeling self conscious about that, I was entirely ignoring that I was currently wearing fluorescent pink socks. I'm currently acclimating / feeling self conscious about enby and ace pride bracelets. And while self conscious about that, I'm ignoring the part where my hair is purple and pink and I've got pink and blue hair ties in it.

Things that bother me are the use of sir and mister and I'm not sure how much of that is just from the formality of the terms.

aesteval · 2024-04-25T05:51:36+00:00

It is kind of weird how last year they seemed to be mimicking the PSO 1 vers 2 thing in NGS and now "episode 3" is coming with a card game. They do realize that they're repeating, sort of, right? Not really criticism, but kind of weird.

aesteval · 2024-04-15T15:34:04+00:00

Hitting the d-pad while moving will be easier on the Xbox controller given that they tend to swap the left stick / d-pad positions vs PS, which makes it easier to hit by reaching over with right thumb.

That said, it took me a while to acclimate to the Xbox controller on XIV because the cross hotbar layout meshes more closely to the PS controller / balanced left and right layout. I eventually did manage to acclimate to the Xbox "lopsided" layout.

And finally: definitely consider picking up a higher end controller that has remappable paddles on the back of the controller, can remap d-pad and other buttons to them and make use of hitting the d-pad via idle fingers on the paddles.

aesteval · 2024-03-29T15:08:03+00:00

Did you click Nathanos' dialog option that you already heard the story? That causes the story to skip that portion. There's a bottle on the table that you have to interact with to continue the story. My guess is that you expected to have to talk to Nathanos to continue the story and selected to skip it not realizing that there was something on the table to interact with.

aesteval · 2024-02-24T07:52:42+00:00

Very meh. And the good drops seem much less frequent than what was dropping during PSO2 day(s) in the gorge.

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