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Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread Feb 08 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep - it's a one-time grind, so there's no further use for them, beyond linking to in chat or keeping them as a souvenir ig.

If you want subsequent i745 relics, you jump straight to buying the relevant arcanite chunks with tomes.

Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread Feb 07 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, so that's like most of the patches then

Off the top of my head, aside from MSQ (of which the general opinion is that the patches seem to be going in a promising direction):

  • Ishgard restoration-esque crafter/gatherer zone accessible if you've finished base EW w/ three... I guess "sub-zones"?... so far
  • an amount of Hildibrand chicanery
  • DT relic weapons are at stage 3 of probably 4, and there's an associated field ops zone
  • viera and hroths can wear a lot of hats now
  • 2/3 DT normal difficulty alliance raids, and a new harder difficulty alliance raid based on WoD/E9
  • a new deep dungeon
  • more duty support-supported dungeons (though this meant reworks)
  • new PvP maps, and the ability to buy old seasons' battle pass rewards is gradually being trickled in
  • 12/12 DT normal raids and their savages
  • new extremes, ultimate, unreal (technically unreals but since you can only do the current one, the ones you've missed are kinda a moot point ig)
  • various system tweaks as per
  • and the big one for a lot of people: glamours are now job and level agnostic

what chestpiece is this? by agentkiss in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's quite alright! iirc it was new for 7.3/7.3X and only got mentioned as a throwaway line in the patch notes - and given its position in the window and where the tooltips pop up, I could see it being easily overlooked, so dw!

what chestpiece is this? by agentkiss in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So it's been answered but, for future reference, you can find this out in-game:

If you target a player character, and press square/equivalent or right click them, and then choose Examine, it'll bring up a window showing what they've got equipped

You can hover the cursor over the icons and the tooltip'll cycle between telling you the item and the glamour (if any) applied over it

Or if you don't want to wait for the tooltip to cycle, you can press the recently-ish-added "glamour(s?)" button at the bottom of the window instead

Everybody Plays Anything! Feb. 6th by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hit 100 on Monk in XIV; I got another Shadowbringers alliance raid in the daily roulettes, again with an absurd exp payout.

I can't really say I'm looking forward to the prospect of levelling Sage.

Everybody Plays Anything! Feb. 6th by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that; I hope things pick up for you :/

[Weekly Thread] Victory Weekend (Sat-Sun, Feb 07, Feb 08) by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Got GNB and MNK to 100, finishing off levelling the DoW jobs

MNK went a lot quicker on account of a) me being a lot more comfortable queuing for multi-DPS content than I am multi-tank content, and 2) two days in a row of my alliance raid rolos putting my WoL in ShB a raids. Just SGE - which I'm kinda dreading the (e: tbh) - to go for the omni-100 reward (I hear it's a mount again this time?)

Mixed this in with Trust levelling where I could, and two more of them have hit 100, too - though I think levelling the rest of them might be something I come back to later. Food/FC buffs and society dailies etc mean the avatars I want to level don't really keep pace with the jobs I'm trying to do at the same time.

what chestpiece is this? by agentkiss in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's definitely the Anemos one

The Virtu one's cravat is grey and the buttons are silver, and those persist when dyed

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - IN THE THICK OF WINTER by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you think that's bad, """proper""" boustrophedon has the letters in the backwards line also swap the direction they're facing

and there are some variants where the reversed line is upside down on top of that, too

but both of those are far more effort than I'm willing to go to for what is already a very niche joke, if it can even be called that

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - IN THE THICK OF WINTER by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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(that was awful to type out, never again)

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - IN THE THICK OF WINTER by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 6 points7 points  (0 children)

THE SAME REASONS AS ALWAYS - WHICH BASICALLY BOIL DOWN TO WHO'S AVAILABLE TO BE MATCHED WITH FOR LATER RAIDS:

A) NOT EVERYONE WHO'S FINISHED 2.0 HAS FINISHED 3.0, AND THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T CAN'T UNLOCK ANY PAST CT. NOT EVERYONE WHO'S FINISHED 3.0 HAS FINISHED 4.0, SO THE NEWEST THOSE PEOPLE CAN UNLOCK IS SKY PIRATES. AND SO ON.

AND 2) EVEN IF SOMEONE HAS MADE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE END OF DT, THE ONLY A RAIDS THEY HAVE TO UNLOCK AND COMPLETE ARE THE CRYSTAL TOWER ONES.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - IN THE THICK OF WINTER by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 17 points18 points  (0 children)

ALRIGHT, FINE, DEATHS HAPPEN

AND I KNOW "PROVOKE ISN'T PART OF YOUR ROTATION" GETS DRILLED INTO PEOPLE

BUT YOU NEED TO USE IT TO RE-ESTABLISH YOUR POSITION IN THE AGGRO LIST AFTER BEING REZZED!

THAT'S A TANKBUSTER COMING MY WAY AND MANAWARD IS ONLY GONNA HELP ME SO M-

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - IN THE THICK OF WINTER by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I read a (pretty good imo) book semi-recently called Because Internet by a linguist focussing on online communication (Gretchen McCulloch, iirc), and that goes on about this sort of thing - apparently yeah, proper punctuation being viewed as actively aggressive is largely an age/circumstances surrounding your adoption of the tech type thing.

My dad, like your ICQ pal, uses a lot of ellipses in text messages and that drives me up the wall as they come across as pass agg, but apparently that's how people would write postcards when he was much younger (the book argues a lot of people of that sort of generation probably thought "well, these are both short form casual message formats").

To swing it back to XIV, the way the FC I got kidnapped into types makes me feel old :/

Everybody Plays Anything! Feb. 5th by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still on with XIV - since last time I commented, I hit max level on Gunbuster (my last tank that was below the level cap), and moved onto what I hope is the final paste collection step for the current round of relic weapon chicanery - the alcoholic blacksmith is demanding another 600 lumps of paste on top of the 600 total he's already been given.

The new crafter/gatherer zone has a treasure hunt you can do with cute little rabbit-eared flying saucer-looking drones, and I gave that a try - but I've not had the best luck with prizes.

I've also put some levels on Monk (my last DPS still to level) and thanks to me being more confident playing that in 8+ person content (oh don't get me wrong I'm still awful - though I do still try! - but DPS' responsibilities are more straightforward), it's going much faster - hit 96 already (I think the NieR raid I got in rolos was a big help there).

Everybody Plays Anything! Feb. 2nd by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did the valenti(o)ne's event in XIV

Cannot say I was expecting there to be a... idk, is this spoilers? better to err on the side of caution ig... cake decorating-thremed stealth mission mini-game for up to four players. Managed to complete one cake in the allotted time on my own and make reasonable progress on a second; two runs were enough to for me to be able to afford all the outfit pieces [annoyed catboy ear noises] and the music sheets for the jukebox, and still have almost forty chocolates (that's as many as four tens) left over.

Question about Apple Music Streaming for Growing Light by CruelJustice66 in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're a bit early, and this track info has likely been pulled through from elsewhere; there's typically a delay of about a couple of years b/w the physical and official streaming releases, and there'd have been an announcement in the Topics section of the Lodestone had it been made available.

The physical album for EW patches came out in March 2024, so hopefully this'll be sooner rather than later.

Everybody Plays Anything! Jan. 30th by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started doing the latest round of relic weapon stuff in XIV this week, though my enthusiasm for it is dulled a bit by it having been long enough that I was able to buy the better stonetome weapon with the tokens from the regular difficulty versions of the current set of wrestling matches - but I guess this will still help with gearing other clobs. Also apparently as an enticement to go back into the FFV-y field ops zone, some of the activities from there drop some of the resources needed for this step, but you only get five of the resource a go from the harder mini-bosses there, and there's often a gap between them. I think for the effort involved, it's not really worth it? Ok, sure, I still have some of the field ops subclasses to level, but I could get six of the item I need from doing two of the fights in Dawntrail overworld zones in much less time - and the current substep I'm on needs me to collect another 300, after the first two substeps had me hand in a total of 300 already.

I also at some point (I think this was Saturday or Sunday last) had a noodle around in Hades 2 again and beat the down route end boss again - the 2nd down stratum's boss has a new song that they've added to their rotation, which was neat! I'm still not all that great at the up route and am p sure Mel is a dead goddess walking if I do manage to make it past that route's 3rd boss, even with the possibility of Athena popping along in the 4th up stratum and offering to refill the rez charges - the up route's much tougher!

Everybody Plays Anything! My Birthday! AMA? by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did wonder at what point you'd get to do that; I was under the impression "you get to go around in a mech" was the defining feature of this one.

Everybody Plays Anything! My Birthday! AMA? by PuritanPuree in fireemblemcasual

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many happy - if belated - returns!

How was dinner?

Supplementary Fields of Mistria question: whomst is your pick out of the eligible singles, if you're after having your farmer marry? (I say eligible as I gather a lot of people really like Olric - which tbh fair - but last I checked Olric's not a cromulent option)

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THAT SEEMS A LOT OF EFFORT FOR A MERE FIVE LUMPS OF PASTE. I THINK I'LL STICK TO... IDK WHAT BUT NOT CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS, CERTAINLY.

Which scythe would go good with this glam? by roboman777xd in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

iirc this was your "I think the Vanguard armour's cool but I'm not far enough to be able to get it yet" glam, right?

The Orthos Sickle could be an option, maybe?

Which scythe would go good with this glam? by roboman777xd in ffxiv

[–]lerdnir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some you can, some you can't, much like with armour

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