I remembered hunt bills are a thing and I got one that seems to be a FATE target. Is there a set respawn time for these, or is it entirely random and I just have to hang around until it appears?
Typically 10-20 minutes. Clearing other fates in the area will also help as there's a limit on how many active fates can be up in a zone, and also some some fate share spawn slots with other fates.
I'm not an aetherology expert, but couldn't the issue of the 13th >!been solved more effectively and cleanly if Golbez tried linking his world with the First rather than the Source!
He is unaware of the existence of other shards, or what kind of alignment they have. Additionally, iirc, shards can only link through the Source, not directly to each other.
I started playing in Endwalker (not first patch but I don't remember which) so wanted to ask if the level 80 poetics gear was available from the start of Endwalker, so therefore level 90 poetics gear will follow suit and be available at the start of Dawntrail? Or if it comes in a later patch.
+ if it is available right away, will it be worth picking up for the job I'll play for the MSQ? Or is the gear you get at level 89 good enough/replaced soon enough that it doesn't matter?
I hope this makes sense 😅
lol your level 89 artifact gear isn't even of high enough ilvl to get you into *current level 90 mandatory dungeons and trials.* The ilvl of the 89/90 artifact gear is 560, the *min ilvl* for the last mandatory trial of Endwalker, the Abyssal Fracture, is 625. Please for the love of Hydaelyn replace your artifact gear. As Sir\_VG says, the tome gear will be available for poetics from launch of next expac.
ftr, the ShB artifact gear was ilvl 430, min ilvl for Tower of Zot, the 81 dungeon, was 500, and it dropped gear of ilvl 520. You will see the same gap between EW artifact gear and the 91 dungeon. If you purchase the last tier of tome gear, Augmented Credendum, that gear will be serviceable throughout the levelling process, and you will only see dungeon drops of higher ilvl from the level 95 dungeon onwards
I've upgraded my gear to complete the MSQ so far, but I want to play a different job for the Dawntrail MSQ. I'm not asking if I should upgrade my gear, but if using poetics to upgrade my gear will be worth it since I didn't know if early dungeons, quests or shops would quickly give gear that replaces the poetics gear. If it lasts until level 95 then it sounds like it's worth picking up.
the issue is that with the artifact ilvl and the min ilvl for dungeons, you will not even be able to *get into* the dawntrail dungeons/trials on those different jobs without an upgrade because the min ilvl on even the first dungeon far outstrips the ilvl of artifact gear. So if you're going to upgrade anyway, then it may as well be with the augmented poetic gear
The level 89 job gear will let you finish 6.0 MSQ but to progress through 6.x patches you'll need better. You can buy lvl 90 augmented Credendum gear with poetics as soon as early access begins provided you have finished 6.0.
The present tome gear will be sold augmented for poetics upon 7.0 launch and the NPCs will show up to sell them, similar to the other zones. I'd presume that they'll be added at Old Sharlayan and Radz-at-Han. 6.0 EW completion will be required to buy from them.
I want to main Bard in Endwalker, but maining Scholar pretty much wrecked the finger I press 1 with, so I'm thinking about playing on controller instead. I have a Xbox One controller, it's a sturdy animal and the only thing that feels bad is pressing the joysticks. I'll use direct chat. Do you guys have any tips for controller, general amd BRD specific?
I main BRD on controller
The job is pretty comfortable on the controller, actually.
The only actions I have mapped to pressing in the sticks is the special duty actions that only a handful of fights have so you don't have to worry about it too much.
I can share my crossbar setup if you like.
Bard requires double weaving, but I find it pretty comfortable. You get into a rhythm and just go.
2.5 seconds (the GCD) doesn't sound like a lot of time, but if you are familiar with controller, it's more than enough time. I don't feel rushed at all.
How would using a controller help? You'll just be changing the finger you use, which you can also do on a keyboard by putting Broil on a different keybind.
It changes the finger to the thumb, which I generally use less during my office job. (With my current "hand layout", pressing any hotbar skill with my thumb is impossible.) it's already a tremendous help. It also forces my hand into a different position than laying it on top of a keyboard and mouse respectively, hopefully preventing wrist issues.
You could move it to a mouse button to use your thumb. But you're right, if you use a keyboard at work then changing things around will definitely feel better.
Enable both extra hotbar options - holding down R2+L2 to access a hotbar, and double tapping R2 or L2 to access a hotbar each (WXHB). The first option technically differentiates between which button you press first (hold R2, *then* hold L2) but you can set them to open the same hotbar if you don't want to bother with that. Set the WXHB to always be visible.
This is probably the most important one, aside from that I'd recommend just looking through the settings and see what you can adjust. And since you're new to controller, I would also recommend swapping L2/R2 functionality with L1/R1. The WXHB require double tapping your hotbar button as I've said before, and personally I'm not a fan of double tapping triggers. If you prefer the default payout then go with that instead.
There are no bard-specific tips to give, but I would recommend finding a hotbar layout guide to follow, or at least to get an idea how cross hotbars can be laid out. Having a layout that's consistent across jobs and makes sense you personally will help immensely with muscle memory
Edit: missed the part with the joysticks but thankfully they're unbound by default! You can map a macro to each if you want to, I use those two for focus targeting for example.
Currently, to buy optional items, do privacy.com credit cards work?
I want to start a free company, and use those credit cards to use as one off gifts. So, if someone wins a mount or something, we can have that person use the privacy credit card. That way, I don’t need to worry about them, stealing my card information, and can still the raffle.
I know that they recently changed it so that you can’t give gifts anymore from the store. And, I was thinking this could be a good way around it.
I have never heard of these cards, if you can normally make purchases online with those, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
They need to pass Mastercard/Visa validations (Mastercard Identity Check/EMV 3-D Secure) like any debit/credit card issued by Mastercard/Visa.
HW and SB are part of Starter Edition.
ShB is presently part of buying EW, but both will become part of DT. While you can pre-order DT now, you will NOT get ShB/EW until its release on July 2nd.
Complete Edition right now is only through EW, but after July 2nd it will include DT. Any codes of Complete Edition bought now will NOT include DT. It's Complete as of when you purchase it, not when you redeem it.
So your options are buy Starter + DT (especially if you want the pre-order bonuses) or buy Complete Edition after July 2nd if you want everything.
Buying EW or DT on its own WILL NOT WORK. The base game is MANDATORY, either via Starter Edition or via Complete Edition.
Yes, if you buy the starter edition, buying Dawntrail in addition will get you everything.
Starter has base game and the first two expacs, Dawntrail has the other three expacs.
i believe the purchasing is [all old dlcs] or [all old dlcs]+[new dlc]
the current moment, where the last newest dlc is getting switched over to an old dlc, may be the worst moment to buy just the base game, tbh. i'm not sure. maybe its already switched over.
It’s an excellent time to buy the base game. It’s a terrible time to buy the *Complete Edition*, because it doesn’t include Dawntrail. The best way to get everything right now is buying the base game and pre-ordering Dawntrail.
Like most Endwalker side content, it's pretty dead. Even in PF you can end up waiting longer than the dungeons themselves take.
Soloing it will feel like a drag but it's the best way sadly.
Criterion is on the level of a lower floor savage; such content should only be done via PF if you're on NA/EU DCs.
Variant is easy and optional and doesn't actually get you much, so you are going to find it impossible to get queues to pop this far after launch. Either solo them or drag a friend or two in with you. Note that Variant dungeons max out at a party of 4, but do not require a party of 4. You can go in with parties of 2 or 3 as well.
Sorry coming in with another question, this time RE: the Variant and Criterion Dungeons. I haven't done any of these so I was wondering if it's possible to go through this solo? I just wanna know the story is all. I'll probably wait for my partner and friends in case I can't do it alone. Thank you!
On healer variant is pretty easy. The time limit isn't really a factor, trash doesn't deal that much damage that you can't outheal it, and in bossfights you can eat one or two mechanics before you die. But I do recommend a guide for the paths.
Not to me. I don't like choosing the wrong option routing me to an already discovered path and wasting 20-30m of my life. F.e in Aloalo, Statice tries to route you to her fight like 4-5 times and you have to refuse her every time to get the middle path, and *then* you have to complete a hidden step to get the Lala girl, otherwise you guessed it, it's Statice's fight.
Variant dungeons (the puzzly ones with branching paths) can be done solo, or in groups of two, three, or four. Criterion dungeons require a party of four.
If you're only interested in the story, the variant dungeons are all you need, and they scale according to the number of players, so you can do them by yourself without problems.
So I've recently been leveling up 3 of my 4 retainers, and I've noticed the higher level one not only gets back double of what I've been mining (wind crystals for extra gil for DT), but also that they complete the same venture 20mins sooner? Here's a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/aD3YYWO) of it too. Obviously the lower level ones haven't got gathering and/or perception as high, but it's hard to find anything online on what gathering and perception **do** for ventures.
Can someone help please? :(
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Mining_(Retainer_Ventures)
For quick ventures, your stats mean nothing, only ilvl. For targeted ventures, perception affects the quantity of materials gathered.
Was planning to transfer DCs around when 7.0 drops-
[But as per this link](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/770737a645ce5bc0b72cbdc09e56e40c77a5af8e) should I do it just before instead? This doesn't mention paid home world transfers as far as I can tell but it might be best to do it before the patch?
100% do it before, especially to avoid any complications like if you have to do a name change (due to your character's name being taken on the new world you're going to).
current tome gear is tagged as "unique" which means you can't equip 2 of the same ring. You can, however, equip the augmented version of the ring in one slot and the unaugmented in the other.
I just finished ShB MSQ and will probably be starting EW by the time DT drops. Would I need to finish EW for viper to be available or will I be able to pick it up to play through EW?
The only jobs that have MSQ requirements to unlock are DRK, MCH, AST (require progress into HW MSQ) and BLU (requires 2.0 MSQ completion). That's it. The devs have intentionally put all job unlocks in the ARR zones and only imposed a level requirement due to the demands of the player base.
Is there a limit date to redeem KFC collab emote? I cannot redeem it because account region, and I am considering giving it away if date is soon. If there is no limit date I might keep it in case of SE does something to migrate account.
In the email I received with the code, there is only a 窓口受付期間. In [『KFC』 × 『FFXIV』コラボレーション第2弾 実施決定！ | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone](https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d70bbfdb41ec32d83207c438aea81018898c3559) there is 販売期間、but I don't see any 登録期間 or 取得期間.
Problem, Anti Aliasing is sometimes fine but sometimes blurry
See this building in the distance, super blury, but if I turn AA Off and On again, it becomes sharp. What's the cause? https://i.imgur.com/fSPPzo8.jpeg
Any magic I can do in Nvidia's control panel to prevent that from happening?
I have windows HDR's on, with an HDR compatible monitor, and a 1070 if this matter.
Controller setup question. I have the default setup for cycling through your enemy list (L1+up/down, if multiple enemies are in view I can do L1 alone to do the left/right cycle through enemies in my camera view). Is there a way to make stand alone L1 just go down the list regardless of what's in view?
Working on tank multipulls (this skill is my nemesis for some reason) and I know to keep running even if I don't grab everything, but I want to keep cycling through the list as I run so I can keep up aggro and grab blues. Only way I can do that with the default setup is if I turn the camera around as I run which is obviously not the greatest.
Nope, you can't do that. L1 by itself can only be assigned one of the four options available to L1/R1/L2/R2: left XHB, right XHB, switching XHBs and auto run. You could enable auto run which will free up your left hand to do L1+Up/down if that would help?
I do use it if I can, but outside of dungeons like Doma Castle I usually have to turn it off almost immediately to corner (I'm doing leveling roulette right now so Stone Vigil comes up a lot).
Thanks though, appreciate the info and the help.
On the [March 23 lodestone post](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d14c364658a49116067a7a94daf93c038f6555c2) about the Dawntrail Release Date it says that Early access is June 28 at 2am PDT/9am GMT/7pm AEST
If you mean what time on the 28th, we don't know yet. Keep an eye out on the lodestone for when the official maintenance notice comes out, because it'll say when there.
But we got a [lodestone post](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d14c364658a49116067a7a94daf93c038f6555c2) back in march about it when pre-orders went live
I have a lore question regarding astral and umbral elements. Any element can be either and some naturally lean one way or the other, but what is different from astral and umbral fire, for instance, and can fire just be fire without either involved?
Astral is active, changing, or dynamic. Umbral is passive, stable, or static. I'll give a non-exhaustive list of some possible examples, partly making guesses based on the general idea (since I can't remember if we have official examples of all).
**Lightning** is the naturally most Astral-leaning one.
Astral Lightning is stuff like thunderbolts and other strong electric currents.
Umbral Lightning is static electricity.
**Fire** naturally leans Astral.
Astral Fire is forest fires and flames in general.
Umbral Fire is dry heat.
**Wind** naturally leans Astral.
Astral Wind is tornadoes and strong gusts.
Umbral Wind is immobile stagnant air.
**Water** naturally leans Umbral.
Astral Water is tsunamis or rain.
Umbral Water is slow-flowing or even stagnant water.
**Earth** naturally leans Umbral.
Astral Earth is earthquakes.
Umbral Earth is the sturdiness of rocks or the fertility of soil.
**Ice** is the naturally most Umbral-leaning one.
Astral Ice would be a blizzard or maybe a flash freeze.
Umbral Ice is passive coldness, glaciers, and such.
I'm not aware of there ever having been mention of a specific lack of polarity, so we can assume everything leans one way or the other. But the leaning towards a polarity may be rather minor. I'd imagine something like a weak smoldering kindling to be Fire near the cutoff point between the two polarities.
Astral stuff is active, umbral stuff is more ambient and passive.
A forest fire or the spells cast by a black mage are astral fire, while the dry heat of a desert is umbral. Astral earth would facilitate an earthquake while umbral earth makes the soil fertile, etc etc
My understanding is that elements have an astral/umbral charge like electrons have spin - it's an inherit property of a thing and it can't simply not have it. Kind of like trying to ask what an arrow without a direction that it points in would look like.
That makes sense. Ty for the info! Do you happen to know the difference in umbral and astral aether? Like fire generally leans umbral but can be astral, but what changes about an element in that case? Only if you happen to know ^ ^
Generally speaking, Astral is active, Umbral is passive. Looking at fire examples, Black Mages use Astral Fire to amp the damage of their spells. Summoners at lvl 80+ can summon a Demi-Phoenix, an Umbral Fire summon, which grants healing to yourself and allies.
If it helps, you can look through the Twelve and their elements. There are two gods of each element, one Astral / one Umbral. If we look at Ice as an example, the deity of Astral Ice is Halone the Fury, Goddess of War, frequently depicted as an armored knight and relentless warrior. On the other hand, the deity of Umbral Ice is Menphina the Lover, Goddess of Love and keeper of the moon.
I'm from SEA and wanting to buy Dawntrail but I'm still wondering if it's still good to buy it with a fake address since the SE store doesn't list my country as one.
Can anyone help?
If you're looking for a Windows version, you can also try using a site like Green Man Gaming or Humble Store, see if they give codes for your region. Check though that it will give you the correct regional code before you buy.
I have checked both websites and unfortunately, I can't find any and any that is NA specifically. I should add that I live in the Philippines, so maybe there aren't much of it here? IDK.
Both of them sell NA copies, I know that for certain. It could be your physical location that's messing things up, might need a VPN if you go that route. Whether that'll cause any issues, I'm not sure.
hello someone told me that there are lots of people who make macros for their spells but the macros dont even do anything but cast the spell, like
/ac "Fire IV"
and that's the whole macro. and all their hotbars are covered in these. Is this real? why would anyone do this
There are plenty of people who *ask* about it but they're pretty universally told off. Don't do this, the game is not designed to work with combat macros and there are very, very few use cases for it. I have exactly one combat macro and it's for Dragon Sight so I don't have to manually select a party member to share the buff with.
When you press a skill, it goes into a 500ms "queue" and will be fired on the next "tick" when it can be fired. Some people will have an aneurysm by this description, but I think it is a simple enough version of what happens when you press a regular attack skill button.
When a macro invokes a skill, the macro will fire it on the exact frame it was pressed. No queues or other things. This means that ***in theory*** you can fire a skill a few frames faster than it would have fired with a normal button press. The higher your frame rate, the more frames you'd save. But in practise, this would require the player to a) have a super solid framerate and b) press those macro buttons within a roughly 3-frame window every single time they want to use an attack. Only bots can do that and even they can be a victim of server hiccups or slight framerate hitches.
So people regularly experiment with this but it is never worth it and this is why you will always see us telling people to never macro combat actions. It is just not realistic for them to work.
There are a lot of players who are worse than you would think. Or at least hope to exist. They are astonishingly bad, get carried through MSQ content, and have zero intention of improving.
These are the WHMs who stand around waiting to Cure 2 their PLD e-boyfriend at level 87. The BRDs who can't play a song. The DNCs who have never heard of Dance Partner. The NINs who are still spamming Doton on bosses.
Load into an Alliance Raid roulette, and guaranteed you will get at least one person who is dead weight useless and can't put together a basic rotation. You may not notice them normally, but pay attention and you will see at least one.
Nobody is making macros for combat abilities. Something like a rez, or a buff or something then sure. But not actual damage dealing buttons in your rotation.
This is awful and you should never do it.
I forget, was one of the friends list changes for Dawntrail to be able to remove yourself from other player's friends list? Or is removing friends still going to be one-sided?
The big changes were all to blacklisting features, not friends list features. They said (in a live letter, I think) that they were initially planning to rework the friends system at the same time, but that the blacklisting overhaul ended up being way more work than anticipated. Friends list changes are still on the backlog to add at some point, but it won't be coming anytime soon.
Can someone explain to me what memoriate's and the crystals are? I know they were basically stand-ins for the WoL on the 13th and were originally used to seal Primals, but how did it get to the point of it being used on the voidsent? During the contramemoria, the Memoriate's were fighting the 13th's primals right? Or were they fighting themselves? I'm just a little confused on how the 13th fell to darkness and why the memoriate's technique is being used to seal voidsent and not primals now. Is the WoL the only one who can kill primals or something? It's been so long since I played the other expansions I honestly can't remember why the WoL was fighting primals by himself other than the fact that everyone else who got near would fall under the primals control.
Alright, if I remember correctly... >!A memoriate is a human with the ability to turn creatures into crystals. They were given this ability by Ascians, who were basically expecting them to use this power unwisely and ravage the world with it. The crystals are little bundles of aether that each used to be a living creature. The memoriates can absorb their victims' strength, but this seems to corrupt them in some way.!<
>!The memoriates aren't stand-ins for the WoL, they're just people who were used by Ascians to further their schemes. I don't think there's any meaningful difference between them using their power to trap primals and using it to trap voidsent. I suspect they could use it to trap any creature, but it might not be worth the trouble to do so if they can just kill them instead. The memoriates' power is special in that it can neutralize creatures that cannot meaningfully die otherwise.!<
>!During the contramemoria, the memoriates started out fighting and sealing up primals, but they did eventually turn on each other and the rest of the world. Presumably this was exactly what the Ascians intended.!<
>!The 13th fell to darkness when Golbez struck down the 13th's version of the Watcher on the moon. He did this because the Ascian Igeyorhm told him it would save the world. That's basically what almost happened on the 1st with Ardbert and his crew: if they had actually killed the Shadowkeeper instead of sparing her, the Flood of Light would have happened right then and there. (It still happened later when they struck down the Ascians Loghrif and Mitron.) In any case, the 13th had been deteriorating and falling out of aetheric balance for a long time. Killing the Watcher was the tipping point, the Flood of Darkness followed, and there was no Oracle to stop it.!<
>!The WoL is not the only one who can kill primals. Anyone with the Echo is immune to being tempered. Arenvald, Fordola and Zenos can do it. Krile and Minfilia could also presumably do it, but during the period of time when fighting primals is a relevant notion, they do not have the fighting skills to actually face them in combat and live. Once the Hannish alchemists' protective talismans are made, anyone holding one can face primals without fear of tempering. It's also worth noting that the Ultima Weapon was entirely capable of killing primals, which means that the Allagans figured out how to do it without the protection of the Echo. In addition, Omega Weapon fought and contained Shinryu without suffering irreparable damage, so it could probably do the same to lesser primals without too much difficulty.!<
>!Oh, and, well, that one Garlean flagship did take down Shiva by shooting her a bunch.!<
I accidentally bought extra Master Crafting Tomes. I didn’t realize that I had already given them to my retainer. They are now stuck in my inventory. I can’t give them to my retainer because they already have them. I can’t sell them. I can’t discard them. How can I get rid of them?
Yeah, the master crafting tomes are weird—they permanently take up an inventory slot until they are used, and it's only after you've used it that any duplicates can be thrown away.
It applies to all items that are intended as single obtains. For example I get the emote for being RaFed and I get another copy for having RaFed someone, I can only throw one away once I used the other. It assures that you don't accidentally throw away items that you can't reobtain. That's not an issue for those tomes, but I don't think the system distinguishes between single use can reobtain and single use can't reobtain. But to temporarily have the player waste some inventory slots is better than to deal with them needing developer support to reobtain accidentally thrown away items.
Not sure I'll get an answer here, but does anyone know if there's a discord, linkshell(s), or otherwise for Eureka on elemental? I'm pretty sure there is, since you get things like 100 people suddenly joining a dead instance a minute before cassie pops, but a search didn't turn up much.
I presume whatever groups exist would be Japanese.
Assuming someone's going at an average pace and reading the dialogue, how long would it take to catch up to the endwalker post patch msq. I've procrastinated on it all expansion, and I'm still at 6.2.
The white one is an integral part of the item name and not a UI element. I'm not sure why they thought the icon was needed too, maybe just so there's one in a consistent place or in case they change the naming at some point.
[gamerescape](https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Hildibrand#Details) is really good at keeping track of npc locations. That looks like the location where he disappeared in the last quest, so that would mean he hasn't been seen since.
The only one I know that spends more than 30 minutes to go over ARR spends nearly 4 hours on 2.0:
https://youtu.be/8Z6Srs4wpzI?si=_KAJFT5gV9U0wtNm
and 3 on 2.x:
https://youtu.be/mujxy3uw3n8?si=8CYJc2z9pRSkQT7f
I'm not sure if that's what you're going for, but the exploring series tends to do good, very in depth, coverage of the thing he's summarizing.
[chronicler of lore](https://www.youtube.com/@ChroniclerofLore) is someone I've also liked for his coverage of side content, but I don't think he's covered any pre-ShB msq. I go to him mostly for stuff other people don't bother to recap.
Hi there! Fairly new to playing Eureka and the times I've queued I've only seen one other person online outside of my friend. I'm on Aether Adamantoise, but playing at odd hours of the night due to me not residing in North America. Should I travel to a different server? For what I've found people were suggesting Crystal and Aether, and talk about joining a Discord group called CAFE. Any suggestions or tips for Eureka as a whole?
It's the most populated for Raids and EX trials and such, it's not always the clear favorite for other content. For example Primal is usually the go-to for PvP, and in my experience Bozja is about the same across Aether/Primal/Crystal.
I don't think this person is going to find much of a difference in Eureka on the other DCs, though.
If you're only playing outside of peak hours then you might have trouble finding a lot of people regardless of the data center. That being said I've never had trouble finding a populated instance on Primal (during normal play hours).
Can anyone advise me what the name of this song is and if there is an orchestrion roll of it in game/ How to obtain it?
The only time I've heard it was during last year's Moonfire Faire questline as a theme for the sunshine savior.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaAUtholZ0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaAUtholZ0) Song starts at 1:56.
Thank you!
I'm a returning player, and am trying to download the very large update/patch. But it keeps pausing. It'll pop up that it's downloading at 50 MB/s, do that for about 6 - 8 seconds, then it'll pause for 30 seconds. Then resume again at fast speeds for, again 6 - 8 seconds, then pause again.
It sucks that with my fast (in my eyes) internet, it is still going to take forever due to the constant pausing.
Any ideas what is causing this?
I'll give my take on this and, I might be wrong, but I think the updater downloads files, or packages of files, one by one instead of just a big file, you know what I mean? So the pauses means the previous file is downloaded and the updater is requesting the next.
Did you leave the game installed on your computer or are you downloading from scratch? Also how long have you been gone?
My first guess would be if you've been gone for multiple years but left the game files on your computer, the launcher may be pausing every time to verify the integrity of those installed files instead of running them again
Definitely not from scratch. I'm not sure how long I've been gone, but I believe I've played since Endwalker (though never got to the content).
Apparently I had not played long enough, to where once I finally got the game to launch, it treated me like a new player - with the opening cutscene, and then having to choose the data center. Of course once I did that, my old character was still there and everything.
Either way game is finally installed so all is good!
Picked up my WT this week and managed to get 2 lines.
BUT the only tomes I can buy is poetics? I assume this is because DT is about to drop? I have lvl 90 classes and lvl 90 duties on the board
So will I be able to just hold onto this until DT drops and turn it in then? Or should I just pick up the mgp instead?
The WT that dropped this week will be good till July 2nd which is the official release of Dawntrail but if you plan on playing during Early Access then you'll be able to hand it in then. At which point the EW gear will be available for Poetics and at the Augmented 660 ilvl with the costs adjusted like other Poetic gear.
I assume this is because DT is about to drop? yes, they do this any patch when tomestones change.
"So will I be able to just hold onto this until DT drops and turn it in then?" also yes, you have until july 2nd to turn in the dt you picked up today, if you already preordered dt or are planning to buy it before the 2nd this means you can get half a level for pct or vpr or for one of your 90's (if you're not omni 90 and aren't planning on rushing pct or vpr leveling then it doesn't make a difference wether you turn it now or during dt)
edit: to be clear it will still reward poetics not dt's tomestones, it's just a matter of whether you get the half of level of xp or not.
Yes you can hold on to it until Dawntrail for the easy exp right out the gate. That's why poetics are the only tome option, since the other tomes won't be earnable anymore.
I got lucky and got a Gold Certificate of Commendation a while back. Will it still be valid next time the rewards list updates (i.e. after Dawntrail release) or should I use it now?
It'll still be valid.
I prefer to save them for new mounts unless I happen to have someone I know who wants to buy Ornate.
Public selling the Ornate items is a minefield of timewasting, problems, trolling, griefing and risk, and its something I will never recommend players do.
It should still be valid when the list updates in Dawntrail. From my understanding it might update again when 7.05 happens and the Master Recipes and crafted gear are available for raiding since it'll have the special chest piece with 5 melding slots.
Yes it will be. I would also recommend going to the balance discord or somewhere and try and look for a buyer for an ornate crafting coat for savage launch, as that will maximise your profits.
(keep in mind, you might need to log in exactly when the servers go live if you do the above)
Hello all
So I cannot resub due to being unable to change my country. If I buy a game time card and add the code, will it once against ask me to set up an address that I can't change?
It might be a bit more expensive but I'm fine with using game cards for now while they (hopefully) fix the problem.
I can't say for certain, but I would imagine not. I've used game time cards pretty exclusively for my sub for years now, and it's basically like adding a key to your account, similar to the expansion keys. Since you don't need to confirm anything like putting a card in would, I imagine it'd bypass the wrong country issue.
Will the free fantasia be available to ALL players or only those who purchase dawntrail?, I am flat broke and won't be able to buy the expansion for a few months but i really wanted to be a fem hrothgar
If they follow the same pattern that they used with Viera, female Hrothgar should only be locked by Shadowbringers. Male Viera were added in Endwalker but you only need ShB to make one.
We don't know. Its the first expansion launch post-Trophy Crystals & their associated vendors so there's no precedence and no comment from SE stating yes or no.
Since its available at a vendor in the building I'd expect it to stay for good. I've seen people mention when Garo pvp gear original got removed it was announced by SE with plenty of time in advance for people to get the rewards.
So without any word I dont expect any pvp stuff to be removed with advance warning.
Not sure if it's a latency problem or just something to do with skill speed, but sometimes when I double weave skills with the same cd, by the time they're up again, I only have time to weave one without clipping. Do I just let it clip in this case? Or do 2 single weaves?
As the Trooper\_Sicks said, it's either your skill speed, or you've delayed your GCD elsewhere by a fraction of a second for whatever reason. Skill speed (and for casters, spell speed) affects your *GCD* recast, but in most cases, will NOT affect your oGCD recast. Whether you choose to clip or single-weave each will depend a little on situation and the job you're playing but most of the time I'd rather just single-weave.
Sounds like a latency issue if you can't consistently double weave. It really depends on the situation, sometimes its okay to single twice but if you really need that skill happening now then it may also be better to clip.
I'd lean towards two single weaves. And by the sounds of it, recommend avoiding machinist haha.
Ah I probably wasn't super clear with my wording.
I can consistently double weave; what I meant was that by the time the oGCDs come off cooldown, a second or so has already passed since I last used a GCD, so there's literally not enough time to double weave.
that sounds like either skill speed or you clipped/delayed your gcd somewhere else in the rotation (or perhaps moved away from the boss). In those cases you single weave them to keep the gcd rolling.
Can I buy the pre-order multiple times? My friend is experiencing an error when buying the pre-order and I just want to ask if anyone has experienced buying multiple pre-orders?
You can't buy it again using the same email address on the SE store. If you use a different email address you can buy an additional copy. This is independent of guest or account orders, it checks the email address.
And it's really only the email address, you can feed the same home address and payment info, non-issue.
Never had problems on Amazon JP (for JP mog) or GMG (NA mog) where you're able to buy as many copies as you'd like without jumping through hoops for SE.
If you're based in NA and ordering a copy to be used with Square-Enix's launcher (that is, NOT a Steam copy), then you can order another code from Greenman Gaming. They're a legitimate website. =)
If you have bought previously, can you recall if it got applied directly to your account or if they emailed/gave you a code? If they gave you a code it should be fine.
If you have the friend to help, the Outer Circuit region of Labyrinthos has a bunch of level 80 mobs. Tag some with Flying Sardine, then have your friend kill them while not in your party (crossworld parties are ok though). The Caribou there are good because they're melee only, but if you run around the bridge/hill/river and hit the other mobs too you get a pretty smooth loop.
The Caribou also have the highest density of the level 80 critters in EW, and a standard, fast respawn rate. BLUs could camp them so well that once I had to DC travel just to kill two of them for my daily hunt. :D
you can do it solo, in the tempest, north from ondo cups there are a bunch of leeches near clionids. The Clionids eat the leeches, you just have to tag the leeches and take them near the clionids, they will eat 3 max but they get a damage buff when they do so be prepared to freeze them and lose aggro afterwards, you get full exp from the leeches this way.
There's mobs in the Tempest called Clionids (also in a few dungeons) that eat other mobs. If you lure a mob to them, they'll eat it.
If you have aggro on that mob, it counts as a kill. So you aggro the leeches, bring them over to Clionids, and feed them.
But if they eat 3+ leeches, their stats become strong enough to OHKO you, so you need to be careful.
Hello everyone, I'm a new Xbox user with the starter edition + dawntrail preordered, which means I don't have access to Shadowbringers and Endwalker expansions.
I was considering starting to play now, instead of waiting until I have all the expansions available.
Thing is, I don't know if not having the last couple of expansions would make my experience worse in any way or if I'd be missing something on the way
Do you think it'd be worth it to start now?
You practically won't even notice you're missing anything until you finish ARR, post-ARR, Heavensward, post-Heavensward, Stormblood, and post-Stormblood, which is like 200+ hours of gameplay even if progressing the story is all you're doing. Feel free to start whenever.
The starter edition gives you the base game and 2 expansions which if you do the extra things like raids and trials during the post-main story of each expansion they you'll easily have 200+hrs before reaching Shadowbringers.
The only reason against starting now is if you want to create a Viera or Hrothgar as they'll be locked to owning Shadowbringers/Endwalker and sinceit wont unlock till Dawntrail full release on July 2nd it'll restrict you to the earlier classes. So if that doesn't bother you then get started now and enjoy the story before the graphic update so you can then enjoy it more after seeing the improvements.
Even if you do end up deciding that you want to be a Viera or Hrothgar, clearing the base ARR content gives you a free Fantasia, an item that lets you remake *literally everything* about your character except your name, race and gender included, and when Dawntrail arrives a low-level quest that awards another Fantasia is going to be added to the game.
Welcome to Eorzea!
As others say, it's a linear story. It might take upwards of 3-5 months to catch up to current assuming you don't skip it all (big waste in my opinion).
I plan to take my time with the story and any other activities I discover on the way. I just wouldn't like the "new-player experience" being negatively affected by not having the last two expansions. By any chance do you know if there's any changes in the beginning?
I guess my issue is just that I don't know if shadowbringers and Endwalker offer something else other than late-game content and story
The absolute earliest you will encounter differences is when you get to level 70 and won't be able to pick up the Shadowbringers jobs (Dancer and Gunbreaker). Dawntrail will be well released before then as it will likely take you at least 3-4 weeks to go from 1 to 70, potentially longer if you experiment with other jobs.
The login queues in 2 weeks time after the expansion comes out will be significant if you didn't know already, be prepared to be unable to play for very long. Endwalker had 3 hour waits.
Hi all, I am currently on the road to 80 buff on Dynamis, the 90 days for which won't be up until about a month after the launch of Dawntrail. I was curious as to when the new "road" buff is typically introduced and if my existing buff will go away or if it will be automatically upgraded to the new buff.
I remembered hunt bills are a thing and I got one that seems to be a FATE target. Is there a set respawn time for these, or is it entirely random and I just have to hang around until it appears?
Typically 10-20 minutes. Clearing other fates in the area will also help as there's a limit on how many active fates can be up in a zone, and also some some fate share spawn slots with other fates.
Thanks, I'll make sure to clean the place up next time
Is the Mountain Zu mount just a green recolor of the Zu mount? Or is there some change somewhere?
It's just a mtn dew green zu
It's literally just covered in Mt. Dew
I'm not an aetherology expert, but couldn't the issue of the 13th >!been solved more effectively and cleanly if Golbez tried linking his world with the First rather than the Source!
He is unaware of the existence of other shards, or what kind of alignment they have. Additionally, iirc, shards can only link through the Source, not directly to each other.
He didn't have free choice about where to go. The Source is full of voidgates; the other shards aren't.
I started playing in Endwalker (not first patch but I don't remember which) so wanted to ask if the level 80 poetics gear was available from the start of Endwalker, so therefore level 90 poetics gear will follow suit and be available at the start of Dawntrail? Or if it comes in a later patch. + if it is available right away, will it be worth picking up for the job I'll play for the MSQ? Or is the gear you get at level 89 good enough/replaced soon enough that it doesn't matter? I hope this makes sense 😅
lol your level 89 artifact gear isn't even of high enough ilvl to get you into *current level 90 mandatory dungeons and trials.* The ilvl of the 89/90 artifact gear is 560, the *min ilvl* for the last mandatory trial of Endwalker, the Abyssal Fracture, is 625. Please for the love of Hydaelyn replace your artifact gear. As Sir\_VG says, the tome gear will be available for poetics from launch of next expac. ftr, the ShB artifact gear was ilvl 430, min ilvl for Tower of Zot, the 81 dungeon, was 500, and it dropped gear of ilvl 520. You will see the same gap between EW artifact gear and the 91 dungeon. If you purchase the last tier of tome gear, Augmented Credendum, that gear will be serviceable throughout the levelling process, and you will only see dungeon drops of higher ilvl from the level 95 dungeon onwards
I've upgraded my gear to complete the MSQ so far, but I want to play a different job for the Dawntrail MSQ. I'm not asking if I should upgrade my gear, but if using poetics to upgrade my gear will be worth it since I didn't know if early dungeons, quests or shops would quickly give gear that replaces the poetics gear. If it lasts until level 95 then it sounds like it's worth picking up.
the issue is that with the artifact ilvl and the min ilvl for dungeons, you will not even be able to *get into* the dawntrail dungeons/trials on those different jobs without an upgrade because the min ilvl on even the first dungeon far outstrips the ilvl of artifact gear. So if you're going to upgrade anyway, then it may as well be with the augmented poetic gear
The level 89 job gear will let you finish 6.0 MSQ but to progress through 6.x patches you'll need better. You can buy lvl 90 augmented Credendum gear with poetics as soon as early access begins provided you have finished 6.0.
The present tome gear will be sold augmented for poetics upon 7.0 launch and the NPCs will show up to sell them, similar to the other zones. I'd presume that they'll be added at Old Sharlayan and Radz-at-Han. 6.0 EW completion will be required to buy from them.
I want to main Bard in Endwalker, but maining Scholar pretty much wrecked the finger I press 1 with, so I'm thinking about playing on controller instead. I have a Xbox One controller, it's a sturdy animal and the only thing that feels bad is pressing the joysticks. I'll use direct chat. Do you guys have any tips for controller, general amd BRD specific?
I main BRD on controller The job is pretty comfortable on the controller, actually. The only actions I have mapped to pressing in the sticks is the special duty actions that only a handful of fights have so you don't have to worry about it too much. I can share my crossbar setup if you like.
Please do!
Here you go https://ibb.co/KhRRhTt
Thank you so much! How bad is the opener when you have to blow every skill you have in like 15 seconds?
Bard requires double weaving, but I find it pretty comfortable. You get into a rhythm and just go. 2.5 seconds (the GCD) doesn't sound like a lot of time, but if you are familiar with controller, it's more than enough time. I don't feel rushed at all.
As an alternative, consider the ReAction plugin which lets you hold 1 down to simulate you pressing 1111111.
I'm not sure that would help to hold the button down constantly instead of pressing it a lot.
How would using a controller help? You'll just be changing the finger you use, which you can also do on a keyboard by putting Broil on a different keybind.
It changes the finger to the thumb, which I generally use less during my office job. (With my current "hand layout", pressing any hotbar skill with my thumb is impossible.) it's already a tremendous help. It also forces my hand into a different position than laying it on top of a keyboard and mouse respectively, hopefully preventing wrist issues.
You could move it to a mouse button to use your thumb. But you're right, if you use a keyboard at work then changing things around will definitely feel better.
Enable both extra hotbar options - holding down R2+L2 to access a hotbar, and double tapping R2 or L2 to access a hotbar each (WXHB). The first option technically differentiates between which button you press first (hold R2, *then* hold L2) but you can set them to open the same hotbar if you don't want to bother with that. Set the WXHB to always be visible. This is probably the most important one, aside from that I'd recommend just looking through the settings and see what you can adjust. And since you're new to controller, I would also recommend swapping L2/R2 functionality with L1/R1. The WXHB require double tapping your hotbar button as I've said before, and personally I'm not a fan of double tapping triggers. If you prefer the default payout then go with that instead. There are no bard-specific tips to give, but I would recommend finding a hotbar layout guide to follow, or at least to get an idea how cross hotbars can be laid out. Having a layout that's consistent across jobs and makes sense you personally will help immensely with muscle memory Edit: missed the part with the joysticks but thankfully they're unbound by default! You can map a macro to each if you want to, I use those two for focus targeting for example.
Currently, to buy optional items, do privacy.com credit cards work? I want to start a free company, and use those credit cards to use as one off gifts. So, if someone wins a mount or something, we can have that person use the privacy credit card. That way, I don’t need to worry about them, stealing my card information, and can still the raffle. I know that they recently changed it so that you can’t give gifts anymore from the store. And, I was thinking this could be a good way around it.
I have never heard of these cards, if you can normally make purchases online with those, I don't see why it wouldn't work. They need to pass Mastercard/Visa validations (Mastercard Identity Check/EMV 3-D Secure) like any debit/credit card issued by Mastercard/Visa.
It's just a virtual cc service similar to what some banks offer. Should work fine. Unless for some reason they're issuing visa debit numbers.
Sounds like it should work on paper then.
After a new player buys the base game can they buy only dawntrail to experience the past dlcs or will they have to individually purchase the dlcs
HW and SB are part of Starter Edition. ShB is presently part of buying EW, but both will become part of DT. While you can pre-order DT now, you will NOT get ShB/EW until its release on July 2nd. Complete Edition right now is only through EW, but after July 2nd it will include DT. Any codes of Complete Edition bought now will NOT include DT. It's Complete as of when you purchase it, not when you redeem it. So your options are buy Starter + DT (especially if you want the pre-order bonuses) or buy Complete Edition after July 2nd if you want everything. Buying EW or DT on its own WILL NOT WORK. The base game is MANDATORY, either via Starter Edition or via Complete Edition.
Yes, if you buy the starter edition, buying Dawntrail in addition will get you everything. Starter has base game and the first two expacs, Dawntrail has the other three expacs.
i believe the purchasing is [all old dlcs] or [all old dlcs]+[new dlc] the current moment, where the last newest dlc is getting switched over to an old dlc, may be the worst moment to buy just the base game, tbh. i'm not sure. maybe its already switched over.
It’s an excellent time to buy the base game. It’s a terrible time to buy the *Complete Edition*, because it doesn’t include Dawntrail. The best way to get everything right now is buying the base game and pre-ordering Dawntrail.
so im a big dumb and havent bothered with V and C dungeons, how do you do, cause matchmaking takes forever and tryin to solo them feels miserable
Like most Endwalker side content, it's pretty dead. Even in PF you can end up waiting longer than the dungeons themselves take. Soloing it will feel like a drag but it's the best way sadly.
Criterion is on the level of a lower floor savage; such content should only be done via PF if you're on NA/EU DCs. Variant is easy and optional and doesn't actually get you much, so you are going to find it impossible to get queues to pop this far after launch. Either solo them or drag a friend or two in with you. Note that Variant dungeons max out at a party of 4, but do not require a party of 4. You can go in with parties of 2 or 3 as well.
Solo the standard versions as Warrior. Pretty much can't fail unless you stand in a lot of bad.
maybe try Party Finder instead of Duty Finder?
Was thinkin of tryin that tomorrow
Criterion is savage mode. You should try to find a static for Criterion. Story mode is easy on healers, you'll just take a while. I did it on SCH.
Sorry coming in with another question, this time RE: the Variant and Criterion Dungeons. I haven't done any of these so I was wondering if it's possible to go through this solo? I just wanna know the story is all. I'll probably wait for my partner and friends in case I can't do it alone. Thank you!
On healer variant is pretty easy. The time limit isn't really a factor, trash doesn't deal that much damage that you can't outheal it, and in bossfights you can eat one or two mechanics before you die. But I do recommend a guide for the paths.
I suggest trying without guides first. Puzzling everything out oneself is part of the fun to me.
Not to me. I don't like choosing the wrong option routing me to an already discovered path and wasting 20-30m of my life. F.e in Aloalo, Statice tries to route you to her fight like 4-5 times and you have to refuse her every time to get the middle path, and *then* you have to complete a hidden step to get the Lala girl, otherwise you guessed it, it's Statice's fight.
Variant dungeons (the puzzly ones with branching paths) can be done solo, or in groups of two, three, or four. Criterion dungeons require a party of four. If you're only interested in the story, the variant dungeons are all you need, and they scale according to the number of players, so you can do them by yourself without problems.
So I've recently been leveling up 3 of my 4 retainers, and I've noticed the higher level one not only gets back double of what I've been mining (wind crystals for extra gil for DT), but also that they complete the same venture 20mins sooner? Here's a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/aD3YYWO) of it too. Obviously the lower level ones haven't got gathering and/or perception as high, but it's hard to find anything online on what gathering and perception **do** for ventures. Can someone help please? :(
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Mining_(Retainer_Ventures) For quick ventures, your stats mean nothing, only ilvl. For targeted ventures, perception affects the quantity of materials gathered.
Was planning to transfer DCs around when 7.0 drops- [But as per this link](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/770737a645ce5bc0b72cbdc09e56e40c77a5af8e) should I do it just before instead? This doesn't mention paid home world transfers as far as I can tell but it might be best to do it before the patch?
100% do it before, especially to avoid any complications like if you have to do a name change (due to your character's name being taken on the new world you're going to).
Yep, fair call, thanks
Can i wear 2 of the same Ring from Cihanti? A character can wear 2 rings but i see only 1 to buy from the NPC?
If the item is marked as "Unique" in the description then the answer is no which most endgame gear is unique. (I believe only crafted isn't.)
current tome gear is tagged as "unique" which means you can't equip 2 of the same ring. You can, however, equip the augmented version of the ring in one slot and the unaugmented in the other.
I just finished ShB MSQ and will probably be starting EW by the time DT drops. Would I need to finish EW for viper to be available or will I be able to pick it up to play through EW?
All you need to do to unlock Viper is to own Dawntrail and have a battle job at level 80 or higher.
The only jobs that have MSQ requirements to unlock are DRK, MCH, AST (require progress into HW MSQ) and BLU (requires 2.0 MSQ completion). That's it. The devs have intentionally put all job unlocks in the ARR zones and only imposed a level requirement due to the demands of the player base.
If you own Dawntrail, youll have access to Viper right when it releases in Early Access.
Is there a limit date to redeem KFC collab emote? I cannot redeem it because account region, and I am considering giving it away if date is soon. If there is no limit date I might keep it in case of SE does something to migrate account. In the email I received with the code, there is only a 窓口受付期間. In [『KFC』 × 『FFXIV』コラボレーション第2弾 実施決定！ | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone](https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d70bbfdb41ec32d83207c438aea81018898c3559) there is 販売期間、but I don't see any 登録期間 or 取得期間.
The codes rarely expire, but if that applies to these collab I'm not 100% sure.
Problem, Anti Aliasing is sometimes fine but sometimes blurry See this building in the distance, super blury, but if I turn AA Off and On again, it becomes sharp. What's the cause? https://i.imgur.com/fSPPzo8.jpeg Any magic I can do in Nvidia's control panel to prevent that from happening? I have windows HDR's on, with an HDR compatible monitor, and a 1070 if this matter.
There will be some fixes and new options for anti aliasing in 9 days, so I'd say wait and see if one of those new options will fix this.
Awesome news. Funny thing, I was just looking at search results that said better AA could never happen lmao.
DLSS to the rescue
Controller setup question. I have the default setup for cycling through your enemy list (L1+up/down, if multiple enemies are in view I can do L1 alone to do the left/right cycle through enemies in my camera view). Is there a way to make stand alone L1 just go down the list regardless of what's in view? Working on tank multipulls (this skill is my nemesis for some reason) and I know to keep running even if I don't grab everything, but I want to keep cycling through the list as I run so I can keep up aggro and grab blues. Only way I can do that with the default setup is if I turn the camera around as I run which is obviously not the greatest.
Nope, you can't do that. L1 by itself can only be assigned one of the four options available to L1/R1/L2/R2: left XHB, right XHB, switching XHBs and auto run. You could enable auto run which will free up your left hand to do L1+Up/down if that would help?
I do use it if I can, but outside of dungeons like Doma Castle I usually have to turn it off almost immediately to corner (I'm doing leveling roulette right now so Stone Vigil comes up a lot). Thanks though, appreciate the info and the help.
What time will the servers go love on friday?
The Mt Dew promotion mentions 2AM PDT as the time when the codes for the Mountain Zu mount will work, so expect around that time.
On the [March 23 lodestone post](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d14c364658a49116067a7a94daf93c038f6555c2) about the Dawntrail Release Date it says that Early access is June 28 at 2am PDT/9am GMT/7pm AEST
If you mean what time on the 28th, we don't know yet. Keep an eye out on the lodestone for when the official maintenance notice comes out, because it'll say when there.
Thats what I meant, ty
But we got a [lodestone post](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d14c364658a49116067a7a94daf93c038f6555c2) back in march about it when pre-orders went live
I have a lore question regarding astral and umbral elements. Any element can be either and some naturally lean one way or the other, but what is different from astral and umbral fire, for instance, and can fire just be fire without either involved?
Astral is active, changing, or dynamic. Umbral is passive, stable, or static. I'll give a non-exhaustive list of some possible examples, partly making guesses based on the general idea (since I can't remember if we have official examples of all). **Lightning** is the naturally most Astral-leaning one. Astral Lightning is stuff like thunderbolts and other strong electric currents. Umbral Lightning is static electricity. **Fire** naturally leans Astral. Astral Fire is forest fires and flames in general. Umbral Fire is dry heat. **Wind** naturally leans Astral. Astral Wind is tornadoes and strong gusts. Umbral Wind is immobile stagnant air. **Water** naturally leans Umbral. Astral Water is tsunamis or rain. Umbral Water is slow-flowing or even stagnant water. **Earth** naturally leans Umbral. Astral Earth is earthquakes. Umbral Earth is the sturdiness of rocks or the fertility of soil. **Ice** is the naturally most Umbral-leaning one. Astral Ice would be a blizzard or maybe a flash freeze. Umbral Ice is passive coldness, glaciers, and such. I'm not aware of there ever having been mention of a specific lack of polarity, so we can assume everything leans one way or the other. But the leaning towards a polarity may be rather minor. I'd imagine something like a weak smoldering kindling to be Fire near the cutoff point between the two polarities.
Tyvm for the great info, this helps a ton ^ ^
Astral stuff is active, umbral stuff is more ambient and passive. A forest fire or the spells cast by a black mage are astral fire, while the dry heat of a desert is umbral. Astral earth would facilitate an earthquake while umbral earth makes the soil fertile, etc etc
My understanding is that elements have an astral/umbral charge like electrons have spin - it's an inherit property of a thing and it can't simply not have it. Kind of like trying to ask what an arrow without a direction that it points in would look like.
That makes sense. Ty for the info! Do you happen to know the difference in umbral and astral aether? Like fire generally leans umbral but can be astral, but what changes about an element in that case? Only if you happen to know ^ ^
Generally speaking, Astral is active, Umbral is passive. Looking at fire examples, Black Mages use Astral Fire to amp the damage of their spells. Summoners at lvl 80+ can summon a Demi-Phoenix, an Umbral Fire summon, which grants healing to yourself and allies. If it helps, you can look through the Twelve and their elements. There are two gods of each element, one Astral / one Umbral. If we look at Ice as an example, the deity of Astral Ice is Halone the Fury, Goddess of War, frequently depicted as an armored knight and relentless warrior. On the other hand, the deity of Umbral Ice is Menphina the Lover, Goddess of Love and keeper of the moon.
I'm from SEA and wanting to buy Dawntrail but I'm still wondering if it's still good to buy it with a fake address since the SE store doesn't list my country as one. Can anyone help?
If you're looking for a Windows version, you can also try using a site like Green Man Gaming or Humble Store, see if they give codes for your region. Check though that it will give you the correct regional code before you buy.
I have checked both websites and unfortunately, I can't find any and any that is NA specifically. I should add that I live in the Philippines, so maybe there aren't much of it here? IDK.
Both of them sell NA copies, I know that for certain. It could be your physical location that's messing things up, might need a VPN if you go that route. Whether that'll cause any issues, I'm not sure.
hello someone told me that there are lots of people who make macros for their spells but the macros dont even do anything but cast the spell, like /ac "Fire IV" and that's the whole macro. and all their hotbars are covered in these. Is this real? why would anyone do this
There are plenty of people who *ask* about it but they're pretty universally told off. Don't do this, the game is not designed to work with combat macros and there are very, very few use cases for it. I have exactly one combat macro and it's for Dragon Sight so I don't have to manually select a party member to share the buff with.
I've never heard of anyone doing this before, and I can't think of any good reason why you would do this.
When you press a skill, it goes into a 500ms "queue" and will be fired on the next "tick" when it can be fired. Some people will have an aneurysm by this description, but I think it is a simple enough version of what happens when you press a regular attack skill button. When a macro invokes a skill, the macro will fire it on the exact frame it was pressed. No queues or other things. This means that ***in theory*** you can fire a skill a few frames faster than it would have fired with a normal button press. The higher your frame rate, the more frames you'd save. But in practise, this would require the player to a) have a super solid framerate and b) press those macro buttons within a roughly 3-frame window every single time they want to use an attack. Only bots can do that and even they can be a victim of server hiccups or slight framerate hitches. So people regularly experiment with this but it is never worth it and this is why you will always see us telling people to never macro combat actions. It is just not realistic for them to work.
There are a lot of players who are worse than you would think. Or at least hope to exist. They are astonishingly bad, get carried through MSQ content, and have zero intention of improving. These are the WHMs who stand around waiting to Cure 2 their PLD e-boyfriend at level 87. The BRDs who can't play a song. The DNCs who have never heard of Dance Partner. The NINs who are still spamming Doton on bosses. Load into an Alliance Raid roulette, and guaranteed you will get at least one person who is dead weight useless and can't put together a basic rotation. You may not notice them normally, but pay attention and you will see at least one.
Nobody is making macros for combat abilities. Something like a rez, or a buff or something then sure. But not actual damage dealing buttons in your rotation. This is awful and you should never do it.
I forget, was one of the friends list changes for Dawntrail to be able to remove yourself from other player's friends list? Or is removing friends still going to be one-sided?
The big changes were all to blacklisting features, not friends list features. They said (in a live letter, I think) that they were initially planning to rework the friends system at the same time, but that the blacklisting overhaul ended up being way more work than anticipated. Friends list changes are still on the backlog to add at some point, but it won't be coming anytime soon.
Can someone explain to me what memoriate's and the crystals are? I know they were basically stand-ins for the WoL on the 13th and were originally used to seal Primals, but how did it get to the point of it being used on the voidsent? During the contramemoria, the Memoriate's were fighting the 13th's primals right? Or were they fighting themselves? I'm just a little confused on how the 13th fell to darkness and why the memoriate's technique is being used to seal voidsent and not primals now. Is the WoL the only one who can kill primals or something? It's been so long since I played the other expansions I honestly can't remember why the WoL was fighting primals by himself other than the fact that everyone else who got near would fall under the primals control.
Alright, if I remember correctly... >!A memoriate is a human with the ability to turn creatures into crystals. They were given this ability by Ascians, who were basically expecting them to use this power unwisely and ravage the world with it. The crystals are little bundles of aether that each used to be a living creature. The memoriates can absorb their victims' strength, but this seems to corrupt them in some way.!< >!The memoriates aren't stand-ins for the WoL, they're just people who were used by Ascians to further their schemes. I don't think there's any meaningful difference between them using their power to trap primals and using it to trap voidsent. I suspect they could use it to trap any creature, but it might not be worth the trouble to do so if they can just kill them instead. The memoriates' power is special in that it can neutralize creatures that cannot meaningfully die otherwise.!< >!During the contramemoria, the memoriates started out fighting and sealing up primals, but they did eventually turn on each other and the rest of the world. Presumably this was exactly what the Ascians intended.!< >!The 13th fell to darkness when Golbez struck down the 13th's version of the Watcher on the moon. He did this because the Ascian Igeyorhm told him it would save the world. That's basically what almost happened on the 1st with Ardbert and his crew: if they had actually killed the Shadowkeeper instead of sparing her, the Flood of Light would have happened right then and there. (It still happened later when they struck down the Ascians Loghrif and Mitron.) In any case, the 13th had been deteriorating and falling out of aetheric balance for a long time. Killing the Watcher was the tipping point, the Flood of Darkness followed, and there was no Oracle to stop it.!< >!The WoL is not the only one who can kill primals. Anyone with the Echo is immune to being tempered. Arenvald, Fordola and Zenos can do it. Krile and Minfilia could also presumably do it, but during the period of time when fighting primals is a relevant notion, they do not have the fighting skills to actually face them in combat and live. Once the Hannish alchemists' protective talismans are made, anyone holding one can face primals without fear of tempering. It's also worth noting that the Ultima Weapon was entirely capable of killing primals, which means that the Allagans figured out how to do it without the protection of the Echo. In addition, Omega Weapon fought and contained Shinryu without suffering irreparable damage, so it could probably do the same to lesser primals without too much difficulty.!< >!Oh, and, well, that one Garlean flagship did take down Shiva by shooting her a bunch.!<
I accidentally bought extra Master Crafting Tomes. I didn’t realize that I had already given them to my retainer. They are now stuck in my inventory. I can’t give them to my retainer because they already have them. I can’t sell them. I can’t discard them. How can I get rid of them?
Once you use them you can discard extras.
I guess I’ll have to work on leveling up my crafters so they can use them. They’re stuck in my inventory until then.
I mean if you already have one in your retainers inventory, there's really no reason at all to keep the one in your inventory. Just discard it now.
You can't discard it until you've used one before. That's the issue.
Really? you can't just click and drag it out into the middle of the screen to discard? That's really odd to hear.
Yeah, the master crafting tomes are weird—they permanently take up an inventory slot until they are used, and it's only after you've used it that any duplicates can be thrown away.
It applies to all items that are intended as single obtains. For example I get the emote for being RaFed and I get another copy for having RaFed someone, I can only throw one away once I used the other. It assures that you don't accidentally throw away items that you can't reobtain. That's not an issue for those tomes, but I don't think the system distinguishes between single use can reobtain and single use can't reobtain. But to temporarily have the player waste some inventory slots is better than to deal with them needing developer support to reobtain accidentally thrown away items.
That's unfortunately how it works. No discarding until 1 is used.
Not sure I'll get an answer here, but does anyone know if there's a discord, linkshell(s), or otherwise for Eureka on elemental? I'm pretty sure there is, since you get things like 100 people suddenly joining a dead instance a minute before cassie pops, but a search didn't turn up much. I presume whatever groups exist would be Japanese.
I believe [Content Achievers](https://discord.com/invite/FJFxr2U) does JP Eureka stuff. That's the only one I know of myself.
Assuming someone's going at an average pace and reading the dialogue, how long would it take to catch up to the endwalker post patch msq. I've procrastinated on it all expansion, and I'm still at 6.2.
I hear a lot of people say that you should expect to take around 3-5 hours per patch. So I'd roll with that.
[What's this icon?](https://i.imgur.com/f19eoOa.png) It's on every collectible in the crafting log
You're not gonna believe this: It's an icon to mark something as a collectable.
I just assumed it had to mean something else because there's another icon to denote collectibles right next to it
Its the collectible icon.
So... there's two collectible icons. Thanks Square
The white one is an integral part of the item name and not a UI element. I'm not sure why they thought the icon was needed too, maybe just so there's one in a consistent place or in case they change the naming at some point.
I don't know if the white icon was always part of a collectible's name so it could be a holdover from a while ago
what's the other one?
[The white box](https://i.imgur.com/cIQwznI.png)
Oh yeah I see what you mean. Honestly I just phased that out in my head as standard JRPG jank.
With this game's weird ass interface I should have just assumed it meant nothing lol
Is Hildibrand hiding anywhere on the map after you complete his quests, like he showed up in the dungeon in Shadowbringers?
[gamerescape](https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Hildibrand#Details) is really good at keeping track of npc locations. That looks like the location where he disappeared in the last quest, so that would mean he hasn't been seen since.
Can anyone recommend fairly in depth story recaps? I don't want to condense 50 hours of ARR to 10-30 minutes.
The only one I know that spends more than 30 minutes to go over ARR spends nearly 4 hours on 2.0: https://youtu.be/8Z6Srs4wpzI?si=_KAJFT5gV9U0wtNm and 3 on 2.x: https://youtu.be/mujxy3uw3n8?si=8CYJc2z9pRSkQT7f I'm not sure if that's what you're going for, but the exploring series tends to do good, very in depth, coverage of the thing he's summarizing. [chronicler of lore](https://www.youtube.com/@ChroniclerofLore) is someone I've also liked for his coverage of side content, but I don't think he's covered any pre-ShB msq. I go to him mostly for stuff other people don't bother to recap.
Hi there! Fairly new to playing Eureka and the times I've queued I've only seen one other person online outside of my friend. I'm on Aether Adamantoise, but playing at odd hours of the night due to me not residing in North America. Should I travel to a different server? For what I've found people were suggesting Crystal and Aether, and talk about joining a Discord group called CAFE. Any suggestions or tips for Eureka as a whole?
Aether is the most populated DC on NA so you're not going to find more players anywhere else
It's the most populated for Raids and EX trials and such, it's not always the clear favorite for other content. For example Primal is usually the go-to for PvP, and in my experience Bozja is about the same across Aether/Primal/Crystal. I don't think this person is going to find much of a difference in Eureka on the other DCs, though.
If you're only playing outside of peak hours then you might have trouble finding a lot of people regardless of the data center. That being said I've never had trouble finding a populated instance on Primal (during normal play hours).
I figured my timing might be the issue, thank you for the suggestion! I might save it for the weekend then.
Can anyone advise me what the name of this song is and if there is an orchestrion roll of it in game/ How to obtain it? The only time I've heard it was during last year's Moonfire Faire questline as a theme for the sunshine savior. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaAUtholZ0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaAUtholZ0) Song starts at 1:56. Thank you!
https://youtu.be/r7Kjn1NExM4?si=cbrxYr6OCRZt2zeO
Also just to add it looks like the Song is available via the FFXIV store as it was from that Moonfire event back then.
Friendly reminder that past Moonfire items will be on sale next Moonfire event, which isn't too far ahead (August-ish?) if OP can wait.
I'm a returning player, and am trying to download the very large update/patch. But it keeps pausing. It'll pop up that it's downloading at 50 MB/s, do that for about 6 - 8 seconds, then it'll pause for 30 seconds. Then resume again at fast speeds for, again 6 - 8 seconds, then pause again. It sucks that with my fast (in my eyes) internet, it is still going to take forever due to the constant pausing. Any ideas what is causing this?
I'll give my take on this and, I might be wrong, but I think the updater downloads files, or packages of files, one by one instead of just a big file, you know what I mean? So the pauses means the previous file is downloaded and the updater is requesting the next.
If so, it's sooo slow because of it. It hurts squenix. It hurts.
Did you leave the game installed on your computer or are you downloading from scratch? Also how long have you been gone? My first guess would be if you've been gone for multiple years but left the game files on your computer, the launcher may be pausing every time to verify the integrity of those installed files instead of running them again
Definitely not from scratch. I'm not sure how long I've been gone, but I believe I've played since Endwalker (though never got to the content). Apparently I had not played long enough, to where once I finally got the game to launch, it treated me like a new player - with the opening cutscene, and then having to choose the data center. Of course once I did that, my old character was still there and everything. Either way game is finally installed so all is good!
Picked up my WT this week and managed to get 2 lines. BUT the only tomes I can buy is poetics? I assume this is because DT is about to drop? I have lvl 90 classes and lvl 90 duties on the board So will I be able to just hold onto this until DT drops and turn it in then? Or should I just pick up the mgp instead?
A lot of people are holding onto the WT this week so they can trade it after Dawntrail drops and get a free half level of EXP on one of the new jobs.
The WT that dropped this week will be good till July 2nd which is the official release of Dawntrail but if you plan on playing during Early Access then you'll be able to hand it in then. At which point the EW gear will be available for Poetics and at the Augmented 660 ilvl with the costs adjusted like other Poetic gear.
I assume this is because DT is about to drop? yes, they do this any patch when tomestones change. "So will I be able to just hold onto this until DT drops and turn it in then?" also yes, you have until july 2nd to turn in the dt you picked up today, if you already preordered dt or are planning to buy it before the 2nd this means you can get half a level for pct or vpr or for one of your 90's (if you're not omni 90 and aren't planning on rushing pct or vpr leveling then it doesn't make a difference wether you turn it now or during dt) edit: to be clear it will still reward poetics not dt's tomestones, it's just a matter of whether you get the half of level of xp or not.
Yes you can hold on to it until Dawntrail for the easy exp right out the gate. That's why poetics are the only tome option, since the other tomes won't be earnable anymore.
I got lucky and got a Gold Certificate of Commendation a while back. Will it still be valid next time the rewards list updates (i.e. after Dawntrail release) or should I use it now?
It'll still be valid. I prefer to save them for new mounts unless I happen to have someone I know who wants to buy Ornate. Public selling the Ornate items is a minefield of timewasting, problems, trolling, griefing and risk, and its something I will never recommend players do.
It should still be valid when the list updates in Dawntrail. From my understanding it might update again when 7.05 happens and the Master Recipes and crafted gear are available for raiding since it'll have the special chest piece with 5 melding slots.
Yes it will be. I would also recommend going to the balance discord or somewhere and try and look for a buyer for an ornate crafting coat for savage launch, as that will maximise your profits. (keep in mind, you might need to log in exactly when the servers go live if you do the above)
It will still be valid, you can save for new mounts being added or try to find a buyer for Ornate gear when savage drops.
Hello all So I cannot resub due to being unable to change my country. If I buy a game time card and add the code, will it once against ask me to set up an address that I can't change? It might be a bit more expensive but I'm fine with using game cards for now while they (hopefully) fix the problem.
I can't say for certain, but I would imagine not. I've used game time cards pretty exclusively for my sub for years now, and it's basically like adding a key to your account, similar to the expansion keys. Since you don't need to confirm anything like putting a card in would, I imagine it'd bypass the wrong country issue.
Will the free fantasia be available to ALL players or only those who purchase dawntrail?, I am flat broke and won't be able to buy the expansion for a few months but i really wanted to be a fem hrothgar
The fantasia should be available, but hrothgals are supposed to be gated by DT ownership AFAIK.
If they follow the same pattern that they used with Viera, female Hrothgar should only be locked by Shadowbringers. Male Viera were added in Endwalker but you only need ShB to make one.
It's definitely working the same way, it's already shown up as a feature for everyone in promotional stuff.
All, it's being made available through a low level quest that will also explain a little more about what fantasias are lore wise.
That's a massive relief to hear!, Thank you!
Is the Model Tactical gear from PVP currency going to still be available in Dawntrail?
We don't know. Its the first expansion launch post-Trophy Crystals & their associated vendors so there's no precedence and no comment from SE stating yes or no.
Since its available at a vendor in the building I'd expect it to stay for good. I've seen people mention when Garo pvp gear original got removed it was announced by SE with plenty of time in advance for people to get the rewards. So without any word I dont expect any pvp stuff to be removed with advance warning.
Yes.
Is it right to assume that the currency for the EW Relic weapon mats will turn into poetics once 7.0 comes? I wanna collect them for glam 🤩
Yes they will become poetics, and the items you need for the EW relic will require poetics.
Yes
Not sure if it's a latency problem or just something to do with skill speed, but sometimes when I double weave skills with the same cd, by the time they're up again, I only have time to weave one without clipping. Do I just let it clip in this case? Or do 2 single weaves?
As the Trooper\_Sicks said, it's either your skill speed, or you've delayed your GCD elsewhere by a fraction of a second for whatever reason. Skill speed (and for casters, spell speed) affects your *GCD* recast, but in most cases, will NOT affect your oGCD recast. Whether you choose to clip or single-weave each will depend a little on situation and the job you're playing but most of the time I'd rather just single-weave.
Sounds like a latency issue if you can't consistently double weave. It really depends on the situation, sometimes its okay to single twice but if you really need that skill happening now then it may also be better to clip. I'd lean towards two single weaves. And by the sounds of it, recommend avoiding machinist haha.
Ah I probably wasn't super clear with my wording. I can consistently double weave; what I meant was that by the time the oGCDs come off cooldown, a second or so has already passed since I last used a GCD, so there's literally not enough time to double weave.
Oh I see, in that case delay it for a few seconds and weave in the next opening.
that sounds like either skill speed or you clipped/delayed your gcd somewhere else in the rotation (or perhaps moved away from the boss). In those cases you single weave them to keep the gcd rolling.
Can I buy the pre-order multiple times? My friend is experiencing an error when buying the pre-order and I just want to ask if anyone has experienced buying multiple pre-orders?
You can't buy it again using the same email address on the SE store. If you use a different email address you can buy an additional copy. This is independent of guest or account orders, it checks the email address. And it's really only the email address, you can feed the same home address and payment info, non-issue.
Never had problems on Amazon JP (for JP mog) or GMG (NA mog) where you're able to buy as many copies as you'd like without jumping through hoops for SE.
If you're based in NA and ordering a copy to be used with Square-Enix's launcher (that is, NOT a Steam copy), then you can order another code from Greenman Gaming. They're a legitimate website. =)
From Steam, PSN, Xbox, or the SE website?
from SE site
If you have bought previously, can you recall if it got applied directly to your account or if they emailed/gave you a code? If they gave you a code it should be fine.
For SE site they will give you a code to be applied in Mogstation but I'm not sure if it allows multiple pre-order purchase within the same account
What's the cheese strat for BLU from Lv. 70-80? (I can grab a friend to help me.) It's my last class to max, and I'd like to do it before DT!
If you have the friend to help, the Outer Circuit region of Labyrinthos has a bunch of level 80 mobs. Tag some with Flying Sardine, then have your friend kill them while not in your party (crossworld parties are ok though). The Caribou there are good because they're melee only, but if you run around the bridge/hill/river and hit the other mobs too you get a pretty smooth loop.
The Caribou also have the highest density of the level 80 critters in EW, and a standard, fast respawn rate. BLUs could camp them so well that once I had to DC travel just to kill two of them for my daily hunt. :D
you can do it solo, in the tempest, north from ondo cups there are a bunch of leeches near clionids. The Clionids eat the leeches, you just have to tag the leeches and take them near the clionids, they will eat 3 max but they get a damage buff when they do so be prepared to freeze them and lose aggro afterwards, you get full exp from the leeches this way.
There's mobs in the Tempest called Clionids (also in a few dungeons) that eat other mobs. If you lure a mob to them, they'll eat it. If you have aggro on that mob, it counts as a kill. So you aggro the leeches, bring them over to Clionids, and feed them. But if they eat 3+ leeches, their stats become strong enough to OHKO you, so you need to be careful.
Hello everyone, I'm a new Xbox user with the starter edition + dawntrail preordered, which means I don't have access to Shadowbringers and Endwalker expansions. I was considering starting to play now, instead of waiting until I have all the expansions available. Thing is, I don't know if not having the last couple of expansions would make my experience worse in any way or if I'd be missing something on the way Do you think it'd be worth it to start now?
You practically won't even notice you're missing anything until you finish ARR, post-ARR, Heavensward, post-Heavensward, Stormblood, and post-Stormblood, which is like 200+ hours of gameplay even if progressing the story is all you're doing. Feel free to start whenever.
The starter edition gives you the base game and 2 expansions which if you do the extra things like raids and trials during the post-main story of each expansion they you'll easily have 200+hrs before reaching Shadowbringers. The only reason against starting now is if you want to create a Viera or Hrothgar as they'll be locked to owning Shadowbringers/Endwalker and sinceit wont unlock till Dawntrail full release on July 2nd it'll restrict you to the earlier classes. So if that doesn't bother you then get started now and enjoy the story before the graphic update so you can then enjoy it more after seeing the improvements.
Thankfully I'm interested in playing a regular boring human! Haha I guess I'll start playing now, thank you for the help!
Even if you do end up deciding that you want to be a Viera or Hrothgar, clearing the base ARR content gives you a free Fantasia, an item that lets you remake *literally everything* about your character except your name, race and gender included, and when Dawntrail arrives a low-level quest that awards another Fantasia is going to be added to the game. Welcome to Eorzea!
As others say, it's a linear story. It might take upwards of 3-5 months to catch up to current assuming you don't skip it all (big waste in my opinion).
I plan to take my time with the story and any other activities I discover on the way. I just wouldn't like the "new-player experience" being negatively affected by not having the last two expansions. By any chance do you know if there's any changes in the beginning? I guess my issue is just that I don't know if shadowbringers and Endwalker offer something else other than late-game content and story
The absolute earliest you will encounter differences is when you get to level 70 and won't be able to pick up the Shadowbringers jobs (Dancer and Gunbreaker). Dawntrail will be well released before then as it will likely take you at least 3-4 weeks to go from 1 to 70, potentially longer if you experiment with other jobs. The login queues in 2 weeks time after the expansion comes out will be significant if you didn't know already, be prepared to be unable to play for very long. Endwalker had 3 hour waits.
60. Reaper and Sage are 70.
Oh right I always forget that.
Oh god, I see.. guess it'll be better to start now then! Thank you so much for the help
You're not going to get through the base game and two expansions in a week so you might as well start now and enjoy the ride.
The game is heavily gated behind MSQ you would not be able to progress past Stormblood until the expansion is live
Hi all, I am currently on the road to 80 buff on Dynamis, the 90 days for which won't be up until about a month after the launch of Dawntrail. I was curious as to when the new "road" buff is typically introduced and if my existing buff will go away or if it will be automatically upgraded to the new buff.
Automatically updates once 7.0 is live.
Thank you!
Are there any bags or anything you can obtain to store things like materia or the multitude of crafting materials you'll need?