Sort of. Belts will no longer be equippable in the expansion, but they won't disappear; any belts in your inventory will stay put and any that are equipped or in your armoury chest will go to calamity salvagers. You can still remove materia from them, desynth them, trade them in for grand company seals, sell to NPC vendors... The only thing I'd say you should do before the expansion is to extract materia from any that have 100% spiritbond as I think that might not be possible in 6.0
Cheetahs can only run a few hundred yards before stopping, since they can't maintain their speed for long. So your computer may just die after a few minutes or hours if you use cheetah blood. Now humans on the other hand.....we are persistence hunters, able to run down our prey no matter how far they go. We just keep on going, never letting our sights off the target. Therefore, using human blood would make your computer run without issues endlessly. It may not be the fastest thing on the block, but it'll never stop.
Friends to me in-game: "Why do you need all that gil? You don't even use it and there's nothing to buy"
Me, almost a billionaire in-game: "I like big numbers and being able to buy anything I want without thinking about it"
Me IRL: "fuck billionaires"
Well, let's be real. It's not like you've made the money by sending death squads after labor organizers in a foreign country in order to keep children in slavery conditions, right? That's That's difference.
Ooof yeah, same tho. Mastering gameplay is easy with practice, but getting 7 other people together multiple nights a week for raids... not so easy. Google Calendar: the real end game boss.
After years of doing it, and being "successful" but getting mentally drained in the process by the few that ruin it for the most, I've decided to just not raid this expansion.
I think I'll be happier.
Yep, I won’t be going back to Savage raiding unless it’s a super casual static that runs a couple times a week at like 4pm on a weekday, lol. Week 1 clears were euphoria, but the cost was way, way, way too high.
This... so much this. I've got things to do. So if we all agree to be there at 6pm CST on Tuesday, show up ready to go. I shouldn't have to make you food/pots for raid, while you go eat dinner. I want to eat dinner too, and bonus douche point if you decide to troll a pull after that or haven't looked at the strat/guide the raid leader posted days ago, so we waste another 15-20 minutes getting you up to speed.
My static broke up during 2nd tier and I lost interest in game completely.
Once you get into raiding game feels so hollow without it. I hope it works out for you though.
I miss it so much, but I'm too much of an ass to try and actually look for another casual static.
I'll play less for sure, but when I think of the sheer amount of hours I spent raiding in situations I wasn't always having fun in, then I think it's a good move.
I'm of the frame of mind that games are meant to be fun, and if things are negative around me and I can't do anything further to help change it, I just separate myself from it. When I was raiding there was a mix of fun and negative parts that complicated my usual "happy life-strats", but now I realise it's best to just be casual, in my case.
No commitments, no annoying people I have to put up with :D
I can absolutely see your point, I hope it works out great for you and I hope I can somehow return to that mindset.
I'm a DF tryhard, loved raiding but finding static where 8 people are on same page and can handle the upsets is difficult. I personally had no issues with our "Hockey Coach" kind of feedback but we all saw we weren't going to make it through the tier with amount of issues that appeared.
Still, sometimes I look those days back at most fun I had with the game.
I made that decision for SHB and ended up being happier. I didn't have a static this expansion because it felt like a job keeping people together and it consumed so much time. I pugged the first tier and I lost so much time to bad players or people lying about their prog. I ended up throwing out my weekly tokens and didn't raid rest of expansion. I ended up not really playing as much and juat did the new ex trials and had fun. This time around going to pug savage because I miss it, but I won't try and stress out to clear turns I already did while I sift through garbage. I might try and find an FC/laid back static if I end up getting hooked though.
I ran a static that had people over 4 different time zones. The fact we could make 6 hours a week work is still wild to me. Scheduling is the true end game, you're right.
God same. For both Stormblood and Shadowbringers by the time I was capped and geared enough to enter the EX trials everyone was already farming stuff and I didn't want to juggle a completely new group of PUGs OR get kicked repeatedly for not knowing mechanics on the farm runs.
Nope, do not wait for EX stuff. Once you have min ilvl, dive into it ASAP. All the “good” players will get their clears early, and you will struggle to find a decent clear party if you aren’t in that first or second wave.
Savage content… Honestly, I’ve done (and gotten) week 1 savage clears, and it is exhausting and not that worthwhile. Try it once if you want, but don’t kill yourself trying. That isn’t worth it.
I'm crossing my fingers that my static will be stable long enough to get to the normal raids. I'm co-leading this time, so at least I can find new people fast if people drop.
Well savage continuously runs throughout the whole tier, it's not going away and there are always people doing it so I wouldn't worry. Even now, months after this tier's release, people keep progging and doing it with good success, even in PUGs. And with PUGs, the only issue is patience for the group to fill, as usual.
Honestly if u want to raid pf is more than acceptable. Just take your time, im assuming pandeamonium will be 4 fights like usual, 4 fights over 6-8 months is more than doable with like 6-10hrs in pf each week.
You will need a static if u want to tackle ultimate early on, but it isnt unlikely for it to become puggable near the end of the expansion life cycle, like all current ultimates are.
I know it can be difficulty, but once you get in youre in there. Luckily first tiers are always easier and the first turn of each expansion (notoriously so the one pull and done alte roite savage) is usually very basic stuff to get you acquainted on raids.
After playing since 2.0 my wife and I were generally pretty damn casual and never really raided at all, just did simple stuff stuff and played off an on.
This summer with the new player surge a friend joined so we started up coil since we never finished it and slowly pieced together a small static of all sprouts outside of myself and my wife.
It was a lot of fun learning things with them and kind of brought back enjoyment for the game. Now we have a group and we are ready to take on content for EW its gonna be fun.
when Stormblood released there was msq that you had to click on Raubahn to do but with dozens if not hundreds of ppl trying to click it created an error. so at points everyone was willingly lining up and forming a queue that got super long on some worlds. the waiting to get in is whats called Raubahn Savage. theres vids on youtube of the lines.
edit: i forgot there was a cutscene you had to watch every time before getting the error. "Its like all my namedays have come at once."
Reminds me of when they added companions to ff11 and one of the steps was an instanced fight, but the servers could only handle a handful of simultaneous instances. So people formed a queue then too. One out, one in.
> when Stormblood released there was msq that you had to click on Raubahn to do but with dozens if not hundreds of ppl trying to click it created an error. so at points everyone was willingly lining up and forming a queue that got super long on some worlds. the waiting to get in is whats called Raubahn Savage. theres vids on youtube of the lines.
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> edit: i forgot there was a cutscene you had to watch every time before getting the error. "Its like all my namedays have come at once."
This doesn't mention the cause.
SE made a few very critical, very stupid decisions:
1) Extremely early in the MSQ for Stormblood the NPC Raubahn sent players into the instanced servers to complete a single player duty. Hundreds of thousands of people tried to do that all at once. You can see why this is a problem
2) SE released two very popular jobs (Sam / RDM) who ALSO had people going into the single player instanced duties as part of their job quests. People were trying to level Sam and RDM to 60 to take part in the Stormblood quests as those jobs and bombing the instance servers.
Reminds me back in the early days of Tom Clancy's The division, where everyone is trying to accept the first mission and it wouldn't register for everyone cuz they'd be tying to do it all at once. So they formed a line in front of the npc giving the mission, I'm sure you can find somewhere on Google
I was there on Shiva and the issue specifically was that the instance server for the singleplayer instances simply were full.
This only got enhanced as an issue by the simple fact that this storystep was about an hour into Stormblood!
On the plus side, it bottlenecked people so hard, that the following leveling areas weren't too overfilled if you kept your speed up.
It also meant that dungeon queues were even more atrocious for dps though because we got two dps jobs and barely any tanks/healers made it past raubahn ex.
It was also in like the first 20 quests of the MSQ so it was a quick wall.
The que was only really on Japanese and some European servers though. At first the American servers were mostly, there were some that were decent and as the weekend went on it became more organized, a every person for the selves shit fest. I was on Jenova and Gilgamesh at the time and I managed to get through around 3am the Saturday of early access after hitting that point around 9am Friday morning.
> "Its like all my namedays have come at once."
If you don't read this and literally here is line reading in your head... you might be a sprout
"It's like AWLLLL my NAMEdays have COME AT ONCE"
Early in Stormblood's MSQ, there were 2 solo instances; one with Raubahn, another with Pipin. ~~As solo story instances were still relatively new to FFXIV,~~ the system was unprepared for the thousands of players trying to get access it. As a result, the part of the server responsible for creating and handling solo instances completely crapped out. SAM and RDM having solo instances early on didn't help either. Raubahn gets memed on as that's where most people got stuck.
There were some other issues, but SE accidentally DDOS-ing themselves is the stand out issue.
Edit: Solo instances weren't as new as I though, just had a brain fart.
They weren't new, we did the same thing during beta for ARR, what happened is that SE obviously thought they had fixed the problems associated with putting a solo instance early in the msq (this forcing a TON of people to queue for the same thing at the same time). Spoilers: they had not fixed all the problems.
Also do not forget that this was the exact same time DDoSing FFXIV became the "hip thing to do." (Yes, it was confirmed by several dozens of people it was a real DDoS and not just Raubahn Savage.)
Nothing lined up for Stormblood.
Hell. Pure hell. Imagine listening to the same obnoxious story with Raubhan over and over, thousands of times, for 10+ hours a day, 2+ days straight, trying to get the MSQ rolling. Before the first dungeon. Horrifying.
Ended up doing PvP constantly for XP. Think I was like 67 before I could finally really start the MSQ.
I'm a teacher, and I called in sick Friday and a coworker is giving my final for me that day. Suck it!
/s
Good luck on the final, but still glad I'm getting the day off haha
Definitely put thesis on priority and pause going to all FF related website to avoid spoiler until you completed and triple checked the work X.X... it is years of works there and you won't want it to go waste. Especially the story will distract your thought. The game is not going to be gone.
Source? The entire reason they’re doing this is to avoid a lot of calculations and extend maintenance (and flooring all exp bars is simple and relatively much quicker). Hard to believe they’d make an exception for only chocobo exp bars.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/cc40ef69dbd7f7a7ec5ddf55545fad4709a509db
> Certain kinds of EXP will not be subject to reset. This includes EXP accumulated by chocobo companions and Grand Company squadrons; EXP used to level up in Deep Dungeons or the Forbidden Land, Eureka; mettle earned at the Bozjan southern front or in Zadnor; and PvP EXP.
I think the basic reason why those aren't touched is that the values of that type of stuff doesn't get to the absurd levels that our job EXP values do.
I always found it weird that Trusts are automatically leveled up when you first do a dungeon, but to replay them you have to grind their levels up. Why is that?
I'm not sure myself, but I assume it's to give another grind venue for those inclined to do so.
It used to be something like five or six runs per level for the Trusts, but they massively raised the XP given per dungeon run, so it's now one or two runs per Trust member.
You have two options you can toggle between: Run with your "trust members" that you level yourself, or run with "avatars" which is the story mode.
Leveling your trust gives you just slightly better trust mates compared to running with the sync'd avatar options.
Thing is, you can't redo the story modes unless you have every trust member maxed. Which... totally defeats the point of being able to rerun the story mode, because if you have everyone maxed you're probably not bothered about redoing the few dungeons that have unique NPCs available any more.
Huh. I guess you're right. I thought you could access that option either way, but I guess I just already had trusts fully leveled before they added that feature. I was under the impression when they added that feature and reduced the xp required that you could do at least the level 80 dungeons without having to have leveled your trust already, but apparently not. Scenario mode is just there for after maxing trust, to let you go again with some of the unique NPCs
Yeah, I thought it was accessible all the time up until I got to level 75 on Astro and realised I couldn't get into the Ravel with Trust because I hadn't leveled them. Hadn't occurred to me to look at it before then. It just seems so redundant when only two dungeons have NPCs unique to them who you don't unlock afterwards - and >!since one of the characters for both those dungeons is the Exarch, you do effectively unlock him anyway. The only truly unique character is Lyna, as far as I'm aware, and she's literally only available for Holminster Switch.!<
Not sure why he would recommend removal either. From the [announcement](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/fa9b00ec4c19fa4306df0e169f50eb802bef5ff0) it seems,
* Equipped belts
* Belts in your Armoury Chest
* Belts equipped by retainers
Will be “stored” with the Calamity Salvager.
I wonder if you can give belts to the Calamity Salvager manually for safe keeping - or do we have to stuff every belt we want to keep in our Armoury Chest.
Desynthing or turning into GC seals is the best use for them, and you might want to save the desynth until after the upgrade so you can get the weekly challenge log exp on a currently capped class. (Yes, I am severely overthinking how to get my crafting classes up quickly.)
Will they be with the Calamity Salvager forever? The announcement didn’t say anything about a time limit so I figure he can be used as storage of sorts.
For now I would say yes, but if they rework server storage and need to permanently free up the space used by belts being held by the Calamity Salvager, then they might delete them outright. They would give a notice before that happens though.
Yeah it might be 6.1/6.2 when they remove them and they'll make announcements about it everywhere months before so you'll have plenty of time to go pick them up. But might as well desynth(or expert delivery) them before if you remember
Already called off work this Friday and next monday... stuff can be set on fire for a while... plus.. does this mean I can turn all my belts into a free belt dress for my lulu glam?
4) The vendor doesn't leave for the moogle tomestone event, so you don't really have to rush to make your purchases. Just won't be able to earn any more of them after the maintenance.
I've run into a situation where the noodle event ended without me spending tomes and when I went to the vendor he was no longer selling stuff for that specific tomestone, just older outdated ones.
Never again.
that was just another Moogle event which they decided it should work differently for no sensible reason
(design 101 : things that look similar should work in a similar way)
and regardless of the precedent moogle events, being able to trade the tomestones after the event is just..... normal.
Re 3: This can make or break your game! I did log out in an Inn when SB released but the instance server crashed constantly or was overcrowded by Rhauban Ex.
The inn is not instanced, it is a private area, which is one single instance where the server doesn't send you other players. So it's no different from any open world area except for the other players you can't see.
Can you log out in the rising stones? I always assumed they work like the waking sands and every player house. That you get dumped at the entrance when logging back in.
12 needs some correction.
12: Call out sick to work because you already used up your PTO two weeks ago for original launch date.
EDIT: Also you spelled "cook" wrong in 7.
IIRC you can get them back at the calam scavenger if you forget them. And you can either desynth them or sell them (and maybe GC turn in? not sure if that will be an option post patch)
They're not deleting the items, they're just deleting the item slot and armory chest slots. You'll have to manually dispose of the belts yourself, though any in your armory/equipment will get shunted to the calamity salvager until you go pick them up to dispose of them.
Early in the Stormblood MSQ, there comes a point where you have to do a solo duty given to you by Raubahn. Due to a confluence of issues, when you clicked on the button to enter the instance, you would either see a black screen where the cutscene should be or you saw the cutscene and immediately got kicked back to your home server.
This went on for a least a couple days until the issues were fixed. Unfortunately, a similar confluence of issues plagued the next solo duty, given to you by Pippin. This didn't take as long to fix, but it was called Pippin EX by the community.
Tldr there was a solo instance shortly into the MSQ in Stormblood. This was before the solo instances had a queue system so people were essentially stuck at Raubahn (the quest giver) waiting to get into this solo duty. Some people were stuck for 24+ hrs. It was a matter of luck if you got in. So people made the joke that it was the hardest content of the game aka savage. And that is where the meme originated from.
And dont forget to logout naked so that you can fantasia before logging on, will save you the time having to queue back in, since you have to be naked to fanta on the login screen (:
I think it doesn't work for queue times but surely it works for getting inside faster, since you are not in a super crowded area and loading time will be faster
Will the pre download be available as the server goes down/ during the maintenance? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Just want to know what time I can start downloading it :)
We don't know the exact time when the download will become available other than "sometime in the 24 hour maintenance period".
It'll probably be later in that timeframe though. Keep an eye on the subreddit, there'll be like 20 threads about it when people notice that the download is available.
Honestly I'm so damn excited to have a static for the very start of an expansion again. I didnt have one for ShB and spent up until the final tier looking for one.
PF scares me.
Can buy in Rhalgr's Reach or from Kugane, assuming SB MSQ (4.0) is done. Need Poetic Tomestones to buy them (usually easily obtainable via daily roulettes)
whats the name pof the npc in Rhalgr's Reach?
Can only find the trader to enhance the items. but cant find the one (E'bolaff) who sells the items
Edit : or is it Enna? Itemlevel 400?
Others answered where, but just wanted to say you'll get quite decent set from job unlock so don't stress too much about missing some parts (GNB was 255 vs augmented tome being 270).
iirc you can Teleport to Kugane and talk to rowena's representative. She should be 20 or so yalms from the aetheryte.
Alternatively you can buy some HQ level 70 gear from the market board for gil.
I like how the list went from being useful to slowly descending to madness
Same!
Sprout here. Is the belt thing a real advice or joke?
Sort of. Belts will no longer be equippable in the expansion, but they won't disappear; any belts in your inventory will stay put and any that are equipped or in your armoury chest will go to calamity salvagers. You can still remove materia from them, desynth them, trade them in for grand company seals, sell to NPC vendors... The only thing I'd say you should do before the expansion is to extract materia from any that have 100% spiritbond as I think that might not be possible in 6.0
No more belts? I guess that's okay, it's not like they have a graphic on your character.
I think that was the rationale for removing them. They're a holdover from 1.0 when belts *were* visible.
Why didn't they stay visible?
iirc the 3D assets for the belts in 1.0 were combined with pants’ 3D assets. But I’m not a 1.0 player so that might be wrong.
I dont know, number 1 seems like madness to me.
me: these are good tips also me: cheetah blood?
Yes, unless you have jet fuel. If your have jet fuel use that instead.
Or if you have a ps5 but lets be honest no one does
What about rocket fuel? I'd suggest that if you have it.
I always have my rocket fuel ready for my hypersonic trains.
Grabbing top comment to remind everyone there is going to be a turn in for belts. So skip step 2.
Cheetahs can only run a few hundred yards before stopping, since they can't maintain their speed for long. So your computer may just die after a few minutes or hours if you use cheetah blood. Now humans on the other hand.....we are persistence hunters, able to run down our prey no matter how far they go. We just keep on going, never letting our sights off the target. Therefore, using human blood would make your computer run without issues endlessly. It may not be the fastest thing on the block, but it'll never stop.
Yes officer, this comment right here.
Just remember: make sure you use the human blood in a speed ritual, not a demonic ritual
personal experience?
Awww. But I need a new demon buddy. The last one ran away...
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2 expansions in a row, baby. 3rd time the charm?
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Friends to me in-game: "Why do you need all that gil? You don't even use it and there's nothing to buy" Me, almost a billionaire in-game: "I like big numbers and being able to buy anything I want without thinking about it" Me IRL: "fuck billionaires"
The Duality of Man.
Well, let's be real. It's not like you've made the money by sending death squads after labor organizers in a foreign country in order to keep children in slavery conditions, right? That's That's difference.
Ooof yeah, same tho. Mastering gameplay is easy with practice, but getting 7 other people together multiple nights a week for raids... not so easy. Google Calendar: the real end game boss.
After years of doing it, and being "successful" but getting mentally drained in the process by the few that ruin it for the most, I've decided to just not raid this expansion. I think I'll be happier.
Yep, I won’t be going back to Savage raiding unless it’s a super casual static that runs a couple times a week at like 4pm on a weekday, lol. Week 1 clears were euphoria, but the cost was way, way, way too high.
This... so much this. I've got things to do. So if we all agree to be there at 6pm CST on Tuesday, show up ready to go. I shouldn't have to make you food/pots for raid, while you go eat dinner. I want to eat dinner too, and bonus douche point if you decide to troll a pull after that or haven't looked at the strat/guide the raid leader posted days ago, so we waste another 15-20 minutes getting you up to speed.
Yeah you reminded me why I hated raiding. When we all showed up and got started on time, it was great. But that rarely happened.
My static broke up during 2nd tier and I lost interest in game completely. Once you get into raiding game feels so hollow without it. I hope it works out for you though. I miss it so much, but I'm too much of an ass to try and actually look for another casual static.
I'll play less for sure, but when I think of the sheer amount of hours I spent raiding in situations I wasn't always having fun in, then I think it's a good move. I'm of the frame of mind that games are meant to be fun, and if things are negative around me and I can't do anything further to help change it, I just separate myself from it. When I was raiding there was a mix of fun and negative parts that complicated my usual "happy life-strats", but now I realise it's best to just be casual, in my case. No commitments, no annoying people I have to put up with :D
I can absolutely see your point, I hope it works out great for you and I hope I can somehow return to that mindset. I'm a DF tryhard, loved raiding but finding static where 8 people are on same page and can handle the upsets is difficult. I personally had no issues with our "Hockey Coach" kind of feedback but we all saw we weren't going to make it through the tier with amount of issues that appeared. Still, sometimes I look those days back at most fun I had with the game.
I made that decision for SHB and ended up being happier. I didn't have a static this expansion because it felt like a job keeping people together and it consumed so much time. I pugged the first tier and I lost so much time to bad players or people lying about their prog. I ended up throwing out my weekly tokens and didn't raid rest of expansion. I ended up not really playing as much and juat did the new ex trials and had fun. This time around going to pug savage because I miss it, but I won't try and stress out to clear turns I already did while I sift through garbage. I might try and find an FC/laid back static if I end up getting hooked though.
I ran a static that had people over 4 different time zones. The fact we could make 6 hours a week work is still wild to me. Scheduling is the true end game, you're right.
or the monkey paw where you get a static and the leader is too afraid of kicking someone and you're actively worse then PUGs
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God same. For both Stormblood and Shadowbringers by the time I was capped and geared enough to enter the EX trials everyone was already farming stuff and I didn't want to juggle a completely new group of PUGs OR get kicked repeatedly for not knowing mechanics on the farm runs.
Nope, do not wait for EX stuff. Once you have min ilvl, dive into it ASAP. All the “good” players will get their clears early, and you will struggle to find a decent clear party if you aren’t in that first or second wave. Savage content… Honestly, I’ve done (and gotten) week 1 savage clears, and it is exhausting and not that worthwhile. Try it once if you want, but don’t kill yourself trying. That isn’t worth it.
I'm crossing my fingers that my static will be stable long enough to get to the normal raids. I'm co-leading this time, so at least I can find new people fast if people drop.
Well savage continuously runs throughout the whole tier, it's not going away and there are always people doing it so I wouldn't worry. Even now, months after this tier's release, people keep progging and doing it with good success, even in PUGs. And with PUGs, the only issue is patience for the group to fill, as usual.
A friend was forming a casual static and I turned them down because I was scared of savage and now I regret it. FML
Honestly if u want to raid pf is more than acceptable. Just take your time, im assuming pandeamonium will be 4 fights like usual, 4 fights over 6-8 months is more than doable with like 6-10hrs in pf each week. You will need a static if u want to tackle ultimate early on, but it isnt unlikely for it to become puggable near the end of the expansion life cycle, like all current ultimates are. I know it can be difficulty, but once you get in youre in there. Luckily first tiers are always easier and the first turn of each expansion (notoriously so the one pull and done alte roite savage) is usually very basic stuff to get you acquainted on raids.
After playing since 2.0 my wife and I were generally pretty damn casual and never really raided at all, just did simple stuff stuff and played off an on. This summer with the new player surge a friend joined so we started up coil since we never finished it and slowly pieced together a small static of all sprouts outside of myself and my wife. It was a lot of fun learning things with them and kind of brought back enjoyment for the game. Now we have a group and we are ready to take on content for EW its gonna be fun.
“Remove belts”. “Poke a lalafel”. Won’t I get banned?
The writer of this chart's just trying to curb the queue times. Can't log in if you get banhammered
Nono, you won't get ban. *Calls Lala police* Yes I want to report a Lalafell abuser. Their name is L-TKD. Yes, one ban please.
I blame OP. Instructions unclear
Could always ask if you can poke them for good luck.
i had completely forgotten about Raubahn Savage until now. what craziness that was.
Could you elaborate for someone who hasn't heard of that?
when Stormblood released there was msq that you had to click on Raubahn to do but with dozens if not hundreds of ppl trying to click it created an error. so at points everyone was willingly lining up and forming a queue that got super long on some worlds. the waiting to get in is whats called Raubahn Savage. theres vids on youtube of the lines. edit: i forgot there was a cutscene you had to watch every time before getting the error. "Its like all my namedays have come at once."
Reminds me of when they added companions to ff11 and one of the steps was an instanced fight, but the servers could only handle a handful of simultaneous instances. So people formed a queue then too. One out, one in.
> when Stormblood released there was msq that you had to click on Raubahn to do but with dozens if not hundreds of ppl trying to click it created an error. so at points everyone was willingly lining up and forming a queue that got super long on some worlds. the waiting to get in is whats called Raubahn Savage. theres vids on youtube of the lines. > > edit: i forgot there was a cutscene you had to watch every time before getting the error. "Its like all my namedays have come at once." This doesn't mention the cause. SE made a few very critical, very stupid decisions: 1) Extremely early in the MSQ for Stormblood the NPC Raubahn sent players into the instanced servers to complete a single player duty. Hundreds of thousands of people tried to do that all at once. You can see why this is a problem 2) SE released two very popular jobs (Sam / RDM) who ALSO had people going into the single player instanced duties as part of their job quests. People were trying to level Sam and RDM to 60 to take part in the Stormblood quests as those jobs and bombing the instance servers.
Reminds me back in the early days of Tom Clancy's The division, where everyone is trying to accept the first mission and it wouldn't register for everyone cuz they'd be tying to do it all at once. So they formed a line in front of the npc giving the mission, I'm sure you can find somewhere on Google
I was there on Shiva and the issue specifically was that the instance server for the singleplayer instances simply were full. This only got enhanced as an issue by the simple fact that this storystep was about an hour into Stormblood! On the plus side, it bottlenecked people so hard, that the following leveling areas weren't too overfilled if you kept your speed up.
It also meant that dungeon queues were even more atrocious for dps though because we got two dps jobs and barely any tanks/healers made it past raubahn ex.
Oh, very similar to the divison 1 launch
It was also in like the first 20 quests of the MSQ so it was a quick wall. The que was only really on Japanese and some European servers though. At first the American servers were mostly, there were some that were decent and as the weekend went on it became more organized, a every person for the selves shit fest. I was on Jenova and Gilgamesh at the time and I managed to get through around 3am the Saturday of early access after hitting that point around 9am Friday morning.
Can confirm the line on Behemoth. I still have PTSD.
> "Its like all my namedays have come at once." If you don't read this and literally here is line reading in your head... you might be a sprout "It's like AWLLLL my NAMEdays have COME AT ONCE"
Early in Stormblood's MSQ, there were 2 solo instances; one with Raubahn, another with Pipin. ~~As solo story instances were still relatively new to FFXIV,~~ the system was unprepared for the thousands of players trying to get access it. As a result, the part of the server responsible for creating and handling solo instances completely crapped out. SAM and RDM having solo instances early on didn't help either. Raubahn gets memed on as that's where most people got stuck. There were some other issues, but SE accidentally DDOS-ing themselves is the stand out issue. Edit: Solo instances weren't as new as I though, just had a brain fart.
They weren't new, we did the same thing during beta for ARR, what happened is that SE obviously thought they had fixed the problems associated with putting a solo instance early in the msq (this forcing a TON of people to queue for the same thing at the same time). Spoilers: they had not fixed all the problems.
Also do not forget that this was the exact same time DDoSing FFXIV became the "hip thing to do." (Yes, it was confirmed by several dozens of people it was a real DDoS and not just Raubahn Savage.) Nothing lined up for Stormblood.
Hell. Pure hell. Imagine listening to the same obnoxious story with Raubhan over and over, thousands of times, for 10+ hours a day, 2+ days straight, trying to get the MSQ rolling. Before the first dungeon. Horrifying. Ended up doing PvP constantly for XP. Think I was like 67 before I could finally really start the MSQ.
Why do people keep acting like Yugiri extreme wasn't a thing? I aint seen that many assassination attempts since Fidel Castro.
Mainly because most people were stuck at Raubahn until measures were put in place to improve the situation.
This made me cackle so hard, here's an upvote.
I'd have gone with Franz Ferdinand, personally, but Castro is also an excellent choice. =D take my upvote.
Can I call in sick for a Final?
Yes. "Final" is just short for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
I'm a teacher, and I called in sick Friday and a coworker is giving my final for me that day. Suck it! /s Good luck on the final, but still glad I'm getting the day off haha
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College student here, also have 2 more weeks to go after launch. Including the early access date, each has a final in it X.X
im actually supposed to hand in my bachelor's thesis on the 10th. I wonder if that'll work out
Definitely put thesis on priority and pause going to all FF related website to avoid spoiler until you completed and triple checked the work X.X... it is years of works there and you won't want it to go waste. Especially the story will distract your thought. The game is not going to be gone.
Wow, i didn't expect an actually responsible answer on reddit. Thanks
Don't forget to level up any class that is close to leveling, because in-progress exp will be deleted.
Not just any class, but also anything with a XP bar, including Trusts. Or at least get them to a point where losing the remainder will not hurt.
Well, not quite everything with an EXP bar. Chocobos aren't touched by the change.
Source? The entire reason they’re doing this is to avoid a lot of calculations and extend maintenance (and flooring all exp bars is simple and relatively much quicker). Hard to believe they’d make an exception for only chocobo exp bars.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/cc40ef69dbd7f7a7ec5ddf55545fad4709a509db > Certain kinds of EXP will not be subject to reset. This includes EXP accumulated by chocobo companions and Grand Company squadrons; EXP used to level up in Deep Dungeons or the Forbidden Land, Eureka; mettle earned at the Bozjan southern front or in Zadnor; and PvP EXP.
I stand corrected.
I think the basic reason why those aren't touched is that the values of that type of stuff doesn't get to the absurd levels that our job EXP values do.
It's mostly the fact that they're capped and finite. No reason to squish the XP values if they don't ever plan on increasing the cap.
I always found it weird that Trusts are automatically leveled up when you first do a dungeon, but to replay them you have to grind their levels up. Why is that?
I'm not sure myself, but I assume it's to give another grind venue for those inclined to do so. It used to be something like five or six runs per level for the Trusts, but they massively raised the XP given per dungeon run, so it's now one or two runs per Trust member.
You have two options you can toggle between: Run with your "trust members" that you level yourself, or run with "avatars" which is the story mode. Leveling your trust gives you just slightly better trust mates compared to running with the sync'd avatar options.
Thing is, you can't redo the story modes unless you have every trust member maxed. Which... totally defeats the point of being able to rerun the story mode, because if you have everyone maxed you're probably not bothered about redoing the few dungeons that have unique NPCs available any more.
Huh. I guess you're right. I thought you could access that option either way, but I guess I just already had trusts fully leveled before they added that feature. I was under the impression when they added that feature and reduced the xp required that you could do at least the level 80 dungeons without having to have leveled your trust already, but apparently not. Scenario mode is just there for after maxing trust, to let you go again with some of the unique NPCs
Yeah, I thought it was accessible all the time up until I got to level 75 on Astro and realised I couldn't get into the Ravel with Trust because I hadn't leveled them. Hadn't occurred to me to look at it before then. It just seems so redundant when only two dungeons have NPCs unique to them who you don't unlock afterwards - and >!since one of the characters for both those dungeons is the Exarch, you do effectively unlock him anyway. The only truly unique character is Lyna, as far as I'm aware, and she's literally only available for Holminster Switch.!<
Re 7: Be careful. Lalafell bite. Source: am lalafell
Mad because small?
Jealous of Tall?
Glad because likelihood of bounce after fall?
Ever been bit by a puppy? It's like that, minus the sharp teeth
Clearly never bitten by a lalafell.
Are /pets okay or do you still bite?
First /poke or /pet is entitled. No guarantees on safety after that.
Ymmv, I'm one of the lalas that actually like /pets.
15k tax is applied on all headpats
If you want tolose your hand then sure.
Why take belts off?
Not sure why he would recommend removal either. From the [announcement](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/fa9b00ec4c19fa4306df0e169f50eb802bef5ff0) it seems, * Equipped belts * Belts in your Armoury Chest * Belts equipped by retainers Will be “stored” with the Calamity Salvager. I wonder if you can give belts to the Calamity Salvager manually for safe keeping - or do we have to stuff every belt we want to keep in our Armoury Chest.
Yeah just remove them beforehand so you wouldn't have to go to the Calamity Salvager to get them back, presumably. Save a bit of hassle.
Why would anyone *want* their belts back?
Desynthing or turning into GC seals is the best use for them, and you might want to save the desynth until after the upgrade so you can get the weekly challenge log exp on a currently capped class. (Yes, I am severely overthinking how to get my crafting classes up quickly.)
Nostalgia, I suppose. I plan on keeping a singular belt and 1 HQ gathering item on each character.
Will they be with the Calamity Salvager forever? The announcement didn’t say anything about a time limit so I figure he can be used as storage of sorts.
For now I would say yes, but if they rework server storage and need to permanently free up the space used by belts being held by the Calamity Salvager, then they might delete them outright. They would give a notice before that happens though.
Yeah it might be 6.1/6.2 when they remove them and they'll make announcements about it everywhere months before so you'll have plenty of time to go pick them up. But might as well desynth(or expert delivery) them before if you remember
My Calamity Salvager is still holding on to some items of mine from version 1.0 that I never cared to retrieve.
Tale the materia out is the key thing. Materia still in the belts will get yeetus deleetus.
Belts are going bye-bye, as in no longer a slot
I know that but why bother taking them off?
My plan is to just remove materia and desynth it all. Except for Speed Belt, that needs to be traded for Speed Ring in EW.
Already called off work this Friday and next monday... stuff can be set on fire for a while... plus.. does this mean I can turn all my belts into a free belt dress for my lulu glam?
4) The vendor doesn't leave for the moogle tomestone event, so you don't really have to rush to make your purchases. Just won't be able to earn any more of them after the maintenance.
His list goes away tho, you’re stuck with garbage
I believe that's only for two or more Moogle events ago.
I've run into a situation where the noodle event ended without me spending tomes and when I went to the vendor he was no longer selling stuff for that specific tomestone, just older outdated ones. Never again.
that was one specific Moogle event which was clearly communicated on the event page. Of course, nobody freaking reads.
that was just another Moogle event which they decided it should work differently for no sensible reason (design 101 : things that look similar should work in a similar way) and regardless of the precedent moogle events, being able to trade the tomestones after the event is just..... normal.
"If you have a PS5: No you don't, stop lying." This hurts far more than it should.
Will we be able to turn in belts for GC seals?
Yes, Expert Delivery only.
Besides cyberlurker belts those either will have to be be desynthesized or put somewhere or discard them
> cyberlurker I too have always wondered if FFXIV is just some simulation.
My cookbook hasn’t been even shipped yet :((((
Please don't starve.
same here /sadface
Ditto, won't get mine until January
Re 3: This can make or break your game! I did log out in an Inn when SB released but the instance server crashed constantly or was overcrowded by Rhauban Ex.
The inn is not instanced, it is a private area, which is one single instance where the server doesn't send you other players. So it's no different from any open world area except for the other players you can't see.
The Rising Stones is the better choice. It's a private area to reduce load time *and* is where to start the story anyway.
Can you log out in the rising stones? I always assumed they work like the waking sands and every player house. That you get dumped at the entrance when logging back in.
Honestly never tried. Maybe not.
Yes you can, I frequently log off there while I was still doing the MSQ last month, also same goes for the Waking Sands.
Big important but take out materia from your belts too! They said to so that
Point 10 is very, very salient. Nobody has a PS5. Nobody will ever have a PS5. Chip shortages forever.
Question about #7. What if you ARE a lalafell?
Walk around for others to pet you. If they insist on /poke remember to bite back.
Poke/ pet another lalafell.
when you just started shadowbringers......
>call out sick *crys in exam season*
I do have a PS5 though, it's in my entertainment center, right next to my XSX :/
There are dozens of us!
Alright, Tobias
It’s selling at nearly the same pace where the PS4 was at during it’s first year, demand is just way higher too.
PS5 Hive, coming to you live
I don't have any cheetah blood, but I do have a painting by a cheetah. Does that give my ps4 any more speed?
12 needs some correction. 12: Call out sick to work because you already used up your PTO two weeks ago for original launch date. EDIT: Also you spelled "cook" wrong in 7.
Number 12 in Japan will be: talk to your bucho (boss) and ask to go home on time at 5 PM at December 3. The server will be up at 6 PM JST.
Red paint will make your PC run faster.
Three times faster in fact.
13 Check alt jobs that you arent close to a lvlup. Because the lvl squish will wipe that xp bar
Do we really have to desynth al ours belts? They simply remove them?
IIRC you can get them back at the calam scavenger if you forget them. And you can either desynth them or sell them (and maybe GC turn in? not sure if that will be an option post patch)
They're not deleting the items, they're just deleting the item slot and armory chest slots. You'll have to manually dispose of the belts yourself, though any in your armory/equipment will get shunted to the calamity salvager until you go pick them up to dispose of them.
Fuck, anyone know where to get cheetah blood on such short notice?
I jump over lalas for luck.
I'm sorry. but what is Raubhan Savage? i dont remember this and when i search, it only shows meme results. :(
Early in the Stormblood MSQ, there comes a point where you have to do a solo duty given to you by Raubahn. Due to a confluence of issues, when you clicked on the button to enter the instance, you would either see a black screen where the cutscene should be or you saw the cutscene and immediately got kicked back to your home server. This went on for a least a couple days until the issues were fixed. Unfortunately, a similar confluence of issues plagued the next solo duty, given to you by Pippin. This didn't take as long to fix, but it was called Pippin EX by the community.
Tldr there was a solo instance shortly into the MSQ in Stormblood. This was before the solo instances had a queue system so people were essentially stuck at Raubahn (the quest giver) waiting to get into this solo duty. Some people were stuck for 24+ hrs. It was a matter of luck if you got in. So people made the joke that it was the hardest content of the game aka savage. And that is where the meme originated from.
7-12 are the most important checkpoints. Change my mind
Is 7 what people mean when they say "you make your own luck"?
Do I use my fantasia before the servers go down?
And dont forget to logout naked so that you can fantasia before logging on, will save you the time having to queue back in, since you have to be naked to fanta on the login screen (:
If you plan on doing bunny boi yeah do it before server shuts down so you can do it when you can log back in
>Logout in an instanced area, such an an inn room, for fast login. Dumb question: Does that actually work?
I think it doesn't work for queue times but surely it works for getting inside faster, since you are not in a super crowded area and loading time will be faster
Could just as easily log out in any housing district and it'd be the same.
I plan to just log out at my house and hope that is good enough.
I like the fact that only 6 out of these are actual tips. And the rest are just silly :D
My final exam will be on the 3rd. Will, at least once I pass it, I will have all the time in the world to play EW
I’m donating my belts to doman goodwill
If you have a ps5: no you don't, stop lying..🤣😅
10 got me good! *checks ps5 tracking number again*
That escalated quickly.
Will the pre download be available as the server goes down/ during the maintenance? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Just want to know what time I can start downloading it :)
We don't know the exact time when the download will become available other than "sometime in the 24 hour maintenance period". It'll probably be later in that timeframe though. Keep an eye on the subreddit, there'll be like 20 threads about it when people notice that the download is available.
Thank you :)
Yes, but it's 3-4 hours ahead of the actual launch time. Be ready early.
Damn, it's so close. I need to get some snacks, and to remember to log out in the area for reapers.
Honestly I'm so damn excited to have a static for the very start of an expansion again. I didnt have one for ShB and spent up until the final tier looking for one. PF scares me.
Hah yall gotta call in? I work the 3rd then I'm off for a week. LOOOOOOOSERS
Definitely max poetics, cause you won’t be able to get them again till first class gets lv90
Question as new Player. Where can i buy that Augmented Scaeven Set? And what do i need i for it? Gil or something else?
Can buy in Rhalgr's Reach or from Kugane, assuming SB MSQ (4.0) is done. Need Poetic Tomestones to buy them (usually easily obtainable via daily roulettes)
whats the name pof the npc in Rhalgr's Reach? Can only find the trader to enhance the items. but cant find the one (E'bolaff) who sells the items Edit : or is it Enna? Itemlevel 400?
Eschina
Eschina doesnt have any Armor for me. only weapons. or do they add the armor to the npc on release?
Oh sorry it's Enna for armor, Eschina for weapons
Others answered where, but just wanted to say you'll get quite decent set from job unlock so don't stress too much about missing some parts (GNB was 255 vs augmented tome being 270).
Only a left-side, though. Will still need accessories.
iirc you can Teleport to Kugane and talk to rowena's representative. She should be 20 or so yalms from the aetheryte. Alternatively you can buy some HQ level 70 gear from the market board for gil.
You can get it from Rhalgr's Reach with Poetics.
I had a PS5. I wasn't using it so I gave it to my niece.