FFXIV 2.0 Random Speculation/Question Thread XII: End Of An Era - ASK YOUR QUESTIONS HERE!

[Diddy Kong]

I don't get the option of meld request.

[Churchill]

You have to do the quest first, it's at the achievement place near Nanewa mines

[Diddy Kong]

You have to do the quest first, it's at the achievement place near Nanewa mines

Ah, shit, thanks.

[Diddy Kong]

As a tank I go into Garuda with ~420 accuracy and that does the trick for me. Without the carp I eat to get there, I find I miss heavy swing or skull sunder too often for that to be of any use to my enmity.

Gonna bump this up some, is the 420ish acc including party buffs and food, or just food? And what's your base without either so I can get an idea of what to use for gear?

[Grey Jorildyn]

378 or 380 with just gear iirc. Then I eat carp and I have minuet.

[Diddy Kong]

I sit over 415 in gear without ACC rings or buffs, so I should be pretty gravy then.

[Chun Liroy]

If I can run Tera, chances I can run FFXIV?

[LD]

...technically...
How well it'll run compared to TERA is kinda why they're remaking the entire client in 3 months.

[TacoTaru]

I don't know Tera's specs, but even if you meet XIV's your going to run into some problems more than likely. I can run Skyrim on Ultra with the HD mods in place and XIV will still stutter for me in towns and crowded places.

*Edit*
I didn't mean to list Skyrim as some sort of pinnacle of hardware specs, but since it's fairly new and it takes a bit to run the Ultra with HD mods I thought it might be relative to Tera specs :X.

[Kirin]

I'm only hitting like 250+ acc on Marauder at 40, granted I'm not packing a whole lot of acc gear since most of my leveling has been solo so far.

With the party buffs, that brings me to 275+.

1. Should I be adding Dex to marauder stats at all? I've done purely str/vit every level .
2. Does acc have any side effects outside of accuracy? I know dex affects crit.
3. Are ring slots worth dropping the 10-20 str in them to grab the acc from those slots for end game fights? Or are there other slots more worthwhile in placing acc?

Mar/War 40, Lnc, Pug, Cru at 15 so far. Should I start looking at gearing War to a level at least passable for end game fights or wait until im 50? Any pieces of gear that stand out as "benchmarks" for DD or War in general that I should go after?

Question overload!

[Raldo]

1. Should I be adding Dex to marauder stats at all? I've done purely str/vit every level .
2. Does acc have any side effects outside of accuracy? I know dex affects crit.
3. Are ring slots worth dropping the 10-20 str in them to grab the acc from those slots for end game fights? Or are there other slots more worthwhile in placing acc?

Mar/War 40, Lnc, Pug, Cru at 15 so far. Should I start looking at gearing War to a level at least passable for end game fights or wait until im 50? Any pieces of gear that stand out as "benchmarks" for DD or War in general that I should go after?

Question overload!

1) No. STR/VIT is all you should be allocating MRD points for.
2) No, and DEX doesn't affect crit (source 1 + source 2).
3) Rings are probably the best slot for adding more acc if you need it.

I don't play enough to answer that last question. I get by just fine on my lolAF WAR.

[Aratharn]

Honestly I wouldn't spend much time/effort/gil into trying to optimize a 40 MRD.

Use whatever decent gear is available/cheap to get to 50 then focus on min/maxing.

[Churchill]

You should wait until 50, then use WAR to level another job.

The best thing you can do is learn the fights you will be doing on WAR (if it is your favorite) while playing a less important role. A ranged DD (BLM/BRD) would be a good choice.

As far as passable, with AF, equipment in every slot/equipment that makes sense, you should be fine unless rolling with top tier DD who also happen to forget there is a bar saying "stop doing damage". Without a moogle/flame/garuda axe, you can roll Electrum ringsx2, Rubellite bracers/enmity bracelets, explorer's earring/enmity earring, electrum gorget/explorer's choker/militia choker. Even if you choose the absolute cheapest item for each slot based on that, you'll still be able to tank just fine.

[Kirin]

Thought I read somewhere that 1 dex = 0.16 or something crit attack. Guess not.

Should all jobs (melee specifically) pump only their 2 stat mods?

I was probably going to do Drg next, but having 2 DD's might be redundant to me right now. Might look at Brd.

What do you mean by using War to level another job? Do you mean like in funding it by farming on war, or is there a quick way to do leves or something on war and then switch to con or arc without losing too much exp?

[Raldo]

Should all jobs (melee specifically) pump only their 2 stat mods?

idk what mages + Gladiator do, but yeah, for melee it's all just their stat mods. I don't even know why they kept point allocation, because it's stupid at this point.

I can't answer that other question, because I have no idea what was meant.

[Churchill]

You can use war to farm gil and you can change jobs after an instance starts, so once you get another to 30 you can solo the quests for your particular job.

You can also look at finding someone to trade of PL's with, you PL them to 30, they PL you to 30. Faster than doing leves.

[Kirin]

Good idea trading off PL's. Hadn't thought of that.

[spd]

speaking of WAR, were does it rank in comparison with the other DPS at the moment?

[Carraway]

speaking of WAR, were does it rank in comparison with the other DPS at the moment?

Roughly:
WAR: Good AoE, average single-target
DRG: Good/great AoE, great single-target
BLM: Great AoE, amazing single-target unless you run out of MP
MNK: Average/weak AoE, amazing single-target

[Patriarch]

Random question here,

is it too late to get goobue mount? I haven't been on in about 6 months.

thanks