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

[Niiro]

Sleep/Repose is based on Macc, atm enfeebling magic only effects additional effects from damage spells (blizzara bind, flare DoT, etc).

edit: fun and useless fact, THM's melee stats are MND/PIE (same as CNJ), not that you would ever melee or care about your melee damage but you'd think one of them would be INT

[Ksandra]

kk sounds good, ty guys

[Arximiro]

Is Crit Hit rating worth using now since they changed it? Also how much more damage does a crit do than a regular attack without any crit atk power+? Is it like a flat 50% and each crit attack raises that percent by a certain amount or no? Would be nice if we had a details sheet like D3. ><

[Niiro]

I did some testing on the changes to crit rate but I don't know of any thorough testing on the changes to crit atk (much more difficult to test).

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/107...=1#post5226674

[Arximiro]

Yeah I had read your testing, but not sure if it is worth it. I would need to know how much more a crit actually does than a normal hit. ><

[Niiro]

I've thought about testing it but I have enough trouble keeping up with the game nvm spending hours testing mechanics that are gonna be scrapped in the near future :/

[Jintu]

Starting to level my dol jobs but I'm spoiled enough by the xp seal boosts I don't want to without. Is Toto-Rak still the best way to farm seals as opposed to x quest/caravans?

[Churchill]

It can be yeah, as long as you aren't sharing loot and can do each run in ~20m. Caravans are also camped (sometimes) and you don't get in, Toto has no wait timer.

[Niiro]

Are the atomos mobs the same at every camp or does their difficulty vary?

Also who's idea was it to spawn them directly inside the camp, that's just a total dick move.

[miokomioko]

Speaking of Atomos, what's with him randomly not popping any mobs? During the first couple days of that event, we would be sitting at 5 different camps, waiting, and see him pop at three different aetheryte only to sit there doing nothing. It took like an hour to finally see him pop any imps/ghosts/skeletons.

[Niiro]

I assumed the maint today would have something to do with that.

[Hellfury]

It is included. The leve must indicate >100k in order to get that, but you've probably missed a step, because a bonus of 67500 isn't going to cut it. I think the bonus you need is 90k, and then get lucky on whatever random leve pops up to have more than 10k reward by default.

Hmm, but are the extra gil bonuses they throw up at the end included? I had 98k as total in reward window, and 100,611 with bonuses after finished leve, but nada on lodestone, 10 hours ago now, getting nervous it's not showing up in history.

[Raldo]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that. I was always instructed to wait until the leve window itself said 100k+, so I can't say whether or not the completion bonuses are included.

Though my real opinion is "Who gives a shit whether it shows up or not? You just made 100k!" I'll never understand achievement OCD.

[Hellfury]

hehe, 100k is pocket change with all crafts at 50, I was just about capped by faction points, figured I might as well do it, and wanted to make sure I did it right. But I might have messed it up. Thanks for answering though, maybe sometime in 2.0!

edit: of course, like 10 min later, it pops on history. I'm not paranoid, they really are watching me!

[Aozora]

how do people level DoH with large gaps? for instance, i see guides where people say they they started doing a level 14 synth at level 8 or 9. When i try at level 10 with master facility, about 70-80% of my standard and careful fail. and being such a low level, i dont have enough the "insure success" abilities

hell even at 47arm doing a lv.50 synth, without facility or an active ability, more than half of my attempts failed. once time 6 in a row (has ~140 craftsmanship doing iron greaves).

but this late in the levels, i see recommendations of doing 10 level gaps, and i just dont get it.

[TacoTaru]

Pretty sure Facility only affects how well you do if the craft actually calls for it (or at least that's how it used to be). As far as clearing large gaps, depending on what you have leveled you can finish an entire craft just using abilities. It's not hard to get enough abilities to finish 50~70% before you even start using standard/rapid/careful and then you could use abilities that ensure success to push the rest of the way. I don't think you'd get a lot of quality this way, but if you're crafting at the max distance above your level it probably doesn't matter.

Also you shouldn't be failing level 50 synths at 47 that badly, regularly. Are your tools up to date and are you wearing crafting gear?

[Raldo]

With the right crafting abilities, you can succeed at practically anything. Heck, with the right crafting abilities, you can guarantee 300+ quality from any synth.

I am also of the opinion that if a synth doesn't call for support, then getting synth support doesn't actually do anything. I never use synth support.

If you're super low level so you can't equip many abilities, I find Maker's Muse to be the best ability for pushing progress, leaving you with lots of room to careful.

[Churchill]

you know what the elements do for DoH right

[Raldo]

you know what the elements do for DoH right

What?

[Aozora]

no i dont know what the elements do. and my gear is fairly updated, im using a 38 hammer and gear ranging between mid-40's and low 30's (with comparable stats to those mid-50's) if it matters, the synth is dated, but i was pretty pissed at how often attempts failed that close to cap.