Phase 4 impressions / discussion thread

[luxv]

Is there a trick to boost the XP you get while Harvesting/Logging?

Getting 50XP is not fun lol

Not really, just save all your rested and other bonuses and all the leves for gathering.

I guess you could also do those Fates where you turn in items as a gatherer?

[kisada]

where the eff do we talk about specific jobs on this forum


best allocation of stat points for marauder with expectations of endgame tanking?

[popsiclestix]

My Topaz just tanked the Copperbell mines final boss from start to finish. The MRD couldn't pull hate off of it and just abandoned trying to tank it when Carbuncle was taking like 1/4 of the damage from the slam move. It was interesting seeing Topaz tanking while everyone focused on the other giants.

On the flipside, the bomb+flan part was difficult as ACN. I just parked the carbuncle off to the side to avoid the auto attack kicking in or attempting to manage sic->heel.

[Spider-Dan]

To add to what Raldo mentioned, seems SE wants you to head to the Guild and take the quest there to be able to change to the class. Think the only workaround is for someone to sell the weathered weapons on the market wards.

If you don't already have the class unlocked (e.g. ACN) then you can't even equip the weapon if you buy it; you have to hoof it to the guild and "unlock" the class from the guildmaster.

[Shuichi]

Not being able to talk to NPCs while mounted is getting old. It's the little things.

Sorry, going to have disagree with you there. Not being to click on a NPC b/c there are people surrounding it with mounts is actually pretty annoying.

[Kiarax]

I guess you could also do those Fates where you turn in items as a gatherer?

Doesn't work unfortunately.

My Topaz just tanked the Copperbell mines final boss from start to finish. The MRD couldn't pull hate off of it and just abandoned trying to tank it when Carbuncle was taking like 1/4 of the damage from the slam move. It was interesting seeing Topaz tanking while everyone focused on the other giants.

Carby is pretty nice but that MRD must have been garbage. Just spamming 1 2 1 2 1 2 keeps hate...

[fren.]

How does stacking levequests work? I have 11 allowances and a level 1 armorer and was told that burning leves on those were the best way to go about it.

[Purrrfect]

Every time I do that newbie quest in uldah where you gotta pick up that bitch's gil, I think of this:

[Elcura]

Serious question. What's the point of using Away? You could swap pets by using Summon I or II even if one version of Carbuncle is out.

I suppose there might be a use eventually? So far I haven't seen one because it's not like Carby is some crazy fucker running around aggroing shit.

[Lokus]

If you don't already have the class unlocked (e.g. ACN) then you can't even equip the weapon if you buy it; you have to hoof it to the guild and "unlock" the class from the guildmaster.

Yea, just checked this myself. Was hoping it would work since one of my story quests glitched so I can't advance and thus can't get an airship pass.

[Eldelphia]

Done 3 quest dungeons and hit 20 on ACN. If you get stuck and can't progress after the envoy mission then go back to the last leader you spoke to. Two of us missed the next quest sending you to dungeons there because of positioning and lag. Quest flag didn't pop straightaway. ..

Also if you start a cs whilst in party for class/mission quest it's not always flashing up clearly that you can't progress whilst partied

[Ratatapa]

where the eff do we talk about specific jobs on this forum


best allocation of stat points for marauder with expectations of endgame tanking?

Would go str and vit imo

[Rehn]

My Topaz just tanked the Copperbell mines final boss from start to finish. The MRD couldn't pull hate off of it and just abandoned trying to tank it when Carbuncle was taking like 1/4 of the damage from the slam move. It was interesting seeing Topaz tanking while everyone focused on the other giants.

Pretty nifty job. Started ifrit fight with 3 chars only (don't know why there was no tank). Told acn to sic topaz on ifrit and he kept hate pretty much the entire fight. Pretty sturdy like a gld or mrd would be too. Not too indicative of anything since we're all Lv20, but if it this keeps up to 50 they are going to be quite versatile.

[Kuishen]

Carby is pretty nice but that MRD must have been garbage. Just spamming 1 2 1 2 1 2 keeps hate...

This.

Tanked Sas on MRD today and had a lot of fun. My tanking experience is basically levelling NIN and WAR to 37 in XI and occasionally soloing stuff in abyssea on NIN or THF with a WHM mule.

Hitting Overwhelm (Overpower? whatever the AoE one is) on adds as they pass to get hate and/or using Tomahawk to catch the ones I missed all while keeping up the damage boost from the second combo you get as well as the DoT and stunning was great fun. We wiped once on the boss cause none of us knew to keep the adds from spawning and the CNJ wasn't paying attention but the second time it went super smooth.

We had an ACN and he would occasionally send carby to an add to keep it off me but it only took me a few seconds to rip hate off of it once I was finished with my current target.

[ArchDizzle]

Ok seriously has anyone figured how to disable having to double click on everything to interact with it? Shit is annoying as fuck and wasn't in previous betas and i can't seem to find anything in config to disable it.

To note, if you scale the parameter and xp bar in the HUD layout it unchecks them to show in the character config menu so they will disappear. You have to go in the Character config and recheck them.

[Salodin]

Am I missing something, or is cleric stance not needed for THM? I can't imagine my mind being high enough on thm even with attribute points and an extra 10% dmg to justify using it.

[Fievel]

Has there been a fix at all yet that anybody knows of for the shit where you just can't finish and progress in quests? Still stuck on the level 8 main scenario quest, it's flagged a green check mark as finished but it's bugged and wont let me continue.

[Trocian]

Am I missing something, or is cleric stance not needed for THM?

It is not needed.

[Kiarax]

Is there no 15+ leves available? I wanted to pop some on my 15 miner but none show up. Do I need to head to Drybone and clear the prereq before they show up in Ul'dah?

Edit: k that worked, time to bomb for 20

[Pooke]

Anyone mined out in Coerthas yet? Are level 50 nodes rare or something, because I found one immediately, but over the past hour I've had scans only for level 40 nodes.