FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM

[Fiye]

How many HQ mats did you use?

[Alistaire]

A couple, regardless, 160 cp left 11 stacks and byregot's ready I definitely didn't need to.

edit: that's also not using any heart of the crafter so it could've been much easier.

[Qeomash]

After having to train a new 8th BRD/MCH nearly every day for a week, my static downed Sephirot Ex and got several rounds in before maintenance. A complaint: of the seven kills we got, 2 were duplicates and one duplicate was for a job that nobody played.

[Vaspinne]

I'm sure this was noted in some long ago update, but playing on War, hit 40, did the job quest, checked out the 45 job quest and learned that instead of getting the original AF set, you're given a full set (well, with both 45 and 50 quests that is) of the i90 artifact gear. I thought that was pretty neat.

Obviously kind of redundant with the buttload of poetics I have for i120/130 gear, but for new players a nice little boost or head start to help with all the level 50 dungeons and to speed up their progress with MSQ content

[BaneTheBrawler]

you're given both the original AF and the i90 set. the i90 does not replace the original AF. For almost all of the jobs, you get your original AF through in-quest objectives, so they're not listed as quest rewards. You're handed the i90 stuff once you turn in the quest, so it's listed as a "quest reward."

[Vaspinne]

Ohhh, that's quite nice actually. I have okay~ish gear at 40 and was looking to get some decent AF at 45. That's pretty cool that they basically give you both sets for free though

[BaneTheBrawler]

yeah, one of their better notions.

[Qeomash]

And I imagine in the future you'll get the Eso set for doing the HW quests as well.

[3.141592]

I remember ppl mentioning that the DRK story line is good at the beginning og 3.0 and daym, it really is. It felt like some of the old FFXI job quests, that actually had interesting characters and good story dialogues. Aside from DRK there is not a single job in XIV that I wanted to lvl up JUST to progress in the quest line. They all were just mindblowingly boring.

[Silenka]

I remember ppl mentioning that the DRK story line is good at the beginning og 3.0 and daym, it really is. It felt like some of the old FFXI job quests, that actually had interesting characters and good story dialogues. Aside from DRK there is not a single job in XIV that I wanted to lvl up JUST to progress in the quest line. They all were just mindblowingly boring.

Yep I was one of the people advocating the DRK storyline, it's amazing, especially compared to the pretty lackluster other job storylines in XIV (although I did like the original SCH storyline from XIV as well). I didn't think AST or MCH were too bad, either, but DRK is the clear winner as far as interesting and compelling story.

[BaneTheBrawler]

scholar's story in 3.0 is pretty good, too. personally, the job stories i've enjoyed the most so far are scholar, dark knight, monk, ninja, summoner and black mage (only up to 50 BLM so far, tho). Haven't really done machinist or astrologian yet.

[Lujei]

BLM from 50-58 was great and teased at some really interesting concepts (like being a Black Mage is still highly frowned upon and distrusted), but holy hell did 60 drop the ball. I mean, the final battle was kinda neat, but everything other than that was a disappointment.

I think SMN wins for having the most lore-relevant questline though and actually giving us new information on Ascians.

WHM made me angry. You have this nice little companion/guardian for 10 levels who just drops you the second she finds a Padjal.

[3.141592]

My other jobs at 60 are BRD and WAR and fml are the quests bad >_>

[Lyall]

The best, overlooked part of the DRK quests? Go back and read your Journal entries for them in the Completed section.

[BaneTheBrawler]

brd and war... i didnt think the quests were outright bad, but they failed to get me excited about the job, like the quests for the jobs i mentioned. at varying points (usually 50 or 60) in those stories, there was some moment where I was all "FUCK YEAH YOU FUCKED UP NOW IM GONNA FUCK YOUR SHIT UP"

brd and war were just kinda like "oh that's neat. yeah, this is kinda cool." War was better than brd, though. Particularly as a Roegadyn.

[Modoru]

MNK was awful. Naruto levels of shounen in that storyline.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Don't care. Made me psyched to punch bitches in the face. That's my criteria for good.

[Katlan]

I liked SCH for the lore relevance. Nin's quest from 50-60 were a lot of fun, but so far a lot of them have been boring to tears. I do agree with WHM being awful. Clear the TAINT! MCH started really strong and fun but pittered down as it got closer to 60

[Taint]

WHM was fun for me personally lol

[Modoru]

Don't care. Made me psyched to punch bitches in the face. That's my criteria for good.

Hey man, you got to be super saiyan for the 60 job quest, that in itself was silly as hell. Good enough for the one time, but still, lol.