Possibly returning - Questions

[Hafa Nana]

For starters, the glamour dresser is doubling with ShB to 400 items...

I wouldn't get too excited about it ahead of time. Nobody's said that it's going to be free and for everyone.

This feature (increased number of glamour dresser slots) has only been mentioned in an article (with reference to talk to Yoshi-P), but is not listed on the official expansion site.

Do you remember what happened in Heavensward in a similar situation? Then players have been made to believe that they would get access to more retainers with the release of the new expansion. In that case it has also been mentioned only in an article (with reference to talk to Yoshi-P). They indeed added two more retainers, but only paid ones (available only for additional real money monthly fee to those who want it).

In Stormblood it was different. Expanded item inventory was advertised right on the official expansion site front page. And this feature has been made available to everybody and for free.

The reason why I'm so skeptical about it is not only the mentioned case with Heavensward, but also the fact that expanded glamour dresser space is a major feature that asks to be advertised on the official game expansion site. It would build up a lot of hype right before the expansion release. Why is it not there? I believe that there must be a reason, and it could be that this has been made to avoid accusations of false advertising and possible legal consequences (refunds because not all promised features are delivered). And mentioning in press, on the one hand, still allows to build up hype (although not so efficiently as mentioning on the official expansion site), and on the other hand does not entail legal and such big reputational consequences.

Here the situation more resembles the case with Heavensward, which makes it wary.

[Gokulo]

I think Yoshida mentioned it again in one of the media tour interviews, but I'm not digging for it right now

[Hafa Nana]

I think Yoshida mentioned it again in one of the media tour interviews, but I'm not digging for it right now

I'm pretty sure that the article is the only place where Naoki Yoshida/Square Enix have publicly talked about this feature (covered by media/published on the internet).

[Gokulo]

Here ya go:
Here Yoshida says it in an interview:
https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2...mour-expansion
It's also mentioned in a Korean Q&A:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...rean_pll_last/

[Vaspinne]

Here ya go:
Here Yoshida says it in an interview:
https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2...mour-expansion
It's also mentioned in a Korean Q&A:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...rean_pll_last/

[Boyiee]

What are ques like for dps when a new xpac comes out?

I'll either take up nin or brd first and fuck around with gunblade after.

[Dotsudoku]

usually only slightly worse than usual. people are flocking to them, but player activity is also way up on launches

that said there's gonna be a lot of tank hype this expansion. I think DPS queues are gonna be in a pretty good place.

[Fiye]

Shouldn't be worse than what we see now. Plus don't forget you have Trusts in case the queues get too bad.

[Scythiroth]

I think the real problem may be healers though, they'll probably just get insta queues for everything for a while.

[Dotsudoku]

I'll be riding the SCH queue train to 80 SMN

[Fiye]

Looking forward to whoring out my 3 healing alts for gil >,>

[Vaspinne]

So I have Miner at 69 and Gsm at 62. The only collectibles stuff I've done so far is on Miner cause it's easy as hell. Anyone have a very simple, easy to understand guide that I can use for Goldsmithing collectibles? Should note I have every other craft at 15, 626 craftmanship, 647 control and 360 CP

[Fiye]

Basically with leveling recipes I would... (Assuming cross class abilities are not an issue).

Food: Tempura Platter (NPC from Kugane) for the +CP. Really cheap.

/ac Muscle Memory
/ac Comfort Zone
/ac Inner Quiet
/ac Steady Hand II
/ac Hasty Touch x5
/ac Master's Mend II
/ac Steady Hand II
From here use a mix of Rapid Synthesis and Hasty Touch. Make sure you put your progress within 1 or 2 Careful Synthesis 2's away from completing the synth. From there use your basic /ac Innovation -> /ac Great Strides -> /ac Byregot's Blessing finisher.

If your gear is HQ you shouldn't have issues with stats. For new abilities:

Hasty Touch 2 is a neat upgrade if you have the extra CP to use it. Makes the success rate under Steady Hand II 90% instead of 80% which is a huge difference.

Rapid Synthesis 2 is a very useful upgrade with +10% success rate over Rapid Synthesis 1 and an extra 50 Potency of progress over the first with a cost of 12 CP.

At level65 (With the class quest which you should do for the exp) you get Manipulation 2 which is the best durability regain per CP cost. And then at level67 you get Precise Touch which is stupid good combined with Manipulation 2 if you have the CP to sustain it over Hasty Touch.

If you have extra red script throwing some Cunning Vs into your accessories/gear is definitely warranted if it makes things a bit more comfy while you level up.

Edit: At level70 if you do yellow script turn ins you can just buy out the i350 gear and sit on that for 5.0 or invest in the i340 stuff if you want to meld it. Less than a month away from 5.0 so depending on how much you have prepared you can decide if its worth it or not.

[Fiye]

I'm a huge proponent of Rapid Synthesis when leveling up mostly because the benefits of it succeeding vastly outweigh the lost cost of leveling materials from shitty rng.

[Vaspinne]

Outside of the level 15 cross class stuff, I have no other cross craft abilities =X

[Fiye]

Well shit.

You should be able to knock out collectables for Zhloe and Mnaago so you can get good exp on GSM and then Namazu. Besides that I'd really dump leve/grind:

CUL -> 37
CRP -> 50
WVR -> 50 (You don't really need this because you have Careful Synthesis 3 from Lv 62 GSM)

[Vaspinne]

Besides the EXP, I also want it for scrips so I can get cheap/easy gear and not spend tons of gil ._.

Moogle dailies were great cause I could just use kupo nuts. Namazu, not so much.

[Fiye]

That's why I'm saying to do the collectable deliveries. Lot of weekly exp and script to be had. And if for some reason you can't get it to 70 before the xpac you can sit on 2k red scripture and convert it to yellow scripture at a (probably) 4:1 ratio

[Boyiee]

Okay so is Nin actually hard? There's so many buttons and needing to memorize which order to do ten chi and Jin for different abilities and the opener posted on the balance just seems so daunting.

I want to pick a damn dps that's not my 60 Sam, finish the MSQ and main it but the amount of buttons in this game for all classes really scare me. I was thinking I'll just do drg since everyone says it's slower and the rotation is just 11 buttons but the opener still seems like a lot and honestly 11 buttons isn't appealing coming from WoW. I'm tempted to just do warrior or my 50whm but I don't even know. I'm spending so much time stressing over this and swapping jobs in POTD that I could have been 70 and ready for xpac by now. I straight up didn't get to do a leveling roulette yesterday because I didn't know which job to waste it on.

Everything really appeals to me, but coming from WoW I am just reserved on certain aspects. 30 buttons is ridiculous. I will fucking die in fire because I'm looking for what's lit up and forget the order of operations lol. I refuse to click but hate needing to use a modifier other than shift.

I really don't wanna hear the obvious answer of Sam or whm lol. Doing msq as whm way back in ARR brings back nightmares and last time I played Sam I stopped playing entirely.

[chazzyphizzle]

i enjoy rdm quite a bit. that and sam were the only jobs i got to 70