FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread IX: "Boss, I'm going on vacation, starting on the 22nd."

[Katlan]

I'll be happy w/good holiday & random events that change each year. xI started off that way then they stopped giving a shit about changing them

[miokomioko]

I'll be happy w/good holiday & random events that change each year. xI started off that way then they stopped giving a shit about changing them

And the event that was the most positively received by everyone who remembers it was never repeated. Yay... trading christmas cards and punching 1-HP boxes outside of town.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I just hope they make raising chocobos an option again. Best time of my life spending 1 month raising a chocobo that ran half the speed of one I can rent for 250g.


/sarcasm off

[Sephiroth]

I'm sure I read somewhere that you can trade in completed guildleves for an increased reward or something? Could someone elaborate?

[Gokulo]

Basically after the first 48h you will always have the completed leve cards with you, and when choosing new leves npc will ask you to exchange them, the more you pick to use at once, the more gil/marks you'll get.

[Priran]

What determines how much Second Wind heals? I was getting 192 from it when I first got it and it's been healing 140 ever since.

[miokomioko]

The more stars (higher difficulty) of the old completed leves you turn in while accepting a new one, the higher the bonus to your gil/marks will be. You don't have to trade any in when accepting a new leve unless you're already holding 8 leves, then you need to offload at least one. You can only trade up to 4 old leves to enhance the rewards of your new one.

[Sephiroth]

Ah I see, I just saw that at the guild now. Weird I can select level 10 leves but I completed 8 level 1 leves this morning. Unless the timer reset already? Seems you can't exchange level 1s for 10s.

[miokomioko]

You can "accept," but when you go to trade some in (you would have to since you're already holding 8 ) it will say you have no tradeable leves.

[Sephiroth]

Yeah I see. >.< I didn't know trading was something you have to do, I thought it was optional regardless of how many you have. Oh well. Got to wait another 40 hours I guess.

Definitely seems worth skipping rank 1 leves in retail, leveling to rank 6 and then doing the rank 10 leves. Because you can get to rank 6 within hours. Or maybe I only got there so quick due to the leves I did.


Edit: Where do I get the Conjurer local leves anyway?

[Sign]

When trading in leves do you find it is better to do a 1:1 trade and increase the rewards on all your leves a little, or is it better to change in a bunch of old leves (say 4-5:1) on one leve you know you can complete and try to really up the rewards on that one and leave others with the base rewards?

[Gokulo]

What determines how much Second Wind heals? I was getting 192 from it when I first got it and it's been healing 140 ever since.

Yay, means I'm not insane. I noticed the same thing, healed like 200 when used at first, but it's @150 after that...

When trading in leves do you find it is better to do a 1:1 trade and increase the rewards on all your leves a little, or is it better to change in a bunch of old leves (say 4-5:1) on one leve you know you can complete and try to really up the rewards on that one and leave others with the base rewards?

Didn't really bother with that usually since gil is not a problem, but if you see a level that rewards Guild Marks then pump that fucker full!

[miokomioko]

Where do I get the Conjurer local leves anyway?

Local Leves are crafting classes only.

Regional Leves are split into Battlecraft (melee/mage classes) and Fieldcraft (gathering classes).

guild marks

And yeah, regarding trading in leves, gil isn't hard to come by and you won't need much early in the game, so just trade one at a time, keeping 8 on you at all times until you see one with a Guild Marks reward, then trade four of your highest-star-rating leves to boost that one.

I haven't seen it myself nor have I heard of anyone's leve-trading increasing any gear rewards in any way... yet.

second wind

As for Second Wind, I haven't used it on anything other than Pugilist, but it's been very consistent for me. Started at like ~120 and has been steadily increasing to ~180 now at Rank 14. I have been only really putting points into STR/DEX lately too. Though with each rank increase, PGL's HP modifier increases and HP goes up naturally... think it's tied to HP?

[Sephiroth]

Local Leves are crafting classes only.

Regional Leves are split into Battlecraft (melee/mage classes) and Fieldcraft (gathering classes).

Ah right. Seems confusing to call them local and regional.

The 8 limit, is it 8 of each or 8 combined?

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Really need to make a sticky of FAQ's. Some things will change after release, but a lot won't I'm sure.

Also hope we get some kinda "Bazaar message" like in XI. I think it would really help(with the current awful system) with "I have xxx and xxx leveled as a craft, send a tell for an item if you need it made".

[Sephiroth]

Yeah that would be good. Or a forum for nub questions. Someone said the forums are changing a lot after release anyway.

[miokomioko]

Ah right. Seems confusing to call them local and regional.

The 8 limit, is it 8 of each or 8 combined?

8 Regional + 8 Local / 48 hours.

The city/region/class/etc. does not matter.

You might as well grab a bunch of Local Leves for your favorite crafting class when you're standing there getting Regional Leves since some are to be done at various camps instead of in town.

[miokomioko]

Really need to make a sticky of FAQ's. Some things will change after release, but a lot won't I'm sure.

Also hope we get some kinda "Bazaar message" like in XI. I think it would really help(with the current awful system) with "I have xxx and xxx leveled as a craft, send a tell for an item if you need it made".

There is a beta FAQ stickied here, but it's out of date since the other two cities had been released. There's not a whole lot of need to update it since the beta is ending in 10 days though...

[natethegreat]

Can anyone confirm that Sweat of Brow and Kings Yield would be transferable to the other DoL? Seems like the rank 10 DoL abilities are pretty much the same while the rank 15 ones seem pretty unique.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Page late, but holy fuck that dude was fucking terrible as an interviewer and that made that much more awkward than it needed to be. It was almost as if he thought he'd just wing it and play it by ear with nothing prepared.

This, I closed the video after about 30 secs of fumbling around for questions. Can we get some professional developer > community communications for fucks sakes?