FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread XI: "How you liking that Beta Phase 5?"

[Greedouw]

Did you check your accessories? :3 If so, I know some people had to re-log to get the icon to go away during beta.

Son of a bitch.... you're right. Damn rings

[miokomioko]

I wonder why they chose to exclude accessories from being NPC repaired... Kinda' makes Goldsmithing more of a necessity than other crafts. Cooking just sucks until people recognize the importance of food.

[plue]

We all just have to have faith. Unremitting, unwavering, unflappable faith.

Shit, my faith was just about to start flapping, thank you.

[Hyan]

Hey, its your favorite company, not mine. Maybe if you send them that suggestion, they'll implement it. SE cares about you, Mioko.

It's precisely because they do unexpected things why it is my favorite company

When everything becomes predictable, that's when shit gets boring.



Wasn't there supposed to be a maint.? 6am GMT, now it's like... 8am?

[Celeras]

Is this normal?

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/5854/doby.jpg

If you hit a coblyn in the face with Luminous Spire, Punce, or Trunksplitter II you have a chance of knocking it's cyrstals off.

Possibly true, but likely hes just reading off the Lodestone update and assuming.

In actuality, these mobs do an AoE in switch they throw their spikes. Afterwards, they have none on their back. Somebody just died to one after it did said AoE.

[Elcura]

Oh god, it took me a second to get Mioko's avatar, but then I laughed. Well played.

[fussel]

Moved this from the Hatefest to speculation:

I'm curious what your weapon/damage may have looked like... I feel like there might be too many variables at play in affecting skill point gains.

http://wuselfuzz.de/log234.txt

He's probably spamming spirit dart? I think the complaint is that you have to be a useless dick to get good skill in a party as a Conjurer, because healing gives you jack shit.

No, I'm not. Keeping Shock Spikes up for the party (this gives ~100sp every now and then), curing the tank (this gives ~100sp every now and then, too), nuking.

http://wuselfuzz.de/ff14parse.c (posix, install cygwin or whatever)

 ( for a in `ls -1 *.log | sort -r` ; do ./ff14parse $a ; done ) > log.txt

[miokomioko]

I just thought I would mention that the first 8 thresholds of the fatigue system will get you from Rank-1 to about halfway into Rank-17 as well as your Physical Level from 1 to about a quarter of the way into 23. If anyone knows all of the class/level TNLs, you could math out the arbitrarily decided upon exp/skill per hour that they based the whole fatigue system on.

EDIT: I had pushed my Fisher through the fatigue of over half of a rank to 18 for Gulleye III before I was going to call it a night. Then, I switched to Cooking to turn some of the fish into exp and get the 1000 skill I needed for Hasty Hand. I made a few dozen pinches of River Sand, then AFK'd for 15~20 minutes. I just switched back to Fisher and my skill is no longer fatigued.

[ascalon]

I just thought I would mention that the first 8 thresholds of the fatigue system will get you from Rank-1 to about halfway into Rank-17 as well as your Physical Level from 1 to about a quarter of the way into 23. If anyone knows all of the class/level TNLs, you could math out the arbitrarily decided upon exp/skill per hour that they based the whole fatigue system on.

EDIT: I had pushed my Fisher through the fatigue of over half of a rank to 18 for Gulleye III before I was going to call it a night. Then, I switched to Cooking to turn some of the fish into exp and get the 1000 skill I needed for Hasty Hand. I made a few dozen pinches of River Sand, then AFK'd for 15~20 minutes. I just switched back to Fisher and my skill is no longer fatigued.

For Class Rank

Total to get to rank 17: 84,450
Total to get to rank 18: 99,450

So that's what, 89,950? Probably a round 90,000sp then. Divvy that up by 8 and you get 11,243sp per hour threshold.

For Physical Level:

Total XP to level 23: 698,400
Total XP to level 24: 787,400

Maths later is approximately 720,650. Divvy THAT by 8 and you get about 90,000xp per hour threshold.

Edit: Standard disclaimer for me not being a mathematician.

[Ruin]

Anyone know of a good place to farm fire crystals and still get decent class exp at lvl20ish?

[Hyan]

Is there a clear pattern to class rank tnls so we could calculate the sp needed to 50?

[Carraway]

It's precisely because they do unexpected things why it is my favorite company

When everything becomes predictable, that's when shit gets boring.



Wasn't there supposed to be a maint.? 6am GMT, now it's like... 8am?

From Oct. 7, 2010 23:00 to Oct. 8, 2010 3:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Hyan]

From Oct. 7, 2010 23:00 to Oct. 8, 2010 3:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

Yeah I was confused by the Oct. 7 date thinking it's today.

[Ratatapa]

nvm replied too late

[shepardG]

http://www.square-enix.com/na/career.../main_body.gif

Got a massive laugh when I saw this on their website used for hiring

[Lordender]

The only cool thing i've seen in this game so far is the gnat teleport move is named Brundle something. If you ever watched the movie "The Fly" jeff goldblum's character was named Brundle who eventually became BrundleFly.

[Lucavi]

There's plenty of cool things. That hilarious Wight glitch where they hide under the ground and throw scythes at people is -very- cool. The grid CSes are cool. I could go on and on, but there are plenty of cool things, even subtle things like quest and mission text, and flavor text.

[miokomioko]

There's soooo many movie and band references... The Wight's Stuff = New Kids on the Block, To Catch A Thief = Alfred Hitchcock film, Gridania's Rank-15 mission = Star Wars reference, etc.

[Dooom]

The NPC called Immodest Mouse made me laugh.

[ayjis]

SE is offering additional retainers for $1.00 a month, right?

How do I add one? I went to service options and only see an option to add a new character.