Guildleve stuff

[Purrrfect]

So I don't think I quite have everything clear on the guildleve cooldowns and resets and stuff. Can someone break it down here?

Edit: On guild marks, are there certain leves that give marks to each guild, or is it just random that a lv20 leve gets the gil reward replaced with a marks reward?

[madcow]

Every 36 hours you get to choose 8 new regional/Faction leves and 8 new local leves. Currently the timer is set at 8:30 am/pm on my server. So if Leve's reset at 8:30 am on monday, you could get new ones at 8:30 pm tuesday. Then more again on 8:30 am Thursday...etc.

Up to this point Maint. hasn't reset leve timers.

[Carraway]

Leves operate off an inventory system. They really are treated like those cards in the opening cinematic (the fancy one from the title screen). Each leve reset period (36 hours in duration, last reset was today at 5:00 AM PST/8:00 AM EST), you are allowed to pick up eight new cards. If you pick up eight cards during one period, then finish all of them, they remain in your inventory and must be traded out for the new leves. Let's say you fail a leve -- you are allowed to repeat that leve after the next reset, but because it came from the previous reset, you can complete it successfully and then trade it out for a new one. Let's say you pick up eight leves during a leve reset period, but then you go out of town until the next reset -- you can finish all eight leves then pick up eight new ones. However, if you do not pick up any leves during a given leve reset period, that opportunity is gone.

When you have a full leve inventory and you go to pick up eight new leves, you are given the chance to exchange old leves for new ones -- you must do this, in part, because you can only hold eight leve "cards" at a time. The star rating next to a leve indicates the bonus value it represents, which is added to the variable reward of the leve for which you are exchanging it. After you choose a leve, there is a monetary reward associated with it -- either gil or other currency like guild marks -- and this is the variable reward that is adjusted positively based on the value of the exchanged leves. The bonus appears to be proportionate, i.e. a leve that gives 15,000 gil will be boosted further than a leve that gives 5,000 gil even if both are adjusted by the same number of stars. This bonus does not affect the difficulty of the leve or any non-monetary rewards, like gear or crystals.

I posted this a while back in response to someone in the Random Question thread.

[Sign]

(36 hours in duration, last reset was today at 5:00 AM PST/8:00 AM EST)

While those are the correct times in Standard time, for those of us in Daylight time the resets are currently at 6PDT/9EDT. I know a lot of people use EST/EDT inter-changeably but they are separate times.

*Note* Not saying you are wrong or anything Lancaster, just posting the daylight savings times for anyone in NA, I know some countries don't use daylight savings so still reference the Standard Time.

[blythe]

What I don't understand is what determines which leves are actually available at the guild. At the start of a reset period, I'll have 3 available at a certain camp. Even though I should be able to get 8 total, I only get those 3 and wait for a day or so to get the rest of the leves at that camp. Is it also 36 hours from when you last completed that specific leve?

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Not sure if anyone mentioned but I know it was discussed before in my ls; rank 30 battlecraft leves start at rank 21. I heard some people saying 23, but as soon as I dinged 21 today I was allowed to take them. Total of like 7k lancer marks offered too lol.

[miokomioko]

Officially, Rank~20 Fieldcraft Leves become available at Rank-15.

[Sign]

What I don't understand is what determines which leves are actually available at the guild. At the start of a reset period, I'll have 3 available at a certain camp. Even though I should be able to get 8 total, I only get those 3 and wait for a day or so to get the rest of the leves at that camp. Is it also 36 hours from when you last completed that specific leve?

You get 8 total leves, it isn't guaranteed that they will come from one camp. You can either take leves from other camps or take some fieldcraft leves.

[booly]

how about a guildleve reset timer?

http://www.swaggerffxiv.com/

the upper timer on the right side

[Carraway]

While those are the correct times in Standard time, for those of us in Daylight time the resets are currently at 6PDT/9EDT. I know a lot of people use EST/EDT inter-changeably but they are separate times.

*Note* Not saying you are wrong or anything Lancaster, just posting the daylight savings times for anyone in NA, I know some countries don't use daylight savings so still reference the Standard Time.

Oh yeah, thanks for the clarification.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Actually, I hit 23 leathercraft then hit 21 lancer before I checked my levees, so it seems you need any class to be rank 23 to get lv 30 battlecraft leves?

[Carraway]

Yeah, it's definitely 23. My highest class is 21 and I can't access R30 leves.

[Grey Jorildyn]

You get 8 regionals from the center NPC and 8 locals from the NPC on the right side every reset. Regionals are treated like the cards/plates in the trailer. Completed regionals can be exchanged for new ones, up to four at once, because you can only hold 8 regionals at once. Exchanging leves like this increase the rewards for the new leve taken. This is reflected in yellow reward text (the base reward is always in white text).

Local leves disappear from your journal when you complete them. Thus you cannot exchange others for them at leve reset and as such the rewards are fixed. This sucks balls because there is no way to modify how many guild marks you get for your crafting leves, unlike the battlefield classes. It's horribly limiting for crafters and blatantly unfair because, for example, when I get offered Gladiator marks, I can usually double or triple the reward by exchanging previous leve plates.

Good idea, bad execution. Seems to be the subtext throughout this game though...

[Meresgi]

So anyone else able to do multiple local leves during a day/36hr period? I can do my 8/8 but then go back and do more, eventually the npc tells me I cant get anymore, but 2hrs later they give them to me again. Is that normal or do local leves just not function like region levequests? Also on that subject, my region levequests have been resetting sometimes within 12hrs or even 8hrs of doing them, while no new ones come up, it allows me to do all my rank 20 leves, all the rank 10 ones and all the fieldcraft ones sometimes.

[Maaglin]

So anyone else able to do multiple local leves during a day/36hr period? I can do my 8/8 but then go back and do more, eventually the npc tells me I cant get anymore, but 2hrs later they give them to me again. Is that normal or do local leves just not function like region levequests? Also on that subject, my region levequests have been resetting sometimes within 12hrs or even 8hrs of doing them, while no new ones come up, it allows me to do all my rank 20 leves, all the rank 10 ones and all the fieldcraft ones sometimes.

Same here. I thought I understood how leves work, but apparantly not.

[Carraway]

Leves operate off a set reset timer. The next reset will be at 5:00 AM PST / 8:00 AM EST on Friday. If you pick up 8 leves at 4:59 AM PST, then finish them at 5:01 AM PST, you will be able to pick up 8 new leves right away.

[miokomioko]

I feel like some confusion is understanding that the 36-hour reset time is just for trading in old leves and picking up new leves. You are not restricted to attempting 8 leves per 36 hours. You can attempt as many new leves as you have on you during a 36-hour period. Leves picked up more than 36 hours ago are immediately trade-able upon completion or failure.

36-hour period 1: Pick up 8 leves. Do not do any of them.
36-hour period 2: Complete your 8 old leves. Trade them in for 8 new leves and do them too.

This makes attempting 16 leves of both types in one 36-hour period possible. Just understand that the leve-reset timer is pretty much just focused on the NPCs that deal out leves.


Simply put, at each 36 hour mark the following things happen.

a) failed leves you possess become available to attempt again
b) adventurer guild NPCs replenish their stock of leves and their rewards change
c) leves you attempted (failed or completed) now can be traded in
d) the amount of lag inside the adventurer's guild skyrockets

That's about it.

[Purrrfect]

Add another question in the OP on guild marks.

[miokomioko]

It's random each 36 hours for Rank~20 leves and up.

From what I have gathered:

Any Rank~20 or up Battlecraft Leve can reward Guild Marks for any war/magic class you have at Rank-13(?) or higher.
Any Rank~20 or up Fieldcraft Leve can reward Guild Marks for the gathering class it's for.
Any Rank-20 or up Local Leve can reward Guild Marks for the crafting class it's for.

I haven't heard of Faction Leves rewarding Guild Marks... yet.

Note: To earn the Guild Marks for a class during a Battlecraft Leve, you must be on that class for the duration of the entire leve. Changing or starting on the wrong class will nullify your Guild Mark rewards as far as I know.

[Nyru]

Any Rank~20 or up Battlecraft Leve can reward Guild Marks for any war/magic class you have at Rank-13(?) or higher.

It's slightly lower than that. I've gotten offered marks for my Rank 10 MRD from a 20 leve.

I haven't heard of Faction Leves rewarding Guild Marks... yet.

I got some marks for PGL last night from the Faction Leve where you kill the Miqo'te. Was around the same as the standard reward of marks for battlecraft ones.