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Housing Tips/Expectations? - Ora Orara - 06-05-2016

So this patch I'm going to be trying to get a house for the first time, I'm planning to get a small house in goblet since it's my favorite housing area.

I plan to stay up the night of the patch and run to the plot I want to try and get it before everyone gets on. I've heard it gets pretty chaotic, but since I am going to goblet that it should be a little easier. 

Does anyone have any tips or things I should expect that will make things go a little smoother on my part? Thank you for reading! c:

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Virella - 06-05-2016

Uuuuh

Make sure FFXIV is installed on your SSD drive. No joking, a friend installed FFXIV today onto it, just to go past loading screens.

Uuuh some people spoke about having swiftsong/monk stance on ect. Be on your ninja. IDK. People are going insane over this.

Good luck though o/

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Gegenji - 06-05-2016

Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - K'nahli - 06-05-2016

Just to be sure.... the only pre-requisite to purchasing a plot is to have completed the quest that introduces you to the Housing area?

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Tokki - 06-05-2016

Know the layout of the housing area you intend to be in...so you don't get lost and waste time running to nowhere.Cool

@K'nahli

You need:
Character with level 50 in 1 of the classes.
Second Lieutenant in 1 of the Grand Companies.

For FCs it is...rank 6?

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - K'nahli - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 05:37 PM)Mia Wrote: Know the layout of the housing area you intend to be in...so you don't get lost and waste time running to nowhere.Cool

@K'nahli

You need:
Character with level 50 in 1 of the classes.
Second Lieutenant in 1 of the Grand Companies.

For FCs it is...rank 6?

Thank you very much.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Aaron - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 05:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.
Not sure if I should laugh or not, people really do that? Lmfao.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Gegenji - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 05:58 PM)Aaron Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.
Not sure if I should laugh or not, people really do that? Lmfao.
That's what I was told. I'm not going to risk it, personally. I want this hoose. :<

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Gabineaux - 06-05-2016

Xanax for the amount of shaking and sweating you'll be doing. At least, I do, every time I'm running to a plot. Each time wards have dropped. Laugh

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Aurou - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 06:00 PM)Gegenji Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:58 PM)Aaron Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.
Not sure if I should laugh or not, people really do that? Lmfao.
That's what I was told. I'm not going to risk it, personally. I want this hoose. :<

I'd believe this. That was a common tactic used in FFXI endgame where you had to spawn monsters or claim zones.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - K'nahli - 06-05-2016

As I type this, I see someone waiting outside the Ul'dah housing zone. She's level 50, in a FC consisting of two members, the other member being a Level 1 nothing. Meanwhile, she's simply level 50 in one class with Second Lieutenant in a Rank 8 FC without any housing that was founded this year, late March.

Should I suspect something?

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Shoshopu - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 07:08 PM)K Wrote: As I type this, I see someone waiting outside the Ul'dah housing zone. She's level 50, in a FC consisting of two members, the other member being a Level 1 nothing. Meanwhile, she's simply level 50 in one class with Second Lieutenant in a Rank 8 FC without any housing that was founded this year, late March.

Should I suspect something?

Maybe it's an FC who's moving but they've leveled up a second FC to buy a house with, so they don't have to demolish the first one, just in case they don't get their new house. One of my alt's FCs is doing this, that way if we don't succeed in getting the medium we want, we won't be screwed out of having a house at all.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Lydia Lightfoot - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 07:32 PM)Shoshopu Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 07:08 PM)K Wrote: As I type this, I see someone waiting outside the Ul'dah housing zone. She's level 50, in a FC consisting of two members, the other member being a Level 1 nothing. Meanwhile, she's simply level 50 in one class with Second Lieutenant in a Rank 8 FC without any housing that was founded this year, late March.

Should I suspect something?

Maybe it's an FC who's moving but they've leveled up a second FC to buy a house with, so they don't have to demolish the first one, just in case they don't get their new house. One of my alt's FCs is doing this, that way if we don't succeed in getting the medium we want, we won't be screwed out of having a house at all.

Likely.

And it's a wise move, too.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - K'nahli - 06-05-2016

That relaxes my nerves a bit, thank you.

This, however, does not.

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(Not mine).

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Pascaleret - 06-05-2016

My plan after the housing rush is over:
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