Aleister

What she really means is that she drags me by my ear to go along! :bouncy: You're not the only one Lia-chan! >_> When I'm on she steals my tank queues lol. And you steal my Healer Queues! :dodgy: More like you steal mine. CAuse they're better. WUB YEWZ. Edit: Wait.. when you get a healer and a tank together.. What queue are we even talking about?

What she really means is that she drags me by my ear to go along! :bouncy: You're not the only one Lia-chan! >_> When I'm on she steals my tank queues lol.

I've done it also.. In OBT I had gotta a level 20 dragoon with subclass 15 pugilist.. >_> Deleted that sucker when EA started and went warrior. I've also got alts made now just to start fresh you know?

I'm gonna give my opinion to your question? I have seen RP in the cities.. Like everyone else said it depends on the time THOUGH I haven't seen a lot which makes me believe sometimes its all in LS (This can be wrong I'm just saying what I believe is where the RP is sometimes) I've only tried to RP twice myself and that kinda went up in flames as I got the silent treatment kinda? Otherwise I've been busy with PvE stuff cause like everyone has said again lol.. The game is brand spankin' new and people wanna progress through the game. Also.. Someone said something about RPing outside the city cause of 'muggers'? Non-RPers? That is a silly reason in my opinion.. RP out the cities is great cause of the areas like.. Ceorthas? (God I wanna do some RP up there at some point) But to avoid it cause of non-RPers?

I can't really say for me since everything is slowly getting easier now as I practice it more and obtain better gear... Though before all that is the last 2 bosses in Praetorium is probably the bosses I found the hardest.. Haven't tried anything higher from Ifrit HM though

So.. a friend showed me this and even though I don't like the music this is pretty damn adorable guys and impressive. Do you guys have any videos you found similiar to this one? http://youtu.be/fsgxa3oWYgg

This is my biggest problem with the game at this moment. The only point to level a craft is for repairs, and that's it. Not even materia, because dropped and tome gear does NOT use it. There is literally no other reason to bother leveling a craft. That's, pardon the French, fucking BULLSHIT. I have zero incentive to level a craft other than for the sake of leveling it. Nothing I can make with a craft will ever stand muster against that ridiculous tome gear. It pisses me right the fuck off, and I hope they fix that shit, because it ain't right. This has sadly become a common practice in most MMOs nowadays. Crafting is only worth its wait as pre-heroic gear, preparing you for the grind to get your heroic gear, which then prepares you for the grind to get your raid gear. On another note, I just ran my first AK after patch and it sucked so bad. I honestly don't think I'll run that dungeon again when I can do Castrum in half the time for 20 more ATP. It took us around 90 minutes to finish, that's waaaaaay too long to spend in a non-raid. I think you're gonna run it again. Why? there is not that much content to do at the moment and you need your myth tomestones which I doubt you're gonna be able to PuG Coil to get it cause I feel like Anything past ifrit should be between LS/FC members to progress through.. People who beat them in PuGs just got REALLY lucky.

THANK YOU, hahaha. I hear that AK now as more mobs and invis walls that won't let you go further until you clear the mobs needed? That is what I hear.. Sounds like a punishment for abusing and cheating.. Which I don't mind or care about at all.

Hey you still need to help me through AK you know! YES YES YES WIDDLE REIKO. Got me a healer like Koko and get Chance and we'll do it! >:l Cause apparently EVEN HEALERS can derp as we saw with that random one..

This isn't a bad thing YES I can see cause of everyone just abusing the speed run 'glitch' as I call it and not playing the game rarely but now that it is fixed you can actually play it how it is meant to play and progress normally through the game. I'll have more pride doing that with my static group then speed running.. And if someone in full DL gear points out they got theirs before the speed run fix and brags about it and/or even worse compares me to them? I'll give them the finger and TELL them I have more pride and am tougher. Its how the game is meant to be played.. Proper progression.

Yes I did a speed once Ashren and it was nice but I know not everyone doing is a jerk BUT people just assume in the duty finder that every run will be a speed run and that they have the right to be assholes. I feel like this is a big finger to them not to mention this speed run shouldn't even be there to begin with its not how you place a the game's dungeon.. If anything a speed run should be a group knowing their stuff and cleaning a WHOLE dungeon out in a time that can make it a speed run (Like what 60 minutes for AK? is a speed run since its 120minutes?) Which I'm willing to bet a lot of gil a elitist found this method of running the dungeon to just be cool points and be all mighty. Sadly.. I also agree those two storyline raids will be filled with them now unless SE secretly did the same to those dungeons and just haven't told anyone.. For the cutscene..? Sorry but I'm against watching it for the storyline raids. I'd be fine if you're with a group of FC or LS but if you're with 7 random people? Skip it and watch it at the inn they take up other peoples time not to mention they can wipe you. (Certain part in the first storyline where you shoot something in the sky and if you're derpy about it.. adds will kill you in the cutscene) Also.. Second storyline raid? Is not easy at all and you need all the time you can get if things don't go well for the group

LOL Sure! Just bear in mind that I'm currently raiding the new tier in WoW as well, so my evenings Sun-Thurs are booked from 6pm CST to 10pm CST. For horrible, terrible DEATH. I should have gotten a picture of the giant flaming steel wheel running over my corpse earlier. :dodgy: Edit: Looks awesome! I quit WoW when Deathwing was released.. O_< Didn't like the game after that

A couple of tips borne from experience as a healer in WoW, Rift, SWTOR, and now FFXIV: 1) Pre-cast Stoneskin will not give you threat when it absorbs damage. So after every pull - every single one! - you need to re-cast Stoneskin on the tank. If you're like me, you'll cast it on anyone who doesn't already have the debuff, just in case. 2) Delay doing any healing at all when at all possible. This includes Regen. Sit on your hands and bite your lip until the tank takes enough damage for you to get a fully-effective Cure. Then go into a healing rotation/priority list. Mine normally starts with Regen, and then follows up with Cure, weaving in Cure II when I get a proc (or the tank takes a spike). 3) Medica will pull everything and anything and generates more threat than Flash. Avoid, avoid, avoid at all costs! Unlike Cure, Cure II, and Regen, which build "healer threat" based on effective healing, Medica will generate threat based on both effective and overhealing - on everyone in the party who is in range. Including pets. If you have to use it, make sure to have Shroud of Saints ready to pop, and keep an eye on the threat meter. 4) Try to position yourself with the tank between you and the mobs. This isn't always possible, but it's definitely something to try to set up. 5) Remember that your primary job as a healer is to keep yourself alive. I know this sounds backwards, but it's the truth. You accomplish nothing by being dead. Even if the tank goes down, there's a possibility the DPS can offtank the rest of the trash or even the boss under the right circumstances. If you die, mostly likely everyone is going to die in the party. So watch your health bar and make sure to heal yourself early and often! 6) Don't be afraid to stop healing someone who is refusing to follow the strat, or causing trouble in the instance run. Every now and then you'll find someone who, for whatever reason, just can't play well with others. They're targeting every mob but the mob the tank tells them to DPS, and thus end up tanking half the trash pack. You tell them to stand at point A, and they make sure they're out in Bumblefuck Egypt instead. They're out of range. They're out of Line of Sight. You can't heal through walls. You've told them you can't fucking heal through walls three times. It doesn't seem to be sinking in. OKAY. THIS IS THE POINT WHERE THEY GET NO FURTHER HEALS. Not a Cure. Not a Cure II. Not a Regen. And they probably aren't close enough to get hit with Medica anyway, so none of that, either! Don't waste your mana trying to heal stupid. You can't heal stupid. I like this healer.. Canz I make you pocket heals? Or can I be pocket tankz?

Just read the patch notes and for all those elitist douches who love speed running the dungeons and being total buttheads UP YOURS HAHAHAHAHAHA. >=D IT HAS TO BE RUN PROPERLY NOW LIKE INTENDED. AS well as a bunch of otherstuff that make me a very happy camper. Update Details] The following features have been implemented: -An auto-logout feature has been introduced wherein characters that are inactive for 30 minutes will be automatically logged out of the game. The following adjustments and countermeasures have been implemented: -Changes have been made to the behavior and mechanics of the enemies found within the “The Wanderer’s Palace” and “Amdapor Keep” dungeons to counteract instances of players running through the dungeon without engaging enemies on the way to bosses. As advancing through dungeons without defeating enemies is not an intended strategy, we plan to continue making further changes in the future to discourage this type of behavior. -In instance dungeon “The Wanderer's Palace” and “Amdapor Keep”, we have increased the amount of AllaganCoins that can be obtained from a treasure chest. -Reduced the amount of gil required for repair fees and materia removal as follows: Equipment levels 1-10: 10 gil -> No Change Equipment levels 11-20: 50 gil -> 30 gil Equipment levels 21-30: 100 gil -> 60 gil Equipment levels 31-40: 210 gil -> 120 gil Equipment levels 41-40: 500 gil -> 200 gil -Reduced the price of Dark Matter as follows: Dark Matter G1: 5 gil -> 4 gil Dark Matter G2: 30 gil -> 12 gil Dark Matter G3: 70 gil -> 24 gil Dark Matter G4: 150 gil -> 48 gil Dark Matter G5: 350 gil -> 80 gil A temporary countermeasure has been implemented for the following issue: -For the issue wherein the “Manor Sentries” found within the Haukke Manor dungeon could become stuck and prevent players from progressing through the instanced dungeon, we have changed the original location of “Manor Sentries” to the second floor. The following issues have been addressed: -The server would crash under certain conditions during instanced dungeons. -Characters would sometimes get stuck in the “Binding Coil of Bahamut” dungeon after the party was wiped out. -Bomb Boulders would sometimes fail to appear in “The Navel (Hard)” battle. -Certain monsters would sometimes get stuck in the “Amdapor Keep” dungeon. -The option to return to Home Point would not display when completing a primal battle while being KO’d. -The entry point for the “The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak” dungeon was shown in the field in the “Stinging Back” guildhest. -The “Steel Reign” FATE would sometimes fail to appear. -Completing the “Behold Now Behemoth” FATE would sometimes cause the server to crash. -If the player was disconnected during the “Lady of the Vortex” instanced battle, the Duty List, Journal, and Journal Map may display incorrectly. -The “Notorious Biggs” quest could sometimes be progressed without completing the instanced battle. -There were occasions where it was impossible to target the snowman in the “Speak Softly to Me” quest. -The cutscene was canceled if the player was attacked during the “Lord of Crags” cutscene. -If a player logged out while being bound by duty within an instance, and logged back in after conclusion of the instance, the free company chat would not work. -Mog Letters were not sent properly in some instances. -Certain conditions would sometimes cause the server to crash while interacting with the free company “Company Chest”. -The “Reach” gauge was sometimes not selectable when in a new, unknown gathering point. -In some instances, the specified items to collect were incorrect in the “A Relic Reborn” quest. -In some instances, the specified enemies to defeat were incorrect in the “A Relic Reborn” quest. ._. Whoops.. Title is suppose to be "UP YOUR MEAN DF PEOPLE" >_>; Sorry about that guys.. Got a extremely happy right there. Edit from Alothia: Fixed the title so that it wasn't all caps and is grammatically correct~!

No-no.. I will not even bother with the egi gameplay thing unless the RPer who has it has stated its existence ICly.. Same goes for mini-pets as well. I believe gameplay stuff should stay out of RP unless brought into the RP session by the character but that is just me. RP addons would help on knowing if the RPer has a egi or a minion following them about like the ones in WoW but sadly we don't have those yet. (Though I will never accept ICly someone having a baby behemoth.. >_> cause I'm pretty sure.. give it a hour the momma is gonna come destroying a city, amirite?) I don't have any opinion on the summoner/primal stuff (I see arguments both for and against using them in RP), but as for the minion pets, I like to think of all of them as windup clockworks. Many of them are already listed as windups. So that Baby Behemoth is actually just a toy. Very good point.. didn't think it as that! Phew! Don't gotta worry about that momma behemoth smashing a city now!

Don't I feed you to S'janna? o_O Sadly, while I used to hold the opposite view that the DF wasn't as negative an influence on server culture as the OP had suggested, having experienced the end-game DF and the absolutely sociopathic behaviour it engenders, I can no longer defend it. The whole experience of the end-game DF has just traumatised me to the point that I'm waiting for enough friends to reach 50 so I can do the storyline 8-man finale in peace, . THANK YOU. I got really lucky with the storyline raids but afterwards.. Omfg I almost quit tanking cause of the douches out there.. I only put up with the bullshit via Ifrit was to get my axe to make dungeons just easier for my friends and static groups.. Ask anyone in this LS.. I am grumpy Ifrit slayer.. I lost like.. positive side of myself in the DF area.. >_> I even fought back with the frickin' douches I ran into in it.

No-no.. I will not even bother with the egi gameplay thing unless the RPer who has it has stated its existence ICly.. Same goes for mini-pets as well. I believe gameplay stuff should stay out of RP unless brought into the RP session by the character but that is just me. RP addons would help on knowing if the RPer has a egi or a minion following them about like the ones in WoW but sadly we don't have those yet. (Though I will never accept ICly someone having a baby behemoth.. >_> cause I'm pretty sure.. give it a hour the momma is gonna come destroying a city, amirite?)

I generally don't let gameplay stuff conflict my RP until say a summon ICly summons the ifrit-egi. I think going by anything from the storyline is crossing the borderline for me.. Cause that is the hero of light's storyline..

Right? Which I know will bring me at odds against my belief that taking down Titan or Garuda would be a much more Herculean effort than taking down Ifrit. I actually don't know yet how I'll handle someone showing me Titan-egi or Garuda-egi, . Yeah me personally I would have a really big issue with seeing a titan-egi or a garuda-egi in RP unless the guy's RP was legit in how he obtained it cause those two primals.. Oh boy they make Ifrit look like a kid derping about in a fish net.. ESPECIALLY post-game haha. Just saying in general.. If I were to choose to have in my character's story about him facing a primal (I thought about it) It would be that he almost got tempered but a dear friend leaped in the way and saved Aleister by letting him get tempered but I don't know how that would work out? Cause.. it could possibly go right straight through people and continue hitting others? -shrug-

And what about when you see the egi? Yeah, I don't think slaying primals is the kind of thing where one needs to break out the haughty "You can't do that" schtick. I ever say that? I could read on how someone slayed a primal OOC and if its legit and nothing really mary sue I'll respect it but IC no way would my character (Aleister at least) would believe anyone just up and saying they killed a primal cause anyone can say that. My character can believe it after knowing the person long enough and either getting a type of proof or just feel that they aren't lying about it. Its not me saying you can't do that its just me saying in character I don't believe you.

And what about when you see the egi? Which, while a playful statement, actually is a legitimate concern, I think. Personally, I don't intend to (yet, we'll see) go beyond Ifrit. The canon on Titan and Garuda is far too tight. Egi is kind of the proof right there which you can't really go saying "I DUN'T BELIEVE YOU."

Pretty much the same as my character.. heck even saying that they slayed A primal my guy would probably laugh and play along sarcastically and afterwards just kinda maybe depending on how the conversation goes... scoot away and kindly ignore them.

Pretty much everything Ashren said. My personal opinion is that the dungeon group atmosphere is hurt far more by certain dps-meters than by the ability to be paired up to random strangers. I've had no lack of amazing runs so far using the duty finder in FFXIV and I've run a lot of dungeons - something I'd never have been able to do without the duty-finder. That said, I too, am all for something like this. Sometimes I want to meet new people in the duty finder, and sometimes I want to run with people I know. I envy you and wish you continue to have runs like that. I'm the opposite.. I refuse to do randoms now because post-game people are just... the biggest douches you have seen and demand perfection.. That is my experience though sadly.. O_< I'm a tank and I r refusingz them instant queues post-game at the moment haha.

I have to agree with Zarek. I mean, I'm thinking of people with stuffed predators in their houses and I could see why it would bring them some sense of pride or something... but a Primal isn't a lion or a tiger or a bear (oh my!). You're also desecrating what's virtually a god to the beastmen, terrible as they may be. There might be some people who'd appreciate such a thing but it seems you wouldn't want to remind all of your FC or LS members who they might've lost or what they might've sacrificed in defeating a Primal. Another thing- I'm not sure about the summoned Primals, but if it were summoned and it wasn't -THE- Ifrit, wouldn't it... dissolve or something? I'm assuming there's like one Ifrit and when they summon it, it's merely an aspect of the same Ifrit, but then, I guess there must be numerous Carbuncles and such. I'm really just not sure about that so I'd like some clarification if anyone has it. How do I enable the spoiler thing? I'm not sure how to do it? And I don't wanna say spoilers without having that spoiler thing on it. (If what I said above is spoilers, asap tell me how to hide it! DX)

Didn't Yoshi state there would be a RP server? Pretty sure he backed out of that but yeah.. I don't think it would matter anyways like everyone here says.. They'll still come here people who don't roleplay believe.. Well know from other games that they have less pop from others.