Niteshade_Rune

at about 11am I saw several openings in the Mist and managed to land one myself

:moogle: Managed one just now in Ward 10 of the Mist, subdivision Now the next most important matter I must attend too...where to find/craft some aquariums.

I myself am partial to the Limsa Lominsa region and thus the Mists so it's where I plan to check first. Due to working 2nd shift I don't think I want to chance an all nihhter but I am considering waking up by around 9-10am at the latest or maybe even earlier to make an attempt. Guess we'll see.

I was curious, with Balmung's population as massive as it is. Were folks leaning toward specific ward/subdivision instances ? With the apartments having the lobby people can hang out in I was curious as it would give people another place to meet up and hangout. Or if,due to the population we are all just going to go for where ever we can find space and may some of us be lucky enough to obtain one lol.

I'm somewhat interesting in looking for a a linkshell or 2 and maybe even a FC I might consider joining. Sadly, my playtime and scheduling can be quite erratic. Either between work or hovering between multiple single player rpgs or such or the occasional 2 or more mmos its hard for me to always stay intently focused in one location often. So it tends to cause issues with groups that require steady activity. I like to check around casually tho during my periods of play just due to it being nice to have some friendly folk to chat with at least OOCly during the times I happen to be online (despite being a pretty quiet loner type both IC and OOC) But your group somewhat sounds like a fairly small but casual and friendly place so I thought I'd drop by and pass along a friendly greeting.

I was hoping the apartments themselves would at least be instanced. A limited number isn't going to go well for alot of us I hadn't gotten enough gil for a small home so when I heard about this next patch I got a little excited. Well here's hoping. But I know how busy Balmung is lol.

Tho even on the higher res setting the benchmark didn't really stutter except for a quick moment so I may experiment with the actual game and check out some of the higher activity areas and places with alot of the FATE trains rolling thru and see how it goes. Would b a shame to not run every game on the 4k res haha. Tho I'm happy I found the reason why the benchmark scores changed lol.

I believe I actually found the culprit. it was the resolution. The new monitor I bought along with the gpu I have are able to make use of the newer 4k res. So i set it to that resolution manually when I ran the benchmark(both on direct9 and 11 settings @ maximum and that was where the massive change in score performance originated. If i set it to the more typical 1920x1080 my machine scores over 15000+ on direct11 maximum. Once I shifted it to the 3840x2160 it generally lands around 5700ish on the same setting. I'm going to "assume" its due to not a large number of things out right now are overly optimized to run at the 4k resolution point as of yet?

I've tried after a fresh reboot, and all those etc. I checked and manually set power performance to max on my gpu globally and individually for the benchmark program as well. When I loaded the game it seemed to run fine tho. The benchmark scoring acting up bugs me tho lol, I'd like to try and find out what the cause is

ill have to try and peak at the Bios settings next. i found the power profile setting and set the benchmarks individual setting to prefer max performance and also as a global setting. Not sure where I'd check the heat throttling at. Tho for the most part this new rig runs incredibly cool. not sure if something got tweaked up after some additional windows updates or not. I'll fiddle around a bit here and there tho. Works got me on extra hrs all week so I'll only have limited time to fiddle with settings lol. Thanks for the tips so far tho.

Ive already played and know how my old system ran the game after Heavensward came out, but as i just built a new rig over the weekend I was playing with the benchmark again to do a base line performance comparison. After all updates and drivers were set on the new rig I loaded up the benchmark and for fun hit maximum settings on the directx11 client version to run the benchmark. It scored rather high(around 15000+) I was playing around again a moment ago, ran the benchmark at the same settings with no changes and it scored around 5k, which struck me as odd. Was wondering if anyone had any opinions as to what caused the noticeable difference in the benchmark scoring or if there was something I may have over looked lol.

Yep. Lots of adventuring outsider NPCs and plenty of quest dialog that acknowledges as such. This helps tremendously, much appreciated, and thanks to the others as well. I was wondering but I had only just gotten into Ishgard sunday for the purpose of unlocking the jobs and attuning to the Aetheryte there. I plan to return back to the other regions for probably a fair bit to continue working on projects I had to put on hold and also feel out the new jobs to help me find how best to work some things into my character. This was about what my guess wouldve been as to how we would work in entering Isghard in an RP perspective.:moogle:

Found myself wondering after finally finishing Before The Dawn over the weekend. Regarding Ishgard's seemingly closed door policy to outsiders, how are folks playing it that we are now Ble to access the region ,like for a freelance adventurer type like my character for example. Not sure if it's been brought up or not as work has kept me to busy to lurk forums that much.

Since work put me behind on MSQ and crafting/gathering. I will first use 1 of my 2 Phantasia's to see if the look I created on the benchmark feels good in game and test it out some while working on my MSQ pre 3.0 as I still have roughly 20 some quests to go before I'm able to access the expansion regions and unlock Drk and Machinist. At least all these MSQ's I still have to do will give me time to test run my new appearance along with animations and emotes to see if they feel good for my character before committing to a full change over. I suspect I won't have the new jobs unlocked before the weekend is over but hopefully I'll at least be close. After which point I'll unlock my jobs then return to my original goal of honing my crafting skills, utilize my blacksmithing to bring in a little bit of gil selling some tools and ingots and the like before I go on about my adventuring. Somewhere along the way I will have to track down some craftsmen to set up some contracts or agreements with.

This reminds me to tweak a filter once I'm in game, I too do not want to see tons of spoiler related stuff in shout and chat channels either. It would be nice to see folks try to be respectful of not bombarding public chat areas with spoilers to story related content. Sadly I'm sure like me you are prepared for it in some manner cause it's probably going to happen. Did get my shout turned off at least heh.

We're getting closer! Still hoping to power thru what I've got left on my MSQ and buy some basic lvl 50 crafting/gathering gear to help get me started heading into Heavansward. So much I wanna work on and get done before hand and not enough time lol

Bummer,was hoping to just craft and gather while I waited for Heavensward, I'll have to postpone my projects and slip back to my MSQ'ing. Think I'm nearing Shiva so at least I don't have TO much more to go.

Where was it mentioned you have to be 50? I'm guessing I missed some Intel somewhere,the last I saw mentioned the new jobs would start at 30 but that was it, no MSQ completion was required or anything. not that needing a level 50 somewhere is bad, I got that covered, more so wondering if other new info was released that slipped by me while at work Lol.

I was attempting to work thru the story line up to where it stops prior to Heavensward, but work has kept me so swamped, I switched over to just working on some of my crafting I had been neglecting while I wait. Ill probably still have a backlog of crafting to do when its out, which is fine. By the time I jump over into my Dark Knight and Machinist the initial flood rush will have dispersed a bit lol(remembering the flood of Rogues slashing and stabbing things all over the place) Plus using my gathering and crafting to bring in a bit of Gil into my future home fund(by the time I have the large amount saved up I'm hoping we'll see more housing wards/instances opened up.

Hmm, I may check them out, it'd be nice to have more then 1 LS to lurk about. I am a bit partial to the Limsa Lominsa area followed by Gridania's woods and forests. I think most of the time I'm around Ul'dah is due to my gathering most of the time heh. EDIT: I wouldn't mind checking out this LS, ive got at least 2 open LS spots. Who would I look for?

Ive been lurking about Eorzea since technically before ARR during its original launch. I've been considering looking into a LS or 2 for some extra/occasional chat flow on the screen when I'm on gaming. Ive thought about a few tied to some FC's I've seen here and there but it seems like some have an activity requirement or that the LS is IC for their FC so I'm still looking around before I approach anyone. I'm at most a very casual player, and light'ish on the RP side(mainly due to time restraints and such. On the RP side of things I've been scouting out some that are tied to adventurer/mercenary/craft/gathering types. My character is more the freelance wandering adventurer or takes on work/leves from people ranging from anything like monster hunting to just gathering materials to supply folks.(roughly summed up anyway) So I may be looking for a Linkshell or 2 similar. Once Ive more time I plan to approach some of the groups I've seen on the linkshell pages here and in game.

I would also recommend this for anyone who's overly concerned with not losing data, or who does not have a secondary drive for storage. Personally I have nothing saved on the SSD that I need to keep. If it dies, I just replace and reload the OS fresh (which is why I have them striped rather than mirrored). I do that every 3 months anyway so it's not really a big deal in my case. I'll have to keep that in mind when I do pick up a second SSD, never really thought about it to much, but I also have 2 other normal hdds in the rig plus a 2tb and 4tb external used for backup/storage purposes and try to copy my primary files over periodically for back up purposes. Occasionally worrying if those die if i should look into some sort of cloud backup lol. I know about as much about RAID setup and configuration as I do with heavy network tweaking( essentially nil) Something I'll have to look into tho when I pick up my next SSD

I didnt remember hearing bad things about the OCZ line. The SSD i'm using now was an OCZ vertex and its been holding up well since I got it. If when its all said and done the TLC Samsung I was looking at holds out as long as and performs just about on pair with the MLC one then for almost 100$ cheaper I probably would be fine just getting the TLC one. Some games enjoy quicker load times more noticeably then others but even if its not a top tier SSD they are still likely to notice the difference in the end lol.

Ive been considering some new additions to my gaming rig and was planning a new SSD for some additional storage space and boosts to some load times. Ive got a good SSD in with my normal hdds now for gaming, but Ive been gifted a bit of $ toward acquiring a new one to expand with an additional drive. Ive narrowed down my choices to the Samsung line for SSDs(my current 256 being an OCZ) I was hoping to get a bit of input from some of you that may have a bit more on hand knowledge, regarding things like the differences/pros/cons between TLC and MLC I know the most obvious is a price difference. I've also read with some of my own research that MLC seemingly are a bit better then the TLC and possibly have more lifetime to them. Tho I see between the 2 models I'm considering theres only a smidge of a difference between read times , tho a bit less power consumption on the MLC. theres almost a 100$ difference in pricing. SSD comparison