I went from lvl 5 to lvl 16 in weaving yesterday. OMG, most boring gaming session ever...
Crafting is so damn slow and boring. Even once you hit level 10 and can autocraft item, its slow. and man, do you take a major hit to xp when doing autocrafting.
doing tradecraft leves helps a lot.
I went from lvl 5 to lvl 16 in weaving yesterday. OMG, most boring gaming session ever...
Crafting is so damn slow and boring. Even once you hit level 10 and can autocraft item, its slow. and man, do you take a major hit to xp when doing autocrafting.
doing tradecraft leves helps a lot.
Weaver is especially bad, because you have to make the thread from raw, then cloth from thread, and each cloth usually takes 2 threads. Most other classes let you use the products from the first synth, like ingots from ores. Granted there will be stuff like sheets, rivets and links and whatnot occasionally but that's not the vast majority of the creations. I think it's one of the worst crafts to level for sure, and you'll see people bitch a LOT about wool and velveteen especially because they need rare mob drops/leve rewards to make.
Ran aurum vale for the first time tonight with 3 other people who didn't know the dungeon and man it was a tough dungeon. Tons of adds, annoying trash and a pain in the ass poison tick mechanic. We toughed it out though and finished with just 2 minutes left on the clock: felt really good to finish up like this. Although I'm a bit disappointed at the drops in the place. It seems like darkhold is a better place for loot... the aetherial loot in AV doesn't look very good (stat wise in comparison). Any thoughts?
IIRC that is a level 47 dungeon right? If so, honestly, who cares. You are so close to 50 and getting your job set that is vastly superior to anything before it. I liked that dungeon and ran it a lot (simply for exp since I had a near instant queue oh and the minion) and it was very easy for the most part though. Don't even worry about gear, your job quests should be giving your the pieces for it soon and once you hit 50 and do the final job quest you'll have your entire set. The 2 level 50 dungeons (The Wanderer's Palace and Amdapor Keep) will have upgrades from it, but you can't really just jump right into AK as it is semi gear check, if you don't get a group that is decently geared they wont be able to carry a fresh 50 (unless you are a healer you could get by) so you end up doing a lot of Castrum Meridianum (story mode instance) for tomes to buy Dark Light gear, oh and HM primals (Ifrit is simple, Garuda isn't bad but using DF you get lots of idiots, and Titan is a gear check, you don't do him unless you have at least 3.3k hp or you are being carried because you will die in the final phase).
I got a sidetracked there. But basically don't worry about gear that isn't level 50 as it means very little while leveling. The hardest items to find replacements for are actually earrings/rings/wrist/necklace and you are probably rocking mid 30's items for some of it still (unless you hit up the market or crafted your own). Only reason these are the hardest is there is I think 1 spot that actually drops them (in AK no less so you can't even get to it right away) and are popular first buy items for a lot of people with their tomes.
Oh, and started my relic reborn quest to. As a preface, I hate anything crafting in any game, so I haven't paid the slightest bit of attention to any form of it, So, when it told me I had to turn in some weapon thats been materia imbued, or whatever it's called....well, I sort of knew what it was talking about, and i vaguely remember doing a side quest that taught you how to do it...but I'm going to have to go look up that part on the web so I can figure out how to actually do it....and then hope it's not a skill that needs leveling, cause I'll be starting at level 1. The only thing I know is that you need a 100% spirit bonded peace of gear to, erm, disenchant, or whatever
I just finished my non primal story mode, and got the story mount. And, sitting here wondering which thing I should head to next. I sort of had an idea i probably wouldn't be geared enough for the primals, but I was really hoping I could go ahead and do AK right away, since my flame promotion quest sends me to it.
Would a fresh level 50 be ok in Wanderers Keep? Or do I need to farm tomes for gear before I go there to?
As for Arum Vale, i can't say I hated the dungeon, but I really didn't like the final boss fight on most runs. Mostly because of the fruit that turned into seedlings. Impressing a new to the dungeon group on just how important killing the fruit before they turn into seedlings seems to be an impossible task. I had at least 2 groups run out of time because we'd waste alot of time trying to just kill seedlings, and eventually wipe. Then, we'd do it again with the exact same results.
Oh, and started my relic reborn quest to. As a preface, I hate anything crafting in any game, so I haven't paid the slightest bit of attention to any form of it, So, when it told me I had to turn in some weapon thats been materia imbued, or whatever it's called....well, I sort of knew what it was talking about, and i vaguely remember doing a side quest that taught you how to do it...but I'm going to have to go look up that part on the web so I can figure out how to actually do it....and then hope it's not a skill that needs leveling, cause I'll be starting at level 1. The only thing I know is that you need a 100% spirit bonded peace of gear to, erm, disenchant, or whatever
Used PS3 versions of this game won't exist due to the activation code being a one-time use - correct?
Well I luckily was not one of the accounts suspended for having a bunch of gil over the weekend lol. Finally got my bs/lw/wvr sets materia'd and started crafting two star recipes, sold four or five pieces so far. I like making money off a few large items rather than a bunch of small ones at last.
I feel like some of the recipes could use a little re-work though. For reasons unknown, vanya breeches take 27 tome materials? And seemingly random pieces of the archer armor take 18 while (I think) none of the monk pieces do? Just seems strange.
Also I can't believe I missed this until now lol, but if you buy items off the Market Boards from the same city that the item is posted in, you don't pay tax. Makes a noticeable difference on large purchases.
Started coil, we can't quite down the first boss. Seems our DPS could use a little work, we're still pretty heavy on AK gear/white jewelry. Me and a few of our other members should reach +1 weapons this week which will hopefully help.
We did Titan in virtually the same gear sans relics, only difference of one or two people. But our healers are both WHMs so they were pretty well suited to handle Titans AoE at least; but Titan isn't a problem because there's only one target really so dps 'ramping up' isn't much of an issue, and with the exception of a landslide under a rock cage there's no concern about breaking a cage 'too fast'.
The problem with Caduceus is efficiently getting the slimes down low enough; they either return too much health or we spend too much time putzing around with them. With the exception of our black mage, our DPS doesn't seem to be particularly great 'on demand'. As an archer I'm stuck trying to hold a Straighter Shot or Barrage for it or just hope for crits because I don't really have any nukes at my disposal. I'm under the impression summoners, being DoT based, have a somewhat similar experience. Our dragoon does alright but I think if he's at the beginning or end of his rotation it hinders him to a degree as well.
We need to execute better to be certain but even on the good attempts we had it seemed like our headway after their split was poor; and if nothing else I know I'm still in a lot of green and white gear lol.
im starting to be underleveled for the storyline, i got to the lvl30 quest at 29 and the 32 at 31, im trying to do just the storyline quests and hunting log so i have all the quests available for the other classes i want to level but its getting harder now
Yes. a fresh 50 can do Wanderer's Palace just fine. That is an easy dungeon and will drop slightly better gear than your job quest gives you. Though in reality you would be better off doing CM runs to get the 100 tomes and start saving up to buy Dark Light gear instead. You get a lot more tomes in CM than in WP and CM is a lot easier and about the same length with a half way ok group.
As for a Relic Reborn. You can buy the weapon off the AH and get the materia and carbonized dark matter and pay a level 50 crafter (which craft depends on the weapon) to meld it for you. That is what I and many others did.
Correct.