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Skill delay and animation overriding.

2:01 pm, October 13, 2014 Greetings fellow Eorzeans! As I'm delving deeper into the DoW DPS classes I'm noticing a rather annoying thing when exploring level 50 content and even before that. Being a huge fan of [..] View

Slow Loading/rendering, has a fix been found yet?

2:01 am, October 13, 2014 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...on-Delayes-ETC. Some time back I made that topic, which the information was supposedly sent to the developers to look at. I had just returned to the game [..] View

Pan of the Luminary changes size when sheathed/unsheathed

2:01 am, October 4, 2014 Time: 10/1/2014 001:20 CDT Frequency: Always World: Diabolos Character Name: Sami Kestrel NPC Name: None Monster Name: None Class/Level: Culinarian Lvl 50 Party or Solo: Solo In-Game Time: 1800 Area a [..] View

Any eu players who experience some regular lags?

2:01 am, September 28, 2014 Hi! I've recently discovered FFXIV after playing WoW for the last 7 years in a quite hardcore manner. I have to say that it's very refreshing and so much better than WoW, and I conside [..] View

Either i'm missing something, or roulettes refresh "twice".

2:01 pm, September 25, 2014 Is it me, or do roulettes refresh at 4 am est and 11 am est, enabling me to do them essentially twice? I logged in just now(it's almost 7 here) to see that my trial roulette is refreshed when [..] View

Need some SMN DPS help in T8

2:01 am, September 25, 2014 hey everyone, a retro thanks to the advice on the T7 I asked a couple weeks ago. We finally managed to figure out where we were "off" and how to stop the renaud RNG! Anyway I have a [..] View

Let's theorycraft some Jobs! (Using only existing classes)

2:01 pm, September 10, 2014 (formatting might be hella wonky when I first post this) FOREWARD Yoshi-P has gone on record stating that there are some difficulty in making branching Jobs in the vein of Scholar and Summoner for t [..] View

Ramuh Extreme Mode solo tank method

2:01 pm, September 1, 2014 People ask about or bring up solo tanking almost every time Ramuh Extreme comes up, but there doesnt seem to be any real write-ups on the specifics of the method (probably because it just isnt that wo [..] View

When do I refresh or re-apply DoTs/Buffs/Debuffs?

2:01 pm, September 1, 2014 Something that has bothered me for a while and, after levelling Dragoon and Monk, has come to my center of attention is when to refresh my DoT effects and self-buffs (Demolish/Twin Snakes, Heavy Thrus [..] View

Leviathan Server! End of Summer House Party!

2:01 am, September 1, 2014 At the <Nos> house in Lavender Beds Ward 1 Plot 3! Grand re-opening and newly remodeled! Come for the free refreshments! Item give away! raffle! and as many people on our server as we ca [..] View

Bad phase pushing/kiting issues in T7? advice appreciated.

2:01 am, August 23, 2014 So I don't post often around here but I've found myself a little bit confused about the final phase in T7 and want to find a concrete answer. I'm pretty much brand new to coil [..] View

Bought the Game But Where Is My Registration Code and Email Confirmation?

2:01 am, August 21, 2014 Hi all, hoping someone can please help me here. I decided to give this game a try when I saw the free 14 day trial promotion. I am loving the game so far and today being my last day of the free trial [..] View

Payment System needs Work!

2:01 am, August 19, 2014 I've never had a smooth transaction with FFXIV... like never. You'd think in today's modern world where we 1 touch pay for things on our mobile devices this would not be the case. 1.) I prefer to [..] View

Monks of Reddit what do you do to hit the high 470+ dps?

2:01 pm, August 17, 2014 I am i101 monk with the i110 weapon and on a dummy I can hit around 430-440 dps normally. I have hit over 450 before but only like twice. I have tried letting my dots run out and then refreshing and c [..] View

I'm thoroughly impressed with this game and community's "equality"

2:01 am, August 10, 2014 There's one thing that I've always been impressed with in this game and that is its "equality" In most games only women get the skimpy clothes but ffxiv was like & [..] View

Monk rotation questions

2:01 pm, August 1, 2014 Hello, I have some questions about the monk rotation. So far from "PM_ME_YOUR_CAT_GIFS" I received the optimal PB opener rotation as PB opener: Tackle>ToD>PB>De [..] View

As a new player, I am INCREDIBLY impressed with this game.

2:01 am, July 28, 2014 Alright, so a bit of background to start this off. I've played almost every MMO out there, excluding WoW. Most recently I'd hit VR10 in ESO (max level at launch), and got bored of it s [..] View

Is anyone else totally in love with this game?

2:01 pm, July 23, 2014 I just felt like, with all the **** we like to give this game, the progress they have made to FFXIV:ARR has been a really rejuvenating thing to see. As a gamer, seeing company's like EA, and U [..] View

Ariyala's Gear Calculator - New menu needs to be tested.

2:01 pm, July 21, 2014 Hi, since the dropdown menu at the top of the page was getting a bit too crowded with different entries, I replaced it with a new and awesome menu :D I did not use any premade libraries, so chances ar [..] View

Display Issue

2:01 am, July 15, 2014 I am Having a display issue in certain areas. I have tired different drivers, changed refresh settings, display settings, but I cant seem to get the problem to go away. I noticed this after a GPU upgr [..] View

Hullbreaker Isle Tips/Boss Guide

2:01 am, July 9, 2014 This is by far and away the easiest dungeon introduced this patch. Very quick and easy. Boss 1 - This ape wants his bananas! In all seriousness, this gorilla isn't too tough. He has an AoE cal [..] View

Some guidance for Turn 5

2:01 pm, July 2, 2014 Hey guys and girls from FFXIV. So after coming from a months break and find myself a nice and cozy FC, me (SCH) and my bf (BLM) were invited for their static, working on T5 to start SCOB. After weeks [..] View

Can't delete item from wish list after buying an item from wish list

2:01 am, June 27, 2014 ISP: At&T Type of Internet Connection: Uverse (fiber?) Internet Connection Speed: 20 Mbps Date & Time: 06/04/2014 2:47 am Pacific time Frequency: Every time attempted as of 06/04 [..] View

Yes! Another Summoner DPS thread!

2:01 am, June 21, 2014 So for fun, I'm going to convince my static group to switch around some roles on some of the fights we have on full farm status. This is mainly because I've been playing around on my s [..] View

Getting black screen and computer crashing/rebooting itself while playing!

2:01 am, June 21, 2014 So quickly after I started playing, my computer randomly goes to a black screen and has a bunch of noise play through. Sometimes it tells me the frequency is out of range, sometimes it doesn't. No [..] View

Server Restrictions for Creating New Character

2:01 am, June 12, 2014 I know this has been talked about before in the early stages of the game launch. I was able to get a character on this world at like 5am about 8 days ago, and my friend made a character on it today ar [..] View

Interesting Bard skill speed tidbit

2:01 pm, June 8, 2014 Disclaimer: Yes skill speed probably sucks and you should not get it. Get crit instead. Please don't bash me for giving info, this is just for educational purposes. Since they saw fit to nerf [..] View

Video Display loses signal at menu, sound still plays.

2:01 am, June 6, 2014 Hello, I am having a weird issue with the game. Once I get to the Menu Select screen I have a varied amount of time, 5-15 seconds, before my display says it loses a signal. I've updated my drivers and [..] View

Questions about fracture and mnk

2:01 am, June 2, 2014 I've been told multiple things and would enjoy having another opinion on it. From what i've read and what one experienced mnk told me is that fracture is another dot and overall will j [..] View

Final Fantasy 14 Black Screen Launcher Script Error

2:01 pm, May 27, 2014 So, I went to sleep with the computer logged into FFXIV and woke up to a turned off computer. The only thing I can think of is my computer updated itself since it was Sunday night. I tried to login [..] View

Twin snakes vs True strikes timing

2:01 am, May 16, 2014 During your rotation on monk you will reach a point in which after Boot shine or DK, 3-4 seconds of the TS 10% damage buff will remain. Currently I've seen people reapply TS buff in order to k [..] View

Turn 9 and Greased Lightning?

2:01 pm, May 15, 2014 We've been taking cracks at T9 for a few days now, mostly to familiarise ourselves with phase 1. As MNK, the Dive/Chariot/Beam/Dive combo is no issue, but I just can't maintain GL3 thr [..] View

2CoB caster questions (mostly T8): from BLM main to SMN main

2:01 am, May 10, 2014 With the rising unpopularity of BLMs in T6-9, I decided to main SMN to be more welcome in parties since it's widely accepted that a great SMN tops DPS no matter what. This way I can still get [..] View

FFXIV & SE E3 Expectations

2:01 am, May 9, 2014 News is a bit slow today so I figured I'd stir up some discussion. Currently I'm sure we're all aware of the larger segment of the gaming populous expecting SE to announce some [..] View

The Myths of Eorzean Economics

2:01 am, May 4, 2014 Undercutting is wrong and it's bad for the economy. The number one advantage of capitalism is that when it works it is the best system for determining the price of goods and services. In con [..] View

Turn 7 Alt Strategy

2:01 pm, April 30, 2014 So it was brought to my attention that once 4 renauds are on the field, no more can spawn. I'm the kiter for my group so for this weeks clear I just stacked 4 renaud right on top of each other [..] View

PS4 lockout

2:01 am, April 21, 2014 So this is a wierd problem I'm having. I was playing on ps3. I played beta on ps4 for a day before they closed it. On 4/11 I logged into my ps4 account with my regular character and went through the p [..] View

Question on data centers and multiple characters.

2:01 am, April 20, 2014 So my friends got me the game as a gift, but I've run into problems. Firstly, they play on Ragnarok, which as I was creating my character today, I found was full and not accepting characters. [..] View

FFXIV Server Status Notifier

2:01 pm, April 18, 2014 Hey everyone! Last downtime, I made a server status notifier. It sits in your taskbar near your clock, running very minimally, and if you tell it to start checking server status, it will alert you as [..] View

The character profiles

2:01 pm, April 18, 2014 The character profiles on the lodestone are not updating what\\'s so ever. The only thing I see that might be updating correctly is the currency section of my profile. However it does not update the s [..] View

What's a neat quirk about the abilities you like?

2:01 am, April 17, 2014 Rawr Reddit, Everyone plays their class their way, maybe with a few small differences here and there, and I know many of you by now have found details that might stand out to make those common spells [..] View

3 HQ - Warning: This post contains RNG

2:01 pm, April 1, 2014 So before I get into the details and everything, I had originally posted a draft of this on the official forums and subsequently removed it after I had refined this down a bit. After receiving tells f [..] View

3* HQ Rotation

2:01 pm, March 31, 2014 So I am one of those people that believes in sharing of info and I really appreciated the work of another poster on the FFXIV forums in helping out the community by posting a frame for what was workin [..] View

One Fleeting Moment- How FF14 renewed my love for mmos (long)

1:01 am, March 17, 2014 I'm what a lot of people would consider a MMO veteran. I started back in 2001 and I've played what seems like them all. However ff14 is the first game since around 2007 to have held me [..] View

flickering and white line issues

1:01 am, March 5, 2014 These issues apear randomly when i log in to the game but not at the caracter select screen. The hud blinks and white lines blink on the screen randomly never the same size. Here is a screen shot. [..] View

Joinnig the Forum

1:01 pm, February 28, 2014 I was attempting to join the forums, I had gotten up to the point of "http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/profile.php?do=characters", to select a main character. Single click on my mai [..] View

Recent lag, 90k instances, unplayable Trials?

1:01 pm, February 25, 2014 Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this lately. 95% of the people I play with, as well as friends, are experiencing the same things as me. 90k during instances, unskippable cutscenes, music t [..] View

2.16 Patch Notes (Text Edition)

1:01 am, February 21, 2014 Somewhat condensed, but this should help: - Quests Alliance members will now be visible during the initial cutscene of the Labyrinth of the Ancients. Dhorme Chimera and Hydra from the quest &quot [..] View

FFXIV PS4 Update: Beta Details, PS3-to-PS4-Transfer, PS4 in-game Trailer!

1:01 pm, February 12, 2014 Hey everyone, I thought Id let you know that we have just put online the FFXIV PlayStation 4 product pages (you will find a link at the bottom of the post), and some of the info on there might be of i [..] View

End Game Bard macro/HUD layout help

1:01 am, February 7, 2014 I was reviewing this link: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1vrv6b/endgame_bard_discussion_opening_rotations_cd/cev6bgr which offers some fantastic advise on rotations. But I was curious if any [..] View

Blacklist failing to block messages

4:50 pm, February 4, 2014 Hi, just wanted to bring this issue to your attention, in case it hasn't been reported before. When refreshing your blacklist (as in, you open your social panel, and open the blacklist tab) nobody [..] View

best place to find updates on digital sales/server issues

5:14 pm, January 30, 2014 so im one of those who cant find a physical copy within 100 miles, and I was wondering if there was a specific forum, twitter account, that I should be paying attention to for updates ive been pretty [..] View

Request: Keep us updated on live letter please! :3

1:01 pm, January 25, 2014 I can't watch it but I'll be refreshing Reddit all through it so if you hear something interesting don't forget to pop over and tell all of us squares who can't stream. [..] View

Best dungeon cliff notes site?

1:01 pm, January 22, 2014 So I'm a returning Paladin who hasn't played in a few months. I'm anxious to try the new roulette system but can't remember most dungeons. With that said what would you [..] View

Endgame Bard Discussion; Opening, rotations, CD priorities.

1:01 am, January 22, 2014 I wanted to see how other bards were choosing to open and maximize DPS. As far as damage buffs, do you stack them all at once or use them until the last is down, refreshing and rewriting buffed DoTs, [..] View

Server Transfer?

2:23 pm, January 18, 2014 When will this be implemented? I'm on Cactuar and its been blocked off for character creation for weeks now. I got a few friends on different servers that wanna switch to cactuar so we can play togeth [..] View

Can't log in at launcher

2:56 am, January 18, 2014 I'm not at all sure what is going on. I am constantly getting an "Id or password is incorrect" error when logging in. This is confusing to me as i can log into the management service. [..] View

How to Maximize SMN (aka: Why I quit smn..)

1:01 pm, January 16, 2014 How to Maximize SMN (AKA Why I quit SMN). (Edit.. this sorta butcherd my formatting.. sorry about that.. i'm a bit new to formatting on here..) So, after some research, and some messing around [..] View

Getting DC'd During Dungeon Quest.

9:04 pm, January 15, 2014 I was noticing some lag, if not worst lags in the game during a Dungeon run and simply gotten DC'd, afew of the part I was originally with first hand and then second run also had gotten DC'd first one [..] View

Monk and Impulse Drive; why not to use?

1:01 am, January 15, 2014 So next to true strike (which is locked by only being available in raptor form), impulse drive has the highest potency of any attack available to Monk (180 as opposed to 190 on TS). I don't se [..] View

As a summoner what can I do against conflags?

1:01 am, January 12, 2014 My group tends to have some issues getting conflags down fast enough like when we do the explosion animation plays but the do no damage. So it's obviously pretty close. I try to save my cooldo [..] View

BLM: 247 PIE, best number of Pies?

5:07 pm, January 10, 2014 EDIT [13:43 BST]: FORGET 247 PIES. YOU NEED 251 PIES! Read post, then the edit below :) So I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice this, but I havn't seen it mentioned anywher [..] View

I present to you... The Red Mage

1:01 pm, January 10, 2014 So, I played a Red Mage in FFXI. It was easily my favorite class. I enjoyed the utility and the dynamic roles you could play. I was sad when I found out that I couldn't play one in this game. [..] View

A Compilation of 'Things You Wish You Knew When You Started Playing'

9:46 am, January 9, 2014 Hi! I started playing last week and I have always found the lists of "things I wish I knew" to be the most helpful tips for 2 reasons -- (1) they usually omit the obvious game knowle [..] View

Crafting Guide/theorycrafting - Don't let crafters fool you, learn 1 simple trick discovered by a mom to HQ every time.

3:27 am, January 9, 2014 I didn't search the web, and there is probably better guides already, but let's be honest, the one that were posted lately were far from optimal. They aren't horrible by any me [..] View

Crashing at various periods causing windows to stop the program.

3:02 am, January 9, 2014 My fiance's alien-ware laptop has been having several issues lately with random game crashes. There is no apparent pattern. It just seems to happen. Sometimes its every 20 minutes sometimes she can pl [..] View

New Summoner questions.

1:01 am, January 9, 2014 I'm curious if someone could go into greater details as to why you should refresh dots the moment they fade. Despite the low priority everyones put on ruin, it doesn't seem to do much [..] View

FF14 ARR Shadow fluttering effect

1:01 am, January 2, 2014 Hi, My problem might have already been stated in a previous post however I didn't manage to find it. As I try to play to FFXIV ARR, everything displays correcly BUT I get a kind of fluttering effect [..] View

SLI causes display to get stuck at loading screen

1:01 am, December 30, 2013 I'm running a GTX 295 with the latest nVidia drivers. When I utilize SLI, my game gets stuck at the loading screen, though the loading finishes and the music is running in the background, I can't see [..] View

atlas.cogentco.com servers and bad reouting cause lagspikes

1:01 am, December 26, 2013 Those servers, and bad routing in the USA cause all the problems we can read of lag spikes and delay between client and server (AOES lag and many others) if you try to write on google atlas.cogentc [..] View

Slow Download of 2.1 Patch, Leading to Error and Restarting

1:01 am, December 23, 2013 I've been trying to download the new 2.1 patch and playing FF arr, but my ips isn't exactly the fastest around. Every time I try to download the patch, it patches at a 0.01mb/s rate. That wouldn't be [..] View

[META] 31 user flairs now available! Job icons and more.

1:01 pm, December 17, 2013 (The Megathread for today can be found here). It took me a while to build this, but I finally wrapped it up just now. On the sidebar, just click the "(edit)" link next to your userna [..] View

[Meta] Emergency Subreddit Maintenance (12/16 0:00 to 12/17 0:00 PST)

1:01 pm, December 16, 2013 Just kidding, we're already done! Hello fellow Eorzeans! Over the past months, we've held an art contest and have been working on a new improved stylesheet for the subreddit. The art c [..] View

WHM: Getting Agro for Unknown reason, EVERY SINGLE Raid.

1:01 am, December 14, 2013 Recently after purchasing my first few pieces of DL jewlry, I've been getting agro in ALL dungeons for no apparent reason. First, let me lay the ground work for a scenario, and then you can t [..] View

Worst Support Ever

1:01 pm, December 13, 2013 I am experiencing bad support and copy/paste answers. I had asked to get a character restored as things were missing and the calamity npc didnt help. I got the character restored but no retainer [..] View

Some tips for White Mage 50.

1:01 am, December 10, 2013 I posted these on a post asking for advice, but thought maybe someone else might benefit from them. These are some tips for WHMs for endgame. Will edit and add from comments. Benediction has a slight [..] View

[Fun thread!] Time Mage, premier caster tank!

1:01 pm, November 25, 2013 Alright, look. It's 6:30 in the morning, haven't slept and a little loopy. Passing the time by dicking around and trying my hand at this whole 'fan class ideas' thing. [..] View

A mini guide for Newbie Bards - When to use your songs

1:01 pm, November 13, 2013 Please don't take this as a learn to play post. Just responding to a growing trend and trying to offer some advice as I've found a lot of Reddit's advice threads super useful/e [..] View

Unable to connect to Duty Finder server. Please try again later.

1:01 am, November 9, 2013 I was attempting to do a Chimera run to begin my third relic reborn quest when my group encountered an error in which they could not enter. The screen becomes black and instead of sucking us into the [..] View

Launcher Boot Error[30605][10009][10020]

1:01 pm, October 29, 2013 This error was received upon attempting to start the launcher, running either normally or as administrator on my PC. It came with the message "Unable to complete version check." I have [..] View

Future/Unannounced Content: What do you anticipate?

2:01 am, October 23, 2013 Forward: Please don't be fooled into thinking that I am unsatisfied with the current game or anything like that. Sure it could be better, but I am enjoying myself so I don't really car [..] View

Server transfer problem.

2:01 pm, October 21, 2013 Hi, I've sent in contact email as well but have yet to hear or even get confirmation that it's been submitted. Reference number is 3046884. Anyroad, the issue is basically that I'm pretty much stuc [..] View

"Unable to update group NA/EU" after transfer

2:01 am, October 21, 2013 Recently took advantage of the free transfer. After doing all the stuff on Mog Station, I am unable to load up the NA/EU world list. I've tried restarting the client multiple times, as well as [..] View

MNK Rotation Discussion

2:01 am, October 21, 2013 So, I haven't exactly sat down and calculated any numbers but I feel like there is a significant number of terrible MNK rotations out there that are polluting the discussion threads. So many t [..] View

Window flickering and whiting out

2:01 pm, October 18, 2013 I have been experiencing numerous technical difficulties with Final Fantasy 14 after the patches this week. This one began a few days ago and has not stopped with the hot fixes. I play FF14 windowed [..] View

Mouse behavior disgusting after patch

2:01 pm, October 18, 2013 I have two controllers that I use with my PC when playing some games with my family. Ever since the patches this week, I am experiencing horrible mouse behavior while Final Fantasy 14 is running, and [..] View

FF14 slows down entire computer when Alt+Tabbed

2:01 pm, October 17, 2013 The latest patch seems to cause my entire computer to slow down when I Alt+Tab FF14 whilst playing in windowed mode. I've tested full-screen mode as well and still the same thing. Capping the refresh [..] View

WHERE Is Excalibur?!?!?

2:01 am, October 17, 2013 I have been refreshing every 15 friggin minutes since about 11am central YESTERDAY. I'm tired, I want to go to bed, where is Excalibur on this transfer list? I keep either getting the no character err [..] View

UNOFFICIAL "CAN'T SERVER TRANSFER" THREAD

2:01 am, October 16, 2013 Everyone is in exactly the same position as you. 99% of players trying to transfer cannot see their character regardless of having gone through the transfer requirements list. Those who have succe [..] View

Why Coil Turn 5 Still hasn't been ******

2:01 am, October 16, 2013 After a crushing morning of waking up at 3AM with hopes and dreams, only to have none of them addressed, I decided I would take a moment to catch up the community on something that's only been [..] View

Did they just fix pet jobs?!?!

2:01 pm, October 15, 2013 Straight from the NA forum patch notes: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/71744-NA-FINAL-FANTASY-XIV-Hot-Fixes-%28Sep.-27-2013%29?p=1428768&viewfull=1#post1428768 An issue wherein pla [..] View

Warning to free company members regarding buff application.

2:01 pm, October 13, 2013 Whenever a free company applies a buff, the buff's effects will not be applied, at least in the case of Reduced Rates, until you relog. I have not tested it with other buffs yet, so take this [..] View

Black Mage quirks and theorycrafting [Open Discussion] [Long Post]

2:01 pm, October 11, 2013 Section 1 - Firestarter As we all know, procs in this game are delayed. They wait to the very last second to appear, making it very hard to correctly react. Thus we run into a problem with the BLM tra [..] View

Caster Damage Formula Testing/Stat Weights

2:01 pm, October 8, 2013 I've been doing some testing to try and determine the caster damage formula, inspired by the discussion on bluegartr (I believe?) where they claimed to have determined the melee damage formula [..] View

Japanese skill names differ widely on some classes

2:01 pm, October 7, 2013 I went through the auto-translate function while using Logrep2 and noticed it showed the Japanese names for skills when you had it capture your text log anywhere and decided to have a go at what they [..] View

My favorite reason FFXIV is set apart from the rest: the community.

2:01 pm, October 6, 2013 I just wanted to say thank you again and give a shout out to the light party I was just running Stone Vigil with. Thanks Laura B., Miharu I., & Reirei B. for being such an awesome and patient [..] View

Error 2002

2:01 pm, October 5, 2013 Every time i try to log in i get error 2002 in the lobby and getting dc'd. On my lancher it says I have version 2013.09.10.0000.0001 but when i enter the lobby before i dc it says i have version 2013. [..] View

Way to solve needing to FATE grind for second+ classes.

2:01 pm, October 3, 2013 I love the class system in this game but it seemed to cause a big issue over the traditional "make a new character for every class" way. This being the obvious void of Story Quests a [..] View

Strange Disconnection Error

2:01 pm, September 30, 2013 Hello Lodestone forums, I've just started having this strange error. It's been happening for the last few days now, it's kind of strange and very hard to explain But I will do my best. I will be [..] View

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