2:01 pm, September 27, 2014
FFXIV: A Realm Reborn is the very first MMORPG that I ever got into and thoroughly enjoyed... Until I hit Atma farming. I'm working on my eighth one and I have been stuck in Middle La Noscea t [..]
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2:01 am, September 26, 2014
The first two are at 4k and 1080p, even with SLI the 4k is rough, I only get 30-40 fps 4k: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/schmak/ffxiv_09252014_174209_zpsdf8b7e8c.png http://i.imgur.com/vxSY9vh. [..]
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2:01 am, September 23, 2014
I don't want a face roll first of all. I want something that is not super simple or boring. I would prefer a priority system (Would almost say the class needs one). And I would like to respond [..]
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2:01 am, August 30, 2014
So Ive been doing a lot of Turn 9 practice over the last month and a half and Ive noticed there are a lack of detailed guides from a tanks point of view. Now Im not clamming any of this to be the best [..]
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2:01 pm, August 29, 2014
I have a level 30 archer, that's all. It's taken me about a week to get to this point, and I've seen the three cities and most of the surrounding areas. It's a very pre [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
I've read up and tried to put into practice all the basics. Precasting heals, having all my cross class skills, knowing what those and my cooldowns do, memorizing encounter patterns and improv [..]
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2:01 am, August 24, 2014
I have been working on my relic what seems to be forever. All the content feels the same. I was thinking and hoping of ways to improve the quests. Exclusive content would be cool, something to change [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
So I main as a ilvl BLM and have been playing for quite a while, I recently got my WAR up to 50 due to the lack of tanks and long queue times. Though I am a bit under geared compared to the rest of th [..]
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2:01 am, August 19, 2014
I'm feeling pretty good about my goals right now. I want to help other people clear content. I'm an ilvl100 BLM, ilvl93 SCH, and ilvl82 WAR (probably going to take this to 90 soon). I [..]
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2:01 am, August 17, 2014
Hey guys, now that I finally got my stoneskin from lvling that damn CNJ.. I'm gonna try to do some T5 and other EX primals with PLD. I was just wondering if there are kind PLDs out there that [..]
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2:01 pm, August 10, 2014
Overview: There have been many guides on this subreddit dedicated to the general strategy one might employ for Frontlines. As such, this guide will not focus on topics like movement and strategy, but [..]
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2:01 pm, August 5, 2014
I'm about to get FFXIV and I'm wondering what server I should join. I'm in Europe, but apparently that doesn't matter due to all NA/EU servers being located in Canada. [..]
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2:01 pm, August 5, 2014
Hey guys! This is just a small pet "project" of mine. I find it fascinating to wander through the game world and find new, potential entrances for new dungeons. I remember, before Pa [..]
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2:01 pm, August 2, 2014
Cooldowns.... My static and I have been doing t9 for a few weeks now and my tank seems to have some issues with using his cooldowns and at some points he doesn't use them at all especially dur [..]
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2:01 am, July 25, 2014
Oh and don't worry, I check the groups gear. I usually give it a courtesy pull to gauge them too. Remember Wandering Palace speed runs? Remember Brayflox speed runs? Remember trying to time yo [..]
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2:01 am, July 25, 2014
On data center Aether, Frontlines queue times have sadly gotten a lot longer since patch release. Understandably, some people have moved on. With waits of nearly 30min (obviously regardless of class), [..]
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2:01 pm, July 20, 2014
Ahoy. I use a controller to play at the moment and I want to create macros for SCH Summon and Summon II so that they change my Eos/Selene skills on them depending on which I summon. I can do it easily [..]
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2:01 am, July 18, 2014
Long Story Short: A few enterprising players on Excalibur (not PBC) have used, amongst all things, TEAMWORK, to band together and hunt as a unit. As of right now there are 5 Linkshells and a teamspeak [..]
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2:01 am, July 14, 2014
So with the recent ability to get lvl 90 gear easily, I decided I would like to try tanking. And so far i'm having a horrible time. Already level 25 and I die 2-5 times a dungeon. All my gear [..]
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2:01 pm, July 8, 2014
Patch is live, and after some testing it appears that double flares have been patched. Transposing and waiting 2 seconds doesn't replenish enough mana to flare again. The server lag isn [..]
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2:01 pm, July 5, 2014
Coming from Guild Wars 2, there seems to be very little left for me to do in that game. It has practically no endgame and my favorite activity, collecting unique and valuable items, is quite a bore as [..]
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2:01 am, June 24, 2014
I recently hit 50 on my first job - black mage. I have done research on rotations and optimized my UI/hotkeys. I look up fight mechanics before going into new instances. I don't stand in the f [..]
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2:01 am, June 21, 2014
Now that my group has T9 on farm for the last few weeks, I updated my WHM guide I made during 2.1 Important Tips and Information DO NOT OVERHEAL! - Overhealing only causes unnecessary aggro and waste [..]
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2:01 am, June 19, 2014
Anyone use the apps and have timers setup for turn 9? Anyone willing to share, some of the people in my FC still learning the fight and wanted to help them with the timing for the healers to use virus [..]
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2:01 pm, June 10, 2014
Did anyone figured out how to use GeDoSaTo with FFXIV? I tried to Downsample the game down from 4k to 1080p but it gives me a blackscreen every time submitted by Furia_BD [link] [3 comments]
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2:01 am, June 8, 2014
After testing the Benediction/Hallowed Ground effect timing, I found out something weird today: Some job abilities share cooldowns with one one another with another job!! Abilities I've discov [..]
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2:01 pm, June 7, 2014
So here's a couple things I can tell about these Mysterious Maps 1) It appears 1 alexandrite drops per map, so you are expected to solo these maps. (I am not sure if the alexandrite is a lota [..]
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2:01 am, June 7, 2014
we get a difficulty slider for battle leves, allowing +/- 4 levels of difficulty it would be nice to have one for dungeons as well, allowing for all skills to be used in sub 50 dungeons as well as mak [..]
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2:01 pm, June 3, 2014
I'm just looking to hear how people feel about the way jobs are to them. I come from a buncha different MMO gaming backgrounds and what the FF series has unique to it is that if you play your [..]
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2:01 am, June 1, 2014
i've been rather cautious of posting this on reddit for the fear of elitsts lashing out at me for me or my group not being the special snowflake some of them claim to be, but im running out of [..]
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2:01 am, May 31, 2014
So I see a lot of folks getting hung up over a billion different strategies for T8, and particularly getting hung up over the DPS requirements, etc. and arguing that Solo Tank is better, or what have [..]
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2:01 pm, May 30, 2014
So I've been doing a lot of Bray HM speed runs lately. Ilvl 85 PLD, acc capped. Seems like I can't get the runs under 10 minutes. So far I haven't been able to do the dungeon i [..]
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2:01 pm, May 29, 2014
For those that do 5 dps 1 tank for turn 8 as a BLM, I was wondering if there's a general consensus on a rotation for cooldowns and managing of flares on turn 8 specifically? Namely, is it wort [..]
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2:01 pm, May 25, 2014
Hey, newer player here(lvl 33) and relatively new to tanking as well. I ran Brayflox's Longstop for the first time tonight and had a lot of trouble clearing it. Holding threat wasn't a [..]
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2:01 pm, May 22, 2014
Know we are a little behind, but we raid once or twice a week so we really only recently started getting quality attempts in. Wanted to share some things that worked for us. We did the LoS method whe [..]
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2:01 am, May 17, 2014
I noticed that much of the new stream of players going into Levi / Mog / SCoB are unpolished, slow learners, and very hard to clear anything with since a lot of them relied on echo to complete the pre [..]
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2:01 am, May 13, 2014
Long story short, our FC has been around since launch. Since then we have been through many ups and downs size wise. And since Easter our numbers have tanked. People just stopped logging in. Its sad a [..]
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2:01 pm, May 10, 2014
FFXIV has had in ups and downs, but I still feel it has come a long way. Congrats to SE to having a good financial year for a change. Ganbatte! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9G3ByXKIE edit: do put [..]
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2:01 am, May 8, 2014
So I've been trying to figure out ways to remove RNG from T7 to make for easier kills, wanted to see what the community thought of this strategy and pick it apart, so here it goes. Party makeu [..]
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2:01 pm, May 4, 2014
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/142KAM4BpDKUL5fq7vMhQSjCf5TUI2x1Puzmpyz0wbBg/edit#gid=0 Above is an alternate theory on Bard DPS. It is alternate in the sense that the generally agreed upon met [..]
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2:01 pm, May 2, 2014
Any corrections to the below information would be greatly appreciated. This is scrounged together from reddit posts and youtube videos. Before the fight: Run to the end of the hallway you start in, [..]
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2:01 pm, May 2, 2014
So, a big part of updates that we all look forward to is the small QoL (Quality of Life) upgrades that we get. You know, just those small little things that don't impact the major gameplay at [..]
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2:01 am, May 2, 2014
In my endless quest for a Mirror of the Whorl, I've had hours upon hours to think about how to improve my performance in Leviathan EX, and how to push my DPS as a DRG as high as possible. Fran [..]
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2:01 pm, April 29, 2014
I just got to lvl 50 with most of my crafting classes. Since we need craftmanship 391 and control 374 to craft 3-star recipes, I know we basically have to fully meld all the gears plus getting the i70 [..]
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2:01 pm, April 28, 2014
I know I am a little late to the party here, but I have tried to defeat Twin about 50 times over this last weekend. I've read guides, watched videos, and just about everything that I can imagi [..]
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2:01 am, April 27, 2014
A few things I've noticed. General: * Popping a buff while something is aggro'd to you turns it red and accumulates a bit of aggro. You can do this while running. Infuriate and iron wi [..]
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2:01 pm, April 25, 2014
Dear fellow ff adventures! I've recently noticed there is a debate between blms who wait for full mana during blizzard cycle (fire a thunder II, and.... wait?) and those who just continue thei [..]
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2:01 am, April 18, 2014
Hey guys,
i have a big problem with my game.
I tried to downsample it, to make it look a bit better and since some friends of me are doing it too i thought "Why not?"
My Problem is t [..]
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2:01 pm, April 15, 2014
Hey everyone, I'm just recently getting back into the game since launch, and am ever striving to improve my Warrior tanking technique. However, how to use my cooldowns has been driving me up a [..]
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2:01 pm, April 11, 2014
Levelling an arcanist into summoner I never found that I needed health potions due to physik, ether potions due to aetherflow, and I considered using INT or VIT potions up until the point I reliased t [..]
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1:01 pm, March 29, 2014
I am currently ilvl 90 PLD with Zenith and ilvl 90 warrior with Primal. I had started the game off in 2.0 for the 'challenge' of besting the main tank class, aka PLD. Obviously, that w [..]
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1:01 am, March 26, 2014
It feels like I end up not using most of my cooldowns throughout a fight and I was wondering how other paladins go about it. Do you use everything consecutively once a boss fight gets to using their a [..]
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1:01 pm, March 24, 2014
Caution: Wall of text may contain critical analysis, useful information, elements of ranting and rambling, neutral and/or biased and possibly unpopular opinion, and things you do that maybe you should [..]
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1:01 am, March 24, 2014
So, in another thread I mentioned that I mysteriously don't seem to run out of cool-downs for ***** Sentence tanking Twintania on PLD and started thinking about it. If your cool-down rotation [..]
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1:01 pm, March 20, 2014
I'm a lvl 33 pld and I main whm. Brayflox is kicking my butt. We're dying on trash mobs. Luckily, I've had some annoyed but helpful people pop up in DF. One said: Shield Lob, f [..]
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1:01 am, March 20, 2014
What's your rotation when beginning a fight? I usually throw up straight shot, windbite and venomous bite then go ahead with my cooldowns; I then procede with my rotation. Do you know any bett [..]
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1:01 am, March 15, 2014
So, we all know XIVModels.com is awesome, and you can pretty much play 'dress up' in there right now, however, there is no way to filter which models/items can be worn by a specific cl [..]
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1:01 pm, March 14, 2014
So I was just now leveling up THM and queued up the Low Level Duty Roulette. Popped into Tam-tara and immediately after seeing the message that one of the members was new to this dungeon (don' [..]
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1:01 am, March 13, 2014
Important Tips and Information DO NOT OVERHEAL! - Overhealing only causes unnecessary aggro and wastes precious MP. White mages should be especially careful since their heals are strong. You should N [..]
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1:01 am, March 12, 2014
I wanted to post some tips on how to farm Dzemael Darkhold's (DD) first room pull, from a tank's perspective. This pull can net you 50k EXP and can be repeated every 5 minutes. It invo [..]
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1:01 pm, March 8, 2014
Let me start off by saying that I am aware of the /echo, /wait and <se.#> macro commands that could make this possible. However, here is my problem: I've cleaned up my hotbars, m [..]
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1:01 am, March 6, 2014
Now, before I start, I don't mind this that much, as most of the fights still feel quite different from each other and have interesting gimmicks. That said, winning them basically boil down to [..]
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1:01 pm, March 3, 2014
So after many attempts with several groups and party compositions, most attempts seem to fall apart with the tanks and healers dying after the 2nd set of divebombs. For all experienced tanks and heale [..]
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1:01 pm, February 28, 2014
Hello, I am looking for tank tips for this. I have no issue with any other portion of the fight but I am having a rough time predicting the 2x wicked wheel and when to spend my cooldowns outside of ra [..]
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1:01 am, February 26, 2014
Hi guys, just wanted to share how I've been playing my Scholar. For most dungeons it seems the fairy is capable of healing and only every once in a while am I forced to throw out an Adloquium [..]
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1:01 am, February 25, 2014
Hi I'm hoping to get some help on tanking in certain phases of the fight to make it easier on my healers. I'm pretty good with keeping track of things and reacting as well, but I&# [..]
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1:01 am, February 23, 2014
So far Beta is making the PS3 version look like poop. Dungeons feel so smooth. Skills look sharp and fluid. The graphics of the surroundings look amazing. I really don't want to go back. Some [..]
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1:01 am, February 22, 2014
This isn't going over the mechanics of the fight, but the general things I don't see taken advantage of in my average 10-15 runs of CT per week, organized by class type. Overall, the b [..]
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1:01 am, February 20, 2014
Searching the Reddit has not provided answers to this question. Is there any use whatsoever for Awareness in Coil/EX Primals? I almost never use it and want to know if I'm doing something wron [..]
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1:01 pm, February 18, 2014
Hello everyone! I am a former FFXIV player. I've played a lot during 1.0, but ultimately stopped after a couple of months due to the state of the game and plans to relaunch it as ARR. There we [..]
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1:01 pm, February 17, 2014
I hear alot of talking about this and would like to get as much focused opinions on this as possible. For Summoners: Do you manually track your CDs and those of your pet or do you adjust yourself towa [..]
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1:01 am, February 17, 2014
1) Class balance in groups? The last I checked, the optimal party setup involved almost every job (9 jobs vs 8 party slots, so it makes sense). In some discussions I have seen drg vs. monk argument co [..]
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9:00 am, February 14, 2014
I've been kind of behind on leveling because of work and wished I was able to already be 50 and done with story missions. However, last night I used Duty Finder for Garuda and was paired with [..]
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1:01 am, February 13, 2014
My static coil group is at the point of clearing Turns 1-4 without much difficulty, and now have our eyes set on Twintania. This weekend will be our third attempt at the raid. The farthest we have mad [..]
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1:01 am, February 13, 2014
Download this open record then look in the system.exe roots for the target hardware with defective driver.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../hh448170.aspx
If you can't locate a new driver [..]
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1:01 pm, January 31, 2014
Just been Trying to do this for a few days now yesterday had a group got to the phase after heart each time yet I kept getting ******. I Have full dark light armor/Accessories. Is this phase all about [..]
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1:01 am, January 31, 2014
tl;dr: Craft **** for other crafters Background A few days ago I wrote this post briefly elucidating on the topic however in light of this thread and general sentiment that crafting is unprofitable po [..]
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1:01 pm, January 30, 2014
Various tips n tricks on all 3 Primal EXTREMES Was originally inspired by this official forum post, which I had bookmarked for a while until I had it memorised: Been doing the Primal Extremes for a co [..]
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1:01 am, January 30, 2014
My static , which is still finding its full time party members , last week made it to turn 4, i would say the avg player is at ilvl80+. We have 2 melee (drg,brd) and 2 blm. Yet we have issues doing AO [..]
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6:52 am, January 29, 2014
Title..
Went to the contact us option, clicked all the drop downs, dont see anywhere for the chat support.
please assist.
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1:01 pm, January 27, 2014
Do you think it's possible? I chatted with some of my friends and they seem to think SCH can also solo heal this fight. I can't seem to find a video of it. I've seen some whm s [..]
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1:01 am, January 27, 2014
In the thread on shields stacking we got into something of a discussion on the relative efficacy of the shields on a PLD vs a WAR. Since that's not the topic of that thread, I have copied my t [..]
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8:38 pm, January 26, 2014
This is too long, so bold text is for skimmers. The first 27 levels of CNJ instances have been really easy. The fun has come from juggling as many tasks as possible at once: swapping in and out of cle [..]
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1:01 pm, January 25, 2014
I have an issue with the User Interface when playing it on my PS3. I play my games on a Plasma TV to get the best quality. However the only downside is the burn-ins (which my tv has a program to remov [..]
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1:01 am, January 24, 2014
Hi all, WHM is the 3rd job I got to 50. I found it super easy to play up to 50, but now I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out how to make the best use of all my abilities on more intense [..]
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1:01 am, January 23, 2014
Our coil static is having a difficult time with this transition. Everything runs smoothly up to phase 5. We've tried phase 5 two ways, killing the knight/solder and then trying to burn down th [..]
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1:01 pm, January 21, 2014
Hi all first time poster in this sub I have been playing ffxiv for around a week on the ps3 using a K+M and searching for viable setups through reddit and google. This search prooved less than fruitfu [..]
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1:01 pm, January 15, 2014
Edit: I screwed up the link post, here it is: http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper?pid=343137#pid343137 Full disclosure: I have tested this version on Bluetooth but not yet USB (I don& [..]
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9:08 am, January 15, 2014
Welcome to part 6 of 8 of my stupid long list guides to crafting all the things. First, a redux from the initial guides Alchemy, Armorer, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Culinarian NOTE: I really doubt this wi [..]
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1:32 pm, January 13, 2014
Here is a list of Warrior tips that I'd like to share. This is by no means a comprehensive guide and it's going to be a little different than the other "guides" poste [..]
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1:01 pm, January 13, 2014
Alt + Page Up/Alt + Page Down are two of my historically used binds for cooldowns in other games. However, it would seem these to button combinations are unable to be bound to perform any action in FF [..]
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1:01 pm, January 12, 2014
Our FC team is currently working on Garuda Extreme. We have an average ilvl of 83+, with some people at ilvl90. Our team consists of: WAR / PLD / BRD / BLM / BLM / DRG / SCH / WHM, and our first downi [..]
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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 [..]
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1:01 am, January 11, 2014
To start - what lies herein was spurred by this thead. I think FFXIV has an amazing well fleshed out crafting system, that sort of stagnates at level 50, post iLvl 70. The (somewhat) exception to this [..]
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5:39 pm, January 10, 2014
Welcome to part 7 of 8 of my stupid long list guides to crafting all the things. OMGOMGOMGOMG they're almost done First, a redux from the initial guides Alchemy, Armorer, Blacksmith, Carpenter [..]
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12:22 am, January 10, 2014
Intro Quick and dirty: I play warrior. What sets me apart, however, is that I play warrior in every game ever or its mechanical equivalent, and the sheer potential of the general warrior class is simu [..]
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9:59 am, January 9, 2014
Welcome to part 8 of 8 of my stupid long list guides to crafting all the things. Wait, what? 8?! Woot! Holy **** I did it. Coming soon: revamps, new permanent links (as I'm not 100% certain on [..]
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4:08 am, January 9, 2014
So you want to be a Scholar? Good. Lets start by forcing you to read a WHOLE LOT of stuff. (TLDR's in each section, I'm aware this is a wall of text.) When I went looking for resources [..]
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1:01 pm, January 3, 2014
The Doctor here (That would be the Behemoth Doctor) and I have been setting up farming groups for Garuda on my server to help get people their rings and get past the fight. As we all know there are a [..]
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1:01 pm, January 3, 2014
(edited with all your opinions) Music Turn off battle music Increase/decrease loop timers on music Own playlists Part/Duty Finder Party finder with ilvl limit equal to the owner Duty finder 1/2 min [..]
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