Well, when you fire off Profundity (CON skill, mucho damage to next magic attack) or Dark Seal (THM +mag acc to next cast), they are not consumed by Damnation like they are when another spell is cast.
Now this doesn't mean that it is solely physical-based, but it does not seem to be a spell.
Is Dart accuracy based off Dex or Pie?
Now, Dart does consume those two buffs, so I am going with PIE on this one.
...Now if only I could figure out if the jerkiness I'm seeing is due to my graphics card or due to lag in town.
Almost always lag in town ;-)
Seriously though, did you get serious lag when you were running around in the instanced areas during the story quest? That might help with your analysis.
So I promptly walk outside our pirate city and target my first random mob with my archer...
And get owned by a dodo in two hits.
Welcome to the club. Those things are evil incarnate, the reason Dodos went extinct is because man banded together to wipe them from the planet lest they continue to procreate and rule the world.
I figured out why this occurs last night while running to a new camp. The cockatrices look exactly like the dodos. Obviously, the dodos are actually disguised cockatrices attempting to infiltrate the city.
...Now if only I could figure out if the jerkiness I'm seeing is due to my graphics card or due to lag in town.
Almost always lag in town ;-)
Seriously though, did you get serious lag when you were running around in the instanced areas during the story quest? That might help with your analysis.
Good point, I'll try lowering the settings tonight and see if that has any difference.
Also, can anyone tell me what all the different settings under "Resolution" mean? Does "Double" mean double the res size (2560 x 1600), or double the small size (whatever that is?)
Well, when you fire off Profundity (CON skill, mucho damage to next magic attack) or Dark Seal (THM +mag acc to next cast), they are not consumed by Damnation like they are when another spell is cast.
Now this doesn't mean that it is solely physical-based, but it does not seem to be a spell.
Is Dart accuracy based off Dex or Pie?
Now, Dart does consume those two buffs, so I am going with PIE on this one.
Yeah I'd say that's pretty good evidence that it indeed is not piety based if it doesn't consume those abilities (or at least not being a spell). As far as your damnation hitting 50% of the time, you're also only a level 12 thaumaturge so assuming neither of us put points into dexterity ever mine is lower proportionately than yours would be at that point. Fighting against yellow/orange monkeys at rank 18 the ability never hit before putting points in dexterity.
Maybe try the point redistribution tonight and try dumping points into dexterity and see if it helps your accuracy as much as it did mine?
Well, when you fire off Profundity (CON skill, mucho damage to next magic attack) or Dark Seal (THM +mag acc to next cast), they are not consumed by Damnation like they are when another spell is cast.
Now this doesn't mean that it is solely physical-based, but it does not seem to be a spell.
Is Dart accuracy based off Dex or Pie?
Now, Dart does consume those two buffs, so I am going with PIE on this one.
Also testing apparently shows that melee buffs (like Ferocity) don't work with Damnation/Radiance either. So I'm not sure that's really definitive proof.
Can anybody tell me how you get things like Lancer's marks to spend at the Lancer's guild? I still haven't had much time to play, but I did notice it's some sort of currency, but unless I missed something the NPC that sells the stuff didn't explain how to actually get them.
I figured it was via some Lancer specific guildleves or quests or something, but there wasn't any indication of that being so.
@Darkewolfe. Every mmo ever reuses mob models and reskins them. :P
Every MMO? More like every game; the Krogan Mercenaries in Mass Effect all looked identical to me.
Oh, definitely. I just thought it was especially hilarious that the dreaded, deadly Cockatrice (whose gaze can turn man to stone!) looks suspiciously like the Dodo bird, an animal generally depicted as having been too stupid to live.
Can anybody tell me how you get things like Lancer's marks to spend at the Lancer's guild? I still haven't had much time to play, but I did notice it's some sort of currency, but unless I missed something the NPC that sells the stuff didn't explain how to actually get them.
I figured it was via some Lancer specific guildleves or quests or something, but there wasn't any indication of that being so.
I don't think anybody knows exactly how you get all these but there are two known ways so far:
a) When you hit a certain level (and assumed tiers after that) which seems to be 20~ currently the NPC at the desk that tells you about the guild will give you a class quest which rewards you with 2000 guild marks.
b) Some regional guildleves reward them. When I was rank 14 thaumaturge one of the rank 20 guildleves gave about 1100~ thaumaturge marks which I was able to solo by using punishing barbs and just spam curing myself while the enemies killed themselves on me.
Oh wow hey, the way people talk about this game made me terrified to try that first levequest but it was a totally decent tutorial on mining.
Indeed, There is a tutorial in the game, most people just miss it.
@Darkewolfe. Every mmo ever reuses mob models and reskins them. :P
I'm mining up a storm, rank 6 already. I'm not sure I'll enjoy crafting, but gathering is fun. I love the fact that nodes can be used by everyone, and at the same time even. The abundance of gathered materials will go a long way to making the player based economy non-shitty. Making all the equipment upgrades crafted + throttling the amount of materials available = shit, and that's what they did in 11.
So contrary to what some people have said they did not fail to fix all the issues from the last mmo.
@Darkewolfe. Every mmo ever reuses mob models and reskins them. :P
Every MMO? More like every game; the Krogan Mercenaries in Mass Effect all looked identical to me.
Oh, definitely. I just thought it was especially hilarious that the dreaded, deadly Cockatrice (whose gaze can turn man to stone!) looks suspiciously like the Dodo bird, an animal generally depicted as having been too stupid to live.
Or sure it Seeeeeeeeems funny, until he hollows out your skull for use as his personal komode. Who's laughing then?
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So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
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So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
It isn't necessarily your pick that's breaking. More likely some of your armor, even more likely it's your underwear. If you can't repair it yourself (through crafting), you'll have to go talk to the repair NPC in town to fix up your gear. In Ul'Dah, he's across from the Chocobos, in the other cities they're in the market.
So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
Yeah, I need maple branches to repair my pick. I guess it's time to take up lumberjacking.
So has anyone here who played and quit FFXI tried this game yet? Any good/bad comparison points so far?
I quit FFXI years ago (after playing for years) and I'm really curious as to how this one compares.
I played FFXI on and off for 6 years.
Here's my thoughts so far.
How this is BETTER than FFXI:
- The game is gorgeous. It is seriously pretty if your machine can handle it (mine can).
- Crafting is MUCH more intuitive... Even though people are having some issues, there are vast vaaaast improvements (You can see visible skill gains EVERY time you craft, for the most part; guildleves allowing FREE skillups and you get some item(s) for completing them, you are actually given recipes frequently)
- Don't have to go to Mog House to change
- Lots of local/regional leves (think WoW "daily quests") give a good alternative to the FFXI grind
- Teleporting to various camps/spots much easier than finding a teleporter in Jeuno - Travel is substantially easier/quicker, for the most part
- Variable party size (Can support up to 15, allegedly)
- YOU CAN SOLO IF YOU WANT TO!!!! :O
- They are issuing at least one patch a week, so they are visibly trying to make the community happy
How this is WORSE than FFXI (or WoW, etc):
- NO AUCTION HOUSE
- NO MAILBOXES
- No chocobos yet
- Menu/UI latency ("lag") is pretty god-awful
- Very little info known about WHERE to level with a big group (We had 6 people and couldn't find an area that was "just right" at all)
- No info about "end game" stuff at all
- Nobody is an "expert" yet, so some questions as to how to spec, etc are simply a matter of guesswork
So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
Always been 50% for me.
Ah I could have remembered incorrectly I thought it was 70%. Is it 20% for the red warning?
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So I got an axe and I'm going to go try and get that maple branch for repairing my pickaxe. Once I get one, what skill is needed to do a repair? Because I only have enough gil for one more class tool right now, and I don't want to choose the wrong one.
So I just got a message saying "You have begun to suffer from the effects of gear damage".
But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
Always been 50% for me.
They patched NPC repairs to 75% in the beta->retail transition.
So I got an axe and I'm going to go try and get that maple branch for repairing my pickaxe. Once I get one, what skill is needed to do a repair? Because I only have enough gil for one more class tool right now, and I don't want to choose the wrong one.
If you're so low that gil for starting tools is an issue you'll be better off just repairing at the NPC.
So I got an axe and I'm going to go try and get that maple branch for repairing my pickaxe. Once I get one, what skill is needed to do a repair? Because I only have enough gil for one more class tool right now, and I don't want to choose the wrong one.
If you're so low that gil for starting tools is an issue you'll be better off just repairing at the NPC.
Starter tools cost like 75-125 gil to repair.
Well keep in mind that I've been mining all afternoon but I haven't started to try and sell anything. I'm sure some of these materials will sell from a bazaar. So it's not that I am without resources, just without gil.
At any rate, is it the basic woodworking tool that is needed to do a repair on a tool that uses maple branch as the repair item?
So I got an axe and I'm going to go try and get that maple branch for repairing my pickaxe. Once I get one, what skill is needed to do a repair? Because I only have enough gil for one more class tool right now, and I don't want to choose the wrong one.
If you're so low that gil for starting tools is an issue you'll be better off just repairing at the NPC.
Starter tools cost like 75-125 gil to repair.
Well keep in mind that I've been mining all afternoon but I haven't started to try and sell anything. I'm sure some of these materials will sell from a bazaar. So it's not that I am without resources, just without gil.
At any rate, is it the basic woodworking tool that is needed to do a repair on a tool that uses maple branch as the repair item?
Yeah if it's asking you for a maple branch you'll probably need carpentry to do it.
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Now, Dart does consume those two buffs, so I am going with PIE on this one.
Almost always lag in town ;-)
Seriously though, did you get serious lag when you were running around in the instanced areas during the story quest? That might help with your analysis.
I figured out why this occurs last night while running to a new camp. The cockatrices look exactly like the dodos. Obviously, the dodos are actually disguised cockatrices attempting to infiltrate the city.
/lolreusedmobmodels
Indeed, There is a tutorial in the game, most people just miss it.
@Darkewolfe. Every mmo ever reuses mob models and reskins them. :P
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Good point, I'll try lowering the settings tonight and see if that has any difference.
Also, can anyone tell me what all the different settings under "Resolution" mean? Does "Double" mean double the res size (2560 x 1600), or double the small size (whatever that is?)
Yeah I'd say that's pretty good evidence that it indeed is not piety based if it doesn't consume those abilities (or at least not being a spell). As far as your damnation hitting 50% of the time, you're also only a level 12 thaumaturge so assuming neither of us put points into dexterity ever mine is lower proportionately than yours would be at that point. Fighting against yellow/orange monkeys at rank 18 the ability never hit before putting points in dexterity.
Maybe try the point redistribution tonight and try dumping points into dexterity and see if it helps your accuracy as much as it did mine?
Every MMO? More like every game; the Krogan Mercenaries in Mass Effect all looked identical to me.
Also testing apparently shows that melee buffs (like Ferocity) don't work with Damnation/Radiance either. So I'm not sure that's really definitive proof.
Also my character is Happyri Lilealuf if I could get an invite ;-)
I figured it was via some Lancer specific guildleves or quests or something, but there wasn't any indication of that being so.
Oh, definitely. I just thought it was especially hilarious that the dreaded, deadly Cockatrice (whose gaze can turn man to stone!) looks suspiciously like the Dodo bird, an animal generally depicted as having been too stupid to live.
I don't think anybody knows exactly how you get all these but there are two known ways so far:
a) When you hit a certain level (and assumed tiers after that) which seems to be 20~ currently the NPC at the desk that tells you about the guild will give you a class quest which rewards you with 2000 guild marks.
b) Some regional guildleves reward them. When I was rank 14 thaumaturge one of the rank 20 guildleves gave about 1100~ thaumaturge marks which I was able to solo by using punishing barbs and just spam curing myself while the enemies killed themselves on me.
I'm mining up a storm, rank 6 already. I'm not sure I'll enjoy crafting, but gathering is fun. I love the fact that nodes can be used by everyone, and at the same time even. The abundance of gathered materials will go a long way to making the player based economy non-shitty. Making all the equipment upgrades crafted + throttling the amount of materials available = shit, and that's what they did in 11.
So contrary to what some people have said they did not fail to fix all the issues from the last mmo.
And if so... how for the love of god lol
Buy a mining pick. Equip it. Congrats, you are now a miner.
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Or sure it Seeeeeeeeems funny, until he hollows out your skull for use as his personal komode. Who's laughing then?
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Cool cool, thank ya.
I'll have to go info mining at work tomorrow. For now I'm just starting over on Wutai so I'm sure that'll keep me busy for the rest of today :P
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But when I look at my pick I don't see anything like item health. Was the message just informing me that I'm at a level where item damage can occur, rather than a specific warning that my pick is breaking?
How do I play with the cool peeps?
EDIT: Name is Passive Fist.
If you check your gear you'll notice a durability number 99999/99999 or something equivalent. You get that warning when the durability on one of your items drops below 70%. You can go to a repair NPC (one in each major city) and for a fee he'll repair your equipment back to 75%. It is also a good idea to use him to see the overall wear on your gear.
The better idea however is to find a PC to repair the worn item because they can repair it to 100%. And all it usually takes is an easily obtainable material. (Each piece of gear tells you what repairs it)
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It isn't necessarily your pick that's breaking. More likely some of your armor, even more likely it's your underwear. If you can't repair it yourself (through crafting), you'll have to go talk to the repair NPC in town to fix up your gear. In Ul'Dah, he's across from the Chocobos, in the other cities they're in the market.
Yeah, I need maple branches to repair my pick. I guess it's time to take up lumberjacking.
I quit FFXI years ago (after playing for years) and I'm really curious as to how this one compares.
I played FFXI on and off for 6 years.
Here's my thoughts so far.
How this is BETTER than FFXI:
- The game is gorgeous. It is seriously pretty if your machine can handle it (mine can).
- Crafting is MUCH more intuitive... Even though people are having some issues, there are vast vaaaast improvements (You can see visible skill gains EVERY time you craft, for the most part; guildleves allowing FREE skillups and you get some item(s) for completing them, you are actually given recipes frequently)
- Don't have to go to Mog House to change
- Lots of local/regional leves (think WoW "daily quests") give a good alternative to the FFXI grind
- Teleporting to various camps/spots much easier than finding a teleporter in Jeuno - Travel is substantially easier/quicker, for the most part
- Variable party size (Can support up to 15, allegedly)
- YOU CAN SOLO IF YOU WANT TO!!!! :O
- They are issuing at least one patch a week, so they are visibly trying to make the community happy
How this is WORSE than FFXI (or WoW, etc):
- NO AUCTION HOUSE
- NO MAILBOXES
- No chocobos yet
- Menu/UI latency ("lag") is pretty god-awful
- Very little info known about WHERE to level with a big group (We had 6 people and couldn't find an area that was "just right" at all)
- No info about "end game" stuff at all
- Nobody is an "expert" yet, so some questions as to how to spec, etc are simply a matter of guesswork
Always been 50% for me.
Ah I could have remembered incorrectly I thought it was 70%. Is it 20% for the red warning?
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They patched NPC repairs to 75% in the beta->retail transition.
Unless you mean, 50% is when the message pops up.
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If you're so low that gil for starting tools is an issue you'll be better off just repairing at the NPC.
Starter tools cost like 75-125 gil to repair.
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Well keep in mind that I've been mining all afternoon but I haven't started to try and sell anything. I'm sure some of these materials will sell from a bazaar. So it's not that I am without resources, just without gil.
At any rate, is it the basic woodworking tool that is needed to do a repair on a tool that uses maple branch as the repair item?
Yeah if it's asking you for a maple branch you'll probably need carpentry to do it.
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