The world already seems like a brighter place.
You should get some free experience right off the bat just for making it through the nebula of chaos that is playonline.
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You can come close enough by talking to the new tutorial NPCs next to some of the gates.
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Shall shells cap at 53. They are harder to catch even than cone calamari.
Plus, they are 7500 for a stack of 12 compared to 5k for a stack of 12 moat carp, which are no-risk fish to catch.
Ah but the secret to shall shells is that they are pretty much counted as items except for fatigue purposes. I've skilled up on them from 20 (with full fishing gear), not sure about below that. They are easy to catch *well* before their skill cap.
Shall shells are no risk* (Istiridye in Nashmau), NPC for 300 (the value of a moat carp on phoenix, only instant, with no bait, no ah fee, and no clogging up ah slots), and, with the proper craft or friends, can be turned into pearls (making a stack worth about 10k on the ah or make each fish npcable for ~600, I used to pay a friend 1000 a stack + crystal cost, leaving me with a NPCable profit of about 5200 a stack with the occasional black pearl stack thrown in) or used as an element for fish mithkabobs. Once you hit around 30-35 fishing you can go to the shall shell areas and alternate between shall shells and bluetail (which AH well or could be converted to fish oil which also sells well).
If I recall right I did moat carp to 11 then tiger cod to ~20ish (used for Fish and Chips to level cooking), then shall shells and blue tail to cap. After that, you really need a Lu's.
*Nothing is a risk. Except in very very particular situations you can always tell what's on your rod. Often from the moment it is hooked.
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By no risk I mean zero percent chance of a monster attacking you, not that you would fish up something unexpected. Thanks for breaking down the math though.
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Well, I never fished in an area where the coastal mobs are anything but Too Weak either. Basically I see any interruption as pretty much intolerable, esp. since I'm generally only paying half attention. Breaks, snaps, fights, and not being able to ID the fish you've hooked all seriously slow you down (a break, snap, or worthless fish can cost you about a minute each, fights and fished mobs are even worse for time).
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edited March 2010
Any break has me fervently praying for spear fishing.
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Just checking to see if I happened to know you, played on Phoenix from launch till 2006ish. Was a Hume named Rarin.
Hrm, don't recall... I was a bard from 2003-2005ish but lost that character because they couldn't restore it after I quit.
Now I'm the perpetually partyless PUP in Nashmau ;P
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Sadly my old LS moved to another server while I was away. Considering getting a pearl from a few of my old WoW guildies but I have no idea what their LS is like.
Lot of recruitment spam in Whitegate though.
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So when exactly is it safe to resub, tomorrow or the second? I don't want to get double billed.
Well it's probably safe now since its already April 1 in Japan, but you could wait till tomorrow to be absolutely sure.
Oh yeah, the other thing to mention about this is that billing is based on SE's North American division which is in Pacific time. So April 1st won't be until 3am eastern time. I'm not sure what time zone their EU billing is based on...
Hrm...I'm reconsidering my decision to go SAM instead of PLD now that I've got WAR up.
Just looking at the higher level gear lists SAM is a considerably more expensive job to level.
Sure, it's not NIN or anything but some of that crap is pricey as all get out.
PLD seems a lot more reasonable, for a poor, first trip to 75.
Hrm
Psst....
The secret to playing this game like it was casual is BRD, always BRD. It's cheap, you always get invites, you turn into an HNMLS' bitch as a mana battery. It's..... Well it sucks, but it's cheap and you always get invites. Yea I wouldn't do it as a main (speaking from experience, you literally have no gear improvement options except Ghallalawlhorn... Relic Horn), but if your heart is set for SAM since it is the DD king as of right now, then this is a viable option to cash out at the endgame.
I just geared up PLD a decent bit, besides getting a couple of the Kampf pieces it could be really really cheap. Looking at the info and pics of the new Metal of Altana Campaign weapons, doing Campaign as PLD is just awesome. I just can't bring myself to PTing yet, my heart just isn't in it.
I only posted it here because I know there are people who would.
I sat there and watched a dude in my WoW guild a month or two ago go on about how he got a whisper from someone who said they were a GM who asked for his password etc.
We all told him nine dozen times that it was a fake and to just ignore the dude.
Just seems odd something like that would happen on April 1st as a coincidence. But I can't seem to find what you are talking about anyways. Maybe my noscript is blocking it.
Yeah that screen was annoying, but it only comes up occasionally (you can reload the page and get rid of it). Somehow adblock and noscript don't block it so it must be a hack or a bad april fools joke (or a hack they're hoping to pass off as an april fools joke for actual fools).
Unrelated: Tried campaign a little last night, was fun and easy but roughly an hour for 3k exp is rather lower than I expected. Maybe it will increase as I rank up.
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Yeah that screen was annoying, but it only comes up occasionally (you can reload the page and get rid of it). Somehow adblock and noscript don't block it so it must be a hack or a bad april fools joke (or a hack they're hoping to pass off as an april fools joke for actual fools).
Unrelated: Tried campaign a little last night, was fun and easy but roughly an hour for 3k exp is rather lower than I expected. Maybe it will increase as I rank up.
It gets a little faster. Doubly so when you can do ops while running campaign.
Yeah that screen was annoying, but it only comes up occasionally (you can reload the page and get rid of it). Somehow adblock and noscript don't block it so it must be a hack or a bad april fools joke (or a hack they're hoping to pass off as an april fools joke for actual fools).
Unrelated: Tried campaign a little last night, was fun and easy but roughly an hour for 3k exp is rather lower than I expected. Maybe it will increase as I rank up.
It gets a little faster. Doubly so when you can do ops while running campaign.
Well I had the Ops, but it was just for allied notes apparently. I'm guessing higher tier versions of the defense ops give exp as well?
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So, I'm wanting to come back to this game, because WoW has become entirely boring to me, there isn't anything interesting anymore.
Background > I played at launch, for about 2-3 months, but only mangaged to get my warrior to 45 ish, and my ninja to 35.
As I'm at work, I'd love to hear any tips about starting new, ie what jobs, server ( presuming Carby ) and overall how to enjoy my experience this time. ( I didn't know much about MMO's when I first started )
I really appreciate any and all advice or information.
Well I assume you remember you need to get to 30 for the advanced jobs, so with that in mind I suggest "maining" whm or war to start (depending on whether you want to be a mage or a melee). However, for either of those I would recommend that you actually *start* as a blm or mnk respectively. The reasoning is that both whm and war are generally useful subjobs that you will probably want to take to at least 37 for whatever your final job goal is. Taking blm or mnk to 18 to get your subjob gives you the best sub jobs for whm and war until that mark (and gives you access to Warp if you do blm). Edit: Plus starting as a subless whm is kinda boring, and a new warrior starts with a sword instead of a great axe for some reason. Monk at least starts with the right weapon and then you can go pick up a gax for leveling war.
When you set out to level, make sure you examine the book outside each city exit. You can get a page to kill the mobs which will reward you with tabs (and bonus exp). These tabs can be exchanged for buffs such as protect, regen, and refresh. Refresh takes nearly all the pain out of early caster soloing, while protect+regen will make melee soloing even easier. You can do these up until 18 (and beyond), or you can hop into a dunes party at level 10-12.
If you do decide to party, level sync has made it much easier. Basically the whole party will drop down to the lowest member, which keeps exp in the ideal zone and makes it easier to find people (you can have a level 75 in a dunes party with no detriment). The whole process makes the party life much smoother.
Edit: Also remember to pick up signet and sell crystals / bee's wax / silk / wild onions to help buy new gear and spells.
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About Level Sync, I forget if gear has level requirments or not. Does this mean that some gear would be useless? How about weaponskills and skill chains.
How do I get Signet? ( never heard about this before ) and as far as spells for BLM/ WHM, I remember those being difficult to get a hold of. How difficult is healing? I don't remember very many modifications to the game that made healing simple or easy.
Level sync downgrades your gear to the appropriate level. So if you're in AF gear and you join a 15 sync group your gear will still be on but it will lose stats.
Almost universally downgraded gear isn't as good as gear that is the correct level, but for sync parties it is more than sufficient, there is no need to carry around lower levels of gear for that.
As far as spells go, the lower level ones, for the most part are either really cheap, if you get Sandy or Windurst as your home nation they're regularly 1st so you can buy them from a vendor instead of an overpriced AH buy. There's a few that you can't get at a vendor that can get pricey but they also can usually be quested fairly reasonably. Once you get higher levels spells obviously cost more, but they're a one time sink, its just the nature of the jobs.
Leveling a low level melee is cheaper than a mage, for sure, but many once you get up in levels the gear costs alone make them overall not cheaper.
Level sync (and level restricted zones now) scale the basic stats of the gear rather than blocking it. There are some exceptions (haste being the notable one) but things like accuracy and attack power and strength will just be at some fraction of their full value. Your weapon skill will be capped at whatever you would have at sync level which may limit which weaponskills you can use (same with spells). Skillchains are fun, but almost no one uses them these days except if there is a thief or you can do one on your own (SAM, PUP, BLU, DNC being the primary solo chainers, though I think RNGs, DRKs, and DRGs can pull it off too. Maybe even a well equipped Corsair. But the first 4 will be doing it the most).
To get signet, just talk to the guard on the inside of a city gate. I'm most familiar with Windurst where there is a mithra or taru guard standing by themselves to the right of every gate who will provide it. The two big benefits are that it allows you to get crystals from mobs and it allows you to keep your TP (what you use to weaponskill) while resting. I think it also provides a minor defensive buff (not sure) and it lets you accumulate conquest points (CP) for some gear items (which you buy from the signet giving guards).
Which reminds me, once you have enough CP go buy an exp ring. You can use them to boost your exp once a day. I suggest the Empress ring which has the lowest boost but the highest cap (meaning more exp per day, you just have to kill more things to get it). Think of them like FFXI's version of restxp. The rings have charges which you can refill once a week by trading it to a guard (it costs a little CP per charge).
Healing can be easy or hard, it mostly depends on your party. If the tank holds hate, its pretty standard cure spam and resting. If its bouncing everywhere it leads to (|excitement|), especially at low parties. For the most part (as a lowbie whm anyway) you use your highest rank -1 for your main cure, with your highest rank for emergencies. So at 11 when you get cure II you still use cure I for the most part because cure II will be less mp efficient (it takes a few levels worth of skill to get it to match cure I. By the time it does you should have or will soon have cure III). I highly recommend you use a macro like /ma "Cure II" <stpc> and use the F1-F6 keys to target rather than going through the menu manually each time or trying to tab to hurt players.
Spells are cheap in windy and sandy at the various npc magic shops (There are some boat-shops in Port Windy and a magic shop in Port Sandy). Not sure about Bastok. A few stacks of crystals should get you most of what you need, and taking on the occasional npc caster mob (like Goblin Weavers) will get you a few of them too.
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Speaking of CP and exp rings, I hear there is a new quest line(new to me) for beginners that give you a free exp ring and teach you a little about the game.
so... me and my GF are thinking about trying this game out. We would both be buying the ultimate collection.
Should we be avoiding this so late into the games lifespan? I know that once you hit level 10 you pretty much HAVE to group up to complete quests and such, would just me and her playing together be enough, or would we need more?
Any other tips/pointers before we buy the game?
Do you still get a ring for creating a character in their national city? Ie; my hume had a bastok ring that provided ( what seemed like ) decent stats for a new character.
What are CP, and how do I got about earning them on my new character?
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What class / race combination would you go with and what starting zone would you assign them to?
@Dark
You don't really "need" to group anymore, although its faster when it works well. As a duo you could do pretty well just together -- I have a couple of friends who have duoed from 1-63 so far as a red mage and blue mage. For most high level missions and such though you will have to group.
@Eso
Yes you get a ring for being in the "proper" city, and while it's good you would probably outgrow it before level 20. Don't let it dictate your city choice (which should be Windurst because it is the greatest! :P)
Same for race/job combos. There's enough equipment now to make up for the stat differences that even the most ill concieved combo can excel. If you want to play it safe, Hume and Mithra have the most balanced stats, Taru are slanted toward magic and Galka and Elves for damage / tanking. But I've had plenty of galka healers and taru tanks (I'm hume).
As for CP, you earn them just for killing monsters with the signet buff on, based on the amount of exp you receive. Then whenever you talk to a signet granting guard they can tell you how much CP you have and allow you to spend it.
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chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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You should get some free experience right off the bat just for making it through the nebula of chaos that is playonline.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Ah but the secret to shall shells is that they are pretty much counted as items except for fatigue purposes. I've skilled up on them from 20 (with full fishing gear), not sure about below that. They are easy to catch *well* before their skill cap.
Shall shells are no risk* (Istiridye in Nashmau), NPC for 300 (the value of a moat carp on phoenix, only instant, with no bait, no ah fee, and no clogging up ah slots), and, with the proper craft or friends, can be turned into pearls (making a stack worth about 10k on the ah or make each fish npcable for ~600, I used to pay a friend 1000 a stack + crystal cost, leaving me with a NPCable profit of about 5200 a stack with the occasional black pearl stack thrown in) or used as an element for fish mithkabobs. Once you hit around 30-35 fishing you can go to the shall shell areas and alternate between shall shells and bluetail (which AH well or could be converted to fish oil which also sells well).
If I recall right I did moat carp to 11 then tiger cod to ~20ish (used for Fish and Chips to level cooking), then shall shells and blue tail to cap. After that, you really need a Lu's.
*Nothing is a risk. Except in very very particular situations you can always tell what's on your rod. Often from the moment it is hooked.
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chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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Hrm, don't recall... I was a bard from 2003-2005ish but lost that character because they couldn't restore it after I quit.
Now I'm the perpetually partyless PUP in Nashmau ;P
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Yay for pet classes.
I should be resubbing tomorrow once maintenance is done, know any good casual/social linkshells?
Lot of recruitment spam in Whitegate though.
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Just looking at the higher level gear lists SAM is a considerably more expensive job to level.
Sure, it's not NIN or anything but some of that crap is pricey as all get out.
PLD seems a lot more reasonable, for a poor, first trip to 75.
Hrm
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Oh yeah, the other thing to mention about this is that billing is based on SE's North American division which is in Pacific time. So April 1st won't be until 3am eastern time. I'm not sure what time zone their EU billing is based on...
Psst....
The secret to playing this game like it was casual is BRD, always BRD. It's cheap, you always get invites, you turn into an HNMLS' bitch as a mana battery. It's..... Well it sucks, but it's cheap and you always get invites. Yea I wouldn't do it as a main (speaking from experience, you literally have no gear improvement options except Ghallalawlhorn... Relic Horn), but if your heart is set for SAM since it is the DD king as of right now, then this is a viable option to cash out at the endgame.
I just geared up PLD a decent bit, besides getting a couple of the Kampf pieces it could be really really cheap. Looking at the info and pics of the new Metal of Altana Campaign weapons, doing Campaign as PLD is just awesome. I just can't bring myself to PTing yet, my heart just isn't in it.
When and if they get the flipping character reactivation service up and running anytime soon.
You can still see the pages but they're blocked by a big fat POL looking screen saying your account has been cancelled.
In case anyone might think otherwise, don't put your account information into the link.
Just wait till it gets fixed.
Also noscript doesn't seem to block it.
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/facepalm
So gullible.
I certainly didn't put my shit in there.
I only posted it here because I know there are people who would.
I sat there and watched a dude in my WoW guild a month or two ago go on about how he got a whisper from someone who said they were a GM who asked for his password etc.
We all told him nine dozen times that it was a fake and to just ignore the dude.
He then gets his account hacked.
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Unrelated: Tried campaign a little last night, was fun and easy but roughly an hour for 3k exp is rather lower than I expected. Maybe it will increase as I rank up.
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It gets a little faster. Doubly so when you can do ops while running campaign.
Well I had the Ops, but it was just for allied notes apparently. I'm guessing higher tier versions of the defense ops give exp as well?
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Background > I played at launch, for about 2-3 months, but only mangaged to get my warrior to 45 ish, and my ninja to 35.
As I'm at work, I'd love to hear any tips about starting new, ie what jobs, server ( presuming Carby
I really appreciate any and all advice or information.
( don't flame to hard now :P )
When you set out to level, make sure you examine the book outside each city exit. You can get a page to kill the mobs which will reward you with tabs (and bonus exp). These tabs can be exchanged for buffs such as protect, regen, and refresh. Refresh takes nearly all the pain out of early caster soloing, while protect+regen will make melee soloing even easier. You can do these up until 18 (and beyond), or you can hop into a dunes party at level 10-12.
If you do decide to party, level sync has made it much easier. Basically the whole party will drop down to the lowest member, which keeps exp in the ideal zone and makes it easier to find people (you can have a level 75 in a dunes party with no detriment). The whole process makes the party life much smoother.
Edit: Also remember to pick up signet and sell crystals / bee's wax / silk / wild onions to help buy new gear and spells.
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About Level Sync, I forget if gear has level requirments or not. Does this mean that some gear would be useless? How about weaponskills and skill chains.
How do I get Signet? ( never heard about this before ) and as far as spells for BLM/ WHM, I remember those being difficult to get a hold of. How difficult is healing? I don't remember very many modifications to the game that made healing simple or easy.
Once again, thank you.
Level sync downgrades your gear to the appropriate level. So if you're in AF gear and you join a 15 sync group your gear will still be on but it will lose stats.
Almost universally downgraded gear isn't as good as gear that is the correct level, but for sync parties it is more than sufficient, there is no need to carry around lower levels of gear for that.
As far as spells go, the lower level ones, for the most part are either really cheap, if you get Sandy or Windurst as your home nation they're regularly 1st so you can buy them from a vendor instead of an overpriced AH buy. There's a few that you can't get at a vendor that can get pricey but they also can usually be quested fairly reasonably. Once you get higher levels spells obviously cost more, but they're a one time sink, its just the nature of the jobs.
Leveling a low level melee is cheaper than a mage, for sure, but many once you get up in levels the gear costs alone make them overall not cheaper.
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Level sync (and level restricted zones now) scale the basic stats of the gear rather than blocking it. There are some exceptions (haste being the notable one) but things like accuracy and attack power and strength will just be at some fraction of their full value. Your weapon skill will be capped at whatever you would have at sync level which may limit which weaponskills you can use (same with spells). Skillchains are fun, but almost no one uses them these days except if there is a thief or you can do one on your own (SAM, PUP, BLU, DNC being the primary solo chainers, though I think RNGs, DRKs, and DRGs can pull it off too. Maybe even a well equipped Corsair. But the first 4 will be doing it the most).
To get signet, just talk to the guard on the inside of a city gate. I'm most familiar with Windurst where there is a mithra or taru guard standing by themselves to the right of every gate who will provide it. The two big benefits are that it allows you to get crystals from mobs and it allows you to keep your TP (what you use to weaponskill) while resting. I think it also provides a minor defensive buff (not sure) and it lets you accumulate conquest points (CP) for some gear items (which you buy from the signet giving guards).
Which reminds me, once you have enough CP go buy an exp ring. You can use them to boost your exp once a day. I suggest the Empress ring which has the lowest boost but the highest cap (meaning more exp per day, you just have to kill more things to get it). Think of them like FFXI's version of restxp. The rings have charges which you can refill once a week by trading it to a guard (it costs a little CP per charge).
Healing can be easy or hard, it mostly depends on your party. If the tank holds hate, its pretty standard cure spam and resting. If its bouncing everywhere it leads to (|excitement|), especially at low parties. For the most part (as a lowbie whm anyway) you use your highest rank -1 for your main cure, with your highest rank for emergencies. So at 11 when you get cure II you still use cure I for the most part because cure II will be less mp efficient (it takes a few levels worth of skill to get it to match cure I. By the time it does you should have or will soon have cure III). I highly recommend you use a macro like /ma "Cure II" <stpc> and use the F1-F6 keys to target rather than going through the menu manually each time or trying to tab to hurt players.
Spells are cheap in windy and sandy at the various npc magic shops (There are some boat-shops in Port Windy and a magic shop in Port Sandy). Not sure about Bastok. A few stacks of crystals should get you most of what you need, and taking on the occasional npc caster mob (like Goblin Weavers) will get you a few of them too.
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http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_NPC
Should we be avoiding this so late into the games lifespan? I know that once you hit level 10 you pretty much HAVE to group up to complete quests and such, would just me and her playing together be enough, or would we need more?
Any other tips/pointers before we buy the game?
Do you still get a ring for creating a character in their national city? Ie; my hume had a bastok ring that provided ( what seemed like ) decent stats for a new character.
What are CP, and how do I got about earning them on my new character?
The Dude;
What class / race combination would you go with and what starting zone would you assign them to?
Thank you both.
You don't really "need" to group anymore, although its faster when it works well. As a duo you could do pretty well just together -- I have a couple of friends who have duoed from 1-63 so far as a red mage and blue mage. For most high level missions and such though you will have to group.
@Eso
Yes you get a ring for being in the "proper" city, and while it's good you would probably outgrow it before level 20. Don't let it dictate your city choice (which should be Windurst because it is the greatest! :P)
Same for race/job combos. There's enough equipment now to make up for the stat differences that even the most ill concieved combo can excel. If you want to play it safe, Hume and Mithra have the most balanced stats, Taru are slanted toward magic and Galka and Elves for damage / tanking. But I've had plenty of galka healers and taru tanks (I'm hume).
As for CP, you earn them just for killing monsters with the signet buff on, based on the amount of exp you receive. Then whenever you talk to a signet granting guard they can tell you how much CP you have and allow you to spend it.
Black Desert: Family Name: Foolery. Characters: Tome & Beerserk.
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(Retired) Let's Play: Lone Wolf