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I don't have any guides to link, but something that may help you: as of Dawntrail, every dungeon in the MSQ (as well as all of the 2.0 trials) can be done with NPCs. If you're worried about dragging a party down while re-learning the basics, jump in to Duty Support and see what happens.

As part of adding Duty Support to those old duties, they also made a load of the mechanic markers consistent with newer content (e.g. things where you should stack have a stack marker), so it's a lot easier to bumble your way through them without a guide now, IMO.

Speaking of markers, they also updated the Hall of the Novice with some new lessons recently, which walk you though all of the common mechanics and how to resolve them. Definitely do that if you haven't already (it gives you a ring for levelling sub-60 classes, as a bonus). They also added a 'combat guide' button in the Hall of the Novice UI, which gives you the same sort of info in written form.

Expert crafting is an RNG minigame. Not all can be completed. That guide tries to give some pointers on how to react to the state changes, but it is also a function of available CP, integrity, and similar circumstances. It takes time to get the hang of it. Think of it like a randomised puzzle mode that may or may not have a solution at all.

Should be since they promised it. Then again, they also promised the Tardis house feature and we are still looking forward to it. Maybe they add Beastmaster in 7.55 and BLU in 7.58, or similar. The 7.5 patch period is bound to last 8+ months anyway, so they have plenty of time to try to fill the dead air to keep subscribers. Plus the Endwalker BLU update showed pretty obviously that they treat it now as some unwanted chore (it is a recurring issue that they add something and do a "bored now!" with it in like one update), so they can just cobble together some throwaway bunch of random spells without thinking about them and shit it out in a week. Not like anyone pretends that anyone cares about any semblance of balance with Blue Mage spells any more, or even general usability. (I legit never found a single situation where Right Round was an option for anything beyond trolling teammates.)

Blue Mage updates were announced for Dawntrail before it even came out (it's on the 7.0 website), and they've not given any indication that's going to change as of yet.

Given how cagey the devs usually are about announcing release windows for stuff (see: all the "please look forward to it" memes that this sub runs into the ground), I really can't see something with that much of a lead time slipping out of the expansion entirely.

Go to the support page and look for the lost access to account page, like in don't know user name, lost access to email or so. That form doesn't require login. At least on the German side of things they indeed have a form for lost security question and answer.

Prelude.

The one with the bells is Prelude ~ Rebirth; the launcher/character select/character creation one is Prelude ~ Discoveries.

It's been in the series in some form or another since the first one, though the... counter melody? I think? music terminology isn't my strong suit ...didn't show up until 4 (or 2 if you still insist on the old NA numbering).

The song is called "Prelude" and it's basically the main theme for the series.

Small asterisk that I did this when level cap was 60, so there's a chance my advice breaks at 61-70 somewhere, but alas.

Hit level 20 on all your crafters. You can do this with your first few job quests and just quick synthing garbage bought straight from vendors.

Hit 20 on Miner and Botanist. I think I did levequests for these first few levels, but it's pretty trivial to do.

Go to some vendor in a major ARR city and buy up gear for all crafters and gatherers. Whatever the best stuff for level 20 is; it's temporary so you don't need to stress too much, we just want enough stats to not fail crafts and gathering attempts.

Go into the firmament on BTN and MNR. Gather everything, use the cannon to get a wide range of materials. You just want quantity rather than anything specific. Level all the way to 70 on both doing this.

Getting your gatherers leveled will have gotten you all the firmament specific mats needed to level crafters. If i remember correctly, some crafts will want non-firmament materials and TBH, just ignore them as they're a pain in the ass to get with no market board access. Pick up new crafting gear around 50. Also, go unlock custom deliveries once you can as the crafting scrip will make it really easy to upgrade your gear.

Basically when it comes to Ishgard Restoration crafts, everything that you need except for 1 craft for leveling is done using mats inside of the Diadem. The guide here doesn't give like "gather x quantity of y item" type stuff, but gives general guidelines.

https://guides.ffxivteamcraft.com/guide/crafting-leveling-guide

Yes. Unless they stated Blind. Fresh and Blind are not the same things.

Fresh means you've watched a guide and generally know at least the theory for the first mechanics.

Blind means it's not expected to have watched a guide, and that may even be discouraged. If you're doing blind prog, definitely do not spoil the mechanics for others.

If you're doing Extreme/Savage and it's fresh, if a guide is out it's probably expected to have watched at least some of it to get the idea of the first couple of mechanics, but not mandatory (though certainly a good idea).

If it's stated to be "blind" then watching/read a guide is not expected at all.

You need to land on specifically the silver spot. Earliest I've seen it is 3rd round and it is vanishingly rare. Expect to be running well over a hundred maps before seeing one silver spot.

Genuinely, farming the 100m gil to buy them both is likely significantly faster.

Hunt trains.

I just blitzed a few runs of Mistwake to cap in the window between daily reset and savage unlock. If you aren't on a super strict schedule though, catch a few hunt trains over the course of the week and you'll cap easily.

1. Yes, if players actually move their retainers to other cities beyond the starter ones. The devs were not really prepared to face the sheer apathy and laziness of your average Western player base. Since everyone just registers their retainers where they unlock them and never moves them, the starter cities tend to have the overwhelming majority of them.
2. If you meant whether you can rotate them for the week somehow, then you cannot. Although complaining about treasure dungeons of all things, which are arguably the fastest entry in the book besides some ARR EX trials (takes around a minute plus however long your travel time and loading times are) is certainly… an opinion.

By the way, you can just use reroll points to shuffle a completed sticker to an uncompleted one and repeat the first.

Treasure dungeon isn't bullshit btw, you literally just have to open one and enter, and it counts. Then you can leave without doing it and it'll count (or do it, you can solo some maps with warrior or blue mage)

1. A long time ago when the game was younger, tax rates would change to encourage people to do their shopping at the newest expansion's city, and even change a bit between the starting city states. But nowadays it's a static rate for buyers. Taxes for the player selling items do fluctuate between 0% and 5% daily tho.

2. Using Second Chance points (located below the array of duties in the book), you can Retry a duty category, marking it as incomplete and marking another random category as complete. This lets you sort-of just do the duties you want to do, so long as you've earned enough Second Chance points to afford it (you can hold up to 9 points at a time and get them from completing duties where at least 1 participant has yet to complete the duty). That said, you cannot throw out a Wondrous Tails book with fewer than 9 stickers unless it's expired (the Deadline listed above the duty array). Speaking to Khloe while in possession of an expired WT book will let you dispose of it, and then speaking to her again lets you pick up a new one for current week. If your current WT book is nowhere near expiring, make use of those Second Chance points! (And help other players clear duties for the first time when you can to earn more!)

Does it ever happen that they change the retainer tax rates? Only been occasionally checking for maybe a month now, but it seems like the ARR cities are always normal and everywhere else is reduced.

Yes, but it's server specific and based on player activty.

Is it possible to throw out a WT book and get a new one? Like if I get one that requires doing a treasure dungeon or some other bullshit I don't want to do, can I try for a different one, or am I stuck?

No. All you can do is give up on it entirely by replacing it after week, or use second chance points to redo the duties you prefer.

The flower is the returner icon, which you get if you have not logged in for at least 45 days. It stays for 72 played hours or until you issue the returnerstatusoff chat command.

You need to finish EW's patches. When new expansions come out, the sprout requirements update to be the end of the previous expansion's patches.

You can also do /nastatus if you don't like it and want to disable it.

The sprout goes away after you have 300 hours of playtime and finish the final EW MSQ, that means the patch stuff too.

It is a bit more complex problem. Tanks, especially ones exposed to players who are exposed to this subreddit, are constantly told that you can and should wall-to-wall everything, because most of those players who say it are running endgame-ish gear on expansion dungeons mostly.

Then those tanks try to do this stunt in the level 32–47 range while still rocking some random shit gear from quests and a bunch of level 1 jewels because HW is the first expansion that gives accessories as rewards, and they start blaming everyone for failed pulls. Even when you point out that their gear is like 10 levels below the dungeon and their HP is lower than that Dragoon's over there.

One of the problems with low level dungeons, which is what I'm assuming you've been running, is that a lot of broadly correct healing advice doesn't apply to them. Like, "You can heal most dungeon pulls without relying on Cure II spamming," is generally true, but completely not true at all for like, Stone Vigil and Brayflox for example. When you're down below level 50, you can't marry yourself to a preconceived notion of how to play. You will need to call audibles consistently on when it's necessary to go full heal bot.

Some tanks won't use as much mit as they should or might be undergeared, a good dungeon healer will have to adjust what is "too low" on the fly based on the tank's play.

Medica I is ineffefctive for single target healing, do not use it unless the entire party needs health, Cure II (and later Afflatus Solace and Rapture) should be your main GCD healing buttons.

Sometimes you're gonna have to be the GCD heal bitch because your tank can't do shit and whines about how scary double pulling is, just roll your eyes and keep them alive. This is paradoxically harder at lower levels as you don't have a lot of tools, lol.

Not much you can do besides just hitting Cure 2 for now, in the future, do things like keeping a regen up or using abilities like Plenary Indulgence, Divine Benison, or Aquaveil to force mit onto a tank who won't do it themselves.

Started my journey a week ago and today I finished a realm reborn

If you rush this game like you would rush the WoW story, then you will constantly lack gear score or resources. Also, I assume you also run a single job, so by Shadowbringers, you will also be missing large chunks of the plot as that is the point where major side quests will be locked behind having at least one job of each major combat role type (tank, healer, melee, caster, physical ranged). I am not saying to slow it down, play as you want to play, that is the point of this game. I am just saying to accept that binging the MSQ only has gameplay consequences that you need to be aware of and accept to pay.

Should i buy ilvl 130s just to increase my ilvl +20 or should i skip ?

Goes back to my previous point. Normally, the game expects a slow enough gameplay that you could have bought the i130 gear way before you would have gotten even in the remote vicinity of finishing ARR.

But then would i be weak against the heavensward enemies with my current gear ?

The world enemies of the first HW map assume that the player is in at least ~i100 gear, and doing your first FATE there may be a bit of a culture shock. Not undoable since world enemies in the expansions are not designed to pose a threat at all, the shock will be that they suddenly take up to five times the time to kill with your current gear.

And what about when i reach 70/80 etc. ?

Stormblood will have the same stat bump on enemies as Heavensward has. Shadowbringers will be an outlier in the sense that enemy stat scaling is utterly fucked currently, and everything has around 20% more stats than it should, including dungeon mobs. But it is the expansion that is loved for its story anyway, so you also will likely forgive (and eventually forget) its plethora of gameplay issues. Endwalker will do a 180° with mobs that are made of wet tissue paper, and Dawntrail gets back to the HW/SB formula (in many regards).

How should i efficently gear up ?

Well, that circles back to my first point, that the game expects fresh accounts completing an expansion in a couple of months to a year and not a week. Despite that strong single-player JRPG core, the game is still structured like an MMO. In non-current expansions, you are expected to run daily roulettes, allied societies, the Hunt, and then later FATEs, weekly challenge logs, weekly satanic bingo cards, and a plethora of the usual MMO bullshit to acquire resources, which you can use to buy various gear and other field resources.

Since you chose option B, your best bet is farming whatever dungeon drops gear that is stronger than yours. You won't have the gil to buy from the player market. (Also, do not buy gear from NPCs starting from HW. They sell normal quality gear, which, despite what you may think logical, is actually the quality grade that carries a severe stat penalty, so its effective item level is around 20 lower than what it displays.) You don't have crafting jobs levelled to make your own gear (granted, it is most of an actual endgame thing, so you can continue skipping them), and farming the allagan tomestone of poetics currency requires running level cap duties (level cap for an expansion, so all those level 50 dungeons qualify, as will all level 60/70/etc. ones), participating in world hunt events, and running the daily roulettes (except for guildhests which I assume you did not even find yet to unlock, and the levelling roulette which is for, well, XP). So, well, the usual MMO grindy shit.

Also is there a more bursty kinda job ?

Kinda. Very kinda. This game's combat is built around the so-called 2-minute meta. This means that all jobs, even tanks and healers, are built to have a sort of a burst phase at every 120 seconds, with some having a mini phase every 60 seconds in-between. However, there are very few jobs that are truly short burst ones. Arcanist/Summoner and Rogue/Ninja are the two most front-loaded ones, albeit you won't see this from Ninja until like… level 60, 70?

I wanna level a healer and a tank job as well and i read that warrior and white mage are the easiest to adjust. Is that correct ? As in play style, mitigation etc. so as a whole package.

More or less. Gladiator/Paladin is a lot easier as the first tank, but its problem is that its skill progression is utter trash between 52 and 88, so it gets super awkward for a large level range. Marauder/Warrior is not as good until level 56, where it gets an honest-to-Twelve "okay, I cannot die any more, ever" button it can spam like hell freely, and said button only gets more bonkers crazy on later levels.

As for healers, yes. On account of Conjurer/White Mage being the only healing job below level 30, so the only one where you can get used to their green DPS gameplay (if you press more healing buttons than damaging ones, you already failed it miserably, and yes, this may be a giant shock coming from WoW). It is a reactionary healer where you heal off damage that already happened. I know this may sound like a "duh", but it is the only of the four healers that actually relies only on that, hence why it is the easiest.

Started as a summoner, enjoying it so far but the long cast times are a bit boring, rotation is not fluid.

If you think Summoner has long cast times, you will get an aneurysm when you unlock healers. Summoner is the fastest casting job in this game by like a factor of five. Also, as I mentioned above, it is the burstiest job in the game. It is the only job that gives you its entire rotation by level 50, so its rotation won't change at all until level 88 where it unlocks the secondary spells for its yellow/red/green phases. What you see here is that game's combat pacing from the players' side. Combat difficulty is not in your skills (every combat job has exactly one rigid combo) but in the boss dance choreographies. No, you did not misread it, the mythic equivalent in this game will be learning a Dance Dance Revolution minigame per boss. No, still not joking.

As for burstier jobs, the main problem is that at level 50/60, most DPS jobs only have their slow "filler" rotation buttons unlocked—these are the buttons you press between your bursts. (Some jobs like RDM have the core of their bursts available at 50, but they're still missing so many buttons that the burst really doesn't feel like a burst at all.) Starting around level 70/80, most jobs will start to unlock their main burst actions along with other extra buttons to press during bursts. Pretty much all DPS jobs are designed to have big damage bursts every 2 minutes and smaller bursts each minute (this is the so-called "2 minute meta"), but of course some jobs are still burstier than others (either objectively in terms of damage profile, or subjectively due to having a lot more buttons to press during burst windows).

Buy Augmented Ironworks Gear with Poetics (ilv130) from Rowena in Mor Dhona, then every expansion at the endgame hub city you can buy a new set of end-of-expansion Poetics gear. In HW you just need to reach there, but from Stormblood on you'll need to finish the X.0 of the expansion (so, the quests "Stormblood", "Shadowbringers", and "Endwalker"). You don't need any other gear until the X9 dungeon usually, for StB you just have to use dungeon gear and stuff, but from ShB on you'll get Artifact Gear for your job that is more than enough for the dungeon and trial you'll need to do.

For two, depends on what you mean by "bursty". Most jobs follow a structure where they burst every 2m and some have 1m bursts as well. Some jobs I'd consider particularly bursty, though, are:

• Ninja, very fast and dexterous, requires quick fingers with its fast GCD and Ninjutsu inputs.

• Reaper, (unavailable on the Free Trial) is a slow heavy hitter with a very fast burst sequence that feels great to do, but is woefully boring at low levels.

• Viper (unavailable on Free Trial) is like Reaper but even faster, lots of bursts because of how much gauge you generate.

• Machinist (requires access to the main HW city) is a phys ranged job with a big burst window full of weaves while maintaining a lot of uptime due to being ranged.

• Red Mage (requires being level 50) is a job that balances white and black mana to get ready for a physical combo burst that just Keeps Getting Longer each expansion, definitely looks the coolest.

For tanks and healers, yes WHM and WAR are probably the easiest, but I prefer Paladin and Gunbreaker (not available on the Free Trial) to Warrior, they feel burstier, Paladin has half of its burst completely at range, and you have a lot of mitigation Warrior doesn't get.

You need to gear for the content you are doing, not your level. You are just starting Heavensward, so you only need decent level 50 gear at present.
Whether to get Ironworks gear or not is up to you. The story will gear you adequately for everything it requires of you, so you'll be fine with the i110 stuff until the story starts giving you better gear. Ironworks will just give you a bit of an easier time with the early HW overworld mobs (some can be a bit spicy), and let you not worry about gear at all until like 54 (as in, MSQ that requires level 54) – certainly useful, but not mandatory. It's actually usable to the point where you can get the level 60 stuff, but why not take the free gear the game'll vomit at you? Grabbing a weapon at least would be beneficial though, it's your most important gear piece.
If you decide to go the "no Ironworks initially" route, but want to still spend tomes on something to avoid capping, you can always get some gear for other jobs you plan on leveling (and conversely, if you get Ironworks, you can grab the free quest gear for those other jobs).
Similar pattern repeats in the later expansions, though the Tome gear availability shifts to a bit later, specifically clearing the initial expansion quests (capped off with a quest titled for the expansion).

Re: Bursty jobs. Ninja's probably one of the burstiest. Goes between big highs of unloading everything every minute, and the lows of the 123 in between. Otherwise I'd want to ask how you prefer your burst to be structured – keep doing what you're doing already but add a bunch of temporary buffs and some oGCDs (Dragoon), have buffs and also some changes to the GCD (Monk, Viper), or just have your burst stored in a few big attacks rather than self-buffing (Samurai, Machinist). (I didn't check the numbers for any to see how much of their damage is concentrated in the burst objectively, this is just on vibes.)

Re: Support jobs. Yes, White Mage and Warrior are generally considered to be the easier ones. Warrior doesn't really have any caveats on this, but while White Mage is probably the easiest healer, it does have the downside of teaching some bad habits early in (due to how its skill unlocks are structured) that you may need to actively unlearn later. The other easier healer would IMO be Sage, though that one has the downside of starting at level 70, so you get thrown in the deep end real fast with it.

Re: Summoner casting. Yes at 100, or really incrementally even earlier, completing in the eighties, it has very few casts. Level... 58? makes all the Ruins you cast during Aethercharge('s upgrade) instant, and then along the way from there it gets a few other instant spells. By the end, if played right you only cast 4 spells a minute with a cast time: The two Gemshine followups to Summon Ifrit, a singular Ruin III, and one followup spell to Summon Garuda (and that last one can often be Swiftcasted). Everything else is instant cast. But also 3 of those 4 have cast times longer than your usual GCD, so it might not actually help with the feel of the pace for you. Who knows.

No. There is no window-locking toggle for Command Panel like there is for the Map or Raw Materials Lists, unfortunately.

Summoner is still the easiest. Dancer is easy, but with the asterisk of assuming you can learn to watch both your skill bars and the fight at the same time, since DNC is the coin flip RNG job. Every core skill you press has a 50% proc chance to open a second version, which has a 50% chance to open a third version, which has a 50% chance to give you a charge to your fuckeveryone spell.

Reaper is usually classified under the easy ones, and so is Viper, despite it being a bit more on the movement-heavy side. Pictomancer is also surprisingly player-friendly once you figure out its horrible, horrible in-game descriptions and tutorials and make a skill bar that actually functions.

Black Mage technically dropped in difficulty, but mostly because its rotation removed like 80% of the archaic 90s jank it carried since 2.0. It is still janky (there are buttons you legit can unbind from its hotbars since pressing them is only a disadvantage), and still has long-ass cast times that require you to have some fight knowledge beforehand. Still, some of the sweatier players around here like to say it is an "easy" job now.

Red Mage and Machinist are definitely a bit tougher. RDM has casting and melee phases and it needs to balance two gauges, whereas MCH has two gauges, several timer-based special skills, so it needs to juggle a lot of things, but it also lacks some clear mandatory buff setup, so you can just play the "press the lit button" game and be okay-ish. (Side note, but if you learn it properly, it is an absolute god on most any overworld activity and in most deep dungeons with no other job coming even remotely close to its status within this category.)

It can all be very subjective, of course, but for DPS I'd say Samurai, Dragoon, Reaper, Bard, or Red Mage are good options. Machinist can also be an option depending on how well you can press buttons in the burst.

It's the first or none. Though of course you can achieve about the same result by swapping the binds, contents, and positions of bars 1 and 3.
Well, you could use macros to do something similar for the actual bar 3, but it might be a little more cumbersome than that option.

You can clear a set of 10 floors, log out, log back in, leave POTD, go fishing, run some dailies, DC transfer to visit your friends, come back, do some quests...and it'll still be there

So long as you complete a set of 10 floors (as in, kill a boss), you're fine. The rooms between sets of 10 that it throws you into after clearing a boss, the ones with an entry and exit point? You don't even need to stay in those – you can logout, you can do other duties, you can leave entirely, whatever you want, and come back later to continue from where you left off by speaking to the same NPC you entered from originally. You can change to Blue Mage and blow yourself up in those rooms for all the game cares and it won't add to your KO count, those rooms aren't part of the Palace run at all! Just checkpoints for in case you want to pause or quit or whatever.

at the checkpoints between each set of 10 floors you can logout, leave and come back later, whatever. you just have to complete each set of 10 floors in one sitting.

Trusts and Duty Support are separate. Trusts are the one that levels up. No matter how many times you run Duty Support, your Trusts will never be affected, and vice versa.

If you're sure that you were in the right one, then just try running it again. It typically takes 2-3 runs of a dungeon for the Trusts to level up.

You can't level them until you finish the base expac I think.

Yep, that should do what you need.

maybe post a pic of your settings for that so we can see whats going on

afaik summoner is great for spreading out their damage over a wide area and many players while blm is better at doing more intense sustained concentrated damage on a single player or groups of players

dragoon does good damage and is quite resilient but benefits a lot from having someone else to CC enemies for them

ninja does great burst damage but outside of the burst is lacklustre

white mage does have great cc yes

Each individual piece or augment is essentially a 1% damage/healing gain, additive with itself. Special Attribute is a flat +1% damage on phantom actions, and 40 mainstat is near enough to 1%. Currently this means gear provides up to a 21% damage and healing gain permanently, stacking multiplicatively with the mastery bonus's 32%.

Naturally, this is not at all required for completion of anything in OC. It is about as much of a damage bonus as the average full party's buff window.

We do not know what happens with this gear once North Horn and Forked Tower: Magic become accessible. The only precedent we have is Bozja, where the arguable equivalent of the current set received an upgrade in the release of Delubrum Reginae: Savage.

It is currently unknown if any future gear additions will be upgrades to the current stuff or separate. "Worth it" is up to you. There's a notable damage increase when wearing the gear

I'll join you if you queue this evening

Waiting an hour for a Crystal Tower queue on Primal (Dynamis might be a different story) sounds like you're probably queuing at really off hours, or have your language settings messed up. If you try again during your server region's prime time (generally afternoon/evening for the region, in this case NA), and make sure you have E ticked in the Duty Finder language options, you should get in relatively quickly. If playing a tank, that'll slow you down a little bit (those only take 3 tanks to 6 healers and 15 DPS, so fewer slots), but even then I don't think it should take an hour.

The other expansions also have 24-player raids like this, but those are all enitely optional.

Why did you ask again instead of following the advice you got in the other thread?

What time are you queuing for this? I'm slightly confused because, while not as busy as Aether and Crystal, Primal has enough people that the CT raids should pop without much wait. 

You posted this elsewhere and got good advice. Data center travel to Crystal or Aether if not congested to queue. Should pop pretty quickly if you are queuing during normal to peak hours (I wouldn’t try queuing at 3 am for instance). 

Quite the opposite actually, the Crystal Tower raids are the most common alliance raids because they are the ONLY one that are mandatory to continue the MSQ, and therefore when people queue in the alliance raid roulette they'll often end up in that one specifically. Every other raids you'll unlock in the future (whether it be regular or alliance raids) are completely optional and disconnected from the MSQ.

Waiting for 1h is kinda surprising though. I'd say you should try again at prime hours on your server. Since we're on a saturday there should also be plenty of people during the afternoon/evening.

What job are you, when are you queueing? Primal should be a fairly popular data center and the crystal tower raids are quite common. Are you trying at a slow time?

You could try asking in your server's novice network for a few people to queue with you. You could also try using data center travel to visit Crystal or Aether, though Aether is usually full at peak times right now, as it's the primary raiding data center and new raids were just released.

Crystal Tower is the only time that 24 player raids are required for the MSQ.

They just added job artifact armor as outfits, so they're still expanding the system yes.

Valentione's Day will probably start by the 9th.

Are you looking in the right tab? They're not with regular levelling missions.