Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment in FFXIV - ARR Edition

[Malacite]

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Holy shit FW, that's nuts...

You guys must have some pretty nice gear? I'm curious, what do you recommend as I've been struggling with this ever since I made 'em last night - Goshenite or Pearl? Goshenite is INT + DET but Pearl is INT + Crit (Is the DET better for SMN and Crit for BLM, or Crit for both since it affects my Eggi as well?)

[Aeni]

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You should try looking up FW on Lodestone, and then his FC, so you can check out their member's gear (unless they logged out on some other class) Are you in an FC, Mal, or are you pugging it? These things are group effort, so unless you feel strongly that you're holding back your group, you guys might want to invest in helping each other gear up and improve.

[Firewind]

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What I'm running for Accessories:

Black Pearl Neck w/ Savage Might Materia
Demagogue's Ears w/ Savage Aim Materia
HQ Black pearl Bracers w/ Savage Might Materia
Zircon Ring x2 w/ Savage Aim Materia

Basically you want to be using a mix of Black Pearl/Zircon until you can replace it with Demogogue and then Darklight stuff.

And yes it's always a full FC run with 8 people on Mumble. If we have a random we run it normally, especially if it's someone who hasn't cleared it before. We refuse to give a free ride to anyone who hasn't already done the fight. We would rather teach them the proper way of doing it before attempting any Speedrun Shenanigans with them.

[Mezlo]

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The mage's ring and choker arent better options?

[Firewind]

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Currently trying an insane build for the hell of it:

PLD, BLMx3, BRD, DRGx2, WHM

This could be a total train wreck but it's gonna be fun.

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The mage's ring and choker arent better options?

Aren't they legacy items? I've not seen them drop from anywhere.

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And okay you can't do that fight with just one healer. One tank is perfectly doable but you need 2 healers.

[Malacite]

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What about Astral Rings?


Also, holy crap I got BSM to 48 today - almost 49 now, HQ'd a bunch of cobalt tools (WOO HOO!!) and HQ'd myself a full set of the lv 46 crafting armor (just missing lv 47 accessories) and an HQ Felt Beret. Also completed my BSM log for all synths 1~41.


Hell yeah, I'm on a roll. And I'm in an FC, but it's a dying one. Going to be moving to Lamia anyway once transfers are available so I can play with my friends. I like Excalibur, but oh well.

Markets are all F'd up anyway. Of course, just my luck, T4 materia will be ungodly expensive on Lamia (it's all 70k on Excalibur)

[Firewind]

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Problem with Astral Rings is that they cost Tomestones to craft, and the time spent getting the GSM gear up to snuff to craft them, you could have just farmed a Darklight/Hero's Ring.

[Mezlo]

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Of course, just my luck, T4 materia will be ungodly expensive on Lamia (it's all 70k on Excalibur)

Remember that discussion we had about currency, and how you were hell bent that reducing currency wasn't a big deal because it would also shrink the sell price? LOL! Told you so... T4 materia used to sell for 50-150k... 70k = 700k in the old 1.0... pricing is already more than it used to be.

[Firewind]

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Selling Materia and providing Melding Services is pretty lucrative actually if you have GSM levelled. You have 5 slots (6 if you play BLM) worth of gear you can just continuously grind Spiritbond with, something that is pretty easy to do. It's plausible to get 6 Lv3-4 Materia a day if you really grind it.

[Mezlo]

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I stocked up on crystals and shards, taking all to 8000-9000+ for every single flavor, which reduced my gil at the time of coversion to 12 million. i bought shards averaging between 100-300 gil, which would be 10-30 gil. How much are shards selling for now? I'm guessing more than 30 gil. GREAT investment on my part!!!

[Malacite]

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Remember that discussion we had about currency, and how you were hell bent that reducing currency wasn't a big deal because it would also shrink the sell price? LOL! Told you so... T4 materia used to sell for 50-150k... 70k = 700k in the old 1.0... pricing is already more than it used to be.

You realize that Materia is a special case right? A lot of other goods are considerably lower than they were in 1.0 - Cobalt and Electrum in particular have vastly devalued, as has Rosewood.

The reason Materia is up is because SE dramatically slowed down the rate of Spirit Bonding - the change in currency is still irrelevant.


Trying to SB crafting tools in particular is horrendously depressing. In going from BSM 47 to nearly 49 (a few more synths to go) and getting the quality to 100% on each synth on some very high level stuff, I gained like 10% on my BSM Hammer & File.

That's just ridiculous, and it's the kind of shit that makes me want to rage quit. My crafting armor fared a bit better, but god damn tools are fucking impossible compared to weapons. To that end, I'm still confused as to why T4 Materia is 70k flat across the board, regardless of the stat being pumped - I would think Control & Critical Hit Materia to be especially expensive.

[Wise Donkey]

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In going from BSM 47 to nearly 49 (a few more synths to go) and getting the quality to 100% on each synth on some very high level stuff, I gained like 10% on my BSM Hammer & File.

Are you leveling entirely on synths though? If leves are being turned in, especially the triple turn in ones, then I can understand how you are outpacing your gear SB vs level. If you are leveling entirely off of synths though, that does seem outrageously low for SB gain.

[Dux]

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Coil Of Bahamut Turn 2 and 3 complete.

[Malacite]

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Are you leveling entirely on synths though? If leves are being turned in, especially the triple turn in ones, then I can understand how you are outpacing your gear SB vs level. If you are leveling entirely off of synths though, that does seem outrageously low for SB gain.

Only on ALC & CUL, and occasionally WVR for materials.

[Aeni]

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You realize that Materia is a special case right? A lot of other goods are considerably lower than they were in 1.0 - Cobalt and Electrum in particular have vastly devalued, as has Rosewood.

The reason Materia is up is because SE dramatically slowed down the rate of Spirit Bonding - the change in currency is still irrelevant.


Trying to SB crafting tools in particular is horrendously depressing. In going from BSM 47 to nearly 49 (a few more synths to go) and getting the quality to 100% on each synth on some very high level stuff, I gained like 10% on my BSM Hammer & File.

That's just ridiculous, and it's the kind of shit that makes me want to rage quit. My crafting armor fared a bit better, but god damn tools are fucking impossible compared to weapons. To that end, I'm still confused as to why T4 Materia is 70k flat across the board, regardless of the stat being pumped - I would think Control & Critical Hit Materia to be especially expensive.

You are leveling far too fast for SB which makes Wise Donkey's post poignant.

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Remember that discussion we had about currency, and how you were hell bent that reducing currency wasn't a big deal because it would also shrink the sell price? LOL! Told you so... T4 materia used to sell for 50-150k... 70k = 700k in the old 1.0... pricing is already more than it used to be.

The shards are going for at least 60G each which will be 600G in 1.0 ... already 4x what it was previously. I've seen across the board gains on costs. For example, Steel and Cobalt armor sets would usually sell for roughly 15-20K a piece in 1.0 and are selling at 4K to 8K (depending on the availability of the piece) and this is non-Legacy server (pre-conversion 40K to 80K a piece which was not seen since the really early days of 1.0 before the prices settled)

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I also find it coincidentally funny that I made 100K without selling anything on the markets while still leveling my crafts within the same time frame that I've made my first 1 million in 1.0 ... money is not hard to earn in this game. I must imagine Firewind is rolling in millions by now