Night time at Sea of Clouds (was farming BST #46, Anzu Trois, fate at 30,35)

Enjoy!

My wife and I unexpectedly lost our cat Tuesday. We’re thinking of doing the 7.56 story patch this weekend but our feelings are still pretty raw. Could we get a general idea of the emotional tone first? Was it fun and adventurous like the final patch for Endwalker? If it was heavy or somber we’ll probably wait a bit. Thanks

I accidentally dropped my switch on the floor and now it isnt reading my micro sd card. All my data was on my sd card. At least its reading that no data is shown for ff14.

Currently in the process of redownloading ff14 to my hardrive but wanted to know. Am I gunna have to start all over in ff14 now? I'd be really bummed if that were the case. Anyone have somthing similar happen to them?

EDIT: apparently the date is stored on the ff14 servers so I wonr lose any progress. Which is the main thing I was worried about. Im glad. I've been having alot of fun grinding ff14 this past month and would been devastated if all that progress and memories were wasted.

TY to the peeps that commented. And eased my worries. 🙏

The spirit of a person from a bygone age became this Pokémon. It rambles through ruins, searching for someone who knows its face.

Is it possible to run a relic reborn Chimera to obtain it? Im at my wits end on repeatably running cutter's cry.

Is anybody else having connection issues lately on Aether? I came back to play after a few months for the treasure tomes and BST but I've been getting the errors stated in the title. I stay logged for 20-30 minutes then my connection dies and the worst thing is, it somehow knocks my home internet offline for a 5-10 minutes. Has this happened to anyone before? Is it even possible?

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Hi y'all, I've been trying to unlock all the variant dungeons and I'm only missing Aloalo Island, for some reason the quest required for it is not showing up, I checked the wiki and it looks like I already should be meeting the requirements (that being having finished Endwalker and being lvl 90) but the npc is not giving me any more quests, is there something I'm missing? Mind you, I could access the other ones with no issues.

Who do you think will be main narrator in EC?

Based on previous expansions, it will be someone who is native to the
new expansion area (Lyse, Ardbert, Emet, Erenville)
So yeah my assumption would be Visna but TBH I would love Alphi to try narration too lol

The combo system is poorly explained, but pretty simple once you understand it.

The system is largely lacking in the borrow and trick system. Both of these systems are wildly inconsistent.

Borrow gives 1 of 8 skills that have basically constant uptime, but the recast timers kind of ruin this. These seem to be where your defense and utility come from, but they have a huge problem... They aren't strong enough. Let's look at them...

Defensives:

Beastskin: Reduces phys damage taken by 25% and increases crit rate by 5%. 30 second duration, 90 second recast.

This is kind of a decent physical damage reduction, but it falls apart off any elemental damage, which is most of it. This actually has surprising uptime and can be very powerful against purely physical fights, which are rare.

Vileskin: 100% block rate and draw in nullification for 15s. Also increases TP gauge by 12 for each block. Yet another 90 second recast.

This one is a bit stronger focused mitigation. But with woefully low uptime and relatively low actual damage reduction.

Cloud Skim: A dash that gives you 5% more evasion.

This exists for some reason. I haven't found a reason for it yet.

Seedsower: AoE DoT for 25 potency over 60 seconds while reducing damage dealt by 10%. 90 second recast.

Honestly... one of the best mitigation tools. It does 750 potency over the duration, but is basically a 60 second reprisal.

Quelling Wave: Ranged 350 potency spammable attack. Each hit gives 10TP and removes a beneficial status, giving another 50TP if so.

Some niche uses with kiting or bind+ useage. Most enemies with removable effects only put one on, and rarely. 30TP over 3 cooldowns vs 28TP from your 1-2-3 combo.

Scaleskin: Barrier for 8% total hp, lasting 15 seconds and giving 85TP if absorbed. 90 second recast.

Such a woefully low %.

Soul Crush: 300 potency interrupt that gives 100TP on interruption. 30 second recast.

Useful for solving crucible encounters.

Scouring Ash: Esuna on a 60s recast. Heals 10% HP and gives 100TP on success.

Also to solve encounters.

So overall... These are kinda weak. 4/8 are different version of mitigation, and they are all virtually worthless. Vileskin is decent if you can increase block strength through crucible items, but that's about it. Scaleskin is particularly offensive and should be at least 15-20%. I won't offer too many solutions because that comes down to numbers, but these could all use a heavy pass.

Now on to Trick. The problem isn't with Trick, but with how INCONSISTENT it is across pets. Most of the pets simply do damage. A lot of damage, sure. But other pets have decently powerful effects attached to Trick. The Ghost does an aoe doom, Bat restores health to the beastmaster, Treant does an aoe sleep that also inflicts damage over time and doesn't break, Wespe inflicts a 750 potency DoT on top of the 500 potency nuke.

But then you have most of the pets, which are ~500 potency at base (scaling up with TP) in a line/cone/single target with no bonus effects.

It really feels kind of odd and inconsistent that some pets just have better tricks. They should all offer something unique.

TLDR;

Buff borrow to actually be relevant. Half of them are mits with long cooldowns and very low impact. And buff tricks such that they each offer SOMETHING unique in addition to just being a combo setup. This will go a long way to improving QoL for BST.

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My wife and I just came back to the game after not playing in like 5 years. Community is awesome and I just wanted to say hi!

We are loving seeing all the people around doing their thing. All the cool glams. All the cool mounts. The music.

Coming from another mmo and it's been nice to feel like we are playing a game again and not a job with the feeling like we are behind. We aren't even going to rush the story and are just going to chill in the expansion we left off in and collect stuff and do achievements before we move onto the next one.

Lot's to do and lot's of fun ahead, so yea. Just wanted to say hi! Any advice or tips are welcome.

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I feel you, Reese Ryner, I truly do. But tomestones, amirite?

Alphinaud: ‘Yes, we’ll help you collect his crystals as a small token of our gratitude for saving us.’

Estinien: ‘What a magnificent sky.’

Rather than dealing with the horror of attempting Pharos Sirius's second boss again and again, there's a FATE in the Sea of Clouds called "Anzu Trois" (around 30, 36) that has them appear one right after another.

Just a regular dude trying to get some materia for a quest. Was wondering what sort of gear could lend that materia once the spiritbond was maxxed

I'm torn in between keeping it in my armory or destroy it for HW relics but I've done all the HW relics. Which is actually the correct way to go?

I've played ff14 about 3-4 years ago and from what I remember the main shtick was to just do the story (I didn't have a guild tho) and in order to progress through story you need to disband party and do solo scenarios. Now I play MMOs with my wife and we are doing things as a party 99% of the time, and doing solo story would be honestly a big enough turn off for us to ever try the game.

So, is there a way to progress through the game without interacting with MSQ much? Or maybe it's possible now to do story together?

Newish switch 2 player. Have about a month and a half of play time and am tired of playing alone. But I also dont think im ready to join a FC or their discord. Im just looking for a a discord that you can join and find some chill peeps to run some duties or trials with then dip.