Fair point. Personally I'd love to see you be able to save a glamour against a gear set as well so you can use your glamour plates for everything else. But with gear sets being stored client side rather than server side that probably won't happen.
Will be interesting if we get something akin to the body snatcher mission from Endwalker. I remember a lot of people struggled with it at the time but I quite enjoyed the change in pace (and I don't mind a stealth game either so sneaking around the ruins avoiding enemies was fun to me).
Sadly didn't see anything about increasing the number of glamour plates. We now have more jobs than glamour plates, so if you have one glam per job, something has to share, and you have no room for casual glams. And that's before you factor in DoH/DoL jobs.
For what it's worth, as long as the stream is active you yourself don't have to be actively watching it. You could find a streamer who's streaming overnight (relative to your timezone), put Twitch on, go to bed and wake up with a mount.
And to be fair, any sort of external requirement is going to annoy someone, and FFXIV does have a few of them. Between regionalised promotions, food tie-ins, streaming rewards, timed preorder bonuses, time restricted PvP rewards, expensive statues locking emotes, etc.
There's always going to be some stuff people would like but either can't get or don't want to participate in whatever the promotion is. I don't see that going away any time soon.
Might have just missed it. Is Martin Brundle just not on commentary this weekend or is there a reason he's not there? Missed him on the grid walk today.
I reckon you're right on Viper. But I know exactly what you're talking about 😊 I think half my jobs have been covered so far? Scholar was at 16 and Machinist was at 20, still waiting on Summoner and Warrior (although Scholar is my real main job regardless).
Thank you ❤️ I've played around with Fantasias a little since I finished Endwalker but I always come back to my middie. And my Gyr Abania Plait hairstyle!
Also true! I was more thinking the actual gathering process itself but retainer ventures are just as effective, especially if it's for something that is a timed node. You might not get the instantaneous gratification of crafting something right there and then, but it's never far away for the vast majority of materials.
Then you just hold the ones that are relevant for current gear or stuff you actively work on (for example, my FC chest is completely dedicated to all the stuff needed to craft subs).
I'd gotten to the point where I was spending causality tomes on upgrade items or crafting items, so I figured getting two sets of items for Viper and Picto was something that I'd either use, or if it doesn't happen, can go towards other jobs, eventually!
This is true! They're level 96 for Wind's Reply (ROW) and level 100 for Fire's Reply (ROF), so while you won't have an always accessible ranged attack, in later DT content you'll at least have some options to attack at range now. Instant casts with a 2s cooldown.
Thank you ❤️ The main bit of advice I can give is that anything you can replace easily, just vendor it. List it on the market board if you think you can sell it, but otherwise just get rid of it. If it turns out you were wrong and you need it, you've already established you can easily replace it.
I was carrying so many old crafting mats for stuff that I thought I might need, and sure, there have been occasions where I've been able to take advantage of that, but the actual amount of time saved would easily be under an hour over two years. Not a significant enough saving to warrant the extra time spent on inventory management over the same period.
I've largely been capping out all my currencies. Got all my tomes capped, my scrips, and about half way on bicolour gems.
Also went through the inventory clear out! I have extra retainers but I've managed to get one of them completely empty ready for new crafting mats in DT, and all the others have been culled significantly.
I have started prepping stuff for Viper and Picto too, I've got full Cryptlurker level 80 sets for both and I have all the trade materials needed for max Manderville relics for both once they hit 90.
And glam wise, I finally got one ready a couple of days ago! This is actually the first time I've put together a glam I'm really happy with that wasn't just lifted and tweaked from Eorzea Collection, so am very much looking forward to next week!
Not gonna lie, and kinda hoping they bring these to Australia via a collab with KFC who sell Mountain Dew and we can get both the eat chicken emote and the Zu mount in a single package.
Fair point. Personally I'd love to see you be able to save a glamour against a gear set as well so you can use your glamour plates for everything else. But with gear sets being stored client side rather than server side that probably won't happen.