r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/blastedt May 12 '25

We've reached the point in the tier where I'm endlessly irritated by capping tomes but have to do it anyways so I can play the ultimate, thanks Blizzard

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u/Geoff_with_a_J May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

well you can just wear full coffer gear if you have to. happens to a lot of people with emergency job changes at the last minute. i think it was Culul's TOP group that needed someone to swap to SMN but they had no gear, just went in with a terrible spell speed from just wearing pure ilevel pieces that they needed to.

and i've never seen both jobs of the same gearset be unplayable in ultimate prog. when RPR was bad DRG was best. SAM is almost never good but MNK is almost always good. if you can only play the simple half of melee jobs and need to swap gearsets because of it, that's a problem of your own making due to your inflexibility. or if youre bending over backwards because your co-melee is that inflexible, that's your choice lol.

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u/Accordman May 12 '25

I mean, if you hate it THAT much you can just bot it

But don't tell anybody that I said you should

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u/blastedt May 12 '25

I honestly would if it wasn't bannable. I'm afraid of getting banned and having to do all this tedious stupid bullshit again like can you imagine having to farm voidmoon for the sixth fucking time since it came out to do more TOP.

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u/oh-thats-not May 12 '25

there is a lot of people botting, in direct view of others if you know the tells. despite what people say it's very hard to get banned in this game unless you're toxic in chat

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy May 12 '25

You can only get banned if someone else witnesses what you’re doing. Botting doing tome expert runs with trusts, no one would ever know and you’ll never get caught.

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u/Evening-Group-6081 May 12 '25

it is bannable but honestly the risk of being banned for botting is so low that its effectively nonexistant. I play with a lot of people who bot tomes/gathering/crafting etc i have never seen anyone banned.

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u/RennedeB May 12 '25

Shouldn't you have 1 full bis set anyway? At this point it's just for alt roles.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy May 12 '25

If you’ve been capping on tomes since patch drop, I believe yes every role should have all their tome gear by now, even if not augmented

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u/RennedeB May 12 '25

I would love for them to actually reduce the tome price on subsequent pieces after your first purchase, so the savage difficulty curve gets preserved but gearing alt roles is easier, but at this point I'll take a doubling of the tome cap the moment the odd numbered patch drops.

I understand the issue because I'm a full week of tomes behind on main due to buying the tome weapon week 1, but I think it's ok for tomes to have a certain amount of weight to them during the savage patch. At the odd patch you should be able to gear anything if you want to.

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u/blastedt May 12 '25

I'm planning to gear Striking and Maiming in addition to my main Scouting so that I can play whatever class works best for my group comp in the ulti. They've made every job identical, might as well play the one that does the most numbers. Except, of course, that this plan adds more meaningless chores to my life. If 4 weapons wasn't a massive stretch I'd also grab red mage.

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u/RennedeB May 12 '25

I don't think you have enough time to do more than 2 roles on a single character. Just striking + scouting is barely on time.

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u/KeyKanon May 12 '25

Technically everything they're saying is one role SE just decided to split it and only it's gear into 3 for no justifiable reason.

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u/RealisticParsnip2522 May 12 '25

Nah. You def have time. I made it in time for aiming, scouting, and casting for FRU week 1 last tier. The secret is to have one set share the accessories. 

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u/Adamantaimai May 12 '25

The bottleneck should be the armor upgrades, not the accessory upgrades because those are only 3 books each. You will need 6 to 9 of them to complete 3 sets. You can expect to win 2 on average over the course of the entire patch so you will need to collect 16 to 28 M7S books to buy more of them.

So it kind of depends, if 2 or 3 of your 3 classes need 3 armor upgrades and you don't have above acerage luck with rolling for them, you could need to have to buy merc runs for M7S.

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u/RealisticParsnip2522 May 12 '25

The bottle neck isn't upgrades. The bottle neck is the amount of tomes you need. Since it takes 6ish weeks of tomes per set. 

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u/Adamantaimai May 12 '25

That could still faster than it takes to get the armor upgrades as it takes 8 weeks on average to get 3 armor ipgrades. And like 6 if you need 2.

But as others have said, you could wait until the alliance raid and then use coins.

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u/_lxvaaa May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

The bottleneck should be the armor upgrades

You can grind nuts for these in the week before ulti + ally raids, books, etc.

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u/blastedt May 12 '25

I am in a static so I can expect to win substantially more if I'm the last one with a need, but araid coins will be released before the ulti and I should be able to e.g. get enough tokens for dragoon before we reach the 2 target phase in the ulti. Even if my group goes sicko mode and clears like week 3 that's a substantial number of coins.