I’ve been piddling around in Final Fantasy XIV for awhile now, but have largely languished without a real purpose. This weekend I guess I got a sense of purpose and managed to push my Machinist up to level 50 with darkest dungeon. I had been piddling around during the podcast in Palace of the Dead for a few weeks now, but largely just wound up running around the top of the wall in Quarymill while we talked. I refer to this activity as Dalaran-ing because anytime I would need to talk to someone in game I would find myself running laps around whichever incarnation of Dalaran was in World of Warcraft at the time. I find I do the same with Final Fantasy XIV hubs, and I greatly miss the running friendly walls that our old Free Company house used to have.
As it stands I have every class that is currently in the game above the level of 50, which in theory should allow me to massively clean my vaults and get rid of anything lower level that isn’t particularly cool looking or at least dyeable. I did dump a ton of stuff into ye olde glamour commode, and was pretty happy to see that we are getting an increase in storage space with the upcoming Shadowbringers update. At this point I have dumped every Axe and Katana that I care about keeping as those two classes are already at the level cap. I need to start working my way backwards through my weapon archives and saving anything that I particularly want to keep. Inventory management is the bane of my existence in most MMORPGs and FFXIV is no exception sadly.
After tooling around on my Machinist I decided to push Bard up to 60… at which point something started to bother me greatly. At the end of everything I have completed I get a warning telling me I am capped on Tomestones of Poetics. This lead me down a path of trying to research ways I can spend said Poetics… which lead me back to the original expense that I had previously used them for… Books. I never finished doing books for my Bravura Animus. In fact right now I could not tell you where I am exactly in that process, but I am working my way through a speed book that involves a FATE that apparently never spawns.
So there it is folks. I am making poor life choices and apparently drawn back into piddling around with my Zodiac weapon. I solo’d my way through several dungeons last night and at current moment find myself just needing to do Amdapor Keep and get a FATE in Coerthas to spawn that seemingly doesn’t want to. I figure at some point I will have to start farming down the FATEs that have popped since I believe every zone has a limited number up at a given time. This is apparently what I am doing with my life now… in this lead up to Shadowbringers. Sadly I have not even begun to go through madness because I still have to do my melding materia step. The good news however is that I probably won’t be able to complain about not having something to spend my Poetics on shortly.
I preordered SB and jumped in for my 7 days of free access to the current ffxiv and realized… I was completely lost on how to play. At this point I would need to relearn everything AND then relearn again when the new content drops since they are changing so much. I decided I would just wait till the new content and start learning again from there
How do you even enter a dungeon solo? I was told to go to the Duty Finder options and tick off Undersized parties, or something like that. I did that, but then what? I tried to “queue” for Satasha this way and it seemed like it was doing the typical “find a group” thing.
Not that I really think I can solo Satasha yet, I just wanted to see if I could get anywhere at all in there.
I think you were largely on the money. You open up the duty finder (U hotkey by default) and click the minuscule gear icon in the upper left hand corner of the language title bar. Then like you did you tick undersized party. If it worked a blue icon will show up in that language bar and if you mouse over it will show undersized party. Then you tick the dungeon you want to run and click join. It will act like it is queuing normally because it is effectively reserving you a spot on the instance server given that anytime you queue for anything in FFXIV you leave your server and join a dungeon specific server. When you get in though it will just be you.
Cool, thanks! I wonder if I can survive the first trash pull. Probably not but I’d like to try. 🙂