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.

Oh, I missed them having to backpedal on that! That’s good news.

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.

I need to try BG3 at some point. Now it’s on console I really don’t have an excuse anymore other than it’ll take time away from FFXIV 👀 And two days probably isn’t enough to go through it.

What are people planning to do during the downtime? And how long are you expecting the download to take? We’ve thankfully got gigabit internet here so hopefully it won’t take that long!

Same motivation here 😊

@Aurix@lemmy.world I hope it’s been okay posting these since you’d been doing the first week! They usually hit the Lodestone around 5pm my time so I can grab it at the end of the work day.

You’ve achieved something you wanted to get done, don’t belittle that! Enjoy your chill afternoon 😊

Halocene. They got noticed for their covers of a variety of songs but they’ve also got their own music as well. Here’s a couple of my favourites.

Hold Me Help Me

Maleficent

Devil Inside Me

They’re currently touring as well through Europe and back around the US later this year.

It feels like the screenshot is breathing.

Just finished watching a replay cause I wasn’t staying up for a 4am race start, but that was easily the best race of the season. There was actual racing, good overtaking, different strategies in play, and you genuinely weren’t sure who would win for a good portion of the race.

More races like that please.

Given how much we’ve heard about the Allagans throughout the game I strongly suspect they had a hand in it. Could be wrong, would be interesting if it was more recent.

They do say one of the best ways to progress your career is to focus on your knob work. People really appreciate someone who can handle a knob.