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[roegadynroost]

Hello! I'm really impressed with you speed running all of your alts to get the Regalia! Would you mind sharing any tips or tricks that got you through so much ARR fast? - A fellow alt-happy Eorzean

Oh wow hey! Thanks for the ask!

One REALLY big help is doing stuff on the New and Prefered servers because the Road to 80 buff is just WAY TOO GOOD. I'm working on the story on some alts and by the end of ShB, only doing the story, I can get about 3 jobs to 80. If you have character on congested servers that you don't mind moving around you can move them to a new or preferred server for FREE and get the Road to 80 buff for 30 days (It lasts longer on characters made directly on those servers tho.)

There are some bits that I like to watch on every run through, but skipping the cutscenes is an obvious must. I play on PS4, and put on a show while I grind most of the time.

If you have the road buff, when you get to dungeons, instead of queueing in the Dutyfinder set up a Partyfinder for your dungeons. I always set them to one slot other that myself, and then set the minimum ILV to 500. This will ensure only higher level players will join.

Into the description type: "Unsynced for MSQ progression." or "Unsyned, help me get my alt through MSQ?"

Players are usually happy to help folks working through the MSQ. This works on every Datacenter.

If you don't speak Japanese and you have an alt on the JP servers and you want quick clears, use the auto translate feature for the phases "Unrestricted party" and "Main Scenario Quest". Also if you don't speak Japanese, Auto translation "Nice to meet you" at the start and "Thank you" at the end of duties.

Make sure you set your DF to Unrestricted before you queue so you don't accidentally queue up regularly instead and always \readycheck before you go in.

Most dungeons with a LV 90 player are less than five mins and a lot of the time they won't even roll on the gear so you get good upgrades along the way. If they rush through and you don't have time to grab all the chests you can always \return at the end to get the chests that were not grabbed. If there are mobs still in the dungeon, don't worry, if you sprint and kite them you can grab everything before they kill you, then respawn and leave through the exit at the start or the menu.

The ONLY duties I don't do Unsynced for is for Castrum Meridianum, Praetorium and Porta Decumana, because with they force cut scenes even if you do it unsynced I don't like to ask people to sit through them so I just do them normally.

IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS JUST AS THEM FOR HELP UNSYNCING. I love helping my friends unsync stuff. Hell, I love helping anyone unsync stuff. Takes very little time.

If you don't have the road buff, make sure you do your leveling roulette, and queue for the dungeons. Unfortunately, the end of ARR has a LV jump around the time you get to the Rhytahtyn solo instance and if you skip duties you'll likely be underleveled.

A few characters I ended up having to run through Aurum Vale to get to 50 just so I could get through the final strech of stuff. I love Aurum Vale personally, but I know it's not everyones jam.

Buy a stack of cheap food early on so you can keep your 3% exp buff going. My personal favorites are Eggs, Orange juice and Plums.

DON'T FORGET We get Vesperbay tickets on new characters now to returning to the waking sands is no issue. They recently updated it to you get 99 total over the course of ARR. If you made a character BEFORE they added the Vesperbay Teleportation Tickets, don't run from Horizon, Teleport to Limsa Lominsa, go to the Arcanist guild via the aethernet and then take the Ferry to Vesperbay. It's pretty quick on PS4, if you're on a Toaster it might be faster to go from Horizon because of less loading.

I recommend stopping by Camp Tranquil to get your Chocobo the ability to fight (My Fiestly little Chocobo) when you hit 30. Also grab a stack of 99 Gysahl greens when you're at Bent Branch doing that. You don't have to finish the quest to be able to summon you chocobo, so if you're in a rush there is that. I always level my chocobos in Healing first. IMO Choco cure is the most useful chocobo ability early on.

Don't forget to do your job quests, a lot of them will sync up with stuff you're doing in the MSQ, and when you get to 45 the gear boost is substantial even if it's only useful for those few levels to 50. DPS can probably get away with ignoring it, but for tanks and healers GEAR IS SO IMPORTANT, especially if you're not unsyncing stuff.

You get some upgrades from the story but the ARR stuff is all normal quality, it's not the greatest. There is a Jeweler NPC in Ul'dah that I recommend grabbing accessories from, cause I've had times where I'm 50 and still have dang LV5 ring cause the MSQ doesn't give any accessories and if your RNG is bad in dungeons it can be pretty bad. (you will get a acessory from unlocking AV though, that is nice!)

If you have some of the preorder earrings, make sure you visit your the mail moogle for that. If you've been playing a long time and have stuff like the Tidus and Yuna outfits from fanfest that get sent to every character, Grab those outfits too. They're good at the early levels and give a pretty good EXP boost to lvl 30. (Don't recommend wearing them in dungeons past like the first three though)

Of course, most important of all. Take care of yourself. I've been dealing with long-covid for years now and if causes me no end of issues, but I can get into the zone and focus hard with MSQ grinds. Self care is so important. I'm pretty good about getting up and stretching and getting myself what I need, but sometimes I'm in the zone and it gets bad. I am lucky I have a partner that helps me keep up with that stuff too. If he gets up to move around and go somewhere, I usually take that as my time to give myself a break.

Setting myself a little 3 hour timer for water breaks is something I'm working on and seems to be good. I try to not keep too much food around my gaming area because if I'm going to eat something I'd like to get up and move around too. If I do keep something nearby, I try to have fruit and not like snacks. Doesn't always work but trying is important.

I hope that in here somewhere you find something useful! HAPPY ALT-ing!!!

[1introvertedsage]

Hold me now I don't feel so steady. Be my light now my heart is too heavy. I will rest now if you would just let me. It's all here notes left are lengthy.

Guide me for no longer can I see. As this darkness starts to envelop me. Show me how I'm begging you please. To learn how to stand on my feet.

~Ruby L.S.~

[theultimateguidetogreatfestivals]

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You'll be ready to enjoy the celebrations and make treasured memories if you prepare ahead of time and pack these necessities. Take in the music, feel the energy, and have the best possible festival experience!

[freshers24]

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[gotham-snark]

"The horrors persist. And unfortunately so does Tim"- Damian, probably

[hedgerlogs]

joke is from this post lol

[heartz4shauna]

the way courtney eaton is not constantly booked and busy is appalling

JUST LOOK AT HER

[littleacebee]

This time together with my Comedy podcasts appreciation-recommendation zine I prepared Comedy (and comedy adjacent) Podcasts Bingo!

Reblog and mark which podcasts have you listened to, take a recommendation and share new podcasts with me!

[odinsblog]

Elon Musk is buying a potential U.S. president for cheap.

[detective-piplup]

welcome to: I got money for Christmas but I’m not sure what to spend it on, the game show that is becoming surprisingly common

[santuariodemary]

Hamefura World Geography?

Last night, some friends and I were analyzing the information revealed so far to create a possible map of Katarina and her friends' world. It will be fun to update this as more information is revealed. Hopefully the real map will be revealed eventually.

Consider this map a rough sketch please, there's probably a lot of things we'll need to include in the future!

I'm always curious about your opinion @maboroshi-no because I know you are always ahead of us!

[mikaikaika]

Qsmp is such an unexplainable experience from an outsider pov because how do you explain to someone that the local Standford-Tamagotchi experiment which started like Lost is now teaching me about generational trauma, basics of economy and also giving secondhand experience of being from a middle class family where parents don't have a lot of money to spend so even though you're a child you feel guilty for being a burden on them

[fryandleelasbigfling]

quids game hit hard. the painfully realistic flaw of parents just doing things for you to make you feel better about yourself because they love you but actually have no faith in you and/or lack the ability to teach you, and they'd rather just lie to you that you're winning than let you learn to accept loss gracefully...

...and then when you get older, you still don't have these skills, and they stop doing things for you because they expect you to "toughen up" already despite also talking you down regularly and convincing you that you're not good enough. especially when you're neurodivergent and life skills come less naturally to you!

even well-meaning parents can fuck you up immensely. probably passing down the toxic mentalities they learned themselves.

[crow-caller]

I realized a while ago the only way I want my photo taken is to the standard of "does it amuse me"

[muzaktomyears]

1968 The Beatles' Yellow Submarine glove puppet plastic sweet packets

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

Have a sort of sneak peak of a Lu panel redraw I just finished….

note: I am still (for the time being) taking requests for comic panels and/or anything else linked universe (also I just had someone ask me to draw their loz oc and I am very excited so requests for that sort of deal are open too) :)

Can anyone besides @almost-an-artist guess which panel this is from from?