the difficulity only appear after you fail them once, so it's only there if you failed and lost time regardless (unless you fail the 1st few seconds in and go for very easy, it really makes a difference)

correct me if i'm wrong but couldn't you unsync the dungeons/trials in NG+? since you're already lvl 80. haven't tried NG+ myself since i've been following the story and don't need a refresh of it.

yeah, it's purely cosmetic, nothing else changes and it's just easier on my eyes since i think the colors are quite washed in FF14, using Reshade with Stormshader really fixes this issue for me (really an eye opener after playing this game for 5 odd years)

I'm using Reshade (with Stormshader) to make the game look better, this is purely cosmetic and looks better for me (if anything it could drop a bit of my FPS but that's fine as i'm still above 60fps) Is this allowed for a 1-50 (and possibly 1-60) run?

Also on a sidenote, is it allowed to import after the run has started my HUD layout from my main character? this is a timeloss on my end but it throws me off not seeing my normal HUD.

Gonna do a run somewhere this winter break so kinda wanted to know these things.

I can indeed see the road to 60 buff lasting for a while (and especially with expansions, road to 70 would become a thing aswell although the difference between 51-60 and 61-70 is a landslide with 61-70 being faster to power through) at the moment if we talk about the game i only see that DPS will not be a viable option for these kinds of runs with how the duty finder is. DPS queue's will be 15-20+ minutes and that will kill anyone attempting it concidering that you'll need around 3-4 dungeons per level (depending on more factors ofcourse) this would make Palace of the Dead a viable thing for DPS since it's fast queue's as it doesn't care about 1 tank 1 healer 2 dps composition but PotD is so boring and to do that all the way to lvl 50 or 60? as for this reason healers/tanks are the only real choices since those queue times are short. gonna do a run later today (starting late in my time so i can power through the night a bit easier xD) and only thought about a few things to make the run a bit faster (this only applies to the 1-60 and later on 1-70 categories) lvl 50 is a gate and then some (lvl 50 dungeons give little EXP so you would be stuck doing another 3-4 runs on aurum vale but if you save your roulettes for lvl 50 you can speed up that process since DR leveling gives you EXP based on the difference between your lvl and the dungeons lvl) ofcourse the chocobo mount is essential for movement and it's pretty streamlined till lvl 15 (MSQ till 15 then start queue'n for dungeons as much as possible while doing the MSQ)

Stil hope we get a ruleset for this. right now as i see it the ruleset would be very simple.

• No outside source help (includes Free Companies, delivery moogle(this would eliminate the entire mogstation), no Party finder or parties outside of instanced content(dungeons/trials) If you want friends to help you with queue'n they need to start the run from lvl 1 aswell and do the run as you're doing it.
• for now we accept the buff to 60 as it may or may not be a permanent thing, can't tell with how random Yoshi-P is.

Not sure if i missed anything, obviously the EXP boost accessory you get from completing the hall of novice would be allowed since anyone can always do it.

@Neflarion We're still waiting on an actual full game leaderboard (lvl 1-50 and 1-60 MSQ) apparently 2 people have confirmed to finish it already and i'm doing it somewhere next week. But to discus your idea, timer should start from the moment you hit confirm on the character select screen, if you do it from when you gain control you risk that people miss time it or something of that nature. and ofcourse we got the loading problems, my new PC loads every area in FF14 extremely fast as to my old PC takes about a minute orso to load areas (more if it's limsa for example) not sure if livesplit has an automatic loadless timer build in without having to fine tune it.

nice run, although i'm on the fence whether to accept the road to 60 buff or not. on 1 hand it eliminates a lot of hours (effectively double exp the entire time) on the other who knows when it'll go away, this was introduced because SE needed the new servers filled quickly and you would get this as a bonus perk not so that newer players could catch up. that's the reason they got these items in mogstation that will bring you to lvl 60 with all the quests done in 1.0 ARR and HW.

i'll be doing a run next week (somewhere) and i'll probably use the road to 60 buff until we get a solid ruleset for this that either accepts or bans the road to 60 buff (ofcourse no mogstation/pre-order bonus from the delivery moogle)

The rules i see from TheGandalf i can agree on. I'm concidering to do one when i get my new pc. I also strongly agree on the no 2x exp from being on a preffered server and i fail to see the difference between allowing preffered server and letting us use exp gear from pre-orders or recruit a friend. These rules obviously would also apply to 1-60 (heavensward) or 1-70 (stormblood) Although how would stormblood currently work since ARR and HW are done while SB is still ongoing and 4.4 is set to release mid september.

How did you try to skip the cutscene? like press start for the pause menu and then skip or just hold the button to press another button for the cutscene skip (LB+A on Xbox 360 controller don't know the key binding for keyboard)

for any% what difficulity do we use? normal or simpel? i would prefer normal but that's just me

so wil histy's DLC be banned or not for NG. thinking of getting good times for the 3 NG+ categories and then trying my hand at NG

oh wow yeah thanks man gonna keep that in mind for next run :D

So i'm kinda at a loss right now. did like 3 runs back to back al of them triggered the true ending. the last 2 runs i did both died to getting the good ending for some reason. i viewed every zero dimension arc conversation, i got iffy then did the dogoo quest then got iffy and compa did the histy extermination quest #1 and 2 before going into hanada station and then get 60% shares for histoire's daydream. for noire vert and blanc arcs it's simply 40% shares at any point and watch their daydream sequence right? in heart arc i did the 4 desires from the CPU's to avoid the bad ending(obviously i did this since the runs died to getting good ending)

the only thing i can imagine im doing wrong is the neptune arc in neptunia G like it's a specific order you gotta maintain otherwise the true end won't trigger. anyone got any idea what i'm doing wrong?

it's the past broadcast if anyone wanna review it.

wil it be the same as currently? like no paid DLC and paid DLCs? also im kinda excited to see the true end route since it wasnt easy to run through the game casually so im wondering what strats can be used. im guessing S+Q wouldnt mean that much since if you're going for a good run you're not gonna take safety saves. then again some bosses are just random in my experience and you can win with the current party IF the boss doesn't spam her EX move over and over.

tbh it's pretty stupid that you can't choose to start fresh withoud completely deleting your save... i might get xenoverse 2 on steam since xbone twitch streaming is horrible...

also if you don't use your clothing you have already gathered from previous playthroughs (also includes abilities) you wouldn't get any advantage over a fresh file.

If so then say what they are since your stats are 0 in every category after a fresh character and you get your default starting clothing depending on which race you have chosen and you get the default supers/ultimates/evasives.

Ok so im gonna attempt any% NG+ but in any% you can't use any of the moves you had previously.

which moves do you unlock through normal story gameplay? you unfortunately can't start from scratch on xbone withoud deleting the save itself.

perfect in my eyes! i'm 1 of the PC runners that use a controller :)

thanks for the input.

ofcourse it wil be literally be only things that can regularly be achieved using ingame sources.

so for example i won't be getting stuff like non table skills on a X2 or X3 modifier(skills that are not on the table unlike attak)

so by basic fusion possible which means that rose simply isnt getting certain skills. so i'm gonna have to research on what i want and how its legit possible.

I got a serious question about the NG+ prepping.

Since you got this unnamed gear that basicly makes everything insanely good/OP(for example less cast time or 20% chance at firedamage X8) it wil probably make a decent impact on early game as Itoshira has said in the past to me. so i wanted to get this legit but to my regret it got corrupted:( needed 4 more skills at X2 to start creating my gear. i got setback 2 NG+ and i cannot be bothered but i have found a way to make it 10x easier and i want input on it if its frown upon or not. using this cheatengine sheet you can literally change any and all skills on the weapon including if it has A.ATK and Focus(for example) and howmuch. Obviously the unnamed gear have like a +10 at any point in time except Rose's daggers which comes at +5 instead due to having 2 of them. Also it can make an infinite amount of items including herbs so if this would be allowed maybe restrict the amount of stat boosts you may have from herbs(?) can always verify if needed through handing over the save file.

wil it be frown upon/not allowed to make the gear that way? i want to get a really good time in NG+ but its simply an incredibly long and stupidly long grind to start on even the equipment.

just wanted to bring this to light since that was a general complaint about NG+ for me.

i wil probably try that to recreate that glitch when i get to that point in my practise/save creation. cant hurt to try it some more to get it to work on PC/PS4 hopefully its not console limitations since thats gonna suck :(