Just saw this. MNK damage scales particularly well (or did, not sure if it still does) for low levels, and Arcanist pathing is rough in early game. The latter is at least part of why we didn't go with WAR too, Limsa's early game costs you at least 5-10 minutes.

Ultimately the battle rez can be useful, but when really trying to shave minutes, the assumption is there won't be deaths. Or any that do happen can be recovered more quickly with a Return & warp to boss - especially now that you skip straight to the boss wall if pulled. This was not the case at the time and SV sometimes has other plans, but that's the idea.

I believe PLD's AoE damage is also superior to WAR early levels but that really only shows up in CM and Prae.

There aren't strict rules but generally you should be naturally the expected level based on if you have Road To x0 buff. For ARR typically if you have the server xp buff you end up around 56-57 I think. Without it, you have to do some extra leveling before you're high enough level to get to Cape Westwind, and by the time you're done you end up around 52-53.

If you're higher than that, for ARR you'd probably be fine, though if you're moving on to HW and you're starting off at 60 for example, that could be an issue.

That's definitely been floated previously and ultimately we decided not to do it (citing there being tons of categories already, limited interest, etc.). But if there's particular interest, it's a reasonable request. Personally I'd love to see it considering I have those runs ready for submission already as part of the "Trust Bounty" competition some of us participated in a couple years ago.

The skipping cutscene automation imo would be the more concerning aspect. My understanding that the 1 input = 1 output (aside from in-game macros) applies throughout.

That said, it's possible (even recommended) to bind Confirm to a button other than Left Mouse click, i.e. a keyboard bind, to ease up on the RSI. Lots of folks use 0 numpad, personally I use G and a easy trigger side mouse button both for Confirm, and spam them together. Something similar should always be possible w/out any external tools.

But if that doesn't do the trick for you please let us know.

We jumped from around 30 submissions/week to about 80/week in the past month, so that along with the site redesign has made it tough. We know it needs to happen though, among other things.

For MSQ runs we use only RTA not IGT so that's why it says that (leaving it blank/removed was the right thing. Based on where the timer was stopped (roughly 5 seconds after quest turn-in) aligning with what it looks like was missed from the small skips on the 2nd vid, time looks accurate to me, so verified :)

Good to know on the YT restriction thing!

Jump puzzles (specifically Kugane Tower right now) were added last night, 2 different categories - one allowing abilities, buffs, etc, one not.

It’s been offered up a couple times as a suggestion but only recently (not just in the past couple days but the past few months) started getting more interest. It is something we’re doing more planning on and should expect to see it soon(tm).

Like all suggestions/requests for new categories, there needs to be some verified interest from multiple people before anything gets added, considering additional time to verify runs etc etc. But obviously recent events have shown this is in high demand.

DC travel is 100% ok.

Someone just did (Metako):

134:15:07, just over 5 1/2 days. Including both MMO's original main storylines (so for 14, through turning in the final MSQ quest from 2.0.)

Absolute madman.

I suspect the FC buff and Strider boots don't stack. If not, it's sort of a moot point, but since the FC buff is ok for ng+ I imagine Striders would be too.

I've got several characters that are done with the ARR MSQ through 2.0 (Lahabrea) that were streamed/recorded for the Trust MSQ contest.

My question is: If these characters have gained 0 XP (or gil, or completed quests, etc etc) and have no rested XP since I finished those runs (anywhere from 2-4 months ago), would they be eligible for a multi-segment ARR MSQ submission if I finish them up to the start of HW?

Thanks!

Only thing I can think of off-hand is I don't know how the regionalized version updates coincide with things like hotfixes, addition of Trusts to various dungeons, etc. So when they change how a dungeon functions and it gets updated here to reflect that, those runs might be effectively inaccessible to you until the Korean version gets updated as well.

That does exist, under Full Game > All Dungeons. They are divided by expansion. There's also a similar section for All Trials. Though I see it does not appear in the dropdown, which I suppose it probably should so folks aren't missing it.

Unfortunately BLU cannot advance the MSQ or do Deep Dungeons so the only BLU-able "full game" mode for BLU are "All trials" and "All dungeons".

Depending on the trial/dungeon, BLU may or may not be the best (usually close with NIN) so they're allowed and often combined with NIN in those runs, so not much reason to separate them out just for that imo (in fact, doing so would make the combined runs complicated to categorize). Unless I'm misunderstanding.