New player, a few questions!

[Archadius]

2. I highly recommend using a food guide http://www.ffxivpro.com/forum/topic/...est-d/#1347139 and using your elemental attribute points to acquire a "delicious" bonus to food and help out your stats or MP pool, etc. I suggest this because currently the points have little effect on the strength of elemental spells.

[naaros]

Thanks to both of you! =) I have been offering gil to have my items repair, and it has worked pretty quickly so far. But it's good to know I can do either.

@Archaedius - thanks for that link - will be very helpful. I'm not currently using food, but I definitely will start! It sounds rather complicated. XD At least compared to food in most games where you just use it and get a buff, lol. Thankfully, since I've been putting points in INT and Ice already, I will be able to use most sweets according to that chart which will give me more Magic Potency! Having more MP would also be nice, though. Hrm.

Thanks again!

EDIT: And do the stats on gear actually do anything? I mean... When I equipped a +5 MND ring, I expected my MP to go up (as that's something MND does), but it didn't change at all? *confused* =(

[Archadius]

It sounds rather complicated. XD At least compared to food in most games where you just use it and get a buff, lol. Thankfully, since I've been putting points in INT and Ice already, I will be able to use most sweets according to that chart which will give me more Magic Potency! Having more MP would also be nice, though. Hrm.

It sounds more complicated than it is.

For a best-case scenario, you're going to want to do the following:
- Put points into whatever stats you wish to flesh out your character (but save elements for food)
- This will let you crank up stats, and though you can never get "divine" bonus, you will still get "delicious" using only elements
- Move your elements up as you transition to different foods based on your ranks, but remember the ele stat has to match (on the chart) the rank of the food item not YOUR rank
- The post gives all info you need, food ranks, stats the foods increase, which element to use for which food group, etc, so take some time to have a look and plan out your path for lvling and which foods you intend to use

Just so you have a glimpse into the future:
- As r50 THM I have tons of points in MND and PIE, but my Ice (sweets) element stat is sitting at 60, this allows me to use Tomato Pie and Crowned Cake both with "delicious" bonus. ^_^

[naaros]

Hello all, again! =) I had a few questions just now. So I just dinged level 25 CON, and I've done some of the starting quests for each Grand Company. I see there is a new quest called Imperial Devices, and each city has their own one. Does it matter which one of these I do? Does this quest lock me into choosing one of the Grand Companies? And can I say.. choose the Gridania version of the quest and go to the dungeon with people who chose the other nation one and still complete everything?

Thanks for any help you can provide! I just don't wanna get locked into anything until I know for sure which one I'm doing. XD

[REDace0]

Imperial Devices is the quest associated with The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak. You can only have one of the three Imperial Devices quests active at a time (you can't complete all three at once), but once you complete it for say, Gridania, you can go to the Hall of Flames or Maelstrom Command and accept the other versions of it. The same goes for Into The Dark, the quest for the R45 dungeon.

You can't get locked into any of the Grand Companies permanently until additional missions are added in 1.19.

[Loth]

No, you can do these for all three companies, it is not until a later time that we will have to pick which one to join.

Everyone can play together in the dungeon regardless of which companies quest they have (or have completed).

[naaros]

Oh okay! Thanks a lot. Not gonna worry about accidentally joining one of the Grand Companies for the time being then. XD

[naaros]

Hello all again! =) Just had another question! I am nearing level 31 (28.5 right now), and looking at some new rings for CON and THM. Which rings would be ideal? MND? INT? PIE? A combination? I assume MND for healing and INT for damage? So maybe I should just buy a couple rings of each type?

Just wondering what some of you mages out there would recommend. =) Thanks!

[REDace0]

For now I'm going with Pearl Rings actually. I'd use Black Pearl Rings if they weren't so overpriced. After the patches reveal what the effects of stats on combat are going to be in more detail I'll probably get some INT rings for nukes and/or PIE rings for DoT spells.

[naaros]

Oh okay, cool. I didn't even see those Pearl rings. XD I might pick up 2 of those and 2 MND ones for when I'm healing in a party. Thanks! ^_^