u/ControlSimilar865

Please note that I am not finished with my playthrough set and it's possible some of of my questions have yet to be answered or I've blatantly missed something.

Without the wiki you are playing on complete vibes, and this is coming from a game that was released before modern access to information. How in the heck was I supposed to know that weapons and armor like burning bow (a non elemental weapon btw) with vaguely elemental names actually give you a damage boost to skills of that element? They couldn't be bothered to mention it anywhere. Every different weapon type scales damage completely differently, which it does tell you this in the most casual way possible there are also a handful of completely hidden stats like combo rate and charge time that can vary greatly between weapons in the same catagory definitely matter when determining the most effective weapon for your character. There's even a "metal" value that is relevant in exactly two fights in the whole game.

See a potential armor/accessory upgrade in the shop, but want to know what stats it raises besides defense before you buy it? Not a chance.

Curious about your Bazaar progress, what items filled a particular request, or even some way to know what you're working towards? I don't care and you shouldn't either.

"I should check the in-game beastiary so I can get an idea of what works best against this enemy." Nope, just flavor text (we like flavor text, but useful information would be a logical inclusion, I would have thought). But as it is the only concrete information we get is weaknesses, statuses, and hit points (which could be inaccurate).

Idk I have some other smaller nitpicks, but I'm honestly not trying to hate on the game. In my opinion 12 is one of the most mechanically deep, interactive, and dynamic final fantasy games ever released... I just wished they would have let us in on the secret! Also shout-out to the wiki for having my back as I begin to get to the stage of the game where I care about making smart character decisions and finding all the cool experiences they've managed to pack into this amazing game.

I picked up the DLC today and started a game. I saw the cat and dog buildings at least once but now that I want to build them they are gone from my build menu options. Not sure if this has happened to anyone else, or if my save is bricked.

I'm really stumped here. This is the second time it's happened. There was a network issue where everyone was affected, we reset the router and it goes back to working for every device but my desktop. I can connect to the network, but do not have any internet.

The first time this happened it was without internet for 4-5 days then magically started working again until we had network trouble again. This time it has been two weeks and still not connecting properly. It will occasionally "flicker" on, giving me internet while connected to the network for a few seconds before reading as "no internet" again. The craziest thing is that it will connect to other networks just fine, I have been connecting to my mobile Hotspot to deal with the outtage.

I tried forgetting the connection and readding the network. I just now did the command prompt DNS flush recommended by Google, series of like 5 commands than restart my PC. Nothing happened at first, but the internet has been flickering on/off as I write this post.

Really not sure what else to try at this point. I'm not super tech savvy with like networks and IP addresses and such. Any advice on something to try would be great. Thanks!

Edit: I do not have a VPN.

Personally looking forward to nightblade/berserker for some cold dual-wield synergy. Not sure how accurate the grimtools' description of the class will be, but birdman also sounds fun, but I don't know if you can only cast the two skills it comes with, or if you can cast other skills in bird mode. What combos are y'all looking forward to??