Shouta
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Play the old character and make it purty! That's what i think I'll be doing!
I'm planning on switching to Elf or Galka, I think...
Human female is so good looking though.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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Play the old character and make it purty! That's what i think I'll be doing!
I'm planning on switching to Elf or Galka, I think...
Human female is so good looking though.
devious.one
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Some pictures I took this weekend:
LowParry
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Yeah, I really want to start over on a fresh server and relearn a few classes but I don't want to lose my goobbue/legacy mark and chocobo/event items. Sucks.
Dammit...dammit....why can't the servers just be up all the time, or why can't it be Phase 4 next weekend! Damn game has it's claws in me and I just want to keep playing but they won't let me! :'(
I thought I'd go back and play some Tera today to hold me over, but it's just not the same...
I thought I'd go back and play some Tera today to hold me over, but it's just not the same...
So you are staying on Sargatanas?
>_> Oh well, they do have a point. The FATE events do get pretty crowded. But I think they are just going to tone down the really big effects like for more powerful skills. As long as it still looks cool, I am fine.
Ugh.. I wish they would just give us a slider that scales the effects. I don't mind the animations. The bigger issue for me is seeing everyone else's battle text, buffs, and debuffs spammed across my screen.
Boss Man
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This is so fantastic.Some pictures I took this weekend:
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Shouta
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Pretty likely yeah. Hoga and I should be on there. I think Night is staying. Kintaro and Jae might be joining us?
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Ah, damn. I didn't know this beta was only a weekend thing. Was looking forward to playing some more today.
When is the next phase scheduled for?
When is the next phase scheduled for?
Ah it is settled then, Sargatanas it is!.
Boss Man
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So when people are talking about, "Let's do Satasha" or "LFP tam-tara" is that some kind of EXP run or are those just the first quests that require a group? Does anyone want to explain what the EXP party conventions are like on FFXIV? Because all I've done is solo up to 14 so far, done a couple of the leve things by myself and that's it. Are the guildleves what parties do?
It does not matter the server! Raoh will conquer all!
Yeah, we'll be playing with you guys. =)
Sastasha and Tam-Tara are both 4 player instances/dungeons. The story mode leads you to Sastasha after level 15.
There are guildleve party quests too.
we.are.the.armada
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I'm actually very happy to see this
So what is the equivalent of a burn party in higher level XIV?
In XI, I rolled 2 BRD, 1 RDM, and 3 WAR quite a bit.
I'll probably make a second character to relearn some of the class mechanics when I'm not running with my Legacy Character and my FC, myself.
Augemitbutter
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i'm on shiva and odin currently.
sounds good. it was the same situation on my server though. last night the server was pretty empty after midnight.
not sure. interest is pretty fickle. you'll have too many people jump ship and there you are, all alone.
Woo more folks on Sargatanas! Get your applications in for world transfer if you haven't already legacy players!
That said Ultros/Sargatanas are considered US/EU servers. Seems like EU shares with NA, but the US/EU data center is located in Montreal, Canada. So take that as will in terms of latency. But yeah, the data centers are only JP or US/EU.
That said Ultros/Sargatanas are considered US/EU servers. Seems like EU shares with NA, but the US/EU data center is located in Montreal, Canada. So take that as will in terms of latency. But yeah, the data centers are only JP or US/EU.
I thought no server jump for 6 months? Where to sign up for that?
Go buy The Last of Us. It'll make the wait a lot easier.
Legacy players can transfer to other Legacy servers - they just can't transfer to new servers for 6 months or so.
And the world transfer application page is here: http://frontier.ffxiv.com/worldTransfer/na/index.html
Satasha and Tam Tara are two of the early dungeons. They require a group to enter and you unlock them by completing the main story scenario. After you've unlocked them, you can continue to run through if you want for more EXP and item rewards that are better than anything you'll get from questing.
Guildhests are a separate thing. They require a group but its a bit more focused on teaching you how group play works in an MMO. Lots of great lessons about pulling, dispelling, not standing in bad stuff, add control, ect. I love this feature and hope they add more of them. You get huge exp rewards the first time you do them and some gold. The challenges are a lot of fun, even for MMO vets.
Neat!
can't sign in right now but is there a deadline to do this?
Will they move me during phase 4 beta?
guess ill be moving to sargatanas too after I convince a few friends to
World transfer application period:
From PDT, June 21 (Friday) to 07:59 PDT, July 15 (Monday), 2013.
Yes this is for phase 4.
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=b3d8f31642df4d9b36fc8b90cbb01abcd96290cf
Were you by any chance Raoh/Raohll in EverQuest?
You have to level a crafting class associated with your gear, staves = goldsmith, mage gear = weaver etc
once you level a crafting class to lvl 18 (i think maybe higher level now in 2.0) you can take a quest to give you ability to affix materia to items.
Nooo, i love my flashy THM spells, its like one of the best parts of being a THM
R_thanatos
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Can you provide me with more info ..so your next main quest was in gridania , but was that your starting city ?
Yikes not much time left
MoonLightWave
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They really need to change forced starting area. It's probably too late now, though.
Edit: You could have guild representives in every city as a solution, for example.
Edit: You could have guild representives in every city as a solution, for example.
Not quite in terms of orienting the new player. It makes no sense to start in Limsa but you chose your starting class as Gladiator, which has it's guild in Ul'dah. That said, 1.x let you do that, but it'd really confuse the new player.
Mognet
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Some pictures I took this weekend:
the music in this mission is so good
LowParry
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I think that was the battle music for FF2? What a damn cool moment that was.
I disagree. The way the game starts you off is perfect for whichever class you start with. Those little quests people were bitching about before you go out and fight lead you around each city naturally in order for you to pick up, complete and activate the crystals around the place. Then it takes you out to fight. People are too thickheaded to see it.
It would be nonsense to be a Pugilist and start in Limsa. Would confuse the player and make it a pain to pick up class quests.
Banananana
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Anyone know which storyline quest needs to be done before I can join a grand company?
Its funny since in 1.0 people were complaining about having no idea what to do, where to go, or even what an Aetheryte was.
Slogging through boring parts just because it might get better later on is just not my style. My Ranger is fun to play now, and from what little I know there is more fun to be had later too.
My ranger cat deals damage dependent on enemy HP, applies dots and selfbuffs, hops back when the going gets tough and even disables opponents if the fight is unwinnable. While moving. Which means evading enemy attacks does not affect damage throughput.
With THM, moving negates any dps whatsoever. The long cast times and decay of the alignment buff keeps you from doing any fancy maneuvers anyway. The buff doesn't stack or require any tactics. There is no real decision-making required, a group of four dippy birds and a trained marmot could play lowlevel THM combat provided they're synced up correctly. Which is kind of bad design, methinks.
(Granted, I left out the sleep spell and surecast, which are both utterly worthless in normal progression to Level 10 - unless you're prone to standing in red circles or habitually stand near hostile mobs. Would make sense if one of the attacks had an AoE effect, but it doesn't, so why not unlock it when it's needed for dungeons.)
Anyway.
Cat wins, no contest. I mean Ranger. Ranger wins. Marauder too, since they pretty much learn skills to the same effect in the first ten-odd levels). Rest, dunno, need to play more.
Which, admittedly, I kind of want to now.
Unknown Soldier
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http://poll.pollcode.com/rv3dy
I think the picture for GAF is clear, we are infested with cat people. That was a lot of people voted, thanks.
Catgirl is Master Race.
LowParry
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Better than those silly Elins I tell you. 1000 year old race. Haa!
Then everyone makes catboys instead.
Unknown Soldier
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Press Scroll Lock.
The game does not work with forced AA in Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center. Don't do it.
The lighting and shadowing engine in the game are state of the art because the ARR engine shares some code with Luminous Engine, the next generation engine used for FFXV and KH3. In fact the whole lighting and shadowing engine is basically the Luminous Engine technology and it does look fabulous. Because Luminous is a DX10+ class engine which uses deferred rendering, traditional MSAA cannot be used and so ARR uses FXAA.
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