Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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Bring Hi-Potions and Antidotes.
Also, just fight the monster. The mage won't bother you if you leave him alone. When the monster is almost dead, someone will come help you.
SoraanTribal
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Leveling up more wouldn't really do you any good because you get level synced down. Pull the gargoyle back away from the mage so you won't get poisoned and kill it. Should have less problems that way.
Maybe going further than 10 feet from it's pathing, before It grows a magic shield of invulnerability and retreats back, to regain all it's HP immediately, is a little too much to ask I guess...I'm sorry, I could have sworn MMOs were meant to be immersive experiences.
Vesper Bay in Western(?) Thanalan.
nvrndr
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thanks!
Lavalamp1138
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Pretty nice having a Chocobo with you when you start a new class. Having a healer/fighter makes things easier since I can tackle harder enemies earlier. Forgot about the whole gear thing when I swapped classes for the first time though. Equipped a bow and all my clothes vanished. Shouldn't have sold my starter stuff since the market didn't have much. Walking around with nothing but a shirt is strange.
Won't have anything for a while. Waited on the chat for a representative, then when I hit #1 in the queue, a message came up saying there were no representatives available and it exited the queue. Thank goodness I was killing an hour at work. Now to wait on an email response if any.
RiderKairuu
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Are you trying to do PC or PS3?
I signed up for both and the email isn't specific. I'm trying to go to the website on the PC though.
RiderKairuu
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Augemitbutter
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i tried human and longelf first. don't like the run animation for midlander, rest is fine. is the highlander version different, or do they share the same animation work?
the neck bothered me on my darkelf looking character. i don't think i want to play one now.
the catman i'm playing now has the best animation work and playfulness to it. i think they put the most work into this race. still undecided what to play, but this one looked the best to me.
Unknown Soldier
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Oh cool, thanks for the advice. Yeah, changing it from 4x to 2x is a dramatic framerate improvement! Of course, the thing about SSAA is that 2x is slightly blurrier in appearance than 4x, but that's pretty much how it works after all. The LOD Bias set to -1 helps a bit but also introduces characteristic shimmering so I'm actually leaving it on Clamp. The eliminates shimmering but introduces a slight blurring of textures.
That's fine, I was just addressing the illogical AI comment.
Unknown Soldier
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Unfortunately, gameplay mechanics must take precedence over individual ideas of immersion if games are to be playable.
The reason why mobs spring invincible shields and walk back to their spots ignoring everything until they reach their spots after a player runs too far away is:
(1) To ensure that mobs aren't chasing players everywhere in zones, preventing players who are looking for the mob to kill it from finding it.
(2) To prevent the aggravation of being chased by every mob to the zone line, the infamous "trains" in FFXI.
(3) To prevent players from being attacked by stray mobs which are walking back to their spots, this was a huge problem in FFXI because players would purposely initiate "trains" to wipe other parties grinding in the same area.
(4) To prevent exploiting by attacking a target mob, triggering it's leashing mechanism, and then damaging it while it's vulnerable to damage but ignoring everything while walking back to it's spot.
So yes, believe it or not, the reason why mobs do what they do in MMOs has actually been thoroughly considered. Mobs in MMOs generally all behave this way because of rampant player griefing and exploiting. Note that in FFXI, trains for MPKing people were such an issue that they eventually made it so mobs which chase you to the zone line don't walk back to their spots at all, they just vanish and instantly reappear in their spots. In other words, this is indeed why we can't have nice things.
Omegabalmung9
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Razgriz-Specter
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I hope La Noscea getd more populated later on or in the final game.
Yeah, SE really fucked up badly with the area in the beta.
Xux
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Yup. They say it's not guaranteed if they find a bug, though.
Just pick starting classes from the same city.
Gridania: Conjurer, Archer, Lancer
Ul'dah: Thaumaturge, Pugilist, Gladiator
Limsa: Marauder, Arcanist (only until release date).
dakkumauji
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They are only until the end of Phase 3 testing which ends this weekend.
Once Phase 4 starts, it'll be an open beta so anyone can try it.
In the email I received there was no specification of testing dates / platforms the key was for, not sure about everyone elses.
I sent an email to support as well, we'll see what turns up!
Exactly. As far as the leash distance being so short, thats probably intentional for the lower half of the game. Many MMOs extend the leash and aggro radius of creatures as player/zone level increases.
There are already some examples of that type of "scaling" in FFXIV. If I attack something in the starting area on my level 50 then 3-4 other mobs nearby will link and attack as well. Attacking that same mob as a lvl 1 causes no linking.
Should be a decent amount of low quests in each of the cities to last at least 2 additional classes i'd think.
SoraanTribal
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I plan on just letting my levequests queue up to 99 and save them for leveling other jobs, so I'll always have quests to do for good exp and rewards. Plus hunting logs and FATEs. I don't think leveling up other classes will be *too* bad. You can also farm dungeons for exp.
Razgriz-Specter
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Its the best looking area but it is just dead,
Been hanging around this one place for over 3 hours and haven't seen a single player.
This cavalry armor loot is a pain in the butt
I agree that it won't be an issue for most people here, we're committed to playing the game and we'll skip over it.
They should be more worried about all the new and uncommitted players they'll scare away by greeting them to the game with a series of cutscenes, text walls, and fetch quests that are all horrifically boring. The other MMOs do a much better job of spacing out the tutorial stuff and slowly easing people in.
SoraanTribal
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I think that will change at launch when people (old and new) flock to level up Arcanist (myself included probably). That's definitely a class I want to try asap. Are we thinking Scholar will be a healer/buffer and Summoner a damage dealer?
Yes. We know that Scholar will be a Healing over Time type healer and Summoner will be a damage dealer with Damage over Time and pets.
Pet classes are always super popular in MMO games so I think it should do a lot for that area.
SoraanTribal
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Cool. I hope Scholar is more entertaining to play than White Mage. WHM has potential, but there's just not enough interesting spells/abilities when you heal.
Hoping Scholar has a lot different types of heals and buffs.dakkumauji
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Cool. I hope Scholar is more entertaining to play than White Mage. WHM has potential, but there's just not enough interesting spells/abilities when you heal.
Scholars will at least have that nifty spell animation of writing into their books. I'm oddly hyped just for that.
SoraanTribal
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haha, for some reason I am, too. xD It just looks like a really nice animation. I really hope one of the classes will get the Haste spell - usually it's White Mage, but I'd settle for another one. I think that would remedy a lot of the GCD complaints people have about the game currently (assuming it lowered that and didn't just increase auto-attack speed).
DarknessTear
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I think that's the last time I ever do a duty finder. Ran into the worst healer of all time. Constantly pulled aggro and got themself into trouble and never healed me. Then I died because of it. They're level 25 so I don't understand how they've survived this long.
devious.one
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Might as well just use Phase 4 to level your "sub" jobs for additional skills to complement your future Arcanist.
It's all about MPKs man. FFXI used to have what you described, but it proved too much when you have tons of assholes using those same mechanics to terrorize other players. SE is just saving themselves the headache of having to deal with all the inevitable GM calls.
Truthfully I never had a problem with it, as mob trains and such provided hours upon hours of laughter when you got to witness first hand a single Goblin rip through Exp groups like wet paper, but ultimately I understand why they changed it the way they did.
Unknown Soldier
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You can pretty much ignore the dungeons past the 3 story ones at 15-17 in this beta and just solo. I'm guessing it won't be that way when the whole story is in, all the dungeons will be mandatory and not optional.
DarknessTear
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I'll just make sure I have a party of GAF people rather than randoms. Or at least mostly GAF members.
madmaxx350
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so how do i become a monk? I've seen some people say lvl 30 PGL, Lvl 15 Lancer but i'm not sure. Anybody can help me with that?
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SuperLurker
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Job quests aren't in the beta yet.
madmaxx350
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oh, never mind then, was excited about it too.
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