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[BattleMonkey]

Can you see most of the story solo play?

Majority of it is single player pve content, but they made it real annoying to have various forced group dungeons and such that you have to do to continue the main story. Can see this being a big problem for players in the future when they no longer have a lot of newbie players in the game and they get stuck trying to get in groups for hours just so they can proceed the story. Game is also kinda designed around not needing alts, so players will not be restarting from scratch and needing to rerun the content either. Group finder is at least cross server and right now it's quick to get in groups.

 

[iAmMaximus]

How long is the maintenance tonight?

 

[Dead Prince]

How long is the maintenance tonight?

we'll get to play again tomorrow. September 3, 2013, at 5:00 p.m. to September 4, 2013, at 3:00 a.m (PDT)

 

[Salaadin]

How long is the maintenance tonight?

5:00pm to 3:00am
Pacific time

 

[Pai Pai Master]

So...any 50 warriors out there? I'm getting into my 40s and I haven't been running dungeons over and over again like I feel like I should be at this point.

What are some of the crucial dungeons or gears that I should be looking to obtain before making the trip to 50, or some from the sub-50 dungeons that are good to have for endgame content?

The game's just a week old but it's a shame there's not a decent dungeon loot guide out there just yet.

 

[BattleMonkey]

we'll get to play again tomorrow. at 3am pdt

1017

 

[iAmMaximus]

we'll get to play again tomorrow. September 3, 2013, at 5:00 p.m. to September 4, 2013, at 3:00 a.m (PDT)

5:00pm to 3:00am
Pacific time

Wow, that is A LOT longer than I expected...

 

[blackflag]

No. Need to do many boring group instances.

Well boring is subjective. I've had fun with them mostly. The last one I did was incredibly boring with only the end boss and cutscene being interesting at all. Halls of Toko or whatever.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Majority of it is single player pve content, but they made it real annoying to have various forced group dungeons and such that you have to do to continue the main story. Can see this being a big problem for players in the future when they no longer have a lot of newbie players in the game and they get stuck trying to get in groups for hours just so they can proceed the story. Game is also kinda designed around not needing alts, so players will not be restarting from scratch and needing to rerun the content either. Group finder is at least cross server and right now it's quick to get in groups.

I don't mind grouping, so I'm glad it has a finder tool at least.

we'll get to play again tomorrow. at 3am pdt

Bummer, wonder if I can get the last patches, got 45 minutes left and at least get a character made before then.

 

[Dead Prince]

Wow, that is A LOT longer than I expected...

they are adding more worlds, and increasing concurrent logins. so we'll see if this works.

We would like to thank all our customers for their continued support of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Since the beginning of official service on August 27, 2013, the number of users attempting to access the game has significantly exceeded our initial estimates. While we are pleased to see support for the game reach far beyond our expectations, the servers were not prepared to handle this influx of players. As a result, our servers have been pushed beyond maximum capacity. In order to allow access to as many users as possible, we have implemented login and character creation restrictions. We understand, however, that these restrictions have greatly inconvenienced our players.

To resolve this issue, we will be performing maintenance from September 3, 2013, at 5:00 p.m. to September 4, 2013, at 3:00 a.m (PDT), for the purpose of increasing the number of available Worlds, reducing stress on the Duty Finder servers, and increasing the number of concurrent logins allowed for each server.

Because login and character creation restrictions have hindered our ability to provide quality service, all FINAL FANTASY XIV service accounts will receive an additional seven days of free play time. Furthermore, users who have yet to enter their registration codes will receive an additional seven-day trial should they register before 11:59 p.m. (PDT) on September 9, 2013. Moving forward, we will continue monitoring the servers to ensure that quality service and support are provided in a timely manner.

The additional seven days will be reflected on service accounts after maintenance has concluded on September 4, 2013, which can be confirmed by accessing the FINAL FANTASY XIV: Mog Station.(http://sqex.to/Msp)

We thank you again for your patience and understanding as we continue to address these issues, and look forward to your continued support of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

 

[Timeaisis]

Wow, OT2 is 53 pages already. We're pretty fast.

I got to play a grand total of 2 hours over this past weekend (including labor day). Yay errors.

 

[Wilsongt]

Almost time for a new thread tite.

I can't come up with anything witty right now, though...

|OT| Play the 1017 lotto. Are you the chosen one?

 

[omlet]

But most dungeon / raid gear can't have melds? No reason to meld non endgame gear for 99% of people.

That's true but most people need good gear to get the next good gear unless they're being carried.

 

[chickdigger802]

;begin
Pause
Loop {
ControlSend,,{NumPad0}, ahk_pid 4856
Sleep 100
}
F8:ause
;end

I changed the PID to right number. Doesn't seem to do anything.

edit: Oh wait I'm in queue! .... and I'm out again.

hmmm, all i did was something like,

F1::

Loop
{

Send {Numpad0}
Sleep 1000
}

should probably code in some pause... but too lazy. just stop the script lol.

 

[blackflag]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| 1017 tears on the wall

 

[FLEABttn]

Wow, that is A LOT longer than I expected...

That's a fairly standard length.

 

[Berordn]

Just finished the final story dungeon.

Holy fucking shit.

 

[twentytwo22]

Is there any other use for pink/green gear that you will never use again than trading it in for Seals? I don't want to regret it later.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| 1017 tears on the wall

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| A Pug's Life

 

[Berordn]

Is there any other use for pink/green gear that you will never use again than trading it in for Seals? I don't want to regret it later.

Pink you can convert to materia, but the seals will probably be more useful. Other than that, unless you want to hold onto it for another class they'll have outlived their usefulness once you get a replacement.

 

[iAmMaximus]

they are adding more worlds, and increasing concurrent logins. so we'll see if this works.

Ah fair enough. Wasn't aware of the details of the maintenance.

 

[Yam's]

So...any 50 warriors out there? I'm getting into my 40s and I haven't been running dungeons over and over again like I feel like I should be at this point.

What are some of the crucial dungeons or gears that I should be looking to obtain before making the trip to 50, or some from the sub-50 dungeons that are good to have for endgame content?

The game's just a week old but it's a shame there's not a decent dungeon loot guide out there just yet.

You really don't need to farm anything as the game and your Job quests will make sure you're ready for starting the end game as soon as you make it to 50. So there is no dungeon you need to farm until you unlock the 50 ones. You will also be able to buy your Gran Company's weapon to have a better one by then if you need to. I never farmed anything and tanked all story dungeons/raids just fine.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Does the PS3 version use any sort of image filtering? I know most games on PS3 don't use any AA, just wondering. Thankfully some of the jaggies can be hidden by using a lower sharpness on your tv or monitor.

20 minutes before patching complete.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

How do I get to Coerthas?

 

[Caj814]

So yeah I originally had a character on Ultros which of course I couldn't access all weekend. Earlier this morning I ended up making a randomly generated character with a randomly generated name and tried my luck on a random server from the list that was available. I made more progress on that character than my main on Ultros in 1 day

 

[Xux]

How do I get to Coerthas?

Northwest through Fallgourd Float in North Shroud.

 

[Edvardelis]

Majority of it is single player pve content, but they made it real annoying to have various forced group dungeons and such that you have to do to continue the main story. Can see this being a big problem for players in the future when they no longer have a lot of newbie players in the game and they get stuck trying to get in groups for hours just so they can proceed the story. Game is also kinda designed around not needing alts, so players will not be restarting from scratch and needing to rerun the content either. Group finder is at least cross server and right now it's quick to get in groups.

You might have a hard time finding people at level but anyone of high level can easily level sync down without effort and run the dungeon. A good Free Company will help a ton.

 

[chickdigger802]

so how does job advancement work?

I got my gladiator to 30 last night. Now I need to get conj to 15... then talk to gladiator guildmaster?

 

[BananasWithGuns]

so how does job advancement work?

I got my gladiator to 30 last night. Now I need to get conj to 15... then talk to gladiator guildmaster?

One you complete your level 30 GLD quest a new quest from the guild receptionist should open up that leads to unlocking PLD. At least that's how it was for me when I unlocked MNK.

 

[Zaptruder]

Majority of it is single player pve content, but they made it real annoying to have various forced group dungeons and such that you have to do to continue the main story. Can see this being a big problem for players in the future when they no longer have a lot of newbie players in the game and they get stuck trying to get in groups for hours just so they can proceed the story. Game is also kinda designed around not needing alts, so players will not be restarting from scratch and needing to rerun the content either. Group finder is at least cross server and right now it's quick to get in groups.

It'd be easy enough to set up incentives for doing the story dungeons to allow for a continuing flow of players through them.

e.g. giving players that have gone through the content already some Grand Company Certs upon completing the dungeon again... and more if they do so with a new player!

 

[Firehead]

http://i.minus.com/jnvTAE1gMQ9xH.jpg[IMG]

cuz pug

I FUCKIN ALT+TABBED FUCK KKADFAFAREEEAEA[/QUOTE]

Dibs on OT3's subtitle!
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| A Realm Repugged

 

[Riposte]

|OT3| Doodie Finder

 

[Pai Pai Master]

You really don't need to farm anything as the game and your Job quests will make sure you're ready for starting the end game as soon as you make it to 50. So there is no dungeon you need to farm until you unlock the 50 ones. You will also be able to buy your Gran Company's weapon to have a better one by then if you need to. I never farmed anything and tanked all story dungeons/raids just fine.

Cool, thanks. Was wondering since all the Mages seem to want to keep running Brayflox to get their Battlemage set...but it seems like every dungeon has something good for MRD/WAR that gets replaced constantly by the next dungeon or through questing. I'll stick with what I'm doing now, just been re-doing dungeons with friends and maybe others once or twice if I know there's a decent WAR drop. I'll wait for my AF.

 

[03sho]

For those who have the game does the free one month that comes with the game a code? Looking at a copy on eBay but its just the disc.

 

[RPGCrazied]

For those who have the game does the free one month that comes with the game a code? Looking at a copy on eBay but its just the disc.

The ps3 version, what I just got today, says so on the front of the box. 30 day sub with purchase. Plus I think you get 7 more days, cause of the outages.

 

[Tash]

Tash, Wufei, I hope you both use this maintenance time to get back in the gym I know I will!

I am great at multitasking

edit: so seriously noone on Phoenix, right?
Feeling lonely
I seriously don't like the thought of doing Sunken Temple with Pugs..
Titan was horribly enough..

 

[KePoW]

5:00pm to 3:00am
Pacific time

Whoa that's pretty long.

Is this the major server upgrade/patch where they said logging in will not be a problem anymore afterwards? If so then that's worth bringing it down a full day.

 

[chickdigger802]

Whoa that's pretty long.

Is this the major server upgrade/patch where they said logging in will not be a problem anymore afterwards? If so then that's worth bringing it down a full day.

we can all hope.

lol.

 

[Salaadin]

Whoa that's pretty long.

Is this the major server upgrade/patch where they said logging in will not be a problem anymore afterwards? If so then that's worth bringing it down a full day.

This is supposed to be the fix. Thats what they say.
Im hopeful but I wont be surprised at all if I 1017 tomorrow.

 

[Wilsongt]

This is supposed to be the fix. Thats what they say.
Im hopeful but I wont be surprised at all if I 1017 tomorrow.

We'll all log in on Wednesday and it will be "Surprise! 1017! You thought I was gone?"

 

[KePoW]

This is supposed to be the fix. Thats what they say.
Im hopeful but I wont be surprised at all if I 1017 tomorrow.

Ah okay, cool thanks for the info.

(but if it does still 1017 tomorrow, then what's the point?)

 

[knitoe]

Whoa that's pretty long.

Is this the major server upgrade/patch where they said logging in will not be a problem anymore afterwards? If so then that's worth bringing it down a full day.

The only way you won't have problem logging in is people online / logging in < server cap. I expect this downtime to do nothing. At best, you stop getting error messages, but instead, put you in a queue.

 

[WonkyPanda]

No joke, I fucking sat in a support queue for nearly two hours to only be told at the end of the queue that no agents are available. Is this a fucking joke? Who the hell is running these "systems" because they clearly deserve to be fired. I can't believe this shit. And, THERE IS STILL A QUEUE.

 

[chickdigger802]

so, what are y'all up to tonight?

Think i got a few animes to catch up on, and really getting into Dream Team.


might even pop back in GW2 even though i quit at lvl 20ish

 

[Recall]

2 hours 10 mins so far trying to login.

Spent more time trying to get in than actually playing so far.

If people think the same errors won't be there tomorrow then you're delusional. There will always be login issues until the player count drops.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Don't be shocked and appalled if 1017 persists after the maintenance.

We should probably be concerned if we're still needing to pound the 0 key for hours upon hours though. That would be...unfortunate for us and SE.

 

[Tash]

Wow, OT2 is 53 pages already. We're pretty fast.

I got to play a grand total of 2 hours over this past weekend (including labor day). Yay errors.

This has nothing on the Animal Crossing: New Leaf OTs

 

[tiggerkiddo]

I liked the music to this area when I first entered (what is it exactly?) but talk about a level jump, the enemies behind the gate aren't anywhere close to the level of the enemies past it!

 

[WolvenOne]

How do I get to Coerthas?

With a hope, prayer, and a whole lot of sprinting.

Its north of the Northern Shroud, lots of real high level monsters there though.

 

[chickdigger802]

I wish there was more logical sense with how maps are laid out. Occasionally, I get a story quest in a map, I decide to go one way... and ended up walking through agro enemies 20 lvls higher than me that gang bang me.


apparently i should have walked from the other side >.>"