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Is there a Disciple of Magic alternative?

Not from the looks of it. With Behemoth there is the heavy helm for PLD/GLA MRD/WAR, the Normal one for DoW and the Behemoth mask for DoM. With odin there is the armour, the sword (GLA/PLD) and the barding (Chocobo) IIRC.
 
How do you even start a profession? Sucks you get no manual with the PS3 version, so I had to learn most of the stuff about the game on my own.

When you hit level 10, and finish your class guild quest at that level, you'll get the freedom to join any other guild you like, this is where you can pick up the crafting/gathering professions in addition to the battle classes.
I took up 4 of those professions, but it's quite tricky to balance at the lower level, because they need a fair bit of money investment (or freedom to travel across various locations) which can be a bit restricting if you're not too far in the story, like myself.
 
But they're not tho.
Europe is.

Japan had their maintenance last night, apparently.

Not really, it's starting at 9am and scheduled to finish at 7pm in Japan.

Actually we're all wide eye'd and awake over here. Maint is running through the entire morning afternoon for us. Haha.

Oh, wow, so we're all screwed, then. Looks like I was quick to judge, sorry!
 
LOL

Get home from work and immediatley start FFXIV and my 0 key macro. I figure by the time I get home from the gym I should be in. I was pretty excited to see I was immediately in... of course the server goes down in 30 minutes.
 
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.

Guessing you did the same thing as me, and registered wrong service account? Hope you get through to the support eventually. I called them at about 12:54PM EST, still waiting on my PS3 fix. PC users are getting it fixed right away at least. Or few hours after.
 
Finally hit 40 on WHM.

Also just finished the lvl 49 Job quest.

Although I noticed the locked 45 quest doesn't have Holy as a reward.... Anyone know where to get Holy @ 45 if its not there?

I believe that's a multi-part quest, but you should definitely get Holy after you complete it.
 
Welp, got home in time for a couple fates, and got my pugilist/monk the rest of the way to 34. Not bad for ~20 minutes of game time.

Fingers crossed for smooth sailing tomorrow night.
 
When you hit level 10, and finish your class guild quest at that level, you'll get the freedom to join any other guild you like, this is where you can pick up the crafting/gathering professions in addition to the battle classes.
I took up 4 of those professions, but it's quite tricky to balance at the lower level, because they need a fair bit of money investment (or freedom to travel across various locations) which can be a bit restricting if you're not too far in the story, like myself.

Thanks! :) Not quite level 10, got awhile I guess.
 
Level 34.5 SMN achieved

Catching up on story quests so I can get Titan ASAP at 35.

Was quite a sight seeing the server maintenance message pop up and this massive rush of people running as fast as they could to the inn NPC.
 
Actually we're all wide eye'd and awake over here. Maint is running through the entire morning afternoon for us. Haha.
Ah, so tonight is maintenance for you guys as well, huh?

Well here's hoping everything goes smoothly. It's definitely an extended period of time but if it fixes the issues we've been having [at least on the NA/EU servers, I'm not entirely sure how things are in Japan] it will be worth it.

At the very least it will give us all a temporary break, albeit a forced one.
 
Did my level 20 CNJ quest just about ten minutes before maintenance started. Already got ARC to 15 so now I can concentrate on trying to unlock WHM. May also give SCH a shot down the line, we'll see.

Maybe I'm just being jealous but I kind of would have liked to see CNJ and WHM have more access to some of the ARC's stuff. I don't expect getting to summon my Carbuncle buddy but shoot, at least let me have stuff like Bio or even Shadow Flare when it comes to that.
 
Does Odin drop loot? isn't he a Fate boss?

He drops mantles, which are essentially tokens that you can exchange for the loot. From what I could gather when he was killed on Excalibur: Gold gets 5 mantles (enough for an item), silver gets 1 mantle, and bronze just gets seals.

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Ahah, this is amazing! What level was the last carpenter quest?
All the crafting quests go all the way up to 50 and give you a special tool at the end.
 
They should give you a huge EXP completion bonus for dungeons

+Completion time
+Not dying
+Everyone gets one random unique for their class

Would make the lengthy dungeons worth it, IMO




Wait, I didn't know you can trade dungeon gear for seals. Where?

You can? At higher rankings I assume?

In your GC quarters. In the supply missions or whatever is called, there's a tab in which you can trade green/pink gear. The higher the levels the more seals.
 
I'm wondering what amount of Gil someone would need to have right now to be considered rich in the game. I really have no perspective at how well I'm doing

Right now on a new server, a million for rich, filthy rich 2+ million.

Also... soon... soon... at least now I have my Unfinished Curtana.

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Are there any videos comparing this to 11?

Would be interested to see the differences explained before picking this up...

It's really night and day, and there are very few comparisons outside some Final Fantasy standards. The gameplay is totally different, the world is totally different. Where FFXI was made to greatly encourage groups by making things near impossible to do on your own, FFXIV is far more solo friendly, with even casual players able to partake in much of the games content on their own.
 
One thing I noticed and really really want and not in 3 months. With the way they changed tradecraft leves and how you need your OWN materials for these you're expected to have a lot more materials in general if you want to do leves. Well they need to fix the freaking inventory and get a sort function in the game ASAP.
 
i wonder what will happen to people that didn't log off before the maintenance....

They will be stuck on 1017 for all eternity.---

--Probably nothing.

One thing I noticed and really really want and not in 3 months. With the way they changed tradecraft leves and how you need your OWN materials for these you're expected to have a lot more materials in general if you want to do leves. Well they need to fix the freaking inventory and get a sort function in the game ASAP.

Item sort is coming in 2.1
 
I was in the Brayflox instance and the team members were worried that we wouldn't finish in time so we fought a lot lf monsters with five mins left before 7pm CST. :p good exp and logged out in a sanctuary
 
Aside from names and fan services everything is different. They don't follow even vaguely similar philosophies.
All true, however when I started playing XIV, I got XI vibes all over the places. It's different, but you can definitely tell this is an MMO set in the FF universe. Not just in it's characters and story, but in that intangible feeling I get from the game.
 
One thing I noticed and really really want and not in 3 months. With the way they changed tradecraft leves and how you need your OWN materials for these you're expected to have a lot more materials in general if you want to do leves. Well they need to fix the freaking inventory and get a sort function in the game ASAP.

I noticed you can just buy HQ items from the marketplace, use them to complete the leve, get a shit load of bonus exp and gil, and then go back to the marketplace and buy more HQ items with your profits, rinse and repeat lol No need to do actual crafting. :v
 
I need some advice about the game. I bought FFXIV vanilla when it launched on PC and stopped playing after like 3 days because I thought it was a clusterfuck. From the first OT I understood I don't need to buy anything else to play ARR (I don't want the L.E. or the additional items) but how am I supposed to do? I can't upgrade the game from the version 1.0, I should uninstall it, but in my account information page on FFXIV site I can't go on to download the game. Do I need to cancel the previous account and use the previous code on a newly one? Will I be able to download the client after that step? It's not clear what I'm supposed to do on the site O.o
Thanks in advance! :D
Sorry for the auto-quote but since it was at the end of the page I suppose nobody read it. Could anybody enlighten me please? XD
 
So, let me fill you guys in on Square Enix's NA support.

I have sat in a chat queue for a total of 5 1/2 hours and I have been booted all 3 times at the top of a queue for there being "no available agent" even though the Queue moved me forward over time.

Then, I called their phone support number and it actually gives me a dial tone. Yes, a multi-million dollar company has a phone support line that gives you a busy tone. I am convinced it goes straight to someone's house.

This is fucking ridiculous. I have never encountered worse support for an MMO.
 
All true, however when I started playing XIV, I got XI vibes all over the places. It's different, but you can definitely tell this is an MMO set in the FF universe. Not just in it's characters and story, but in that intangible feeling I get from the game.

Yeah I feel it too, especially that swelling smile that comes up from seeing an FFXI or FFXII monster or something. Damn, such a nice feeling :)
 
Yay, got my Magitek armor mount!


The finale to the game was incredible. Really enjoyed the final story raid and cutscenes - was a lot of fun.

I do however feel like the last boss should have been a bit harder coming off the previous two.
 
I'm wondering what amount of Gil someone would need to have right now to be considered rich in the game. I really have no perspective at how well I'm doing

See how much the gold spammers are selling for.
If you've got more than 500$ of currency, you're rich. That evens out at roughly 1mil, standing to the latest annoying spammer.
On that tone, why isn't there 'block this person' on right click? @_@
 
Yay, got my Magitek armor mount!



The finale to the game was incredible. Really enjoyed the final story raid and cutscenes - was a lot of fun.

I do however feel like the last boss should have been a bit harder coming off the previous two.

Noice. What level do you even get a mount? I'm guessing a chocobo is first.
 
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