MagicWithEarvin
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10-hour maintenance once a month would be ideal, but once a week? Hmm...
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10-hour maintenance once a month would be ideal, but once a week? Hmm...
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My friend has been trying to join for days. He checks a lot and it is never open. He said that every server has been open at some point or other but Ultros. I am only lvl 22 so I am just goingto re-roll tonight so I can play with all my friends.
Pai Pai Master
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The game has been in service for 2 weeks and they've been forced to do major maintenance in both weeks to increase server capacity. That doesn't mean they have regularly scheduled weekly maintenance.
Shouta
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Meh, It's still gonna be a Garuda eventually. Details!
Ifrit is actually still very good though. Its damage is higher than Garuda/Emmy
s skills and it has access to all of its damage skills without being instrusive to most situations, aside from sleeping. The push-back gust needs to be short ranged to execute which kind of defeats the purpose of staying far away.
chickdigger802
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hope so. how many mmos these days don't have regularly scheduled maintenances though?
BananasWithGuns
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Has anyone gotten a response from a GM after filing a report for cheating?
A few days ago I ran into someone using a bot to camp and kill the diremites in North Shroud for webs and just now I saw someone using a teleportation hack combined with a mining bot in Eastern Thanalan.
I reported both but never got a response from the first one which was maybe 3 or 4 days ago. Just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
A few days ago I ran into someone using a bot to camp and kill the diremites in North Shroud for webs and just now I saw someone using a teleportation hack combined with a mining bot in Eastern Thanalan.
I reported both but never got a response from the first one which was maybe 3 or 4 days ago. Just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
Nope. At the most you move from side to back. Big deal?
DRG has to worry about DoTs, buffs and all kinds of positional shit in just one rotation. It's actually sad.
It actually says when you report someone for cheating you will not be updated.
BananasWithGuns
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Ah alright, guess I missed that. Thank you for letting me know.
Guess I was just used to FFXI where you waited a half hour and a GM came and talked to you. Just wanted to make sure it was all going through.
FrankNitty
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I use one of these as well and I do not use no where near all the buttons on it. What I do is use the main top/forward buttons. Mapping things like blunt arrow to the first one etc. I have some others mapped on it like sprint and my mount to the mouse wheel tilt.
mainly I use the top 6 for skills and the bottoms for consumables and such. I then have the shit key which is equivalent to ctrl fo a few other items like buffs. The main thing to remember is that you may have to set multiple profiles so when you change jobs. I have all jobs at 50 but only play 3 really so it works that the mouse has 3 profiles.
I also have a Razer Anansi which you may want to check out. it has 7 buttons underneath the space bar that act as modifier keys ctrl, alt, shift, and a combination of them which can be remapped. much more intuitive then the mouse in my opinion.
Aurum Vale. The boss pops 5-6 sprouts that grow into Morbols if not killed quick.
Apart from as a targeting crutch, the mean time to kill w/Fira (ignoring MP issues) beats single-target with four or more enemies. So if there are four or more targets that aren't CCed, and MP is not an issue, then AoE.
However, due to encounter design, this basically only happens with the Aurum Vale boss.
Er? No, 11's one of the few MMOs that doesn't have a weekly maintenance. Apart from emergency maintenance, it only goes down for patches.
The standard patch time is 10AM Pacific, so cutting off the very end of JP time and the very beginning of Europe. 14 will probably revert to that pattern for standard patches, but the past two Wednesdays have been huge reshuffles of the data centers to I can see why they're starting at 9AM Tokyo time when the entire NOC staff show up for work.
Well, I'm at level 39War right now. If I focus only on leveling that one class, I might be able to get up to 50 by the end of the weekend. I was planning to pause for an evening and level my GLD high enough to get Provoke though, so I'll have to decide how important prompt leveling is to me.
notworksafe
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XI and 1.0 are/were like 2 hour maintenance every 2-4 months. I expect that to be the norm when things settle down.
So it's not a good spot for fates then?
Not as fast as those 10 seconds fate but at least I won't miss them now when I go afk D:
STF is separate from the GMs.
The GMs don't actually do any banning and don't ever seem to go beyond jailing people if necessary. STF is the crew behind the scenes monitoring things monthly and dropping a giant ban hammer all at once at a number of accounts.
Also, as an example of how completely serious they are and don't fuck with the STF because they will ban the shit out of you, here is XI's STF history.
Seriously, SE doesn't fuck around with RMT when they get going and generally don't fuck around with exploits, even minor ones. Windower players in XI got a shitload of bans, Salvage exploiters... played for 5 years? 0 fucks given, get the fuck out of our game.
Expect things to settle down a bit, as the more glaring shortcomings of the servers and game are addressed.
i use a naga and i should set the side buttons to alt/ctrl/shift # but i just left it to 1-6 and set my most used skills on it like cure, cure ii, esuna, and sprint.
lets me play with one hand most of the time in dungeons
Sir Griffith
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It's a necessary and beneficial maintenance.
Unless you enjoy bad DF queues or even "server is full" messages all day.
chickdigger802
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so how does ff14 RR combat hold up compare to 1.0, 11?
never really dabbled in the other ones, and tbh I only bought this because it was cheap on gmg and i had a few beers.
never really dabbled in the other ones, and tbh I only bought this because it was cheap on gmg and i had a few beers.
XI is closer to 1.0's combat only by virtue of how slow they both were.
Honestly XI, 1.0, 1.23 & ARR's combat systems are all wildly different
ARR & 1.23's combat being the most similar, but even then it's a big jump from the GCD and everything having a unique cooldown.
You stole my post.
Pai Pai Master
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I guess not many, but FFXI does not.
'Weekly' was probably a bad term to use...didn't really mean to derail things here.
Btw, thanks for all the responses on the dps questions guys!
Didn't XI have a weekly maintenance once a week for a few hours after it came out stateside?
Btw, thanks for all the responses on the dps questions guys!
Didn't XI have a weekly maintenance once a week for a few hours after it came out stateside?
I personally enjoyed tanking in 1.23.
It was slow but everything was precise in a way XI's tanking felt... well somewhat.
For everything else... eh.
BananasWithGuns
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Damn, that's pretty crazy lol. Nice to see that they're on the ball. Thanks for sharing.
I hope they end up doing something like that for FFXIV as a deterrent for some of the stuff that has been popping up.
There's a few videos floating around of those teleportation hacks so hopefully SE can nip that stuff in the bud before it spreads too much. Though teleportation hacks themselves are incredibly easy to detect so outside of RMT I don't think people fully understand what they're getting into.
chickdigger802
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how does quests and classes work?
Like I wanna do some side quests, as a higher level toon, but cash them in for my lovely conj that throws pebbles.
would that work?
Like I wanna do some side quests, as a higher level toon, but cash them in for my lovely conj that throws pebbles.
would that work?
Both, but when they ban waves, they're gigantic.
Square is not in the habit of taking their servers down, ever, for any reason. In FFXI you could stay logged in for months if your machine didn't crash first. This is for major infrastructure upgrades.
chickdigger802
Banned
They all share a methodical pace.
Compared to 11, 2.0 is somewhat faster, and much more focused on rotation. 11 was much more reactive, with 3-5 second delays between each action and most actions on 60-180 second timers. Damage was primarily done with autoattack and through a completely different TP mechanic that counted up and provided a single weapon skill every 30-60 seconds of DPSing.
On the flip side, there was much more ability variety. Each job eventually got access to eight, then ten, of these skills per type of weapon it could equip, with three or four remaining viable into the endgame and advanced/creative macroing even allowing some to perform multi-weapon combos.
In addition, you could rely on having 5-10 active abilities.
The spell lists were far longer, with the methodical pace, longer MP recovery times, and longer recast times encouraging use of two or three different levels of a spell during a fight. Elemental affinity was also paramount rather than almost-ignored, meaning casters would need to have particular elements macroed for different enemies.
Last but not least, there was a timing-based combo mechanic for weapon skills, where performing them in a specific order with the proper timing triggered one of 14 different elementally-associated "skillchains" that inflicted bonus damage. Mages could also join in by casting from the associated element.
Most of these factors are unlikely to return in 14, as looooooooong CDs and GCD are anathema to the modern MMO player and parsing eventually proved that more damage was being lost waiting to skillchain than gained by skillchaining. The 2.0 controller implementation is also a lot less suited to broad versatility than either 11 or 1.0's, even though it's significantly better for the game as it stands now; it's great for giving you 16-32 skills every 2.5 seconds but nowhere near as good at giving you 50 neatly-organized ones every 5 seconds.
1.0 leaned toward 11-style, 1.23 (somewhat) toward 2.0.
I think it's locked to whatever class picked the quest up. You can do the objectives as any class, but only the class that picked the quest up can get the EXP.
I think.
Ah, I was sort-of right. It basically has to be your level or under for the class you want the EXP to go to.
Yes, it works. You can also switch to a DoH/DoL and as long as it meets the level check, you should be able to turn it in.
Only certain quests are locked.
Class-Job quests are often locked.
Relic Quests are locked.
For the rest if you want to swap jobs to complete it then swap back when you turn it in, it's A OK.
So I can turn in a level 48 quest and give all that tasty EXP to my level 1 person? Or is it still a level requirement thing.
There was probably a regular patch day at some point, because the game definitely had some technical growing pains, but I've played off and on since PS2 launch and I don't ever recall a scheduled maintenance that didn't come with a patch.
Yes, usually. This also works for gathering jobs.
Quests WILL be locked to a minimum turn-in level, some of which are even higher than their accept level.
chickdigger802
Banned
i recall the notice saying if you switch classes during leves, you might be penalized or something.
No.
If you need to be level 30 to get the job, you need to be level 30 to turn it in.
You can get a level 1 quest, swap to your level 50 to do whatever task it asks, then turn back to level 1 to turn it in...
But you can't get a level 49 quest, and walk up there with a naked level 3 Conj and expect to get any xp.
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