demosthenes
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Kintaro said:
Ohhhh, you're right!
Yea, that would be really weird if they capped them at some kind of total. Awesome, I'm going to start leveling them all through leves until I decide what I want to excel at.
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Ohhhh, you're right!
Yea, that would be really weird if they capped them at some kind of total. Awesome, I'm going to start leveling them all through leves until I decide what I want to excel at.
demosthenes
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Salaadin said:
Yea, it was 7 or 8.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Holy crap, those fieldcraft leves give a ridiculous amount of EXP, especially with Guardian Aspect invoked.
Is there any advantage of doing fieldcraft leves in a party?
Is there any advantage of doing fieldcraft leves in a party?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Does the same exploit work with the jellyfish battle in Limsa?Zomba13 said:Back from ban.
I don't think I'll be in game until release now. Got BBS coming tomorrow (Hopefully. It should have been here Friday or today. Not ordering from thehut.com again) and Halo reach this week and I don't want to burn out on XIV before I actually own the game.
I've decided to start in Gridania, hopefully they don't patch the intro fight exp exploit so I can grind some easy skill on my main job there (1-5 rank and phys on marauder in like 15 mins was nice)
notworksafe
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Had a guild member that hit it once while selling glyphs. It's around 1500. :lolJinko said:
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
OK, I think this is gonna be my plan of action for when retail hits. I'll be Marauder as main with a CON/THA helping out. I really think a Lancer would help this combo out well, so if any of you want to main Lancer, you may be able to join us.
Start game, Limsa hometown; start as main class. Do the exploit (if possible) to gain levels by killing jellyfish during the intro. Maybe until level 5-ish or so.
Do main storyline quest to get 30,000 gil. Buy miner's gear.
Have one party member get the tutorial mining leve. Initiate and share with other party members, everyone gets guardian aspect -> proceed to get lots of physical EXP to increase physical level. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Use the regular fieldcraft leves, if necessary, too.
Switch back to main class. Go and level in my super secret leveling spots until around level 10. Alternately, if that doesn't work too well, do some level 10 levequests to see if the SP/EXP gain is better.
Do rank 20 leves for the nice equipment rewards. Continue leveling main class with a combo of leves and good ol' fashioned EXP grinding.
If/When fatigue starts setting in, switch to sub-job and level that.
???
Profit.
Any crystals and materials that I get in this process will go to whomever is doing crafting from the start (Zomba, Geops, etc), free of charge, as always.
What do you guys think?
Start game, Limsa hometown; start as main class. Do the exploit (if possible) to gain levels by killing jellyfish during the intro. Maybe until level 5-ish or so.
Do main storyline quest to get 30,000 gil. Buy miner's gear.
Have one party member get the tutorial mining leve. Initiate and share with other party members, everyone gets guardian aspect -> proceed to get lots of physical EXP to increase physical level. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Use the regular fieldcraft leves, if necessary, too.
Switch back to main class. Go and level in my super secret leveling spots until around level 10. Alternately, if that doesn't work too well, do some level 10 levequests to see if the SP/EXP gain is better.
Do rank 20 leves for the nice equipment rewards. Continue leveling main class with a combo of leves and good ol' fashioned EXP grinding.
If/When fatigue starts setting in, switch to sub-job and level that.
???
Profit.
Any crystals and materials that I get in this process will go to whomever is doing crafting from the start (Zomba, Geops, etc), free of charge, as always.
What do you guys think?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Cool. I don't want to star in Gridania, though. It takes way too long to walk between camps, and I haven't found as many good exp grinding spots in Grid as I have found in Uldah and Limsa regions.Zomba13 said:
Jinko Jinko - Mining - Alchemy - Armorer
Eithne Rain - Mining - Botanist - Weaver - Goldsmith - Blacksmith
Geops Pluisje - Mining - Botanist - Weaver - Leather working - Goldsmith
Taru Taru - Fishing - Goldsmithing - Any subcraft needed for Goldsmithing
Darsh Schneider - All
Meeru Eilanden - Mining - Botanist - Fishing - Leather working - Culinarian
Doctor Dogg - Alchemist - Weaver - Leather working - Woodworking - Goldsmith - Culinarian - Armorer - Blacksmith
Culinarian will be secondary to the rest at first since I don't think food will be a hot item at launch.
I'll also be leveling CON and THA, but I refuse to party unless SE fixes the system or you guys really need a proper healer/buffer.
By the time the game releases, I should be done with all of my work for the next month or so (at least) so I will be on all day every day until my next project. Hopefully I can get my crafting up fast enough to keep up with the melee classes in the LS so I can keep you geared.
I'll be starting in Ul'Dah, but going to LL fairly early to get the teleports there, then eventually to Gridania a little later to get those teleports.
I really want to create a second character, name him Tarutaru Paladin and just level GLA... but I probably won't.
P.S. F-U SE for a terrible party system and a terrible AH system. But I'll still play your game... :lol
Eithne Rain - Mining - Botanist - Weaver - Goldsmith - Blacksmith
Geops Pluisje - Mining - Botanist - Weaver - Leather working - Goldsmith
Taru Taru - Fishing - Goldsmithing - Any subcraft needed for Goldsmithing
Darsh Schneider - All
Meeru Eilanden - Mining - Botanist - Fishing - Leather working - Culinarian
Doctor Dogg - Alchemist - Weaver - Leather working - Woodworking - Goldsmith - Culinarian - Armorer - Blacksmith
Culinarian will be secondary to the rest at first since I don't think food will be a hot item at launch.
I'll also be leveling CON and THA, but I refuse to party unless SE fixes the system or you guys really need a proper healer/buffer.
By the time the game releases, I should be done with all of my work for the next month or so (at least) so I will be on all day every day until my next project. Hopefully I can get my crafting up fast enough to keep up with the melee classes in the LS so I can keep you geared.
I'll be starting in Ul'Dah, but going to LL fairly early to get the teleports there, then eventually to Gridania a little later to get those teleports.
I really want to create a second character, name him Tarutaru Paladin and just level GLA... but I probably won't.
P.S. F-U SE for a terrible party system and a terrible AH system. But I'll still play your game... :lol
Rentahamster said:
Think its a good idea, but could become very boring doing the tutorial and field leves (remember fieldleves and battleleves count as the same 8), think im just guna take it easy and enjoy the game, start off crafting after I do the main quest.
Probably guna go Lancer or Archer, once archer gets multishot they become crazy overpowered.
Unknown Soldier
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Rentahamster said:
What do you need a lancer for? I'm planning on going Archer/Pugilist, if you want another and either of those classes is of use to you (and I don't annoy you too much :lol), then I'd be happy to join you.
Rentahamster
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The tutorial and field leves don't take that long to do, and they give buckets of physical EXP, which would be good for stat point gains. I was only planning on spending an hour or so on it. At lower physical levels, the 500 or so EXP gained per successful mine is a good percentage of your TNL.Jinko said:
Battle leves seem to be kinda inefficient for skill gains and kinda random. Sometimes, they're too hard and take too long, other times they're too easy and end too soon.
Canti said:
Dont mind him. He's goofy.
I'm not going to be in that big a hurry to level up right away but what I am going to do is travel to the other two cities and collect all the tele points to open up my traveling options.
This is assuming not much changes from the open beta.
I'm gonna concentrate mainly on battlecraft leves and progressing through the main quest. I'll grab all the battlecraft leves in LL then go to one of the other two cities and grab 4 there. I may even check all cities and try to only pick up leves with armor rewards.
valenti said:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...HRVd0otT1RiMldHeEN5S1E&hl=en&authkey=CMitxeUO
Thats what we got so far. Its heavily favored to stay on Lindblum but theres still a lot of doesnt cares and no answers.
Dreamwriter
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Here's hoping it does change, and we get a whole slew of high-level aggro-monsters on the road between the towns. Doubt it'll happen, though...hgplayer1 said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the teleporting changes drastically at launch - why would anyone use the airships if you could just teleport everywhere?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yeah I don't really care what server we're on
valenti said:You know you really should just let people edit it themselves. It's gonna be too much for you
You should also put the disciplines in the same box, that way it'll be easier to see people doing the same disciples
Any better now?
Its also editable now. Hopefully nobody screws with it.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...HRVd0otT1RiMldHeEN5S1E&hl=en&authkey=CMitxeUO
Try to stick with the format and only put your job names in the column designated for that job.
Played a bit of the beta this weekend on Figaro. Made 3 characters in each city and leveled to PGL10/PHYS12. We did about... 10 or 12 rank 10 leves in total and I got around to exploring. All towns appear to be useless in beta but hopefully it'll be possible to set homepoints there given their distance away from Aetherites. Cities themselves were great but Gridania is clearly the worst of the 3. Looks nice but is just a navigational pain especially when the quest directs you to that out of the way Conjurer's guild.
A big issue is the scattered nature of the mob placement. The world is massive, with tons of nooks and crannies to run into (like that town-camp of refugees from Ala Migho) but at the moment you can have an entire interior of a Mesa with just 1 Quiqern Merc in it.
Beastmen themselves are currently isolated. I thought to run to Zanr'ak for Amal'ja but there were just the Pug types. City or camp may be a dungeon elsewhere. I did notice an unnamed dungeon that was locked near a ton of Flamedrake spawns but doubt that's it.
Haven't done crafting yet, but there's clearly a ton of content they're hopefully keeping for launch (quests, mog house, towns, dungeons). At the same time, the GUI is still terrible. The number of menu's aren't streamlined, the targeting is poor, and a number of other technical issues which don't appear to be fixed yet.
Tried the Bazaar system but it's terrible and in no way is stopping the player bazaar camps that are now forming around the repair NPC, the NPC shops and the N entrance of Ul'dah. I see nothing really unique or special about it since player bazaars tend to be superior anyway and you get to interact with them.
Still looking forward to launch though. I'll probably start Shard as a Pug at Ul'dah and have the Rog in the picture be a Weaver/Mage build for much later. Just haven't decided on a server yet.
A big issue is the scattered nature of the mob placement. The world is massive, with tons of nooks and crannies to run into (like that town-camp of refugees from Ala Migho) but at the moment you can have an entire interior of a Mesa with just 1 Quiqern Merc in it.
Beastmen themselves are currently isolated. I thought to run to Zanr'ak for Amal'ja but there were just the Pug types. City or camp may be a dungeon elsewhere. I did notice an unnamed dungeon that was locked near a ton of Flamedrake spawns but doubt that's it.
Haven't done crafting yet, but there's clearly a ton of content they're hopefully keeping for launch (quests, mog house, towns, dungeons). At the same time, the GUI is still terrible. The number of menu's aren't streamlined, the targeting is poor, and a number of other technical issues which don't appear to be fixed yet.
Tried the Bazaar system but it's terrible and in no way is stopping the player bazaar camps that are now forming around the repair NPC, the NPC shops and the N entrance of Ul'dah. I see nothing really unique or special about it since player bazaars tend to be superior anyway and you get to interact with them.
Still looking forward to launch though. I'll probably start Shard as a Pug at Ul'dah and have the Rog in the picture be a Weaver/Mage build for much later. Just haven't decided on a server yet.
Unknown Soldier
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The biggest problem the Aetheryte crystals is that the moment you touch one, you are set to that crystal as the home point. That means you can't home point in a city and then run out to do some leves and teleport back when you're done for free, the moment you touch the crystal in camp to start the leve, you're homepointed there. In essence, all teleporting in this game practically requires anima at least one way, you can deathport back but you need to spend anima to get there first.
I must be crazy, I'm seriously thinking about a computer upgrade now just for this game.
Current general idea:
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P (I love Gigabyte boards)
Intel Core i7-870 (OCed until it cries)
8GB of DDR3-something RAM
new heatsink (old one won't fit Socket 1156)
I already have a single GTX 470 which I OC to 760/1520/1850 but depending how the machine performs with a new CPU, I might add a second one for SLI. Apparently this game scales very nicely with SLI/Crossfire as long as you aren't badly CPU constrained, and I think i7-860 pushing 4 ghz should be enough CPU to get the benefits of SLI.
I must be crazy, I'm seriously thinking about a computer upgrade now just for this game.
Current general idea:
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P (I love Gigabyte boards)
Intel Core i7-870 (OCed until it cries)
8GB of DDR3-something RAM
new heatsink (old one won't fit Socket 1156)
I already have a single GTX 470 which I OC to 760/1520/1850 but depending how the machine performs with a new CPU, I might add a second one for SLI. Apparently this game scales very nicely with SLI/Crossfire as long as you aren't badly CPU constrained, and I think i7-860 pushing 4 ghz should be enough CPU to get the benefits of SLI.
I tapped out of beta yesterday. Made it almost 19 marauder, 21 physical, 13 pugilist, 11 miner, 8 armorer, and a few others. I'm aboard the Reach hype train right now and I will ride that till Sept 22nd.
Good beta experience overall for me. Rocky as hell start, but I know I will be playing this game for longer than I care to admit.
Good beta experience overall for me. Rocky as hell start, but I know I will be playing this game for longer than I care to admit.
Teknoman said:
Nothing set in stone yet but this is what we have so far
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...tT1RiMldHeEN5S1E&authkey=CMitxeUO&hl=en#gid=0
I still gotta put more time into the beta before its done for good. Im trying to knock VC2 out before I play more though. Im hoping to have that wrapped up by Thursday.
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