Dreamwriter
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First picture there were 2 dodos, second picture there were 2 dodos and 2 goats. Thus, doubled.notworksafe said:
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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notworksafe
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Hm I guess I mistook a rock in the first picture for a goat's ass. Damn my poor eyesight.
pancakesandsex
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Think leve NM's might be the new BCNM?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
...It went from 3 beasties to 4.Dreamwriter said:
Furthermore, I see the "after" scene all the time. Don't look any different than it is now.
Dreamwriter
Member
To me I see 2 beasties and a rock in the first pic.Rentahamster said:
So now instead of 2-3 dodos or goats following you around so you can't use AOE attacks on whatever you want to kill there will be 4-5. Coool dudes
The lack of mobs is only a problem in the lower rank spots anyway. If they increase it for some of the other spots i'm thinking about it would break the game in a very bad way.
The lack of mobs is only a problem in the lower rank spots anyway. If they increase it for some of the other spots i'm thinking about it would break the game in a very bad way.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That rock is an Aldgoat ass.Dreamwriter said:
Unknown Soldier
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Shouta said:
Means double the fucking annoying mobs standing right next to you which prevents you from using all of your AOE skills! Fuck you, Squenix! :lol
Unknown Soldier
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Well, I found out what that empty NPC town you found called Owl's Nest in Coerthas is for, Renta. It's used for the archer rank 30 quest. Which is pretty awesome, incidentally. There are a lot of things wrong with this game, but story is definitely not one of them.
skitzophrenicdontpanic
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They didn't go crazy with the class adjustments, that's nice. Nothing but buffs.
I can't wait to try partying after the update! Hopefully with the party search function implemented since my entire group of people from FFXI rage quit the game =/
Or at least improved, I think there is a search function
I can't wait to try partying after the update! Hopefully with the party search function implemented since my entire group of people from FFXI rage quit the game =/
Or at least improved, I think there is a search function
Pai Pai Master
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Someone mind copying the text? I'm at work.
Clever Pun
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At least they are starting to have a sense of humor about things.
Clever Pun said:
I was a little surprised to see that. They just added the enemy distribution article yesterday and then the next day, its in a Q&A asking why the picture example showed nothing major. Did they not know how useless of a photo it was yesterday when they uploaded it? :lol
Musing about FFXIV free trial period extensions:
It's like when you've been broken up with a girl, and she's all like "Oh, you know, I've been working out, you should come over, just hang out, no big deal."
You know you're not interested. You know she hasn't really gotten in any better shape. You just wish she would stop calling because it's embarrassing every time you see her name pop up on your caller id.
It's like when you've been broken up with a girl, and she's all like "Oh, you know, I've been working out, you should come over, just hang out, no big deal."
You know you're not interested. You know she hasn't really gotten in any better shape. You just wish she would stop calling because it's embarrassing every time you see her name pop up on your caller id.
Rentahamster
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Nerf marauder my ass! Hahaha, see I told you guys, everyone's getting a buff since we all have shitty skills.
Pai Pai Master
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I'll admit, the question about the mobs made me lol.
I'm not ready to give them a pass for the last few months but it does seem like they're very eager to get the changes implemented and improve the game. It's just gonna take more patience.
Where can we submit questions? I wanna know about the FFXI discount....
I'm not ready to give them a pass for the last few months but it does seem like they're very eager to get the changes implemented and improve the game. It's just gonna take more patience.
Where can we submit questions? I wanna know about the FFXI discount....
Azzurri said:
It would be great if they did, but I doubt it, otherwise they would have said so by now.
When SE lowered the xp needed for levels in FFXI, I believe it just put you at 1xp below the level cap if you had exceeded it. So if you were 20000/28000 and they dropped the amount of xp needed to 15000, it would show 14999/15000 and you would be the same level you were before.
Rentahamster
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Leveling in order to get good position when the NM hunting comes to pass.
Classic_Gs
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I've been doing that for the past few weeks.Azzurri said:
Azzurri said:
On and off due to real life, but it would be good to be near 20 before the 24th. That way you'll be in a position to beat up NMs day one. Of course if you're below 15, its probably best to wait for the patch.
Nice that it has an effect on everything up to 31 though. Fixed SP and party system should make 31-50 easier too.
Rentahamster
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I'm in the middle of writing a Lodestone post about what SE can do to fix FF14, and I'm pleasantly surprised that some of what I want is being implemented in one way or another.
Hopefully the update will be as promising as it sounds. Words are one thing. Actions are another. I'm optimistic.
Hopefully the update will be as promising as it sounds. Words are one thing. Actions are another. I'm optimistic.
xelios said:
So... the only thing that was even the slightest bit challenging about playing CON, enmity management, just got easier.
What. The. Fuck.
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Dreamwriter
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I agree - enmity management seems a lot like FFXI's enmity, where you actually have to think about it. You can't just spam heals right from the start without grabbing aggro, you have to wait for the tank to get some hate, and even then if you heal a bit too much you grab aggro and have to stop and let the tank get it back.DrDogg said:
I sure hope this udpate doesn't remove that dynamic.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
We need to make a plan to hunt NMs once the patch hits.
Teknoman said:
Sorry, but no. If you played CON well, you didn't get hate from Cure spells. I learned how to judge the enmity from Cure spells in my second party. Very rarely do I get hate from Cures. Now I'll probably never get hate from Cures. Which makes an easy game even easier.
Rentahamster
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I think the problem at least is party caused by the gameplay mechanic that makes it so you have to cure spam. I'd rather see cures have to be needed less often, but generate more hate. Less cures - and therefore each individual cure is of more importance.
Skillful playing would then entail that the tank manage hate as a resource - gather as much as possible, and mitigate as much damage as possible. The healer would have the opposite goal, to mitigate as much hate as possible, while curing damage that the tank takes, if need be.
That way it won't just be mindless spamming all the time.
Skillful playing would then entail that the tank manage hate as a resource - gather as much as possible, and mitigate as much damage as possible. The healer would have the opposite goal, to mitigate as much hate as possible, while curing damage that the tank takes, if need be.
That way it won't just be mindless spamming all the time.
Rentahamster
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Made a new thread on the LS site about NM hunting. Who's with me?
Dont forget:
http://stars-of-destiny.enjin.com/home
Should become really active once SoD company is made.
http://stars-of-destiny.enjin.com/home
Should become really active once SoD company is made.
Unknown Soldier
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Rentahamster said:
Aren't we going to barbs Lord Morbol to death before the patch hits? We should do that tomorrow if enough people log on.
And should be focusing on hitting the level cap before we run off to hunt the NMs.
Rentahamster
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There's probably weaker ones too.Unknown Soldier said:
Unknown Soldier
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So are we going to wait until the December patch to spam GAF to get people to come back, or should we do it after the November 24th patch?
I think a majority of people know about the updates and will probably come back after the november patch.
Personally I don't think even after december there is enough to keep most of them around for that long though.
I logged in a couple days ago, did a couple leve and had enough within 10 minutes, I can't see that changing much for me even with the new updates.
It's kind of sad when I think how much fun I had with 11, 14 is so far removed from that experience.
I would say wait til after the december update though, at least if you want people to stick around.
Personally I don't think even after december there is enough to keep most of them around for that long though.
I logged in a couple days ago, did a couple leve and had enough within 10 minutes, I can't see that changing much for me even with the new updates.
It's kind of sad when I think how much fun I had with 11, 14 is so far removed from that experience.
I would say wait til after the december update though, at least if you want people to stick around.
Unknown Soldier
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Rentahamster said:
Well you're about to hit rank 40 and I'm still at rank 38 and quite frankly at this point with the population as low as it is, unless I fucking grind my ass off 24 hours a day for a week I'm going to be unable to find any parties soon because everyone else is going to be at cap. I'm an archer too, I have no ability to solo anything in this game at my level which would yield any SP. That's what happened to me in Aion, I had to work the closing shift all through the launch window and everyone else was grinding during the day, and even if I had wanted to continue playing (which I didn't), I would have been forced to quit anyways because there was no one to play with at my level after my free month was up.
I'm actually pretty impressed that this game's launch has paralleled Aion's to such a degree. Aion sold over 1 million units in NA/EU at launch, by the end of the first 2-3 months the population was essentially all gone. FFXIV sold 600,000 units worldwide at launch and now server populations are somewhere in the ~25,000 range daily. That means something like 95% of people who bought the game have quit. There's nobody left except the hardest of the hardcore grinders and that's because there's nothing to do right now except grind. So if you can't grind when other people are grinding because of when you work or whatever, then you get left behind. And then there really is nothing left for you to do, because there's no one to grind with, and there wasn't anything else to do except grind. So you're left with standing around admiring your character model, or you quit. That's exactly what happened to me in Aion, and I'm now at a point where I've already been passed by Meep and Gou Zaburou and his crew, and then I joined the red shield LS and now I've been passed by Kas and Tre and their crew, and meanwhile everybody else in the GAF LS has quit except the crafters. I'm at the point where I'm seriously thinking about applying to join that purple shield LS because they still have people my rank I can play with, because there's literally no one else left, either they've all quit, they are crafters, or they've all passed me by. It's exactly like what happened to me last year in Aion. I feel like I'm stuck in a time warp, different game but exactly the same problem. :lol
The difference is this time I actually don't want to quit playing. T_T
Well, that's was excessively serious, here's something to lighten the mood!
http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/27726-how-do-you-know-you-play-ffxiv-too-much/
Haven't had time to play in a few weeks, and to be honest was kind of waiting on the patch anyway. I was only like level 15 or so when I stopped...I think I am the target of this patch!
I'm still interested, but with the patch(es) coming it just seems like a waste of time to do much grindin.
I'm still interested, but with the patch(es) coming it just seems like a waste of time to do much grindin.
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