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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Emenis said:
You gotta kill bombs to get bomb ash. They are easy to get if you kill the bomb before it explodes. If you let the bomb explode before you kill it, well, I guess then it depends on your level and the bomb's.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Slightly rare drop from bombs. Not that bad. Before it was only used for carbon fiber so no one really cared :lol
They fixed stuff, but theres still lots of stuff to be added in December. So if some of your complaints were gameplay based, then yeah. Content based, you better wait.
Also I guess the drawing options in the config were made to replace that buffer option, so probably best to leave them at whatever they are currently set to.
Also I guess the drawing options in the config were made to replace that buffer option, so probably best to leave them at whatever they are currently set to.
skitzophrenicdontpanic
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The UI lag is almost non-existent now. So much better. So happy 
Even the delay between finishing a craft and starting a new one is so much faster!
Even the delay between finishing a craft and starting a new one is so much faster!
demosthenes
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Just got home! Anyone have this file for me to download? XIV updater isn't working
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Aw damn my game just crashed :lol
"World population and nearby player counts are no longer displayed."
Did they take this out of the game altogether? If so, then I'm not sure if knowing for a fact that there's no people playing as opposed to seeing that there's no people is going to help much.
Figaro is supposedly the third most (actually looks like it was fourth most now) populated if those Japanese charts are anything to go by and yesterday NA max was probably ~650.
Would be a shameless change if totally removed.
Did they take this out of the game altogether? If so, then I'm not sure if knowing for a fact that there's no people playing as opposed to seeing that there's no people is going to help much.
Figaro is supposedly the third most (actually looks like it was fourth most now) populated if those Japanese charts are anything to go by and yesterday NA max was probably ~650.
Would be a shameless change if totally removed.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Menus are a LOT smoother, and I got a sweet 2000 SP bonus when I leveled my Glad. Awesome! The map loads faster too, and the icon moves more smoothly on it.
skitzophrenicdontpanic
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Kandinsky said:
There are definitely more mobs around, more noticeable in some places than others. I wouldn't call it a huge difference though. Just a difference.
demosthenes said:Just got home! Anyone have this file for me to download? XIV updater isn't working
http://awk.cenobyte.org/ffxiv/downloads/
RurouniZel said:
They did it in a fairly retarded manner with the SP. Instead of realigning total sp they go and realign just a single level. This shows either incompetence or lack of care, of which I'd go with the latter.
You just need to sum up all base XP per level to the current level, save to a variable, and then add to existing change.
Menus seem more responsive and the auto sort finally is nice. Changing equipment is a lot easier now with the mouse pointer. Still need to reconfigure keys though. Maybe I'm mistaken but it looks like you can remap more keys. I need to take another look to see if I can unmap certain keys so I can bring up menus with just a single key stroke like other MMOs.
HappyBivouac
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Downloading now! It seems like it's been forever since I last actually played this. :lol Can't wait to experience the magic of Miracle Patch Number One!
skitzophrenicdontpanic
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Weapons, Armor, and then other items are kind of sorted together by relevance (food, cloth, grass).
Pants are all sorted together, gloves are sorted together, etc.
Pants are all sorted together, gloves are sorted together, etc.
HappyBivouac
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Don't tell me there is still no way to set my camera movement to the arrowkeys? I tried and it seems there's no way. The fuck is this?
EDIT: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=152&mid=1283565527214155787&howmany=50
Hooray! It even disables the key mapping script when you have a menu open.
I tried and it seems there's no way. The fuck is this?EDIT: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=152&mid=1283565527214155787&howmany=50
Hooray! It even disables the key mapping script when you have a menu open.
When they adjusted TNL in XI they just changed the next level amount on whatever level you were on, you got no bonus based on total xp earned.Atrus said:
I doubt it's something they couldn't do easily, they just didn't want people logging on several levels higher is my guess.
Dreamwriter
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Yeah, I think it would have been stupid to just suddenly jump everyone up a few levels, they did it the best way.
On another note,
"The "Word to Our Players" message that appears upon game start-up now requires players to answer Yes or No before entering the game."
Does Square *WANT* the game to be damn annoying???
On another note,
"The "Word to Our Players" message that appears upon game start-up now requires players to answer Yes or No before entering the game."
Does Square *WANT* the game to be damn annoying???
skitzophrenicdontpanic
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Ravidrath said:
It's even better than that since when you go to equip something, it will only show you items you can equip for that slot.
Dreamwriter
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I do wish they would fix their updater. I can torrent their file from their server in 10 minutes, or I can use their installer, which takes a half hour. Unfortunately, I'm getting some sort of install error with either my torrented file or Gomph's download, so I have to do it the slow way.
Dreamwriter said:
Not to bring up another WoW debate in this thread again, but yesterday I had to install/patch up all of WoW through it's patcher from scratch after installing. It took about an hour for 12GBs. The patcher also allows you to play the game after a certain amount is done WHILE it's still patching in the other GBs worth of data. I was god damn BLOWN AWAY especially after how fuck awful FFXIV's is.
Alright, everyone is going to have to do some serious experimentation to figure out the new SP system. Its nice to have a steady rate of SP no matter what you fight, however...it seems like enemy difficulty doesnt factor into how much SP you get. We fought some Doblyns in Copperbell mines, all with different difficulties in a 7 man group, yet kept getting 95 SP for each kill. We cut through them pretty fast, so it was decent gain, but didnt make sense.
Then after that, HG, Dr.dogg and I decided to try and fight a few with just 3 people. We beat up an Antling, which gave me 152 SP, but HG and Dogg 106 or so. I'm rank 18, HG is 22, and Dogg 21.
Other than not knowing where we should go to exp, and what determines the amount for sure, constant SP, shield SP being the same as main, and the other updates are nice.
Then after that, HG, Dr.dogg and I decided to try and fight a few with just 3 people. We beat up an Antling, which gave me 152 SP, but HG and Dogg 106 or so. I'm rank 18, HG is 22, and Dogg 21.
Other than not knowing where we should go to exp, and what determines the amount for sure, constant SP, shield SP being the same as main, and the other updates are nice.
SuperLurker
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My max HP and MP both went down by about 200 from this patch. I suppose this is their adjustment to MND and VIT? T_T
Dreamwriter
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Everytime I try installing the update, it gets just about done and then errors out with Error 20524. Any ideas? I know that error used to pop up when trying to patch over the hacked hardware-mouse exe, but I never did that.
Everyone at other forums are guessing that this lower SP in parties than solo is some sort of bug and that we should be expecting an emergency maintenance soon...and that does make sense.
If S-E was so adamant about fixing and encouraging party battles, why make party SP lower than solo SP?
People are also posting that battle regimens seem to work 100% of the time now.
If S-E was so adamant about fixing and encouraging party battles, why make party SP lower than solo SP?
People are also posting that battle regimens seem to work 100% of the time now.
Dreamwriter
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Daaang - used to be Coblyns were the worst things for SP in Leves, now they are one of the best things! I took my barely Rank 16 THM to solo "Culling All Coblyns", with Guardian's Favor, 4 stars - I got 453 SP per Coblyn, halfway to Rank 17 after that one Leve!
(I fixed my install problem by reinstalling FFXIV from scratch - patching the entire thing actually didn't take long at all)
(I fixed my install problem by reinstalling FFXIV from scratch - patching the entire thing actually didn't take long at all)
Finished today's session:
- Battle lag and most lag is pretty much gone making everything faster and it takes only a few seconds to switch to a full set of gear by clicking.
- No EXP/SP because your party leader is in another area is still there
- Your party can now tp back after a leve
- SP is based on mob level and is fixed so Black Efts go from giving 500sp each to just 150sp. But the surrounding Lemurs give 75sp per and take like 30 seconds to kill. For now it seems like leveling has actually decreased in effectiveness in a party since you can only engage a single mob at a time.
- Leve-quest mobs however show that if you could claim multiple mobs, SP would increase significantly and possibly be better than before.
- You get SP even if you didn't participate in battle, just stand close enough. This means you can follow and be power-leveled by a much higher leveled player.
- You get 1 SP for killing the weakest mobs like Star Marmot.
- Basic Dire Mite can be found in Nanawa Mines but more can be found around Broken Water to the SW.
- Local leves now have a potential to give marks for all levels and the shard rewards went from 6-7 shards to 30+ shards.
- Almost forgot... download client is still shit so either download or torrent the games update.
- Battle lag and most lag is pretty much gone making everything faster and it takes only a few seconds to switch to a full set of gear by clicking.
- No EXP/SP because your party leader is in another area is still there
- Your party can now tp back after a leve
- SP is based on mob level and is fixed so Black Efts go from giving 500sp each to just 150sp. But the surrounding Lemurs give 75sp per and take like 30 seconds to kill. For now it seems like leveling has actually decreased in effectiveness in a party since you can only engage a single mob at a time.
- Leve-quest mobs however show that if you could claim multiple mobs, SP would increase significantly and possibly be better than before.
- You get SP even if you didn't participate in battle, just stand close enough. This means you can follow and be power-leveled by a much higher leveled player.
- You get 1 SP for killing the weakest mobs like Star Marmot.
- Basic Dire Mite can be found in Nanawa Mines but more can be found around Broken Water to the SW.
- Local leves now have a potential to give marks for all levels and the shard rewards went from 6-7 shards to 30+ shards.
- Almost forgot... download client is still shit so either download or torrent the games update.
Dreamwriter
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Depends on your system and the other settings. I can run at a good framerate with General at 9 and Anti-aliasing at max, or a slightly worse framerate with General at max and anti aliasing at 2x, or perfectly smooth as butter at General default (8) and anti-aliasing at max. General at Max and Anti-aliasing at Max gives me a slide showTeknoman said:
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