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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Unknown Soldier
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Cmagus said:What is it about new content that makes people douchebags just curious like holy crap what a day yesterday was with this game. These new NM's have people so obsessive and bitchy I was in three parties hunting them.I figured whatever just try to grab them and hopefully get some gear but of the three groups I was in we had trouble grabbing them in two of them a person threw a hissy cause we couldn't get it swearing and trash talking the other groups.I didn't feel like making enemies haha bad enough the population is declining. The third the guy got so mad he booted everyone but his friend.Just this morning I was going after one with someone from my other LS and same thing he got so mad he said "I've had enough im leaving bye" and left like a little whiner.
Also when we managed to claim on others stood around and kept bitching that we were taking to long lol like seriously of course I slowed my attack to drag it out longer just cause. After today I've given up on these haha what a shitty day in this game I spent most of my day listening to people whine and apologzing to major groups so I didn't get blacklisted. Funny enough though I managed to solo two myself so I at least got some NM action but no gear
The sad part is that these are all mid-level NMs which drop gear you can level past in a few days of consistent play. Well, the community for FFXI was legendary for how bad it could be, so maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
Rentahamster
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The weapons, yeah. A few of the armor pieces have places in endgame DPS roles.Unknown Soldier said:
Kinitari said:
-SP is now awarded by a set amount based on your rank vs the monsters rank, its no longer random and everyone in the party gets an equal share of SP.
-You can leve link with party members on the same leve to increase party sp.
-Level 50 and lvl 30 NM's have been added.
-Sidequest have been added.
-Marketwards actually work now.
-Crafting has been streamlined.
-Battle Regimens actually work now.
-Anima cost to cities has been cut in half and you can now select 3 camps as a favourite so you pay half the anima.
- New craftable armour and weapons have been added + new untradable gear from rank 30 NM's.
- last 8 recently used recipes are now stored in your recipe book, and 8 last learned recipes from NPC's.
- UI is faster, less laggy and better over all
Can't think of anymore at them moment.
You can check the patch notes at the lodestone.
Lumpy Onion
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Teknoman said:
Thanks, the recipies on the lodestone look like a pretty good place to start. Very easy to read and well organized. I am a THM so I am going to focus on Goldsmith and Clothcrafting. I am guessing this is a good idea to get stuff specific to my class.
Names Andel Dulante on Lindblum server.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Finally got around to changing my avatar....
Too lazy to make a static image of my old one at the moment....
Too lazy to make a static image of my old one at the moment....
Hi all, I started playing this yesterday I just wanted to ask if I was going in the right direction.
What I've done so far is started in ul'dah and have done a few of the adventures guild quests, went to the first camp outside of town and did about 5 or so quests.
Now I'm back in town doing more of the tutorial stuff I guess, so my question is do I just keep doing what I'm doing and go through all this story based stuff?
If so does the game eventually just go 'okay you know what your doing now' and then send you off to quest hubs?
Or is relying more on the player to go adventuring and discovering places for themselves?
Thanks for any replies and so far the games been pretty enjoyable
What I've done so far is started in ul'dah and have done a few of the adventures guild quests, went to the first camp outside of town and did about 5 or so quests.
Now I'm back in town doing more of the tutorial stuff I guess, so my question is do I just keep doing what I'm doing and go through all this story based stuff?
If so does the game eventually just go 'okay you know what your doing now' and then send you off to quest hubs?
Or is relying more on the player to go adventuring and discovering places for themselves?
Thanks for any replies and so far the games been pretty enjoyable
staticneuron
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Ignignort said:
You don't get any rewards for exploring. I myself made it to mor dhona the other night. I patted myself on the back and made a hat out of construction paper.
What is next for you is more leve's. And if your lucky linked leves. Just to spice it up every hour or so you can participate in a behest, or simply indulge in the pleasure of grinding mobs.
Gromph said:
Nice pic, I'm sure I've seen you running around on Wutai.
These low rank NMs are quite fun. I managed to solo 9 so far on MRD Rank 50.
They are really fun to fight 1vs1. Hardest one for me was Old Six-arms, came really close to losing on that one. Glad I got drop on 1st kill, haha.
Lumpy Onion
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Slowly starting to get addicted to the crafting in the game. It made me happy to make myself a pair of gloves and a turban from weaving. I went from Ul'Dah to Limsa Lominsa in hope of getting some Wind Shards for my recipes and got around 15 of them until I got killed. Any advice for getting wind shards around Ul'Dah so I don't have to make such a trip?
Lumpy Onion
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Teknoman said:
Not yet. Was I sent one? Actually I haven't talked to any real people yet in the game. lol Still coming to terms with the overall flow of the game. THM seems to be pretty fun, but I am kind of overwhelmed with the amount of spells at my disposal.
GrumpyAlien said:
If you have lightning shards to spare...
Grab an alchemy tool and the next time you're in LL, go to the NPC named Holasfhis
http://ffxiv.yg.com/item/tiger-cod?id=3011205
Buy tiger cods.
1 tiger cod + 4 lightning shards = 12 wind shards
This is a level 1 alchemy recipie. You might get close to breaking but risk goes considerably down after level 5 which shouldn't take you long to get if you just grind on this.
Munba
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Did you notice the new sidequest dialogues bring to the several things they'll add (soon)?
Spoiler ahoy,
I really like they use the story parts to introduce the fixes and the missing elements, pretty brilliant.
Spoiler ahoy,
Some quests speak about the implementation of airships, by uldah engineers, to encounter Garlean in the sky, other about Ishgard knights against the Wyrmking's horde.. and another to a possibile destroying attack to the black shroud.. that'll brings to the graphics remodeling of the forest probably.
I really like they use the story parts to introduce the fixes and the missing elements, pretty brilliant.
Riposte said:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...equests-(work-in-progress).?p=96569#post96569
Seems there are quests in a couple of the hamlets as well, guess I should check those out.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Just go on without me lol
Still learning about the game and I have a few questions.
So I started off as a Gladiator, so I have a sword. I understand that if I want to become a archer style of character I can just equip a bow right and then I rank up that particular skill?
Also my gear looks crappy, it's all dull and brown, tell me it gets better haha
So I started off as a Gladiator, so I have a sword. I understand that if I want to become a archer style of character I can just equip a bow right and then I rank up that particular skill?
Also my gear looks crappy, it's all dull and brown, tell me it gets better haha
Rentahamster
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You rolled on Lindblum, right? Join the GAF LS and we'll hook you up with all kinds of shit.
Unknown Soldier
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Teknoman said:
I don't know if you are being serious here or not. Squenix's track record since the turn of the century with combat systems is working against you here. I'm not holding my breath for a miracle combat system upgrade, and neither should you. The last combat systems in a FF title I enjoyed were FFX and X-2, everything after that has been mediocre to downright bad.
The biggest reason I'm sort of distancing myself from FFXIV is because I simply don't trust Squenix to somehow go back to auto-attack and make that an improvement over the current system. I don't want to be disappointed (again) when Squenix fails.
IonicSnake
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Haven't been on in some time, so many changes are planned that I don't want to focus on something that will in the end be changed or removed.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
So how likely or unlikely is it that SE is going to end up pulling a Star Wars Galaxies NGE on us?
What were the root causes of SWG's failures anyway, and are they applicable to FF14's current situation?
What were the root causes of SWG's failures anyway, and are they applicable to FF14's current situation?
Unknown Soldier said:
Just optimism and the fact that I really wasnt too bothered by XI's battle system. They arent going to completely fall back to that since for better or worse, every FF main number game has a different battle system. Maybe strategic isnt the right word, but I doubt its going to be horrible, since this system isnt that bad in the first place.
If anything, the new system will be a faster form of XI or XII's auto attack system along with some other additions/improvements. Really, whatever makes everyone happy, able to participate in a fight without whining, and enables us to get more parties together, have more challenging dungeon/world event content, and finally get the story ball rolling again.
Of course these are going to be paired with other job changes, so I dunno whats in store there.
Rentahamster said:
I doubt things will change that much. Didnt SWG basically flip the script to where every class operated totally different than before, along with sorta restarting characters?
Rentahamster
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What's your character name?dc89 said:
BentMyWookiee
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Can the main storyline quests be done for multiple nations? For example, if I start out in Ul'dah and do the storyline quests there, can I eventually do the storyline quests in Limsa Lominsa or Gridania? I think FFXI let you do this by changing to a different nation.
Are the quests lines different all the way through? Or does each nation get the same quest, just with a different quest name and NPC or something?
Are the quests lines different all the way through? Or does each nation get the same quest, just with a different quest name and NPC or something?
BentMyWookiee said:
You can't do the other quest lines for the moment but you really aren't missing too much since they converge around rank 20. Basically each nation gets 3 'standalone' quests but the rest everyone does. They are very good though, make the one you want to be your home nation as your main character, and just make a second to go through the other quests, you just need to get up to rank 15 to complete them.
Rentahamster
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If it's feedback they want, it's feedback they'll get!Jinko said:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/7972-Devs-Want-Behest-Feedback?p=99984
Rentahamster
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The FF14 updater is a torrent.Cmagus said:
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Cmagus said:
The FFXIV Updater only is uploading to other players when it's going, similar to the WoW patcher. You might have uploaded 800-900MB during the patching process, but the game client itself doesn't use very much data.
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