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Final Fantasy XIV |OT7| 1000 years DRAGONSONG War
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HylianScribe
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So apparently you can only make your sub go up to 180 days at a time, and my other account is already paid for 180 days so I can't add another 180.
So I guess I have to buy another digital copy and sub now to get it. RIP.
So I guess I have to buy another digital copy and sub now to get it. RIP.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Mine's also arriving 6/23, seems they are coordinating them to arrive on official release date.
lazybones18
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no shipping email for me yet
Unknown Soldier
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Goddammit Squenix stop taking all my money. Stop it right now.
Maybe for you, I'll continue to be awesome.
Edit: Welp, I'm going to bed for now. I expect to wake up to patch notes and madness.
SliceSabre
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Mine matches as well so I guess its ok.
Valonquar
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There goes more of mine... damnit, I thought MMOs were supposed to SAVE me money
Unknown Soldier
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FFXIV launcher now says "You can set expansion to install" or something. File size is apparently 10 GB.
And...it's downloading 8.4GB of something. Expansion content I'm assuming. I guess this means expansion preload is live.
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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/f3cbcbf43ab38340cba0dbb539bbbb160ec3ce9d
Gaiz they are implementing "Channels" for expac launch is this a Christmas miracle
And...it's downloading 8.4GB of something. Expansion content I'm assuming. I guess this means expansion preload is live.
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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/f3cbcbf43ab38340cba0dbb539bbbb160ec3ce9d
Gaiz they are implementing "Channels" for expac launch is this a Christmas miracle
No Papaya, no ba-buy-a!
Amazon.co.jp typically has these at a 10-20% discount if you pre-order. I got great deals on the blue ARR OST and then again with the arrangement CD (even if I didn't like the latter all that much). I'm really looking forward to a full compilation of all the excellence that has been in the last few updates. Dreams of Ice, Wanderer's Palace HM, Keeper of the Lake... so good.
tiggerkiddo
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It's cool they are doing what they can to alleviate server congestion, maybe things will be better than 2.0 early access which was hilariously bad.
Ugh, gonna be stuck at work until 6 AM Friday morning.
Ugh, gonna be stuck at work until 6 AM Friday morning.
There's no Alexander Hard. Everyone gets to skip a grade from Normal to Savage.
Pyros_Eien
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The difficulty naming conventions are so inconsistent. Nothing really new though they already announced the 2/4weeks thing like a couple of live letters ago.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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No ultros though.
SliceSabre
Banned
I made friends with my error messages during those times? How about you?
Gotta make sure you keep us ERPers happy.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
No shipping notice for my CE yet but I got overnight shipping so probably will not send it out until like a day or two before.
DarknessTear
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This is what mine looks like. D:
Critical Elk
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It gives us yet another aoe heal, since you can do succor>et>succor and not have to worry about the second succor being half pot. Or those times when you're spamming adlo at a rate at which the sheild isn't being fully consumed. It would have made healing Flames of Rebirth or Rage of Bahamut marginally less of a pain.
Same here.
Baleoce
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I have a dilemma. I haven't had broadband in 3 months. I moved into a new place and got the royal shaft from BT. They still haven't hooked me up. Mobile tethering has a cap on all mobile data providers in the UK. So since March 21st I've been paying a lot of money to stay online. Problem is, I got to heavensward now, and its about 8 or 10gb all in all, that's gonna cost me a fair bit to get (£25 using Three mobiles Internet add on service), so a very kind friend has generously offered to send me her installation folder with the heavensward update. Is there anything I should be aware of before I try to merge her files with mine? I was going to do that, and then run the installer to see what errors it finds and hopefully it fixes them. It's either that, or just forget about early access and wait for the DVD to arrive from Amazon. Has anyone ever tried doing this before? Thanks.
Any Japanese speakers?
http://lalafell.xxxblog.jp/archives/45218708.html This popped up regarding AF2 gear, not sure if it has anything to do with that though.
http://lalafell.xxxblog.jp/archives/45218708.html This popped up regarding AF2 gear, not sure if it has anything to do with that though.
This is the OT. lol
Nah it's the ARR OT, not the Heavensward one 
GoogleFu tell me it's going to be obtainable with tomestones, but I won't jump to conclusion.
Using Google translate, makes it sounds like the AF2 is going to be a tome-armor this time.
I guess they didn't want to make two versions of the armor this time?
Says that AF2 will be from Esoterics. Also says in the question afterwards that the Alexander Savage gear can be dyed.
Now I'm left wondering if the previous English interview he gave where he said it came from quests was a mistranslation or if something just changed in development.
have I mentioned before how much I hate all this information has to come through random blogs rather than directly to the players....
I never did like the "two versions of AF armor" stuff in 2.0. Was always weird to get this supposedly important gear from class quests and then have random vendor lady sell the same armor.
And then there was the whole Augmentation nonsense.
So that effectively means no AF2 for 4 weeks. >_> Bravo Yoshi-P
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Pyros_Eien
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Well it beats "AF1 until you run AK a dozen of times and replace it with ugly looking gear+darklight". Here, you're replacing Darklight 2.0(Law gear, I assume) with AF2.
lol, that's the first thing I'm going to do and if it's too high I'm logging out and re-considering my life
Oh god. I already almost have 2000 hours on Steam. I'm scared to see what my overall is.
We have glamours now. I would just glamour the armor to everything anyway. As it is, I'm going to be stuck glamouring AF1.5 to everything now instead of AF2.
Well even the JPN players have to browse random blogs. Half that site link is people speculating just like us, someone answering, and then people wondering what the source is.
To make things even more hilarious, one of them references the same English interview we were talking about before someone posts the newer-JPN interview. It's just a poor way to communicate new info to players.
the_sun_king
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Sudden illness, yo. "Oh, I apologize, but I'm really feeling under the weather, I think I'm going to have to cut the evening short so I can get some rest."
LowParry
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Sudden illness, yo. "Oh, I apologize, but I'm really feeling under the weather, I think I'm going to have to cut the evening short so I can get some rest."
Haha yeah I wouldn't hesitate doing so but lanes are already orders, etc. So kinda owe it to go. Besides. Lots of beer is involves can't complain too much.
2.0 issue with the AF armor was a legacy issue from 1.0. AF gear was just under the dark light set in 1.0 and was reliable (especially with 'enhancement's to gear) as top end gear. They didnt want to give Legacy players a leg up on new 2.0 users by essentially handing older players top end gear, so they made the old legacy stuff easy armor to retrieve, darkllight stuff anyone can get with the right amount of grinding, and then gave a reskin armor a chance to be the top end gear again. I am sure that is the only reason it was done this way, and at the time glamour wasn't added yet in the game so augmented armor would not have had a place till then.
The only issue I have with this strategy, as I did with 2.0, is this means even more gear that is gated by weekly cap. A lot of poetics and soldiery gear (Healer, tank, caster etc) fit more then one job. Now we would have to worry about potentially 13 sets of left side armor on weekly resets :/
AF2 and AF...+1 will serve the same purpose; alternatives to Raid1's gear.
Which is the same thing that happened with Myth gear back in Binding Coil. I'm sure we'll go back to role specific currency gear after AF2.
Eh, its less about that for me, and more about the look.
Certain classes have an iconic look, and thanks to the glamour system we can look kickass with stats from later gear.
Now we have an iconic armor set gated behind content. Would've just prefered it as an easier armor set and the people who like it can just glamour their gear to look like it later, especially considering how much of the later gear tends to be absolutely butt ugly for the classes.
Admittedly, I didnt really like how quickly AF1 was eclipsed. It was good for Prea, CM, and Ifrit HM, but people would grumble by the time I got to Garuda HM, and occasionally even in AK.
this was supposed to be legendary armor, and it seemed like it was only suited for a sliver of content.
this was supposed to be legendary armor, and it seemed like it was only suited for a sliver of content.
Idk, Allard's point of it being legacy/holdover over from 1.0 is a good one. I'm pretty excited to see what the devs can do with the start of a new cycle with more freedom and distance from 1.0.
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