Hello everyone,
With all the positive buzz around this xpac I think I may come back to FF14, I played 30 days back in 2014 and I had a whale of a time getting my Black mage to 50 and completing the main quest, I have done nothing beyond 2.1 as far as I can remember.
So I have a few questions:
1) Since this expansion features heavensward (correct?) and I have yet to do anything after 2.1 how long will it actually take me to reach stormblood content? Will I need more than 30 days of play?
2) How do Black mages play nowadays? Back when I played they lacked a lot of mobility (almost none from what I remember) but the burst dmg was satisfying, have they been nerfed / buffed or completely changed?
3) I picked up a ps4 recently and I was wondering how viable is it to run the game on PC / PS4. For example, once I upgrade my account with Stormblood, is there any way for me to play the game on PS4 with a cheap vanilla copy? I know cant access xpac content, but could I log out on PC in a 2.0 area and log back in on PS4 just to do some crafting etc. ?
4) How is the leveling curve in 2017? I never leveled a 2nd job back in 2014 because frankly it looked like a ball ache, I would have loved to have white mage (ebony and ivory lol) but once I exhausted all the main quests with my BLM I disappointed to see I'd just have use the dungeon roulette over and over to get decent levels.
1. It'll take you a chunk of the month, but I imagine you could get the 2.1-3.5 stuff done. Maybe as little as 2 weeks. They also have story jump potions you can buy off Square's site, that'll let you skip all of the story up until the start of Stormblood, if you want to. Think there's also a story jump potion for just the "ARR" 2.0 game, so you could use that to skip through the 2.1-2.5 story and go to 3.0/Heavensward.
2. BLM generally will always be a stationary job. BLM's do get a triplecast ability in the mid 60's, that will let you run around and throw big spells with no cast time (if combined with Quickcast, that's 4 spells). BLM at 60 get the full Fire4/Blizzard 4 rotation, which are super high power single target spells (Fire4 specifically). The changeup of the battle system changed that some, but that's the basic thing to shoot for. Level 70 goes and adds on a higher damage spell, Foul, that is kind of a rotation added onto the Fire4/Blizz4 rotation.
3. I believe that should work. Say, have stormblood on the PC, and basegame on the PS4. Something I could actually try out, since I did have a copy of the original game, just haven't turned it on since HW.
4. There are a few weekly bonus XP challenge logs, there's Palace of the Dead (randomly generated dungeons that give massive xp every 10 levels). There are a few ways to quickly get up to at least 50 (think preordering Stormblood came with an earring of 30% XP bonus up to level 50). There's also a separate level jump potion you can buy, that will let you have any 1 job get bumped to level 60.
Can't wait to get stuck in