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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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ScrapBrain
Member
This game right now...just...ugh
ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. I tried to get into cold steel for around 5 hours, took a break and got in the line to see if that would help, waited another hour, got to the front, no dice after another 100 attempts. The story is the reason I play this game, and I'm blocked by the solo PVE instancing? Why isn't this handled client side anyways? It's a solo encounter, just transmit completion data to the server once it's done, this is ridiculous...
They say your body is 80% water...I have 80% brine right now due to all the added salt
ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. I tried to get into cold steel for around 5 hours, took a break and got in the line to see if that would help, waited another hour, got to the front, no dice after another 100 attempts. The story is the reason I play this game, and I'm blocked by the solo PVE instancing? Why isn't this handled client side anyways? It's a solo encounter, just transmit completion data to the server once it's done, this is ridiculous...
They say your body is 80% water...I have 80% brine right now due to all the added salt
Thanks for that link. Now my code is invalid apparently. I'd rather deal with queues....
GuitarGuruu
Member
Try 3600 on Gilg.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Tech: "OK Sir, we've added instances to accommodate " Best Served with Cold Steel". Should we do the same for the next solo instance 30 minutes later?"
YoshiP: "Nah. Fuck 'em. Fix it in 15 hours."
YoshiP: "Nah. Fuck 'em. Fix it in 15 hours."
Did they? Because I'm still stuck on the Raubahn boss fight.
First dungeon down. Earthly Star is stupidly good, but I'm dumb and keep burning it right before aoe damage somehow. It's not quite Assize, but it's almost as good.
I started yelling SKIP EVERYTHING as soon as people started getting into Cold Steel because... Yeah.
It seems to be happening intermittently everywhere, but if everyone watches cutscenes you're all gonna hit pipin at the same time and it's raubahn 2.0
I started yelling SKIP EVERYTHING as soon as people started getting into Cold Steel because... Yeah.
It seems to be happening intermittently everywhere, but if everyone watches cutscenes you're all gonna hit pipin at the same time and it's raubahn 2.0
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
I'm so glad to have got through that mess.... ugh.
Earthly Star is the best! So pretty.
I don't like losing story but I'll do that next time and watch people streaming the quests I skipped later. Better than to stay put for hours.
It's starting to sound like there are a decent number of solo instances sort of throughout; just hit Kugane and /shout about one that's kicking people.
Doesn't sound as bad as Cold Steel, but I dunno if it's going to get worse.
I still have spell effects off (RIP) so all I got to see was a fairly wide circle of yellow sparklies.
I actually managed to stay inside of it
once
Edit: Yeah, 90k'd at the next-next solo instance:
It's Probably A Trap
It'll get worse. The pileup from Raubahn is getting bigger and bigger.
Guess that's the best way to learn Sam aside from gradually increasing trial / duty roulette.
Demoskinos
Member
Wait... does PvP give xp to Pve? Or just your PvP rank?
Note to players who initially owned FFXIV on PC before it was released on Steam and then decided to buy it on Steam when that version was available (and used the same email for both):
DO NOT BUY THE STEAM VERSION OF STORMBLOOD
Square will not let you redeem the steam keys on your account as they consider your account a non-steam PC account. You MUST buy the non-steam PC version of Stormblood from Square's store.
Consider that a PSA
DO NOT BUY THE STEAM VERSION OF STORMBLOOD
Square will not let you redeem the steam keys on your account as they consider your account a non-steam PC account. You MUST buy the non-steam PC version of Stormblood from Square's store.
Consider that a PSA
zedreamcast
Member
This doesn't effect someone who bought the steam version in the first place right?
No, only the (hopefully) rare situation where they had a non-steam PC account before they rebought it on steam (IIRC FFXIV launched on steam at the same time as the 2.0 relaunch).
Still, it's something I would have liked to know before I bought the expansion on Steam.
Mystic Theurge
Member
Wow, this is horrible. Much worse than Heavenward's launch.
I'm expecting a refund of a couple of days.
I'm expecting a refund of a couple of days.
Demoskinos
Member
Well shit. Forget FATES I'm going to grind Feast then for that mount.
Hahaha I wanna cry that's me all afternoon
On the up-side, you can use discounts at GMG etc to get cheaper expansions. I wish I didn't have the Steam version...
Hey guys. I'm just getting into the game, level 10 character. I'm wondering if it's necessary to do the hunting logs / dungeons / those quests which you pick up by the dozen from an NPC and then activate in a specific location in order to keep up with the main quest level requirements, or can I just ignore them for the most part?
pretty sure its listed somewhere that pc and steam arent the same thing. people ran into the same thing with HW
StanleyPalmtree
Banned
ignore them, main story quests give you enough exp to just power through the story up until nearing lvl 50, at which point its faster (and much more fun) to do dungeons or POTD to keep lvling up at a pretty fast pace.
fluffydelusions
Member
You don't have to do everything but some quests unlock stuff like PvP modes for instance or aether currents so you can fly in certain zones and you will have to do dungeons at some point during the MSQ anyway.
Hunting logs are good bonus exp. Not mandatory IIRC
Dungeons are a great way to earn Exp as well as play with other players and learn your character. Queue up for Guildhests (think of these as trainer dungeons) while you are doing normal quests and when you are done with those then start Queuing up for dungeons.
The last type of quest you describe are Levequests. Those can give you some rewards that are valuable (including a currency that is eventually useful).
If you want to level up fast, in ranked order:
- Unlock the Palace of the Dead endless dungeon mode and play that. See this wiki page for details (look at the Floor 1-50 entry requirements): https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Palace_of_the_Dead#Floors_1_-_50
- Do Fates that are around your level (those are the blue circular zones with timed mission objectives that sometimes pop up while you are exploring) (this is tied with #3)
- Do all Guildhests as a tutorial and then do dungeons (this is tied with #2)
- When you are in a zone with a hunting log enemy, find them and get that bonus exp
- Do levequests
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Tried to do a mainline story quest... got booted and have failed to log into the server for over 20 mins now... I haven't even bought stormblood, I just started playing the game this week and I'm only level 24. Didn't think I would have a worse online experience than the first week of MLB 17 this year but this tops it. Come on S-E
Zomba13
Member
Stepped away, came back and was knocked off.
Queue is now 3,829. Holy fuck.
Don;t know if this is better or worst. (from like, 3 years ago)
skLaFarebear
Member
man these servers are so fucked right now, disconnect everytime i make it into the queue
I'm liking the pvp action changes but hate how unbalanced the jobs are.. If you're a melee dps in frontlines you're just gonna get shot from across the map from ranged dps before you can even get close to them.
Before you had stuff to deal with this like gap closers and defensive cooldowns but those are all gone, for the job I'm using anyways.
Before you had stuff to deal with this like gap closers and defensive cooldowns but those are all gone, for the job I'm using anyways.