[Megathread] Final Fantasy XIV

[Navine]

Limit Break 3 is not soloable by any means.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=282

Yeah, go to true sight areas, when level capped (Quadav/yagudo were worst). Yeah, soloable.

Only Yagudo was not soloable, and only because of a door you had to get through. The other two and everything else in Yagudo was soloable if you prepared for it and paced yourself. If you expected to get run in and get what you needed, you died very quickly. Even with the true sight mobs (Orc/Yagudo) at the end, if you waited patiently for them to turn their backs, they wouldnt aggro. The True sight Quadav was the same, but you just waited for him to move away from the ???.

I will note that the difficult to solo was also dependent on whether the HNM was up or not, though it was rarely the case.

---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 02:31 AM ----------

How about Bard and Arcanist?

The whole "Play Every Job With One Char" is so cool but at the same time I'm not sure if everyone will be as unique. How do you think XIV will be for altoholics?

I played FFXI hardcore from US launch till sometime in 2006 and then off and on since and also consider myself an altoholic. FFXI was also a one character, all jobs game and I loved that aspect and welcome it in FFXIV. As to whether or not everyone will be as unique, I'd say yeah. My Tarutaru was pretty unique on Fairy, even if customization was every limited in FFXI (only 8 models with 2 hair variations each). And even if you level up all jobs, people still tend to favor or are better with a certain job over others. Yeah, it does make it easier to forfill a role if you need say, a healer, but it no different then jumping on an alt you had leveled to do the same.

As for altoholics, it takes a different meaning. Where a lot of people I know in WoW (including myself) or other one character class, one job MMO will level an alt for a different class, In FFXI or FFXIV, you dont have to. However, if you want to play through some lore, you can start a new character for the other cities. There are three starter cities with unique story line through lvl 15 and later starting at lvl 20, you can choice one of three Grand companies to continue your storyline with. So if you wanted to see all aspect of the lore, you have to make a alt (at least 2 others) and start in a different city.

Hope that answered your questions

[Deleted]

Regarding the customization options, in the letter where they were showing the controller functions on PS3, they also showed the char creation, and Yoshi P. stated that this is what will be in at launch, but that they'd 'like to' add more in coming patches.

[Tekkommo]

How is the game compared to what it was like 3-4 months ago?

I got in the beta with the NDA and it was pretty bland and boring, with terrible combat. Has it improved much? Even if you say no, I will probably download the beta again to give it another go. The whole game looked pretty disappointing though.

[Kaisu]

Which phase was it that we get to keep our toons and SE stops deleting them? same time 1.0 toons get copied over?

[Remilia]

Which phase was it that we get to keep our toons and SE stops deleting them? same time 1.0 toons get copied over?

Phase 4 open beta and "maybe".

[Deleted]

Please, FFXIV is a Realistic Fantasy Game, stop using"toon" for Characters. Toons were ok for WoW, Rift, SWTOR where your character seems like drawed, like a cartoon... but in FFXIV is so realistic character that calling it a cartoon is an insult :3

Char as always.

[PenguinChan]

Phase 4 open beta and "maybe".

I'm hoping that it isn't a maybe. Be so nice to start playing the game early.


Also, digital rivers some how went nuts on my pre-order. No longer have anything on my account showing that I pre-ordered it. Is that normal when you buy things from the Square Enix store? The purchase lasts awhile than goes away, and reappears on when it ships to take the money out?

[Kitterfly]

Le' sigh if it's cross-server... that makes me a lot less excited.

They probably won't even have RP servers so I an make some attempt to escape the, "ned guld want raid lol" type of chitter-chatter that has permeated the utterly ignorant masses. How fracking hard is it to type decently? Especially if you're in your twenties or teens, you should've had all of your life to practice typing etiquette. You'd think that English was their third language!

Man I'm in a bad mood now. More reason to hate Blizzard's bull that has so heavily saturated the market.

[Deleted]

cross server is a good feature, some people play at non-prime time hours and could be difficult to find people to do content. I know a friend who come from work at 2.am and he was thinking to play in other continent server to have people to play.. now he can stay on his region server and play content easily

[Kaisu]

I wouldn't mind cross server so much, if it only garanteed it scanned your home server for players first. Then after some time invite someone off server.

[Sleepless Dreams]

Incoming image bomb. (Edit is there anyway to make them scale down to fit the forums?)

http://i.imgur.com/6W3a0mL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yQ6wip2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9MrGKjJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wKzEr8U.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9P59Iuo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bQAc8Nn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Q9nwdkfl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bbX4W6i.jpg
http://s461.photobucket.com/user/hpw...de320.png.html
http://i.imgur.com/4zFjyHvh.jpg

AND! House reference...

http://i.imgur.com/HwC5EAh.jpg

---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 01:16 PM ----------

Sorry for the image bomb! But I've been testing the game and happy the NDA is lifted. I have been really enjoying it. The combat feels a lot like WoW's but with more weight behind the attacks and a lot better animations. The game is a joy to watch in motion. Combat is simple, but I am liking it for it's simplicity. The enemy movements are great. Watching the cactaurs spaz around and hop about like mad is highly entertaining.

As someone who played the first release, this game feels like a completely different game. I am really excited for it to launch.

Let's not play image bombing. Please link gigantic images.

[Kaisu]

Use direct link instead of img / html code.

---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 09:47 AM ----------

Who remembers this guy from 11... I lol'd once i seen em.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...615_065131.png

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I don't see the house reference, but I didn't watch it in english so far, so perhaps...

[Ichy]

Use direct link instead of img / html code.

---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 09:47 AM ----------

Who remembers this guy from 11... I lol'd once i seen em.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...615_065131.png

I remember him, but after playing this past weekend and doing fates and seeing similar NM's from 11. I'm wondering if there won't be NM's at all do to fates, though if this is the case I hope that the fate boss still has a chance to drop that rare loots like NM's did in 11.

[Kaisu]

I didn't notice any loot at all dropping from fate bosses. Just $$ and xp. They were nice in 11 and mostly nothing but a memory now since it seems most MMOs sre staying away from "camping scenes".

Was there any NMs in 1.0?

[Sylreick]

Please, FFXIV is a Realistic Fantasy Game, stop using"toon" for Characters. Toons were ok for WoW, Rift, SWTOR where your character seems like drawed, like a cartoon... but in FFXIV is so realistic character that calling it a cartoon is an insult :3

Char as always.

I'd have to say that characters in rift were more "realistic" than the anime style in FFXIV, though they do look absolutely awesome. They are still video games and will always be "toons" no matter how hard we try to make them realistic.

[Lethey Alexandros]

Le' sigh if it's cross-server... that makes me a lot less excited.

They probably won't even have RP servers so I an make some attempt to escape the, "ned guld want raid lol" type of chitter-chatter that has permeated the utterly ignorant masses. How fracking hard is it to type decently? Especially if you're in your twenties or teens, you should've had all of your life to practice typing etiquette. You'd think that English was their third language!

Man I'm in a bad mood now. More reason to hate Blizzard's bull that has so heavily saturated the market.

On Balmung and Bahamut the two servers I played on in beta testing are kind of unofficial RP servers. There where alot of people RPing over the two day course of the testing this past weekend. Dunno if it will carry over to launch but I certainly hope it does, it made for a nice atmosphere.

[Matheren]

I'd have to say that characters in rift were more "realistic" than the anime style in FFXIV, though they do look absolutely awesome. They are still video games and will always be "toons" no matter how hard we try to make them realistic.

Yeah.. that is such a random and silly complaint to make. And you can't tell me the taru or whatever they're called now aren't cartoony..way more so than any race in Rift.

[athlonmax]

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[Sil-Iris]

Can someone tell if the abve post is legit?