Odin (EU).
Odin (EU).
Hope people stick around or come back for Stormblood for you, then. I'm on Gilgamesh.
Was hoping the set bonus discussion would at least rouse a few of you to discussion, but it appears not. Ya'll just dont want to help my get through my work day in some fashion that's enjoyable.
That sucks, sorry to hear that. Playing MMO's without friends suck. It's easy enough to make new ones, but it's never the same.
Fair enough, I'd posit your leveling experience was probably uncommon at expac release, thus why I didn't account for it. My apologies.
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Gtfo of what? Dungeons? I bet you I could do a dungeon with just a weapon equipped and do more damage than 25-30% of the players in DF.
I don't think set bonuses create any form of elitism. The game could really use some spice and life added to it. I listed some systems ideas I thought were fun and worth discussing. Do you have no input on them? What about your own ideas? Do you have any?
An unfortunate focus on having a certain talent, set bonus, race, keyboard layout or shoe size usually has very little to do with an actual need for it. That doesn't remove the tendency for said focus to appear - particularly in matched groups.
While I am not adverse to change I just happen to think that throught-put enhancing savage-only set bonuses is a very bad change. Graphics, sounds and the like are all potentially good ideas whether they are done as a traditional set bonus, through materia or something else.
The combat gets faster and the story gets better, I will say that, XIV is a game you have to stick with to cross the threshold from "WoW clone" to its own unique identity. I feel like the stop of the level cap is pretty intentional, as level 30 (35 being the free trial cap) is where a lot of people consider that the gameplay and story begins to pick up the pace and become much better.
As for the cutscenes, it's a very, very story driven game, the cutscenes are going to stay a part of it for a very long time.
Never played Tera, but I have seen some screenshots in the past and can see that.
The game does start off slow, yes. And as Veluren said, there will always be a fair number of cut scenes and dialog windows. Very heavy story emphasis. As to combat being slow, again Veluren is correct in that it picks up a LOT later on. If I may ask, what class did you pick to start? Some classes are much slower early on, but at level 50+ get insanely fast and complex.I do have to say though, so far combat has been rather lackluster, and the constant cinematics and dialogues are becoming tedious. though, customization was brilliant and the game runs super smoothly, graphics are brilliant and the game itself has a good feel to it. (I've never played any FF games)
To give this game - specifically low level/beginner content - a fair shake when compared to WoW, create a new WoW trial account and roll up a brand new character on a server where you don't normally play and have no friends. Pick a class/spec that you've never played before so things aren't completely familiar to you. You also have to understand that early on 1) the game treats everyone as if they've NEVER played an MMO before and 2)it's setting up the story of the world for you - which makes sense since as mentioned above, it has a heavy story focus.
You can set up what's called an Entry Level sub. It limits you to 1 character per server, maximum of 8 characters. but you don't really need more than 1 anyway since you can do literally everything in the game on a single character. This drops the cost by $2 a month.The only thing that turns me away from it is that it has a monthly sub. I just don't see the point paying two when WoW offers me so much already.
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick.
And I was like, "That log had a child!"
Ugh.
I just had one of the most painful Dun Scaith runs ever. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. We managed to endure (since my policy is to never leave a group since I'm stubborn and want to see things through to the very end). Yet it was tedious. On the plus side it made me more confident as a tank since I took charge on that level and I walked away with three commendations and the Diabolos card that I've been trying to get for ages.
Then I got the last Frontlines win I needed to get one of the Garo mounts. Just two to go before Stormblood!
Running DS blind when it was new as tank was one eye-opening experience...especially with the last boss and my response of "oh shit my face" after every tankbuster.
Heh, thanks! It's good practice for 4.0 since I intend to tackle the MSQ's as a PLD. I'll be eager to soak up all the new story stuff ASAP during early access to better avoid spoilers and the queue times for content should be much shorter that way. I'll be switching from MCH to SAM as my main but I want to do that when the SAM hype has died down a little. Plus I need to ensure I actually like the SAM animations since the NIN ones were a major dealbreaker for me.
...and RDM, too, looks promising so that's a potential wildcard.
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They definitely hurt. I like the 'tank buster' mechanic, though. It's simple but effective. My least favourite tank mechanic is a tank swap - mostly due to unpleasant memories with Bismarck (EX).
Going back a bit on this reply... I might suggest going ahead and farming up the full set even if you don't care for the whole thing, then getting the title/achievement from the Garo vendor. That way you have the option to buy those items back from the Calamity Salvager instead of having to keep them in your inventory forever. I only started PvPing Sunday, and had a full set by Wednesday and I wasn't even grinding nonstop or anything.
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick.
And I was like, "That log had a child!"
10 Frontlines wins done. No sanity left. Send help. Morons in PvP make Eleccybubb Rage! ELECCYBUBB SMASH!
Is it normal that all the Frontlines I did (started doing them at the beginning of the event) were the Field of Glory ? I never got the other one.
Since Frontlines is a 3-way fight, the average win is not 50% but 33% so it takes longer to achieve a certain amount of wins.
Imo, I didn't find Frontlines to be horrible, I tried one Feast though and I couldn't bear it (maybe because it's full on PvP and not PvPvE like Frontlines). In Frontlines I'm never with the others, I just stay on one of the side near the second closest Crystal of the enemy's base, that way I can steal some points and only PvE .
Yeah depending on whether the other tank can taunt or not I could imagine that to be a pain.
Even with Tank taunts, tank swaps suck in LFR too.
@Scufflegrit: good point.
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Cheapest here is buying gametime cards from MMOGA. 10.5€/month for a full account.
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick.
And I was like, "That log had a child!"
I tend to get Seal Rock and Borderland Ruins if I queue during day, once people get back from school/work, it's usually just Fields of Glory.
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Wish they'd fix Free Company -buffs, out of nowhere got 90002 disconnect during frontline and lost my FC buffs - which resulted in loss of 200 Wolf Marks.
Come back to play and see that the weekly cap is 900, how the hell you get 900 in a week? :P