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Angry Amadeus_sl

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Turbo_sl said:
Hahah, glad I'm not the only one. I basically am doing a texas twister smoke bomb and have the office think i'm in one place and corporate think I am in the other. I can run my department remotely so i'll still be doing things but that is what a 3rd monitor is for. Only bad thing is i am missing dinner and an important meeting with our CEO which is hard to get face time with ($9 billion a year company) but fuck it I can conference call in! I just bought 500 dollars worth of every god damn thing I've been craving for the last 6 months and I am locking myself in for 9 days straight of moogle slewing. I've been on a 6 month MMO sabbatical and been really focused on lifting and eating healthy this whole time so I am ready to go hog wild. 4 different types of Captain Morgan lined up and more cans of easy cheese then i've ate in a life time baby!

Going to go play my last game of basketball for a while since i'm sure my ass won't be leaving the seat for 9 days other then to empty the piss bag and walk half way to the shower before deciding "i can go one more day" ! Its so funny when you see spoofs on TV about this shit like on Big Bang and Penny playing MMO's on how much of a slobs they become because its so fucking true. I have a very professional career, I'm very social and well rounded for todays standards and probably 3 people in the world that i currently deal with at all in my life even know I play games but when it comes to an MMO release.....its god damn game on Donkey Kong! Luckily after the rush to 50 is over and epenis erection has been sustained long enough then I get to go back to a balanced life of work > lifting/bball > slew moogles but for this one week its 20+ hours every day and usually 40-50 hours straight the first few days.

We are an interesting breed of people aren't we my friends.

(ps..i decided to go old school favorite and bought 25 totino's pizzas....i literally am going to destory 6 months of hard lifting and boxing in 1 week, its going to be fucking epic.
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This is where dreams go to die.
 
Nola

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Nija_sl said:
It's kind of both. You'll level like a DPS, but you can go into a tank stance and do less damage and have more health. With a bunch of self heals.

We're all trying to figure out what's better though, more health or more defense? I think Pyros said it a few pages ago - paladins (with a defense buff) will be better for getting shit done the first time. That will change to warrior once things are on farm and you're after speed. (and the Warrior is geared, obv)
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I'm torn between a paladin and a warrior. Here is a video giving a good example why it is better for a warrior to spend points into strength. Apparently warriors got buffed out the ass. A lot of the warrior's self healing abilities is based off damage. So more strength is more damage meaning more heals. Go to the 5:00 minute mark for the warrior changes.

 
Nija

Nija

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Jesus, an hour after I buy it off Amazon and start the GMG refund process:

Thank you for contacting the Square Enix Support Center

We apologize for any inconvenience in this issue. The error with the region mismatching has been resolved. Please try your code again on the registration page.

http://preorder.na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Thanks,

Square Enix Support Center

And they just emailed me a RAAU key. That's what I get.
 
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Weaponsfree_sl

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And the list of things I have tried to get past the 11006 error continues.

Put my computer in the DMZ
Remove all firewalling
Safe Mode with Networking
Every file is running as administrator

Can't poopsock when you can't even patch the game.
 
Gravel

Gravel

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Malakriss_sl said:
Yeah, their mail server is adjacent to a black hole so the time dilation is staggering.
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Strange, because this one is time stamped from 20 minutes ago, and yet it says:

Yesterdaywe launched the FINAL FANTASY? XIV: A Realm RebornT pre-order redemption website that will allow users to receive their pre-order bonuses including Early Access to the game prior to launch. Unfortunately, we were able to confirm an issue that led to customers receiving an incorrect Early Access code for their territory.

We have confirmed that the Early Access code you received when redeeming your pre-order code from the website is a European code, when it should be a North American code.

We have successfully addressed the issue and have reset your pre-order code so that it may be entered into the website again.

Please visit the pre-order redemption site and re-enter your existing pre-order code which will now give you the correct code for Early Access and your other pre-order bonuses!
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But the one I got with the RAAE code (where I input it on the 20th and error 3'd for hours) was time stamped on the 20th and I didn't get it until yesterday.
 
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rolx_sl

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mkopec_sl said:
you are cheating, then....

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130708-1532)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 4.20GHz
8087.039MB
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series(VRAM 4095 MB) 8.17.0010.1172
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8 gigs of ram half of that is used basically by win7 which leaves you with probably less than 4. With his i7 and double your ram that is probably the difference, also depends on what reso you are using he might be running smaller which increases frame rate.
 
mkopec

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Weaponsfree_sl said:
And the list of things I have tried to get past the 11006 error continues.

Put my computer in the DMZ
Remove all firewalling
Safe Mode with Networking
Every file is running as administrator

Can't poopsock when you can't even patch the game.
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Reformat
 
Pyros

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Nola_sl said:
I'm torn between a paladin and a warrior. Here is a video giving a good example why it is better for a warrior to spend points into strength. Apparently warriors got buffed out the ass. A lot of the warrior's self healing abilities is based off damage. So more strength is more damage meaning more heals. Go to the 5:00 minute mark for the warrior changes.
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Your 40 or whatever it is points of str is probably not going to make a large difference anyway and while in theory it could work that way, I haven't seen math actually showing that str provides more EHP than vit. I would have probably gone str anyway on MRD for the threat which I'd value more than health on a class that already has the highest health pool. I watched that video for a bit and another from the guy and can't say I like him, most of the choices he makes he's like "trust me" but doesn't seem to provide any actual facts to back it up. Maybe he does the calculations on the sides but meh. I mean I often use the same type of arguments but I don't make absolutes or tell people things are like that, I'll just say "I've read... I've heard... etc" because it's not factual.

Anyway on PLD vs WAR, I don't think we'll know for sure until people start doing endgame which would be very soon because of legacy players, but will have to sift through the mountain of shit players from legacy and their impressions before that. For anything bigger than 4man though you'll probably want to bring an equal amount of each simply for logistics reasons, it's better for drops if you have both in your raid
 
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Droigan

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mkopec_sl said:
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So all these problems, are they tied to NA accounts only? Other than the initial Error 3 that I got on the first day, I registered my code and it now asks me to wait for the early access, so assume it works (account lists FF 14 as registered).

Not had any problems with it other than that.
 
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Wuyley_sl

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I am also getting the patch message about no active service acount
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For those of you who fixed it. Did you do it here?
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rolx_sl

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Wuyley_sl said:
I am also getting the patch message about no active service acount
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For those of you who fixed it. Did you do it here?
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This message is recieved from not putting in your 20 digi code you get AFTER registering the one you got in ur email. Copy that 20 digi and register the second part and your good.
 
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Wuyley_sl

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rolx_sl said:
This message is recieved from not putting in your 20 digi code you get AFTER registering the one you got in ur email. Copy that 20 digi and register the second part and your good.
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I registered back in Beta 2 I think so I think the email is long gone. Any idea how to get it resent?
 
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Weaponsfree_sl

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I ended up having to dothisshit to get it to work (copypasted from reddit:

Here's what I had to do:
Start the download and have the ffxivpatch (where the files are downloading) folder open.
You will see the file be created and start getting bigger as the data downloads.
Right click and drag it to your desktop. You will get an option to "copy here".
Now you wait.
When the launcher switches from "downloading" to "updating" click on "copy here".
If you get lucky the file will update and move on. If you get the error the file will be deleted. Copy/paste the file from the desktop back into the folder. Don't drag it! Be sure to use copy/paste.
Restart the launcher.
It will recognize the file and instead of downloading again it will immediately attempt to update.
Repeat this until it works.
Repeat these steps for each new file it downloads (.a, .b, .c, .d)
It's a pain in the ass but it will work.

...what the fuck, SE.
 
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Mugaaz_sl

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Turbo_sl said:
Hahah, glad I'm not the only one. I basically am doing a texas twister smoke bomb and have the office think i'm in one place and corporate think I am in the other. I can run my department remotely so i'll still be doing things but that is what a 3rd monitor is for. Only bad thing is i am missing dinner and an important meeting with our CEO which is hard to get face time with ($9 billion a year company) but fuck it I can conference call in! I just bought 500 dollars worth of every god damn thing I've been craving for the last 6 months and I am locking myself in for 9 days straight of moogle slewing. I've been on a 6 month MMO sabbatical and been really focused on lifting and eating healthy this whole time so I am ready to go hog wild. 4 different types of Captain Morgan lined up and more cans of easy cheese then i've ate in a life time baby!

Going to go play my last game of basketball for a while since i'm sure my ass won't be leaving the seat for 9 days other then to empty the piss bag and walk half way to the shower before deciding "i can go one more day" ! Its so funny when you see spoofs on TV about this shit like on Big Bang and Penny playing MMO's on how much of a slobs they become because its so fucking true. I have a very professional career, I'm very social and well rounded for todays standards and probably 3 people in the world that i currently deal with at all in my life even know I play games but when it comes to an MMO release.....its god damn game on Donkey Kong! Luckily after the rush to 50 is over and epenis erection has been sustained long enough then I get to go back to a balanced life of work > lifting/bball > slew moogles but for this one week its 20+ hours every day and usually 40-50 hours straight the first few days.

We are an interesting breed of people aren't we my friends.

(ps..i decided to go old school favorite and bought 25 totino's pizzas....i literally am going to destory 6 months of hard lifting and boxing in 1 week, its going to be fucking epic.
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Jesus dude. Why the hell would you destroy 6 months of progress eating mound of shit after all that work? Why can't you do the MMO thing without 25 Totinos, EZ cheese, and Morgan? I'll be poopsocking too, except with chicken breast, asparagus, and diet coke to the 9s. Not going to skip lifting so I can play an extra 90 mins either. Just not worth it on any scale.
 
Cinge

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Mugaaz_sl said:
Jesus dude. Why the hell would you destroy 6 months of progress eating mound of shit after all that work? Why can't you do the MMO thing without 25 Totinos, EZ cheese, and Morgan? I'll be poopsocking too, except with chicken breast, asparagus, and diet coke to the 9s. Not going to skip lifting so I can play an extra 90 mins either. Just not worth it on any scale.
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Your priorities are obviously not in order.
 
Korrupt

Korrupt

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Mugaaz_sl said:
Jesus dude. Why the hell would you destroy 6 months of progress eating mound of shit after all that work? Why can't you do the MMO thing without 25 Totinos, EZ cheese, and Morgan? I'll be poopsocking too, except with chicken breast, asparagus, and diet coke to the 9s. Not going to skip lifting so I can play an extra 90 mins either. Just not worth it on any scale.
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You forgot your skinny soy mocha latte also bro
 
Merrith

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So...I am actually moving tomorrow, starting around 10, hope to be done by 1, then I have to attend a housewarming party around 5. Hoping to dip out of there by 9. The schedule is obviously to wake up at 4:30am to be ready for 5am EST early access start, grind for about 4-4.5 hours then get ready to move the last few things in. Once done with my computer all set up and ready to go find a way to keep my roommate occupied so she doesn't feel like I'm ditching her to get in some playtime before the housewarming party, at which I plan to feed my roommate drinks so she'll get tired and need to leave early, put her to bed once home so I can grind all night.

I think it's all doable.
 
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