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Jaybee

Silver Knight of the Realm
276
33
Whether you've quit already or not, I think pretty much 100% of us agree that it was worth the 22$ for the playthrough.

A buddy of mine at work mentioned that he went from summoner towarrior tankfor the guild. Man, it really is an unforgiving game when it comes to switching jobs like that. Can you imagine grinding out all those tomes again? o_O

/NOPE
That poor bastard
 

InterSlayer_sl

shitlord
441
0
Hit 50 about 2 weeks ago, did the +1 relic darklight HM primal stuffs, dabbling in Coil now. Also started leveling crafting and am hooked. It's pretty ridiculous, I harped on the rest of my guildies for crafting early on and can't help myself now. Gonna try to get the majority of the crafting classes to 50.

It sounds like they have a lot of content planned out: Chocobo breeding, chocobo racing, chocobo digging (treasure hunting), Guild and Player housing, 4/8man PVP, Keep Battles (grand company 3-ways). Also the new dungeon, new hard mode dungeons, extreme mode primals, LFR style 24 man crystal tower, MVP solo dungeon queue bonuses. Also somewhere on the horizon level cap increases, new zones, new primals.

Subbed 3 months. It'll be just swell if some or all of that comes out before the end of the year, otherwise EQN.
 

ZProtoss

Golden Squire
395
15
Just as a heads up, you should try using a VPN to the game even if you don't *think* you're experiencing lag. I tried out battleping's vpn service today, and the game feels lag free in a way that it never has at any point since release. It feels like going through a VPN fixes something beyond just bad routing - who knows why.
 

Chancellor Alkorin

Part-Time Sith
<Granularity Engineer>
6,051
6,036
Invite him to the free company for a second and say he's a warrior and let everyone berate him to reroll again
It's not berating. It's educating. My healers were simply too nice to mention that I was taking more damage and was harder to keep alive.
 

Dahkoht_sl

shitlord
1,658
0
Just as a heads up, you should try using a VPN to the game even if you don't *think* you're experiencing lag. I tried out battleping's vpn service today, and the game feels lag free in a way that it never has at any point since release. It feels like going through a VPN fixes something beyond just bad routing - who knows why.
Curious if you are outside US or far away from Canada ? I've seen some say the tunneling gaming services like this actually helped them , but usually were playing from somewhere far off , thus taking a 350ms ping to more like 150 , which is noticeable. Wondered if anyone's had them actually help already ok pings ?
 

Chancellor Alkorin

Part-Time Sith
<Granularity Engineer>
6,051
6,036
Curious if you are outside US or far away from Canada ? I've seen some say the tunneling gaming services like this actually helped them , but usually were playing from somewhere far off , thus taking a 350ms ping to more like 150 , which is noticeable. Wondered if anyone's had them actually help already ok pings ?
Going to try this ASAP myself. I am quite near to Montreal (~200km), but it's entirely possible that I will get better QoS going through a VPN to the US. Routing can be funny that way.
 

ZProtoss

Golden Squire
395
15
Curious if you are outside US or far away from Canada ? I've seen some say the tunneling gaming services like this actually helped them , but usually were playing from somewhere far off , thus taking a 350ms ping to more like 150 , which is noticeable. Wondered if anyone's had them actually help already ok pings ?
In the upper midwest (which is closer the most) and still saw a massive improvement.
 

Daidraco

Avatar of War Slayer
10,065
10,392
I get a 90k error all the time. Perfect connection with anything else. Not a single connection between where I am (In virginia) to the servers pings out. Definitely something wrong with how they are handling internet traffic. Its not so bad that I cant play, but when Im trying to tank and get error'd out? It makes me just want to quit playing. Was tanking Hydra with Kat and lagged out. Was so embarrassed lol.
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Antarius

Lord Nagafen Raider
1,828
15
leveling is trivial in this game, you just fate grind in a few zones. don't bother at all with story quests or class quests, just level as your class with level 1 gear (at 45 equip a full set of crafted/vendor gear and convert every time its 100% spiritbound for extra gil). Then at 49 go back and do your entire story and class quest. Its a dumb way to level but the most efficient, since the story/class quests has you wasting a lot of time running around all over the damn place and you don't need anything other than flash (glad x-class) and a single attack spell to gold every fate, in a group. Of course your first class you gotta story 1-20 to unlock airships and mounts, but after that its just grind fates and do quests in between fates (for gil, always choose gil). You can do all the quests you missed/skipped while waiting for fate respawns.

1-12: any of the starting zone fate grind
12 - 20: aleport
20 - 25: hawthorne hut
25 - 30: quarrymill
30 - 34: costa del sol
34 - 40: coerthas
40 - 50: n thal (esp when DD is spawning, ~1 hour respawn) and mor dhana when n than is too crowded
Quoting for fucking stupid advice that would just cause people to burn out of the game and be bored with it.

Worst, advice ever. Yea, leveling up 2nd class, that's fine advice, but not for your first.
 

TrollfaceDeux

Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
<Bronze Donator>
19,577
3,743
I get a 90k error all the time. Perfect connection with anything else. Not a single connection between where I am (In virginia) to the servers pings out. Definitely something wrong with how they are handling internet traffic. Its not so bad that I cant play, but when Im trying to tank and get error'd out? It makes me just want to quit playing. Was tanking Hydra with Kat and lagged out. Was so embarrassed lol.
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i get 90k sometimes, but it's roughly once a week, or even two week.
 

Taloo_sl

shitlord
742
2
Ugh. Yeah I think I'm done too. Just don't have it in me anymore. Since capping I've spent more time crafting than playing the damn game. Toss me a PM if you're interested in a 50 Monk/Carpenter/Culinarian/Weaver/Leatherworker on Excalibur with between 2 and 3mil in assets.
 

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
2,750
47
@the people unsubbing. If they added additional end game content would you come back or did you feel burnt out of the game in general?
Maybe, but probably not. The absolutely idiotic release having 1 dungeon to grind at 50 after being in development twice is too much to overcome. These mother fuckers are retarded, and I don't see them doing anything impressive.
 

Man0warr

Molten Core Raider
2,265
171
Maybe, but probably not. The absolutely idiotic release having 1 dungeon to grind at 50 after being in development twice is too much to overcome. These mother fuckers are retarded, and I don't see them doing anything impressive.
Almost the entire first game was scrapped by Yoshi-P, why do people keep bringing this up like they should have all the content from the first game included in the re-launch? Some of the zone/dungeon/boss names and lore are the same but outside of that it's totally redone. AKA all the hard stuff like programming and art assets.
 

Zombie Thorne_sl

shitlord
918
1
Because people expect content at all levels? Doesnt matter if they rebuilt the game from the ground up, they decided to release it with a lack of content. That is on them. How many MMO's since WOW have had this problem? Most/all of them? It is not a valid excuse. Release the damn game when its ready.
 

Taloo_sl

shitlord
742
2
Almost the entire first game was scrapped by Yoshi-P, why do people keep bringing this up like they should have all the content from the first game included in the re-launch? Some of the zone/dungeon/boss names and lore are the same but outside of that it's totally redone. AKA all the hard stuff like programming and art assets.
Because people are fucking retarded.

Is it acceptable? No. Is it frustrating? Yes. Is there a reasonable explanation for the way it is? Yes, assuming you can stop circle jerking long enough to know what the fuck you're talking about.
 

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
2,750
47
Because people are fucking retarded.

Is it acceptable? No. Is it frustrating? Yes. Is there a reasonable explanation for the way it is? Yes, assuming you can stop circle jerking long enough to know what the fuck you're talking about.
Hey bro, I don't care. They had a second chance to redeem their game and it's going to be a wasteland after 6 months like the first iteration, because once again, a company tried to do what warcraft does, but half assed the fuck out of it.
 

Sean_sl

shitlord
4,735
11
I like how I got yelled at for being a "poopsocker" who goes through content too fast when I first complained about all this and now tons of people are voicing theexactsame shit I did.

Good times.
 

Zombie Thorne_sl

shitlord
918
1
Hey bro, I don't care. They had a second chance to redeem their game and it's going to be a wasteland after 6 months like the first iteration, because once again, a company tried to do what warcraft does, but half assed the fuck out of it.
That's what is so frustrating. They had a second chance, which is unheard of in this industry. And still managed to miss so many things. FFXI was one of my favorite MMO's... I was really pumped to play the original beta of FFXIV. 6 hours later i was just baffled at what they had created (or not created)
 

Man0warr

Molten Core Raider
2,265
171
Because people expect content at all levels? Doesnt matter if they rebuilt the game from the ground up, they decided to release it with a lack of content. That is on them. How many MMO's since WOW have had this problem? Most/all of them? It is not a valid excuse. Release the damn game when its ready.
Get used to disappointment then, because every MMO coming up will have the same issue. It was an issue with WoW too - all you really had was Molten Core and Onyxia until ~8 months later when Blackwing Lair released.

An MMO is "ready" when all the systems and classes are functional and it's as bug free as they can manage. Not having 6 months worth of end-game content ready at launch doesn't mean the game isn't ready - they have to get the game out and sold because it's a business not a charity. They can never have enough content to please the high-end, hardcore people so no point in trying - they will release with enough content for the majority of the playerbase and then try to keep releasing content for the pace of those players consumption.
 

Taloo_sl

shitlord
742
2
I like how I got yelled at for being a "poopsocker" who goes through content too fast when I first complained about all this and now tons of people are voicing theexactsame shit I did.

Good times.
Everything that was said to you was accurate. The fact you were being a whiny little faggot spouting hyperbolic bullshit has nothing to do with the game having valid issues. Claiming a game should have the content of a AAA MMO at release without the dev cycle of a AAA MMO was and is fucking retarded. What part of the entire game was scrapped and redone is so hard to understand? It's fucking retarded there's only 1 viable dungeon and a tiny raid at release. Saying it should be different because the game was built around an engine that already existed IS FUCKING STUPID.