Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Coil gear from the first was enough to do the second set of turns Alk for sure. The main thing when I quit was the grinding for Atma's for your Zenith weapon was insane. It was all being done preemptively because it was going to be the BiS weapon with the turns coming now. Not sure how much has changed or if they nerfed the grind down but that was the only real difference.
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It wasn't BiS until this patch, and only barely(they added a new tier that raises the Relic to the same ilvl as the raid drops that had been accessible since 5months prior, and since you can customize the stats on it, you can eliminate stupid stuff and get only the best but if the raid weapon drops the right stats for your class then it's the same weapon). Probably will fall behind next patch again. Relic is pretty much optional, and shiny. As for atmas, I haven't found the grind to be too bad but it's RNG based so it kinda depends on people's luck I guess. The steps after are all stupid too so I stopped at Animus(the step right after atma, which is a good way to dump mythology).
Also new trailer for 2.4:
afk fapping to trailer.
Anyway, as far as Atma->Novus go, I imagine it'll be rather faster, but this is heavily contingent on the Myth expenditure going down by 75% when the changeover to Soldiery as the main currency occurs. (IE - Animus books = 1500 Myth -> 375 Soldiery; Alexandrite Maps = 800 Myth -> 200 Soldiery). Whether they change the Atma part itself is its own question, however.
Coil 3 sure lurks purty, and is that new Allagan or 2.4 gear on the sample party? And if the trailer is any indication, they're going to up the Garlean presence because new emperor and all that. (EDIT - Did you guys see the Ninja relic Nexus? So much red.)
But none of this compares to the insane and sadistic delight I have about these two words: Qarn. Hard.
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During coil they show the new Allagan gear, during Shiva they show the new 2.4 gear(probably new tome gear, could be dungeon sets but unlikely).
And yeah the story is ramping up for the expansion stuff it seems, pretty cool to see.
As for Atma, I actually farmed atma since I came back and it wasn't too bad for me. Most I've spent was like 4-5hours in middle la noscea and western than but split over several sessions, and a lot of zones I got atmas within an hour or in some cases when I wasn't even trying(doing dailies or helping people with animus books fates).
The books were a fuckton more annoying, part of it was the cost, large part was camping fates and killing 100mobs and doing 3shit dungeon runs every fucking time, such a time consuming step. It's not even that much better than Atma due to the rare fates camping either, shit can take several hours on some of them and a lot are in stupid zones that don't drop atmas so you can't even farm a 2nd set of atma while you wait. Then Novus which is complete stupidity due to the prices of materias, you either spend like 10millions making your novus or you get subpar stats so it's like eh whatever, plus you need a fuckton of tomes/daillies/hunts to get the alexandrites. And the last step Nexus is very easy but also slow as shit. But yeah, the Ninja Nexus looks insane, so...
And yeah the story is ramping up for the expansion stuff it seems, pretty cool to see.
As for Atma, I actually farmed atma since I came back and it wasn't too bad for me. Most I've spent was like 4-5hours in middle la noscea and western than but split over several sessions, and a lot of zones I got atmas within an hour or in some cases when I wasn't even trying(doing dailies or helping people with animus books fates).
The books were a fuckton more annoying, part of it was the cost, large part was camping fates and killing 100mobs and doing 3shit dungeon runs every fucking time, such a time consuming step. It's not even that much better than Atma due to the rare fates camping either, shit can take several hours on some of them and a lot are in stupid zones that don't drop atmas so you can't even farm a 2nd set of atma while you wait. Then Novus which is complete stupidity due to the prices of materias, you either spend like 10millions making your novus or you get subpar stats so it's like eh whatever, plus you need a fuckton of tomes/daillies/hunts to get the alexandrites. And the last step Nexus is very easy but also slow as shit. But yeah, the Ninja Nexus looks insane, so...
Xaxius
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FFXIV ARR:Heavensward expansion
Launch: Spring 2015.
Location: Ishgard
Plot: Focusing on "the bloody thousand-year conflict between Ishgard and Dravina" and "The Wyrmking versus Thordan and his Knights Twelve".
Level cap increase to 60. All jobs and classes.
New playable race.
Multiplenew jobs.
All new primals.
New Dungeons. More than 4+?
New Raids.
Airships galore. Free Companies able to build their own. Will be expanded on throughout FFXIV:ARR lifecycle.
Gallery:puush / magile / Gallery
Their Twitch stream is going over 3.0 now. Cool stuff.
Launch: Spring 2015.
Location: Ishgard
Plot: Focusing on "the bloody thousand-year conflict between Ishgard and Dravina" and "The Wyrmking versus Thordan and his Knights Twelve".
Level cap increase to 60. All jobs and classes.
New playable race.
Multiplenew jobs.
All new primals.
New Dungeons. More than 4+?
New Raids.
Airships galore. Free Companies able to build their own. Will be expanded on throughout FFXIV:ARR lifecycle.
Gallery:puush / magile / Gallery
Their Twitch stream is going over 3.0 now. Cool stuff.
any groups playing if i wanted to get back into this game? if so, are there server transfers?
Stave
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Very nice. I find it surprising how well this game handles expansion stuff compared to WoW. Only a 6 month wait, and they are giving us a new class and new raids to just start now during that 6 month wait (and we still have more coming, gold saucer, etc) vs WoW going 1 1/2+ years with no new content. And the fact that they implemented multiple raids and primal battles, storylines, cutscenes, a new class/job, guild and personal housing, all in just the patch cycle, with probably 1/3 of the team size as Blizzard, while still putting out an expansion with multiple new jobs, a new race, continent, dungeons, etc. Pretty amazing really.
Sounds like this will be a damn solid expansion, and considering all that Yoshida learned in 2.0 to now, I'm sure he knows how to make more long-term content. I'm excited for it.
Xaxius
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I'd so love to play this game again, but having to catch up, playing on a high ping with their shoddy net code for getting out of the fire, and their refusal to accept my payment means that I'll have to watch from the sidelines.
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Well catching up is fast(plus there's a gear bump like in 1-2weeks so most of the current gear will become worthless), they fixed the moving out of fire shit pretty much though animations are still like behind the damage check so you still get hit by stuff you're out of by the time the animation hit, but it's purely a you moved way too fucking slow kind of thing. Not sure about payment I think they have crysta paypal shit now but don't know. Prepaid cards also.
This has got to be the best supported MMO on the market right now, bar none. Their content always looks top notch, polished and interesting.
With the size and frequency of content SE has been putting out, they've got to be over 1 million subs easy. That's quite an accomplishment for a game with no cash shop whatsoever in this day and age where everyone wants the free shit. Only game I never felt stupid about for keeping a sub running when I wasn't actually playing it a lot when you see how they support it.
With the size and frequency of content SE has been putting out, they've got to be over 1 million subs easy. That's quite an accomplishment for a game with no cash shop whatsoever in this day and age where everyone wants the free shit. Only game I never felt stupid about for keeping a sub running when I wasn't actually playing it a lot when you see how they support it.
Furry
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You'd be right if it had servers that weren't in fucking canada along with its god fucking awful net code. The game is nearly vanguard levels of unplayable at times due to these facts. I might be able to forgive the canada part if they fix their fucking net code.
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Have you played after 2.1 or whatever patch they patched net code changes? I play from europe and never feel it's laggy or that the net code is shit. I've done every EX primals including Titan EX which I'd say is very ping sensitive(since everyone stacks on top of each other so when he does weights, if you don't move you die instantly) and I never get caught unless I well, move too slow, which only happened once during the first tries. Now from australia it'd be another issue, and I hear PS3 has some weird ass lag too but as a euro PC player I haven't had any issue since I came back. Was kinda iffy during 2.0 though, Titan HM was a mixed bag, some days I'd dodge np, some days I'd get hit a lot but if I used a VPN it was always fine. So yeah if you've played then, I totally get the complaint as it was pretty shitty but since I don't feel any issue.