Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Harkon
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It's more than that though? People in shout were saying it's until 3PM GMT, which is in 3hours or so. I just logged off cause I'm pretty much done, cleared my inventory, repaired my shit, setup my bind, finished weaver/botanist/alchemy so nothing more to do until launch. Looking forward to it, especially the scholar job. Until then, I guess it's Dragon's Crown and Dota 2.
Nice screenshots Pyros.
I wouldn't be surprised if they end up nerfing the Arcanist tank pet. It was possible to tank any of the P4 accessible dungeons (up to Halatali) with it, and from my P3 experience, I imagine it's possible to do everything up to 35 too. ACN damage might not be top for dungeon running, but it's by far the most powerful solo class.
I was lucky in my experiences of P4 - I didn't get any of the errors, managed to stay logged in most of the time and log out in a sanctuary for the rest exp. I got THM, ACN, ARC to 20, CNJ to 12 and Weaver and Mining to 20. Also managed to get the entire story line quest done (did Ifrit and then it stopped) across the classes so as not to waste any exp (with the exception of the Ifrit turn in). On the first 20 I found I outleveled the main story line significantly without doing any multiple dungeon runs, purely on quests/fates/hunting log).
On secondary combat classes, I found the fastest way to level was to join a "chain group" - this involves forming a party of 8 in a spot where you can chain pull mobs, preferably in close proximity to a few fate spawns too. With the base 50% exp bonus, on top of the chain kill bonus (this applies to mobs of equal or higher level), it's possible to get +200% exp on most mobs. With things dying every few seconds, on top of the random fate bonuses (which also get an exp bonus for secondary classes), it's ridiculously fast and not to mention more fun than questing for bear skins.
The game is seriously addictive, it's not doing anything new but there is something about the world which feels involving and atmospheric. The crafting professions feel involved and enjoyable. Only thing I really hated was leveling mining - spent a good 10+ hours on this and only got through it by watching films at the same time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they end up nerfing the Arcanist tank pet. It was possible to tank any of the P4 accessible dungeons (up to Halatali) with it, and from my P3 experience, I imagine it's possible to do everything up to 35 too. ACN damage might not be top for dungeon running, but it's by far the most powerful solo class.
I was lucky in my experiences of P4 - I didn't get any of the errors, managed to stay logged in most of the time and log out in a sanctuary for the rest exp. I got THM, ACN, ARC to 20, CNJ to 12 and Weaver and Mining to 20. Also managed to get the entire story line quest done (did Ifrit and then it stopped) across the classes so as not to waste any exp (with the exception of the Ifrit turn in). On the first 20 I found I outleveled the main story line significantly without doing any multiple dungeon runs, purely on quests/fates/hunting log).
On secondary combat classes, I found the fastest way to level was to join a "chain group" - this involves forming a party of 8 in a spot where you can chain pull mobs, preferably in close proximity to a few fate spawns too. With the base 50% exp bonus, on top of the chain kill bonus (this applies to mobs of equal or higher level), it's possible to get +200% exp on most mobs. With things dying every few seconds, on top of the random fate bonuses (which also get an exp bonus for secondary classes), it's ridiculously fast and not to mention more fun than questing for bear skins.
The game is seriously addictive, it's not doing anything new but there is something about the world which feels involving and atmospheric. The crafting professions feel involved and enjoyable. Only thing I really hated was leveling mining - spent a good 10+ hours on this and only got through it by watching films at the same time.
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The tank carbuncle is way way too tanky, it's completely unnecessary too, I was using the caster one most of the time because of the higher damage and never had a single issue. No other classes have a tanking pet and they do just fine, ACN gets a slow and a healer so not sure why they'd give them a tanking pet on top, should have been a utility pet or something. Unless the scaling starts to suck at some point I think Titan eggi summons are gonna be competing pretty well even against PLD/WAR which is pretty dumb. They're also annoying as fuck to tanks because they do pretty good threat so they pull shit off the tank, not an issue when the ACN isn't retarded but supposedly most are and use it(it's called Summon II, must be better than I right?). But I mean, I was using it to tank lvl 45+ mobs to go past them and he could tank them for a decent amount of time. It has 860hp at lvl 20, even Marauders will full points in vit only have like 550 I think, and you have a heal that scales on its health(a stupidly powerful one too, it's like 8%/sec)
Why the fuck would they extend the beta into ultra-offpeak hours? So meaningless. Add a whole day or don't even bother, anything else is just insulting and displays their complete lack of regard for the customer's needs. It's like a restaurant that has run out of forks so instead they give people two knives with their meals as compensation. Do these guys haveanyclue what they're doing? That just reeks of incompetence and ignorance/indifference.
Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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I missed it, why is getting to level 20 important? I assume it holds your spot on that server? Or is squenix dumb enough to allow people to keep their characters into live?
Never could get into gilgamesh, tried Malboro and I never saw another player the few hours I was on, very weird.
Never could get into gilgamesh, tried Malboro and I never saw another player the few hours I was on, very weird.
Vandyn
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I'll echo what others have said. So far it's good, not great. Pretty decent time waster probably for a few weeks/month but that's about it. It's nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking. But it does look good and it's Final Fantasy and for some that's enough. The server issues and lack of communication really leaves a bad taste in the mouth though, makes you wonder how it's going to be when this goes live and other issues pop up.
Does anyone know if you receive rested exp bonuses for classes other than the class currently "active" when resting?
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Japan gives no fucks about America and the US is not the centre of the world. Euros are loving the extra time.
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