[Allard]

Waiting until e3 means people with unused accounts will miss the free week or however long it was. Kind of defeats the purpose. Any E3 hype will probably get its own thread considering how news threads worked last time. SE might give FFXIV a new name, like FFXIV 2.0. That basically means it would be a new entirely new OT wouldn't it? Maybe not. I guess expansions don't get new OT names? Hell, we should just call it |OT 2.0| lol

I kinda forgot about the free week coming up. Maybe a good refresher thread isn't a bad idea for it, but I would still put the 2.0 info in it just to get people excited beyond the free week.

As for 2.0, I'm pretty sure its going to have a subtitle and we already know it. SE trademarkerd the title "A Realm Reborn" and that saying is part of the prophecy posted on the legacy campaign site. So its probably going to be FFXIV: A Realm Reborn.

[hteng]

Daytime US time zones, but there's GMT folk too. Then there's me that's PST but I work 2nd shift . . . so it's sometimes more inline with the GMT XDorking 2nd shift.

I see, I'll watchout for you guys. I'm bored to hell everytime I logon, there isn't anyone to talk to. my char is Danorille Pandemo

Guys, big question here. How much have they really revamped the game from launch FFXIV? I'm really considering playing the game but I really want almost every aspect of launch FFXIV to be gone. So basically what I'm trying to ask is, is this FFXI HD yet? I look at the screenshots and I'm amazed by how it looks... I'd love to play it.

the game has been completely reformed. It is more like FFXI lite

the good:

+you can solo leves for decent exp while waiting for parties
+parties net extremely good exp, up to 8 players in a party
+the leves reward are decent, either in gil or loot, you won't be as cash strapped as in FFXI
+teleporting to camp is cool, until you run out of anima
+combat interface improved a great deal, but i find myself staring too much at my action bar
+they actually revamped most of the monster models
+New party based quests/raids/instances are actually fun and challenging
+completely revamped skills, they took out the redundant stuff and made each class unique
+they didn't make jobs too overpower, though they are very much preferred in a party based encounter.
+Inns, much like moghouse in FFXI, and you get rest bonuses while offline.
+thank god they took out the fatigue system, it's the worst shit ever to graced an mmo
+NPC repair upto 99% condition and your equipment doesn't break as much
+no more 14 hours to get your guildleves to reset but you are still bound by a maximum of 99 leves, in fact, i just blew through them all in 3 weeks.
+200 inventory space, hell yeah
+lots of untradeable/unique equipments to discourage RMT
+chocobo!
+airships!

the bad:

-inventory interface still clunky and complicated (where's my drag and drop?)
-your previous equipments are all outdated
-repair system still flawed, i find myself with tons of equipment I can't sell at the AH because I don't have the appropriate craft skill to repair it, and the NPC repair only upto 99%
-the job quests can't be soloed, some require at least 4 ppl to even enter an instance, i --mean once the level cap is raised I'm pretty sure you can solo them easily.
-during group engagements it still feels like a clusterfuck, there are lacking crowd control mechanics (you only get sleep and repose).
-too much traveling, it doesn't help that the landscape is the same boring copypasata, you best get a chocobo first
-AH still suck, it's clunky, tedious, not easy to use, it's completely shit, but better than before 1.2
-I see tons of RMT characters at Cedarwood, for some reason they can do a faction leve (goatwind?) repeatly to get to R50.

haven't craft in a loooong time, so i can't comment on that part.

In conclusion, it's a good time to reactivate, infact, i just activated like.. 3 weeks ago, and i've already done a great deal of stuff all solo.

edit: can anyone tell me how to disable the text popup in the action bar ? (like when you hover your mouse over to the action, theres a text fade in) i find it very distracting and always get in the way of my view.

[Teknoman]

the job quests can't be soloed, some require at least 4 ppl to even enter an instance, i --mean once the level cap is raised I'm pretty sure you can solo them easily.

I wouldnt really say thats a bad thing :P

[hteng]

the job quests can't be soloed, some require at least 4 ppl to even enter an instance, i --mean once the level cap is raised I'm pretty sure you can solo them easily. I wouldnt really say thats a bad thing :P

I don't think a team base quest is a bad thing, it's just that you can't enter the instance with just 1 person (maybe you can sneak around the dungeon). One of the AF quest involve you going into the darkhold just to click on a chest, and you need to assemble a full party just to do that.

Luckily though, everyone pretty much has to do that GC quest (into the dark) so there's still a chance to get pickup parties, but it's sorta road block for soloing people.

man i'm not looking forward to doing Aurum Vale to get my PLD AF, does it overlap with any GC or AF quests?

[Teknoman]

I don't think a team base quest is a bad thing, it's just that you can't enter the instance with just 1 person (maybe you can sneak around the dungeon). One of the AF quest involve you going into the darkhold just to click on a chest, and you need to assemble a full party just to do that. Luckily though, everyone pretty much has to do that GC quest (into the dark) so there's still a chance to get pickup parties, but it's sorta road block for soloing people. man i'm not looking forward to doing Aurum Vale to get my PLD AF, does it overlap with any GC or AF quests?

Overlap, and i'd think people would be up for clearing other dungeons since you can turn in the drops for company seals now.

[Kyudo]

I don't think a team base quest is a bad thing, it's just that you can't enter the instance with just 1 person (maybe you can sneak around the dungeon). One of the AF quest involve you going into the darkhold just to click on a chest, and you need to assemble a full party just to do that. Luckily though, everyone pretty much has to do that GC quest (into the dark) so there's still a chance to get pickup parties, but it's sorta road block for soloing people. man i'm not looking forward to doing Aurum Vale to get my PLD AF, does it overlap with any GC or AF quests?

The AF in Aurum Vale is stupid easy to get.

[Ravidrath]

Speaking of AF, I need a BRD piece from CC...

Although I may just hold off until I have some other jobs that are AF-ready and do them all at once? But that seems pretty far off, right now.

[Allard]

Speaking of AF, I need a BRD piece from CC... Although I may just hold off until I have some other jobs that are AF-ready and do them all at once? But that seems pretty far off, right now.

I'm waiting for a moogle/Garuda/Ifrit weapon to drop (Got my first lvl 50 combat class done after the job quest patch) and whatever weapon I get first, that will be the class I take to level 50 next if its not Archer. I'm mainly focused on getting my crafting classes all to lvl 50 though as I want to be prepared for the eventual housing and social crafting content they are making for 2.0. And yeah... still need my last Bard AF piece in cutters so I can move on to the final quest, my social ls has enough people these days though so I can probably get something going fairly quickly :D. (My social LS has 10-15 active people almost every night and my end game ls usually has at least 25 people on it at night).

[Ravidrath]

I'm waiting for a moogle/Garuda/Ifrit weapon to drop (Got my first lvl 50 combat class done after the job quest patch) and whatever weapon I get first, that will be the class I take to level 50 next if its not Archer. I'm mainly focused on getting my crafting classes all to lvl 50 though as I want to be prepared for the eventual housing and social crafting content they are making for 2.0. And yeah... still need my last Bard AF piece in cutters so I can move on to the final quest, my social ls has enough people these days though so I can probably get something going fairly quickly :D. (My social LS has 10-15 active people almost every night and my end game ls usually has at least 25 people on it at night).

While my first Ifrit drop was the bow, I leveled it for Chameleon... and figured I may as well finish it. I'm probably completely retiring it after I finish all the BRD quests.

Likely next set of AF will be MNK, but that's Darkhold... will just have to look for CC runs while I'm crafting in Ul'dah or something.

[Teknoman]

The new team of composers need to work on Final Fantasy XV. Garuda's theme is so good.




Also the more we kill the Primals, we're making the situation with Dalamud even worse. Talk about a catch 22...and Van Darnus has some sort of "Well adjusted Kefka" thing going for him. Think he's working behind Gaius' back/has ulterior motives.

[Mature]

In the second screenshot, I think we have our positioning wrong Tek :o

[Teknoman]

Hmm...so xiv just froze in the middle of a leve, music still playing, and my pc shut itself down. Now everytime i turn it on, the fans sound really loud and it seems to keep resetting itself... Strange too since i've never had any overheating problems. Its been pretty hot since the ac broke, but it shouldnt be enough to give a pc issues...

[Allard]

The new team of composers need to work on Final Fantasy XV. Garuda's theme is so good. Also the more we kill the Primals, we're making the situation with Dalamud even worse. Talk about a catch 22...and Van Darnus has some sort of "Well adjusted Kefka" thing going for him. Think he's working behind Gaius' back/has ulterior motives.

The boss battle music for Garuda was done by Uematsu, its been in since Alpha unused :P

[Teknoman]

Whoa really? Awesome that Uematsu hasnt lost his knack for boss themes then.

EDIT: Just ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ fan...probably shouldnt have stuck with my stock AMD fan this long anyway.

[AuthenticM]

Are they changing the music with each patch or something? I've never played the game, but I need to know, as it seems weird. When I search youtube for the game's ost, I get a bunch of tracks with "patch 1.xx" in their titles. Can someone clarify this for me?

[Mature]

Are they changing the music with each patch or something? I've never played the game, but I need to know, as it seems weird. When I search youtube for the game's ost, I get a bunch of tracks with "patch 1.xx" in their titles. Can someone clarify this for me?

When you see those videos on youtube, the title is stating what music was added for each patch. Whether this was music for a zone that had normal music before or just new music for a new instance-- it doesn't mean the music was changed for an entire zone or something.

[Allard]

When you see those videos on youtube, the title is stating what music was added for each patch. Whether this was music for a zone that had normal music before or just new music for a new instance-- it doesn't mean the music was changed for an entire zone or something.

Well... technically they did do that a while back for some zones. They added new overworld music in the core 3 regions so that some areas would have a different 'flavor' to them XD. Speaking of new music that brings up another enticing bullet point for 2.0. We should be getting all new music for some of the new zones that are getting split off from the old region themes, that or they go the FFXI route where a ton of zones have no music what so ever and only zones close to towns or cities get music >.>.

[Mature]

Well... technically they did do that a while back for some zones. They added new overworld music in the core 3 regions so that some areas would have a different 'flavor' to them XD. Speaking of new music that brings up another enticing bullet point for 2.0. We should be getting all new music for some of the new zones that are getting split off from the old region themes, that or they go the FFXI route where a ton of zones have no music what so ever and only zones close to towns or cities get music >.>.

Oh? Didn't know that. For the most part the music remains unchanged update to update, however.

[Teknoman]

certain caves or plains areas...even the top of a mountain would be cool with only ambient effects would be cool, but the majority of areas should have music.

[Munba]

Mmmh i'm pretty sure the garuda theme was not in the alpha ost (unless i missed one track in the package). I think it's a new track composed by Masayoshi Soken.

[Jinko]

Garuda theme is new.

[Allard]

Garuda theme is new.

Really? I was absolutely certain I heard the track long before this update and there are people on other forums that seem to have the same sentiment.

Edit: I still had the alpha rip in .rar file from before the game released on my computer and sure enough that track wasn't on it. Guess I was wrong. Interesting thing I didn't realize though was all the new zone music (that was added back in June of last year) was in Alpha soundtrack and I was wrongly attributing it to the new aritsts XD. The music i'm talking about of course is the new Black Shroud, Thanalan, and La Noscea region (Which I always thought was Uematsu since that music was on the teaser site before lodestone came) that changes back and forth between the old and new theme depending on the part of the region.

[Kyudo]

Some of the music they changed was just taken from other areas. Nophica wells has the music that was in mistbeard cove.

[Absoludacrous]

So I've been playing super casually on and off the last couple weeks. It's been fun but kind of lonely since no one talks in the game. Is there a gaf linkshell on Sargatanas, or really any kind of linkshell at all that takes in new players? I need people to talk to.

[Ravidrath]

So I've been playing super casually on and off the last couple weeks. It's been fun but kind of lonely since no one talks in the game. Is there a gaf linkshell on Sargatanas, or really any kind of linkshell at all that takes in new players? I need people to talk to.

Yeah, there's a GAF LS, and a ton of members.

I'm Ravidrath Astolph in-game - send me a /tell, or tell me your character's name so I can look for you.

[Absoludacrous]

Yeah, there's a GAF LS, and a ton of members. I'm Ravidrath Astolph in-game - send me a /tell, or tell me your character's name so I can look for you.

Thanks, this is a gamechanger. It's kind of crazy how quiet the rest of the game is when you're not in a linkshell. I've even partied with a few people so far, and all I got was a bow.

[Teknoman]

Thanks, this is a gamechanger. It's kind of crazy how quiet the rest of the game is when you're not in a linkshell. I've even partied with a few people so far, and all I got was a bow.

Its totally different from how things were in XI, thats for sure. It gets pretty talkative once a new patch hits/during some live event or Garlean attack...maybe small talk near a primal's lair but thats about it unfortunately.

Actually seemed to be a problem in the GW2 beta test event...and even XBL to a lesser extent, so i'm not sure if its just the gaming community as a whole, or just pure coincidence.

[Allard]

Its totally different from how things were in XI, thats for sure. It gets pretty talkative once a new patch hits/during some live event or Garlean attack...maybe small talk near a primal's lair but thats about it unfortunately. Actually seemed to be a problem in the GW2 beta test event...and even XBL to a lesser extent, so i'm not sure if its just the gaming community as a whole, or just pure coincidence.

The things I have found if you don't need to talk to anyone to do content that's what most people do. In FFXI people got forced into parties all the time mostly pick up groups and when you weren't in a group you got huddled into the hub waiting to get invited to one. People had drama and shouts through out the hubs etc. as they wasted time XD. I'm not sure it can or will ever be replicated again in the near future with the direction MMO's are going in but maybe when we get more large scale content (Alliance content is coming in 2.0) we might see more random non ls people get together and do content and start talking with each other. Basically when most of the content demands people to make friends, people start making friends or chatty conversation with as many people as they could so they can start building a personal reputation.

[Jinko]

I never thought FF11 was that great for community, the majority of people I met in 11 were either elitist snobs or complete pricks .. lol

Sure there were some cool people, but they were few and far between.

I'm just glad we have a good bunch of people in the LS, I would have quit this game ages ago I think if it wasn't for Red Dot.

[AuthenticM]

So what's up with the subscription fees? If I buy the game this summer (before 2.0 is released), will I pay 9.99$ per month even after the patch, so forever? Because I've heard that players pre-2.0 get some sort of "thank you" from SE; basically, a special price just for them. True?

[Munba]

I always met good and kind people in FF11... it was full of them. In ff14 it's more difficult socialize.. for now.

[Jinko]

So what's up with the subscription fees? If I buy the game this summer (before 2.0 is released), will I pay 9.99$ per month even after the patch, so forever? Because I've heard that players pre-2.0 get some sort of "thank you" from SE; basically, a special price just for them. True?

You have to subscribe for a minimum of 90 consecutive days prior to 2.0.

I think they said they would announce at what time the last chance would be to subscribe.

If you buy 90 days now you will be eligible though.

[staticneuron]

I never thought FF11 was that great for community, the majority of people I met in 11 were either elitist snobs or complete pricks .. lol Sure there were some cool people, but they were few and far between. I'm just glad we have a good bunch of people in the LS, I would have quit this game ages ago I think if it wasn't for Red Dot.

Same here.

I love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!

*sniffle*

[redfiend00]

I bought the special edition at launch and i stopped playing after about a month after release.

I want to try it out again to see how it has changed is there any free trials i can get to check it out again?

[Fox the Sly]

You have to subscribe for a minimum of 90 consecutive days prior to 2.0. I think they said they would announce at what time the last chance would be to subscribe. If you buy 90 days now you will be eligible though.

Cumulative days (since Jan. 6 2012 for anyone wondering). But it might as well be consecutive. :p

[kiryogi]

I bought the special edition at launch and i stopped playing after about a month after release. I want to try it out again to see how it has changed is there any free trials i can get to check it out again?

May9th-May20th is the Welcome Back Campaign for former players.

[redfiend00]

May9th-May20th is the Welcome Back Campaign for former players.

OK thanks for the info i tried tera for a bit and i can't remember if FF14 had better graphics or not.

[Jinko]

Garuda Fight scheduled for Sunday afternoon/evening.

Please sign up

Cumulative days (since Jan. 6 2012 for anyone wondering). But it might as well be consecutive. :p

Opps I was thinking one and wrote the other lol

[kiryogi]

Garuda Fight scheduled for Sunday afternoon/evening. Please sign up Opps I was thinking one and wrote the other lol

I don't see anything on the calendar . . . I think I have permission issues :o

[Dega]

I don't see anything on the calendar . . . I think I have permission issues :o

You logged in?

[Teknoman]

Cant show up to Garuda (sunday) since I wont be back home till like 7 or so...however...anyone doing Ifrit/Mog/etc. runs tonight?

[Conceited]

Is there a decent spot to solo XP at about 32? All I've been able to find are mobs that aggro since I passed 30, looking for something less dangerous.

All out of leves. :\

[InfiniDragon]

I went ahead and signed up since I won't be working tomorrow. I might be a bit late because 2:00pm is usually when I get up due to my work schedule though.

I can go as DRG or WAR, whichever of the two (probably gonna have to be WAR since I'm gonna bet we'll be going with the cookie cutter build, but DRG can AOE too).

Is there a decent spot to solo XP at about 32? All I've been able to find are mobs that aggro since I passed 30, looking for something less dangerous. All out of leves. :\

I spent most of 30-35 in Nanawa Mines or Humblehearth fighting mobs there in leves, but since you don't have any leves it's not an option. Most 30-40 mobs are aggro unfortunately, but there are a couple that aren't (Pterocs, pretty much). There are some Pterocs in the 30s on the way to Camp Crimson Bark in Black Shroud, and some higher level (35-38) Pterocs in Coerthas between Camp Dragonhead and the Griffin Crossing (the huge bridge).

[Teknoman]

Also try to find an exp party. Really goes by fast now.

[Conceited]

I spent most of 30-35 in Nanawa Mines or Humblehearth fighting mobs there in leves, but since you don't have any leves it's not an option. Most 30-40 mobs are aggro unfortunately, but there are a couple that aren't (Pterocs, pretty much). There are some Pterocs in the 30s on the way to Camp Crimson Bark in Black Shroud, and some higher level (35-38) Pterocs in Coerthas between Camp Dragonhead and the Griffin Crossing (the huge bridge).

Great, thanks. :)

[Unknown Soldier]

May9th-May20th is the Welcome Back Campaign for former players.

Its really as if Squenix has never heard of this Diablo III thing.

[Jinko]

Its really as if Squenix has never heard of this Diablo III thing.

Maybe that's why they are doing it ..

[Dega]

Maybe that's why they are doing it ..

Probably, sounds like one of their genius plans.

[Allard]

Well we all thought Yoshida was finally going to get a break over golden week but looking at the post he made in Japanese on the forums yesterday, it looks like he has been going across the world to various offices talking with staff and press. He went to London yesterday after stopping in LA first to talk to Square-Enix America staff (He got his B-Day cake over there!).

Wonder if he is prepping up for a big PR train soon :o.

[Ravidrath]

Its really as if Squenix has never heard of this Diablo III thing.

Trying to plan around the release schedules of the rest of the industry is generally a losing game and a waste of time, even when doing free promotional stuff.