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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Sooo, here's what I got at the end of beta. Level 26 Physical, Rank 22 Marauder, Rank 10 Gladiator, Rank 10 Pugilist
I finally got an axe upgrade, not once, but twice. I'm sporting the Storm Axe in that shot.
Armor: Bronze Haubergeon
Hands: Reinforced Bronze Gauntlets
Feet: Bronze Solleretes
Head: Bronze Celata
Belt: Tarred Canvas Sash
Had a bunch of brass rings for ACC up, and a silver choker for ATK up (although I had to stop using the silver one because I couldn't find any silver nuggets AND I couldn't find anyone with a high enough level goldsmith. Repair system sucks.)
Ended the beta with 500,000+ gil in my wallet. I would have had more, but I spent over 700,000 gil buying stuff to give to my party members for free. Chances to find high rank items in bazaars come very rarely, so I had to buy them up when I had the opportunity. It worked out in the end, because I got the Storm Axe for free. The person whom I bought Bronze Gauntlets for (200,000 gil for a rank 9 item, eeeek) was so grateful, he found a Storm Axe somehow and gave it to me. Yay karma.
I finally got an axe upgrade, not once, but twice. I'm sporting the Storm Axe in that shot.
Armor: Bronze Haubergeon
Hands: Reinforced Bronze Gauntlets
Feet: Bronze Solleretes
Head: Bronze Celata
Belt: Tarred Canvas Sash
Had a bunch of brass rings for ACC up, and a silver choker for ATK up (although I had to stop using the silver one because I couldn't find any silver nuggets AND I couldn't find anyone with a high enough level goldsmith. Repair system sucks.)
Ended the beta with 500,000+ gil in my wallet. I would have had more, but I spent over 700,000 gil buying stuff to give to my party members for free. Chances to find high rank items in bazaars come very rarely, so I had to buy them up when I had the opportunity. It worked out in the end, because I got the Storm Axe for free. The person whom I bought Bronze Gauntlets for (200,000 gil for a rank 9 item, eeeek) was so grateful, he found a Storm Axe somehow and gave it to me. Yay karma.
Definitely going with Celatas. Those normal bronze helmets dont look that great on my character :lol
At least without actual armor.
I guess my plan for retail is Glad(main job)/Mara/miner/botanist...and whenever a 2h sword job is revealed, i'll probably make that my main job.
Chocobos better be available at retail.
At least without actual armor.
I guess my plan for retail is Glad(main job)/Mara/miner/botanist...and whenever a 2h sword job is revealed, i'll probably make that my main job.
Chocobos better be available at retail.
Dreamwriter
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Um, that is WAY more than what anybody needs to run the game at a playable framerate. That's basically my computer, except mine's got a Radeon 5750. I run the game at 1080P, the blurring effect on, textures/filtering set high, everything else at standard. Nothing over clocked (except the video card is slightly over clocked by the factory). Game runs at a decent enough framerate, only chugs once in a while.Unknown Soldier said:
Now, that's at 1080p with lots of settings set high - turn the res down to 720p or less, turn down the effects, you could easily br playing the game on something a lot less powerful.
Dreamwriter
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Check the OP of this thread - the section called "The FINAL FANTASY XIV Collectors Edition includes:"TheFatOne said:
Dammit, Gamestop ran out of the CE. That's what I get for waiting so long.
I think I can still get it on the website, or on Amazon. Which has better shipping?
By the way, I was unaware beta was going to end tonight; I had planned to head over to the final city, Limsa, to make my final decision of where to start. I liked Gridania a LOT more than the ugly Ul'dah.
Should I roll Gridania or Limsa?
I think I can still get it on the website, or on Amazon. Which has better shipping?
By the way, I was unaware beta was going to end tonight; I had planned to head over to the final city, Limsa, to make my final decision of where to start. I liked Gridania a LOT more than the ugly Ul'dah.
Should I roll Gridania or Limsa?
Dreamwriter
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Wow, me and my friends thought Ul'dah was by far better looking than Gridania, and not nearly as annoying (Gridania is the LA of Eorzia - very spread out and maze-like). The desert floor, canyons and flowers look awesome, while Gridania all looks the same - the same trees everywhere, with the occasional stream. And Gridania doesn't get very dark at night at all, nor bright at day, so there isn't that day/night variety either.
Can't help you with Limsa Lominsa (a sight for me sore eyes!), we never really checked that place out, reserving that for the full retail game.
Can't help you with Limsa Lominsa (a sight for me sore eyes!), we never really checked that place out, reserving that for the full retail game.
Dreamwriter
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Amazon no longer offers release day shipping, the fastest they can get it to you is the 24th.Teknoman said:
10011101001
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I was really looking forward to this game...until I realized I only have a two year old laptop that would probably blow up if i even tried to install the game...waiting for the PS3 release I guess.
Unknown Soldier
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nataku said:
OCing Core i7 to 4ghz is actually pretty routine with adequate air cooling. A few people might get a bad chip which craps out at 3.8ghz but actually most people who buy i7 are shooting for 4ghz and most people who shoot for 4ghz are able to reach it. The lucky ones are the ones who hit 4.2ghz+ on air cooling, sadly mine had the brick wall after 4.0ghz so I gave up on 4.2ghz with my chip.
I didn't bother to test at stock because quite frankly I don't ever run my personal desktop gaming machine at stock. Every desktop gaming box I've ever built has been OCed, going all the way back to my first Celeron 366. OCed to 450! And 3.06ghz to 4.01ghz isn't really much of an OC percentage-wise, only about a 30% OC. As I said, with Core i7's hitting 4ghz is almost routine, much like how people used to routinely take a Q6600 with stock 2.4ghz and make it 3.2ghz, or how people used to routinely take a P4 "Northwood" 1.8 ghz and make it 2.4ghz, etc. Once a group of early adopters buy chips and test OCs more often than not people find a sweet spot for OCing and then everybody jumps on board. That's what I like to do TBH because of how lazy I've gotten when I got a full-time job and didn't have time to tinker with computers like I used to. :lol
I'm not hardcore enough to bother with OC-ing or anything. Don't wanna invest in intricate cooling systems :lol That said for running on stock, I get pretty decent results ouf of FFXIV. I'd say my only real bottleneck is my card, which was ranked tier 6 on that one site. But everything else is modern and good to go.
Unknown Soldier
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kiryogi said:
Intricate? Really? The only difference between some of these big-ass OCing heatsinks and the Intel stock retail heatsink is the Intel one is smaller and it sucks. The big-ass OCing heatsinks work the same way. Well okay, you'll actually need to use a screwdriver to turn a few screws since you bolt them down to the motherboard instead of the shitty push-clips Intel uses which often come loose and then your computer starts crashing and you have no idea why. :lol
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No, not really.jiggle said:
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Hey is there any site that allows downloading of the hi-res maps? All the fansites that I've seen just has that Google Maps interface like this: http://www.eorzeapedia.com/wiki/en/La_Noscea/Map
I really don't want to download all those image tiles and put the map together in Photoshop.
Or is there any sort of utility that could download all the tiles in a map for me?
I really don't want to download all those image tiles and put the map together in Photoshop.
Or is there any sort of utility that could download all the tiles in a map for me?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Someone was saying Rie Tanaka is the Miqo'te #2 voice. I actually picked that one because it sounded like an anime voice, who would have thought it was actually Yomi from Azumanga Daioh! She's also Mitsuru in Persona 3.
Dreamwriter
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I don't think they will, but I do think they need to punish death a lot worse than they do now. Especially with giving everyone something that lowers the punishment. Right now, death is no big deal - in the beta I soloed Leves way higher difficulty than I should have, because all dieing did was make the Leve take a little longer - and the time bonus isn't high enough to make it worth going with an easier one.jiggle said:
Maybe if dieing would make you fail at the Leve, THAT would be a good punishment for dying (obviously in a party the whole party would have to be dead to fail it). It's crazy that dying doesn't fail a Leve, but the game crashing does.
SuperLurker
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desa said:
You can still get release date shipping on the regular version but they stopped offering it for the collectors edition. If you order the CE now and select one day shipping they say you'll get it on the 24th.
Unknown Soldier
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Dreamwriter said:
On the other hand, no real death penalty lets you actually be adventurous on your adventures. You can actually try new things without worrying about 10% XP loss and LEVEL DOWN!, such as explore areas with high-level mobs just to see the scenery. The death penalty in FFXI was so onerous that it impacted the way everyone played and made the community super-elitist-assholes because everyone was so afraid of dying and losing possibly a day or more's worth of progress.
Instead of punishing dying, Squenix put in the Fatigue system to slow down leveling. You'll still eventually reach the cap, but instead of the frustration of dying and losing progress you'll simply progress more slowly.
pancakesandsex
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Kandinsky said:
D: indeed.
IonicSnake
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Well I pre-orderd the Collectors Edition, found it very cheap on the site I usually buy stuff from here in Sweden so I couldn't resist. 
Dreamwriter said:
Personally I think that armour should become damaged on death and not normal wear and tear.
I don't want to see stupidly harsh death mechanics, the game has enough crappy restrictions in place as it is, any more and people aren't guna want to play the damn thing.
Renta your character looked pretty sweet at the end there, too bad the chest piece clips through your legs though, I really hate that, especially when the armour looks so good.
My copy is in the post should be here tomorrow morning ^^
Dreamwriter
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But on the other hand, the game will be boring if it ends up stupidly easy like it is now - no penalty for death, almost no aggro monsters between towns, have to travel a LONG ways out of the way to find an aggro monster...Jinko said:
I'm not saying the game should be as hard-core as FFXI was, but at least FFXI it was exciting to travel and explore, especially at low levels. It felt awesome the first time you managed to get to Jeuno. In the open beta of this game, it was actually boring to run from one of the major towns to another.
mcdomination
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Does anyone know if FFXIV supports vid cards in SLI mode?
HAttyboy said:
There was the product registration card that you then had to register on the website which gave you a standard 15 digit code that was used for PS3 beta registration and the in game item. They dont email you this. It just appears on your screen in a window with instructions.
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