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Twintania actually isn't all that hard at all. Dropped it on the second night of attempts with my new group. Just feels like a competency check where the game punishes you for having any mongoloids in your group. Also ended up with some serious loot karma, getting Allagan Cane on the first kill.

Manor and Mines are fine honestly. It's Pharos Sirius unlocking that would be strongly advised against.

Yep, this. Even though the environment is the same, all the monster behavior and boss fights are different. 1000% different, not slight alterations. That's not what people think when they think about hard modes. When people think hard mode, they think unforgiving numbers-based changes ala TBC...

I really think this game sucks at marketing its own shit sometimes. Biggest fuckup they've had in this patch is calling the new versions of Copperbell/Manor "hard modes". They aren't fucking hard modes. They're entirely new instances design wise that happen to reuse the environment and mob...

I don't think you understand how weapons in this game work.

Ifrit Extreme is really easy honestly. There's like an hour learning curve to see parts of the fight, but after that it's easy to kill and easy to reproduce. There's no split second mechanics in the fight in where a lapse of attention ends up wiping the raid, ala Titan XM/Twintania.

12 bucks a month, can't commit to such a costly decision lightly.

Seriously? SQUARE ENIX Online Store - FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn [PC DOWNLOAD] Its 15 bucks for the game and one free month. I guarantee you that you've spent more money on garbage steam sale games that don't even offer the entertainment that FFXIV does for 1 month.

Just killed Titan Extreme and Ifrit Extreme today in the first day of doing it. Really fun fights overall imo. Can't wait to see new versions of them (and the other primals) at some point.

#drama This is why Mark Kern was removed as CEO by Red 5 : Games

I really think this part is debatable. People severely underestimate the ability for MMO companies to piss away money when they have terrible management. Case in point: Firefall has had what's probably close to 150 million invested in it now and still has nothing to show for it. Why? Because...

38 Studios staff members are essentially a worthless source of information. Sorry. If people are in a company right up until the time it goes under, you're generally going to get very biased information. Objective information (ie: evaluating the management of the company, actual proof of...

I'm sure your friends are good people and all, but they're not objective sources on whether or not the game had any prayer at all. I've known people who have worked on doomed games, and I can say with certainty a large percentage of them were drinking kool aid up until the very end. People who...

I don't think it was purely political, or at least I don't think that any rational, intelligent person who evaluated the situation would see a shutdown as purely political. Chafee himself might have closed it down out of purely political reasons, but lucky for him there were plenty of...

So I get back from vacation on the 24th. How goes Gilgamesh grouping?

No one gives a shit about the game on NeoGAF or reddit either. Sites that are certainly more than "niche".

SWTOR had a lot of things going for it that masked the downsides: 1.) Story was interesting 2.) Companions were a fresh/entertaining idea at the time. 3.) lol Star Wars (still a much stronger IP than elder scrolls.)

I like the part where everyone on this thread sans you comments how awful everything feels (including the PvP), and you come on with, "YEAH I HAD TONS OF FUN PVPING FOR 9 HOURS" We really believe that you had fun in that level of extreme clunkiness. No really, we do.

Do you even feel any sort of shame for this level of blatant shilling? Jesus christ.

Did you live in a cave prior to the release of SWTOR? SWTOR had shitloads of (mostly) positive hype going into its release. It wasn't anywhere close to FFXIV levels, but people were generally excited about the game. SWTOR's star faded very quickly after release, but at least it was fucking...

How does it feel being so delusional? There's no hype for TESO anywhere at this point. Lets look at a forum far larger than our own for reference: Elder Scrolls Online Beta sign up - Page 9 - NeoGAF NeoGAF can only manage a 9 page thread on TESO. The same forum I might add, that managed...

Because SWTOR was actually entertaining up until you started to hit the mid 30's or so. For all the flaws that SWTOR had, it still had a reasonably ok 1-35 path. It's only when you had to face the game's MMO aspects that it really began to fall apart - it was fine as a single player game.

No. This game sucks too badly for that scenario to play out. If the game were at least SWTOR-level bad it'd be one thing, but the negative hype train for this game is going to be ridiculously strong. Anyone who remotely follows gaming is going to be well aware of how much the game sucks by April.

I like the part where the post before this you claimed that everyone's opinion was irrelevant because the board is full of super negative haters, and now in this post your go-to defense is saying the exact opposite. What? Make up your fucking mind. Do people on this board overly praise games, or...

Yeah. You're full of shit. This board is actually pretty spot on for most MMOs that come out. Maybe you lack the reading comprehension to realize it, but the level of criticism thrown at every MMO is relatively varied. FFXIV was one of the best received MMOs on here that had so much praiseit...

It's objectively worse than every standard MMO release in recent history. You have to go to hybrid shooter games like Firefall to find a game that fails in more categories than TESO.

No, you just live to fanboy for one of the worst MMOs of all time apparently.

TSW had far, far more going for it (and still does) than TESO is ever going to achieve. Both in terms of content and overall polish of the game. FFXIV by the accounts of most people on this forum (and myself) was fuckingawesomefor the first month and a half to two months until content ran dry...

Because it's the worst MMO that's been released in recent memory. Seriously. Name an MMO that doesn't drastically outshine this piece of shit? Even SWTOR looks like a shining crystal gem compared to this game. Why the fuck would anyone play this game over the multitude of games available that...

Going back and reading the utter shit that people like Blackwulf were posting is good comedy now. Seriously. Not to say that people weren't calling out the bullshit as it was being spewed, but it looks all the more hilarious in the context of this weekend. All the astroturfing in the world...

Honestly, if the twister part of the fight is still heavily RNG (and they brute forced through) I don't see the point in doing tons of Turn 5 attempts. Given the loot that drops, it's probably not worth it.

Yep. The combination of price (exceeding 100 dollars) with the leap of faith nature of their business model is a gigantic turn off from the game. They went way the fuck overboard, and I assure you I'm not the only one who feels the same way. I really feel like they cut off their nose to spite...

I still have no interest in this game. Offering crazy value 500 dollar kickstarter packs made this a "buy then or not at all" game for me. If the top level (for non-cosmetic stuff) gameplay wise was 100 dollars, I would have bought the kickstarter without a second thought. Kind of sad to see...

The Allagan gear is either slightly worse, equivalent, or somewhat better than the myth gear. Granted that Allagan is also behind a weekly lockout, but it really doesn't take that long to gear up in game right now. My character already has ilvl90 in most key spots, and is just missing head +...

In the upper midwest (which is closer the most) and still saw a massive improvement.

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...

Subscribing gives extra quests? What?

You can't have an MMO that has mystery in it anymore. Not possible with datamining and the existence of google.

I'm not sure why you'd treat mind/int's effect on spell potency as some sort of separate modifier. It's inherent in what they provide as a stat. Internal Release/Blood for Blood stack on top of the finished weapon damage + main stat calculations however, meaning that their potency is far more...

"Napkin Theory Crafting" If you think even on a face value that 20ish int needs to be tested vs 2 of the most powerful buffs in the game, you are on crack.