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Sorry! Semi-related to FFXIV. In FFXI, Square-Enix finally did what I thought they'd never do: released new weapons that completely shit on even fully upgraded Relic/Empyrean/Mythic weapons. The forum tears, as expected, have been great. I'm sure S-E will throw owners of those weapons a bone...

Nah. But I did go through the posts on FFXIV Junkies when it was first revealed, and you don't even need to hit up the "Continue Reading" sections to find errors. Take for example the summary from the Mark Jacobs interview: Edit: There's also a lot of other things I'd like to fix or see fixed...

That sounds like an invitation to pick apart every Junkies post!

Do I get a PAX Prime press badge so I can scalp the ones I already got?

Oops. :b

Do or die time with the Kickstarter. Related: over the weekend, a few game journalists I follow on Twitter were complaining about the amount of mail they were getting regarding the CU Kickstarter. Going to be interesting to see what happens!

An E3 announcement would mark the 4 year anniversary since the game was originally announced. Remember when that happened?

"- ARR will NOT release in October. We will release the game in a time when the weather is still hot. We can probably talk about a release date next month." [happy dances]

I think most stuff is 4- and 8-man, but there will be content for larger groups too.

And the road to 60 is only mildly interesting. It feels longer than it needs to be, and as a Cleric I felt like I didn't really get any fun new abilities while leveling up. In fact, some of the abilities I unlocked were just replacements for abilities I already had (though the older abilities...

I don't expect it'll be like FFXI's end-game. Until the level cap raise a few years ago, FFXI was all tiny upgrades, sidegrades, and highly situational pieces of gear since you could swap gear in-combat. Though, I wouldn't expect FFXIV to be like modern MMOs where you have frequent gear resets...

Hopefully by GW you don't mean Guild Wars, since that was developed in the US.

ACT. It actually supports multiple games via its plugin engine.

Haha yeah, after years of playing FFXI on controller I'm not sure I could adjust to left/right selecting players (though in this game I plan to play KB/M since the UI isn't ass). I'm sure it will be customizable, if it's not already.

Couple of things to add to that list: - If I remember correctly, the GCD will actually be lowered via some stat later on. - UI-wise, using a controller results in a different UI. PC users can use both the KB/M-specific UI and controller-specific UI, but PS3 users only have the latter.

I noticed the dungeon lead's alias is Timetravel; I wonder if that's Timetravelling from EQ2, aka the guy responsible for the encounter pretty much everyone loved and looks back upon fondly even to this day, Roehn Theer.

Basically, yeah. For example, White Mage's main class is Conjurer, the subclass is Gladiator, and it also gets access to Pugilist skills. Keep in mind that cross-classing in FFXIV is more flexible than FFXI was; in FFXI you had a main job and subjob and you only had access to the abilities of...

Jobs != classes. Classes are sort of base level roles; they are more flexible than jobs at the expense of not being as good at specific things like healing or tanking. Jobs, therefore, are better at those specialties, but lack some of the cross-class abilities that classes are capable of...

Strategy here(scroll to the bottom). They also added a hard mode later on.

I don't think there are any other support classes at the moment, so yeah. It's not like FFXI's bard, though.

If you look at some of the later battles that were a part of the FFXIV 1.0 storyline, they were interesting from a mechanics standpoint and actually fairly challenging (here's an example). Hopefully they'll keep that up with 2.0.

Are there new set bonuses or is it the same ol' same ol'?

I wasn't trying to imply that with my post, I meant that I'd rather level through dungeons than having to do non-essential quests. However, I do believe later story quests will require a group, yeah. That's one of the big reasons they're implementing a group finder.

Yeah, hard-coded factions have tempered my desire to play the game. I'll still check it out, but that shit needs to go.

You'll still have group grinding as an option, it'll just be in the form of running dungeons instead of plopping your ass down at a camp for hours on end (bonus: this means no one can intrude on your camp, though admittedly that was sometimes fun if you were in a strong group capable of pushing...

The person I was responding to was hoping it'd take months and months if you grind. I am not trying to shit on any memories here, just trying to remind people that a lot of that slow pace stemmed from a lack of knowledge among the community or in your case, a lack of community in general since...

FFXI's leveling pace wasn't even that slow once people actually figured out what the hell to actually level on (ie: not try to grind IT++ mobs). Not to mention that you are required to level multiple classes to be effective; it doesn't really make sense for the leveling pace to be that slow...

He explicitly stated what he meant in the very last line!

Expect the only competition in FFXIV to come from the race to complete new raid instances, similar to other MMOs. We already know that while there will be some open world mobs, they won't be contested in the same way they were in FFXI. Heck, FFXI doesn't even do those anymore. Also as someone...

I'm still contemplating it! Need to spend some time with the terms again, though.

They've let you pay with a credit card for a while now. Thank god.

Square-Enix is probably going to be pretty fucked financially if this one doesn't do well, especially given the lofty expectations they've set for their titles due to their previous failures.

With the group EXP changes they made a little while back in EQ2, contested Skyshrine became a great place to grind EXP. Like sakkath hinted at, they've had troubles with making the contested dungeons actually worth doing in terms of challenge versus reward.

Berserker got some nice buffs later on.

I don't really mind the illusion of choice that much if I enjoy myself, though it does make it laughable when they suggest if you want to play the other advanced class that you should go through all of the story content again, because then the seams are exposed. It also didn't help that when I...

Yeah, I caught a server message right before I got kicked off. That stuff is hard to see. Game is ugly, sound design is kind of bad, UI is atrocious, lack of fullscreen windowed mode makes me want to punch things, but I'm still kind of having fun with it for now. Some of that probably has to...

Have they added full-screen windowed mode yet?

Alright, Draegan, I preordered this because of you. If I end up hating it I want a free premium Junkies membership (jk).

Even duoing with someone else, Mystic was pretty unfun to play out in the open world. It would've been more bearable if dungeons were an efficient way to level and random PUGs weren't so dumb about standing in attacks.

I think one downside of rolling on a PvP server, though, is that you can't group cross-faction, which is kind of lame. :\