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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Seems like people still haven't learned how to not stand in bad shit. Cycled through about 10 different people doing the Cutter dungeon yesterday afternoon. Every single one of them died multiple times every pull on the sandworm boss, even after I repeatedly explaining the (completely obvious...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You probably have an overlap with your GC hunting log
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    If it's like beta, they will close and open as population fluctuates.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Anyway, I logged out and logged back in and was able to redeem my PS3 code with no problem
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    As a note to that guy who was complaining about Square using Apache... Hah! We have complete proof that they are, in fact, using nginx, as evidenced by all of the errors being shown :P
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    As someone who runs nginx/php-fpm/(memcached/redis)/mariadb/(sphinx/elasticsearch) setups for a living, and helps run a vB4 based forum that as of this minute has 450 users and 1500 guests online... Dude. You'rereallynitpicking their webserver setup. It's also pretty crazy to claim that Apache...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I haven't been hit by a single telegraph that I dodged successfully. Hit/dodge on them is determined by when the red circle disappears, not the actual animation. re: quests, supposedly they get massively better after 20 and the ifrit quest, but I haven't actually done that yet.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It's pretty annoying, as a gladiator at least. For AoE stuff I found that I could hold aggro on an infinite number of things for forever with flash (AOE +enmity) -> fast blade -> riot blade (mp regen combo bonus) ->fast blade -> riot blade -> flash Our ranged enmity move (shield toss)...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Uhm. Have tanked (GLD) and healed (CNJ) the instances. I did not, at any point in time, have the ability to do more than marginal amounts of DPS when healing, nor was there ever a point on my GLD that I was taken so little damage that I didn't need to be healed, except for the one run where...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Not sure how those all ended up resized differently, but man, the game is beautiful.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Full/open isn't a static thing with these. It's dynamic, and it being full might last 5 minutes or an hour. Same thing with it being open. It's not like gilg is shutdown until further notice for character creation, or anything. Anyway, having taken another class to 20, I've now got a maxed...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I played for 12 hours and got ARC to 20, and CNJ to 15. I'm not 100% certain how the tagging system seems to work. As best as I can tell, if you tag a mob, and others kill it, you get full XP. Also, if someone else tags a mob, but you do at least 30-50% of the damage, you get full XP (These...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Not sure what I'm going to do the rest of the weekend... already level 19. Guess I'll get CNJ to 15 for BRD after I finish this up.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Got through the queue. Didn't refresh progress any, just suddenly was ingame.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Didn't have any luck sitting there pressing refresh over and over again every 3 minutes, so I rebooted the whole thing. Got the lobby error the first time, got back in the second and Gilgamesh was up. 16 player queue
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Apparently they're online for some. Leviathan reportedly already has a queue
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    In on a NA/EU server in, or just ingame in?
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    NA/EU servers still look to be offline
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    go away cutscene
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I'll note there's going to be some bias in the results on that - Gilgamesh is the reddit server, so it seems likely that there's going to be larger than normal amount of people selecting it in a poll hosted on reddit.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Blue Gartr is rolling on Gilgamesh, so that's another + for Gilg to me, imo. Great community of people.
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    EQ Never

    Sigil went on to be high successful, create a game that was released to great critical and popular acclaim, and toppled the MMO throne. (in some alternate reality that is not this one)
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    EQ Never

    You're trying to blast content that is supposed to be easy for being easy. Blizzard's conscious design choice is that the only difficult content is supposed to be heroic raiding. And heroic raiding is not a faceroll - especially during progression, before you've been farming it for 6 months. I...
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    EQ Never

    I played FF11 heavily, where changing classes was done just by returning to your 'home' and using a menu. It might have been because leveling to cap was such a pain in the ass and drawn out experience, but it was hardly ever a case of "Grab a bunch of random people, figure out comp from there."...
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    EQ Never

    And people couldn't be carried in EQ1? If the rest of the team is good enough, of course you can carry people and their subpar play won't matter
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    EQ Never

    Heroic raiding and PVP are the only things worth doing in WoW (and only barely just...), so I'm not really sure what you're arguing there. The design of WoW is to make those two things the focal point of anyone wanting to do anything challenging. This isn't a value judgment on whether that's...
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    EQ Never

    Some complaints in here are bizarre. "Multiclassing kills community building!" What? If anything it increases community. You recognize names. When you're "leveling" (whatever the equivalent is) your alt, you see someone else "leveling" theirs, ad you recognize them. Maybe you hadn't...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Re: 11 crafting It was one of the worst things in existence, and had lots of voodoo to it that I still don't think anyone to this day is sure about. It boiled down, basically, to having a bunch of materials, having to craft the same item over and over and over and over gain, and you would...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Honestly, I much preferred that over the WoW dailies. Spend 150-200k (and get half of it back from the turnins) on corn, cornettes, and zinc ore, and you were done with your bastok/jueno/san d'oria/windurst/norg rep. The turn ins could be macro'ed, and your total time investment to get all of...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Except FFXIV wasn't anything like FFXI, at any period of time. It would have been a much better game if it had been, though. I'll put myself in the 'Liked FFXI's controls' camp. I didn't use compact - both hands on the keyboard at all times, numpad for movement, left hand for macros.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    They started to get popular as tanks back in 07, but, I know for sure some people were at least working with the idea/trying it back in 06. If you quit a bit before TBC, or cut back, that'd probably explain it.