I don't have a good comparison off the top of my head for 1.0's 8-man content. Maybe 10-man WoW raiding, but that doesn't sit well in my mind, for some reason.
No one knows how the raids are in the new ff14 because they haven't played it afaik. I would say it is close to a slow wow. I think if I was to judge wow at level 30 I might also call that a slow wow. I don't mean this in a bad way and I don't really mean it in any way. You have classes, levels, quests and dailies. If you like MMORPGS then I think you will enjoy this. I played one class, a healer, to level 24. Very basic, slow and unless I had a Glad that just really didn't bother looking at his skills it was quite easy and tbh it was still easy but I had downtime. Some quests could be hard but that was mainly because I wasn't doing them correctly I guess? The AI of level 4 mobs are not going to give you nightmares. The first 3 dungeons are not equal to heroic 25 man raids and the combat is pretty slowly paced for the first 15 levels. This is your basic MMO with a final fantasy setting and I love it.
Not-quite special. The game supports three types and we've been shown examples of content for each:
I think P4 will be short enough that it doesn't matter, and they won't bother capping anything. I'm expecting P4 to be just a Fri. morning - Sun. morning thing (but not this weekend), followed by a few days gap, and then the pre-order headstart. I guess we'll know for sure tomorrow, which should be around midnight tonight US time if they stick to doing things by Japan time.
Yeah (to the class grinding).
so far theyve been pretty good to sticking to the roadmap and phase 4 is 1-2 weeks on it. I would expect to get 1 week for phase 4.
Do you need 2 classes at lvl 15 for jobs? Or just the main class at 30 and 1 class at 15?
Main at 30, sub at 15. You can pick spells from your main, your sub and one more(which can be lvl 1, doesn't matter, but you're not gonna get anything from it if you don't lvl it obviously).
Have to go through the Accounts Management login, not the facebook Square Enix login. They will presumably be opening up preorder codes to be entered this week (the XXXXXX-###-XXXXXX-### codes) and actual game keys will be emailed out for release day on the 27th.
Mine came yesterday, with another one specifically for early acces and some digital pet stuff? ( no ce or anything not sure what that's for, preordering maybe) today. Bought mine from best buy fwiw.
beta sign ups should start again when the servers go up for phase 4. sign up for them when it does, or find someone who played the original ffxiv and isnt playing this one...then ask for his account.
