Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

So I logged in, big improvement from the phase 2 beta!

Do we have a linkshell or anything?

Graphics are top notch at least. For an MMO anyway

God this beta is so fuckin crowded.

Doesn't it end in like an hour?

Got some time to play today, leveled up a lancer. Some of the quests are pretty fun, but sometimes you just get caught in back-to-back quest cut-scenes/dialogues that drag out attempts to log off "after this quest."

Also, enjoyed the ability to actually make a male MMORPG character that looks like he has been in a fight before.

Kuro_sl said:

Doesn't it end in like an hour?

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Four hours.

Finished all of the starter dungeons. That was my main goal with this beta phase, so I think I'm done until stuff carries over to release. Have to convince my friend to level Conjurer when we play for real so I can do Archer for Bard. :x

X X E X X_sl said:

I dont really like how my ARC bow sounds more like star wars sound efx than a bow.

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I really hope they change the sound for the basic attack. To me it sounds like jumping on one of those springy platforms in Super Mario World, and ever since you posted about it I can't not notice it.

No, it ends Monday at 2 am really. Their wording for it is bad.

In previous beta phases it always ended early hours on Sunday, not Monday. did they change it for this phase then?

When will the next phase start?

So a few nitpicks.

Instancing is almost too much imo. So many times you will literally click on a object(door/npc etc) to zone, run for 5 seconds and do it again. One glaringly obvious situation was the airship quest to visit the other 2 cities. Getting off in one of the cities(think it was Limsa(sp?). You get off the airship(btw leaving/arriving 2 separate cut-scenes you have to go through) , walk about 10 steps and you can see the NPC you are supposed to talk to standing on the other side of the gate/turnstyle. Well you cant just run over there , its blocked off. You have to talk to the "Arriving" NPC to get him to teleport you literally 2 feet(and load time). When you finish that(btw this is 3 load times already once boarding the airship(which is a object/instance also), you have to take a lift down to the area proper(another talk to npc and have them teleport you). So from start(First city) to finally in the 2nd city, you click and load 5 times.

Other major pain and hopefully its a bug, is the quest where you enter little "Battles". It seems only one(or a few) of the instances of that "battle" can be going on at once. So you have literally 15+ people(if not more, during primetime) all standing around trying to spam to get in or I even saw at one location there was a literal LINE formed to start the instance that had about 25 people waiting.

Noodleface_sl said:

In previous beta phases it always ended early hours on Sunday, not Monday. did they change it for this phase then?

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Hrm, maybe I'm wrong? I thought we were able to play for three days straight on P2, not just 2 days.

By the way, don't judge the game if you start in Gridania. Both Uld'ah and Limsa Lominsa blow it away in graphical appeal/coolness factor.

I'm gonna roll a Conj or a Thm at launch most likely. Depends on how Scholar and Arcanist turn out.

And the beta is definitely going down in an hour and a half

this is surprisingly not bad. they need to cut down on the traveling for the post-dungeon quest line though, god damn.

it's worth it though once you get the chocobo

Did anyone try the quest "Duty, Honor, Country" as a THM? Ridiculously difficult (found it was luck based on the timing of being poisoned) since you can't get cure from Gridania before you complete it..

sike_sl said:

Did anyone try the quest "Duty, Honor, Country" as a THM? Ridiculously difficult (found it was luck based on the timing of being poisoned) since you can't get cure from Gridania before you complete it..

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i leveled up to 23 on a thaum and this is the only place i died. 1 Antidote and 1 Hi-potion and youll get through it easily.

Chysamere_sl said:

Oh shit it's Byr. Why didn't you join the Rerolled Linkshell?

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*shrug*

Chysamere_sl said:

That quest is an idiot test. You need to use an antidote to cure the poison

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Which is why I said it was luck based. The antidote has a 3 minute cd - the poison can get applied multiple times in that cooldown interval, so if you get unlucky you simply can't survive it as a THM.

sike_sl said:

Did anyone try the quest "Duty, Honor, Country" as a THM? Ridiculously difficult (found it was luck based on the timing of being poisoned) since you can't get cure from Gridania before you complete it..

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when i first did it, i was basically the only one there but after reading the thread on it i found this absolutely hilarious.