Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Djay

Djay

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Chysamere said:
What character name?
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Djay Rodcetson...I've never been forced to pick a surname before, so I had to log on to remember what I picked. I've barely done anything yet...took me forever to download and create the character last night and Tuesday nights I don't get home until late.

Can I even talk to people while on Trial? I thought I read something about not being able to send/receive mail?
 
Merrith

Merrith

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Djay said:
Djay Rodcetson...I've never been forced to pick a surname before, so I had to log on to remember what I picked. I've barely done anything yet...took me forever to download and create the character last night and Tuesday nights I don't get home until late.

Can I even talk to people while on Trial? I thought I read something about not being able to send/receive mail?
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Damn, think you logged off just now was going to send you a tell in game. Can help out with crafting gear for you, etc if you want.
 
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RobXIII

RobXIII

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Don't worry, you can totally knock out every single MSQ in like, an hour or two /hides

I started a Bunny boi a year ago, and made it 3 expansions in before I started playing something else. I'll come back to it someday, but it really is a solid MMO, and some of the MSQ is quite emotional.
 
Folanlron

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Djay said:
Djay Rodcetson...I've never been forced to pick a surname before, so I had to log on to remember what I picked. I've barely done anything yet...took me forever to download and create the character last night and Tuesday nights I don't get home until late.

Can I even talk to people while on Trial? I thought I read something about not being able to send/receive mail?
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Trial accounts are restricted to hell and back(Its to stop the gold sellers from farming the MSQ for Gil)

You basically have 0 Comm abilities(except for Parties), no FCs, no Marketboard, no Retainers, no player trading, limited amount of gil you can hold.

Just enjoy the game, I think during the next major patch cycle, Shadowbringers should be added into the "Trial" version.
 
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Janx

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Its still on sale on steam also. If you think you might play long term its a good time to buy the complete edition.
 
Folanlron

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Did a thingy ... lol





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Folanlron

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Usually get the mount closer to the next Expansion release.. New position at work though has afforded me a WHOLE lot of time.. rofl
 
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Chysamere

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You feel so much better when you get it. Not having to watch for spawns constantly. Makes the rest of the expansion so much more relaxing.
 
Merrith

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Chysamere said:
You feel so much better when you get it. Not having to watch for spawns constantly. Makes the rest of the expansion so much more relaxing.
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Yeah, I needed about 250 EW S at start of 6.5, really took up a good bit of time. Gilg always had issues early in expansions traveling to other Aether servers. You'd get stuck and not be able to get back for hours. Just would skip anything crossworld and I'd miss basically all of the triple instance bonanza early on.
 
Cybsled

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Merrith

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Cybsled said:
www.techradar.com

We talked to Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom 2025, and learned a ton about Beastmaster, his most-wanted collabs, and the future of the game's narrative

An Omega surprise
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Interesting interview. Biggest nuggets

1) No Mericydia yet. They know when it will get introduced in the story, but it won't be soon.

2) Beastmaster you get a beast and then have to grow it, which sounds like a beast leveling system of some sort.

3) No plans of a "level squish" at this time
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wonder if they'll save Meracydia for 10.0
 
Cybsled

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There is a ton you can do with that - Tiamat, Allagans, even Omnicrons

Real question is how much will they build towards that
 
Folanlron

Folanlron

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I think Meracydia and the Void/13th are the new "End Game".. The first brood tie, and I bet Azdaja knows what is fully causing the void fall in the 13th.

Omnicrons are kind of iffy.. Omega knows that we could have easily killed him. And the little story that was introduced during EW kind of points to the fact, that all the leader nodes are in a persistent "sleep" state. (This doesn't include the Ultimate, but those fights have always been "alternative" stories.)

With Northern Ilsabard/Othard being the next possible expansion, maybe more Ascian/Allagan ties. There is also the whole Werlyt area, which Gaius has been taking care of sense the end of the whole Weapon Saga(But who knows if he is still fighting? or just helping to rebuild the area?)

But that fucking key I still want to know how that crystal was made..
 
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Cybsled

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They key will be a good mystery, but we can already figure out some details

1) We know the Summer Sea Isles lalafels originally had it. If you do the Criterion Dungeon, you learn a bit more but basically they lived near a giant volcano and the artifact was found there
2) We know that pre-sundering, Azem went on a mission to a volcano. The joke was they stopped the volcano to save grapes that made their favorite wine, but given the artifact was found in a volcano and given the fact the key reacts to Azem's soul, we can presume the real mission involved Azem and that artifact.
3) Azem was basically MIA during the final days, with them not assisting either the Convocation or Venat's crew
4) From various quests, Azem seemed to have a pretty keen knowledge of the future (like the Pandemonium quests)

My guess for the long term: We will use the key to travel to other shards and meet other Azem souls. At some point to confront the big bad (maybe Ultima the High Seraph), we merge and become an unsundered Azem. Then after the big bad is defeated, we travel back in time and effectively are the Azem of the past, we put the key in the volcano, then we get sundered back into our separate parts. So it would be a time loop paradox of sorts. They've already shown they aren't afraid of predestination time paradoxes with Alexander
 
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Folanlron

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1 is hinted at in the lala area also, the terminals(before first shutdown) tell the story of how the cystal was found(they only found the crystal), and later made the gate and the actual key part of it, but the weird thing about that, Krile's parents both figured out not only how too operate them, but leave hidden instructions on the earring given too her, that controlled the gate. (This did not require any kind of "Key" too power it, it acts like the Stargate Rings, once a connection is fully made, you only need to key in the cords to return)

2. is the joke, but is probably actually the true story of how that crystal was made, I think that a calamity was gonna happen, Azem knew how to contain it somehow, either with White Auracite or some other way too condense the power of a calamity into a very strong beacon.(This does create a few problems though.)

3. We already know why he walked away from the Convocation(As his assistant put it "Find another way"), we don't know for sure if Venat actually went looking for him. We know that Azem did not agree at all with either summoning Zodiark, or the sundering to hide away from the Endsinger.

4. is kind of a oddity .. time travel shenanigans always create weird loopholes(but if you don't know how the story is gonna go, it is an /easy way out)
 
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