Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

You get one pretty quick but yeah it kinda sucks for a little bit, especially since they nerfed Sprint to be longer cd at some point. What you can do is level Archer to hmm... 15 or 20 I forgot and get Peloton, and then you can make a macro that switches classes to Archer(or BRD if you go to 30+) and cast Peloton for the speed buff. Good for town running even after you have a mount, you sprint, do the macro, sprint again etc.

Cybsled said:

Probably faster to just get the chocobo than to level another class lol

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Meh not necessarily, it's a lot of MSQs to get there, but anyway the point wasn't replacing the chocobo, mounts are still way better, it's just something you can do since travel time is always a bitch and there's still a lot of places you can't use a mount that require you running around. Peloton macro saves quite a lot of time when you're doing fetch quests in cities. Mind you depends on what you're doing but there's quite a few quests in Ishgard and Kurogane for example.

shabushabu said:

Any point in getting stormblood for a n00b ? I am going to level a toon in this game give it a shot... Does Stormblood matter ?

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Stormblood includes Heavensward(unlike WoW which rolls expansions into the base game besides the last, FF rolls expansions into the last expansion), so having Stormblood lets you create an Au'Ra(dragon people added with Heavensward).

Other than that, none of the expansion stuff has any impact until lvl 50 at least, at which point being 50 lets you play Samurai and Red Mage from Stormblood(the Heavensward classes are only unlocked once you reach Heavensward itself, which takes quite a while after reaching 50). So if you're just looking to test the game, you can definitely not buy the expansions until you reach 50 and not see any difference. Can even start clearing the 2.1-2.5 story quests before you buy them, you'll "waste" xp, but there's way more xp than needed anyway with all the filler quests.

Trial goes up to 35 too and can be played forever, obviously being a trial you don't have access to most social features like tells and AH to prevent RMT shit, but it's a decent enough way to check out the game, especially since 35 gets you to a fair point in the story to see at least one decent dungeon(Sunken Temple) and one decent trial(Titan).

Can definitely start from scratch, or could restart your char since there's not much point in redoing the 1-50 stuff. You're gated by the story but it's not much of an issue getting groups to do stuff other than maybe the last quest in the original main story, not sure how the queues are on that, although you could maybe get a random person to carry you through it anyway. But really it means waiting 40mins in queue instead of 20mins(on a DPS) I'd assume, so no big deal. All the story required stuff is part of roulettes for daillies that people still do all the time so it's not an issue finding groups to do your story instances.

Ninja has very much died down, it's not that popular but not like the least popular either. Also it isn't new, it was added in 2.4, like 3years ago? SAM was very popular at the expansion's launch, not sure now, it suffers from having no utility so not being very popular in raids and that trickles down to people not playing the class for a perceived "weakness" even though it's perfectly fine for the content they're doing anyway.

Noodleface said:

Having trouble deciding what to play. I always tank so I guess that limits me to 3

Right now I'm 36 warrior (lol) with the msq skip so was doing potd. The idea of DRK intrigues me, but are they shit tier tanks?

Not interested in paladin

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When I was playing it was DRK mostly. Very fun, you'd probably like it.