Comments from the Devs

[Carraway]

The first time you do them, yeah.
The EXP drop-off is just way too much though.

I can see why they made the experience bonus a one-time thing, but it adds to the consumable content problem for leveling multiple classes.

[xopher]

Yeah I didn't notice that it was just a first time bonus.

[Spider-Dan]

I'm trying to remember how it was in 1.0 on whether I could have used a cross-class skill when I was below the level of the skill. I'm leaning towards no, so this seems like an oversight on SE's part.

AFAIK there was no level sync in 1.0.

If you switched to a lower-rank class (in early 1.0, when hotbar was persistent between class changes) I believe it would remove actions from your bar from the "end" based on your available action points.

[LD]

I think guildhests are actually a really good middle ground between solo levequests and dungeons. The fact that duty finder has the option to match for that means that FFXIV has easy access to organized group content that has a low time investment, which is unique (at least from the pool of games I've played). The exp reward after the first one is low. If a comparable levequest didn't give out slightly more exp, I'd say they hit the nail on the head in terms of how fast you can complete a guildhest. Just because a levequest CAN take longer doesn't mean it will, so that isn't enough to justify the difference. To be fair though, at least this is only a numbers problem and not something wrong with the system. I'm sure we can convince them to raise the reward.

[Kiarax]

So Sunday morning as per SOP then.

Heh

Thank you for participating in the FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Beta Test.
This is to notify the end date and time for the 4th Beta Test, Test Phase 3 that has started on July 5th.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the test, we have confirmed the stability in the Duty Finder, and will be ending the 4th Beta Test on July 7th, 2013 at 2:00 a.m. (PDT) / July 7th, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. (GMT).

[Sephiroth]

That is annoying, everyone thought it would be a longer test.

[Rocl]

What's the point of having a longer test if they've accomplished what they set out to do?

[Kensaki]

What's the point of having a longer test if they've accomplished what they set out to do?

Exactly. Also I like it only being weekends. Don't want people to play it too much before release or it'll be burn out city.

[Sephiroth]

What's the point of having a longer test if they've accomplished what they set out to do?

That's true but when they say the 4th test will be longer and it isn't it disappoints people. Unless there's a 5th test coming. They did fall behind schedule a little.

Presumably phase 4 will be 24/7 so still going to have burn out. But at least progress is kept.

[Gokulo]

That's true but when they say the 4th test will be longer

Where did they say that because I don't remember this. They only said that the final test will may be longer and no one said this is the final test.

[Hiroishime]

They didnt say it will be longer, people just assumes it will be longer because they expects duty finder might be unstable for a day or two.

[Sephiroth]

Where did they say that because I don't remember this. They only said that the final test will may be longer and no one said this is the final test.

I can't find the original phase 3 schedule but I'm sure there was only four tests outlined. I guess it comes down to whether we're on test 3 or 4 right now. This is the fourth weekend but things have happened later than planned IE content finder was meant to be last week. So perhaps we'll see another weekend which will be longer.

[Tearshang]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Tes...hase-3-Outline

[Gokulo]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Tes...hase-3-Outline

Yeah, this shows that we get one more longer test. There is a delay, but we know about it since we didn't get Duty Finder last week.

[Churchill]

Not everyone thought it would be a longer test.

No reason they shouldn't incorporate server stress into ph4 at this point.

[Niiro]

Phase 4 is going to be soooooo boring for people that want to save the main story missions to do on ACN.

Gonna spend the whole test dicking around collecting teleports and organizing my inventory.

[Gokulo]

Gonna spend the whole test dicking around collecting teleports and organizing my inventory.

Pretty much this. Just do the story until GC at least, otherwise I don't have a weapon for mah BRD!

[Ratatapa]

Pretty much this. Just do the story until GC at least, otherwise I don't have a weapon for mah BRD!

Meh story for lancer boring class so . yes I'm weak for not having all jobs at 50

[Deuce]

Phase 4 is going to be soooooo boring for people that want to save the main story missions to do on ACN.

Gonna spend the whole test dicking around collecting teleports and organizing my inventory.

There's also class and job quests to finish as well as leveling any crafts if you're into that sort of thing. However, it's definitely going to be hard to resist the urge of plowing through as much content as possible in Phase 4 and early access. Hopefully there'll be plenty of tasks to do during that time.

[Jinfire]

So Im level 16 and at the entrance to Tam-Tara Deepcroft and I cant queue for it. Wtf do I need to do. Im a THM from Uldah originally.