1.19 Notes

[solracht]

You guys lost already, the butthurt can switch sides now.

EDIT: Not Priran.


EDIT2: I still don't see how it doesn't hurt others to let older players completely skip 1-35 at such fast rate (without having to buy any gear, or even having to play up to 25, mind you), when new players need these players to level up at a decent pace.

There's also a clear difference between "5k/hour and taking 6 months to reach the cap on one of the multiple level75 jobs" and "getting 4 of my battle classes to 25 in 5 hours while afk, without having to buy gear or moving camps", but let's pretend there can't be a middle ground for leveling.

[Ambrosia]

Yeah I think there might be some sort of modification to the claiming system when someone is getting power leveled. But all in all it seems that for the most part this is exactly what Naoki Yoshida wanted.

"There are different feelings towards PL depending on the players view on it but the goal where having new players come closer to older players have not changed.
I believe this is because it's volunteer for the side doing the the PL by spending his/her time helping his friend or family member and doing for good will."

I would not be surprised if in the near future several things might be tweaked in the battle system to make even solo play faster as well.

Family and good will he says!

[Kaylia]

Before WoW made racing to endgame the status quo. I realize you might not like it but for people who play a MMORPG like a RPG and not a race to get the shinies first so you can win the e-peen waving contest, the low to mid levels are where you get familiarized with the world and its lore. And sure it might suck to have to redo the grind for multiple alts or classes but it keeps the game friendly to new players.

Are you? If this game was played like a rpg, leveling would be a side effect of exploring the world and progressing through the story rather than being the main focus. In FFXIV, the world is bland and boring, and most of the leveling will consist of repeating the same leves, fighting the same mobs at one camp, or do some other grinds that are closer to torture than anything else....It's like the complete opposite of a normal rpg.


Over the last few weeks, I ended up playing Xenoblade for more than 150 hours. The world was beautiful and fun to explore, it was filled with rewarding quests, rare monsters and various mission that made the game feel a lot like a MMO. The end result was something more coherent than most mmo, and because of that, it never felt like grinding.

That's what FFXIV should have done.

[Manako]

The begining-mid game is an important part for some people, they probably just would be considered the minority on this board. The theory is that for Multiplayer games there are 4 main types of players, and the game should try to strike a balance to keep them all happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test

I don't care if people PL, although I do consider it a broken mechanic from a technical standpoint. I think that at least playing one time through 1-50 is important to familiarize yourself with the game world, mechanics and people and also make personal connections.

[Kaiyoko]

I think the broken part about the whole PL thing to me is, I'm sitting at work right now, and my computer is running XIV at home while someone is PLing my jobs to 50. No input required.

[solracht]

Official translation:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post385454

This is Yoshida, the producer/director.

I’m sorry that this is late, but I would like to add a few points.

Power leveling is viewed very differently from player to player, and I still stand by my stance that it should be allowed to a certain extent to bridge the gap between long-time players and newer players. This is because I see it as an act of volunteering, in which the power leveling players are willing to give up their time to help out their friends or family members.

We expected the extent of power leveling to become evident with the removal of the claim system, but we didn’t foresee the extent to which low level players can sit AFK, while in the same party with a much higher level character fighting monsters, without the level differences between the players being applied to the incoming EXP.

The calculations for gained EXP have been fundamentally changed in patch 1.19, which has made this issue more difficult to handle. We considered issuing an emergency maintenance to address this, but the release of patch 1.19a is very quickly approaching, so we have decided to fix the issue in patch 1.19a.

I’m sorry for the confusion that this has caused.

[Kurokikaze]

Oh shit. Time to grind the shit outta my classes then. lol

[Kaiyoko]

Yeah after I seen a few locks on those threads yesterday I figured it would happen in 1.19a, so started spamming exp fast as possible lol.

[Spider-Dan]

I think the broken part about the whole PL thing to me is, I'm sitting at work right now, and my computer is running XIV at home while someone is PLing my jobs to 50. No input required.

Really? How are you changing jobs with no input required?

[Kaiyoko]

Really? How are you changing jobs with no input required?

It takes all day to go 30-50, so I just switch when I get home. So I guess there is some extent, but so minimal.

[Jakson]

When is 1.19a expected?

[Cichy]

next week I think

[shepardG]

Lol anyone on fabulous wanna PL me before the nerf?
Anything to lessen the amount of time dealing with their shitty laggy ass interface, at this point, for me atleast, is gonna be the only thing keeping me logging in.

[Tomino]

So, basically, one "celebration" week to take all your battle classes to 50 before everyone else is back to grind. Like this game needed even more gap between ultra-awesome-hardcorers and standard players.

Oh well, there's still hope for fresh new servers.

[Thiefami]

So, basically, one "celebration" week to take all your battle classes to 50 before everyone else is back to grind. Like this game needed even more gap between ultra-awesome-hardcorers and standard players.

Oh well, there's still hope for fresh new servers.

ah.



Anyhow.. I secretly want them to split job from class levels

[Kainos]

damn im pissed I cant get in on this. not gonna be able to play till christmas break

hope u all get banned for exploiting the game

[shidobu]

is it bad i just wanna pl my con/thm so i don't have to actually play them and deal with the horrible ass targeting system. Im still having the shitiest time targeting people in a pinch. I just want their spells/ja's for my mele jobs -.-

[Dantrag]

I hate:

"Cast cure"
3 seconds later
"Starts casting cure"
3 seconds later
"Cure cast bar is full"
1 seconds later
"Cure is cast"

[TacoTaru]

is it bad i just wanna pl my con/thm so i don't have to actually play them and deal with the horrible ass targeting system. Im still having the shitiest time targeting people in a pinch. I just want their spells/ja's for my mele jobs -.-

If you swap to party only targeting, it's really easy to hit people quickly as long as you're paying attention.

[Spider-Dan]

Or you can just map F1-F7 for party players and curing becomes easy.