Beta 3 impressions and general discussion

[Jamison]

Random replies:

- I'm also pretty sure they did say an SSD would make a significant difference for ARR, and the statement seemed to imply they knew load times were unacceptable on a normal hard drive.

- Thanks for the clarification on the armory. That what I thought (and it is pretty great) I just wanted to make sure I understood it.

- I assume the Calamity NPCs will never go away... or maybe way down the road (when there's only a handful of people who haven't gotten stuff out) they'll change it to a different system. But regardless I don't think you'd ever lose access to your 1.0 inventory.

- They specifically said you could toggle the tattoo mark off, it just must not be implemented yet (unless they changed their minds)

- I guess there's no way around it, but I hate that so much of my gear is GC and not usable until getting through a pretty big chunk of quests. Also then because of cracked materia, more often than not AF is my best remaining available choice. Ugh. There are some jobs that are entirely unusable for me until that point.

- Some absolute gems in the quests so far:

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The angry party breakup scene in Grid and also the new adventurer getting the same introductory spiel you run into during the level 20 main quest

[ArchDizzle]

AF stats seem to better then before, will just depend on how stats and other gear play out at 50.

For people who have DL/Primal/Relics how are the stats on them compared to 1.0?

[bluefan]

So I've been told the early way to gather an earth shard is through botany. But that won't help the miner log, would it?

[Jamison]

Maybe a bug then?

[Hellfury]

I know it's redenomination, but logging in for the first time on my old character and looking at my gil count still hurt ; ;!
On the bright side, now I know why I invested in a Titan GFX card, this thing is beautiful!

Edit: And Miounne is cuter than ever before :D

[Ratatapa]

AF stats seem to better then before, will just depend on how stats and other gear play out at 50.

For people who have DL/Primal/Relics how are the stats on them compared to 1.0?

Garuda claws have much more stats

[Gokulo]

AF stats seem to better then before, will just depend on how stats and other gear play out at 50.

For people who have DL/Primal/Relics how are the stats on them compared to 1.0?

Seems my GC gear is now worse than AF, lol.

[Eanae]

Gear stats are all placeholders to prevent data mining at the moment from what I've read.

[ArchDizzle]

Lol thats crazy, I was kind of shocked that some of my previously crappy AF pieces were now better then my mediocore triple melds. It's a brand new world!

[Gokulo]

Also, can't use companions to enter Dungeons/do Guildhests yet :<

[Ratatapa]

Well did what I wanted for phase 3 now to wait for phase 4 and start the 'head start'

[Icarian]

Hope they can somewhat fix this to some degree because that shit looks ugly as hell, it also clips through shields/weapon on the back.

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[Stromgarde]

It's surprising that they haven't done anything about that yet, in XI there were at least 3 different parts to the head structure to prevent clipping like that from happening.

[Gokulo]

It's surprising that they haven't done anything about that yet

Didn't they add the long hairs with this phase? I guess fixed will be added later on.

[niwaar]

Hope they can somewhat fix this to some degree because that shit looks ugly as hell, it also clips through shields/weapon on the back.

That is pretty sad looking... But its the same reason I tend to choose the shorter hair options in everygame. I got tired of my hair clipping through my shield in WoW I loved when they added the Barber Shop so I could finally get rid of it.

[Sephiroth]

I actually went back to my characters from last week and I'm having ten times the fun I was on the legacy server with my 50. So hard to get groups for shit without the content finder.

[Carraway]

Is anyone else actually doing any real theorycrafting/in-depth mechanics testing? We're trying a lot of stuff out on Durandal, but we're limited by FATE boss spawn rates.

[Zzsark]

Also, can't use companions to enter Dungeons/do Guildhests yet :<

You say 'yet' but have they said anything about adding this capability? I would love it if they did (duo with chocobos would be sweet).

[Gokulo]

You say 'yet' but have they said anything about adding this capability? I would love it if they did (duo with chocobos would be sweet).

I'm pretty sure they did, but with all the stuff that gets mentioned in different places I might be just imagining this.

[Amiricle]

Is anyone else actually doing any real theorycrafting/in-depth mechanics testing? We're trying a lot of stuff out on Durandal, but we're limited by FATE boss spawn rates.

I haven't really done anything yet, but for anyone who says stats don't matter I say bullshit. My V1 character was in pretty much full dated gear(meaning no stats beyond defense) and the stuff level 10+ took way longer to kill than my char from last week. Well 2-3 spells more anyway.