Beta 3 impressions and general discussion

[niwaar]

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 am pretty sure this was asked and YoshiP said they wanted to do this "eventually". Which I read as, we won't be doing this anytime soon, but yes we want to add this.

[Skai]

Just noticed when you walk near an NPC they look at you.

[Ratatapa]

/sigh found it

[Carraway]

Where is the quest to unlock hatali? (do you need to finish story lines?)

You need to be up to a certain point in the main story quest -- don't remember if it's before Ifrit or after -- but there's a quest to unlock Halatali from the north room inside the Waking Sands in Vesper Bay.

[solracht]

Before Ifrit. I was able to pick it up when my group was sent to meet with the materia goblin

[Aristio]

Why the fuck does it cost 55,541 gil to take the boat to Limsa from Uldah?

[Gokulo]

Why the fuck does it cost 55,541 gil to take the boat to Limsa from Uldah?

It's a bug

[TacoTaru]

So after a long day, I finally got my wife's controller working in everything but XIV (of course). When I boot up the game and go to configure the controller, all my buttons are mapped to the wrong thing. I've seen the issue on the beta forums, but no solution. Any ideas? Scarlet Crush is locking up her PC every time I try to install those drivers, so no go there.

Specifically

A -> Left Trigger
B -> Right Trigger
Bumpers are correct
L3 -> A 
R3 -> B
Left DPad -> Left L Joystick
Right Dpad -> Right L Joystick
Left R Joystick -> Up L Joystick
Right R Joystick -> Down L Joystick 
Select -> Y
Start -> X

Everything else unmapped

wtf?

[Sigmakan]

Whats the highest level fate out there? Trying to find some good monsters to test out rank50 battle

[Rocl]

Highest I saw was low 30s I think? Can't remember clearly tho

[Ratatapa]

Only problem i got ATM (and it's not P3 fault) I wish that you could upload your hotbars like in FFXI.

Kinda annoying to redo everything when you log on the PS3 the first time or vise versa

[Takiwaki]

That level 33 dungeon area is awesome

[Lokus]

Not sure if it's my keyboard or the game having major issues with ghosting (I don't experience this in other games) but I'll randomly lose my ability to move when hitting a movement key until I hit the key again. Seems I always trigger it when I mess with the camera while moving at the same time. Even worse when it happens in a fight and I can't move to the back or side quickly cause the game doesn't read the input properly the first time. -.-

[Iremire]

Just did all 3 of the first dungeons. They were... pretty fun. Really easy though. I can see the ichorous ire boss being confusing for idiots.

I'm happy with the game but everything just seems a little TOO slow.

Yeah I think they did well with the pace of Dungeons and Guildhest it's kind of like they are easing new players into the game and how it works. Just a guess since they are lvl 15-19 dungeons.

agree first 3 dungeons were fun as i didn't get to them last week, saw a psycheflayer and briareus and forget the other one.

however, after cs grinding to move along the story i stalled out at bowl with no one around to make a party. pretty shitty end for the night with a closed zone, i was gonna return or tele, but wasn't sure how to get back there so i just logged.

You can talk to an NPC sitting alone next to the water to enter. To get back in there is an NPC at Drybone named "Bowl Of Embers something" he will take you back in.

Just noticed when you walk near an NPC they look at you.

This got me really stoked, more so then it should have.

Whats the highest level fate out there? Trying to find some good monsters to test out rank50 battle

33 was the highest I saw they were in South Thanalan

[SK_FFXI]

What did they do to elemental resistances vs monsters and stuff? Weird being able to kill earth elementals with stone. I guess given the functionality of spells, there's no way around it. Just weird that in a FF game, elemental resistance isn't that much of a factor.

[Elcura]

It's how you make mages relevant to play in all situations. People tend to focus too much on specific weaknesses which leads to class stacking and exclusion. Without elemental weakness the playing field is more level. Easiest way to put it is there's less to think about.

[Adajer]

Legacy World Transfers are up
http://frontier.ffxiv.com/worldTransfer/na/index.html

[Ardrial]

Just in case anyone cared:

It seems after you have finished your company quest(~level 20), you can instant level 15 by talking to these NPCs as the correct class.
Swaenhylt in Camp Drybone(Eastern Thanalan) for Thaumaturge
Wihtred in Hyrstmill(North Shroud) for Conjurer
Aniud in Hawthorne Hut(East Shroud) above the town for Lancer
Chechezan in Horizon Camp(Western Thanalan) for Gladiator
Zacheus in Little Solace (East Shroud) for Archer
Urswyrst in Moraby Drydocks(Lower Noscea) outside gate near Chocobo Porter for Marauder
Adelard at the South Hammer(Western Thanalan)(20,27) for Pugilist


from reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...el_15_on_jobs/

[BerenTebogo]

So I'm 30 PGL / 15 LNC, still can't unlock MNK until sometime later, correct?

[Niiro]

Job quests aren't available in phase 3 afaik.