FFXIV Closed Alpha/Beta Discussion (Cancelled for this week)

[Kogenta]

Ok so, you start boarding the ship we saw in the trailer with jellyfishes and sea dragon. You get a CS about the ship in a storm and being attacked by jellyfishes. Then you get a message in chat log "you entered an instance" and get asked to engage a monster and fight him. I choose a disciples of magic class, the Conjurer (other one was thaumaturge). Is something like a BLM, elemental spells like blizzard and fire, plus i saw a "JA" named tranquility that recovered me 30 MP.
Engaged the jellyfish and casted 3 spells, you can MOVE when casting and apparently there is little or NO recast time at all. Got TWO type of experience points, one for character and one for the job, called "conjurer exp" and i learned what i think it was a new ability. During the fight there were in the instance two NPCs moving around, the white-haired mithra an galka with pirate patch on the the eye lol.
Then there is another CS involving the ship attacked by the sea searpent and the mithra casting the protective spell we saw in the trailer.

After that you manage to get to the city Limsa-something and to proceed with the storyline you have to talk to the ship captain at the dock right where you pop after CS.

After this CS i got a bug and was unable to go further in the game ;_; got even kicked out from the server and wasn't able to login back... logging was a rlly heavy issue, too much traffic <____< good luck US playerbase, i hope u gonna have less problems logging. I had a LOT of problems with PC lag too, had to toggle off shadows in the configurations and update drivers. performed slightly better, but still not had fluent movements.

Character customization is obviously not yet complete but promising, except kittens aren't selectable ;__; they look so pretty

Gonna post a screen when i get 10 posts <_<

[sruon]

Took me 15 minutes to understand how to blur shits

[Balthasar]

but then again if you have used those before, some ppl could edit their name out of a video faster than some ppl could edit their name out of a screenshot

[darkscion0]

For instance, gearpieces with "enhances xxx ability" were fun to me. Same thing for being able to decide whether you want your nuke to do extra damage, or have it land with extra accuracy.

You do realize that FFXI gear swapping actually REMOVED decisions from the game right? As in you can have the best gear for every situation and never have to make any hard decisions. Now you're actually going to have to weigh stats against each other.

[[Cookies]]

The last 15 minutes before the servers went down I was able to do a bit of exploring, didn't manage to get a Guildleve done though.

Hopefully the stability issues will be fixed for the next phase.

[shaddix]

You do realize that FFXI gear swapping actually REMOVED decisions from the game right? As in you can have the best gear for every situation and never have to make any hard decisions. Now you're actually going to have to weigh stats against each other.

must be why they're showing us the stats that were hidden in 11

[Azurewrath]

I liked gear swaps, made gear worth more, but I'm fine with a change. Will just have to have different gear sets for different kind of mobs (High eva, etc) instead of different attacks/spells.

[Katlan]

So has it been confirmed that the first / last name's are unique?

[Lazytowner]

I liked gear swaps, made gear worth more, but I'm fine with a change. Will just have to have different gear sets for different kind of mobs (High eva, etc) instead of different attacks/spells.

I'm hoping this game puts more weight into the actions players take rather than what they wear. Seeing the amount of abilities in that leaked directory gets me excited about upcoming battle strategy.

[solracht]

You do realize that FFXI gear swapping actually REMOVED decisions from the game right? As in you can have the best gear for every situation and never have to make any hard decisions. Now you're actually going to have to weigh stats against each other.

That sounds fun in theory, especially when the name is new. I don't think these games work that way.

Eventually the optimal setups are found. For everything. When you can swap gear, those optimal sets are found for different spells, abilities, or weapon skills. When you can't, optimal sets will be found for playing in different events or dungeons.

It's the same lack of decisions in both situations. You'll have to make "hard" decisions for the first year of the game, but this is related to its newness, rather than the system changing.

The only difference is rather than having to pursue different items for different actions, you'll pursue items for a specific fight, or dungeon, and odds are they'll be less items than in XI.

[linkinsg]

So has it been confirmed that the first / last name's are unique?

I think i remember reading somewhere that only last names are unique, not sure though so if anyone could clarify... it would be a big help.

[Jehr]

To me, not having gear swaps kills some of the longevity of the game. Like I read once in this thread already, part of the reason people played FF11 so long and still play today was the goal of having the best gear for every possible situation for their jobs. Nobody would ever want to wear stuff like Hecatomb because of the slow..

[darkscion0]

I liked gear swaps, made gear worth more, but I'm fine with a change. Will just have to have different gear sets for different kind of mobs (High eva, etc) instead of different attacks/spells.

I'm sure it will make balancing the encounters a lot easier. If you assume that each item has an item budget you can predict player strength pretty accurately. In FFXI since you could really min/max your gear for every single action that you take, the item budget pretty much goes out the window.

Example:
Very powerful WS that has low accuracy. Trade off is that it has a higher chance to miss. Gear swapping allowed you to stack accuracy, much more than you'd need for your other skills, just to overcome this. Afterwords you can switch back to your normal stats benefiting the rest of your skills.

Effectively the choice of accuracy VS other stats was removed from your hands. Gear swapping I find made the game less interesting because there was a generally known set of gear to maximize every action in the game and you followed the same gear progression as everyone else using the same skill.

[Jinko]

You only need to make gear sets for end game/bosses anyway, changing out gear for XP parties is fairly pointless and you can still change out gear whilst running from mob to mob as long as you are in passive mode.

[Tonka]

Here's a nice quality version of the intro cut scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTb7YpniiI

[Katlan]

I think i remember reading somewhere that only last names are unique, not sure though so if anyone could clarify... it would be a big help.

id like confirmation, not an "i think i heard or remember" scenario

[darkscion0]

id like confirmation, not an "i think i heard or remember" scenario

They stated that eventually you'd be able to send someone a /tell using one full name and the initial of the other name which means that both would have to be unique.

[linkinsg]

id like confirmation, not an "i think i heard or remember" scenario

Ill try and look for it

Edit:

They stated that eventually you'd be able to send someone a /tell using one full name and the initial of the other name which means that both would have to be unique.

Thanks

[Trigun]

DAT FINGER!

[itschina]

id like confirmation, not an "i think i heard or remember" scenario

how about "nobody knows because the odds of somebody encountering a name error with such a small sample size AND you meeting them are currently too low"

or alternatively, I WONT BELIEVE IT UNTIL S-E CONFIRMS IT