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

[Hyan]

Fair point. I suppose the 75 cap never bothered me, more the fact people would repeatedly do sky/kings and ignore the new stuff. That's why I left the game.

Yeah.. if the content is done well, that kind of thing won't happen. People will do old content.. and also new content. Kind of like what happened with the Aht Urhgan expansion.

SE's just gotta have to look ahead a bit. I'm sure they definitely know that by now, if nothing else.

[Agito]

I've been thinking that there might be a way to have preset stat combinations you can switch to at any time and for each class. It would surely be a hassle to manually distribute your stats god know how many times for the duration that you play. So, having the ability to save certain stat combinations would be very nice. I have no idea of what kind of restrictions would be placed on redistributing stats but i'm hoping we'll be able to do it on the fly or at the very least talk to a NPC that wipes are your selected stats without any time restrictions before the next time this NPC will offer this service incase you mess something up by accident. I would like to play every type of class, magic type, fighter type, tanking type and harvester type so i honestly don't want to have to be gimp at all these classes by making a hybrid of stats that benefits all of them. I also would like to be able to switch from a healer type to a fighter type on the fly or via NPC and have all of my stats completely optimized for each of them which would require me to redistribute all of my stats. I'm thinking way to much about this right now, i'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.

[sruon]

I've been thinking that there might be a way to have preset stat combinations you can switch to at any time and for each class. It would surely be a hassle to manually distribute your stats god know how many times for the duration that you play. So, having the ability to save certain stat combinations would be very nice. I have no idea of what kind of restrictions would be placed on redistributing stats but i'm hoping we'll be able to do it on the fly or at the very least talk to a NPC that wipes are your selected stats without any time restrictions before the next time this NPC will offer this service incase you mess something up by accident. I would like to play every type of class, magic type, fighter type, tanking type and harvester type so i honestly don't want to have to be gimp at all these classes by making a hybrid of stats that benefits all of them. I also would like to be able to switch from a healer type to a fighter type on the fly while in the field and have all of my stats optimized for each of them. I'm thinking way to much about this right now, i'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.

My thoughts exactly, really hope they come up with a preset-like system and something that doesn't take too long to change from/to.

Something that wouldn't take longer than going to my Mog House and talking to my Moogle, since lots of people like to use FFXI analogys.

[Teakwood]

R... right... because nobody endgame does Limbus, or Salvage, or Einherjar...

...except... that they do? I'm biased because I'm in an endgame shell that explicitly stays away from land kings, and it's my understanding that those sorts of shells are an aberration from the 'norm', but, uh. I mean, if there are linkshells today that -just- do kings, and completely ignore the rest of the game, that's honestly their own fault, not SE's.

I hate the idea of vertical gear progression as the sole content stream, although I guess I'd be at least willing to try it? I've never played WoW, and I only got to level 30 in Aion, so I admit to bias here, which is why I'd be willing to -try- it, it just seems to me that deliberately making gear obsolete at the rate that WoW does (from the descriptions I've received) seems like a completely terrible design choice. Yeah, you wind up doing all of the content... exactly once. And you grind for gear that you know you'll be getting rid of in a few months, whereas of the gear I use in FFXI, a huge amount of it I got -years- ago, and I actually remember the circumstances and the memories of getting every piece. And the gear comes from a range of content from 2005 to 2009, and we still do that content to get the same pieces of gear for other people.

I might be mischaracterising WoW, but even if I am, I fail to see how FFXI's gear progression is a bad thing. There are drastic implementation problems - especially with the HNM systems - I'm not going to say that everything in FFXI is perfect, or even remotely perfect, and I am looking forward to a lot of improvement in FFXIV, but I will be a bit disappointed if this improvement comes in the form of "okay, gear is only useful for a year, to force you to do new content that we add", rather than actually making all of the content worth doing on its own merit. >_>

[Jinko]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

Thx that was an amusing read :D

I do hope he gets kicked from the Alpha for causing such a fuss.

[Seanr]

Problem with the cap staying the same for years is it's difficult to make new content that players will use. People still camp the kings in XI 6-7 years after they were made and that shouldn't happen. I'm not suggesting make all gear obsolete with every cap increase, some things could be useful for 3-4 cap increases, but give people reason to stop camping the same mobs for 6-7 years and explore the new content.

People camp kings 6-7 years into the game for 2 reasons. 1. Shitty drop rates 2. To cockblock others from even having a chance at Q.Qing at shitty drop rates.

[Charismatic]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

Thank you for that, thank you so very much.

[Seanr]

I want to go cook my balloonfish I got from the Aurelia~!

[SephYuyX]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

lul, found his email [email protected]

One LS: http://dynamixls.net/index.php?action=profile;u=191
Two LS: Disconnect

[linkinsg]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

Haha great!, thanks

[vrumpt]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

yeah, that just made me sick with disgust for this loser.

[Adrian540]

So what's the word on Auction houses? Does anyone know if there are plans for such a thing? I really fuckin hope so if there is supposed to be so much loot.. Plus it's one of the things SE nailed with FFXI IMO.

[Madeline]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

I hadn't kept up with everything, didn't know what everyone hated this kid for. But after reading that.. it's very clear to see.

Thanks for the read, rofl.

[Satyr]

can someone with the alpha that was ableto download the update PM me
I am having trouble checking update

[Cairthenn]

Original installer works for updating. Make sure you uninstalled old version.

[Lunarhawk]

I only approve of government regulated auction houses. One of my eh experiences from XI was joining a few years into the game and looking at an equip guide for my level written around a year before joining and then going to the AH and seeing most of it was 2-3x the price it was a year prior if not more. Making it p. much impossible to get (this was level 20 equipment and my first job)

[Antithesis]

Anyone interested in reading Kailea's crying fest, check my homepage.

My god, that was hilarious.

[SephYuyX]

http://forum.neko-sentai.com/member.php?u=9722

if you really read the NDA for the testing, you just violated it by fully admitting your in it, and any, and I mean ANY info you learn while testing can not be discussed anywhere but the beta test forums.

Hypocrite much?

[Eklm]

Whoever Kameo is...... <3

[bluefan]

So what's the word on Auction houses? Does anyone know if there are plans for such a thing? I really fuckin hope so if there is supposed to be so much loot.. Plus it's one of the things SE nailed with FFXI IMO.

There most likely will be AHs. Can't wait to see how they improved it myself.