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

**Kiarax** · 2010-04-14 01:14

Dunno where these came from, they're obviously English images but I pulled em off a Japanese site. Didn't see any posted here though. Nothing really new but can actually read the quest dialogue this time!

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**Hidar** · 2010-04-14 01:16

Sea air has corroded my brain.

**Lunarhawk** · 2010-04-14 01:17

That axe is sweet as fuck

**Imabrosup** · 2010-04-14 01:18

These pics are sweet is that pic with the galka in fishing get up !!

**FREDTHETARU** · 2010-04-14 01:21

I'm too lazy to write a whole lot, i highlighted all the good stuff and commented directly on the pictures to show the importance of the screens.

IMAGE GALLERY - http://img341.imageshack.us/g/20286201.jpg/

Things i found that arn't explained in the pics:

The check system for monsters i think is flawed at the moment.
A single mob by itself, if its easy, will have a blueish icon next to it.
but if 2 mobs of the same difficulty are in a party, they both show a red icon. Even tho its red, the mobs themselves are weak and i could easily kill 2. even more so as a conj because the elemental spells are AoE. It only took 2 casts to kill them both.

Which brings me to my point on elemental spell effectiveness vs magic dart.
Dart and ele spells do roughly the same amount of damage.
Dart requires no tp, no MP, 2 sec cast, single target
Ele spells cost MP, 2 sec cast, but are AoE

So when fighting mobs that are close together, the elemental spells are much more efficient. The MP cost is low as well, out of my entire day i never had to use my mp restoration spell. HP/MP is restored upon completing guild leves and/or examining aethreyite crystals(sp)

Also, if you look @ pic #8, that gray icon next to the mobs name signifies that its a leve target. I noticed once another party claim the leve target i was targeting (but had not yet attacked or claimed). I was able to find more of the mob without problems.

During my quest instance earlier, i noticed another player in my instance.. i know he was doing the same quest as me. i thought it odd though to see another player in my instance area. who knows if it was a bug or normal functionality.

Most of the leves i did were go kill x monster, which involved following the arrows on the mini map to the designated location, killing the mob (which then that location dissappeared from the map) and moving to a new location to kill more.
On one leve i did, i went to a location and killed a mob, which then spawned another mob, which when killed then spawned a party of 2 mobs. i.e. i didnt have to run to different locations. The monsters auto aggroed me when they spawned.

During the middle of my leve, i got a party invite from 2 people doing the same leve. For some reason it appeared i was unable to attack their leve mob. They were already half way done with their leve, as was i.

I can't think of anything else of importance that isn't self explanatory from the pics. lemmie know if u have any questions.

**Kiarax** · 2010-04-14 01:23

Missing out a few we've already seen, but they're still uploading more, every time I finish uploading them there's more to do again. Seem to have caught up now though!

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**Eldan** · 2010-04-14 01:24

<3 Fred

Kirb · 2010-04-14 01:25

Some good shots there, Fred. Many thanks.

**Eisen** · 2010-04-14 01:29

Those warships look pretty wicked

**Ghostsix.Midgard** · 2010-04-14 01:31

Originally Posted by Lunarhawk

My friend ran into the giant enemy crab in the test today but fucked up getting screens
shit sucks

here's the vid

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**Celeras** · 2010-04-14 01:31

The Leve star thing may be the highest difficulty you completed, as outlined in the fifth image?

**Hidar** · 2010-04-14 01:31

Originally Posted by Eldan

<3 Fred

Seconded in the most ungay way possible.

**Eldan** · 2010-04-14 01:31

Also fred. You said you got 75 attribute pts per level. When you spent them on a stat how much did the cost increase by?

For example, if it cost 3 pts to level STR one level did the cost increase to 4 for the next level?

Was there a consistent incrementation to this?

Also, did any stats increase without you putting points in them? HP tends to do this in some games.

**Lunarhawk** · 2010-04-14 01:33

So is there... no exp reward for doing the guildleves? just gil/items?
That's horrible. I like them to go hand in hand usually. Not having to do the quests for money and then still just grindfest for exp

Kirb · 2010-04-14 01:35

Originally Posted by Lunarhawk

So is there... no exp reward for doing the guildleves? just gil/items?
That's horrible. I like them to go hand in hand usually. Not having to do the quests for money and then still just grindfest for exp

You uh, kind of get exp from killing mobs in guildleves too.

**Skibby** · 2010-04-14 01:35

Originally Posted by Kiarax

Missing out a few we've already seen, but they're still uploading more, every time I finish uploading them there's more to do again. Seem to have caught up now though!

Spoiler: show

Yeah, these are mine, been uploading them on 4chan for the last 30 mins or so.

**scottykai** · 2010-04-14 01:35

Thanks for all the pics and info Fred! The captions were a nice added touch to help us know what was going on.

**Celeras** · 2010-04-14 01:38

Originally Posted by Lunarhawk

So is there... no exp reward for doing the guildleves? just gil/items?
That's horrible. I like them to go hand in hand usually. Not having to do the quests for money and then still just grindfest for exp

SE went out of their way to say that the only way to get exp in the alpha would be killing enemies. Figure it out.

**FREDTHETARU** · 2010-04-14 01:40

Originally Posted by Celeras

The Leve star thing may be the highest difficulty you completed, as outlined in the fifth image?

I chose solo difficulty for all my leves, and did them all by myself. One of the leves i did awarded me 1 star, but the rest all awarded me 0.

Also fred. You said you got 75 attribute pts per level. When you spent them on a stat how much did the cost increase by?

For example, if it cost 3 pts to level STR one level did the cost increase to 4 for the next level?

Was there a consistent incrementation to this?

Also, did any stats increase without you putting points in them? HP tends to do this in some games.

I didn't count, but theres a couple screens where i have a pic of my stats. on one u can see before i distributed, and another pic shows after i distributed. I didnt count how many upgrades i had to do before it went up, but i know it was more then 1.

I didnt see HP go up at all, it stayed at 3 even after i put 5 points into it. Int for example started like most of the others at 2 per upgrade, but u can see in the pic after i added more int, that it was at 5. My characters stats were all at 16 i believe at time of creation.

Edit: From looking at the shots, it would appear every 10 points, the cost goes up by 1. initially the main stats all have a 2 point cost.

**Celeras** · 2010-04-14 01:41

Originally Posted by FREDTHETARU

I chose solo difficulty for all my leves, and did them all by myself. One of the leves i did awarded me 1 star, but the rest all awarded me 0.

Hmmm.. curious.

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