FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread II: Let's Speculate the Speculations

[Katlan]

It's all explained in the Alpha Manual Katlan.

You can see the BR abilities counting down in Ghosts duo roselings video, they are above the power guage.

Ahh thanks, didnt bother to look at the alpha manual again. it was

3. Effect Gauge
The effect gauge comes to life once the action gauge has completely filled. When a command is executed, the state of the effect gauge will determine certain bonuses to factors such as accuracy, power, or potency. These bonuses apply to all actions, both physical and magical.

[FREDTHETARU]

Was posted already.

[Biggie]

Was posted already.

Thanks Fred! It has not been posted in this thread, and a chance that some people would miss the post. So again, thank you for going out of your way to provide us with info.

[Shuichi]

Nice to see things moving along. I wonder how long until the beta starts? /think

[Dredoc]

Thanks again ghost for all the vids. makes waiting for release/beta/alpha key all that much easier.

[RPGTyrant]

the bar counting down appears when u place an action to be stacked for the BR.

the bar indicates the time in which other actions can be stacked.

e.g i would ctrl 1 and h2h strike would come up with a bar and start counting down, the other person will then add axe hack to that list both will appear with bars counting down with h2h on top then axe, hit activate and as long as no one enters any manual actions during it will go
h2h attack > axe attack one after the next, automatically.

So it looks like we probably did not actually perform a regimen, as I never saw more than the one ability on the stack. Good to know for tomorrow, definitely would like to get a lot more testing going with these.

[vrumpt]

If regimens take this much effort to perform chances are they need changing on some degree so it doesn't take hours of planning just to pull one off.

hopefully SE has taken this into consideration for their changes.

[Calemero]

If regimens take this much effort to perform chances are they need changing on some degree so it doesn't take hours of planning just to pull one off.

hopefully SE has taken this into consideration for their changes.

lol "hours of planning"? The alpha has been out for 6 weeks and this is the first instance of players attempting a successful BR. Once the pattern gets down and the server lag is no longer the issue it's not gonna be face-palmingly difficult.

[Jinko]

I think lag is having a large part to play in the failure of them also, if they are anything like skillchains there is possibly some combinations which aren't compatible.

If that is the case, it will take weeks to figure out the right combinations.

The testers here need to make a 5-6 man party and go somewhere quiet where the is little to no lag and try it.

[Hyan]

Yep, it's too bad we haven't figured the whole game out after few weeks yet SE should do something about that. Can't make things too complicated or we might actually have to learn some new tricks...

[Biggie]

Yep, it's too bad we haven't figured the whole game out after few weeks yet SE should do something about that. Can't make things too complicated or we might actually have to learn some new tricks...

Are you related to Cookies??

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Thanks again ghost for all the vids. makes waiting for release/beta/alpha key all that much easier.

Np, I know how it feels to want just the smallest amount of info on something, I'd be dying from anticipation if I had access to only the the "Official" Video SE released months ago. I got lucky so why not share the wealth.


It's been really hard to coordinate with people because of the connection issues, mobs not popping, latency during battle etc.
On top of that the chat spam makes it annoying to coordinate with even just 2 people in game.

There's a few threads in the Alpha forums that have been up for weeks planning BR's that have gotten nowhere. Now that the servers are somewhat stable the battle system will be a lot more fleshed out I think. This is the exciting part of a mmo when everything is new and strategies are being found (and exploited~). People are already gathering shop lists and comparing stats on all the available gear.

[Loaar]

Are you related to Cookies??

Hyan's posts need to be read with your sarcasm detector turned on.

[Biggie]

Hyan's posts need to be read with your sarcasm detector turned on.

Lol oh OK I see.

[Hyan]

People are already gathering shop lists and comparing stats on all the available gear.

Not that it matters much but are armors/weapons filled with stats this time or do they still give just a bit more defense and base damage? =P

The stats could be just placeholders but maybe not!

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Not that it matters much but are armors/weapons filled with stats this time or do they still give just a bit more defense and base damage? =P

Canvas Dalmatica 3601g All Classes, Rank 14, DEF 75, MDEF 108, EVA C, Crit RES F--

Silver Scepter 3875g Thaumaturge, Rank 14, MPOT 61, MACC 11, Parry F--, INT+2, ATK SPD 1

Fang Arrow 54g Archer, Rank 18, ATK 15, ACC 10, Parry F--, Crit C-, ATK SPD 1

Horn Baghnakhs 5504g Pugilist, Rank 18, ATK 74, ACC 9, Parry C- , Crit C, ATK SPD 2

[Loaar]

Bear in mind as well that those weapons Ghost posted are the vendor ones. The base items really, nothing more.

I would imagine that there are drops + crafted items that are better that no one has access too yet.

[Metafox]

How do they factor in attack speed? Is it some kind of non-lag delay between when you select an action and when you actually perform the action?

[Takiwaki]

I think attack speed would be the linked to the cooldown bar for the basic attack and ws which i think shares the same timer bar. Ideally there should be no delay from hitting an action that is ready to when it activates unless there is something like casting time involved.

(the delays that we have been seeing from videos are due to lag from server load issues that has been getting better and better)

[Adajer]

is there a height option in character creation?