FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread III: Where's my beta invite?

[Meresgi]

Those in FFXIV that will be devoted to Lancer: every. fucking. one of you. *shakes fist*

My first large party is probably going to be:

Lancer
Lancer
Lancer
Lancer
Conjurer
Gladiator <-- me

Good, you can tank and we'll be all about the deeps

[Alderaan]

Lancer/drg may be fixed but ranger/archer is from from it judging by the alpha vids.

Hate to compare, obviously, but ranger was one of the few things Aion got right.

[Meresgi]

Lancer/drg may be fixed but ranger/archer is from from it judging by the alpha vids.

Hate to compare, obviously, but ranger was one of the few things Aion got right.

Ehhh slightly. I don't think any class should just be able to solo elite type units though in a MMO unless they are very well geared over the mobs in quest and out level them. Anytime you have a class like that, most people will flock to it just to be able to solo the super mobs.

[Alderaan]

Well i agree with that to an extent. I still like the survivability and ability to get away if the situation turns bad as compared to the tissue paper ranger in XI.

The exp reward should be greater for a group/party to somewhat deter that though.

[omegaB]

ranger is actually kind of like that in 14, supposedly it gets flee, and it has showbind with a fast cooldown, it also can hit hard and fast. main prob is many mobs have ranged attacks as well. and the flee skill wasnt in the lower levels.

honestly though rng in aion was a lil too much i think. id put in the unbalanced category.

[Cayos]

I hope Lancer doesn't become the bandwagon job. I've been a DRG for six years, and really enjoyed being one of the few.

[Zeh]

Yeah. That might not be the case for this game. I plan on being a gladiator (premiere tank) or really good at one of the obscure damage classes (flayer?), like I always do.

[mintyice]

I'll probably be Lancer. Big pointy stick? Yes please.

[Metafox]

Sorry to change the subject, but does anyone remember how long it took for the first version of windower to come about? And does anyone with knowledge of these things care to speculate on how long we might have to wait after the ffxiv release before a new version of windower might be available?

[Rustyhagun]

New images from beta build, take a look:

http://www.gamekyo.com/newsen36790_f...ages-beta.html

[reminiscence]

As far as Alpha/Beta goes how has Marauder stacked up compared to other classes? Love the whole warrior feel as I was warrior fanatic in FFXI. But I don't really want to go Marauder at the start if it not as great as other classes.

[mintyice]

Don't go with whats good or not, go with what's fun to play.

[Calemero]

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8584/frogu.png

[Hyan]

Don't go with whats good or not, go with what's fun to play.

I think you miss the point of BG, which is understandable.

The best class = the fun class.

[mintyice]

I also forgot it's about arguing over a game that's not even out yet and that we know very little about.

[Hyan]

Some experts here seem to know that it's FFXI-2, so I wouldn't say that.

[mintyice]

[Null]

I don't think its fare to say that people will be flocking to Lancer jobs and such because it is teh l33ts. Games simply don't have a lot of jobs to chose from when you start. When XI came out half the people were War.

With that said, I am torn between Lancer and Archer. May pick lancer. Kinda like how I played DRG in XI and after I maxed that I switched to RNG. By the time I maxed that people started flocking to RNG left and right. I picked up War and Nin to play around with and then when Rng got nerfed more Wars and Nins popped up. By that time I was lucky to quit though.

[Katlan]

With that said, I am torn between Lancer and Archer. May pick lancer. Kinda like how I played DRG in XI and after I maxed that I switched to RNG. By the time I maxed that people started flocking to RNG left and right. I picked up War and Nin to play around with and then when Rng got nerfed more Wars and Nins popped up.

lol, its soo true

[TacoTaru]

I don't see very much Pugilist love anywhere I go. Granted I only got two plays, I thought it was a pretty fun job :/