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

[Jinko]

I think the skill points from battle whilst in a party is determined by how much damage you do to the enemy.

At least thats how it appeared to work for the Alpha, maybe the Beta is different.

[Lucavi]

I completely forgot. Two HUGE questions:

1) Is there the choice of picking servers?

2) Is there a friends list?

[Urza]

I completely forgot. Two HUGE questions:

1) Is there the choice of picking servers?

2) Is there a friends list?

No

and

No


Like FFXI they say you can switch servers, but its not in beta yet. The friends list really bugs me though.

[Lucavi]

Mother of... Bah, it'll be hard, once again, to keep up with friends, but i'll deal.

[Cichy]

I think Physical Level just dictates your stat point allocation/hp/mp/etc? So yes I think the experience rewarded would be based on your class level. Wonder if there's a restriction of being a 1:1 ratio of Class level/Physical level. Meaning If you were level 2 Gladiator you would only have access to the equivalent level 2 in Physical. Physical is basically like a permanent sub job. If this is sort of the way it works that would be superb. You could max out your Physical level (sub job only one time around in FFXIV that is useful for every single class). Cuts down leveling sub jobs :D I am all for this.

That and no more 75/37 bullshit. Instead it would be 75 Gladiator:75 Physical, 75 Weaver (lol...):75 Physical. How do Weavers level up? The same way a non-trade class would? Or do they craft to level up? Or Miner having to level up through mining and getting points etc?

Well back in 5 hours to read tons of news. Have fun testers.

Physical level remains but the class level dictates what you can equip. And yes, crafting classes level up through crafting/mining/etc just like combat classes lvl through fighting.

[viperlasson]

NA test in 20 mins :3

[Naos]

Re: the no picking servers thing... that seems odd considering the piles of friends who will be wanting to play together... =/

[sruon]

Oh my god, no server picking in /beta/ with strict server balancing rules for performance sake, what has world come to.

[Destinye]

Re: the no picking servers thing... that seems odd considering the piles of friends who will be wanting to play together... =/

Said piles of friends may not have gotten invited together. This is what we like to call fluff content, it's stuff that doesn't need testing and will be implemented last.

[Yoli]

Still just the beta test, I can see SE wanting to enforce "absolutely" equal numbers of people per server for it to test loads or w/e, and then implementing a server choice for the real release. I'd be very surprised if they didn't let people pick servers for the release, considering they did in FFXI (eventually), and all the more recent games do as well. Disapointed too.

But I really doubt that will happen.

[Alkar]

Unlike the alpha, HP and MP now are linked to your current class level (like they said in the notes). Basically if you're a level 10 Lancer with a level 10 physical level (highly unlikely though even if you never switch classes) and switch you'll keep all your stats and most abilities but HP/MP are reset to whatever they are at level 1 for the new class.
Physical levels are way easier to get compared to class levels so it's unlikely you'll hit 10/10 on any class. Maybe using Hand/Land as I haven't tried those yet.

[mintyice]

So who is putting up a live stream?

[blythe]

Unlike the alpha, HP and MP now are linked to your current class level (like they said in the notes). Basically if you're a level 10 Lancer with a level 10 physical level (highly unlikely though even if you never switch classes) and switch you'll keep all your stats and most abilities but HP/MP are reset to whatever they are at level 1 for the new class.
Physical levels are way easier to get compared to class levels so it's unlikely you'll hit 10/10 on any class. Maybe using Hand/Land as I haven't tried those yet.

The notes say that HP/MP are linked to physical level? Which makes way more sense, anyway.

[xopher]

So, 7 minutes into the test, I get nothing but "Cannot connect to lobby server" errors.

[Lucavi]

Beta time, bitches! It's up!

[sruon]

You're officially 7 minutes ahead of the world.

[Zeh]

S-E is probably bracing for the massive clusterfuck of people spamming enter to get into the server.

[viperlasson]

aaaand beta servers up, no timeouts and running smooth so far :D

making meh mithra

[mintyice]

you mean Miqo'te

[blythe]

Moar char creation screenshots pretty please?