FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread IV: I got beta inv but my 5 year old PC can't run it

[mintyice]

Got some questions:

1) how do I get more anima? I ran out and I thought it was suppose to refresh over time. I'm 0/0 and it's kind of annoying since I can't teleport

2) why can't i get lancer skill experience anymore? I'm physical level 20 and lancer level 18. i'm only getting physical experience.

3) what is surplus lancer experience? I keep on getting that I have no idea what it is. It even said I leveled up my surplus experience to 18 even though I was already level 18

4) is there a level 20 quest line? I did the level 10 one already

[Gulkeeva]

Miner is pretty dangerous job to play.. using its abilities puts me under the world... O_o

[Kaylia]

Miner is pretty dangerous job to play.. using its abilities puts me under the world... O_o

Sound like it's working as intended! Dangerous jobs that bring you deep under the earth, just like irl.

[Destinye]

Got some questions:

1) how do I get more anima? I ran out and I thought it was suppose to refresh over time. I'm 0/0 and it's kind of annoying since I can't teleport

2) why can't i get lancer skill experience anymore? I'm physical level 20 and lancer level 18. i'm only getting physical experience.

3) what is surplus lancer experience? I keep on getting that I have no idea what it is. It even said I leveled up my surplus experience to 18 even though I was already level 18

4) is there a level 20 quest line? I did the level 10 one already

1. Restores slowly over x amount of hours, hard to get a SOLID number since the servers aren't constantly up.

2. Chances are you need to start partying and fighting harder shit.

3. SUPPOSEDLY it happens when your weapon breaks or something like that, I dunno Im still barely level 10 class/15 physicals since I need to fucking find lightning crystals on botanist to craft new gear.

4. Probably.

[darkepyon]

Annnnd done for the day. HOLY SHIT THEY MADE IT!!!

[Cichy]

Anyone had a good exp party so far? I've tried it yesterday but after a horrible disappointment I went back to soloing.

[shaddix]

I sold all my equip to try and have enough gil for the 2nd gaxe but I ended up not having enough and now EP mobs kill me in 2-3 hits Q_Q

[Kaelan?]

How is anyone else leveling crafting skills? I was going to try to level up smithing to make axes for my Marauder, but after like 2 hours of mining I got enough materials for 2 synths.

I can buy more materials from NPCs, but with only guildleves to make money, the vendor trash off mobs selling for almost nothing and no AH up yet, that's not really a viable option.

[Loaar]

So I learned cure, and able to set in on my gladiator, but it wont let me use it. Thats.. awesome.

You can only use it in active mode, and it single target on Glad, so you have to target what you want to cure. If your in combat with a mob, that means dropping target, finding your cure target, curing, swapping target back to the mob. Clunky so far.

Also, if your targeting someone else, you literally have to turn to face them and be fairly close, or nothing happens.

It works fine though.

[Zimbabwe Justice]

Mine hasn't crashed doing it so not sure what's going on there..if you didn't do all of them you can go back to the adventurers guild and exchange them for new ones.

But I don't understand how to do that. ?_? Do I click on a quest I haven't tried and it will ask me if I want to exchange it or what?

[Podginator]

Anyone had a good exp party so far? I've tried it yesterday but after a horrible disappointment I went back to soloing.

No. It needs some serious reworking. I can understand the need to give out different amounts of skill points to each player, stops afkers and makes people work harder, but there's no reason that 2 players, who seems to be doing equally, should get dramatically different amounts of skill points.

This is the biggest disappointment for me so far, I've had fun in parties, but I've done one for like 3 hours and only gained 1 skill rank. I fear that parties will not be the norm this time round, that soloing will be optimal. Soloing should be a viable option, but not more-so than partying.

[mastamind]

No. It needs some serious reworking. I can understand the need to give out different amounts of skill points to each player, stops afkers and makes people work harder, but there's no reason that 2 players, who seems to be doing equally, should get dramatically different amounts of skill points.

This is the biggest disappointment for me so far, I've had fun in parties, but I've done one for like 3 hours and only gained 1 skill rank. I fear that parties will not be the norm this time round, that soloing will be optimal. Soloing should be a viable option, but not more-so than partying.

What level were you? Me and a friend did lancer and archer and went from 1-8 or so in about an 1.5/2 hours.

[mr.bryce]

But I don't understand how to do that. ?_? Do I click on a quest I haven't tried and it will ask me if I want to exchange it or what?

there are two case scenarios. either there are no more leves on the server atm in this case you have to WAIT do something else
or there are new leves and then you can take them and you have to disable a few you already took.

forget about the exchange concept its confusing

[Lucavi]

We did a level 30 leve, and I got a nice chainmail. It's level 32 <.<;]

I'm right around your level: 21 overall 20 lancer. How'd you get to select level 30 leves? Do they appear as soon as you hit 20? If so, that's certainly something to look forward to.

Also, what node are the 30 leves located at?


As for parties, I haven't had a good one since dodo-bashing in Alpha. Lets excuse the massive EXP loss for partying (seems to be divided equally, so 2 members = 50%, and 3 = 33%): the real problem is the balancing of the enemies. It seems like in Beta, you're always either too strong for one set of enemies, or too weak for another. I attribute some of this to the complete lack of access to heavy armor, which leaves tanks and physical DD classes running around in mage cloth.

For a physical DD to get the most out of class points, the mob must have a lot of life, to allow for lots of attacking, yet must not hit for a shit-ton of damage. With the complete lack of armor, this is rarely the case in terms of a party setting. When you move up to a higher difficulty of enemies, seeking more HP so you aren't killing in 3 hits, all of a sudden they're hitting your "tank" for 130 a pop. When everyone in the team gets skulled (or you get tired of huddling around the crystal constantly replenishing your HP when the mob's focus isn't on you, you go back down to mobs that aren't killing you in 5 hits, but their HP is so low that within 10 seconds, the mob is dead from 3 rounds of attacks.

I doubt we'll see a solution to this problem in beta, and I know that access to quality armor won't be this restricted in launch, but as a tester, its very, VERY hard to give quality feedback about party dynamics and synergy when everyone is either stressed out from having to mass-chain weaklings as a team, or constantly running in fear of monsters that are hitting for 100+.

Edit: Also, I hit 21 physical level and teamed up with a buddy to fight together. We wound up stumbling upon another of those human bandit mobs. The fucker WSed for 170 damage, yet conned DARK blue to me - the same con that a level 1 dire rat would con. Absolutely absurd. Beta has a long way to go before launch.

[Cichy]

No. It needs some serious reworking. I can understand the need to give out different amounts of skill points to each player, stops afkers and makes people work harder, but there's no reason that 2 players, who seems to be doing equally, should get dramatically different amounts of skill points.

This is the biggest disappointment for me so far, I've had fun in parties, but I've done one for like 3 hours and only gained 1 skill rank. I fear that parties will not be the norm this time round, that soloing will be optimal. Soloing should be a viable option, but not more-so than partying.

Exactly, in my party I had me lvl 11 gld, lvl 7 lancer, and lvl 12 I think mage. We killed some goats and me and the mage dint get any skill points while the lancer was getting like 500 a kill. Also, we only got like 300 phys exp. Like you said, I had ton of fun in parties in FFXI and was hoping that the trend would carry over to 14 but right now from what I've seen its terrible. Looking for party members to just exp is a disaster by itself. Killing the goats with 3 people took a good chunk of time, and the mage had to run to aether every 1-2 kills to get mp. We decided to disband and go solo. I hope this changes.

[mr.bryce]

How is anyone else leveling crafting skills? I was going to try to level up smithing to make axes for my Marauder, but after like 2 hours of mining I got enough materials for 2 synths.

I can buy more materials from NPCs, but with only guildleves to make money, the vendor trash off mobs selling for almost nothing and no AH up yet, that's not really a viable option.

it is if you pt

[mundie]

Got my most interesting bug so far today while partying.

After joining party I couldn't communicate using /p or attack mobs that had been engaged by party members. I could read pchat, but only one member showed up in the party list. It was like I was in some quasiparty lol. Had to relog to sort it out.

Now if only I could submit bug reports

[mr.bryce]

I sold all my equip to try and have enough gil for the 2nd gaxe but I ended up not having enough and now EP mobs kill me in 2-3 hits Q_Q

lol measure once cut twice

Anyone had a good exp party so far? I've tried it yesterday but after a horrible disappointment I went back to soloing.

maybe u expect too much

Annnnd done for the day. HOLY SHIT THEY MADE IT!!!

lol

Miner is pretty dangerous job to play.. using its abilities puts me under the world... O_o

damn crash happenned to me like 10 times cos i was insisting on finding mining points

yes, i got 4 leves failed due the game crashing all the time while mining and doing the botanist ones.

same here really frustrating since you get different equipment from those

[Kurokikaze]

Apparently games are only fun when you can solo to the level cap. I've said it on the feedback forums many times but... Solo grinding should never be faster than PT grinding. There was a good balance I felt in Alpha. A tad overpowered but good balance nonetheless. Right now its so fucking off. I got 3 CRanks in 2 hours soloing. I wouldn't even get 1 CRank in that time if I had even one person with me.

Thats disappointing. I like exping and shooting the shit with groups.

[mundie]

I'm right around your level: 21 overall 20 lancer. How'd you get to select level 30 leves? Do they appear as soon as you hit 20? If so, that's certainly something to look forward to.

Also, what node are the 30 leves located at?

IIRC he just hit 20 and then got them.

As for the camp, I believe it was cedarwood.

We went in 20, 15 and 13 lancer.