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

[Celeras]

To be honest I can't even fucking tell. I get the same XP from virtually everything, it may or may not be happening more/less frequently. Skill points are just all over the place.

[Cichy]

To be honest I can't even fucking tell. I get the same XP from virtually everything, it may or may not be happening more/less frequently. Skill points are just all over the place.

When I logged out yesterday I was getting 100-200 of puks. I logged in today I was back to 100-400, got 550 of one at lvl 15.

[The Q]

So how was lag for everyone? In town it wasn't too awful but out in the field, the bearded rock area, was beyond horrible. I'm talking 3-5 solid seconds between input to action execution. I know it's probably because most of the server is shoved into that one small area, but it made the game unplayable for me today. Odd thing was this only happened when not doing a leavequest. During those I had little lag.

Glad to see they hopefully have the lobby server issues resolved.

[Arximiro]

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.

I would assume Balded Knoll or what not, since the mobs there are crazy harder than Bloodshore. Maybe that is used to level 40 Leves once you get to 30 though, even though the cap is 30.

[mundie]

I would assume Balded Knoll or what not, since the mobs there are crazy harder than Bloodshore. Maybe that is used to level 40 Leves once you get to 30 though, even though the cap is 30.

Was that a misquote?

I just took a look at a map and I'm now certain we did the level 30 leves from the cedarwood crystal. The orphaned one on the road to bloodshore.

[Arximiro]

That was you saying you believe it was Cedarwood for level 30 leves, but yeah, it may very well be Cedar Wood. I was just thinking it would be Balded Knoll. Again though that may be used for higher leves. I wasn't sure if you were positive since you said you believe it is.

Edit: Grammar

[mundie]

That was you saying they believe it was Cedarwood for level 30 leves, but yeah, it may very well be Cedar Wood. I was just thinking it would be Balded Knoll. Again though that may be used for higher leves. I wasn't sure if you were positive since you said you believe it is.

Yeah i double-checked a map just now, plus i realized bloodshore is for 20 leves right? but further away o_o, doesn't make sense. But after we'd done them we went north TO bloodshore to go mess about in cassiopeia hollow. Where's chaossamurai when needed

[Arximiro]

I ran around at the Beach getting all the nodes over there, found some Ahrimans and other enemies that can do 3 times my max hp in one atk. I don't know if we will even be able to kill some of these at 30 if they are still this hard. Im Phys18 Pug13 and they still just one shot me.

Maybe a pt of 30s could down them.

[BlackheartX]

Can anyone relay actual reasons why grinding in FFXIV is fun? What sets it apart to you and why?
(OMGSHITZNEWSONANDHASTEHPWNZ is not an answer)

[mintyice]

because it's FFXI-HD

[BlackheartX]

because it's FFXI-HD

HOLLER!!!

[shaddix]

I need to get a second account so I can sell the starter shit to npc and trade the gil to myself.

[SephYuyX]

The same thing that makes gridning fun in any MMO. Nothing.
This is why it's called grinding..

[BlackheartX]

The same thing that makes gridning fun in any MMO. Nothing.
This is why it's called grinding..

Well sometimes it's fun or has purpose, an example of this is a linear storyline guiding a series of quest vs random npc needs 20 rat butts. Or just a good combat and leveling system (I can't wait till i get face punch ect..). However there's probably not a lot of anything in beta right now.

[Cayos]

The level 30 leves are at Cedarwood and the Hollow underground cool looking place. the level 30-40 yellowjacket is also at Cedarwood.

[Purrrfect]

I'm still in shock over how well this is running on my laptop...

Found the key to making it run better on mine was turning shadows off *in-game*. I had it set to 1024x768, half buffer, lowest shadows, 1x and it ran apretty close to 9fps, 13 if I looked at the ground/sky. Turning shadows off jumped me up to almost 30... This was on a c2d 2.2ghz, 8600M GT. After seeing that change I dared try window size buffer, but ended up like 5fps lol. so much for hopes. Hopefully they either go back to registry values (unlikely) or someone figures out what we have to change to have custom background resolution like XI...

I could never get Motioninjoy to work for with either a USB or BT connection. :\

Did you do the F8/Disable driver signature enforcement?

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Oh god, smithing is so slow... Just trying to sort through the clunky interface to try and find stuff to pound with the hammer takes forever. Yeesh... it really is back to 2002.

Yeah, it is reallllly slow. The fact that going through the inventory list for materials is horrendously slow doesn't help. When the recipe list popped after after putting in my ingredients I got excited, because I thought with that window it would show you all the different recipies you could make from the selected materials. Instead, it looks like its just an incredibly redundant "hey we know what you are trying to make and I'ma let you finish, but first I just wanna say this is the recipe you're doing". I could see after you hit the synth or go or combine or w/e the button was on the material entry screen that you get a popup showing the crystal type and then go straight to crafting, but the shit now is retarded.

How do I exchange leves? It wont let me take any new ones even though I have completted most of my current ones

You can only do them once every 2 days, and you can only have 8 at a time. When you get new ones you are asked which you want to exchange to increase the rewards.

Is there a quest after treasures of main (or/we)?
+ Is there a limit on only being able to complete/fail 8 guildleves a day?

There is a follow-up that you can get at rank 10 called Legends Adrift.

At the end of that, there is a mention to see the guy again "when you've added a couple of notches to your stick" or something like that. Rank 20 isn't enough to activate the next step though.

And yes, 8 is the cap.

8 is the cap/day? I think it's just the cap on what you can carry concurrently, but the timing on this test prevented me from clarifying this point.

anyone know how to break crystal clusters or how to use shards at all?

Can't yet. And I don't think you will be ever, but that is just my random speculation.

I had a problem with guild leve. Started it, ran to the mob and took weapon out and I couldn't do shit. Ran all the way back to the crystal and still couldnt disengage or log out... so I forced exit out of game and didn't log back in, so frustrating lol.

I had this once, and others have said it to. I'm pretty sure what caused it for me was hitting the skill I wanted to use before I had finished taking my weapon out. I force closed it too, but not logging back in is not exactly what they wanted testers to do.

Not sure if my PC sucks or the server is extremely overloaded. The old S/R feed at the top; is that an indicator of lag? I'm getting most often times a red cycle and rarely an orange cycle when in Limsa - making it nigh impossible to navigate because I'm getting probably 5 frames a sec.

In XI it showed lack of server communication, I never saw it change colors unless there was nothing going back and forth. However I think mine is almost always yellow in beta and drops to red, even when I'm not having any lag. It could be more of a load meter maybe or something.

[Chakra]

I had this once, and others have said it to. I'm pretty sure what caused it for me was hitting the skill I wanted to use before I had finished taking my weapon out. I force closed it too, but not logging back in is not exactly what they wanted testers to do.

This happens when you zone with your weapon out. Zones are somewhat invisible in parts of La Noscea, but one zone example I can think of is going from Limsa to La Noscea. When you're weapon is out zoning you'll glitch after you select an ability. Really quite frustrating especially if you start up a guildleve since the only remedy to fixing this is to force quit the client.

[Kurp]

Did you do the F8/Disable driver signature enforcement?

Yeah. Windows 7 was still spitting out a signing error even though it was disabled on boot. I'm going to try it again in a few minutes and if it doesn't work, I'll try another method.

[BlackheartX]

Yeah. Windows 7 was still spitting out a signing error even though it was disabled on boot. I'm going to try it again in a few minutes and if it doesn't work, I'll try another method.

Google is your friend... do what this link says then reboot and f8.
http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/0...ing-windows-7/

[Kurokikaze]

If you do it the F8 way you gotta do that everytime you want to use the controller. Otherwise your drivers will not work. In order to keep it saved you need to find a program that will put your comp back into test mode (you'll get a "Test Mode Windows 7 Build 7600" watermark at the lower right hand portion of your screen.)