FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread V: No one told me beta would have problems in it

[Cayos]

Did your surplus skill result in the exp glitch, or is it just added on with no negative effect?

[Agito]

Did Square Enix add the full game into this third beta phase or is it mostly the same as before but with some extra features?

[Cayos]

The same with some extra features.

[Murureru]

So what is the deal with FPS now? I keep getting mixed answers from different people.

(Reading through thread reet now.)

[Achitophel]

This is somewhat ridiculous. I honestly hope it's not like this at retail. You do the Bearded Rock leves? You're like level 8. Go right into the Skull Valley leves? You're level 11. It's been an hour and a half.

That's pretty silly.

[Kenichi]

So what is the deal with FPS now? I keep getting mixed answers from different people.

(Reading through thread reet now.)

the 30 fps cap is gone. I'm getting about 60 FPS now. game is a lot more enjoyable.

[Jojimbo]

Most annoying thing about exp/skill rate is all the level up sound effects you get spammed with from everyone around you x.x

[Hyan]

I'm soo glad to hear the scalable equipment was apparently not a glitch and worked as intended. Awesome.

[Murureru]

The FPS cap was my main concern for XIV so I'm extremely happy to see that it is gone now!

Well done SE.

[Zubis]

Surplus back at lv14. I really think it's SE way of making you level different classes and not just one. Can't say I approve.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

So what is the deal with FPS now? I keep getting mixed answers from different people.

(Reading through thread reet now.)

HD5770 4GB DDR3 i7 860 @ 3.37Ghz
Phase 2
Was getting maybe stable 20 fps on average outside solo
15fps average in town

Now I'm at like 70fps outside solo
40fps in town on average......... fucking loving it feels like a whole new game.

But then again you get posts like this..
http://i36.tinypic.com/md1dw8.png
ffs

[Gokulo]

One really stupid thing, when you are in party and not in the same area with your leader you cannot claim mobs. That is when you fight they stay white all the time and when you kill them you get no exp whatsoever.

[Kurokikaze]

FPS is capped @120 but seems weird.. Game looks like its on fast forward at times. Was getting 120FPS in CH and it looks a little like when you set your clock forward in FFXI lol.

[Tonko]

We're waiting on official word about the posting of images and videos from Sonomaa, I'm not sure exactly what their intent was regarding the announcement, and better safe than sorry.

[AshTS]

Images are going to be OK (Obv when Sonomaa makes it official, but SE's official word already came down around the net) but Videos and Music are still big no-nos.

[Kaelan?]

Has anybody tried crafting yet? Is the ridiculous EXP/Skill point boost also present for the crafting leves they just re-enabled, or is it just on combat for now?

[Tonko]

You're probably right, I just want to make sure. Don't want to lose our privileges.

[Gokulo]

Has anybody tried crafting yet? Is the ridiculous EXP/Skill point boost also present for the crafting leves they just re-enabled, or is it just on combat for now?

I tried one leve but failed it horribly at rank 1, got skill gain only once during that and it was only @500.

Btw. There's a main

[Kaiyoko]

Surplus theory stuff, if you care about it, otherwise move along!

Spoiler: show

After testing today and starting to receive surplus at rank 13, I believe I have some evidence to support my theory that it's based on your current weapon rank. We've all seen surplus rank rises to <something>. Well today close to level 14 I got surplus rank rises to 2. Now when I had originalally leveled MAR to 18+ with a rank 16 weapon the surplus rank started around 17-18 area. This would make support it does infact have something to deal with your weapons level in relation to your rank.

Has anybody tried crafting yet? Is the ridiculous EXP/Skill point boost also present for the crafting leves they just re-enabled, or is it just on combat for now?

1/7 of my synths gave skill ups from the very beginning. They fucked crafting for sure.

[Loaar]

Has anybody tried crafting yet? Is the ridiculous EXP/Skill point boost also present for the crafting leves they just re-enabled, or is it just on combat for now?

Its only combat, and only in leves. (Although they have tweaked the non leve points a tiny bit too)

Crafting/gathering seems the same as before.

Surplus has to be some sort of mechanic we are missing. Your skill points in the status window change colour to yellow as well.