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

[Agito]

Stuff about retainers. There's also other stuff in the link below.

Retainers and you; or, how to make money without staying logged in all night

A necessity for every busy adventurer, retainers are NPCs that will hold your junk for you and sell it to others if you so command them, among other various duties. After hiring your retainer at the adventurers guild, take care of the paperwork and you’ll have a helper who grows along with your adventurer. Don’t think of them so much as a “servant;” they’re more like “family.”

Momma lied to you: you CAN pick your family!

After choosing a race for your retainer, the receptionist will introduce you to available retainers. This will be your new partner, so choose carefully!

The possibilities are endless!

The selection of retainers is quite extensive, but you can only choose one for now. Retainers’ names are preset, but you can give them a nickname.

Welcome to your new home, Ms. Retainer. Merchant stands

After renting a special store, called a stand, you can have your retainer stand there. You can change the color of the roof of your stand to help it stand out.

The market: putting retainers to work

Markets are sections of the city specially set up for peddling wares. This is used for players to mingle. It’s possible for players themselves to sell goods here, but it’s also possible for retainers to work here for you, instead. There are many market wards, so even if many players set their retainers up in the markets, they shouldn’t get too crowded.

Quoted from FFXIVCore. http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/9398-...-of-a-realm-1/

[Hyan]

Makes me more optimistic that there's a currently unused AH sign in LL, so we may not have to deal with the marketplace as the only way to sell and buy our stuff.

We may only see it after release though.

[GavinBandura]

Is it me, or is browsing bazaars now a lot more annoying than it was in FF11? Seeing as we don't have the check option anymore, the way to do it is to select the character, bring up menu and press browse?

[Kurokikaze]

It is more annoying. :/

[supercoco]

need help with Battle Regimen.

How does it work, we stack our WS and then push start BR? because it always give an error

[GavinBandura]

I don't find the botanist abilities that useful, they seem a bit off. Anyone else finding this?

In fact now I click them and they're giving me no information whatsoever. Confusing. Oh, now I click them and get an error (400000000)4,4600000 blah blah and it kicks me off

[GavinBandura]

Sweet jesus, everytime I use triangulate etc now I get the above error, and it kicks me off. It was working fine a while ago.........

[Aleithilithos]

on the last beta i got a body part which gave me 'control +10' anyone knows wtf that is?

Should be a Hempen Doublet, which also has Output +8 on it. They're stats for gathering/crafting. I keep one for those, and a Canvas Dalmatica for Archer.

[Kurokikaze]

Anyone know where to grind 22+? This is ridiculous... -_-

[GavinBandura]

so is no one else having the problem with gathering jobs, sometimes getting the (40000) error then crashing?

[Hyan]

Yes it's a known problem.

[qpoiuwer]

Sweet jesus, everytime I use triangulate etc now I get the above error, and it kicks me off. It was working fine a while ago.........

I believe that happens when you use an ability and there's no trees nearby. Though, it's never happened with Triangulate for me, only Arbor Call. I haven't figured out what the text from Triangulate means, but Arbor Call is pretty straight forward. The passive abilities should be pretty self-explanatory as well.

[GavinBandura]

I can't use them, they crash me every single time.

[Zubis]

Anyone know where to grind 22+? This is ridiculous... -_-

Cassiopeia Hollow, I reached lv28 today at this really awesome spot until the entire game and the skill point system collapsed on me. If you're on Gabranth I'll show you.

[Kurokikaze]

What did you kill? Jellyfish?

[Loaar]

so is no one else having the problem with gathering jobs, sometimes getting the (40000) error then crashing?

Its a bug with the gathering point finder skills. If there is no point in range, it crashes the game after a few seconds.

[Lucavi]

Yeah, what did you kill down there?

Edit: So, Lancer with Speed surge, Life surge, Feint, Ferocity, Haymaker, Second Wind, and lolseismic shock is stomping the yard. This is very fun - a shame I have to run to work.

[GavinBandura]

Basically, avoid using the ability and just run around and hope to find points? What does it mean when I get to a mining point and it says 'you can no longer', the mining point has run out of ore?

[Zubis]

For the people who's been discussing the skill points to experience points ratio. I hit lv30 Physical when I was lv28 Pugilist and that was with a faulty skill point system so your class level definitely is raised alot faster at higher levels. I should also mention that I've leveled Pugilist exclusively.

edit: You're still receiving experience points after that but your physical level bar stays at 0 since it's the cap.

[Destinye]

I don't find the botanist abilities that useful, they seem a bit off. Anyone else finding this?

In fact now I click them and they're giving me no information whatsoever. Confusing. Oh, now I click them and get an error (400000000)4,4600000 blah blah and it kicks me off

When I use it it gives me "grade 2 mature tree x yalms east/north/west/se/etc" and the one that lets me flee works. It crashes some people but the abilities are useful and definitely work if you're near a logging/harvesting point.