FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread VIII: Alpha Was The Best Beta v2 -_-;

[StrangeLove]

I'm starting to believe the rumor I heard about Anima refreshing at a rate of 1 every 8 hours and that 8 hours only counts when you're in game. Just got my 1st point and it put me at a total of 2. Aspect seems to refresh at a rate of 10 every 8 hours.

[Fooma]

Elemental affinity seems to be affecting crystal gain. No idea how many patches ago that started.

[Frein]

You know, when FFXI came out it was a buggy, horribly imba POS too. Does anyone even remember the TP bug for Monks? When Item Synthesis randomly made two items? When delivering two of the same item to your Mog House caused the first item to... Disappear? When "Bind" used to last forever (you could solo ridiculous shit because attacks never made it wear off)?

When Arrows only stacked to 12 and costed fortunes, making Ranger completely unplayable for a year?

You ppl seem to think FFXIV's bugs are some sort of 'anomaly', some sort of 'sign the game is headed for failure'. This is NOTHING compared to FFXI - NOT EVEN CLOSE - and look how far that went.

So, basically you're saying it's ok to be a colossal dolt if you were one before and got over it? I don't understand how it was possible for SE to fuck up FFXI so badly at launch. I mean, it doesn't exactly take a genius to realize that rangers were indeed completely unplayable with arrows stacking to only 12. HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY MISS THAT???

We see the same kind of OBVIOUSLY broken shit everywhere in FFXIV. Why does SE always need a player to tell them how badly they fucked something up? It's like they don't even think these things through, let alone test them once implemented! It makes me so angry when they waste time making systems like BR that are so fundamentally flawed that they will never ever work in their current forms. There is no time to be dicking around with setting up BRs during combat and even if there was, why would you ever design a system that requires you to stop fighting? This shit is mind blowing! And don't get me even started on the market wards... ugh, it's like these guys have zero ability to predict how well that's going to work in retail because otherwise they wouldn't even try it.

My gripe with FFXIV isn't that it's incomplete, my problem with it is that SE clearly has no idea whatsoever of what they're doing. Perhaps they'll get this stuff right once we've cried long and hard enough, but why does it always have to come to that? Can't they design anything that works well from the get go? Heck, in FFXIV we even have systems that are identical to similar systems in FFXI except just plain worse. Not "different", just plain worse! The /tell system, the LS system, inventory sorting and controls (hello F8, <stnpc>, <stpc> and F1-6!) are just some off the top of my head.

[ascalon]

I'm logging in now to test this for myself, but is this actually doable now? Last I tried it was 8 leves total. Did it change?

Okay so tested the thing Yukikaze said. It's bollocks. You can still only do 8 regional leves until the next time you can exchange them (which I assume is the 48hr reset). I hate when people try to sell misinformation like this.

[Null]

Tempts me to just leave myself logged in. Running low quick.

[qpoiuwer]

Experience and skill gains are only displayed to the person who dealt the killing blow, as far as I can tell. Beyond that, party gains suffer from the same variance that solo gains do. Also, keep in mind that the "You gained ___ skill points" message after the end of a battle is a summary of total gains, not a bonus in of itself -- though it may reflect the skill gain from the kill alone, if no gains were made during the fight.

I am aware - I turned the filter off so I could see all exp gains for everyone. I'd see myself gain ~30 exp 3-4 times in a fight, then at the end there would be no message and it wouldn't update my exp in the menu. It appears to be a bug of some kind, but like Lucavi said I did notice a couple times I actually got more exp at the end than I did in the fight.

[Johndile]

Was farming Roselets and Emerald Bee Swarms. Seems all mobs of an area share places. Now the area has 6 wolves instead of 2... ; ;

[Helm]

The placement of those wolves angers me so.

[Thuronn]

Where do I go after Camp Black Brush? I'm Marauder Rank6 and everything East and West of this area is way overleveled, and everything I can fight is rather weak now. Or is this just a grinding period before I change areas?

[Wulfgang]

Stupid question inc: How do I start the crafting guild leves in town? Trying to do a Weaver one called "Just for Kecks" where you talk to a guy supposedly in the Coliseum, but there is no one by the name there in Ul'Dah. I tried going to the local Aethertyte to start the leve, but will not let me.

[Araelus]

Stupid question inc: How do I start the crafting guild leves in town? Trying to do a Weaver one called "Just for Kecks" where you talk to a guy supposedly in the Coliseum, but there is no one by the name there in Ul'Dah. I tried going to the local Aethertyte to start the leve, but will not let me.

I have a similar problem trying to find a "Seventy-Seven Caravans" NPC named Claroise Auberle - except the 77 Caravans NPC in the actual game is Fabrellet.

It turns out Claroise is half a zone away...

(Wulfgang, what's the NPC name you were told to talk to?)

[Metafox]

Where do I go after Camp Black Brush? I'm Marauder Rank6 and everything East and West of this area is way overleveled, and everything I can fight is rather weak now. Or is this just a grinding period before I change areas?

Try running to drybone. Just don't fight the ants along the way.

[MakinBaconNeked]

any speculation as to if agro is based on your Physical Level or the Rank of the job you are currently on?

[avelle]

any speculation as to if agro is based on your Physical Level or the Rank of the job you are currently on?

I'm pretty sure mobs con based on your job rank so I assume things would aggro based on that as well.

[Snowknight26]

Anyone else have any problems opening doors to guilds in Ul'dah? No matter what I do I can't seem to get into Sunsilk Tapestries.

[Kuya]

Perhaps it was never meant to be.

[Chrian]

an update error has occurred error 20254 in a small box with a red x in it? It was when I used the file I torrented using the torrent file the updater had dled now it wont install it. any idea?

[Roxas]

just a random question, but what is everyones highest class rank/ physical level now.

I've been focusing on several classes in order to be versatily so my highest is only 14. just looking for a general comparison to see how fast people are leveling

[arshesney]

I started the second batch of Ul'Dah storyline... is that even in game? The guy at the Tapestry tell me that the cat dancer is hanging out at some spot in Northern Thanalan and that it marked it on my map.
Well there's no mark on my map, and to get to Northern Thanalan you have to travel across all the damn world.

Guess at least I got some nice postcards.

[Cooleko]

your journal has a map button that will show you quest indicators on the map.