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

**BlackheartX** · 2010-09-07 16:09

Originally Posted by Gokulo

Actually repairing does give you skill ups, just very small.

Proof can I haz!

@copper buckler
This is what happens when people can't stfu about beneficial glitches. /emoface

**Kurokikaze** · 2010-09-07 16:12

Originally Posted by BlackheartX

Protip: It's Pointless now you can't skill off it!!! (Unless this is going to be lame like WHM teleports for the economy, which is kinda also pointless if they have leves)

You can. It's just rare.

**Anton** · 2010-09-07 16:16

Originally Posted by BG

Fixes

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ge-300x200.jpg

**BlackheartX** · 2010-09-07 16:20

Well that's good to bad switching classes to repair every individual piece and going through the mass lag menus is still terrible. I just don't get the reason it's so archaic, it's like the animation team has the game developers at gun point. Animation:"You have to make them watch every single animation we made or WADA GETS IT!!!", Dev: "But it's a pointless waste of time and adds nothing but RP value to the game..../HALP!!!".

**Ksandra** · 2010-09-07 16:20

Anyone know a good mob/place to farm up wind shards. I've gotten to lvl 8 archery just on trying to get more for my crafting lmao. Only mob I've found that seems to drop them fairly consistently are dodos in the uldania area, but I can't solo them so I have to farm them with friends. It would be nice to find a mob that's low enough for me.

I think if things stay the same that's how I'll end up being 30 on a job, just by farming those damn shards.

**Chrystolis** · 2010-09-07 16:21

Originally Posted by BlackheartX

Proof can I haz!

@copper buckler
This is what happens when people can't stfu about beneficial glitches. /emoface

I think I've gotten it off every item I've repaired. It's been sub-100 sp gains though.

**Chrystolis** · 2010-09-07 16:23

Originally Posted by Ksandra

Anyone know a good mob/place to farm up wind shards. I've gotten to lvl 8 archery just on trying to get more for my crafting lmao. Only mob I've found that seems to drop them fairly consistently are dodos in the uldania area, but I can't solo them so I have to farm them with friends. It would be nice to find a mob that's low enough for me.

I think if things stay the same that's how I'll end up being 30 on a job, just by farming those damn shards.

Mobs around Limsa seem to drop a lot. Try Puk Hatchlings S/SW of the Skull Valley crystal. If you can avoid their flip-kick ws they're pretty easy, good skillups, and usually drop wind shards

**BlackheartX** · 2010-09-07 16:23

Originally Posted by Ksandra

Anyone know a good mob/place to farm up wind shards. I've gotten to lvl 8 archery just on trying to get more for my crafting lmao. Only mob I've found that seems to drop them fairly consistently are dodos in the uldania area, but I can't solo them so I have to farm them with friends. It would be nice to find a mob that's low enough for me.

I think if things stay the same that's how I'll end up being 30 on a job, just by farming those damn shards.

DOH gets a decent amount otherwise kill elementals.

**Ksandra** · 2010-09-07 16:23

will do, ty!

**Hyan** · 2010-09-07 16:23

Friend put all his elemental points into fire, he got fire shards 95% of the time when logging.

Then he put all his stats into wind on another chara, started getting like almost nothing but wind.

Well, I decided to try with my lightning based chara, 80-90% of my shards were.. lightning.

Idk. Pretty small sample sizes etc.

**Ksandra** · 2010-09-07 16:27

Oo I should try it since it's only beta anyway

**Chrian** · 2010-09-07 16:32

would explain why I have like 400+ shards of fire and little of other things >_>

**Loaf** · 2010-09-07 16:37

wow, just wow.
I went to do some leves today, and I was happy to see I had two leves with armor rewards, both of which were body pieces.
So I go to my leves (in Gridania) and I start the first one for some chainmail which I really wanted (first piece of class recommended gear I would be getting).
Well, the leve mobs are located in a narrow corridor surrounded by agro'ing wolves and bees. So I managed to kill 2/8 of the mobs, and that was it because I could never get to the mobs without being agro'd by at least one wolf which I would have to run very far away from.
I tried avoiding agro by staying out of sight - didn't work.
I tried being as far out of range as I could from the wolves, which worked on the couple in open areas, but on both sides of the leve mobs were very tight corridors where the wolves could not be avoided.
I tried letting other people take the agro and then getting passed the wolves one by one, but there were never enough people to agro all the wolves before they died.
Also, the lag was so bad that it would trick me into thinking I avoided agro when in reality I had 3 wolves chasing me.
So I failed that leve, but no big deal, I had another for a different body piece (cloth robe, but at least it was something).
So I start this leve feeling optimistic that maybe it will be completable, and almost instantly the game crashes and the leve is failed.
I didn't even get to ragequit because the game quit itself.
I haven't been reading much but I'm really considering not buying this, even though it's my most anticipated game of the year (or, it was, at least).
Between the graphical stuttering (which doesn't change at all if I have settings on bare minimum or maximum) the laggy UI (which has become laggy as hell again, since the open beta has progressed) and what appear to be terrible design decisions, SE is really killing the FFXI fanboy in me.

**Cooleko** · 2010-09-07 16:39

Loaf, that is why people left Gridania. I would suggest leaving to Uldah or Limsa until they say mob placement changed in the update notes

**miokomioko** · 2010-09-07 16:43

I have such a boner for being able to finally see what items/aetheryte drop from the shit I'm killing.

They really need to make the mob name color for "someone else's claim" way more obviously on the magenta/violet side. It looks so damn close to the red when you've claimed something yourself.

**Chrystolis** · 2010-09-07 16:52

Originally Posted by miokomioko

I have such a boner for being able to finally see what items/aetheryte drop from the shit I'm killing.

Ooo, did they finally fix that? It worked at the start of OB, but then a patch seemed to break it for most people. Will be very happy if it's fixed

**miokomioko** · 2010-09-07 17:08

It hasn't worked in so long, I can't remember ever seeing the drop messages before... It's definitely fixed now.

**TStupified** · 2010-09-07 17:10

For some reason I have my hp regening very slowly during leves compared to what it was before the update, anyone else experiencing this?

**CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon** · 2010-09-07 17:10

Just got my first game error during a leve. Sucky thing was I was getting the reward armor for a friend. I hope they fix this crap before release... so much nerd rage will be had if it isn't.

**Cayos** · 2010-09-07 17:11

You regen faster when you're standing still.

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