FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread XI: "How you liking that Beta Phase 5?"

**TStupified** · 2010-09-27 07:05

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

So does this plan sound good for after maintenance?

1) Rush out of Gridania, level up CNJ to 10.
2) Go get rank 10 battle leves and do them on one star.
3) Get rank 1 CRP leves and do them.
4) Go to Ul'dah and get the rank 10 and 1 leves there.
5) Do the same at Limsa Lominsa.
6) EXP CNJ more.

Or can anyone think of a more efficient way to begin?

Yeah not a bad plan, though you can definitely do the rank10 leves with more than one star as a conjurer.

**Sephiroth** · 2010-09-27 07:06

I thought maintenance was supposed to be ending now. I still can't get on. Lobby timeout.

Originally Posted by TStupified

Yeah not a bad plan, though you can definitely do the rank10 leves with more than one star as a conjurer.

Yeah but at rank 10? I don't know. In beta I had problems at rank 12 with some leves when they'd spawn friends on the last mob. That was with four stars.

**miokomioko** · 2010-09-27 07:08

Originally Posted by BRP

What is the limitation on Behests?

Happens once every hour at each camp and last 30 minutes.

Anyone of any rank/level can join with no apparent limit.

Normal claiming mechanics apply, so you must party up with other participants to engage the same target/groups.

You get skill/exp similar to doing a Battlecraft leve with no Guardian's Aspect.

Rewards seem to only be mediocre amounts of gil (based on your performance?).

I don't think anything else can really be said about it, other than it can potentially have incredibly overpowered targets (for now). Most notably, the Giant Slug of Emerald Moss and its constant 700~800 damage AoEs to people of all ranks/levels.

**Palin** · 2010-09-27 07:11

Originally Posted by Elcura

I doubt they would take away skill ups from curing, that would be retarded and just discourage people actually doing things other than attacking mindlessly.

edit: the exploit from specifically from guardian's favour, since you can bypass fatigue and I think the skill cap (500) as well, if you keep doing this you could potentially get thousands of skill points per mob in a relatively short time.

Without favour, skill ups are less frequent and not as high, you also can't get more than a specific amount.

Agreed, there's a clear difference between exploiting and what I posted before about using Sacrifice over Cure in group leve situations. All I posted was healing strategies in parties. If they try to ban people for spamming cure while parties do leves, then fuck this game. They better get it right and hit he people who were sitting there engaged to a mob and not attacking it, and exploiting the surplus system through Guardian's Favor.

**Sephiroth** · 2010-09-27 07:13

The nice thing about me starting now is with the servers being down there will be lots of mobs running around and not many people online straight away.

**Elcura** · 2010-09-27 07:13

Anyone who used this seriously should be above level 20 with revelative few mobs engaged and a spike in ranks in a short about of time. I would think it would be easy to see, as when I used this "exploit" the most I got out of is was a single level over a few leves (as mobs died pretty quickly).

I'm confident... or rather hopeful they'll hit the right people.

**Rammses** · 2010-09-27 07:27

It's very nice how fast swiftly they are dealing with this, and also how they're offering players to report themselves to avoid suspension.

**Fanfon** · 2010-09-27 07:28

How is the Black Shroud in terms of navigation? I want to reroll and be near my crafting guilds but the map looks really meh. Not very open.

**TStupified** · 2010-09-27 07:28

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Yeah but at rank 10? I don't know. In beta I had problems at rank 12 with some leves when they'd spawn friends on the last mob. That was with four stars.

Well I've seen rank10 Conjurers solo Dodos that were red for me as rank11 or so.. and the levemobs are never, ever as hard as the mobs in the enviroment, of course the player could've had like punishing barbs from Thaumaturge, but they still were red, RED. And the players had no problem at all taking them down.

So yeah I've gotten the image that CNJ is quite a good class in solo, I only leveled it to 8 to get shock spikes and it felt quite strong, even without a single point put in mage stats. Of course you can do one leve on one star to see how easy it is and then raise the difficulty level to your own preference.

EDIT: Oh and didn't notice that last sentence where you mentioned trying them on four star. I've felt that there's a rather big gap between 3 and 4 stars so you might be just fine with 3 and get wasted on 4, I did lvl10 leves on 3 stars at lvl11-13 on my marauder which isn't the best soloer.

**Kuroanagi** · 2010-09-27 07:34

Square is banning people who abuse the exp gain exploit

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...5a020eed84861b

**TStupified** · 2010-09-27 07:40

Originally Posted by Kuroanagi

Square is banning people who abuse the exp gain exploit

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...5a020eed84861b

Yeah it's mentioned in 3 threads already and someone even made a new thread about that, but yeah it's good news.

**hopefulki** · 2010-09-27 07:42

Originally Posted by TStupified

Yeah it's mentioned in 3 threads already and someone even made a new thread about that, but yeah it's good news.

This post exhibits a lot of self control, good job lol

**TStupified** · 2010-09-27 07:49

Anger management courses ftw.

**Sephiroth** · 2010-09-27 08:00

If I unequip hermes shoes will the 15 minute timer still tick down?

**Naiya** · 2010-09-27 08:11

Servers down? >.>

**Fanfon** · 2010-09-27 08:12

are servers up now? Still can't get in.

**miokomioko** · 2010-09-27 08:16

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

If I unequip hermes shoes will the 15 minute timer still tick down?

Yeah, it will... and it looks like it's a random amount of time... 15~30min tops I believe.

Originally Posted by Fanfon

How is the Black Shroud in terms of navigation? I want to reroll and be near my crafting guilds but the map looks really meh. Not very open.

Eh, in terms of navigation, it's definitely not maze-like as the map suggests. You will quickly begin to recognize what are dead-ends, and what are tunnels after a short amount of time and it's not difficult to know where you're going by a quick glance of the map. The problem with the Black Shroud is with maneuvering around aggressive monsters as you either a) explore areas you shouldn't even be in yet... or b) head to your higher-ranking guildleve targets that involve either getting past things like wolves or trying to fish/log/mine with something aggressive wandering around very close by. There's something I prefer about it, but I'm not sure what it is. If you're going to be focusing on a gathering class, you might want to also research what cities provide what rank leves for the one you like.

**Sephiroth** · 2010-09-27 08:23

Originally Posted by miokomioko

Yeah, it will... and it looks like it's a random amount of time... 15~30min tops I believe.

I wish I didn't equip them as soon as I got on the game...

**Chastiti** · 2010-09-27 08:26

Probably a stupid question, but what time is maintenance supposed to end?

Also, can anyone link me to a site where it lists when there is maint. and how long it should last?

**Piroth** · 2010-09-27 08:28

was meant to end 90mins ago I think?

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