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

[Corrderio]

Doubt it since I don't think there is anything that really warrants it ATM since they all combine into the main scenario around R20.

[Tomino]

Couple of questions since my latest renewed interest for the game:

1) Is it me or Gladiator is kinda FF14 first bandwagon job? I swear I'm seeing so much people sporting sword and shield, I'm scared to be surrounded by them.

2) Is it me or said Gladiator class kinda sucks in solo grinding? I'm rank26 atm and I swear I lose so much time (and Stamina) setting up 10sec blocks (AegisBoon and Outmanuver) that becomes 6sec block for all the input and battle lag... Defensive cooldown like Rampart are weirdly set and don't even last a full mob. Unless I'm doing it all wrong.
I'm trying to boost things up with Defender, Protect and CureII so we'll see.

[Grey Jorildyn]

1) Perhaps everyone on your server is just having a momentary relapse in judgement.

2) Gladiator is terrible.

[Gulkeeva]

The defensive abilities on gladiator is great (especially sentinel and rampart 2)

If your quick with sentinel its awesome anyway, greatest "oh shit" button ability reducing all damage by like 80% or so (you can almost 0 out damage with defender 2 + obsess 2 + sentinel basically). About the only reason I leveled it.

[Gulkeeva]

Random speculation...
I found off a JP hentai board, a link to some NPC text for FFXIV, it talks of the Umbral 7th era
It mentions large beasts attacking attacking chocobo's.
The archons (those undead looking guys you see in the story line) are to roam the realm and usher in the coming of the end, the 7th umbral era.

Has anyone found NPC's saying that or could this be all mostly event chat unseen yet?

[Genzai Kawakami]

"large beasts attacking chocobos", it's from "The unheard horizon" quest (given by one of the northern gate's guard of Ul'dah)

The big undeads are called Ascians. Archons are ("Of Archons and Muses" quest small spoiler)

Spoiler: show

incarnations of the twelves.

Spoiler: show

And I don't remember which NPC made me think this, but I've understood that the "GM Arcanist" who randomly pops these day is an Archon

[Gulkeeva]

"large beasts attacking chocobos", it's from "The unheard horizon" quest (given by one of the northern gate's guard of Ul'dah)

The big undeads are called Ascians. Archons are ("Of Archons and Muses" quest small spoiler)

Spoiler: show

incarnations of the twelves.

Spoiler: show

And I don't remember which NPC made me think this, but I've understood that the "GM Arcanist" who randomly pops these day is an Archon

ah I didn't recall seeing this text mentioned before so was wodnering

http://www.neko-sentai.com/images9ru...umbral era.jpg

[Gulkeeva]

Here's another random speculation for people to wonder about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czbz5FfmC4s

[miokomioko]

I'm willing to bet that's from/for the upcoming Hatching Hour event when they may or may not talk about and/or release Chocobos?

[Gulkeeva]

Could be, there are other "song" like spells/abilities (and dozens of really cool effects like Quake/tornado/flood 2,3,4 shock spikes 3)... few more "spoilers" of nifty stuff FFXIV has in store

(going to have to use bg bucket, can't recall my ftp info from work)

remember this is spoiler stuff!
These are spells/mobs not accessible/seen by anything ingame normally...!

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Apparently, you can even play as a imperial soldier

[Kenshiin]

Too cool. I want my speed boosting abilities back, quickstride just doesn't cut it for me.

[Vuitton]

Do all the spells in this game have to look like balls or disks in various colors? It seems they have a colorful sphere fixation with special effects. It doesn't help that the casting animation is another big colorful disk. Kind of sad that BLM in FFXI had more graphical diversity. Even their casting animation (colored lights coming out of the ground) is superior. =[

Flood looks interesting I guess but the casting animation is distracting from it. "Quake" looks like an Ul'dah dust storm with lines on the ground?

[Gulkeeva]

Do all the spells in this game have to look like balls or disks in various colors? It seems they have a colorful sphere fixation with special effects. It doesn't help that the casting animation is another big colorful disk. Kind of sad that BLM in FFXI had more graphical diversity. Even their casting animation (colored lights coming out of the ground) is superior. =[

Flood looks interesting I guess but the casting animation is distracting from it. "Quake" looks like an Ul'dah dust storm with lines on the ground?

Well not all look like that "ball", lets see I've seen some that look like...
1. Giant spike coming through the ground
2. Portal opening up and gushing water from above on target
3. Symbols/runes swirling in a helix pattern
4. A black version of simian thrash (slightly different in hits)
5. A Ninja star like "buff"
6. Stoneskin 3 looks like the great wall of china (it litteraly covers 1/2 the screen)
7. Black musical notes with some whispy like smoke effect (soorta like a doom spell you could say)
8. many others I could only describe as I've not seen any mobs using the effects before.

as for the quake thing, its pretty massive and shakes the screen a bit last I recall (theirs 3 versions of it)

There are a bunch of neat ones (even if its orb like!) like a thunder storm super nova that takes up the whole screen.

Makes me think of ramuh summon from FFXI, just alot more impressive.

[Gulkeeva]

Here's another to make you go... wtf?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQJTS1MaoD0

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Hope they come out with some(all!) of those for the class reworkings. Again I know we're playing vanilla here but at least 50% of the animations so far are pretty lame compared to XI or other FF's. They've got some cool stuff in the dat's, now it's time to actually use them.

[sruon]

2 days late but RZN updated FFEvo Windower, can now create specific profile ala Windower for XI.

http://www.ffevo.com/files/file/96-f...fxiv-windower/

[Jakson]

Haven't played in 3-4 months, etc.
Highest is Con27, physical is 37. What should I be doing to get my Con to 50?

[Vuitton]

rank 30 leves and behests to start

[Grey Jorildyn]

Find at least three other people with the same leves and set a static time to go every reset or it will take months.

[vadre]

Are there any videos of the datamined awesomeness (aside from the above vid)? I'd love to see some of these effects.