24 hours? Pretty sure it's only 12 hours, unless that's what you meant to say.
24 hours? Pretty sure it's only 12 hours, unless that's what you meant to say.
24 hours? Pretty sure it's only 12 hours, unless that's what you meant to say.
Huh. I didn't see that, was looking at the "All Worlds Maintainence" notice. Damn.
I just re-subbed and started a new character. I really want to give this game a fair shake this time, because my last two attempts I bounced off. My highest leveled character was only level 34 so I definitely haven't actually lost much progress.
My Husband and I are on Jenova. I'm playing a Rogue right now, I'm not 100% sure what jobs or roles I'd want to play by endgame. Machinist, Astrologian, Ninja, and Red Mage seem the most interesting to me right now.
Any tips for a total newbie?
I feel like there should be a minimum credibility barrier to be reposted in spoilers like it might be a thing--Like, let's just take a minute to appreciate how quickly you would lose literally every even distantly serious endgame healer if you literally gave them nothing to do with their GCDs but heal. The game's difficulty curve cannot sustain a design where healers don't have DPS GCDs. There's no point in even trying to balance the healers because they would all be incredibly mind numbing and pointless to play, unless they change incoming damage to the point that they literally cut out the entire casual doesn't-ride-the-GCD population from healing entirely.
Like, we're talking about a few weeks into the tier, most healers literally doing nothing for most of the time during fights. They do this around the same time they remove jumps from Dragoons. I expect 4chan to be a constant string of low-effort fake leaks for the next couple of months, honestly, but I hope they at least try to be believable.
Could you give us some information on why you bounced off? Could help us give you tips to maybe help with that. :)
The biggest tip I'd give is to focus on the Main Story and getting one job to 50. The game gives you abilities very slowly and most jobs are boring until 50 (or even 60). Lucky for you, the jobs you're interested in are largely gated behind being level 50 anyway (Machinist, Astrologian, and Red Mage) so you're not wasting time getting Ninja there first.
I played a little bit of Arcanist back when ARR Launched, but I don't think I ever quite grasped the mechanics. It really felt like both of the classes played the same because the combat at those levels really just boiled down to "mash your cooldowns and maybe proc poison/bio". Aside from aesthetics, the actual gameplay difference between the two jobs at low level didn't seem that huge so I just kind of got bored and ended up cancelling my sub.
Play whatever job looks cool to you, though to unlock Machinist or Astrologian you have to enter the first expansion's content (gated by the main story quests)I just re-subbed and started a new character. I really want to give this game a fair shake this time, because my last two attempts I bounced off. My highest leveled character was only level 34 so I definitely haven't actually lost much progress.
My Husband and I are on Jenova. I'm playing a Rogue right now, I'm not 100% sure what jobs or roles I'd want to play by endgame. Machinist, Astrologian, Ninja, and Red Mage seem the most interesting to me right now.
Any tips for a total newbie?
That's unfortunately kinda what Arcanist is like. You ended up picking two of the classes with the least interesting early-game movesets, I'm afraid. Some of the melee classes have a high emphasis on positioning and directional attacks, and Thief/Ninja has a kinda cool combo mechanic that helps break up the monotony, but archer and arcanist both start out agonizingly boring to play.
Play whatever job looks cool to you, though to unlock Machinist or Astrologian you have to enter the first expansion's content (gated by the main story quests)
Note that in July all the jobs are going to get a rework, (among general changes like getting rid of the TP bar) so some abilities you get used to may not even be around in a few months. If you are looking to get into endgame you're going to be grinding out hours upon hours of main story quests to unlock everything. It'll probably take you at least a month even skipping the cutscenes.
Remember to read your tooltips on your abilities so you know how to combo them.
Sure! I bounced off for a few reasons, some silly (I didn't like the way my character looked, I couldn't find a race/aesthetics combination I liked), most mechanical.
It's going to sound weird given that my Avatar is from FFXI and I'm paying to play a game that it seems like I might not like, but to describe my issue in depth...
I'm actually really comically terrible at MMOs. I don't have the intuition or instincts with them that I do with other games. I find hotbar/cooldown based combat mechanics kind of bland, and I really don't like any of the starting classes/jobs. But I think this is just because I don't quite understand MMOs at large quite yet. I've never actually put much time into an MMO or "learned' how to play them. I've never done endgame or been a part of a serious raid. As I said, my highest level character prior to this was level 34/Archer. I played a little bit of Arcanist back when ARR Launched, but I don't think I ever quite grasped the mechanics. It really felt like both of the classes played the same because the combat at those levels really just boiled down to "mash your cooldowns and maybe proc poison/bio". Aside from aesthetics, the actual gameplay difference between the two jobs at low level didn't seem that huge so I just kind of got bored and ended up cancelling my sub.
As I mentioned before, the MMO I've played the most of is probably FFXI. There are huge aspects to that I game I fundamentally don't understand, but one thing I really appreciated about it was that every single job from the outset has completely unique functions. Playing Beastmaster I have to think about combat and actions completely differently than I do as a Dancer, for example. As a Beastmaster I'm never just pressing my DPS buttons, I'm assessing and gauging my pet's skills and my party's TP in order to make constantly different decisions. Do I charm this monster? Do I release the monster so that linked mobs leave my party alone and chase after the mob I let go? If I'm playing Dancer, I'm looking at enemy stats, deciding what to debuff, making strategic decisions about which dances to use to increase damage or drain health and support the rest of the party. That kind of dynamic decisionmaking is really cool and enjoyable to me and it's present from the start, which didn't really feel the case with my previous attempts at FF14.
So basically, I guess I just found early game kind of boring? Haha. I want to play classes that don't necessarily play like other classes. I like unique or weird mechanics, things that I need to learn and do that aren't just raw fundamentals. I really need something to dig into and learn. Now, that being said, I've actually been really enjoying my time these past few days since resubbing, but I don't know if I'm just in a honeymoon phase or not.
TL;DR: I got bored by the early game but want to give the game a fair shake this time around and am willing to get past personal discomfort if I can learn a cool or complex thing that pays off down the line.
This is very relieving to hear. I'm enjoying Rogue right now actually, but part of that might just be because I like the way my character looks for once and the attack animations are cool, haha.
But what am I supposed to do all dayIt's funny watching people online (not here so much) freak out about the all day maintenance in North America today. I'm like hi guys we did this nearly a month ago in the EU :3
Looking forward to world visit! Sooooooooooon
I live in Seattle, I'm not sure I follow
Go stare at the perpetual rain filled clouds in the sky and hope you don't get wet.
IIRC it's 24 hours for expansion launches too.Go outside and look at the big, bright ball in the sky!
Speaking of maintenance, how long will the maintenance be before early access? I can't remember two years ago when Stormblood came out.
I totally forget, do they let us pre-patch any of it or is it all 100% downloaded towards the end of pre-launch maintenance?Go stare at the perpetual rain filled clouds in the sky and hope you don't get wet.
IIRC it's 24 hours for expansion launches too.
The Burn music finally available digitally? yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas.
We get to download it during the maintenance at some point. Generally earlier than a patch is available to download during maintenance, although even that's been going earlier and earlier lately, it used to be just a few hours before maint ended and now it's usually available a short period after maintenance has started.I totally forget, do they let us pre-patch any of it or is it all 100% downloaded towards the end of pre-launch maintenance?
I'm pretty familiar with when patches drop, but a big-ass expansion is a bit different from a patch and I forget at what point we were able to download the whole of both HW and SB. Probably is right before the servers go up though, yes.We get to download it during the maintenance at some point. Generally earlier than a patch is available to download during maintenance, although even that's been going earlier and earlier lately, it used to be just a few hours before maint ended and now it's usually available a short period after maintenance has started.
No we get it earlier than that, since it's a bigger download than the patches themselves.I'm pretty familiar with when patches drop, but a big-ass expansion is a bit different from a patch and I forget at what point we were able to download the whole of both HW and SB. Probably is right before the servers go up though, yes.
No we get it earlier than that, since it's a bigger download than the patches themselves.
No if you're a tank or healer you'll have the easiest time leveling because of fast dungeon queues.Figures that I decide to try this game again yesterday and all day maintenance now lol. I'll send an invite to Era once I get back in.
Question:
I want to be a healer like I used to be in WoW. I picked conjuror. Is this a good healing class? Am I going to have difficulty leveling solo for the most part with this class? Thank you!
No if you're a tank or healer you'll have the easiest time leveling because of fast dungeon queues.
If you chain run dungeons you'll outlevel the story quests, so that's not necessary (unless you want to do it). The main story quest and the occasional dungeon will be more than enough EXP.I want to play through the story earnestly. So essentially should I primarily focus on main line and staying in queue and sprinkle side quests as needed?
If you play strictly the main story quests you'll end up being under leveled. Extra dungeons are necessary and side quests in all honesty, can be ignored, although there are a good bit that unlock a bunch of content and stuff (just look up which those are). As long as you are running the occasional extra dungeon you should be fine tackling the main story. Plus if you end up over leveled you don't have to deal with the lack of quests between 46 and 50. There is almost no content at that point and you'll have to just grind out dungeons or PotD to 50, but being a Healer means you're better off running dungeons and not having to suffer the monotony of PotD.I want to play through the story earnestly. So essentially should I primarily focus on main line and staying in queue and sprinkle side quests as needed?
If you play strictly the main story quests you'll end up being under leveled. Extra dungeons are necessary and side quests in all honesty, can be ignored, although there are a good bit that unlock a bunch of content and stuff (just look up which those are). As long as you are running the occasional extra dungeon you should be fine tackling the main story. Plus if you end up over leveled you don't have to deal with the lack of quests between 46 and 50. There is almost no content at that point and you'll have to just grind out dungeons or PotD to 50, but being a Healer means you're better off running dungeons and not having to suffer the monotony of PotD.
I had no idea a new xpac was coming out. Guess this is decent timing to get back in.
Yup July 2nd or June 28th for early access. You got plenty of time.Got it. So better to be slightly over leveled finish the realm reborn content than under.
I had no idea a new xpac was coming out. Guess this is decent timing to get back in.
Oh shit!I just found out that the Lala stalking Nashu in the Stormblood Hildibrand quests has actually been there every since ARR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNoC-F_YHzw