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That isn't clear, although I suspect it is the regular rate. I was also going to see if there is a difference in the regeneration rate when in combat versus without, because it seems like once the battle ends you gain back your lost points fairly quickly compared to when in battle, which would make sense.

Thanks for the article Wint, it is refreshing to see the changes and opinions so far. While I am a happy little legacy member... life hasn't been nice enough to allow for any first-hand knowledge of my own :(

I am curious as to how long a normal FATE lasts for, and how many people you usually see participating? I know that with the saturation in the BETA, that it is an unlikely scenario, but what would happen if you got sucked into a level appropriate FATE and you were the only one nearby. Are most of these hard enough that being the only participant would mean disaster?

Pretty positive writeup, I have to leave it at that sadly....

I don't actually remember saying anything about LS's camping specific FATEs; I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem in the first place. My only concern was with ghost-towning events and other events getting zerged by the entire zone. These were problems in GW2 even though there were frequently several dynamic events happening in a zone all the time. I have to confess that it didn't require a great deal of foresight on my part.

My comments and concerns more related to balancing the FATEs with regards to these participation fluctuations. If some of them are soloable because the mobs don't link, I guess that's actually a decent start.

To be honest, this isn't something I entirely hold against them, because if I ever thought of a good, simple solution for the problem, I've already forgotten it. There are solutions which aren't particularly elegant (in that they'd require a fairly significant level of development), but it's difficult to account for wild fluctuations in participation--to design all events to be fun and playable for anywhere from 1-100 players.

In the end I'm just not even sure it's a great mechanic. It sounds in theory like it would make the world feel alive, but with respect to the design problems you almost never forget that you're playing an MMO. Allowing players to initiate the events would allow them to better regulate the user experience. They can keep other structures in place, such as if your group fails, the area is affected appropriately--that would still be cool, probably even more so knowing that you and a small group of allies did it rather than the entire zone.

Well I can't find the original post, so maybe it's old age catching up to me after all. I could have sworn someone was arguing that LS's would be camping FATEs but I must be wrong.

I'm sure I would have just assumed, wrongly or not, that it wouldn't be a problem for the same reasons that it wasn't a problem in GW2. Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall explaining that to someone else.

I think that talent is more muscle memory than actual memory.

My question is about the controller scheme.
Was it difficult when first using the controller or was it easy to pick up?

Have you heard any complaints or things someone wishes were different about the controller setup?

What is the process and how does it work to get a controller working with the interface Does it all work right off the bat or do you have to setup alot of stuff?

Everything is pretty automatic for the job you're currently on. New skills/spells are added as you gain them automatically, but you can rearrange them as you see fit. While possible to assign skills with the controller only, I found myself using the mouse just because it's faster.

It was a little weird when I first started using it, but once I rearranged my spells so the most common were the buttons and the less common were the d-pad, it became much easier to use. I really liked it.

Can you save your custom UI to the server?
Well it sounds awesome, still I wish there was some kind of specially built gamepad/keyboard hybrid similar in size to the old snes advantage or the wii-u. Just place a full size querty for typing and a touchpad for drag and drop functionality at the bottom or top, replace the stick and add two controller thumb analogs. So I could use one hardware interface to do everything.
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I believe Yoshi said they were all instance.. Not 100% on that though. Pretty sure they are though according to him. He said that places that use to be dungeons may be opened up but not instanced and could be explored with fates poping in them but not boss objective or anything like that aside from fate.

They weren't safe to ride in 1.x either. I kind of miss choco-immunity but this way makes you more aware of your surroundings.

I prefer the chocobo not keeping you invincible, adds a little spice to your journeys.