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For mobs closer level to you, a few hits won't end your ride but if you run through a group of level 45's at level 30 as I did, one shot took over half my HP and knocked me clean off my bird.

We are limited to only surrounding areas to Gridania, so I can't answer the dungeon question yet.

Going to assume they mean this. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/accessories/headsetscommunication/Xbox360Chatpad Looks like a better location than the PS3 one.

Well even with the busiest FATE I've been in, I managed quite a bit of experience even though I was basically casting one spell per mob and it maybe lasted 5 minutes tops. I would say the equivalent of 3-4 Guildleves.

I've done leatherworking and botany. What's your question?

Yea I understand a pc will recognize that as a keyboard so it should work in game...

Have a couple of Q's, some have been partial answered so I apologize for any redundancy:

1. Is there haste/tp regen gear or is it too early to tell? Was there any in 1.0 near the end?

2. You say that FATEs and Guildleves are the 2nd best way to gain EXP after running instances/dungeons. Does that mean that there aren't a lot of other "WoW" like quests, or are you just limited access to those quests because of the nature of the beta. Meaning, are you able to quest and progress through the world with unique/story/otherwise progressive quests? (I'm disappointed in the lack of quests in 1.0 and hated Guildleves)

2b. I'm then assuming that PT play and "grinding"/classic FFXI would rather be done in progressing through a dungeon, than mindlessly grinding mobs?

3. While grinding solo, you said it was slow but how long does killing a mob take? Is it WoW fast or FFXI fast?

Thanks

Might be easier if you think of it this way... if you played FFXI, you had all your classes on that one character still, but you could only do quests once.

So you are probably in the same boat here, where, whatever quests you have, you're only going to be able to use them to level up one or maaaaaybe two classes at most.

I would be very surprised if you could redo non-leve quests, because quests were tied by character, not class.

According to the GamerEscape Q&A Scession there really isn't a TP issue.

As described by Fusionx and DoctorMog (The Latter of which I can confirm to being inside Gridania.) There really is not an issue with TP (it was a question raised.) The regeneration rate is enough that for Soloing, or short fights (They cite under 30 seconds). TP management is not an issue. However, for fights over 30 seconds, or above, TP regeneration is about 'where it should be', according to their opinion.

Again, all this information comes from their Q&A session and cannot be confirmed or denied by non-media staff, as the NDA for combat is still in place.

It was also stated in the same Q&A session that FATES in Beta tend to be unbalanced when they are overpopulated (They say it's likely due to the population being condensed into Black Shroud), and that encountering the FATES that are not being hoarded is an enjoyable experience.


Also, it's not nice to spread rumors, especially if your sources are an NDA violation of some sort.

Edited, Apr 28th 2013 8:47pm by Wint

It's the same way in Guild Wars 2 as well. Too many people swarming an area will kill the ability to enjoy the content. in GW2 it's a problem that solves itself once the population moves on. We'll have to wait until the NDA lifts and/or these so-called "End-FATES" the podcast described come into effect. I think they mentioned that they're not in the game yet, but it's a two hour long podcast, I might have zoned out during that part. They did cover quite a lot.