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Technically red mage isn't a back line job. The players made it back line. I hope that when it does come to XIV that the players don't do it redmage.

That's good I forgot about group heal to tell you the truth...but i wonder does heal award you points for the FATE or not...anyone knows?

Wait it has 90% ? That's not right. For once cause i had times i would fail 3 times in a raw (that's 10% chance to fail only @_@ ) and cause then steady hand is completely useless. I mean then it should say 20% since you all need 10% more for a 100% success right?

Because the 20% at least in this levels is only used in the crafting skill and for the quality raise and already one of those 2 doesn't even need it or at least the 10% of it. How much success rate does the quality skill have?

I plan on suggesting a font sizing option for the chat. I think the NPC dialogue will be fine, my biggest issue was the crappy quality (in comparison) TV to the quality of the resolution being broadcast. There wasn't a font option that I saw in the UI, so unless someone here found the option and I didn't (entirely possible, remember I had only a couple hours hands on), that needs to be added. Chat window needs to be much bigger by default too.

Remember, this is beta and the very first PS3 beta at that. Early days my friend, I am sure it will be fixed. They fixed soooo much else so far, I have my faith restored that they will



I didn't know about it until coming here today, but honestly that's not really the issue. The issue is that it doesn't discriminate on distance and with the camera issues, there were times I could not even SEE the targeting icon. When you have three enemies, all the same name, all full health running about, and you can't see the target arrow OR the circle at their feet, how the **** do you know when you're on the right one? With FATEs, mobs are running literally everywhere. When I joined the Auroch one, The enemies are so big they fill my little Lalafell's screen. I basically stared at legs. I could hear the icon targeting going on, but hell, I could not see which I was targeted on. I locked on and discovered I was not on the right one. By the time I did find the right one, it mawed my face and I died.

There needs to be serious work done on that. Targeting and camera issues will kill this game for me. It's a really simple fix. The camera lock point needs to shift to center mass on your target yet keep your angle setting. It's a really simple coding fix so long as the camera programming is not ridiculously convoluted. It would completely deal with large enemy targeting.

I will have to try the enemy filtering on the next weekend, but really they need to correct the order in how you target, I think that's the greater issue here.

The controls for using your abilities is spot on perfect. The spammy thing is because your TP regenerates way to damn fast. Literally I can hammer Heavy Swing every time the GCD is up, and I will never deplete. Ever. I can spam constantly on all the abilities without regard to their cost.

Now, like I said, it's a solid base, adjustments need to be made for sure, but those are tweaks that occur throughout the lifecycle of the game. I remember how LOTR:O felt in beta versus launch. The abilities got tweaked and tweaked again... and again... It's a long process to get a nice, fluid balance between spam and too delayed. I think having it like this at launch is better, you see how the skills work, whether or not they are too strong or too weak, and do they glitch or break. At launch, I can see them cutting TP regen by half. That alone will slow the pace and stop the spamming.

Not sure many agree with me, but that's how I took it so far.

And this is from someone who HATED 1.0. HATED! WITH A PASSION! I was not going to come back. I reviled this game. To turn me around like this tells you, bar none, what they have done. This game is 100% different from launch. I cannot say how it differs from 1.23 or any version aside from launch 1.0. But that game was not one I ever, ever wanted to return to. I have bashed on it so long, so hard that getting into this game and LOVING it shocks even me.

Hell as I loaded the game, I was grousing to my fiancee how I was prepared to rip the game on the forums if it disappointed me. As you can see, that is obviously NOT the case.

Like I said, they are small touches. To expand so your imagination can see it... You draw your weapon, and strike, the music swells, just after defeat of the mob, weapon still drawn, you can rush another enemy. The music actually dynamically starts to fade after the fight but then goes back up from whatever point it reached once you strike your next enemy. It adds to the ebb and flow of the game so much! It's not like FFXI where you fight, music jumps up, enemy dies, music cuts abruptly, you fight again and it springs back from the first notes. This continues, flows, with you as you fight. It's such a small thing, something not really anyone has been commenting here about, but it makes for SUCH a nice experience....

Sorry to double, but likely someone is bound to reply. So Tera you said



In the spoiler, you will see, I feel, the definitive review of FFXIV 1.0
Spoiler

To summarize crafting in a nutshell: Play lousy mini-game for random prize!

Really there were three options for every craft, a standard move, a quick move, and a heavy move. And to this day, I'll be damned if I know what difference there was between them. Crafting items took ages. You can see him craft in that video and it is painful. Gathering, in my opinion, was even worse. Go up, play mini-game, and get random prize that may or may not even be a supply you were looking for.

It was rancid, and ridiculous.

Now, viewing the videos and hearing the feedback, I am 90% certain they followed what I said they should. I think the post is among those nuked (I am certain I posted something here on it), but basically I said that the needed to model it after EQII's risk/reward system.

Basically EQ2's system when I played, when you started crafting, you had two bars, a progress bar and a stress bar. As you crafted, both bars gradually filled. Depending on your skill, your materials, and the quality of the forge/workbench you used, progress would go faster, stress slower. You could stop crafting at any point. If you let the progress bar fill, you could wait and it would restart and up the quality of what you were making.

To use an example, let's say you are making chainmail. The first progress bar would have said Shoddy Chainmail. Once that filled, you would then get to Chainmail. Let it go more and you might get Fine Chainmail, and so on. Each stage upped the stats on the item. If ever the stress filled, you blew the synth and lost all progress except for skillups gained.

It was a brilliant system, and I thought if SE could duplicate it, but modify it to fit in more with the game it would have truly been a master stroke for them.


Edited, Jun 16th 2013 12:37pm by Pawkeshup

Quality I think is 70%.

Once you get back in, you can see the success rates by mousing over the ability.

Buff abilities and the +30 Duration ability are 100% success rate.

So yes, if you need to guarantee that Basic Progress does not fail, use Steady Hand.

I didnt get around to playing it all that much but I found the whole experience quite positive, its like a weird mix of final fantasy + guild wars + wow, looking forward to playing it more in the future. :D

I don't think any of the city names were ever used in any previous Final Fantasy game.

I've never ridden into a town on a floating cart lead by a chocobo.

You're wait is over good sir.

Honestly, I think the inclusion of series elements is a desperate attempt to bandage over the failure of 1.0. They are trying to convince people that because they added these more traditional elements that the game is now magically better.

I don't like the ploy but it looks nice in the cutscenes and on the advertising materials.

It's Costa del Limsa Lominsa, get your facts straight!

No Pawk, they introduced those things because 1.0 didn't have many FF things at launch, Which I think Tanaka was planning on adding later as well. If he stayed on board this game probably would have wound up more similar to XI if given the time. Whether that is better or not, I leave up to you. Yoshida has taken the post WoW structure most modern mmos take.

It's kind of funny as I read on mmorpg.com. Many people left SWG and EQ for WoW. Now people looking for a new mmo are more interested in EQ next than WoW.

I don't care how many subscribers other mmos get as long as this mmo ends up good and has a healthy sub base. With ARR seemingly faster in progress of story and leveling in comparison to Vanilla FFXI. This brings ARR more in line with an offline FF which may hook into their fanbase more so than XI. Then all ARR has to do is keep them there.

Firstly, Thanks for Wint remembering these 2 poor souls from the olden'times. We'll see how much of the magic returns.

First impressions... pretty, fairly smoothly running, Minor issues with holding a lock on FATE and instanced bosses, Nice custom options on the character creation... was able to remake my old Taru ... I mean Lala self with the appropriate greying hair and Goatee. (the mustache sucks... ) Great sound and ambiance.

Much faster pace with the standing MP regen, Caught a FATE as the first strike, got down to 20% mp at the end of it... Very nice.

Sadly, the last day of school was Friday, and we only had Saturday to play, but we're looking forward to the next server uptime.

It reminds me of FFXII as well. I believe it's because of the little aggro lines and target lines that come up in combat. Also the division of zones is also the same as XII with the little lines of colored orbs. Maybe that's why I like this game. I loved XII, more than any of the FF's after VII. XIII's combat was good, but the story was kinda weak.

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 7:43pm by supermegazeke