Advice on continuing 1.0 character or restartingFollow

I was wanting the opinion of some players who had stuck with FFXIV 1.0, are legacy campaign players, and/or just plan on rolling on the FFXIV ARR Legacy servers upon launch.

I am struggling with whether to continue on my 1.0 character, or to start new in the game. The problem is my 1.0 character was not as well developed as many others that continued to play into the legacy campaign, but I do not want to lose my time spent especially since it was during the painful times when earning a level was rough.

I had the following: 50 CON, 27 THM, 37 BSM, 35 CRP (others at 15, 10 etc.), and about 25 million gil.

Compared to a lot of legacy players I realize that this is not a ton, but at the time of the game it was still a lot of time invested and effort for me. So considering the state of most legacy and 1.0 players, and anticipating how the legacy server economy's will be, what would you suggest?

I am leaning towards starting new, but I am just not sure. I do not want to be stuck with the economy being outside of my means and have everyone at 50. Do you think most legacy players will have several level 50's and enough invested to make what I've earned insignificant? Thanks any feedback will be helpful.

On a side note, do you ever envision Legacy server world transfers to non-Legacy servers and vice versa? Thanks again.

Edited, Jul 19th 2013 9:11pm by v0id182

Legacy transfers are estimated to be unlocked 6 months after launch or so. I'd probably say to use that time to level the other jobs if they're of interest, but I can understand your concerns about the economy and how those better invested and with deeper pockets might control it. Another factor I'd consider would be friends. Do you have any from 1.0 who will be restarting? If so, perhaps a bit of incentive. If not, starting totally fresh elsewhere can have its own appeal, too.

Anyway, without knowing how they intend to handle leveling multiple jobs once primary quests dry up, I'd say stick to your Legacy. Because if it winds up being really grindy, you'll have an edge over fresh starters.

Edited, Jul 19th 2013 9:43pm by Seriha

I'm personally starting over on a new server.

My highest job was only level 28 and I had about 100k gil, so it wasnt like it was that big of a deal.

If you're really attached to your character then I would keep it but if you are not start fresh and enjoy the new character experience. That's what I will be doing

Edited, Jul 19th 2013 8:56pm by Veagan

Having multiple characters is much less of an issue in ARR. Even the most basic price plan let's you have 8 characters, so there's no harm trying out a new character with your old one on ice just to see what works better for you.

Don't you get a certain number of character slots with your subscription? What would stop you from having your old character and a new one as well?

Totally your choice of course but if you spent what you would consider as a good amount of time playing and enjoying your character then I would definitely consider keeping it. I see from your sig you are on Balmung and as I am on that server too I know personally lots of players with jobs at your levels. Having one job at 50 already will give you options in end-game and you will have the excitement of also levelling your character up in other jobs all with the lovely new GUI and ARR bells and whistles.

If you keep your character and if things are just not going your way and it isn't what you had hoped you have always got the option of starting afresh later. Remember if this game does well there will be plenty of people giving it a try for hopefully years to come. I know in FFXI I started in 2006 after the game was well established and it wasn't a problem not being on a new character from the start. If you start new it's very likely that your 'old' character will never be used again and that time investment you put into 1.0 will be for nothing.

Edited, Jul 20th 2013 2:39pm by EdyNOTB

The new character wouldn't have to be on Legacy if you started a new account, only if you decide to use your existing.

It slipped under my radar before, but I'd also say it's being dreadfully optimistic. Once the new game smell wears, all the asses will be poised to tell us how we do everything wrong and things can only be done a certain way. This gets even more annoying when you're forced to interact with them after a point, hence my usual fear that soloing will amount to diddly in the long term. Not everyone wants to help such jerks, but refusing to do so tends to handicap your progress. Nice guys finish last, etc..

I understand that I can have a new character and it can be on any of the servers, my point is just that creating a new character on the same legacy server as my old one seems very redundant and pointless. Now what I might end up doing is creating a new character on a new server and then transfer my 1.0 to that server when it is available.



I certainly shouldn't have said everyone, there will always be jerks, asses, elitists and trolls to be sure. But in all of my mmo gaming and I've tried most of the major ones, the Final Fantasy community is relatively friendly and helpful. That's all I was saying.

For the OP: Apparently duty finder works with those that aren't on legacy servers. You could use the DF to play with genuinely new players, it isn't separated in that regard.

I think the wipes are regarding beta progress only. Whatever someone already had on their 1.0 character is set. Anything they gained during P3 will be wiped. Starting P4 the same way they started P3.

I plan on playing my 1.0 char as well a new char at the beginning. I didn't get as far as you did on your 1.0, what little he has will help somewhat when quests dry up in my starting area. After a month or two I may stick with one char, but for now I plan on putting those extra char slots to use. Also, I want to compare new economies to established ones.