Starting a new character on a Legacy serverFollow

You can keep your legacy account and start out on a new server. Only 1.0 characters are locked onto legacy servers. Your account is free to make new avatars wherever you want.

Even if you continue with your old character, you will be fine. Very few Legacy players have more than a couple Classes/Jobs at 50, leaving them several others to work on, not to mention the new Classes and Jobs that no one has yet. Gil wise, the market was "balanced" by the devs and all Legacy characters had their gil reduced down to 10% of what they had before. For example, if you had 1,000,000 gil before ARR, your character will have only 100,000 gil when you log in to ARR.

I don't think you will be at a disadvantage if you were to keep your old character.

Edited, Jul 21st 2013 3:34pm by WiseDonkey

That's why they implemented the Duty Finder, which groups you with players across ALL servers. You will not be left behind due to not being able to run a Dungeon.


Edited, Jul 21st 2013 3:35pm by WiseDonkey

I rolled on Hyperion as well and found it to be the exact opposite as you described. Lots of people everywhere doing all levels of content available. It will be interesting to see what actually happens after the game launches, with all the doom n' gloom surrounding the whole Legacy thing.

I can say this is likely your only chance to level with such a large group starting from level 1 with no help from anyone high level. If that interests you in the slightest, don't miss the opportunity. It will never come around again.

Thank you everyone for a heartily reply!

Sorry but this is a complete lie, Hyperion was heaving with people at every single camp, even when I was out at the more obscure locations I bumped into people! The only way no-one was visible would of been if you were still on the tutorial mission ;)


Edited, Jul 22nd 2013 2:04pm by RampagingAnts

A large number of legacy players could have rolled on new servers for the beta to play the new lowbie content and possibly recruit new players to their servers. Newer servers will probably have higher populations, but I think that there will be plenty of players on the legacy servers considering that there are fewer of them. I would wait until the open beta and then see how things are looking. I'm sure there are plenty of 1.0 players that didn't bother with closed beta and will be hopping on to see how the game is.

Also, I'm sure the population on legacy servers will be more stable than on fresh servers. There will be a huge influx of new players and then a drop off after a couple months, regardless of how well the game does. Legacy servers probably won't feel this quite as much as the new servers will. A lot of the new players will be friends of legacy players and less likely to drop the game early on.

Personally I'm rolling on a fresh server. I was unable to play 1.0 until a month or so after servers went down and I've never played an MMO at its launch. I would love to play with the high concentration of committed legacy players on the legacy servers, but I want to experience what it is like being there from the beginning on a server. That coupled with all of the exploits and bugs that allowed a portion of legacy players to quickly level all jobs and amass max gil with minimal effort makes playing on a fresh server a no-brainer.

I know a lot of people are saying that the economy will be balanced on legacy servers, but I don't think that it will be, not for a while at least. Even with a 10% reduction in the amount of gil everyone possesses, that still leaves plenty of gil to those that would potentially corner the market on certain goods. Sure you might not have to pay 100x the price of some lowbie item, but you would still have to pay more than it's "value". In WoW I've seen players with large amounts of Gold be able to dictate the prices of items to insane extents.

I guess I could be wrong to some extent and underestimating the amount of players that will be in the position to input items into the economy. I suppose that with a large amount of players having every craft capped it would be pretty easy to find LS/FC friends that could make you gear for reasonable prices.The choice could simply boil down to something such as that, and for a lot of people I'm sure it does. I know if I had any friends on legacy I probably would have rolled there.

I created a character on Hyperion and Gridania was packed, tons of people running around. On the flip side, when I logged on to my legacy on Ridill the cities were ghost towns. It may be that since Ridill is going JP there just wasn't anyone on the times I logged on.

i recommend you start on fresh new server with other people, economy will be new and not tainted, everyone will be level 1 which is exciting in itself and it really feels like brand new game if you take it in that way.

the person that said only a handful of people were all capped that is a lie or false information, at least on my server alone more than 50% of population have almost all class maxed if not all after all the abuse with power leveling/etc that was allowed and used + abused.

Thanks for being respectful about it and not calling me a liar, Gnu. Appreciated. Thinking back now, I'm not sure I did go through the whole tutorial. I thought you couldn't even leave the city until you finished it, but I could be wrong. With that said, I'd still recommend a new server if you're starting fresh. While the level sync is intact, I can hardly see too many high levels focusing on running low level dungeons. They'll probably be more focused on higher level content (and the gear upgrades they provide), which could cause a lack of participants for lower level content. Just my take on it.

EDIT: Disregard the above. Forgot that the Duty Finder was cross server for a second there. Still though, if you do, I still wouldn't look forward to having an abundance of players to do content with outside of Duty Finder content. Here's to you having fun, no matter which you choose.

Edited, Jul 25th 2013 6:59am by DragonBourne

Edited, Jul 25th 2013 7:02am by DragonBourne

Look at my sig... I played that much and i only have about 3 million gil (which will become 300k)

This does not mean that people don't have MILLIONS (a guy in my LS has about 200 mil...) but this guy is an outlier in a 50-ish member ls. He is a minority in a population of minorities.

Yep, they did... ;_;

Most of our gear is obsolete too. AF > Materia items now since the materia was all turned into dust and not tradeable until P4.

Additionally, they nerfed the heck out of Darklight armor and any items like White Ravens that are unobtainable. Really, the only advantage legacy has is levels.