How is FF14 now?Follow

I started playing FF14:ARR when it launched. I managed to get to level 42 on my first character before I got sick of FATE grinding and quit the game. I liked a lot about the game, but I didn't like how FATE grinding was seemingly the best way to level, how quests ran out as you went from class to class, and there didn't seem to be a PvP system in-game.

So, from this perspective, I ask how the game is now?

1) Is FATE grinding still the best way to level? Is this better than it used to be? (ie. group up, do the same 8 FATES a dozen times each where all you do is try to tag a bunch of mobs that are being AoE'd down)?

2) Is there a rewarding PvP system in place?

3) How is the end-game?

What are roullettes? They must have been added after I played the game.

Questing was slower than FATE grinding at higher levels when I quit, but it was faster at lower levels. So if I switched classes I had nothing to do but FATE grind. If I wanted to level fast, I had nothing to do but FATE grind.

I understood maybe half of what you said, because the systems were either not in place or I was not high enough level when I played the game before.

You must have played REALLY early, because I got into FFXIV not that long after ARR's release, and Roulettes were a thing.

Though, I suppose you could have missed it? Or not noticed it was there?

But yeah, you simply open Duty Finder and you'll see the Roulettes listed. As long as you are Level 16+ and have unlocked at least Sastasha, you can do the Leveling Dungeon roulette. I think the Guildhest Roulette is added at Lv10, even IIRC. Not entirely sure about that. It's something like that.

When you get Lv50, other roulettes become available: Trials, Main Scenario (the two 8-man dungeons at Lv50 having to do with the Imperials) and Lv50 Dungeons (a huge huge list of Lv50 dungeons, including hardmodes of older dungeons). Trials are unlocked by doing a few of the MSQ 8-man boss battles (Thornmarch, Leviathan, etc). This gives you more roulettes per day that give a ton of XP, I bet one level per day between the them, easy. Maybe more if you unlock everything. Just the Leveling and Lv50 Trials can easily give you a level or close to it depending on what you actually get. Sastasha or Ifrit probably won't give you a whole levelup, but Stone Vigil sure would at Lv40s!

And yeah, like Callinon said, you probably don't want to spam Palace of the Dead. Even I get tired of the place, and I love the XP it gives. I mix it up with some questing, the daily roulettes, and if I'm really getting bored, I'll just do daily roulettes and do some crafting/guildleves instead.

Also, there's the Challenge Log (make sure you unlock that! That's Lv30 IIRC). A well-placed Challenge Log completion can add 5-10% of a level and earn you other rewards such as GC seals for GC-related challenges, Money, and XP.

You can also do things like level your chocobo companion (again, Lv30 to unlock) by doing FATEs... FATE grinding gets old, but if you're accomplishing two goals with one activity (character XP and your bird's XP), I find it's a lot more interesting and pleasing.

Also, nice thing about Roulettes, is that if you're a Tank, you get a special bonus (well, it says "Adventurer in Need", but it's wanting Tanks 99.9% of the time, though I have seen Healers pop on it once in awhile). And if someone in the party has not completed that duty yet, you get ANOTHER bonus at the end. Being a Tank and ending up in a dungeon with a Newbie can add a huge chunk of XP, lol.

Just to give you some idea... I've been doing Lv50 trials with my PLD, once a day... my PLD is now almost 58 and I've not stepped foot in Lv51+ content yet with my PLD, JUST from doing Trials Roulette once a day for the past 2-3 weeks. I've been using the Leveling Dungeon roulette to get my NIN on 50 so I can do the Main Story Quest with NIN. But now that NIN is on 50, I use leveling dungeons on my WHM instead.

Edited, Apr 6th 2017 12:02pm by Lyrailis

No problem! It is good to look over the thread though (which I assume you have) to get even more info about the game as now you're closer to being able to play.

Don't forget when Yoshi P personally ran over your dog with his car.

For someone looking to get back into the game I think it's ok to stick to answering the questions without a ton of editorializing. Let them form their own opinions.

Yoshi-P ran over my neighbor's dog, but that mutt was super annoying and I'm glad he's gone.

Love live FFXIV!

Opinions are like b*ttholes, everybody's got one.

However, when someone is asking for facts, they don't need opinions.

And I'm quite sure he's absolutely wounded to the core that you ignored him. /sarcasm

And besides, I don't think someone who is coming back really needs opinions from a super jaded, never actually happy player who can't be made happy no matter what the developers do unless they catered to your every whim.

I don't think I've ever seen you actually compliment something having to do with the game without burying it in a sea of complaints. Sometimes I think you'd be better off just quitting the game if you are that jaded about it. Sheesh.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't go rating it 150/100 or anything like that, but seriously, I find the game reasonably fun. It's never going to be "perfect" but the words "good" and "fun" still easily apply here.

lol.

Where'd you get THAT out of my posts? Nothing like injecting your own vile hatred into something someone else said, eh? I couldn't imagine living in the kind of world you do.



Really, now? And here I thought it was dead because A). it has an archaic as all crap forum system and it has a ton of lag, B). Most MMOs have official forums these days, and C). ZAM was always about the close-knit communities for the most part.



Oh come on, you can do better than that.

I've read several complaints against XIV from people like myself... I remember even a couple other players here, I forget their names, they had a few minor complaints about the game.

But, see, they aren't always spewing out vomit about the game either. They act like they enjoy the game, but sometimes they got this little thing that tweaks their chain they need to talk about.

You, on the other hand, all I see is vitriol and vomit with the occasional paper towel to help clean it up. Problem is, one needs a whole freaking roll to clean up all the junk you spew out.



Wow, that sounds like what you do!



If that forced people to leave, why are you still here?



I've disagreed with a few posters here since I started posting here again... guess we're not all like-minded, are we?



Did I say I think FFXIV is 100%? No, if you read above, I said the game is not perfect, but "good" and "fun" are words I would use to describe it.



Yadda yadda.



I'd rather talk to be a smart a** than a dumb*ss.

But what does Tessie think about this

I'm not really sure why you felt it necessary to revive this just to spit on an active forum member, but ok. Let's take a look at that.

The main FFXI forum isn't posted on any more regularly than this one is and the majority of posts are Szabo posting about patches (each patch gets 3 posts: patch announcement, patch template, and actual patch notes). There's a little discussion but not much.

I did see a few of the server forums have had some activity in the last month, so maybe that's what you're talking about? Either way it doesn't look like they're any more active than this forum is, they're probably a little less active.

Unfortunately, ZAM decided that they didn't care to maintain their forums as a main feature of the site. So the only people still here are the ones that have been here forever. Most others have migrated to either their game's official forums or to places like Reddit. And that's fine. Those places have their uses and I've used both myself for various things. Personally I like the small community we have here. We can discuss things without overzealous mods looking for excuses to ban people (for instance). We're also a small enough group that getting to know each other's quirks is a thing that can reasonably happen. I find that valuable myself.

You came to defend Nashred and that's fair. this thread taken entirely in a vacuum makes us look like jerks. I don't know how long you've been gone from here though. Nash has been lurking around here for years spouting the same complaints over and over again for literal years. It got old, and the rest of us got pretty sick of it. I realize that doesn't paint us in the best light, but that's how it is. Like I said, taken in a vacuum, this thread makes him look like quite the martyr, but the reality is quite different.