Final Fantasy XVFollow

Yep.

SpoilerTurns out that the armor appears based on the Imperial healer's health. I guess he's the main bad guy in the fight. If you ignore him, you can pick off all the other dudes and it's cake.

If you want to see some real SpoilerMagitek Armor (FF6 style, not the Golem style wannabe that attacks you there. Go to Northern Thanalan, to the Ceruleum Processing Plant. Beyond that is the Magitek Factory, and roaming around outside are Magitek Armors. Everything in the area is level 40s though. I stumbled upon it when I was looking for Gridania. Went to Northern Thanalan instead of Eastern.

I didn't realize until just now that there was a HUD Layout menu inside the system menu. I tried for about 10 minutes to figure out how to move the Enemy list icon...

So Anyone else realize they just took the "best" of every FF5-9 and tossed it in the game hoping it would stick? Job System 5 (Kinda), Magitek (FF6) Materia (FF7) Gunblades (FF8) Spiritbond (Sorta FF9) a sprinkle of FF12 enemy design, FF11 nostalgia mobs. Only thing cant find is a reference to FF10.

Just thought it was funny.

(BTW Pug 15 quest is a Pain in the *****

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn-release-date

August 27th

I assume you got September 22 from the google for "FFXIV release date" if you notice it's 2010... that's not the ARR :)

Sometime soon I have to make a trip to Mexico for work. I am assuming it's going to be near the end of July, but they haven't decided yet. Then I have to make a 1-2 month trip down south for a while for a big project around October or November... probably gonna have to get a laptop set up with FFXIV.

For what it's worth, I was playing on a laptop at work. 3rd gen i5, 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics. I was getting 20-25 FPS on "Medium" settings, with shadows turned down. It wasn't super high quality, but it was playable.

I took Gladiator and Thaumaturge to level 22 (seperate characters) and played each one through the entirety of the Beta storyline. The final mission SpoilerSave Biggs and Wedge from the Evil Empire was pretty easy on both of them. Gladiator was just straight up melee it while NPCs tanked. Thaumaturge was keep everything asleep and nuke the hell outta **** while NPCs tanked.

The class quests at 5, 10, and 15 do a pretty good job of teaching you the basic roll of your class for the three city dungeons from the ones I've seen. Specifically the level 15 class quests.

For Thaumaturge, it teaches you how to manage additional enemies in battle using sleep.
For Gladiator, it teaches you how to draw crowd hate from a healer, and also how to avoid enemy special skills so your healer can actually keep you alive.

Those are the only two I made it through the level 15 quest on. I did the level 10 on Conjurer, but I don't remember learning much from it.

I always love the magic nukers. But Gladiator was pretty fun too. I'm torn, don't know what to make as my permanent yet. It was really fun running around as a Gladiator/Conjurer and tanking Fate bosses.

Well the nice thing is that you don't have to care which you make as your permanent. Just choose what you'd like to start as (and what city you want to start in will be huge in reducing that down).

I didn't really play all that much. For one, because I was helping siblings move and building furniture (latter for myself) most of the weekend.

For me, it's coming down to the fact that I don't like Ul'dah nearly as much as the other two cities. So I won't be starting Thaumaturge, Gladiator, or Pugilist.

I'll probably be starting Conjurer or, if it's available, Arcanist. My plan right now is to head for the Summoner job, but I also kind of like the idea of having my healing magic unlocked for all future stuff by taking Conjurer to 15 first. And I'll probably need it leveled for Summoner anyway...

The last thing to figure out is my race. Right now, I'm thinking Miqo'te, Lalafell, or Hume. Bias is for Lalafell, but I'm 100% withholding judgement until I see their animations.

I didn't learn about marking until near the end. I had watched someone do it early on in my first run as a Thaumaturge a week or so ago but didn't know how they did it. I wonder if you can Hotkey the marking? That will make it easier.

Edit:
Oh, and I know it doesn't really matter in the end what you start as, but it's just the experience going through the storyline as a certain class.

Edited, Jul 7th 2013 9:13am by TirithRR

I just found out that you can hotkey your gear sets (that's what they have on the sidebar in that UI pic I posted earlier). That'll make it easier to swap jobs/classes.

If you hover over the skills, it says what classes/jobs can use them.

Edit: Apparently I need to lrn2read. That's pretty interesting.

Edited, Jul 7th 2013 9:31am by Spoonless