Wolverines

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

I call dibs on being a Lalafell (new TaruTaru) RDM.

More info:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/446

Are you speaking english?

I want FFXIII and God of War III on PS3. The MMO does look nice, just don't know how I would like an MMO on a console, don't care for them on PC... lol

Lalafell WHM!

Don't tease me gr0n

In a DVD included with the September 2009 edition of Famitsu magazine, Nobuaki Komoto announced that while Final Fantasy XIV will include XI's job system, it will be retuned to focus on weapons and skills, and will not have experience points or a leveling system.

no XP or leveling......cool

Whoa!  I can has Mithra?

And so help my God, if the tank twitches around like our last tank (coughSkecough) I'm going to kill someone.

If they can fix the complete lack of anything to do while solo/small group as well as the travel time issues then I'm on board. 

Wonder why they kept the looks and changed the names of the races.

"Group play has been de-emphasized, and now solo and group play have been balanced.[6] Weapon use will alter "character development"

also there are teleport crystals so they might have fixed the 3 zone to get to city travelling

Looks like there's still a lot of speculation and very limited information out there so far.  Hopefully a beta will get rolling soon and we'll find out more.  I really enjoyed FFXI and if they improve even slightly from that game I will be very interested.

I promise this time to move warp away from my heals

I will be playing this with you fools.

Classic!

It seems your class/job might be based on what weapon you are using instead of visiting a Moogle to swap.  I sure hope they somehow keep sub-jobs though...I really liked that aspect of the system.

yeah I am excited about this

XIV

I guess it turns out the fantasy wasn't so final afterall

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?/topic/52-final-fantasy-xiv-ultimate-faq

Gravina casts Warp


Gravina disappears!

and then...

Oh SHIT, I'm getting a Chocobo now!
 

So classic

Okarn, are you ready to break out man-hands?

You better believe it!

Man-Hands bitches!

jesus christ...fuck playonline....Its been a fucking hour and I am still not in game

aaaaaaaaaaand now 7 hours to patch

Yeah I let mine go overnight.  What the hell server did we used to play on?

just to make sure you are talking about playing the old MMO?

I thought the beta wasn't out yet for FFXIV?

I am all over 14.

Ugh, I can't ever go back to that FFonline.

Did they ever fix that mob faster than you, chase you across an entire zone BS?

Yep we're talking about FFXI, I re-installed and am using the 14-day trial right now.  If it keeps my interest (so far so good) I might try to recover my old account.


I don't think it has changed much...pretty much you are boned if a 2nd mob aggros while you're solo'ing unless you have some potions.

-gr0n

There is a separate playonline client for vista...that's why I was having so much trouble.

Some more recent info:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?feature=3509&bhcp=1&game=446

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?/topic/1219-newest-ffxiv-info-from-dengeki-released-9-12-2009/

From what I have read it will release couple months after FFXIII. They intend to have a 5-6 month beta period, how long closed or opened that is up in air. Look for beta news in couple months.

Im thinking FFXIV  has some potential to be a pretty good game from what ive read so far

I hope so.  A bunch of us are pretty excited to check it out...so much so that we've resorted to playing FFXI!

I filled out my Beta application.
http://entry.ffxiv.com/ (http://entry.ffxiv.com/)

Still no word exactly when beta will start, but still saying it will be at least 4 months in beta, and still to release late 2010. PC beta will come before PS3. I am looking forward to FFXIII in March.

Done and done.

Red, get on this.  We need you to port away at the most in opportune times!

sweet...another game we'll play for 2 weeks

trying to even get logged into this fucking thing is making me not **EVER** want to play another FF game

I feel like I must share my pride in the nerdiest way. But sadly it is too late in the evening to run around outside in circles shouting about beating a video game.

Yes, I have beaten Final Fantasy XIII. I beat the final boss, and now can return to the open end area of the game where I can fight side bosses for quests. Total time on my file is 58 hours. The ending was pretty amazing, and would make Avatar jealous about the prettiness of the video. I am now ready for FF XIV.

Loads of new info out today:

Windows:

Final Fantasy XIV Collectors’ Edition
Release Date: September 22nd, 2010

Special In-Game Item: Onion Helm (reduced penalty upon death)
This special edition also includes:
-Priority Log-in a week before official start of service.
-A specially designed package featuring the art of Yoshitaka Amano and Akihiko Yoshida.
-FFXIV original tumbler
-FFXIV DVD “Eorzea: The Making of a Realm”
-Hard-cover art case to protect your game and DVD.
-A specially designed FFXIV security token.

Final Fantasy XIV (regular edition)
Release Date: September 30th, 2010

Special In-Game Item: Garlond Goggles (faster skill growth)
Characters created after redemption of the Item Code (included in the first shipment of the game) will all receive this special in-game item from the start.

Monthly Fee: 1280 yen (approx. $13-$14)/30 days (1344 w/ tax)
(first character free for 30 days upon activation)

Retainers: First one is free with each additional one costing 100 yen (105 w/ tax). Additional player characters cost 300 yen (315 w/ tax) apiece every 30 days. Maximum of 8 characters.

Fees are payable by both Crysta currency and credit card.

Each Square Enix account may have up to 8 service accounts.

FFXIII Secret Code Item
Asura Armguards: Increased Weapon and Tool affinity.
http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/ffxiii/

Supported Languages: Japanese, English, German, French (service starts simultaneously)

*PS3 version is scheduled for release sometime during the beginning of March, 2011.

Onion Helm!!! FUCKING COUNT ME IN!

Um....does it scale as you level or whaa?

I doubt it, but it's just supposed to help you recover faster from a K.O. so it would be usefull to throw on if you die.

Damn PS3 version not releasing at same time. Still hoping I make it into some beta, but might be screwed now if it makes me wait for the PS3 beta and not get the PC beta. Right now though kinda siding towards the new Starwars Old Republic.

Yeah, it really blew my mind that they are releasing for PS3 in March instead of this year. I'm hoping I get in the beta as well. It's a beast though, a LOT of people are having to replace PC's to play it.

Between Starcraft 2 and then this... good bye social life (what semblance of one there was to begin with).  I'm way in on this though.

So I got into the Beta this past weekend. I'm thoroughly impressed with the game so far. It is still apparent that it is in Beta, so there are several issues that need addressing right now but will be fixed prior to launch.

The game looks stunning and the two areas I've had access too so far are pretty sweet. The guild leave system is really nice and makes for really fast leveling for the most part. However, you will run through your own pretty quick so these are best done in a group so you can do one persons, then another, then another, etc... This basically means you can do a ton of guildleves which are the most gil and xp you can get. It's much faster than farming for sure.

So far I've tinkered with the following:

Marauder - Lvl 14
Blacksmith - Lvl 4
Fisherman - Lvl 3
Miner - Lvl 3
Botanist - Lvl 3

This is all in about 12 hours played time so far. The professions are amazing and frustrating at the same time. There really are very few instructions in game on how to do any of it. It's basically trial and error until you figure out what you're doing. Also, finding recipes hasn't been easy. In fact I have yet to find out where or how to find them without using google.

Overall though, they fixed most of what I didn't like about FFXI. I will absolutely be playing this on release.

No beta invite for me. However, mine might be for PS3 because I used that voucher.

if mana regen isnt as gay as the last game I will be casting Cure like a mofo

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/hijacked.

That might have been the most random thing i've ever seen..........

ummmm, that's why it's a hijack.  duh.

JT said he is going to play a fisherman.....what a faggot

That was random even for a hijack!! Funny too.

Just got my email for the open beta, but I can't sign up until 7pm.

Gr0n, I need my account back.  ;)

Doh!  LOL.  I think I do have one of my own somewhere, but it just didn't have any toons worth a shit in FFXI.  Give me a call or somethin.

oh how I miss Square Enix's bullshit...just kidding. 5 hours and im still trying to get this motherfucker patched and installed. Not looking good.

Happy Birthday Arctic!

ok I got in....

initial impressions:

The graphics are AWESOME. Environments are sweet. Cutscenes of course are epic.

I started a marauder. I went out and did the guildleve and combat is pretty straight forward. I then was confused because I couldnt get another quest it said I had to go back to the guild hall thingier and reset it but when I got back into town the server shit. Definitively feels like FFXIV.

the 360 controller is hella nice. Seems easier to use than FF11.

If anyone starts up let me know and I will make a character and run with you.

I'll let Rand post his feelings.....he sounded like he might not get it.

No luck getting into the beta yet....

F+

Ok so I decided to try the open beta. I got my key instantly after applying. I will log and hang out in the WOLV TS3 if I am in-game. Think that is best way to meet up with people.

yeah I had 2 other buddies sign up yesterday too. Not sure what these knuckleheads are doing.

I just tried again - it says I've been accepted now.

FUCKING A RIGHT! ok text me when you get on and I will roll a healer with you

So, there's 2 caster classes?  Conjurer and Thaumaturge?  I miss my RDM.  :-(

What server? Is everyone? I made a char on Bodhum to try out. Someone pick a server for everyone to use. And pick a starting location. (don't know how hard it is to travel if people start at one of the two others)

Gysahl? I wanna wait til after release to get it....want to see the reviews. It sure is pretty. I would like a static party that plays once or twice a week....if you wanna play more outside of the party then roll a second toon or something.

Is the 500 download attempts to get the client part of the FFXIV initiation program?

in one of the folders, C:\Users\blahblah\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta\bca2a8ae\metainfo

do you see the .torrent files? if so run the torrent files instead of trying to get the F'ing patcher to go.

So, that worked muck better but...

Got a false positive on the temp files that the installer creates and had to install two times since I forgot to "Allow" after the first try then...

Installed and patched, got the login screen, click on "Log In" and...

Nothing

/sigh

lol....yeah servers are up and down like a hooker in the front seat of an el camino

I logged in for a short bit last night... I think I need a gamepad and a new computer (at least a new vid card).  The cinematics are awesome...haven't had much of a chance to really play yet though.  Using the keyboard is hell.

im using my corded 360 controller...works pretty good

PS3 controller should work well too if you have a PS3 instead.

is this beta still open? I cant find where to get it

nevermind, found it and downloading

Yeah, a controller is a must have, I've been using a corded 360 controller. Not playing much right now. School is spankin' that ass.

mouse sucks. Found a temp fix that makes it 100x better (overrides software mouse and uses hardware, I can post the link when I get home if anyone wants). Why does a PC game require a gamepad to be semi-playable?

I'm on Gyshal btw, started at the port, starts with an L, can't think of the name atm. Gunna put a good 6 hours in tomorrow in hopes of it getting better. Might even borrow a corded 360 controller to see if it helps.

Also, anyone try using Vent? Was having issues with it not recognizing my PTT key while the game was in focus (even windowed) last night

Limsa is where I started too. My char is named Gravina Jenkins

the mouse patch will get nuked when they patch so you will have to constantly keep finding workarounds

i cant get the damn thing to patch/update. wtf

Run the fucking torrent files

Yeah when I downloaded it got stuck at 99.8 percent on the 2/2 file. I had to use a megaupload link from the beta forums to download the 9MB file that was getting stuck.

The game is pretty. I like how the use of cinematics, its something WoW should steal. My computer can't really handle it, which is the issue these days.

the torrent files are on your pc...run them

should he run the torrent files?

I wish someone would have told you guys to run the .torrent files. That usually fixes the problem. None of these lamers knew that though.

RUN SAM'S FACE INTO A SPIKE

hm, anyone having issues quoting things into Quick Reply?

and yea Red, I know I'll have to keep re-patching, but its either that or ragequit after the first 20 minutes. The mouse is the most awful thing I've ever seen

waaaa i cant use a mouse......the control pad is smooth. Stop being a woman

Yeah it won't play at all on my 4 year old gaming PC... the installer just crashes.  I think it's due to my 256MB video card.  I'm thinking of upgrading to this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130562

Damnit!  It seems to have gone out of stock in the last day.  Ugh.  At least Amazon has it for about the same price...

-gr0n

You should all be on your Ally toons liberating Gnomeregan.  Or running the torrent files, I'm told.

In Soviet Russia, torrent files run you!  WHAT A COUNTRY!

Sweet merciful crap the loading times are long.

Still can't get it to actually acknowledge my pushing the "Log In" button...

/sigh again

Piquon i looked up a couple things:

lower security settings
use the virtual keyboard
enable java script in browser

Got it to load, looks pretty, cant get out of window mode for some reason...

Setting IE security off of high did the trick but that's retarded.  Also stuck in windowed mode.

Never mind, found the config utility and turned on full screen @ native resolution. 

Is this game coming out this month?  Because it sounds almost ready.

Yep end of this month. It will come out for PS3 early next year I think though. This first release is only for PC. I uninstalled it because my computer can't handle it.

My new video card should be here by Saturday.  :)

>.>  Sup yall!   So is there a group of Wolvies thats gonna be playing on release?   

And if so, Myself and a group of old friends from FFXI are going to be starting on the Bodhum Server and I'm sure they would let anyone who wanted to join their Linkshell.  As of open Beta, Bodhum was a moderatly populated server but as for after release I can only guess it will stay the same. 

My FFXI Friends all wanted to start in Ul'Dah, But im currently torn between Limsa Lomisa And Ul'Dah as starting cities.

Also there is a big list of fixes and planned stuff they want to do for FFXIV before or close to launch:

•Guildleve availability/cooldown
Right now, there is a 2 day cooldown for guildleves. This is not enough for a single person, but the aim was that people would share guildleves to extend this time. This is why we have the leve-link and the bonus rewards for higher difficulty selection, to make it more rewarding and better exp/skill gains to play in a party. However, the time was just too long, and we heard many complaints of this nature, so we will shorten it. With that, we can see the problem with having to travel via teleport more frequently, so we are currently tweaking an anima regen increase.

•Upcoming guildleve introduction
We will be adding not just normal guildleves, but a wide variety of types of guildleves. First, there will be higher level guildleves. Among those, many will have more variance in the rules/goals as well as being able to fight with more varied monsters in many more target areas. In particular, we heard many comments of "I want to fight more and more NMs!" so we want to respond to that quickly. Also, the faction leves that were in the Open Beta are designed to be a somewhat "different taste" from regular leves, with hidden starting conditions or npcs. The rewards for these are fairly good, so please try them out! Finally, we are going to be steadily adding more and more leves that encourage coordination between all the classes including gathering/crafting/magic/war. Please look forward to it!

•Notorious Monsters
Soon, there will be NM's even in the world of FFXIV. These will look very different from most of the other normal monsters. We're planning to introduce NM's that are so huge they make a Malboro look small. The tranquil era is about to end! We're going to torment adventurers with these powered up, aesthetically varied NM's which we've prepared "episodes" for.

•Damaging monster body parts:
There are monsters which have different body parts that can be damaged. Using a specific weapon skill while standing in a specified position can lead to cutting a monster's body part off. For example, you can cut Malboro's vines or a horn/tail if the enemy has one. In addition to changing the monster's appearance, those actions can have the following effects:
- Weakening the monster
- Preventing monsters from using specific skills
- Acquiring materials from cut/damaged body parts

•Other: By combining a particular race's equipment etc with city-state it's unavoidable that a certain degree of being tied down will occur, so this time we are not thinking of doing that. [I'm a little unclear here but I think this means they want to avoid certain races being tied to certain city-states]
Scenario's are balanced, basically, completely soloable or depending on the situation doable with a small number of people. "For the most part, soloable"

•City-states' Guilds: Not all guilds are in every city-state
By passing a certain condition, "class quests" will become available at guilds. Class quests are of course related directly to the class itself, but at the same time are a way to truly learn the details of each city-state. Please enjoy the story revealed in these quests, in addition to the quest rewards themselves.
When you complete a quest, you will receive Guild Tokens [marks?]. We are planning to add more and more things to exchange tokens for.

•Balances to enmity in party battle: In beta, they made adjustments to enmity based on magic and abilities, but they have plans for more. These changes, however, will probably take a while to implement. They plan on adjusting the enmity according to contents, equipment, abilities, monsters, and so on. These changes will be made continuously after service begins based on how things are going.

•Mana Regeneration: In FFXIV, management of your MP use is supposed to be an important part of strategy. They’d also like magic to have explosive power in fewer hits, and not just be used to spam enemies with light damage attacks. To promote this, they’d like to continue to balance the recovery methods used for MP, including the abilities and aetherite, as well as adding new methods later on.

•Usefulness of Battle Regimen
Battle regimen serve a double purpose: to expand the strategy of party play, and to reduce the difficulty/rigidness in forming parties. They are not just for doing extra damage, there are lots of various effects. For example:

•- Phys Resistance Debuff

•Normal melee attack -> Normal melee attack (ex. slash -> punch [these are basic DoW abilities])

•- Magic Resistance Debuff

•Normal melee attack -> Normal magical attack (ex. slash -> spirit dart)

•- Cast speed down + MP consumption up

•Normal melee attack -> Magic (ex. slash -> Fire)

•- TP gain reduction + TP consumption up

•Normal melee attack -> Weapon skill (ex. Slash -> Red Lotus)

•- Action aptitude up (Using a different class ability on the current class grants the same effect as when used on the other class)

•Same class magic -> Magic

•Same class Weapon skill -> Weapon skill (ex. Trunksplitter -> Brandish)

•- Damage up

•Various class WS -> WS -> Magic

•Various class magic -> Magic -> WS (ex. Blizzard -> Scourge -> Puncture)

•For example, if it's difficult to continue dealing physical damage, use Phys resistance debuff. If it's a casting monster, use cast time debuff + MP consumption increase etc.

•Negotiations are another way of obtaining loot (other than battles). By choosing the right conversation subject with a NPC, player can engage in negotiations and receive items in exchange for items wanted by the NPC. If player does exceptionally well, it's possible to get some free stuff as an extra.

•Ishgard: Ishgard's people have long been at war with man-eating dragons, and thus have not taken on Adventurers. In this city, there are already several quests appearing for the "Dragon Slayers" [faction?] who are at war with the dragons.

•Guildleves in the Beta: We sincerely apologize to our open beta testers for the client errors that would occur more frequently during guildleves in the beta. In the release version, we are dealing with these diligently.

•Retainer: Right now, when you buy something from a retainer, there is an unnecessarily long delay. On release, we plan to make this a lot more smooth. We would like to make improvements to make commerce even easier for everyone.

•Relationship Crafting/Gathering & PC Status: PC's physical level & attributes will have an effect on crafting and gathering. There are hints in the game as to what does what, so please search for it.

•Crafting

•Physical: Closely related to the tool being used and will particularly affect quality

•Attributes: related to "Godsend" [I think these are the extra result/HQ result] probability & "attribute stability" [?]

•Gathering

•Physical: Affects difficulty in obtaining items in the "gather" phase as well as the number of items obtained

•[translator note].. this is a literal translation of "physical" and "attribute" I wasn't sure here if they're talking about skill level or what, but judging from the use of katakana for Physical, I must assume it means physical level, even though that sounds odd to have an effect here.

•Market: We don't want crafters and gatherers to simply "put up" their items on the market and that's it. We want them to also act as salesmen and learn to play the market intelligently. For this purpose, we will begin with focus on the Bazaar market system. On that note, in order to be able to tell "What's for sale?" etc, we are planning to adjust policy and add functionality to improve the user friendliness.

•Retrying guildleves: The best way to level is with guildleves, that is, even without the guardian's favor, you will earn way more exp and skill points per each kill. For this reason, we wanted to prevent abusive use of leves by killing all the monsters but failing right at the end and then retrying on the spot. However, if you visit the NPC that gave you the leve, you can retry it.

•There will be hardware mouse support!

•We believe that the item selection interface should be very responsive, and by release we will have introduced a MUCH improved version. After release we will continue improving this.

•The FFXIV development team acknowledged that there's issues with the mouse and user interface and apologized about it. Hardware Mouse + UI improvements will be a major focus for them.

•There will be package discount pricing on the subscription (Japan-3months, NA/EU 3/6 months)

•Due to game balance consideration, the level cap on release will be 50

•We will change it so you do not lose disabled abilities when changing class any more. [assume this means they won't leave the ability bar, they will probably just gray]

•Physical stat distribution will affect both crafting and gathering classes as much as it does everyone else.

•There aren't any "open world" NMs outside of guildleves.

•New hairstyles will be added, as well as the ability to change hairstyle in game after you make your character.

•Crafters will be able to cooperate in large-scale projects (boats, cannons, wedding cakes! YUM) so more fun for you and your company!

•There will be guildleves where crafters and adventurers have to cooperate.

•The guildleve issue will be fixed so they cooldown will be significantly decreased from 48 hours.

•Anima regeneration will have to be raised since you'll have to travel more for more frequent guildleves.

•The faction leves have you fight different beastman tribes and such.

I'll only play if you stop wearing gay armor.

So is this one like the last, in that it takes 5-10 party to kill one monster at or about your level?

And do mobs run faster than you, and will travel across the whole zone just to kill you?

I've been told numerous times that the Ladies love the Subligar!  

Just cause you and and all your Galka Fuglyness can't pull it off doesn't mean the rest of us can't look good in it.

This one is alot more Solo Friendly.    While there are beasties that you need a party to kill. In the beta you could level just fine solo and didnt have to party unless you wanted to.

Also the mobs give up pretty easy if you choose to high tail it away from em.   And some do run faster than you but most don't atm.

This game is much more casual friendly than the last. It's a lot of fun actually.

Has anyone else run the benchmark?  I want to see how you guys with newer rigs compare to my 4yr old lump (but with a new vid card...installed just in time for beta to end lol).


http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/

My benchmark was at 2600 with these core components:

Nvidia GeforceFX9800
AMD Athalon 64 X2 3600
4Gb DDR2 Ram

I think I got over 4K I'll re-run it tonight

2760

 GTX 460 1gig
AMD Phenom 965 2.4ghz quad core
8g DDR2 Ram

2904

Win 7 home premium 64 bit
AMD Athlon II x4 620  ~2.6ghz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
6 gig ram.

Alright guys, so the Collectors Edition releases today, anyone get that version and going to play tonight? If not, who bought the Standard and is going to start on the 30th?

I'm really tempted to pick up the CE today.

30th for me

I picked up the CE today. I know Norega has as well. We will both be playing tonight. Suck it sucker mcsuckingtons.

30th for me too, can't warrant the extra cash after car repairs

CE...that's the kind of dedication that gets you iced with Pineapple flavor rather than Green Apple.

I picked up the CE and will be in-game tonight.

Bodhum/Ul'dah?  What are your toons' names?

god you guys are faggots

My Characterns Name is Claud Mcresh

Rando's is Shiro Bear

So help me, if Kastil is taken I will fucking kill someone.

I started in Ul'dah   but you can start anywere ya want  the cities are withing a 10-15 minute walk of each other   


Server is Bodhum.

And i wouldnt worry about your name being taken cause there can be many people with the same 1st name,  you just cant have anyone with the same 1st and last name

so there can be 100 kastil's with diffrent  last names    But only one "Kastil Wolvie"

I'm on Bodhum in Ul'dah.  My Dunesfolk Conjurer is named Volnar Devir.

See you all in-game.  :)

Keep us updated on whats needed.  White mages?  DPS? sexbots?

Sexbots and Cake Painters are seemingly in short supply...

Is the name "Correct God" taken?  If not, I might be convinced to play.  Or if Nightstalker plays and I can be named "Mikki Free," "Jude Tiao," "Money Guys," or "teh hulk."

How about "Not Funny?"

There isn't a traditional WHM, but the Conjurer does that role. I think Big-Fluffer was planning on going that route when he gets in game. I'm a Marauder, Norega is our Gladiator. DPS love is what's needed I think. I'll hit you up tonight gr0n.

Is it just me or is the interface a bit laggy at times?  Mainly menus and interacting with NPC/mobs, etc.  I also was having trouble in combat casting spells, often after the first one was cast.  It would say the target is already engaged or some such.  I need to mess around with it more tonight.

user error

Is that the class that allows you to cry about your IK barb in D2 because you picked the wrong skills, and then turn around and say "Screw this, im going back to WoW" like a little bitch?

Just curious.

No, I had problems on my conjurer with that exact same thing. My marauder doesn't though, seems to be a bug. THe Menu's can be laggy, but they are 100% better than in beta, so I doubt it see's much improvement.

Also Night, a broken heart doesn't suit you buddy. I like my IK barb, still play him as a matter of fact. How's Eve treating you?

well I got the fucking game but now its not taking my password and I have to leave. I'll dick with it later.

Going to try to get the name Red Dawn if possible.

If it's taken I'll go for Caleb Pulliam or Tom Seihl.....maybe Edward Laborde

in as Red Dawn

4 more days for me... blech.  Heres a question as I have never played 11 you don't choose a class in character creation do you?   You are able to change classes throughout the game and get different skillsets and whatnot right?  It's a pay per character game but they only list the what is it, 12.99 a month, but not the additional fee per char that i can find.

its an additional fee for extra characters. 3 bucks per I think. You pick your class at char creation but you can switch your weapons to level differ classes. These guys would know more. Since I can only one char I will not level like a mofo for when you non-CE noobs GET IN GAME

You pick your class at the start but that really just effects what gear you start with. I would suggest going for a Disciple of War class to get a weapon then do the crafter stuff.

The price is $9.99 a month + $3.00 per character minimum of one obviously.

Crafting in this game is ridiculously involved, in a good way. In fact I've spent the majority of my game time so far doing the different crafting professions. I've been leveling my Marauder, but I'll swap to something else to play with you guys till you catch up, once you're in game.

Also, If anyone is interested in trying this game out, I have a buddy pass. All you have to do is find the client to install, once the game is installed the buddy pass lets you play the game for 30 days. After the 30 days you would have to purchase the game to continue. I'm sure the free trial time has limited features though I have no idea what those may be.

I think they make your char have Downs Syndrome

That's only the Snack's edition.

I am intrigued by this game, I know it just came out and I understand you can basically be any class (job) by switching your weapons.  Anything else that's pretty cool about it?  How are the quests, environments, and world?  People work together much?  Do people seem pretty friendly?  Any idea if the endgame would be practical on say two nights a week?  Like I said, I know it's new, but I was just curious what people's impressions were.  And if anyone knows any good sites to check out for info let me know.  Thanks!

Yeah man, here is a basic rundown.

This game is catered to a more casual gamer, meaning you only have a few hours a week to play. The quests are broken down into what are called "Guild Leve's." You are able to do 8 of these Leve's every 48 hours (though they are going to lessen that cool down soon). The Leve's are meant to be as easy or difficult as you have the party for, and when you initiate it you choose the difficulty. Once you're done with the Leve's you're left with gathering mats, exporing, or farming mobs. If you have a party however, multiple people can pick up Leve's and you can do all of them with them greatly expanding the number of "quests" you can do.

There will be a lot of end game once we get there, at least if it's anything like FFXI was. Norega can chime in better here since he saw most of it. It will be perfectly doable in only a couple of nights a week. The raid encounters are much more difficult than WoW but take far less time to complete depending on what you're doing. Imagine world Bosses.

There aren't really traditional quests in the game. you won't find anyone with "?" over their heads. Most of the quests are story based so you speak to NPC's and you happen upon one that tells a story. They do have rewards, mostly monitary, but they do tell a good story which is one of the shining points of the game to me.

People are friendly and I've had no problem getting a group, in either this one or FFXI.

Some sites to check out are:

www.ffxivcore.com
www.eorzeapedia.com
ffxiv.yg.com (Database Site)

You should just about anything on one or all 3 of those.

why do you have to hurt me rando? is it because texas lost to UCLA? :(

The more I hurt you the rougher with me you are in the sack. It's worth your tears.

lol snacks.

Texas.

That's right Night, Texas starts with a capital "T."

I'll go with the standard excuse when someones team loses. "We are rebuilding this year."

Back on Topic trolls, FFXIV is AWESOME.

Pugilist is calling me I think.

I'm looking forward to playing with some of you. I know Red has it but only logged on once. Bastard. gr0n is also busy finger banging his lady, and understandably so. Needless to say it's just been me and Norega killin shiz.

I plan on getting on friday night and fully expect you to get on voice and give me a 4 hour tutorial

Everyone needs to get on TS.  It's always just the usual 3-5 of us.  Teamspeak motherfuckers.  Get it.

You also planned on playing this past weekend, we saw how that went! TS is for win.

What's the vent info?

Getting it today, installing tonight.

I'll be on tonight, this afternoon as well :)

Make sure those of you that are playing put your names in this thread so we can find them easily.

i'll pick it up.. tell me the details of where/how to find everyone. i'm too lazy to look through the 9 pages of nonsense

Server :Bodhum
City:Ul'dah

My character is Red Dawn

Going to be waiting fucking forever for the updates do download.  Sitting at 0.0kb/s wait wait 36k!  yeah... suck

Here is a nice site for macros.

http://www.eorzeapedia.com/wiki/en/Macros

Rando, myself and Kastil Kittybutt just busted it out. I like what I am seeing so far! Sunday night guildleve extravaganza....be there or be square

Also if you check on the FF14 forums there is a rapidshare/megaupload  and instructions for the updates and also a way to use bittorrent to snag them down which might be much faster than the p2p the game tries for updates.

Kastil Kittybutt btw.  

Battle Regimen-  2+ people press the little regimen button and then chain together skills.  Once skills have been chained you press G on the keyboard or square on the gamepad.   I can only find a few combos on line via:
http://www.ffxivorigin.com/ask-origin/1181-battle-regimen.html
and :
http://www.eorzeapedia.com/wiki/en/Battle_Regimen

Jinro Soju, Roegaydyn Marauder

also Goran Doomsayer

Some writer in the AP poll is voting Alabama 3rd.  I did the math.  Some one is that wrong.

It doesn't look like my computer is going to be beefy enough to run it well enough to play.  My video card could handle it, but it's bottlenecked at the mobo and I can't afford a new PC ATM.  :(

Booooooo!

guildleve's tonight? 8pm EST?

not liking this game so far. where the f is everyone/everything

It's not going to be a WoW type game where you jump in and get led to the special buddy prizes, you've got to do some reading! What are you looking for in particular? The starting quest in the city, you get just by creating a character walks you to the first camp and through the process of getting guild leves.

i got the starting quests, its after that. picking up quests for all these skills.. carpentry, mining, etc... no idea what i am doing

So what's vent info again?

Server :Bodhum
City:Ul'dah

My character is Catface Meowmers

Please post vent info. 

This is pretty much the worst game ever.  Randall tells me there is no way to jump.  Take a good game like World of Warcraft, then make sure none of the controls are the same, then take some of the controls out, and you get this.  It's like a fucking Mac.  Ever try to use one?  Ever try to right click on something?  Well, there's one mouse button, so you can't.  How can I run somewhere if every time I hit the jump button, it gives me a "say" prompt?

Maybe you just need to grow up.

TS: http://www.thewolverines.net/forums/index.php?topic=5080.0

BTW, good times tonight getting some of those levequests knocked out.  I need to do some more research on attributes and elemental points and I also want to get my hands on another weapon to level a 2nd or 3rd class.  I figure I can level Thaumaturge also.  There's a lot to learn...

All of the non-FFXI peeps may have some difficulty adjusting to the game, one thing that will help immensely: use a gamepad.  Other than that it's fairly similar to ffxi.  Interface is laggy but I'd imagine that will be fixed.

So I installed your stupid teamspeak.  And I rerolled a couple times to get a feel for different class mechanics.  Ended up back with stupid thamaturge, though I still don't understand the targetting with the AOE abilities, seems to untarget.  New name is... Tonight You.

Now how the fuck do I jump?

OK, finally got to the part where they give you the tutorial book.  Starting to make sense now.  I wish I had named my kitty Original Maverick before I levelled up for a couple more hours.  Because that name is fucking awesome.  Next month we take back Congress and in 2012 that will be President Maverick to you, JT and Thrun. 

Is it just me, or is Chow a little more talkative lately? I'll acknowledge the chatty cathy chow. I see you. I read your posts.

I'm glad you stuck with it ch0w, despite the inability to jump. We do need to get you a gamepad though, the keyboard/mouse way is atrocious.

The AoE thing, whenever you choose an AoE skill there is a button that appears right before you choose your target. You have to click on that button to turn AoE on. If it's on it will always be on, so you only need to select it once. The trick is only using it when needed. AoE ranges are pretty large and you can wipe a party really quick with it. I've done it a handful of times now. 

That starting zone SUCKS. I am going to grind some shiz out hardcore tonight

Yeah, Uldah is probably the hardest place to start right now due to the over crowding. Limsa Lominsa seems to be the least crowded of all the starting zones. Fortunately you can take the ferry from Uldah to Limsa.

I'll do that first thing when I get home

That's smart.  Design a computer game that sucks to play with a keyboard and mouse.  Brilliant.  Was this developed by Republicans?

Haven't had a terrible time with the keyboard/mouse though there are issues when trying to target a mob that is moving rapidly.  Double clicking for the suck.

And Vol, if you are still around Ul'Dah the Bric-a-Brac place sells spears/scepters and the Rustics or Rubics or whatever farther to the west sells swords and fist weapons for the practicing.  Gotta find a place that sells the conj weapon.

worse...JAPS!

Kas, I can make you a Conjurers weapon that's much better than the starter one for about 2k. If you're playing tonight hit me up about it.

ladies and gentlemen....piquon has entered the building

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/rc/character/status?cicuid=5251828

Actually, once I figured out that all I had was a saw I could not use and rocks I deleted him and made a Monk/Pugilist

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/rc/character/top?cicuid=5292610

A saw, I bet Piquon's alt could use that.

everyone get to 10 and lets plan on grouping up. sick of soloing.

also....I did all the leve's on 3 star difficulty and PWNED them. Good Skill pt's too

Kas, Rando, Chow, and I did some leves over in the Limsa Lominsa region... F dodos and their sleep.  Hopefully I'll be online late morning/early afternoon on Sunday.

text me when you jump on if im not already on

Jump!  JUMP ON!

I rerolled again.  This might be the last time I reroll.  I hope to have my mind made up how long I am sticking with this game by the time the trial runs out.

Getting a hand on the crafting thing and finding repair guys and such but am still insanely at odd with the retainer selling system.  Can't find a damn thing I want ever.  Auction house please.

I need to start looking at crafting. OI. I went out to that area we were fighting the bee's and dodo's and got PWNED. What sucked worse was I forgot to touch the local crystal in the back. all the way back to uldah

yeah, you can't solo the bee's and dodo's until you're 15 or 16. That's definitely a party area.

ch0w, I can't believe you rerolled. Did you trade your gear off? I had given you a +3 bone ring to use.

+3 bone ring. there is a joke there somewhere. but i am about 2 cups of coffee away from making anything good happen with that one.

One time a couple friends of mine in Arizona needed a room mate because their old room mate split for Vegas.  When asked about his apartment key he said it was on the bottom of Lake Mead cause he threw it out the window as he drove by.  So we had to go to Wal Mart and get another one made.  People sure are dicks sometimes.  BTW I could use a couple of rings on my new toons, better make some spares.

roommate

IGN nuked this with a 5.5

http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1123824p1.html

This may be something to check back with in March pending the PS3 release. As much as I hate to say it, they released a very unfinished game.

Awfully pretty though....

Yeah, it's pretty sad that in many ways FFXI is better than this game.  All they really needed to do was upgrade the graphics engine and make the game more soloable and it would have been ok.  I might put it on hiatus as well... for shame SquareEnix... shame.

WoW 4.0 out today, they updated the water graphics.

lol they are extending the free for 30 days...adding some stuff......well everything but it being fun :P see below

Interesting.  I was about to cancel but maybe I'll hold off a few more weeks.

Hopefully they update some plot in there too

Supposedly November is a decent update and December is a really big one. Not sure if I'll make it that far though.

Are we still playing this?  It's like doing WoW daily quests without the flying mounts (or mounts at all)

I am subbed still. Been a few days since I jumped on. I think Mike is correct about waiting til march and re-trying it.

Still on myself, looking for plot

Am I doing this right?

I haven't played when others are on generally so:
1) I log in and go to Ul'dah and pick up whatever quests the Taru gives me.  He makes me trade in quests that I can't seem to activate anyway.
2) I complete quests
3) I run out of things to do

The check system for mobs is strange because one will be blue but when you engage it, it ends up being a red shield!  Also, wtf is up with running away and spawning friends!!!!

Once you do you quests is the idea that you help your friends with theirs, you grind on random stuff or what?
Also I want to try out leather working and/or carpentry but I can't seem to find someone to sell me a saw or leather workers tool.  /sigh

To figure this game out you have to smoke peyote then spend 2 days in a sweat lodge hallucinating.

You buy that stuff in the merchant hallway area. Main hand and off hand.

You might try going over to Limsa after you do uldahs and pick up the level 10 ones there and do those.

The running away and spawning thing is a pain in the ass.  Most of  the time its just short distances but I did have a quest where a mob ran 3 times in a row and then theres that stupid sand yaron quest where he runs half the god damn map.

Leatherworking tools are on that strip like Red said, west around the circle from the quest givers on a spoke.

I logged in last night and within 15 minutes was completely annoyed and logged out.  I'll probably cancel my sub and wait until March.

I totally agree that  graphics update to FFXI was all that was needed, maybe with some solo/small group content thrown in. 

All that Tenshodo fame gone to waste.

Also, I miss:

"The Goblin Smithy readies Bomb Toss"
Piquo takes 500 damage
Piquo dies

Agreed.  FFXI + better graphics + more soloable/small groups = win.

The more I hear about this game, the stupider it sounds.  Goblin Smithy?  Fail.