Alpha Manual details uncovered! Gameinformer has the secrets!

[Nandito]

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Y'know, one MMO comes to mind when they have you leveling "physical level" and "skill rank" separately, Ragnarok Online. There you could level your character's main and job level. Main was used to level stats, pretty much what we'll be doing on FFXIV!

Pretty damn awesome. Love the fact there's no more loading times, well, not obvious ones anyway! Glee!

[Cryxen]

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Will we be able to reallocate skills?

I don't want to make 2 accounts for Melee and Magic.

[Nandito]

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Yeah, that's something I really hope they'll know how to deal with.

On Ragnarok Online, my first character was... pretty much gimp. Stats all around. He was a Rogue with INT stats for Christ's sake! Ended up just making a new character.

Last thing we need is a Galka (Forgot their "new name", sue me) who starts as a warrior but wants to be a mage later on... unless... Melee Mage!

One thing I have a feeling they'll do, separate stats for each weapon you equip, and maybe a chance to reset them later on.

[Cryxen]

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They amde it sound like you'll have base stats, and the weapon type will be what you put stats into.

Your staff skilll could boost INT and MP, or MND and whatever.

A lancer could have high DEX or high STR and could switch to a staff and have high INT and MND.

Hope i remembered my FFXI short-terms right.

[Pwnagraphic]

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yes you do, it will be a requirement.

Wtf? That instantly pissed me off.. Not everyone has a character name that fits with a last name. Ridiculous..

[Jei]

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I'm thinking the same way as Cryxen. You train your stats seperately for every weapon type you pick up.

[jenova_9]

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The Alpha Test - Hands On! :: Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) at ZAM

Great news!!!!!! everything is so WONDERFUL!!!

[Takelli]

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Y'know, one MMO comes to mind when they have you leveling "physical level" and "skill rank" separately, Ragnarok Online. There you could level your character's main and job level. Main was used to level stats, pretty much what we'll be doing on FFXIV!

Pretty damn awesome. Love the fact there's no more loading times, well, not obvious ones anyway! Glee!

Yea, Ryzom makes me think of it as well. Your physical level was your highest skill you where when you had a weapon equipped. So if you equipped a dagger and had a skill lvl 5, and you had a skill lvl of 30 with a sword, your actual level was lvl 5 because of a dagger was equipped.

[Cryxen]

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Have they explained how you recover MP in the field if not by resting?

[Takelli]

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Have they explained how you recover MP in the field if not by resting?

By going into pasive mode. Kinda like Auto-Refresh. Thats my best guess I have.

[Ziero]

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From what I remember reading, the way it works is you can type in the first name and then the first letter of the last name, or vice versa when you want to send a /tell. Oh noes, one extra letter. And is it really that big of a pain to try and come up with some kind of last mame? At the very least it should cut down on the "XxxSephiroth" idiots and people who intentionally misspell names.

[Tell]
Any message input in the tell chat mode can be seen only by a single designated player. Messages displayed in this manner appear in pink. This chat mode is activated by prefacing a message with /tell or simply /t . The active chat mode cannot be set to tell mode. During the Alpha Test phase, PC names must be entered in their entirety (first and last names).

What you're remembering is the April Fools joke explanation.

Will we be able to reallocate skills?

I don't want to make 2 accounts for Melee and Magic.

They say it's not available in the beta right now but most likely will happen in the full game. If there's one thing SE doesn't seem to do with their MMOs, it's make it so you can't change your mind.

[jenova_9]

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MP doesn't recover in passive mode. passive mode is the same as resting, I'm sure.

Aetherye crystals and nodes restore MP. and I think there will be abilities that might recharge some MP.

[Takelli]

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MP doesn't recover in passive mode. passive mode is the same as resting, I'm sure.

Aetherye crystals and nodes restore MP. and I think there will be abilities that might recharge some MP.

Yes, but what if you completely run out of mp, and cant make it back to a crystal because the "Aspir" (For a lack of better words), abilities get resisted. There has to be another way to restore it so you don't have to leave the area you are fighting through just to get to the crystal.

[Cryxen]

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They mentioned abilities to recharge MP

I just don't see why resting isn't viable

[Takelli]

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They mentioned abilities to recharge MP

I just don't see why resting isn't viable

They got rid of resting. But thats what passive mode is though.