So, what are your plans?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: So, what are your plans?

Let's face it, they have a lot of god damn work to do in 47 days.

[Malacite]

Re: So, what are your plans?

Yeah no kidding.

Tanaka, break out the Red Bull.



EDIT: WTF is up with only 3 leves every 2 RL days? That's just stupid. Why don't they lessen the EXP rewards a bit as you said, at least for Regional leves.Local leves should be left alone as crafters can't fight very well. Put more incentive to have people do them together too, but lower the rewads a bit and maybe have them recharge more often (or at least put in quests similar to the Gobbie bags to get more leves per day?)


I mean it's pretty shitty that the game's biggest attraction can only be done a few times every 2 days.

[Aksannyi]

Re: So, what are your plans?

As much as I'd like to try it upon release, I'm going to be waiting along with other people. Not just because I'm not sure if I'll enjoy it (because I have to play it to decide), but because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to afford it. Monthly fee is something I can easily do, sure, but buying a computer that will run it? Yeah, that's gonna have to wait until I get my tax return, methinks.

When I play, I'll probably play whatever ends up being closest to BLM. I really loved playing WHM in XI but it got so stressful that I ended up having a lot more fun playing BLM. So I'm going to start with the stress-free approach from the start and play the BLMish job and forego the healing job.

[jenova_9]

Re: So, what are your plans?

. . .

All of that doesn't amount to a hill of beans if the basic dynamics of the game are shit.

well ya, they really should make the leves encourage more group play and stuff.

the biggest issue is that the design seems like it might push communities further apart and cause soloing to be more common, and that can really cause a disaster! 0.0

[Malacite]

Re: So, what are your plans?

When I play, I'll probably play whatever ends up being closest to BLM.

That would be Conjurer, and to a degree Thaumaturge (both classes have elements of BLM)

[Aksannyi]

Re: So, what are your plans?

Then I'll try both and abandon the one that turns out to be closest to being a healing class. Lol.

[Taskmage]

Re: So, what are your plans?

Both heal and do decent damage via spells. Conjurer has a greater emphasis on buffs whereas thaumaturge gets a lot of debuffs.

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Btw, this thread is 10,000x better than corresponding conversations on the beta forums. That should go without saying, but still. Intelligent people with no rabies ftw.

[Aksannyi]

Re: So, what are your plans?

I just don't want to get pigeonholed into being a healer again. I'd be glad to pick a BLM type job and classify that as my main, with my healer just there "in case," but I was accepted into most shells under the assumption that I'd be WHM4LYFE and really, that burned me out very quickly and was what ultimately led to me getting sick of the game.

I hope that I'll be able to diversify a bit more this time around, but then again, I tend to be too damn nice to people and do things without complaining (well, not too much anyway) so they know if they ask me I'll just do it. Who knows, maybe it will change this time around, but we'll have to see. Ultimately, I'll play what I enjoy, I just hope it's not one seriously sought-after job like WHM or BRD that you'd play almost exclusively because of how needed it is. And while I did enjoy WHM, as I've said, I got sick of playing it all the fucking time. I hope that doesn't happen this time. Lol.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: So, what are your plans?

I tend to be too damn nice to people and do things without complaining (well, not too much anyway) so they know if they ask me I'll just do it.

So did you just hold it all in until you came here? lolololololol

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: So, what are your plans?

If it doesn't go:

Ting ting
Pew pew
rrrrrrrrek bawm

I will not play it.

I learned my lesson the last couple of MMOs. No more support or healer jobs for me. Only jobs that shoot things or make things that shoot. Other than that, jobs that find loot.

[Malacite]

Re: So, what are your plans?

Well, remember that in XIV you're never limited to any one class in the field;


Just set yourself up with the skills and primary stats you'll need for an offensive caster and roll with it. If people don't like it, tough shit.

[Freelancer]

Re: So, what are your plans?

True, while there are obvious cookie cutter abilites that people will bitch and moan at you if you don't have them like Second Wind, Blood bath, Taunt/provoke (both if you're a tank) Defender etc depending on your profession, but when you solo or doing certain things that require flexibility the system delivers.

My PUG atm is heavily built around regaining HP snd its foing so very nicely... I need doom spikes now and I got something interesting... I'm sure theres an abilite that works like soul eater that could be used to create a MNK/DRK kind of thing, so its pretty cool in a way.

The real issue is people labeling jobs as tank or healer and so on that limits the creativity of the individual, but just like how PLDs had DD sets in FFXI for their own use you can do the same in FFXIV but you won't be limited by your main/sub since your subs are endless and you can pretty much wield a sword and not have a single Gladiator ability, and create something new like lets say a damage dealer class, and once they give us more options like greatswords....

You might have a Gladiator (on paper) wielding a great sword, with heavy hitting abilities from lancer and marauder and uses absorbs, debuffs like blind, and maybe an evasion build with Featherfoot, and Flash/Glare or whatever its called and be totally reliant on counter attacks like Jarring strike and Haymaker which now take like 1/20 of the stamina bar and hits for pretty good damage. (Huzzah for EVAnGladlion)

Its genius... but god dammit they need to overhaul the user interface...

[Aksannyi]

Re: So, what are your plans?

If people don't like it, tough shit.

This is pretty much how I feel now. I'm older now, and I'm working (wasn't working the entire time I played FFXI, just raising kids which made it easy to do both) and I don't think I'm going to have the time to devote to it the way I did with XI. I'm going to play what I enjoy and not what other people want me to be. My days of spending 18 hours a day immersed in an MMO are over.

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And no, TGM, I mostly bitched to my husband while we were married, or whoever I happened to be dating. They got the brunt of it. Unless the peeve was directed at them, in which case this was the first place I'd come.

[Taskmage]

Re: So, what are your plans?

I'm more worried that the ease of switching jobs in the field will require everyone to multi-class. For example, everyone is required to have both a physical and a magical DD leveled so that when bosses switch immunity everyone in the group can hit a macro and go to that job type.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: So, what are your plans?

ISn't its SE's intention that you can't change jobs mid-fight, though? Pretty sure you can only do that before and after a battler.