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New to FF, Some questions.
Spector88
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Hello, hoping some current FF14 players can answer my questions, or FF fans in general.
I'm not a console gamer, I am a traditional MMO player. My favorite games are Asheron's Call, Rift, WoW, etc. I think back for PS2 or PS1 I played a FF console game (the combat move choice old style FF style)
Haven't ever played a FF MMO and never heard anything good, sounds like they haven't been very successful to date. I normally can google and find a lot of good info very easily on this game i hear conflicting info and find good reviewes etc, as the game is so new.
1) What is the general focus of end game for FF14, will it be raids, PvP, or neither? Is there raids?
2) What is the expected grind time for a max level char? I heard FF can be grindy, is it similar to newer MMO's or longer?
3) Is there certain "servers" I should flock to for certain things, like world PvP or something? I spent 30 minutes looking couldnt find jack SQUAT about which servers to go to or whats the best server to play on.
4) How important are races? I made a cat dude spear guy. (can you tell Im a FF noob yet?)
5) In your opinion how does this relaunch stack up to current newer MMOs? IMO Tera and GW2 were a huge disappointment. I'm not sure about FF14, the asian style seems odd and its really new, but ill give it a shot!
Thanks
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1) and 2) You don't seem to care about playing the game and the devs haven't made the game for the likes of you. Therefore you won't enjoy the game.
3) Go to the english speaking servers.
4) Races aren't important.
5) It's finished and can last you a long time if you actually play it as designed. If you skip steps you will end up in another TERA/GW2 situation. FFARR is not much unlike those two.
1. the general focus on current endgame is Hard Mode versions of current dungeons in order to gear up. the first 24 man raid will be out with the first patch 2.1 and should be pretty interesting. as for grinding there is some. most people right now are grinding public events called FATEs in order to level up their other classes. however, for your first class, if you plan on only having one, you can get to 50 pretty easily just doing the storyline + dungeons.
2. the only 'gate' for max level character is the personal storyline quest. (FF games are pretty big on story in general.)
3. at this point in time any server would do, though Legacy servers will contain a large number of players from when the game first launched. there are no specialty servers. no RP servers, no PvP servers, etc. also, pvp will be coming in the next patch along with housing, but the pvp will be arena style matches.
4. if you are a min/maxer then race is going to affect your theorycrafting and number crunching. if you are not a min/maxer than it is really just a matter of preference. if you will note there are 2 versions of each race. one version typically seems to favor physical damage classes, while the other seems to favor casting classes.
5. honestly, im not one to go in for games with narrow roles for the classes along with heavy dungeon running, etc. but i have been really caught off guard by FFXIV. im not sure why, but ive become completely taken in by this game. im even playing a healer, which ive always wanted to do, but never found a class that i felt comfortable with being the main healer in a dungeon.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
wtf are you ranting about?
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Well "Max Level" is somewhat of a misnomer.
You can level one class up to 50 fairly quickly if you chose to do so. It took me around 3 weeks of 2-4 hours a night, so I'd say 80 hours is fairly close.
But that doesn't mean your max level. The game leans heavily on cross-class abilities, and just having one class to 50 still doesn't make you competitive. You need cross-class abilities, and using your job, that means at least 2 other classes, for the desirable abilities, at least up to L30ish.
Now grinding FATEs getting additional classes up in level doesn't take that long, but my point being that you can't just think "One class, now I'm done". This game emphasizes horizontal progression, and compounded with the very few money income sources, your going to need to lean on more than just combat to fund the raiding activity. If you aren't doing some form of gathering, crafting, or material farming, you will be broke fairly shortly after hitting L50 and starting to run those higher end dungeons and raids. At least the crafting is fairly fun ~~
There is no PvP in the game yet. It's coming "soon". There are 2 unofficial RP servers - Balmung for Legacy, and I think Gilgamesh for ARR. Past that, there isn't a huge difference in the servers right now.
Race has very little bearing. There are minor stat differences, but they are very minor. Make something you can bear to watch run, and especially pay attention to your voice/emote types during character creation, because emotes happen in this game a lot - I know a guy that just hit Random and rolled with it because he wanted to min/max the <1% stat difference, and he can't stand the way his guy "Cheer"s at the end of every successful dungeon.
yes, you can make a cat dude spear guy. Any race can be a spear guy. The cat dudes can be every class.
FFXIV -- either you like it, or you hate it, there isn't much inbetween. The combat is slower, it uses some older concepts in MMOs (tab targeting, forced grouping, gear chasing), but it also has an amazing storyline, excellent crafting, good group feel, great attention to detail, the best music I've ever heard in a game let alone MMO, and lore so thick you can't throw a rock a yalm and not hit something that doesn't have some historical FF reference attached to it, mixed with enough original lore to keep it fresh and interesting to people who played all the old FF games to death.
Huh...?