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No. 85379
>>85378The GCD feels clunky as fuck to begin with, but honestly it's just something you have to muscle through.
Instead of focusing on when you can next execute a move, in the time available try to instead appreciate the beautiful work that has gone into the physical and spell animations. I'm always in constant awe of them.
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Dumping some screenshots I've taken in time in FFXIV: ARR.
I recently returned from a hiatus with a new PC, so the graphics in these screenshots aren't too hot, but the scenery of the game is not the less beautiful.
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The thread I've been waiting for, but never occurred to me to make myself.
>>85378For a brand new spanking character, just follow the main story quest lines and do the occasional odd side quest, and you'll level just fine. Do the Novice Hall at level 15 though, you get a really sweet ring that will give you a % exp bonus until level 30 and good stats. Also, if you want to do recruit-a-friend thing you can get bonuses for it as well, including a circlet that gives you % bonus exp to level 25.
Here's a shitty screenshot of when the static I'm in cleared A5S a few weeks ago!
No. 85402
>>85399I'd say the community in FF14 overall is waaaay better than most. I've never played WOW, but I did play TERA. the community in FF14 is older, so you're less likely to run into annoying shithead teenagers/pre-teens. There's a lot of different ways to stay social in the game, including having 1 free company (a guild basically), and up to 8 different link shells, which are basically like chat rooms that can hold up to 250 people each. So you can make your own/join link shells for just social things, or role playing, or raiding, etc etc etc.
Also, a lot depends on your server. some servers are known for certain things, like Gilgamesh is the "raiding server" and Balmung is the "role-playing server" faerie being the "LGBT friendly server" and so on. I'm in Aether world obviously, so that's just the ones I know of personally.
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>>85399The community is great imo. I've been playing since its re-release in 2013 and since then I've only really had one truly negative experience in which some pussy lolDRG refused to follow tactics, kept dying, and then blamed me as the healer and called me a little bitch.
Ended up doing the rest of the dungeon with him dead and crying the entire time (picture related kek).
Most everybody seems to be really kind and helpful, and I especially love raiding because people are always chatty and making jokes about the raid bosses.
Today I was in a high level area grinding with a party of people for required items/crystals. The party leader was level 60 and already had all the crystals they needed, but stuck around for 2+ hours and transported everybody across the map and directed the party to the next grinding location just because they wanted to help out. Didn't benefit them at all, they just did it to be nice.
I've been on two servers, Moogle and Lich EU, but those are my general experiences so far. People are really friendly.
I tried TERA once and I get exactly what you mean though. I only played for a small amount of time but the game was loaded with a disproportionate amount of aggressive, rude players who made playing the game a chore, and WoW's playerbase is now split between casual noobs who don't know what the fuck they're doing and cba to learn, and vintage players who are angry about how casualised the game has become but are too sentimental to leave.
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>"Oh, do not look at me so. A smile better suits a hero…"
Liek if u cri evrytiem ;__; (a fucking tear leaked down my face for real IRL when I got to this part in the story)
No. 85405
>>85402>>85403Good to hear, I don't wanna be a hardcore player anymore since I have a very busy job. Just some dungeons when I have free time and chatting with folks, looks like this game will be good for that.
>>85401I see, maybe I'll do the recruit a friend thing with one of you people, don't have any friends playing this game.
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>>85405>>85405well here's a friend code if you want!
U82MGUD9
I play on Siren server, it's a medium sized NA server in the Aether database. I'd say it's a friendly, not terribly hardcore server.
No. 85409
>>85404I'll never forget it because I had a troll spoiler it for me on day 2 of release… I got into the Valut and everyone was new except the tank, and right before he left the dungeon he spoiled the cutscene :/
I rarely have bad dungeon experiences, but that one was pretty lame.
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I was discussing with my boyfriend the other day that what it is about FFXIV: ARR that has allowed it to successfully break away from the WoW mould and set itself up as a successful, independent MMO.
One of the big things we came to was the storytelling aspect. In WoW when a cutscene occurs it's almost exclusively just a case of you watching the big, main players like Varian Wrynn or Garrosh Hellscream stomp around, but your character got very little screentime. Despite this during Cataclysm they implemented this change where suddenly you were the HERO. You were no longer this little scrub running around in mismatched gear doing pleb jobs for random NPC's, you were the HERO and you were SO IMPORTANT and all of your actions were supposed to be super instrumental to the game, and yet…. it never felt like you were actually anything special. The game became linear as fuck and that wall of fantasy was broken down every time you entered into a city and found yourself surrounded by hundreds of players geared exactly the same way all doing exactly the same quests.
What FFXIV: ARR has done differently is that your character is actually present in the vast majority of cutscenes WITH all the main characters. You see your character react and develop emotionally in tandem with the development of the plot, and even 'when' you do hit max level, you still get random NPC questgivers who don't know who the fuck you are shittalking you and telling you go out and find their wayward niece and if you're lucky they'll pay you 200 Gil for the trouble, not like in WoW the way every NPC questgiver began being like "O-OH MY, HERO, IT'S YOU, THE HERO! HERO, YOU MUST DO THIS THING, THE FATE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT"…. whilst their were like 6 guys behind you all picking the exact same quest.
The class system is A+ and the FUCKING HILDIBRAND QUESTS ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY O LAWD
That's something I actually really appreciate about the game; it has a genuine sense of humour.
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>>85405
>I don't wanna be a hardcore player anymore since I have a very busy job. Just some dungeons when I have free time and chatting with folksIt is very much the kind of game you can jump in and out of with ease.
>>85408EU you say :^)
I could give you a friend code, friend….
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>>85408Here's an EU recruitment code. If you sign up we both get extra rewards.
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>>85411>it has a genuine sense of humour.So true. Some FATE names have genuinely made me laugh out loud, pic related.
No. 85418
>>85415>>85417FYI,
They've been running a free log in campaign, you get up to 96 hours free until Wednesday, April 14, 2016.
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>>85416Oh fucking hell, the FATE names, some of them make me legit squark out loud.
Anyway, idk about the rest of you, but the best part of the game for me is hands down the stunning scenery and landscape. Dumping some screenshots.
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Sage because this thread is dead as fuck, but on the off chance anyone else ever reads this thread ever again it would be cool to befriend some farmers in game if you're on Balmung or Cactuar. Stormblood is hype as fuck btw.
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Reviving this dead thread.
No. 199546
>>199039try using fan control software as "speedfan". you can monitor the temperature and the fan speed. I'd also suggest not letting the laptop turn itself off, because it's damaging the system.
computers are usually far more cheap than laptops by the way.
No. 199930
>>199546Thanks alot, mate.
I tend to use laptops most of the time because i travel alot, that's the problem. :P
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Posting my new glamour!
Giddyup!
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Also posting some older screenshots I enjoyed putting together.
If anyone's on Siren, I'd be glad to befriend you.
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I know this thread has been dead but someone on the FFXIV scene has been outed as a alleged pedo rapist degenerate. I always thought people who modded the game to RP were weird but to think there were absolute whackos is scary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZCZq8DPNzRUzsiAc7t05Avkle5Bb1W9aJn2aSVttjp8/mobilebasic No. 663711
>>663694For some reason FF just creates cults. It’s like every FC will become
toxic over time
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The very popular FF14 streamer/YTer GoldenTot was outed as cheating on his girlfriend and being a general
abusive, man-child scumbag. She posted a 9 page google doc.
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>>7152091/9 probably won't post the whole thing because it's long as fuck but this dude is nasty.