Intoxicated Gaming or How I Stop Discriminating and Learned to Love FFXIV

[darklordsarumon9]

Doing dailys on WoW on six different characters, League first win, HotS quests and Hearthstone quests had me feeling a little locked in on my gaming. No room for anything else ya know? So while intoxicated last night I impulse bought Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn on Steam. Had a few old WoW pals who had switched over telling me about how cool chaining spells were together and shit. I wake up this morning and oh fuck!! I totally did buy XIV last night! Call up my buddy and we start the grind. Im not going to throw up all the little details of my time so far just a few likes/dislikes.

Cut scenes. Grab your popcorn and RC for these boys. Although they were a little long and left me feeling like shut the fuck up and let me kill things, the scene itself was very very well made. Typical Square quality.

Early game quests. OH MY GOD YOURE GOING TO MAKE ME SAY TO THIS NPC 'You misunderstand' LIKE 10000 TIMES. Some of the quests literally jerk you off like I dont know how to emote. Okay maybe you dont but there doesn't need to be MULTIPLE quests in DIFFERENT parts of the city showing you how to /beckon /dance and there was one more.

The ingame chat has one of the coolest features ever. Typing a simple phrase or small set of words then hitting tab will broadcast it to players in their native language. This should be a part of every game.

I wanted to be a dark mage because I love magic, ranged classes and dArKnEsS. Naturally I pick Thaumaturge. Before I make myself sound dumb Ill just say I don't understand jobs yet but I know I need to get an archer to level 4 for a cross job healing spell.

Speaking of spells they all look fucking awesome.

Havent done my first actual dungeon yet but the solo fates (just finished the story quest to open airships) but they've all been awesome.

Full party teleport is amazing. Not having a mount til a bit into the story is meh.

Takes a little while to switch from the WoW mindset to 'oh sometimes I have to sleep mobs and can't just focus them all down' but once I master the whole Aether Fire/Water(buff you get as you cast a certain elemental spell that effects the other elemental spell) thing I should be the best mage on Malboro.

tl; dr by buying FFXIV while intoxicated I think I found love

[hi19hi19]

It's a pretty chill game.

[Toxophilis]

enjoy your stay you're never leaving

[Coolboyrulez0]

best mmo in my book, welcome to eorzea

[FoJaR]

i hate it when games dont have native linux support also hi

[DarkZtar]

If you find the pre lvl 15 stuff fun (most people find that stuff kinda boring), just wait till you get to 50 and experiencing the endgame.

[darklordsarumon9]

Update - This game is tons of fun. My lord.

Hit 50 on my THM/BLM about to finish up Through the Maelstrom.
Working on relic weapon even though Heavensward is like a week away. Been grinding tombs for those sweet sweet ilvl 100 pieces.

While looking for the way to add materia to my weapon I learned I needed a crafting class of level 19. Went goldsmith since it pairs with the mining that Im also leveling. Holy moley guys the crafting in this game is spectacular. So very impressed.

Trials, hardmodes and full parties are cool. Not all too much to say about them besides they visually look amazing.

[darklordsarumon9]

Update - This game is tons of fun. My lord.

Hit 50 on my THM/BLM about to finish up Through the Maelstrom.
Working on relic weapon even though Heavensward is like a week away. Been grinding tombs for those sweet sweet ilvl 100 pieces.

While looking for the way to add materia to my weapon I learned I needed a crafting class of level 19. Went goldsmith since it pairs with the mining that Im also leveling. Holy moley guys the crafting in this game is spectacular. So very impressed.

Trials, hardmodes and full parties are cool. Not all too much to say about them besides they look amazing.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Run WoD for ez ilvl 120 gear although that wont matter much since HW is in 10 days

do finish the main story though since you will need it done to access ishgard

[Izzy]

Does the game have a thief type class yet?

[darklordsarumon9]

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

Run WoD

Im only at ilvl62 haha. Going to upgrade my ring tonight from i32 to the i100 & depending on how hard I want to smash tonight I'll possibly get my relic weapon. Need to do the trials.

[darklordsarumon9]

Leviathan fight.
Yes.

[darklordsarumon9]

Ifrit hard where he splits and does those dashes. Holy hell

[Wineandbread]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Does the game have a thief type class yet?

Does ninja count? They can't stealth in combat tho


We should make a heavensward thread when it comes out !!

[Coolboyrulez0]

Originally Posted by Wineandbread

Does ninja count? They can't stealth in combat tho


We should make a heavensward thread when it comes out !!

yes to heavensward hype thread !!

also you can Suiton (which gives a pseudo-hide status in combat) and then trick attack or sneak attack which is part of your mudra rotation

well i got to ilvl 129 BRD but we didn't clear t13 so arr was a failure for me and my static (cleared t1-12 and all ex primals at least lol)

to be fair we only formed in late 2.4 and i had to quit for 3 weeks because exams... oh well we will all start fresh for alexander (savage) hype

[Chocille]

ayyy, I'm gonna be joining a T13 clear tomorrow so hopefully I'll get that down somehow lol
(i havent attempted it once but the mechanics look easier than t9)

[darklordsarumon9]

^Best of luck!
Just finished all the story quests & am working through all the hard instances.
Few more days gentlemen.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Downloading expansion now

See you all in Ishgard tomorrow

H e a v e n s w a r d B o y s

(or errors all day lol)

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Wineandbread

Does ninja count? They can't stealth in combat tho


We should make a heavensward thread when it comes out !!

I think so. Might start playing again.

I bought a realm reborn on amazon for $15 a long time ago. Can I buy this expansion on steam and use the key to upgrade my account?

[PhantomPuppy]

i was thinking about buying, but i saw it's pay to play after buying the game itself T.T im a poor kiddo, cant afford dat life.