Final Fantasy XIV news

[mikewl]

I'm gonna stick with the same character name Hensley Alvarez, you still Rep Beta? Tal are going to be some varient on your alchohol related beverage?

[talizker]

I'll do the same, I don't think I can go through the Limsa opening again for me it would be about the 8th time.

Ok cool, will go for Istory and Forest town (Gridania?) if its not full later!

I am Tali Zker

[Rep]

Yes, it's like Windurst on crack.

[mikewl]

Ah dagnamit, another patch to go through.

[mikewl]

I played for a good four hours now and I'm a blacksmith and my only attacking ablility is to throw a rock and that does 1HP damage... ITS A BLOODY HARD GAME AS A BLACKSMITH

I did the first story mission and it took forever, at one point I had to escort a taru half way across the world and got attacked like 6 times but they only had 2 HP each but still they did like 60-90 damage to me and I had like 400HP and the taru I was escorting didn't even heal me so I died... a lot... the first one poisoned me and I died like 2 seconds after killing it -_-

I'm not gonna play too much anymore not until I can get it activated on my proper account cos I just don't wanna repeat everything. I watched all three openings and at the moment my blacksmith is in Limsa Louminsa but I'm gonna chage to Gridania and focus on the Disciplines of War so I can actually kill things while I traverse the lands...

I did one levequest of whatever and I had to run for like 20mins to get the to the delivary location and I was the first person in that area and I think I'm the only blacksmith in the server...

Sharo, you can switch to another class anytime for combat, you just need to go into the city and buy yourself the relevent weapon from one of the vendors, then just equip it.

[Rep]

The CS in Gridania are easily the most comical of the lot so far, whole place is whacked out, completely different from Limsa.

There's a playerlist here for keeping upto date on who's who.

A Rargh Linkshell now exists on Istory too

[mikewl]

Cool, i'll be on once the updater decides to work.

[Rep]

Do you have uTorrent? Go into My Documents > My Games > FFXIV Beta Version > Downloads > ffxivbeta > d96437e6 > Metainfo and open the file with todays date. Make sure the official downloader is closed and save the patch file. Once it's finished open the official downloader again and it should scan it at 100% and install. Whole process should take under 2 minutes.

[elaniel]

What server has everyone decided on? I just finally got a beta key.

[talizker]

What server has everyone decided on? I just finally got a beta key.

Istory and starting in Gridania.

[elaniel]

Thanks! Looking forward to finally getting on this and checking it out. Now the client needs to actually connect and download the patches. Grr

[Rep]

I'll be hanging about upstairs under the stained glass windows in the Adventures Guild for people needing a pearl. Will keep popping back to my pc and checking, just send me a /tell Rep Penney. Don't plan on starting any quests yet, until a few of the non closed peeps show up.

[C']

Was agianst going through another beta cycle (already played through from the start twice before and would have to do it again for retail release) but after seeing you can choose different starting nations now, I've just applied for open beta.

Fingers crossed can be updated for this evening.

[Rep]

There's a number of other changes I've spotted too. Attribute points are now 4 and not 6 for each level, friend and black list has been added. There's a new icon for the npc pearl at the top of the screen, help desk has been added too.

The biggest difference is the sheer amount of people playing, although that was to be expected. Not sure if you can ride Chocobo's this time.

[mikewl]

I'm about to head on, loved the Woodland area opening sequence.