does darklight gear look different depending on job wearing Follow

im sure it looks different on tank, mage and DPS but what about DPS as a whole/ i mean it would be pretty boring to see a party with ALL the DPS wearing the exact same armor

4 hours of trying to log in and i finally get queue (and thi sis on a JP server which should be about dead this time a day mind you).. i mean really.. 4 hours.. i used to do it in 30 minutes or less before it was fixe... if this is "fixed" i liked broken WAY more

i bet im gonan DC as soon as i zone into an area...

that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm You Can't Access

cant be played on weekends? I played the game flawlessly on tues, wed and thursday without ANY of the login issues that everyone was having/talking about (though this was on a JO sever) however from the last 2 days I havent been able to get on at all, either lobby server wouldnt load, wouldnt updated jp character list, or the world is full (or a connection error occurred)

Id say SE fell on their sword with this one, they do all this to make the game not suck compared to 1.0 and ppl cant even pay it. I for one would take a subpar game that I can actually play over a good one that I cant play 99% of the time.

They have 49 servers and 37 of them are closed for registration.. at this rate SE would have to both DOUBLE the amount of servers they have AND significantly (double) increase the capacity of their existing ones. I bet EVERY review for this game is gonan spent half the review talking about how horribly difficult it was to review the game due to hardly ever being able to play rather than actually talking about the game itself.

especially th ebolded one:

"Cons-combat, targeting was a mess, found it slow, frustrating and unsatisfying
-chat, with no voice chat it just adds to the frustration while in a dungeon or mid combat
-no interactions, no collecting or searching the world for anything
-quests, I thought the quests were extremely boring and not just the 100s of fetch quests but the dungeons themselves, I can't see myself wanting to return to any of them.
-interface, I found the controls and menus just as frustrating, nothing was seamless or effortless."

Edited, Aug 7th 2013 1:40pm by DuoMaxwellxx

welcome to the 21st century MMO.... where ppl actually think its ok for a MASSIVELY MULTIPL
aYER game to be as soially interactive and teamwork based as a single player game.... it would seem im the only one who understand that if i wanted to play a game by myself theres 35 other Final Fantasies i can do just that in (and single player games in general) but apparently single player focus also has to be the majority rule in MMOs now days otherwise its "outdated" Clearly I dont know what the MM part of MMO means anymore lol -waits for the rate downs-

seriously SE giving away EXP just for entering an area for teh first time?

oh and

"In the event a player fails to complete a quest battle several times, they will receive an enhancement effect upon trying again. "

Guess they dont wanna make anyone work for anything any more though the fac that they have to have such a feature iin teh first place proves that some of teh content must be hard enough that not being able to complete it is a possibility... that makes me happy.. now lets hope those buffs for sucking to badly are optional... I wanna earn my victory the hard way not have it given to me out of pity. Just like I (we all) had to do with Maat

read last paragraph.

the only wY TO "FIX" THAT PROBLEM WOULD BE HOLD OFF PLAYING UNTIL THE "CRISIS" IS AVERTED AND THE SERVER I WANT BECOMES UNLOCKED (opps had caps on) now that would be fine and dandy (i have 20+ other games i havent even played yet waiting would be extremely easy for me) except a family member took off the next two days from work (my normal off days) to play with me 24/7 those days (at least its paid off days) so now im kinda obligated to play with him the next two days otherwise those days he took off would be a waste and coulda been saved/used for something else lol. So yeah.

Its difficult to advance as a DPS now because the queue times are "unbearable" ppl have to shout for parties or -gasp- make friends with a tank or healer... i must say i actually like teh sound of that (if its true)

you mean to tell me theres actually a million tanks and healers running around? thats rare in an mmo

enhances attack rate, lower recast on abilities, enhance abilities in some way or even give additional abilities (i doubt that part), or items weapons that has a debuff chance (like a 1% poison chance per attack or something like that?

booo so basically all the current equipment in this game does is raise stats?

the difference is this.

lets ssay Im saving up money for the best NVIDIA card there is right now. I reach or get close to that goal but havent puchased it yet. Then i see a new or better one is coming out. I just start saving up for that one instead and forget about the previous one.

at that rate i lost/wasted nothing. thats better than getting 3 out of 5 piece of AF +1 then all of a sudden a new set of armor comes out thats better and now you have to start working on that whereas that af+1 you didnt even get the chance to finish was now a waste of time and you cant get the currency you wasted on it back to put towards the new stuff

from gameplay style to even terminology. I just thought of the fact that they specifically called the Crystal Tower a 24 man raid. even the players call it as such. Now tell me, in FFXI had SE or ANY of the players playing it EVER call ANY of the endgame events in that game (dynamis, limbus, salvage etc etc) a raid?

well first off FFXIV and FFXI have completely different aggro/linking/gameplay mechanics so that took some getting used too. secondly i also wiped on every CoP fight multiple times before winning but we still did it pre nerf so I fail to see your point? Now had i said "we beat every CoP fight pre nerf on our first try" and THEN came here saying i wiped on Sashasta THEN i would agree that my abilities need to be reevaluated.

Glad to see you actually pay attention though. I was under the impression that no one actually reads my posts and just automatically hit a red arrow anything they see anything with my name in it

edit: but anyway about to do my first Tam tarra ( or w/e) run n ow. Now that Im got the party ,echanics down. I can assure you thi sis gonna bgo 100000 times better than that last dunegon

I mean use SOME degree of common sense. Lets say Im the best FFXI player that ever was.. does that mean I could jump on WoW right now for the first time and kick *** like Ive been playing the game for 20 years? No because theyre two different games. Thats usually not how that works. When doing something new you have to start from the bottom and build up to "uber" all over again. The worlds best Street Fighter players isnt gonna automatically be the worlds best Tekken player too.

"Login Queues and Error 1017"

So much for "1017 isnt an error" someone forgot to tell SE that

After not seeing it for 5 days.... it has finally returned.. the dreaded 1017. I thought it wqs fixed? When it Is fixed will it never return?

I mean sure a world is gonna get full you cant "fix" that but I still think they could fix that message from occurring.. i.e Id rather be stuck in a 1+ hour queue everytime I wanna log in when the server is full over getting that error and having to try over and over to get in, wouldnt you agree?

I never said i "cared" about GCD... the point of this thread was the fact that "If you’re not a fan of WoW-style GCD combat, then this game’s combat isn’t for you" so I was wondering what MMO WOULD be for someone who doesnt like GCD since aside from FFXI EVERY OTHER mmo ive played uses GCD soo if someone had to "look elsewhere" if i didnt like GCD then what options are there to look at?

THAT was what I was getting at, this topic was not to "topple FFXIV and all its fanbois" infact it wasnt even released to FFXIV... so yeah, now that you know my ACTUAL intend for this thread as opposed to just making assumptions, please do feel free to answer the question now.

if ffxiv has so many ppl that servers are locked for char creation and ppl are getting 1017 yet WoW doesnt have those problems does it mean SE has succeeded in dethroning the once mmo king in number of players/subscriptions?

at those levels most ppl are under geared or arent farming dungeons to get full gear sets and you hardly ever play with the same person twice.. so you rarely see it... whereas at 50 just about everyone gets their act together and everyone is wearing it at least expected to wear DL, so although everyone COULD be wearing the same armor at low levels its not as noticeable or seen as it is at 50, especially since youre changing equipmenet every 2-5 levels anyway... doesnt happen that fast or at all at 50

wasnt tryng to take the high road. like they say... when in rome do as the romans do