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Xenoveritas posted:Can't you /beckon to it? I know that works with the Wind-up Succubus. Nope, it ignores /beckon. The thing just flies around randomly and will sometimes get tired and land on you or a nearby piece of scenery.
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Joined an in-progress Titan HM with 20% echo, three DPS (one of whom was AFK), one healer and no tank.  It was honestly smoother than most Full Party runs I've had, echo or not.
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Jan 19, 2015 01:32
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How are there five people in the group?
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Jan 19, 2015 01:47
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It's hard mode. There should be 8.
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Jan 19, 2015 01:48
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Robo Reagan posted:How are there five people in the group? It's a hard mode, that's actually 3 too few.
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Jan 19, 2015 01:48
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The Chairman posted:PBC currently has no room for new people, since there's nobody who qualifies to be kicked out for inactivity at this time. Purge carried out, we're now at 436 members out of a max of 512
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Jan 19, 2015 02:20
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Gonna start finding the worst of the worst posts when I go on safari and bring them here. YOSHI LIED.
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Verranicus posted:Forums safari! Here, have a post where broken players pine for broken features from a dead game! I can just never get over these threads. quote:I have never played 1.0 but after watching countless YouTube videos and reading all of you guys fantastic posts So first of all, you didn't play the game, you're just watching Youtube videos and your imagination is filling in the rest, meaning it'll be better than anything you could actually play. Magical.  Secondly, on 2), why do people keep saying this. The texture work in 1.0 was, I think, technically higher-rez per object (armor piece/flower pot/etc) but the animations were awful outside of cutscenes and made the combat look goofy and the lighting is buuuuuutttttttttttttts. Nothing but butts. Butts all the way down. On 3), I guess the world map was strictly bigger (although Thanalan and La Noscea have all accessible areas accounted for iirc, with Coerthas being the only one missing huge map chunks) but seriously, anyone who looks at a video of the Shroud or even La Noscea knows it wasn't immersive. It was the same hill or corridor over and over. Even the loving developers joke about it at Fanfest. There's nothing immersive about that. 4)... I guess it was okay. I've never been impressed with what I saw or heard of the pre-Soken 1.0 soundtrack because it's literally just a bunch of songs mashed together. (No, literally, it's a bunch of songs mashed into the game randomly; Uematsu was told to compose some music but was given essentially no direction concerning matching the songs to scenes or zones or whatnot. As a result it felt comically disjointed in places.) And yeah, Navigator's Glory is cool... the first time you hear it. It was a wretched city theme because the loop was too small and it didn't change between day and night. The current city music works a lot better because of how it shifts. 5): What story? Initial 1.0 barely had a story. You did the Echo event which wasn't obviously an Echo, you hung out with Minfilia a bit, you saw Gaius be cool, and then that was basically it. The Seventh Umbral Era stuff was better... but that was done by the ARR team as setup for ARR. I guess you can not dig the direction they ultimately went in, but if you talk about Seventh Umbral being cool, then it's still by the same team that brought you the "hated" ARR. (Besides, 2.4 was cooler and 2.5 is going to top anything that was in 1.0.  )
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SpaceDrake posted:I can just never get over these threads. It's kind of funny because when FFXIV was new and my PC had no hope of running it, I downloaded a leaked soundtrack and was totally underwhelmed. Like, I've played every other Final Fantasy game and this was easily in the bottom 5 just because it didn't sound like a Final Fantasy outside of a few tracks.
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Verranicus posted:Gonna start finding the worst of the worst posts when I go on safari and bring them here. YOSHI LIED. These people are apparently living in some kind of world populated entirely by their own delusions, I just don't understand it at all, like the 'demand for 1.0 server' thing, the game was a mess and crashed all the time.
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As a reminder, beautiful graphics and gameplay that is so much better than 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQlJv_UGP10 You want to talk about feeling like a cheap knockoff of the game we have now that stole some assets... Verranicus posted:It's kind of funny because when FFXIV was new and my PC had no hope of running it, I downloaded a leaked soundtrack and was totally underwhelmed. Like, I've played every other Final Fantasy game and this was easily in the bottom 5 just because it didn't sound like a Final Fantasy outside of a few tracks. Yeah, the soundtrack was one of the things that turned me off in what little I played of the beta and then what I heard from the data-mining. It didn't "sound" Final Fantasy (as much as it's very difficult to define what Final Fantasy is meant to "sound" like) and it all felt painfully disjointed. Ironically a decent bit of that soundtrack has been reintegrated into ARR at this point, and it all fits far better than it did. Oh, also: Verranicus posted:"I miss when it actually ment[sic] something to have a relic or a piece of darklight gear. These are just precious. The first one is just literally "I miss progression being basically frozen for years and I want to get one piece of armor and be The Best for the rest of time". And the second one means you just literally don't like playing MMOs. If you want a small community, don't play a game that always intended and wanted to have thousands of people on one server. 1.0's tiny servers were unintended.
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SpaceDrake posted:As a reminder, beautiful graphics and gameplay that is so much better than 1.0: There was a post that was essentially saying they liked the small communities, then went on to admit that the communities were small because the servers and engine were poo poo but they'd still take that back over what we have now because Duty Finder is literally hitler.
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Jan 19, 2015 02:49
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FFXIV went on sale on PSN today and now there's a swarm of newbie sprouts all around Brynhildr. Some even got into pissing matches wrt ps3 vs ps4 vs pc. It's adorable.
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Jan 19, 2015 02:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5DnpidMiY You people just don't get how amazing and fluid and visceral 1.xx combat was!! *half the party stands in place touching their forehead while melee DPS attacks from 20m away*
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Jan 19, 2015 03:08
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5DnpidMiY That is the ugliest loving poo poo, what the hell. 
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Jan 19, 2015 03:13
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1.0 legit had a pretty cool font though.
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ilifinicus posted:
Liebot, what is the saddest thing in the world?
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cheetah7071 posted:1.0 legit had a pretty cool font though. Really? I personally think it stands out to the point of being garish.
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Kyrosiris posted:That is the ugliest loving poo poo, what the hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-MORevM3ac&t=177s It's amazing just how boring and ugly it is.
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Kyrosiris posted:That is the ugliest loving poo poo, what the hell. To be a tiny bit fair, that person is also playing at like 800x600 or just has a messed up interface in general.  The video I linked earlier, and some other videos on that channel, give you a better idea of what it looked like with an actual widescreen 1080p screen layout. (Still ugly, but not that cluttered.)I still love how the 1.0 caster weapons were literally stat sticks, though. They weren't even used in the casting animations, they were just on your back the entire time. They couldn't even get that right.(also seriously, you need to watch these videos closely to appreciate how much animations changed in ARR. It's not just a few things, Lalafells were almost entirely reanimated and several classes has major animation changes, like Lancer/Dragoon)
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Honestly I wouldn't mind have a /cpose for casters where they hold invisible wizard orbs instead of sticks/books. I'm not big on the BLM baton hold and iirc the /cpose for women is some cutesy anime bullshit. Actually gently caress it go all out and give everyone an animation set where they don't have a weapon. Warriors can karate chop stuff 
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Jan 19, 2015 03:26
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Robo Reagan posted:Honestly I wouldn't mind have a /cpose for casters where they hold invisible wizard orbs instead of sticks/books. I'm not big on the BLM baton hold and iirc the /cpose for women is some cutesy anime bullshit. Judo taunt! Watching videos of 1.0 looks cheep. I also felt the voice of papalymo was poo poo in 1.0. It sounds like a old woman in monty python.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:FFXIV went on sale on PSN today and now there's a swarm of newbie sprouts all around Brynhildr. how can anyone say anything about the ps3 version seriously i mean, it runs. thats about it.
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5DnpidMiY How in the world can people be nostalgic for that over the kinds of primal fights we have now? It's gotta be trolling. No real person could prefer that.
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I would like to mention that there are people who seriously want skillchains in this game. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/213820-Adding-skillchains-in-game... I had to google what skillchains were and 
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SpaceDrake posted:I still love how the 1.0 caster weapons were literally stat sticks, though. They weren't even used in the casting animations, they were just on your back the entire time. Ironically that was what I hated most about WoW.
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SpaceDrake posted:
To be fair WoW casters also don't use their weapons in spellcasting animations, but there are multiple animations depending on the school of spell being cast, with distinct projectiles as well. So it still looks 200% more dynamic than "stand in place in neutral pose, touch forehead, sweep arm a bit". Also lol at basic attacks with 5 seconds cooldown, I'm reminded of Everquest's 6 second cycles.
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DarkstarIV posted:I would like to mention that there are people who seriously want skillchains in this game. Skillchains are cool. I don't think they'd work at all in the current FFXIV, but having to coordinate between 3 players was a lot of fun in the much, much more slowly paced FFXI. I dunno, you could maybe still go with something like Dragon Kick to Chaos thrust then get a burst from Flare, but the game is so much faster why bother? I still like the idea of your skills linking up and affecting another player's and chaining all that poo poo together for bigger numbers, but that's just not the way the game is.
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DarkstarIV posted:I would like to mention that there are people who seriously want skillchains in this game. I fondly remember doing AM bursts off skill chains and nuking the gently caress out of a single Crawler or something back in XI, I have suppressed the literal hours I spent in the taru sit animation to regen mana Really when I say hours, I mean actual legitimate days all things considered probably.
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Robo Reagan posted:Honestly I wouldn't mind have a /cpose for casters where they hold invisible wizard orbs instead of sticks/books. I'm not big on the BLM baton hold and iirc the /cpose for women is some cutesy anime bullshit. I wish both genders got access to both weapon poses. As you said, the female caster ones are dumb as hell, and the monk one looks like you're getting ready to go super saiyan, but the female lancer pose for example is pretty cool.
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Cyron posted:Watching videos of 1.0 looks cheep. I also felt the voice of papalymo was poo poo in 1.0. It sounds like a old woman in monty python. That sounds like a good thing
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uncurable mlady posted:I fondly remember doing AM bursts off skill chains and nuking the gently caress out of a single Crawler or something back in XI, I have suppressed the literal hours I spent in the taru sit animation to regen mana It was pretty fun to party with a couple friends in XI when we figured out what different skillchains we could do with the jobs we were playing. I don't remember them being worth the effort to do though so it's probably a good thing they didn't add them to ARR.
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The Daltony posted:It was pretty fun to party with a couple friends in XI when we figured out what different skillchains we could do with the jobs we were playing. Before Treasures of Aht Urgan came out, skillchains were the only way people leveled, and since everything in the game was weak to ice it always had to be a Distortion chain with Blizzard burst on it. Which sucked for MNKs and everyone else who couldn't make a distortion chain til later. Anyway the fight would go: tank tanks it, bard or red mage debuffs the mob, all the physical dps wail on it to build tp. Then it goes weaponskill > weaponskill which makes a chain (distortion), then the blm would cast a spell of the right element to kill the mob from like 50%. Rest, rinse, repeat...for hours and hours. It was like being in a xp generating machine at the best of times, but holy poo poo would I not play a game that tedious now.
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a kitten posted:Before Treasures of Aht Urgan came out, skillchains were the only way people leveled, and since everything in the game was weak to ice it always had to be a Distortion chain with Blizzard burst on it. Which sucked for MNKs and everyone else who couldn't make a distortion chain til later. Eventually you'd replace Blizzard with Freeze every five minutes or whatever, I remember having Samurai in the camp was always fun because they could skillchain off themselves. And yeah, the sheer tedium of doing anything in XI is beyond words. Looking back the only explanation I can give for why I wasted so many otherwise productive hours on that game is 'college'.
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I can understand nostalgia, I still get good feelings thinking back to Final Fantasy XI, but I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that game was anywhere near as good as some of the stuff that came after it (ARR included).
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Verranicus posted:I can understand nostalgia, I still get good feelings thinking back to Final Fantasy XI, but I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that game was anywhere near as good as some of the stuff that came after it (ARR included). Oh, certainly. ARR - oddly enough, or not - is a good game in its own right, even if it wasn't a FF game/MMO.
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a kitten posted:Before Treasures of Aht Urgan came out, skillchains were the only way people leveled, and since everything in the game was weak to ice it always had to be a Distortion chain with Blizzard burst on it. Which sucked for MNKs and everyone else who couldn't make a distortion chain til later. Yeah I only played from 2008 to 2010 so I missed out on the ToAU era. Sounds even better that they dropped the system entirely honestly.
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Apparently you can level to 99 in a couple of days and solo most missions in XI now which fills me with this odd sense of despair.
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