would you cinsuider this game "top heavy"?Follow

It's not top heavy, everyone is level 50 since it is rediculously easy. You could have a new 50 in a few days. So even people starting out can get everything done in no time.

Friend of mine got Dragoon, her first and only job (excluding the lv15 subjob for the unlock) to 50, and that very same day got her relic completed too and full Dark Light. So really, there's no difficulty whatsoever.

Perhaps you're seeing less shouts to sell Titan clears because of the release of housing. The more successful FCs have already purchased their housing and don't need to actively sell Titan runs, while the less successful FCs that had aspirations of buying housing have given up those goals due to the high price.

A full set of DL and Relic on day 1? I don't know how that's even possible.

Was this a 24 hour marathon?

Edited, Dec 20th 2013 12:52pm by Hairspray

I was in mor dhona today, saw people shouting for Hydra, Titan, and Garuda groups.

With 2.1 people have other stuff to do for tomes then farm Garuda,

Has anyone tried HM Titan with the DF after the patch? I haven't had time yet, but I'm guessing with the ilvl requirements its probably a lot easier to score a win in the DF then it was pre 2.1. I know I did a few Titan DF runs pre 2.1 and ran into more then a few fresh 50's in full AF gear wearing level 39 accessories trying to get carried.

Finished the relic quest line in just a few hours. Did atleast 15 dungeons before that. And an unknown amount after that i didnt participate in. Just know that when i woke up the next day, there was a Relic dragoon standing there in full DL >.>

I've had absolutely no problem doing pre-endgame stuff. I'm still working through my first relic and have had no problems finding successful groups for Hydra or Chimera. I have noticed that people who run those often have that party function set up where you can search for them, and they're often in the zone where the fights are zoned into. I've also had little to no difficulty finding groups for the Hard Modes either.

Just because you don't see a shout for something you need doesn't mean you can't shout for it. Start your own party, I'm sure you'll find people.

It's a bit more significant than that when you consider cross-class abilities. Any new must-have abilities are going to spur a new round of leveling of classes you might not have been prepared to level. Unless Mantra meant something to you, if your job uses cross-class abilities from Pugilist, you'd have collected all of them by level 12. But if they add an "I win" cross-class button for Pugilists at level 52, then it's time to put on the boxing gloves for 40 more levels. I think it's an offer that's too tempting for FFXIV's developers to ignore. They want you to experience the game's content, and a simple move like this will spur you into it.

Be that as it may, item levels appear to have a future that ignores and rises independently of character levels, considering they've reserved a 4-digit number for the item level average. I guess you've won when it goes "over 9000."

It seems to me that the item level is the new way to level up. Once your exp caps out you continue to grow your character via gear.

You know what's really sad?

I saw some poor guys trying to complete the FATE to unlock Crystal Tower. Just two guys there, so I decided to pitch in on my way through. The 3 of us fought that mob for about 20 minutes without really denting it's HP before the timer expired and the FATE failed. Clearly the boost to FATE HP is hurting now that the ZERG is over.

Making FATES part of the Quest Line was just a bad idea. Either too many or not enough people participating. They need to readjust FATE mobs to the current demand (very low).

You do have to party to complete story. The first 3 dungeons, Ifrit, Garuda, Titan, CW and Praetorium.

In the expansion you have you to as well. You have to go to Sunken Temple, then complete Guildhests.

The FATES requirement just didn't work well. Maybe they just need to adjust the strength of the new feature the changes FATE difficulty based on participation during the last FATE spawn.

Not sure, didn't look at their gear. It's possible that the previous FATE had more participation, and thus was adjusted to a higher difficulty. I was PLD just to hold hate, but I should have run off and switched to BLM for the +1 DMG.

Also, it may just be that the specific mob, the Ixali and Coerthas, was a healer? and therefore just kept curing himself too fast for us to overcome.

perhaps if I had waited for the next round it would have been adjusted easier. Either way, I'm sure it was a frustrating experience for the guys trying to complete it. They may not know all the auto-adjustment features. Also, it was NA morning. They could probably finish it at another peak time.

Still, moving forward I would think SE would want take a look to make sure it's completable by someone with a low-man party. It's not really meant to be a gear-check, is it? CT itself certainly is not a gear check.