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1. No idea. Anything but Legacy are all about the same age.
2. 50.
3. Unless the quest has some sort of other quest as a pre-req, then yes.
4. No. They always stay until taken and used.
5. It's not a beta. It's been out officially since early September, so no worry about wipes.
6. There aren't really any "builds" per se. There are cross class skills you can use. Many sites have info regarding this.
7. Yes, via an item from your Grand Company (explained more in game).
8. Thaumaturge (THM) is the class, Black Mage (BLM) is the job. They're very similar, with a Thaumaturge being more generalist, and the BLM branching off of the THM, trading generalist ability for a more defined role. Summoner (SMN) also fits the bill, but BLM is more the traditional "blow things up with magic" while SMN is closer to a WoW Warlock.
9. Yes, but there are server clusters based upon geographic location, so while you can feasibly connect to an NA or JP server, you'll have significantly longer ping times than if you connect to an EU one.

I'm going to piggy back off of the OP rather than create an identical topic of my own. I just took advantage of SE's 50% off sale and ordered the PS3 version which should be arriving soon. I have some different questions I came to ask:

1. How is the community? I want to play WITH people and make friends that will make signing on more fun. MMOs with no chatter and companionship are no fun.

2. Any server recommendation for a new guy? Mostly an EST evening and late night guy with sporadic playtime throughout the day.

3. I'm torn between plugging a USB keyboard into the PS3 and getting the the little PS3 keyboard. Any opinions?

4. This kind of ties into the first one but do people party for EXP much and is there group activities you can get into fairly early on? Is it easy to find a guild and are there a good amount of friendly folks willing to tutor new players who are willing to learn?

All in all I'm pretty excited. Mostly a little nervous about the quality of the social element and finding folks to make the experience worthwhile. Also any tips on servers or the controller/keyboard dilemma are appreciated. Thanks!

Well as any player id like the ping to be decent for me. So if i create a character on the EU side. Then id i have to remake a new for US? or are they all connected? (Shareable if you will)

The reason is that i really wanna understand the community and not see different languages all over the general chat.
Btw, is there a english server on the EU? Where all english players are gathered? In that case id gladly join EU.

Many thanks!

Edited, Dec 28th 2013 2:51am by Arccai

Yea im from sweden in eu. But only talking english so, but if im able to interact with any player, then it dosent really matter anyway.

Thanks for info!

Leveling dosen't work that way in FFXIV. You can unlock, and change classes on the same character no need to re-roll, no need to delete.

What the game is asking you to do, in order to unlock THM, is to level the same character to level 15 Archer after taking your THM to level 30. The skills and levels you earned are permanantly a part of your character, and are often used to boost the skills of your Job or Class. (For example, the Raging Strikes skill that boosts your damage as an Archer, is actually used to boost your spells as a THM or Black Mage.)

Also keep in mind that levels are tied to classes, not the jobs they are associated with.

A level 40 Arcanist will also be a Level 40 Scholar and a Level 40 Summoner, regardless of whether or not they played either job from 30 to 40. Jobs are more augments to the base class, giving them a more specified role within a party. (Note, currently, only Arcanist has 2 Jobs in addition to its base class. It is speculated that eventually all classes will have 2 jobs to branch off of.)

1 character can switch to any class by switching weapons, your main weapon determines what class you currently are. There are limitations though as you can not switch in battle or after starting a dungeon.

It's quite possible in this game to have every class leveled to 50 on a single character, experience the storylines for the classes, and jobs on every character.

The only experience you get that you cannot truly experience is the starting story-line quests up to level 15, which are unique to what nation you started in. Beyond that, most everything you do not need to re-roll to experience.

This enables you to become an identity to yourself, rather than let the class define you. Some games try to achieve this by having skilltrees that allow you to spec your individual class in differing ways. This allows you to define your own limits by allowing you to choose which classes you wish to be available as - the classes themselves being fairly uniform and easy to grasp.

The problem with that situation is that you wind up with players who have a choke-hold on runs and mechanics due to being in the more desired roles. In this situation, it's someone's personal conduct that defines them and makes them desirable, and being more flexible as to what roles you want to play makes you more accessible to content.

The flexibility also allows players to not be pigeon-holed into roles if they want to say, not ALWAYS be a healer for every run. This allows people to work together and co-operate so that everyone can enjoy their game.

However you will still have people who specialize, refuse to level classes of different roles than desired, or choose to prioritize gear to a specific class/job first above others. Some people are just more comfortable in certain roles. In the end it's the connections you make with people that assure you're wanted or needed for content.

Although, right now, playing a Tank does sort of make you popular, due to how few of them there are.

Edited, Dec 28th 2013 10:36am by Hyrist

Im just wrong person for this. I like to focus on my own and only class. I rarely even create alts on other mmorpgs.

Servers for EU/USA are situated in Canada there will be no difference what ever one you choose. They are busy 24-7 on Excalibur

Edited, Dec 28th 2013 10:46am by ragamuffin