Final Fantasy XVFollow

SpoilerThat's at 20, right? Then no.

I did find a quest hub to just do some stuff at over in Drybones, so I've been doing that. Oh, and while looking for a story quest, I ran across someone who taught me how to dye. Thus it begins.



Edited, Oct 29th 2013 12:10pm by Poldaran

Try this, a list of the story quests. See which is the last you did and pick up from there. I seem to remember hitting a spot early on where I didn't intuitively know where to go. Maybe that's where you are now.

Good Luck.

It looks like this is the point where I'm at. I'll have to check it out in the morning. Thanks for the help, y'all.


And I was going to be damned if I had to ask where to find orange juice, but the story quest thing eluded me since I couldn't seem to find the next breadcrumb.

Ya. Pretty sure that's the first of the 3 starter dungeons.

I went through the whole storyline using the duty finder. It worked out well enough. Just make sure to check out the fights before hand so you know what to do. Some of them are fairly straightforward, others have some odd mechanics. Really, using the DF is a pretty painless way to play, as long as you have something else to do in game while waiting for it. Now that a lot of people have at least one level 50 it's probably going to take longer getting groups though.

The problem is that with a job system, you only have to do the story once. In other MMO where you have to level a new character to play a different class, there's a constant stream (or at least a trickle) of players that are going to be running low-level content. They should implement some sort of daily reward for running each dungeon/fight daily, maybe a weekly reward if you complete X number of dungeons in a week. It can be something as simple as a massive EXP reward (maybe a usable item so you could use it on another job).

I don't know what class you are, but this
and this
leads me to believe ARCTHM/BLM?

As far as dungeons go, I think they did a nice job with dungeon difficulty. You might find the earlier dungeons a bit easy, but they seem to start off simple and slowly, with each one adding something to the mix until you get to Hauke Manor, which was the first dungeon I found to be challenging (as a CNJ/WHM). The first dungeon was more of a "everyone DPS" kind of thing. As a CNJ, I was throwing a heal every 10 seconds or so - a long time to sit and watch, so I was doing a fair bit of dps also.

If I recall correctly, the first dungeon's only real mechanic was on the final boss fight. Someone correct me if I have my dungeons mixed up, but I think that was the one where you fight the boss in a cavern and there are four grates on the floor. When you get a message that the water is bubbling up or boiling up, you have to interact with that grate or an add joins the fight. The first time I did it no one knew about that mechanic and we downed the boss in one shot with a load of adds.

Because it's so early in the life of the game, I didn't find any one place for good fight descriptions and wound up using google each time. There is a pretty decent sub-reddit (FFXIVTC*) dedicated to theorycrafting only - no "look at the pretty screenshot" posts - and I'm at the office and don't have access to my gaming computer but there's also at least one decent theorycrafting website. I'm sure google will turn it up.

* There's actually a thread on the front page titled "BLM Stat weights in term of Int/DPS." They seem to be dismissive of Piety.

As far as threat management goes, it is definitely something you will always be aware of, which is something I love about this game. Unlike WoW where you count to five or something and then blast away as DPS, in this game threat is always an issue. That makes tanking, DPSing, and healing much more interesting, in my opinion. I can't speak to your actual threat management skills because my ARC is still low level. My CNJ/WHM really didn't get much of a threat skill until later than you are now, and I use it all the time in dungeons on the trash fights.



EDIT: need moar coffee - Thaum not Arc.



Edited, Oct 31st 2013 11:59am by cynyck

There will be something similar to this in 2.1.

I don't even know if I'll still be subbed by the time 2.1 hits though, lol.

I was having tons of fun up until level 30 or so. My fun dropped off significantly after that. I feel like they have some solid ideas, but they need work, and a bunch more content from level 1 all the way through cap.

If they make those changes, I'll probably check the game out again after the first major expansion.

I'm still playing. I'm enjoying the casual route. Right now I play a couple hours a day and am working on 100% fishing. I'm still only a level 34 Paladin. Haven't progressed the story too much, just exploring the world.

One thing I don't like is how empty Duty Finder makes the world. So many good looking areas, and I only see a couple people running around. Major dungeon entrances are almost barren. I liked it during Closed Beta before they added the Duty Finder. Now people want to fight Ifrit, one person is in Ul'dah, another is in Gridania, a third is over in Costa Del Sol, etc. Not one even in the Bowl of Embers or even Drybone. I like the Duty Finder, I just don't like what it does to the zones.

Shout is all but dead except for the "LFM FATE" or "LFM HYDRA" shouts. I think this is because most players stopped using the shout channel after the crazy RMT Spam. But the RMT no longer spam Shout, it's all about random tells. And those are few and far in between these days.

I hate FATE groups, and I hate how the player base has to be 100% best efficiency all the time rather than enjoying the game for what it is. Playing this game casually is such a different experience. And when they made the game so casual-friendly, it made it way too easy for those that played constantly and sought out the most efficient routes for everything. It's almost as if the player base ruins the game for themselves.

IMO though, they really should have used a "handcrafted/self-gathered" flag on the items to make sure that people doing crafting/gathering class quests and leves don't just buy the items and turn them in. Not doing that was a mistake. Being able to just buy these things ruins the experience and ruins a simple game feature. But I don't think they'll ever change that.

Edited, Nov 1st 2013 7:37pm by TirithRR

But when they do hit, they seem to go on forever. My first couple days - before I got the commands from you guys to BList them - I saw what I think was the same spammer spamming for 24+ straight hours.

Edited, Nov 1st 2013 11:44pm by Poldaran

See, I also have console games to play, and a massive backlog on Steam...

Yet I just resubeed to TOR.

Is there any news on FF 15 (XV) or has this thread been taken over by FF 14 (XIV)

Edited, Nov 3rd 2013 10:24am by rdmcandie