Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

So. Topic.

I found m'self falling in love with this game when my friend gifted it to me after she convinced me to try it out. I pretty much love the atmosphere and all the references (Pop culture included!) implied! But it's also the people you play with, so I'm looking for people who are still playing this game regularly or just picked it up from a recent Steam Sale (Free weekend happened a few weeks ago, with a 30 day subscription for 14 bucks! Holy crap, what a deal!)

For anyone coming back recently:

Basically. the new dungeon Snowcloak (located in Ishgard) and Shiva was released as a new Primal to face. Just pick up from the story quest and away you go! You need Ramuh EX cleared before you can challenge Shiva Extreme.

The Final Coil of Bahamut was recently released with new some new gear and new challenges!

Also FUCKING NINJAS. 'nuff said.

I'll be happy to make another character with you on another server, but my main is on Faerie. Hitomi Kikuchi is my IGN.

You can mostly find me on Steam playing this game, so you can poke me there too.

Two Week Free trial here: http://www.ffxiv-freetrial.com/us/

 

Beta tested this a few weeks before release. I found combat too much line FF11 (boring as fuck). Did not notice a whole lot of improvement / difference over FF11 besides being way better looking. I know its been a while since release, whats changed?

My biggest issue with MMOs is that if the combat is not engaging and holds my attention the rest just falls apart.

 

Apparently when you played this there's so much linearity with this. This was called 1.0. And then the world ended when Bahamut came and FFXIV: ARR is 2.0. Do note that I have gotten this game about two months ago, so I've never played 1.0.

Basically, here are the changes from the original FFXIV and FFXIV: ARR:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/faq_arr_changes

And then there's a lot more patch notes since then... So here's a summary of since then:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/28vn5j/what_did_i_miss_patch_notes_universal_summary/

The combat I find is rather quite engaging and fun to play. I personally went with Dragoon and I find it the most fun to play as with Warrior being a next second. Mainly because I like the whole reward aspect of being in a certain position to do more damage/combo. (Some people argue it's archaic and ancient, but I digress.) Each class has their own perks as well as their own disadvantages (I'll leave my opinions about Dragoons being underpowered/unappreciated out of this thread), but each has their own little niche.

Here's a comparison video, and I completely agree with you on 1.0 combat:



It's pretty much faster in 2.0. Personally, I prefer the combat in GW2 more, but this keeps me interested enough to chase the story around and round. Healers have to actually watch how they're healing because they can actually peel aggro from the tank... blah blah.

 

This game's release was horrible for the first couple of weeks. Honestly, the worst release I've ever seen, but the game does have some amazing graphics and a cool story. The combat is kinda clunky. I don't think they got any PVP, do they?

 

They do, it's instanced, either a 24v24v24 or a 4v4.

I'm actually on Gilgamesh. Whee.

 

Pretty much what Kuat said.

Oooh Gilgamesh, eh? Pretty crowded for me though. ;x But it's definitely one of the few servers I'm considering making alts on if I'm ever bored of my friends on Faerie.

The combat in 1.0 is REALLY clunky and apparently so was mostly everything else (except for the story and some other graphical stuff... It actually looked amazing!)

And then Yoshi-P came in with a wrecking ball.