So who plays this? I know jack shit about MMOs since all I've played if the original FFXIV and Star Trek Online, but the general consensus from MMO fans is that FFXIV ARR is really really good. Personally I really love it. I enjoyed FFXIV V1, but can clearly see ARR is so much better and more polished. My chocobo can fight with me! KWEH UP YOUR ASS MOTHER FUCKERS! Also, among the million other improvements, is the main story quest. In V1 there were like 8 or 10 total main story quests. Seriously. I was level 31 I think when V1 closed on my highest combat class and had done like...6? main story quests? It was REALLY bad. There were 3 MAYBE 4 in your starter city. Whereas now there's 1-2 almost every level if not more. Yeah a lot of them are simple, but it's SO much better and just adds to the story and world. V1 had something like 8-10 total main story quests, it was awful.
The only thing I liked about V1 over ARR was I didn't have to play with other people as much, as I don't think the main quest had any dungeons (or at least not as of level 31 and there were only 3-4 main story quests I hadn't done) and there were very few as a whole. I had to do one to get a chocobo, and I was able to buy a 2nd account and level that character up tot he required level (25) and I just logged them both in at once nad killed everything with my main guy to finish it. That would NEVER work with the current dungeons, but that's probably a good thing. Plus at least now I can just enter the queue to get put auto-matically into a party for a dungeon, which I'm pretty sure didn't exist in in V1.
Also in V1 there were jack shit for class quests. Very few for each class, and I think you had to get to level 20 before they started (and I'm thinking there were maybe 3 per class). ARR we've got one every 5 levels, and I've really enjoyed most of the ones I've done. The Thaumaturge line was really emotionally investing and interesting. And I thought it ended at 30 until I unlocked the black mage job and realized the quests continue you just have to switch to the job. So far the black mage one is lame, but at least it's something. Even the crafting ones are somewhat interesting as the goldsmith one motivated me to grind like fuck to 50 to finish it.
What was I talking about? Oh right, so who actually plays this besides me and what classes have you played mostly? (I love being able to play every class on one character and not needing more characters other than if you want to play on another server with a friend).
Oh right, should say what my guy has I guess. Main combat class is Thaumaturge at 43. It took a while but I beat Titan last week, and in the main story I'm at the dungeon some quests after Titan. Haven't done it yet becuase I want to get to 44 (max level for the dungeon) first. 2nd highest is Conjurer which I'm debating just focusing on and grinding to 30 to unlock white mage/complete the basic conjurer story line, but while it was interesting at the level 15 quest the level 20 quest made it kind of boring. Third is archer because I had to get to 15 to unlock black mage, but actually kind of interested in continuing that to see that story progress. Crafting side I'm maxed out on gold smith (freaked when I got to 50 and saw it show exp for 51, but you can't actually earn exp so I was relived to know I was in fact maxed on exp. Not sure which I'm going to grind to 50 next, carpenter is at 31 but not sure if I want to hammer it yet or maybe blacksmith (25). I also need to stock up on levequests, which I had a fuckton for when I grinded goldsmith from early 30s to 50 in a relatively short tiem.
Oh and I've mostly been playing on the PS3, quite happy with it but looking forward to the free PS4 upgrade. I've heard that one some of the later dungeons/boss fights you can't do it on the PS3 because it won't load the enemy because of too many people and it can't handle it. If that's true it's actually completely unexectple and anger provoking, but I'll deal with that bridge when I get to it. So far the only thing that sucks on ps3 is trying to talk to stupid party members using controller to type. For PS4 version I'm most excited for the Vita remote play. Vi-ta! Vi-ta!
What was I talking about?
