: Final Fantasy XIV - links & infos

Here you go heth if you dont locate it first

is with this long thingie where that come from ............ anyways


http://www.avalonbears.com/FFXIVMousePatcher.exe


Put it in: C:\Program Files\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version loose and then double click it, hopefully sort you out.


Yes lol amazingly confusing the hubs start off the newbie quests you have time limits on a few but i mean half hour to catch 3 fish takes mins........ before you even start them... do the main line quest get the cash, go to the shop down at the port...... actually run around the whole city like a loonie to mark all places, then go to the port and buy


1. Fishing Rod
1. lot of bait - 100
1. Frying Pan - 1 Culnery Knife
1. Hatchet - 1. Scythe
1. Pick - 1 sledgehamer

One is prymery slot on is seconday need both.

Umm i think thats it... if it sparkles on a tree lumber it, grass scythe it, rocks cry a lot then hit it, all target variables dead weird but efficient once you sus the hitting bit and targets

Fishing is the easiest and scything grass takes very little effort.

Mobs so far do not auto target

Dodos are evil one hit killers so are rose dragon thingies, the sheep are hillarious :P

Bout all i know so far

Quests... make sure you have all the equipment you need first. Or you stuff up your quests and have to wait a full day to re-take, they limit them to stop power leveling, saying that still a barage of dam bots around trying to sell money that is useless because your chars will not live to see the full game, dim money sellers very grrrrrrr when trying to quest, but it does not spoil the game.

If you get a quest reward recipe write down the ingreedients there is no cooking book yet.

Cod is: Salt and Cod easy one

Trout is : 1 rainbow trout, handful of nutmeg seeds (harvested or on rats) and one pinch of table salt think you get that from the cooking shop.

Best thing is mark all shops etc and explore at least you can get a good jist from the map, north is another camp camp skulls go mark and set the teleporter.

All things are found right hand screen in the paper, dialogues to start fishing come up on your screen in speach bubbles, click and it opens the right side paper and click to fish or etc etc

Cooking is ok bit like vg crafting you have to judge from the points you have, weather to cook fast slow or blitz usual stuff.

Same with all craft and harvest, target is governed by depth and how hard you hit as well as where you stop your gage. Have to judge that one.

Not sure how to keep your spells on your bar yet, its doing my head in as a mage i have to reset them every time I equip a tool, im sure that there must be a way though.

Think thats it really my font of two days knowledge rofl

Hugs

Thanks for the info loving it so far even if I am completely confused , the servers are not going down until 7pm but I have to get that patch now its driving me nuts

cant figure out how to get a beta key, i signed in with my Enix account but nothing says anything about a beta key after that

I got mine from this

http://entry.ffxiv.com/

i got my key but it wont let me sign into the final fantasy beta tester site to get the download, and the one shad posted doesnt make any progress downloading the patches when i start the game

Haha i got in, I had to change the "na" in the address bar to "eu" to be able to sign in i made an eu account so i could be able to play with u guys hehe

WTG Pred !

Wheres Ralf btw? He was looking forward to this I thought?

well in 1 hour i got to 10% lol, so itll be a while :P ill prob just cancel it and do it at night when im sleeping and then i will play it tomor when i get home

ima make my lalafell cuz i liked the tarutaru in FF11

Still queued to repatch after the server down.

Anyone with the mouse patcher, remember to back up your FFXIVGame.exe file as you'll need to replace it each time they repatch and rerun the mouse patch again, otherwise you get an error when starting after patching.

ooohhh so thats why I kept getting an error message over and over

Thanks for the tip Pred, switching NA to EU in the address given in my registration e-mail allowed me to get in and download the client.

So ladies and gents, is it any good then?

Meh, Server is down for Matinence Will have another go when im back from college... Lets hope they have actually finished building our IT room today

So far so good :P

Don't you just looooooove beta does what it says on the box, more downtime than a prossy lol

But I kinda like it, even though you have to W walk err well run, walk is a mystery at the moment :P

Moonlake wrote:

Don't you just looooooove beta does what it says on the box, more downtime than a prossy lol

ROFL .

There's no PVP though which is kind of putting me off, playing DFO has given me a taste for it, even though its twitch based mechanics mean I lose to these 20 year old kids with reflexes like snakes on methamphetamine! I got ganked by a guy who turned out to be a 23 year old member of a Norwegian anti-terrorist team! I'm too fat, old and slow for it! Think I'm going to try the EVE online trial instead since I hear PVP there is about out planning and out thinking the other dude! Anyway have fun guys and gals and take care.

Understanding the fatigue system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abE09-tqhoM

the beta test site has all the controls mapped out and the game manual is very very useful

https://dev-eu.ffxiv.com/ubbthreads.php
some of the replies in the faq of the game manual are both bizarre and hilarious

altho worryingly every time i log in my name is different ?!?

Well, the more I play the more I like FFXIV. The skill system really reminds me of UO as in you can create your toon and then have the freedom to skillup in whichever skills and professions you want, rather than the more common class system. For example, equip a sword, you gain sword skills, equip a bow you gain ranged etc. Same with the crafting, equip cooking tools and train to be a chef then swap to your hammer and saw to train carpentry etc. Your restriction is your stat allocation which defines your abilities more, but if you get fed up being a mage, you can reallocate them to a more fighter orientated set up. Get bored Smithing, just swap tools and do some Alchemy. Of course, I'd imagine it better to concentrate on a chosen profession to become competent in making specific things rather than doing a little of everything.

Harvesting so far includes Fishing, Mining, Herbology (Plants/timber) as well as mob drops which are also usable craft items (Bones/feathers/hides etc). Each different harvest skill is like a small minigame (each one different) so botting i'd imagine will be nigh impossible. So far I've concentrated on fishing and cooking (to cook my fish). You need to join a relevant guild to get craft recipes, which you cannot do in beta, but I've had a few basic recipes as Leve rewards so far.

Crafting is pretty straight forward once you know what you're doing, but requires concentration so as not to fail. Its pretty cool, but currently the UI is painfully slow although that could be inpart to my old PC which revvs up like an F16 taking off whenever I play.

The game seems to be very harvest/craft/commerce orientated again much like UO, and you can hire your own NPC's to either hold your stuff like extra storage, or to stand in one of the vendor malls.

All in all it feels VERY sandboxy in the true sense. The UI is currently VERY clunky, slow and awkward, but then it is still Beta, I'd imagine they'll fix this. Still lots to discover and if what we are told is true, the current content is only a small percentage of what we can expect.

This has kind of snuck in under the radar for me as I was awaiting Rift, I only really tried this as it was Open Beta and thought 'why not', but I've heard that rift may not be as sandboxy and 'crafty' as I'd hoped. So far this has a LOT that I like about it and feels like a Very 'old school' game with excellent graphics.

I agree with Chara about not liking the cutesy Anime style, but TBH, I really don't notice it once playing. Made a second Char today to explore another starter area and was blown away by the woodland starter zone. I got so nostalgic that I resurrected Charlie Foxtrott who had been my UO Elf Tamer and made an Elven Ranger, hopefully they'll have taming eventually in the full version. I've seen a big bird type of mount in the stables but you cant use them in beta :-(.

Loving it so far though.

Thanks for the links Heth. I really like the sound of the fatigue system .

Shad's description of the skill system sounds interesting, right up my street, maybe I'll give it a second look. Anyway glad your all enjoying it. Take care.

I just die and die. How do I get bigger rocks to throw? Mobs do 50-80 damage and I do max 2 damage. I seem to have a stupid hammer but I guess its only for blacksmithing. I am at bearded rock and my first crafting quest is a fail and can not be redone. Game seems to be okay just needs more instructions.

What is everyones names also....can't find anybody

Freddric drinksalot

Fred you crazy man get yaself a weapon ,if you don't have a combat class to start with you will not have a weapon and will have to go to a vendor and purchase one . All the tools for harvesting and crafting or even weapons for other classes can be bought in the Limsa port where I started , not sure about the city in the forest not explored it enough yet but I would guess its the same everywhere. My char is called Heth Yla . I hear you can use a link shell to set up a chat kinda like guild chat I guess but I don't know where u purchase them or even if they are ingame in open beta.

well i got home from soccer and the servers are down lol, so i gotta wait another hour prob till i get to play :P all updated tho

Yea Fred, reroll as a fighter class and then just buy your crafting tools, much simpler that way.

Also make sure you follow the main questline as far as it will go as you get lotsa dosh for doing it enabling you to buy crafting/harvesting tools etc.

Easiest startup I found so far is the Port City and start a fisherman/cook. You can get a recipe for salted cod from a quest and then fish up cod and cook them for cooking/fishing xp/small profit.

It's deffo worth giving it a proper try Chara', I've certainly been surprised by it ...............oh, and Hurry Pred, Hurry !!

Hethyla wrote:

Fred you crazy man get yaself a weapon ,if you don't have a combat class to start with you will not have a weapon and will have to go to a vendor and purchase one

Wise MkII

When does the Beta finish Shad? I'm away at my GFs for the next few days, her good desktop needs a new motherboard which I need to get round to buying and fitting, I'm not allowed to play games on her laptop after the incident involving a 36 hour insomnia fueled Age of Conan session and the exploding laptop! Good job it was still under warranty or I would've been in the hole for a couple of grand! I'll try to get round to it when I get back home on Thursday if its not finished.