Perspective of a returning player

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Originally Posted by Eiyaya

However, the UI and server lag is something i never had before. the now loading takes over 5 min for me to enter the game and disappear once it is all load. If i reload it will just be quicker. How can i have server lag? consider i am running a 60 mbit cable line downloading normal bitorrent at 1-2m/sec. It is definitely something wrong with their side either they limited the bandwidth or something.

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Server lag doesn't have much to do with your home connection. The laws of physics put a speed limit on how fast signals can travel, and the distance from japan to the US is significant. No matter what your home connection is, you are unlikely to get low server lag unless you live in Japan, and this is exactly why other MMOs have regional servers. I have a 40/40 Mbit fiber connection myself, but it's never helped for any of SE's MMOs.

I recently came back to FXIV and tbh I saw the changes. I have enjoyed my time back. 2.0 is not that far away. So I figured I would wait to see what I really think of it then. Judging it now doesn't seem fair to me since this isn't the final version. (By final I mean what the game will run on til the end, I do know that things like expansions and such will be along down the line.)

While I understand the need to compare to what else it out there, I would like to see it be it's own game. Last thing I want is a clone of WoW, XI, Tera, or anything else out there. It should be its own game. That's what I have always liked about the FF games. They were the same as in the fact they all had great story lines, but that's where it always ended. They all had different worlds, stories for that world, different ways of doing battle.

I'm just saying wait for 2.0 to give a judgment.

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Originally Posted by Eiyaya

Each have their opinion on a game, tera feel like doing streetfighter while i do found FFXIV like office works.

The fight start click enter, F, click 5, wait abit, wait abite. click 4. wait abit wait abit click 3 wait abit wait abit. Click 9 (heal), wait abit wait abit. enemy dead Click F and stand until hp/mp recover.

Next fight i do the same. Go on with the same after that. Nothing changes.

Tera i would do the same, but i can move around while doing this things goes instantly without pausing. I dodge and i run.

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Are you like level 10? Are you not doing combos?

Because even at lower levels you have a couple 2-3 step combos to pull off. Where it is more like:

Engage target wait wait press 1 move to the rear press 2 (combo) use Triggerable def skill - > parry/dodge/block attack -> use triggerable attack skill. press 5 move to side press 6 press 7 (combo) . wait. press 1 move to rear press 2 (combo)....

All in short order.

It's not action packed, but it's not a snoozefest. So i'm not sure what you're doing wrong.

nevermind found it: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...cicuid=3046204

you've been back for 4 days and your highest class is 33 conj. followed my 23 polearm and 20 thm.

You've yet to experience any of the "JOB" Classes. A majority of the Grand Company quests, Class Quests ect ect.

FFXIV ver 1.x isn't geared to aquiring new players, or catering to returning low level players unfortunatly. It's aimed at lv 40+ players.

Try again when ver 2.0 is launched and there is more content in place for level 1-40 for new and returning players to expereince.

Honestly as a returning player...... The combat system kinda sucks, way to slow, and "Oh combo" really ? Not that impressive. And class unbalance is annoying, mages can nuke the hell out of anything 4 levels above 1vs3 easy, try to do that as a lancer or something lol

The longer loading time is because each new patch adds even more files to the already huge 100000's of files and makes the whole thing even more fragmented. (which will also make the HDD/SSD degrade faster which will in turn make the game slower...)
It's not technically fixable in this version.

Idkbro, my long loading times are due to the client waiting for data from the server. Loading an empty inn room shouldn't take nearly as much time as it does.

Yes, I notice that the game doesn't access anything from the memory/storage and just wait for the server's response, then the inn room shows up really fast. It's about as slow as storing/selling an item right? I think it's the server lag people have been complaining about since day one.

Guess this is one of the things they hope to address with the new "server infrastructure" in v2.

I agree with most OP said.

Couple things.

1. Combat really doesn't improve until later on. After you've unlocked some other class skills the game becomes a bit better. Not perfect and at times I find myself just waiting on my character to hit so he can get enough tp to attack.

2. The game makes me feel like I need to level up all combat classes. Which can be rough for a new player or a returning player who didn't get very far. This also makes the jobs/classes feel very cheap. It's hard to be the top Lancer/Dragoon player when I'm casting Cure, forced to level up other jobs to make Lancer/Dragoon compete, or forced to switch out to other jobs/classes because the dragoon isn't capable of running the content.

I really hope they can address this in the future but I have a feeling its going to be a staple of the game. Which will probably hurt its success in the long run and just won't appeal to me as a player.