Disaster in the Darkhold

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Originally Posted by SydeBeheln

sooooo are the dungeons tied in with the grand companies then? That's really cool if so. Seems like a good way to introduce the raids with sturdy lore and what not.

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Its on the Grand Companies page so Yes its comfirmewd that Grand Companies arew tied into these Dungeons and will have a major impact on the game

I do hate to be a party ruin-er of sorts, but I really don't understand all the hype behind this. It looks like a regular cave that you have been in plenty of times with a few new models for doors and doodads. Same exact mob skins with different stat numbers, and no clear indication as to the depth of these dungeons..

Can't help but wonder if this is all a fancy prelude to the awesomeness that will be Ifrit.

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Originally Posted by Raim

I do hate to be a party ruin-er of sorts, but I really don't understand all the hype behind this. It looks like a regular cave that you have been in plenty of times with a few new models for doors and doodads. Same exact mob skins with different stat numbers, and no clear indication as to the depth of these dungeons..

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Why play a MMO? In fact, why play a RPG?

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Originally Posted by NefarioCall

I'm pretty sure that a big part of the main zone redesign is what they are adding to them.
All the beast man tribe camps, and 'hubs', for which there are a few screen shots.
Every one of those beast men, mostly, are probably new models, since there isn't really a beast man presence in the game yet. That's a LOT of models on it's own. What about that night picture with all the machines and steam and awesome looking stuff? All new models. And that picture with the shed and fence. new models. I'm sure there's new models in the hubs as well. maybe a couple new trees and plants to go in there? Boxes and jars and all the lore as to what kind of things the beast men use.

My point is that this new dev team came in at around January. it's been about 6 months and change since then, but lets be realistic. They had to clean a lot of stuff up first, finish some unfinished project work and develop a whole new plan for the game.

I'd say they're making astounding progress if you remember just how much new model work is going into the development of the beast men tribe and lore right now. of course all of that can be put into new dungeons.

They have a couple ready made dungeons sitting around and a revamped battle system to try them out on.
I LIKE IT.

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Are you on about these machines?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-this-Compound

Also there are Beastmen in the game, just not many and they are at higher levels, see here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbViL...eature=related

Also it is not a "New" Dev Team, it is the same Dev Team that made the game just a few leads and heads have changed and also some talent from other projects have been brought in to assist.

The point I was trying to make in that post is that the game has a lot of stuff that we are locked out of and is hidden from view. Like those reactor things, they were put there for a reason and they do have a purpose but we can't access them yet. This dungeon was already in the game so has not been built from scratch by the looks of it, so are we just getting the dungeon that was already in place but reworked to run with the new mechanics.

So are they just reworking the original content that we didn't have access to or are they actually creating everything from scratch. I imagine it is a combination of both and there is nothing wrong with that, however if they are reworking original content then I expect them to pick up the pace a bit once the gameplay mechanics are finalised and start getting content into the game at a quicker pace.

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Originally Posted by Sonic_the_Hedgehog

Why play a MMO? In fact, why play a RPG?

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Namely, in order to enjoy the experience an RPG provides on a larger scale with other players. Now, you can imagine that the enjoyment factor is far lower when you do the same content over and over with miniscule changes to the formula. Tell me, are these not the same enemies you have already seen? What is in this nearly barren cave worth risking life and limb for?

Omg, people post a loooooot faster than I can read all that Text Pages...

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I imagine it is a combination of both

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I agree with this.

Not to be a bummer but that isn't LNC doing "Jump" It's PGL with Seismic Shock WS.

While the content IN the video looks good, the video itself was really low quality. I could have produced a better video in my sleep. If they are going to attract new players with content like this they really need to have a better media production team. The transitions were awful, and there was no cohesive thought flow throughout the video.

I am still saddened by the fact that the multiple action bars won't be available in 1.18, that awful tin sound on the UI won't be gone, and the UI is still terrible.

Finally, anyone notice the huge lag between the HP bars and the actual animation going off of the Eye? /sigh

Other than those missing few things which have been promised to come in the near future, the dungeon as a whole looks to be promising.

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Originally Posted by Raim

What is in this nearly barren cave worth risking life and limb for?

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Just the fact that the "system" that ypu play it with is new? Just the fact that is actual content, rather than just stupid grinding? Just the fact that people would kill little puppies to get anything in XIV?

They could give me a big thank you shield at the end for clearing the dungeon and I'd do it, just cause it's something to do!

Video sucks, copy pasta environment, music sucks, gear sucks, copy pasta chars models, copy pasta mobs, lame weapon models and no chocobos? Come on SE it took 4 months for this? Seriously? Why can't this game just be WoW or TERA or FFXI 2.0?

Just kidding. :)

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Originally Posted by RegaDosei

Not to be a bummer but that isn't LNC doing "Jump" It's PGL with Seismic Shock WS.

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You as a pugilist should know that seismic shock is exclusive to pugilist and other classes cant use it. That was Jump or a new skill like jump because it was performed by the lancer.

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

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okaaaaayyyy?

This video took my breathe away, two thumbs up yoshi!! Thank you for ensuring my continued service with ffxiv. I look forward to many great years adventuring, and doing raids of this nature. I can only assume that when they implement the end-game content that it will be epic, and challenging. A perfect recipe for everyone to enjoy. Cheers to the begining of a new era in eroza!! See you all in the raids.

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Originally Posted by LateReg

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the battle log denotes only a few things as far as the LNC's actions are concerned, and nothing new.

- Uses Ferocity II
- Chat log shows HP gain from Surge
- Chat log shows loss of Ferocity after completing Twisting Vice (巻き突き) on the Reckless Hippogryf (レクルス・ヒッポグリフ)

edit: i speak japanese, so yeah

okaaaaayyyy?

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I felt the need to back this up...

The dungeons are looking good.

Hopefully this won't be like dynamis.
A 2 days waiting time + line to enter the instance...

Aside from that, everything looks great.

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Originally Posted by Sagagemini

Hopefully this won't be like dynamis.
A 2 days waiting time + line to enter the instance...

Aside from that, everything looks great.

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SE and restrictions go hand in hand, so personally I'm pessimistic about it even with low population counts atm. Heck I don't even mind the time limit one bit in contrast to the "cap" for the number of groups that are allowed to enter at once. If a couple dozen groups can go in at once max even then no worries, otherwise...

exited to try the new dungeon, but companies sound like a version of campaign ops and ...erm who the hell did campaign ops.

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Originally Posted by weeble

exited to try the new dungeon, but companies sound like a version of campaign ops and ...erm who the hell did campaign ops.

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I did xD gotta bomb those beastman!

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Originally Posted by JunkPunch

Yes sir, you are alone on that one. Resize everything to meet your needs.

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lol not that i care that much, but not much of the UI is resizable and on top of that, the things you can resize are still quite bold and large.
why cant the action bar be resized? its waaaay too massive.
i play on 1440 x 900 , my max res settings so no dont tell me to raise my res.... >.>

zzz redesign is gonna take years , not months, especially this game. I just dont get why some people cant think this far enough. Is true that the game has some bad points, but dont put chilies on the points , dont be negative already for people's mind sake, especially you kind sir who been regarded as troll ~_~

You're such a negative dude.. cheer up and talk nicely slob :|

looks good :D

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

zzz redesign is gonna take years , not months, especially this game. I just dont get why some people cant think this far enough. Is true that the game has some bad points, but dont put chilies on the points , dont be negative already for people's mind sake, especially you kind sir who been regarded as troll ~_~

You're such a negative dude.. cheer up and talk nicely slob :|

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One word... Owned... ;)

DID ANYONE NOT NOTICE UNLESS SOMEONE POSTED THIS ALREADY ALL CHARACTERS WERE NAMED AFTER A JOB RIGHT LOOK AT THE VIDEO AGAIN ONE OF THE TARU OR LALA W/E IS A EXC?????????

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Originally Posted by Amage

DID ANYONE NOT NOTICE UNLESS SOMEONE POSTED THIS ALREADY ALL CHARACTERS WERE NAMED AFTER A JOB RIGHT LOOK AT THE VIDEO AGAIN ONE OF THE TARU OR LALA W/E IS A EXC?????????

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yes its a marauder.

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

Doubtful. They didn't show off Shadowlord in videos or pictures. The Ogre is probably a miniboss before you get to the final boss.

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If that's the case I hope you get to beat it quick because the timer says there was 13 minutes left at the dungeon when the CS appeared.

That being said there could be several optional bosses depending on the path chosen.

yeah the exc has a too hander mar weapon, maybe it's the marader job? not sure what to make of that. can't wait till it's released.

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Originally Posted by northernsky

That being said there could be several optional bosses depending on the path chosen.

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Hmmm. Like FFXIII's Faultwarrens. Hopefully not as monotonous, though.

http://k.min.us/jelNea.jpg

Screenshot of the jobs in question.

Unless...Marauder's first job is Executioner (Exc)?

Dun dunn dunnnn...

EDIT: I just realized that Humbabas = Ogre in XIV

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...a/Phunbaba.PNG

GOD PEOPLE READ THE STUPID TOPIC COMPLETELY!!!!!!!

IT WAS MENTIONED LIKE A HUNDRED TIMES NOW THAT "EXC" IS MRD! EXC IS JUST THE JP ABBREVIATION FOR IT!!!

IF YOU REALLY CARE THAT MUCH IF IT'S A NEW CLASS/JOB, YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T CARE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CHECK THE TOPIC FOR ANSWERS THAT WERE ALREADY MADE!!!

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Originally Posted by TirionCrey

GOD PEOPLE READ THE STUPID TOPIC COMPLETELY!!!!!!!

IT WAS MENTIONED LIKE A HUNDRED TIMES NOW THAT "EXC" IS MRD! EXC IS JUST THE JP ABBREVIATION FOR IT!!!

IF YOU REALLY CARE THAT MUCH IF IT'S A NEW CLASS/JOB, YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T CARE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CHECK THE TOPIC FOR ANSWERS THAT WERE ALREADY MADE!!!

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So why would they use the English abbreviations for the rest of the classes? As far as I know, sword users arent called Gladiators in the Japanese version. Not saying it is or isnt a new job for the marauder class...but it seems like abit of an oversight to use the english abbreviations for everything but MRD.

^^ *hands trion a sedative*

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

So why would they use the English abbreviations for the rest of the classes? As far as I know, sword users arent called Gladiators in the Japanese version. Not saying it is or isnt a new job for the marauder class...but it seems like abit of an oversight to use the english abbreviations for everything but MRD.

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It wouldn't make sense to show off the job in this video because this is a video of the dungeons in 1.18 when they already stated we won't be getting Jobs until 1.20. Also, I believe a few pages ago someone explained that Executioner is what the English side originally called Marauder, but then changed it. As you can tell, this is the Japanese version, so over there they probably never bothered doing the change.

Oh, well that makes sense.

...So why are pirates called executioners again? Can't be that many heads that need chopping. =P

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Originally Posted by Kallera

...So why are pirates called executioners again? Can't be that many heads that need chopping. =P

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Well in-game they don't even remind me much of pirates. Now, I've never done the MAR quest-line, but still. A player as a Marauder looks nothin' like a pirate, especially when they're wearing chainmail armor. I honestly think it should've been kept as Executioner. Would fit more. Who knows, maybe they plan on changing it.

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Originally Posted by Sagagemini

Hopefully this won't be like dynamis.
A 2 days waiting time + line to enter the instance...

Aside from that, everything looks great.

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Dynamis is 1 JP midnight restriction, so you can actually go in 2x a day if you play your cards right.

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Originally Posted by Tibian

While the content IN the video looks good, the video itself was really low quality. I could have produced a better video in my sleep. If they are going to attract new players with content like this they really need to have a better media production team. The transitions were awful, and there was no cohesive thought flow throughout the video.

I am still saddened by the fact that the multiple action bars won't be available in 1.18, that awful tin sound on the UI won't be gone, and the UI is still terrible.

Finally, anyone notice the huge lag between the HP bars and the actual animation going off of the Eye? /sigh

Other than those missing few things which have been promised to come in the near future, the dungeon as a whole looks to be promising.

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I thought the video looked pretty good fullscreen at 720p.