Before I say anything - Google didn't help. And yes, this post is purely out curiosity.
So, for people who logged into ARR at launch using 1.x characters, did you retain your levels?
Did it let you keep your gear?
Did the ARR MSQ still start off the same way, from level 1?
Did you get to go through the MSQ as whatever level you were when the legacy servers went down?
Purely out of curiosity - got questions for legacy players.
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06-11-2019, 08:26 PMDumdogsWorldPurely out of curiosity - got questions for legacy players.
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06-11-2019, 08:32 PMMichiko
Hiya.
So first question, yes we got to keep our levels. When I started 2.0, I started with everything at 50 already.. only had to level up scholar/summoner.
I was also able to carry over whatever I had in my retainers and my character's inventory. Most of which was worthless/replaced mind you very quickly. Alot of other things such as all materia (if I recall) had turned into un-aspected crystals that we could turn in for materia of our choice.
Actually for some of us (my boyfriend had the 2.0 normal intro where he is on a wagon) however I simply appeared from wherever we had been whisked away at the end of 1.0.. appearing in the middle of nowhere and made my way on foot to the nearest city. Not sure why some legacy players didn't get the custom 'intro' but that was it, other then that.. and a few lines in multiple quests inferring we look familiar, there really wasn't much of a different between a legacy 1.0 character and a fresh 2.0
And finally yes, Seeing I had all 50s when 2.0 started, I started the 2.0 MSQ as a lv50 though all instances/dungeons had level caps. Just the overworld it helped. -
06-11-2019, 08:34 PMColdGuy
We did get to keep our gear though gear back then only went up to Darklight, which is the starting gear for level 50 raiding, MSQ started the same except instead of coming in on a carriage you were teleported in, as if you teleported ahead in time from when Louisoix protected you, and the story lines are completely separate, 1.0's story is unique to 1.0, 2.0 started its own story.
Also you didn't do too good a job at searching.
Intro cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoQum5S5Ro
Other cutscenes:
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06-11-2019, 08:38 PMDumdogsWorldI know about the differences in the intro cutscene. But everywhere I looked, the information ends with the cutscene. I wanted to know what progressing through the early 2.0 MSQ was like for 1.x characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColdGuy
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06-11-2019, 08:47 PMColdGuyThat's all there is to it, special cutscenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld
Other than that there are some perks:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_Campaign
Not mentioned are the Goobbue mount and Legacy Tattoo:
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Goobbue_(Mount)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Dress...glitch
The most interesting part of 1.0 was its completely different gameplay, graphics, and story:
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06-11-2019, 08:50 PMKathrynHi legacy player here also got a very old pic to share:Quote:
Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld
https://i.imgur.com/PsFJZ8D.jpg
Yes I got to keep my gear I even got a second set of artifact gear because we had to do the Job quests from scratch even though we had all our abilities and such already.
The story was very much the same except the intro cutscene was different and our names appeared in the credits at the end of ARR (Kaira Kimura).
I had all my job's at lvl 50 pretty much as I was fighting caner in my early 20's and was home in bed a lot so I just gamed to take my mind away from the real world. :) -
06-11-2019, 09:26 PMVilhem1. Yes. Everything we leveled in 1.x (including DoL and DoH) were carried over.Quote:
Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld
2. Yes. Before 1.x went down completely, there was a cut-off date where the devs announced that character progression would no longer be saved (past a certain date, if you say, got PLD to lvl 50, this would not be carried over to 2.x). This was so the devs could back up everyone's character data, including levels, items etc.
3. There was a different cutscene than the standard wagon one, also there was some NPC dialogue about how they couldn't remember you, but otherwise 2.x MSQ was the same quests.
4. You could choose to progress on whatever job you had leveled in 1.x, even if it was level 50 (DoW of course). Since SCH/SMN was the only non-50 job I had at the time, I chose to do the MSQ with it for the easy exp gain, then took over with BRD at level 50.
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06-11-2019, 10:20 PMAylis1) Yep! Any class/job I leveled in 1.0 carried over to 2.0Quote:
Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld
2) Also yep. Every piece of gear or item I got in 1.0 made its way to 2.0 with me.
3) We got a different intro and a few dialogue changes was all, the bulk of the MSQ stayed the same.
4) We could have yes if we wanted to. -
06-12-2019, 04:19 AMSarevok_ThordinQuote:
Originally Posted by Michiko
This is because some 1.0 players did not complete the storyline for 1.0 which concluded with fighting Nael Van Darnus. The tattoo I think came for players who had the legacy account status which was 3 months subbed during the finale, but in order to get the altered story content your character had to have notoriety for defeating Darnus and thus should have been remembered (But weren't, for reasons your storyline revealed). Anyone who didn't do that was considered a meteor survivor and arrived with the twins, otherwise you were one of the ones Lousoix sent through time from the battle of cartenu. -
06-12-2019, 07:34 AMLen
Since I entered ARR with all 50's, I decided to level Summoner through the main scenario since that was just released. :cool:
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06-12-2019, 08:06 AMTitaniaZeroI was one of the soft legacy players. My computer wasn't the happiest thing in the world before the game shut down for ARR work. So I missed out on the end the things, but I did have a decently high leveled Paladin and White Mage around that time and they kept their levels and I think gear. So ya my beginning of ARR was the same as every one else's who wasn't a legacy player.Quote:
Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld
And yes I did. I smote everything with my near 50 lvl charas. It wasn't until later that I realized had I done it with another class I could have saved all of that XP for it instead. XD -
06-12-2019, 08:22 AMCanadane
I remember walking into Sastasha in ARR and people accusing me of hacking because I was in full WAR AF.
Good times. -
06-12-2019, 08:42 AMNaria
Clearing up a few things:
The "Legacy Tattoo" which is also called "Mark of the Twelve" or /lmark in the game is for any character created in 1.0. One of my FC members has it who created his character at launch but stopped before he got far and never did any of the 1.0 story-lines. It isn't tied to legacy account status as any alt I create now doesn't have it.
In order to get the special CSs and mentions in ARR (and a few in HW) that recognize you as a 1.0 character you had to complete the Seventh Umbral story-line and defeat Nael. If you didn't the game treats you the same as a character created 2.0+.
The 1.0 Gobbue mount was a reward from a limited time quest in 1.0 with the Wandering Minstral. If you didn't complete the quest you didn't get the mount. The game was still no-sub for part of the period of that quest (it was up for a few months, I think). Edit: actually the no-sub I'm remembering may have been just a Welcome Back Campaign week.
"Legacy status" was granted to people who subbed a minimum of three months once the game started charging. Legacy status includes a permanently reduced sub price and the "legacy chocobo" which is a chocobo with black wing tips and the legacy mark on his beak. The chocobo is a account bound so any character created on a legacy account gets it. There is also a badge on your login page that indicates Legacy status.
Any player with Legacy status could sign up to have their character name or whatever name they wanted in the ARR credits, but it wasn't automatic. I'm a procrastinating procrastinator who procrastinates so my 1.0 character name isn't in the ARR credits. :(
Levels, gear, etc were retained for all 1.0 characters, although everything in your inventory was kicked to the Calamity Salvager (hence the name). Materia became cracked materia that could be traded in for new ones of the same level. Characters only retained 10% of the gil they had on them before the server save.
The ARR job quests and MSQ started from level 1 just like everyone else.
The job quests had mostly the same basic story in 1.0 and 2.0. The exception to this was whm, which was completely different and dealt with the Sixth Calamity and the coming Seventh.
If you bought the original version of FFXIV, you were given ARR(PC) for free.
Google probably isn't helping b/c the original version of the lodestone was deleted a few years ago. Some of this might be on the internet archive?
hmm, I think that's it? -
06-12-2019, 08:52 AMAvidriaLegacy tattoo makes me sad I didn't give the game a shot sooner. Doubt I'd have stayed long, knowing what I do, but it still would've been neat. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ColdGuy
Oh well. Really cool that they did all of that for legacy players, though. -
06-12-2019, 10:52 AMRannie
Also anyone who had used a 1.0 buddy pass was treated as if they had purchased the game in 1.0 (I never bought 1.0 version was given a buddy pass and have legacy status)
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06-12-2019, 11:36 AMADVSS
How different were the jobs skill base and abilities jumping from 1.x to 2.0? IIrc I heard PLD and BRD could heal pretty decently, despite in 2.0 cure was pretty weak on them as cc skills? Was it hard to adjust from the changes?
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06-12-2019, 12:52 PMSothis
Kept all my gear, levels, etc. Logged out on 1.x servers on my 50 DRG, logged in on a 50 DRG!
There's a couple things I can recall being different from standard 2.0 MSQ... there's a small extra voiced cutscene with Cid before the Garuda fight, where he mentions he remembers you, and flying you to the 1.x Nael fight. Minfilia remembers you, but talks about why it's best to keep who you are a secret. Everything else is just passing dialogues about how familiar you seem mostly. Oh, and then in one of the last Praetorium cutscenes there's a dialogue between the GC leaders and Cid; the GC leaders remember you, and Cid says something about you having saved the world twice. It's only in the base 2.0 MSQ that there's any differences at all though, once we started getting 2.x patches and onward, everything was exactly the same. -
06-12-2019, 01:04 PMKayokaneQuote:
Originally Posted by ADVSS
Things were interesting as a WHM, we used to have a skill/spell called "Sacred Prism" it turned out next Protect/Regen/Stoneskin spell into an AoE effect... I think it worked on other spells but I can't remember. Stone actually Combo'd into Stone II, and Aero into Aero II... Acc caps weren't in 1.x so WHM could DPS freely in all versions of FFXIV except ARR where they would miss horrendously without Acc melds :3 -
06-12-2019, 01:28 PMADVSSI rem reading about Sacred, wasnt there like a thm equivalent that turned single target offensive spells to aoe as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayokane
Also, I do remember missing with spells like Energy Drain, in coil it was horrible, when it happened. Seen a lot more Aero misses though. IIrc they started to add accuracy to caster/healer gear around the soldiery point because of those factors lol. -
06-12-2019, 02:25 PMRethDaron
I started fresh with a new character.
I miss out on my tattoo but my legacy character is still around if I decide to level him further. -
06-15-2019, 09:33 AMKayokaneQuote:
Originally Posted by ADVSS
I don't remember a THM equivalent to sacred prism, but earlier on before the first battle system update, CNJ and THM had a button to turn all their spells AoE (CNJ AoE was a circle around them, THM was a cone in front) -
06-15-2019, 10:23 AMEnkidohI just want to point out that is not actually correct: SE clarified the actual eligibility for the 'Legacy' story not long after launch, and it is not the Nael fight at the Rivenroad that determined the Legacy story for your character in ARR or not (as might have otherwise been expected), it was the earlier Lunar Transmitter fight at Castrum Novus:Quote:
Originally Posted by Naria
So there you are, that is the 'cut off' for starting ARR with the 'Legacy' cutscene and the extra dialogue throughout ARR (and your 1.0 exploits remembered) or not, you had to have taken down the Lunar Transmitter in 1.0, not Nael.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camate