No legacy mark on my character ?

So I bought the collectors edition of 1.0, created a character on Excalibur server and played during the free 30 day trial. I didn't enjoy the game back then so I stopped playing after. Come ARR, I made a new character in Siren and was given the onion helm. I deleted my old character in Excalibur. I didn't realize that 1.0 characters would have the legacy mark.

Fast forward years later, I attempted to recover my deleted character, and while the GMs were able to locate my character, they said this account does not qualify for legacy status, not even the legacy mark.

From what I understand, the only requirement to get the legacy mark was to have a character created in 1.0, which I did, but why are the GMs telling me that I don't qualify?

You had to reach a certain point and also maybe have subbed, from what I recall.

I couldn't tell you what script or flowchart the GMs are looking at to determine that you don't qualify, but the only requirement for the legacy mark is that the character was created during 1.x and carried over after 2.0 beta4/early access.

the legacy mark only shows up on characters created in 1.0 i myself am a legacy player and the mark only shows up on my main character it doesnt show up on any of my alts that i created from 2.0 onward

The legacy tattoo is on any character created in 1.0. This is separate from the legacy campaign which granted the chocobo and reduced sub.

if that's the case, why wouldn't I qualify for it? I didn't delete my character during 1.0, if it was carried over to ARR, why would the GMs say I don't qualify for the legacy mark?

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Originally Posted by lafayette

if that's the case, why wouldn't I qualify for it? I didn't delete my character during 1.0, if it was carried over to ARR, why would the GMs say I don't qualify for the legacy mark?

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The account doesn't qualify for the mark. The character if restored does, but only that character. It's also not something gms have control over. Either the character has the flag for the mark or it doesn't.

/legacymark will turn it on and off.

Did you try the /legacymark on command and talking to the calamity salvager to retrieve old items?

This tells you what was needed to be a legacy account and I can attest to it since I am a legacy player... if you stopped playing then you are not one


https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_Campaign

You also had to reach the point of the Lunar transmitter in the story for it as well

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Originally Posted by Rannie

This tells you what was needed to be a legacy account and I can attest to it since I am a legacy player... if you stopped playing then you are not one


https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_Campaign

You also had to reach the point of the Lunar transmitter in the story for it as well

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This doesn't say anything about the legacy mark though. I'm not looking to get the discounted sub, or the chocobo, i'm just talking about the legacy mark.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

The account doesn't qualify for the mark. The character if restored does, but only that character. It's also not something gms have control over. Either the character has the flag for the mark or it doesn't.

/legacymark will turn it on and off.

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Yea, i understand, but the GM is telling me even if i restore my old character, that character wouldn't get a legacy mark because i don't qualify for it. I don't understand why don't I qualify when I met all the requirements.

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Originally Posted by lafayette

Yea, i understand, but the GM is telling me even if i restore my old character, that character wouldn't get a legacy mark because i don't qualify for it. I don't understand why don't I qualify when I met all the requirements.

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I dont think the GM understood the question. You need to get past that part. YOU don't qualify for the legacy mark. The character, when restored, will have the mark, if it is indeed the 1.0 character. Nothing else matters or is relevant.


Its not a separate thing that gets enabled on a character. The GMs have no ability to look at or change anything. Its in the char data itself.

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Originally Posted by Rannie

This tells you what was needed to be a legacy account and I can attest to it since I am a legacy player... if you stopped playing then you are not one


https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_Campaign

You also had to reach the point of the Lunar transmitter in the story for it as well

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Pretty sure there was no story requirement because I only got to like level 30 or so before bailing on 1.0, but I paid my sub long enough and got the tattoo and legacy status on my account.

I think the Lunar Transmitter was only required to flag all the bonus cutscene stuff during ARR.

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Originally Posted by lafayette

Yea, i understand, but the GM is telling me even if i restore my old character, that character wouldn't get a legacy mark because i don't qualify for it. I don't understand why don't I qualify when I met all the requirements.

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I wonder if maybe the GM is conflating the legacy mark with the legacy account. Or maybe since it was deleted, it internally deleted the flag stating it was created in 1.0.

At any rate, if they do a retore, is there any negative for you? Like is it just a matter of "lets see what the character comes back with", or is it going to freeze your account for an uncertain amount of time while SE works? Would it delete any other characters, etc?

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

I wonder if maybe the GM is conflating the legacy mark with the legacy account. Or maybe since it was deleted, it internally deleted the flag stating it was created in 1.0.

At any rate, if they do a retore, is there any negative for you? Like is it just a matter of "lets see what the character comes back with", or is it going to freeze your account for an uncertain amount of time while SE works? Would it delete any other characters, etc?

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Well, I believe this is one of those one time request per account. So if I ask to restore, and that character doesn't have the legacy mark, that would mean I can no longer ask the GM to restore any other characters attached to this account.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I dont think the GM understood the question. You need to get past that part. YOU don't qualify for the legacy mark. The character, when restored, will have the mark, if it is indeed the 1.0 character. Nothing else matters or is relevant.


Its not a separate thing that gets enabled on a character. The GMs have no ability to look at or change anything. Its in the char data itself.

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So you're saying that I should take the chance and ask for the restore? I'd be really disappointed if the character has no mark lol cause that character is only a level 1 and i'd have used up my one time request.

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Originally Posted by lafayette

So you're saying that I should take the chance and ask for the restore? I'd be really disappointed if the character has no mark lol cause that character is only a level 1 and i'd have used up my one time request.

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The 1 time request doesnt matter, just don't delete any more characters you play. Theres no reason to.

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Originally Posted by lafayette

Well, I believe this is one of those one time request per account. So if I ask to restore, and that character doesn't have the legacy mark, that would mean I can no longer ask the GM to restore any other characters attached to this account.

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Ahh, so bit of a tough call possibly. I know in all my years of playing I've never needed to use the one-time restore, but I also realize that we all have different circumstances and situations that may pop up with our accounts. Personally, I'd probably be waaay too curious to NOT do the restore. lol.

But yeah, definitely give that one a think.

The legacy status from 1.0 required 3 paid months of sub time, but the legacy 1.0 tattoo really was only supposed to required that you have played 1.0 - not even paid for it, just played even for a little while.

Like everyone else said, try turning on the tattoo using the command.

It might be that they can't restore the mark, you did say the character was deleted years ago so maybe their system can't confirm if the character was a legacy character or not so they won't give the mark, or maybe since it was deleted it doesn't keep the flag?

You needed to be a paid member for I think 3 months in 1.x between Dates X and Y.
That is the part your missing.
I wish I got the map that I was do for 1.xx but didn't submit it.

to get the forever reduced rate and legacy.

I played 1.x
when the legacy got announced, I got my hubby a copy even knowning his PC couldn't play it.

We paid for his 3 months and he tried to play it.
in the end we both got legacy.

if the character is only lvl 1 then i wouldnt really bother using the one time restore, unless you wear the emperors new chest or any type of chest gear that exposes your back then you'll never even see the tattoo anyways, i got the tattoo and the only time i ever see it is when iam wearing the lvl 90 astrologian AF since it has an open back, none of my other gearsets show it. personally i think the 1.0 goob is better then the tattoo

Thanks for the input everyone, I have decided to try my luck and restore my 1.0 character. I hope that character will get legacy mark. I'll update you guys when I find out.

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Originally Posted by lafayette

So I bought the collectors edition of 1.0, created a character on Excalibur server and played during the free 30 day trial. I didn't enjoy the game back then so I stopped playing after. Come ARR, I made a new character in Siren and was given the onion helm. I deleted my old character in Excalibur. I didn't realize that 1.0 characters would have the legacy mark.

Fast forward years later, I attempted to recover my deleted character, and while the GMs were able to locate my character, they said this account does not qualify for legacy status, not even the legacy mark.

From what I understand, the only requirement to get the legacy mark was to have a character created in 1.0, which I did, but why are the GMs telling me that I don't qualify?

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I think the character deletion may be the problem here.

I'm not a legacy player myself but I've been searching google for information about the mark. While others are correct that the mark is not related to the Legacy Campaign, some posts note that there were still additional requirements such as the character had to be successfully transferred/imported into A Realm Reborn. I'm wondering if you deleted the character before it was considered successfully transferred into ARR and that is why the GMs say the character isn't eligible. If you had logged in and played the character for even one minute during ARR, that should have counted as a successful transfer. But if you never logged onto it at all before deleting it in ARR, that might have prevented the data flag from being set properly.

I've tried searching for official Square Enix sources about the correct transfer process but the only link I can find is dead because it was part of the old Lodestone that was later replaced. You might want to try the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive to see if you can find the post from the old Lodestone archived there.

As others have said, it is not the account that would be eligible for the tattoo. It is only the character created in 1.0 that would be eligible. Perhaps you need to rephrase your question to the GMs to refer to the character and not the account?

Edit: here's a link to the post on the current Lodestone that had the link to the old Lodestone that no longer works
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...04813522366069

I think due your char is deleted

I mean, if you are not deleted.
This is might be an issue

But you char basically is gone into trash bin. So, during transition 1.x to 2.0 only existing got the flag for legacy tatto.

I mean why even bother to set flag char that already been put into trash bin.

Therefore you can try requesting to support, mayhap you can get it.


Currently i am trying as well, i have 3 chars delete during 1.xx due we dont have fantasia at that time period.

I will let you know if it's working

Update: I recovered my character and it comes with a legacy mark! woohoo! Thanks for the advice everyone.

Legacy mark just requires you to have created a character in 1.0 and then import that character information into ARR when you first signed up (the system would have mentioned it on the character selection screen the first time you start ARR that there is 1.0 character data to be imported.) You can have a level 1 1.0 character that you never played and it would still be available to be imported to ARR and have the Legacy mark.

Of course, deleted 1.0 characters might be more difficult, as it's unclear if SE bothered converting the character data to ARR for that (my boyfriend for instance only had his second 1.0 character available to import into ARR, his original 1.0 character he created which he had deleted in 1.0 years ago, was not available.).

So if you deleted your 1.0 character in 1.0 before ARR, then it's probably gone forever I'm sorry to say.

EDIT: congrats! Welcome to the Legacy club! (I'm pretty confident incidentally that the Legacy mark is meant to be of the Mothercrystal, representing Hydaelyn naturally... but I digress).

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Originally Posted by lafayette

Update: I recovered my character and it comes with a legacy mark! woohoo! Thanks for the advice everyone.

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Congrats! I'm glad it worked out for you.

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Update: I recovered my character and it comes with a legacy mark! woohoo! Thanks for the advice everyone.

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Congrats on the cool back tat! Wear swimsuit tops forever.

To get the Legacy status and tattoo, you needed to have 90 days total subscription paid for after they started the subscription until they shut down the servers. Having a character just created in 1.0 doesnt matter sadly.

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Originally Posted by Altera

To get the Legacy status and tattoo, you needed to have 90 days total subscription paid for after they started the subscription until they shut down the servers. Having a character just created in 1.0 doesnt matter sadly.

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You are referring to the Legacy Campaign and account status, which gives a discounted subscription fee along with other small rewards.

For legacy tattoos, the character only needed to exist in 1.23 and be transferred to ARR. It's a character-bound trait, not an account reward.

Also, you can see above that the OP had their character restored and now have the tattoo.

I tried and was told too much time has passed to restore it.

Nevermind, they misunderstood. I found it on an old deleted Lalafell. A shame I cannot get this transferred to my main character. Surely it's just a flag they can enable?