The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

[Eldaena]

Why is everyone so anti-Gridania? =( I can understand the mazelike grounds of the Black Shroud are certainly tedious at times, but the desert-y terrain of Thanalan, and the constant ranch-by-the-sea grounds in La Noscea are too. I"m sure we've all felt the effects of it. The best thing to do is find the beauty that you didn't notice before or just simply ignore it and move on to your destination. =p My point is all areas have some tediousness to them. ^-^; and though I agree that the Black Shroud's can sometimes feel like the worst, doesn't mean Gridania needs to burn! D=

Also, I playfully went around some of the camps last night in the Black Shroud and I didn't see anything odd. I'm really not sure what to think of all this. =/

[Xmbei]

Still agree with the statement wait till next week, or due to golden week, wait till the 9th.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Very true, however I kinda get the feeling that what they are doing with the story is more for our benefit to explain things that they are changing. Kinda hard to explain but basically I think come the "relaunch" (when they think it's good enough to pay for possibly PS3 release) they will have already restructured all the story missions and things, so they won't see any of this stuff when they start. Kind of like we are in a prequel of sorts to the actual game so we get to experience the changes to the lands and the story of how and why it happened but for new players it will have already happened.

I only played WoW on the trial while the servers where down because of the earthquake but did Cataclysm bring something similar? My LS friends who joined me who had played before were telling me "oh this is different" and "it wasn't like this before" but to me never having played it before it just all seemed normal.

In an interview with Yoshi P. they asked him what he thought FFXIV 1 year anniversary would bring and he said it would be when new players and old players would return and current players would tell them that all this stuff has happened and we need to save the world, something like that anyway. I kinda get that this is what he was hinting at.

I'd love the world to change because of the umbral age, but no matter how you look at it... it's a huge undertaking. The only reason why I say this is to point out that no one should expect this any time soon. Should just take this along with the new side quests that were implemented recently about Grand Companies. Everyone is seeing signs of the age coming and are starting to prepare.

I mostly read this message as the age is about to be here and that grand companies will be making their way into the game very soon.

[Xmbei]

I'd love the world to change because of the umbral age, but no matter how you look at it... it's a huge undertaking. The only reason why I say this is to point out that no one should expect this any time soon. Should just take this along with the new side quests that were implemented recently about Grand Companies. Everyone is seeing signs of the age coming and are starting to prepare.

I mostly read this message as the age is about to be here and that grand companies will be making their way into the game very soon.

Sound's like what I think will happen.

[AlexiaKidd]

I still think it's a possibility, lets face it they haven't been doing nothing all this time. They have different teams working on different things and what we have seen so far is not everything they have ready. I really think that they may surprise us, obviously they can't do anything until the battle system is ready so we are waiting on the Battle team to finish that up and we have no idea the extent to what they have done but they have obviously been working on it for a while.

What about the other teams, the map designers they could have been working on the redesign this whole time, the team that do the quests and story have obviously been working on something too, they all have been working on things and we have not seen the fruits of their labour yet, well I hope not as if that is the case then I would be very disappointed in the amount of work they have put in for how big the team is.

[Xmbei]

I am very interested in Battle System, round 3. I hope as the saying goes 3rd time is the charm. I hate button mashing... I know the battle system changes are going to take a few updates. I just hope the Auto attack comes in the first update.

[Jinrya-Geki]

As a conjurer if you want to see BIG NUMBARZ on NMs, participate in battle regimens. Throw a spirit dart on top of a phys defense debuff to get the magic defense debuff. Then throw a spell with profundity on the very top of a WS regimen. We've seen 1k+ regularly, reaching as high as 3.5k.

Can you show me a video of that, I can't believe that considering I have done that before. And what are you stats and equipment? If you can show me a video of you doing 1k damage regular with a conjurer spell, not shadowsear, using profundity II and timing it perfectly to land at the top of a Battle Regiment I ill believe you.

[Xmbei]

Can you show me a video of that, I can't believe that considering I have done that before. And what are you stats and equipment? If you can show me a video of you doing 1k damage regular with a conjurer spell, not shadowsear, using profundity II and timing it perfectly to land at the top of a Battle Regiment I ill believe you.

I don't have a video but I can say as a pug a normal victimize 1 I would do 80(NM)-500(normal mob) but when I put it in a WS battle regime with spells in it I am doing 1k-3k damage victimize.

*edit* Also one of my friends and NM LS leader is a gladiator tank, leveling con at the moment he is 48 con, and he in TANK gear not mage gear, dealed solo (since the rest of us were 1 shot dead lol) 30% damage to a Widowmaker which is 20+ levels over r50 as a mage. So I don't know what your gear/spec situation is, but I also think might need some more points in Piety. Oh and your a CON? and it looks like you have been evenly putting your ele stat points over all the ele's. Word of advice, as the developers said, if you evenly distribute ele points you will do mediocry damage, but if you lets say specific to 1 or 2 elements you will do more damage with those elements and might stick with those elemental spells.

[AlexiaKidd]

Yeah on Archer I can throw out 2.5k with Quick Nock when thrown on top of a huge BR pretty easily and if our mage throws something on top of that then she can easily throw out the big numbers too.

Next time we fight something of interest I will throw it on a vid for you, if you want.

[Mishakai]

Burn Gridania Burn?