Realm Awoken video

[Marzapan]

SE has to prioritize. If in fact MOST players aren't up to coil yet, SE should be making more mid to high level content. Leaves some of us in the lurch though.
I'm only 'farming' T1 & T2. I don't consider myself to be hardcore at all. Infact, the opposite.
But my wishlist remains the same. 2 end game dungeons. Variety is the spice of life after all.

[Sasagawa]

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OK

Firstly may I ask why you play this game at all ?

Your post indicates that you do not play for fun or embrace and experience gaming with other people outside your own social circle.

I have said this before to many people --- A game is what you make of it !

Fates are fun if you get a party of 8 people from friends or PUG and go to areas noone bothers with, yes its not the best EXP but its still 12-18k most of the time and a lot more entertaining.

Another great bit of fun is big game hunting with a healer friend --> Basically go to a large fate area on a tank class that well geared and tank the bosses for the fate grinders its a challenge trying to keep hate against many tanks and good fun.

There are many other fun things to do like helping random parties through hydra/titan etc with a good group of 4 people.

On to your point about Free companies (NOT GUILDS):

This is probably my biggest annoyance in this game thanks to FCs the mentality of "I will only do things with my FC(guild) has entered FF" Here is an idea that worked in FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 join multiple LS have multiple friends outside you FC as essentially an FC is meaningless apart from a few extra perks like housing and minute bonuses.

An example is my coil group, we have a great time playing together pretty much every night and you know what we have about 5 different FCs between us.

how did we find each other ?

well funnily enough I run a cross FC LS with about 25 different FCs in it and guess what ?

when people ask for help I go help. I have helped any other FCs out when they needed a tank or a healer and made friends with many of them as such I made a name for myself in these FCs as a "good player" and from there I was asked to join a number of coil statics and other statics.

Basically what I am saying is this patch is great for people who actually want to do different things in game with different people, and experience not only loot but also have fun with the quests.

I really pity the people in restrictive FCs that state you cant do anything outside the FC.

Also Duty roulette again is designed to integrate the community and help people !, if more people helped others this community would not be in toilet its currently in.

[Lukahn]

Am I the only one who is actually excited that the actual MAIN STORY is progressing?

That's what I'm excited about! I'm actually surprised that it's been barely even mentioned by devs until this trailer came out!

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

good job SE! I am excited and can't wait!

[Lord_Zlatan]

*Spits drink*

yeah, its pretty much maximum ownage.

[Lukahn]

I'm excited, but it depends how and what. Will we have to beat Twintania to see more of it? Because there's already some story cliff hanger after you beat Twintania, does it expand on this or is it before it? I think it'd kind of stink if it's story before Twintania because I want to know wtf is going on in there and why did he just walk away.

I doubt it. I haven't seen that part yet, but whatever happens after twintania is probably just going to be hanging there until they release more of the coil. Same will be the case with whatever storyline the Crystal Tower carries with it.

[Altera]

Content wise this patch is MASSIVE. I havent seen any patch in WOWs history that contained this many things to dive into. And Hildibrand; YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I have been dying to see his return.

Serious nerdgasm overload from this Patch video :3 CANT WAIT ^^

[Velhart]

I'm excited, but it depends how and what. Will we have to beat Twintania to see more of it? Because there's already some story cliff hanger after you beat Twintania, does it expand on this or is it before it? I think it'd kind of stink if it's story before Twintania because I want to know wtf is going on in there and why did he just walk away.

I believe Coils is it's own storyline. Yoshida in an interview mentioned once that in the game we would be taking on three story lines.

One is the main scenario, dealing with the Garlean Empire and Ascians, which from the looks of it, is what we are continuing.

Second is the beast tribes and primals. Which consist of the beastmen daily quests and primal battles.

Third is the Binding Coils of Bahamut itself. Which revolves around the mystery of what happened to Louisoix and Bahamut at the end of the 6th Astral Era. Not directly related to main scenario story line.

[Xatsh]

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Drastic different mentalities is the core issue.

In XI is was exactly the same way. An endgame shell (guild) what ever you want to call it focused on doing almost everything in house. It was all about bringing together everyone to do things that you could not do alone. I was about improving efficiency and working together. Guild > The individual. That was the key to keeping XI alive for so long, it was the bonds formed in that game. Was the same in old EQ, Lineage, and Old WoW to an extent honestly.

XIV is tearing guilds apart left or right. The content is centered around individual progression not guild. You are forced to split up groups of friends due to forced lowman in everything, the lockouts are just another punch to the gut of someone trying to run something formal instead of a free for all random event.

I do not play for only fun. I play for my guild, I play for the friendships I made over the past 10yrs within my guild. It is why I put in dozens of hours a week outside the game doing things with my website and various other projects for my guild. This is NOT just a game, MMOs are suppost to go much further than that. Call of Duty, Pokemon, LoL are just games... a mmo is suppose to be much more. Sadly now it is not.

My FC will not allow people to do things outside FC... at least main events. Because we want to grow ourselves, we want to work together to advance, we want to strengthen the bonds that kept this guild together for now almost 10yrs. A Guild is not a social chat channel, it never will be.

[Size]

That's a sumo-like stomp animation, you cheeky lala.

I hope in the opening scene he throws salt in the air too!