Patch 1.18 Appreciation thread, babies need not apply.

[SHJcules]

Agreed, I have only just now had time to sit down and play with 1.18, but I am already very pleased! so my critique just being 45 mins into it;

-AA is flippin' fun and engaging, takes some getting used to (and needs a little polish) but I am finally using and utilizing my entire bag of tricks and abilities. And when I want to use an ability it fires instantly
-Leve counter lag was noticeably reduced
-was able to free up 15 inv slots thanks to dark matter
-Companies seem fun and have a lot of potential for the future
-Really enjoy the new leve systems. brave, clever, and efficient soloing seems greatly rewarded
-local leve completion rewards is very welcome, a lot of the pain of grinding high ranks of craft classes has been sanded down. and motivates you to try and turn in quality goods
-actually saw some players running around Limsa Lominsa

gonna stop writing and get back to testing, err enjoying it! This is really turning into the game I wanted to buy back in September

[Altera]

Im still stuck on downloading the patch, extremely slow for some reason. Cant wait Im very new to FFXIV, about 3-4days into it now, enjoying leveling CON +THM and other professions.

Such a real pleasure getting away from WoW after 5-6years. I needed a new mmo that felt unique and not another WoW clone like Rift WoW made me totally overlook FFXI, but Im glad to play this atm. See you ingame, well on Saronia anyway.

[KaiKatzchen]

I am very please with the update for the most part, the things I am not pleased about I'll get used too and keep chugging along.

Over all, good job SE.

[SHJcules]

Im still stuck on downloading the patch, extremely slow for some reason. Cant wait Im very new to FFXIV, about 3-4days into it now, enjoying leveling CON +THM and other professions.

Such a real pleasure getting away from WoW after 5-6years. I needed a new mmo that felt unique and not another WoW clone like Rift WoW made me totally overlook FFXI, but Im glad to play this atm. See you ingame, well on Saronia anyway.

Well welcome to XIV!

It seems the big beginner tutorials are a work in progress at the moment, but the community is generally helpful to new players should you be feeling mind boggled or a little on the lost side. (Though the forums may seem feisty right after a big patch like this )

[Misha]

Doomspike's new animation is awesome; I really freaking love it.

Yep... lnc's finally get their first "Jump"

[Alexis_Arteme]

I haven't noticed any difference in the Leves. Where exactly is the difference? Are 5 star leves easy to do now, or something?

[thenewzero]

I was pleasantly surprised by how Auto-Attack felt. I was one of the people who didn't really think it was necessary (though I didn't mind it). But it's really made the combat feel more fluid and responsive. It's a little on the slow side, but the basis is solid, it just needs tweaking. I'm still holding off a bit on investing a lot of time into the game until we know more about Jobs, or when they are released, but so far I like what I'm seeing. Has anyone checked out those 'mini-settlements'? I haven't had time to.

[SHJcules]

I haven't noticed any difference in the Leves. Where exactly is the difference? Are 5 star leves easy to do now, or something?

Haven't had much time to test them all. But so far it seems they adjusted the spawn conditions on most of them. More enemies just appear randomly, instead of all of them showing instantly when you start a Leve. Defense Leves were adjusted, the times are shorter and the waves faster and alternate differently between mob types. Mob levels in higher stars were adjusted, they seem a lot more appropriate now and I don't find myself engaged with enemies 10-15 ranks above me when I'm trying to get some decent SPs. Got a nice 5k sp completion bonus on 3 staring a rank 40 leve, at rank 48 the highest enemy I engaged solo was a r51 toad.

so yeah a few differences that I have noticed I've only done five leves so far so I am sure many more surprises to come

[Nabiri]

I haven't seen much of patch 1.18 yet but I'm already very pleased. SE has been working very hard for everyone. Good job SE!

[Balbanes]

1.18 is a great start to the much needed changes and adjustments to XIV. Keep it up, Yoshi-P.