Inside the first Dungeons

[Zomb]

Can members of companies from different cities party together on these? Or does everyone have to have the quest from the same nation?

[Elkwood]

Yes We had members from Limsa and Uldah

[Irishwars]

You fucking people are insane, guy told me all the servers were down, i realized he was wrong and deleted my post. In that 30 seconds people had already replied lol. Well it shows people are still active with FFXIV, atleast with the boards.

My bad

[Xatsh]

Eye uses its aoe attack in static places it seems, so if you know its pathing it can be avoided. It does not actually agro anyone just roams and uses its AOEs at certain spots.

[Xatsh]

I will give you my synopsis of the dungeons before the game errored on me.

It starts off very easy mobs spread out with that Eye randomly roaming.

It is a strait line in the start with branches coming off it with random large room with locks you have to unlock to open the doors to continue. There are random chest across the dungeons, got a grade 5 repair item from the one we open when I was there. Some larger rooms farther into the chambers.

The farther in you go the more condensed the mobs get and harder it is to avoid the Eye... Like it circles a room where you have to stand near a lock to open it.

I dced about 18mins in so I only got like 1/3 in, I will update you all as I get info from vent.

IF you dc you cannot reenter the dungeon. You get a message you have been removed from the dungeon due to connectivity issues, people in the instance are not allowed to invite people.

[Preypacer]

I will give you my synopsis of the dungeons before the game errored on me.

It starts off very easy mobs spread out with that Eye randomly roaming.

It is a strait line in the start with branches coming off it with random large room with locks you have to unlock to open the doors to continue. There are random chest across the dungeons, got a grade 5 repair item from the one we open when I was there. Some larger rooms farther into the chambers.

The farther in you go the more condensed the mobs get and harder it is to avoid the Eye... Like it circles a room where you have to stand near a lock to open it.

I dced about 18mins in so I only got like 1/3 in, I will update you all as I get info from vent.

IF you dc you cannot reenter the dungeon. You get a message you have been removed from the dungeon due to connectivity issues, people in the instance are not allowed to invite people.

What do you think about the layout so far? I mean, is it at least *interesting*, something worthy of a FF game? Or does it feel fairly generic fantasty RPG dungeon-ish?

Also, about the issue with DC'ing... That can be a problem... hope they fix it. Perhaps have it where at least half the people from your group have to be inside the instance, dead or alive, to allow you back in. If everyone in the group mysteriously DC's at the same time (short of a legitimate server crash affecting everyone on the server), then it can be assumed that the group was trying to pull some force-DC trick to avoid a wipe from a bad pull or something; seen that used in other MMOs.

[Xatsh]

well new report from the LS is there is more then 1 floor to the thing... which means you cannot fight everything in your path or it will be a quick timeout.

[Xatsh]

Atm it seems to be a copy of a WoWish Western dungeons. It is a strait path more or less with a few side paths with mobs and stuff in them.

The design is horribly disappointing in my opinion, was hoping for salvage like with multiple task and such. It is a standard mainstream dungeon layout.

[Preypacer]

Atm it seems to be a copy of a WoWish Western dungeons. It is a strait path more or less with a few side paths with mobs and stuff in them.

The design is horribly disappointing in my opinion, was hoping for salvage like with multiple task and such. It is a standard mainstream dungeon layout.

Well that's kind of disappointing.

Hopefully they get a bit more creative with future dungeons. Stuff with multiple paths, drop-downs, traps, puzzles, etc... Although, given that there's a time-limit, it could be that these particular dungeons are meant more for "get through and get it over with" type of content.

Maybe (hopefully) they have ideas for different types of dungeons in mind and others will be more elaborate and varied.

(this is me being hopeful and optimistic :-p)

[Elkwood]

Very 1 dimensional 1 path not multiple like salvage, We only got through the first floor lol We are on the 2nd floor now with 3 minutes left