Great Patch!

[Arcell]

No, I'm stuck with the weathered stuffs unfortunately. I have 20k gil. How am I supposed to afford to buy a new weapon and full set of gear every few levels this early? All is well until I have to fight a pack of three mobs, and then it's just rape. I leveled all of the battlecraft and spellcraft jobs to 10 and my Lancer, the guy who I'm doing the leves on, gets smashed.

You could join a linkshell that actually supports its members and helps keep them well geared.

[Drust]

Lol insane exp from leves? I just did leves, fighting guys 2 levels above me, and even with the guardian favor i was getting less exp per kill than guys 2 levels below me. The only thing that makes up for this is the extra exp at the end of the leve. But with the slower kills this kinda off sets that.

[Drust]

It is however not nearly as bad as i thought, finally found some places where every monster wasn't already dead. Funny how much arguing has come out of a simple post.

[Murugan]

I agree great patch.

Also many people are getting much more XP than before the patch. You could follow their advice (for solo, duo, groups, mid level, high level, guildleves or grind) or you can whine. The great thing about 1.19 is it gives you options!!!

[Auriane]

i started this game with beta and got bored a month after release..... hoping for ranks was no fun, seriously.
now i came back 3 days ago, because i wanted to see what happened so far and what 1.19 will bring. When i logged on after patch i was like: WTF what happend to my life and my dmg. hit a mob i was exping on yesterday and died....

but then my friend and me just went out to find a new camp to duo at... and we did lvl 25-30 this afternoon, was alot of fun. For sure this patch was a great change, but i like it and maybe some ppl should give it a real try before whining

[Geesus]

So far the patch is nothing but a god send imo. My whole LS had a blast figuring out what's new, what changed, how does this new w/e effect this spell, this buff and so on. We did notice balance issues but not bad ones all issues we as players could take advantage of. If you figured out what we did Durst, you would NOT be upset LMAO. Trust me, you can severly power level with ease to 50 or w/e it is you want to do. Personally, not going that route. We all noticed our Mages gained HP while losing some MP pool but, most of us had so much MP we didn't know wtf to do with it all so this was a nice change and a challenge for us. Siphon MP I/II is RIDICULOUS now on living and dead mobs... Yes, you don't have to go out and find mobs 10+ levels above you anymore to get massive XP. They did balance it out to more the EM,DC,EP stype XI mob stat. So now you can actually work up your job in areas you won't or shouldn't be worried about crazy aggro.

IDK, spend some more time playing instead of complaining and try to see WHY things were changed as they were and try to understand how it makes the game BETTER and not so bland.

[pool842]

I am really tired of all the *** from this community. the damage is not less its *** balanced it will increase with gear and new spells/skills. This is an MMO single mob xp should be doable but not the best way to get it period. Healing is not slower. You just can't cant cue spells now. They off set this by raising the amount of healing DONE I was doing 750 before patch and now I am healing for 890, they also increased HP pools. WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO BALANCE. it now makes sense that a rank 30 mob does not break my Stone Skin 2 in 3 hits now its takes a mob 6 to 10 hits if they are not close to my level. Anyway my point is if you don't have evidence to back up your claims then shut *** up... I am not saying this because i am raging I am saying this because I want this game to be great. I really do appreciate the hard work this DEV team puts into the game and I am looking forward to the future of FFXIV. My conjurer has never worked better thanks to this patch not to mention that AM spells actually work now lol, I don't get 2 shot with full buffs from mobs almost the same rank as me. Passive casting, and damage calculations that actually make sense.

[Tiamat]

Love the patch so far.

[Biggs]

They are not discussing the bad stuff, its more like making the good stuff sound like bad stuff

First off, whats good for you may not seem good to everyone else. Second, I challenge you to start a new character on a server you know noone on and get to 20 on one job in a day. Until then, miss "Ihave4jobsat50", you should really do some homework before you start ranting about how easy this is, because without other skills like cure from other jobs, leveling lancer from 1-20 without forming parties (which this game isn't currently setup to do easily) is gonna take way longer than a day.

Dont missunderstand me, I actually like the changes myself, and I am pleased that you can no longer go from level 1-12 in 3 leves. But new people don't want to hear some person thats been playing since launch and hasnt actually had to do any work in the new conditions go on about how easy it is.

That being said, love the new patch, and I hope that they keep the changes coming.

[GreatLeviathan]

I am really tired of all the *** from this community. the damage is not less its *** balanced it will increase with gear and new spells/skills. This is an MMO single mob xp should be doable but not the best way to get it period. Healing is not slower. You just can't cant cue spells now. They off set this by raising the amount of healing DONE I was doing 750 before patch and now I am healing for 890, they also increased HP pools. WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO BALANCE. it now makes sense that a rank 30 mob does not break my Stone Skin 2 in 3 hits now its takes a mob 6 to 10 hits if they are not close to my level. Anyway my point is if you don't have evidence to back up your claims then shut *** up... I am not saying this because i am raging I am saying this because I want this game to be great. I really do appreciate the hard work this DEV team puts into the game and I am looking forward to the future of FFXIV. My conjurer has never worked better thanks to this patch not to mention that AM spells actually work now lol, I don't get 2 shot with full buffs from mobs almost the same rank as me. Passive casting, and damage calculations that actually make sense.

Oh yeah i hate some of the people on this forum too.
Don't know why they are on these forums... They can always go play some WoL.. World of Lowlifes :-)
I love the patch and i LOVE the chocobo's
FFXIV is becoming a master of the MMO's