Great Patch!

[Betelgeuzah]

The fact is that the population is low, and there's not many new players coming in, so gear in the lower levels is harder to come by, and from what I've seen pretty damn expensive.

The fact is, that the economy restarted. Now there is much more incentive to make low level gear, because gear actually matters. You can't just skip it anymore. More demand is created (and not just because old gear leaves the economy at a much more rapid rate), and that means profit to those who take advantage of it. Not to mention creating stuff is much easier now.

But it doesn't happen overnight and you need to wait for a while. Maybe that is unreasonable? Either way, not much can be done at this point yet.

[Blarp]

The fact is, that the economy restarted. Now there is much more incentive to make low level gear, because gear actually matters. You can't just skip it anymore. More demand is created (and not just because old gear leaves the economy at a much more rapid rate), and that means profit to those who take advantage of it. Not to mention creating stuff is much easier now.

But it doesn't happen overnight and you need to wait for a while. Maybe that is unreasonable? Either way, not much can be done at this point yet.

I'd prefer to play the game instead of wait for the economy to even out. I don't think it's unreasonable, but I do think it sucks. Maybe I'll try my hand at crafting some new clothes if things become too frustrating.

[Teth]

I read this whole thread because I was a bit schocked after playing for 30mins last night after patch the difference it made to my combat ability.

I played way back in beta but didn't pick it up at release because I knew it wasn't worth a sub then. Last week I picked up a copy in a local game shop because it was in a sale for £5. I've played maybe 15 hours since friday and reached 17 marauder as main job and leveled a few other things to 7 or so. I was pretty please with the game tbh and enjoying myself. I took to it like a duck to water and felt the difficulty was maybe a bit easy but the pacing was good giving access to story quests. Gil was an issue for me and I've only bought a couple of pieces of gear so far. I also took advice to buy late 20s early 30s gear as it would be the same price as low level gear and I'd grow into it. Obviously this is now false so I'll be set back a bit there until I can sell it.

Now my 1.19 ibservations. I am incredibly weak at 17 with the resources of a genuinely new player. The reduction in Gil from levs since beta means I have scraped together 70k between lvl 1 and 17 including the other couple of jobs I have leveled. I don't have a realistic chance of having a set of low level gear from markets. I am however going to look into making it myself. I'm duoing with a friend so we can split jobs between us and hopefully cover all the bases quickly.

When I say I'm incredibly weak I mean a level 16 rose raped me last night I had burned all my MP on cure used 2 bloodbaths with trunksplitter and had taken maybe 20% of it's life when it killed me. A level 20 1star Lev I tried 1shot me. This is a night and day change. I went from 980 HP to 380HP my damage is around 1/3 of what it was.

I'm going to do allot more experimentation tongiht but on the face of it this feels bad at new player level. New players have little idea of game mechanics and limited or non existent resources to experiment. The game should be educating you in it's systems at that point and giving you a chance to develope the knowledge and skills.

patch 1.19 feels like sprinting into a glass door right now.

[Sehro]

patch is awesome but full of annoying bugs for me...cant fight ifrit and cant change my main weapon to conjurer ...i dont even feel like reporting : ( ..

[Sontawila]

- Changes to Battle classes was necessary but not to end up with underpowered classes that cant hold his own when battling more than one enemy his level
- Slow regen rate and longer abilities recast translates to longer unnecessary grinding
- Changes to raw mat results translates to atleast 400%~600% longer time and more expensive leveling up

I think this patch brought us a lot closer to FFXI which is a VERY bad thing. Not saying FFXI is bad, but I play FFXIV for its own merits not becuase it cloned another dating and already changing game.

[Zenaku]

- Changes to Battle classes was necessary but not to end up with underpowered classes that cant hold his own when battling more than one enemy his level
- Slow regen rate and longer abilities recast translates to longer unnecessary grinding
- Changes to raw mat results translates to atleast 400%~600% longer time and more expensive leveling up

I think this patch brought us a lot closer to FFXI which is a VERY bad thing. Not saying FFXI is bad, but I play FFXIV for its own merits not becuase it cloned another dating and already changing game.

Forgot that jobs= more powerful and better for party? once that happen i bet class would be better for soloing like they said it going to be.

[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

[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!!!