good luck to all players without 50 dow, craft, and 10 mil gil.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Ingrates need to go play another game.

Seriously: youre pissed because you have to wear optimal gear now? Say hello to the rest of the Mmo genre.

Youre pissed because a lot of lvl50s already exist in game? Maybe if you dropped the bandwagon mentality a long time ago and survived the bad times with the rest of us, then you would have multiple 50s too.

"U mad bro?" because their are already players with claim on the market? Look back at my first two points.

If you even stick around i would highly advise you quit expecting an easy ride or to have everything easily given to you. Match the amount of effort and pain all of us vets went through THEN you can come onto our forums and complain about this awesome patch that brought ffxiv out of the dark ages.

[Forbin]

wait you mean you can't wear gear 40 levels over your level and get bonus'?!?! BLASPHEMY! Ugh how does every MMO get by? IT MAKES IT TO HARD FOR TEH NOOBS! geezus some of you people make me laugh.. amazing change.. now gear is worthwhile from 1-50.

[PrettyPrincess]

wait you mean you can't wear gear 40 levels over your level and get bonus'?!?! BLASPHEMY! Ugh how does every MMO get by? IT MAKES IT TO HARD FOR TEH NOOBS! geezus some of you people make me laugh.. amazing change.. now gear is worthwhile from 1-50.

For some reason I read noobs as boobs...made an interesting sounding sentence in my head lol

[Nayt]

As for being low level, that's hardly an issue if you got friends. Just tried some PL'ing out. Those are some fancy exp chains.

you'll get to that optimal rank in no time!

[Vaer]

I just started a new character on another server also, since my launch one is almost completely dead, can't even break 1 chocobo after 1.19 patch. It's rough, all the level 7 tools from retainers were 40k+ and by the time I could afford it I was already over the optimal level. Gladiators don't start with a damn shield so I was scrambling to find one and most of them were too expensive, and NPCs pre 1.19 don't sell cheap shields. I eventually got lucky and got one from a levequest. I play with my girlfriend as a Tank/Mage duo so we don't have that many problems completing leves.

I figured well, since they are adding NPCs that sell this low level gear, it won't be so bad once that's implemented. Wrong. The level 10~20 gear is also 40-50k+ from NPC per PIECE. I'm in the mid 10's still wearing weathered gear, and the only reason I have anything other than default gear is because I got them from leves or a random leve chest. Fortunately, crafting is way easier than it used to be so I just made all the level 7 tools I needed yesterday and I'll go from there.

After the patch, low level Gladiator is annoying to play unless you slot some other things from other jobs. It's hard to tell now whether or not you can use Phalanx since you need to block first, so after Light Stab/Provoke I just sit there doing nothing and spamming Phalanx hoping it goes off until I have enough TP to use something else and waiting for cooldowns, filling my log with "That action cannot be performed x 5000." They need to gray out Phalanx until it's useable and make it light up when you can use it and not light up just because you have TP.

On the upside, yesterday I saw some guy being chased by 3 Spriggans across the map. I lol'd.

Also, it seems there are some issues with dying and returning. Yesterday I died and returned, and could not do ANYTHING. The game eventually crashed (FFXIV has stopped working...) and it auto-failed my leve. Before the patch, it would glitch sometimes if you died with your weapon out, you would run slower while in passive stance, (easily fixed by changing stances) but this time I couldn't do anything at all. Return, Teleport didn't work, couldn't switch stances, couldn't talk to NPCs or use the Aetheryte. Kinda like when you got stuck during alpha/beta.

All in all, good patch, love the difficulty increase, I think some things are still rough around the edges and could use some tuning, though.

[Letrange]

The truly funny thing is that it was always this way - now you can see how much you've been penalized up until now. The big difference is not actually the gear optimal difference it's the stats from your physical levels going bye bye.

[Davorok]

Not sure what exactly the beef is here but they did just add about 50 NPC's in cities and camps that sell all kinds of gear of Low, Mid & High Levels.

I'm pretty sure the idea is to buy the "Vanilla Gear" from NPC's, achieve SpiritBond, smelt it into Materia, then attach it to one of the "better" gears you get from a crafter (thus making it even better). Who cares if you get penalized while wearing the junk gear that you're just going to destroy anyway? It's a small sacrifice for a larger gain.

[Stockapotapoulos]

Ingrates need to go play another game.

Seriously: youre pissed because you have to wear optimal gear now? Say hello to the rest of the Mmo genre.

I don't think he's pissed about having to wear optimal gear. I think he's pissed 'cause he's going to get his coffers drained by crafters who will charge an arm and a leg for optimal gear.

[Eekiki]

I don't think he's pissed about having to wear optimal gear. I think he's pissed 'cause he's going to get his coffers drained by crafters who will charge an arm and a leg for optimal gear.

As do all early adopters of new stuff. I paid top dollar for my 3DS when it was released, and now it costs almost half as much.

The market will even out eventually.

[zaviermhigo]

I just have a sneaky suspicion that those of us who didn't try to make outrageous amounts of gil and spent less time crafting are going to be screwed. I need to start leveling my craft. I only have like 500k ever, and I've at max had a mil haha and I've played since release, I think that's why at times, if I could reclaim the gil I was ripped off in early times I'd have a lot more.

Its just like most people have to replace 90% of their gear, I do too. Most of my shit is low level and I can craft it. But past that I might be spending all my money I get from liquidating the items no longer needed on getting new gear for higher levels. My highest craft is 36 I need to fix that :/ I know its my fault. It just kinda sucks being told "level a craft or be poor" There aren't any serious farming methods for battle classes to make money like there were in XI.