Purely out of curiosity - got questions for legacy players.

[DumdogsWorld]

Before I say anything - Google didn't help. And yes, this post is purely out curiosity.

So, for people who logged into ARR at launch using 1.x characters, did you retain your levels?

Did it let you keep your gear?

Did the ARR MSQ still start off the same way, from level 1?

Did you get to go through the MSQ as whatever level you were when the legacy servers went down?

[Michiko]

Hiya.

So first question, yes we got to keep our levels. When I started 2.0, I started with everything at 50 already.. only had to level up scholar/summoner.

I was also able to carry over whatever I had in my retainers and my character's inventory. Most of which was worthless/replaced mind you very quickly. Alot of other things such as all materia (if I recall) had turned into un-aspected crystals that we could turn in for materia of our choice.

Actually for some of us (my boyfriend had the 2.0 normal intro where he is on a wagon) however I simply appeared from wherever we had been whisked away at the end of 1.0.. appearing in the middle of nowhere and made my way on foot to the nearest city. Not sure why some legacy players didn't get the custom 'intro' but that was it, other then that.. and a few lines in multiple quests inferring we look familiar, there really wasn't much of a different between a legacy 1.0 character and a fresh 2.0

And finally yes, Seeing I had all 50s when 2.0 started, I started the 2.0 MSQ as a lv50 though all instances/dungeons had level caps. Just the overworld it helped.

[ColdGuy]

We did get to keep our gear though gear back then only went up to Darklight, which is the starting gear for level 50 raiding, MSQ started the same except instead of coming in on a carriage you were teleported in, as if you teleported ahead in time from when Louisoix protected you, and the story lines are completely separate, 1.0's story is unique to 1.0, 2.0 started its own story.

Also you didn't do too good a job at searching.

Intro cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoQum5S5Ro

Other cutscenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgxm5BUcITo

[DumdogsWorld]

Also you didn't do too good a job at searching.

I know about the differences in the intro cutscene. But everywhere I looked, the information ends with the cutscene. I wanted to know what progressing through the early 2.0 MSQ was like for 1.x characters.

[ColdGuy]

I know about the differences in the intro cutscene. But everywhere I looked, the information ends with the cutscene. I wanted to know what progressing through the early 2.0 MSQ was like for 1.x characters.

That's all there is to it, special cutscenes.

Other than that there are some perks:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Legacy_Campaign

Not mentioned are the Goobbue mount and Legacy Tattoo:
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Goobbue_(Mount)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Dress...glitch

The most interesting part of 1.0 was its completely different gameplay, graphics, and story:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...asy_XIV/Legacy

[Kathryn]

Before I say anything - Google didn't help. And yes, this post is purely out curiosity.

So, for people who logged into ARR at launch using 1.x characters, did you retain your levels?

Did it let you keep your gear?

Did the ARR MSQ still start off the same way, from level 1?

Did you get to go through the MSQ as whatever level you were when the legacy servers went down?

Hi legacy player here also got a very old pic to share:



Yes I got to keep my gear I even got a second set of artifact gear because we had to do the Job quests from scratch even though we had all our abilities and such already.

The story was very much the same except the intro cutscene was different and our names appeared in the credits at the end of ARR (Kaira Kimura).

I had all my job's at lvl 50 pretty much as I was fighting caner in my early 20's and was home in bed a lot so I just gamed to take my mind away from the real world.

[Vilhem]

Before I say anything - Google didn't help. And yes, this post is purely out curiosity.

So, for people who logged into ARR at launch using 1.x characters, did you retain your levels?

Did it let you keep your gear?

Did the ARR MSQ still start off the same way, from level 1?

Did you get to go through the MSQ as whatever level you were when the legacy servers went down?

1. Yes. Everything we leveled in 1.x (including DoL and DoH) were carried over.

2. Yes. Before 1.x went down completely, there was a cut-off date where the devs announced that character progression would no longer be saved (past a certain date, if you say, got PLD to lvl 50, this would not be carried over to 2.x). This was so the devs could back up everyone's character data, including levels, items etc.

3. There was a different cutscene than the standard wagon one, also there was some NPC dialogue about how they couldn't remember you, but otherwise 2.x MSQ was the same quests.

4. You could choose to progress on whatever job you had leveled in 1.x, even if it was level 50 (DoW of course). Since SCH/SMN was the only non-50 job I had at the time, I chose to do the MSQ with it for the easy exp gain, then took over with BRD at level 50.

Hope this helps! :3

[Aylis]

Before I say anything - Google didn't help. And yes, this post is purely out curiosity.

So, for people who logged into ARR at launch using 1.x characters, did you retain your levels?

Did it let you keep your gear?

Did the ARR MSQ still start off the same way, from level 1?

Did you get to go through the MSQ as whatever level you were when the legacy servers went down?

1) Yep! Any class/job I leveled in 1.0 carried over to 2.0

2) Also yep. Every piece of gear or item I got in 1.0 made its way to 2.0 with me.

3) We got a different intro and a few dialogue changes was all, the bulk of the MSQ stayed the same.

4) We could have yes if we wanted to.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Actually for some of us (my boyfriend had the 2.0 normal intro where he is on a wagon) however I simply appeared from wherever we had been whisked away at the end of 1.0.. appearing in the middle of nowhere and made my way on foot to the nearest city. Not sure why some legacy players didn't get the custom 'intro' but that was it.

This is because some 1.0 players did not complete the storyline for 1.0 which concluded with fighting Nael Van Darnus. The tattoo I think came for players who had the legacy account status which was 3 months subbed during the finale, but in order to get the altered story content your character had to have notoriety for defeating Darnus and thus should have been remembered (But weren't, for reasons your storyline revealed). Anyone who didn't do that was considered a meteor survivor and arrived with the twins, otherwise you were one of the ones Lousoix sent through time from the battle of cartenu.

[Len]

Since I entered ARR with all 50's, I decided to level Summoner through the main scenario since that was just released.