I watched the intro movie again today and...

[MariyaShidou]

1. It's called faction leve, but most people kinda forgot about it. Do leve to get Faction Credit, do the prequisite Faction leve then the final one you have an "NM" and they drop rune that you can exchange for Unique equipment.

[Griss]

2) The second thing that I took note of was also during the Morbol fight. The Lalafell mage enchants the Midlander's bow/arrows and they become fire arrows. If we had something like that that boosts melee weapon damage according to the mobs you're fighting, maybe we would've had more diverse parties in doing stuff.

For example: Fighting a mob that's weak to fire, you need 1-2 THMs/BLMs that can enchant a WARs, DRGs, MNKs etc weapons thus making those jobs' damage compare to that of a THM/BLM.

Then we wouldn't have "THM ONLY" parties.

Thoughts anyone?

I really hope when "Battle Regiments" come back they come in the form of something like what is in the intro. video.

[Firon]

I haven't given up hope yet.

God damn i love that sigy

[Ruisu]

The original FFXIV was a fantastic idea that was implemented in the absolute worst possible fashion. I cannot describe how excited I was to see a new FF MMO. and then...yeah.

[Wynn]

I really hope when "Battle Regiments" come back they come in the form of something like what is in the intro. video.

^This.

If I hadn't been in the alpha/beta, I would have totally been stoked for battle regimens after seeing that vid. Too bad what we got was less than similar.

Still, I'm sure what they have in store for regimens will be pretty cool.

On topic, I really think they need to redo the video. Now that leves are no longer the central theme (good thing IMO), the intro vid needs to recapture what the game's new direction is about. The video showcases the echo but I believe the current CGI will leave new players, at best, confused.

[Nuinn]

1. It's called faction leve, but most people kinda forgot about it. Do leve to get Faction Credit, do the prequisite Faction leve then the final one you have an "NM" and they drop rune that you can exchange for Unique equipment.

Unfortunately, there's no much need to do the faction leves other than to get those drops for achievement, but not much need for that still, as you can buy the items dropped via faction leves in wards (last time I checked they were almost dirt cheap).

It's a bit of a paradox how you need to grind more leves to get faction points than you need to do for the actual Ifrit/Mog pre-quest.

Funny how SE makes you grind regional leves for 400 points needed for a NM leve and reward you with an item that now has nearly no real value. They seem to like doing stuff like that, so I'm not really surprised. . .

They do make me go like this often though:

[Roaran]

More Faction leves with more interesting and diverse battles that drop materials for superior crafted gear would be awesome.

[Colino]

Two things popped out to me during the first fight with the Molbor:

1) I know leves aren't going to be a huge part of the game anymore, but from the intro video the fight starts after the Midlander starts day dreaming after staring at his leve. I thought to myself: "What if they made some leves aquirable by other means rather than just getting them at the guild?"

I'm fairly certain he's using the Echo and not daydreaming...

But yeah I don't see that dumb plot mechanism to be use again. I never really liked it.

[Elexia]

Funny how SE makes you grind regional leves for 400 points needed for a NM leve and reward you with an item that now has nearly no real value. They seem to like doing stuff like that, so I'm not really surprised. . .

Funny how this happens in every MMORPG out today.

[Dragon]

the leve system is full of so much missed oppportunity. It's a shame really.

Yeah... this.