Alpha First Look: Video 5 - Quests and Combat

[Reika]

Well back to the video..... I LOVE THE BATTLE MUSIC!!! So epic. I notice that the attack magic now says it REQUIRES Conj or thm, while water is conj only, even the first level spells. So no other class will be able to use those now it seems. Gonna be much more limited.

Shows that an attack was parried or blocked in the floating damage numbers, less reading of the combat log there.

Oh and look, keen flurry changed. Sure I mentioned that changing somewhere lol. 20% parry rate increase for 15secs, usable by all combat classes.

Feint isnt a only on miss, but useable by all non-magic and causes slow! pawesome!

Loving the engaged targets window. hope we can click names from there to target them instead of having to find them.

And the movable quest objective view without opening the journal is always a plus. Don't see how one can complain about that.


Oh, bone armillae have +45 enmity :0

[Alhanelem]

The one criticism I'll give is every little quest doesn't need to be treated like a huge event. Saying quest complete at the end is fine but do we need the overdramatic "quest accepted" message? I'm off to kill some slugs- maybe it's a big deal to this NPC but is it a big step in saving the world or something? doubtful.

I don't really get how Japanse can complain, though, that a game series (Final Fantasy) that is largely based on Western mythology, has acquired a western style. FF has had western elements in it since its inception.

[tobyx]

I am actually greatly looking forward to these quests. I will not complain and there is nothing to complain about.

If you want convoluted quests that you need a wiki and 2 other websites open at the same time in the background to even begin to understand what the heck you're supposed to do, there's older games that do that for you.

The titling of the moist patch might be a tad bit over the top, consider they hadn't done it. There'd be the same amount of players complaining. So just accept the prettiness of FFXIV: ARR and move along.

[Reinheart]

SE did say in the last JP media interview that they will bring in more Final Fantasy like features from beta. We don't know what other new contents that might be available for leveling yet and we're already jumping to conclusions... as we fear the same as ver 1.0 may happen. But think on the bright side... look and compare ARR FFXIV Alpha and FFXIV Ver 1.0 Alpha... I am liking this version a lot more.

People got to remember this is footage from alpha and that the main purpose for the alpha test was to do stress tests on the servers. As YoshiP mentioned in the letter

Purpose of the Alpha Test

As I mentioned in my previous missives, alpha tests for MMORPGs are meant to simulate the actual stress conditions that the servers will undergo when official service begins.

It's good to start pointing out the bad features right now as it will help the developers have enough time to talk with other team members on how to improve on these parts before release (if possible)

Now lets just hope rest of us gets in before the alpha servers close...

[Psykotsu]

I'm in agreement with Nox.

But as far as the video goes, like others have pointed out, the Water spell looks cool, and it's instant. I think this mechanic opens up doors for battles. I was worried about how Stone looked in one of the events YoshiP did. The rocks would just teleport to the enemy, which looked weird but that has been adjusted too. (Testament to things gradually being updated)

Also, the WHM parries some damage. Was that always possible?

[Talshara_Blade]

I'd say to make everyone happy, why not just make it so that you have the option to "hide" some of the quest information. You can then select your own level of quest "hand holding" and if you get stumped you can click on Hint and perhaps it reveals a direction, click it again and it shows all the info. That way people can decide how much of the quest they want to figure out on their own , and don't have to go to a website if they get lost.

[fredtma]

Everything in life is repetition.
u wake/wash/eat go to work/school for 5/6 days then relax on the weekend(an instant with a group of friends)
occasionally you do get those rare reward/achievement a promotion at work/new job/graduation (story quest finish)
then u reach the highest level (marriage/ur own company) but that does not mean you stop there.
So we can't really complain about repetition can we?

My question to the community is, what makes ARR different to any other MMO out there?
So far I don't see it and we can't use "it only alpha" because chances are, this is as good as it gets.
Took them two yrs to produce alpha chances are beta & final won't be different.

Again I ask what makes ARR different then any other MMO?
Personally, I have always enjoyed FF games because of they summoning, story and the characters.
I hope this game can deliver at least on the story, like chain of promathia in FFXI

[strallaalaa]

no matter what, in any mmo. example number. 50hours to hit max, then it's 50hours no matter what type of leveling it is. grind is grind. it's just preference and also how long you want the leveling to be. this type of leveling only works for those who love solo'ing and have short times to play. or between every quest likes to get up and check on there kids or whatever they do.

but in my opinion these are different types of mmo's and they need to start defining mmo's right away before we buy them so we stop waisting our time. the way mmo companies play is they try and get everyone they can to buy into there bs and it should become a law standard to define them for what they are prior to purchase not this really broad range of yeah it's a mmo. no no it's not.

@FREDTMA also to the question on what seperates arr from any other mmo. only it's franchise title. people that love the final fantasy series, those who loved ffxi even though they totally not creating the game for them, it's probably the majority of us are one or the other or both. that is it, and its' the reason they probably thought they could get away with a bad launch the first time and it's probably why they think this new arr will be good enough. we all really want it to succeed way too much lol. other then that it's still has 24man content that is missing from many of the new mmo's coming out. though i would rather have full linkshell 64man but 24 is really good too. either way that is the only thing else that separates it from most the garbage out now.

[Psykotsu]

no matter what, in any mmo. example number. 50hours to hit max, then it's 50hours no matter what type of leveling it is. grind is grind. it's just preference and also how long you want the leveling to be. this type of leveling only works for those who love solo'ing and have short times to play. or between every quest likes to get up and check on there kids or whatever they do.

but in my opinion these are different types of mmo's and they need to start defining mmo's right away before we buy them so we stop waisting our time. the way mmo companies play is they try and get everyone they can to buy into there bs and it should become a law standard to define them for what they are prior to purchase not this really broad range of yeah it's a mmo. no no it's not.

It's funny that you mention that you don't want to waste your time yet... that is exactly what the people against this quest type want to do in their MMOs.

Ironyyyyyy

[strallaalaa]

It's funny that you mention that you don't want to waste your time yet... that is exactly what the people against this quest type want to do in their MMOs.

Ironyyyyyy

lol i know it's mostly preference and state of mind i guess but that goes both ways. but all in all, ffxi created me and now SE wants to toss me aside like a dumpster baby.


@ ZakarnRosewood ...the difference is huge. it's the difference between say dark souls or mario kart. or facebook to cyber sex sites. other genre's other then rpg's usually have multiple difficulties so they don't need to and even rpg's are starting to have difficulties or make you beat the game over an over to get the harder versions. either way if it's so important for them to say it's casual now then it's for a distinct reason and is necessary to them right?