Transferring Character Data to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Questions

[StrikeField]

Questions that need answering.

1) Where are the physical locations of Sargatanas→ Balmung → Hyperion → Excalibur Ragnarok ? Saying North USA and Europe only confuses me. Like are there two servers for each name in each country? From what I recalled the servers were relocated to reduce lag. So does could mean Ragnorak is in Europe since Squareenix suggested it?


2) Starting Cities
I'm a level 50 Marauder. Starting city Uldah and Chief Flame Sergeant of the Immortal flames. When the service starts I have to manually choose a starting class so I should choose a Gladiator etc to stay a Uldah citizen or it doesn't apply to preexisting members?. One's starting city will effect their main story line so I shouldn't change to a class that would put me in another city ~ since then I wouldn't be able to progress with my city story line and start from the new chosen city, correct?

3)"Grand Company barding will only be available after enlisting in a Grand Company
* Should a Version 1.0 character enlist in a different Grand Company, their personal chocobo will remain equipped with the barding used in Version 1.0 until it is changed by the player." Does this mean that the barfing relating to the old Grand company will be lost if they change to the new Grand company barding? I think its fair. Because you left our army for another. I wouldn't like if some one could have barding from two different grand companies. Or rather a person has a barding ticket and the barding image on the chocobo stays the same till its change. Then the next time they equip that same barding it will reflect the new Grand company barding. I'm sure some people will never change just to say I'm from Gridiana wearing Limo bard.....

4) Chocobo whistle to call for riding and fighting Chocobo are they the same? It's said that they key item to call your chocobo will be removed. Is this being replace with chocobo food or will another type of whistle to be obtainable by quest . Also it was said in the live that chocobo food will be used to call your chocobo pet to fight. Will using the whistle do the same?

5) And lastly all V 1.0 accounts can change the appearance of their characters one time. Can this be done any time after launch maybe two months down? Or must I choose the day of service. I would like to see how my character is will new amours and such before I do such change.


Arigatou Komsahapnida

[Seirra_Lanzce]

1) from the blog


Group JP Group NA/EU
Aegis (LEGACY) Balmung (LEGACY)
Durandal (LEGACY) Excalibur (LEGACY)
Gungnir (LEGACY) Hyperion (LEGACY)
Masamune (LEGACY) Sargatanas (LEGACY)
Ridill (LEGACY) Ragnarok (LEGACY/EU)

4) Chocobo whistle and Goobbue Horn will be an Item instead of Key Item. it will use a slot in your bag. yes the Chocobo Whistle is also the Chocobo buddy system, you cannot call out Chocobo while ur using buddy system and vice versa.

[StrikeField]

1) from the blog


Group JP Group NA/EU
Aegis (LEGACY) Balmung (LEGACY)
Durandal (LEGACY) Excalibur (LEGACY)
Gungnir (LEGACY) Hyperion (LEGACY)
Masamune (LEGACY) Sargatanas (LEGACY)
Ridill (LEGACY) Ragnarok (LEGACY/EU)

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Legacy doesn't tell me the physical location of the servers T T

[DubstepNinja]

JP data centre
Atomos
Bahamut
Chocobo
Garuda
Ifrit
Mandragora
Ramuh
Tiamat
Titan
Tonberry
Aegis (LEGACY)
Durandal (LEGACY)
Gungnir (LEGACY)
Masamune (LEGACY)
Ridill (LEGACY)

NA/EU Datacentre
Adamantoise
Behemoth
Cactuar
Coeurl
Diabolos
Gilgamesh
Goblin
Leviathan
Malboro
Midgardsormr
Ultros
Balmung (LEGACY)
Excalibur (LEGACY)
Hyperion (LEGACY)
Sargatanas (LEGACY)

Cerberus
Moogle
Odin
Shiva
Ragnarok (LEGACY)

[Khira]

JP data centre
Atomos
Bahamut
Chocobo
Garuda
Ifrit
Mandragora
Ramuh
Tiamat
Titan
Tonberry
Aegis (LEGACY)
Durandal (LEGACY)
Gungnir (LEGACY)
Masamune (LEGACY)
Ridill (LEGACY)

NA Datacentre
Adamantoise
Behemoth
Cactuar
Coeurl
Diabolos
Gilgamesh
Goblin
Leviathan
Malboro
Midgardsormr
Ultros
Balmung (LEGACY)
Excalibur (LEGACY)
Hyperion (LEGACY)
Sargatanas (LEGACY)

EU Datacentre
Cerberus
Moogle
Odin
Shiva
Ragnarok (LEGACY)

Sorry but can you show us your source? Is it from any official announce?
Ragnarok was a JP server in 1.0, it was meant to help EU players gather. It can't be the only server with an EU data center.

And we are talking of data centers to reduce lag anyway, isn't it possible that there are such centers both in NA and EU?

EDIT: ok it's from the blog.
This mean that EU players wont have any chance to solve the lag issue unless they move to Ragnarok. So as legacy players we actually don't have an option, we are forced to move there or we keep the lag to stay with our community...

[Blaize]

Sorry but can you show us your source? Is it from any official announce?

It's on the FFXIV Blog today

I'm concerned it is along the same lines as the old "EU" server of Ragnarok, which was encouraged for EU players for the purposes of aligning time zone activity, even though the physical server was still in Japan.

So NA location, EU attendance encouraged? Or physical EU location? This is what I would like cleared up.

^^ This, While they say which servers are EU, its not exactly clear whether this means just reccommended for Timezone purposes Like Ver 1.0 Ragnarok, or the Data Centers are actually EU Based also. A quick Clarification on this would be awesome!

[Zenaku]

Sorry but can you show us your source? Is it from any official announce?
Ragnarok was a JP server in 1.0, it was meant to help EU players gather. It can't be the only server with an EU data center.

And we are talking of data centers to reduce lag anyway, isn't it possible that there are such centers both in NA and EU?

EDIT: ok it's from the blog.
This mean that EU players wont have any chance to solve the lag issue unless they move to Ragnarok. So as legacy players we actually don't have an option, we are forced to move there or we keep the lag to stay with our community...

will you think that every EU player would just move to the only EU world that is for legacy. They also said if it get full they make other EU world same for NA/JP the only problem i see is if that only EU get full then half of your friends may end up lock out of that world if they did not pick it sooner.

I see this being a shit fest like the last time we did a transferring.

[Gentaro]

Is the EU playerbase so low that only one of the legacy servers is eu? That surprises me.

[StrikeField]

Is the EU playerbase so low that only one of the legacy servers is eu? That surprises me.

Ah ~ legacy is v 1.0 ..soo that means yup. Since the other three are for V 2.0

[PandaTaru]

looks like this merge is going to be a hell of a mess

Is the EU playerbase so low that only one of the legacy servers is eu? That surprises me.

Only Ragnarok went up as the server for players from Europe and that not too long before they close all the servers in preparation of the beta.