Playing on a Legacy Server

[Tensho]

money wise i think its all the same on legacy or non legacy servers, hell legacy server prices might even be cheaper at start because there will be lots of legacy members with already lots of items and gears already set and made. Inflation shouldnt be bad since there will be a bit of competition for selling same stuff so prices should drop more than new servers.

[Taika]

Your friends sound like typical 1.0 players. It's not typical at all to have all-50s and there are many 1.0 (and even legacy) players without even one level 50. In our LS on legacy server the players with level 50 classes are now a minority but we have several old players with level 20ish classes. Legacy servers are a very good place to start for both new and old players with characters of every level.

You can see data of 1.0 players from this link: http://xivpads.com/?Census/1.0/Classes

As you can see only 4.41% of the characters (that data is based on around 50 000 characters) had all-50s and the most common (51.54%) class level for those characters was 0-9 (while 22.51% of their classes were level 41-50).

[HiirNoivl]

I have some friends who owned 1.0 and are thus Legacy characters, but never even leveled beyond what they did in the open beta of ARR. In other words, they're not your typical Legacy players. Given what Square has said about currency imbalances, I'm a little concerned we'll have a rough time of things if we play there, and so I'd like to ask:

How hard would it be to play on that server? Would you suggest we all re-roll on one of the new servers? Your advice is much appreciated.

You probably won't have many issues at all. There are plenty of people in your position who haven't levelled much. Even people who have level 50s often have classes that are level 30 or less that they will be leveling.

Also, when it comes to currency, things might be a little unsettled starting out, but you shouldn't have any problems buying and selling things.

[Irishfae]

Like everyone else was saying, it doesn't really matter, especially with level sync so easy when it comes to FATEs and dungeons. And there are going to be plenty of people who have low level legacy characters so you won't be lacking for anyone to play with in the low non-synced levels either. Personally, I find having lots of 50s around me motivates me to get there with them so I can play similar content.

[jcw005]

Cool, good to hear. Thanks for the input everyone.

[XenabelleS]

I joined my friends from Wow on a legacy server and these are my observations so far :

Lots and lots of people running around on Gobbies (sp) or other mounts but I'll be able to get mounts soon too. Mounts make a difference in fate grinding - if people can get to FATES quicker, they end quicker.

The Market Boards looked rather stupid. I prefer to have as little reliance as necessary on others but the few items I looked at were insanely priced (ie 10,000 gil + for lvl 10ish items). That may have just been a function of it being Beta and not many people using the boards but there it is.

For content, I am looking forward to doing endgame stuff and having not to find a group from scratch will be helpful in that regard imo. ie it would take 8 people longer to get to 50 than it would the group of us where some are ahead.

So pros and cons really...

[Arriverderci]

I'm not legacy or anything but I'm sure you guys will be fine.
A lot of people who did cap levels are going to run Arcanist anyways.
If you wanna start with a brand new fresh community you can try other servers but nothing wrong
with Legacy too. They will most likely help you out more.

[daiceman]

I heard that legacy players actually have a third nipple and curdle milk whenever they pass by.

[Rosekitten]

I don't think it matters in the long run seeing as in a few weeks (last i heard anyway) once the game is live the characters can transfer from legacy servers anyway. Personally the legacy server my husband and myself is on is fantastic. Haven't had a problem yet and the player base seemed really helpful if someone yelled out a question. I can't say anything on the market side of things I didn't really bother looking. ^^; I do know some of the legacy servers during the last beta had a cap put on them as far as allowing new players to join.