Final Fantasy XIV

[Mow Yun]

We had Turns 1 and 2 on farm with 1 person out of our static group MIA (we picked up a random dude from the FC to fill the last slot and swapped jobs around) and today we walked into turn 4 for the first time and it took us all 90 minutes, but we beat turn 4. My hands were sooo shaky the time we cleared it @_@:;; Half our members went in blind and the other half had beaten it with another static that had since fallen apart, so it was a great learning experience all around for group synergy.

Then we tried turn 5 @_@;;;

And in the entire time I've done the Binding Coil of Bahamut (about a month or longer), I have yet to see a single healer's item drop. So I'm thinking about just filling up with all myth items : /

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Have they fixed the issues with lag for this yet? I just remember it being horribly unresponsive in Australia. reason is that I just realised I still have a 3 month game card sitting here, was thinking of leveling my White Mage a bit again. I think, I was like, lvl 30 or 40? I cant remember.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Have they fixed the issues with lag for this yet? I just remember it being horribly unresponsive in Australia. reason is that I just realised I still have a 3 month game card sitting here, was thinking of leveling my White Mage a bit again. I think, I was like, lvl 30 or 40? I cant remember.

The data center change in patch 2.1 helped a good deal with it, though I am in NA, so I don't have personal experience on how Australia is for it.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by relentlessflame

You should expect constant Free Company (guild) invites from presumably-well-meaning people as long you don't have a FC indicator next to your character's name. (And also, to blacklist at least a few gold spammers every day.)

Those are the reasons I abandoned North American servers and went over to the Japanese servers. I have no idea why — it could be because of cultural differences or because Japanese servers are less populated than American ones — but FC spam invites and gold-sellers are practically non-existent on the two servers I'd played on, Pandaemonium and Chocobo.

So, if the constant spam bothers you, it won't hurt to give Japanese servers a try. Tonberry, if I'm not wrong, actually has more English-speaking players than Japanese-speaking ones, despite being a Japanese server. I understand Australians have effectively adopted the server (and probably most Singaporeans, too), hence ratio of players.

[kyp275]

IIRC, those are the low pop server?

TBH, I still hate how SE decided to go with regional servers, getting things done outside of prime time is such a pita.

Originally Posted by Mow Yun

And in the entire time I've done the Binding Coil of Bahamut (about a month or longer), I have yet to see a single healer's item drop. So I'm thinking about just filling up with all myth items : /

The Murphy is strong in Coil.

For example, between my main and alt, I've cleared 1-4 like 30+ times, and I've yet to see any casting body drop(or for that matter, the casting jewelry that i need)

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by kyp275

TBH, I still hate how SE decided to go with regional servers, getting things done outside of prime time is such a pita.

Maybe it's cause I am on a high population server, but here you can find a CT, primals, ultima, or map parties almost anytime of the day in PF, though is more limited time range for finding coil is a bit more limited.

[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by kyp275

TBH, I still hate how SE decided to go with regional servers, getting things done outside of prime time is such a pita.

Maybe they should try out that new Mega Server technology Bethesda is going to use for ES:Online?

[kuroishinigami]

Originally Posted by kyp275

IIRC, those are the low pop server?

TBH, I still hate how SE decided to go with regional servers, getting things done outside of prime time is such a pita.



The Murphy is strong in Coil.

For example, between my main and alt, I've cleared 1-4 like 30+ times, and I've yet to see any casting body drop(or for that matter, the casting jewelry that i need)

During the login restriction debacle, chocobo is one of the most populated Japanese server while tonberry is populated by asia english speaking player(although to clarify Tiny's post, the Japanese player still outnumber English speakinh player, although not by much), so I don't think it's exactly low pop servers.

I think the reason for lack of RMT in Japanese is much more simple actually, most of the Japanese player(majority of population) simply abhor RMT announcement and ninja invite. When you have no buyer, the seller will naturally decrease. OTOH, there's much more FC recruitment shoutspam in the city on Japanese server compared to its NA counterpart.

[relentlessflame]

By the way, maybe it's a condemnation because I've become too suspicious (and also that I don't understand FCs deeply enough), but what is the motivation in the aggressive FC recruiting anyway? Is there a direct benefit to the guild for getting more members, beyond the expected benefit of more players to party with and potentially more contributions to the FC bank and FC goals like housing? With the way some people are aggressive about it (basically seeming to make guild recruiting a full-time job), it's almost like they're paid commission for each new recruit.

On the other hand, I suspect some people may just be good people legitimately looking for more friends/colleagues to play with, and in that sense I regret my suspiciousness a bit.

[Dark Wing]

why not just make a Anime Suki guild so we all know we know we're in a guild that not just using it's members.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by kuroishinigami

During the login restriction debacle, chocobo is one of the most populated Japanese server while tonberry is populated by asia english speaking player(although to clarify Tiny's post, the Japanese player still outnumber English speakinh player, although not by much), so I don't think it's exactly low pop servers.

According to the latest census figures (Jan 25, 2014), English-speaking players form 55.2 per cent of Tonberry's population, versus 42 per cent Japanese. The total number of characters in Tonberry is about 31,000.

My first character was created in North American server Exodus, which has about 42,000 characters as of Jan 25. More than 90 per cent are English-speaking, with fewer than 3 per cent who are Japanese-speaking.

Pandaemonium is one of the newer Japanese servers (not by much; it was created in September 2013), hence its smaller population of about 19,000 characters, of whom just under 7 per cent are English-speaking. As for Chocobo, it's one of the older Japanese servers (created in August 2013), with a population of about 24,000 characters, of whom fewer than 4 per cent speak English.

Which makes me wonder why I'm in Chocobo. It's a bit too late for me to move now, unfortunately (there's a level cap for world-transfer applications).

Originally Posted by kuroishinigami

OTOH, there's much more FC recruitment shoutspam in the city on Japanese server compared to its NA counterpart.

That's true. But shout-spam is much easier to tune out than in-your-face, private-chat spam and free-company invites, which I have to either manually blacklist or click to ignore.

Originally Posted by relentlessflame

By the way, maybe it's a condemnation because I've become too suspicious (and also that I don't understand FCs deeply enough), but what is the motivation in the aggressive FC recruiting anyway? Is there a direct benefit to the guild for getting more members, beyond the expected benefit of more players to party with and potentially more contributions to the FC bank and FC goals like housing? With the way some people are aggressive about it (basically seeming to make guild recruiting a full-time job), it's almost like they're paid commission for each new recruit.

Other than for housing, I don't see any major material benefit from having a large FC. But having a large number of players could make it easier to organise regular raids, I suppose. For my part, I've avoided all free companies, and am still non-aligned. Having experienced the petty politics and unnecessary drama of FFXI linkshells (for example, arguments over who should get the loot; hugely complicated raid-participation rules that made the game feel more like an actual job), I have no wish to go through them again.

I do belong, however, to the only English-speaking linkshell on Chocobo, and I imagine that I will soon have to join a free company if I wish to progress into late end-game content.

Originally Posted by kyp275

TBH, I still hate how SE decided to go with regional servers, getting things done outside of prime time is such a pita.

I fully agree. I miss how I could encounter players from all over the world in FFXI, at any time of the day.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by relentlessflame

By the way, maybe it's a condemnation because I've become too suspicious (and also that I don't understand FCs deeply enough), but what is the motivation in the aggressive FC recruiting anyway? Is there a direct benefit to the guild for getting more members, beyond the expected benefit of more players to party with and potentially more contributions to the FC bank and FC goals like housing? With the way some people are aggressive about it (basically seeming to make guild recruiting a full-time job), it's almost like they're paid commission for each new recruit.

On the other hand, I suspect some people may just be good people legitimately looking for more friends/colleagues to play with, and in that sense I regret my suspiciousness a bit.

I believe the more active members you have in a Free Company the faster your free companies earns points for both ranks (maxing rank isn't hard), and free company actions, you can still only use so many per day, I think only 2 or 3 and only provide marginal benefits to people.

Though I believe obvious reasons are general reason for it.

[Chaos2Frozen]

I really, REALLY, hate Coincounter's bs one hit kill move =_=#

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I really, REALLY, hate Coincounter's bs one hit kill move =_=#

Heh. The trick is, if you're a DPS, always try to stay behind him. If you're a ranged DPS, stay as far away as possible. The battle is more of a heart attack for healers.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf

Heh. The trick is, if you're a DPS, always try to stay behind him. If you're a ranged DPS, stay as far away as possible. The battle is more of a heart attack for healers.

I'm the tank

Standing behind him doesn't work because his [100 ton] attack can either be a frontal cone or an aoe around him

[Edge Meltdown]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I'm the tank

Standing behind him doesn't work because his [100 ton] attack can either be a frontal cone or an aoe around him

im guessing you're talking about AV 2nd boss...

100 tonne swing = run away asap
100 tonne swipe = you can avoid it by walking thru/ away from him

this should make it a lil' bit easier for you

[Chaos2Frozen]

Wow, only a two letter difference between death and certain death

[Kyero Fox]

Yea XD that guy is a freakin Jerk.

You say "I'm a Tank" he replies "I have big hammer" and kills everyone.

[Mow Yun]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

I believe the more active members you have in a Free Company the faster your free companies earns points for both ranks (maxing rank isn't hard), and free company actions, you can still only use so many per day, I think only 2 or 3 and only provide marginal benefits to people.

Though I believe obvious reasons are general reason for it.

Also theoretically speaking if you spam 100 people into your free company and only 10 stay, its still a net gain of members and you may gain a new valuable friend.

...


I dunno actually, usually I have shouts off

EDIT: My computer bugged out last night (my drive had 100% activity with 0 read or write activity) and caused my character to keep warrior armor while switching to white mage weapon:

[Dark Wing]

Now one more question before I make my final selection.

Is the collectors edition worth the extra cash?