Dang. So fast 4.0 soon..!



Started from 2.0 and semi stop during 3.4. Who else is playing here? Am missing the game very much with friends

Wow I didn't know red mage is a melee wizard. Damn am tempted for a comeback...

This post has been edited by Poodlepaddly: Jan 29 2017, 08:16 AM

Received an invitation from a friend to rejoin FF XIV Heavensward.

Been thinking, if we can rejoin this game without being hardcore? I remember this game once wipe out my weekends and nights doing the A Realm Reborn and Heavensward content. But had to tone down and quit the game as life takes more priorities.

But I think if just sub and play with friends, go on casual dungen/acquiring tome gears mode, I think the game actually offers a lot of fun MMO experience and exciting game battles. (Titan Extremme with i100 armors only, bring it xD) The music, the lore, in depth dungen pattern, skills selection/combination and coordination of the party to clear a hard dungen, with no/minimal Pay2Win system, was very fun in FF XIV.

Manage to meet a few close friends from countries like China and Finland which until today we still keep a close contact with. Now wondering if I can come back to the game without being hardcore. As the most important currency in the game, is not gils, but time xD



I remember this sick song. Back in the days with only i80 armors just on hard mode in a PUG (pick up group). Ppl were dying and falling to death everywhere! The most tormenting moments in most of our FF ARR life.

This post has been edited by Poodlepaddly: Feb 12 2017, 11:35 AM

Last time strategy was go big or go home on game contents.

But I realize despite the results was great, grind and stress level went up the roof.. in my case, I was busy crafting day and night when friends asked me to enjoy new content/maps/dungens.

Now I plan to restart and leaving all past accumulated gears/wealth behind. And replay with friends focusing on good gaming experience. Need a lot of patience, awareness + mindset pre planning to not get addicted. Not sure if I can tackle it differently. Haha..

I know right? I plan to restart with friends who are new to the game and I don't plan to be some military commander who goes "watch out the trap here", "this dungen you do this and this", "i show you the fastest way to xx". I am just gonna let them try the game at their own pace and they will probably have more fun figuring out the fights themselves than to have a noisy brat telling/spoiling them everything

I would like to see them tackle Titan hard/extreme. landslide!!

On gears, I usually don't go for end game gears like COB or whichever new end game boss available now. Usually will just use Meta crafter gears for my white mage, and spam it with Vit V/IV material for max survivability. High end crafter gears should be the 3rd or 4th best gear for every patch (better if max it with material). At certain patch I had almost same hp as a Paladin @18k HP lol.. My end game gears are achievable with gils and crafting.

#No.. almost went back to hardcore mode thinking of gears

Eorzea is calling you, warrior of light

Yeah with the current gears ilvl pretty much extreme mode will be carried by ppl already. They wont have the chance to experience the wrath of extreme primals. Savage mode, *cough, I lost touch d. We will see more in Stormblood.

Such time has passed. From Heavensward to Stormblood. The game still have lots of supporters.

You been playing this game that long bro? Wonder whats new ins tormblood other than the most awaited Red Mage

This game is best play when you have a small group of friends. I was in Pheonix server (UK) for 2 years and been playing with a close group or 4 members from different country. Despite timezone was a factor, we still manage to have a great time.

Dang. I am tempted to rejoin

In terms of content, I cannot find a second game that even has close enough relevant content to do in compare to XIV. You can live your 2nd life, build your house and community and get married with lots of dungeons and content to do in Eorzea.

This post has been edited by Poodlepaddly: Feb 14 2017, 10:18 AM

What? meaning I can be in Pheonix and still play with ppl from Gilgamesh via party finder? Smart move square enix!

Yeah. As per what Jigoku said.

The grind part is shorten to let new comers to meet exiting players. Once you hit level 50, you can easily buy or ask a friend straight Ilvl 190 crafters gears for you. That will push you to about top 80% of the gear set stats already. No need i50, i60, i90, i110, i150, i160 lvl up. Just save money and get the i190 gears. (or whatever crafter gear lvl the patch has now).

A Realm Reborn only offers you content to lvl 50 only. To hit lvl 60 and flying mount game contents you will need Heavenswards.

Stormblood I have no idea. I am a retired Warrior of Light. Rusty d. All I know is making gils only

resubbed and redownloading the client.. Nuuuuuuuuuuu

Im happy and worried at the same time

World transfer possible. Pay a "small" fee.

Aiks I just resubbed. (>365 days offline) If not someone could get 5 feathers for my account return.

Hi Dante. 2.0 is Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn.

3.0 is Heavensward expansion

4.0 is Stormblood expansion. ^^

Np. Few of us are starting this game. I am an old returning player, but I plan to strip clean and restart from lvl 1 also. Look forward to some casual gameplay with friends

Haha yes. I could start off with my old main character, but once I see that crafting tools and the gil from the past, I am going to go into crafting hardcore frenzy again Plus this time im starting with friends who are totally new to the game. As a MMORPG players, we all know that bring that super powerful done-all character, showing off end game skills/firepower into a fresh newbie group is just going to destroy their important starting game experience for them. Also creates unwanted competition that they need to quickly finish the starting content to reach the end game. An experience/responsible player wouldn't ruin that moment for new comers.

Like everyone here, I have life priorities as well. My goal this time is to come back extremely casual. For me, that seems to be the only way I can continue to play FF XIV without having to quit again

Yesterday was really excited to be coming back to Eorzea!



I let my friends them all decide since they have done sufficient research. So far they have choosen Tonberry server.

I will just follow, .

Gunning for a comeback bro?

Lets do it! Casual mode desu..

Haha okay. No need to rush to transfer world or anything. I myself left everything behind in Pheonix and restart from afresh with friends. But im returnining player, you been playing. So I think its harder to change xD

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