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. 

You can rejoin the game without being hardcore that means you wont be getting the high end gear.

If you can live with that then its alright

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 believe it's the same now with some minor tweaks

End game contents is still there if you can't resist on tackling it then ggwp mate.

All your accumulated gears I believe is all outdated unless you meant crafting then I can't be sure.

Since you are replaying with your friend then you can just retry all the boss fight  like Shiva and Titan with the new gear it's easier now can even  skip some pattern or just stand there spamming heal and you won't even wiped

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 

Current end game is no longer extreme they are now call Savage mode if not wrong.

Maybe there is new one i am not sure but extreme even normal casual like me can complete after numerous try to get weapon.

Only one i feel you need to hardcore you way in and out is Savage Mode

I have been playing this since ARR released also pre ordered Stormblood was wondering if i should transfer from Gilgamesh to Tonberry server.

I have been playing this since ARR released also pre ordered Stormblood was wondering if i should transfer from Gilgamesh to Tonberry server.

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.

Think it's the next new job which will be announced this week but data miners for patch 3.5 have alraedy found Samurai as the next job i used to have a close group that does raid and silly stuffs but most of them have left or just broke off from running with each other contents been tough trying to clear contents without a group lol.

hows the alt jobs leveling right now? i stopped playing after the first month after the games release cause in order to level up other jobs you had to run around chasing after events and it was laggy as fk so i couldnt keep up with the grind.

if i decide to join back now will the catch up be super long?

my char: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/2205069/

Well said you should rejoin with the cross party finder system now in place you can basically play with the people on your data center different worlds not sure if it works like you can play with any data center though.

hows the alt jobs leveling right now? i stopped playing after the first month after the games release cause in order to level up other jobs you had to run around chasing after events and it was laggy as fk so i couldnt keep up with the grind.

if i decide to join back now will the catch up be super long?

my char: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/2205069/

Ilvl last i check was minimum 240

and its easy to catch up now just grind tomes

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).

thanks. so i have to upgrade to heavensward isit? and the upcoming one is called what?

thanks. so i have to upgrade to heavensward isit? and the upcoming one is called what?