Been playing XIV again...

Well, I wouldn't say steadily, but I am back on my original char on Kashuan. After reading about the Grand Companies being added in patch 1.18, the removal of the Fatigue/Surplus system, and the far simpler and much better equipment repairs, I've been getting the itch to play again.

Not to forget mentioning the addition of two new instanced dungeons that actually sounds and look great. The changes to enmity which I'm still iffy about the blinking red light, but the focus on guildleves being solo and auto-attack make for quite the update!


My highest rank class has been Pugilist, and after reading today about the companies requiring you be rank 22 to start their mission and register with one, plus the first dungeon requiring you be 25, I've been grinding leves/behest all day to get rank 25+ and start getting prepared for the changes. Still have almost a week, but might as well get used to playing a bit so I'm ready for this patch.



Last but not least, Chocobo have been confirmed for Patch 1.19....FINALLY!!!!

I’ve come to help settle some of your speculations! The chocobos that will be implemented in 1.19 will indeed be rental chocobos that you can control yourself, but this is just the first step with our feathery friends. Bayohne did drop some hints here about things we might be seeing in the future, though....

Wark~

This seems like a good spot to drop some information that we recently heard from Yoshida... He mentioned that the dev. team is currently thinking about two different approaches.

The first is pet-related content where players can raise chocobos and other mounts that anyone can ride. The second idea is centered around pets that can only be utilized by specific jobs.

However, we won't be picking just one concept to implement. Instead we will be looking into the specifications so that we can implement both. However, as we are not yet at the stage where we can disclose when the implementation timing will be. We hope that the current chocobo implementation planned for 1.19 will hold you all over in the meantime.

nice khal hope to see ya in game sometime. 1.18 update is looking to be a pretty darn big one hope it is as good as it looks.

So yeah, in the last few days, I've been busy:

• Pugilist from 19 > 25
  
• Marauder from 0 > 25
  
• Conjurer from 18 > 22
  
• Thaumaturge from 8 > 20
  
• Sentinel from 14 > 20
  
• Gladiator from 14 > 15 {just started it again}

Will probably start Lancer next, after I get Gladiator to 25. I did hit fatigue on every class too, and I'm so glad it'll be gone in a few days...its just so brutal! Dunno how anyone could enjoy playing with it.

Anyway, I'm actually having fun...I think, and per usual shall see how it goes after 1.18 releases. I'm glad to have taken the time to get ready for it, though I could have stopped after getting Pugilist to 25, so I suppose thats saying something!

okay so after spending 7 hours dling the patch in the office (very slow connection), i tried 1 leve before heading for home, and boy it sucks mostly coz everything is different, and i was having a harder time doing the same leve difficulties as pre-1.18, due to the higher mp cost of healing.

then when i got home i gave the game another go, and now somehow it feels very familiar, just like ffxi, auto-atk single target, use tp every few mins only (few secs in xiv), and theres no way to heal yourself properly as DD anymore.

also, judging from the complaints in lodestone forums, i assume you just can't spam heals or aoe nukes anymore even as healer or nuker class, just like in ffxi.

tanking is also more focused now, since you can easily monitor the hates. hence the needs for tank class.

the bad things though, if this really is going ffxi ways, solo would be just like the way in ffxi as well. heh, careful what you wished for khal

I actually think its worse than XI really...

yeah coz its still a mix of xiv and xi, don't think its possible to change everything to xi style in 1 patch imo, but it really started to resemble xi model, or at least heading towards that way.

xi was roughly at the same state like xiv back in the days.