FF14: A Realm Reborn

[Velorath]

Expansion pack Endwalkers announced for the Fall. Wrapping up a lot of the long-term storyline stuff. Subsequent patches after the expansion will start a "new adventure" as they put it.

Two new jobs. One of them announced to be Sage (a healing class). Level Cap going up to 90 so that's what, 290 levels Rhyssa is going to need to grind through across all the jobs? New jobs sound like they start at 70 at least.

There were plenty of other tidbits they announced but there's also another event in May where it sounds like they'll be dumping a lot more info. Given that I tend to only play this around when expansions come out, I'll be happy to dive back in.

[RhyssaFireheart]

By my count it's only 210 levels for all my jobs plus the two news ones.    I'm down to leveling my final two jobs to 80 (PLD is 77 and WAR is 70) so I'll be set when the xpac comes out in about 6 months.  I might even be done with all my damn relics by then (seriously, DR fucking sucks so far). 

I stayed up to watch both the announcement and the first part of the live letter.  It was interesting to get a heads up on everything that's coming. I'm going to treasure all the 100K+ attacks I've been doing on DNC though, at least until the squish comes.  I understand why they are doing it but those massive crits sure do feel good!

The teaser trailer, if anyone's interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-bkJ2ZoW6k

Also - I hear Foo Fighters in the music, others have said Nirvana, Soundgarden, general grunge sound. 

[Velorath]

Yeah, all the stat compression made sense the way they explained it. And I'm not too much into healing classes but the design of the Sage job looked pretty cool. Was also interesting how they're breaking down healers into "pure" healing and "barrier" healing. Don't know that the game needs yet another melee dps but I guess we'll see in May what they come up with.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Speculation for the next melee job (which I agree, we have 4 already, and only 3 ranged melee/magical DPS each) is the job will involve a scythe user or necromancer of some type.  Supposedly Zenos had a scythe-like weapon next to him, plus the shirts Youshi-P was wearing. 

I'll level the new jobs for sure, along with all the others when the time comes.  I just need to pick a leveling order by then.  There are a few jobs I don't even bother with now, so they'll be the last to level whenever I do get around to it.  I personally don't care for BLM and MNK, just for starters, and WHM does nothing for me as a healer.  I've actually gone back to playing SCH for that, which is supposedly just "ruined" with the addition of another barrier healer.  Stat squish also means no more almost 200K HP pools for my tanks, either, lol.

[01101010]

Speculation for the next melee job (which I agree, we have 4 already, and only 3 ranged melee/magical DPS each) is the job will involve a scythe user or necromancer of some type.  Supposedly Zenos had a scythe-like weapon next to him, plus the shirts Youshi-P was wearing. 

I'll level the new jobs for sure, along with all the others when the time comes.  I just need to pick a leveling order by then.  There are a few jobs I don't even bother with now, so they'll be the last to level whenever I do get around to it.  I personally don't care for BLM and MNK, just for starters, and WHM does nothing for me as a healer.  I've actually gone back to playing SCH for that, which is supposedly just "ruined" with the addition of another barrier healer.  Stat squish also means no more almost 200K HP pools for my tanks, either, lol.

Scythe will forever be a Dark Knight weapon just because a few of those models looked wicked as fuck in FFXI. I DRK in full AF armor with weapon was the only motivation to play it.

[Velorath]

I've tried all the jobs to various extents (except blu which I unlocked but never really messed around with), although Dragoon has been the only one I got to lv. 80. Bard had been my next favorite job after Dragoon for a while but I seem to recall it not being in a great place going into Shadowbringers so I dropped off of it pretty quick.

Actually I've played FFXI much more recently than FFXIV so the jobs there are much clearer in my memory at the moment. It's a bit of a struggle not to conflate the classes from both games for me thinking about it.

Might have to come back a month or two before the expansion drops just to remember how to play.

[Velorath]

Speculation for the next melee job (which I agree, we have 4 already, and only 3 ranged melee/magical DPS each) is the job will involve a scythe user or necromancer of some type.  Supposedly Zenos had a scythe-like weapon next to him, plus the shirts Youshi-P was wearing. 

I'll level the new jobs for sure, along with all the others when the time comes.  I just need to pick a leveling order by then.  There are a few jobs I don't even bother with now, so they'll be the last to level whenever I do get around to it.  I personally don't care for BLM and MNK, just for starters, and WHM does nothing for me as a healer.  I've actually gone back to playing SCH for that, which is supposedly just "ruined" with the addition of another barrier healer.  Stat squish also means no more almost 200K HP pools for my tanks, either, lol.

Scythe will forever be a Dark Knight weapon just because a few of those models looked wicked as fuck in FFXI. I DRK in full AF armor with weapon was the only motivation to play it.

Are you grunk's alt account?

[01101010]

Speculation for the next melee job (which I agree, we have 4 already, and only 3 ranged melee/magical DPS each) is the job will involve a scythe user or necromancer of some type.  Supposedly Zenos had a scythe-like weapon next to him, plus the shirts Youshi-P was wearing. 

I'll level the new jobs for sure, along with all the others when the time comes.  I just need to pick a leveling order by then.  There are a few jobs I don't even bother with now, so they'll be the last to level whenever I do get around to it.  I personally don't care for BLM and MNK, just for starters, and WHM does nothing for me as a healer.  I've actually gone back to playing SCH for that, which is supposedly just "ruined" with the addition of another barrier healer.  Stat squish also means no more almost 200K HP pools for my tanks, either, lol.

Scythe will forever be a Dark Knight weapon just because a few of those models looked wicked as fuck in FFXI. I DRK in full AF armor with weapon was the only motivation to play it.

Are you grunk's alt account?

No sir. Just a former FFXI player - was my first MMO and one I have fond memories of... even the hateful memories

[luckton]

[01101010]

LULZ... 

[Count Nerfedalot]

The Countess and I have been looking for something to play together, and we ended up back here.  I'm so stressed out from work that I'm not up for a whole lot of PUG-ing, but I'm having a blast leveling all the crafters and harvesters (except Fishing) up together with my arcanist.  I've gotten 11 jobs (8 craft + 2 gather + 1 combat) up to the low 30's in less than two weeks of just puttering around doing the MSQ and job quests, watching all the cut scenes, reading all the texts, learning how to craft mostly by making my own high quality crafting gear, and only doing each of the MSQ quests when I had to to proceed. This is just shy of where I quit years ago (2013?) after 6 months of fairly serious grinding. LOL

[RhyssaFireheart]

There is something to be said about just taking your time doing the quests and not rushing things.

Which server are you and the Countess on?

[Count Nerfedalot]

Sorry for late response, but we're on Siren. I'm not sure which cluster that's on.  We've found a nice FC. Pretty laid back, adult bunch. Helpful. Generous. Minimal trash talk and mostly kid-safe so the grandson can play with us.  I foolishly volunteered to help with gardening and now I'm the guild gardener! LOL  I'm trying to figure out how to bootstrap up to fancy chocobo onions from scratch as the previous gardener seems to have gone awol leaving us with exactly one stack of intermediate seeds in the vault.  I'm still puttering along with my jobs. 38 Arcanist. Still haven't tried either of the new soulstones I've picked up (Scholar and Summoner). Maxed my gathering skills at 50 until I progress my main quest (currently at level 28).  Have all other crafting skills in 42-47 range except Fishing which proudly remains 0.  But they really use fish for a LOT of recipies, and they are rarely for sale on the marketplace at any price.  I'd give it a try, except bait/inventory issues.  Not worth the hassle, so far at least.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Siren is part of the Aether datacenter, which is the one I'm one as well.  I'm over on Faerie though.

If you need anything, feel free to contact me (or we can DM to exchange names and you can friend across servers).  I've got all my crafting and gathering jobs at 80 so I can fish stuff up for you.  It was the most horrendous and tedious of all jobs to level, IMO, but CUL uses a lot of fish, so there you go.  Bait was a pain in the ass to manage when I was leveling, but I've found that unless the shop selling price is "None" or has (restricted) behind the amount, the bait is for sale somewhere.  So I'd just buy enough to get whatever I was fishing for, then selling the leftovers after a little while.  I've only kept the bait that I can't actually buy from a vendor.

Finding a good FC is key and being able to play with the grandson is double plus good.  I haven't tried gardening yet although my FC house has a few plots in storage.  I've been thinking about it and yeah, wanting to grow Thavnarian onions for sale, because they are valuable.  I'm currently working on redecorating the inside of the FC house because I have the power and no one else is doing it, so it's all mine to play with, lol!