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Thanks Pikko, abd btw thank you for the huge amount of work you did for FF11 on herbs. Loved your site !

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Now about ff14

I played about a month last year (2010 Late sept, early oct).
Into my second week of playing this year (2011).

I noticed small improvements, such as getting rid of the colored mob dots on the map (tought to read, they were), by a nifty green=no aggro, red=aggro, with a level in it. That's a nice fix.

I also noticed a more responsive UI, but still not sharp enough most of the time.

I got more into crafting this time... Now I got 2 retainers full, and im sitting at 50/100 items on my character.

[ Edit: Still no in-game Gamma correction option... dangit ]

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Stuff that I still feel should be modified, and why :

Bring-in an AH System.
- Reason is simple; right now the population isnt that high (crossed 2 people outside town yesterday in a 3h stretch), and it is not bad enough that you have to deal with retainers, but the market wards are segmented instead of linked. Now to me this is a major failing point. I know, I know, in FF11 the AH where separated, but hey, that sucked too ! Thank god there was Jeuno for most of the post lvl20 gear anyways.

- It needs to be unified thourough the nations, I really can't stress this enough. Lower population requires this even more nowadays. There's enough ways to spend time in FF14 without straining the player's patience by having him or her check out 3 different Towns, or wasting a couple days worth of Anima just to check all the Market wards.

- Retainer system can be kept too, it has it's uses (as Bazzars had in FF11). Especially since it has a search feature nowadays. Unfortunately they dont have history so you have to rely on mosltly outdated websites to try and guess the real value of what you're trying to sell. With an AH tho, you can look your items in-game... Obviously, if the Market Wards weren't split between towns, it would be better... But I still prefer an Auction house anyways.



Receipy Book
- With so many items to craft, and so many different items in the game... I mean dosen't that sound like a logical request ? Something well formated, listing the item name, optimal skills to craft (all of them), and required ingredients and crystals. SE could even format that on a page-size. Since we are talking adding an AH system, put a seach command in there too. If I search for 'Copper Ore', bring a short text list of all receipies I know involving the said ingredient. If I click on it, bring me the page.

- Note that I have a second computer to search the web, but I'd rather the game rewarding my effort with receipies that I memorise in my "Big 'ole Book of Crafting".



Infinite storage for crafting ingredients
- Bear with me ppl. I mean we already have infinite storage for crystals (God I so want this for FF11 !), just add an extra tab in which everything basic gets dropped. Stuff like almonds/+1/+2/+3, Moko Grass/+1/+2/+3, and so on. Now I am not asking for transformed products, only the basic stuff you gather, or get from killing monsters such as their hides and stuff.

- Why this is good ? Well if you played the game long enough to try crafting at one point, you know how much space counsuming gathering can get. People will still sell because we all need money; but for crafter this would be infinitely godly. Not to mention that crafting takes such an important role in FF14.

- Oh and please sort this list by alphabetical order as well, otherwise you'd get lost at some point. (Not taking any chances, asking them for it !)


I'm going to ask for SE to bring the old classes back somewhat
- Lancer is Dragoon, Marauder is the warrior or Paladin and so on...

- Now this is irking me some, but not that much. To tell the truth, I always hoped FF11 and then FF14 would be some kind of Final Fantasy Tactics, with the job requirements and equipping un-nerfed abilities from other jobs. Guess I was always asking to much of SE.

- I guess i'm missing FF11 stuff such as White/Black/Red mages, and other classics of old such as Dragoon, Warrior, Paladin and Dark Knight, with their gorgeous-looking equipment (AF in FF11 was imensely satisfying). Now everyone looks more realistic of what you'd find on medieval settings, but it's bland.

- As someone pointed out earlier, what is the point of equipping sub abilities if they are nerfed to oblivion ? FF11 had that problem too, but at least it was (mostly) manageable. If you are going to give the rights for "Cure" to be used on another job, keep it's strenght up. I don't want a dragoon subbing WHM being better than a main WHM... and he wont be because of the lack of mana and the fact he shoudn't be able to equip all of the WHM signature spells anyways. Signature abilities such as MND+20/40/60% or something similar would still make the pure WHM better.

- While I'm on the subject of classes/jobs; why not allow the Diciple of the Hands (crafters right ?) to equip basic life-saver spells such as Cure and Warp (I want that spell so much), and some FF14 version of Teleport ? Not like you're going to kill that even-match mob anyways with rock throw, heh.

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That was it for mechanics complains on the game... Obviously there's the fact that beside Leves, crafting and killing stuff there really is little more to FF14. I miss the Rank Missions of FF11 so much, and I would've slapped myself HARD for saying so back in 2003. I miss the outpost runs, the dodging of mobs to get to jeuno the first time, I miss the open zones like Sarutabaruta and West Ronfaure (Gridania forest kinda sucks). Where are the beastmen areas like the orc outpost or the Quadav caves ?

I will acknowledge FF14 is different, and that it's *only* a year old. But I seriously hope folks at SE get it back togetter, I still want to love and play that game, but it needs more to do, and be better at what it already has in it.

Thanks for the post allowing us to vent, and please forgive my grammar and spelling... It's 3am and english isn't my main language.
-- See you folks around.


Edited, Sep 13th 2011 3:11am by FrancoisX

:( i miss setting my own attributes, and i miss my physical level, now i get pawned by mobs i had no trouble with before i feel like i wasted a lot of time for nothing to be back at square one, and now the linkshell i was in disbanded since the update and cant find anyone in gyshai to chill with sigh! alone again.