I'm from AethyrNet and I was going to ask today which server this group was going to play on for Open Beta so we could try and meet up seeing as we are both from /v/. If Rage XIV is throwing in the towel though, feel free to join the AethyrNet group if you're not already in it. The Steam chat is usually active with about 10-15 people so join in and say Hi~

Disappointed though this group is giving up. :<

Wait, so it only takes a few hours worth of fofftime to reset? I heard it was like an 8hr/week limit on XP.

That actually sounds pretty reasonable.

So is the whole fatigue thing true or not? being limited in how much I can play a game I pay a monthly fee for is kind of a dealbreaker.

Man, this game feels a lot nicer to control with a PS3 controller

Could whip up an Invisionfree or Forumer board or something~

We need a forum or something. :<

I got a code from BG forums :3

fileplanet is giving away beta keys to subscribers, its only costs 6 bucks, not bad, also you can download the client even if you don't have a key.

Sup guise. Anyone else in Phase 3?

hey bro

sup guise.

I'm inept with the sliders in Demon's Souls. Every time I try to make a female she ends up looking manly than I do.

I play a pretty girl in Demon's Souls

Highland Hyur is Demon's Souls tier.

Highland Hyur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I change my mind about race choice every week

I'm pumped folks, can't wait to see you bros in game. Though I still haven't decided what race I plan on playing yet...

lol, if your gonna play FF11 for a bit you really need to use a controller, makes it a lot more enjoyable

Thanks, I looked into that and it looks much better. And I didn't realize the controls were going off the numpad, which is why it was so frustrating. Gonna give it another try, but this game is really showing its age. Not even the graphics: the game design feels archaic.

(At least as far as seven-year-old games go)

With registry edits or Windower you can make the game look pretty sexy

lol, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that game is ugly. And confusing as ♥♥♥♥. I don't have the patience to figure all this ♥♥♥♥ out for a game I'm gonna play for like a month.

Oh well, only 5 bucks wasted.

You probably won't like it just starting out tbqh

Hey, FF11 is only 5 bucks on steam now so I guess I'm just gonna try that ♥♥♥♥ out.

Even better. Or maybe stats will just have a more or less minimal impact? Seems like the whole "play any class" thing is ruined if I need to spend stats effectively to wear gear or whatever.

I'd like if you could just set different presets for each class that would change automatically

Hopefully they'll make some kind of guildleve where the reward is a full reset.

I think that's what I heard, except it only gave you back like 6 stat points or something. I think you might be able to find some beta gameplay at http://www.livestream.com/ragnell but I haven't really looked.

I thought there was a 2-hour ability that reseted your points so that you can redistrubte them again. I'm guessing that was false information.

Anyone got a nice deposit of recorded beta gameplay?

Someone on /v/ said you could reallocate, but it seemed like there were some limitations to it. Like it only refunded so many levels or something.

That's neat, seems like it might be a pain to switch around skills and stats when you change jobs though

From /v/, this actually helped me understand it much better since I never played FF11:

"FF14 Level system for dummies.
You start out a little weak baby noob like in all games and in life. As you play you get Physical levels and stronger. You have points you can spend each level on str,int,vit whatever. You will always be gaining physical levels no matter what you play as and they never go away and the stats don't change unless you change them by doing something in game they haven't gone into yet.

Whatever you have equipped, that's what you are. If you equip something else, you become that. You can change your equipment any time you are not in combat. As you level up the different weapon classes you learn skills. No trainer no money to spend, you just learn it and can then equip it. You have 3 action bars with 10 slots each for a total of 30 possible skills ready to use at any given time. You can equip skills any time you are not in combat. Each skill costs some about of points, you have about 52 points to spend so you can get a lot of small ones or fewer big ones. You can equip basically any learned skill from any of the weapon classes you have leveled as long as your current class level is at least the level you learned the skill at in the class you learned it in.

If I wanted to be and archer with Chakra I would need to level Pugilist to level 6 to learn the skill, then level my archer to level 6 to use it."

The stats change depending class you pick, not your race

Everyone's been saying either that race differences are nonexistent or that they are minimal.

group chat would definitely be cool. I, for one, am letting myself way too hyped for this game. The disappointment will be deliciously excruciating.

After looking at all the ♥♥♥♥ about classes, I definitely think I'm going to use some sort of Lancer with Pugilist abilities or vice versa, at least to start.

Anyone in the beta know if races matter much aside from asthetics?

Hey bros, just saw someone talking about this group on /v/. I didn't play FF11 but I'll try to fit in and play well in this one.

We oughta have one of them group chats one of these days

No, though it shares some members, and some members of the LS that preceded that one.

This the same as the FFXI Vidya Rage steam grou?

ok i like this logo alot more lol

Anyway I can't say I ever really paid attention to what happened to CoH, it was always great fun to me

New logo! Thanks Steam for taking my delicious PNG and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it out covered in compression artifacts.

I'm dancing with myself

CoH I8 through like I11 was god tier until the devs caught Emmert's god complex. After that it kind of went to ♥♥♥♥, although it might have improved in the past couple of years.

yeah COH was pretty fun. i was gonna start FF11 back up, but when they announced 14 was coming out in September I just said forget it, it wouldnt really be worth it to start back up now. So unless 14 is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ somehow, id hold off on 11.

CoH was god tier, one of the most fun MMOs along with PlanetSide and (on a good day) FFXI.

Yeah, I'm familiar with the concept of aggro. I played CoH for a few years before NC turned it to ♥♥♥♥. The only reason why I played that over FF11 is because I had a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ computer at the time.

Either way, looking forward to it. Just preordered the CE, and hoping I get into the beta

The latter, certain abilities and traits of subjobs just benefit the main job for certain applications, like Warrior gives Paladin an ability to generate enmity with a monster (increasing the monster's tendency to attack the player instead of others), while Ninja gives Paladin a spell that allows it to completely nullify damage from a number of hits, which is more useful against some endgame enemies.

I wouldn't recommend starting FFXI up fresh, you're not likely to accomplish much before XIV comes out, especially since they just raised the level cap to 80 and will raise it as high as 99 in the coming months.