Hmm, seems there's more of an incentive to play pre-2.0.
The campaign recognizes those players who subscribe to FFXIV for 90 or more cumulative days during the period between January 6, 2012, and the commencement of version 2.0 beta testing. I believe many of you out there have already fulfilled this requirement.
Those who qualify for the campaign and become Legacy members will:
Be able to play FFXIV from version 2.0 at the discounted Legacy price, forever. Receive an exclusive chocobo mount upon the launch of version 2.0. Earn a place in the credits for version 2.0.
Also. Garuda is coming April 26th
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Well if anybody does decide to play, I'm on the Ragnarok server.
Just be aware I am in the UK atm though (til August-ish anyway) so if you play during NA hours you'd probably be better on another server as Ragnarok is mainly EU players.
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Well without wanting to spoil anything, 2.0 is going to cause the entire world map/landscape to change. So I would be amazed if the story/quests pre 2.0 were accessible.
It just wouldn't make sense either considering the current story is foreshadowing the events that are set to occur at 2.0 launch.
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It's probably worth a shot in all honesty. You'll figure out in your trial period whether you like it or not. It's also reduced subscription atm (unless that's because I play XI too, I'm not sure). Costs me like £6 per month anyway.
And it's also very easy to actually get to level 50 for endgame events so it's not like you'll be grinding away for months before you can actually do the big fights.
You'll also be able to pick up a copy very cheap. I think I paid £3 for my copy. It's apparently £5 on Zavvi and £5.50 on Amazon atm.
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I play on the Ragnarok server sometimes. It's not that bad anymore tbh. It's come a long way from that unplayable mess in beta and at launch.
Sadly I doubt it will ever recover from that abyssmal launch as most people won't give it another shot and will base their opinion on launch XIV rather than current XIV.
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Kinda have something to show you guys. One of our members recorded our Nyzul run last night
This is a Nyzul 100 run without cheating. We were the first group to manage 100+ and one of the only groups who does it without cheating (other groups use a tool that lets them run quicker and run through walls)
The basic gist of it is you get set a random objective every floor. Upon completing it you can then port. You port up a random amount between 2 and 9 floors. The target is to get to 100 but you only have 30 minutes.
There's bosses at floor 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 that can drop gear. Better gear as you ascend. Obviously random if you hit those floors or overshoot them though. We just aim for 100 (you can't overshoot 100 now but could in the past which was /wrists worthy)
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Well part of the reason for it that gil is a lot easier to make nowadays and there's not really much to spend it on since most of your gear won't come via the AH.
I think I have 34m atm but that's from literally doing nothing other than turn up to LS events for the past 2-3 months. We were selling a few drops for 30-40m each not so long back which split 15-20 ways isn't terrible. Like on Feb 23rd, we apparently got 111,688,000 gil from a 2 hour event split 19 ways according to the sell/split history.
Like if I could be bothered, I could make 3-4m+ a day from soloing Dynamis (You can enter once daily now) plus fishing but I just don't have the time/motivation.
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Been playing for nearly 9 years now, I think it's more habit than anything else. Well also it's the people you play with too. When you've played with a lot of the same people for 5-9 years and have become very good friends with them then it's hard to just quit knowing that you're cutting off your main point of contact with those people.
It's not like I have anything to accomplish in game. I have multiple Relic weapons. An Empyrean weapon. Tons of top level jobs. Nigh on perfect gear for all my jobs. I've killed every mob in game and am like sat on a ton of gil with nothing to do with it. So yeah, it's basically just the people I log on for now.
I mean some of these people came to my wedding and we've done regular meet-ups. Hell only this weekend gone I travelled 9 hours to go visit one of the guys I know from FFXI and we went on a 3 day drinking session lol
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DRK never had an accuracy problem, it was just a player created stigma because they were using the highest delay weapon. Statistically their acc was no worse than any other DD job.
Almost comically now, they have the highest accuracy in game since they get more accuracy buffs than any other job whilst getting to use the more favourable 2 handed formula plus having a load of accuracy on gear they would use natively anyway.
Hate isn't really a huge problem now since like I mentioned, you DD tank nowadays so having hate is what you want anyway. Plus DRK has the massive advantage that Apocalypse gives (it converts 40-60% of weaponskill damage to HP if you use Catastrophe) for DD tanking. You lose a bit of damage from not using Ragnarok but gain a lot of survivability.
Plus any DD worth their salt nowadays will have a decent -Physical Damage Taken set.
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See being a Brit I still find it absolutely mind-boggling how easily obtainable guns and the like are in the States and that they are just a normal thing to have. In the UK both guns and knifes are outright illegal.
I'm in the UK atm but my house in America isn't actually far away from this (Apopka so like 40 mins) and I still have no idea how the law works in regards to all this.
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These were average damage numbers from some fights we did recently lasting ~2-3 minutes each
Ragnarok DRK - 56006 Apocalypse DRK - 40642 Bravura WAR - 39476 Ukonvasara WAR - 37229 Masamune SAM - 35206 Glanzfaust MNK - 31237
Those are all top tier weapons used by people with nigh on perfect gear. For those of you out of the loop Ragnarok, Apocalypse and Bravura are all Relic Weapons which required all the Dynamis currency to complete. Ukonvasara and Masamune are Empyrean weapons (Abyssea version of relic weapons). Glanzfaust is a Mythic MNK weapon which was the Treasure Of Aht Urghan equivalent of a relic (and way harder to get)
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1. Paladin. Straight OP for 95 percent of the game. Once you built enough enmity you could Sentinel Defender afk tank most things.
2. Red Mage. They would be #1 but it takes level 60 or so before their OP comes out but when it comes out... Lol. Red Mage/ ninja could legitimately solo. They were the group.
3. Bard. game changing at early mid levels. The accuracy bonus was the best move in the game simply because it removed Warriors and Dark Knights weakness. Your damage skyrocketed with one spell.
4.Monk. The best DOT by a margin that's too ridiculous to be legal.
5. Warrior. Most versatile class in the game and most used subjob.
This is almost the polar opposite now for PLD and RDM.
Paladin. I never use as it just isn't needed. You can DD tank everything. The only time I ever play PLD now instead of a DD job is if we have to hold adds and that's only because I have an Ochain which is ridiculously broken (100% shield block rate)
RDM is useless now because they can't nuke as hard as BLM or SCH, their enfeebles aren't remotely worthwhile anymore and they also aren't as good at curing as WHM or SCH.
BRD is still really good
MNK and WAR are still powerhouses but lose to a DRK when fully buffed. Here's a parse of damage from some fights not so long back.
DRK 168019 28.20 % SAM 103734 17.41 % MNK 93713 15.73 % WAR 78953 13.25 %
Ragnarok DRK is ridiculously broken. Put it this way, here's the jobs I have levelled DRK WAR BLM RDM WHM THF COR DNC SCH. I play DRK for 95% of LS events we do. Granted I do have an Apocalypse and Ragnarok (but WAR can use Ragnarok too).
The game is almost like a completely new game now compared to what it used to be like. I've played consistently since NA release (October 2003 ish) and the massive overhauls and increasing level caps in the last 2-3 years have completely changed the game. It's more casual and pick-up friendly. Jobs are really easy to level, good gear is a lot easier to get and endgame fights are more accessible to the masses instead of restricted to the elitist endgame LS'es (which disappoints me as I'm one of those douchebags who has always been in a top tier LS >_>). There isn't any competition for NM's/fights nowadays as it's all forced pop with items and the such.
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I'm probably in a very small minority but I am really not a fan of Lesnar. Maybe I'm just remembering wrong but him getting a massive, massive push in such a short time and then not really putting people over before ****ing off just doesn't well with me.
If he comes back, sticks around and just dominates then just ugh for me.
I do get why most people like him though.
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KJH posted... You can be the most ineffective Shepard humanly possible and fail in devastatingly huge ways while being a complete dick and while they try and play it as something huge and horrible and even give you concrete numbers to show that yes, you've done an awful job at trying to accomplish your goal.
And everything will turn out literally the exact same as if you were the most immaculate, charismatic, powerful person in existence. And this is without either uncharacteristic over or undershooting, it just... happens and turns out the exact same regardless of you, out of nowhere.
Basically this. Literally nothing you do from ME1 through to ME3 matters whatsoever. The end result is always the same.
People feel conned because this wasn't anywhere remotely close to what they were promised. It's the polar opposite of what we have always been told.
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Their second goal was offside and the third, that free-kick was dubious. Well I don't know, maybe it is a clearcut rule that you have to have both boots on but hardly something he could help.
That being said, despite the goals being 'dodgy', can't complain at the actual result as Bilbao were the better side and deserved to win.
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DpObliVion posted... Well they put the Raw EC before the Smackdown EC when the Smackdown EC had such superstars as Khali and Santino. Granted, it turned out that Santino stole the show and the Smackdown EC was much, much better than the Raw EC. But as long as it's not the main event, it isn't too big a deal.
Yeah but in fairness that was probably due to the plan to have Show destroy a pod.
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WarThaNemesis2 posted... X_Dante_X posted... From: WarThaNemesis2 | #016 It's hard to care about fighting for the right to curtain-jerk Wrestlemania. It'd be like if the Rumble were guys fighting for the right to face Jack Swagger for the US Title.
Jack Swagger fighting for a day off
This is far too witty for WWE to come up with.
Also a Rumble without KANE is not a Rumble worth caring about.
Going from the past few weeks, Kane would have killed everyone.
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Tommy Lee went to my school and is from my hometown. Actually had beers with him a few times. I'd say he's an acquantaince rather than a friend though.
He also got sent off in an FA Cup tie for taking out Shevchenko
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I don't have a problem with Sheamus winning but I just think it would have been better from a booking perspective if Jericho won and then Sheamus won number 1 contendership on SD. Unless Sheamus does something unorthodox with his chance that wouldn't work if he won it on SD.
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What is stopping Sampras from winning 8-9-10 Wimbledons?
Roddick won't do you any good there.
If you do the switch and take out Nadal, Federer + Djokovic in the current era but put in Sampras and Agassi then Murray wins at least 1 slam but probably more.
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And yes I am replacing 2 players with 3 because Murray has to get past all three. He doesn't magically need to get past Agassi, Sampras and then a second Sampras in an older era. It's far more likely both Agassi and Sampras underperform than Nadal, Federer and Djokovic underperforms. He would have made a lot more finals and possibly GS wins if one of them wasn't there, like there was only 2 of that caliber in the 90's.
EDIT: Are you forgetting Becker's playing record after 96? He only won 1 GS in the Sampras/Agassi era.
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I think you're severely underselling how good Nadal, Federer + Djoko are. If you stick those three in the same era as Sampras and Agassi but remove those two, do they dominate it as much as they did this current era?
Yes, they do imo. No way would there be 17 different GS winners over 9 years if those three were in that era instead of Agassi and Sampras. It would be a very similar situation to what has happened since 2004.
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He'd have won a slam in the Sampras/Agassi era imo. They didn't win every single slam and they did have off-days.
Since 2004 there has only been 3 people not named Federer/Nadal/Djoko to win a slam. Gaudio, Safin and Del Potro. If you go from 2006, only Del Potro has.
Effectively 6 different winners in 7 years of slams.
Compare that to 93 through to 02. Courier, Bruguera, Sampra, Agassi, Muster, Becker, Kafelnikov , Krajicek, Kuerten, Rafter, Korda, Moya, Safin, Ivanisevic, Hewitt, Johannson, Costa. 17 in 9 years.
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You have to feel for Murray. In a different era he'd be a multi-slam winner already. Hell, he probably would be if just one of Nadal/Federer/Djoko didn't exist. He's shown he can beat them but the odds of all three of them being average/under-par at the same time are minute. There's always going to be at least of them on song at any given slam and when that happens Murray is just short even at his best.
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Coffee Ninja posted... From: EmDubyaSee | #303 Because Punk or D Bryan (maybe both) are going to enter and they are going to use that to tease Title Unification.
I bet they keep this up 2 or 3 years, and then one of them actually WILL win (either Cena, Punk, or Orton I'm sure) and unify the Titles at Mania.
D-Bry to win, and face HIMSELF at Mania.
D-Bryan to win and declare he doesn't need to defend at WM. So a 180 on his MitB stance!
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He does know Parker is there because he made contact with him before the stamp. How on earth can he not know he's there when he has literally hit him 1 second earlier?
And Lescott could have been sent off for his forearm smash to the face too.
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Editted my post whilst you replied. I don't for one second think it was accidental for reasons posted in my edit.
The way he planted his foot was completely unnatural movement to what you would do in that position. Which is exactly what the professionals said too. He will 100% get a retrospective ban imo. And he did know Parker was there because he made contact with his face before he stamped.
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Can't believe the commentators are giving Defoe crap for not scoring in the 91st minute. Yeah it looked easy but he did well just to reach it, he couldn't possibly have put it away without being a faster runner and he's already pretty damn quick.
Also, Balotelli very lucky to still be on the pitch to score that winner. That was a 100% intentional stamp in my opinion even if it was made to look accidental. Just look at his movement, his foot coming down in that direction is a completely unnatural movement for someone trying to keep their balance. He plants his foot in the opposite direction to where you would moments after clattering Parker with his leg so he knew full well Parker was there.
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I blame the wife for my Oracle demise. As soon as she got back in the country my picks have gone to hell! Haven't even had chance to check the rankings for like 2 weeks, nevermind chance to actually think about my picks.
On the plus side, probably gonna be my best contest result yet. 30th with cookie rest of the way and my bracket was like a speed bracket that I forgot about >_>
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