Final Fantasy XIV Random thoughts

*I never played XIV 1.0 (apparently didn’t miss a lot from what people say here), but I wonder if it would be feasible to introduce a randomized Besieged-style battle where a select Beast tribe would march in large numbers toward their enemy’s city-state, taking different routes and invading various towns along the way. Hamlet Defense, on paper, sounded like a decent enough idea.

*Spiritbonding parties seem great but iLv70+ gear seems to take forever outside of the Crystal Tower raids and i80+ dungeons. Would anyone object at this point to enemies up to item level 90 being released into the field?

*With Ishgard and 3 more jobs waiting for us, I guess it isn’t too early to speculate about the next expansion. A podcast I listened to a couple of days ago suggested a focus toward Ala Mhigo and the backstory seems to support such speculation.

This is one of the few things I miss about 1.0. There were Lv99 critters running around that would eat you alive, and getting past them was an exercise in waiting for them to turn around and luck. The world also used to be a lot bigger though, so there were a lot of very far-flung routes and nooks to put things like that in. Something else that could be interesting are large mobs sort of similar to the hunts, without being hunts themselves or having any rewards that would prompt people to chase them down, that patrol zone-wide routes to put the fear of God into low-level players out exping.

Final Fantasy XIV PvP Gear

They’ve announced the new PvP gear that will come in Heavensward.

They previously removed the requirement of specific rank to wear the ilvl 90 PvP gear, now I’m wondering if they will do the same for the ilvl 100 and 110 pvp gear when Heavensward comes out?

Did they mention anywhere if they will?

They didnt mentioned it yet. Actually, i am not sure how they will handle this. Yes, they did remove the ranks on i90, but nobody cares about i90 because its just random trash geaer wich looks like every other gear you can buy from npcs. You have to concider, that that gear isnt really pvp gear, its vanity gear in first place. What they could do now is either way removing the restrictions, wich would make people under Rank ~32 happy, but plenty of pvp players would get mad (Me too i guess^^) about it, because they got it the “normal” way and they obviously dont want that every random guy runs around with that.

Another solution would be, that they simply add new armor wich just looks like i70 or i90 (=not special) and make it for example i120 and without restrictions. Besides that they would add i130 pvp gear with rank restrictions (Rank 45-50). The restriction on the “old” animal gear would stay. This way they could prevent pvp veterans to get mad and on the other side “new” players could easily catch up with the i120 without getting the animal vanity gear like free candies.

But yea, nobody knows so far so we have to wait until they say something about it.

Final Fantasy XIV Conjurer’s (Second-Job) Geomancer (Support/DPS)

Quake – Instant Cast – 15 yrds Stomp AoE – Damage’s All targets with 15 yrds dealing 180 potency with 40% heavy 12 seconds. and disturbs ability/spell casting CD 30 seconds.

Flood – Shoot’s Five Waterly Bolts each deal 80 potency each restoring 3% MP has 2.00 cast-time.

Tempest – cause’s massive storm damage’s all nearby targets dealing 80 potency every 3 seconds 15 seconds (additional effect: Aero 3 – Applies deals additional dot deals 140 potency every 3 seconds 21.

Master of Storms – Place’s a buff whole party/raid on the Geomancers after summoning either a sandstorm, rainstorm or torando on the battle each dealing 80 potancy damage to all enemies.

Master of the Dessert Buff – Every 30 Seconds “Stoneskin” will replay. cost you no mp on everyone on party.

Master’s of the Rain – Every 15 seconds everyone in raid gain “Refresh/Regan” for 9 seconds”

Master’s of the Storm – Every 30 seconds (Haste) will be applied meaning skill speed,spell speed and movement speed will increase by 20%.

Delta-Force – Damage’s Single-Target with 320 potency and heals all nearby allies near the monster you just hit 400 potency Instant cast (delta force can only be casted when you have casted earth, air and water spell in a rotation)

Geomancer’s used mostly focus on damage then healing so they rolling dps in parties, they supply nice buffs and carry the benefit’s of conjurer. when comes to support they outclass any other class.

Lack of Final Fantasy XIV players

Is it just me or are there barely any players on even during prime time? Outside of Final Coil (haven’t beaten T9) it seems like there’s no one running anything. Is it like that on all servers or just Ragnarok/EU data center?

It realy depends on the FFXIV Gil servers, but I would not be suprised if we have less active players online for the comming months. Its a common event that before a expansion gets released the last 3-6 months there is less activity, most players have already done what they wanted to achieve in the game or they are finishing up stuff, but taking it slow, because there is no new content for the comming 3 months. I will take a break after I have leveled all my battle classes and I know alot of friends that are going to do aswell. A little downtime before we can go NOLIFE mode when the expansion hits.

The other thing could be that Aprl and May are known for AAA game releases, so alot of players take an advantage of the no new content and play those games. Personaly I can not wait for GTA V and Witcher 3.

I have not received any email from FFXIV SE

I usually get a login restriction email when I login on a different IP. I accidentally changed my VPN settings today and I got the restriction message. I didn’t receive the email though and I’m using Gmail. I’ve been waiting for 30 mins and still nothing FFXIV Gil. I’ve also tried the retrieve password option from the launcher but I still didn’t receive any email.

UPDATE:
I was able to receive the Password Update email but still no Login Restriction email.

I’m not familiar with this procedure, but when i got it last time, i clicked a link from client (i think). That may be require to send the email.

Failing that you might have to contact support and create a ticket asking for the verification email.